People: Mar. 28, 1927

Had they been interviewed, some people who figured in last week's news might have related certain of their doings as follows:

Max D. Steuer, New York trial lawyer: "Last week newsgatherers asked me what remedy I had for what I called the 'failure of justice in this city.' To them I replied that I would let the Appellate division of the Supreme Court appoint able lawyers to act as judges for 30 to 60 days. This would speed up the courts, remove many thousand undecided cases from overcrowded dockets."

William Lyon Phelps, Professor of Literature at Yale University: "Sinclair Lewis was once a student of mine, but I care little for his latest opus. Last week I said of it: 'There never was a minister like Elmer Gantry. . . . My grandfather and father were Baptist ministers. All my living brothers are Baptist ministers and there has been a constant stream of Baptist ministers walking through my house for years.... I have never known one like Elmer Gantry. It [the book] was obviously written by Sinclair Lewis when he was in a rage. The author was literally foaming at the mouth.' "

Senator Frank L. Greene of Vermont: "As I was walking with my wife on Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, on Feb. 15, 1924, a Prohibition agent shot me in the forehead. He was aiming at a fleeing bootlegger. For weeks I lay in bed, half-dead, half-alive. Finally I recovered, except for a partial paralysis which makes me limp. At the time of my accident, on motion of the late Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Congress voted me $7,500 for medical expenses. Last week it became known that I had returned the $7,500 to the Government. Said I: 'It would be improper for taxpayers to bear the expense of my personal misfortune.' '

Dr. Serge Voronoff, gland specialist: "Last week I prophesied in Paris 'Monkeys will talk and men will live to be 125 years old.' I went on to relate that I have grafted glands on 1,000 human beings. I have grafted glands on sheep so successfully that their wool yield has been largely increased, 16 pounds added to their weight and their lives prolonged six years. Now I have a monkey farm at Mentone on the French Riviera where I am raising monkeys to supply the tremendous number of monkey-glands that the world will soon demand. I use three types of glands: the thyroid, to stimulate the brain; the suprarenal, to stimulate the heart; and the testicular, to animate the entire physical structure."

Charles Michael Schwab, Bethlehem Steel: "On my return to Manhattan last week with Dr. Samuel Alburtus Brown, Dean of New York University Medical School, who has accompanied me on my European vacations the past 25 years, I remarked: 'I have to take things slower now than I did a few years ago. I don't smoke and I take one drink a day under doctors' orders.' "

Col. Henry H. Rogers, Manhattan sportsman-oilman, father of famed Millicent Rogers, Countess Salm von Hoogstraten: "Word came in from Long Island that a shipbuilder at Greenport is building me an all-electric yacht, 62 ft. long with a 14-ft. beam, which I will christen Fan Keva. She will have three 175-h.p. electric motors, electric piano, electric winches, galley, siren."