People: Apr. 8, 1929

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Pope Pius XI cautiously emerged from the Vatican, for the first time last week, but went no further than the little church, which is within the boundaries of the new and tiny Papal State. Thus he signalized that he is no longer the "Prisoner of the Vatican," but did not set foot in Rome or Italy. This will come later. Meanwhile the office of Benito Mussolini was blessed, for the first time, with the benign approval of His Holiness.

Antoine, famed Parisian hairdresser, last week issued a quasi-dictatorial prophecy: "Hair will remain short." Hairdresser Antoine has already built his own tomb over which rise the figures of bobbed-haired women, symbolic of a freed soul. His latest inspiration: ancient Greek and Roman coiffures.

When the late, great Cleveland Hoadley Dodge died, one of his uncompleted plans was to raise a $15,000,000 endowment fund for the Near East Colleges (Athens College, Robert College, American University of Beirut, Constantinople Woman's College, International College of Smyrna, American College of Sofia). Last week, as a Dodge tribute, Manhattan Philanthropist Edward Stephen Harkness promised $1,000,000 if the fund reached its quota by July 1. Still lacking is $2,500,000.

The body of Frances St. John Smith who disappeared Friday, Jan. 13, 1928, from Smith College was found last week in the Connecticut River. Dentist Carleton Woods of Pelham, N. Y., identified the teeth.

Karakhan of Kazan is a lithe, "lemon tawny" Mongol, an influential leader of Red Russia. So far he is unknown to the world, but in 1933 he will be the fiendish generalissimo of a "war of the races." His armies of yellow, black and brown men will be told to possess their white women captives, to CONQUER AND BREED. He will be subdued only after threats of worldwide miscegenation.

So writes famed War Correspondent Floyd Gibbons in a serial, Red Napoleon, which began, last week, in Liberty, nickel weekly.

H. Gordon Selfridge, London's department store tycoon and pioneer, staunch supporter of the Channel-tunnel plan, has played host for eight years in famed Lansdowne House, Berkeley Square. Last week the Lansdowne family sold its House for $3,750,000 to Architect Benson Greenall, who was suspected of grossly commercial designs.

Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson cabled last week to his onetime Philippine home, asked that Old Soak, his Chinese-speaking parrot, who, lonely, no longer whistled for visitors, be sent to him. Mrs. Stimson, however, threatened that Old Soak could have no Washington house room. Graciously, Mrs. Herbert Hoover offered White Houseroom.