People: Sep. 16, 1929

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"Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news:

Maurice Maeterlinck, 67, Belgian poet, explained to the Revue Beige why he has lived in France most of his life: "If I had remained in Belgium, I should have become a 'miserable macrobite' among the small bourgeois who surrounded me. Belgium professed, at the time when I lived there, a deep hatred of letters. Men who had talent found themselves up against things unless they gave up their art. It was only toward 1880 that things began to change."

Walter Hagen, professional golfer, separated from his wife since October 1928, was ordered by a Los Angeles court to pay her $9,300 in back payments due her under their separation agreement.

Helen Hayes, wife of Playwright Charles MacArther (Lulu Belle, co- author The Front Page) broke her contract to play in Coquette next season. When the Actors' Equity Association complained she answered: "Surely I broke my contract, I'm going to have a baby. That is more important to me than the title role in Coquette."

Sidi Wirt Spreckels Chakir, in Reno to divorce Turkish Prince Suad Bey Chakir, heard that she had won a $5,000 damage suit against Egyptian Princess Chivekar who had named her in a divorce suit. Born on a Kansas Farm, Sidi Wirt married and divorced Harry Williams, Kansas City newspaperman, married Sugarman John D. Spreckels, inherited his estate, married Prince Chakir in Constantinople in 1923, has figured in Eu- ropean news as Cabaret Dancer Saida Worth, lately as Mme. Saida.