People: May 26, 1930

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

Edward Stephen Harkness, whose total benefactions amount to over $100,000,000, gave $1,000,000 to the Boy Scouts of America.

Actress Maude Adams, 58, creator of the role of Peter Pan, whose last Manhattan performance was in 1917, announced that she would return to the stage next autumn.

In Manhattan, the plump hand of Marion Talley, onetime Metropolitan Opera soprano, was held by one Gene Dennis, female fortune-telling vaudevillian, who said: "You are going to have an Al

Jolson career rather than a Galli-Curci one."

Prince Tomislav of Jugoslavia, aged two, toddled unsteadily on a balcony at the Royal Hunting Lodge in Toptchider Park, suddenly launched into space with a wild yell. Below, a sentry heard the royal cry, dropped his rifle and made a neat scoop catch of sprawling Princeling Tomislav. Still too excited to be angry at the nurse who had been so careless with his second son, King Alexander summoned the sentry, watched him pass through successive stages of delight when he heard he would be: 1) promoted to the rank of sergeant; 2) released from serving the remainder of his 18-month military term, compulsory to all Jugoslavs; 3) receive $600 at once; 4) be given a pension for the rest of his life.

A burglar alarm frightened away thieves who tried to plunder the Lake Forest, Ill., home of Secretary of Commerce Robert Patterson Lamont.

The return from Europe of Banker Thomas William Lamont, Morgan partner, was heralded in the New York Daily News by publishing his picture over the caption: BIG BULL.

George Ullman, onetime business manager of Rudolph Valentino, who has been the cinemactor's executor since Valentino's death in 1926, was temporarily removed from his trusteeship after an appeal by Alberto Guglielmi and Mrs. Maria

G. Strada, brother & sister of the deceased. Executor Ullman said that Cinemactor Valentino left $164 in cash and $200,000 in debts, that he has since liquidated the estate, now estimated at $250,000. Simultaneously, in Hollywood's De Longpre Park, an idealized, modernistic figure titled "Aspiration" was erected in memory of the late cinemactor.*

Sir Joseph Duveen, famed art dealer, self-righteously, but on figurative crutches, stamped out of the $500,000 lawsuit prosecuted against him by Mrs. Andree Hahn (TIME, Feb. 18, 1929). He had prevented her selling a picture to the Kansas City Art Museum for $250,000, by asserting that her picture, which she believes is Da Vinci's "La Belle Ferroniere," was a copy of "La Belle Ferroniere" in the Louvre. To get out of the lawsuit and more lawyer fees Sir Joseph has paid

Mrs. Hahn approximately $100,000, and the compliment of calling her painting "of great antiquity." But he still insists that the true Da Vinci is in the Louvre.

The day after Calvin Coolidge celebrated his first year as an insuranceman, he and Mrs. Coolidge and six helpers moved their belongings from the renowned double house on Massasoit Street, Northampton (Mass.), to their new $50,000 residence, The Beeches.

George Washington Hill Jr., son &