People, Oct. 26, 1931

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President William Allan Neilson of Smith College took from Eleanor A, Lamont, Smith senior, a shiny pair of scissors and snipped through a broad white ribbon, thus officially opening a new little bridge, donated by Miss Lament's mother Mrs. Thomas W. Lamont, Morgan-partner wife, leading from the Smith campus to a new athletic field across small Paradise Lake. Then all the Smith undergraduates marched over the bridge in gymnasium costumes, deployed, romped at field games.

Variety, theatrical trade paper, canvassed 200 Chicagoans in all walks of life to identify a list of 125 publicized names. Only John Barrymore and Joan Crawford were correctly identified by all. Less than half knew who are Wilhelm von Hohenzollern, Arthur Brisbane, Charles Evans Hughes, Henry Louis Mencken. Yehudi Menuhin and Charles Michael Schwab were recognized by 37%; Walter Sherman Gifford by 19%; Oswald Garrison Villard by 7%. Andrew William Mellon was identified by five as Secretary of State, by others as Secretary of War, a Congressman, Minister to England. Other replies: Sinclair Lewis, orchestra leader, Senator, oil tycoon; Vincent Astor, actor, author, member of Parliament; Albert Einstein, violinist, Englishman, film director; Mayo Brothers, circus performers, circus owners, gangsters, comedians.

President Earle Westwood Sinclair

of Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corp., brother of Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair was

announced as one of this year's Cyrus Fogg Brackett lecturers at Princeton University.

In Manhattan, 28-year-old St. Paul Socialite Francis J-Ward was sentenced to 30 days in the work house for driving while intoxicated. The charge grew out of a collision between his car and a taxi in which were riding famed tennis player Molla Bjurstedt Mallory (who got three teeth knocked out, a broken nose) and her husband, Franklin Mallory (who suffered a fractured skull, broken ankle, internal injuries). Attorney for the Mallorys, advocating a jail sentence, cited similar difficulties which had befallen Socialite Ward in California, Paris.

Author Herbert George Wells arrived in Manhattan to "sit on the proofs" of his forthcoming book and visit a few U. S. cities. Of Scot MacDonald he said to newsmen: "I have no very great admiration for him. He is a very self-conscious and theatrical person." Of George Bernard Shaw, and the latter's recent speeches on the U. S. and Capitalism: "I don't think I ought to interfere with the processes of Mr. Shaw's soul."