People, Aug. 29, 1932

“Names make news.” Last week these names made this news:

The Hearst Press carried pictures of austere Justice James Clark McReynolds of the U. S. Supreme Court, with Mrs. McReynolds, attending what it called “the event of the season at Washington”— the premiere of the film Blondie of the Follies, starring Publisher Hearst’s friend Marion Davies.

A locomotive-engineer named Augustus Phillips of Falls City, Neb. returned to the U. S. from a visit to his native Aitos, Bulgaria. After the villagers had serenaded him and his wife with a mandolin & harmonica band for 16 nights, he related, word of his presence reached the ears of Tsar Boris at the summer palace at Varna nearby. Tsar Boris, whose best fun is driving a locomotive, sent a carriage and plumed horses for Engineer Phillips. Recounted Mr. Phillips: “[at the palace] he motioned me to a sofa and we sat down. . . . He told me that one problem that was bothering him was whether he ought to put automatic stokers on his engines. … I told him that, from my experience, it would be better to go on doing the work by hand until he got larger engines. He said he guessed that was a good idea. I told him, too, that he ought to get his engines out of the 45-ton class and up to our size of from 250 to 270 tons before he tried the automatics. He said that was probably a good idea.” His Majesty gave Engineer Phillips & wife passes over Bulgaria’s railroads. Engineer Phillips gave His Majesty pictures of famed U. S. locomotives “as well as pictures of their various parts.”

Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania, having attended the birth of a son to her daughter (Princess Ileana) and Archduke Anton of Habsburg, was ready to leave Vienna for Carlsbad to discuss christening arrangements with Alfonso & Victoria of Spain. She suggested that her son-in-law Anton, able aviator, fly her there. The Archduke was in no mood to leave his wife and six-day-old son. But Mother-in-law Marie would entrust her life to no other pilot. Archduke Anton gave in, was further vexed by delay when his sister-in-law, Queen Marie of Jugoslavia, lost her way driving them to the airport.

From Wormwood Scrubs Prison, London, emerged Convict No. 2,715 to become again Owen Cosby Philipps, 1st Baron Kylsant of Carmarthen. His sentence of one year, for sponsoring a misleading stock prospectus, had begun last November, was shortened for good behavior. The towering baron—he is 6 ft. 7 in. long but last week looked bowed and broken— was met by Lady Kylsant who escorted him by motor first to their May fair home, thence to their Welsh estate at Coomb Llangain, Carmarthen, where loyal villagers had erected a laurel arch. Some 40 villagers hooked ropes to His Lord-ship’s limousine, towed it at a run through the arch, up the drive to the Kylsant mansion. Lord Kylsant wept.

For the first time in years Charles Gates Dawes was photographed smoking not his famed underslung pipe, but a conventional curved-stem briar.

In Detroit bushy-haired William Bushnell Stout, famed airplane designer, had his first accident in 25 years of motoring. His car struck and fatally hurt a woman.

Ill lay: Mrs. James Joseph (“Gene”) Tunney, in Paris, following an operation for an ear abscess; Joe Walcott, 60, famed oldtime Negro prizefighter, in Manhattan, of arteriosclerosis, senile psychosis.

Injured in motor crashes were: Beverly Macfadden, daughter of Publisher Bernarr Macfadden; Governor Richard Brevard Russell Jr. of Georgia. Near Dublin, Ga., Governor Russell was hurled through the windshield of his car, lost four teeth.

In a Gulf hurricane was wrecked the yacht Wild Duck, floating clubhouse of the Sabine Pilots’ Association. The Wild Duck was once the pleasure craft of Andrew William Mellon. She carried Mr. & Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller Jr. on their honeymoon. In the Kiel Canal she had as guest Wilhelm II. For a time she was chartered by Harry Kendall Thaw, whose guests were Evelyn Nesbit and William Travers Jerome. In the Mexican Revolution of 1910 she evacuated 200 Americans from Vera Cruz, was hit by shellfire.

“Marble House,” famed old Newport mansion of Mrs. Oliver Hazard PerryBelmont, was bought by Frederick Henry-Prince, Boston banker, railroad tycoon, sportsman, owner of the racing yacht Weetamoe. “Marble House” was built in 1892, at a reputed cost of $8,000,000, as a birthday gift to Mrs. Belmont by her husband, the late William Kissam Vanderbilt, three years before she divorced him. It has been boarded up since 1914.