People, Sep. 27, 1937

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

John Llewellyn Lewis Jr, 18, son of the C.I.O.’s boss, enrolled as a freshman at Princeton University.

A big transport plane swooped down into the Nashville, Tenn., Airport and rolled to a stop. A crowd gathered round it, crying for Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. & bride to step out. Called one: “See, there he is in the window!” Called another: “He’s got a smile just like his father’s.” Called a third: “He’s heard us and is going to come out.”

Instead, out stepped newlyweds Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas Ridgley du Pont (TIME, Sept. 20), brother and sister-in-law of Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. Photographers’ bulbs popped all about them. Sighed Mrs. du Pont: “Our honeymoon so far has been nothing but a continuous flash in the face.”

Accompanied by Hollywood Producer Hal Roach, Vittorio Mussolini, 21. eldest son of Il Duce, sailed on the Rex for the U. S., where he will learn U. S. movie production methods prior to starting an Italian company backed 50% by Producer Roach.

Performing in the title role of MGM’s Badman of Brimstone, Cinemactor Wallace Beery dashed into a frontier set. brandishing a six gun in either hand, tripped, fired a blank cartridge into his thigh.

Headed for the U. S. is Henry Humloke, son-in-law of the Duke of Devonshire, who acted as stand-in for King George VI at Coronation rehearsals. He will go to Hollywood to seek a movie contract, will live with Dancer Fred Astaire, whose Sister Adele is married to Mrs. Humloke’s brother, Lord Charles Cavendish.

Cinemactor Charles Spencer Chaplin announced he would discard his famed tramp makeup, and in his next self-produced picture, in which he will star with Wife Paulette Goddard, he will play a “straight” comic role without costume, will talk on the screen for the first time. He would not tell anyone about the story, said only that it would be ready in “a year—perhaps.”

Michigan’s Sprinter Sam Stoller, Jewish member of the 1936 U. S. Olympic team who was withdrawn from his events in Berlin, let it be known that in Mae West’s next picture, Every Day’s a Holiday, he will be one of a crowd in a New York saloon known as Trigger Luke’s.

On the corner of 48th Street and Third Avenue, Manhattan, one Guillermo Collins expectorated on the trousers of one John Ballach. Apologizing, Collins bent over to wipe it off. When Collins straightened up, Ballach noticed his money was gone from his pocket. Collins started to run, pursued by Ballach and an ever-growing mob. Suddenly, at 49th Street, a pistol shot cracked out, Collins stopped. Patrolman William E. Kelly, member of the U. S. 1936 Olympic water polo team, ran up, rescued him from the mob, made his first arrest since joining the force Sept. 1.

Ill lay: Queen Alexandrine of Denmark, after a stomach operation, in Skagen Jutland; Prince Kimmochi Saionji, 87, Japan’s last surviving elder statesman, as a result of “a train ride too soon after luncheon.” in Okitsu, Japan; Deaf-mute Teacher Helen Keller, after an abdominal operation, in Rochester, Minn.; Maryland’s one-eyed Governor Harry Nice, after an emergency operation for removal of an abscess, in Baltimore.

Down upon Reno for a divorce descended Mrs. Marcelle Edwards Manville, showgirl fourth wife of Asbestos Heir Tommy Manville. She greeted her lawyer, Judge George Bartlett with, “Hello, Judgey,” prepared to set up residence in his home.

In Manhattan. Gadabout Manville explained he had paid his wife $200,000 to go off quietly to Reno and abandon her plans to nick him for $1,000,000. Burbled he: “I like to do things in a businesslike way.”

Europe-bound aboard the Normandie was Colorado Copperman Spencer Penrose, who keeps on his Colorado Springs summer-resort estate a menagerie of lions, bears, elephants. Said he: “This country has entered a dog-eat-dog era. … I don’t mind, I got sharp teeth.”