People: Nov. 4, 1929

“Names make news.” Last week the following names made the following news:

Mae Murray, flutter-footed cinemactress, sued Fox Theatres Corp., Peter Clark, Inc., Flatbush Ave. & Nevins St. Co. and William Fox Circuit of Theatres for $250,000, claiming that while dancing at the Fox Theatres (Brooklyn) last December her heel caught in a crack on the stage causing her to trip, fall, break a bone in the invaluable left foot of Mae Murray.

Nicholas Horthy, son of Hungary’s Regent, Admiral Nicholas Horthy, was thrown from his pony, dragged along the field while playing in a Budapest polo game. His mother and father were looking on. He was taken from the field unconscious, his skull fractured, ribs broken.

Edgar Wallace, whose novels, in England, are so manifold that they are called “Wallaces” (The Three Just Men, 139 others), race horse owner, tipster, playwright (The Sign of the Leopard), arrived in Manhattan, thought that he might gather U. S. criminal material for another “Wallace.” Said he: “The speediest work I ever turned out was a book I wrote in a prize contest seven years ago. I started it on a Thursday and finished it on Monday. Its title? I forget. I think it was called the ‘Countess Something.’ ” With him was his wife who told him that the name of the book was The Strange Countess.

The late, peace-loving Gustav Stresemann, Foreign Minister of the Reich who died last month (TIME, Oct. 14), was given a whole page to himself in the Illustrated London News, including pictures of his death mask, a photograph of his neatly dressed corpse in its coffin (the dead hands holding flowers) and a tribute saying that his death “was a great blow not only to Germany but to Europe as a whole.”

U. S. Senator-suspect William Scott Vare, as yet unseated because of allegedly fraudulent election (TIME, Dec. 19, 1927 et seq.), left Philadelphia for Florida where he will oversee repairs on his storm-damaged home at St. Lucie.

Sir Gilbert Parker, English novelist (The Right of Way, The Weavers, The World for Sale), broke his arm, suffered bruises when an automobile, driven by his wife, who was not injured, overturned near Carmel Highlands, Calif.

Maurice Tessier, French novelist (The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars), who has written the “best seller” in France for five successive years, and whose pen name is Maurice Dekobra, had his name changed to Maurice Tessier Dekobra.

Frank Jay Gould said that he had the French Government’s permission to open a gambling casino in a palace near Nice, that he was licensed to conduct all forms of gambling, that his casino would be ten times as large as the one at Monte Carlo, would have a room containing 42 tables, seating 600 players. Said he: “My announcement is the best answer to reports undoubtedly instigated by jealous rival casinos and broadcasted last summer that the palace would be turned into an automobile garage.”