Had they been interviewed, some people who figured in last week's news might have related certain of their doings as follows:

Emil Jannings, foremost German cinema actor: "I do not remember New York, as I left Brooklyn, my birthplace, for Germany at the age of one. I have returned to make pictures for a year in Hollywood, following my success with U. S. audiences in Passion, The Last Laugh, Variety. Debarking from the S. S. Albert Ballin in Manhattan, I carried my pet mocking bird in a cage. Warned by newsgatherers not to let Hollywood 'get' me, I replied: 'Ah, I am Jannings! I go to Hollywood. I am still Jannings!' '

William Gibbs McAdoo: "Last week in Los Angeles before the Pacific Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, I said: 'There is no office I want less than that of President of the United States. . . Let me tell you that these things are convictions that I have, and I don't care a continental if they destroy me politically and physically. I put righteousness ahead of politics always.'"

Very Rev. William Ralph Inge:

"Speaking before the National Council of Women at London I said: 'There are many women more qualified to adorn the Episcopal bench than those who occupy it at the present moment.' '

Ralph Pulitzer, editor* of the New York World (Democratic Manhattan daily): "I returned to the U. S. with my brother Herbert from a five-months' hunting trip in Africa, where I shot two lions, a lioness, a kudu (spiral-horned ante- lope), a wart hog, a water buffalo, a rhinoceros, many another quad- ruped and some birds. My shots killed all these creatures except the rhinoceros, whose neck my bullet entered, lacerating the beast to charging fury. My guide checked it with an accurate shot. I told newsgatherers that I had become so fond of African sport I would return next year, to stalk a giant sable antelope (curved, annulated horns; hairy muzzle; tufted tail)."

Shahinsha Reza Shah Pahlavi of Persia: "I, heavily guarded as usual, made a motor tour of inspection through the province of Man-zandaran, last week. I barely escaped death when one of my automobiles, loaded; with munitions, blew up. Eight of my officers were destroyed. I, whose title is 'The King of Kings Reza King Pahlavi' rode serenely on."

George F. Johnson, president, Endicott-Johnson Corp., reputedly the largest shoemakers in the world: "My company employs 17,000 men, many of whom buy goods on the installment plan. I disapprove of this practice, for, as I said last week, 'The only profit out of installment buying goes to the men who make the sales, and sometimes to the banks who handle the papers, but never to the poor devil who owes and must pay.' "

Theodore Dreiser, novelist: "Returned from England last week, I said to newsgatherers: 'I refuse even to pass the time of day.' Then I changed my mind. Said I: 'England is America-mad. The English girl imitates the American girl . . . the English boy plans to go to America . . . forgetting their own very real superiorities. . . . America is curiously indifferent to its fate. None of our newspapers has the courage to discuss . . . the Catholic question, the Negro question, the money-power question or even the liquor question. But wait until population increases to the bare subsistence level. Then America will meet her first test.' "

Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, Philadelphia publisher (Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal, etc.) : "Bowdoin College (Brunswick, Me.) announced that I had promised it a pipe organ for its chapel, and a swimming pool. At Portland, Me., my birthplace, the municipal organ is a gift from me (TIME, July 19) in memory of the man for whom I am named, Hermann Kotzschmar, onetime bandleader of Dresden, Germany, church organist in Portland 1849-1909. A few years ago Bowdoin College conferred upon me an honorary degree."

Elliot H. Goodwin, resident (Washington) Vice President of the Chamber of Commerce of the U. S.: "Since I joined this body in 1912, as general secretary, I have had, practically, full charge through the various presidencies. (John W. O'Leary of Chicago is now President, TIME, May 24.) Membership now includes 1,458 Chambers of Commerce and other trade associations, which represent 15,000 firms and individuals. We now have a $3,000,000 building here in Washington. My salary is $20,000 yearly. Last September my board of directors decided to curtail my authority, to subordinate me to an Executive Council. I objected. Last week I resigned. I am a nephew of the late President Emeritus Charles W. Eliot of Harvard and have been suggested as a possible successor there to President Abbott Lawrence Lowell. I am not being considered for that post."

S. M. Saadat Ali Khan, Indian potentate: "I have just had built for me, in London, a special hunting motor car, camouflaged in green, brown and other jungle shades, to deceive lions and tigers. There is also a dazzle light to blind them. The car, which cost about $20,000, is of 50-horsepower, with special buffers, front and rear, to protect it from charges by wild animals. I have added an ice box, for drinks."

William Zebina Ripley, Harvard economist: "In August I condemned the current method of unloading non-voting stock on the public, and the inadequate financial statements which many corporations publish. Last week, in an Atlantic Monthly article, I attacked the involved financing and present irresponsibility of U. S. public utilities, especially in the electrical field. Five of the largest power and light holding companies control 43% of the country's central station output. This is a temptation, I wrote, to 'prestidigitation, double-shuffling, horns-swoggling and skullduggery [New England colloquialisms]. . . . The awkward and even deceitful nature of these involved corporate relationships is fully recognized by responsible managements. Several first-class attempts, in fact, are now under way, aiming at a simplification of over-extension.' I suggested that the President recommend to Congress to have the Federal Power Commission or some like board hold hearings to throw light on the whole public utilities' situation." Fritz Kreisler, incomparable fiddler: "Pianist Josef Hofmann (TIME, Oct. 25) is not the only artist to suffer from travel. Dashing to the pier in Belfast, to take me to the ship for a concert in Glasgow, my taxicab was wrecked. I escaped miraculously with but a shower of broken glass. No whit behind Mr. Hofmann in punctuality to my public, I proceeded forthwith to Glasgow, brushing aside the Irish cab-driver who vociferously demanded that I pay for the damage to his vehicle."

Edwin H. Anderson, librarian, New York Public Library: "Last week we bought, for $10,000, one of the most complete collections of Negro lore and literature in existence, from Arthur Schomburg, Brooklyn amateur. The collection will be placed on exhibition, and in use, at our branch library in Harlem, New York's Negro colony. There 95% of the readers are Negro, "most of the others white intelligentsia lured by the current interest in the Negro arts."

George Bernard Shaw: "I declined an invitation to attend the annual conference of the Federation of Cremation Authorities. Said I: 'I have had a narrow escape this year from being cremated myself.' "**

Homer Saint-Gaudens, Fine Arts Director of the Carnegie Institute: "Weary of criticism on the bizarre in art, I said, in Carnegie Music Hall, Pittsburgh: 'If we ever do find a standard of art which will produce say a standard portrait of a standard nude, like a standard Ford or a standard Gillette razor, then we will no longer be interested in a work of art for itself alone, but in the difference between it and the standard, the yardstick by which we are measuring. Whereupon art will become just a speculative subtraction.' "

James Ramsay Macdonald, leader of the British Labor Party: "Because I am suffering again from a recurrent bronchial trouble, I left the fog and smoke of London last week to seek the dry curative air of the Southern Sahara."

Chang Tso-lin, War Lord of Manchuria: "I was advised last week that among recent recruits to my Chinese army is the Japanese Captain Masahike Amaasu. The captain is generally accounted a national hero because during the Japanese earthquake of 1923 he took it upon himself to strangle the notorious Japanese Anarchist Sakae Osugi, Mrs. Osugi and their ten-year-old nephew. The murderer, now reprieved by the Prince Regent of Japan, deems it expedient to seek temporary oblivion under my standard."

Charles H. .Wacker, President of the Chicago Plan Commission: "I was unable to be present last week at the opening of the famed $22,000,000 two level Wacker Drive which gracefully spreads itself along the Chicago River between Michigan Ave. and Market St. Friends told me that bands, floats, Mayor William E. Dever and many another civic bigwig were on hand at the dedication. Mayor Dever said he thought that Wacker Drive was 'the greatest improvement of its kind in the world's history.' I had despatched a message expressing appreciation for naming the drive after me."

Jack Dempsey, fighter: "While I was training at Hendersonville, N. C., for my recent bout with Gene Tunney, I remarked that I believed my grandfather, Nathan Dempsey, had once lived in the neighborhood. Last week that fact was verified. Western North Carolina folk recall him. He fought everyone who would, choked a bear to death with his bare hands, injured many an opponent with a fence rail. He was so potent as a bruiser that the local law forbade him to strike with his right fist, ordered him to use only his open right palm. He never killed a man nor beat his wife."

Thomas Alva Edison, inventor: "In a recent pronouncement, I said: 'Everything in this world should be done by machinery.' Commented the Los Angeles Times in an editorial, 'What! Has Thomas got beyond the kissing age?' I, aged 79, wrote the Times a note. 'That' I said, 'is the way it is done in the movies--entirely by machinery.' "

*Like many a newspaper owner, Mr. Pulitzer, son of the late and fiery Joseph Pulitzer, the World's founder, bears the title of "editor" but leaves most of the duties of that office to a subaltern. Editor Pulitzer's subaltern is swift-thinking, redheaded, dynamic Executive . Editor Herbert Bayard Swope. The chief editorial writer is Walter Lippmann, famed political theorist.

**Cremation in the U. S. has reached the state of popular organization. Frank E. Campbell's "Funeral Church" of Manhattan, one of the largest mortuaries in the city, boasts itself on its letter heads: "The National Institution for Cremation." In Mr. Campbell's chambers, numerous "parlors," large and small, afford consolation for the bereaved by Louis Quinze furnishings, ormolu clocks, marble statues, gilded pianos.