Evening Star Newspaper, February 23, 1930, Page 90

i 12 — b here’s Money in Poetry There Were No Poetsrior Bankrupts In the Kantrowitz Family, but Other Disasters Were Possible—This Is Clearly Demonstrated by the A uthor of This Prize Story—Another of the Year’s Best Stortes, Complete and Illustrated;, Will Be Featured in the Magazine of Next Sunday’s Star. N the transatlantic steamer a stoutish man of about 50, bald-headed and blue-eyed, extended a hand as big as a ham and introduced himself: ‘ “Levine is my name. What is yours? I am in the silk business; what is your busi- ness?” . I mumbled that my business was of mno importance. After dinner, when the coffee was brought in, the purser and the captain of the boat greeted me and sat down at our table for I introduced my companion, “Say, I found out what you are. They tell me you're a writer. Why didn’t you tell me so? That's nothing to be ashamed of! That's more more ted down Go Way. from g §¢ HLHH T e FiBx ES k| 5k HiH his e does What his father has done at 40 he wi 40. A regular fellow. The kind of a son a man wishes to have not a stranger. E ge 3 “But the other son, Izzy—with him it's not- 80 good. What's happened was that when Iszzy was 12 or 13 years old and was still in school 4 " FiE & celebrity already. But the boy finishes school, and the father wants should into his business, and Izzy wouldn't even about it. Then it is not so . He to be a poet. “Well, for a yzar pr so'we didn’t know: no 2kout it and didn’t know: howmaeh ' Was worried and all the guarrels in the. i | gi i gg 3 ¥ & : ! 583 S fis {E: Bpitss HHTHRE TUHTHIE Es 1 f iig &z <1 P §2z£ worries a man got in business there yet come such a thing in America. Poetry! . “And then one day Kantrowitz comes into my office, and I could see right away from how he acted that he was very happy. The biggest order couldn’t have made him so happy. No. And so I think what could have happened to him! I am in conference with my salesmen, but I stop the conference and I call him aside G is it, Kantrowitz? Tell me quick. I'm dying.’ than water. . This. morning he took a position with the A, G. B. 8ilk Co., and he is going on the road in a week! Thal life!’ THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHI i e . O T ' " : | irls are independent in that knows gives an eyes when he isn't i ONTH later Izzy comes back from the He is a new man. He has cut his His clothes are pressed. The people are very satisfied with them up on the telephone and it goes with him. So I think > 2 ' i agg;; 5;% pis il 2 pegiss §g§§§§ zgeis i i 1 L —