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B 2 xx _THE EVENTING STAR. WASHINGTON, M S AGRDAY AUGUST 14, 1937, SIEGE STORY IS MAGNIFICENT English Officer Makes an Overwhelmingly Convincing Case for Spanish Nationalists in Fine Unbiased Account. Madame Butterfly Tale Is Translated. By Mary-Carter Roberts. THE SIEGE OF AICAZAR Bv Maj. Geoffrev McNeill-Moss. New York Alfred A. Knopf. OOKS on the war in have been coming out creasing numbers for fime now Yet all to have been partisan. and by far greater part of them bhave been strongly on the Tovalist side, Re- cently P Theo in his A Tragic Journey for the Na- tionalists, dealing the compara- tive merits of two sides in & manner which doubt that he rates the e bels superior in dis- eipline. ireatment of civilian population, principles of conduct and pairiotism Indeed. Mr. Rogers saw the Lovalist NEInment as BN aggre- gation of gangste power for gangsier motives and holding it by gangster methods, with such planned Retion ook being ected tirelv Commuuist oiher couniries, chiefly this point of view of the majority Rogers’ obvious he of destruction eivihzation which he had tnbuted somewhat case which made Now hrelv Spain n in- some date the Rogers, spoke with the leaves no L seizir as it by en- torces Ruissis Dot writers from But been that and Mr emotion, as of a con- has of persc the 1al wrote loved weaken he we have & impattial. a book greatest emoiion which is the author's arduvus zeal for an even- handed prestutation of evidence, and 1 mukes & the Nationa which ingly convincing, A more imoressively bouk thal is en- the shown s in which facts and cuse for is overwbelm- thousand times Mr. Rogers this English is readers of high- patriots large, mob- direc- savagely o from eign coun- theit pies- and wrathtul dispassionate work by Army major places belore s picture of a group principied iron-disciplined earrving sorrow i story an small on against A spivited. disorderlv force the ton of which is either from trresponsible opportunists eaiclulating leaders from tries who see advan! tor own ent political beliefs 1 Spain’s AoV hese eruis dese of viption. which On bimself Bu preseui 0 be sure. McNei contrary are Moss not Mai Dimsell uses the seems o exert 1o he facts His canily, is commend both sides alike also exerts bimself 1o and his siony uself signifi- the speaks for praise of the Lovalisis limiied w0 men 1 ranks believes he soldiers, who. he have & slucere conviction thai they are defeuding & free gov- ernment # tie of alust ihreal of a tyrant. 1t is part the thorough- ness of his method the propuganda his coaviction swever, ihat he exposes some of 10 establish the people eold facis of regime used among and. against it the tie Lovalist governmenial bear the Tegime is which hardly out mtention thiat cerned even a doctrines The book war, bl the story deiense Toledo on July 25, when reaching and Heroiv. With democtalic is 0o record of the as of of its tille indicates, 1s ine ihe le Alcazar 18 and Geo the ieredible and of great fortress This siege began on Seplember succeeded ende Franco in beleaguered stronzhold elieviug indeed shopworn burlesquie term o of is The hetoic deteucers word is a4 badly one almost a applisd w bul it can be the ibe Alcazan pristine There and of 1hal numbe: soldierly ibe rest many 16 and 18 no artillery: rifes bombs were (heir were shut i in & whereto & Ci thousand had fied the forces of democracy described | Fhey supply of food and they were on xiarvaiion the frsi. Against force incalciiably bers men its honor were less than 800 of 1hem 600 had had raining: of between experience aud were b of vears of sge. Thev bad machive guns and only weapons, They medieval buildit population efuge of & ‘trom wre timited thai from or a8 they had « waler so ralions Lem Supetior free and mobile 1n #ctivn with heavy np at close range, wided by airplanes eqiipped with flame-throwers, tanks and incendiary bombs, and capable of laving and exploding mives (as i did) n the weeks of ture of ibe great of Toledo, one $pain, was defenders fought heaps of ruined women and children were the cellars. Yet there was repder. and, by all thought of it. It is a sory s mob. called troops, and of tne garrison did not think of themselyes as in rebelhion and behaved throughout the terribie ing i0 the quixoucally high standard. of gentlemen patriols defending 1heir native land, their fellow citizens and iheir own oalhs 1o Spain as soldiers In the early stages of (he outbreak ihe commander of the fortress, Col. Mos- cardo, bad received & telephone call from a person who iefused to give a name. but ciaimed be spoke for the ministry of war. This person de- manded that the entire siock of muni- tions in the arms factory of Toledo be transported to Madrid. Col. Muscardo who had taken part in the revolt And whose garrison, at the (ime, was only & handful of boys aitached (o ihe armv school, asked for written cou- firmation the order. His request was taken as a declaration of rebellion and e was informed (still by people to whom he no respousibility) that he must surrender immediately. The reason he could get no confir- mation of orders from the Madrid gov- arnment, says Maj. McNeill-Moss, wa ihat there was virtually no one in &u- thority in that city. The ministry of war changed hands three times within 24 hours: anarchists. svodicalists Communisis, Socialists and their like were swarming over the corpse of the republic, each faction prosecuting its own end, each quarreling with the others. Col. Moscardo,* waiting in orderly correct fashion for & command which he could recognize, was distinct- Iv out of the picture. It occurred to some one (o punish him, and he was declared a rebel against organized gov- ernment. His son was captured and he was told by ielephone if he did not surrender within 10 minutes the boy would be shot. He asked io speak to bhia child, and told him, “Pray for us and die for Spain.” “Both I will do.” Then he was killed. Then began the terrible investment, of the fortress. It was of no particular military vahie to the Lovalists, it was not. in rebellion. it contained only a handful of soldiers. But it was, " nonum- armed artillery which was sel he struc- the glory of of utteily The on among the giant masonry, while ihe in o sur- be siege fortress the destioved glories housed evidence. o magnificent the f For. ihough rebels, and the officers {bemselves story of morale against he dGefrnders he be are egers loval men siege accord- thai no in of owed bave #8000 and toal Journalist noble copy camp, commandant and escapes, he falis into company The boy replied. | E Maj. McNeill-Moss, the conspicuous emblem of the ancient regime, its men were of ihe gentlemen-officer class, 1 was situated in a city which was the stronghold of religion in all Spain, 8nd so it was attacked with thal sppalling savagery which onlv comes from batred which has its roots in enny Heavv guos wete set up st close range, planes flew low over the court- vard aod buildings spraying petrol after which they dropped incendiary bombs; although the beseigers knew | that a thousand civilians were within the walls thev dug below the fortress and exploded (hree terrible mines, On e day when ihe fArst iwo were set off the current minister of war for the Lovalists came down with & large corps of newsmen and pholographers, and personally turned the switch Mere destruction of the buildings was the aim in these explosions for, previous 1o their seiting off. the Lovalsis subjecied the side of the fort which was away from the danger (0 & heavy bombardment. evi- dently in the hope of forcing ihe in- | habiiants to take refuge on the ground | above the waiting mines not eiiher When Nutionalist airmen were forced down near the city of them literally 1orn 1o pieces by the whom the government had sent frem Madrid to work in the factory, and * * * the other two were tied by the hauds bebind & lorry and drageed over two were girls e rough slopes wete dead " These people ghit under the red fiag and scrawled Viva Russis” on walls ithe Lowu, using blood. The buok containg & phiotograph of ihe wscription As opposed (0 this mob conduct defenders treated themselves uutl 1hey ihe of the iheir ' When Gen. Franco suc- ceeded 1n relieving them at last, they sent out word thal their capiives would be released 1if the Lovahsis wouild withdra™ with no more harm to tne people of the city. They wers without. medical supplies and sufficient food, but they did have plenty of am- munition: nevertheless engaged 11 60 suiping, but ouly fought to repel sitacks, In ihe fortress hung Virgin ot when (hey prisoners ihey one of ihe the he Alcaczar had time As has been said, 1t and 13 ieling 18 magnificently effective. The book is a gav-by-dav altacks. casualiies, ex- pedients in hunting food -1t reads. in- desd, slmost like a report. It its statemenis marked s There 1s The cour- of the ar- This book fairness But iniplications are as has been noied The Alcazar has been destroved, the Caihedral of Toledo baen badly damaz he of El Greco's vision bombed, mined snd Franco arrived emains of bt that spirit, as Toledo bhas so been called, has lost 11s nimeless And mark this. The Ino inn of Cervantes was desiroved. Is any goveirnmenlial regiume in the world worih Maj. McNeili-Moss tbe question best chambers pictire They of the pravea * & wagnificent stony record of wihtary is severely documented; “ither verified or Jossible 10 be verified emotionalism, no hearsay e tank and file tackers is highly praised bears all the marks of s sre m- no age of has ed city Geu the oren burned in time 10 save he garrisou, Ciy of ihe ofter semblanice. he that BUSwers per taps He * % surely shade of grumble. For he had believed the davs of chivalry over aud in bis story of the poor genile- man of La Mancha he had laughed at ose fancies, snd tales of wonderous feals of arms which had sei his hero OUL Upon his Yel, Just above the iun where Cervantes bad lived there bad been performed feals seem- iug as crazily impossible ss any ihal had blled the pate of 1hat poor gentle- wan, Don Quixole. The ina is gone The spirit of Alcazar remalns The joke is against Cervantes, But, hie. 100, was himself & Spauish soldier snd be will make no complaint.” the Cervsuies will not, travels ONE LIFE ONE ter Duranty, Schuster, N[R WALTER DURANTY is un- ¥ GQuestionably an authoriy on the Russian revolution and on Rus- sian politics since the revolution. He is also a fine, readaole journahst, This is his frst novel and it confirms whal aov experienced reader might suspected—that & professional writing man of Mr Duranivs skill do any piece of work badly Mr. Duranty is, nevertheless, novelisi He is & fine, readable Bul a novelist—no His book 15 ihe story of the making KOPECK. By New York Wal- Simon & no of & Bolshevik and of the part plaved by & young Bolshevik in Vists' rise to power. It takes young peassni-born foster-son of & an. through a lively enough ca- be is railroaded 1o Siberia in ihe davs before the war, he finds & of “Dss Kapital” in the prison he sees the light, he kills the ihe Bolshe- Ivan) reer with a Bolshevist organizer, be enlisis in Lthe army in order 1o learn discipline. he serves as & factory | worker in order (o learn technical pro- cedures, he organizes, fights, suffers wnd dies—always a loyal party mem- | ber. He also has a surprising number of love affairs with beautiful voung women who either kiss him “so hard that il burt him” or kiss “away his strength.” or kiss him “wildly.” and 50 on. Yet, for sll these enter voung Tven docs pot live. He is obvi- ously & Tvpical Russian Of The Revo- | lutionary Generation. And the rest of the book is similarly put together with no betier than nice mechanical skill. One has the feeling that Mr. Duranty dictated it all rapidly after spending about balf a hour thinking it through Well, that is 8ll there is Lo say of it. It is lively mechanics, it is brightly painted puppels moving on well ma- nipulated strings. Great knowledge of 4 subiect and an ability 10 write 1n0- terpretatively of that subject do not confer on an author the peculiar pow- ers of 1he genuine novelist, Perhaps one such work was to be expected of Mr. Duranty. But now that it is done, the reviewer will hope that he goes back to reporting. There are lois of second-rate fiction writers. First- rate reporters always are rare. LENA. By Roger Vercel. Traoslated from the French by Warre B. . Wells. New York: Random House HIS novel, which won the Goncourt | prize of 1934, is s mad. violent | piece of writing. It if a work with a thesis, which thesis is none other than | the currently common one, the folly of war. The author, appsrently feeling | that a therfe so much used must needs | have vivid treatment in order to hold attention once again, has seized upon most spectacular mateMals. His book is brilliant but so revolting as to be almost. unreadable. It tells the story of a young French officer who, during the World War was sent into Bulgaria. Wounded and left. for dead. he is captured by Bul- garian Lroops. A young Woman sur- geon. lena Apostolova, attends him in his convalescence. She intervenes to save his life on several occasions They are surrounded by scenes of the most sppalling violence and he, once #n honorable officer, falls under the infection of his environment so that he auacks and then his saviour, Lena s0 murders The story is told in the firsi perso as the young Frenchman recounts the horrifying adventure 1o & brother off- cer before he goes to & duel in which he means to die, for he has found his life, since his crime, unendurable. 1t all but whether it ig or not will have to be left 1o soldier The book certainly cannot be mended s pleasant reading plished though it seems impossidle MADAME FLOWERY By Albert Gervais from the French by Dixon. New York: C W E HAVE here one more teiling of liitle of Madame Madame Flowery Sentiment Chinese instead of She is a widow by deser- & voung girl. She s her Occidental lover and is not given (o bim by And she ber from without SENTIMENT Translated Campbell Friede wich the sad Butterfly be story 1o sure. s Japanese tions snd not @ herself her family bears him commit s Inevitable separation does little wud tragedy: she not icide, shie weeps & then renews her rouge same old telling But it is essen- n charm tally the this which tale and u all the with it hax new old we ‘The principals are & voung Freuch doctor who is practicing in an inland Chinese ¢itv, and Madame PFlowery Sentiment who. deserted by her band, alone in her big house. sees her- self “aln an old Al The age of 19 and decides 10 seize The pleas- ure which the dav offers. Her with told hus- woman adven- n tures arate ber lover are sep- chapiers and have hitle no celation thing new eACH I8 B delicare Charming shows to lndividuativy the httle heroine Who still remaing tvpical of &l Orientil i her the reader some in women derotion She is the d, slight though a delightiul and piquant personality to the long line of Orental sisters who preceded to the ¢ veniions of she s center and life ihe tale. an: fikure adds have her I'HE DEVIL, AND DANIE] By Stephen Vincent Benel trated Harold Denison York: Farrar & Rinebart WEBSTER by New very fine short story |His which has already been published in +he Saturday Evening Post, n book cuts. & books if yon which is offered now illustrated with gIft book, if vou give an em for your own library form wood- pleasant or happen to be fond of ihe tale opuiion, be- lougs in the grand tradition of Wash- ngton Irving The seription the reviewer s story haraly itself needs de- how the grear Damel fought his hardest case before a jury from beil. his opponent old Secraich him aud won. and chased old Sceratch ouf of (he State of New Hamp- shire, so that he has nor dared his o show face there since. It 1 1o pUL With the Legend of Sleepy Hollow or with Rip Van Winkle or Huckle- Finn. Well. here 1t is is. You can buy it if the 1 takes berry now chnation vou ELEPHANT DANCE Bv Frances H Flaberty. Illustiated With Phe Lographs Taken By ‘The Auihor New York: Charles Scribners Sons PEOPLE who went play can read side 10 see the photo- of the here something of the of thal ‘ure. The author is the wife of bertv Flaherty, who went out 1o dia 10 get the scenes. She accompanied him and wroie her family &0d 1o friends, eling of the process of the expeditic hese only & few paragruphs make up the present book The finding of the chid siar. littie Ssbu, the training of the elephanis. the aid given by the Maharajah of Mysore. the various hunis, excursions and adventures of the him-makers — these are included tn the storv. Un- fortunately, the sivie of the jetiers is that bubbling coy manner which is s0 common 1o charmiog ladies when, un- dertaking to write, they decide 1o con- vey their charm by pen. so that &imost anv one will find the pictures illus- trating the volume iis chief merit Some of them are quite beauiiful, al- though this cannot be said of all Movie fans will probably like the work. To tbem it is commended. roomai Elephants of the - oy taking pic- Ro- In- letters, with nnection LAUGHTER IN THE SUN. Frankau New Yor Morrow & Co. “HIS s snotber novel about the French Reviera all cluttered up with British subsecre- iaries, lady novelisis, English officers from the British East Indies and & French renting agent. It is amusing and brittle, with not much in the way of real character study or plot. bul enough action to keep the inier o and enough frothy humor io make it worth the effort of reading if the plot fails (o hold the interest This book will be of particular in- terest 1o that portion of the popula- tion which rents a cottage for the Summer anywhere any time. It mav perbaps make them wonder whv such amusig things do not happen to them. But maybe they (the amusing things) would, if they (the renters) were British subsecretaries, lady novelists or English officers on leave R.R.T. Pamela William silly season RUNAROUND. By Benjamin Appel New York: E. P. Dutton Co. 'I‘HIS novel seems to have been writ- fen with two aims. One is the wholly admirable aim of showing up the non-existent nature of the honor of politicians and political appointees. The other, however, has its roots in the author’s pious hope- of achieving & best-seller. The two purposes add up to & work which is infinitely tire- some For the nature of the honor of polit- ical job-holders is no news, and a writer who treats it as such is in- sulting his readers’ eyesight. Every- body has heard of corruption, bribés. double-crossing; everybody knows that in politics it is not the rule to encounter gentlemen of education, principles and good manners. But. Mr. Benjamin Appel shows us corruption. bribery and the rest of it as if he had discovered the matter himseM. He ntters loud cries of dismay that such things should be. His cries become N RETL oy A ’ | BENJAMIN APPEL Author neethods of (E.P. Dulion.) cunaround.” a story aboul politicaans and ther WALTER DURANTY Author of “One Life mentator’s first novel One Kopek.™ (Stmon & Schuster This is the political com- Briet Reviews of Books Armaments, THE WORIDS FLEETS. Bv E. C New York: D A small about as ALL FIGHTING Talbot-Booth Appleton Century vhich convain of varions their <. signals, person- olume complete an account 1vpes of ships, the s procedures, their 1 and general pect is likely 10 find. A faci. Bv & heulenant the British Navy Merchant liarities— small commander one in in also Autho: library Monev and Spending. INVESTMENT TRUSTS AND FUNDS FROM THE INVESTORS POINT OF VIEW. By E. C. Harwood and Robert 1. Blair. Cambridge American Institute for Economic A book written to guide the man dolars ar Impressive- “ho few s a hundred mo o invest Very l0oking charts, THE MECHANICS OF ITY By Hobart C Baliimore: The Williams & kins Co, How ¢ One you PROSPER- Dickinson Wil the monev Offered 0o more, marker for more wy what can make of it, Mathematics at Home AL GEBRA FOR PARENTS. By Sam- S Philadelphia The Mager A text avoid book for parents embariassment who waut w vhen pre- distinetly betore his book 1S 50 pages Thev coulinue 1o gel More MONOIONONS BS 1L goes on Lo the full length of &n average novel A< for his hope of seller this seewms o the which floppy. imitation-Hemingway snd a frequent employment of de- signedly vulger terms. By his neo- Hemingwavisms Mr. Appel apparently hopes 10 win the smiles of the lilerate. By maiters MONOTONOLS wrliing & best be seated 1u lses, w0 excited manoer his generous references 1o country he hopes. with equal obvious- the hoi poloi avid. Tt said, a very tiresome ness. (o render 15, us has been performance The story desis with New York City politics m the Ia Guardia election However. as & note says thai the scene might just as well have been any other modern American city. this perhaps needs No particular mention. BUGLES BIOW NO MORE Clifford Dowdey. Bosion: Brown & Co. BY Little 80 Instru- the dif- terribie from a theme of HE futility of war ment for arbirating ferences of mankind and the toll armed confiict exacts people have formed the many a novel. Few writers, however have imposed this theme upon Tthe background of the American Civil War with more tragic effect than has Clif- ford Dowdey in this savagely realistic story, which, for sometime now, has been regularlv appearing on the best seller lisis For those who may have comforted themselves with the hopeful iheught that the passage of Lhree-quarters of a century has wiped out the hatreds of the War Beiween ihe States, Dow- dey probably will come 8s a rude shock. The City of Richmond, Va. is the scene of all of the action. which covers A period of just four vears, from seces- sion night to Appomattox. Dowdey painis a behind-the-lines tragedy more poignant than that of the battlefield. He voices a never-extinguished re- gret for those tnings that vanished forever from Richmond, from Vir- ginia and the South during the four years of mounting fever and despair: for the Virginia that might have been had not war been chosen as the in- strument for settling the differences between the North and the South. Born in Richmond in 1904, Dowdey traces his lineage back to Sir Humphrey Blunt, who came to Vir- ginia before 1616. Dowdey's people always have been Virginians: the war was 10 them and to him a terrible And a personal thing. Dowdey glories in those Virginians of the sarlier days He admits 'an he wrote his book as sented voung aole with the Seeminglv home work of heir very undersiand- Music A TEXT BOOK OF MUSICAL INSTRI Francis W. ( E. P. Dution Co A history musical Th Written by one who is Canon Emer of Chelmsford Cathedral. Hon. Fre man of the Worshiptul Company Milsicians.” FUROPEAN ME} msiriments development of in Burope. from Jew's harp 10 ihe pipeless org: Casual Navels GIRL. By Yew York: D, Century Co Another 1 and how a s Ccrises o STORM ncoln tale beautiful gi nnected wi weather, Usual Mysteries. BACKGROUND TO DANGER Eric Ambier., New York A. Knopf Inrernational from ol fact Bv Alfre esplonage. secrets Soviet Russia. R finance Average. stolen manian props sitnster all tne Juveniles, BOBBY WANTED A PONY Dorotny and Marguerite New York Dodd, Mead & Co Charming book for ihe very voung Ulustraied bv the auihors in color and biack and white. Biyvan with (e iutention of stowing that Army of toughest, ihe modern world and that their lives were more lusty 80d violent opera civilization phoney Virginian Also, he he had ook, *Because I've iried as ihose dead soldiers alwavs knowo the men Virginia soldiers of were he Norihern the hardiesi ever saw arie than the iries Anv comic- contemporary trade write savs 0 the 1o see lite saw a1 Yaukee thai damu 1wo words “Bugles Blow No More” is & story of Mildred Wade. daughter of the old and Brose Kirby shipping clerk: iheir fam- fortunes duriag the four war vears. The Wuades are a proud defant people: they refuse (o let the war drive them from lLome. They cling resolutely to what thev have and what they know unul these physical and mental possessions wrn before them (o sshes and blackened mem- ones. In normal davs. would have known excepl. perhaps, that he her father's cler Bul the war breaks down the barriers which surround the besi-ordered of Richmond lives. The strife in the girl a passion sud exciiement which finds its echo n the wild, hawk-like characier of the Kirby. Virginia s istocracy her fathers illes and Mildred nothing Wade of Brose was stirs Against her own face of the order the frantic protest impractical mother, Mildred yields her passion for a clandestine lover who has gone to war. Her father is killed fighting with Sionewall Jack- son. Her mother takes refuge from reality in the vagaries of a mind which clings to illusjon. Mildred and Brose are married; the Dahlgren raid tears them apart on their wedding day. One by one, the things that go to make up the lives of Mildred and her family sre swept awav by the war until the girl inds in all her life hut one temaining reality—the phvsical passion of the clandestine love between herse!f and her husband. Of wedded bliss she knows nothing. To this she clings as her only hope for joy as her baby dies 8nd growing hardships and privaiions make life a never-eacing nightmare. Finally, Appomaitox. She judgment : of her father and of her child-like in the 1o | stands for dayvs beside the road, watch- ing the broken wrecks who were the mighty fighters of Lee's army drifting back. Glorying in the thought of the love that alone remains in a world of ruin, she awaits the final blow, the return of a stricken, weary, broken man. He stares at her from sunken sockets. No expression touches . his graved face. “Life suspended in her.” < HONEYMOON END IS RUMO By M..C. R. N ARTICLE by Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen in the September Red Book is given over 1o discussing President Roosevel’s relations with Congress As these authors see it * * * the Arst session of the Seventy-ffth Congress | will be noted in history for the end of the harmonious Roosevelt honey- moon.” And they continue that the Fresi- dent, like other Presidents, has at- templed 10 smooth over his difficuluies with Capitol Hill by appointing & Luison officer (0 Lhe legislators, whose ' job ix to keep him posted as 1o what troubles e may expect. ‘The current hoider of this job. say Messrs. Fearson and Charles West, former Representative from Ohio. Mi. West 15 on the pay roll of the Inierior De- partment for $10,000 of the taxpayers money each vear, but “actually spends wll his time shunting back and forth belwern the While House and Capitol Hill like &n overworked swiich engine.” Allen, is In general Messrs. Pearson and Allen do not consider ihat Mr. West ix & great help. They say that he is & nice fellow — Mr. West is a very per- sonable voung man. He has a contagionus grin: he is a brilliant public speaker; he has taught in five different colleges wnd is a good swimmer, is fond ol bananas aud jcd cream, can speak foreign languages snd makes & prcialiy of saving yes in all three “BuL mind. capable of ping 61 inwieldy Demociatic Con- s betind the New Deal well, Lhat different ” ULIversilies: was once & preacher three as K master do not Iheir o West, how- 1clusion Is that it 1s Presidents job 1o deal with the and nobody elses. If underiakes 1t (while being Undersecretary of the Department of the Inierior or of any other depart- ment) and makes & failure of 1t, it is S0l the job, Othier Ibey Liame Mr ever the legisiators, some one President s men sel 10 the same lask in Messrs. Pearson remind have been C Bascom Slemp aud Everett Saunders for President Coolidge Walter M. Newlon, who served President Hoo adninistrations and Alien us. who served and tor YORONET “ plains ihe very cotor reproductions of paintings sbiecis, which are one of iis features. The explanation is sav ihe edilors, because 100 been made written, It NI Current issue, sx- how 1t procures good nquiries have for al replies w0 be makes quite a little story readers paintings n pro- wanting 1o of ihe familiar have been reproduced toured European galleries seeking #qually fine but less generallv } reproduce in color, photog- lake &long spe- apparalus the And follows & description of some of this apparatus give our ve nown works 1o Coronet’s Don Waliace having own color rapher for cial ask then Eleven specially construcied required runks all the equipment, plus six cases of piates (120 (0 a case. and very which French line 5 gracions accommodation and cases were for necessary glass fragile. ine handied pei ach ihe For onal care of verious officers phoiographic reproduction ur of these glass plates sre paiuting or art be pnoiographed four limes for each of the three primary red, vellow and blue. and once and white, Each ‘shot ihrough & hiter whicn ihe desired for that particular plate. Glass must be tsed than fAlm, which expand or coniract unevenlv so the tour will not ‘register superimposed 10 sed. s the coiect must onee for the black nade color eliminates all color except one rather may that or colors accuralely when priniing.” 80 ihet is pick Coronet s what when vou up and leaf carelessly nrough remarking, “Thev have prelly nice pictures 1o this don't thev? But 1t is all involved either. The co-operation of art gal- leries bas been needed and of this the editors say, “In one day Mr. Wal- removed over & million dollars worth of miniatures from iheir cus- tomary cabinets i ibe Victoria and Albert Museum in London, while at National Gallery i London and the Kunsthistoriscnes Musenm in Vienna paintings which badn't been emoved from the walls In vears, much trom thewr (rames, were taken it and placed before his camera. The Naiional Gallety's own pholographer bad been vainly tiving for seven vears to get ihe Rokeby Venus (June Coro- nety down off the wall! hat curators walched anxiously and 2uards were posied oulside ihe room in which he worked. «In the Louvre in fact. they even locked him in with some of the more fabulously precious objecis he photographed.+ Most of the miniatures and some of the oldest paintings had be photographed through glass “One month's work for the editor, hiree months’ work abroad and one at tome for Mr. Wallace, lie behind these pictures, o say nothing of the weeks of work required to make the engrav- ings, once the color photographs ihemselves had been oblained.” vou get pages not nat is 100 lace the o N REVIEWING last week ihe new anthology of poetry by contempo- rary men poels. the reviewer men- tioned the work by the Washington poet. Jonn lee Higgins, included in ihat volume. This caused & correspondent in Florida to send in & clipping from the Miami News, waere, last month, Mr. Higgins was made the subject of a feature arficle. Says this article, “John lee Hig- gins loves the earth with iis fragile beauly and its reverberating music. Toves it as & transient who regretfully fingers his round-trip ticket. Then, in changful mood, he straps She faces the fact that she never will know even the love which alone has animaied her through the last ferribie days; that never again would this husband be reckless and laughing, with violence undertoning his voice and heat glaring in his eyes. Never again would she seem to hear bugles blaring behind him. She must sum- mon up the courage by which she would live through bher remaining davs. Here is a story of the phase of war which does not appear in histories: of the destruction of hopes and memories and of emotions which never are recorded. Tt is these things which illuminate the past far more | than the factual historv and it is these things which are the strength of the honest bistorical novelisi. J. 8 E ® Small wonder | which was | this | same earth to his shoulder snd, like & young drummer, gongs his desires to the listening sky.” Well, that is pretty fancy, particu- larly that “changful mood” bit. But It 1s in the right direction. Mr. Hig- gins is & poet, His work has rhe true ring. ‘Washingtonisns oughi io kxnow his songs. Hia last volume was “Gongs of Earth,” and 1t 1s well worth having, EXT to the Duke of Windsor the i{ne men most written about these days seems 10 be Trotsky. A Tecent issue of Esquire carries a piece on him which seems 10 size 1he sitnation np very well. It 15 called “The Odyssey of & Bogeyman’ and the suthor js Lawrence Martin. Running over some big-time bogeymen of past centuries, Mr, Martin says: “There was Tameriane ihe Hun, and Genghis Kahn. What hell rsisers they were in their ume! * ¢ ¢ “They were great bogeymen in their day. but not one of them had 1he Stff that Teon Trotaky has— Troisky born Braunsiein 57 years 8go, now a graving man of professional aspect with thick Jenses and a goatee. who, With 10 &rmy, without & country even has for seven years shaken the world in its shoes. In that time, ihe life span of & noiorious ich, Troisky has cast a pall over Europe. * * = sod Attiia He has been passed sround the map gingerly, s if be were dvoa- mite or essence of cobra or & jar of typhus bacilli Men disembark ar docks. but Boishevik Braunsiein, by order of Star Chamoer, Inner Court or military council, is spirited off sieam- ers in police boats He is pried out of sealed sleeping cars at lonely jerk- WRler sialions 1o be whisked scross countrv ai dead of night in police autos with drawn cunains, * * " And 50 on The conclusion which the reader draws is ihat the venerable comrade is having & grand life of exactly ihe &ind which must please nim most. No- bodv is & martyr, In short, excepi maciyrs. And, as Msrk Twain ob- served nobody in ihe world has s0 splendid & time. The last person o particularly | of writing which makes ism, economics, gle. wage rales such constant or as soon though' & woman expert novel Wind" the West o dogma * * * The great opportuniiy our poetry that so it comes from picked 1t up from Esquire rier, leries service and became known seurs of the first the murals dropped ake a S RED Pearson and Allen Write of Mr. Charles West, the President’s ‘ Congressional Liaison Officer, and Do Not Regard Him as a Great Deal of Help. want the condition descrbed hv Mr Martin's piece changed, one hazard: would be Trofsky himself, Imagine his chagrin if he arrived some fina day AL Lhe gates of Moscow and nobod paid the least attention o him The picture is 1oo awful 1o be thought on JSICTION PARADE quotes ine foi- lowing from the Saturday Review of ture, and it is given here ar ird hand with approving huzzas. Hearken 1o this blasphemy against schoal communism, fascism, nazism, capitalism. imperial- soci0logy, class sty 1abor old phenomena tory iis heroes and no one had ever heard of ther it the kind lord Himself The poor ye have alwavy profound critieal truih Litera- he troubles heroines. as if before had not said witn ye.” “Some dav 1one hardiy bright write & about people people was ‘Gone With ihe tems in the decline of decimal expec voung mar is going 1o long and there as iwell not poinis in s just now is 1o write some poets bodv will like The parentheses, 3t should be said are the reviewers own Another item quoted al third hand Fiction Parade which former letier (2 of ma jor Arnoid Priedman had & one of New York s During the 25 Friedman has show of his pain in Art ga vears of painted on s 10 & few conne Now » 10 Americans Remg postal ice he submit designs for the new Posi Offic in Washington. 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Tt was in 1930 'hat & special Senate commitiee. made up of Senaiors Howell, Kendrick and Thomas, visited Alaska in order 1o study rhe problem of incressing the revenues of the Government railroad, Through fheir recommendations Congress authorized ibe railtosd to expend a sum mnot 1o exceed $250.000 1o nvestigale ihe mineral resources im areas tributarv to the railroad, for the purpose of stimulating iheir development and hence increasing the freight and passenger traffic. Col. O. F. Ohlson, general mapager of the railroad rirned this ilechnical work over io the Geological Survey, and as pert of the siudv, delailed examinations were made of ibe Antbracite Ridge district in 1931 Their report indicated rank cosls of great potential value underiay certain sreas, and ihe resulis their test drilling bore this out. The control snd disposition of the coal deposits in the public lands in Alasks are provided for by the act of October 20. 1914. This act author- izes the Secretary of the Iuterior to survey those known to be valuable for ibeir deposits of cosl and 1o divide ihe uoreserved coal iands snd coal deposits into Jeasing blocks or tracts of 40 acres each of multiples of 40, no block 1o exceed 2560 acres These blocks may then be offered for lease. Under the provisions of rhis act the that high- of ! known coal lands in the Matanuska, Bering River. Nenana and Cook Inlet coal flelds have been surveved and | certain areas reserved for the Gov- ernmeni. Many of these .ands are ! now open for application for lease. ! the applications to be flled with the commissioner of the General Land Office. The Jease may be for a period of pot more than 50 vears and is subject to renewal. Tt gives the lessee the exclusive right to mine and dispose of all the coal and associated mineral 4 ing. performance, ma casting and pre aperation States” CHII. DREN RADIO SKETCHES AND radio materiai RADIO WRITING, Inc From this yesr through Radio. 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"I'HE screen version of the stage sne- cess “Tovarich.” now m produc-] iion at the Warner Bros' Studios on the West Coast, with Claudette Col- bert and Charles Boyer rred, [ be released under the title “Tonight 3 Our Night.” In the official billing ihe name] “Tonight's Our Night” will invariahly be followed bv the words from the greal siage success rich.’ " The omginal siage plav b Jacque Deval. adapted for production in Fnz lish by Robert E. Sherwood, has heen| one of the outstanding theatrical sue cesses of recent years, with Jong ring in London and New' York following the con’in=nial triumph