Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-11
Young MuMlionare of Paris Prefers Work Spending Money


In America we have a little corner OF
this world of royal incomes from invest
meHtS, unsullied by direct contact with
business. Cornelius did an exceptional
thing, even for America. in apprenticlng
himself to the railroad and lnventlng
locomotive attachment. The usual limit
is to pilot aeroplanes like Jacques de
Lesseps-but not to invent or improve
them.
To produce, to create to merit by per-
sonal genius the interest of the world
when one is already rich. influential ana
happy seems to make the others Jeaaous.
Doubtless this is why so rev mliiiohaiI
produce Young Rousscfs piano teen
nique had begun to pass for an amla saae
sport He was classed among the goiden
do-nothings. He might take vague 1nter,
est in Bonapartist politics because ms
sister is married to the DUKE OF f,CnIn-
gen, descendant of Marshal Ney. Inen,
suddenly, he threw his. bomb. 1t was
a book.
Bv his Kaleidoscope. enigmatc ana
beautiful impressions of Africa Hay
mond Roussel shows hims"lf not only
master of French prose. but philosopher
If life and manners ia dark sayings of
the style of notwithstanding four centu-
ries supposed to be unapproachable
Rostand has the book on his night Ia
BILE The author of "Chantecler says
that it is the most amusing. complicated
and ingenious thing that he has ever met
with He takes it up at odd NOM nts,
dipping in here and there. At times the
poet chuckles. He is Partisan enough to
have the key to understand it.
Simpl~ minded tourists. bound Tor WIN
tering in Egypt. who take the Impress
sions'' for handbook. are perpleXed. 1t
first ran as a serial in the Gaulois daily
newspapers Sunday Gaulois Bu' 1t has
no tourist informa ton impressions or
Africa" is eXteriOrly phantaSmagorla or
color and description.
Interiorly it is something else. All but
the clear French style seems sacrificed
to these fantastic pictures of great beauty
Octave Mirbeau's "Jardin des sup
pIices'' is common srnse compared with
many OF them-yet Paris recognizes the
opera prima donna "of orchestral respi-
ration the exploits of dwarf Phislipo,
the statue on pedestal or cors t.
bones" and the railway of calves liver
Quite so. In the same way Francois
Rabelais made his gigantic hero hang
all the churchbels of the kingdom round
his mares neck'-and FTenchmen OF
court and town chuckled to recall that
their king. Henri II. had just donated to
Diane de Poitiers half the proce: ds Of a
twenty -livres-per-cloche tbelfry) tax. So
today they grin over KousseTs Romeo
and Juliet of which there are two cur
rent interpretations, the HrSt love OF
Emile" 1.-The worm that played the zith-
err" 1.-The writer on the balustrade" and
"Yaour TX cassically costumed as Mar
guerite in Faust
The device imagined for these pen pic
lures is the wreck of a transatlantic
liner bound from South American ports
to MaTeille.
The Lyncee founders on the coast of
Africa. throwing together in the kingdom
Of Talou VII all the diverse characters
needed for the writer's bizarre episodes.
There is the chemist BeX returning from
a lecture tour: the suporannuated 1.-Two
MAN opera dancer, Olga Tcherwonenkoff,