New-York tribune., 1919-09-05

veranda facing the Sound" writes perrs
V. r. Key, in his John Mccormack: HI.
Own Life Story" "when Mrs. Mccormack
called TO me. Make yourself at home for
few minutes; it's just time for tea And j,
that phrase-if you analyze its inner mean.
ing-you have Mrs. Mccormack. Always
thinking of the comfort of others"
We take the liberty Of making few sny.
ges.ions to other biographers of musc,,
celebrities:
al bid one spade said Geraldine Farrsr
and the remark was characteristic Of this
splendid woman, who has always respected
candor and despised prudery."
"'Another order of ham and eggs said
Enrico Caruso, and the inner meaning of his
words came to me in a fash The man was
a complete nlystic,"
After reading Mr.. Keys book We feel tha.
i. IS quite beside the point 10 discuss shs
coming of the superman. He is here and hi.
name is John Mccormack Although we have
seen the tenor from side angle we never
suspected him Of being quite so much an all
around parsonage as the one Mr. Kew
presents.
"McCormack does not sing, merely. BE-.
cause it is his profession 70 DO So Medicine
the law or any OF the other learned profes-
sions might easily have been made his call.
ing. His the mind for any OF these, and
his education led straight to where he could
have proceeded into whichever one his in.
clination chose"
"McCormack teed up his golf ball. after
these remarks, and sent it down the fairwsy
in cleanly swung two -hundred-and-itty.
yard drive"
CHS mark in Latin, in which 1000 was tho
highest mark possible. reached 1923"
He shut off the motor, threw the wheel
over and brought US to a landing pretty
enough for any seaman"
"He was twenty feet from the cup but the
ball rolled true die to its mark"
"He came across to the tennis courts
where l sat watching two amateur cracks at
play, with the collar of his outing shirt open
and evidences of having participated in man.
ual labor. 'Tis an easier game, tennis he
declared, than pitching hay But my muscles
still cry out for exercise, so I'll take on both
Of YOU He did, and beat them
With eleven working years ahead, Nc.
Cormack will leave name likely 20 be IN.
touched by any other who has gone before
and, in all reasonable likelihood, almost m.
attainable by any singer who may come
after"
One of the scouts of this department re-
ports that May Sinclair's new novel. Mary
Olivier: A Life" is magnihcen. achieve
ment. 1t will be reviewed on The Tribune's
book page tomorrow.
Writing about Upton Sinclair's Jimmie
Higgins" in The Liberator," Louise Bryant
says: Jimmie Higgins is great character,
a great American character His mental and
physical struggle with the militarsts in ST.
IBERIA is so real that il hurts That is why it
is only natural that The Times and The
Tribune and other faithful refectors Of
Prussianism in America are calling for Sim
clair's blood"
The only defect in Miss Bryant's state
ment is that The Tribune did not call for
Sinclair's blood Our attention." said the
Tribune review, was first attracted to Upton
Sinclair's Jimmie Higgins by review in
The New York Evening Sun, which said that
the author ought to be put in jail We did
not find the book quite as good as that, bu.
it is nevertheless an interesting and honest
book which breaks new ground in the field
of war fiction"
1t is interesting to note incidentally, that