The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-06-17

"See here Jordan, said a member who had not been present at the original discussion, whats all this I hear about your discovery of great Russian author? Larrovitch, I think the name is. I can't place him, and other fellows in the club who are interested tell me they find no mention of him in any of the reference books Russian Itera- ture"
 There are several others in the club whose knowledge Of Larrovitch easily paral- 1els mine," said MT. Jordan. q shall see that you talk with them. Better still; April 26 will be the hundredth anniversary of Larrovitch's birth. I think something should be done about it.'
 Here let the writer of this surprising ad- denda to the book annals of America. not to speak of Russia, interpo1ate a personal observation by MT. Jordan. He says:
 Tn extenuation of all that is about to be revealed one thing is to be borne in mind. When the affair began there was absolutely reconciliation. Absence of reconciliation affords certain degree of excuse in law. Surely 1t should do in a club.
 "The Larrovitch hoax directed at no one particular person nor at any group of persons It just grew and grew Having gone far as to invent an author it was only just to him that I should endow him with good works. did so. That is about all there is to it.
 Tt was just a sudden notion that came to me I listened to those men talking. Nat urally expanded, elaborated and improvised at length as the interest of the audience de- manded. But II would nave amounted to little in the enc had it not been for the splen- did coopera ton of Richardson Wright, editor of Home and Gdrden, to whom. perhaps, most of the success of the centenary meet ing and the later published volume is due well as to the other writers who joined and helped signaIly to make jointly ere ated Larrovitch a veritable paragon of liter ary style and lofty thought"
 Thus giving due exploitation to MT. Jor- dan's plea that there nothing cold hlooded in his narrative and commenting his tenacity for sticking to his highly orig inaI story, the reader shall next be intro duced to the gifted conspirators One may fancy MT. Jordan in secret formulating his plans for a LarrOvitch centenial celebration and. like a modern Nick Bottom. calling the roll of his supporting cast at midnight in his own comfortable library, the following high class pIotters answering the roll:
 Prof. Franklin H. Giddings, of Columbia University; Clinton Scollard. American poet the law for literature and daily journalism: Richardson Wright editor. author, critic and correspondent, who has spent much time in Russia and Siberia: George s. Hellnnan, poet and author editor of the letters of Irving and Brevoort and of volume of verse by Robert Louis Stevenson; Thomas Walsh critic and poet; pr. Titus Munson Coan, physician. author and once a surgeon in the United States navy.
 Next thing of importance is the fact that not long after these meetings each member ton of a Larrovitch Centenary Celebration to be held in the clubrooms.
 Socially and professionally the Larrovitch fete at the Authors Club was everything that 6 fete at the Authors Club ought to be. Be- fore the exercises began the guests made