New-York tribune., 1922-12-24
By Burton Rascos

genius which most accurately fea..,., =
peculiar aspects Of that age.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER "a
This morning read the new isn. =,
double Dealer the lively literary -. =
published By a group Of young psoD,. - -
Orleans; and was especially slruek !, y,
Of verse BY hen Ray Redman; bee,.,. "
h one Of those who have been sre,,.
T. s. Ellot's 1.-THE Waste Land,e s,s ~
biz Of topical verse he has employ.t ~.
idiom outright To lunch va 80
James Forman, who said that Ma s...'7
was so afraid Of falling into Old .,,-'
that she kept alive an insauabls a..
about what new Is doing in the aofls !, y
letters and science; and was as er.tu,,,.,
over new IDEAS as a young reyol,ss.
Mr. Forman has Just translated IA, !,
"Theater Art Magazine" a play b. T,s.,..
not hitherto available In English. hs
example OF expressIonism which s,,.S..'-
certainly, all the artistic product, Tia, 49,
been identified By that name. ~,
me that d. II. Lawrence Away, make, ,sr,
drafts Of each Of his novels. he one, 80.
Lawrence why be no longer wrote novel. !,
simple and lucid and unified a. asor, a.,
Lovers Lawrence replied that the a.
draft was always similar in form and nasr,,
70 that book, but that b. The time he ",
Grished ii was vastly changed. shoV4
prefer 10 read those frst drafts, I ,hlss :.
Lawrcnce's final versions Ws,. !.
sec Edna Ferbef ih the lats Afternoon -,
she told me about her trip 70 EsfoD. 49,
she says everything .s in q hspsles, ngdsi.
She has taken an apartment og,fsstirr c.,.
tral Park, and the view from her ui,Sov !.
3 o'clock is 30 beaut.fu. that I wondered Il,
she was going 70 do any work; bot "a, n8
she wrote in a corner where she could -
only a blank wall. She is writing r.,
novel about the Dutch truck gardener, n,
have q settlement on the outskirts o. CAie.,
We were agreed that Chicago win lose nsA
Of lis character By its efforts 10 beauty b
self and replace rs heavy and sombrs grad
eur and impressigeness with limitations 4
Versailles and the Place De Ia Contsfh
To dinner tonight with Caroline Pa.
ker and T. X. Smith, at the Nsto1s lf,i
Club, where / heard q story about to A..
trian brothers who inherited a million rs,s,
each Just before the war: one Of then IL
vested his fortune in government bonds srs
the other bought liquor; the frst bad h,
pile swept away with the HaDiburgs, ina as
one who had drunk his sold bis empty ba.
ties for a million kronen. There Es5 d.
cuAsion Of modern literature, in which Ui
supposed 70 participate, but ! had 70 q
back 70 the Office.
WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER -
Lunched with Louis kantor and Konfa
Bereoyicl, who told me abog. the Yitld
writer's on the East Side, Who are mshsl
literature Of a language which is, in iu ~
ten form, only twenty-five years Old d
spoke especially Of Ayram Raisin. The ~
most loved by the people Of the East So
Raisin Is more Of an idol even than vas ~
late Herr Imber who wrote the ZotE
anthem and who was accorded an inpefrg
funeral by the people whcn be died in 1911
Raisin, according 20 BercoVie, is liH
child, especially about money. he tod n
this story, which he says is eharaelsrste
Raisin rushed into the store Of friend, iii
said: Quick, quick iive dollars!"
"What for should give you Eve doIrnr
"Quiek, Eve dollars for the COY OUTSIDE
The friend glanced out and saw a ar, ais
said:
'For why should you ride in taIis vhn
you have no money? Why don't you an
streetcar?"
"But where" asked Raisin, SHOULD I &
the niekel?"
Raisin and Naeh1m Yud, was tod ~
very proud Of Yiddish as Literary nesiia
ard resent its being referred to as ,'a-