Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-03-24
NEWS AMONG
SCANDINAVIANS
Interesting Items Concern
ing People From the
North.

Gustaf Collin, director of one of
the leading theatres in Stockholm,
Sweden, and his wife, Anna. Lena
Elgstrom- Collin, widely known as
fiction writer and newspaper essayist,
have arrived in the United States for
the purpose of studying some of the
recently organized theater guilds.
They are especially interested in OBJ
serving the effects of the .so-called
'tlittle-theater" idea, and also intend
to formulate an opinion as to how
American stage leaders encourage the
writing of original American plays.
Mr. Collin has taken part in some
theatrical conferences in the East,
and Mrs. Elgstrom-Collijn has been
invited to address various clubs in
the East and the Middle West.
Twenty-Five Years.
About two weeks ago Miss Valborg
Andersen observed her twenty-fifth
anniversary as the editor of "Hjem-
met ("Home"), a family magazine
published in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Miss Andersen who originally was an
opera singer, at one time-approX1-
mately 80 years ago-made a concert
tour of the Danish settlements in the
United States and enjoyed popular
ity which at that time was unprece-
denied for visiting Scandinavian art
lists. Her magazine-of which she
has been in charge uninterruptedly
since 1902-has a circulation consid-
cred immense in northern Europe.
Buys Newspaper List.
Oscar 0degaard of Binford, N. d.,
last week purchased the subscription
list and good will of "Nord Dakota
Tidende'", defunct Norwegian Non
partisan league weekly which was
published for some time in Grand
Forks and later in Fargo, N. D.,
under the editorship of ]. L. Rindal.
published for the last three years,
but it is said that Mr.. 0degaard in
tends to resuscitate it.
X. O. OlOfsson's Scheme.
The authorities at Luleaa, Sweden,
recently arrested K. o. Olofsson of
that city on a charge of having OBJ
tanned money in a fraudulent way.
He had, the police charges, inserted
advertisements in the daily press
promising prospective emigrants to
America to aid them through the
maze of the American quota regula-
tions, and also guaranteeing them
steady work in the United States at
the rate of $3.50 per day. All the
prospective emigrants had to do, was
to communicate with Mr.. Olofsson
and send him an initial fee of fifty
"ore" (about IA cents). AS good
many responded, it is claimed the
man reaped a rather substantial har-
vest. Later advices indicate that an
examination into his sanity may be
made.
Get Money from U. ).
A society has recently been organ
lied in Copenhagen in order to carry
out in practice some of. the funda-
mental ideas of Henry George. the
American economic writer who origi-
mated the Single Tax idea. The new
society intends to found a Henry
George community settlement in the
eastern part of Upland. but its spon-
sors claim that they have not now
ready money available for the pur-
pose: however, their experiment is be-
ing watched by Georgeists in the Uni
ted States, and they are said to have
been promised generous loans from
this country. To start with, the set
Element will accommodate about forty
families.
New Consul.
Christopher Smith, until recently
Norwegian commercial attache in
London, has been appointed Norwe-
gian consul at the port of San Fran