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Evening star., 1935-06-09
POEMS. BY John Masefield. Com
plete edition with recent poems.
New York: The Macmillan Co.

POEMS. BY John Masefield. Com
plete edition with recent poems.
New York: The Macmillan Co.
IN ONE handsome volume are COL
lected all the poems Of the British
poet laureate which he wishes
i preserved Here are Saltwater
Ballads" THE Everlasting Mercy"
THE Widow in the Bye Street"
"Dauber," THE Daffodil Fields" the
early poems, lyric and dramatic, by
which We came to admire MaSefield
long before the British government
nets. many forms OF lyrics, and poems
taken from The Wanderer" and
Minnie MaylOw's Story"
In the preface Mr. Masefeld says
that he began To write poetry In boy
hood, but first felt the real delight Of
poetry In loom in Yonkers. N. Y,
where he decided that he had rather
write verse than do anything else in
the world" He lists as having in
f1uenced his poetic work Chaucer,
Milton, Keats. Shelley, Swinburne
and Yeats. His early verses were
written in the mood Of longing for
escape, for freedom. The next de-
a certain section of countryside with
imaginary men and women. After
the World War he became interested
in dramatic performances and spoken
verse. He thinks that writer's moods
Evening star., 1935-06-09
A MILE DOWN INTO THE SEA
This the Plan of These Who Are Going After
Treasure Abroad the Schooner Consteation-Here in
Washington They Are Preparing for Strange Journey.

the rich Potosi mines OF Peru smashed
on the Silver Shoals near Puerto
Plata. Haiti, during a hurricane.
Eleven million six hundred thou
sand forms lie at the bottom of Mon
tanzas Bay. Cuba. A Spanish galleon
In 1923 was pursued and captured in
the bay by Dutch feet. Authentic
historical records show that the Span
iards abandoned the treasure over
night, heaving 1t through the dark
mist that enshrouded them. In
Schattegat lagoon, near Curacao. in
the Caribbean Sea, lie many buried
ships laden with New World treasure.
Far over on the African side lies
treasure hidden from the world for
centuries. In April, 1702, the East
India Co. s ship Meresteyn was wrecked
on the shores of the little fishing
village of Soldanha. Jutten Island, in
Table Bay. To this day, fishermen
pick up coins washed up by the sea
from this wreck.
The Romano undersea equipment
has been tested and approved by
United States Naval officials. and pro-
nounced "a great single stride in deep
sea operation, and as revolutionary in
its element as the airplane was in
transportation"
Evening star., 1935-06-09
Wrestlers Discover Hollywood
By John Lardner

vistful as Chaplin. Jim Browning
has all the charm and good manners
of Herbert Marshall.
There is no performer in Hollywood
who could not be replaced, cheaply
and competently, by boy from the
beef trust. Chief Little Wolf can pose
in costume as handsomely as Marlene
Dietrich. Rudy Dusek can run the
gamut of emotion like Hepburn, and
has the further advantage of being
able to stand on his head. I am not
recommending wholesale employment
of wrestlers in Hollywood. but I am
pointing out that 1t may come to pass.
Maybe you would like me to tell you
how wrestlers first came to Hollywood.
Maybe not. Your choice in the matter
is trifle limited, for 1 am going to
begin at the beginning and move right
up to the present day. The pioneer
was a person named Luigi Montagna.
who began his professional career as
newer of wood in Italy. at the lavish
wage Of six cents day. He asked for
seven. His boss refused. Luigi thought
it over and moved to America, where
ne DeCdIuc WlCSGACl SihS
graphic pseudonym of Bull Montana.
AS wrestler the Bull frequently
made $100 a week. The fans of the
Bronx loved him. He might have
wrestled peacefully to the end of his
days If it hadn't been for the whim of
Douglas Fairbanks.
Mr.. Fairbanks was in New York,
making picture. He needed char
acter whose face would startle the
public. The tlrst candidate they
brought him, of course, was Kid Broad,
prize fighter and film actor, widely
touted as having the most ferocious
mug in the city.
Not good enough" said Fairbanks,
with a scornful glance at the KIDS
physiognomy. Bring me a man whose
face looks something like an airplane
view of San Francisco the day after
the quake
."I know the guy" said Kid Broad.
The Kid was an artist first, a self
promoter second.
He went down to gymnasium
where he knew he could find Luigi
Montana.
Bull" said the Kid in the broken
English he thought it best to employ
in addressing foreigners. You lika da
Job. hey? You wants woik in da movin'
pitch? Capeesh?"
Sure" said the Bull. Certainly
If you. ever saw Signor Montana.
you know that he got the job. He got
plenty more in the days that followed.
He hoped to Hollywood. where he be-
came the artistic ancestor of Lon Cha
ney, Boris Karlon and the other MEM
bers of the see -'em -and-wince school.
At one time Bull was collecting $500
a week for his services.
This was velvet for him. It sounded
like velvet to his former colleagues in
the beef trust. They began to sift into
Hollywood In search Of employment,
but their reception was none too warm
at first. Few wrestlers, you see, have
Montanas talent for looking so star
Ting. Many were polished. comely
gentlemen, the flower Of Turkish and
Russian chiyalfYs
Evening star., 1935-06-09

Behind it you see the steam
winches and drums which control the
reeling out or in of the mile-long
cable by which the undersea robot
is lowered or raised under the waters
surface. Upon the proper signal sud-
denly the winches groan, the drums
turn and the sphere Is placed ready
for the diver and operator to enter.
Then swiftly the water-tight face Is
locked and screwed tight. A mo-
ment more and the ungainly inven-
ton is over the ships side. She sways
a moment, the boom lifts and, twist
ing and turning, the man from
Mars drops down into the sea.
There insues an odd silence on
the salvage vessel. Presently the
diver in the bell begins to talk into
telephone the other end of which
is on the salvage vessel. Over this
telephone every movement and sig
nal is conveyed to those waiting on
deck. The work deep down-deeper
than man has ever before gone-pro-
ceeds methodically, the sphere being
lowered here and raised there as
the diver within directs.
The operator carries his own air
and purifying apparatus and can work
in his little iron room for l6 hours,
Evening star., 1935-06-09
Latest Books Received

York City. New York: Simon 1
Schuster.
THE JEWS IN NAZI GERMANY; A
Handbook of Facts Regarding
Their Present Situation. New
York: The American Jewish Com
mittee.
BEHOLD THE WHITE MOUNTAINS.
BY Eleanor Early. Boston: Little,
Brown & Co.
OUR AMERICAN HOLIDAYS-THE
MAGIC OF MUSIC; An Anthology
for Music Weeks and Days. Music
week, its origin and observance:
musical memory contests, games
and entertainments: music study,
the music cure, stories: plays. with
an anthology of the best prose and
verse on music from Plato TO Mil
lay Compiled and edited with
preface by Robert Haven Schauf-
fer, author Of The Unknown
Brahms" etc. New York: Dodd,
Mead & Co.
AMERICAN MESSIAHS. BY the Un-
official Observer. New York:
Simon l. Schuster.
Evening star., 1935-06-09

"A lected a fee amounting to
4 \ $5.38 and left me alone to
read the message The explained
that he would like to stick around and
share the news. but duty called him
to a point 16 blocks south and seven
west. The wire read as follows:
Friend be on watch at your neigh
borhood playhouse for sensational hit
The Wolf at Bay unquote stop have
powerful part in same stop friends
will recognize me as man who eats
whole roast pig while gang chief in
structs me to slug cop whose daugh-
ter has learned secret of location of
beer drop in which big business ty-
coon is interested while pretending to
run brokers' Office in which sweetheart
of daughter works stop would appre-
ciate rave notices from you and other
critics as they tell me I am great in
flicker stop have great future stop
coast critics say I am great stop best
regards old friend stop Jerry Muscles
Mattopolos."
This document startled me bit.
When I last saw Jerry Muscles Mat
topolos he was wrestling with Chief
Yellow Paw. the Shoshone root-digger,
in the armory at Sullivansville, N. Y.
It was a finish fight, and Yellow Paw
threw Jerry with an airplane spin
and body slam in 57:08. The Greek
told me afterward that he got s46 for
the nights work.
That's no kind Of dough for guy
with my brains" he said modestly.
"The Indian and me have been travel
ing this route for three weeks now,
and where does it get me? For two
bits I would throw the root-digging.
nickel-nursing, slug-nutty red tramp
out of turn and leave the act. I got
big ideas"
This sounded to me like the normal
wall of a wrestler with toothache, so
I paid no attention. Eight months
later Mr.. Mattopolos was burning the
wires from Hollywood with messages
like the one quoted above. 1t was a
weird change Barrymore emerging
from the catch-as-catch-can racket
like a butterfly from cocoon.
remembered a few scattered cases
of the same nature. so I decided to
investigate. I found that no motion
picture being produced today is COM
plete without q wrestler in the cast.
No wrestler is complete without two
or three pictures to his credit. If you
stop to think 1t over, the reason for
this revolution in art is as plain tno
ofense) as the nose on your face.
A GOOD wrestler must be good
"A actor. I am fond of comedians
like Charlie Butterworth. Victor
Moore, Bill Fields and Bobby Clark.
but right behind them I would rate
Dick Shikat, Ernie Dusek. DR.. Harry
Fields and Gino Garibaldi. Lionel
Barrymore can do a good Job of reg
istering anger. but Jim Londos. pre-
tending to be surprised and sore be-
cause his opponent kicked him, is just
as good. stransler Lewis can be as
Evening star., 1935-06-09

change abou. every seven years and
wonders what his own next mood will
be- The frontispiece is an excellent
new portrait of MaSefleld. who grows
handsomer and more serene in coun-
tenance with the years.
EVERYMAN'S GARDEN. BY Max
Schling. Drawings by George L.
Hollrock New York: The Mac
milan Co.
A FAMOUS horticulturist has put
"A into this book much of the advice
needed by beginners in the art of
garden making The directions are
simple and come down to the level Of
ignorant Peter Martin" who buys
place and begins a new life" The
first ioys of flowers grown by Peter
himself are described. with comments
on how he managed to secure those
joys. The flowers of all the seasons,
ANIMALS and perennials, hedges. rock
gardens and Peters Summer house
are given chapters, with diagrams for
elucidation. To layman the grow
ing of flowers. the planting OF a
garden seems to be a difficult and
complicated task until some one lifts
the veil and shows him the ease with
which the seed will respond to kindly
treatment gardening brings each
day something new and worth know
ing-something that makes our world
more worth living in"
IN HIS OWN COUNTRY. BY John
Gill. New York: E. P. Dutton
& Co.
GARRISON PACA. dilettante wan
~ derer for years and for other
years a contented expatriate in Paris,
with apparent suddenness decided to
return to Ibis own country" the East
ern Shore of Maryland. He took with
him his more or less unwilling friend
and fellow expatriate, Hugh Valiant,
who tells this story and whom we
have the fancy to identify with Mr..
Gill himself The two youngish men
went to live in a cabin, constructed
under Garrison's directions on Arrow
Head, which projected into a tidewa-
ter river. There they found their
time and interest divided between the
woods and water and the interchange
of continuous sociabilities with small
group of old Marylanders who formed
the elite of the county. OF actual plot
there is very little, but 1t is not
needed.
Through the visits of the two men
to Miladys Gift. home Of Lisa Cor
don; Peace and Plenty, home Of Mag
da Barrett, and Bannfleld, home OF
Nellie and Charlie Banning, the &c
centric and excitable personalities OF
all the residents of this land of the
lotus eaters are developed for us. IF
a man has to work hard, it's a good
thing for him TO stay out of this coun-
ty, and don't you forget it," said old
Mrs. Banning. And she was right.
Gardens, books. music, sailing, so
many parties that safety must often
have been reached. and so much hard
liquor that drunkenness surprised no
Evening star., 1935-06-09
Farm Values Better.

THE value of farm land has shown a
steady increase the last two years.
but still lags below the index figure
OF 100 which Is based on 1924
values.
March l, 1888, found the average
down to 73 with gains in each of the
succeeding two years of 8 bring
ing the figure this year to 70.
Evening star., 1935-06-09
New Carnations DeyelOped.

THE Bureau of Plant Industry has
developed three new carnations
which are reported to be exceptionally
free-f1owering and not susceptible to
the rust disease which makes carna-
ton growing difficult at times.
The new varieties have been named
Rigoletto, Mavourneen and Carbotta.
Rigoletto Is dark red, Mavourneen
light pink and Carlotta dark pink.
Evening star., 1935-06-09

FROM POETRY TO ECONOMICS
Spring Books Even Go Into the Gardens for Their
John Mase6eds Collected Poems-Nove of the Eastern
Shore-The North Pole Conquest

one-these filled the days Of the people
on the estates, as the seasons succeeded
each other. The fiamboyant charac-
ter Of Magda Barrett dominated the
social life Well along in her Cos when
the two men came to Arrow Head,
she looked, with her youthful gar
ments and cropped auburn hair, to be
in her 30s, and her extravagant be-
havior both endeared her to her
friends and furnished them with the
material for the gossip they loved so
we'll. Garrison Paca and Hugh VAL
liant witnessed her passage from arti-
f1cially preserved youth to resigned
old age. But the most delightful part
of this beautifully written story Is the
land of the inland waters" which is
the setting and is so lovingly described
by the author.
AMERICAN OPPORTUNITY BY
Samuel Strauss. Boston: Little,
Brown g. Co.
SAMUEL STRAUSS, for many years
~ publisher of the New York Globe,
In writing Of the bewildering changes
taking place in American social or
ganization. is not a mere doctrinaire.
He has had practical experience with
people of cities individually and i'll
masses. through journalism; he knows
farm problems through ownership of
large farming interests in Iowa, which
he administers himself and manages
10 make pay. His suggestions for
steering the United States out Of its
impaSse of depression into the age Of
plenty which he feels sure IS ahead
are not those of a dreamer; they are
based on close reasoning and rather
convincing logic. He concludes that
no social change is entirely new.
Throughout history part of the old
has been combined with the new to
make succeeding era. If the profit
motive is indispensable to most human
beings, which the veering Of Russia
Evening star., 1935-06-09
Exempt From Tax.

MOLASSES and sirup MADE from
N surplus sugar cane is exempted
from the processing tax If it is EN-.
ployed in two industries. the manufac-
ture of stock feeds or the production
of distilled liquors.
This exemption applies mostly to
Puerto Rico and the Philippines,
Evening star., 1935-06-09
BY Sarah BOwerman.

Editors note: These reviews OF
new books we're written by Mrs.
Bowerman before the accident
which resulted in her death
Wednesday evening. May l.
They are the concluding INSTALL
ments of her work.
Evening star., 1935-06-09

What may be expected of this deep
sea robot might be indicated by the
accomplishment of one of his fellow
robots. the mechanical aeronuat,
which. by doing 30 per cent of the
plotting. participated in reducing the
transcontinental airplane record by 30
minutes. The genius of mans in
ventions becomes more apparent daily
and there seems no limit to his con-
quest of the elements.
Evening star., 1935-06-09

The first to reach Montana's height
was Nat Pendleton. holder of a degree
from Columbia University and the title
of wrestling champion of Portugal. Mr..
Pendleton might have claimed the
championship of Denmark and Fin
land as we'll. for he passed through
both of those countries in his travels.
Over here he spent a good deal of time
with the masked marvel racket,
wherein the wrestler masks his fea-
lures and pretends that the crowd
doesn't know who he is.
Nat scored heavily when he entered
the movies. You've seen him yourself
many times-in The Spirit of Notre
Dame" The Gay Bride Of the Rack
cts" and other vehicles He did so
well that he hurt himself with his
own success-for Hollywood let down
wrestlers. The new crop is threa tening
to run Mr.. Pendleton and the old
timers right out of business.
THIS new crop, Of which my friend
ul oClAS MuSClcS pAdGldpOlOS dp-
pears to be a member, is headed by
Man Mountain Dean. You probably
know the Man Mountain. A gifted
comedian, he wears a beard on his
chin and bay window in the middle
portion Of his anatomy. He has been
thrown, trampled and kicked by nearly
every good wrestler in the business.
But Mr.. Dean Is a man of refine
ment. Reports from Hollywood say
that when he was asked to wear a top
hat with morning coat he refused,
explaining that the derby is the proper
tile for such a costume When Nat
Pendleton offered to throw him for
side bet of $1,000, he refused again.
"This Is petty professional jealousy
on the part of the Pendleton person."
commented the Man Mountain.
1t looks as though Mr.. Dean were
right about the importance of refine
ment, for he won a contract to play
opposite Jean Harlow. Other wrestlers
of the Dean school are doing well too,
in their various lines. Two of them
will appear with w. G. Fields in his
next picture. Others are scattered
through the fiickers of the impending
season.
Their success, as I said, comes from
thorough. rounded training in the
dramatic art. They are more versa
tile than they used to be- No longer
is 1t sufficient for a wrestler to have
a ferocious pan, like Mr. Montana, or
a mass Of muscles. like Mr.. Pendleton.
The trade requires refinement, finesse
and high drawing-room comedy, as
demonstrated by Mr.. Dean and the
members of his salon.
This Is the reason why my friend Mr..
Jerry Muscles Mattopolos has stopped
travelling with Indians and become an
artist. I will watch eagerly for his
performance as the guy who eats a
whole pig in the sensational hit smash
flicker coming to my neighborhood
playhouse know that no one, from
Booth to Barrymore. could do so NOV
Ing and sensitive Job In the part.
lcepyrisht. 1sa61 -.
Evening star., 1935-06-09
EVENING OF A MARTINEZ. By
Jane Oliver. New York: Double.

day, Doran & Co.
OLIVIA PENNANT, on her last day
~ as headmistress of one of Eng
lands famous schools for girls, is re.
lieved that at last the danger is past.
What danger? That is what the story
is about. The danger also explains
why she Strove so determinedly tc
save her son and her favorite pupil
from making a great mistake. Olivia
is fine, serious woman. and charm
ing one. and Jane Oliver has told her
life story with both emotion anc
humor.
Evening star., 1935-06-09
Tungsten Industry Revives.

A N ENCOURAGING revival Of the
tungsten industry occurred last
year with production jumping from
s95 tons for 1888 to 2.O4s tons last
year. The price. too, advanced sharp
ly going from 1858 to sl457 per unit.
This price is the highest of the peace
time years.
Tungsten plays an important role
in the steel industry and also in the
manufacture of electrical appliances.
Evening star., 1935-06-09

if necessary. On the salvage vessel
there is the quiet hum Of motors
and generators. If you get too close
to the men on deck with the head
phones you are warned away be-
cause their jobs require concentra-
ton and they don't want to hear any
voices but the one from the depths
below. And it is more important
voice than yours. anyway. for 1t has
business with millions and millions
of gold"
T IEUT. R1ESEBERG has assembled
an authenticated record of the
lost ships of all the nations of the
world and has prepared a cfart-the
only one of its kind-listing number
of the ma ior ships with an approx
mate total treasure hoard of $1,000
100000 still in their holds and SAL
vagable today with the new diving
sphere and buoys.
What youngster. having read Robert
Louis StevenSon's Treasure Island"
has not imagined himself the con-
queror of pirate hordes and successful
seeker for their hidden gold? Cocos
Island, a tiny speck of land far out
in the Pacific Ocean. is one of the
worlds most popular treasure hunting
localities. although to date the COM
bined results of dozens of expeditions
to it are a broken cutlass and q few
pieces of eight"
According to Lieut. Rieseberg's rec
ords. the waters Of Hispanola. or New
Spain, hold the worlds greatest under
sea treasures. Bobadilla's galleon, the
Golden Hind, sunk four centuries ago
off the coast of Sarvona. Haiti. with
a billion dollars worth of gold ingots
in her hold. This once proud galleon
lies still untouched. laden with gold
since 1902 Not far away whole
treasure-flota of Spain, which sank in
l643, lies buried in shark-infested
waters. An entire fleet bound from
Evening star., 1935-06-09

GpNdlu II dItCl IcpuuidtlllS ~ SCcHlS
to witness. the profit motive can be
modified. not abolished. But in the
plenty system profits, if there be
profits. will have a thousand connec-
tions which differ from those they had
in the scarcity system"
CONTROLLING DEPRESSIONS. BY
Paul H. Douglas. New York: w.
W. Norton & Co.
A DEPRESSION is like a runaway
L \ horse; it is better to keep him
fran getting started than TO stop him
after he has done much damage. Mr..
Douglas. professor of economics in the
University of Chicago. believes that
depreSsions move cumulatively and
that they do not, as some economists
hold, automatically cure themselves
and tend to convalescence and recov-
cry. He does not offer any quick
remedy for the present depression, but
analyzeS its causes and tries TO point
a way to eliminate or reduce future
depressions. He groups causes of de-
III lNO OldsSSCS, lllAlldlAls
cumulative. The first disturb business
equilibrium; the second make matters
worse and worse, once equilibrium is
disturbed. After discussing causes, he
offers IL elaborate suggestions for
program of stabilization. a planned
economy. They suggest that he is an
adviser in the New Deal, which is the
case The success of such a plan as
he outlines. he says. depends on the
manual wage earners, Salaried people,
farmers and small business men in
normally competitive industries" who
should come to realize that their in
terests do not lie with the few
monopolists.
THE CONQUEST OF THE NORTH
POLE. Recent Arctic exploration.
BY J. Gordon Hayes. New York:
The Macmillan Co.
TWENTY-FIVE years of Arctic ex-
ploration are covered in this in
terestingly written volume, illustrated
with photographs and maps. Cor
don Hayes has previously written THE
Conquest of the South Pole" In
spite of his title, the North Pole has
not yet, in his opinion. been con-
quered, for he excludes Pearys claim
to have reached the Pole as well as
Cooks. OF Cooks general record
he says that ''Dr. F. A. Cook prob
ably reached at least as high a lati-
tude as that attained by Admiral
Peary the following year" and cooks
statements. except in relation to his
attainment of the North Pole ana pos
sibly his Glacial Island may be ac-
cepted as substantially genuine, truth
full and accurate" OF Peary's claim
he says: There have been many
critics of Peary's claims, on both sides
of the Atlantic. and all disinterested
inquirers have come to the same con-
clusion-that ne did not reach the
Pole "a man SO years old either
walked considerably more than Is
Evening star., 1935-06-09
Tax Outpaces Payments.

THE Governments balance sheet on
the processing taxes and the
benefit payments to farmers shows a
balance in favor of the Government
at the present time.
For the two-year period in which
the system has been in operation the
taxes totaled s824.430 900. The pay
ments were S790,062 900.
In addition payments Of nearly
s2l2 900 900 were made from funds
carried in a special appropriation.
Evening star., 1935-06-09

A COUPLE of weeks ago a boy
n handed me a telegram, col
~ lected fee amounting to
\ $5.38 and left me alone to
Evening star., 1935-06-09
By Mary Bowles.

A IMING to retrieve share of
~ the s2ooo,ooo, 1000 hoard in
n the oceans bosom, Ralph S.
Fleming, owner of the Ro-