Evening star., 1936-07-11
lG MOOD EVIDENT IN NEW NOVEL BY HUXLEY
in THE MAGAZINES
"Glamor," Not Films, Rated as Hollywood's
Chief Commodity-Iillaire Belloc Scans
Art Under the European Dictators.

pfoaches Is admirable" But In Ger
many he finds public works is de-
rlorable. It builds fine, great roads
which necessitate fine, great bridges,
and the bridges are aS ugly as sin. 1t
puts up huge buildings which are eye
sores, and when it ventures upon ini-
tiating q dramatic expression-such
as the Hindenburg funeral-it lapses
into ridiculous melodrama. "'f'
Judging Russia by pictures, he con-
tnues, ''it seems to reveal in the Of
fensive, and If it has produced any
drama worth seeing, can only say
that we have had no echo in the rest
Of Europe"
Mr.. BeIloc concludes that a despot-
Ism guided by fine taste and having
for Its policy the rewarding Of artists
may rescue societies Of other political
types from artistic chaos" Which is
perhaps exactly what one would expect
Mr.. Belloc to conclude.
JOHN DOS PASSOS publishes this
week chapter of his forthcoming
novel in the New Republic. He calls
1t The Campers at Kitty Hawk"
and, obviously it would be about the
early efforts of the Wright brothers.
1t is effective writing, sometimes poe
try, but usually prose. Here is a
| sample.
The Wrights' big problem was to
md q place secluded enough to carry
on their experiments without being the
horse laugh Of the countryside. Then
they had no money to spend;
they were practical mechanics:
when they needed anything they built
1t themselves.
They hit on Kitty Hawk,
| on the great dunes and sandy
banks that stretch south toward Hat
teras seawsrd Of Albemarle Sound,
a vast stretch Of seabeach
empty except for coaStguard sta
tons, q few flshemen's shacks and the
swarms Of mosquitoes and the ticks
and chiggers in the crabgrass behind
the dunes
and overhead the gulls and swoop-
ing terms, In the evening fishawks and
cranes Tapping across the saltmarshes,
occasionally eagles
that the Wright brothers followed
| soaring with their eyes.
as Leonardo watched them centu-
ries before
"straining his sharp eyes to appre-
hend
the laws OF night"
1t is pretty good.
New Republic also carries a
piece on the motion pictures OF
the Louis-Schmeling fight. the author
is Otis Ferguson.
There is nothing on the screen this
week" he threre is nothing
anywhere this week that for implica-
tons and sheer electric excitement
can come up to the pictures Of the Joe
Louis-Max Schmeling fight, run or At
the Yankee Stadium in New York the
night of June 10 as foregone conclu-
sion and box cffice flop. People had
stayed away in druves-from what
turned out to be one OF the fights OF
the century. But in any event, 1t Ii
here now in pictures. -
And he goes on: The picture tells
a more accurate story than could be
got from even the first row of rtngside
seats.
In the picture you can see the
biding restraint and driving power of
arms and shoulders, the bodies weav-
ing, surging, braced. You can see in
perfect focus the deadly precision of
Joe Louis, weighing 1913 pounds and
moving like 140; also his one-two-
three routine-a left to the body. :ol-
lowed through by some powerful fiex
OF the shoulder into left hook to the
head, and the right coming in through
the opening-bam! You can see in
slow motion every step and blow fol-
lowing the first blow to stagger this
nghting turrent, the long-range salvc
against the bones forward of his left
ear, which sent the Brown Bomber
scuttling OF backward in queer little
half circles on his heels and Schme-
ling moving up on him in a fury of at
tack and Louis melting under these
blows like butter, seeking cover where
there was none, blown wide open with
q left, and seeing, In the slow motion,
to hang there for seconds as the right
came in like q train of cars, bouncing
him on the canvas"
And 30 on-a very enthralling piece
Of movie sports writing.
IHEYWoOD BRoUN, in his weekly
piece in the Nation, sums up the
recent Democratic Convention as fol-
lows:
'Only two things were exciting. One
was the platform, and Roosevelt wrote
that, and the other was the speech at
Franklin Field, and that was Roose-
velt's also. Concerning both the speech
and the platform, it may be said that
they deal In generalities, but a gen
eral statement may at times be far
stronger than q specific one. Take, for
instance, the plank onsa possible con-
stitutional amendment. This is so
loosely drawn that 1t gives the Presi-
dent power to take any stand he
pleases. do not expect to see Frank
lin D. Roosevelt advocating the curb
ing Of the Supreme Court by direct
congressional action. And yet If he
did so, he could hardly be accused Of
jumping OF tae platform"
Mr.. Broun goes on to say, however.
that the President els still long way
from accepting q Socialist state. :"