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Evening star., 1937-03-27
MAGAZINE GOES CAT MINDED
Current Publications Are Provided With New Ideas Marked by
Various Personality Touches-Stores of Amazing
Flow of Money in Metropolis.
This Day Published
THE POWER OF SYMPATHY, OR
THE TRIUMPH OF NATURE

This Day Published
THE POWER OF SYMPATHY, OR
THE TRIUMPH OF NATURE
"The First American Novel.
There are today only about IS
copies Of this book known" continues
the bulletin. One reason for this Is
that the book was voluntarily sup
pressed. Part Of the book paralleled
the details of recent scandal In the
Apthorp family, and when the author.
neighbor of the Apthorps. realized
the distress the book caused he con-
sented to have the general sale OF the
novel stopped and the unsold copies
destroyed.
This author OF the first novel was
unidentified until 1894, for the book
was issued anonymously. A mem
ber Of the family finally revealed that
William Hill Brown G765-l793) WAS
the real author"
One gathers that Mr. Brown was a.
when his first book appeared. Young
novelists today are hardly so self
effacing. Imagine any Of our bright
young men voluntarily suppressing-
we'll, anything!
A NOTE on recovery dt may be) is
contained in an article (not dis
mayingly profounO in the April Cos
mopolitan. The author is Lucius
Beebe, and he is writing about what
one finds today in the cafes of New
York.
Never before. probably" he reports,
"has New York been showed under
by such blizzard Of money as Is now
drifting through its streets, piling up
In its night clubs and in the atcliers
Of It's court jewellers. furriers, cou-
touriers and luxury tradesmen. Mink
coats at forty thousand dollars have
become q commonplace. (Somehow or
other. one doubts II they are really
quite common) There Is . rare per-
fume on the market priced-and SELL
ing-at flve hundred dollars for an
ounce flask. There Is positive
shortage Of matched sables and chin
chilla: diamond boutonniers for men
are being passed over the counter at
ten thousand dollars copy: waiter
captains are playing the market again,
and It's possible for two to dine at
the Colony and have very little change
out Of half century bank note" And
so on.
Happy days are here again? Or
are they?
HE COSMOPOLITAN for April
also contains what the reviewer
rates Is the prize blurb yet blurbed.
1t comes from no less expensive . pen
than that Of Mr.. Rupert Hughes q
writer and 1t is devoted to extolling
the genius Of Mr.. o. O. Mcintyre a.
columnisD as creative artist. Says
Mr.. Hughes, in boyish enthusiasm:
Hes been writing his columns since
19l2-merely for little over "a years.
Why, he hasn't reached his nine-thou-
sandt.l column yet. But he will! He
will go on like the brook. forever. And,
like the damned brook. he will gurRlo
away with no hint of fatigue, no lack
OF cool, fresh, sunlit eagerness, reflect
ing and taking on the images and COLI
ors Of everything between sky and soil
within the reach Of his travelling mir.
ror."
And then, having written that, Mr..
Rupert Hughes very handsomely
signed 1t. AS has been noted, its sub.
tect is o. o. Mcintyre columnbt). i.
Evening star., 1937-03-27

have sought the Holy Grail in the
mystic mountains OF the mind will
take the place OF the armored knights
who sought it In the material world
where it never could be found.
DR.. Bell has gathered together the
life stories of the high adventures
Of mathematics who rode their white
steeds Of thought beyond the farthest
stars, into the weird never-never lands
Of hyperdimensional space and time,
to the ultimate gates OF the infinite.
They fought shaking battles
with the dragons Of prejudice to rescue
the captured maidens Of truth. To
this book the future must turn for
the authentic life stories of its knights
in armor-and DR.. Bell has done as
good a job as Mallory did.
They constituted veritable round
table-this little company of mathe-
maticians through the ages. There
were Arthur, Launcelot, Caravan,
Mordred and Galahad among them.
There were sneaks and double dealers.
There were some of the finest char
acters the world has known.
This may sound like absurd praise
for any book. The present reviewer,
however, was unable to lay down the
700-page volume after opening it. 1t
took all night to read it, even with
skipping lot of the mathematics
Then he reread it, mathematics and
all. Then he reread some chapters q
third and fourth time. That really
is the way to read one OF the solidest,
most original, most inspiring books
of the decade.
Henri Poincare, one of DR.. Bells
glamorous round table, once wrote
books on mathematics which were
best-sellers. Paris shop girls read them
instead OF the latest novels. 1t Is
no exaggeration to say that the Cali
fornia professor-his competence as
mathematician in his own right, by
the way, is attested by the fact that
he is a fellow OF the National Acad-
emy of Sciences-has duplicated this
almost unbelievable feat.
Men of Mathematics" belongs with
such books of the past decade as "The
Story Of Philosophy" Green Laurels."
and the like. In this reviewers esti-
nation it is by far the best Of them.
Almost without exception, the great
mathematicians we're interesting men
as human being-quite apart from
the remote, weird lands of thought
in which they adventured.
There used to be an old hymn
sung at funerals which began:
More homelike seems that vast un-
known
Since they have gone before"
With quite a different meaning the
verse might be applied here. More
homelike seem the fathomless depths
of space and time since the minds
of men like LobatcheWsky, Riemann,
Poincare and Cantor have journeyed
through them.
There Is now well under way the
movement to write history with the
emphasis laid on the really essential
events-almOst invariably events which
happened IN some mans mind. In
this movement DR.. Bells book is q
landmark. Hardly any one has done
so we'll in the past and it may be
a long time before anybody will do
better. IT. r. H.
NONE SHALL LOOK BACK. BY
Caroline Gordon. New York:
Charles Fcrlbners Sons.
MAJ. ANDERSON, one of Gen. Bed
ford Forests officers, is speak
ing: I'VE will have to dree our own
weird here in the West No help will
come from Virginia They will not
even give us moral support. Gen.
Forrest is not a West P'inter'" Thus
does one Of Forests men explain
Evening star., 1937-03-27
By MIC. r.

~ EOPLE who love cats should get
the April Coronet. It seems
to have gone cat-minded. That
L is, 1t seems to have gone cat
minded in the pictorial sense. 1t has
one delightful series Of drawings
called Thirteen Cats by Five Wom-
en-" in which are shown "the elfin
cats OF Wanda Gag, the sensuous
silken cats Of Eula Long, Agnes Tait's
tnscrutable creatures with well-deep
eyes. Peggy Bacon's unprincipled
sneak thief, Mabel Dwights mysteri-
Gus night prowler." These are all
good cats--or that is to say, they are
all good cat pictures, for the wise
know that there are no bad cats, and
the unWise may never learn this. But
these are good cat pictures.
Then Coronet also has, on page IS.
q photograph Of baby cat laugh
ing-something they do quite often
when they are young, by the way
and this Is also good cat picture.
1t Is by Hegyei Schulz Of Long Island
City.
And finally, on page 143. It has a
cat cartoon called "Hors D'Oeuvers."
1t is witty, but the pussy has a quite
impossible tall
Granted though that the pictures are
all right-for cartoon is a cartoon
the reviewer finds 1t impossible to
accept the text--the text, that Is, which
goes with the Thirteen Cats" For it
raises that threadbare, and quite
pointless comparison-cat VS.. dog,
which is just like saying heliotrope
vs.. coal scuttle, or. If you wish COM
plete explanation, there Is no ground
for comparing the two animals at all.
Save that both are quadrupeds, Of
course. Or carnivors. Or more or
less domestic. The number OF feet,
the diet, the habits, however, touch
nowhere on the catty SOUL And that
Is the essence OF the cat.
Says Coronet: Dogs, in their word
less speech with their masters. are
forever saying, Thank you; cats
never. With virtually all dogs. as
with almost all men, friendship Is an
attainable goal If earnestly desired.
But with most cats, as with some
women, friendship Is impossible
there can be only love or hate"
Now the reviewer submits that this
Is very stupid. Cats are the perfect
friends. OF course. they do not fawn
and grovel and say thank you" But
do you want your friends to do that?
Can you feel friendly toward some
one who invariably agrees with you?
On the contrary, such person gener-
ally arouses the slumbering instinct
toward homicide in even the gentlest
breast.
But the cat is quiet, gently demon
strative tif she likes you, and only II
she does, so that there is no trou-
bling over her sincerity, the cat is
self-suficient so that you do not be-
come her servant when you take her
in, and the cat is dignified. What
more do you want in friend? Com
munion? Be informed then that if
the cat is not much of talker she Is
one of the most satisfactory listeners
in the world. She listens as we'll
bred person listens, attentively, max
ing her own conclusions. She does
not yearn at you, or sprawl on you,
or lick you. Again, what do you want
in a friend?
The reviewer maintains that there
is no possible comparison. The re-
Evening star., 1937-03-27
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lowing book list In addition to books
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lection of color reproductions OF paint
ings by modern American and Euro
pean artists is available. These books
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Central Library at Eighth and K
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Prize Winners.
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NON-FICTION.
ct WHO SHOULD COMMAND ALL"
BY Alice Jaynes Tayler. New Ha-
ven: The Framamat Publishing

ven: The Framamat Publishing
Co.
Hitherto unpublished letters Of John
James Audubon, bearing out the au-
thors contention that the great ma
turalist was the Lost Dauphin.
SKETCHES FROM OUR CONSTI-
TUTIONAL HISTORY. BY J. A.
Van Osdol. Boston: The Chris
topher Publishing Co.
The Constitution and its makers. by
former president OF the Indiana
State Bar Association.
THE SUPREME COURT ISSUE AND
THE CONSTITUTION. New York:
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Comments on both sides by dis
tinguished men--Congressmen. jour
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RIGHTS OF AMERICANS. BY Will
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A study Of the meaning Of the Con-
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AMERICAN POINTS OF VIEW. Ed
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Articles Of opinion and essays which
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nails.
Details Of . number Of the great
criminal cases OF our times.
PRISON LIFE is DIFFERENT. BY
James A. Johnston Boston:
Houghton Mifin Co.
The warden Of Alcatraz Prison tells
the story of his grim institution and
of some Of its inmates.
MARSHAL NEY. A DUAL LIFE. BY
LIE Gette Blythe. New York:
Stackpole Sons.
The complete body of evidence on
the theory that Marshal Ney was not
executed in France, as reported, but
was permitted to escape to America,
where he lived for many years In
South Carolina as Peter Stuart Ney.
Not proved or disproved, but with the
weight on the side of the escape.
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Evening star., 1937-03-27

~ EOPLE who love cats should get
. the April Coronet. 1t seems
to have gone cat-minded. That
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weight up. He was never
knocked out"
"He should be able to take It,"
says Dempsey, with that neck"
Fairs neck and shoulders look
abnormally big over our head. A
little blue sleeveless slipover gives
his body a thick look.
When Dempsey climbs in with
him later for the sound cameras
Jacks shoulders appear narrow
and sloping in comparison.
Tommy" we hear Dempsey'S
tenor saying, overhead-not for
the sound camera!-"You got a
swell chance! You might even
take him -
Farr keeps pc tim this
walking back to his dressing
room. did you hear what he
said? I got a swell chance! I
might even take him!" And
then he adds, under his breath:
"Burris" (for Tommy is develop
ing into a politician the equal
of Dempsey-he remembered my
name since the contract signing
at Eastbourne. England. Jack
is right. I'll take Louis. AS one
Welshman to another, I'll out.
smart him. Indeed to goodness,
look you whatever I shouldn't
wonder
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his ends via the virile doctrine
and stand-up style that Jim JET.
fries and Jim Corbett and Gene
Tunney bequeathed the ugly bust.
ness, and must confess, even at
the expense of being called old
fashioned, that they are my style
of fighters.
Basic Fighter
And for those who like clean-cut
performances in the ring, with
out the flourishes, furbelow and
flounceS, commend this fellow
Ventura, who seemed to me to be
schooled in the basic principles Of
fighting as it is was originally in
tended to be practiced by the good
Marquis of QueenSbury.
I don't see anybody around
Washington fit to be matched with
Vittorio, and in fact there seems
to be nobody around New York
who wishes any part Of him.
It may be that Turner and
Ahearn may have to resort to
matching him with Archibald, and
Archibald is just the cock-eyed
type that might make trouble for
him.
Like a heckler in the audience
Of a polished orator, these rough,
and-tumble fighters are no push.
overs for finished fighters. Freddy
Steele admitted that after his
eight-round brawl with Hobo VII
liams.
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The rain has just let up and
we're sitting half in water, but
nobody notices it.
NO PUNCHES PULLED
Dempsey's chin is lowered, his
head thrust forward and now and
then he makes slight passes with
his head. An elbow occasionally
catches me in the ribs-and he
isn't pulling his punches.
big rugged fellow"
Dempsey's high voice mutters
over a chewed cigar. Strong,
too. Good left hand :"
Farr is throwing a big left hand
in there at Joe Wagner, of New
ark. He throws it like a baseball,
with a whip that travels to his
wide shoulder. But it's fast and
Wagner's head snaps back. FAIR
mauls Wagner around and ties
him up in an awkward way.
Peculiar style" Dempsey
goes on. Looks hard to hit. -"
It's the old champions first
view Of the young challenger and
Farr is trying his best to impress
Dempsey. At the same time, Jack
is trying to see the best in Farr
because the white hope crusade
has never ceased burning in the
blood of the old MannasSa Mauler
since the days Of Harry Wills.
HOTTER AND HOTTER
So the two rounds with Abe
Feldman got hot and hotter and
at the end Farr is letting go
everything with Feldman against
the ropes over our heads.
Dempsey laughs short:
This boy will give Louis a
fight as long as he's in there
can he hit?"
Somebody tells him FAR has
dropped a couple Of mates in
training, but that NeuSel is the
only important K. o. on his fight
record.
"He moves around fast for a
big fellow :" Dempsey COM
mentS. HE can make trouble
Only thing I don't like
he carries his hand too low
=. He's too open
An Englishman nearby in the
international gathering ex-
plains, Tommy won the British
title in every class from fly.
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The winner spelled Hanover
and $20,512.92 cash money to
the Hanover (Pa0 shoe farms.
but it spelled hangover to the
discounted inhabitants of this
apple,scented region who wagered
their hard-earned dollars against
the gallant little lady.
FLOCK OF RECORDS
In her wake Miss Shirley left a
flock of records. In the first place,
her time of 2:011a for the first mile
heat set a record for a winner
of the Hambletonian and came
within a quarter of a second Of
tying the fastest heat ever trotted
in the classic.
Secondly, it was the first time
in the history of the stake that
an owner had won it a second
time. Hanover shoe farms cap
tured the classic in 1880 with
Hanover's Bertha.
Thirdly, the filly demonstrated
that blood and class will tell, for
Hanover'S Bertha was her nanny.
Although bred royalty, Shirley
Hanover was an ugly duckling as
we'll as complete outsider before
the classic started. Last year as
a two-year-old, she failed dismally
to live up to the reputation Of her
famous nanny, who was one Of
the games greatest money win
ners. Few thought she was ca
pable of winning a Hambletonian.
FILLY RECORD POOR
AS three-year-old this year, the
filly had never shown enough to
put her in the same league with
De Sofa, Schnapps and Twilight
Song, whose measure she took in
such convincing fashion yesterday.
money drove her odds down to
8 to !.
Although Shirley needed 2:01A
for the final heat, Thomas de-
clared he was easing up and that
she could have chopped full Sec
ond from that mark.
De Sofa, the tavorite, owned by
Paul Bowser, the grunt and groan
impreSario. had no excuses. De
Sofa split combined second and
third places with Far.
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M|LEY ANNEXES
WESTERN DERBY

CHICAGO, Aug. 10. - Marion
Miley, of Lexington. KY, today
held the women's Western golf
derby championship for the third
straight year-the first contestant
in the long history of the event
ever to achieve that distinction.
In turning in a 39-38-77 on the
final tour of the OnwentSia links
yesterday, Miss Miley swept all
four rounds under par and fin
ished with a total Of 300 strokes,
II under par.
Her respective rounds were 76,
7S, 70 and IT, and this perform.
ance probably established an all
time record for women in medal
play. Miss Miley had a total of 81
brides.
Also for the third time, Patty
Berg, of Minneapolis, finished in
the runner-up position to Miss
Miley. Miss Berg had rounds of
80, IA, 80, 80 for a BIT total. This
was three under par in the aggre-
gate. In the second round the Min.
neapolis miss hung up a $685.
IA, which probably will stand as
a record for years to come.
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HOME RUN RACE.
HOLDS INTEREST.
in JUNIOR LOOP
BY LAYTON CARVER

NEW YORK, Aug. 13.-Interest
in the American League pen
nant race no longer need be
centered on which club is going
to win and enter the world
series. The Yankees appar-
emily have that Sewed up. But
of compelling Importance at the
moment is the home run derby.
Joe DiMaggio Of the Yankees
has "a and at his present pace
can approach Babe Ruth'S top
season Of so. If he puts on
some pressure he can top it..
Close behind him is Jimmy FoxX
of the Boston Red Sox with 81.
Both of the contenders con-
nected yesterday. In fact FoxX
did it twice to DiMaggio's once,
as the Yankees and SoX split a
twin bill.
LOSE OPENER
The Yanks lost the opener 16
to 10 in a SUGGEST, then took
the nightcap S to 8. The open
ing defeat snapped off a TO-
game winning streak for the
champions, who pelted Boston
pitchers for IA hits, but found
that not enough against a 16-
hit barrage.
When the day was done, the
Yankees still were 1112 games in
front with no signs Of being
headed.
Detroit beat Chicago II to 8,
then lost by 6 to 4 in 10 inning
nightcap. Willis Hudlin pitched
Cleveland to a 7 to o shutout over
the st. Louis Browns and Wash
ington beat the Philadelphia Ath'
leticS, 5 to 4.
GIANTS FAIL
In the National League the
Giants again failed to take adj
vantage of an opportunity to ad'
vance.
Trailing by 61a games, the
Giants blew one to the Boston
Bees, to 4, when the leading
Chicago Cubs were being beaten by
Is to 8 by the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Philadelphia beat Brooklyn, 3 to
2 and to 2 to complete the days
slate.
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Griffs Sign Banner,
'NOOga's Slab Star

Pitcher Banner. Of Chattanooga,
has been ordered to join the Mats,
it was announced today by Clark
Griffith.
Banner hurled against the Ma
tionals this spring and looked the
part of a fine pitcher. He will
report Sunday. To date this year
he has won 10 and lost eight with
Chattanooga.
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of Lou Gevinson, so can this Ven
turf divert their adulation to his
work, because he has everything,
including orthodox style, which
hardly can be said for Archibald.
Fact is, Archibald is just about
one step removed from Peter Sar.
ron, the N. B. A. featherweight
champion, when it comes to eccen-
trio ring form.
There are a lot Of jurisdictions
where Master Sarron would be
thrown out of the ring, as he was
in London against Master Crowley
just because he is a jumping
jack, a wrestler and a roustabout
You may have noticed that
Archibald also has many of these
characteristics. but he can't be
said to be guilty of being an open
handed slapper, such as is Sarron.
Without Gestures
It impresses me that Vittorio
Ventura possesses the ring eff
fectivenesS of either Archibald or
Sarron, without the gyrationS.
There is such a thing as good
ring form, just as there is good
golf or tennis form-dancing and
fencing.
I don't call Sarron's form good;
yet he won a title with it, so who
am I to ask how?
Neither do I call Archibald's
form good, but if he can hit with
either hand while off the canvas
and off his feet, if he can dart
around like termite on a hot
stove. holding his equilibrium and
keep from getting felled, who am
to say he has a mongrel style?
On the other hand, it appears
to me that Ventura accomplisheS
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Hero and Goot

THE HERO-Tony Cuccinello,
who hatted in four runs as the
Boston Bees beat the Giants, 6
to (.
THE GOAT-Monte Pearson,
who started against the Red Sox
only to be driven from the
mound by a barrage that spelled
Q 16-to-10 win over the Yankees.
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Kreiger Scores
To Regain Prestige

NEW YORK, Aug. 1S.-Solly
Krieger Of Brooklyn today re.
gained some Of his former prestige
as leading contender for middle.
weight laurels as a result of his
Ground knockout victory over
Walter (Pop-Eye) Woods of New
York at Madison Square Garden
last night.
One punch, a hard right cross
to the jaw, ended the fight with
unexpected SuddenneSs.
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Kirk Miller
SPORTS EDITOR
Says:---

Messrs. T urn e r and
Ahearn, Ltd, may have
struck it rich in introduce
ing to Washington ring fans
one Vittorio Ventura, the
Italian welterweight cham
pion, who so thoroughly
thumped Faltering Phil
Fur at the local abbatoir
this week.
Not that the pay-off was so
enormous last Monday, for
2,4O0 spectators hardly comes
under the head of big divi-
dends, but that the modest
crowd was thoroughly bristling
with excitement by the time
the Italian titleist had shown
Phil Furr his proper place, and
Ventura ought to be bait for
better house in the very near
future.
Fact is, venture to say, that 1t
will be no trouble at all for Wit
torio to steal the play away from
Joey Archibald, if the local pro-
motors give him half a chance.
Slightly Unorthodox
Ring fans are tickle at best, you
know, and just as their acclaim
has recently been directed at
Archibald, mostly at the expense