Evening star., 1937-05-22
FLYER FINDS WAR BELOW PAR
New and Old Magazines Search for Great Themes but Few Gain
Unqualified Approva-Edward Still Causes Specu.
lation, Arousing Imaginative Persons.

Famous Stories, by the way, sells
for 10 cents.
THE reviewer took occasion, some
months ago to be most disagree
able about then new magazine called
Eor Men and Men Only! the excla-
nation point being part of the title,
if you please. Not in the least deferred
by the unkind words, the editors now
send second copy to, as it were, the
slaughter. In general, the verdict
still is no. For Men and Men Onlyl
is on the wrong side of that thin, thin
line which distinguishes between what
actually is funny and what wants to
be funny. But it has an interesting
article in it by Bert Acosta, the avi-
ator, descriptive Of his recent adven-
lures flying for the loyalist army in
the Spanish War. He says with en-
gaging frankness that he flew for
Spain-and gold. He was promised
much dinero." But, having joined the
loyalists even for SO qualified a rea-
son, he acquired a liking for them, to
some extent at least, and he says fatty
that it will not be Gen. Franco who
wins. The loyalists will stick with it,
he says, and they are much better able
to hold out than the rebels.
Even so, Mr.. Acosta did not think
1t was much OF a war. There was a
great deal of killing, but precious lit
tie else, as he saw it. And most OF
the killing was nom -combatants, who
didn't know what it was all about.
The ships were bad, he writes, and
the mechanics incompetent or nom
existant. He quit for these reasons
and he never got his gold, either. 1t
was always comic opera war, as he
saw it; that is, 1t combined the bad
features OF both war and comedy 1t
would be hard to imagine anything
worse.
IHE magazines are not through with
the Duke Of Windsor yet. He is
still copy. The current Liberty, like all
Llbertys for some time past, devotes
an article to him and the Cosmo-
politan is using him in its June issue.
1t IS his future now that is causing
Liberty so much headache
In piece by Frederick L. Collins, it
wonders if he may not return to public
life in some such important position
as governor general of Canada or
vlceroy OF India, or even. if you please,
as prime minister. will the Duke
and n1IrhpSc nF IJip 1-or
a new career through the door of 10
Downing street?" it asks plaintively.
And the answer, as 1t sees it. is why
not?" Edward has travelled more than
the most brilliant of the English
statesmen, it points out unanswerably.
He has seen more with his own
eyes and heard more with his own
ears. He has more frst-hand nowl-
edge Of the world in general, and of
how people live and how they feel
about it. than any other man of our
time" Why should England not make
use of him? asks Liberty. And then
it adds, 1T is this world significance
of the man which makes him unique
which makes him indispensable"
1Hele WOuIu De a certain HuNlOr,
asSuredly, in Edwards holding the
vast power of minister. But, if that
happened. to make it truly enjoyable,
Stanley Baldwin should be King.
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Cosmopolitan, however, does not
concern itself with Edwards future
His glamorous past is the subject of
its article, the author being Elsa Max
well, the famous party giver. Her
piece is entitled, Edwards Set as 1
Knew Them" and it contains pen