Evening star., 1937-03-13
By MIC. r.


Only hope the baby 1UiH proue
Ignorant and stupid.
Then he mil croDn a tranquil life
By becoming Cabinet Minister.
The poem is taken from a volume
called "17O Chinese Poems," and pub
lished by Alfred Knopf.
| And while we are talking about Fic-
ton Parade, it may be as well to quote
another poem from its current issue.
1t is one of Ten Unforgettables," by
A. E. Housman. OF the 10. the reviewer
ranks it first.
Crossing alone the nighted terru.
With the one coin for fee,
| Whom, on the ,phart OF Lethe ,Uait-
ing,
Count you to fnd7 Not me.
The brisk fond lackey to fetch and
carry,
| The true sick-hedrted sldue.
Erpect him not in the just city
And free land Of the grave.
IHE Nation, by the way, has been
for some time passionately solicit
ing funds for noncombatants in Spain,
and calls its project the Nations Food
Ship Fund. 1t reports $9,138 raised
at the dinner inaugurating the drive.
This is without doubt an admirable
project, as it has for its aim the les
senlng OF suffering. At the same
time the reviewer cannot refrain from
quoting the following paragraph from
| the New York Journal:
New Yorkers in sympathy with the
Spanish Loyalists have shipped to
War-torn Madrid the following: 10 900
boxes OF aspirin, 700 packages of
toothpicks, 200 pairs of -heeled
shoes. 300 bathing suits, 200 tuxedos,
383 bow ties, Z high hats and 78
! boxes Of face powder" e
1t Is possible at least to understand
| the aspirin.
THE invasion of the already crowded
digest" field by a still newer kind
OF digest" those which seize upon
BOOKS instead Of magazine articles for
tneir material, has already been noted
| oy the reviewer. 1t would now seem
that at least one legitimate magazine
Is getting ready to answer back.
The American Mercury has Just sent
the reviewer copy of book which
1t Is publishing at magazine prices
that is, instead of a magazine of the
olgest type excepting the essen
tlals from dozen or more full
length books, we have here, under the
Mercury's sponsorship, a full-length
| DOCK In the formal and of the price
Oh the ordinary magazine. 1t seems
an excellent idea.
Inc Mercury plans to issue one such
work month. Its first issue is James
M. Cams thriller The Postman AL
ways Rings Twice. Forthcoming VOL
umes will be Of both fiction and non.
hctlon and will be sold on newsstands
Ihey are bound with paper covers,
THE new Queen Of England is de-
scrlbed in the current Liberty by
the Princess Catherine Radziwill. The
article somehow sounds very sweet
OF all Of it the passage that interested
the reviewer most was the one which
disclosed that the Queens girlhood
nome was Glamis Castle-and it was
IN Glamls Castle, you remember, that
that Old murder in English II took
piace. The room is still marked, saws
the Princess RadziWill. But she also
says something which startled the re-
viewer nsiderably-Duncan. SAYS
she, was Thane Of Glamis. Was he?
Shakespeare has it that he was King
OF Scotland and that Glamis was his
murderer. Has the princess slipped?
Or was it Shakespeare?
INFLUENCE Of the Royal Romance
obviously is strong in Hollywood,
for Photoplay comes out with a state
ment that new picture is soon to be
made Cor maybe released) called "The
King and the Chorus Girl" and that
the actor who Is to take the male lead
has been selected because Of his re-
semblance to the Duke Of Windsor,
The reviewer forgets the said actors
1ame. She was having her hair sham
pooed when she read the notice Git
is the only time she looks at the movie
magazines) and somehow, the young
man did not register
Also reminiscent Of the r. R.. is the
truly remarkable statement in the
same magazine that Gloria Swanson
rs the Mrs. Simpson of the screen"
Maybe it means something. You can
figure it out.
IN THE article called "Stokowski's
Shoes" in the April Stage, David
Even gives a Characterization Of
Eugene Ormandy, who is to succeed
the idolized Stokowski at the head of
the Philadelphia Symphony.
While the new conductor bears Ger
tain resemblances to the late maestro,
he is not, says Mr.. Even, photo
static copy" Somewhat ambiguously
he lists as points Of difference the fact
that Ormandy has IAN unassuming
modesty" and "unpretentious humil-
ity' and "a fastidious avoidance Of
circus shoWmanship to attract notice"
He has had meteoric rise-only
seven years ago he was directing In a
movie house
"At the age of year and a half"
says Mr.. Even, ''he could name any
one Of so different symphony phono-
graph records after listening merely
to the first bars Of music At the age
of 3 he began the study Of the violin.
:. In his fifth year his father per-
suaded the officials to enroll him at
the Royal Hungarian Academy of Mu-
sic, thereby making him the youngest
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