The Washington times., 1937-01-30
THE VOICE OF
Broad way
By Louis SObOl-
Casual Comment!


song books along Broadway have a
tough time of it-because it is
against the law and perhaps it is
right that it should be against the
law for these little song pamphlets
eat into the sales of sheet music
published by legitimate firms-and
therefore eat into the royalties of
the song writers who sweat out
their melodious creations One
young fellow-he's sixteen-told us
that he's been arrested on the aver
age of two to three times a week
and in each instance fined 50
When he hasn't the 81 he spends
two days in jail . 1t isn't very
profitable
He'd much rather have news
stand, he tells me Three years
ago, when he was 13, he was struck
by a car driven Well-knoWn poll
tician's wife When he came
out of the hospital he was minus
a leg The case was settled out
of court for $500 Since then
he has been endeavoring to see the
politician to appeal to him to help
him get a newsstand concession.
Current History picks up ex-
tracts from this column which
first revealed that American
aviators were fighting against
each other in Spain Since
the column was written Bert
AcOSta has been over, has flown
for the LOyaIistS-and is now
back in America much dis
iIluSiOned young man who re-
allies that no matter where your
Sympathies lie, it doesn't pay to
fight-except for your own cOun-
try This, however, has not
deferred the adventurous Ernest
Hemingway who, according to
reports, is already on hi way
to the Spain he loved so we'll
to fight as common soldier for
the LOyaliStS with whose cause
he SympathiZeS Right now,
however, there is plenty of Op-
portunity for adventurous avia-
tOrs-flying supplies and medi-
cal supplies to our own flood
devastated regions.
Louis Levick, who is currently
the New York Journals scientific
by-Iiner, received a letter JAN
uary goth signed by Yulian
SyZygy, in which the writer dis
cuSSed his research into the dis
eases that shorten life-and his
final discovery of how life could
be prolonged. Il have spent 25
years in this research" he wrote,
Thereby sacrificing Is years of
future life. think my discoveries
are worth a Nobel prize 1t would
make me happy in a certain
sense to see all this proved to
benefit of humanity. In brief,
irritation (exciting) of nerves
(Or nerve centerS) in any way
may prove to be the first princi-
pal method for generating vir-
uses" =. That was on the goth
=. Even while Levick was read
ing the letter, other people may
have been reading this in the
news section of the newspaper
that very moment "Melodra-
matte suicide ended the career
yesterday of a mysterious dabbIer
in poisOns and explosives known
by three names, who occupied a
room at 244 East 81St Street.
Dressed in brand new, sombre
clothing, as though for burial, he
walked into the Rockefeller In.
stitute, swallowed several tablets,
and died in the lobby. From his
pocket, this note was taken:
'YuIian Syzygy, 244 East 81st.
Bury me as 1 am. No autopsy.
No funeral. Cause ken"
The initials are the symbol for
q deadly chemical.
It is Joe Ricardel who observes
that the world is a little tired OF
MuSSolini as II Duce-and would
prefer to hear more of him as Il
Truce Rumor now spreading
that Simone Simon is completing
her autobiography which will be
published by Simon Simon and
SchuSter Schuster Best of the
undercurrent Hitler stories being
whispered around Berlin is that
Der Fuehrer was lamenting to
Hjalmar Schacht, his financial ad
visor, because his hair was so un