The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-01-11
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS :
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON

By LEMUEL F. PARTON
NEW YORK.-Word comes from
: ' London that Sir Seymour Hicks,
who, last September, became Off
cial bucker-up of British civilians,
Sir Seymour's saidGaS anu 10
Laughter Bombs explodin g
all over the
kingdom, which eventually may
blow down the Siegfried wall like
the trumpets of Jericho.
Sir Seymour, who had a similar
job in the World war, is. England's
favorite light comedy actor, lead
ing producer and actor-manager, a
writer of consequence and rallying
point for both masses and classes,
as they both claim him as their own.
He is rs years old and last month
celebrated his fifty-second year on
the stage.
He started life as a call boy
In London theater. His next
job was as an undertaker's
mute, a hired mourner, some
times filling in as an emergency
paI-bearer and the like. He
wore black well and did nicely
in his new career, until his
memories of the theater obtrud-
ed at an unfortunate moment.
He was walking solemnly be-
hind a hearse, when a distant
band struck up tune, which
carried him back-stage again.
He swung open the door of the
hearse and called out, "The
overture begins now, SIR"
That shunted him right back to
the theater, which, by all accounts,
he never should have left. He has
written and produced "a plays and is
the author of eight books of remi-
niscence, comment and criticism.
He was knighted in 1885, and May
fair made a tremendous fuss over
him, with similar cheers from the
populace. In the World war he or
ganized concerts and shows for the
soldiers and kept up drum-fire of
spirited humor which rated him as
the leading empire morale-builder.
n MING with Henry F. Grady
- many years ago, this writer
noted that he had that old-time free
trade religion. He has never back
Grady Stickst to secret ts "
Old-Tine Free Hull's Jeph-
Trade Religion than, glrded
Ammonites hip and thigh as they
assail the secretary's trade agree
ments program.
Mr.. Grady, 57-year-old Celtic
and incurably optimistic spe-
cialist in foreign trade, is assist
ant secretary of state and has
taken over the job of expound-
ing and putting forward the
agreements. The law authorize
ing the plan will expire June IL,
and the continuation of this
trade policy will be an early
and exciting kickoff in congress.
Mr.. Grady, San Franciscan, ed
ucated at st. Mary's university, Bal
timore, is a man of encyclopedia
learning in trade matters, a lee
turer at many universities, the au-
thor of many books and treatises
and a member of many learned So
cieties. He boils down a mountain
of data and statistics to his vehe-
ment insistence that, no matter how
we may tinker with tariffs and quo
tas, the only helpful reality is the
fiux of good through the internation-
al bloodStream.
THE Russian Baltic drive, side
L tracked by the Firms, was, &C
cording to the meager evidence OBJ
tainable, the pet idea of Andrei
ruJ Zhdanoff, fire.
Wedge Between ferred to in
Stain, Zhdonof the last two
years as Sta
Inns possible successor. Later news
is that Stain has other ideas about
M. Zhdanoff's future, as the latter
takes the rap for the debacle in
Finland.
He was designated secretary
of the Leningrad Communist
party committee on December
16, 1884. That made him a vir-
tual dictator of the Leningrad
district, the Pittsburgh of Rus
STA. M. ZhdanOff has been par
ticularly bitter against Britain,
and several correspondents have
attributed to him the disruption
of last summers negotiations of
the allied powers with the So
viets.
He is 43 years old, Revolutionist
since 1912, when he left school to
engage in agitation against the car
list government. Until 1917, he was
chiefly occupied lodging the police
and joined the army as a germ
carrier for the Bolsheviks. In the
early revolutionary years, he was
one of the leading organizers of
party propaganda and was thrown
into close association with Josef
Stain. It was the beginning of
beautiful friendship, which, quite
possibly, the skiing Firms have .dy-
namited. He is of a middle class
family, one of the cleverest word
smiths Of Red Russia.