Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-27

AAA -. was paying III strong
Hearts and Willing Hands," between
the acts he invited anybody in the
audience TO come up an box three
rounds with him. Corbett accepted
IN San Francisco and told the cham
pion some day he hoped to beat him.
Those who knew Corbett resent
this portrait of him as a bra ggart,
which he was not. The scenario
writers must have gotten Corbetts
LIE out OF a dream book. and the
sports writer who sat in as techni-
cal adviser should 60 back to his
writing.
Middle-Aged Chorus,
Shortage of manpower has brought
a scarcity of ushers and other
theater personnel. with independent
and circuit operators in the Midwest
resorting to usherless houses, with
patrons finding their own seats.
The Boston Comic Opera Company
at the National Theater is present.
ing a male chorus line which will
average 40 years. and one member
OF the ensemble is so. Besides hav-
ing voices, those in G. & S. must also
play small parts occasionally. To
learn the operas require much study,
and r. H. Burnside would rather
have middle-aged choristers than to
break in youngsters and lose them
to the armed services.
About a Russian Author.
From Joseph Heidi of the Theater
Guild comes the following interest
ing data on the author of The Rus
sian People" which will be seen at
the National Theater December IA:
Thought the following might be of
special interest to you. Early last
week I inquired of the proper agency
in New York which is in charge of
such things for brief biography of
KonStantin Simonov. author of The
Russian People" which comes to the
National on the l4th of December.
They hadn't anything. but said they
would cable for some material.
Three days later back came the fol-
lowing:
KonStantin Simonov is q
years old. He was born and
brought up in the family of a Red
Army commander went to
secondary school for seven years
and then entered a school of
exact mechanics worked for
five years in factory as turner
and at the same time gave a
course IN the technology of met
ais without leaving factory
work be began to study in the
Institute Of Literature OF the
Union Of Soviet Writers. from
which he was graduated He was
postgraduate student at the
Institute of History. Philosophy
and Literature. BY then he had
written several fine poems. for
which he was awarded the Order
OF Honor. He was preparing
dissertation for a degree in philo-
logical sciences when he ADAM
doned his studies and went to
viz ChSbVi IL DOtuC VI lIlS oOfIeU
Union to witness the Khalkingol
battles of the Red Army against
Japanese on the Monaghan Dor
der. Since the outbreak of the
Soviet-German war, Simonov has
been correspondent for Krasnaya
Zvezda, Red Star. the army
newspaper, and other papers. HisZ
most outstanding works are: A
book OF war sketches entitled
From the Black Sea to the
Barents Sea" book of poems
entitled Regular People," his
Lyrical Diary" poem, THE
Conqueror," dedicated to the
Soviet writer Nicholas Ostrovsky,
and the plays "A Fellow From
Our Town and The Russian
People
Now. there are several reasons
why this incident impressed me-
Firstly, although the magnificent
Russians are battling for their very
lives, they still saw fit to send to this
country within period of three
| days a biography of one of their
great writers: secondly, the broad
experience Of the author himself
those Russians can really do every