Evening star., 1943-11-04

ny j. Il. McEVoy. Ddn friend, Two,
three, ugh, the English language
that our friend Suarez writes down
there in Havana is the most differ
ent English, the most sympatico,
the most two, three, ugh. ="
"Of a truth" I replied. Nobody
in all the world writes English like
Arturo Suarez in the Havana Post.
Quel Homme!' what a linguist,
that McEvoy! What a dancerD
Rummaged in Rum Cellar.
Shaking myself loose from the
Conga line, I hurried home and
rummaged in my rum cellar where
keep all my precious Havana
souvenirs, including clippings vari-
ously titled Waves on the Water
front, Visitors in Havana, and Wings
Over Cuba-regularly mailed to me
by ecstatic deVotees of the Suarez
prose which he has been creating
for more than IL years as his daily
contribution to our Good Hunor
Policy.
First, a typical Suarez report on
bit OF pub crawling:
Girls were inside the counter and
men, as many as there were girls
on the outside at Two Brothers Bar
yesterday. They were all there for
drinks and entertainments, music.
dancing and intermingled eniov-
ments. The police in the meantim.
stood duty at the entrance to avoid
intruders."
Routine Incident.
Now, routine daily incident on
the Havana water front:
Clara Gonzalez Rivero, white
aged 19, single, of residence at 60
Santa Clara street, Havana, was ar
rested for mischief unto a Chinese
subject. He had sweets for sale Of
which she helped herself to two
pieces free while on the launch from
Regla to Havana. Jorge Leon. the
Chinese, would not stand for such
nonsense amidst the passengers,
humiliating affrontery, he thought,
and objected. The girl then held
MN by both his ears with her hands
and thus in advantage made him
MT the floor. Both showed minor
bruises from the almost one-sides
engagement. The girl sent to Isf1
pending trial also played havoc at
the police station with damage to
furniture besides insults"
And something new in correc-
tions:
Miss Rachel Smiley. Quebec
Canada. said Of her to have gone
away. was mistake. She checked
out OF Hotel Nacional but Is as yet
in Cuba"
Praises Friend.
In which Suarez winds up and
goes all out for his friends:
DIR. Mario Lazo bears origin in
descent in the States, laurels AZ q
student and with revalidations of
degrees at the University of Havana,
lawyer by profession. of gigantic
merits were he to enumerate con-
nectlons for which he serves as
counsellor at law, of name In the
States, below the Rio Grande and
IN Cuba, al shared with Mrs. Lazo.
whose role is that to be considered
supreme, his consort, the friend.
guiding hand at home, the grand
part IN the combine of the family
OF initiative in entertainments, those
offered in her own name, as occa-
sion demands in social acts. those
OF him, those of both and likewise
those of their youths, the pride of
1t all in the happier world OF, their
patent in the future"
For one who gets around as much
as Suarez seems to, very few people
can be found in Havana who have
seen this mild, serious, dignifed lit
tie gremlin of a man. His conver-
sation (Which he delivers with a Sc
cret smile as though he were en-
Joying private joke gives no hint
OF the rich complications of his writ
ten prose. I asked him once If he
composed his masterpieces first in
Spanish and then translated them
into his own idiom. Il DO nothing Of
the kind" he replied Indignantly, Il
write everything right off in English
just like that"
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