The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-02

ten by the War Dept-and he has
never supported It'll Newscas-
ter Ed Murrow trotted out sinewy
facts to clamp q half-nelson on dip
lomatic hypocrisy. The British
have always dominated Iran, he
revealed, and treated its people like
serfs while exploiting Trans oil. He
added: Nov when the Russians de-
sire a share Of the oil, the British
huff and puff about Trans free
dom and independence.
The Power Of the Press Depart
ment: There was no comment by
Russian Ambassador Gromyko when
he walked out on the United Ma
tons And he refused to be
quoted at q closed meeting in Ra-
dio City. But when every other
delegate attended private dinner
(given in their honor the other
night) at the N. Y. Times, Mr..
Gromyko telephoned the hoSt< and
owner of the paper and personally
apologized An apology to q
powerful newspaper publisher-but
none to an apprehensive world.
The Story Tellers: A current
digest mag credits q movie comic
with: Hollywood Is a place where
people spend more than they earn
to please people they don't like"
During the past decade the same
mag credited it to this column in
three different issues Theo-
dore Dreiser's posthunous novel,
1.-THE Bulwark" doubleday, is
only the second Dresser novel that
has been published during the past
30 years. Yet he has always re-
manned among Americas literary
giants Liberals who are
usually lost in the labyrinth Of their
ideals can find a way out by read
ing Lewis Mumforth's values for
Survival (Harcourt Brace. The
book is an enlightening abe of lib
cralism and its relation to current
issues. Be sure and get a copy
even If you have to beg, borrow or
CERT it!
A Gentleman Of the Lost Genera
ton: He is gray at the temples
and gray at the heart for he
has found that life begins at 40 to
be nostalgia He is drinking
less now not because Of his age
but because there are fewer Gals
to phone and fewer Pals to meet.
Scott Fitzgerald is gone and the
Great Gatsby gives no more parties
at his fabulous Long Island hut
Tommy Lyman signs no
more for his Melancholy Baby"
and Joe Schenck has long since
left Gus Van so that he might
Groom his offerings to the angels.
The gals he loved and lost may
be plump matronS or faded SPIN
sters for all he knows or cares. They
were symbols of q magic that raced
through the 2OS, props for q lost
dream, entertainments that faded in
the stern light Of reality.
After all, he Is not too dumb. .
he knows the spectacle Is over :.
but when the crowd Is so large =. :.
one must stand patiently in line in
order to leave the. tent.
He looks back now and wonders
what he could have changed and
realizes that all this was inevitable
he has no resources, no plans
and no future and he was never
meant to grow old.
The grave pSychiatriSt will tell
him that he failed to make the
transition from childhood to ma
turity ana that the realities Of
life have begged him down. AS
usual the doctor is right, for he
was one Of Broadway's children :.
a golden child If you will +. With
trusting eyes and an eager heart
and the 20s were his stick Of candy.
But the candy is gone now and
the circus Is over so there will
be few more drinks, few more
gags, bit Of artificial laughter
and silence Perhaps 1t could
have been different, q turn to the
right, a girl who understood, some
work that mattered, but 1t Is too
late now and the jig is up.
Yet may be there Is q special
place in Heaven for his Xix i
where Helen Morgan sits on a piano
and again sings my Bill" where
the Palace glitters bravely on a
Monday afternoon and where the
clan can still meet to sing the old
songs and dream the old dreams.
that were false and yet so beauti-
full :. If there Is that place in
Heaven hope he makes it,
Don VAIN.