Show p WHO'S NEWS I L THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. F PARTON NEW YORK Reginald Denny the time one professional boxer who became a motion picture star develops his toy airplane hobby into a business He Robot Planes Is rings up a sale Pug Ex-Pug Ex Denny a of six robot Hobby Business Planes to Uncle Sam to be used in army experiments next summer They are expected to be curtain- curtain callers for larger and more busi busl- businesslike businesslike ness like robots flying without pi pilots pi pi- pilots lots guided by radio beams dusting I TNT on intruders Reginald Denny will be re re- remembered remembered as the actor extolled a 11 decade or so ago as the typical typical cal wholesome young Ameri Amen can Then en he turned out oat to be bean bean bean an Englishman a flier filer and ma ma- gunner chine in the British royal air force In the war A light comedian he had two absorbing interests his Interests his screen antics and what hat seemed at the time a juve Juve- juvenile Juvenile juvenile nile absorption with miniature airplanes From the latter he developed some Ideas about ra ra- ra- ra controlled dio-controlled planes lie He established established the Reginald Denny In In- Industries Industries with James Blackton an experienced technician as manager lie He Is making a small flying torpedo designed for flying in swarms with no pilot and with land-control land of the dropping bomb-dropping as well as guid ance anee When completed the Unit Unit- United United ed cd States will vill get it He ran away from Crom school at the age of 16 to play for Charles Froh Froh- Frohman Frohman man at the Duke of Yorks York's theater His first featured role was in the Merry Widow Then he became a professional proCessional boxer later champion of the Second corps of the royal air force NELSON NIELSON T T. JOHNSON ambassador ambassador 1 dor to China coming home by bya a side door as Japan slams the open door probably will have in his hip pocket a copy of A Scholar and the Analects Gagster Confucius Envoy Johnson bar ing possibly in Won derland which he also packs around with him It is his favorite reading Like Henry R. R Curran deputy mayor of New York he believes that public activities and atti atti- attitudes attitudes attitudes tudes should be infused with hu hu- mor More than any other American he ho has been success success- successful successful successful ful in translating our best an an- anthology anthology of pullman car gags to the Chinese Following the labyrinth of or Confucius and Lao LaoTie Tie Tze he finds a unique approach to the Chinese mind and has been one of our most successful ambassadors But back home he be is sharp exact statistical and thoroughly occidental among which attributes is a line of coming and Chamber of Commerce oratory He lie lives in two worlds After his graduation from George Washington university Mr Johnson mixed with the Indians of the South Southwest west picked up Indian dialects with remarkable facility thereby discovering discovering discovering ering his linguistic gifts That sent him to China as a student interpret interpret- interpreter er in 1906 In the Far East he has occupied many important posts and andis andis andis is a former assistant secretary of state He finds the Chinese have a s alot slot alot lot more humor than the Japanese IT IT WAS about a out three years ago that I the head of the German National Institute of Physics denounced the debased Jewish atom and prom prom- promised promised to deliver Group Aims to to the Reich an Keep Scientific untainted Ar Inquiry Free yan atom Un Un- Under Under der the banner of The Pragmatic and Dogmatic Spirit in Physics this scientific revolution has been advanced by bythe bythe bythe the Nazi savants and at last Amer Amer- American AmerIcan ican lean scientists mobilize against it Dr Franz Boas year old Ger Ger- man born American anthropologist heads a committee of eight distin distin- distinguished distinguished distinguished scientists in publishing a manifesto signed by 1284 1 of their colleagues leaders in all branches of science throughout America They defend the right of scientist scientists to speak the truth as they under understand understand understand stand it Dr Boas oas spent about 55 years studying long heads and round roundheads roundheads roundheads heads but was vas stymied by the tue square heads If the world goes crazy what can we nc do he be r said resigning from Front Columbia university two h o years ears ago He came to this country to attend the Chicago Worlds World's fair in 1893 after an Arctic expedition which w ch had launched his career as an anthro Polo i t. t He remained to coach vir virtually vir tl Uy all Ill all great gre t American anthro anthro- anthropologists anthropologists and to become a world au- au in linguistics primitive men men- folklore ethnology and semi scull y l Y he old Germany German honored him The new ew Germany made an extra special bonfire of his books f O C News Features Feature Service r J r 11 L t. t |