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Show Who's News This Week By Delos Wheeler Lovelace Consolidated Features. WNU Release. MEW YORK. Tremendous ole Phineas Taylor Barnum (P. T to historians) swung to the head oi the circus parade after Jenny Line Unlike P. T.,NewztT::, Circus Chief Can hundred anf Do Own Warbling m? golden nights for his ?1,000 per night performance. The new president of Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey's swings in front after lifting his own baritone voice in song for many years. Robert Ringling was an op-1 eratic star, too. And good! "Why not?" his mother said when he started start-ed in the family business a few years ago. "He can't go any farther far-ther in opera." Taking the presidency of his family fam-ily show, Ringling preserves a family fam-ily tradition sixty years old and over. The seven Ringling brothers, of whom his father was fifth, rolled their first little acts out of Baraboo, Wis., in 1882. In an era of trusts they got the idea quickly, bought Barnum and Bailey's and finally merged it with their own. Robert Ringling, for upwards of thirty years, watched their performances with no interest at all. Barring four years spent in hobbles after winning a high school football game at the price of broken hip bones, he went right on becoming a singer. He made his debut at twenty-five in Tampa, Fla. He sang all over Germany, and then with the Chicago Chi-cago Civic Opera. He had a repertoire, rep-ertoire, count 'em, of 194 roles, the best of them Wagnerian. Since 1939 he has been chiefly with the circus. Age will hardly stop him. He is only 46, stocky, bespectacled, be-spectacled, gray-haired and quiet. And certainly he isn't likely to find a bigger job. He heads up the vastest vast-est amalgamation of marvels, mastodons mas-todons and muscularity man has 'ever seen. Tarquin the Younger would pop his eyes to see what has grown out of a few simple tricks he thought up 2200 years ago to make a Roman holiday. 1R. HERBERT VERE EVATT, in Washington now from Australia Aus-tralia to talk a few wrinkles out oi the troubled state of affairs in the Pa-n Pa-n cific, might Perhaps He Cave aiso give Our Boys Idea of some first Mixed Marriages hand evi" dence about the mixed marriages that American soldiers down under seem to look upon with such high favor. His wife was Miss Mary Alice Shorter of Ot-tumwa, Ot-tumwa, Iowa. Evatt was a brilliant member of the Australian High Court bench until the war came on and he quit to help more directly in the good fight. He had reached the bench at 36, the youngest man ever appointed to such a ' court in all the British empire. Forty-nine now, he is recognized as one of the commonwealth's first scholars, historians and jurists. ju-rists. These last three years he has been a member of Prime Minister Cur-tin's Cur-tin's Labor government, and it is as minister of external affairs that he comes to the United States. This is not his first visit. A lecturer in philosophy and English, he has spoken spo-ken often at various American universities. uni-versities. . NOW that Sir Richard T. D. Ac-land's Ac-land's Common Wealth party has elected its first man to parliament parlia-ment England's older parties may do m ore Tossed His Wealth than worry. To Less Favored They have Fellow Englishmen dolng; the four previous by-elections in each of which a Common Wealther ran. All four lost, but even so the vote was too close for comfort. Tall, spectacled, baldish at 37, Ac-land Ac-land talks about his new party as though it combined the ripe virtues of the Townsend plan and Louisiana Louisi-ana Long's Every-Man-a-Millionaire club plus some choice Russian cuttings. cut-tings. "We want," he says, "to amalgamate Russia's economy with our own political system." One of his notions is that old-school old-school millionaires are finished. In proof he un-millionaired himself last February, gave his total interest in 17,000 acres of the storied Lorna Doone country to the National Trust. A cozy $80,000 inherited from his father fa-ther went into the hopper, too. He proposes to support his wife and two sons on his pay as a member of parliament and his earnings as a writer. He attended both expensive Rugby and more expensive Oxford, but unless un-less he whips up a best seller pretty soon, the sons are likely to miss both. There have been Aclands m England Eng-land for 800 years. For half that time the family has held a title. Sir Richard is the 15th baronet of. the line. An ancestor, stout royalist, fought the American Revolution. No less than 13 of Sir Richard's living kin have made themselves notable. But for the last two generations the heads of the family have been uneasy un-easy in their ease. A quarter of a century ago. Sir Richard's father trusted the estate to the nation for 500 years. He covenanted cov-enanted to make no changes either for agriculture or for buildings, but he kept the rents and profits. It is, these such as they are in a heavily taxed' world, that Sir Richard turns over to his less-fortunate fellow men. |