Show W H OS kl 7 NEV VS I 1 THIS V WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON consolidated creatures service EW YORK in war both the napoles NEW and the russians seem to suffer from incurable romance tho the poles clung to their picturesque cavo alry y against alast vs D russ like poles nil all tho the hard cling ci ng to horses boiled mill with wi th lit ill results ll eull tary advice f in europe and their horses made beautiful targets for machine gun bullets tho the russians in the latest emergency sent in not a strategist in modern war but their most romantic cavalry general marshal simlon M N budenny Du denny and reports of disaster follow swiftly news stories chalk up another dismal failure in the generals latest assault on the Manner helm line in the late summer of 1019 when tho the cables brought the news that the bolsheviks were whipped and in night flight and that the white russian deatkin held all of southern russia Bu budenny dently galloped through the steppes recruiting his army of wild horsemen ile he was a cossack from the don region gaudily appareled and with a huge blowtorch blow torch moustache that flared magnificently in the wind ills his little bands of tree boot ers grew into a huge cavalry army it swept back not only denikin but his ally and stopped the poles until the french came to their aid the general was enshrined in legend lie he became the hero of folk tales and songs throughout the land his wife too who rode and fought with him lenin later put him la in command of all the russian cavalry lie Is a ruan man of extraordinary energy proletarians to dorsel was ills his rallying cry as lie he became ono one of the count rys m main aln incie 1 era ars of pa patriotic enthusiasm lie he had all russia thinking or at any ra rate te feeling that the answer to all its troubles was in getting everybody on horseback ile he was a peasant without schooling and there is no available record of his having had any training or experience in mechanized warfare he was a private in the russo japanese war and a petty officer in the early stages of the world war his wife said to have been the best rifle shot in russia killed herself accidents acci accidentally denta ily while cleaning a gun in 1925 he married a fa famous m ous actress of the mall theater in moscow and their joint histrionics have continued to thrill the russians he has maintained i a horse breeding farm and e encouraged his countrymen to do the same evidently on the theory that a good horse and a good proletarian slogan would make any russian unconquerable M ANY years ago this writer ll 11 shared an apartment with the late willard Hurtt huntington ington wright it if the empire state building were an ivory tower prof doubles dome imi as a it would not philosopher and have beao be tan tall author of thrills enough for mr wright in those days day S he was an aesthete fastidious in dress multilingual multi lingual a postgraduate of many european salons a distinguished art critic and a precisionist of ideas to whom a primrose by the rivers brim wax was a simple and nothing more I 1 began to feel the altitude and one day dived out cut of a 0 bostory BO DO story window it was not until several years later that I 1 learned mr wright had done don 1 0 the same and convalescing had b become 1 S S van dine authoring bell ringing murder mystery stories to the end of his days somewhat similar la is dr rudolf hagberg ambidextrous life ag aa a philosopher and writer of detective stories As an he Is in hired by the new york world worl as fair they may need to have a philosopher around by next spring lt it is revealed that this kurt kart steel who has been keeping us awake nights with judas incorporated crooked shadows 1 and the like is none other than dr kager associate professor ol 01 of philosophy at new york sity at the fair he will work us as a philosopher rather than as aa a detective pulling together a lot of educational loose ends and elings which it seemed got into a somewhat untidy state last summer his detective stories started as an anodyne ah odyne for a feeling of I 1 loneliness 0 kellne 33 in the groves of academe as in the case of mr wright in 1030 he had prepared his doctors thesis on the growth of F 11 II bradleys bradleyd Br adleys logic and had climbed where few or none could follow he was all fagged bagged out and any two dollar word made mad him shut his eyes and duck A friend suggested that he bang balig out a murder story anything that came into his head murder of a dead man was his first extracurricular extra curricular curricula a r workout the publishers yelled tor for more |