Show Ti WHO'S NEWS THIS L WEEK By Dy LEMUEL F. F PARTON Consolidated Feature Features Service NEW YORK In In war both the Poles and the Russians seem to suffer sulfer from incurable romance The Poles clung to their picturesque cay r r ri i n i airy against Russ lass Like Poles Pole all l the hard hard- Cling to Horses Horse boiled mill mill- With III Ill Results Result tary advice In to Europe and their heir horses made beautiful targets for or machine gun bullets The Russians Rus Rus- Jans In the latest emergency sent in In n not a strategist in modem modern war but ut their most romantic cavalry gen gen- oral eral ral Marshal Simion Simlon M. M Budenny and ind reports of disaster follow tollow swift swift- ly Iy y News stories chalk up another dismal failure in the generals general's latest assault on the Manner helm line inc line In the late summer of 1919 when the tic c cables bles brought the news that the Bolsheviks were whipped and in flight night and that the White Russian i Denikin held all of southern Russia Budenny galloped through the i steppes recruiting his army of wild i horsemen lie Ite was a Cossack from the Don region gaudily appareled and with a huge torch blow moustache tache ache that flared magnificently in the wind His Ills little bands of freebooters free-boot- free ers era grew into a huge cavalry army It t swept back not only Denikin but buthis buthis his ils ally and stopped the Poles until the French came to their aid ald The general was enshrined In io legend He tie b became came the be hero bero of folk tolk tales and songs soap throughout the land laud land his wife too loo who rode and Ind fought with him Lenin later put pot him In hi command of orall all the Russian cavalry He Ill Is a aman aman aman man of ot extraordinary energy Proletarians to horse I was his rallying cry as s he became one of the country's main inciters tacit ers era of patriotic enthusiasm He Ill had all Russia thinking or at any lay rate feeling that the answer to all Its troubles was In getting everybody on ou horseback He was a peasant without school school- Ing tag And there is no available record record rec rec- ord of his having had any training or experience in mechanized war war- tare fare He was a private in the Russo- Russo Japanese war and a petty officer in inthe the he early stages of the World war His Ills wife said to have been the best rill rifle shot in fu Russia killed herself accidentally while cleaning a gun in 1925 He married a famous actress of ot the Mali Man theater in Moscow and their heir joint histrionics have continued to thrill the Russians He lie has maintained main tamed a horse-breeding horse farm tarm and encouraged his countrymen to do the same evidently on the theory that a good horse and a good proletarian slogan would make any Russian un tin conquerable MANY TV years ago this writer shared an apartment with the late Willard Huntington Wright If H the Empire State building were an ivory tower Prof Doubles Double a as it would not Philosopher and have been tall taU Author of 01 Thrills Thrill enough noue for Mr Wright in those days He was an aesthete fastidious In dress multi lingual a postgraduate of ot many European salons a distinguished art critic and anda a precisionist of ot ideas to whom a primrose b by the rivers river's brim was a simple and no thing more I began to feel teel the altitude and one day dived out of ot a story 90 window It was not until several years later that I learned Mr Wright had done the same and convalescing had become become become be be- come S. 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S Van Dine authoring bell bell- ringing mystery murder stories to the end of his days Somewhat similar Is Dr Rudolf Rudolf Rudolf Ru Ru- dolf Racers Racer's ambidextrous life lite as a philosopher and lad writer of ot detective stories As he be Is hired by the New York Worlds World's fair fair fair- the they may need Deed to have a philosopher philosopher pher around b by next spring spring spring-It it itIs Is revealed that this Kurt Steel who has been keeping us as awake nights with Judas incorporated ed ed Crooked t Shadows and the like Is none ether ther than tian Dr fir Kager Kaer associate professor of ot philosophy at New York sity At the fair he will work as a philosopher rather than tha as asa asa a detective pulling polling together a alot alot alot lot of educational loose ends sad and raveling which It seemed got rot Into a somewhat untidy state last summer lummer His detective stories started as an anodyne for tor a feeling of ot loneliness In the llIe groves croves of ot Academe Academe as as Inthe In Inthe inthe the case caso of ot Mr Wright In 1930 he had prepared his doctors doctor's thesis on The Growth of F F. II n. Bradleys Bradley's Logic and had climbed where few or none could toll follow ow lie He was all fagged out and an any two dollar word made him shut his bis eyes and duck A friend suggested that he bang out outa a murder story story anything anything that came Into his head Murder of ot a Dead DeadMan DeadMan DeadMan Man was his first extracurricular extra workout The publishers yelled for tor mere |