Show shots NEWS THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON EW YO YORK RK rudolf frimi mak N L er of melodies for 25 years finally div gives es credit to his collaborators with the ouija board hes always talking shop noted composer with great g p e a t credits ethereal composers and d every collaborators once in a while they help him round out a score lie he never knew why the song of the vagabonds just sang itself through in five minutes faster than he could score it until he learned that he had bid an ethereal spokesman or ills career from the start on down to his present fifty ninth year Is a testimonial to occult guidance in planting him always in the highway of lady luck in prague his birthplace his father worked in a bakery one day his mother gave his father money to buy wood fates or phantoms guided him instead to a pawn shop where he made a down payment on it a tiny piano rudolfs mother was so angry she wanted to chop it to pieces but the boy persuaded her to let him keep it one day the owner of the bakery passed by heard the lad playing beau and helped groove him into his musical career at the age of 10 he had published a barcarolle bar bac carolle in the musical conservatory of prague where he st studied died under antonin dvorak he teamed up with jon jan Xu kubelck Kub ellk belik they were playing at a concert which daniel frohman happened timely to attend he took them to the united states for a tour of 80 cities whether or not mr friml was just an amanuensis tor for spirits his compositions streamed along rapidly Glor glorianna lanna the firefly katinka high jinks music hath charms the vagabond king and a whole album of others none ot of them seeming to be of ghostly inspiration hollywood still keeps him busy and successful ta H GORDON SELFRIDGE the ja 1 anglo american merb merchant hant prince visiting this country makes it a tossup between communism and ruinous H u G r selfridge self c it ridge j t taxation a a t I 1 0 n sees passing of queried about m ism success idyll overrunning europe after the war he asks what of it what is the difference between betge en communism and a society where a tax takes hall ot of the income and a surtax the other hall half he says the tha day of initiative and enterprise is past ile he I 1 la 1 an authority on an that subject t years ago he swept out oat a store iti in ripon wis two years later he was an errand boy for marshall field co in chicago and a partner when he quit in 1904 punch ribbed him mercilessly when he opened his store in london and the smart salons were full of clever about the Ame american invader lie made them like him ile he hired as head of las ids dress department part ment lady abuck who had thought up the cleverest jokes about him here in 1937 he was optimistic about europe and the world in general now he be says the opportunity to achieve and to show results has been eliminated all over the world LBERT SARRAUT french minister A ALBERT of interior wings swings on the french reds with a spiked club he links them with the germans and promises to albert sarraut sarratt c sap p them tough one dayi day from au all vu vii pacific the next lages munica S cities and towns and he means to do just that M sarraut sarratt Sar raut as governor general ol of french indochina indo china was regarded as a hard fisted and implacable colonial administrator returning to his country villa in france he read tolstoy and renounced au all belief in force when he became minister of interior his bla enemies catching him thus thu off guard swarmed all over mm aim ile he resigned from the minis try and sold said 1 find now that I 1 have no dewire desire to smite hip and thigh those who do not think as I 1 do you gentlemen take over the job and see nee what you yon can do with it lie he again became minister of the interior but offered his resignation when king alexander was assassinated in marseilles but taking the premiership he again swung his war club hotly denouncing zionists and meddlers peddlers medd lers alternately tough and conciliatory he Is a veteran of the rough and tumble of french politics A vacation in his garden where he is given to reads read ing and meditating Is apt to bring on the mood features service |