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Show I WHO'S NEWS I THIS WEEK... By Lemuel F. Par Hon Vt f ?t tTt rrrf rff tt f r y t ? NJKW YORK. Vircinio Caydn, II Duce's oniciul spukusmim, sounds like n fne-eatcr, di'iiouncin I''nf;larul fur her "dark and treacherous treach-erous role." but in Signor Gayda person he Isn't Affects Pose hke that at all. I of Fire-Eater memh,r talking to him in the studio stu-dio of a British artist in Rome soon nftrr Mussolini seized power. He is a Ki'ntle, scholarly man, hesitant in speech, giving one the impression of wide tolerance and understanding. Quite astonishing was his brass-throated brass-throated warning to the world, as II Duce's sounding board. Ho talks like Charles Evans Hughes and writes like General Johnson. He Is accepted in Europe as merely Mussolini's Charlie McCarthy. McCar-thy. But he is a lot more than just a ventriloquist's dummy. One of the most powerful and brilliant journalists jour-nalists in Italy, he helped build the first scaffolding of fascism, and has been one of its cleverest rationalizers. rational-izers. He Is at his best in what appears to be a scholarly condemnation of democracy and exaltation of fascism. But his journalistic alter ego is an expert dynamiter, and all II Duce has to do is to stick out his chin to get a devastating blast from Signor Gayda's typewriter. He is forty-two years old, educated educat-ed in law at Turin university. Turning Turn-ing from the law Duce's Stooge to newspaper Began Career work, he was the central and west-as west-as Attorney , , I ern correspondent for Stampa, of Turin. He was in Russia when the war started, and was taken into the political and military service. Later, he was in ; the diplomatic service in Sweden ' and London. j In 1D21, he returned to active ! juhrnalism, as editor of the Mes- sagero of Rome and in 1926 became ; editor of the Giornale d' Italia. While j he maintained an intimate person-I person-I al friendship with Mussolini, it was ; II Duce's son-in-law. Count Ciano, who wired him for sound. In his spokesmanship. there is to be traced no official connection with j the government. Any expedient re-i re-i traction would involve only Signor Gayda, with no governmental face-saving face-saving necessary. I Just now, he thunders against ! England, but with no such rever-I rever-I beration as that of the Ethiopian antiphon of hate. Informed opinion I in Europe is that Italy is turning more toward England because Eng-' Eng-' land has the credit and raw materials ma-terials it needs and Hitler hasn't. BLAND, round-faced Edward A. I Kenney of New Jersey keeps on plugging ofl his federal lottery bill. Now in his third term, he has been urging a national Kenney Keeps Jrab-bag almost Plugging for from the day he U. S. Grab-Bag"er' ns-riis ns-riis bill is now before be-fore the house ways and means ; committee. i Just now, he is back from Puerto Rico, where he has been studying the working of lottery laws there. Previously he has pursued his re-! re-! search in other countries. He has been active in the national confer-; confer-; ence to legalize lotteries, of which Mrs. Oliver Harriman is president. He is a New York. Jersey City : and Hackensack lawyer, highly gregarious, gre-garious, a member of the Elks, the Red Men and many other organizations. or-ganizations. He gets astonishing support for his idea, among its protagonists pro-tagonists being a professor of calculus cal-culus who has dabbled in sociology, i He is a native of Clinton, Mass. j Incidentally, New England -has been experiencing a gambling wave the last three or four years, while all the famous old Nevada hell-holes I are closed up tight. Former chance-j chance-j players are looking for a sure-thing j and vice-versa. In this general re- versal of form, the now orthodox : quantum theory makes the whole universe a dice game. Maybe Mr. Kenney is just a little ahead of his time. TN 1904. he was Sol Hurok, selling needles from a peddle cart, and washing bottles fourteen hours a day for a dollar wage. Then he was Solomon Hu- Bottle Washerrok, impresario of Is Now Ballet musical talent, and f now he is S. Hu- Impresarto , , , , rok, probably America's leading music manager. The fifth season of De Basil's Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo starts soon under his management. Managing such temperamental stars as Chaliapin, Duncan and Pav-lowa, Pav-lowa, he became America's boss lior.-tamer. It wore his hair down, but otherwise he shows little wear and tear. His father in Russia save him 1.500 rubles for an appren-ticer-hip in the hardware business, which he duly served, and then landed in Ellis island with three rubles, ru-bles, in 1CM. V.s er.sed hin-sclf nicely out of bnr.'r.'ur'.cy in l"-3 and is still gun-,iin:: gun-,iin:: for only the big ones. The one-;ine one-;ine c.'.c.'.e cart ri'?her has d,;ie as m.'ch us iriybnjy in his !:ne to :pc:i f'.jcl gates of cul'.uie lui 't:S'..' ir .Vr.rrica. V. Ao' l-l . |