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Show WHO'S NEWS I THIS WEEK... By Lemuel F. Parton ttTTTYTtYf YYYTYYf TTYYY? Cirrus Tycoon Vmvorrlcil by labor Trimble l'lurry. N'V.W YOKK. The ilriu li-rt W;r.bini;tim utter a brief stay, with Sumui-1 V. Giimpi-rti, Rcm-nil manager of Hie mammoth KliiKlInK UrothiTS Itanium ami lliillry show, completely untroublcil. serenely un-rum.-il, by a Hurry of labor trouble at the mitional capital which Involved In-volved a campaign by Kalph Whitehead White-head of New York, bead of the American Federation of Aetors. for recognition of the union by the circus cir-cus authorities. ! Always a diplomat, quiet-spoken but nonetheless poised and. when necessary, incisive, Clumpevti does not appear to have made any strong objection to the unionization of various va-rious elements not now urganiit'd, including members of the "111111 gang," as roustabouts and others who put up tents and do general heavy work are known, llusiness, he admitted, has been very good ' indeed, so why break the amiable processes of prosperity on the wheel ; of feudal pride and economic recusancy? rec-usancy? i When we first knew Sam Cum-j Cum-j pert:, he was the great American freak impresario, exhibiting his collection col-lection of curious and abnormal humanity hu-manity at the Dreamland circus side show on Coney Island, part of a varied entertainment provided by the late Senator William H. Reynolds Rey-nolds over a course of several years In the middle 1900s. Since he was a boy of nine. Gum-perti Gum-perti has been of the circus, beginning be-ginning his career as an acrobat with the Montgomery-Queen show. Seventeen years later, he was winter win-ter manager for Col. John G. Hopkins, Hop-kins, operator of a chain of seven- teen theaters, while he helped con-j con-j duct the Barnum and Bailey and ' Buffalo Bill shows In the good old summer time. Later came his association as-sociation with Senator Reynolds at j Dreamland and he was thus engaged en-gaged when, as a result of the ! illness of his old friend, John King-; King-; ling, he was drafted to the biggest circus of all. t Taking hold in the years of de-1 de-1 pression, he saw the need of a great- er etTiciency in the conduct of busi- ness and in certain radical revisions I in the form and variety of enter-i enter-i tainment. Consequence was that the circus remained a going concern, con-cern, a very progressive concern, , in fact, as witness financial state-: state-: ments showing that the "Greatest Show on Earth" last year played to record business. Gumpertz rules with an iron hand ! encased in a velvet glove. Supreme in authority over a community comprising com-prising 1,600 men. women and children, chil-dren, representing forty-nine races, i ha v-nnu-5 pvprvfme. from the low- he knows everyone, from the low- j liest roustabout to the highest-paid entertainer, by first names, is their , confidant in all their troubles and : declares he has less difficulty with I ; his personnel than he would have ' with "a little wagon show." i ' French Journalist's Visit. MANY Americans with memories memo-ries of their war days have been greeting Jacques Chastenet, editor of Le Temps, who arrived , here on his first visit to this coun- try. Asserting he should have come : here long ago, M. Chastenet pur- j poses a survey of conditions in the United States in the course of a j trip which will carry him through ; the Middle West. i A liaison officer with the second ! division, A. E. F., during the World ! war. now editor of one of the world's ; leading newspapers, the visitor is ! renewing many old American , friendships. I The paper of which M. Chastenet is the distinguished editor deals very prominently with foreign af fairs, including, of course, those of the United States and is considered in the chancelleries as a first class authority on international questions. Born in Paris in 1893, educated at the Lycee Condorcet he has written writ-ten several books of profound legal character, is a chevalier of the Legion Le-gion of Honor. ... , What a Nazi Thinks. RETURNING to Germany after a tonr of the United States, Prof, 'j Friedrich Schoenemann asserts in I a lecture that public opinion in the United States could be mobilized for a war against Germany "in a "few i hours," if such a war were picture? ! as a great crusade for a great ideal. ; Referring to the recent Nazi press attacks on Mayor La Guardia of , New York City, he laments the folly "of judging all Americans by La Guardia." j Director of the American section of the English seminar at the Uni-: Uni-: versity of Berlin, Professor Schoenemann Schoen-emann has degrees from Gotten-gin Gotten-gin and Heidelberg, where he studied. stud-ied. He is well known in this country coun-try through his long sojourns here and from his analytical essays. Himself a Nazi, albeit a calmly poised one, evidently, his remedy for present states of mind and trends of thought in America concerning Hitlerism is counter propaganda setting forth the benignities, urbanities urban-ities and profound logical bases of the ruling conceptions of social, economic and administrative practice prac-tice in Germany. I Consolidated News Features. WNU Service. |