Show I I AA AI UJ AAA A I. I AL AI ht AAA j WHO'S t NEWS THIS TH S WEEK B By Lemuel F. F Parton VV MEW NEW EW YORK Virginio Virginia Virginio Gayda II Duces Duce's official spokesman sounds like a fire eater denouncing England for her dark and treacherous treacherous 0 erous role but in SIgnor bignor Gayda Gada person he isn't Affects Pose like that at all I of Fire-Eater Fire remember talking to him in the studio studio studio stu stu- dio of a British artist in Rome soon after Mussolini seized power He is isa isa isa a gentle scholarly man hesitant in speech giving one the impression of wide tolerance and understanding Quite astonishing was his br brass brass- ss- ss throated warning to the world as II Duces Duce's sounding board He talks like Charles Evans Hughes and writes like General J Johnson He is accepted in Europe as merely Mussolini's Charlie McCar McCar- thy But he is a lot more than just justa a ventriloquists ventriloquist's dummy One of the most powerful and brilliant journalists journalists journalists jour jour- in Italy he helped build the first scaffolding of fascism and has been one of its cleverest rational rational- 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 Il Duce has to do is to stick out his chin to get a devastating blast from Signor Signer Gaydas Gayda's typewriter He is two forty-two years old educated ed in law at Turin university Turning Turn- Turn r. r ing fag from the law Duce s 8 Stooge to new newspaper spa per Began Career work he was the theas theas theas central and western western west west- as Attorney em ern n correspondent for tor Stampa of Turin He was in Russia when the war started and was taken into the political and military service Later he was inthe in inthe inthe the diplomatic service in Sweden and London In 1921 he returned to active journalism as editor of the Mes- Mes of Rome and in 1926 became editor of the dItalia While he maintained an intimate personal person person- al friendship with Mussolini it was wasn wasn n II Duces Duce's son-in-law son Count Ciano who wired him for sound In his there is to tobe tobe tobe be traced no official connection with the government Any expedient retraction retraction retraction re re- re- re traction would involve only Signor Signer Gayda with no governmental face- face saving necessary Just now he thunders against England but with no such reverberation reverberation reverberation rever rever- as ns that of the Ethiopian antiphon of hate Informed opinion in Europe is that Italy is turning more toward England b because cause England England England Eng Eng- land has the credit and raw materials materials materials ma ma- it needs and Hitler Hiller B LAND round-faced round Edward A. A L' L Kenney of New Jersey keeps on plugging on his federal lottery bill Now in his third term he has been urging a n national Kenney Keeps grab bag almost Plugging for from the day he U. U US U.S. S. S Grab-Bag Grab e entered ter d congress His bill is now before before before be be- fore the house ways and means committee Just now he is back from Puerto Rico where he has been studying the working of lottery laws there Previously he has pursued his research research research re re- re- re search in other countries He has been active in the national conference conference conference 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 gregarious gregarious gre gre- a member of the Elks the Red Men and many other or or- He gets astonishing support for his idea among its protagonists protagonists protagonists pro pro- being a n professor of calculus calculus calculus cal cal- culus who has dabbled in sociology He is a native of Clinton Mass Incidentally New England has been experiencing a gambling wave the last three or four years while all the famous old Nevada holes hell-holes are closed up tight Former chance- chance players are looking for a thing sure-thing and vice In this general reversal reversal reversal re re- versal of at form the now orthodox quantum theory makes the whole universe a n dice game Maybe Mr Kenney is just a little ahead of his time IN TN N 1904 he was Sol Hurok selling A needles from a peddle cart and I washing bottles fourteen hours a aday aday day for a dollar wage Then he heD was Solomon Hu- Hu Bottle D i i TI TIt Washer t rok impresario of ofIs ofIs ofis Is Now Ballet musical talent and Impresario now h he is S. S Hurok Hurok Hurok Hu Hu- Hu- Hu rok pro probably b a b I y Americas America's leading music manager The fifth season of De Basils Basil's Ballet Russe de Monte Montc Carlo starts soon under his management Man Managing ging such temperamental stars as Chaliapin Duncan and Pay Pay- Iowa lowa he became Americas America's boss lion It wore his hair down but otherwise he shows little wear and tear His father in Russia gave him 1500 rubles for an apprenticeship apprenticeship apprenticeship in the hardware business which he duly served and then landed in Ellis island with three rubles rubles rubles ru ru- ru- ru bles in 1904 He lie eased cased himself nicely out of bankruptcy in 1926 1920 and is still gunning gunning gunning gun gun- ning for only the big ones The onetime onetime onetime one one- time peddle cart pusher has done doneas as lS much as anybody in his line to pen open the flood gates of culture for America Consolidated News Features Service |