Show NEWS THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON FEW EW YORK there is an anthony NE denish flavor about the way undersecretary of state sumner welles denounces ger germany ma ny in the absence of our welles no secretary hull flop in poll of and there is is an edenise flavor best dressers dresser about our mr welles himself lie he is tau tall he is lean he has a wee precise mustache and why nobody has picked him in a best dressed poll is a mystery his long big nose is perfectly cut too and not a hair is out of place in the thinning pompadour that roaches back from a domed forehead this is not however 0 to o hint that the undersecretary is is anything less than per cent american ne he was born in new york city 46 years or so ago president Roosevel ts own groton and harvard shaped him and he be is at home in foar four or five clubs that insist on looking up candidates in the doomsday book of the revolution of 76 his church naturally is the episcopal church and his home now is understandably in historic maryland where two sons are no doubt also preparing tor for groton the diplomatic gauntlet that he ran to reach his present post extends back to 1915 and tokyo betimes he has been much in south america he has been first assistant since 1937 to secretary hull 0 NE of carl Sand burgs songs runs 1 I have led a quiet youth careful of my morals I 1 shall have an old age full of vice and quarrels youth in in peace so go it goes with and quiet now walter brenin rum and riot nan making a film career playing likable old reprobates ro hollywood pegs him as the successor to will rogers and four rogers pictures are being readied for him he is a personable young man of 40 but in barbary coast kentucky and such earlier films as guns and the lariat kid he came through handsomely as a tough old timer and now his ticket ile he likes it and living these roles becomes a sage homespun old codger given to offhand david harum aphorisms I 1 have heard beard of similar occupational trends in hollywood ile he says he is growing old happily he first upped himself as an oldster by lying about his age to get in the war gassed in france he lost all his teeth and got a rasp in in his voice which also helped he raised pineapples in guatemala made money lost it in los angeles real estate and then crashed the films born and reared in swamp scott mass he is a master of the quaint western and southwestern idiom 0 WHEN this writer was doing a short turn helping build the panama canal he fell in with a jamaica negro water boy a sort of F ri J taylor r i has u bunga din of a squad of paral jamaica boys so swampers scampers swam pers idea of canal who ho was worried about the canal being too narrow in the quaint lingo of the british laughl island negroes he used to say yes bahs ships grow hugely I 1 in coming years and if some is fighting ship it must go swiftly and nut fear other passing great ship axing barding sir we jamaica boys say canal need great enlarging frank J taylor T a alor president of the american merchant marine returns from the canal to new york with the same idea he says congress should spend to widen the canal for bot both h commercial and national defense reasons mr taylors career is brooklynn Brook lyns favorite boy who made good story from 1 a day to a year which is the possibly vulgar epitome of such careers in this day and age ile he was an orphan lad in a manhattan slum at work at 12 as an apprentice at robbins kobbins dry dock in the red hook section of brooklyn ile he rose in ic politics in the he state assembly for 12 terms sheriff commissioner of records welfare coin commissioner and comptroller of new york city retiring from the last office in 1937 he fie went to floriz florida but the steamship owners tracked him down and burdened him with this job he fights government intrusion i nt ruslon on private enterprise but says the shaping interests will coo operate cooperate co O effectively with the united states maritime commission 0 D consolidated news feature service |