Show NEWS THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON N EW YORK word comes from london that sir seymour hicks who last september became official bucker up of british civilians sailors and sir seymours seymour soldiers is laughter bombs exploding buck up british laugh e bombs au all over the kingdom which eventually may blow down the siegfried wall like the trumpets of jericho sir seymour who had a similar job in the world war is En glands favorite light comedy actor a leading producer and actor manager a writer of consequence and a rallying point for both masses and classes as they both claim him as their own he is 78 years old and last month celebrated his fifty second year on the stage ile he started life as a call boy in a london theater his next job was as an undertakers mute a hired mourner sometimes filling in as an emergency pallbearer pall bearer and the like ile he wore black well and did nicely in his new career until his bis memories of the theater obtruded at an unfortunate moment he was walking solemnly behind a hearse when a distant band struck up a tune which carried him backstage back stage again he swung open the door of th the hearse and called out th the e overture begins now six sir that shunted him right back to the theater which by all accounts he never should have left he has written and produced 64 plays and is the author of eight books of reminiscence nis cence comment and criticism criticism he was knighted in 1935 and mayfair made a tremendous fuss over him with similar cheers from the populace in the world war he organized concerts and shows for the soldiers and kept up a drumfire drum fire of spirited humor which rated him as the leading empire morale builder INING with henry F grady amany many years ago this writer noted that he had that old time free trade religion he has never back slid he is j pw grady sacks to secretary old time free hulls jeph trade religion chah girded to smite the ammonites hip and thigh as they assail the secre trade agreements program mr grady 57 year old celtic and incurably optimistic specialist in foreign trade is assistant secretary of state and has taken over the job of expounding and putting forward the agreements the law authorizing the plan will expire june 12 and the continuation of this trade policy will be an early and exciting kickoff kick off in congress mr grady a san franciscan educated at st marys university baltimore is a man of encyclopedic learning in trade matters a lecturer at many universities the author of many books and treatises and a member ember of many learned societies cie ties he boils down a mountain of data and statistics to his vehement insistence that no matter how we may tinker with tariffs and quotas the only helpful reality is the flux of good through the international bloodstream HE russian baltic drive sidetracked Tt THE by the finns was according to the meager evidence obtainable tai the pet idea of andrei fre fans Finns hammered re wedge between berred to in stalin the last two years as li 1 ns possible successor later news is is that stalin has other ideas about M future as the latter takes the rap for the debacle in finland he was designated secretary of the leningrad communist party ty committee on december 16 1931 1934 that made him a virtual dictator of the leningrad district the pittsburgh of russia M has been particularly ticul arly bitter against britain and several correspondents have attributed to him the disruption of last summers negotiations of the allied powers with the soviets he is 43 years old a revolutionist since 1912 when he left school to engage in agitation against the czarist at government until 1917 he was chiefly occupied dodging the police and joined the army as a germ carrier for the bolsheviks in the early revolutionary years he was one of the leading organizers ol of party propaganda and was thrown into close association with josef stalin it was the beginning of a beautiful friendship which quite possibly the skiing finns have dynamited nami ted he is of a middle class family one of the cleverest word smiths of red russia consolidated features feature service |