Show WHO YS NEWS THIS TH WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON N blondon NEW EW YORK word comes from london that sir seymour hicks who last september became official bucker up of british civilians sailors and r sir seymours seymour s soldiers is laughter bombs e exploding x p 1 0 d I 1 n g buck up br british isih lau laugh bombs 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 r writer of consequence and a rallying point for both masses masses and classes as they both claim him as their own 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 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 3 carried him backstage back stage again he swung open the door of the hearse and called out the overture begins now 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 he was knighted in 1935 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 she slid is rj ft T sticks t grady to secretary see detary old time free hulls hull I 1 S jeph trade religion chah e girded ld 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 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 IT HE russian baltic drive side Tt tracked racked by the finns was according to the meager evidence obtainable tai the pet idea of andrei fre r i finns hammered re wedge between berred to in stalin the last two years as possible successor later news 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 committee on december IG 16 1934 that made him a virtual dictator of the leningrad district the pittsburgh of russia al 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 government until 1917 he was chiefly occupied dodging the police e and joined the army as a germ carrier for the bolsheviks in the early revolutionary years he was one of the leading organizers of party propaganda and was thrown into close association with josef stalin features service |