| Show NEWS THIS WEEK by lemuel F parton paron N NEW EW YORK Virg verginio inlo gayda n duces official spokesman sounds uke like a fire eater cater denouncing england for her dark and treacherous role but in signor signer gayda person he affects pose like that at all I 1 of at fire eater later remember em ember talking to him in the stu dio of a british artist in rome soon after mussolini seized power he is s a gentle scholarly man hesitant in in speech giving one the impression of wide tolerance and understanding quite astonishing was his brass throated warning to the world is as il II duces sounding board he talks like charles evans hughes and writes like general johnson he is accepted in europe as merely charlie mccarthy but he is a lot more than just a ventriloquists dummy one of the most powerful and brilliant journalists in italy he helped build the first scaffolding of fascism and has hag been one of 0 its cleverest he is at his best in what appears to be a scholarly condemnation of democracy and exaltation ot of fascism but his journalistic alter ego Is an expert dynamiter and all II if duce has to do is to stick out his chin to get a devastating blast from signor gaydas typewriter he is forty two years old educated in law at turin university turning from the law D duce s stooge to newspaper began career work he was the central and west as attorney em correspondent for stampa of turin he was in in russia when the war started and was taken into the political and military service later he was in the diplomatic service in sweden and london in 1921 he returned to active journalism as editor of the mes saderia of rome and in 1926 became editor of the Gi ornale dita ditalia dl talia lia while he maintained an intimate personal friendship with mussolini it was il II duces son in law count ciano who who wired him tor for sound in his there Is to be traced no official connection with the government any expedient retraction would involve only signor signer gayda with no governmental face saving necessary just now he thunders against england but with no such reverberation be as that of the ethiopian antiphon of hate informed opinion in europe is that italy is turning more toward england because englard england has the credit and raw materials it and hitler LAND round laced edward A brenney BLAND kenney of new jersey keeps on plugging on his federal lottery bill now in his third term he has been urging a national c bicy kecks rab bas bag almost besing pl for liota from the day he U US S grab ba bag entered congress Ss ghis his bill is now before 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 big research in other countries he has been active in the national conference to legalize lotteries of which mrs oliver harriman is president he is a new york jersey city and hackensack hackenback Hacken sack lawyer highly gregarious ga rious a member of the elks the red men and many other organizations he gets astonishing support for his idea among its protagonists being a professor of calculus who has dabbled in sociology he is a native of clinton mass incidentally new england has been ex experiencing perien cing a gambling wave the last three or four years while a all U th the e famous old nevada hell holes a are re c closed up tight former cha chance nce players are looking tor for a sure thing and vice versa in this general reversal of form the now orthodox qu quantum theory makes the whole universe a dice game maybe mr kenney is just a little ahead of his big time IN 1904 he was sol hurok selling needles from a peddle cart and washing bottles fourteen hours a day tor for a dollar wage then he was solomon hu bottle impresario of Is 5 now ballet musical talent and now he is S hiti impresario lre mp sarlo rok probably americas america s leading music manager the fifth season of de basils ballet russe de monte carlo starts soon under his management managing such temperamental stars as chaliapin duncan and iowa he became americas boss lion tamer it wore his hair down but othe otherwise he shows little wear and tear his father in russia g gave a v e hm him 1 1500 rubles for an apprenticeship tice ship in the hardware business which he duly served and then landed in ellis bills island with three rubles in 1901 he eased himself nicely out of bankruptcy in 1923 and is still gunning iain tor for only the big ones theone the one 11 inse me peddle cart pusher has done as much ns is anybody lit in his line to open the flood cooj gates of culture lur for america G nc Fea features lures M LN U SL siance r tee 40 |
