Show NEWS THIS WEEK by lemuel F parton kashmir poetess recalls glamorous days of 0 nineties NEW N EW YORK in victorian england of the nineties arthur symonds wrote of the shy young poetess sarojini her eyes are like pools and yon seem to fall fail through them to depths below depths her exquisite kashmir beauty has faded now but it is s she he and no other who starts cables and linotypes lino types clattering all over the world with the news that lindbergh blushed it was her poetic laudation of the colonel at the meeting of the parliament ai of religions at calcutta in which he was compared to buddha which flushed the rose tint on the colonels cheek and made news that sidetracked all other events of the world parliament of religions that bras was the headline and the story it is is an interesting citation of comparative news values in london of the eighties and nineties fame was bestowed when aubrey beardsley burne jones and watts painted the portrait of any new entrant thus lily bangt langtry ry was converted from a singularly inept and tumble fumble tooted footed actress to a great lady of the stage sarojini was both beautiful and intelligent ignoring veil and caste the first of her brahmin line fine to do so she entered girton at cambridge sir edmund gosse discovered her poetry and gave it his august literary sanction the above painters rushed in with their mahl sticks and brushes and the poets with psaltery and harp ernest dowson among them richard le gallienne and max beerbohm in their wake her poems were recited sung chanted at all great salons like lindbergh then in times suspense file she climbed down from her pegasus to a blare of fame f ame and adulation her gorgeous native dress her beauty her silken sari her exquisite voice her enchanting verse were more familiar to the empire than the growing tension of johannesburg algeciras and abadir she went back to india to war on the he in incoming comin machine a age ae e which was to make maice the later lindbergh the sie siegfried fried of 0 its iron lung she put aside her silken gown and wore the coarse of gan chis early civil disobedience movement she went to jail two or three years altogether she married out of her caste assailed the caste system led crowds through the city streets gave her property to the nationalist movement in 1925 she become became president of the indian national congress in england they still sing her poems set to music by liza lehman and coleridge taylor she is fifty six years old the mother of four children with a slight figure and lined gentle face an ally of annie besant in the movement in the batters lat years A strange transit of epochs and cultures this stirring an astronomical blush over the seven seas the burne jones salon was sarojini le bourget field it would be interesting to baws at a heart to heart talk between the colonel and the poetess about conformity and dissent and whether it is better to go to glory or to jail and whether she is sorry she ever P put ut aside her silken gown at any rate in lindbergh she hymns chivalry and courage no matter what she thinks of his epoch when new freedom was new P never JOSEPH quite caught step in the roosevelt parade but there he was after all these years on the presidents left at the recent victory dinner with less hair than he had in the early days of the 0 new freedom but with irish eloquence anim unimpaired he reports democratic fires burning in the hills bills and valleys of america lagging tar far behind woodrow wil sons eight year secretary never called wait for baby like the chap in what price glory and finally came along in his usual dignified way so far as broad party strategies and policies of he last few years are concerned mr Tur nulty has been mainly concerned with our and indifference toward i the league of nations there is no I 1 more loyal conservator of straight line doctrine in america toward the end of woodrow wil sons second term there was much much talk of a cabinet post tor for mr supposedly the labor post but he became a washington lawyer instead in august 1935 he told a senate committee that his two years fees of were for advice and not for lobbying his jersey friends tell me that he has made his peace with frank hague jersey city political boss that he is becoming mellow and philosophical and that he has no yen f 0 or r any important place on the democratic bandwagon 0 consolidated nw news features feature mill service |