Show NEWS THIS WEEK a a by lemuel emuel F par parlon j aff F N NEW EW YORK virginio gayda 11 II duces official spokesman sounds like a fire eater denouncing england for or her dark and treacherous role but in signor signer gayda person he affects pose like that at all I 1 of fire firewater eater remember talking to him in in the studio of a british artist in rome soon after mussolini seized power he is a gentle scholarly man hesitant in speech giving one the impression of wide tolerance and understanding quite astonishing was his brass throated warning to the world as II 11 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 been one of its cleverest he is at his best in what appears to be a scholarly condemnation of democracy and exaltation of fascism but his journalistic alter ego is an expert dynamiter and all 11 II duce has to do is to stick out his chin to get a devastating blast from signor signer gaydas typewriter he is is forty two years old educated e d in in law at turin university turning from the law duces stooge to newspaper began career work he was the central tn and d west w e s t as attorney tt torney ern correspondent s pon d e n t for or stampa of turin he was 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 magero of rome and in 1926 became editor of the Gi Gl ornale italia ditalia d dl talia 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 bt bf hate informed opinion in europe is that italy Is turning more toward england because eng land has the credit and raw ma serials it needs and hitler 0 B BLAND LAND rund round faced edward A kenney of new jersey ke keeps eps on plugging on his federal lottery bill now in his third term he has been urging a national kenney bag almost plugging for from om the day he US ft c grab bag entered congress 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 re search in other countries he has been active in the national conference e 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 experiencing a gambling wave the last three or tour four years while all the famous amous old nevada hell holes are closed up tight former chance players are looking for a sure thing and vice versa in this general reversal of form the now orthodox q quantum theory makes the who whole le universe a dice game maybe mr kenney is just a little ahead of his time IN FN 1904 he was sol so hurok selling I 1 needles from a peddle cart and washing bottles fourteen hours a day for a dollar wage then he I 1 was solomon hu bottle rrok impresario of Is now ballet musical talent and now he is S hurok impresario abay probably ob americas 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 otherwise he shows little wear and tear his father in russia gave him 1500 rubles for or an apprenticeship tice ship in the hardware business which he duty duly served and then landed in ellis island with three ru blesin bles in 1904 he eased himself nicely out ot of bankruptcy in 1926 and is still gun ning tor for only the big ones the onetime peddle cart pusher has done as much as anybody to in his line to open the flood gates of culture for insular america d Q consolidated news features servi |