Dean Allen
Receives Far
East Journal
'Indian Home'
Conceived by
Oregon Graduate
By HAROLD OLNEY
The materialized dream of a for
mer University of Oregon student
was received at the school of jour
nalism offices this week. It wras an
anniversary copy of “Indian
Home,” the magazine which the
originator, Kummar Sri Mohan V.
Raj, started out to make “The La
dies Home Journal of the Far
East.”
The purpose of the publisher, as
stated in his thesis, which he w’rote
for his master’s degree at the Uni
versity in June, 1935, was “to as
sist in the regeneration of the
masses in India ... to introduce
improved scientific methods of ag
riculture and to innovate in the
management of homes by present
ing material in a simple, popular,
and appealing manner.”
An American, looking at the out
side of the copy received w'ould
scarcely guess that it was a mag
azine. It was bound in a sort of
heavy, soft, yellow paper. Across
the bottom of the cover, was
printed the title, above which a
picture was pasted. It was a pic
ture of what appeared to be an
Indian goddess in a brightly col
ored coat.
Inside, however, the magazine
was of a distinctly American ap
pearance. Except for the fact that
all of the pictures were of Orien
tals and the advertisements were
decidedly different from those in
American publications, the maga
zine might have been printed in
the United States.
It had its book review section,
poet's corner, religious section,
children's page, and movie review.
There were various articles and
several short stories.*One page was
called a sidelights page, which con
sisted of short comments, ridicul
ing liquor prohibition.
An editorial in the front of the
magazine pointed out that the
magazine was moving into its sec
ond year of publication. It was
declared that the publication was
upon a sound financial basis. This
fact was attested to by the num
ber and size of the advertisements
which the magazine carried.
George S. Kaufman and Moss
Hart have two plays running on
Broadway now, “The Fabulous In
valid” and “The American Way.”
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More About Mr. Kaufman,
The Man Who Makes
Mr. America Laugh
Continuing the Tale of the Gloomy-Eyed
Playwright Who Is a Genius for Dialogue,
A Wizard at Poker, No Fool in Business
By LLOYD TUPLING
George S. Kaufman is gloomy-eyed, his thick eyebrows are arched
plaintively over a pair of rimless glasses. He speaks quietly, he is
exceedingly nervous—paces back and forth when a play is in early
stages of conception.
When he directs a play he quietly explains what he wants and the
actors try and give it to him. After a play has evolved through the
trial and error stagings out of town, and the lines are definitely “set,”
they must stay that way. No actor
may ad-lib. He is a practical show
man who wants to make sure that
the performance is not slipping
and that no liberties are taken
with the script.
Keeps Eye on Plays
He watches his plays like a mo
ther hen. One day he slipped into
the theater where one of his musi
cal comedies was playing. Taking
up his usual stand in the back of
the theater he watched. The male
lead’s work was deteriorating. He
left, filed a wire to the actor.
“Dear --, I am watching your
performance from the last row.
Wish you were here. George.”
Kaufman says there is little
value in talking of art in the films
or art upon the stage when there
is not much of either. What there
is, he says, is good workmanship.
Making dialogue sound natural on
the stage is a knack of the ear,
and not an art itself.
Likes to ‘Hold Five’
Kaufman credits whatever per
severance or fortitude he has to
the ten-handed, twenty-four hour
stud game that ran continuously at
the National Press club during his
Washington days. On Broadway he
is a member of the Thanatopsis
Poker and Inside Straight club.
All but three of his plays have
been done with collaborators. How
much of them is Kaufman and
how much collaborator is impos
sible to say, but he doesn’t grab
glory for himself. At the opening
of “Once in a Lifetime” he made a
curtain speech, stated that Moss
Hart was responsible for at least
two-thirds of the play.
Has Made Most $$$$
Kaufman is America’s most
financially successful playwright.
He and his collaborators split fifty
fifty on authors' royalties, besides
this he usually buys up a 25 per
cent slice of his plays, thus getting
the manager's quarter of the net
profits—or in a very few cases a
quarter of the manager's losses.
Like George Bernard Shaw,
Kaufman is as able a businessman
as he is a playwright. He sold
movie rights of “You Can't Take
It With You” for the highest price
ever paid by the movies for a
story, $200,000. Kaufman’s cut was
$80,000. “Stage Door” went to the
movies for $130,000.
Three Paying Off Now
At present he is making a nice
little wage from three Broadway
successes—"I’d Rather Be Right,”
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“You Can't Take It With You,’’
which he co-authored with Moss
Hart, and the dramatization of
John Steinbeck's “Of Mice and
Men,” which he directed and aided
in adapting to the stage.
When “I'd Rather Be Right”
opened at the Alvin theater last
October after a huge success in
Boston, $60,000 worth of tickets
had been sold, and crowds were
lined up for several hundred blocks
along 52nd street to make advance
purchases. Noting such phenom
enal success, one Broadway observ
er sighed and misquoted, “I’d Ra
ther Be George S. Kaufman!”
Work Has ‘That Touch’
As a workman, Kaufman is the
soul of, methodicality. A play that
Kaufman has directed or helped to
write invariably bears the mark of
slick professional finish. It looks
easy and natural because the re
verse has gone into its making. He
cannot sit, with his black pompa
dour tousled he ambles back and
forth. As he paces he prowls, pok
ing with absent-minded curiosity
into anything that catches his eye.
Most of the work on “Dinner at
Eight" was done in Edna Ferber’s
home, and her partner’s aimless
inquisitiveness gave Miss Ferber
the chance for a little joke. She
wrote something on a telegraph
blank, but it face down on a desk
among her personal papers. As she
knew her collaborator would, he
ultimately picked it up and read,
“George Kaufman is an old snoop.”
Fills Two Roles
When a production reaches the
tryout stage there are two Kauf
mans at work—the director, who
stands at the rear of the house
listening to every line and watch
ing the audience reaction, and the
playwright, who goes to work the
moment he senses something is
wrong.
There is no formula for Kauf
man humor. Says he, “All I do is
try to get as many laughs as I
can, and the bigger the better. I
used to blame the weather, or the
day of the week, or the town when
a line didn’t draw laughs, but I
don't any more. Four years ago I
was working with the Marx broth
ers on “The Cocoanuts.” Groucho
was trying to get a laugh with a
line, and it would fall flat. The
next night he would try something
else and he kept trying until he
found something they would laugh
at. It was as simple as that but it
took me four years to learn it.”
This ability for changing things
around until they look right, and a
consciousness of when they are
right, makes him one of two or
three practicing play doctors left
on Broadway. In this field his ser
vices are in great demand, and the
curative powers of his facile pen
and mind have saved scores of
recent plays from registering in
red ink.
(To be continued)
Worm: Caterpillar that played
strip poker and lost.
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Not Discussed in 'Mein Kampf'
1913—Miniature handlebar. 1932—A La Charlie Chaplin. 1934— Kounded at ends. 1939 — Butterfly.
The years roll, time and manners change, and so does Adolf Hitler's mustache. The above pictures,
taken over a period of 24 years, portray the evolution of the most famous mustache in the world. It
gets no mention in the new “unexpurgated” edition s of his “Mein Kampf” which will be published by two
American firms in March.
Among the
Book Publishers
This Month
A volume of 800 pages Will be
John Steinbeck’s new novel,
“The Grapes of Wrath,” which
will be published in April by
Viking. Twice the length of any
of his earlier novels, its theme is
the dust bowl and the men and
women whose homes were de
stroyed there. . . . Bess Street
Aldrich’s latest novel, “Song of
Years,” which was published in
the Saturday Evening Post, is
her best yet. The Nebraska au
thor proves she is still excellent,
when it comes to painting scenes
of domestic life and pioneer lo
cale. . . . Edna Ferber's auto
biography, “A Peculiar Trea
sure,” will be off the Doubleday
presses sometime after the first
of the month. . . . Clarence Bud
dington Kelland dips his fingers
into the cold cream jar for his
latest Longfellow Deeds-ian
story, “Skin Deep,” the action of
which takes place around a mod
ern beauty shop. . . . “Demon
Daughter: The Confession of a
Modern Girl to Her Mother,”
will be published by Morrow on
February !I3. It is by Honore
Willsie Morrow, her first book in
three years. . . . Carl Sandburg,
biographer of Lincoln, has writ
ten a preface to Robert Sher
wood's play, "Abe Lincoln in
Illinois,” to be published Febru
ary 11 by Charles Scribner's
Sons. . . . The thirty-fifth edi
tion of “How to Win Friends and
Influence People” lias just come
off the press. Total sales by now
are. 893,000 copies. Needless to
say, Simon and Schuster are still
very friendly with Dale Car
negie. . . . “The Land is Bright”
is the third novel by Archie
Binns, author of “Lightship” and
“The Laurels Are Cut Down.”
’Industrial Valley’
Picture of Akron
Ruth McKenney’s “Industrial
Valley’’ aside from its dramatic,
many-sided picture of Akron, Ohio,
its great factories, its workers, its
police, its bankers, its government
—contains factual information
which has never before appeared
in print.
It tells the complete and accur
ate story of the first American sit
down strike, and an exact story of
the part played by the Communist
party in a major labor triangle. It
also examines the origins of the
CIO as they actually happened in
this first and most typical of CIO
towns.
Miss McKcnney, author of the
current best seller, “My Sister Ei
leen." has been at work on “In
dustrial Vr,lley” for more than
three years.
'Christ's Comet' by
26-Year-Old Poet
With “Christ's Comet,” a poetic
drama in three acts, Christopher
Hassail, 26-year-old British poet
and playwright, will be introduced
to American readers. His fame is
already well established in Eng
land. He is an Oxford graduate,
and son of John Hassall, the artist.
“Christ’s Comet,” written in
blank verse interspersed with
prose and lyrics In Urn Elizabethan
manner, will be published here on
Ecbruary 'J.
THE PUBLIC AND PBIVATE
Two books on the war-tim1’
i president, Woodrow Wilson, will
i shortly be on the market. “Wood
row Wilson, Life and Letters; Vol
I urae VII," has already been pub
! li'hed. Mrs. Wilson's memoirs will
Ls. publjtliaJ this spring.
Hitler A utobiography
To Be Published in
Unexpurgated Form
The Hitler autobiography, "Mein Kampf,” which was published in the
United States about two years ago in emasculated form, will be pub
lished in unexpurgated editions by two American publishing firms
about March 1.
A group of scholars under the direction of Dr. Alvin Johnson of
the New School for Social Research, have been working on the edition
which will be published by Reynald and Hitchcock. Arrangements have
been made with Houghton Mifflin
company, owners of the original
American copyright.
It will be annotated to clarify
obscure references and to provide
necessary historical background.
Technicality Claimed
The other edition, classed as
“unauthorized” by its publishers,
Stackpolc Sons, will contain an
other translation. They claim justi
fication on the advice that the
book is in the public domain be
cause of a technicality in copyright
registration.
Reynald and Hitchcock also de
clare :“With respect to claims that
technical flaws exist in the copy
right of the German edition,
Houghton Mifflin repeats that they
are assured by counsel that such
flaws as it is assumed will be
alleged, have no validity and could
not be sustained in court.”
Hitler Helps Homeless
Part of the proceeds from the
Reynald and Hitchcock edition
will be donated to a refugee fund,
while Stackpolc Sons intend to
give theirs to some charity, none
to Hitler.
William Dodd’s
Daughter Writer
One of the most Ultimate and:
authentic accounts of officialdom j
in Nazi Germany is coming in
Martha Dodd’s book, "Through
Embassy Eyes.” Daughter of for
mer Ambassador to Germany Wil
liam E. Dodd, the author spent ■
four years there with her family.
Young, attractive, and gay, she i
came to know the glamorous cir
cles of official life the ambassa
dors, the generals, the secret serv
ice chief, the newspaper men.
Eventually there were few, if any,
of importance in Germany whom
Martha Dodd did not know well.
The book is the result a story
of disillusionment and growing
fury, filled with close-up views and
inside stories of Nazidom's head
line people and events. Before go
ing to Germany in 1933 Miss Dodd
was assistant literary editor of the
Chicago Tribune.
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A suave young British officer is
the detective-protagonist of Ed
ward Acheson in his first mystery
novel, “Murder to Hounds.’’ The
author, who has had a varied ca
reer, including everything from
ranching in British Columbia to
newspaper work, is now lecturing
on economics at George Washing
ton university in Washington,
D. C.
Mr. Acheson’s background for
this academic post includes degrees
from Williams, and from the Lon
don School of Economics where he
was able to study while covering
European assignments for the
Washington Post.
“Murder to Hounds," to be pub-!
The Vision
In the Sky
A VIGNETTE
BY GENE EDWARDS
Among the towering crags of
the city walls there emerged a soli
tary, late-aflernoon figure—but
one among a crowd of solitaries.
The wetness of the pavements was
hidden beneath the weltering mass
that moved above it—but through
the shoes of this man (for it was
a man) there came a squelch of
soiling dampness.
Suddenly his eyes lifted from the
shoulders ot the crowd and fas
tened upon a seemingly blank aura
of mysterious fascination. Walk
ing south he changed his course,
entranced, and walked into the
crossway to the east.
Traffic lights were changing, and
impatient shoppers keyed upon the
curb. The walker hung upon his
steps and was left behind the last
scurrying pedestrian. Gazing trans
fixed, he stopped altogether. There
was a swift scream from the curb
before a rushing van mowed him
down. That was all, He felt like a
suddenly snapped twig — brittly
and completely..
Within the subdued walls of a
hospital, a nurse bent over a pros
trate form submerged in dressings,
A shrunken face, lined with the
marks of worry and malnutrition,
seemed timidly present among the
swathe of bandages.
A doctor's voice: “Has lie re
gained consciousness?”
“No Sir—neither-last night nor
this morning.”
Her words had scarcely seen the
shake of the doctor’s head when a
stir came to the shattered face be
fore them. A flicker of the eyelids
—tho nurse's tense hand upon his
pulse but he did not see the nurse
nor know the place. Instead, the
eyes seemed seeing only in the
mind as he whispered: “Yes—it
was real—and the first I’ve seen
since that day beyond the fallow
land. It. was a lovely rainbow—and
—a double—one!”
lished February 1), catapults the
wise - cracking British military
military sleuth into a murder case
on the estate of a fox-hunting Vir
ginia family.
Anti-Fascism
Proposition
Advanced
Lewis Mumford
Urges Fight Against
Foreign Aggression
Lewis Mumford, author of the
New Yorker column, The Skyline,
and the highly successful “The Cul
ture of Cities,” which was pub
lished last spring, has written an
other highly arresting book.
It is “Men Must Act,” which ad
vances what the author and his
publishers believe is the first prac
tical program for the United States
to follow in combatting the forces
of fascism, while at the same time
preserving world peace. Point by
point, Mr. Mumford outlines what
the government could do today—
that is, immediately—to stem the
tide of fascist aggression, and to
defeat the final aims of Germany
and other fascist powers.
“Men Must Act” opens with a
detailed analysis of fascism, show
ing exactly what it is, how it hap
pened, what it feeds on, and what
it can be expected, by its inherent
qualities, to do next. He shows that
fascism is government by violence,
new crises.
It must prey upon non-fascist
states in order to live; and there
fore, the author maintains, the
question is not whether we shall
fight fascism, but when and liow.
It will be published February 10
by Harcourt, Brace.
The author, incidentally, was in
Eugene last summer and lectured
ir. the music auditorium. A capac
ity crowd was on hand, in spite of
the fact that it was one of June’s
hottest evenings.
Carl Sandberg’s long poem, “The
People, Yes,” was read and drama
tized on the Columbia network last
Sunday afternoon.
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