Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 149, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 November 1929 — Page 21

NOV. 1, 1929. 1.

BUTTER, EGG MAN SUCCEEDS AS PLAYWRIGHT Turns Away From $25,000 a Year to Win Fame as Author. BY GEORGE KENT United Freic Staff Correspondent PARIS, Nov. I.—The story of Walter Lowenfels Is the spirited tale of *. boy who gave up butter and eggs for hearts and flowers, which is to say, business for art, and succeeded. His story Is the more extraordinary because he won his triumphs east of New York—in cool England and skeptical Germany. Three years ago Walter, who is 31 years old today, was known and perhaps still is, as a blithe and successful American butter and egg man. As partner and star salesman in the firm of P. F. Lowenfels, he sold Jersey butter in pail and paper, cheeses of domestic and foreign vintage, and eggs laid yesterday or thereabouts. He said he earned a year and spent it. Liked to Write But on trains and byway hotels Lowenfels had studiously avoided The Drummer's Joke Book and On a Slow Train Through Arkansas, preferring Cummings, Crane, Dos Passos, Joyce and other authors. Reading a lot made him write a little and like it. He returned to New York and informed his father that he had sold his last egg, that he was going to Europe to write. His father had him examined by a psychoanalyst, who, finding nothing Iv the conventional psychosis, let him go. He has been in Europe three years; now he is going back, lacking in moss, but not in glory. Within a few weeks his play entitled ‘‘Crusade,” for which George Antheil has written the incidental but. essential music, will be presented in a German theater. Play Is Commended The play, which has already appeared in book form, has received j many flattering comments. The play j which in German is called ‘‘The j United States, With Music,” Is a satirical and poetical drama of i American life. Lowenfel’s impending success in Berlin falls synchronous with the ! success of a volume of poems which ! has been published in England by j the British firm of William Heine- j mann, Ltd., with a foreword by ■ Humbert Wolfe. The erstwhile butter and egg man has at one coup achieved two en- j viable distinctions. He is the first American poet since Ezra Pound to receive recognition in the form of publication by a British publLsher of repute. He Is also the first to bieak into the German theater be- j sere production in America. CHOKED BY HIS PREY 11 u T-rHr,l /V.'** ANTIOCH, Cal.. Nov. I.—Canni- j balism as practiced by A bass in the Ban Joaquin river on a catfish | proved fatal for the cannibal. The catfish, ten inches long, j caught in the bass’ throat, and, be- j ing unable to swallow’ the feline navigator, the bass died of starva- | tion. or at least that was the way j it was told by Frank Fortado, Antioch. finder of the fish. 1.

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DAY BEFORE TODAY

Yet They Start the Ball Rolling

“T SEE by the paper,” said the white-haired passenger on one of the X city's first daylight street cars on a north side route, "that the stock market has had a pretty bad crash.” "Yep,” answered the gray-haired man across the aisle, "mebbe it ll lead to a panic.” „ _ . . The young mah, sitting a few yards aw ? ay, smiled, somewhat woodenly, as his eyes rested on the first page of his newspaper. The smile stayed on as the two veterans of the "Brigade of the Day before Today” went on with their discourse

FOR the ‘ Brigade” is composed of the men who open the city's factories and shops, who dust off windows and who shut up shop in the evenings. Perhaps they are the ones who manipulate the whistles that beckon the employes of the city’s factories to their labors. “The Brigade of the Day before Today,” starts its daily toil as the sun climbs slowly over the horrizon in the east and ends its w’ork when the sun is sinking in the western sky. And then starts the new day. Home and the pages of the evening newspaper, the paper w’hich furnishes the thought and the conversation for all of tomorrow’. The car passed Nineteenth street and the gray-headed passenger, resting his hand on his lunch basket, looked at the clock in the store window. "Mm,” he murmured, “we’re a little ahead of time today.” “So?” came back the answer. “Well, we’ll fall back on time down on the avenue, more’n likely. I see by the paper where a big airplane is lost out west.” “Um, huh,” nodded the grayheaded man, flicking a bit of dust off his shabby, but neat, trousers, “that must be kinda wild country out there.” The car turned a corner and the white-haired man glanced at a factory clock in the front window of the establishment. “Back on time,” he said, and his tompanion smilingly nodded.

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THE young man, a few yards away, smiled a bit wider. The street car jarred to a stop. An elderly man, stoop-shoul-dered and gray, boarded the car and walked through with definite steps. Three-quarters of the way, he stopped and sat down, nodding briefly to both old men. He rubbed his hand over his two-day beard and murmured softly to his friends up the aisle. 0 “See where the stock market crashed.” His listeners nodded sagely. The street car rumbled on and the “Brigade of the Day before Today” w’ent on with their conversation. The young man never stopped smiling. And the young man smiled because the headlines read: “Stock Market Slump Is Checked by Bankers.” “Missing Plane Lands Safely in New Mexico.”

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