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"about me and people called up. ~~ “Hello,

. | father.”

“Oh, hello Mr, Jencks. I didn’t know yout

were here. Come down and see us...” 2 '. Now, Hugh Jencks.is the American newspaperman .we became friends with in Buenos Aires last

fall. He and Miriam, his wife, took

their vacation and made that four-

day boat trip up the alligator infested Paraguay River to Asuncion with us. Hugh’s father . -haven’t seen him for two years, They are from Chicago, but came to St. Petersburg last fall for Mr. Jenck’s health, and have decided to stay here permanently. ] ] Hugh and his father look a good

deal alike. Mrs. Jencks said they |

‘were reading the column last fall i and got awfully excited at- seeing | aw Yeahs ae. s-iig their, son’s name, . YT dug out a picture of us and Hugh and Mim taken. together. on. the boat just as we left Buenos # Aires. Mr. Jencks looked at it, and held it off -and i Anoked at it some mere, and finally said, “Why, that isn’t; Hugh,” *. But Hugh's mothe king at %rifined and said; “Yes it is. You don’t realize how

mother, who was looking at it too,

“Why,” said Mr. Jencks, “when he left for Buenos Aires he was as skinny as you are, Why it looks here like he must weigh 180 pounds.” { “Yes, he probably does,” I said. “It must be those 7 Puenos Aires steaks.” : 4 © “Well, I'll be doggoned,” said Mr. Jencks. “Hello, this is Charlie Shook. The guy that threw you out of Bud & Lukes. restaurant in Toledo. Do you.remember?” N "Did T remember? I certainly did. That was in

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i me the old heave ho when I went there to write a be column about:it. He is down here now on a little va©%s ‘cation, visiting: Bild Fowler, who is the Bud-part of S 3% Bud & Luke. Bud is running a restaurant here, and 8 they wanted me to come over for lunch. So I went, and took a couple of good husky friends along, but it, turned: out: that Bud's restaurant here isn’t crazy. He runs it straight. a Charlie Shook said it was just like seeing an old friend for us to get together again. And Bud said he sure was glad fo.sit down and treat me decent for a change.” Wé had lunch and talked about old times in

Ohio. -

A Snappy Comeback

It’s funny the effect that nutty has had on these two fellows. h crazyman, has gained 30 pounds since last, and is as happy as a jaybird.. a "But Bud couldn’t take it.. It neatly drove him to. the bughouse. He actually had a nervous break= down, and has been down here for some time getting + calmed down. : ‘When we package in green paper thought probably it was a like a live rattlesnake or something, very gingerly. i ‘But it: turned out to be the swellest pipe you | ever saw. And I, being sort of a mental Happy Hooligan, came busting out with: “But I don’t smoke} a pipe!” Se : 5 Pel, it didn’t take me two seconds to realize I'd sail: the wrong thing. - But Old Pyle is smooth in “the piriches. So I just leaned back and went “heh, heh” and sald: . 3 “Why, 1 do too smoke a pipe. What's the matter with!'me? ‘I even sleep with a pipe in my mouth. - And ‘¥ was just ‘out of pipes, too. Used the last one this morning. Thanks a lot, boys.” ‘

Toledo restaurant Charlie, the head I saw him

ne finished eating, Charlie whipped out 2°

and gave it me. i I little Bud & Luke joke,

' My Day |

i + By Mrs. Eleanoy Roosevelt

fe ~ %_-Recejves Gift from Spanish People, “sc An “Exquisite” Set of Goya Prints.

ASHINGTON, Thursday—Yesterday afternoon ¥ the Spanish ambassador, Senor Ferando de Los Rios, brought the Spanish artist, Mr. Don Luis Quintanelle,> who is doing the decoration of the Spanish building at the World’s” Fair in New York City, to | "i present to me one of the five sets of Goya prints, - newly struck off from the old plates. : © The work has all been done while. the war has been going on. The binding is white, vellum with . .. gold tooling and I think the word exquisite describes $id" jt best. Those who know Goya's work, will realize: that artistically these prints are a joy:to look| at. This, however, is not the thing which to. me is moving about this gift. Cdn i The first page has my name inscribed on it and underneath in Spanish: “A remembrance from the people of Spain.” The artist said that it was given in appreciation of the fact that I had been interested in feeding the women and children of Spain during these past years of war wherever there was suffering and need. ;

Arranges Public Showin

A few people who believe that the Loyalist Government of Spain is communistic and antireligious have written me during the past weeks denouncing my acceptance of such ga gift. I have told them that the gift had not been proffered me. It has now been made to Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, a person, and comes from the people of Spain and I accept it with deep appreciation-and gratitude. These men, women and children have suffered much and yet they want to give something as a token of their appreciation for

what has been done to alleviate their suffering. __ What I know of the Loyalist Government today makes me feel that we in this country would call|it a democratic form of government, and though that Gov» Iw: ernment may have shown at one time antagonism to: “ P religion, this seems to have changed. I think we must accept the fact that in a war both sides are guilty of § .excesses; | ETE ell yl) | {4 1t Seems to me that these books are sufficiently interesting for them to be shown at a public place. I am therefore arranging to lend them to a museum here for a time in order that other people may realize

that art is still alive in the soul of a people in spite of the ravages of war. © ~~ ;

Day-by-Day Science

By Science: Services. To win 3 OY or girl? The everlasting question, that always rises itself when a new addition to the family ends, is paralleled by the more matter-of-fact, -baged one of:male”or.female that haunts all farmers and stockmen at calving or lambing time. If a practical method, could be worked out for pre- _%._ + determinting sex it would have revolutionary effects l both in human society and in the livestock industry. Dr. Arthur Walton, of the Cambridge University ool of agriculture, reviews work that has been done | thus. far. in search of an answer to. this everlasting gi § 38 question. He: reaches the conclusion that although ¥& nolway of controlling the sex ratio has yet been found the attempt is. by no. means hopeless. * - Clue to sex determination lies in the “x” and “y” fein vi in the spermatozoa. If an ovum is t

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's fertilized with a spermatozoon bearing an “x” chromosome, the offspring will be female. If it is the “y” chromosome,_the new animal will be male. Sperm from the male parent always contains approximately equal numbers of both Kinds of spermatozoa, thoroughly mixed. It has therefore always been a matter of chance, what the sex of the offspring __ Obviously, if one. could somehow separate the two Ads of :spermatozoa, and use “x” or "y” kind accord-

ing to the results desired, the problem would ‘be |

By That is just where the difficulties begin. o enters have tried all kinds of methpassing an electric current, swirling in a centri»

= He Gets His Naroe in-the Paper, the | "415, 7 . Telephone Rings and He Makes New |

~~ was'a piece in The St. Petersburg Times |.

this is Mr. Jencks. Hugh's ;

and mother |.

apart, and yet

£@.- 1936. Charles Shook was the head “bouncer who gave |,

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Ethel Bartlett,

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1930

Rae Robertson Are Psychic Unity in

Music Cri

tic’s Opinion

(Last of a Series).

By Elliott Arnold :

Times Special Writer

not hear each other.

NEW YORK, Feb. 10.— + ¥ The two concert grand pianos were less than 10 feet Ethel Bartlett and Rae Robertson could They tinkled a few treble notes,

thumped a little brass, ran through a couple of cadenzas. : And they might have been playing in separate rooms, miles apart. They couldn’t hear a note of each other's

playing. vel : : The great hall in Leyden, Holland, was filled with .

The nobility and society sat.in the front, and behind them sat rosy-faced burghers and their wives

music lovers.

and in the galleries, shined up and bright for this occa-

‘sion, were. the poorer folk from the city.

It was a warm-

ing show of appreciation for two really fine artists—but

Mr. Robertson and his wife looked at each other and felt they were in two separate vacuums... During the long concert that night they held each other's eyes. It was their only means of communication. They stared steadily at each other and played their two pianos throtigh Mozart and Scriabin and ‘Schubert and

Haydn, ‘They: played a iiculs

most precise .double-timing . and blending—one. player plays - against ‘the other, picks: up the

‘melody; the. theme, while the - other ‘quiets, ‘and then suddenly ‘the roles will be reversed.

With nothihg but the sound of their own instruments in their ears, the artists put their music ‘together and fashioned it into one superb product. And the

~next. day,” although no one but ‘themselves knew of what they

had gone through, they found one Dutch critic had written he had hever witnessed such “stiperlative psychic umity:” It-was a peculiarly apt: description, though the critic did not know it. .* “Something was the matter with the acoustics in the concert hall,” Mr. Robertson said today, “It was a weird concert. We had nothing, absolutely nothing, with which to time each other.” Ordinarily, Mr. and Mrs. Robertson. “profess to be amazed that their uncanny precision as a team should = evoke comment. ‘Making © ‘mechanically perfect musie together is something they: ‘take' for granted. They aim for something = entirely different. “We. are not interested in the mechanics of ' playing,” Miss: Bartlett said.’ “That is only a means to an end.’ We fry to create together a music—a single musi¢—that transcends mechanics. Really, there is only one

mind “when we play—one mind

and one spirit. 3 FN Cee 3 HE music is coming from four hands, from two in-

. struments, but it is directed from

one single source. We breathe together. . We are. actually so close that when we learn a new piece of music Rae practices his part alone:and 1 _do my work alone, and then When we come together for the first time we

find we can:play through it as

though we had rehearsed it together for hours.” : Rae Robertson “was born in Inverness, Scotland. He's a small ruddy-faced Scotsman with tiny hands. They seem. much too small for the acrobatics he forces them through on: a. keyboard. Miss Bartlett is a Londoner. They were piano students to-

gether and started on separate individual careers. Each was recognized as a competent artist when they fell in love and married. At first they continued their separate careers. But they didn’t want to stay apart—and they didn’t want to give up their music. es . “We simply got fed up being . separated - all - the time,” Mrs.. Robertson said. “Either one or the other of us was always having to

go off on a concert tour, or per~

haps we were both gone at the «

same time in .opposite: directions... . The only chance we had together: was at vacation time. : But still, it was ‘mere chance that brought our joint concerts about. A dozen years ago we koth

and the idea came to. us that it. might be fun to give a two-piano. ‘recital. We had no, fhought of: doing it as a regular ‘thing. It. just seemed an amusing novelty. The enthusiasm that the recital . aroused, however, - surprised us

and suggested to us. that this might be a new field in which we: could work successfully ‘together.”:

“We discovered we had an un-

usual perception and understanding of each other's moods,” Mr. Robertson said. “A mild sort of telepathy, I suppose. It developed.

We developed. Here we are.” ” » #

EITHER player ever uses music during the concerts. They play facing each other al-_ ways. They fold down the rack that ordinarly holds music on the piano and watch each other through the concert. 5 “The man loves revery,” an: analyst wrote once of the team. “He extracts from the notes the bittersweet of meditation, His wife, on the other hand, is a Scarlattian soul, piquant and scintillant.”

Probably the analyst was writ- ‘years.

ing for the kind of publication

-that requires words like that. Mr.

Robertson doesn’t regard himself as extracting any bittersweet of

meditation,~and that Scarlattian --

soul business would frighten off even Mrs. Robertson. The man does have a pronounced and individually masculine manner on the piano; his wife lacks something of his temperament, is soberer, and plays much more delicately. Ss, “This we know ourselves,” Mr, Robertson said. “But many critics have said they cannot tell our playing apart.” In the course of a long concert season one or the other player is often not up to par. “It is something we try to. hide as much as possible,” Mr. Robertson said. “But frequently either my wife or I will have to carry the concert.. The player who is fit

. Robertson had

happened to be in London at once

will emphasize his r her part, play stronger, make: more flam-

boyant gestures with his. hands,

and do everything to cover, up defect of the other.” By this time the Robertsons know they need each: other to

the

make the kind of music they want

to make. But even if they didn't the recent incident in Queens

Hall, London," wotild “teach them

that fact; On thisinight Robertson became ili:

and. Mr.

player. ; “It is a difficult thing- to. ex-

plain,” Mr. Robertson said. “The °

.man was a fine: pianist and we

rehearsed a great: deal. Both and I had known him for Yet there ‘was something: The concert did: not come off. It was a bad concert.” =

Ethel lacking.

‘eats aa RTISTS who work constantly

together, who really know

each other and what the other needs, do find themselves lost when they are separated.’ Consider Mildred Bailey, and her husband, Kenneth “Réd” Norvo, who are known as’ “Mr. and ~ Mrs. Swing.” Fhe These ‘two artists:have . been playing together for several years now, and Miss Bailey depends upon Mr. Norvo’s music. She actually depends on it. Bay “I was called to guest-star ona recent Paul Whiteman program,” Miss Bailey said. “I had sung with Whiteman : for years. I brought my: own arrangements over and his boys started to play. We all: knew . each’ other,’ mind.

to take on another

“fights with managers,

you, but it couldn’t work, I didn’t

feel right. I couldn't get into the swing.” - : Her husband was conducting his band at a nearby hotel. “I called him. I told him he simply would have to come over. I was helpless without him. When

he took charge of the band. ihey

played the kind of music I sing. Please, you must understand I am not trying to throw down Paul's music. It was just that I couldn’t work with it—even though his musicians had my own arrangements.” - : The point is better appreciated, perhaps, when one realizes Mr. Whiteman has a superlative or-

‘chestra.

‘Miss Bailey is the business head of the Bailey-Norvo combination. She’s dynamite, on and off. the stage—she draws the contracts, argues ‘about booking and billing. ‘Her husband, despite the flame of his hair, is a dreamer. ‘He just wants to be left alone with his music. He'd play in the back yard if nobody shoved-him’ along.

‘The. orchestra just opened. at the

Famous Door—and that sounds a sentimental note for the crew because it was in the old ' Famous Door. that Norvo. organized : his first orchestra—au Miss Bailey's

- relentless insistence.

Red is. all music and nothing else. When he starts monkeying

‘around on the xylophone or piano

everything else fades away. He's doing just what he wants to be

doing, and doing it better, some

say, than anyone else. Certainly

‘he is. tops. i

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Ethel Bartlett and Rae Robertson (above) started out as singles; but discovered they played so well together they have been | doing it ever since.

“Mildred Bailey, shown at left | * with her husband Red Norvo, | can't sing as | well with other . orchestra leaders 4 as she can | with him.

Our Town

By Anton Scherrer

New World Almanac Comforting, But Situation Is as Bad as Year Ago on Those Missing ‘Husbands

I GOT my copy of the 1939 World Almanac ~ this morning, and the first thing I did ‘was to comb it thoroughly to learn whether anything had been done to find the missing husbands of Indianapolis. : :

Not a thing, as far as I can see. Indian. apolis still has 88411 wives and 87,756 husbands,

| which: is just about the fix we were in last year,

Goodness only knows where the missing husbands are. I've looked everywhere for them. They aren’t in Nevada, or Utah, or Florida, or any other good hiding. place. . Nor are they cruising in the Caribbean. . They're gone, that’s all there’s to it. Indeed, if you ‘want to brood on it, here are the ghastly figures: Indianapolis ‘has exactly 655 wives who don’t

| know: where their husbands are, or

for some reason aren't telling. : On the whole, though, ‘things Mr. Scherrer look pretty good around here. ‘At - any rate, the World Almanac is less lugubrious about other things connected with Indianapolis. The state of your liver, for instance. It’s kind of nice to know that living around here, you stand less chance of dying of cirrhosis of the liver than you would living out in California. thank your stars your home isn’t in Arkansas. Chances are, too, that living in Indiapapolis, you won’t be lynched. The World ‘Almanac, however, doesn’t guarantee anything, beyond being reasonably sure about everything. : :

Well, that brings me to the tables dealing with expectation of life, a department ih the Almanae which. for some reason is printed in the smallest type. If I understand these tables, and I pretend I do, it looks as’ if you're going to live longer if you stick around here. For example, suppose youre somewhere around 50 years old and made the mistake of picking New York'as your residence, all you can expect is to live 19 more years. .

We Live Longer, Too

In Indianapolis, on the other hand, you stand a good chance of living 20 more years. And if you hap=- - pen to be a woman living in Indianapolis, chances are

worth while to bring up the subject or not.

- Tucked away in the World Almanac I also discovered that Indianapolis is the city whose latitude is 39 degrees 46 minutes 11 seconds N., and whose longitude is 86 degrees, 9 minutes 36 seconds W. in case you ever need them. Where one person in every 15 is ars rested in an average year for something or another, Where 6967 widowers and 19,367 widows have their residence. Where gas is by far the most popular

| method of suicide, the majority stepping on it, as a

rule. Where something like 20 million sticks of chewing gum were consumed last year. : Come to think of it, I believe it’s my duty to reveal the whole chewing gum situation. “The Department of Commerce,” says the World Almanac, “announced (June 24, 1938) that more chewing gum, by value, was

year since 1927. Assuming that the gum, generally

was masticated by the American public in 1937. The total value was $56,721,746, an increase of 18.7 per

SINGER, Miss Bailey said, has ‘to sense the music behind her all the time. She has to know that no matter what she might feel like doing the music would follow her: up perfectly. | Herb Merwin and Mario Herbert are a couple of kids who also found that they needed each other to make music.’ They: used to be fellow students in the Erasmus Hall High School:3and, and even" then they planned to form their own orchestra. == a When they got 2 chance for a Jersey City engagement — while they still were in school—they

. rounded up three other players in

the school band and accepted. Then they found they had no instruments. Bo So each night they went to the music room of the school and borrowed the school instruments. And when they finished their

playing in Jersey City, early: in

the morning, they returned them. Today: the five high school boys just concluded a run at the Cafe Continental. liked they were signed for another appearance. They have their own devout swing followers. * Mr. Herbert plays the violin. Mr. Merwin: thumps the drums.’ ; The music of Ethel Bartlett and Rae Robertson is a little different from that. of Mildred Bailey and Red Norvo and Herb: Merwin and’ Mario Herbert. But each of the six has found out one thing. Whether he or she is playing or singing in Carnegie Hall or a 52d St. swing-spot the otHer half of the team has to be around.

TEST YOUR | KNOWLEDGE

1—What is a corduroy road? . 2—In which State is the geographic center of the U. 8.2 3—On which river is the Grand Coulee Dam? : 4—Name the new Premier of Japan. : : 5—In which State is Mt. Rainier National Pari? : 6—How many square yards are in one square rod? oh 7—Name the executive director of the Naticnal Emergency - Council. : 8—For what government agency do the intial FCA stand? 8 £8 :

el “Answers - 1—One built of straight logs,

“round or split, laid side by side across the roadway. a

3—Columbia River.

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Jane Jordan— Girl Now Interested in Another Told 'Clean Break' Is Solution.

of town for four years. Last first date with him. Since then he has come to see me very often and I have been at his house, too, sev eral times. . We were very serious and planned to, be married when he was financially able. a

No one here knows about it, but everyone in his: town: knows. Now I have changed my mind. I am very popular here in town and several months ago I met another fellow. We like each ober very much. Please don’t get the idea that I am fickle. Anyway I don’t kyow how to tell this boy from out of town.

1 It will surely make a fool out of him. ‘He has changed

a lot since I've gone with him and In afraid of th results. ; I have met all of his family and they think we are to be married. No one here knows anything about him, Please help me."

behavior at once and tackle you for an explanation. Upon hearing that you've changed your mind, hell tell you off and console himself with another girl. The home folks will think that he was the one whos changed and barring a few pangs to his pride, he

won't be a bit worse for wear.

‘a boy, Apparently you expec’ him 3 ‘hysterical woman instead DS im If your appre= hensions are founded on fact, this lack of a masculine

withdrawal of ‘your affection. At any rate there is nothing to do but make a clean break of it. gi i

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the past several months. 'I'thought that I was ir 10 o with her, but now I know different, for I have I re

of going over to see her. .to.do. . f : Answer—A smart girl will make it easy for making the break herself as soon as you let her

I don’t quite know:w ~~. TROUBLED,

| the lessening of your: Interest

engaged are you? Each girl must learn not to expe: permanence of her first love affairs, and not to expe each boy who fancies her for a to fancy hi for life. LIN Ba your Siem i ia,

camps in the mosphere

And as for alcoholism, you can

you'll live 21 more years. I don’t know whether it was

sold in the United States in 1937 than in any other ° sold at a cent a piece, a total of 5,672,174,000 pieces

cent, but was still well below the $62,001,320 taken in

EAR JANE JORDAN-—I have known a fellow out une I had my

5 Answer—First you can eine} indifferent and neglectful. A proud boy will notice the change in your

. ‘But something tells me that he isn’t this kind of

attitude toward his problems may account for the

sire to be with her any more and lately I hate the idea

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