English supplement of SVQBQDA. Ukrainian daily, found d 1893. Dedicated to the needs and, interests of young Americans of Ukrainian descent. 9 JERSEY CJTY, N. J., SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1940 оаша&ма YVASHINiGTONTO BESITE OF UKRAINIAN CON • Ш CAN!T rBELJEVE fHEM •/ UKRAINIAN DEVELOPMENTS US GRESS. IN MAY Ap^irently to win the confidence and.aid of»)Ufk- immw -ішт ти rainians''"fpr the projected plane to;reconstitute a- tpGe Poland, certain ргощідепі Poles have on several occasipns Representatives of leading Uk UKRAINIAN ^PtEAL rainian-American national organ expressed themselves in favor of Ukrainian.national free izations meeting in . Philadelphia dom. Typical of such comment is that of General'Haller, last Saturday, unanimously resolved now turned tourist who recently said: "J believe and favor ROME (AP). —Euhen Onatsky, to go .ahead., with the, preparations [Rome .avrrespondeflt^of "Svpbo- for the qoming Ащегісап-Ukrainjan an independent Ukraine ..." . da"}hjhaa. sent.en. open letter«^^ I Congress, and scheduled it to take ,Much as .we would ДЦсе to believe General J^aUe^and SumriervWelies, Rre^enti|loose- place early,in May in the nation's velt's. special епі^р^тЩкю^ре, capital, Washington. others Цке ЬДт, we simpjy cannot. There is too, niuph pleading ь£ог .• x&#f&tionmj{ рМЛ evidence to > the contrary. In addition, - history shows cause,- ^he.Rome office о&фщщЯр: As,a final effort, .however, .to rainian Nationalists, disclosed * tor. gain for the,congress the support that. all;such- Polish,overtures of friendship toward, the of the- Workingmen's and. Provid Ukrainians, were .insincere. Whenever* 4Jher Ukrainians ac- %3ie tetter, asked (tbai *ЇЩЇГІЬІ~) ence, associations,, whjch, refjauned • cepted them, they • always found cause to deeply- regret States і'.'Ьеаг injmind" the. national from participating in the confer their decision. aspireikos^jpf Чб^0Д)(Ю:^Лааіп- ence, the assembled representatives іала wheh.and«i£ ЛІю United States unanimously resolved themselves %f Aiaepg such current evidencer,to the contrary,, for participates m.je-esiablismiient.of \ in fayor..of. having,.the congress : European peace, f^p sponsored, by only the four frater example, are- the January 26 and February? -9 issues of nal orders .(UkrainianOvulational "Free Europe," a newfpr&iightly published .in Jyondpn and -Onatskyijfcld:a¥elles >the Ukrain Association, . Ukrainian .National devotedjto "Central and I?ast European affairs." .Although ians have been - • Aid Association„plue. the .Working- promises j to^vJcecreate iPoland ,-ле-, : men's and Providence Associations), the name, of its publishers does not appear in it, even jj a cause >they .did not !desire**toepeti- . provided, however, the '•. four. ..of cursory,.examination reveals its. close connection .with tion of the misfortune of) finding them ("Big Four!') agree by March influential 'Polish; pircles,. especially < Geaer^sSiJiGrski's themselves included,-.as thejfoerere 6th to sponsor it in the fallowing after the і World. .War, in the bound manner:, XI). All ^тт^іп^п^Аиї** government.' Consequently its statements- have an- autho aries nf^apPolish .state.'4-ІИіе letter of the congress ..sponsoring, com ritative ring jo them. |B| Щ also..said thattUkrainians. inside mittee and of the-.j»hgress itself {.Reading jthese.twP.issues carefully/we cannot,find the Russia desire independence. "• are.to be-,.signed .only, by .the "Big Newarb.EveaingJiews, ЕеЬл28. F о u r" {^presentatives, (2), the slightest evidence that- Polish leaders desire freedom for
praesidium. which,,will conduct the Ukraine pr^auy^art of her.. On :фе contrary* all tae;dfeect congress is to consist of Wpg Four" and rindirect references to the subject that appear-it, ARMED-REVOLT IN EVIW representatives alone, (3) but.all ; decisions in respect to Jthe con clearly-indicate that responsible Polish circles are-of no Special Cable to International News gress, including those pertaining mind to even.acknpwledge Ukrainian claims to freedom. to the .resolutions and to the crea : Such an.indication -can be found, for instance .in Pre .СР^АЦТСШ^тдіщ'^еЬ. 22. tion of a supreme Ukrainian-Ameri r —Soviet poUce.,)have,.un<»vered:3 can representation C pin m і 11 e e, sident Wladyslaw T Raczkiewicz's indirect reference і to wjldespread plot ajpins^tte Russian which are £b -be. proposed. at the Western Ukraine as "pur Polish territory;". wJuch .upon I congress, are to .be made only in the defeat of Germany and Russia will be returned to "us" reyealed..fciday..ara^'sj^laTaved up- joint .conference of the.representa risinft. atWfffw (J
the." congress, ..which will then. be Still another suph indication can: Jbe found in ..the 4(^viet troojpe^ werealleged to held definitely under the ацврісез article on VThe Political Ideology of General/ Sikoreki's"> have machine-gunned,:ШгаІпДап of-all national organizations that 4 peasante i^jp^ortkow^^tjer they care" to participate in it. Government^' by J. Hj^Retinger, who cites the* December refused to^^umd over^^gjpplies of Since both of .them attended-the 20,1939 declaration of^that government on the. subject p£ I wheat,m^ater, it.,was Philadelphia Conference and agreed former Poland's і national minorities, wherein it, is stated were executed.) . to the above terms, it is safe to that reconstituted ^Poland shall be a democratic state. Yl JfounialrAmerican, Feb. .23. assume that the Ukrainian Nation al Association (oldest "and - largest Дег national.minorities, which, together with the Polish Ukrainian .fraternal order.in the people, took part In .the struggle and remainedfaithfu l to . UKRAINIANS PRESS CLAfflS country) and ,the Ukrainian Na '-IN: BUCHAREST ;Щ| tional , AidAssociation will ^parti the State, will be assured justice, free national and cul cipate in -the congress no matter tural development, and due legal protection*" Boeder Groap^Now P^3[ whether it will be sponsored by the Big Four alone or by all Ukrainian- Now, this statement Is very cleverly phrased. •• It is a American national organizations. fine example of a "double entente." On the pne. hand, it By Telephone to -the,New York The Philadelphia Conference was gives^e,impression that. formerr Poland's,,national mi attended by the following representa norities, were loyal,, which; in turn gives the impression BUCHAREST, Rumania, Feb. 25. tives: Nicholas Muraszko and Dniytro that they were well off and had. nothing to compain about. —rTho insistent, demands of, the (ialychyn, Ukrainian.Jfational Associa ; Ukrainians ,4ni Rumania < fior the tion; . Vasile Shabatiiraand Joseph But onthe other hand, it can bemterprete4?|n a manner privilege of*i|i*via g their own, Michalhik, Ukrainian National. Aid As schools and the protection of the sociation; Dr. Miroslav Simiens, and which.allows the Poles to say thatsjustice/free national Dr. Omelan Tarnaysky, United Hetinan and cultural^|evelopment etc., will,be. assured рп1у;Щ Ukrainian - Orthodox CbuvchixJMtW Organizations; Prof. Alexander .those who "remained faithful to the-state,\\^d here,the being pressed. oe.;Jthe vgovemment^ noVsky and Vdlodirair <• Dushnyck, have .put?the Ukrainian - movement ODWU (Organization for - the . Re Poles can easily claim that Ukrainians were not faithful :into tie h^%hfcH*gain. The^cen- ?t^j6ft; the I movement Ms *1а Buko- birth of Ukraine); Anastasia Wagner ..•^^ven^y^ugh-^robably ^thousands, of them died, in defense ; and Annette. Kmetz, Soyuz Ukrainok of: Poland, against the Nazis—and, therefore, npl|^ntitlec( vina. (Ukraiujan National Women's.;Alliance 1 Of thei 1,0(Ю,0(Юггикгаіпіап8 Іа of America); Stephanie Halychyiv,and, to national rights in'a reconstituted Poland. Rumania aboufe^OOiOOO^^iifi-iBu- Anastasia Swystun, 'Ukrainian Golden kovin>feand about ^700,000 іпг-Тдаа- Cross; jMichael .Ріадак,". Jroby^dnanye .-»As:if tp give added,weight to our reasoning, Mr. Re- sylvania and in Besaajcabia. . \ Codrdlmlrig, СоттШеот^лшІ.';, with 1 John Kosbln the Ukrainian' Yonth's* tinger continues: "Acts keep apace with, words. A Zion •When Germany backed, the-move- League of North America* Dr.' Luke ist leader was chosen as a member of the National Counpil, ment for an independent -Ukraine Myshuha, •' 'JObyednanye* (United )4 the Ukrainians .tpeRumania were Ukrainian Organizations of America); ano^e^^tJbeing reserved for an orthj <||;,RabbL Simul strong, adherents: of- Adolf Hitler, Eugene.jdLachowitch, Ukrainian Legion; taneously several men of Jewish faith and: descent were ap but when Herr Hitler jallowed HUQ- Nicholas Hawrylko, Ukrainian Pro- pointed to high,administrative,posts, 'Шс& to mention, the gary.to oceup^yithesu|K2arpathian fessionalist Association; Olga Zado- Ukraine-i ^andt -then made his. pact refslty and Roman Lapica, Youth of two Polish consuls^in Palestine, bpth professing. Jews." with tthe' Russians they called him ODWUj^Dr. Walter '.jGallan, Ronjan a traitor. j -ЩШ Slobodian and ..Stephen Shumeyko, »To which we say: Why weren't any Ukrainians ap "Obyednanye" Coordinating Commit- pointed to any such, posts, especially since the Ukrain The- Russians -made use of Uk t&;JJohn W. Koos and John Panch'uk, rainians troops -in- the occupation Cleveland Pre-Congress Committee. ians constituted the largest "national minority" еЩрге- of t the Polish Ukraine, and on-the I-The conference was held under . war Poland? Is General Sikorski's government discrimin frontier ^ with- Rumania->they have tpe.auspices of the, latter two com ating .againet [them already? Or isL the.distrust of Polish set up loudspeakers aad< broadcast mittees. It was presided .over by propaganda in the Ukraiaiwr4aa* ur.^pellan, with John Koos and overtures, such, as those of General Haller, so widespread guage, About 1,000 youths crossed John? Panchuk as' vice-chairmen. among the Ukrainians that not even one Ukrainian can be into1 Russia,. Secretary, was Stephen Shumeyko, ^iund .tp^accept suc^^post? щщ Щ flN page one of this issue there vaks, Russians, and others. The: M is an account of the latest mani Rumanians were at that date a festation of the Ukrainian move minority race like the rest—and ment in Rumania. The center of like the rest enjoyed the advan this movement is in Bukovina, an BUKOVINA-AND ITS PEOPLE tages which the Austrian empire,. ancient Ukrainian province, which (1) with all its faults and "cracks,'- prior to the World War was under offered to its hotch-potch of sub instead sell direct to the small was back in the village in good Austria-Hungary. By the Minorities ject peoples. All minorities alike? middlemen who call at the farms time, and all seemed to be well. Treaty, December 9, 1919, Buko were eligible for the higher gov--: and trading on the fear of a fruit Then it was that I discovered vina together with another Uk ernment posts, and both Rumanian less journey to the city, buy live that before a Ukrainian play can rainian province, Bessarabia, was and Ukrainian citizens entered the stock and agricultural produce on be produced by amateur l&rainiah handed over by the Allies to Ru professions, the civil service, and the spot for prices such as not actors in a village hall, ? a tax mania. Despite the promises she were appointed to posts even at even Rumania has known before. amounting to 12s. 6d. for each per made then to safeguard the racial, Vienna. Whatever sins the "ram The issue—or refusal—of per formance must be paid to the au religious and linguistic rights of shackle Empire" possessed, petty mits, and the levying of fees for thorities, this sum going : to the the Ukrainians, Rumania has been discrimination was not one of them this service, is in these days a funds of the Rumanian Society of guilty of the notorious "Balkan so far as the Bukovina local gov necessary concomitant of life in Poets, Authors and Composers! methods" of governing them, con ernment was concerned. the Bukovina. It is exceedingly By this "time I was sufficiently in sisting of cruel persecutions and doubtful whether any minor state trigued in the fate of this peasant abuses, directed toward the de Effect of Peace Settlement in the American Union ever de enterprise to contribute a modest struction of the Ukrainians within The peace settlement changed vised so many rules and regula portion of the sum demanded, if her borders as a, separate na that happy state of affairs. With tions as the Rumanians enforce to only to see what*would happen next, tionality. Just prior to the present out any pretense at consultation harass the lives of the unfortunate but in many cases the village is European war, "Dilo," leading Uk with the inhabitants, the province peasants, and especially those of too poor to provide such a sum. rainian daily, published in Lviw, was handed over to Greater Ru-' non-Rumanian race. even when a "full house" is as (but no longer in circulation since mania, as part of the spoils of sured, in which case the police war. The Rumanian minority, still the Soviet invasion), wrote: ".. .the Censorship'of the Theatre prohibit the performance even af forming considerably less than half Ukrainians under Rumania have The methods by which the cen ter all other, preliminaries have the total population, and less, nu not a single elementary, secondary, sorship of theatrical productions been safely surmounted. merous than the Ukrainians, be or technical school, and private is carried out are an -excellent of came overnight members of the schools are not allowed. The same the high political flavour with Haying paid the compulsory sub- *| ruling race, while all the other applies to reading halls, and co which the Rumanian civic digni scription to the society, the pro races were transformed into what operative societies. No Ukrainians taries manage to invest the sim ducer applied to the chief of the a Ukrainian senator aptly described are allowed in the Civil Service, plest forms of communal activity. administration at Czernowitz for and Rumanian enterprises import the necessary final permission, ac to me as "minorities with a ven Among the Ukrainian popula companying his application with geance." Ever since that day the Rumanian labor rather than em tion of the Northern Bukovina ploy local Ukrainians." all the relevant documents thus grievances of those who are per dramatic productions, and especial laboriously collected. The permit secuted because of their non-Ru Aside from the fact that Buko ly the historical plays of the Uk was received by return, the final manian race have overshadowed all vina, the center of the Ukrainian rainian race, are very popular. In rehearsals were over. The village other issues; even the agricultural movement in Rumania, produced the absence of cinemas in the vil was agog with excitement, and crisis did not stir the average Bu the famous Ukrainian poet, George lages, the traveling dramatic com packed house was a foregone con kovina peasant as deeply as has Fedkovich (1834-1888), very little panies and amateur groups still clusion. And then, at the eleventh the. national issue since the time is known about that province hold sway, and the all-peasant hour, came the thunderbolt. That when it was forced to the'fore among our young Ukrainian-Amer productions, staged in the village play, approved by the National front .by Rumanian methods of ad icans. Consequently we present be institute by local talent, are often Theatre at Czernowitz, to be per ministration. low a good description of it taken of a high standard. formed under permit issued in Bu The story of the Bukovina dur from H. Hessel Tiltman's book I was anxious to see a perfor carest, in respect of which a tax ing the last fifteen years is the "Peasant Europe" (Jarrolds, Lon mance to be presented by a "com had been duly paid to the Ruman story of an area long accustomed don, 1934), an excellent work but pany" which had achieved then ian Society of Authors, and per to a high standard of cultural life unhappily now long out of print local fame, and upon hearing that formed under special license of the and well-being which is being slow and very difficult to obtain any they intended to produce a famous Chief of the Provincial Authority, ly forced backwards through a cen wheres. Ukrainian play dealing with the was banned by—the village gen tury of effort to'the conditions of early history of that race in a darme! And when fruitless pro 1834. That story is linked with village not far from Czernowitz, I tests were made by the entire pop the age-long struggle of the Uk Difficulties of Trade travelled there in order to witness ulation, the gendarme—reinforced rainians for freedom, which will A peasant at whose homestead the rehearsals and to be present for the occasion—declared that he form the subject of a later chap I stayed in Northern Bukovina in at the performance a few nights had secret orders that the play ter. It bears a close resemblance 1933 had two calves ready for • later. Thus it came about that I was not to be allowed. The writer І to the history of the Croatian peo market,and invited me to accom had the privilege of seeing, not the endeavoured to discover from .' ple, who, like the jig-saw of races' pany him during the negotiations play itself, but the wondrous ways which particular department those- in Bukovina, once formed part of which must precede such a weighty of the Rumanian administration. orders had come — but no oyster' the Austrian Empirer ;And be-- stroke of business in that province Before any play can be per today. ever kept its secret so well as that cause the claims of national-con formed in the province, permission Rumanian gendarme. He read all sciousness are more insistent than The peasant had first to apply must be secured from the Prefect the permits, and shrugged his to the burgomaster of the village the demand for greater economic of Police at Czernowitz. If those shoulders. He was extremely sor prosperity, I deal with them first, in which he dwelt for *a card au promoting the performance are ry and quite polite. But he could thorizing him to remove the calves before outlining the general condi members of the Rumanian govern not and would .not permit that tions of the peasants today. from his farm and transport them ment party, permission is at once village to witness a Ukrainian play to Czernowitz (Chernivtsi) for sale. given, and all is well. But the of an entirely non-political nature Ukrainian National Consciousness On .these cards is detailed the de Rumanians are in a minority in dealing with the folklore of the Two-thirds of the total popula scription, age, sex, etc., of the Bukovina, and the case of those Ukraine. beasts concerned. Nominally they tion are of non-Rumanian race, of non-Rumanian race — and this It was not always thus in the and until 1919 did not speak the are issued free on request, but the applies especially to Ukrainians province of Bukovina. There was Bukovina-being now Rumanian ter Rumanian language. One-third of and Ukrainian plays—permission is a time, not so long ago, when the the total population is composed of ritory, the necessary permit was witheld until the book of the play peasants of that province, both Ukrainians forming a fragment of not forthcoming until "baksheesh," • had been submitted for censorship Rumanian and non-Rumanian — the forty millions of that race in according to a recognized scale and report to the Rumanian Na were prosperous citizens of the Eastern Europe. Because the lat (amounting to from lOd. to Is. 8d. tional Theatre at Czernowitz. Austrian empire. In those days it ter constitute the largest single for a cow or a horse) was forth The players whom I had jour was possible to take a cow to mar unit of race in the population, and coming, [d. — English penny; s.—• neyed to see were Ukrainians, and ket without collecting a permit and also because they are as conscious English shilling.] the play to be. produced had ac the market-tax was but one- or today of their kinship with the Having secured our permit, we cordingly been submitted to the two coppers. It was possible free Ukrainians living within the boun set out for the market the follow local theatre authorities—together ly to produce whatever plays one daries of Russia, Poland, Czecho ing dawn. It was a long tramp to with the fee of 4s. 2. charged for wished. But those were the days slovakia, and Bessarabia as they Czernowitz; the physical effort in "reading." The Czernowitz censor before this land passed under the were on the day that the last au volved in reaching the city was raised no objection to the play, but Rumanian "opinshe," and before tonomous Ukrainian state was only the beginning, however. When that was only the first round, as the redrawing of the map of Eu overwhelmed... the main weight of we arrived at the market, an "ad it were, in an epic struggle. Hav rope had made it a crime to belong Rumanian oppression has fallen mission tax" had to be paid before ing passed the eagle-eyed gentle to a minority race. upon their sturdy shoulders. the calves could be offered for men of the Rumanian National Every Ukrainian conscious of his sale. This tax amounted to Is. 8d. "The English Land." Theatre at Czernowitz, it was nationality is liable to arrest and for a pig and 2s. 6d. for larger The Bukovine province has been necessary to forward the piay to ill-treatment at the hands "of the animals; in the case of pigs, sheep, the General Direction of Theatres called "the English land," and there exists some justification for police at any hour of the- day or hens, and geese it is so high that at Bucarest in order to secure the night. Many have'been arrested, if the peasant does not find a pur necessary permit, duly filled in and the title. For this former Aus trian province is small, and its kept in the police-posts for' hours, chaser at the second attempt he . endorsed with one of the innum- often beaten-up-— and released rolling valleys and well-wooded will have paid in tax alone more able rubber stamps which Ruman without any charge being made countryside are distinctly remini than the total value of the goods ian officials keep for occasions. against them only after their re scent of certain parts of England. he wants to sell. The value of a This permit is issued free in the presentatives have sent frantic tele sheep in. the autumn of 1933, for case of all plays which have pass It is unfortunate for the in grams to the Rumanian govern instance, was 2s. 6d., while the ed the local censor (the only oc habitants that the resemblance ment at Bucarest. <: • amount charged before a peasant casion oh which I heard of any cannot be stretched farther, and In thus ill-treating Ukrainians, could take a sheep into the market government transaction in that that Bukovina is not as homogene be it noted, the authorities have for sale was Is. 8d. country which cost nothing), but ous in its population as is England. not the excuse that those arrested We were lucky. Both calves were actually, as the producer himself Less than 4,000 square miles in are members of an illegal organiza- sold on their first appearance at explained to me,' that fact did not extent, the province contains three ion. True, some of these victims the market, being bought for ex mean it could be secured without main, and a number of minor, ra of Rumanian rule have been mem port at 600 lei (about 25s.) apiece. cost. For if the play had been sub cial • groups. A total population of bers of the Ukrainian National The amount to be deducted from mitted to Bucarest by post nothing less than 1,000,000 people is en Party. But that party is an ac that sum for taxes and graft more would ever have been heard tirely composed of minorities! credited political organization, amounted to 8s. 9d., for each calf, of it; it was necessary for a mem According to the census con which until the general election of leaving the peasant with 32s. 6d. ber of the company to take it ducted by the Austrians in 1910. 1933 had three members sitting in in cash after feeding the animals personally if the permit was to and which may be taken as ac the Rumanian Parliament; a party, for eight months, and devoting one be secured by the night fixed for curate at that date, there were in moreover, which actually con day of his time for their disposal. the production. And the third- the Bukovina 273,000 Rumanians cluded an electoral pact with the The incident illustrates as well class railway fare from Czernowitz (mainly in the southern part of the Government Party during many as any' the difficulties whieh con to Bucarest is approximately 800 province), 305,000 Ukrainians years. Regardless of these facts, front the peasant - farmers of the lei (35s. at the present rate of ex (mainly in northern Bukovina), its members are treated as crim Bukovina today, and explains why change). 168,000 Germans. 130,000 Jews, inals by the Rumanian police.. many of them no longer care to The money being forthcoming, 36,000 Poles, 10,000 Hungarians, take their animals to market, but and the journey made, the permit and handfuls of Bohemians, Slo (To be continued) .' MICHAEL KOTSIUBINSKY THE BALLET AND THE FOLK DANCE Author of "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" Yl^HAT is the difference between too developed, and soon there ap« л* folk dancing and the ballet? peared the ballet. " f\F all the Ukrainian writers only understand other people's souls. The folk dance is older than The word ballet comes from the . - Щ Taras Shevchenko can equal Unselfish to the point of self- song and can be traced'back to pre Greek word "ballad," meaning a Michael Kotsiubinsky (1864-1913) sacrifice, he did everything out of historic times. All races developed narrative poem. Thus the ballet in sensing and singing the beauty his inward, conviction, and nothing their own dances for special oc means a dancing musical drama ..-j of Ukraine's nature in its finest for the sake of his economic in casions, like religious observances, that tells a story. It combines the details and in all the unequaled terest, and he was often taken festive celebrations in preparation highest type of music, drama and and bottomless sadness of the peo advantage of. An ardent natriot, he for war, celebrations of victories, movement. ple who live amidst that beauty. loved his country and his people funerals, weddings, etc. It therefore is composed of five These were the qualities which above everything and was ready So with Ukrainians before the arts—movement, music, pantomime, made both writers the favorites of to give them all his strength, knowl Christian era, dances were the painting and costume. the whole Ukrainian race, and the . edge and talent." most popular form of self-expres The ballet is divided into various young Ukrainian generation espe sion. Every ceremony and celebra Rich Inward Life forms like the drama—-the charac cially. In American Shevchenko is tion had its special dance, which ter ballet, the classical ballet, the known to every American youth of But though his outward life was was developed by the people or comical ballet, the pantomimic Ukrainian descent, while Kotsiu* meager, his inward life was rich. sometimes was adopted from some ballet and the individual ballet. binsky is still not so popular as his Though he had few adventures and other race. Every ballet is based upon some striking: experiences in the world, writings deserve. When an Ameri When the Ukrainian people theme. It can be a native theme he had a great power to fit him can magazine republished a story adopted Christianity in the ninth or the creation of a writer. The self into the life and experiences by Kotsiubinsky the editors could century, the religious dance gra ballet is the product of five people of other people, to make observa not say anything about the author. dually disappeared and was sup — an author who writes the li tions, to think their thoughts, to This points to a great need of mak planted by the song. The dance bretto, a composer who writes the fqel their feelings and to arrive at ing the public acquainted with a remained to portray joy, court music to the libretto, an artist to writer of such caliber. their decisions. Hence he could say to his friend in reply to the request ship, heroism, fortune telling, vic paint the scenery, a designer for Michael Kotsiubinsky is the to write his autobiography, "About tory, etc All these dances were the costumes and a ballet master, writer of the past generation. His- my own life I could write either performed to Ukrainian melodies, who creates the choregraphy. usually in the village square, the life was poor in outstanding events. very much or quite little." This is Thus the ballet is a. dancing meadows, the church yard, ac In reply to the request of his friend the power which drove him to writ musical drama, like an opera, which • companied by hand-clapping and Serhey Yefremiov, the well-known ing.—The start of his literary ac is a singing musical drama, while singing and sometimes by simple historian of the Ukrainian litera tivities is usually taken as the year drama alone is spoken. In drama ture, Kotsiubinsky could compress of 1890. in which his poem "Our home-made string instruments and Л exoression is achieved through drums. Somet'iies r^e о • '• .Р > • •** the story of his life in some 250 Hut" appeared in the Ukrainian speaking; in opera through sing-i not Ukrainian, having been brought words: juvenile magazine "Dzvinok," of ing, and in ballet through motioa back by the Cossacks from Tur "I was born on September 5th, Lviw, Galicia. Very soon he began and pantomime, with music. 1864, in the city of Vinnitsia, of to write short stories. The first of key, Greece and other foreign the province of Podolia, as the son them were written in the usual lands, but it was put to Ukrainian The ballet has five fundamental of a poor office clerk. My love for style of those days; they used the song and the people gave it their positions (just as music has seven literature developed in me quite life of the hero as an excuse for intepretation. fundamental tones). And on these early as I wrote a novel based portraying the peculiarities of the Today the dance in Ukraine is positions are constructed all the upon the life of Finns where I was customs and habits of the Ukrain used almost entirely for enter movements in rhythmical and mu« 12 years of age. It was written in ians. Though that kind of writing tainment. In a few sections, like sical phrases. ; the Russian language. When I was was represented a great advance Carpatho-Ukraine, it- is still used 13, I obtained by chance several over the literature which preceded sometimes in the form of a dance The Schooling of a Ballet Artist j issues of the Ukrainian magazine it, a literature which to a great of death at funerals accompanied "Osnova," that had been edited by extent kept aloof from the "com by the weird music of the trera- What does a ballet artist need in Kulish, the novels by Marko Vov- mon people," Kotsiubinsky soon saw bita. the way of ability and schooling?, chok, and then Shevchenko's Kob- the defects of his fashionable writ Every nation has its own typical First the student must begin train* zar. These books made me once ing. He disliked, portraying the national dance, with its own char ing at an early age. He must ha\ e and for ever consciously Ukrainian. customs and habits of the people. acteristic steps and special folk a good sense of music and thythm, At that very time our family hap Such portrayal appeared to him music. The Ukrainians have a and also have a good, physique. He pened to be living in the country, meaningless. Such literature was completely unique dance.* Two ex must learn the principal ballet posi in a ^village in the district of Mo- but "fiction with stuffing." It por amples are the Kolomeyka and the tions and develop his «body for the hilev.'in Podolia, and this still more trayed merely the outward man. Hopak, each of which has its own rigors of ballet technique, plasti Good literature should probe into strengthened my love for every individual step of which the dance city and pantomime. At the same the thoughts and feelings of the thing Ukrainian. Several reasons, is almost entirely constructed, time he must study music, history people, deep into the soul, to the for which I was not responsible, since it is repeated over- and over. of the costume, scenery, chore-, very bottom, bringing to light prevented me from finishing col Similarly other nations have na graphy and make-up. Most impor those thoughts and feelings which lege, though, intending to get into tional dances consisting of virtual tant he must perfect his ballet are hidden from the eyes of an a university, I systematically sup- ly one step: the folisn Mazuraa, technique to music. average man. the Czech Polka, the Serbian Kolo, \ plemented my education. When These studies demand constant I was sixteen years of age, I was the Hungarian Chardash, the Rus He studied various foreign wit- application, a long period of train already tried for. a political offense, sian Komarinska, the Italian Ta- era and convinced himself that ing and of course native ability. and ever since, the gendarmes rantello, the Caucasian Navurska, they had long ago arrived at the the French Gavotte. Spain is the (It does not mean that any person: have not failed in their gracious same conclusions. What is more, richest country in the world in who can do one dance can call attention to me. Quite often they they have carried them into prac dances, for every province has its himself a ballet artist—one dance molested me, binding me for a long tice. Kotsiubinsky did likewise. He own Sequidilla, the Jata, the Zapa- alone does not mean anything be time to one spot and forbidding me began to observe the man of Uk teoda. Scandinavia has the Reels, cause any one can learn it—but to do any kind of work.. .Until 1892, raine as he lives, feels and reacts Ireland the Jig, etc. to be a ballet artist one must pass I succeeded in earning my livelihood amidst the peculiar conditions of through a long hard schooling and by tutoring without the knowledge society. What influence has that These dances, like the native then he can create and dance any of gendarmes, and in 1892, even nature upon the man? No Ukrain song, native music and native art, number of dances at any time.) succeeded somehow to get into were created by the people through ian writer could equal him in por Native dances do not demand all government service as a member of tbe centuries. »nd no individual re trayal of the Ukrainian in the Uk of this, just as the native song and. the "scientific phylloxera commis claim them .for his own or call rainian nature. His prose is poetic native music does not demand for sion," which had to combat the them anything but native dances. and-he was a poet of nature. And mal training. Every one who loves phylloxera, the disease of the When civilization entered a high the highest expression of his art the native dance or music can pei- grape, in the province of Bessa er stage of development, ^there ap istry was his "Shadows of Forgot form quite adequately after every; rabia. In 1895, I was transferred ten Ancestors," a long short story peared in larger cities " and im little practice. This is made easier be to the southern coast of the Cri from the life of the Ukrainian portant centers art institutions 1 cause most native dances are based mea, where I lived till 1897. A mountaineers, Hutzuls. that coordinated the work of the on very simple steps. Then again serious illness forced me to change more talented individuals. At this In many of his stories he touches perfection is not required. The na my occupation, and I became a time original art began to appear, upon the social side of human tive dance 6r song is primarily fur journalist, publishing and editing more technically advanced and existence. He knew how to por higher developed than ever before. group participation and enjoyme: t. (unofficially) a daily. Then I went tray with equal skill the social in When civilization entered a to work for the "zemstvo" (the terests of a provincial town and To present a ballet one mu".t higher stage of development, more autonomous provincial government) the life of intellectuals, the love- have a group of trained men and talented artists organized art in of the province of Chernihiv." adventurers of Crimean Greeks and women, special costumes, and spe stitutions and centers in the larger There in the city of Chernihiv he tragedies of Bessarabian Ruman cial music, either originally com cities of Europe and there de remained, leaving the city only ians, but most of all he liked to posed or an arrangement. The veloped more technically advanced from time to time, when he went probe the feelings of the peasants. ballet must be based on a story in and original art than ever before, і in search of health to the Car In another long short story of his, which the principle roles-are play As in other fields of art, dancing pathian mountains in Galicia and entitled "Fata Morgana," he tries ed by ballet artists, who portray then to the Island of Capri, in to catch within a small frame a the various characters and action Italy. tremendous picture of the social * і here are many Ukrainian dances, through pantomime, as well as He died on April 12, 1913, when upheaval of-the land-hungry peas making Ukraine one of the richest - dancing. nations in this field. They include he was 48 years old. antry. ihe Kozak, commonly referred to as ' The native dance has neither pbt' Prof. L. Biletsky describes him Kotsiubin9ky is dead. But his Russian whereas it was developed by nor special movement, costume or as "a man of medium height, slim, art is still alive among the Ukrain the Ukrainian Cossacks who danced music. Just as the native song із in his last years slightly drooping, ian people. And the translations of it in uniforms and with a sword. The not an opera, and the native mue'e dressed always modestly, but with his works into foreight languages, same dance done by peasants in na is not a symphony, so the native, out a slightest defect and forever so far still few in number, give tive costumes is called the Hopak. dance can not be called a ballet. wearing a flower in the buttonhole Other dances are the Tropak, a dance ample proof that his work will soon DMITRI CHUTRO. * of his lapel. Flowers were his become the property of the world, marked by more stamping than the others; the Chumak, a dance of \he passion and pleasure. You could and the name and personality of salt merchants; the Агкал, a Carpa see how his eyes sparkled and. Kots'ubinsky will pass among the thian mountain dance originally com NEWARK, N. J. danced for joy when he passed by number of charming people known 1 ing from Greece, then Bulgaria and DINNER and DANCE sponsored by a field overgrown with hundreds of to all humanity. er. Rumania, done by a group and marked various flowers. He loved nature the Youth Committee of the Атегісгт by much leaping; all these are dances Ukrainian В * L Aa»n., of Newar c, passionately. He loved good peo for men. Women's dances are the N. J., on SUNDAY, MARCH 3, 19 О ple, loved especially children and WANTED Shumka, the Cbabaryihka, Hayirka, at the Ukrainian Center, 180 WllhVfo- would never pass them by without DANCERS & BEGINNERS are cor an Easter dance, the Kupala, a fortune St., Newark, bj/ J. Subscription to dance; the VUhnianky, spring dances; greeting them, without stopping to dially invited to attend sessions of Dinner and Dance $1.00. For dama talk and-joke. Polite to everybody, the Ukrainian Dancer* Club of New mixed dances include the Kolomeyka, the Hopak Kolom, a circle dance, the only, 25 e. Dinner commences afc modest, without a trace of pride, he York City, new headquarters, 50 3:00 P. M„ the Dance at 8:00 P. ЛЦ knew • how to imagine himself in Seventh Street, N. Y. C, Erery Fri Hory, a type of swing dance;,and many others. Music by Oley Bros. Orchestra. , other people's position and how to day, 8:00 P. M. Instructor Mr. Hyra, UYL-NA SPOKTS UKBANIANS DANCE і THE U. N. A. SPORTLIGHT AT FINNISH PROGRAM $1№ and SUCH The Eastern Division of UYL-NA. Basketball Tournament reports that The Ukrainian Dancers Club*of the following teams have entered this NEW YORK BEATS NEWARK; Elizabeth, N. J., instructed by Mi "ROY, how time flys! Here it is year: chael Herman, with the assistance IfPMarch 2nd, 1940 already. Just In District Number l of the Ukra (t) New York. Ukrainians. Manager: inian National Association Basketball of a few members- from the New think folks. Sixty more years and Michael J. Prylucki, 328 East 15th York group, presented,a program we'll find out if Buck Rogers was League, New York Defeated • Newark, St.; New York City. . (a) . Ukrainian 41—27, at New York's Stuyvesant of Ukrainian and Finnish folk lying. With Time passing so swift Athletic Club, Chester. Manager: High School, on Feb. 18th. Michael dances at an affair sponsored by ly, let us be the first to warn you William. Haschak, 211 Ward St., Ches Husar writes that the New Yorkers the Finnish American Clubs on at this time that there are only ter, Pa. (3) Fourth Ward Ukrainians, Yonlcers. Manager: Michael Krenza, entered the game with their hearts Saturday; February , 17th, at the 298 more days until Christmas, so set to avenge their defeat in Newark Grand Ballroom of the Hotel Penn -do your Xmas Shopping- early, wrap 15 Riverview Place, . Yonkers, N. Y. (4) Phalanx S.A.C. Ukrainians. Ma several weeks, ago. -They,.took the sylvania in New York CttyrrT&e your presents tightly, address them nager: Nicholas tSokol, 134 East 7th lead in the 1st minute of, play and audience of 1,500 people greeted plainly,.... and mail them- to us! never relinquished it. High scorers St., Ne>cX°rk CUv- for the winners were Michael and the dancers, with entbusiasm, espe )U^prppeK*3rppagaada: aSJoXtouruament. play, the New York Stephen Czarnecky, with 16 and 12 cially when the Ukrainians swung Ukrainians .have played two games, into three . Finnish dances. see by the. papers that the r points respectively. Ted Dusanenko, losing the hrst game to the. Fourth another New Yorker, played a fine Finns, overwhelmed by this over- xare.still. giving, the Russians Ward Ukrainians, and winning, from rry ,da*hinus! With the^£^| defensive game, being responsible- for yire, burst into song and sang the Phalanx S;A.C.' Ukrainians. many of the passes fed to the Czar words to the music, while the Uk operation ofi*|be foreign. censors, 1 nw 1f necky brothers. His defense work rainians danced away eb the. Finn І >І TO < ALL .BASKETBALL .MANAGERS: K JffiWflTP?' ? iff ^" "^Ж resulted in leaving J., Kannaryn,: high ish dances. The presentation of ^|&ristmas,• card, jfroia |ajxriend ' jfip • As Director of the Eastern Division scorer of the previous game between Finnish dances besidesjthe Ukrain •JfrnlandTi^t says, "Best,j$ahes ia|V of the і Ukrainian Youth's League of the 2 teams,, without, a point to his ian numbers, і,made more friends Credit. T. Harzula starred for Newark |( a Merry. Christmas,, Happy .New North America Basketball Tournament, for the Ukrainians, - because the' '^^г>Щ|фру-ЕадЦг,..аиа Stalin's it was my duty to send invitations with IS points; he made several spec ; to all member clubs, as well, as non- tacular shots during the game. people realized -that these young eral! You-know-what folks? people were just as eager to learn feJtiad the time^we could write meniber^dubs..to participate in this Newark: 1 2 13\ 11—27 - - ,яаг .book aboiit EUtter, Goer- tournament.- l,,sent out more than New York: 7- 12 12 10—41 and understand other, cultures, as Ш № : they were to teach others about 4 5 letters to different organizations. The response4.toHthese letters, how .NEWARK DEFEATS. PHILLY Ukrainian culture. . Caesar look like a sissyj, and we ever, was not up to my expectations. Smarting from the setback suffered |ЩЩ entitle it *'Apes of Wrath." Only comparatively few took the in New York, the Newark squad fipeaking of books, we wonder trouble-of, answering. journeyed, to Philadelphia on Feb. 23th '330YUZ UKRAUVOK".TO Europe may expect the next і The purpose of this open letter . and defeated 0uake'' City's U.N.A. -8TABT'MB№EBSHIP iistallment^t.the Meuv Kampfire is,.to find..outj.from managers of the team by a 36—28 score. The game ' DRIVE series. Now that wei^think of it, different teams the reason .why their was very exciting, both teams making hasn't Adolf, The'Furor, switched teams.did not join the tournament, і desperate efforts to score points, re Beginning with their banquet .to from*Mem'Kampf' to Mine-Seas? would appreciate it if you would give ports Tom Harzula. For 3 periods morrow evening in New York City the scoring, was close, and both teams 1 So, with warfare more or less me .some suggestions or reasons so at Hotel-Brevoort, the "Soyuz Uk- 'that In the future the UYL-NA can, if entered ythe final chapter in a 22.—22 restricted these days to. the .sea, possible, remedy any defects.5' .' tie. The-Newark- boys then proceeded rainok" will-conduct-a membership and. with the amount of ^stual WALTER BACAD to score. 10 consecutive points, clinch drive among • Ukrainian-American fighting confined Лс*: a minhnum^at Eastern Director ing the game, and going into a 2-way women's organizations. The. ban Ihe frontlet- seems toj us ,ІЬа%Ще UYL-NA Basketball Tournament tie for 1st place with New, Yo/1c. J. quet is being held to celebrate the safest .plabe.to. stay during the.war 166 Avenue-B, New York City.. Karmazyn was high scorer for Newark 15th anniversary of the founding these days would be at the. Western with 20 points, while J. , Juzwiak of 'the organization. starred for Philly with 10. > Front! It's so quiet; in fact, that AMBRIDGE WINS OVER ROCHESTER і Mrs. Anastasia Wagner, chairman our. Japanese spys uofoirm us, that Newark: 5 7 10 14—36 of > the banquet committee, will -The Ambridge, Pa. Ukrainians stood Philadelphia.- 5 6 11 6—28 Hitler (whose Dr. must be a Veter- off a second half rally - by the St. speak on the "Surma Radio Hour" доагуап) ^spe^t^a two^weeks, va The present standing of the teams Josaphats on Feb. 18th to notch a in District No. 7 are as follows: in the- near future concerning the cation there with, fellow Comrajas. 36—33 decision over the locals at ,Won Lost Pet. aims of -the Soyuz Ukrainok. In view of this, many reporters who St.: Josaphats Auditorium at Roches New York -2 ,1 .667 --The annual meeting of the-or ^s^t tot live ^йфеасе and 'quiet ter,-New, York. Newark ,;.,2.i l .667 ganization -will be- held March 31st £hese days,-/have, become,war cor vAmhridge's speedy youngsters, mov Philadelphia . о 2 .ooo at the' Soyuz ' Ukrainok headquar respondents on the Western Front. ing .'into л,\3гг-5 -lead at the close l McADOO. DEFEATS BERWICK ters. 48 East 7th Street, New. York of the.first quarter and stretching it Ihe serene conditic&^there j has There was activity in District No. 2 City. caused' a scaitiM^of|^^uiiiques to 18—9^at the half,, bad their Jlead narrowed Tfd>-^aі .single point m the on Feb. 25th, when Berwick travelled I ANNE MAZUR, - from that section... so the cor closing moments of the game, but to McAdoo, and suffered its 1st .defeat, Jr.v Vice-President respondents (who must v furnish bad enough left to score another 25—39. McAdoo retained the lead news. .to., keep their jobs) hayjBg$ijr basket and clinch .the game. throughout the game, Krill and Hla- zn an ufacture; their., own.- rjunors .Tae$JRennsyivanJans .displayed >a dish being high scorers with 14 and NEW-YORK CITY: . 12 points respectively. J. Wozniak with; the help of. the Propaganda smooth- ballrhgndling :quint, with big .pepartment* of course. • One thing BJll'Yei'g* *s^he^focal point in their starred for Berwick with 9 points. SECOND OPEN. HOUSE sponsored playmaking. Yerga 'set up the plays McAdoo: 15 6 12 б—39 by the Ukrainian Folk Dunce Circle, is certain, however, it;jirili be pews Berwick: 8 5 4 8—25 led by Michael Herman, on WEDNES when Hitler .and \ Stalin start a for Dragovich and Mark,- who scored 14 and 7 points to pace the victors. The standing of the teams: DAY, MARCH 6, 1940, at 8:00 P. M. peace .scare. /$nd' if* peace, is de- at the International Institute, 341 E. vhired, we know, of a Broadway Trailing byg a 34^32 margin late Won Lost Pet. in the game after their desperate 17th St., New York City. Refresh agent, who wants to book the^£iiiUn> Berwick 2 1 .667 ments! Admission .3 5 <. Dances of rally had cut deeply into the Ambridge Olypbant 2 і .667 |ап/Аеду* for a vaudeyille^tir in lead, the St. Josaphats U.N.A. tossers many countries taught, demonstrated CcAdoo 3 2 .600 and then done .• by all who come. America, had a golden opportunity to tie the Hanover -0 3 .ooo score wfaen "Mike Borshansky was Gome in comfortable -clothes and. tove^Honor, and Oh і Yeah! і HAMTRAMCK AND ROSSFORD shoes, or in costume for an evening awarded a pair of free,throws. He •BEAT DETROIT rpfke good on tbe^fest/attempt but of fun. The Ukrainian Folk Dance We also see by the papers that -Reporting from District No. 5. Walter Circle meets every Wednesday evening another • Hollywood marriage has missed the second, and another basket Kizel writes that on Feb. 10th Hain- by jibe inyaders just before the final at the Institute and holds an Open 4gone on the rocks, whlc&'prompts tramck visited Detroit and won/ an House the first Wednesday of each "us to comment on these- Hollywood whistle ended the scoring for the official game by a 74—47 score. P. evenmglp Wm$- month. '-Those young nHsn and girls marriages, which are taken '••f|S| Sharon was high scorer for the win who'd like to join the ever-increasing Jightly,} that .when.a,.man proposes Mike- Borshansky scored nine points ners with Зо points, while W. Kmi- enthusiasts of the folk dance, are for the Rochester U.N.A. team, fol cinski netted 21 for the losers. Ham- *dfM> Ph® -Wjouders.tif bs can lowed by Salamacha with eight. welcome to .join us in our. Wednesday divorse ber Щ ^ev.manper to which tramck led all through the game. evening rehearsals, where dances, of .In the preliminary Madedon Maroons Hamtramck: 14 19-13 28—74 #he,'s ^oua^pinediЩThere's a per- defeated ^t.jJosaphat; Frosh, 14—42. other countries as well as Ukrainian -taiu^t readout there who's, been, : VIN9E,tKOWBA, Manager Detroit: 5 15 9. 18—«7 are. taught by Michael. Herman. On Feb. 17th, І Rossford travelled -married so often Umt, a j^jce field is St. Josaphats :%Ц.A. „ Ukrainians. hegmning toMkr^g, ир.агрдц>аЬег. to Detroit, and. won, 51—27. A. Kor- en uowa scored ,20 points, for.. Rossford, /She's been^git with 3ce^§0;vMt CONN., MASS.,. RHODE. ISLAND t SYRACUSE- DEFEATS SAYRE while W. Kmicinski netted 13, for iha*t sge^o'w^ goes ^o^Reno^pja her Detroit. .Are you planning to attend the: nopeymoon..."In order to .save The Syiracuseilffitrainian Men's Club CONCERT in honor of Taru. Skev- basketball" team annihilated the highly' сЬедко given by the U.Y.O.C. ,SUN- -time? Although ./фе _may>jjbt„be rated Sayre, Pa. Ukrainians, champs AlilUU : Jthe -.best dressed • won^.^ia^fown, PRES-S .REPOBTS 6AY, MARCH , 10*. 1940. Hartford | of the NYP loop, in their section,, in Public №щЬ School, .Broad St Adults we can вау one thing, she certain- a thrilling.upset, with, a 49—46 score, (Concluded fropn p.. 1) 4^ t. Children' 20"t. "•— Everyone fy is well' Jjroomed. -Шв over at Syracqse, Sunday, Feb. 2ith,. 1940, should make it their duty to" attend %even -divorces old... but doesn't before another.^capacity crowd. . Half - The Russians have since been re and pay tribute to TARAS SHEV look a day over th^eeV- She once time score^,Was 23—l9^jn : Javor.jOt' ported, as imprisoning their leaders CHENKO, Ukraine's greatest son, who postponed a divorce because her Syrac^se.iu^wugh,апфexciting game, and ' substituting Asiatic for' Uk goes down in history.in the same class I pjcess- agent was sick. -She was with 1 о secpnHs remaining of play, rainian troops; Ukrainian/refugees as Shakespeare and- Kipling. Here is jrrahted a divorce from her second Siadni^J6f<|iayre' footed &ne in" from returned fo^umani'a with taifes of an opportunity . to manifest our ^usbandioh grounds of cjnieltj^"pe: mid court to tie the score at 4.4.ййІ$ persecution, "and.' the Ukrainians strength, talent, and . unity^it. the necessitating an overtime period. same.time hear a good Concert. Con ^wouldn't'give"Щг a night off to Linehan topped scoring honors with changed their attitude. fo^th her third* husband^tb her The-Rumanian Government be necticut youth groups have devoted 6. baskets and as many .fouls for 18 .s^yeral .months of ^..continuous pre -first husband's birthday ijparty! points and was-ably aided by his gan "counter-propaganda and grant parations, so don'i let them down and Right after her fourth marriage teammate- Maloney with. 15 points for ed some concessionV-to the Ukrain do your bit by attending. Curtain .ceremony, . the groom . topicsth e Syracuse. .J. Terpko and Strayves ian minority, and a representative time will positively be at 3:3о sharp. •Justice of the. Peace to one. side to led the losers with 15 and 13 points of these people was made jaTSena- Over 15o participants, good songs, in ліір^піт the fee. **ОЬ, no,", said respectively. tor by. royal decree. teresting talks, and several other 1 -ihe Justice, .waving the money This victory gave Syracuse its 4th Today the Ukrainians are pro- worthwhile attractions. ^aside, "Hie fourth one is always win over Ukrainian opponents, with Ruma^ian and they are asking the prjeyious wins over Auburn and 2 on the. houseЩ When she married from Herkimer^It also. marked the Bucharest Government4:or further herjififlth husband,* she liked him favors so as to show the popula 23rd victory of the season for the THE U.N.A. IS THE48UFBEME so tfrach, she' kept him oveifa sec- local .lads and the. 1st. defeat on Sayre. tion how much better off -they are ACHIEVEMENT .OF concLweek! . She. triad, to.keep> her A return engagement will be in Sayre under$&tiihanian rule^lhan under JINTS. BECOME A MEMBER pF sixth marriage a. secret but Holly on March 9th. Russiffi^S IlbJNOW! wood is the toughest town in the NICHOLAS; WOYTAN. world to do that...news of the Ии^^ин^4>^><н^iч»4>^•ф4^^ . divorce. was bound to leak out ІЩЩ -NEW YORK CITY: Confuciu* мчгШЬопЧ have good time—own the moment she's having her most next week, we're going to do our fault!" But we aay: "Can't help but have good time" at the St. - successful marriage... it's now in Christinas Shopping early. As Con- Georeo'a Choir ANNUAL- DANCE thU SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1944) tts Tfth week! Щ fuc&is sa|?r ' Ear& bird patches at Lenox НаП, 2Sa|554"Second St., Ndw^York City. From 9. to? pig We hope we havfe. tickled your ^^-«^excep^uhfuhny cpmedian Subscription -55 t (tax included). Featuring John King and hi« jfunhy bone in our. efforts to be a Л'^ле catches, early bird.*'. Hm... ОгсЬеаїґ» andr.Mkhael Lane and hia.White Jackets. Last chance to comedian. We are even .gomgst^ he can't mean, us! 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