; TIMES PAGE 7 FEB. 16, 1935 THE INDIANAPOLIS It Seems tc Me ITALY MARCHES OFF TO BATTLE Fair Enough Balbo’s "Exile 9 to Africa Now Seen as Preparedness Move WESTBROOK PEGLER HEYWOOD BROUN else one may say about Benito of was excitirg as a Mussolini, will have to be admitted that, first night “Rain" Tht* I* the lt *f two article* eon- WHATEVER it in distinguished countryman, Primo Camera, THEtheatrical event but it had an added value for rernlnr the Italion-Ahyitlnian clash like his Yesterday’* de- a careful when, at those of us who were adult and attentive on that East Africa. artirfe the Italian Duce is matchmaker In into ring and start dim occasion some 10 or 12 years ago w len this scribed Premier Mussolini’s *oal last, he decides to climb the foreign affairs. and rights to face and body. ir;f lodrama first saw the light. For years tossing furious lefts the Freudian with tusks like we old tors have been moving about among the Primo was an imposing gladiator the BY NORMAN E. ISAACS pitcher and big, blue and saying ' Oh. but you should have been jagged edges of a broken water Juveniles b Times New* Editor. his hairy like poison along Broadway when Jeanne Eagels first played veins which twined about calves •Rair..’ ” subject to any ivy mounting the stalks of mighty oaks. When Primo nothing but Jr the last four or five years I have noticed a power in its ordered fish he meant somewhat derisive smile upon the foreign whale and when he sat him down - jgMl faces of the younger generation. history, Abyssinia today to his flagons he didn’t tease him- weaklings but They behaved as if the “Rair” stands on the brink of a self with the rum of idolaters were so many Rip Van bawled for doubles of nitric acid Winkles harking back to things bloody conflict which may with sheep dip on the side. Mussolini, proud wholly outmoded. They seem to feel grind her under the heel of Like Benito a that our enthusiasm was based on and mighty terror was Primo Car- nothing more than the glamour and Benito Mussolini’s Italy—- nera whose muscles, when he made the pathos of distance. an Italy that miist expand them jiggle, conveyed the same But the play is on Broadway awful threat that II Duce implies once again and it is raining re- or burst. when he clanks the hardware of assurance upon the heads of the There seems little chance his terrible swift sword. But, when Primo went out to fight, faithful who trumpeted its virtues in while it lay discarded on an upper that Italy can be checked he selected as his opponents the Westbrook decrepit Ilrywood shelf. We were right then and we her determination to pun- most humble, docile, and Fegler right again. generally pathetic roster of relics Broun are Ras Taffari for the bor- by There is. to be sure, a somewhat ish that his war department could discover for him artificial quality of theatricaiism in “Rain’’ but der raids by tribesmen. It diligent search in the hospitals, speakeasies, old there always was. This we knew. It is not even yet peoples’ homes and graveyards. Like Mussolini, seems quite apparent that had of he a sin a play be theatrical. Again it Primo plenty confidence in himself but that should by stages. may be admitted that some of the sly Freudian France and Great Britain wished to bring himself along easy So references which amazed the original first nighters he stormed up and down the United States and have given II Duce tacit battles now stand out palpably as sign posts. The moun- across and back, ginning a hundred and with along thunderously he met fighter one tains of Nebraska in our present age seem some- leave to do as he will Here is Ras Taffari Mekonnen, went until a knocked him down 13 times and dealt what too conspicuous since they loom up in recog- Abyssinia. “Haile Selassie I, king of kings of night who a the lower Alps. Ethiopia, Conquering Lion of him one paste on the chin so hard it broke his ankle. nition little like To believe that Mussolini has Judah, the Elect of God, and Em- tt u tt * * * been calm and patient is, to ssy peror of Ethiopia,” in his royal It's an Old Story the least, just a little naive. The He's Picking on Abyssinia dictator of the corporative state raiment. Ana- shown here, DUCE, his part, has rattled his blade and AIN.” of course, was never anew story. has had his eyes pinned on East Warriors of proved mettle, troops of Emperor Haile Selassie I of Abyssinia, of the type on “"rj against many training XV tole France did it very well in “Thais” and he Africa for a long time. All he has of Africa and Ababa, their capital, stand ready to defend their ancient homeland in- 1Lshot his lower lip at nations in is part marching toward Addis now, with copying much earlier models. But the theme needed has been the green flag army mobilized by Premier Mussolini, who demands satisfaction for border clashes for his career as a conqueror out. perhaps was LIBYAperhaps the astute Mussolini vasion by the Italian has his of the man who mistakes a passion for a dedication from Britain and France—and an and Abyssinians lost heavily. W'ith anew war in the mountainous African country Primo s example in mind, he selected for was to build his bridges in which both Italians This will still continue for a while as a proper subject excuse. The “go” sign he was starting imminent, Haile Selassie has at command almost a soldiers. first opponent the Emperor of Abyssinia. his million compared for the playwright. It is possible that John Coltor given by Pierre Laval, France’s in a big way. match may be in its prudence and safety Randolph dealt over-harshly with the foreign minister. The excuse has Bono, and the effect which it is expected to have on the and Clemence Italo Balbo, Emilio De minister Ethiopia is peopled by and Emperor of Ethiopia,” Ras of the missionaries among the South Sea been made public this week. De late colony in Africa. Long oi structure, Italian morale with Primo’s opening battle in the methods Cesare Vecchi and the Bono proud warrior-like people. is sleepy natives. But the world is far from having been Mussolini, to take his spokes- Michele Bianchi ware men colonies, De knows the and Taffari no African United States. Primo fought on that occasion one raging the ground which the will say that “the true away without graduated out of a slight confusion regarding joy men at their words, is who formed the “Great Quadrum- over battle Ethnologists savage. The wily ruler of the Big Boy Peterson, who folded himself has not been in type contains no he must be sinfulness. Even economic movemer.is mad over the slayings of colonial in be fought. Balbo Abyssinian is reputed delay. Primo left the ring thinking and certain virate” behind Mussolini the eyes to Negro Abyssians to have had some difficulty in ridding themselves of troops, of the destruction of his on Rome.” De Africa with his shut, it is blood whatsoever.” Ras pretty good, which was a delusion. have famous “March Graziani know’s, who will be 44 bested many a great European an inherent Puritanism which remained even after outposts in Italian Somaliland Bono was the organizer of the be assumed. And Taffari Makonnen, The manner in which IIDuce promoted his fight the also, seem, what is all the all appeal to theology was gone. and Eritrea. Protests to march; each actually commanded it would it in July, is a grand nephew of diplomat, and the battle Mussolini with his first victim seems to follow the conven- Abyssinian government, Italy about. Emperor Menelik, and he claims tional pattern. The Italians were intruders, intrud- But the rebirth of “Rain” at the Music the Fascist bands in the mi.rch. has chosen for himself is no lively roars, have been ignored. Formal that his ancestry can be traced ing upon a country where they had no right to be, Box theater can not be scored wholly as a triumph And the record tells the tale. No trifling punitive expedition paltry skirmish. apology and payment for dam- Benito Mussolini sending to back to the of Sheba. which is the way that civilized nations make their the generation which is gone or well on its way. Benito Mussolini has never cast is Queen Cables Lorn Addis Ababa in- for ages are demanded. Os course, East The official title of the nation living, and someone threw a rock at them. This The younger set also has reason to point with pride. aside the three living members of Africa. dicate that Ethiopia will be able highly the damages are a fraction high—- Urr’ the best leaders he can reverts to the name of the coun- made the intruders indignant so they asked an When a fine actress dies, or for that matter a the money in- the quadrumvirate. Several times to muster almost 1,000,000 fighting —ss,ooo,ooo, is find ci>' 30,000 colonial of which it anciently formed a apology for the affront to something which, with talented practitioner in any art, the fame of the he has been forced to push out of iready has try men. Deadly at short range, they demnity, according to cables from for troo from Florence The name of Abys- their gay sense of humor, they called their honor.