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...been punching each other's noses so regularly that the 300 U. S. students (50% Jews) appealed to the U. S. Minister and threatened to withdraw if disorder continued. In Warsaw the antiJewish students grew excited because it was the anniversary of the death, during a riot, of Stanislaw Waclawski a Christian student at the University of Vilna. ''Revenge yourselves on the Jews!" they cried. "They were responsible for Waclawski's death!" They fell to fighting, injured 25 Jews, trampled girl students. The trepidating rector had the University closed for three days. Rigid policing alone prevented...
Another sculptor who attracted passing attention at the Chicago Art Institute was Stanislaw Szukalski. a passionate Pole who had one well executed statue on view. Several years ago he exhibited a piece upon which the jury smiled. He arrived at the exhibition hall next morning, found a little gilt card marked HONORABLE MENTION pinned to his statue. Sculptor Szukalski tore the card in shreds, flung the pieces in the face of a startled watchman and shouted, "You can't honor me!" Last week nobody tried...
...authors have hit on a cleverer or more effective scheme for telling a story than Author Goetel's. His book starts in the form of a diary written by Stanislaw, Cracow novelist. The Cracow he inhabits is a city of postWar, united, republican Poland, but before the War it belonged to Austria. Stanislaw, a man without a country, fought for the Austrians against his Russian-Polish compatriots...
...diary Stanislaw tells of the story he is about to write based on his experiences as a war-prisoner in Turkestan. Page by page, as he writes it, it is sandwiched in between his journal entries. The same people appear in the diary as in the novel: Stanislaw, his wife Zosia, his friend Felix, Marusia, his Turkestan inamorata. In the diary you see Stanislaw's life as a government clerk, his evenings devoted to writing, his wife's attempts to make him a social celebrity, her flirtations to arouse his jealousy. The novel tells of two Austro-Polish...
Here the novel breaks off, the diary becomes agitated; Stanislaw has heard Marusia is still alive, still remembers him. Frantically he wires, sends messages, money. The little son he has never seen is brought to him. Marusia has died of cholera on the trip. Stanislaw and his wife patch up the pieces, go on again from...