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...ribald advice of brother officers flew about the head of lean, lugubrious Lieut.-Commander Zeno W. Wicks, U. S. N. resigned, as he contemplated the habits of pigeons in Akron last week. The birds were to be used this week in the christening ceremonies of the Navy's huge new dirigible Akron, of which Commander Wicks is construction superintendent. It was his hope that the pigeons would flutter gaily out through the orange-peel doors of the dock and streak for home when Mrs. Herbert Hoover set them free. Hence the suggestions of the Akron's officers...
CONFESSIONS OF ZENO-Italo Svevo-Knopf ($3). Few authors would dare inflict on their readers such a queer bird as Zeno. Unclassifiable in any pigeonhole of good citizenry or good character, he is an eccentric fellow altogether, disliked even by his psychoanalyst. The plan of the book is simple but ingenious: Zeno's doctor persuades him to write his auto-biography as an exercise in analysis: when Zeno breaks with him before the treatment is complete, the doctor, in revenge, publishes Zeno's confessions...
...Zeno Cosini, only child of a rich Trieste merchant, very early in his boyhood be came so preoccupied with introspection that he was soon a hypochondriac. A cigaret-smoker almost from infancy, he was constantly vowing to stop smoking. He wrote in his diary, on the walls of his room, the date on which he would smoke his last cigaret. The dates were soon in numerable. When his parents died. Zeno came into a fortune. He played with busi ness, gambled on the stock exchange. There he met shrewd, blunt Malfenti, who took a fancy to him, took him home...
...hero, Schmitz was a Trieste businessman-millionaire head of a shipping firm-who wrote in his spare time. In 1912 he met Author James Joyce, who is said to have encouraged him to write this book, which he did when the War suspended his business. When Confessions of Zeno appeared (1923) it had an immediate succes d'estime throughout Europe. In 1928 Schmitz, aged 67, was killed in a motor accident in Italy. Other books: Una Vita, Senilita...
Subsequently the actors discard the drama of gestures, speech and electricity and open fire. Although a dozen shots jab the darkness, aimed by individuals who should have known their business better, the intended recipients remain in normal health. In one last frenzied fusillade Zeno is discovered hiding right in the middle of everybody...