America's Nobel-man

There is something symbolic in a photograph of Sinclair Lewis in false-face, taken in Berlin during his recent literary vaudeville tour, when the "gate" was $46,000— the Nobel Prize for literature of an "idealistic" tendency. A burlesque artist, he exteriorizes the attitude in which Europeans beheld the first American writer to join that curious collection of mediocrities, occasionally interspersed with men of genius, known as the Nobel Prize Winners in Literature. II is false whiskers present a curious analogy with that false sense of values which enabled him to cite as examples of great artists, suffering from the neglect of the American public, a few of the most popular, best-selling authors in America. 11 is face is no more disguised than his real sentiments about literature, which are those measured in terms of advertising and royalty checks. Truly, Sinclair Lewis in false-face is a symbol

ERNEST BOYD