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Mile. Boyer has not sung at the Monseigneur for many moons. During the season of 1931-32 she has had her own night club in Paris, Chez les Clochards, where she has become even more popular than before. This club is located in a very historic old cellar in the Rue du Depart, off the Boulevard Edgar-Quinet, in Montparnasse.
I have always admired TIME as a newsmagazine, and it should gratify you to know the many Americans on the continent who depend on TIME for accurate information on the U. S.
MARGOT JOHNSON
New York City
Jeffers' Mother
Sirs:
In the interesting and quite full account of Robinson Jeffers in your issue of April 4 you casually refer to his mother as "His father . . . had married an orphan 23 years his junior." It is true that Mrs. Jeffers was an orphan, but she was 25 when she married Dr. Jeffers, and had a happy home of culture and means with a childless cousin of her father, and the former's wife. She was a woman of unusual beauty of form and character, great charm, well educated, with finely matured mind, and a good musician. To his heritage from her and her influence and training Robinson Jeffers owes much, as well as to his able Father.
Having been named for the cousin above referred to of his maternal grandfather he received a moderate legacy. It is encouraging to know that in lovely California one can be independent, retire from work, marry, have children, and pass "time swimming and writing verse" on a modest amount of capital.
A. C. ROBINSON
President
Peoples-Pittsburgh Trust Co.
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Important Citizen
Sirs:
It has been brought to my attention that in the March 21 issue of your publication, in an article dealing with Brooklyn newspapers, you have, in a footnote, referred to the Brooklyn Citizen as "relatively unimportant."
This gratuitous slur, I take it, is not due to malice but to ignorance of newspaper conditions in Brooklyn. For your enlightenment, therefore, I beg to acquaint you with certain particulars. ...
. . . The Brooklyn Citizen, "relatively" is in a sounder financial condition than either the Brooklyn Eagle or the Brooklyn Times-Standard Union.
The Brooklyn Citizen is unincumbered by bonds, mortgages or indebtedness of any kind. Furthermore, it is the only Brooklyn newspaper which pays dividends. It has for years paid an annual dividend of 6% which is proof that it is not a "relatively unimportant" paper but a going concern.
It is the representative Democratic newspaper in a county in which the Democratic party is in the ascendant and in which the Democratic voters are in an overwhelming majority.
The Brooklyn Citizen is a nationally-known newspaper and no newspaper which is nationally-known can be said to be "relatively unimportant."
During the 46 years of its existence, the Brooklyn Citizen has advocated conservative principles and this has won for it the confidence and support of the leaders in finance & business circles generally. While its circulation is not as large as that of the Eagle or the Times-Standard Union, it is more solid and substantial.