Sunday, March 4, 2012

Rabindranath in America - Cleveland, Ohio (contd-29)

Detroit Tribune informed that before going to Cleveland of Ohio state, Rabindranath delivered a lecture in the Uniterian Church on Sunday evenning. But Pond's information said otherwise.
Rabindranath got in the Hotel Statler at the invitation of the Twentieth Century Club, founded by the well to do persons of Cleveland. Dr Sujit Mukhopadhyay informed that on the same date he read the essay
 " The world of Personality" in that club. This was sarcastically related by the Eve Tribune of Minneapolis, " In the opinion of many people, the much over-praised Hindu poet , Sir Rabindranath Tagore, who appeared privately in Cleveland, giving a scolding to the Twentieth Century Club on Tuesday evening, at about $ 700 per scold is an excellent press agent for himself as a playwright." The paper mentioned him as "the best business man who ever come to us out of India' But Detroit Journal gave the correct picture, " Cleveland welcomes a great visitor today, Sir Rabindranath Tagore... will be guest tonight of the Twetieth Century Club at the home of Mr.& Mrs. John L. Severance, 3616 Mayfield Road, Cleveland heights ... His subject tonight will be 'The World and Personality'
Grace Goulder  related an interview of Rabindranath, " You don't seem to have soul. You make things  -- gigantic things in your factories  -- but you have only time for the baser part of human nature.