The Era -- Day By Day

[Fading Fast]

"Wash Their Faces" was a sequel to "Angels With Dirty Faces," where the Kids meet Pat O'Brien and James Cagney, and Rocky turns yella when he goes to the chair. "Wash" doesn't really follow up on any of that, and it's unclear if the Kids are even supposed to be the same characters or not. Sheridan's leading man is none other than rising young star Ronald Reagan, who really isn't half bad with what he's given to do, which mostly involves telling Leo Gorcey to shut up and listen.

The Patio appears to be a better grade of neighborhood house that gets the first crack at big pictures after they've finished downtown. So we should be getting "Wizard of Oz" sometime next spring. If you lived on Midwood Street or Rogers Avenue and didn't feel the need to go all the way downtown see the newest thing as soon as it came out, waiting till it showed up at the Patio would be an agreeable enough -- and cheaper -- way to get your movie fill.

I get the feeling that "Hotel For Women" was cooked up by a couple of writers who were told that the studio had just signed Elsa Maxwell, because she's famous and everybody's talking about her so find something she can do. I imagine it comes across like a down-market "Stage Door," with imitating being the sincerest form of Hollywood and all.

Even in the '70s, that dichotomy still existed. We knew, we could wait for a pic to come to certain theaters (the run-down ones, the one-screen ones, etc. in the out of the way or dicey neighborhoods) to catch a first run pic after it left the "better" and more expensive theaters. It was great for saving money, but also, for catching something you never got around to when it was first released.

I know I've posted pics and stories about the Brook theater in Bound Brook NJ before - a kinda tired old town near where I grew up. When she was alive, my grandmother and I'd go there to catch movies after they had their run in the "better" houses.

 

[David Conwill]

Even in the '70s, that dichotomy still existed.

Second-run theatres were still common where I grew up into the late 1990s or early '00s. I miss them almost as much as I detest streaming services.

 

[Fading Fast]

Second-run theatres were still common where I grew up into the late 1990s or early '00s. I miss them almost as much as I detest streaming services.

They have all but disappeared from NYC as the economics - real estate costs and streaming - seems to be finishing them off. One near me, a beat-up, old and, frankly, ugly two screen one in the lower level of a crummy looking '60s high-rise just closed about a month ago.

Very shortly, the options left in NYC (beside a one-off tucked away here or there - it's a big city, there's always an exception somewhere) will be the very fancy - luxury assigned seats, food service (or, at least, extensive and expensive offerings), etc. - theaters at very high prices or stay home and wait for it to come to streaming.

 

[vitanola]

"That's what you get for patronizing The Laundry Of Doctor Moreau."

Two days and I cannot get this image out of my head. Miss Maine, you certainly know how to turn a phrase!

 

[LizzieMaine]

Today is Tuesday, October 17, 1939 and...

Nazi bombers have penetrated British defenses in two attacks at the naval base in the Orkney Islands at Scapa Flow, damaging the Iron Duke, a former battleshio converted to a training vessel. One German plane is reported downed in the attack. It is also confirmed that the Royal Oak, torpedoed last week, was in the main harbor at Scapa Flow when it fell victim to a German submarine attack.

Reports from Paris indicate that a German offensive along a thirty mile stretch east of the Saar River has broken down in the face of devastating fire from the Maginot Line. Up to 60,000 German armored troops have been held back by French forces in halting the advance.

President Roosevelt speculates that the up to 20 million people may be left refugees by the time the European War is over, and he urges the Inter-Governmental Committee on Political Refugees to take that possibility into account in determining future resettlement policy. The President, in opening a two-day conference on the refugee question in Washington, stressed his belief that both world order and respect for human dignity demands a solution to the problem. Representatives of 32 nations are present for the conference.

Talks between Turkey and the Soviet Union have hit a snag in Moscow, with the withdrawal of Turkey's foreign minister before the signing of any agreement between the two nations. An aide stressed that the minister's departure does not mean the end of negotiations, but does mark the conclusion of one phase of the talks toward a mutual-assistance pact.

Meanwhile, the official newspaper Isvestia stressed that Russia will live up to its agreement to provide raw materials under its trade agreement with Germany, but that the Soviet Navy will also be strengthening its fleet in view of the developing war situation.

The debate over the repeal of the arms embargo may be getting rough. Senator Maloney, a Connecticut Democrat, says that he and several colleagues have received physical threats from opponents along with the usual political threats and harsh criticism. (It was a kinder, gentler time...)

Pope Pius XII has issued an encyclical denouncing the spread of "neo-paganism and war-bred atheism" across Europe in the face of the current conflict.

Attempts to purge Communists from the ranks of the American Labor Party have reached West Flatbush, with charges that Communist sympathizers have "colonized" the Party's operations in the 12th Assembly District, offering as evidence the fact that eight members of the West Flatbush party club signed nominating petitions for Communist Party city council candidate Peter V. Cacchione, who has been ruled off the November ballot on a technicality. The ALP candidate for Municipal Court justice, George Rifkin, issued a call for disciplinary action against those members and their allies within the West Flatbush organization.

The stock market reached its highest advance in a week today in brisk trading of over 1,000,000 shares.

The Republican leader in the 23rd Assembly District faces a $15,000 lawsuit after an attack against a political rival. Assistant Corporation Counsel E. Boardman Epstein, of 1407 Herkimer Street, is accused of severely beating George H. Starkle of Queens in a corridor of the Supreme Court building. Starkle had been charged with attacking Epstein, but was acquitted on those charges.

The World's Fair will cram three weeks' worth of excitement into its upcoming final week according to Fair officials, with an impressive roster of film, screen, and radio stars on hand each night for a Mardi Gras of fun. Fair Charman Harvey Gibson did not list that roster, but promises there will be a lot to see and do for late-season fairgoers. The Fair closes on October 31st, and will reopen next spring, on May 25th.

A different kind of excitement at the Fair today, when a 30-year-old Fair employee was injured after falling off an elephant. Burt Mosman of Elmhurst fell from the animal's back and struck his head on the concrete pavement. After he regained consciousness, Mosman claimed the elephant struck him with his trunk. (Sure, blame the elephant. What's an elephant doing in Flushing anyway?)

The sole remaining liquid assets of the defunct Fort Greene Bank were dumped in the sea today. Fifteen thousand gallons of rye and bourbon were consigned to Davy Jones' locker due to the failure of its owners to pay $60,000 in import taxes. The liquor was part of a swindle perpetrated by former Fort Green Bank board chairman John L. Lotach, in which the whiskey was used as collateral for phony loans.

ABRAHAM & STRAUS' BASEMENT'S 16th BIRTHDAY SALE begins tomorrow at 930 AM! Get your copy of the A&S Basement Circular! And remember, the BMT, the IRT, and most trolley lines stop at our front door! Just ask for "A&S!"

A 29-year-old watchman at a parking lot on East New York Avenue is dead after he was attacked by a pair of tire-stabbers. Rubin Smith of 209 E. 53rd Street came upon the two men puncturing tires while making his rounds at the Litvin Bros. open-air lot, and was stabbed four times in the chest before the saboteurs escaped. Tires on 30 of the 65 cars parked in the lot were damaged by the vandals before Smith interrupted them. Police say Smith is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a degree in chemistry who was working at the lot until he could find a job in his field.

"When you earn your groceries with a camera," says Margaret Bourke-White, "you have to order them by phone!" You too will find that telephone shopping is a great convenience! NEW YORK TELEPHONE COMPANY.

NAMM'S BROOKLYN DAY SALE -- THE SALE MILLIONS WAIT FOR! Buy NOW! Save NOW! Men's Poplintex Shirts, 99 cents! Famous make slips, $1.28! Chenille bedspreads, $2.94! Rich Damask drapes, $2.97! Lustre Luxury rugs, $58.88! Innerspring mattresses, $9.88. (Look, Boys -- this is kind of a letdown after all the hype. I didn't wait all year for a cheap slip and a $9.88 mattress.)

Kaufman and Hart Have New Hit at Music Box, declares Eagle theatre critic Arthur Pollock. "The Man Who Came to Dinner" is -- like its inspiration Alexander Woollcott -- a little heavy around the middle and doesn't move with much agility. But nevertheless Woollcott makes merry comedy, even in the guise of Monty Woolley, and so does the show.

The Eagle editorial writer falls all over himself trying not to insult Col. Lindbergh while telling him to stick to subjects he actually knows something about.

The Brooklyn-Queens Transit Company will have to pay $12,500 in damages to a Brooklyn man who was hit by a car while stepping off a trolley. Edward Schladebach of 8224 24th Street suffered a broken ankle in the incident, which the court ruled was the fault of the trolley motorman, who improperly stopped his car on the far side of a crossing to let Schladebach off.

Cincinnati pitching star Bucky Walters carries off honors as the National League's Most Valuable Player for 1939. The 29-year-old righthander won 27 games to lead the league as ace of the Reds' staff.

NYU vs. Carnegie Tech at Yankee Stadium on Saturday figures to be the big local football game this weekend, and Harold Parrott thinks Carnegie is the sure winner.

The Football Dodgers have added three players in deals with the Football Pirates -- adding former All-America back Sam Francis, center John Tosi, and back Dick Nardi, all of whom will be in uniform as the Dodgers face the Philadelphia Eagles this Sunday at Ebbets Field. Francis is expected to be a fit companion to star Ace Parker on the Dodger line.

The American Labor Party's candidate for Brooklyn District Attorney, Magistrate Charles Solomon, says it's time to wrest the borough's prosecution system from machine control. Solomon quoted Mayor LaGuardia's oft-stated dictum that there is no difference between a Republican politician and a Democratic politician in remarks endorsing the ALP candidate for Municipal Court Justice, Benjamin Brenner.

Mary Martin, who sings songs, will be Walter O'Keefe's guest tonight on the Tuesday Night Party program over WABC at 8:30pm.

Josephine Bungle, continuing to insist that the matter of McGoinigle the Mouse is strictly dippy, attempts to call in George's sister, who has always been wound up about spooks. But the call is interrupted by the screams of a neighbor across the courtyard -- who is trying to commit suicide by defenestration. "NO! NO! HOBART!" screams that neighbor's wife. "YOUR INSURANCE ISN'T PAID UP YET! WAIT!"

Checkered Sportcoat reveals his name as Ted Perry, and indicates that he has come to call on Leona -- but Murdock the Butler told him she was away in Europe. Mary says she's no such thing, and yells for Murdock to come and explain himself. Tension mounts!

Dan and Kay are checking out the scene when a sherriff who looks like Nigel Bruce and his skinny pipe-smoking deputy accost Dan to take him to his rented cabin. Are they going to kidnap him so Dan can set the face-eating dog on them? No, looks like they're legit. Pity.

 

[Fading Fast]

...Reports from Paris indicate that a German offensive along a thirty mile stretch east of the Saar River has broken down in the face of devastating fire from the Maginot Line. Up to 60,000 German armored troops have been held back by French forces in halting the advance....

Well, there you go, if you live long enough, you will even hear a positive thing said about the Maginot Line.

...The stock market reached its highest advance in a week today in brisk trading of over 1,000,000 shares.....

When I started on the floor of the NYSE in the mid '80s, a big volume day was 200 million shares, which all but caused the system to seize up (we were there until late at night and came in early the next morning to keep up with all the paper work, processing, etc.). Now the NYSE handles several billion shares a day with (purely guesstimating) less than 10% of the workers needed in the '80s - it's almost all automated.

...The Republican leader in the 23rd Assembly District faces a $15,000 lawsuit after an attack against a political rival. Assistant Corporation Counsel E. Boardman Epstein, of 1407 Herkimer Street, is accused of severely beating George H. Starkle of Queens in a corridor of the Supreme Court building. Starkle had been charged with attacking Epstein, but was acquitted on those charges....

As Lizzie says - it was a gentler time.

...The sole remaining liquid assets of the defunct Fort Greene Bank were dumped in the sea today. Fifteen thousand gallons of rye and bourbon were consigned to Davy Jones' locker due to the failure of its owners to pay $60,000 in import taxes. The liquor was part of a swindle perpetrated by former Fort Green Bank board chairman John L. Lotach, in which the whiskey was used as collateral for phony loans.....

Since Prohibition was over, you'd think they'd have sold it - creditors normally try to monetize any asset left in a bankruptcy.

..."When you earn your groceries with a camera," says Margaret Bourke-White, "you have to order them by phone!" You too will find that telephone shopping is a great convenience! NEW YORK TELEPHONE COMPANY.....

An analog version of on-line grocery ordering.

 

[LizzieMaine]

The scene of the crime -- at the right of the building you'll see part of the Litvin Brothers parking lot, where Rubin Smith was stabbed.

This is the corner of East New York Avenue and Tapscott Street in Brownsville, a rough neighborhood not far from the headquarters of Murder, Inc., which were about seven blocks away from this corner, in a candy store across the street from the People's Theatre. Not a place where you'd want to park your car, or even work -- especially if you're a nice young chemist with a degree from MIT.

 

[LizzieMaine]

President Roosevelt faces harsh criticism from within his own party, as Democratic Senator Holt of West Virginia today charged that his plan to repeal the arms embargo is a veiled attempt to obligate the US to "help England and France defeat Germany." Senator Holt predicted that as the war situation progresses, and England and France fall behind, that Congress will be called back into session again and again to consider new amendments to neutrality legislation that will allow further US aid -- to the point where Congress may have to remain in session indefinitely.

Meanwhile, the President today endorsed efforts on the part of the Scandanavian states to maintain neutrality during the current war, offering the "moral support" of the United States toward that goal.

British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain says that with Germany failing to respond to Allied proposals for peace, Britain must prepare for more and bigger Nazi aerial attacks. The leader of the Labour opposition in the House of Commons, Major Clement Atlee, is demanding to know why the planes that attacked Scapa Flow this week weren't spotted until they were already over Scotland.

The 21-year-old commander of the German U-Boat that sunk the British battleship Royal Oak at Scapa Flow last week was decorated today by Chancellor Hitler. Commander Guenther Prien told reporters that other than a single motorist, nobody saw the submarine enter or exit Scapa Flow at the time of the attack.

Rough weather over the North Atlantic is reported to have injured 73 people aboard the liner President Harding, en route to New York. A Coast Guard cutter was dispatched to provide medical assistance to the stricken vessel, battered by gale-force winds.

The weather is having an effect in the city as well, with temperatures in Brooklyn this morning dropping to a record low of 33 degrees as of 6:20 AM.

The Chrysler strike continues in Detroit, with 2500 workers reported to be picketing the plant. The walkout occured last week after the company and the CIO United Auto Workers failed to reach an accord concering speedups on the assembly line.

Barbara Hutton's parents have separated. A personal advertisement placed in New York papers by Franklyn Laws Hutton declares that he assumes no responsibility for the debts of his wife, Irene C. Hutton. Meanwhile, their daughter, the Countess Barbara Mdvani Haugwitz-Reventlow, heiress to the Woolworth fortune, is reported en route from Italy with her son and her recently-divorced husband, on board the liner Conte De Savola, and will arrive in New York on Saturday.

A 56-year-old automobile salesman from Jackson Heights found trussed up and unconscious in the trunk of a car has recovered consciousness at a Long Island City hospital. Harry C. McGill is reported to be in fair condition after having been struck on the head with a tire pump by 20-year-old Francis Humel of Long Island City. McGill's first words upon awakening were "Where was the accident?" Humel is being held without bail pending an appearance before the grand jury.

Italy is reportedly considering plans to establish a Jewish colony in Ethiopia. The Mussolini government is said to be interested in a plan that would send up to five million people to the African possession, as proposed by the International Association for the Assistance of Jewish Refugees. The plan would be financed by the sale of 5,000,000 shares at $10 in the Western Hemisphere.

A gold cigarette case belonging to Major Bowes is missing from the Chrysler exhibit building at the World's Fair. The case, valued at $2000 was loaned for the exhibit along with other items received as gifts by the popular radio personality, and was displayed with the rest of the $100,000 collection in a locked display case. No other items were missing from the case, and the locks were undisturbed. (Maybe Chrysler should consider sponsoring Ellery Queen's radio program.)

Oppenheim-Collins welcomes EDDIE CANTOR back to Brooklyn! It's fathers like Eddie who keep a women's specialty store in business! Joyce Hunter, part of Eddie's entourage, will be in our Dress Department Friday 2:30. Come see her there!

Communist Party City Council candidate Peter V. Cacchione has appealed to Brooklyn's Supreme Court to overturn the Board of Elections decision barring him and three other candidates from the November ballot on technical grounds. Cacchione's petition is opposed by former Representative John J. O'Connor, who says that if the Court grants Cacchione's petition, he will argue that it is against public policy to allow Communist candidates to run.

Parents of children in PS 164, 14th Avenue at 42nd Street, are threatening a student strike in protest of poor conditions at the school building. Parents say the Board of Education has ignored their complaints that the school is unsafe, unsanitary, and unhealthful for their children. Mrs. Nancy Freeman, representing the parents, claims that the school's plumbing is broken and obsolete, that the building's cellar floods when it rains and that water seeps thru the walls, that chunks of plaster are falling from the ceilings and walls, and that damage resulting from a recent fire in a cupboard has not be repaired. Mrs. Freeman further notes that last year, the WPA decorated the walls with murals while the damaged ceilings were left hanging. Deputy Superintendant Frank E. Perkins says a $14,000 budget line item for repairs was cut this year as part of the general reduction in school budgets by the city. Perkins further noted that he has no jurisdiction over the WPA, and if the parents think the WPA can do the repairs, they should talk to President Roosevelt. (They must have done just that, because the building and the murals are still there.)

A young man found on the Hollywood doorstep of film star Lionel Barrymore with the bloody words "MOVIE STARS ARE NUTS" carved on his chest now admits that he did the carving himself. The youth, identified as 21-year-old Henry Lanford Davis of Kingford, Pennsylvania, had claimed earlier that he had been mutilated by a gang of three men, but finally told police that he cut himself with an old razor blade, hoping that Barrymore would take pity on him and give him a job.

Take a round trip to Chicago on board the New York Central's Pacemaker -- just $30.90!

Columbia's political drama "Mr. Smith Goes To Washington" had its premiere last night in a special screening before the National Press Club. Eagle film critic Herbert Cohn was on hand, and says the picture thrives on director Frank Capra's thorough research into how Washington really operates.

The most 1930s double feature that is conceivably possible is showing at the Brooklyn Fox. Boris Karloff stars in "The Man They Could Not Hang," paired with Joe Penner and Betty Grable in "The Day The Bookies Wept."

At the Patio, they're getting numerological with Ralph Richardson in "Four Feathers," paired with Lana Turner in "Three Glamour Girls." They ought to have a triple feature and get "Two Bright Boys."

Ray Tucker thinks there's something going on with Colonel Lindbergh -- specifically, he thinks Herbert Hoover is behind the scenes pulling his strings, grooming him as a surprise candidate for the Republican presidential nomination next year.

Popular songwriter Harry Revel, formerly of the song team of Gordon and Revel, was the victim of a "citizenship racket," court documents reveal. Revel, a British subject, paid $750 between 1931 and 1935 to 60-year-old Edward Friedlander of Woodside and 45 year old Benjamin Lawrence of Manhattan to create false birth documents giving him and his family natural-born citizen status in the United States. The two were indicted today in a Manhattan court. Revel brought the matter to the attention of the Bureau of Naturalization, and has not been charged. He has since applied for citizenship by conventional means.

Columnist Ed Hughes says Larry MacPhail was right when he raised eyebrows across the borough by declaring that the Dodgers aren't as good as we think they are. Ed says they don't belong in third place, and are basically a sixth-place club who played above their abilities this year. Improvements are necessary if they're to contend in 1940.

Tommy Holmes says the drop in ticket prices asked for the Yale-Army game this Saturday proves that today's football fan is shopping around for real in-game performance, not sideshow hoopla.

A high school football triple-header at Ebbets Field this Saturday pits Erasmus Hall agains New Utrecht, Madison against Hamilton, and Seward against Stuyvesant.

Singing movie cowboy Gene Autry joins Fred Allen tonight at 9pm over WEAF.

More strong stuff from Robert Quillen, who points out that it's one thing to talk about what we'll do about invading enemies, it's another thing to do something about the enemies who are already here: the people who are stripping away our valuable timber faster than nature can replace it, those who are wasting our petroleum in reckless greed, those who strip our slopes and mountains of vegetation and erode the lands below, those turn our rivers and streams into sewers with their industrial wastes, the market hunters who slaughter our wildlife. What are we doing about those enemies? "The end," he says, "is only a matter of time."

Mr. and Mrs. Bungle rush over to the Hobarts' apartment to find that Mr. Hobart tried to kill himself under the influence of "root beer" because he had an encounter with McGoinigle the Mouse. Mrs. Hobart accuses Mr. Bungle of trying to insult her intelligence. Of course he is, that's what he does.

Mary Worth scores Murdock the Butler for trying to interfere in Leona's personal life. Because that's what *she* does.

Dan Dunn rises and shines at 5 AM to go after those fish, but Irwin lacks enthusiasm. I hope there's kidnappers waiting down at the lake, because otherwise this story is no fun at all.

 

[Fading Fast]

... The leader of the Labour opposition in the House of Commons, Major Clement Atlee, is demanding to know why the planes that attacked Scapa Flow this week weren't spotted until they were already over Scotland...l.

Based on my surface knowledge of England's radar and air-plane-spotting infrastructure in '39, that seems like a pretty harsh demand.

...The Chrysler strike continues in Detroit, with 2500 workers reported to be picketing the plant. The walkout occured last week after the company and the CIO United Auto Workers failed to reach an accord concering speedups on the assembly line....

Headline in today's paper: "UAW Officials Vote to Extend Strike."

...Barbara Hutton's parents have separated. A personal advertisement placed in New York papers by Franklyn Laws Hutton declares that he assumes no responsibility for the debts of his wife, Irene C. Hutton. Meanwhile, their daughter, the Countess Barbara Mdvani Haugwitz-Reventlow, heiress to the Woolworth fortune, is reported en route from Italy with her son and her recently-divorced husband, on board the liner Conte De Savola, and will arrive in New York on Saturday....l.

All before Barbara's Cash & Carry days.

...A young man found on the Hollywood doorstep of film star Lionel Barrymore with the bloody words "MOVIE STARS ARE NUTS" carved on his chest now admits that he did the carving himself. The youth, identified as 21-year-old Henry Lanford Davis of Kingford, Pennsylvania, had claimed earlier that he had been mutilated by a gang of three men, but finally told police that he cut himself with an old razor blade, hoping that Barrymore would take pity on him and give him a job....

A bit of a foreshadowing of a case that caused a stir in January of this year.

...Take a round trip to Chicago on board the New York Central's Pacemaker -- just $30.90!....

$30.90 in'39 is about $571 today - inflation adjusted.

From the web: Amtrak fares can vary according to time of year. For the Chicago to New York trip, rail fares, good for one coach seat, range from $86 to $110 a person; the sleeping car surcharge for a roomette runs from $188 to more than $400; a large bedroom costsas much as $880

...At the Patio, they're getting numerological with Ralph Richardson in "Four Feathers," paired with Lana Turner in "Three Glamour Girls." They ought to have a triple feature and get "Two Bright Boys."...

"These Glamour Girls" is an outstanding picture. On the surface, it's a fun "college" movie, but it is really dark and deep - it's a pretty hard hitting movie by the end. Well worth catching the next time it shows on TCM. My comments on it here #24172

And '39's "Four Feathers" is a darn good version of frequently filmed story

...More strong stuff from Robert Quillen, who points out that it's one thing to talk about what we'll do about invading enemies, it's another thing to do something about the enemies who are already here: the people who are stripping away our valuable timber faster than nature can replace it, those who are wasting our petroleum in reckless greed, those who strip our slopes and mountains of vegetation and erode the lands below, those turn our rivers and streams into sewers with their industrial wastes, the market hunters who slaughter our wildlife. What are we doing about those enemies? "The end," he says, "is only a matter of time."....

Whatever your views on it, it shows that the battle is not new. Everything goes way back.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Mr. Henry Lanford Davis must've done a pretty thorough job with that blade, because the Daily News reports that he had collapsed from loss of blood by the time he was found. And to make matters worse, Mr. Barrymore wasn't even home.

On the other hand, I bet when Mr. Davis is drafted in a couple of years, he'll have a sure ticket out once he shows his chest to the Army psychiatrist.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Britain, France, and Turkey have signed a 15-year mutual-assistance pact. Under the agreement announced today in the House of Commons by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, Turkey agrees to aid the Allied Powers if they go to war in defense of Rumania and Greece. Chamberlain also revealed that the talks between Turkey and the Soviet Union broke down this week due to conflicts with this new three-party agreement.

From Berlin come claims that all French troops have been driven from Reich territories. The German Army High Command stated in a communique that the first phase of the war on the Western Front has ended with the withdrawal of French troops from German soil, and that German forces halted their advance at the French frontier.

Meanwhile, Germany has formally annexed to the Reich Polish territories taken from it in 1918. Under the annexation, the Polish provinces of Pomorze, Pommerellen, and Polish Upper Silesia will be absorbed into the two newly formed gaue, or administrative units, of West Prussia and Posen. The seat of government for West Prussia will be the former free city of Danzig, with administration in Posen conducted from the city of that name. Administrative governors will be directly appointed for these regions by Chancellor Adolf Hitler.

The head of the German American Bund today told the Dies Committee that his organization is firmly opposed to Communists in the United States. Fritz Kuhn, who is under indictment in New York on forgery and grand larceny charges, told the committee that he supports the recent non-aggression pact between Germany and Russia, but it would take him twenty-five minutes to explain why. Kuhn also explained to the Dies panel the organization of Bund operations in New York City, explaining the structure and naming the heads of individual Bund units.

A prosecution witness in the removal hearings for embattled Kings County Judge George Martin shocked a state Senate panel today in Albany when he stated that he never lost his trust for the Judge, even after he was pressured by the Judge to put up $700 of his own money to redeeem jewelry belonging to Mrs. Martin from a pawn shop. Brooklyn auto dealer Abe Messinger also confirmed that he was required to write a letter to the Judge before he was given back $600, with the balance of the "loan" redeemed thru an automobile purchase. Messinger denied losing faith in Judge Martin over the incident, despite statements in 1930 that he was "quite indignant" over the transaction.

Brooklyn College has a new head, with Dr. Harry D. Gideonese taking the administrative reins at the school. Borough President Robert Ingersoll and City Counciman Genevieve Earle presided over Dr. Gideonese's installation this morning in ceremonies before 250 invited guests at the Bedford Avenue campus. The 38-year-old Dr. Gideonese was formerly head of the Department of Economics at Barnard College.

An earthquake rattled much of the Northeast today, with the tremor centered about 150 miles north of New York City, and vibrations felt as far west as Ohio. Although dishes rattled and pictures went awry, no serious damage is reported.

A $15,000 damage suit over a broken elbow suffered by a 15-year-old boy at an apartment building on New Lots Avenue has been dropped after another youth testified that the injury did not occur in a fall down a flight of stairs, but rather as a result of the boy tripping over a first-floor riser. Sammy Backler had sued the management of the building claiming to have fallen over a broken step when he went to the apartment of his friend, 13-year-old Paul Emanuel, to borrow his football. But the Emanuel boy told a Brooklyn Supreme Court jury otherwise, causing Judge Cuff to toss out the case.

A New Rochelle man is dead following an argument with his wife over housekeeping. 26-year-old Anton Peterson, following an exchange of words with his wife Frances, took a pistol from a drawer and shot himself in the head.

The Raymond Street Jail, unfit for human habitation, now houses 525 men and women, 55 over its rated capacity.

A total of 730.140 people have registered to vote in Brooklyn for the coming election. Nearly 40 per cent of these voters are women.

Messengers for the Postal Telegraph Company will be guaranteed a 48 hour work week at 30 cents an hour, under a contract negotiated between the company and the CIO American Communications Association union. The company withdrew a request for an exemption allowing it to pay the messengers less than the Federal minimum wave.

Great Harvest Sale of Fine Candy Values at Loft! Old Dutch Chocolates, 27 cents a pound! Home made Pecan Mallows, 37 cents a pound. Special At The Fountain, Browned Corned Beef Hash served with poached egg, crisp lettuce, and tomato round, 25 cents.

Mr. and Mrs. Walter P. Chrysler Jr. of Great Neck have separated by mutual consent after a year and a half of marriage.

President Roosevelt today further buttressed American neutrality by prohibiting the presence of foreign submarines in US waters. Commanders of such vessels violating the prohibition will be subject to Federal prosecution and a prison sentence.

Odo-ro-no cream checks perspiration safely! 1 ounce jar for 31 cents, in the toiletries department on the first floor at Loeser's.

Mayor LaGuardia has endorsed Republican-Fusion incumbent Chief Justice William R. Bayes for reelection in the Court of Special Sessions. Democratic and American Labor Party leaders have withheld comment on the endorsement, which marks the full kickoff of the Brooklyn election season.

Meanwhile, Fusion councilman Genevieve B. Earle declared that support for independent candidates like herself is the way to stop the "sabotage of legislation" by "futile committees" that has characterized the Council over the past two years. She blistered councilmen who make political speeches about "the American flag and democracy" while at the same time tabling important bills to protect consumers.

Magistrate Charles Solomon, in a talk broadcast over station WEVD, criticized William O'Dwyer, Democratic nominee for Brooklyn District Attorney, as a "good intentions" candidate who would nonetheless be under the control of the party machine. Magistrate Solomon is the American Labor Party's nominee for DA.

Eleanor Lemanna, successor to the aquaeceous Eleanor Holm as queen of Billy Rose's Aquacade at the World's Fair is in Polyclinic Hospital today with a wrenched back, suffered when she got in the way of several of the "aqua boys," who were "having a scrimmage backstage." Uh huh.

Self-Service is a Short Cut to Cut Your Food Costs! You'll save no end of trouble at your local A&P Super Market! No Waiting in Lines! You Help Yourself To Bargains!

New hats hide hair -- but don't slack on grooming! Plan coiffure that won't be spoiled by new tight fit of the covered up silhouette -- try Latest Rococo Swirls! Uh, ok, I think?

Eddie Cantor's eyes are popping, for there's finally a boy in the family! His daughter Natalie just gave birth to a son, making the radio, stage, and movie favorite a first-time grandpa. The Downtown Brooklyn Association hosted a luncheon today at the Hotel Bossert welcoming the comedian to the borough, where he opens today heading his big radio revue at Loew's Metropolitan. Cantor took a serious note in his remarks to the gathering, noting that his life has been threatened over his outspoken opposition to Hitler and fascism, and he urged the assembled businessmen to make the fight against Hitler's poisonous propaganda their business -- and their businesses their sideline. "This is not a Jewish question," he warned. "It may be Jewish today, Catholic tomorrow, Protestant the next day."

Now showing at the RKO Albee, see Lew Ayers in the uncensored antiwar classic "All Quiet On The Western Front," with co-feature "The Under-Pup" starring Universal's new song sensation Gloria Jean.

World's Greatest Vaudeville at the Flatbush Theatre, this week presenting the comic star of "The Wizard of Oz" Jack Haley, heading a bill featuring Bing Crosby's Leading Lady Mary Carlisle and Bill Marshall's Orchestra. On the screen, see "Bombs Over London."

Laced-Brim Gridiron Bunny Felt -- A Classic That Looks Aristocratic! $1.98 at Abraham & Straus! Not a very good deal for the bunny.

Princeton will offer a tougher match for Columbia than Army did in Ivy League action this Saturday.

Why didn't Leo Durocher see any support for Most Valuable Player this year, rhetorically asks Tommy Holmes. Well, Leo did a bangup job bringing the Dodgers in for an unexpected third-place finish -- but the MVP award is giving for on-field playing performance, and though player-managers are eligible, Leo only hit .276 this year in just 110 games. That hardly compares with Bucky Walters winning 27 on the mound for the Reds.

The widow of the former owner of the Pepsi-Cola Company has settled a lawsuit against two subsequent owners of the soft-drink firm stemming from irregularites of in the transfer of the company's stock among the various parties. Mrs. Margery K. Megargel will be paid a settlement of $240,000, half to be paid by Loft, Inc, the current owners of Pepsi Cola, and half by previous owner Charles G. Guth.

Mr. Hobart is glad to hear that his encounter with McGoinigle the Mouse was not the root beer talking. "I haven't been so happy since my first wife left."

Leona Stockpool, reclining langoriously in skin-tight black pants as she exhales a plume of cigarette smoke, says Ted Perry is alright, but a famous debutante like she is should get the man she deserves. "Yes, you should," mutters Mary Worth thru gritted teeth.

Dan Dunn and Kay watch the sun rise from their canoe and their thoughts turn romantic -- until Irwin's shrill cry HEY DAN C'MERE QUICK! punctures the moment. Dan, freed from the spell, paddles manically to shore while Kay envisions Irwin's swift execution. Hey, now that'd be a neat plot twist!

 

[Fading Fast]

Britain, France, and Turkey have signed a 15-year mutual-assistance pact. Under the agreement announced today in the House of Commons by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, Turkey agrees to aid the Allied Powers if they go to war in defense of Rumania and Greece. Chamberlain also revealed that the talks between Turkey and the Soviet Union broke down this week due to conflicts with this new three-party agreement....

Turkey having one foot in the West and one in the East continues to this day.

...Mr. and Mrs. Walter P. Chrysler Jr. of Great Neck have separated by mutual consent after a year and a half of marriage....

The heir to the Chrysler fortune, I assume?

...President Roosevelt today further buttressed American neutrality by prohibiting the presence of foreign submarines in US waters. Commanders of such vessels violating the prohibition will be subject to Federal prosecution and a prison sentence....

Easy to say, hard to enforce.

...Self-Service is a Short Cut to Cut Your Food Costs! You'll save no end of trouble at your local A&P Super Market! No Waiting in Lines! You Help Yourself To Bargains!....

Another analog version of something fully blossoming in the digital age. From memory, in 1939, so far, we've seen an analog version of viral advertising, one for grocery delivery and now this one for in-store self service.

...Now showing at the RKO Albee, see Lew Ayers in the uncensored antiwar classic "All Quiet On The Western Front," ....

I'm sure its revival timing was not coincidental. Very cool move.

...The widow of the former owner of the Pepsi-Cola Company has settled a lawsuit against two subsequent owners of the soft-drink firm stemming from irregularites of in the transfer of the company's stock among the various parties. Mrs. Margery K. Megargel will be paid a settlement of $240,000, half to be paid by Loft, Inc, the current owners of Pepsi Cola, and half by previous owner Charles G. Guth....

Cheating the widow and dirty inside deals to take control of companies is clearly not something our generation invented.

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[LizzieMaine]

Yep, Chrysler Jr. was one of those languid playboy characters who seemed to be everywhere in the late thirties -- he ran a publishing company for a while until he got bored with it, and then dabbled in the world of modern art before the old man told him to settle down and put him in charge of the Chrysler Building. The photo along with the story shows him in an open necked sport shirt, a houndstooth checked tweed sport coat, and mattress-striped pants with some kind of fancy patterned belt holding them up. All that's missing is an ascot. The soon to be ex-Mrs Chrysler Jr. is wearing a cotton dress covered in sailboats. A more Great Necky pair could not be imagined. (There were rumors that the marriage broke up because Junior had Other Inclinations, which rumors were apparently true. But you didn't read it in the Eagle. Save that stuff for the Mirror.)

The display ad for "All Quiet" is quite spectacular -- THEY BANNED IT! THEY BURNED IT! YOU CAN'T BLACKOUT TRUTH! Universal was the one US studio to refuse to do business with Hitler Germany, and there is no question that they re-released the picture at this particular moment to make a point.

Along those same lines, I'm impressed with Eddie Cantor's remarks at the Bossert luncheon. He was by far the most outspoken and militant anti-Fascist in show business, and the reason he's playing 25 cent vaudeville matinees in Brooklyn just now is because his radio sponsor R. J. Reynolds canned him -- because after all, Nazis smoke Camels too. Cantor didn't let it faze him a bit -- and kept right on speaking out. Not too many stars, then or now, have his guts. Wish I could go take in his show.

 

[Farace]

This whole thread has me itching to re-read E.L. Doctorow's World's Fair, which I read so long ago that I've completely forgotten the plot. I'm sure it's still on a bookshelf around here, somewhere. If books were liquid, I'd have drowned years ago.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I remember reading that when it came out, but don't remember the details. I wonder if Doctorow figured out who stole Major Bowes' cigarette case?

 

[LizzieMaine]

Chancellor Adolf Hitler has called for a meeting of his ambassadors to Turkey, Russia, and Italy in the wake of the Turks' three-way mutual assistance pact with Britain and France. The Fuehrer calls the treaty "a mistake" for Turkey, and will confer with his envoys before declaring his next move.

British planes have reportedly repelled another Nazi air attack on Scotland. Mr. Atlee will be pleased to know that the RAF intercepted the planes well before their arrival at Firth of Forth, and no bombs were dropped.

President Roosevelt today clarified and underlined his declared ban of foreign submarines from US waters, declaring that the prohibition will be enforced up to the three-mile limit.

A conference today in Finland will continue with preparations for the next round of discussions with the Soviet Union by planning a four-way united front with the other Nordic states.

A prominent Brooklyn racketeer is expected to take the stand for the prosecution in Albany in hearings to determine whether Kings County Judge George Martin should be removed from office. Slot machine king Leo P. Byk is reputed to be an "intimate friend" of Judge Martin, and Assistant Attorney General John H. Amen is expected to explore just how intimate their ties have been.

Fears of espionage in view of the European War will for the first time bar the public from witnessing Navy Day observances at the Brooklyn Navy Yard next Sunday.

The up-and-down temperatures continue, but "up" will prevail at least over the next few days, with a high of around 70 expected today under partly-cloudy skies.

A Staten Island midwife faces a murder charge after the death of a 29-year-old woman at Jamacia Hospital last night. 53-year-old Jane Schuchmann was already facing charges of performing an abortion on Mrs. Beatrice Kearney at her home on Sutphin Boulevard in New Dorp on August 29th, and was free on $1000 bail. Mrs. Kearney's death from complications from that abortion brought the additional charge of murder. Mrs. Schuchmann will be arraigned today in New Brighton court.

One of the four Communist candidates ruled off the upcoming City Council ballot will appear after all after the reversal of a Supreme Court judge's ruling. Philip P. Crosbie of Queens will be listed on the November ballot after an appellate body found that his nomination petitions were in order.

The Dies Committee will continue to question German-American Bund leader Fritz Kuhn today over the ties between his organization and the German government. Kuhn and his lawyers declined to answer questions concerning Bund finances due to Kuhn facing current charges of grand larceny and forgery in New York.

53 Years Before The First Auto Show, Schaefer Beer was already over half a century old. Our Hand Has Never Lost Its Skill!

The Board of Estimate has finally voted to fund furnishings necessary to open the new Brooklyn Public Library building near Grand Army Plaza. An appropriation of $101,000 will fit out the new structure, with a request for bids going out immediately.

Four Brooklynites have taken honors in a soap sculpture contest sponsored by Procter & Gamble Company. Leonard Barris, Joseph Shapiro, Max Zarin, and Vincent Valentino will have their work displayed at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.

Preaching of race hatred in Brooklyn will be prohibited if William O'Dwyer is elected the borough's District Attorney. The Democratic candidate so pledged today at a meeting with the Brooklyn Urban League.

It's Regularity That Counts When Saving For A Rainy Day. Well, I eat a lot of All-Bran but I'm still always broke.

Win $1000 Cash in a Golden Bowl in the big Wheatena Jingle Contest!

Eddie Cantor's radio revue at Loew's Metropolitan is a zippy, laugh-provoking show. Cantor follows his familiar radio format of audience chit-chat, sentimental philosophy, and jack-in-the-box clowning, but occasionally cuts loose with some spicier material. His stooges, including The Mad Russian (Bert Gordon) and Mr. Guffy (Sidney Fields) are in fine form, and there is excellent musical support. High points of the show include Cantor's burlesque of Shirley Temple, in which he cavorts in a golden wig and gingham pantie-dress, and his anti-war anthem "Let Them Keep It Over There." (Presumably not performed in a gingham pantie dress, but with Cantor you can never tell.)

On the screen following the live Cantor performance is "Fast and Furious," with Ann Sothern and Franchot Tone.

If you have any of those plain white label records -- you know the kind, wink wink -- by Dwight Fiske hidden inside your Victrola, he's playing an engagement in the Cafe Lounge at the Savoy Plaza over in Manhattan this week. You know the kind of show he does, wink wink.

It seems that Cardinals owner Sam Breadon just can't make up his mind about Ducky Medwick. Now the St. Louis boss says the slugging outfielder is available -- at the right price. Over to you, Mr. MacPhail.

Meanwhile, the Boston Bees figure to be working the trade marts over the winter, with old Brooklyn pal Casey Stengel desperate to improve his sad seventh-place club. Max West, Al Lopez, or Buddy Hasset could be trade bait, but after that the quality available does fall off a bit. West may be, after Medwick, the most sought-after player in the National League right now, but what could the Dodgers give up to get him?

This'll be worth a listen -- the Dead End Kids meet Kate Smith, 8pm on WABC.

George has a sound idea for getting rid of McGoinigle the Mouse, but capturing a wild alley cat and getting him upstairs without getting his face clawed off might be a problem.

Leona wants to go out stepping -- solo -- at the "Congo Club," but Mary insists on coming along as her chaperone. Result -- an angry evening of listening to the radio and staring at each other.

Irwin reports that Sherrif Nigel Bruce has discovered a "murder -- or a suicide" for Dan to investigate. Kay would roll her eyes if you could see them under her giant caterpillar-like lashes.

 

[Fading Fast]

Chancellor Adolf Hitler has called for a meeting of his ambassadors to Turkey, Russia, and Italy in the wake of the Turks' three-way mutual assistance pact with Britain and France. The Fuehrer calls the treaty "a mistake" for Turkey, and will confer with his envoys before declaring his next move....

When I see it calmly written that Hitler called something "a mistake," the image that immediately comes to mind is the famous Hitler rant scene from "Downfall."

...British planes have reportedly repelled another Nazi air attack on Scotland. Mr. Atlee will be pleased to know that the RAF intercepted the planes well before their arrival at Firth of Forth, and no bombs were dropped.....

...President Roosevelt today clarified and underlined his declared ban of foreign submarines from US waters, declaring that the prohibition will be enforced up to the three-mile limit.....

Not faulting FDR at all, but "underlying" it doesn't make enforcing it any easier.

...It's Regularity That Counts When Saving For A Rainy Day. Well, I eat a lot of All-Bran but I'm still always broke....

...On the screen following the live Cantor performance is "Fast and Furious," with Ann Sothern and Franchot Tone.....

Fun husband and wife teams who are rare book dealers and dabble in detective work - which usually just falls into their laps - popped up occasionally back then. I think this one might have been part of a series that had different actors in the lead roles as I'm pretty sure I've seen a movie with a very similar set up with Robert Montgomery and Rosalind Russell as the leads. They all seemed to be "The Thin Man" copycats.


Nothing new playing at The Patio today?

 

[LizzieMaine]

Hitler is probably throwing his pencil at a map even as we speak.

The Patio has Gary Cooper in "Beau Geste," paired with Jane Withers in "The Chicken Wagon Family." The Patio is a swell theatre with the goldfish and all, but its double features often defy rationality. Both of these features have been out for nearly three months, and "Beau Geste" had to play the Brooklyn Paramount before moving on to Flatbush, but I kinda doubt "The Chicken Wagon Family" needed to wait quite so long.

This is a big, big weekend coming up if you want to go into The City -- the big first run palaces are showing some big, big features. "Mr. Smith Goes To Washington" has its first New York run at Radio City Music Hall, with a "Jerome Kern Cavalcade" as the stage attraction, "Babes In Arms" is on at the Capitol, "Hollywood Cavalcade" is showing at the Roxy, "On Your Toes" is at the Strand, with Hal Kemp and his "Time to Shine" Orchestra featuring the stage entertainment, and "Good Bye Mr. Chips" is in its 6th big month at the Astor.

None of these features have made it to Brooklyn, and probably won't for a while now. But who's got Eddie Cantor? Yeah, top that.

Herbert Cohn made the trip to Manhattan to see "Mr Smith" at the Music Hall, and his second viewing -- he'd seen it earlier at a press screening -- didn't sit entirely well. He criticizes the shallow logic in the filibuster scene, suggesting that even the stupidest senator couldn't fail to see the bogusness of the accusations against Smith, and he considers the whole scene to be too exaggerated to be convincing. He thinks the script could have been more subtle instead of setting up obvious windmills for Don Quixote Smith to attack. "But director Capra meant well."

 

[LizzieMaine]

73 injured persons are among the passengers and crew aboard the weatherbeaten liner President Harding, which docked today in New York after a tumultous journey thru the heart of an Atlantic hurricane. Winds over 110 miles and hour and waves 100 feet high tossed the United States Lines vessel, washing a cabin boy overboard to his death and causing one woman to be scalped by a falling table. Among the 598 passengers and crew of 300 were 37 survivors of the torpedoed British freighter Heronspool, picked up by the Harding at sea before the storm. The cabin boy, identified as 22-year-old Paul Johnson, is so far the only known fatality, but the ship's butcher, severely burned by hot grease and boiling water, is not expected to recover from his injuries. 27 of the injured persons were immediately hospitalized after being taken off the ship on stretchers.

The Soviet newspaper Isvestia today prints an article warning that Turkey's pact with Britain and France will serve only to draw that nation into the European War by altering the balance of power in the Mediterranean. While the German response has been to minimize the impact of the treaty, the Soviets printed the full text of the document, and indicated that it will not drive a wedge into the non-aggression treaty between the USSR and Germany.

The Senate today voted to limit debate on repeal of the Arms Embargo, ensuring a vote on the measure by the end of next week.

A 40-year-old Brooklyn mother and her curly-haired 9-year-old daughter are safe today thanks to the heroism of two tugboat deckhands who rescued them from a strong current at the foot of 39th Street. Mrs. Mamie Gunderson of 512 Bergen Street and her daughter Eleanor were passengers aboard the 39th Street ferryboat Tremont when Eleanor fell over the boat's rail into the water -- and her mother immediately jumped overboard to save her. Both were caught in the current, and as the ferry crew sent up emergency flares to summon help, two crewmen of the nearby Eastern Steamship Lines tugboat Norfolk leaped into action. Fully clothed, deckhands George Nelson of Ettingsvile, Staten Island, and Nicholas Nelson of Manhattan swum to the aid of the mother and child just as Mrs. Gunderson was losing consciousness after striving for fifteen minutes to keep her daughter's head above water. A police emergency squad was waiting when the Norfolk arrived at the 39th Street slip.

60,000 will jam the Yale Bowl today for the football game between the Bulldogs and Army. The big anticipated crowd is the result of a cut-price ticket policy that makes 35,000 seats available at $1.65, down from the usual price of $3.30.

Proprietors of San Francisco's World's Fair are taking steps to forestall bankruptcy. The management of the Golden Gate International Exposition today filed a petition in Federal court under the Emergency Bankruptcy Law, stating liabilities of more than $4.6 million against assets and accounts receivable totallng slightly over $547,000. While the move does not amount to a formal declaration of bankruptcy it will prevent seizure of assets by creditors for the time being.

A police officer shot and killed a crazed war veteran today at a United States Veteran's Bureau office in Manhattan. Jesse Smith of Troy, New York entered the office at 9:30 this morning, waving a gun and threatening the Bureau's chief attorney James A. Clare. Radio Patrolman John McKelvery, summoned when employees called police, entered the office with gun drawn, and shot and killed Smith.

A Carrol Street man was arraigned today in Flatbush on charges of maintaining a public nuisance, after neighbors complained about his pet rooster. 63 year old Charles Buckridge told Magistrate D. Joseph D'Andrea that he did keep the bird, but he didn't think it crowed *that* much. Neighbors alleged that the large fowl crowed constantly, day and night. Magistrate D'Andrea suggested that the approach of Thanksgiving might offer a solution to the problem, proposing that Buckridge host a chicken dinner for his neighbors, but Buckridge protested that the rooster is his granddaughter's pet and he will not kill it. The court agreed that the bird's life will be spared if Buckridge immediately deports it to "rural surroundings."

Indian evangelist Chief White Feather, grandson of Sitting Bull, will preach at a series of revival meetings to be held at St. Andrew's Lutheran Church in Ozone Park beginning tomorrow and continuing thru next Friday.

"Three Negroes" face charges after they were arrested yesterday while picketing at a grocery store on Gates Avenue. The proprietor of the store, Morris Kushner of 532 Gates Avenue, accused the picketers of trying to extort money from him. The pickets, 21-year-old Cauley Sanders of 302 Lewis Avenue, 20 year old John McNair of 45 Claver Place, and 24 year old Miss Viola Davis of 890 Flushing Avenue deny any extortion took place, telling a Felony Court magistrate that they were protesting Kushner's refusal to hire Negro help at his store.

Larry MacPhail says there's nothing to Cardinal owner Sam Breadon's statement that Joe Medwick is available "at the right price." The Dodger president, back in town after his vacation, says that his $200,000 cash offer for the slugging outfielder is right where it's been all year, and accuses Breadon and his general manager Branch Rickey of simply trying to jack up interest in Ducky beyond any reasonable price. MacPhail says Rickey tried to dicker with him during the World Series, throwing out names like Coscarart, Durocher, Lavagetto, and young Reese while knowing full well the Dodgers have no intention of giving up any of those men.

MacPhail also says that nothing should be inferred from the fact that Leo Durocher has yet to sign a new contract for 1940, noting that while he was off on vacation, Leo's been home in St Louis spending time with his wife.

The Football Dodgers and the Philadelphia Eagles will "play rough" tomorrow at Ebbets Field, the result of a simmering feud between owners Dan Topping and Bert Bell.

Jack Haley and Mary Carlisle, now heading the bill at the Flatbush Theatre, will be the guests of Erasmus Hall High School for the schoolboy football triple-header today at Ebbets Field.

Mildred Bailey joins Benny Goodman and his Orchestra tonight at 10pm on WEAF. Nuff sed.

Jo does not approve at all of the "frowsy looking cat" brought up to the apartment by her husband, and approves even less when George stuffs the "low cat" down the hole in the floor to go after McGoinagle the Mouse. George has no reply when Jo asks him how he plans to get the cat back out. Maybe he can punch a new hole in the wall.

Mary Worth and grandson Dennie are exploring the woods around the Stockpool estate when they stumble upon Murdock the Butler and a furtive-looking man in an overcoat and big black hat. "Be patient, Fritz!" says the scheming servant. "The old lady is too smart! But you can wait for A MILLION DOLLARS." Wait, FRITZ??? Is Murdock an embezzler, an extortionist -- or a NAZI SPY??? Will Mary Worth punch a Nazi before the story is over, or will she have to have George Bungle come down to do it? I can't wait to find out!

Sherrif Nigel Bruce leads Dan Dunn to a cabin with a slumped-over corpse in a chair, and calls it suicide. Dan, because he's the world's most observant detective, points out to the poor hick that the body has a bullet hole on the left side of its head, but the gun on the floor is next to the right hand. Didn't you ever read that How To Be A Detective manual you ordered from the back of Adventure Comics?

 

[LizzieMaine]

740 Carroll Street, home of Charles Buckridge, his granddaughter and their rooster.

Keep Manhattan, just gimme that countryside.