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1 went into radio because I
i still like it. but there
'are too 'many ulcers in that bust
back from Army
I service I realized I wameu a
',1c more orderly, more serious lile.
' so 1 look upon this first novel
I... .nnaPv symbolic, l aon i ue
lieve 1 eer had any real tempera
L,.ntai capacity for the complex
pattern on whicn nonywoou ua
rccrs are cut.
Yti-iioa Alinut Mexicans
Lord's book is about simple
people, residents of a small town
in Durango, Mexico. He has put
into it their troubles, joys, loves
and, of necessity, something of
their hates, too.
It has been said of Lord that
he writes about Mexico more as
a Mexican than as an American.
But Lord was born in Los Angeles.
Except for periods of residence
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agements have been viewing with
alarm lor months, and their worst
final fears apparently are realized.
Business indeed is "brutal". Until
recently, there had been a few
gloomy optimists who insisted that
bad as it was, the slump couldn't
last. But it has.
Convinced that an unsnrpn was
around a corner somewhprn Darin
and Jimmv Vernon reoDened their
La Martinique after folding two
months ago, Dut alter an expensive
month of added operation they
have given up again. Several fam
ous Broadway clubs are "C.O.D.".
meaning they must pay for their
food and liquor as it is delivered,
so bad is their credit during this
slackening period.
There are all sorts of definite
suggestions that the lads had bet
ter pull in their belts a few more
notches and try to wait it out. The
Paramount Theater, one of Times
Square's biggest movie mosques,
was the first to drop prices. Several
others have followed. New plays
coming to town are announcing
admission prices will be $3 a ticket,
lowest since before the war.
Leon and Eddie's, nnp nf Iho
big burg's most famous clubs, drop-1
ped drink prices from a wartime
top of a dollar or more to a prewar
norm of 75 cents. Few night clubs
are turning profits.
The monetary plunge back to
prewar prices also has hit the
theater, Biggest musical hit on
the street is "Brigadoon," which
scales its tickets from $4.80 on
week days and slightly more on
week ends. Thp last maior musi
cal to arrive on Broadway with this
comparatively skimpy ticket charge
was "Oklahomo," now in its fourth
year.
The Theater Guild, always ready
to adjust itself to any reasonably
Drnerpssivp trpnd has Hrnnnpd its
ticket, top for "Carousel" from $6
to $i.eu. j ne management ot a
Young Man's Fancy" announced
before its premiere that it would
charge no more than $3 a ticket
plus tax.
"Life With Father." faced with
loss of its West 45th Street home
before long when the handsome
little Bijou Theater gets torn down
to make room for a skyscraping
Broadway office building, has begun
arrangements to shift for the warm
months to, the Alvin Theater, which
has approximately twice the seat
ing capacity of the Bijou. When it
moves olans now rail for a ticket
top of $1 50 during the week, slight
ly higher week ends, in an at
tempt to catch movie audiences
which have been educated to high
er Broadway film admissions but
not to the $4.80 to $7.20 which has
been the expected charge for legi
timate theatricals during the list
five years.
The fanciest night clubs have
dropped cover charges. Some of
the big, noisy Broadway saloons are
experimenting with no minimum
charges. Without much argument,
it appears that Main Stem econo
mists are following the Truman
suggestion to cut prices. With
these local lads, though, this new
policy is as much a question of
survival as it is a thumb in the
national dike against inflation.
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in Mexico, he has spent most of his
life in and near Los Angeles. At
the University of California at
Los Aneeles. he maiored in psy
chology, but his interest in people
predated his formal education Dy
many fears. He began to write at
14, and during high school days
he edited and published a neigh
borhood newspaper, ihe Fairfax-
Carthay News, which reached e
circulation of 15,000. He worked in
a grocery store, a fruit market, a
hardware store, and he sold newspapers.
His first professional writing
job was for a Hollywood radio
station where he also directed and
produced his own material for a
starting salary of $6 a week. Sev
en months later he sold his first
big-time radio drama, and was
hired by two screen writers who
taught him scenario technique.
Had Coast-to-Coast Show
In succeeding years he handled
network broadcast shows and in
1944 got his own coast-to-coast ra
dio show for which he adapted,
produced and directed such dramas
as "None But the Lonely Heart"
and "The Hitler Gang".
In the Army he became one of
the first writers for war training
films and worked with the signal
corps at Astoria, L. I., with Wil
liam Saroyan, Irwin Shaw and
others.
The writing in his first novel
might be termed brutal or real
tctin Aonondina uDon the sensi-
tivities of the reader. But Lord
himself is wholly genial. His man
ner is quick, nervous and exuber
ant. He fires questions in machine
gun fashion but he has the good
grace to wait for answers
WHAT THEY DO ON A
RAINY DAY IN NEW YORK:
FIND VOICE TALENT
NEW YORK Shirley Brodersen,
a Buffalo, New York, gal who writes
short stories under the slick maga
zine name of Ronna Lord, is a sult
ry and handsome young lady who
apparently managed to sustain her
sophisticated aplomb and good
looks through a recent downpour.
As she was about to board a taxi
in a driving rain on Madison
Avenue, she was tapped for singing
stardom by a fellow who knows his
vocal onions, Al Siegal, who taught
Ethel Merman. Frances Langtorci.
Ginger Rogers, Betty Grable and
other notable larks.
Seems Shirley was just getting
into the cab and was telling the
driver her address when Siegal
climbed in by the other door. He
listened for about five words of
Shirley's directions to the cab pilot
and started talking.
Shirley, Siegal informed her,
possesses one of those strange
voices, a set of pipes which delivers
tones in the Tallulah Bankhead
manner, away down among the bari
tones. Shirley thought she was be
ing accosted with some glib new
slant on the old "audition" ap
proach. The driver, who actually
had been waiting to drive Al home,
assured her. however, the lad is
what he said he was a vocal coach
of national repute! So Shirley bent
an attractive ear and apparently
was sold on the idea ot shilling ner
talents from the typewriter to torch
singing.
Sioeal arraneed lessons, sold
several of his agent friends nn her j
deep-toned talents and prepared to
send the literary lass off on the
Merman road, emphasizing that
Ethel currently is earning $4,500
a week as star of "Annie Get Your
Gun". Shirley at the time seemed
quite delighted at such a luture
tax problem, but now Al doesn t
know quite what to make of the
young lady.
"She shnfflpd nff to Buffalo with
out lettign me know she didn't like
the idea of a singing career after
thinking it over. It's okay with me
if the eirl doesn't want to make a
fortune. But I hate to think of that
gorgeous possibility being wasted.
She'd have been the only baritone
singer with sex appeal in show
business.
HOLDING TIGHT to the cop's club, a Bell Telephone picket m Detroit
rushed away by two policemen after several sinkers attempted to
terfere with a person entering the telephone building. The arrest set oft
small riot which was quickly suppressed. (Intcr.mtumol Soundphoto)
NOW YOU
TELL ONE
were damasiiiR the clubhouse
roof, partly with a view to beautl
Iviui! the Riounds. Since then a
honey bee vunturc, a trial at rais-
Sentelle Named
Commander Of
CantQi Legion
Jack Sentelle has been elected
coiuander of Varner - Rhinehart
American Legion, post No. 01. of
Canton, it has been announced by
Floyd Fender, newly elected adjutant.
Other officers elected are George
Hanaer. Cecil Roberts, and Loran-
zo Smathers. vice-commanders; W.
F. Fender, adjutant; Jeter Wil
liams, retiring commander, finance
officer; Guy Roberts, service offi
cer; W. C. Moody, assistant service
officer; Thomas Morgan, guaruian
shiD officer: Carroll Towe. ser-
geant-at-arms; Mrs. Louise Leather-
woor), chaplain; Bruce Leather
wood, historian: Flossie DeWecse,
athletic officer; Miss Kate Rick
ards, child welfare officer; Harmon
Moore, Americanism; Carter L.
Rhinehart. national defense: J. M.
Wells, graves registration; A. J.
Reno, employment officer; L. J.
Cannqn, boys state; John Stephens,
Boy Scout chairman; G e o r g e
Hanger, membership; Robert E.
Wood, Jr., publicity chairman; W.
P. Whitesides, oratorical contest
officer, and C. M. Beall, chairman
of the Sons of the Legion.
THEY HAVE VOTES
BUT NO BALLOTS
LITTLE YORK, 111. i AIM The
election judges and clerks arrived
at the village hall at 6 a.m. They
opened (he door, posted instruc
tion sheets, sharpened their pen
cils. Then they made a disconcert
ing discovery. There weren't any
ballots. Nobody had arranged to
havp anv minted. So. after a tele
phone conference with the county
clerk, a supply was run off quickly
on a duplicating machine.
BRITON CARRIES ON
WITH "WALKING' AUTO
LONDON (AIM Twenty-year-old
Ralph Albert and his
wife hirve no parking worries.
After driving home to their
apartment house, they simply
carry their homemade automo
bile upstairs In their hands, and
shove it into the hall closet. Al-
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Al muttered gloomily along
about this Buffalo gal who wouldn t
come out tonight, or apparently
any night, to sing for her supper.
He srunted. a last, despairing Oh,
Well," and headed for. his East Side
apartment where, he would, he
said. Daint a portrait from memory
of a lady baritone with looks, a fig
ure and sex appeal.
That's the wav this occasional
genius quiets his musical tempera
mentby painting in oils, water
colors, sketching tne Doais in me
East River, the traffic on 57th
Street, or his beautiful wife, who,
incidentally, sings too.
Kill Sap-Sucker
The forest service announces that
aerial spraying of infested pine
plantations in Wisconsin and Michi
gan national forests resulted in bet
ter than 90 per cent kill of the
spittle bug, a sap-sucking insect na
tive of the lake states. Two planes
were used to spray 2,400 acres.
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COMMANDER- IH-KIE? OPJ iJV '
ins cantaloupes and a geese farm
ing business have backfired for
Kimi. Orchids, which became his
pride and joy, were growing by
the hundreds for Kimi until last
week. Vandals paid him a visit
and what they didn't carry off
they wrecked. All that was left
was one basket of the Mowers
and one bunch wrapped as pro
tection against the weather. "I
wonder w hat's next?" asks Kimi,
as he ponders the possibility
there's coine to be one kahuna
(evil spirit) called down upon
him f-r each of the six coconut
trees he had cut down.
Two Famous Paintings
Placed In White House
WASHINGTON (AP) Two
j famous paintings were hung last
! week in the executive lobby Of the
j White House.
One is "The Peacemakers" pui
chased for $10,000 some tnree
! months ago. Painted by George P.
I A. Healy, about 1868. it depicts
i President Lincoln, General Grant.
! General Sherman, and Admiral
i Porter in conference aboard the
steamship "River Queen" during
i the last days of the War Between
: the States. ,
Thi- sppnnd is "Men ci Progress."
Painted by Shussele in 1862. It be
longs to the National Gallery of
Art and was borrowed by the White
House.
It is the artist's idea of a confer
ence of notable inventors and in
dustrial pioneers.
Among those in the picture are
Cyrus Hall McCormick, Charles
Goodyear, Samuel Morse, Samuel
Colt, Robert Hoe and 14 other not
ables of their time.
Cotton was used in Peru cen
turies before white men came to
the Americas.
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CROWDED HOUSING
DECATUR. HI. 1 AP) The
housing situation is pretty tough,
but now here is it any worse than
in the chicken house behind Fred
.1. Pierce's home. A cat and a lit
ter of kittens are sharing a nest
u ill) two hens.
bert's car is two feet 10 inches
wide just small enough to Ret
through the front door of his
"factory" a room in his sec
ond floor apartment. It seats two
people, side by side, is powered
with a three horsepower motor
cycle engine and gets 75 miles
to the gallon. Albert hopes to
market the car.
OFFICER! ARREST HIM!
BISMARCK, N. D. (AP)- Hav
ing the radiator ornament on Ins
car stolen annoyed a farm visit or
to Bismarck. But what annoyed
him more was where the theft took
place in front of the police slu-tion.
WHO CAN MAKE
A TREE BEHAVE?
HILO, Hawaii (AP) Old time
Hawaiians say it is bad luck to
cut down a coconut tree and A.
J. Kimi had been warned against
it. As head of the grounds com
mittee at the American Legion
clubhouse Kimi ordered six trees
cut down, partly because the nuts
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See Mrs. Jake Sutton, next door.
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