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16 A BROOKLYN1 EAGLE, SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 1939 Plan Hospital Bal Tonight Brewster Kept Charm While Losing Millions wM.immmmmmmmf mmUMammmu mmm ammmm mmu on the life of Wilson, Napoleon and The passing of Eugene Valentine Brewster, one of the most colorful Namm's Grants Wage, Hour Plan Guarantee to Employes Believed First Move Of Kind in Nation various other brochures on how to of Brooklynites, in Long Island College Hospital, on New Year's Day, toblography describes his first marriage when he was earning $5 a week, his Interest In politics, the boy orator for Orover Cleveland, his great interest in William Jennings Bryan, and his nomination for attorney general. He went on: "He was nominated by two nartiea was in stern contrast to the spec wood and lived there in elegance for years until the Complex legal problems, mostly growing out of his complicated domestic affairs, led to the sale of the film magazines. They were the Motion Picture Classic, Movie Monthly, Beauty and Shadowland, publications in which he first attempted unusual art work. tacular events that marked his life. The saga of Eugene Brewster was that of a man who made and lost millions with the same grace: who but afterward withdrew because he married four times; who wrote books live to be 100, the reason why theaters are empty and success secrets.

Returned to Bore in '34 Eugene Brewster came from a home where they read the Bible every morning. One of his books was "Jesus Comes to Hollywood." In his gay and Interesting career, Mr. Brewster had million dollar homes in Morrlstown, N. Long Island and Hollywood. Recently, he sold his modest brownstone home In the Bedford section and was living in a hotel room on the Heights at the time of his death.

He returned refused to accept their entire pro Barry Brands Aid to Spain As Hostile Act Queens Legislator Protests to Welles On Wheat Shipment Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles has received a protest from Representative William B. Barry of Queens agaiut the shipment of American wheat to Spain on the ground that it is a violation of the spirit of the neutrality act. "It is a conceded fact that the rebel forces in Spain need no Amer gram. He then became political outcast and no party owned or wanted him. He was a man without and painted pictures; who manufactured perfume and tooth powder; who practiced law and published the first movie magazines; who created film stars and hobnobbed with the late Mayor Gaynor; who was a playboy and a politician of sorts; who a party.

But this was only tor a short time; he soon climbed back on the Democratic bandwagon where ne nas been riding ever since. He never sought an office and an did almost everything under the sun and all unbelievably well, and who A guaranteed annual minimum wage plan, affecting all of the approximately 1,300 regular employes of the Namm Store, will go into efl feet on Feb. 1, according to an announcement by Miss Bess Blood-worth, vice president in charge of personnel. It is believed that Namm's is the first department store in the country to inaugurate such a plan. It will remain in effect for a year, as an experiment, and, if it proves successful, will be made a permanent institution.

The announcement was made at a luncheon in the on Friday, attended by executives, employes' organizations' representatives and guests. MaJ. Benjamin H. Namm, office never sought him. However, never lost his spirit and his charm.

ne nas never oeen Known to wear a Eugene Brewster death at 69 re lightning rod." moved from the contemporary scene Then he told of his friendshln for Judge Gaynor and his efforts to make him Mayor. He told of the various occupations that engaged him, that of amateur photographer. one of the most amusing, dashing adventuresome, brilliant and delightful persons who ever helped to put Brooklyn on the map. Parents 'Rich but Respectable' to Brooklyn in 1934. HU writings were always witty and amusing.

His painting was good. He frequently exhibited in the Manhattan galleries and when fortunes were down, he could always turn a penny copying the masters. Corot was his favorite. As a young man he conducted a legal column on the Brooklyn Eagle. Brewster and his first wife, the former Emllie C.

Churbuck, a well-known Brooklynlte, were divorced 20 years ago. He next married Eleanor Cator, Heights Governors To Meet on Tuesday The board of governors of the Brooklyn Heights Association will hold its monthly meeting at the Crescent Athletic Club, 129 Pierre-pont Tuesday at p.m. The chairman of the board, William Hill, will preside. The board includes the president, Harland B. Tlbbetts, Vice Presidents Ouy Du Val and Alexander B.

Gale, Ereasurer Edwin P. Maynard, Secretary Percy G. B. Gllkes and the following governors: Robert E. Blum, Mrs.

Bruce Bromley, James S. Brown William H. Cary, Frank E. Cornell, Russell V. Cruikshank, William P.

Earle Lewis W. Francis Mrs. Edward Haynes, Theodore R. Iserman B. Meredith Langstaff, Robert B.

Lea, carrying off IS prizes in one year-artist, opera impresario, lecturer. In the gilded later 20s, his mar- president of the store, and Miss riage to the Georgia Peach, Corliss ciooawonn pointed out; mat tne. palmer, brought him so much no toriety that perhaps his earlier his business outlook for 1939 was good and that the World's Fair was ex Climaxing a $10,000 drive to enlarge the Brooklyn Women's Hospital, a dinner-dance celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Institution will be held tonight at the Astor Hotel, Manhattan, with its president, Mrs. Bella Goldmarn, as chairman of the reception committee, and Henry M. Feist, chairman of the general committee, Mr.

Feist Is vice president of the Citizens National Bank of Brooklyn. The hospital Is located at 1395 Eastern Parkway. tory was lost. In the last few years, ican wheat and want nor.e," Barry declared in a message to the Acting Secretary. "When Congress placed an embargo on both sides in the SpanLsh war, it did r.ot care whether the rebel side was pro-Fascist or whether the loyalist side was pro-Communist.

We were not greatly concerned whether Communist Russia and the left wing groups in France helped the pro Communist loyalists or since the loss of a million-dollar daughter of Senator Cator, and lived Hollywood estate and the lovely Corliss, he has been living again in Brooklyn with his fourth wife, Liane Hill, writer and literary agent. with her on a handsome estate at Roslyn during the palmy days of his movie publications. The lovely Corliss won a beauty pected to have a beneficial effect on retail merchandising. Based on Sliding Scale The 1,300 employes represent the basic force employed by the store as of Feb. 1 in ordinary years, it was The plan, based on a sliding scale of length of service, does not affect per diem or contingent employes, although it does in writer, after-dinner speaker and "pianola pedaller." Didn't Think Self So Bad "While something of a Jack of all trades he was not bad at all," the biographer wrote.

In December, 1910, he became the managing editor of the Motion Picture Story Magazine, which with its large salary, he said, "gave him three meals a day and kept the wolf from the door." Eugene Brewster, back in 1911 described himself as follows: "He stands 5 feet 9 and a quarter and sits about half that distance He tips the scale at 175 and never tips waiters except for extra Way back in 1911 Eugene contest and Brewster sought to di Brewster, then in his 40s, published in the Caldron, his first magazine, a Tremper Longman, William M. Public Service Topic Of Moses' Talk Jan. 10 Church Sodality Plans Barn Dance Saturday whether Fascist, Italy and Germany helped the pro-Fascist rebels. "Our sole purpose was to keep our Parke, Rudolph Reimer, Charles E. vorce his second wife.

For years the case engaged the courts. Finally Brewster won a Mexican divorce, married Corliss, took her to Holly Rogers Sarah Stephenson and short autobiography, replete with witty sayings that give an Insight to his personality, as well as his Borough President and Mrs. Ray- Next Saturday evening the Married own country free of that he George N. Whittlesey, clude regularly employed part-time Ladies' Sodality of St. Frances delmond V.

IngersoU head the list of ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT honor guests who will hear Park woricers. It guarantees 52 weeks' employment annually to employes with five Commissioner Robert Moses talk on years or more of service, minimums service. Complexion rather dark Jr U.I- GOITRE HOT A DISEASB of 48 weeks to those with three to ucu. iia.ii ana pienty oi it, eyes Drown, lace and stomach rather full five years' service, 44 weeks for one Chantal Church will hold its annual Winter dance in the parish of the church at 57th St. and 13th Ave.

It Jias been decided this year to have a masquerade and barn dance and oaward cash prizes for the three best costumes. Proceeds will go to the building fund of the church. The barn dance will be under the supervision of the Rev. Donald V. Morrison.

disposition good, warranted not to life. Excerpts follow: "Eugene Valentine Brewster was born at Bay Shore Sept. 7, 1869, of rich but respectable parents. "He was rather a precocious youngster and at the ae of 13 so ptomising were his talents that he was shipped off to boarding school at Hackettstown, N. where he was imprisoned for three years.

There he learned fairly well what he was made to learn and no more, and then promptly forgit it. "In 1888 he was sent to Penning to three years' service and 40 weeks to those with one year of service. kick or balk without cause. A liuht. Mil-wauJcee, Via.

-It has been brought to light by scientific research that goitre la not a dlseaatv and Is not to be treated as such. Dr. A. A. RocJr a prominent goitre specialist for over 30 years perfeoted a different method of treatment which eater and heavy drinker, mostly of water and buttermilk.

Had many friends and loved them, his favorites being some 2.600 who made their abode upon the shelves in m. li These are minimums only, it was explained, and do not restrict the number of weeks of annual employment to such minimums unless warranted by business conditions. Fifty-five percent of the employes have been employed for more than five has proven highly successful. He opposed needless operations. Sr.

A. A. Rock Products have publish brary. He had no small vices, but several large ones, principal among which was the art of smoking Good Will Court Gets Its Case said, "up to the present time our neutrality policy has dor.e that very thing." Calls It Hostile Act "The proposed action of the American Government, in my opinion, is direct hostile act toward the rebel forces and a violation of the neutrality act passed unanimously, with the exception of one vote, by Congress. "I therefore, protest this obvious attempt to circumvent the intent of Congress by giving aid to the pro-Communist loyalist government of Spain thereby meddling' in a conflict should not cor.cern us," he asserted.

Mr. Barry announced that he was forwarding a copy of his protest to George MacDonald, chairman of the wheat committee, and added that he did not believe that Mr. MacDonald, who is a distinguished Catholic and a Papal Marquis, would lend himself knowingly to a pro-Comrmi-nist cause. "If you have ar.y doubts as to the communistic complexion of loyalist. Bpain," he said Mr.

Welles, "I would refer you to our official Communist organ, the Daily Worker, which devotes hysterical pages to that conflict In every edition." ton Seminary to prepare for college, and in 1889 he entered Princeton, where he took a course in football, baseball, lacrosse, dramatic entertainments and glee clubs, and Inci years. Those at Luncheon ed a copyrighted book at their own expense which tells about goitre and this treatment and will send this book free to anyone interested. Write today to Dr. A. A.

Rock Products, Dept. 1010 Box 737, Milwaukee, Wis. Unfortunately, the riHffhti "Public Service" Tuesday evening in Packer Collegiate Institute. The event, which has attracted wide attention because Mr. Moses rarely speaks under private auspices, has been arranged by the Goodwin Memorial Committee of Packer Institute, of which Mrs.

H. Edward Dreier, a Packer alumna, is chairman. Mr. Moses' talk will be the second in a series arranged by the committee as a memorial to the late Dr. Edward Jasper Goodwin, principal of Packer from 1908 to 1918.

Miss Jean Goodwin, a granddaughter of the late educator, is one of the eight Packer seniors selected to serve as ushers at the lecture and reception following It. The others will be the Misses Margretta Love, Student Council president: Janet Swan, senior class president; Mary Mitchell, Dorothy Phraner, Helen Nagle. Norma Strowbridge and Betty Bardenheuer. Tho 20.000th case of the Good Willi Among those present at the lunch toblography ended there. Since then, It was recorded he wrote books dentally a few lectures which he rarely attended.

In 1891 the legal eon were Mrs. Ellnore M. Herrick, regional chairman of the National Labor Relations Board; Miss Frieda S. Miller, State Industrial Commissioner; Mrs. Andrew J.

Noe. presi profession was honored by his entrance Into the sacred field of Jurisprudence and he was presented with his sheepskin in 1894." Wed on $5 Salary court will oe neara at tne regular weekly session tomorrow night in the Hotel Bossert. Municipal Court Justice Nathan Sweedler, founder and presiding ofoflcer of the court, announced yesterday. The court, which renders its services gratis, is a tribunal for the settlement of disputes without technicalities, delays or law suits. The Judges who will listen to the casts tomorrow are Manuel Camps lecturer: the Rev.

Martin C. Hoehn and Harold Schachter. In characteristic fashion the au- dent of the New York City Federation of Women's Clubs; Edgar A. Baum, first vice president of the store; Richard D. Elwell, vice president and general manager; Mark Valentine, general merchandising manager; Leonard Rosenzweig.

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