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BROOKLYN EAGLE, FRIDAY, JAN. 23, 1942 Boro Stenogs Rush Down Aisles to Take a Letter A Top Hatter, Babs Saunders, In Parade Too 300 Girls Mob Theater At Casting of New Play "Look, gals! You gotta stand back!" yells Murray Ritter, mopping his forehead. "Nobody gets a break unless you move back!" Thethree hundred-odd stenographers and typists i vwirT ifetf? fS; ftfSx who have turned out to try for principal and chorus finished a provocatingly naughty version of 'Bon Jour, ma belle'." "On Carroll she replies. "Name is Dorothy Caplow. I went to Erasmus.

I'm a salesgirl at Wallaces Empire State Building store. Only girl there." "Have you ever done anything of this sort before?" we ask. Dorothy's audition showed considerable ability. "Oh. no," she laughs.

"I've just been singing to myself ever since I can remember. Do you think I've got a chance of getting a part in this? I can't believe it." Being just a reporter, we can't fathom the reaction of Mr. Curtis and his assistant, Mr. Ritter, but a lot of these youngsters yesterday 4 4 ill ildta 1U1 irtUC, IMC a Letter." sigh with annoyance and retreat half a foot. Another hopeful takes the spot under the drop-light.

Mr. Curtis, moodily slouched in one of the Broadhur.st orchestra chairs, gets anything from the death scene from "Camille'' to a hot twist of Minnie th.e Moocher." "Lotta talent among the.se he croons to us softly. "I'm going to build a show. No Everybody in it has got to have a white collar Job. a sort of 'Pins and Needles' with a cast of stenographers and secretaries.

I'm holding auditions until the middle of March and then go into rehearsal for an April opening. Charlie Tobias and Sammy Swpt have done the lyrics and tunes, and George Jessel and Billy Wells are doing the skits." "Any of thus crowd come from our side of the river?" we inquire idly. Couid be," says Jack. "We'll find out." 'Any of you kids from Brooklyn?" he shouts suddenly. Your reporter picks himself up and feebly brushes Dorothy Caplow Barbara Saunders I gftprnoon comported themselves like French heel prints off his lapels, seasoned performers.

It is a quaint The vn.mB iarf il notion to build a revue around boys THE QUEENS NAVEE Anyhow, it's the Mospeth, Queens, Junior Navy, all members so far being Maspeth schoolboys, under the leadership of Carroll Le Blanc, 13, of Public School 86. He asked the Navy Department for uniforms, but the Navy replied that, unfortunately, no junior uniforms were available. But the boys went ahead on their own. Purposes of Junior Navy: to sell Defense Stamps and perform other patriotic duties. Left to right: Carroll Le Blanc, Anthony Antonietti, 11; Frank Donofrio, 13; Alfred Petri I lo, 14; George Nataluk, 14, fvnm Vna Vt i tt j-1 (iniintart an4 seem from to be from Brooklyn, and tvpewriters.

and Needies" the mob behind it appears I worked. Why not "Files and Pot Hooks?" Maybe Mr. Curtis has something there. GOTHAM GRAPEVINE Dr. Brady says: ONLY YESTERDAY BY HAROLD CONRAD HI NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS IN WASHINGTON Man Behind Gigantic Ship-Building Never Built One Before 1940 Henry J.

Kaiser, West Coast Construction Man, Has Done Good Job-Gets Big Slice of '42-'43 Merchant Ship Program How to Overcome Bad Posture Inadequate support of abdominal organs by the belly (abdominal wall) in the erect posture accounts for such human (as compared with animal) frailties as hernia, displacements of the pelvic organs of women, loose or floating kidnev, that Mr. Curtis' singing and dancing chorus is all apt to be recruited within a short radius of Borough Hall. "I'm Marie Castaldi." says a cute little trick on our right. "I live at 121 N. 4th St.

I'm a stenographer for the Leader Novelty Candy Company. I've been studying acting. "I'm Frances Kessner," whispers a statuesque brunette. "I'm a receptionist. I live with my grandfather and grandmother at 89 Pulaski St.

I'm a dramatic soprano. I want to sing grand opera some day. This ought to be good training, don't you think?" "We've seen you before." we say to the quiet girl next to her. "I didn't think you'd remember." says Barbara Saunders. "I only-had a tiny part over at Memorial Hall in the last Tophatters' show.

I'm just getting out of their apprentice group. Maybe you ought not to say I'm trying out for this." Barbara is a Bay Ridgeite from out 72d St. way and is a secretary with the John E. Hand Company. "And where do you live?" we ask visceroptosis or sagging of abdominal organs.

Faulty or poor posture or the wrong posture taught by physical instructors without physical education in the past generation throw back the shoulders and stand with feet at 43-degree angle produces or increases the tendency to pot belly and sway back and pelvic distortion. The belly wall is incorrectly so called, for the belly is the wall of the abdomen. The abdomen is the great body cavity containing the liver, spleen, stomach, intestines, pancreas. By ERNEST K. LINDLEY The war production goals for 1942 and 1943 set by the President have been derided by Axis propagandists as "fantastic" and impossible of achievement.

Admittedly, they can be attained only by such a prodigious effort as neither this nor any other country has ever made before. Some of them may prove to be slightly beyond reach this year, although expert opinion leans to the view that the 1943 figures in most lines can be equalled or surpassed. By making Donald Nelson generalissimo of ar production, the President has cleared his own administrative decks for the effort. Meanwhile, with a minimum of fanfare the bulk of one highly important division of the program already has been placed in the hands of the producers, who must make it a reality. This is the record-breaking merchant shlp- a demure young lady who has Just Do You Recall Second Verse of Patriotic Song? Editor, Old Timers: Is there anyone who went to Public School No.

32 who remembers the patriotic song we used to sing about 50 years ago? I wish I could send you the tune, but I am no musician. Miss Hurd was our pianist and Mr. Mitchell was our music teacher every Friday afternoon. The words to the song ran something like this: "Nobly our flag flutters o'er us today Emblem of peace, pledge of Liberty's sway Its foes trenble and shrink in dismay If ere insulted it be. Our stripes and stars, loved and honored by all Shall float forever where freedom may call.

It still shall be the flag of the free, Emblem of liberty." I do hope someone remembers th second verse and tune. A. L. T. W.

Water Mill, L. I. Benton's Bath Was Located In Park Theater Basement Editor, Old Timers This is a reply to P. L. who wanted to know where the swimming pool was located In downtown Brooklyn.

It was housed in the basement of the Park Theater on Fulton St. opposite City Hall It was known as Benton's Bath. The water was drawn from the foot of Adams East River. I lived at the corner of Nassau and Adams when the city authorities laid the pipe for the bath. I'm also the possessor of a fire alarm card giving all the locations of fires.

HENRY KICK. Masonic Home, Utica, N. Y. ported by the belly itself. These splints inevitably increase the weakness of the belly.

In children, youths and adults a clear conception of the essentials of good posture and a constant effort to maintain good posture Is probably the most effective way to combat or correct weak belly. Those essentials will be described in a later article. building program, 8.000,000 tons in Donald Nelson's next big job ns our new war program "dictator" will be to step up transportation In this country, particularly on supplies to Uie West Coast Herbert Hoover, according to reports, would settle his feud with the Administration for a good job in Washington. He'd like to have charge of the food problem again When Diana Barrymore arrived in Hollywood for her first starring role in Waiter Wanger's "Eagle Squadron." her father met her and told her he wanted her to come over to his home that afternoon to meet Viola, her new maid. Excited, Diana dashed over to discover that Viola was a seven-month-old Afghan hound That "watch your car" (or have your tires slashed' racket is rearing its head again in the West Forties.

Sources here estimate that almost 250.000 in the "underground" movement in Japan have been arrested, and in a great majority of cases, executed in the past few years Century-Fox is making a picture titled "The Magnificent Jerk." starring Henry Fonda and Don Ameche. Wonder which one is the Jerk? And Bill Ellsworth, the wealthy playboy who missed the two-day run of the late, lamented Georgie Hale show, is back in town and has made Hale an offer to pay all expenses if he'll run one more performance of "The Lady Comes Across" so Ellsworth and his friends can see it Karl Kucker claims that if Nazi soldiers really need proper clothing. Hitler can outfit all of them with Goering's spare uniforms. More than 2.000 mechanics and truck drivers from the United States are keeping the Burma Road open and humming Stoppage of home deliveries of milk Is being considered by authorities The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles will be transformed into a hospital shortly And, while in the hospital zone, Patsy Dorey, Westchester eyeful, will leave St. Vincent's Monday minus her appendix Betty Grimes, junior metropolitan tennis champ currently singing at Jimmy Dwyer's Sawdust Trail, goes back into full training for competition next month There is talk that Mrs.

Roosevelt may "give up" her Civilian Defense Board position shortly Jules Bledsoe, noted Negro singer, broke his leg on the set of "Drums of the Congo," the other day and is heel-chairing his role. V. S. Intelligence is now said to have not one, but two unbreakable codes During his vaudeville-theater playdates this month, Harry James figures to make about $20 for every mile traveled Bandleader Freddy Martin is experimenting with a control dingus, similar to those used in recording, radio and movie studios, for his orchestra to play down sections at certain times, to play up other sections, etc. Carl Laemmle Jr.

and Lew Ayres have both okayed medically for the Army Nancy Walker, that swell young comedienne in "Best Foot Forward," who is a Broadway bet to eclipse Martha Raye, has signed an MGM contract and heads westward as soon as the show closes. Romo Vincent, who goes into the new Martinique show next week, easing a headache in a Broadway drug shoppe. Romo and bromo Jackie Heller has resumed his N. B. C.

a.m. broadcast. Jackie's back In town after breaking all records at the Tic Toe, swank Montreal nightery Milton Beiie's ma Sandra, arrived in town this morning, ans Milton, who couldn't ire', away from his film and radio activities Ruby Foo's Den has been awarded a scroll by the China-American Society for having tiie best maintained kitchen of any Chinese restaurant in New York Abbott and Costello will soon become a movie strip Al Schacht, the baseball clown and Susan Lang, the pert 18 Club anary, are dancing a Cupid Tout Dep't The cinema-sleeper. "Joan of Paris." with Morgan and Paul Henreid. which out-Hitchcock's the master for thrills and suspense The Press Photographers Ball at the Astor Feb.

6, which has always been one of the year's best parties The exciting show at the Ubangi Club with the bost-looking dusky gals you ever saw Lee Dixon, who went from the la'e Jokon show into La Conga after a great comeback. The kid's doing great. Class will tell. 1940, had never built a ship: Henry J. Kaiser West Coast construction man, whose firm was one of the six companies which built Boulder Dam and Grand Coulee.

When the national defense effort was begun Kaiser came to Washington with an astonishing array of projects, ranging from mass production of airplanes to the erection of a steel plant in California. The old National Defense Advisory Commission and OPM snubbed him pretty thoroughly. His contention that more steel capacity was needed was repeatedly squelched and his proposals to manufacture aluminum flatly repulsed. After a hard fight he got a 'go" signal for a magnesium plant to use the Hansgirg process-, until then untried in this country. Kaiser Delivered Goods Admiral Land at the Maritime Commission gave Kaiser a different reception.

Kaiser had bought a yard at Portland, and made a hook-urj with Todd Shipyards. By the end of 1941 Kaiser was operating four West Coast shipyards, one of them built from scratch, with a total of 41 ways, and had orders for 164 of the liberty-type ships, including 30 for the British. When the expanded war program was parceled out last week Kaiser got the lion's share. He now has orders for 551 of the liberty-type ships, plus 15 troop carriers. The December efficiency ratings of the Maritime Commission ranked his yards first, second and fifth among all building the liberty type.

(The fourth, working on a British order, was not Kaiser is working on several other national defense projects, most of them construction, but including the building of steam marine engines. His enthusiasm and drive has been in marked contrast to the attitude of many business men seen around Washington during the last year and a half. The Maritime Commission welcomed him; OPM discouraged him. The difference may explain in part why merchant ship building is such a bright of the war production program. in 1942 and 10,000.000 in 1943.

Less than two weeks after the President had fixed the goal, the Maritime Commission has distributed the orders for 682 additional ships. The commission, usually conservative in its predictions, expressed confidence that i his additional program can be completed on schedule if the materials are delivered on time and if labor co-operates in an all-out effort. Long Range Program Even before this the merchant ship program had been expanded with a speed and to a size which taxed the imagination of some of the old -line builders. When the natio'tal defense program was launched in 1940 there were 72 ways in the U. S.

capable of constructing ocean-going vessels. By the end of 1941 there were 229, with 48 more in various stages of construction. Now still more are to be built. The Maritime Commission had embarked in 1937 on its long-range program calling for the building of 500 vessels in ten years. But it is a long jump from 50 vessels a year to the delivery of 129 completed vessels in 1941, and then to 850 vessels in 1942 and about 1,200 in 1943.

The present program Includes several types of ships, but the mass output was made possible by the adoption of a cargo vessel of simplified design, originally known as the "ugly duckling," but later christened the liberty fleet. More than 1,000 of these have been ordered, in addition to 60 ordered by the British prior to lend-lease and 40 already have been launched. Ships are as important as planes and tanks. However, this part of the defense program has gone so smoothly that it his received less public attention than the aircraft, explosives, tank and ordnance divisions. The Truman Committee, which criticized more or less severely almost every other phase of the defenss program which it investigated, reported that the Maritime Commission had done "a good job." Strikingly, about one-third of the entire merchant shipbuilding program for 1942 and 1943 has been undertaken by a man who, until Sign of Weakness Not only poor posture, but unnatural breathing (chest breathing! and neglect of general daily exercise, predisposes to the human frailties mentioned and to many functional and organic diseases of the digestive, circulatory and respiratory systems.

A flaccid or flabby belly denotes weakness. In childhood it is usually pot belly that is, a protuberant belly and the child is usually more or less lordotic sway-backed or exaggerated forward curve of spine at waist line, hollow backl and round shouldered. In short, the child has poor posture. Sometimes, of course, all this is due to illness, but more often it is due to (1) nutritional deficiency and i2) neglect of physical education. The nutritional deficiency is not a matter of insufficient food but a matter of ignorance of the parents or guardians about the proper food for a child.

This ignorance is as prevalent among the well-to-do as among the poor. The neglect of physical education is a matter of politics, graft and mis-management of the THE JURY DECIDES: Widow Fears Her Man Friend Is Trifling With Affections Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury Four years ago (when I had been a widow for three years and was very ill and troubled) a man who had known our family nearly all his life began paying me attention. He has come to see me at least three times a week for four years and says he cares for me. He has caused my health and spirits to recover almost completely. However, for six years he has been estranged from his wife and two children, of high school age, and his wife has told him he cannot return: he has told her he never would return.

Knowing of this feeling of finality between him and his wife, I asked him when he expected to be divorced. I did this because I have lately felt I was wasting my time. He replied that he did not know. In every way of his life he is known to be absolutely honorable. We are both in our forties and I have refused every offer to go out in any other man's ,4 I public school system, resulting in company.

He is also very kind. Do you think I am wasting my time if I continue a friendship that seems so indefinite? I should point out that he seems depressed when I speak to him of this personal matter. Should I continue seeing this man, expecting marriage? WONDERING WIDOW. How the Jury Voted Women Yes, four; no, two Men Yes, one; no, five While Samuel Goldwyn's "Ball of Fire" is having its New York engagement at the Radio City Music Hall, the man who directed it is devoting energies to advance work on a film poles apart in thought. Howard Hawks will follow the playful "Ball of Fire" with the direction of "General Billy Mitchell," which dramatizes the life of the flying general recently restored to military honors by the United States Senate.

failure to provide for the child's physical education in the curriculum. For Faulty Nutrition Weak belly in youth or adult life is sometimes the result of faulty-nutrition and neglect of education in childhood, but too often it is mainly due to the individual's own ignorance of what coatitutes good nutrition and his or her neglect of daily exercise. In youth and adult life an additional factor comes into play the use of braces, splints, corsets, girdles in an attempt to support organs which should be sup- Bookbinder (man) No. I think Piano Tuner No. If he really wanted to make her his wife he would have done so by this time.

he is the kind who never wants to be bound by marriage ties. File Clerk (woman) Yes. She suspects 'here is some personal problem troubling him. When this clears up perhaps he will think of marriage. Uncle Ray's Corner For Boys and Girls Laundress No.

She is too grate- ful to him for his comfort in time of illness. He's taking advantage of her now. Garageman No. My advice is to give him up if she ever hopes to get to the altar. THESE WOMEN! By d'Alessio YOUR BIRTHDAY 'Flying Dragons' Spread Wings More Than 20 Feet By Stella DRAGONS' I kill' LIVED IN KANSAS FRIDAY, JAN.

23 Born today, you have that peculiar dt-positon of a gypsy who likes to roam the world over, and of the mathema- i ticlan, who seek the basic practical I formula of a situation. Tlio-'e two fides of your nature can be welded together, provided early enough in i life you train for a definite profes- i tion, preferably one which will per- mit you a certain amount of travel, Teaching, with its annual Summer i Vacation, be a fine way of ONCE UPON A TIME hc'iOi, n'p for new. Don'l rj-h in'o allairs withoi: carhi. Ihounhi. CANCER 'Junp -'3 1 If you mrly morrine pufall of impatient anion you can expect a (mod day thereafter LEO 24-Anir 231 Don'l let hasty decision destroy vour plans.

Don't take rhk and you aft through a day of cloud and sunshine VIRGO 'Au. a4-Sept 23M If you hyf to do or interviews with others, pan them for after mtd-raorninsr. LIBRA 'Sept 24-Oct. 23 Be thousht-fui in everythir.d you undertane. morning irieaa tint too reliable, to give them faretul consideration.

SCORPIO (Oct. S4-Nqv. 221 Take things easy today: hang on to your temper and don't act hastily 8AOGITARIUS (Nov. 23-Der. 221 An early morning temper and a ha.ly flareup In the wrong direction can get you off to a bad start CAPRICORN (Dec 23-Jan.

20i Don't travel unless you have to: caution In work also Plan to relay, thi.s evening in some pleasant social engagement. Authoress Yes. If he makes her happy, as she suggests. I'd continue seeing him. Getting a man to propose is still a woman's Job.

Accountant No. If he were playing square he'd be willing to discuss the problem with her openly and without sulking. Salesgirl Yes. But I'd start going out with other men. Proofreader Yes.

Divorce is an unpleasant item in any man's life and this is probably what is troubling him. Give him more time. But not too much. Stylist No. There are too many good things in life to let this woman be kept in doubt by one man who may not be worth the waiting.

Bridge Patrolman No. Three years is long enough for the fellow to make up his mind. Housewife Yes. His care may have saved her life. At least It has made her more happy.

She should consider this before she lets him go. If you have a problem to be solved, send it to the Jury Decides, In care of the Brooklyn Eagle. The Jury Decides will select for answer those problems which are of most interest to the majority ol readers. A scientist has made the following statement: "If all mammals were destroyed, the reptiles of the earth would slowly but surely change their forms. In time there would be as many kinds of them as there were in the Age of Dinosaurs.

Some would be as large as Thunder Lizards and Tyrant Lizards of long ago." Whether that scientist is right, there is no way of telling. It is not likely that all mammals will be destroyed. If that did happen, the human race would not be here to know about it since people are among the mammals. Yet It seems quite likely that reptiles would rise again if all people and other mammals lost their lives. Balance Among the mammals of the world are lions, tigers, elephants, whales, seals, monkeys, apes, pigs, buffaloes and rhinos.

They include the largest of all existing animals. With the mammals gone, thrre would be reptiles, birds, fish ar.d insects left, also such queer animals as the octopus and the oyster. Sharks and swoidfish probably "wings" do not flap like those of a bird. In the Age of Dinosaurs there were flying lizards, often called "Flying Dragons." Bones of those animals have been dug up. Sometimes they had a wingspread of more than 20 feet.

Let us suppose that Flying Dragons could come back, and fight with birds for mastery of the air. In that case. I think birds would win. No bird has such a wingspread as the largest of the Flying Dragons. Yet the eagle's sharp bill and claws would be good weapons with which to fight the Flying Dragon.

An eagle's skill in flying would give it great help. So far as we can judge by the remains, the Flying Dragon was slow and awkward in its flight. (For Nature or General Interest section of your scrapbook.) If you want a free copy of the Illustrated leaflet, "Your Body at Work," send me a 3-cent stamped self-addressed envelope, In care of Brooklyn Eagle. Tomorrow: War exerting your life interest. Your of humor is keen and your wit is often scintillating.

You have a knack of making money in pro-lessions not generally considered money making You will probably have a pieasant, exciting life. SATt RDAY. JAN AQUARIUS (Jan 31-Fi'b Afer rficu, tirly morning pass yuu will productive and find the rfit of the progressive PISCES 'Feb. 4eaiia early ,11 day. onai and social aft Former Parishioners Honor Borough Priest The Rev.

Charles J. Kavanagh, curate of St. Matthew's R. C. Church, was given a purse at a reception held in his honor last nisrht at the clubhouse of St.

Alphonsus' Church. 194 Kent St. The testimonial was attended by some 40 persons, representative of the various organizations of St. Alphonsus' Church, where Fatner Kavanagh was formerly itaUoued. would become masters of the ocean.

Birds would be kings of the air. Reptiles would be the largest animals of the land. Reptiles of today include lizards, alligators, crocodiles, turtles and snakes. All of these are descended from the "terrible lizards" and other reptiles of the Age of Dinosaurs. Today we have "flying lizards" in the Dutch East Indies and southern Asia.

They can glide from one tree to another, but their 2ni after tha' per-are laiored. JO1 Be eon- ll' a 2 "a a re provided you plan wel! ARIES March vat iv In all actions 1 fpecia ly in early 1 P.m. a nieas- nt evening with friend1 TAURUS 'April in eany liutir- ol piogres.s cwrefuily toward .0 (nal Todav tl mav be son OiWIM (Mar -June Thru rlelinite 'You I've climbed way up here for nothing? You DON'T tell ortunes?".