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ti EDITORIAL. SOCIETY LETTERS NEWS behind CLASSIFIED COMICS DAILY EAGLE 4PAUL MA HON Ml NEW YORK CITY, SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1935 Washington, Aug. 24. SURRENDERING A neat solution of the hold, ing company bill deadlock wa worked out nearly a week ago, but nosey newsmen (polled it That la the complete explanation behind all the mysterious jockeying which you have been reading about since then. What happened was this: Congressional leaders finally if Private Life of a Comedian By Jane Corby mmmml A mm mm I smith, I empmitotmimi persuaded President Roosevelt at last Sunday night's confer, ence that he would have to surrender on the misnamed "death sentence." A plan was adopted to make the surrender painless, but it had to be kept quiet.

It called for Senator Barkley to reframa a compromise he had originally submitted privately to House and Senate conferees, which same comnromlse had hppn KEYNOTER Lindy Llew, the poetical locksmith, has. his establishment at 25 Myrtle not far from Borough Hall. There the whine of his lathes is obbllgatoed by the groan of an electric motor than Jigs a gay and tawdry dancing doll atop a large red box in front of his tiny shop. Where his rhyming ads left space on the facade of his plant we found homilies in verse. One, intended to make the payment of the sales tax easier, ran: "your humble cent Buys food, pays rent.

The noble and pure Will help the poor." It ended on a cynical and mournful note: "To be sure, To be sure." Llndy, born in Minsk, Russia, sometimes exercises a rather heavy Joe Penner-Eddy Cantor air for his customers. He likes to ask, "If Columbus is a circle, what makes Times Square?" On the other hand, he may gravely explain that he learned the art of English verse from a very careful study of the masters, from Shakespeare to Eddie Guest, during one Winter when he was snowed in with a library on a homestead farm in Canada. Longfellow 13 his favorite, with Omar a close second. He arrived in this country in 1900, at the age of 14, and from then on until he settled down and became a poet he traveled over the continent, as a journeyman locksmith, tinker and fakir, on, or, rather In, a "covered wagon" motorcycle, in which he also worked and slept. "I figured," he said, "that out in the country the farmers wouldn't have locksmiths and they would need keys; so I spent all my money fixing this motorcycle up.

I made a mistake. They didn't have keys, because they didn't have locks. And In the small cities and towns there were locksmiths that already had the trade, only they didn't know anything. So made my money teaching them the new tricks. But when I got to Seattle I was broke.

That's the way it went. One trip I started carrying cheap jewels and trinkets, and I sold them to OXJjl 1 v'll "ile of Boh Hope' OLpMaI 'if Belmr, the Cedarhurtt home of X'' "epe'' thry' 'prnA yjaJ 'ij the Summer. May blamed the stone directly for this, too. The current possessor of the malicious diamond, Mrs. Evelyn Walsh McLean, Washington society woman, has had her own troubles with the gem.

In her keeping the diamond has actually gone out of its way to bring misfortune on those who merely happened to come into contact with it. For instance, a fellow passenger on a ship, a year ago, was stricken with a mysterious and serious malaiy after merely holding the diamond a little while. Mrs. McLean herself has been un-cowed by the powerful stone. "It has never harmed me," she once remarked.

However, the diamond has been involved in the lives of a dozen men and women who have had anything but a pleasant time of it, prior to 1910, when Mrs. McLean's husband purchased it for her. The stone was bought by Louis XIV for his consort. It was worn by Marie Antoinette at a dinner the night before she was guillotined. A Parisian jeweler who handled it was torn to pieces by dogs.

Another (1 ji Bob Hope Sand Traps and Star Paul Million turned down by them. This time the House was to accept it and push it through. Thus the House would take the rap for the surrender. The White House would merely bow later in acquiescence. But the newsmen, dad rat them, sent out stories about the President's agreeing to surrender.

These were read by Senator Wheeler, who led the fight for Mr. Roosevelt's "death sentence" but was not consulted in the final deal. Senator Wheeler displayed great anguish. He Is a fighter who frequently gets licked but never surrenders, even when prudence dictates. Adjournment of Congress was actually held up while everyone worked to get around Wheeler.

The maneuver was in charge of Mr. Roosevelt's official getter-arounder, Vice President Garner. rpONGUE-SLIP A certain Senatorial leader belabored newsmen en masse for printing the surrender story. He denied it ardently, adding something like this: "It would be all right If the House surrendered and the President accepted the bill, but it would never do to say publicly that the President surrendered." That was all the newsmen wanted to know. They laughed off denial, reprinted the surrender tory.

"DACK-TALK Congressmen generally speak to the President in private as demurely as an office boy talks to the boss. It was an unusual scene therefore 'when nine Congressmen (six Democrats, two Republicans, one Progressive) romped all over Mr. Roosevelt the other day at a White House grab-fest on the neutrality bill. Democrat Sisson of Whitesboro, N. hotly informed the boss that, If the neutrality bUl failed, the President alone, of all peeple in the nation, would be responsible.

Democrat Maverick of San Antonio, Texas, answered the President's request for broader discretionary power by saying, in effect: "You ain't a-going to get it." It Isn't the heat, it's the humidity. rpAXES The story is going around that the New Dealers purposely underestimated revenues expected from the new tax bill so Congress would not realize how drastic the bill is. It is true that the estimates are ultra-conservative, but not for the reason mentioned. Tax experts really held down their estimates because they do not believe that large corporations, large incomes and large estates will meekly submit to the new rates. They believe the increased levies will be substantially avoided one way or another.

Therein you will find a secret defect of the whole existing income tax system. Rates on the rich have always been high, but the rich do not pay them. The rich have opportunities for tax avoidance not available to men on salaries or to professional people like doctors and lawyers. The incomes of people who earn their money always get soaked. DUCK-PASSING-The Senate and House passed the buck to each other on rail pension legislation so fast that it slipped from their grasp and fell on the President's corns.

It was agreed explicitly at the Sunday night conference that the pension legislation would not be passed. The legislation is divided into two bills, one setting up the pension system and the other levying a payroll tax to carry out the system. Rail brotherhoods want it badly, so the Senate decided to take up the meaningless authorization bill and pass It without the tax bill. The understanding was that the House would kill the bill and Senators would get the political prestige of voting for it. But the House leaders heard about it and de the farmers' wives for terrible prices.

But it wasn't my fault. They wanted them, and It was a help with gas so expensive. And the roads they were terrific. But it's nice when you are young. Now I have the family and the shop, and I change the signs and the poems every two or three months.

'Time you know. Longfellow." "RAVE MATTER Down on Jay near Ca-thedral Place, a poster announcing the annual outing of the St. Vincent de Paul Boclety, to be held this year at Steeplechase, Coney Island, is supported by a tombstone over the remains of "Thomas Brady, who departed this life June, 1840." We imagine that Mr. Brady, if he was among the courageous souls who built the cemetery, would like such a tribute. You see, the burial ground adjoins the St.

James Pro-Cathedral, which stands where the first Catholic church on Long Island was erected, in 1822. Founders lie buried right there. When we die we don't care where they put our bones, but we should like very much to think that a stone erected in our memory would, some day, a century later, perform a service for such a worthy organization as the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. AVE-NOTE The 8th Ave.

subway, we've dis-covered, has something about it that may make money in the event the city fails at the underground business of carrying passengers. In the High St. station, first one in Brooklyn, are what appear to be true stalactites and stalagmites in numerous places on the ceiling and floor. Former, case you don't know, is a semi-hard dripping of water; latter, a hardened formation where the water has been landing. Ultimately, as in the Virginia caves, the deposits meet, form beautiful icicle-like decorations.

gentleman who admired it and held it in his hands for a brief period was a short while later taken off Boats HE COULD claim a title in England but he prefers the title "comedian" In America. That's Bob Hope, stage, screen and radio featured player. He likes democratic America, and1 democratic incidents like the following only get a laugh from him. He was on his way to the Warner Brothers studio on E. 14th St.

(the old Vltaphone studio), where he Is to prison to die. "All the same, I'd risk what would happen, if I had it," said Bob Hope II if mttel H'dn cneerrully. The Lord Francis Hope who mar. ried May Yohe presumably set the example for Bob's father, who ran away to marry a music star and found the going difficult in his own making some "short posed to be once the possession of drove a open I ft crpntliamnn rnfprrpH in fh fam land. The young couple came to and raised a family of several boys who promptly gave evidence of stage talent, and headed Lat Article of a lor tne stage.

Bob, the youngest, can write as Pierce Arrow, glis i and gleaming, when he had to stop for a lllght out near Prospect Park. A dilapidated Ford scrapped his fen well as play his own roles, and often ily annals as "Mad Anthony" Hope, but its origin is somewhat obscure. Experts believe that it is part of a diamond stolen with the French crown jewels and never recovered. A brilliant blue stone, weighing 444 carats, it is one of only three known blue diamonds hence its interest for everybody. ties, and a toast of both the American and the London stage.

May acquired the diamond by marrying Lord Francis Hope. As might have been expected by those who believe in the ill fortune which follows the stone, May's first marriage ended in divorce, as did a second. Later she married Capt. John Smuts, nephew of the famous Boer War general. You'd think the diamosd, having passed out of her possession, would have left her alone by that time, writes his own script for his radio parts.

He always edits his part, in any case. That's what makes the comedian's role different from that tie. From one of them anyway there are several in the family, all covering miles of territory and impossible to occupy, the untitled descendant of all this glory explained. "Sure, I'd like to go and live there," he admitted, "after a long time, when I get tired of the stage. Right now I'd rather be here actingthan over there.

I wouldn't mind having the Hope diamond, though," he grinned. Family tradition says that the Hope diamond, as everybody has heard more than once, brings disaster to its possessor. It was sup of any other actor it must be in trinsically a part of the comedian Hope Diamond in Family himself, to get across. Despite his youth, he has al der as it pulled up alongside. "Gwan ya bum yelled the driver.

Whereupon the actor some six feet of bronzed youth Invited the belligerent one to "come on over." The invitation was not accepted. It is encounters like this that he would miss, the comedian feels, if he ever had the luck to become Lord Hope of Craig Hall, Kent, England. ready ten years of experience behind him. Off stage, he not onlv but no, more trouble was in store for the unlucky music star. A business venture which she undertook In her later years, the Blue Diamond Inn, came to grief in a fire and One of the most well known victims of the vengeance of this powerful diamond was the ill-starred May Yohe, actress of the gay nine does not look like the popular con ception 01 a comic, he doesn't even look like an actor.

A football star, a polo player, at first glance non chalant. and a little on the serious Brookfyn Landmarks By F. J. Kegel Cedarhurst Their Home side. There's the modern comedian for you! Meanwhile, he finds the Long Myrna Loy's Film Huff Forerunner To More Star Fights Island countryside very much to his liking.

He and his wife, who is Dolores Reade, also on the stage, spend most of their spare time at the home of her parents in Cedarhurst at least, they use It as a starting point for the golfing, swimming and sailing activities that thrill them both. Golf is "tops' with Bob Hope. "I've been shooting in the 70's a We always knew the 8th Ave. subway would go real places before It was through. And we're going to apply for a job as tour-conductor when the stalags and stalacs meet.

WATCH THE BIRDIE Seventy-one now, Arthur Leeman of 324 S. 2d St. has been taking pictures since he was eight, believes he's snapped something more than 18,000 different scenes, has most of the reproductions around some place, has never kept a photo album. For 22 years Mr. Leeman ran a drug 6tore in Flatbush, retired 30 years ago, got restless doing nothing, started a chain of stationery stores, still owns five, but has taken no active part in their operation since 1933.

Says: "I'm beginning to feel the itch again. I wouldn't be surprised if I started a third business any day now." Although his camera interest has always been only an avocation, Mr. Leeman has taken it seriously enough to have his work on display in the famous Pittsburgh and Philadelphia photo galleries. That seems to be height of a lenser's ambition. He has been in 17 countries, he's climbed Mount Washington and gone to the bottom of the sea off Bermuda.

He's flown something around 200,000 miles, he told us, and climbed the catwalks of all the recently built bridges in New York City Just for the sake of getting pictures. We wondered why he had never tried to collect all his pictures in scrapbooks. He said: "I'm getting to be an old man, and I suppose I do a number of things which annoy people who live around me. But, thank heaven, I still realize how much a nuisance is the man forever apt to say: 'Would you like to look at my album'? I take the pictures for my own benefit. When an occasional one Is good couple of weeks this Summer," he said, carefully keeping boastful ac TJOLLYWOOD, Aug.

24 (Redheaded Myrna Loy may have set the match to the very combustible stellar situation at the studios. Myrna's announced abrogation of her contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the culmination of several months' difficulties with the studio that gave her starring opportunities, is regarded in Hollywood as fore runner of other similar star-studio fights. For the ever-swinging pendulum of stellar values, always tending more than less to the side of pri mary importance, has found its way cents out of his voice. He was slumped into an easy chair in his dressing room, during the lunch hour at the studio. Tweeds of a bluish cast, a dull blue and white striped shirt and brown suede oxfords made up a becoming ensemble.

"Clothes? Oh, any man can be well dressed if he has a good tailor," was the masculine dismissal of a feminine question. The Old Country Club at Flushing asd the Milburn Country Club are his favorite golfing grounds. like golf an awful lot." he said. "I play evert chance I get. Dolores likes golf, too.

She plays a very good game shooting around 105-115." They swim at the Atlantic Beach Club and go places in their small speedboat, sometimes taking along the two Scotties Suds and Huck. The Huck is taken from "Roberta," the play which was the forerunner of the screen play of the same name. In the play Bob Hope originated the part which fell to Fred Astalre in the movie. Going on the stage was just inevitable for this comedian. He has a singing voice and he could altfays dance.

now to an extreme in that direction. A combination of circumstances has brought this about, and one of them is the popularity of "double bills" in the theaters. Showing two cided if anyone was going to get any political prestige out of this it would be House members. The result was that both houses passed the bill very hurriedly and edged the buck up to the President. He then found out from his advisers (Coordinator Eastman mainly) that the bill would need a 10 percent supplementary tax on railroad payrolls to support It instead of 6 percent, as previously believed, and the ultimate cost might reach a fantastic sum.

The buck was too hot for Mr. Roosevelt to handle immediately. He set it aside to cool. CARM AID The Agriculture Department has ap- parently decided the trouble with farmers is that they do not know how to play. At least the department has appointed Ella Gardner a "rural sociologist in recreation" to develop a program "for training rural people in recreational It Is understood Miss Gardner uses both the Work and Culbertson systems of recreation.

pmSELING -A novel method of relief chiseling. has been discovered in New York. General Johnson's agents have found out from banks that a large number of persons with small savings accounts have been withdrawing their accounts, taking them to other banks, where new accounts are opened under assumed names. The reason is the relief law prevents anyone with a bank account from receiving relief. features for the price of one not only curtails studio revenue, but forces the Hollywood lots to expand their production schedules.

Making more pictures than for merly some of them of course in tended for the lower bracket of a double feature program the studios need more players, and especially more stars. "Names" are the thine now, because more than ever before producers are convinced that the best of films without a "name draw" Mother Was Singer enough to be shown, it is. But the rest I prefer to waste them on the desert air than put my friends to sleep. They're all around some place, though, if I ever want a particular one." Most interesting picture to Mr Leeman was the oanorama of the Egyptian desert snapped from the top of the Great Pyramid. Close second, in his estimation: One taken in 1918 as he was falling, head downward, from plane Just before his parachute opened, i His mother was an operetta singer in fact, It was the charming voice of his young mother which lured is not equal in returns to a poorer picture with a And with so many of the big "names" contracted to appear in no more than four, or three, or two pictures a year, there obviously are not enough to go round.

The Old Mill at Gcrrilten Beach, built in 1683. The IT hilney Day Camp for Children of Brooklyn located near 6jr the aristocratic scion of the Hope family away from the ancestral cao-1.