Erasmus Hall High School - Arch Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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ING TU DISCUSS REIUWERING IIF TAXES MAD HATTERS OPENS AT BELASCO With the experienced character- ization and sense of timing which usually mark a veteran troupe, Kurtz Gordon's ever popular farce, The Mad Hatters, opened last night what promises to be a long and successful season. The finishing touches were added by the appro- priate and effective scenery, de- signed by Lois Mae Hoy, who is fast gaining recognition as one of the leaders in stage decoration. Ioe fPopl Hatter, a nut on fishing, and his stage-struck wife, Margaret Hatter were portrayed with assur- ance by Albert Iacobs and Rita Fel- ler. The part of Angelica, the fussy house maid who goes around clack- ing castanets, was ably taken by Doris Shekter. Edmund Guilhempe, experienced character actor, was well cast as Bunny Hatter, crazy about candid cameras and Nancy Hayward, who was played excel- lently by Shirley VanNess. The cast was topped by Lorraine Strauss as Gigi Hatter, a nut flike all the restl about athletics, and by Ioyce Learn- er, taking the role of sixty-five year old Grandma Hatter, who flies a plane and has false teeth made out of diamonds. This conglomeration of queers makes up a family for whom the name, The Mad Hatters, is only too appropriate. Each part was portrayed expertly, and with just the right amount of improbability and possibility mixed in to make the re- sult delightful and amusing. lt is so fContinued on P. l3l CLARION CELEBRATES TENTH ANNIVERSARY just ten years ago today a bril- liant young woman reporter named Marjorie Rosenblum got a chance to buy out a newspaper publisher whose health had been steadily de- clining. She talked to a close friend of hers, also a newspaperman, Irv- ing Silverman, successor to the well- known Franklin P. Adams, and in a little Bohemian cafe in Greenwich CHAMBER OF COMMERCE HOLDS MONTHLY MEETING At the regular monthly meeting yesterday, President William Ballan- tine of the New York City Chamber of Commerce made a short address to the assembled members, giving special praise to the average busi- ness man in this city for his splendid cooperation in helping the Cham- ber's activities. He said that latest statistics showed that the volume of business of the average retailer in New York City is increasing at a steady rate, thereby opening the way for new and improved busi- nesses to arise. It was Mr. Ballan- tine's opinion that none of the fine work being done lately could have been accomplished without the help of Mr. Small Businessman. Vice- President Ned Gorin expressed the same opinion in his report on the co- ordination of selling campaigns in the Bronx, which formerly was the most difficult of the districts in which the Chamber of Commerce was working. Secretary Raymond Iack- son and Treasurer Leonard Elkies made reports on the recent meeting which they had attended in San Francisco, of Chamber of Commerce representatives from the ten largest fContinued on P. 92 Village, they opened a partnership. Together they took the plunge, re- named the daily The Clarion and began careers, as joint editors and publishers, which sound more like the plot of a novel than of real life. They initiated their paper with a blast against the racketeering prev- alent in this city. There were threats on their lives, threats to blow up the newspaper building. But the Clar- ion editors backed the election of a new courageous District Attorney, Ellis Levine, and with their coopera- tion, he came into his office, burning for work. With information and evi- dence dug up by Mr. Silverman and Miss Rosenblum, the racketeers were ferreted out and brought to justice. Miss Rosenblum next took time out in her whirlwind career long enough CContinued on P. 9l NEW WHITE HOUSE GETS UNDER WAY Under the personal direction ol the architect, Alan Friedlander, who has changed his blueprints to meet the specifications of the Congres- sional committee in charge, work- men yesterday started laying the foundations for the long awaited new White House. According to plan, the present Executive Mansion will be usedv as a museum for relics especially pertaining to the former presidents of the United States, The collection will be started when the new building is completed three years from now. The edifice will be on the same general plan as the old one, with the typical columns and white finish, but it will be more spacious, with guest rooms for visit- ing potentates, and with more ex- tensive grounds. Alfred Hurwitz, nationally known artist, is now working on the second of a series of murals which will decorate the walls of the new mansion, The subject of this series is to be the pioneering days of the United States. The al- ready completed mural is the land- ing of the Pilgrims, and Mr. Hurwitz is now working on the settlement of Kentucky. Nettie Gewirtz, who is in charge of the interior decorating, will consult with President and Mrs. fContinued on P. 125 MITCHELL AND GILLETTE OPEN NEW YORK STUDIO Today has been rather harrying for our New York City police force. Crowds held up traffic for blocks around Broadway and 42nd Street. And why? Because Mitchell and Gillette opened their first New York studio this morning. jean Mitchell and Marjorie Gillette, the nation's favorite dancing instruc- tresses, are well known because of their Hollywood establishments, pa- tronized by the stars. When inter- viewed, Betty Weild, manager of the partnership, said that next week Bill Nienow's band willbe engaged to play at the specially arranged program fContinued on P. 213

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PRESIDENT HIILIIS CABINET MEET ,iL?.-..--1 CHIEF EXECUTIVE CONFERS WITH CABINET MEMBERS ,i-i-i President Hirshleifer conferred to- day at the Executive Mansion with the Secretary of the Treasury, Mar- jorie Reinhardt, the Ioint Secretaries of the Interior, Alice and Edith Boehm, and Kenneth Bielfeld, Secre- tary of Agriculture to discuss current problems and issues of the country at large. The chief matter under con- sideration, newspapermen were in- formed, was the further lowering of the federal income tax, and of other direct taxes levied by the federal government, since, even with the sizable reduction made this year in the now rapidly decreasing national debt, the expenses of the govern- ment for the past fiscal year have been reduced thirty percent. Rita Reiskiri, personal secretary to the President, said that the Chief Execu- tive communicated to the Cabinet members the long awaited details of his recent conference with Presi- dent del Pasos of Argentina, at which the two Chief Executives, as- sisted by the United States Secretary of State, Robert Solomon, drew up a list of principles for future co-opera- tion between our two countries. This completes the last of the twenty agreements which the United States has been working to bring about ever since Cordell Hull, former Sec- retary of State, entered upon his duties. It was thought necessary to include some provisions about co- tContinued on P. 43 AMERICAN MEDICAL ASS'N OPENS CONVENTION ,il- Under the auspices of the Ameri- can Medical Association, a cam- paign for funds was begun in Chicago yesterday with a special plea by Doris Freedman, Red Cross head, for a nation-wide drive to aid those caught in the recent Los Angeles earthquake. Miss Freedman reported that conditions are more serious than first believed, and that DODGERS CAPTURE GRID HONORS AGAIN The Brooklyn Dodgers, fightingest team that professional football has seen in years, yesterday took the National League championship for the fourth time in the past five years by defeating the Chicago Bears, 43-0, and at the same time stretched their phenomenal streak to thirty-one consecutive wins. The victory was directly due again this year to a well-balanced team, with a star backfield, sparked by the brilliant passing combination of Hoyle and Hill. Art Hill was transferred from center to back this year, a revolu- tionary move, made necessary by the injury of Taliaferro, who has since retired. Hill took to his new position as a duck takes to water, and incidentally, kept taking passes from Hoyle right under the collective nose of opposing players. Hoyle, of course, has been chucking passes to Brooklyn receivers for the past four years,-and doing a mighty good job. He has had excellent support in the form of Dave Sadofsky, the line plunger who has been con- tinually picking up that extra yard to a first down, much to his oppo- nents' grief. And many of the games, won by one or two points, have gone to the enemy if it were not for the faultless kicking of Dick Wayler, This fellow seems better as the situation tightens. He kicks coolly with opposing linemen all about him. His eighty yard punt from behind his own goal was a classic in itself. And if you doubt whether McCoy Hopson and Frankie Tuccio make the line tough to buck, ask opposing players, because the would to get fContinued on P. 225 the cooperation of all will be neces- sary. After reporting on the state of the stricken city, Treasurer Howard Lieder and Secretary Teanne Gordon publicly pledged all of the Medical Association's facilities to the Red Cross. After the open meeting, the officers, headed by President Arnold Pensig, met with Miss Freedman to fContinued on P. 121 METROPOLITAN MUSEUM FEATURING WEEKLY LECTURES Virginia Sarafianos, foremost wo- man artist in this country, will lec- ture this week at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, at an exhibit of some of her most famous paintings, among them being Ephemera, The Child, Sunrise over Brooklyn, and Melee, Although these paintings are well known, and most art class- rooms in the country have copies, this is the first time the originals have been in New York, and doubt- less, many will come to see them, as well as to hear Miss Sarafianos lec- ture in her interesting style. There is some question among art circles as to whether she has created a new school of painting, but no question about her ability. This is the second of a series of lectures to be held at the Met, the first of which was given last week by Anita Minne- man, a leader in the field of impres- sionism. She has been largely responsible for the bringing of im- pressionistic art to the level of understanding of the general art enthusiast. Next week, the well- known portrait painter, Iames Mara- vel, will lecture on his series of studies of our political leaders which he has been working on for several fContinued on P. 31 M.I.T. CHOOSES NEW DEAN On the recommendation of retiring Dean Wallace, the Massachusetts Board of Education today chose Maxwell Rosenlicht to succeed the former as Dean of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr. Rosen- licht, whose theses in the fields of calculus and of relativity have aroused much interest and comment in this country and abroad, said, when interviewed, that his accep- tance would be made with pleasure. Dean Wallace first met Mr. Rosen- licht in Berlin, when Dr. Leonard Swern and Mr. Rosenlicht were working on fourth dimensional pho- tography and its application to fContinued on P. 8l

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