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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