Show THE OGDEN 8-- A M Man of the Week STANDARD-EXAMINE- siruJOHN LEAR ktttw YORK CITY Dec 23 (AP) ular conception isIta isquarter billion is a big but Nelson says wrong) and — Nelson Rockefeller to 2000 employment man restless gives steady broad shouldered "world's a is in fair" It shirt persons his in work tt iiv tn and museums theatres with itself and coat his sleeves rolling up wtien no and shops that attract millions of putting it under his chair The vigorous tourists hook is convenient The charges of ruthlessness levaccents the blond hair his of curl man of action But the real key to elled at Grandpa Rockefeller during his oil empire days have been his character lies in nts eyes re-r- rt in much diluted form and revived they the dreamv tenderness of an thrown at Nelson Owners of othN V office buildings have resented x artist strangely mixed with the er the way the Center "bought up" daring of a great promoter term leases on offices around long is like that Nelson to get tenants for the Center town He sees everything in broad per " must They charge that many buildings as a promoter i spective Ha runs Rockefeller Center not were virtually emptied by the exThe buildings were emptied merely as a business enterprise odus' Nelson says they have been but but as a model of private initiative filled through the work of toward up again directed as far as possible a department special the public good He looks udoii his relations with set up by the Center There are those in the Center the employes not in the narrowe sense of an individual employer-employ- who feel that Nelson rides roughcontract but as a part of shod over his domain They: are others who swear that the whole scheme of industrial re- balanced byone of the best living is Nelson lations As a minority director on the executives As for the 1100 mainboard of the Creole Petroleum tenance employes of the Center themselves unequicorporation he sees thenotoil indus-as they expressed October in by extending vocally America South in only try but as their current American Federation a source of money-makin- g an influence in improving the so- of Labor contract from three years J cial life of the Latin people and to six That contract embodies the only bettering Pan - American underplan that has been workpractical standing He heads the Museum of Mod- ed out to reconcile the fundamenern Art as a museum yes but tal dispute between the American also as a means of educating the Federation of Labor and the Compeople In the artistic phase of their mittee for Industiral Organization It brings all the employes under own time CLARK GABLE one blanket agreelived short the He encouraged He hate to dre up of C I in manner the the ment of version Shakespeare swing all the different Cen-f- p O in the yet recognizes Dream" the stock company and sat backstage "Swinging craft unions of the A F of L It theatre for the same reason one night all of his many friend- gives the workers more solid barAlmost Till then his biz yen was to be ships are among those who are in- gaining power It saves the ema doctor if he could save enough tellectually or actively interested ployer loss of time and money to put in social money as a time-keepthrough strikes due to jurisdictionquestions him throush medical school But To many men such a course al disputes Many labor men hope that night backstage at the theatre would be temperamentally difficult it may yet be adopted as one basis changed his whole life He quit his if not impossible To Nelson the for peace in labor's civil war time-keepJust as he got acquainted with job and started out as role is natural He likes to meet a call boy with that stock company people and become acquainted his employes by joining personalIn Kaasas City he connected with with their several viewpoints He ly in collective bargaining sessions another troupe— one that collapsed calls everyone by his first name and attending their dances and enin Butte Montana in the dead of after a meeting or two The clasp tertainments (held in the gymnaswinter with everybody broke of his arm around a workman's ium he built for them) so he got He worked in lumber camps for shoulder and the accompanying acquainted with the workings of the bread to keep body and soul "Hello Fella" are as genuine as the Creole Petroleum corporation took another his bow on more formal occasions by visiting the Creole oil fields ki together Then he out broke He flier at acting came South America d His generosity is oil Oklahoma in the a while worked He prepared himself for that by is boundless His ranging curiosity fiekhs then wangled a screen test all the way from "what were the studying Spanish two hours a day out of a Hollywood film company motives of Picasso?" to "how does for three months shaming other but they told him his ears were this blooming telephone switch- Creole men into doing the same too big and his teeth too crooked board work?" Then he made a flying tour on which he paid more Finally as "Killer Mears" Hol-in A tremendous emotional energy "The Last Mile" he caught a to human beings than to attention sweeps him through big projects oil n He studied the working condilywood producer's eye As the He would not his brothers attempt "Ace" in "A Free Soul" he is men of the educational the tions as so not cautious impulsive families the of their caught the publics eye on the opportunities his brother John It was then no time at all till judgments of a few relying As a reof homes standards their and competent William Clark Gable the husky of his visit sult to already housing advisors supplement respected ex-o- il field worker was displacing his imis Creole being by provided own analyses coffee as a reason for keeping the and vocational farm and But his mind is quick with a proved female moviegoer awake rare ability to weave loose threads schools are being added to existGable Wanted In G W T W school facilities a into pattern With figures ingNelson's When it came time to film "Gone he is large theory in all this is that his more like grandfather With the Wind" nobody knew who than any of the other grandsons should business moving keep should play Scarlett but everyahead on liberal lines without an intuitive has he too Then be Rhett body knew who should "sixth sense" of when and how a making it necessary for governmoviegoers wanted Butler You ought to be done That takes ment to step in Clark in the picture ears and all thing It is difficult to divide Nelson the place of a lot of conscious cauWell anybody who has seen the businessman from the Nelson the tion who wanted to be an architect and picture has toe admit Clark's made ls his major Aggressiveness years later the characteristic good Seventy-fivended not up instead as an art patron He was given Civil war has been justified because of his profound of as Probably his present job president Rockefeller Center He took the conviction that business and art responsibility bit by bit from his should' not be separated ofTo him everyfather (his father of course did art is a functional part influa existence— was beautifying he when day not discourage him) lived and with to worked be ence he the" saddle in reorganizfinally now and visited than set-urather with p ed the whole shuffling four is corners It museum in then a one with large departments into fine and and sculpture and in painting efficiency money saving This was no mean job The Cen- architecture but it is also movies ter has 14 buildings with between and television and trees and 5000000 and 6000000 square feet birds The 35 - foot elms (cost: $1500 of floor space It represents an in Would Let Mae vestment of $100000000 (the pop each) in the sidewalk of Fifth ave Is Guns Gable's Weakness He's Ready for Those Who Clark Gable haj been practicing with guns these many yean Mebbe it'i to bump off the boys that don't like his Rhett Butler The sidebumed Romeo from Cadiz Ohio put in a lot of work on the Rhett Butler role At one point he was so disgusted with his acting that he allowed as how he was gonna quit the picture unless In-he got some special coaching and NEW YORK Dec 23— structing You would think that all Clark had to do would be to Just be when it comes to playing Rhett Butler But you only have to have 'carried a spear on the stage at some time in your spotted career to know that acting never consists of being yourself " Everybody had fun though in making Gone With the Wind" In fad several members of the movie cast got so interested In the story that they made up their minds to read the book After they finished making the picture of hls-ae- lf course William Clark Gable may read the book and he may not He likes shootLn' in the stories he reads but even with the battle of Atlanta in It he Is not sure there's enough shootin' in Margaret Mitchell's yarn to suit htm Gum Are III Weakness Guns just guns are Gable's weakness Women he can see 'em or leave 'em but guns he's got to have He's got enough guns in his San Fernando valley ranch-hous- e Balkan to arm a middle-size- d country In fact Carole Lombard is said to have won Clark's heart not with that cute shake of her head or that fetchin' cracked voice of hers but with her willingness to fire the hardest-kickin- g buckingest snort-ingeshotgun Clark could hand her Course it left her shoulder kinda st Her leading men for weeks after would have to nestle on her left shoulder not her right for shots them close-u- p Next to guns Clark the Pennsylvania Dutch boy who made good like horses He never had been on one till he played a bandit part in a Western once A few months ago he was petting a horse being used in "Gone With the Wind" and the joke property man by way of ahorse's said "I understand the name is Gable" "Couldn't be" Clark sez "His sore ears aren't big enough" After guns and after horses Clark loves acting but he ain't cockeyed enough to think he's another Edwin Booth In fact Clark will admit "I never had any talent —just persistence If you knock around long enough at anything you love you learn the tricks of it" Hate to Drr Course it ain't merely for his knowledge of the tricks that he gets seven thousand bucks a week He makes a little of that through his looks— the frame the smiling upturn mouth the thick black ruly hair He ain't stuck up about his looks either Ask him where he got a large share of them fine teeth and he'll tell you— from the dentist He's never been able to guess why some of his original teeth went back on him except he used to chew tobacco a lot when he was working in the oil fields He shaves twice a day— one of the prices you gotta pay for sex appeal He hates to dress up — divorced a wife over it once— and started only one fad in Hollywood— the fad of the turtleneck sweater for which he is properly penitent His favorite parlor trick is to sing "Arizona Cowboy Joe" and it takes no coaxing to get him started though lots of It has sometimes been- required to get him to stop His favorite drink is gin his fa vnrite grammatical expression is "damn" and his favorite joke Ls to tell the waitress when she asks for his order that he wants "two eggs one of them good The joke gets worse after she brings him the eggs for then he asks "Which is the good one?" Narrowest Escape The narrowest escape he's ever had in hU life was when a hill was dynamited in 'The Painted rrt"— ahead of time Gable and his fellow actors were supposed to have cleared the hill before the exalplosion but they didn't Three ters were killed and the other ten knew they had been there Clark's most embarrassing experience was the morning two years ago when he woke up in a ritzy New York hotel and found three chambermaids gazing down on him They had merely come for a peek at him "How do'es it feel to be "the Great Lover'? he's been asked so many times he's lost count He always answers "It's a living" He means It for he put in about years of half of the first thirty-on- e his life wondering where his next meal was coming from His Irish - blooded mother died seven months after he was born February 1 1901 In Cadiz Ohio That left him for his Pennsylvania grandparents to raise and if he's got & husky build today he thinks his grandma's German cooking laid the foundation for it But at five he went to live In the new home his paw had set up at Hopedale Ohio Clark got there most of his book-larniHad Yen to Be Doctor He grew faster than a jimson weed It left him kinda awkward He remembers that the girls back then never gave him a second look When half through hLs teens he went to Akron and worked as time-keepIn a rubber factory He met a coupla boys from a visiting 190-pou- nd - i Up n' er Says Cal Grey-green-slate-bl- ue sub-leasi- ng s3sa?-:--- wage-and-ho- ur er er open-hande- Pan-Americ- an vil-lia- santOanded some ideas for MOVIEjSTARS Writer West Do Own Version Of Spicy Story A Bv PAUL HARRISON" NEA Service Staff HOLLYWOOD— Here it is al most Christmas time and your cor respondent dilatory as usual has not made out his list of presents for the stars The stars on the other hand have had their lists completed for weeks Their secretaries see to that with meticulous notations and rechecking against the gift receipts of Christmas 1938 If Gloria Goofus last year gave Brenda worth Bryte a cut glass what-is-- it if and $40 nothing approximately has happened in the interval to this valuation of their change friendship Miss Bryte's secretary now must select something worth $40 for Miss Goofus And if the cut is to be given away glass what-is-- it must go to someone this year it in whose house Miss Goofus is never likely to be a guest Most of the stars and quite a few executives will send your correspondent a handsome card with cordial best wishes for a happy holiday A few who have especially liked something I've written will send me a bottle of Scotch It's always Scotch Their secretaries are unaware that I don't drink Scotch But of course it's the spirit of the thing that counts and that' exactly the reason why I can make out a list of presents for the stars Maybe my wishful thinking helps a little anyway Sueeve jS By Don' Like RheW SUNDAY MORNING DECEMBER 24 1939 R Laurance now Nelson's iassist- nue in front of Rockefeller Center are in keeping with this concept ant at the Center has been Nel So were the gardens of flowers and son's partner to a greater or less blooming dogwoods transplanted degree ever since they raised rab onto the concrete of Rockefeller bits together in boyhood His skepplaza last summer So is the Mu- ticism provides a healthy balance seum of Modern Art differentiates between Nelson the Modern museum with its cliff-face- d glass facade on 53rd street and the Classic Metropolitan museum further uptown as between the living art of the present and the beauties of the past His mother one of America s leaaing patrons of modern art was the moving nirit in the founding of it HisIn the sympathies are apparent fact that he is a trustee at the Metropolitan but at the Modern miiwum he is president and a member of a "radical" committee whose job is to forestall too conservative trends Of all Nelson's interests the Center ranks first because it rep resents a working partnership with his father (who conceived and built it) and his brothers (John and Lawrance are on the directing board) It is a symbol 'of their combined faith in the future of their country of the capitalistic system and of themselves It was built in the midst of the depression a collossal venture in real estate at a time when any investment w something to shiver over Its successful record of tenancy thus far has rewarded their confidence They in turn have tried to reward the tenants' confidence by shopping dining and seeking entertainment there as frequently as occasion offers So it is more of a Rockefeller Center than the public suspects Men with Nelson's energy usually drive toward personal ambitions He drives toward a collective goal He considers himself and his brothers equal adventurers in "the greatest opportunity any five boys ever had" and he wants them to make good — as - brothers This determination to see the family tradition carried on is re- flected in his five children (the biggest family among the five brothers and the only one to boast twins) He sends them to progressive Lincoln school but doesn't stand for- any modern nonsense about discipline Anytime they can not behave they go right upstairs Furthermore Nelson has passed ion them the budget ideas that were drilled into him in childhood even son has his own garhis den to raise and sell vegetables Like his brothers Nelson is still true to the frugal pattern He never carries more than $50 in his pockets There have been times when he hadn't enough to pay the tip at lunch let alone the check He met Vic Borella the Center's industrial relations chief while in the act of borrowing a quarter His nonchalance at such times is part of the social ease which lies behind the fact that he and his wife the former Mary Todhunter Clark entertain more than any of the others except Winthrop They like night clubs in moderate doses and plays For exercise Nelson turns to tennis golf and skiing He also rides and sails He hunts on the King ranch in Texas When in the country he likes to build stone walls with the aid of the kids He and his father are the only Phi Beta Kappas in the family He won his key at Dartmouth But he is not willing to rely on his own mental keenness in his various schemes For criticism of them he goes chiefly to his next younger - brother Laurance - making Ernest Wolff started puttering with puppets in a Chicago basement when he was 13 He loved opera yet felt his talent for it was not great enough to warrant a career in that direction The next best thing he thought would be to have an opera of his own— hLs own little stars costumes settings stage At hand were the voices and the music — complete operas on Fields Decline records with the finest performers Hoople Alignment in the world singing them It reto Screen roles are a cinch mained only to simulate the atchoose I know that Mae West alof the opera house and mosphere ways has wanted to play her own the productions themselves version of Catherine the Great so I hereby pass along the hint to They were doing "Carmen" the Santa Claus I'd like to give W C day we attended The stage about Fields an assignment to impersonate Major Amos Hoople in a flickJeanette MacDonald's er about Our Boarding House But tree at Mr Field's— egad! — feels that the house Jimmy Stewart who seems role is too close to him and that to have forgotten the "Ice Follies" he'd rather practice on Charles wants to do a horror picture WalDickens' Mr Pickwick Alice Faye is dying to follow lace Berry's sole remaining ambiTallulah Bankhead Joan tion is to make a movie with his and Crawford as Sadie Thompson In eider adopted daughter Carol Ann "Rain" Henry Fonda has been I think that can be arranged But I must think of some spelonging secretly for some more cific Lincoln pictures presents that the players need Linda Darnell wants to star in a new screen ver or deserve — such as a nice dress sion of "Smilin Through" but she for Dorothy Lamour a poor girl will have some tears to dry on who has been running around the Christmas morning because the sound stages for years in a cheap role already had been wrapped up little strip of cotton cloth And by Metro and placed under the somebody ought to send a couple right there" The key to this is that Laurance a philosopher with a philosopher's ability to distinguish between details and principles Also with a philosopher's whimsy He takes the family's responsibilities much more lightly than his brothers his attitude being "is it worth all the fuss?' Not that he shirks his family duties or is disloyal On the contrary he gives freely of his time and effort to help his brothers unconcerned whether he gets any of the credit He holds the family seat on the stock exchange having bought the one that belonged to his grandfather whom he resembles in height (6 feet) and thinness At 29 he is one of the youngest men on the exchange but he has the conservative approach of a much older head content to deal with solid investments and let speculative issues alone Figures bore him He prefers to deal with the broader intangibles — the human factors — that decide the rise and fall of security prices Details in other things are equally uninteresting to him He quit the study of law at Harvard because legal cases are decided by precedent and precedents are the details of justice Originality is the touchstone of Laurance s personality Even his office bears the marks of it His desk looks like an idealized work bench polished to a glisten The walls are yellow hung with bright colored sketches of birds It is only a step from birds sketches to birds and one step more to the zoo in the Bronx There Laurance who has a great affection for animals has been active as a trustee trying to sell the idea of modernizing the zoological gardens into a popular center of recreation entertainment and education Another of his enthusiasms is the non - commercial radio station WRUL operated by the World Wide Broadcasting foundation It courses broadcasts college by short wave from the Boston University club The curriculum rang es from music art and literature to such practical subjects as electronics mechanics and aviation The student body ranges around the world Because the air is free the tuition is nothing That appeals to him because of its wide human implications Sim ilarly he enjoys his directorship on Eastern Airlines not so much because of its commercial posi bilities as because the air is the last frontier because airplanes like the radio bring the peoples of the world closer together and thus spread the democratic idea A lover of outdoors Laurance rides from Tarrytown to work in the summertime in his motorbpat on the Hudson This takes him past Palisades Interstate park of which he is a commissioner He plays a fair game of tennis a not so good rides game of golf He shoots is essentially man" name was Rockefeller synonymous with oil But Winthrop made news in 1939 by becoming a member of the foreign department of the Socony-VaccuuOil company For no one else in the family was then left in the actual employ of the industry The grandson's return was reminiscent of the grandfather's beginnings John D Rockefeller Sr rode to work on the old 6th avenue "El" penciling notes on his cuffs en route Winthrop motors to the job to avoid the' wilting morning crush but rides home in the evening on the subway He does that is when he is in New York He trip just returned this week from a was to the Near East where he watching a development in oil his grandfather did not foresee— mechanized warfare Winthrop quit Yale early to work for three years in the oil fields of Texas He drilled wells fixed boilers dug ditches at 75 cents an hour He bunked with his fellow laborers sharing their pokef games and "bull sessions On the side he helped launch a health program for Negroes which is still going After that he worked briefly la the public relations end of the business at Bayonne N J Then back to New York to a job in the Chase National bank where the Rocke feller family is the biggest stock holder Just as he was getting set tied he was called out to help run the 1938 greater New York fund with the rank of executive vice For two generations the m president That was a day's work every day He got in at nine a m said "Hello" pulled off his coat rolled up his sleeves and kept going until late at night raising money for the needy His chief aide in Har lem was his Negro chauffeur and "houseman Jimmy Hudson Now Winthrop has started drive this one to take idle youth off the streets and into aviation through an organization called "Air 'Youth of America" Tall husky black-haire- d Win of man" the is man's "the throp family He can be rough and tumble he can drink with the boys he can swap yarns with the best of them But he is also the most innately gracious of the brothers He likes people purely for the human association Pants pressers and bootblacks are as acceptable He to him as bank presidents haunts night clubs more than any of his brothers entertains far more than any of them His list of friends reaches from the aforementioned bank president and the aforementioned pants presser to — stage stars like Mary Martin — to whose heart "belongs daddy" and Billy Gaxton Behind his urbane exterior Winthrop holds a realistic grasp of social problems As a businessman Jie is keenly aware of an increasing responsibility to the consum- - er Intellectually he ls as Interest ed in Loomis school where he iort his prep training as his brother's are ici their respective universities He runs the Pocantlco estate hav ing recently Inherited that job from John But not yet being mar ried he has still to earn his own place there (the usual wedding custom is to take occupancy in one of the Pocantico houses the usual wedding gift from father is $21- 000) So does his younger brother David Like all his brothers David is tall (6 feet) like Nelson and Winthrop he is stocky Like John h is serious More than any of the others he is doggedly determined He is bashful but has more basU confidence than any of the rest ' E knows what he wants to do a"?- why he wants to do it He is never theless the unknown quantity In the third Rockefeller generation because he hasn't yet had the chance to show what he's got He ended his school days just a few months ago polishing off at the University of Chicago after the London School of Economics and J I' Harvard Because he has studied economthe world has assumed he would become the banker pf his entering the Chase generation bank this fall David is more likely to enter politics th He served a political apprentind J ship at any rate while in Chica- - ' go As a member of a student forhe addressed neighborhood um meetings on political questions like old age pensions taxes unemployAudiences ranged ment relief from 100 to 300 mostly working- men Sentiment often was openly antagonistic to wealth David's talks sometimes occasioned sharp questioning but he recalls "they were pretty decent to me" As a student David was democratic He drove a second hand car He ate at the usual student a cafeteria mostly hangouts Scholastically the profs rated him "good" He had a keen analytical mind able to consider any problem from a detached viewpoint T If he should go into business some of his father's advisors walJ him to he has the makings of a hard headed manager He learned to drive a shrewd bargain in bugs which he started collecting when he was a boy Today he has tens of thousands of specimens of between 2000 and 3000 species He also has the knowledge that the fastest thing on wings is a beetle with a middle name David denies he is the hero of the rowboat incident He says the thing never happened at all' 'but was just a legend pinned first on one of the grandsons and then on another until it finally came to him True or not the story is worth telling because it sums up the brothers' philosophy A couple of the Rockefeller boy (so the tale runs) were strugglir Tj on a lake with a leaky boat Someir one called to theni asking why they didn't buy I a new boat Across the water came the answer: 'Who do you think we are ics Van-derbilts- ?" That's the way these young are Rockefellers Anassuming No divorces No scandals Quiet No No race horses No yachts a Each servants of great retinues balance wheel for the others All working together harmoniously trying to fulfill their father's ideal of the wise use of wealth He callTo them it ed it "stewardship" is social responsibility The words are different The meaning is the same n By Dale Harrison NEW YORK nec 16—1 Go To: The Puppet opera It was upstairs in a small second floor auditorium on Seventh avenue just above 54th street and we would never have found it except for the brave little marquee which juts out onto the street and proclaims "Puppet Opera Co" A brisk walk down Seventh avenue with a jog onto Broadway was the Metropolitan with "flesh" opera and fashionable folk in furs and jewels The puppets didn't seem to mind Their audience wasn't as fancy but it was just as appreciative People had been telling me about the Puppet opera ever since it opened at the fair where more than 300000 visitors to the Gas Industry exhibit saw it That was the metropolitan debut of this form of entertainment- which has been more than a dozen years in the for Nelson's impetuousnes He has an uncanny ability to project himself into problems unfamiliar to him and come out with the right answer His method is highly effective because with a kind sort of sarcasm he puts a surprise turn to his conclusions which makes people laugh before they suddenly realize — "Why he put his finger on the crux of the thing swims plays bridge and chops down trees on the Focantico es tate He and his wife the former Mary French have two children He is in many respects the "lone wolf of his generation The demo crat is Winthrop Plain talk straight from the shoulder is the word for Winthrop His attitude was aptly expressed m the way he sigried his name not so long ago on a list acknowledging some benefaction That part of the list read: "Laurance S Rockefeller direc tor Rockefeller Center pres"Nelson A Rockefeller ident Rockefeller Center Rockefeller oil "Winthrop singers are restricted to a few arm motions one-fift- h the size of a normal one The assumption is that puppet had an orchestra pit in which sat opera is primarily for children but the puppet musicians The "con- the performance I witnessed was One ductor" appeared raised his ba- attended entirely by adults be to old to never seems overture started growtoo ton and the There are two outstanding feat- fascinated by dolls The puppet repertoire includes ures of puppet opera as presented stand-by- s his "Rigoletto"— the operatic by young Ernest Wolff and cassome are in The the of nine settings lightcompany people: the metropolitan ing and the music With a compli- es copies from cated switchboard he is able to at- arid La Scala opera houses comtain as fine lighting effects as any plete even to "properties" such as full size theatre In some instances the chandelier in "Traviata" which of thousands of crystals they are even better Tiny epot-ligh- ts is made mother made the more Wolff's the burn down upon puppet actors and follow them as they than 300 costumes sewing them move about the stage Lights fade all by hand Each puppeteer is a for twilight or come to full bril- linguist being able to follow the liance as the scene requires original text of each opera and The puppets are not on strings the electrician who operates the They are operated from beneath music works isfrom a regulation marked for "cuts" the stage the puppeteers sitting score which Somebusiness and other audistage the below (concealed from ' ence) and manipulating the per- times the 'illusion is so real that one forgets he is not seeing acformers by hand tual opera At a recent perAlthough the music is from formance Wolff told me the enstandard records the operator of tire audience arose and shouted the special playing equipment is "bravos" so insistently that an so adept "that one record fades into aria had to be repeated as an the other without a break Loud speakers are concealed at the rear of the etage so that the sound Story Corner: Jack Johnstone seems to come from the puppets who directs radio programs tells The sensation of a about being late for an appointthemselves ment the other evening when hifi spectator Is that he is sitting in the — car was delayed in traffic house balcony of agreat opera "I recalled" he said "that one look like actors real which from of — those crime - doesn't-pa- y proand witnessing anyway puppets ' are was about due on the air-- It grams There an actual performance opens with a long wailing crethe usual puppet limitations The scendo of apolice siren I turned ballerina can't be very graceful on automobile radio full blast a my is merely considering that she On came and the the program a with wire frame composition head and the gesticulations of the siren The drivers ahead of me as- of quarts of grade A milk daily to who's actually Joan Crawford so thin She's you can alstarving most count her ribs even when she's swathed in a sable coat Cary Grant should get a copy of "How to Propose In 10 Easy Lessons" but the gift should come Also I'd from Phyllis Brooks an like to arrange exchange of affectionately autographed pictures between joan Bennett (in a black wig) and Hedy Lamarr If Rosalind Russell had an sunbonnet maybe she wouldn't have to wear those screwball hats I must send Tyrone Power and Annabella a French-Englis- h For Charlie dictionary a large Goddard Miss and Chaplin hold their to frame marriage gold Adhesive Tape for Tracy's Ear A thoughtful gift for Spencer Tracy would be some adhesive tape to keep his ears from wriggling comically in heavy dramatic scenes Some hair tonic for Bing Crosby's thinning pate wouldn't cost much either David Niven I think ought to have a discharge from the British army before he certificate gets hurt old-fashion- ed vicar's son who had been convicted and sentenced to seven years' imprisonment for "murdering valuable animals" Sir Arthur did not hear of the case until three years after the man had started serving his sentence Becoming interested he deduced facts proving that as as far YORK— NEW Edalji could not have committed Today he was found this corner of comment is con- the crimes of which was freed with The prisoner cerned is for the Iris)h being about guilty sumed it was a real siren and quickly pulled their cars to the curb— and with the traffic thus cleared I sped merrily on my way It was a wonder I wasn't arrested for using the wails to Doyles — Dennis (ponan Doyle whose father authored the famous Sherlock Holmes stojries and Miss Ruth Doyle who drives a truck Dennis Doyle recently arrived from England to leclture a hit as to do visiting Britishers are wont Amerithe look after and also to can interests of his father's estate One feature of his stay in New York was the presentation of the original manuscript of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Iconoclast" to Miss Edith Meiser who writes the Sherlock Holmes script used on the air by Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce— Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson respectively Young Doyle is proud of the memory that his father was nearly as good a real life detective as he was a fiction writer "Most people are unaware that my father actually solved police injrsteries generally without even leaving his easy chair" Doyle (said Sir Arthu's proudest cases as an amateur sleuth his son said involved innocent men Sitting auietlv in his study and using only his deductive faculties Doyle was able to prove the innocence of two men who had been Jfound guilty One case the young Doyle re called involved Gejorge Edalji a To Director John Ford a one way ticket to Tahiti for a nice long For Bette Davis a third Academy Award To Gary Cooper To every an official spokesman successful in a star a minor role picture to remind them that the play's the thing To each of the colony's writers an alarm clock To every producer a set of initialed crying towels To all Hollywood a Merry Christmas the government's apologies Newspaper reporters were most enthusiastic over Sir Arthur's detective ability and often came to him when they felt the local police or Scotland Yard were getting nowhere It was from information given him by newspapermen that Doyle without getting up from his arm chair was able to tell the police the location of the body of Camille Cecile Holland and the name of the murderer— who subsequently was convicted Another case in which an innocent man was rescued by Doyle involved Oscar Slater who was sentenced to be hanged for murdering an aged spinster Doyle's deductions brought to light many discrepancies in the evidence The death sentence was suspended and Slater was finally set free Dennis Conan Doyle like his father before him is deeply interested in spiritism Today's other Doyle Miss Ruth is the only professional woman truck driver in New York and perhaps in the country Starting to work four months ago for the Chateau Martin wine people Miss Doyle who is 28 years old says she can't understand why more women don't take up truck driving for a POLICEMAN CARRIES living It pays $60 a week and her boss says she is every bit as capable as a man Truck drivers Miss Doyle has found are far more courteous than cab drivers They mind their own business Cab drivers she said shout "H'yuh Toots?" and "Why don't you come down and see me some time?" when they pass her in traffic Miss Doyle is scornful of New York's few women cab drivers She would like to see what a they could do in maneuvering big trailer truck as she does She refers to women cabbies as "kiddy car drivers Miss Doyle became a truck driver after a varied career of ventu'lI m ing into other fields which have regarded as their own ShV' was a star of the New York Bloomer Girls baseball team for three years took a fling at professional basketball worked as a plumber's assistant and then began chauf-feurin- g for private families the latter job leading to her present i one Miss Doyle had to do a lot of telling before her present employer would believe she could drive a truck as well as a man Taking her on more or less as a joke he was surprised to see how efficient she was so now she works steadily "At first the men drivers used to kid me" she said "But when thr that saw I was in earnest-an- d could handle a truck with the esV of them — they quit that and now I'm 'one of the boys'" and Her truck is a her job calls for her to load and unload it on each trip (All rights reserved) ten-tonn- er wife Stanley committed suicide that same night but not before he had critically wounded Anderson BUCKSHOT 23 YEARS Even now when Anderson talks of his experiences he can bare his V arms or chest and point to a blu BAY CITY Mich (UP)— Shot- ish mound under the skin He hi gun pellets 23 years old add color been retired four years to the reminiscences of It is estimated that if all the Harry (Cap) Anderson retired policeman motor vehicles of the United State The pellets are the remainder of about 300 that Norman Stanley —nearly 30000000— were lined up to bumper they would fill "The Virgin and Child' first fired into Anderson's chest in July bumper of a highway 8600 miles lanes nine him Christmas carol was written in 1916 after Anderson pursued of Stanley'j long following the murder the fourth century rest |