Show RADIO By INEZ GERHARD BEN In nearly 21 years of has built up a terrific list of famous friends who have always wanted to do something for They got their chance when Ben started his new daytime Grauer's Footlights and practically every star in show business clamored for a chance to appear for BEN GRAUER Among the first were Ed Oscar winner Jose Ralph Edward Everett Victor Robert Susan Arthur Barbara Bel Geddes and William Thousands of dollars would have been paid out for guest shot if they'd worked for Homer of la In a dither these days getting his New farm In readiness for a Paramount camera will he made there for Jack Benny will return to the screen after seven years' absence In Loves He will play as he was in the days when he was a vaudeville often sharing star billing with Blossom whose life story this Robert who has won Innumerable awards for his Knows radio took his youngest daughter Kathleen to Warner Brothers as a fifth birthday celebration to watch him working with Joan Crawford in My She had a lovely Just loved playing with Miss Crawford's She paid very little attention to her or Miss thought the dog was almost as nice as her pets at use of good writing equipment for the fact that penmanship has as well as it has despite crowded mi and less time for The widely held notion that basic arts like writing and spelling have been neglected in this mechanized age Is well refuted so far as penmanship is concerned by results of the the minority of principals who feel handwriting has declined is so sizable and in many cases so emphatic as to leave no doubt that there's still lots of room for BEARING OUT this observation was the high school principals' verdict that only about two-thirds of their students have a handwriting by the time they Grade school principals voted about two to one that children to write more Use of the form of writing taught in about 95 per cent of the schools In the first two or three grades was given much of the credit for along with more general use of good The survey showed that quality of handwriting has an Influence upon the marks children get in Among grade school per cent said handwriting helps produce good and among high school heads the count was almost the 89 6 per The most commonly Indicated reasons among those who think today's handwriting is better improvement of teaching more widespread use of good writing and the own disinclination to glorify good old there is a sizeable minority of principals per cent who feel that the handwriting of their present pupils is worse than that of their The manuscript form of writing lower-case is now taught almost universally in the early A change is usually made to cursive at the third or fourth |