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Daily News from New York, New York • 58

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Daily Newsi
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New York, New York
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58
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fcROOKLYN SECTION SUNDAY, JULY 4, 1937 6B- Starring On Stages TILLETS PL SKEPTICAL ON (Wi Id' Visitors at Zoo Keep Staff Jittery TIME TABLE It's not the wild animals that wear the Prospect Park Zoo corps nerves to a frazzle. It's the "civilized" public. 11 if Here, son, rou can't do thatr Prospect Park Zoo attendants greatest proll-m is the public. Zoo risitors demonstrate, at camera man's request, what not to do. Warning signs are prominently displayed oruvirtually every to protect the animals and the public.

4 i I r- When "Dead End," drama East River waterfront, comes to the Brighton Theatre for a week, Tuesday, Louise Larabee (top) will be seen in a leading role. Youngest favorite of Jewish stage is dark-eyed Miriam Kres-syn. (below) signed to star in Yiddish drama season at Hopkin-son Theatre, Brooklyn, next Fall. Coney Island's 'Los? Season Plagues Cops (Continued from page t) do want them and will soon be after them. Years of experience at Coney has made Mrs.

Gorman a bit discour aged about many parents on sev eral points. First, she says, so many parents make the mistake of frightening a child with the warning, "The police will get yon if you don't watch out. Then there's the mother who gets hvj But many of the 125,000 weekly fcitr to Prospect Park Zoo apparently don't believe in signs. So a keeper is on guard in every house t- make sure Mr. and Mrs.

Public Citizen and family don't "annoy or fed the animals'' or get hurt themselves. As farther precaution, because th widespread indifference, two police detectives now patrol the on the alert for violators. "An a-rest may mean a $25 fine as the have longed told the unheeding public. Food Problem Biggest. Acts which drove park officials seek police aid are many and varied.

Most of them spring? from carelessness or well-intentioned thoughtlessness. The food problem is the biggest. Every animal at the zoo has a daily diet worked fut from seien- St.irtinir time for today's feature films, reported by theatre maiiacpra to The News: DOWNTOWX AIBKK 12:10. 50. 3:30.

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hysterical and some times faints from joy at the sight of her lost son or daughter. More frequent is the parent whose first impulse is to punish the child for getting lost. On that last score, Mrs. Gorman is firmly opposed. "They don't spank the child when I'm there," she exclaimed.

"I let them know what I think about it. To my way of thinking, it does good. And the idea of a mother spanking a child when she should be spanked herself for her own carelessness in not watching it!" 2nd BIG WEEK I CLAUDETTE COLBERT Met Him in Paris" HIT No. 2 "MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW" HIT No. 1 YA PAT O'BRIEN HENRY FONDA Margaret LINDSAY HIT No.

2 KNIGHT of MYSTERY IS. S. VAN DINE NEW THRILLER I in iW5 ill mm is at the open-air half of the ele phants quarters. This is encircled by a low- cement wall, bordering a wide waterfilled moat. Parents often let children sit on this wall.

"They don't seem to realize the elephants trunks are Ion? enough to reach them," a zoo official said. Big Judy and Topsy are not likely to try to pick up a child, but, figuring- in their elephantine way it had food for them, they could easily knock the tot off the wall, he explained. Another headache for zoo keepers are would-be teasers. A favorite weapon i3 newspapers. People insist on shaking these at animals.

Expert Animal Teasers. "They forget that the animal is just as liable to grab the hand as Stkks are another popular tease weapon. At the zoo office is one taken from "a man old enough to have some sense. It's about IS inches long and at one end has a two-inch metal prong. Women, it's reported, are more indignant than men when warned of violations.

They give tha zoo corps the most arguments. ELEVEN CREWS APPLY FOR LIFEBOAT RACES Eleven crews among thirty-five steamship lines to date have applied to compete in the eleventh annual international lifeboat races which will be held in the Narrows off Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, on Sept. 11. This was revealed yesterday by Magistrate Matthew J. Troy, Brooklyn chairman.

There will be two races this year instead of the usual one. One race will be for Coast Cuard boats and the other competition between foreign and American crews. MA3CH Of TIME tiftc study and practical experience, if the animal, especially the the generous pubhe tames takes the paper its likely to laden with popcorn, peanuts, candy, feat it. EXPRESS PLAN JJoubts tnat lull express service will be established on 1 the Flushing-, Queens, I. R.

T. line with completion of a new station at Willets Point Boule vard, Corona, were expressed yesterday by civic workers. Joseph A. Marck, transit chair man of the North Shore Civic Al liance, which seeks rehearing of a mandamus proceeding, said he had been advised by the Mate Transit Commission to that effect. Trains to Turn.

Commission officials, he said, informed him that plans call for turning back trains at the rebuilt Willets Point station, and that they will continue to Flushing terminal only during non-rush hour periods. The information was given, he said, in reply to his request for the exact status of express service. Justice Thomas C. Kadien, dur ing argument on the mandamus proceedings to compel I. R.

T. compliance with the express service order, held that rebuilding of the station assured such service. For World's Fair. "The Alliance is convinced that express service is no farther toward realization now," Marck said, "than it was when the city appro- priated $500,000 to rebuild the Willets Point Boulevard station. "We are also convinced.

that this station is being built solely to handle the World's Fair traffic." UNION T'PIKE TO BE READY LATE IN FALL Designed as a part of the Long Island parkway system, Union Turnpike will be opened late this Fall, a four-lane highway for traffic between Myrtle and Metropolitan Queens. Long Island State Park Commission officials said the job is to be finished by Nov. 15. Widening work is nnder way beneath the Montauk and Rockaway Beach branches of the Long Island Railroad. The job will cost $249,000 and will provide a route for both passenger and commercial vehicles.

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a Wwh LOKW-s rai-MIER. Sutter a A THE Wwa Ctark ClaHl Saeatw Call Waka fruit and. as the keepers sigh. nut anything else. as one keeper said forlornly, "most animals are professional beepers.

"No matter how well fed, they'll eat anything given them. Even the sea-lions which eat only raw fish will swallow most anything thrown into their pool. After they it down, the discover too late it's not tish." Ketriever On Hand. tfuard against disaster, a man is stationed there with a long stick that ha a net on the end. lie retrieve about 90 per cent, of the st thrown or dropped in.

Amoni hi "hauls" are such non-sea-lion lwl as rubber balls, paper boxes and sticks. Another human habit which nukes the zoo corps groan and aot fast is indifference to safety. (laud railings parallel all the cz. keeping- the public about four-and-a-half feet from the bars. Keepers say its no unusual sight see a fond parent hold a child over the rail in order to let it get closer tv the animal.

Dangerous WalL Another spot where thoughtless parents endanger children's lives ON THE OCEAN FRONT IVEKT NICHT AT I Mk by o4s Rem RcDKive mm-m-m av knillt. IN PUSON no) "AH Hi ladi DANCE rt hvttast tarti towst pvfe POSITIVELY THEIH FUNKIEST! MARX BROS in M-G-M's DAY AT RACES with ALLAH MAUREEN JONES O'SULUYAN INMOtf (Ti)tT IT" ,4 -L 4 HIT UONGS CIm Mm: a Cirl trim SntlM4 Var4 Mvraa tt. PwWM: Tin Hit Pnul( myrw Ley. ParacU: Tlw Hit Para Tracy. Tkey Cm Him a Baa: War Oat Wait It a Oar.

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