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BROOKLYN EAGLE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 7. 1941 23 By ttAUulo THESE WOMEN! Stage Tradition Played No Part In Stage Career of Allyn Joslyn 1 1 Mr. Joslyn's career look off from the business world. He got a job i as office boy, when in his teens, i and worked six months for $7 0 He Just Succeeds in Easy Strides; Now He's a Hero or Something By JANE CORBY It always seems to be worth a story when an actor gets ahead without apparently any volition ol his own, much as every so often a radio listener gets called to the phone to be told he has won a prize simply by being home to answer the telephone. This leads by easy stages to Allyn Joslyn, a Casual stage success It ever there was one.

Mr. fl vftV tl ft Ip' iralMa i ii ii in tA 1 Joslyn "never thought he'd get to gpealc a line," he says candidly, and as he Is now the hero, or some "I was very brave to do this," he says of his current show. "I turned down three pictures to come here. I fell for the play." thing, of "Arsenic and Old Lace," it is plain that he has been taking' Plays Dramatic Critic the whole business of theatrical success in stride. The Joslyns Mrs.

Joslyn is the former Miss Dorothy Yockel of Olen Cove are well known on Long Island, and have Summered In Northport. Their real home now In Beverly Hills, for Mr. Joslyn has been a featured Hollywood star for several years, and returns to Broadway only to keep his hand in. week. It occurred to him that ht could get a better job on the stage and he did, graduating from the chorus to carrying a spear.

He presently did six plays for the Theater Guild and spent several years in radio work. What he likes best to Temember about his radio dramatic work Is the time he played one of twin sisters. His "twin" was Kate Mayhew, a famous actress who was then 83 years old. Dorothy Yockel, his beautiful, dark-haired wife, was playing in a Jasper Deeter production when Allyn Joslyn got a part in the same show. Their meeting was far from romantic.

"She was assigned to coach ms in my part," he explains. "So I said to her, 'What do I do in this 'Do anything you she told me. We didn't say anything more after that for the rest of the rehearsal." Likes to Fish Mr. and Mrs. Joslyn are enthusiastic fisherfolk, and Mr.

Joslyn carries around pictures of striped marlum and similar beauties which he has hooked off Catalina Island and in other favorite fishing spots. His wife's part in the fishing consists of holding the reel until she gets a bite, when Mr. Joslyn says, "Give me that reel, dear." They both like to travel, and Mr. Joslyn tries to get down to South America every once in a while, where his grandfather, who made three fortunes In Wall Street, used "I wanfyou to give Cissy a tieatment she's been naughty." Allyn Joslyn For the benefit of those who haven't seen "Arsenic and Old Lace," Mr. Joslyn plays the part of a dramatic critic, nephew of two elderly Brooklyn women who inherited a patent medicine fortune and continue to live In their Brooklyn home, where many extraordinary things occur.

Brooks Atkinson, dramatic critic of the Times, claims that Mr. Joslyn in his part is a composite of himself and Richard Watts critic of the Herald Tribune. 'The personality is Mr. Watts, the mustache is me," wrote Mr. Atkinson, approximately, in a recent column.

Mr. Joslyn cut out the column and carries it with him as a trophy of his success in the role of dramatic critic. His mustache, he says, is usually with him, anyway, and was not assumed for this part, however. Those who saw him in his latest HEFFERNAN says About Propaganda And 'Negotiated' Peace Boro Leaders in Fund Drive Hope Walter S. Mack Becomes a 'Waiter' It's All Because of Little Bet-lf Brooklyn Fills Quota First Mr.

Mack Will Serve Luncheon to Walter Rothschild Tlhovie, "This Thine Called Love." I doubt that the devil ever invented a weapon of potency more terrible than propaganda, a word I am now using in the iw nfcpntprf spnse nf modern usaee. Bv that I mean Walter Rothschild, who Is dividing his time between his duties as president of Abraham Straus and the leadership of the Greater New York Fund campaign in Brooklyn, is putting up a hard fight to avoid taking on a third Job that of a hotel waiter. He has until May 20 to meet the challenge ofTered at the fund's first city-wide report meeting by Walter S. Mack chairman of the drive in Queens. Mr.

Mack proposed a new "battle of the boroughs," a race to see whether Brooklyn or Queens draws nearer to its f'd line reckless dissemination of falsehood or distortion of facts mining, and to the West Indies, where he has spent much time to serve a military or political purpose. There are since he was a small boy. i viewpoints among us, of course, but these do not account tor will recall that he appeared in this vehicle without the mustache, but there was a reason. "It turned out that all the men In the play had mustaches, and that would never do, so we drew lots to see who would appear without one," he explains. "I lost." His was tile role of the lawyer who provided Melvyn Douglas with some extremely complicating ad-vice, it will be recalled.

Eats I'nique Breakfast In real life he looks exactly as he does on the screen, except that 1 fund quota by tne time of the next ALLYN JOSLYN with a sword-fish he helped catch. tie on the French side of the Rhine, called the Chateau Jos.selyn, which was the way the name was spelled until our Mr. Joslyn's grandfather shortened it. The Allyn in his name is another family surname, and his middle name is Morgan, after the Governor. Mrs.

Joslyn attends every per- 1 the storm of coniuseo misiniorma-formance of any play in which Mr Uon Bnd information we get today. Joslyn acts, until the New York i Theodore Roosevelt was in the habit season opens. She attends the of quoting a line, the authorship opening and then, says Mr. Joslyn, of whicn rve forgotten. It was, "A 'to What, In the light of the 'new do you think they meant by 'enjoined'? "And yet, there are some editors who seem to think that we could are Joseph E.

Pridday, merchandise; Adelbert G. Wright, utilities and transportation; Alvan E. Kallman, food; Hugh Cuthrell, industry; William J. Wason, finance; Dr. Harry the kitchen are former City Court Justice Edward A.

Richards, chairman of the special gifts committee; William J. Fisher, chairman of employe gifts: Larry S. MacPhail, in lie mat is only nan a ne is ever me "she is excused, except to drop so often and see that everything is under control." And Ray- 'negotiate' a peace with the Axis who represents Powers, and the Lindbergh boys feel harder to fijht. mend Gram Swing charge of public relations, and Su- 8. Rogers, professional, and Ralph W.

Day, Bush Terminal. preme Court Justice Francis D. Mc Lined up behind these leaders are I ne is taller than th reen makes him look. He is lone and lithe and 1.500 more workers who Put on Your Mask, Give Client a Break DR. BRADY says: a point of view which is not mine btu whom I consider the most sincere, the best informed and the reckless of our radio commen- tators, said early In the war that i although the means for the trans-! mission of news were never so great, Garey, chairman of the fund's Brooklyn Business Council.

Borough President Cashmore heads the government group, one of the eight divisions of campaign activity. Heads of other divisions have been going ahead for the last three weeks with the job of soliciting gifts for the fund from firms and their employe groups. "Do," said the imitation trained nurse workinc for the accu well proportioned; breakfasted fat 3 In the afternoon) the day we interviewed him on a bowl of sour cream with assorted vegetables, including cauliflower and radishes. The boiled potato which the waiter proffered he waved away in no uncertain terms. Contrary to the suspicions of many outside the all-nrnnnrl snorMnllsr hp limits nnntino tr.

rfioooe th. the difficulties of obtaining vj litu UV UULCMVd Ul 4JV eyes, ears, nose, throat and anything else the patient happens to have "Do, we do't wear basks id the office the doctor says sub patie'ts bight be frighte'ed." The patient was frightened because the nurse, who explained she often had these dis- i r7 that we ought to begin to do some appeasing. "Yes, and so many people believe (you, unfortunately, I believe to be one of them) that this Is only a war of opposing Imperialisms. Would to God it were, because, believe me, when I say that I could find it in my heart then to be wholly and completely neutral. But that just isn't so.

and the solemn truth is borne out by the 'victor's proposed peace terms' that your liberty and mine are the biggest stake in this whole fight, and God help us all, It's going to be, because it must be, a fight to the bloody finish." 'Enjoined' or 'Enjoyed' Mr. Swing read the article written by some Japanese editor with all Its fantastic terms and spoke particularly of this word "enjoined." He conjectured that It might be a misprint for "enjoyed." Whether it is or not is unimportant; the entire scheme Is absurd. On a short NEWS BEHIND NEWS IN WASHINGTON By ERNEST K. LINDLEY lean Medical Association opined that it would be difficult or impossible to fix the responsibility, theater, neither he nor most other I actors, he says, would think of drinking before a performance, "Even one drink affects the work, I I think." His show is going into its fifth month and has an advance sale of I four weeks. But he doesn't find rate information were never greater.

A Legionnaire Writes Today I'm reading a letter from Edward E. Fuchs, our Legionnaire friend, in which he says: "Did you read the 'peace' terms ottered by a 'press' spokesman of Japan? "Let me call your attention to one sentence. Political and reliiious lio-erty to be enjoined all over the world." "Did you ever look up the word "njoin' In the dictionary? Among her meanings, there are 'to order agreeable little colds but they never lasted more than a day or two, was not-wearing a mask. In fact the patient never returned. Chicago physician raised the question whether a hospital where nurses, physicians and others are not required to wear masks while attending newborn infants in the nursery be legally liable for the spread of a respiratory infection through the nursery.

Answering the question, the editor of the Journal of the Amer- Shoe Workers' Plea to Prevent Unwarranted Rise Prices Encouraging in These Troublous Times The United Shoe Workers of America through their general executive board, have addressed a significant plea to Leon Henderson, administrator of prices and civilian supply. It is a plea to prevent "unwarranted -increases" in the retail price of It's almost unheard of for a labor union to seek to pre- there are a few million people tne country who are as wishful in- report meeting. The chairman of the campaign In the losing borough, togged out in a white apron and with a napkin slung over his left arm, will serve the winner's luncheon on the 20th In full view of the leading business and professional men and women of New York City. Mr. Rothschild was not present at the last report meeting because he had been called to Washington, but the Mackian gage was picked up by his vice chairman, Bryant P.

Gilmour, who submitted the Brooklyn report for him. Brooklyn Now Trailing As things stand now Brooklyn is trailing, but it's the last battle that decides the winner. Brooklyn is so confident it will pull out on top that even on the waiters' side of the argument tfle borough is offering If Brooklyn losses, Mr. Gilmour said he and Mr. Rothschild would join in serving Mr.

Mack's luncheon, thus guaranteeing attention de luxe. But If Mr. Mack winds up on the short end he will have to hustle a tray for Mr. Rothschild alone. This is the way the contest shapes up in the early Innings (and our dough is on Rothschild and Gilmour as fast finishers) Brooklyn Quota $500,004 Brooklyn has quota of $500,000, to be raised by an appeal directed exclusively to business firms and employe groups on behalf of the 400 voluntary social welfare and health agencies affiliated with the Greater New York Fund.

The Queens quota is $250,000. Initial reports turned in by the two boroughs show a Brooklyn total of $80,000 and a Queens total of $65,000. Queens is quite a bit ahead, but don't forget that Mr. Gilmour, who is a right smart operator, still Is giving odds. He's pretty sure that by the time the mid-campaign report is made on the 20th Brooklyn will be proportionately closer to Its goal.

The lineup Manager Rothschild has put on the field Includes a good number of .300 hitters, the pitching staff is in wonderful shape and even the bat-boys over at fund headquarters in 16 Court St. are walking around with chips the size of Yule logs on their shoulders. Vice Chairmen Miss Bess Blood-worth and Joseph M. May are veteran campaigners. Others who are helping Mr.

Rothschild put Mr. Mack out in as I am to avoid respiratory fection, Winter or Summer. i wave broadcast Sunday night I didn't get the signature it was stated that Maisuoka was not go-j ing to "accept the invitation" to visit the U. but thought Presi Silvers Mask The Silvers mask (devised by ln vent price increases in its own Dr. for has Lewis J.

Silvers, New York, throat specialists particularly) that is, to prove that a particular individual had infected one or more of the little patients. The editor said that regulations of the Chicago Board of Health require that nurses, physicians and others entering the newborn nursery wear a suitable ma.sk all year except during the Summer months. I wonder if that Chicago physician shares the apparent conviction of the Chicago Board of Health that the germs or virus of respiratory infections summer somewhere away from Chicago, For the Safety of All The health officer of Los Angeles wrote to a State legislator suggesting that barbers should be required by law to wear a ma.sk while serving customers. Somehow the thing got into the papers. Barbers retorted that some customers should be required to wear masks; they seemed annoyed about it, so the Los Angeles health officer explained that he had only been joking.

I may be woefully wrong aboHt this, but it seems to me that it might be a smart thing for a barber shop, a hair dressing shop or a manicure salon to adopt the ace mask as routine practice, for the benefit of all clients and incidentally for the safety of the operator. Such a mask need not be playing the same part monotonous. "You just have to Imagine you're playing the role for the first time every time you play it." Brooklyn House Stage Set The play has only one set, the parlor of an old-fashioned Brooklyn house, with a staircase leading to a narrow gallery. It's an authentic Brooklyn house, Mr. Joslyn is sure, and it certainly has the Brussels lace curtains that hang on many brownstone fronts on many blocks of Brooklyn's more conservative streets.

There are old paintings on the walls and the furniture is comfortable. What the audience doesn't know and which Mr. Joslyn is proud to report is that the upper story of the house, which is only indicated from the stage side, is furnished within, "Just to give the actors the feel of being in an authentic house." Another entertaining detail, which has nothing to do with thp audience, is a scene from the side windows of the parlor. The actors look out on a graveyard, Just beyond the windows, a highly appropriate bit of scenery, considering that 13 murders are committed in the course of the play. At the end the 13 corpses tcome out and take bows, which relieves the tension and sends evervbodv home dent Roosevelt or Mr.

Hull might go to Japan ts get first-hand information as to conditions in the Far East. Mr. Fuchs. I fear, misapprehends what many of us mean by the "negotiated peace We had the other kind at Versailles and It was full of dragon's teeth. We have in mind no Hitler peace, and no Matsuoka peace, and perhaps no Churchill peace, if Churchill should prove as truculent at the peace table as he is at the head of a warring empire, or as Clemence-au and Lloyd George were at Versailles.

I doubt he would be. Meanwhile, what of us? If we get a cause in the justice of which the nation as a whole can believe, and a defense effort in which there shall be neither strikes nor cause for strikes, then to exhausted, warworn belligerents we shall be capable of presenting with effect the peace of the strong man armed" and secure in his strength and sense of Justice. dustry. The custom has been to seek higher wages, and let the industry do what it could about increasing prices. Sometimes the resultant increase in prices has been used as an argument for still another increase in wages.

And sometimes, especially in the building business, unions, contractors, and supply houses have worked hand in hand to raise prices. When the argument that higher prices would be bad for an industrial product has been made by either employees or employers it usually has been made by the latter. Too often it has been a blanket argument against wage increases. The industries in which both sides have bargained with an attempt to appraise fully the effect of wage increases on prices and consumpj tion are rare. But now there is a government agency to watch over and try to control prices, and the United Shoe Workers ask it to prevent unwarranted price increases.

been described here more than once. Such a mask, made of flexible, transparent material like cellophane, could be worn attached to a light frame similar to a spectacle frame. It would be fairly comfortable and it would look all right. Calcium Is it accepted by the medical profession that calcium in our food has the effect of controlling nervous irritability or steadying the nerves? I get this impression from the writings of several medical authors, including yourself. Mrs.

H. H. A. Yes. You will find it discussed further in booklet "Nerves and Nutrition" for copy send 25 cents coin and 3-ccnt stamped envelope bearing your address.

On request the monograph "The Calcium Shortage" will be mailed with the booklet. The shoe workers want higher wages, naturally. They are especially eager to get them in the low-wage unorganized centers which held the average annual wage of shoe workers throughout the country to $842 in 1939. But, they assert, wages can be Increased as much as 20 percent in the low-wage areas without requiring much of an increase in shoe prices. On the average labor costs are less than 25 percent of manufacturing costs of shoes.

They estimate that a 20 percent increase in wages would require an increase of only 2.2 percent in retail prices. Even this additional cost, they assert, can be absorbed by rising consumer demand and greater production, resulting In lower overhead costs. Present production is at the rate of about 400,000,000 pairs annually, whereas the estimated capacity of the Industry as It now stands is 750,000.000 pairs. The United Shoe Workers also registered a protest against increased costs "due to speculative actions in the hides market." oil i made of gauze. It may be a trans- parent mask, such as the Silvers mask.

If I wanted a shave or haircut I'd go far out of my way to such shop to get it, and I be- happy. Mr. Jo.lyn Is a descendant of an old family which is distinctly a nontheatrical family, contrary. Wage Rises In Lower Brackets Only Uncle Ray's Corner For Boys and Girls again, to some of the best stase traditions. One of his forebears was Governor Morgan, Civil War Governor of New York State, and the earlier members were very early New Englanders.

"Got here 400 years before Columbus, roughly speaking," he explains, indifferently. Started as Office Boy Before crossing the ocean, his ancestors on one side were English, and, on the other, French. The French crowd occupied a cas- Tigers and Wild Dogs Among India's Jungle Animals Bit Job to Prevent Inflation How much, If any, shoe prices must be Increased to take up current or Impending Increases in wages is a problem for the experts. In this, as In other industries, there obviously are limits to the jpage Increases that can be granted without forcing prices higher. But wage Increases should not be used as an excuse for excessive price increases.

Administrator Henderson stopped a general increase of steel prices, following the recent wage Increases. Some steel prices may be upped. Indeed, under sliding scale government contracts, the steel companies have the right to pass on to the government part of the wage increases. But Henderson's I are large and strong; and can crush a person to death. Packs of wild dogs roam about some of the jungles of India.

Usu-1 ally there are from 10 to 40 of them in a pack. We might name many other kln'o of wild animals in the great land or southern Asia, There are wild goals More than once I have spoken of the fact that Africa's Jungles have lions but no tigers. India, on the other hand, has bom lions and timers. There are not so many lions as tigers in India. To find lions there, we must look in the northwestern part of the country.

Tigers, on the other hand, are found in forests and jungles all over India. They live on the slopes of high mountains, also In swamp lands. Tiger 9 Fret In Length The average tiger In India Is about nine feet long, counting the tail. Some tigers with greater length have been shot; one meas-urea 12 feet and four inches from the tip of his nose to the tip of his tail. Leopards and wolves are other wild animals of India.

One kind of leopard is trained for hunting. Men go into the wilds with cheetahs, or hunting leopards, and let the animals pounce on antelopes ior their maiters. ployers and employees alike will benefit from holding prices down and trying to increase the consumption of shoes. By implication, they acknowledge that there are limits to the wage Increases they can ask or exact without defeating their larger purpose. For they take the trouble to argue that the wages they are asking for now will not require much of a price rise.

The United Shoe Workers want Administrator Htndcrson to appoint experts to sit down with representatives of the shoe manufacturers and of the union and study the price problem. This is good publicity for the union, of course. But, more than that, It Is encouraging that at least one union is looking beyond wage increases to their effect on prices and, in turn, to the effect of higher prices on the welfare of their own industry of the country SHIRTWAIST DRESS A SEASON 'MUST' If you admire the simple tailored dress, in chambra.y, gingham, shantung or one of the novelty crepes of this season, here Is your style. Pattern No. 1383-B is an easy-to-make version of the popular classic, in that it has no tr'cky details.

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and wild sheep, also wild There are one-horned rhinos and two-homed rhinos. There are wild boars and pigmy hogs. A full-grown pigmy hog is only nine or 10 inches tall: Ks weight is from eight to 12 pounds. Herds of wild elephants exist among the high hills in some parts of India. These big beasts have been hunted and captured for hundreds of years, and there are not nearly so many today as in past times.

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Henderson's great task is to prevent a general spiraling of prices in other words, inflation. It is to everybody's interest that he succeed. If he is to succeed, brakes must be applied to wage increases; at least In some lines where they are already as high as they can go without forcing prices up. Encouraging Outlook The United Shoe Workers want their wage increases, but they recognize that it is to Ihcir Interest to prevent shoe prices from skyrocketing. They believe em Cross stitch that looks like applique is a gay note for kitchens! A bit of bright-colored floss some leisure time and these lively puppies appear on a set of towels in no time! Pattern 6894 contains a transfer pattern of 6 motifs averaging 7x7 "4 inches; illustration of stitches; materials needed; color schemes.

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