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PARAMOUNT SUES OB ILM RECEIPTS NEW YORK The Alden Theater which formerly was op erated in New Rochelle by Alden Rochelle Inc was sued for damages in a civil action just filed in New York Supreme Court here for allegedly participating in a conspiracy designed to defraud Paramount Pictures I $536265 by making false box of fice returns and offering fraudu lent statements beginning Jan 6 1942 The Alden is grouped with four ether theaters in Westchester and one in Queens under one count of the complaint which holds them jointly accountable for $187570 of the damages Named as co defcndants withthem arc a large proportion of the 115 theaters operated by Brandt Theaters Inc According to the 62 page com plaint Brandt and his associates falsified the books and records of their respective theaters by crediting a portion of the re ceipts of percentage pictures (pictures in which the producer gets a per cent of the returns) as having been received from fiat rental pictures by us ing duplicate ticket rolls by using unreported ticket rolls by engag ing fraudulent methods In ad mitting patrons by maintaining separate unreported bank ac counts by switching ticket rolls between different theaters in the fame circuit by submitting altered daily tally reports or by attribut ing portions of gross receipts to other sources The Brandt circuit opened the Alden Theater at 439 North Avenue in 1938 Its operation has since changed hands a number of times since that time The name of the theater was changed by a new operator in 1945 to the Astor Students Are Watching The Want Ads To Buy Used Type writers And Record Players THE STANDARD STAR NEW ROCHELLE THURSDAY JANUARY 15 1948 cam yr I Ip (' ill fl A I ft I lW ggaMmaajr tty 11 MtaSS jJ AINTING inemoiv of Ausablc Mrs Benjamin XMattressXbmldinA is a number to remember when your bedding needs attention take your old mattress box spring etc and make it over in our factory LIKE NEW I A phone call will bring our representative to estimate your needs MATTRESSES BOX SPRINGS PILLOWS COMORTERS Renovated Sterilized SEE OUR OtSPLAY INE NEW BEDDING INNEItSl RIST MATTRESSES BOX STRINGS COMORTERS PILLOWS STUDIO COI CHES ROII AWAT inns HOLLYWOOD BEDS All Kind ot NON ALLERGIC PILLOWS MATTRESS COVERS Etc "Itest Aiixured99 with aafoWfi BEDDING CO INC 2 1 24k 0 E' nnWNMfM wstww11 nl wh Wz if 1 r'Vvw '4 'w854WOs' QUESTIONED erenc Vajta leaves a House Un American Activities subcommit tee hearing room in Washing ton after being questioned on how he got into the United States Vajta who was de scribed by Chairman John Mc Dowell (R Pa) as a wartime Hungarian consul in Vienna was brought to Washington from Ellis Island where he had been held since the Justice De partment arrested him recently Associated Press Wirephoto Lions Club to Hear 2 Speakers on SPCC Work of the Society for Pre vention of Cruelty to Children will be described to the Lions Club at its meeting tonight at Hotel Os born Speakers will be Mrs Robert Hartley director and district secretary of the society and Mrs Louise Ellis who is in charge of the New Rochelle office The club will return to Wykagyl Country Club a week from tonight That meeting will be the postpon ed Christmas party PLAN MEMORIAL BEACH OSSINING A river bathing beach as a living memorial to the war dead will be discussed tomor row night when representatives of professions veterans and civic or ganizations of Ossining and Briar cliff Manor meet under the aus pices of the Ossining Community Association The Beach Memor lal was voted a preferred project members of the association re cently ct El 0R 1 s185'00 0LD ENGNI Il I fC7 xiV SIXES PRICED (r cohrespondingiy low Jp Runs Like New Engine his mother has been presented to Tarrytown's Warner Library by the artist Rockwell Kent Titled the picture Is a view of Whiteface Mountain from the artist's home nt Warren librarian is standing by the painting Mr Kent is a nntivc of Tarrytown and his mother lived there until her death a month ago Staff Photo STROLL rKRQUND e5RV THE Edison must have begun like the youthful we know who at the age of 7 has often turned the basement not to men tion the whole house into an up roar with his experiments Members of his whole family who have gradually steeled them selves to the fact that the house may blow up without warning wore amused and relieved to learn that his latest attempts are to make nylon They found him with a large piece of coal in a vice in the cellar and he was grinding the coal to fine ashes Seems he was going to dissolve it in water and put it in the and what more could you want to make nylon? Riders yesterday morning who slipped and slid their way to their bus were pleased to find they had a driver with a sense of humor As he shifted and rc shlftcd through the narrow icy roads he found his way blocked time and again by the vehicles and by snow The best of all was when he had to stop and wait while one driver served customers he laughed an icc truck and those silly people are buying ice Seems to me there's plenty of it right here" Cyril Nast a gentleman of many roles before the camera may be seen in several of the current magazines In several strongly contrasting characteri zations And the portrayals will give his friends the subject for many a conservation one picture he's Gramps a cowboy Gramps complete with fombrero counseling a handsome nurse In another he's a tall lank bespectacled priest a third shows him as a kindly judge perched high on the bench gazing bene volently on a lovely golden lwirsd little girl and In the fourth he is the elderly millionaire attempting to get back letters written to a chorus girl! tales revolving about his posing experiences are even bet ter than the pictures themselves The bench on which he sat as the judge he says was a ramshackle hastily assembled affair about to hurl him to the floor and he had to perch very lightly on ft Posing with a group of men for a liquor advertisement several of the party made away with sufficient samples that when the final scene was posed the ang LORAL DESIGNS Receive Our Special Attention Lieb' Greenhouses Askins PL off Eastchester Rd New Rochelle 2 5599 ulshed photographer discovered one of the bottles was empty Mr Nast would like Ills friends to know that when they see him shortly in a beer ad the beer glass which looks full is really empty But he (ell us whnt was in those letters from the mil lionaire to the chorus girl! There are some people we'll never really understand Tn fact some people just seem to know when well off There's lorence Schwartz for in stance who just came back from lorida after a glorious threc wecks Not that she have a wonderful time she says but the one thing she's sorry about is that she missed "the big storm" Said it must have been quite some experience and she kidding! Something new is added every day We were feeling sorry for the fathers of the ebruary class at Now Rochelle School of Nursing because they had nothing to do (most of them coming from out of town) while the Mother Daughter tea was in progress from 3 to 5 In the afternoon But we found that the tea is just called the "Mother Daughter and that actually the fathers are permitted to attend the and always do Wonder If they have to come In the back door? party was so successful and pleasant It was unanimously decided to hold more such parties in the is the report from 'the shindig given last Saturday night at Bordewlck's Tuckahoe by the employes of rank Bruce Co Bon Ton Department Store A highlight of the event was Lyn singing of and which received a hearty applause Arrange ments for the affair were handled by Mrs Yolanda Locatclll and Mrs Ethel Newcomb and the guest of honor was rank Bruce Lendt manager and Rclchner assistant manager A good time was had by all It was an evening to be re membered and repeated Towns lo Ask Slate Cui Auto Speeds in Areas NORTH TARRYTOWN i The Mount Pleasant Town Council may seek state sanction for re duction of the speed limit In the unincorporated hamlets of the town to 20 miles per hour Par ticularly affecting Valhalla Haw thorne and Tliomwood the Coun cil passed a resolution for the lower limit In the face of a state traffic survey which resulted In recommendation of a 30 mile an hour pace The town is the second to come for lower speed limits this week The Greenburgh Council yesterday announced It would ask for a 35 mile an hour limit In the unincorporated areas CAR PARKING BANNED A new ordi nance prohibits parking cars tn the Mamaroneck business area between 3:30 A and 7:30 A It was enacted to facilitate street cleaning astidious Homes Has been completely tom down and rebuilt to our exacting specifications Worn parts replaced with New Gen uine ord Parts Immediate Delivery SINDALL AUTO SALES AND SERVICE Inc Authorized Dealer 420 NORTH AVE NEW ROCHELLE 6 6020 NEPTU Know how much a col orful carpet means to each room Those homes know that when carpets grow dull there is no way like the Nep tune way to renew brightness and charm Call us today PRICES for 9 f2'i Domestic 648 Orientals 884 369 Huguenot St New Rochelle Bnai2X)450 New York Ssarwlali 3 1200 Nw Rchtl 2 1300 fOrJham 4S90Q IK Wm rf BIB' i 'm49M Sflssi! 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