Breger On Private Abroad On the Side Walter Wevchell Broadway E. V. BURLING confidential—As for from 6 to 16 years old. How’i they, too, might be able to use BROADWAY BALLAD paaah! She swears she really THE Magic Lanterns: "Meet day. Many * your jalopy getting along? such a witness some #• we were happy a has a mink the "found” in bulges ALMOSTexpectant mothers visualiz- for little coat Me in St. Louis” • • children, a An- • w'ho see accidents happen and . . . ing Los white the subway. Says she bought it with enough pleasant amuse- future crimes with the money she laved riding geles matron says she visualized Edith Goggi of committed do not volun- And found the town a gay, ment to provide a month of 11/RITES teer to testify as they do *vxtiting subways Aw, ner expected infant as "a beau- ? ? Staten Island. N. Y : not place. instead of cabs. daydreams. Set in the 23-skidoo want to he verbally kicked gw an! era, the in- tiful red-haired, blue-eyed girl.” “Homebody asked you to But kappinete, of couree, goet warm humor and ' that is exactly what the a who about and humiliated by oppo- out of etyle Gov. Green of Illinois at Club fectious ditties Inspire the spirit And name Jockey wore a lawyers. he new arrival turned out to be. mustache. You named my sition magic leave* freak, 18. Says never laffed that to dimples. Delightful • • And a show its to • enchanted face! hard in his life. Margaret O’Brien stells the New Yorker says he tried brother, Charlie (ioggl. You And now the nights are portents Commissioner of docks John picture and your heart. get horse race tips from his just don't mUs anything. Susquehanna River haa ouija but suc- of dismay Me Ken sle. He has served song-and-danclnema. board without Charlie did have a mustache THEnot been entirely ignored A "Some- cess. An astonishing thing is time, And innn have Inst their N. Y. C. for 40 years. His offices thing for the Boys,” comes in for a short but has since by modern sftng writers, "Sil- color and their are at Pier A, a good stone’s the board often names a living shaved it off.” very Susquehanna” is the name lure. on a buck-and-wing and lands racehorse but the animal is And we who had to many things chuck from the Statue of Lib- gently on the eyes and ears. A Tujunga, Cal., subscriber, of a ditty written about three say. erty, which he has never visited. never entered in that day's years ago by Ann and to As in all musicals, the plot when its has a dog that.is a cross be- Smith Are silent children, sullen and M-G-M writer H. Kemitz, who races. At other times tween a Doberman pinscher James Kendis. The latter also plays second fiddle—sometimes owner seeks a tip on the races unsure. pays war correspondent Bob it seems that it isn’t even in and a German shepherd. This w'rote "I'm Forever Blowing Casey S4OO per week just to the hoard gives the answer: dog helps on the farm by col- Bubbles.” the orchestra. “Naughty, naughty.” . (since So goes it . . and our lesson hear him discuss France lecting eggs. As soon as he Now I have a reader in Niag- "Bowery to Broadway” • • • must he learned the war) three hours daily. hears a hen cackle he rushes to ara Falls, N. Y. Must ask him • • diverting por- That rapture fades and mock- a sketches a screen events—Those who her. picks up the egg and de- to check as to whether the ho- trait of the greasepaint tribe the ery is cold . .. BLESSEDfirst saw light of day in on of tels in his town are doing much Late Watch: Ingrid Hal- from the Gay Nineties to the posits it the doorstep the That life holds many hridgee to such unusual places as taxicabs, Kitchen. honeymoon business these days. THEten. named managing editor Gory * • start of the Forties. • be burned theaters, railroad stations, etc., • • • for the new mag, 'nils Month The script of "Blonde Fever” And fiddlers ask their pay in (due goon), should form a club. Trixie Fri- BERNHARDT did from clients, q and Curt Riess, the gets lost in a jungle of ganza (nee not purest gold . . . Delia O'Callaghan) a book titled "How ts author-correspondent, were Just clinches—and no one misses it president. SARAHmarry for the first time QueriesIn could be She was 1911, 61, she Raise Chickens’’ it says ths soon goes overseas . until 38 when divorced. He . . Those who dreamed up a In And those who play at love must born in the railroad station at made her tour average United States hen again. She just signed him up dullodrama like "The Last La Oygne, Kan Her father was most sensational pro- be aware for articles! —Til* Detroit Tim* of the United States. The thea- duces 188 eggs a year. You That are rough—and Ride” should be in the Hall of Irish and her mother was path* soda-j«rker drug Fame—sweeping “So sorry spoil your real career, but we’re ter managers organized to ban say 85. How about this dis- The. in the it. to estate Spanish. ? brambles scratch and tear! , • crepancy • • • her from their houses. So Sarah store at 55th and Sixth avenue eight up today!” • t —Don Wahn. movin’ miles gave all her performances in a —Up to recently is an ex-middleweight champ la., A the aver* Marksmanship: THE Sioux City, team huge This her age About Town: Judy from California. Anon: tent. didn’t hurt produced about 85 eggs a QUOTATIONThere are fewer vul- ONof the old Western League box office receipts. In Kansas year. Lately this has been FACESGarland, who always looks So many of Bennett Cerfs gar women than men, but they thrre was an outfielder named faun, Pin-up Girin By Patterson > City she played to $9.98-1 in one stepped up to around 100. Haa like a startled faun. Some gsgs in his new book collection are more repulsive. Ten Million night. In did $39,000 huh? were taken from and George Boston she never reached the figure yon this other MacDonald: You can t A Californian who checks on in a week. mention. In Sardi’s: Diva Helena Bliss rolyums that the wags are say- live on amusement. It is the says weighed • • • "Song Norway." everything she Q—What is your favorits of of She looks ing Cerf must be writing for froth on the water, an inch deep, her atnre including hat, gloves, lawyers are too rough the way an angel sings, Saturday opera? and sings •"Die Review of Lift- and then the mud. hose, shock grandma witnesses. . . and what SOMEon some For ex- the way an angel looks. era-ture!" . Ha Ha. Cerfs him Anon: The best throw of the A—Still La Boheme. Choo-Choo Johnson, called the "unmentionable*:'' ample, people who. having seen the Co- rightttt! dice is to throw them away. Total weight was a fraction an accident, are walling to Q -Why not include Fay over two pounds. testify in order that justice may Templeton in your famous Six thousand automobiles are triumph. Even opposing law- actresses from Pittsburgh. Mary being junked dally in the yers should handle such wit- A—Fay did live In Pittsburgh Haworths Mail United States. By the summer nesses with the utmost courtesy for a time but she was born in of 1945 14.000.000 cars will be and consideration. Perhaps Little Rock, Ark. DEAR MARY HAWORTH: and I am more the enthusiastic three months. I honestly didn’t VE been married seven years type who bubbles over—oc- miss him a bit; but I do feci I to a fine, well-liked man. casionally with flashes of temper. affection for him. Upton Noted News He is a good husband, has I will admit. It almost pains me so write so Close Analyist always loved me very much and Our different temperaments Intimately about our marriage, gives discord, my must me almost anything I made for some but but I feel I settle my con- I I r bustup brilliant couple want. real problem is this: I have PHE in the office of called the "most sank to a very low estate when fusion of mind. Jr A the United Ctates attorney in Washington.” its occupant rendered opinions that, 4 His only fault Is since always genuinely admired and My husband offers me se- f / /JHr They belong married, my husband; general marks the lowest point to the New Deal’s encourging the President to the day we he has respected and curity, respect from friends and intellectual aristocracy. constantly tried in a quite knew when we married that I sort to which that office has yet take liberties with the Consti- a of companionship. fallen. They are poor in this world’s tution instead of advising him nagging way to change me to was choosing with my head. If we have a family, will I For a long time there has goods, giving no outward evi- to stick to its letter when in his way of thinking and re- But I wonder If one misses always be looking, or wishing, living anything acting. marriage by been a growing split between dence of on but doubt. too much in fore- for something else? his salary. attorney general’s office I try see his viewpoint and going pleasures of a thrill to w-ondering Mr. Biddle and Mr. Littell, as- The to the Am I foolish be *• • ¦ sank lower accept sincerely can; sistant attorney general. still when in tha It when I attraction? if I should break away? Montgomery case but I feel a right to my own way about me; Young Norman plays T'HE Biddles, by contrast, be- Ward it sent He feels that I could easily enough. Littell A the army into private premises personality at times. but to be frank. I love him more Or should I try to content close to the Wallace liberais, long decidedly to the New Deal’s social aristocracy. covered onlv by the doubtful in- He U serious and settled, al- as a brother. myself with the good husband and is a darling of the Presi- or away Biddle is from old Philadel- junction a political judge, though he enjoys good times; Once when he was for and friend I have? W. J. dent's daughter, Mrs. Anna case • • • Boettinger. phia, in contrast to the new and then dismissed the state Washington. before the doubt about tha DEAR W J.: Atty. Gen. Biddle plays close of He is married to a woman of legality of the proceeding could are in th*» position of a to CIO Sidney Hillman and be brought to tesL Better Health YOUspoiled child bared with an Phillip Murray wealth. No one has ever accused him This is the sort of legal trick embarrassment of riches. • • • that qualifies a lawyer to ths By Logan You too well-cherished by of being of particularly keen Dr. Clendening are was bom in the intelligence. adjective "shyster.” age, your husband to appreciate his —TIm Detroit Time* LITTELLwestern state of Washing- Following that, the attorney lI7ITH all the talk and bally- even quite young The staggering you. On the contrary, some of his ’ * importance to general's ... ton. office sank to ths hoo about vitamins and the treatment usually given is by- In the “I ean’t decide whether her cooking is improving or best friends have referred to sunlight. light All that stands way genial lowest point in its history revival beginning several dec- ultra-violet and of your feeling “a thrill At- we’re getting used to it!” Became a Rhodes scholar of him in fashion as a “bit by ades ago of the custom of giv- other light treatments, and by Oxford, followed that by travel- of a dope." seeking loopholes in the Hatch traction” towards him Is the • • t Act for the CIO-Political Ac- ing cod liver oil to children one stimulating external applica beginning ing around the world as an able tions containing sulphur, fact that from the of married girl tion Committee to evade its In- would think that such a defici- resor- your association until now, he seaman, and a nPHE attorney general of the ency disease of children as cin, capsicum or tar. But the One Word Led to Another from Louisiana who is a lawyer A United States exists under tent—as if it were the attorney disappeared. usually course has assiduously anticipated and of the Political Action Commit- rickets would have condition runs Its catered to your basic wants or in her own right—who was the Constitution to be legal such not the not much influenced by treat- tee instead of attorney for ths But is case. needs before definite hunger for By Arthur “Bugs'’ Baer studying the classics in Oxford counsel to the chief executive A group of Baltimore phy- ment. w'hen he met her. of the United States in protect- majesty of United States gov- them had time to register on ernment. sicians, Dr* Fallis, Jackson, your consciousness. You know the first thing our Exchanged prisoners In his room in the attorney ing the Constitution, in defend- by making part general’s Washing* brought Eliot and Park, the R. W. E ist what of By your vainglorious pre- ask is “Who won the World Series? offices in ing cases in the courts on ton, now vacated, gov- most careful and final tests the state of California would be sumption to petted darling That’s a pretty good indication that baseball is our D. C., being against the United States Brain Game Answers a group of children showed that best for hay fever and asthma? stead- Littell gives greater prominence ernment with the express per- cent some status. In relation to this sport. still old racket even though I the in 4* per of them had Answer—Those who live in man. you national I love the to his able-bodied seaman cer- mission of Congress, and 1—Albania. degree fast have needled him than to of rickets. the Middle West and suffer one- only—dis- rarely gander a game. tificate his Oxford prosecuting those who violate 2 Purdu? is famous for its en- was in recent years into and one diploma or license to practice and defy laws by the This there from the typical hay fever agreeable attitude, which, when I had more fun with baseball than I have had with passed gineering college and ths when the knowledge about sun- that prevails from August to it’s is understood, trans- law. Congress. nickname "boilermaker” is shine and cod liver oil had, or cause any other caper. When I said that old Ping Bodie’s head Littell and his wife have been The attorney general’* office October will not suffer from fers the analyst’s sympathy full sometimes used in jest to de- should have, sunk m. that type anywhere in Califor- was of larceny but his feet were honest That didn’t engineering • • • away from you to him. scribe an stu* nia. However, they should know M. H. finish Ping but it sure started me. dent. In my young days By E - that California has its own But I almost did wind up amiable George Mcßride 3 Robert Louis Stevenson. RICKETSIn the clinics was a preva- plants S —Mary Ha- Days kinds of asthma from EDITOR NOTE when I said he struck out on a throw to catch a runner These s£® 4 Moss Hart. lent and shocking condition. and some of mv patients who worth counaols through bar col- When I was in London in 1911, move there pfek up a new umn; not by moil or paraonal napping off first. 5True. of Polish origin Hugh Gibson, published in 1942, Stephen. that city had the largest and variety. However, it is not intorviow. Write her in cart of And I certified the accuracy of Tris Speaker’s arm 6 most Instructive clinic on chil- severe „or common. Tho Detroit Timme. he relayed a center Americansseem to suffer the chagrin you willfind that their prophecy 7Silent Night, Gruber; Joy to for all time when throw from deep betrayal of things to eventuate out of Handel; dren's diseases in the world to home and of the deceived at the the World. Hark! It should haw because it I said the runner was out on strikes. of their cause.. this war was closer to what we the Herald Angels Sin& had the largest, filthiest, most A a baserunner I always suspected Ping Bodie rated It has been obviou* since the now envisage than anything Mendelssohn. crowded and most disgraceful Washington higher than Zeke Bonura. I know it took two infield outs Teheran conference that so far that emanated brom the White 8—Goethe. Scene Copyright. 1044. by Xlnc Feature* slums in the world—at least and a pinch runner to get Zeke through a revolving door. as the United States is con- House. in any city that was supposed By George cerned, Stalin is to have a free Poland must now be in the to he part of a great civilized Dixon I also remember that Clark Griffith never threw a hand In Poland. Slavic league. empire. fast ball because give to co-ordinating Connolly Answers YOU want my opinion. I also the time and the place, it didn’t him time duck. The committee Mr. Roosevelt failed in any In these clinics the army of IF'think tho War Production have a lot to do with humor. The great Cobb sure wrote me a nasty letter after of American-Polish associations practical implementation of his I—a, 2—b. 3—a. 4—c. s—e. with "•*«> me a tele- children rickets Board is boing too bloody cute. To get the most from a Raj; he had cut down Collins. Baker, Wolverton and Foster at in the East has sent idealistic palavers and Poland 6—(a) “The Merchant of ienough to make a strong man If I only had a travel priority you need to both see and hear gram which says: is hopeless. Venice,” (b) You Liks 'put in his hands third base. And just because I said Ty stopped at a “As his head and 1 would go berserk. jt; also you should be in a place “Our promises to Poland were That is the reality of the It." (c) "Twelfth Night- cry. barber shop and had his spikes honed. (hat play- where laughing is frowned upon. renewed in the last political situation and therefore Poland id) "Hamlet,” (e) "Cymbs- Bent limbs, deformed limbs, Do you know what by the him- ful WPB has done? Now that Anyway, the Senate was The equally ferocious Fred Clark of Pittsburgh also campaign President today has no alternative but line.” how legs, knock knees, bulging and by some his most Copyright, 1944, by King Feature* you can’t get cigarets it has called upon to vote on a recom- went forth to bust my beezer when I said he wore a new self, of Stalin—and like it. along ribs, . .” skulls, Knobs all the mendation which had just baseline from left field to honored supporters , great white, pathetic, staring lifted restriction* on cellophane the umpires. that to wrap them In! emerged from its committee on But was during an elec- eyes, or sobbing, crying, painful, post tion campaign and bears no re- I am turning this over to our offices. It concerned the Explore restless babies. appointment of a postmaster Laughs lation to reality. Lets Your Mind All this from a disease that Insult-to-injury department and Best of ’44 It was like the various en- take* appropriate ac- out in Missouri. 5 cents worth of knowledge I hope it The committee had reported dorsements of Palestine for the By Albert Edward Wiggam, D.S. and 10 cents worth of cod liver tion. My idea of a fiendish re- Jews, submitting adversely on the appointment, or equality for the oil would prevent entirely. venge—which I am phrases pleasing to charge—ls it send meaning it didn’t think this Negroes without that the the ear hut of no greater QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS every WPB an particular guy should get executive in job, as moment than the hcavings of stated empty butter carton foT Christ- and wished the Senate A. L. P.—You recently a whole to sustain the thumbs- Frank Sinatra. that ordinary baldness was not mas. • • • • • • downer. to be confused with alopecia The clerk read through the THE Poles are ditched. areatea which is a form of bald- rpHIS had everybody in stitches SO They accept be- be 1 committee’s report and appar- will what is ness that can cured. How when It happened, but I do ently got all confused. At any ing given to them in this im- can alopecia areatea be distin- not know if I can transmit the rate he shouted: perialistic war and like it. and what is the guished cure? full flavor to paper. For some MAII those In favor willplease It used to be that he who A.—-In areatea there strange reason the things that tunp, alopecia sav *No’*** pays the piper calls the HO you . HE6 Is rapid ana complete loss of strike the funniest often *The senators let out the big- but that was in the horse and ? D hair in patches. Gradually on fall flattest when committed to gest burst of bellylaughter I buggy days. the bald patches new hair grows print. have heard up there for a long In the new and rarefied dis- in. It occurs in people of kny I guess the eye and the ear, time. The poor clerk tried to pensation in which we live, correct himself but couldn’t be those who take the coin do the heard above the guffaws. I electing—and Stalin has learned Judge Piffle By Gene Ahem thought Haftpy CTiandler of plenty from that. Kentucky, and Vandenberg of What the Polish situation Michigan would darn near kill leads up to is the complete and 3 themselves. utter breakdown of Mr. Roose- «f.SE SMMUOOL GOIN'TUW MOIK \OJT>Y IN BUT, • • JUNOR^/''DON'T a velt’s foreign policy, which, like AjA£s n old's Day rl'MA BK3 S7CRE wrrw SANDY Jgl YOU REALIZE 'OJRE wrote Wilson’s, was •• J 1 back I about Woodrow based THAU <