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Lights of New York by I. L. STEVENSON Accident: Before becoming a Now York press agent, she wus a geneial reporter on a Newark newspaper and so she thought herself hardened to everything. The other evening as she was exercising Oscar, her big sheep dog, she passed near a su >wuy station about which a crowd had collected. Stretcher bearers brought out a man who had fallen under a train, lie was alive?horribly alive. After one involuntary look, she started for the opposite curb. When she reached it, something happened to her knees and blackness swept over her. After light returned she found herself lying on the sidewalk still tightly clutching her dog's leash. About her was the crowd that had been at the aubway entrance. And if her dog hadn't kept the doctors and policemen from coming up to her, she > would have been in an ambulance with the mutilated man. Din: Tests made by the League for Less Noise show that Manhattan's noisiest corner is Third avenue and Forty-second street where street traffic, elevated trains hammering overhead and trolley cars pounding over the intersection caused the decibel meter to register 91. In the past, Manhattan's noisiest spot was Herald Square. But the Sixth avenue elevated line has been torn down so that point has quieted to q low of 71 and a high of 88 decibels. The quietest Manhattan spot, according to tho league's rating, is the middle of Central park where there was a low of 45 and a high of 52 decibels. That's really quiet for a person of normal hearing is not disturbed by noise with an intensity of 55 decibels. Street Scene: A boy and a girl oitting on a Central Park West bench . . . Evidently they've quarreled since the boy, his cheek* flushed, looks straight ahead and there are tears in the eyes of the girl ... A limping old colored man pushing a little cart piled high with trash he has collected here and there ... A sleek youth in an equally sleek roadster, trying to chisel In ahead of a woman driver . . . and being put In place by a taxi driver who expertly cuts him off . . .A huge Interstate bus speeding along as if no one else had any rights on the street ... A dignified gentleman with a Van Dyke caught in the middle of the street, his head turning from side to* side as if actuated by clockwork . . . The boy slips his arm around the girl and whispers something . . . Her tears vanish and her head rests on his shoulder. * This A That: Broadway is New York's longest street ... It starts at the Battery, down at the foot of Manhattan, and meanders right along up to Yonkers . . . Then it keeps on going until eventually it reaches Albany . . . Katharine Cornell recently played a special matinee of "The Doctors' Dilemma" for the benefit of the Stage Relief fund . . . Going to the box office, she discovered that 100 tickets hadn t been sold ... So shejaought them and distributed them among old actors ... A solute to Miss Cornell . . The stalest popcorn in New York is served at some of the swellest cocktail spots . . . Wonder what would happen to Wall Street if there should be a million-share day again . One broker recently sold his $250,000 Stock Exchange seat for $20,000 and went into some other line of business. Here and There: Bronx park zoo with its wild animals seemingly roaming at largo . . The new arrangement vastly superior to the old cages . . The lions can t swim across the moats . . . But occasionally they tumble in and have to be fished out . ^ oungsters from the tenements gazing at animals strange to them . . . But a cow is a novelty if never seen before . . . and some openly wonder how the unlk gets into the bottles Reminds me of those far off days when I used to earn 50 cents a month driving a cow to and from pasture ... A little matter of walking two miles each way every day The terraced walks of Forto Tryon park Par below, the Hudson a wide, long ribbon of silver . . . The Bronx spread out m a panorama of roof tops . . . Couples holding hands on many of the benches . . Searchers for information rending the bronze tablet that records the history (,f the spot The sun flashing on the white sails "of little beats over near the .Jersey sicic . A freighter, so heavily loaded .ts decks seem almost aw ash. shp}).n.g s.cwin clown the river Toe el and stately Ck steis, once '! home of George Gi ,iy Bai nmd n. w a part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art . i Hell S> ndiC.ne ^ W N V Scrvn # > I The Bands Played on For Colonel's Girl CAMP ROBINSON. ARK ?Miss Connie Kaster of Paio Alto, Calif., informing Had she would pnv him a visit, tagged on tint familiar line, " P.eusi have a hand meet me at tne >? ,t >n *' Her fain*-!, Lieut Co!. John F. Kaster. greeted her with a blast of martial music?from 9 regimental bands, 27a pieces in aii Despite War Show Goes On British Producers Busy in London and Provinces; Writing Perks Up. ^LONDON.?Old Vic is closed, Qovent Garden dark, Drviry Lane given over to shows for the troops, the electric glitter of London stage life gone, but the theater in Britain is far from moribund. Both in the cupital and the provinces producers are active, giving audiences the best plays and musicals and the biggest stars that wartime conditions permit. The war has brought about a decentralization of the British theater and the development of a genuinely national theater. Many towns that in the old days seldom saw anything but the shabbiest^|\eatrical efforts now enjoy the first-rate regularly. Players returning from extended tours report an amazing response in the provincial communities and consider it a bright augury for the postwar theater of which the nation dreams even now. Playwriting, itself, producers and managers say, has perked up, further stimulating the theater at a time when stagnation would be understandable and excusable. Plays Above Par. "It has been some while." one theater man said, "since so many good manuscripts have been submitted. It is a significant and healthy sign that a marked improvement in the quality of dramatic and comedy writing should come nt this time." Some of the best-liked productions, however, are revivals, and there is a growing desire to see American plays. Among the major London successes is S. N. Behrman's "No Time for Comedy" in which Katharine Cornell starred in the United States a couple of seasons ago. In the next several weeks the city will have ballet, opera, symphonic programs, recitals and a bit of Shakespeare, the late spring and summer days with their extra two hours of light making possible a greater variety of entertainment and more frequent performances. | Opera in Road Show. Meanwhile, the theater doubtless t will continue to flourish in the provinces. Forthcoming shows for the road include a production of William Saroyan's "The Time of Your Life," which will be seen later by Londoners who are inordinately curious about it. The provinces have had their taste of opera, too, and have liked it. In one city "La Traviata" played to a capacity house on a Saturday night after a solid week of blitzes. The back of the theater had been bombed and a chill wind blew through the damaged scenery dock, but neither performers nor audience minded. Actors have faced raid dangers, entertained amidst ruins, and undergone numerous hardships; some have been injured. One company, appearing in Cardiff some time ago, played through to the final curtain while an air attack on the Welsh city was in progress. Most of the troupers hold that it is essential to keep the theater alive and consider that their job on the home front is by no means the least important. Population Density Up; Now 44.2 a Square Mile WASHINGTON.?Density of population per square mile in the continental United States increased from 41.1 in 11)30 to 44.2 in 1040, the bureau of the census stated. The first 10 states in the 1040 cen-i sus, ranked by population per square mile, are Rhode Island, 674.2; New Jersey, 553.1; Massachusetts, 545.9; Connecticut, 348.9; New York, 281.2; Pennsylvania, 219.8; Maryland, 184.2; Ohio, 168.0; Illinois, 141.2; and Delaware, 134.7. This ranking was the same as in 1930, except for New Jersey and Massachusetts, the former capturing second ranking from the latter. Nevada achieved a population of one person per square mile for the first time in 1940. In 1930 it was 0.8. Uses Eight Bushels of Apples in Single Pie FREMONT, OHIO ?A 430-pound apple pie was baked here in a local bakery .by Boyd M. Frazier of Toledo to show the Apple Growers' institute how it should be done. Frazier took four hours to prepare ' the pie and another four hours to bake it. The ingredients included eight bushels of apples. 85 pounds of sugar, 10 ounces of cinnamon, 24 ounces of nutmeg, two pounds of butter, a half pound of U nion juice, a pound of cornstarch. 48 pounds of flour, 30 pounds of lard, six quarts of water and a half pound of salt. New Quick-Drying Oils Made From Vegetables MINNEAPOLIS.?A new process that gives domestic vegetable oils the same quick-drying properties as tung oil was disclosed by the University of Minnesota. Untreated vegetable oils require some four day* to dry into a film, but after chemical treatment ender the new process, the university says, the soils dry in two days irto a e.f ai, though, glossy, nor.u rir.kling IfCts Than Hour Required For New Maternity Te?l( Discovery of a skin teat for preg nancy which gives an indication ir less thun an hour and ia 90 per cenl reliable has been announced by th? University of Illinois college of medicine, where it was developed. After trials for a year on several hundred patients it is revealed th<8 test is considerably less expensive than the Aschheim-Zondek pregnancy test widely used for a decade, which also is 98 per cent reliable, but requires two days before results can be known. Developers of the new test are Dr*! Frederick H. Falls, head of th# department of gynecology and obstetrics; Dr. V. C. Freda of that department, and Dr. H. H. Cohen oi the physiological chemistry department. Acting as cpnsultant was Dr. William R. Welker, head of the department of physiological chemistry. Speed and economy are outstanding features from the public's standpoint, but in the world of medicine it is also of great value in helping to differentiate between pregnancy and abdominal tumor. So far us the patient is concerned the test consists of the injection into the skin of the forearm, with a fin# hypodermic needle, of a minute amount of fluid, raising a bump likp a mosquito bite. If the patient is pregnant there wilji be no reaction. If not there is a reddish area one to two inches around tfte injection point in a half hour or an hour, which disappears in four br five hours. T-? Corn Syrup May Replace Cane Sugar in Ice Cream Experiments carried on in the dairy laboratory of the New York state agricultural station in Geneva, N. .Y., indicate that corn sugar or syrup may replace approximately one-fourth of the cane sugar now used in the manufacture of ice cream, ices and sherbets. In a bulletin describing the experiments, Dr. A. C. Dahlberg said the most satisfactory results were otn tained with ice cream when 25 pgf cent of the sucrose or cane sugar was replaced by corn sweeteners. "Based upon sweetness alone," Dr. Dahlberg Bald, "a pound of cane sugar was equal to 1.1 pounds of corn sugar or dextrose, 1.5 pounds of enzyme-converted corn syrup, and two pounds of corn syrup solids. When used in these proportions, the corn sweeteners showed slight but definite improvement in body and tenure of ice cream which could be detected by consumers. Consumers were unable to tell whether corn sweeteners had been used, however." A shift from all cane sugar, largely imported, to part corn sweeten* ers, entirely .domestic, would represent the use of some 23,000 tons of the corn product by America's ice cream industry each year. Corn syrups are said to have improved the body and texture of ices and sherbets noticeably. Both layed the crystallization of case sugar known as "petrified ice or sherbet." What Moves Glacier? Using some of the biggest laboratory "specimens," in the realm oi science, Dr. Max Demorest, Yale university geologist, is completing a study of the flow of glacial ice in the Mount Rainier, National Park; area. The "specimens" are glaciers themselves, and Dr. Demorest makes his study of them by walk* ing around on the treacherous ice itself, lowering himself into deep crevasses. Portions of the glacier he chops out, taking the ice bark to Paradise Valley, where, under re| frigcration, he studies it with a mii croscope. The microscope shows changes in the ice crystals which give clues as to how the ice?itself an unyielding solid?is able actually to flow, even though very slowly, according to the geologist. Information obtained by study of the ire can then be applied to the flow of rocks far underground. Writing Film Music In the sound films today every picture, no matter how cheaply made or unimportant, musi have music?prelude music, incidental, and background music. In most pictures of normal running t:rr.a there is as much actual musical material as there would be in a symphony?and yet the movie audience is very rarely aware of any music at all. They write against time, arranging, cutting, revising, using anybody's music not protected by copyright, they produce endlessly, with amazing ingenuity and dexterity. In but few instances is the score composed or even sketches of themes made by the composer assigned to the picture until the shootings of the film has been completed. Advice on San Glasses Sun glasses should be worn only in the bright sun, says Dr. Town in an article in The Sight Saving Review, published by the National Society for the Prevention of Blind ness. Dr. Town states that in a survey made of representative group of ophthalmologists throughout the country, the results show unanimous agreement on that point They may be harmful if used other wise. most of the group declared Furthermore. 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