The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, August 01, 1941, Page PAGE SIX, Image 6
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.
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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.
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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. Dr. Town states, all-the
eye physicans agree that only J
ground and poiished glasses should
be worn.
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