The New York herald., 1922-02-28
DANDY PHIL KASTEL
GETS GIRLS $4,000
Only $500 Repaid, Says
Betty Brown, Suing Brokers
and United States Steel.
S12,5OO NOTE FOR STOCK
Member of Broadway ChOruses
Insists Her Endorsement
Was Not Legal.

After year OF comparative obscurity
since the Nicky Arnstein bond theft ex-
citement. Dandy Phil Kastel. erst-
while broker and habitue OF the Wal
dorf-Astoria, stepped back into the
limelight yesterday. That is to say.
Dandy" Phirs fame did. for last night
no one could be found who could say
just where Dandy" Phil himself was
stopping.
Dandy" Phirs last appearance was
after a protracted absence. when he
walked into the District Attorneys Office
last spring and demanded in vain to be
arrested, since it appeared he was
wanted in the Arnstein case.
This time Kastel is being sought as
the missing link in bond deal involv-
ing s12.500, a chorus girl, several stock
brokers and the United States Steel
Corporation. The case is that of Mrs
Elizabeth Brown Casey vs. Johnson &
Wood stock brokers of Ill Broadway,
and the United States Steel Corporation.
and went to trial yesterday before JUS
tice O'Malley in Supreme Court This
is the story:
1t appears that in March. 1918.
Dandy" Phil obtained from Mrs. Casey
who is known in the choruses of Broad
way musical shows as Betty Brown. 100
shares of United States Steel preferred.
valued at $1,000, for which he gave her
his note for $12.500.
Kastel then took the stock to Reid
G. Co.. brokers, and ordered them to
sell it at the market, according TO
Ellery o. Anderson, attorney for john
son & Wood. Ecid & Co.. in turn. had
Johnson & Wood sell the stock, and IL
was transferred by the steel company.
ii IL -, AZ
previous chorus girl owner.
Everything was all right, according
to Miss Browns allegations, until all
OF Il sudden it appeared that Dandy
Phil had disappeared. having paid to
her only S4.500 on account OF the note.
Miss Brown then sought recourse
against the brokers and the steel COM
pany. on the ground that at the time
she turned the $1,000 stock over to
Kastel she was not OF age. and there
fore. could not legally authorize the
sale of the stock. On that ground she
seeks to recover s12.5oo value and in
terest from Johnson & Wood brokers
who sold the stock, and the United
States Steel Corporation, which trans
ferred it on the books.
Betty, who is the wife Of Leslie Jo-
seph Casey and says she is grand
daughter of Edward Browne, former
Justice Of the Supreme Court. was on
the stand at the beginning of the trial
Counsel for Johnson G. Wood said OF
her:
The young woman is playing the
baby act. She was plenty old enough
to get married, but after her stock was
sold and transferred upon her own order
she comes into court and wants 1t back
again with interest on the ground that
she wasn't of legal age for transactins
such business"
kastel gained considerable publicity
in the Arnstem case when witnesses
testified that an organization he had
promoted acted as blind" for the
stolen stocks. Prior to that he was
known through badger game of which
he and his wife, Mrs. Maude Edna
Kastel, were accused. and because of a
suit for 100000 for alienotion OF his
wife's affections which he filed against
a wealthy manufacturer of Newark.