The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-11

aeterS had revealed the names Of and AS yet unsolved murders In Broc
 That, roughly, Is the story be. hhid play now in rehearsal It's title is Brooklyn, U, s. A." ard It's authors are two Of the bC&S in. formed men on gangster activities here and M Chicago outside the authorities directly concerned with this phaSe Of the underworld
 Their names are Asa BordAges and John Bright. Most of the ins formation herein contained came from Bordages and It. must be re. ported that for Q veteran news. pAperman who has had many Q subject squlfming on the griddle he made . very halting inter. viowee, In fact he glared at his fingers, fumbled notes and tried to stress that the bar was closed weekdays when the play was writ. ten.
 Murder, Inc.
 BofdAges is @ reWrlt0 man for the New York World Telegram and in this capacity IS credited with populArl2ing the term Murder, Inc" for Brooklyn'S grisly death. for-dollars ring, He has worked on paper hl Houston, Tex, and Miami where he was unhappy because his paper tVanderbilt'S illustrated tab. loid) did not believe In crime newS,
 Bright, a Chicago writer, is author Of . biography Of Big Bill Thomp. son and is lest known for his pert h writing one of the first great raeketeer movies, Public Enemy" He was for Q long time one Of Chl- cRgos and Hollywood's crime ex- perts-on the screen, that is
 Bright had the Idea Of doing a pmy generally based oil some of tho material developed in the Murder, Inc. Investigation and took 1t to Lionel Standeg, the film actor and producer and Saunders associate In production, Bern Bernard. They decided they would retain Bordages to supply material from which Bright would work.
 Make Good Team
 But Bright and Bordages found they made q team and agreed to do the play together. Accordingly they went down to the New Jersey bar (which BordageS says was open only week-ends) and wrote enough for two plays, It was in the trim ming stage that prducers Stander and Bernard made the interesting discovery that they were apparent y well ahead of the police on two slayings.
 Lawyers were called in forthwith and a great deal of see-sawing took place. One of the men named In dialogue still is at large. Another Is lead. Two are in police custody with other crimes.
 We told exactly how the crimes were committed" Bordages said. | And we had various characters | lame the men naturally with no | Ittempt to spotlight the disclosures. At the moment don't know 1t will stay in the play or lot. Someone said the gangster at arge might get mad at us."
 Having achieved this understate- nent, Bordages continued:
 Truth Too Strange
 But we're used to having people aad at us and the only criterion whether we keep 1t in or not will e whether it makes for good lis sntng. Unfortunately we fourd hat most of the true stuff we want q ifl was too dull or unbelievable. 'ouve got to make it up to make sound and look good.
 For instance we had to cut out ne Of our favorite yarns. It con erns one of the rIsSlored reasons 'r the murder of Dutch Schultz chultz is supposedf to have learned le meaning of the word nemesis nd to have gone around insistine nat District Attorney Dewey WAS Is nemesis and 1t was a case of one the other. He was believed plan. Ing Dewey'S staying and some say ie underworld took care of him keep him from carrying it o,,i cause 1t would have blown the 1 off," ~ Besides naming a few slavers 5rooklyn, U. S. A." is unioue in lat 1t is essentially a crime play lu yet 1t has no policemen no strict attorney and no cruSading 'wspaperman. Nor is 1t entirely voted to violence. There are only 70 killings on stage, both of them act facsimilias of real iifA r~inssa