Evening star., 1947-03-15

a morality play character, but &C
tually is president of the Borough
of Brooklyn. Mr.. Cashmere wired
Last night in Brooklyn we en-
ioyed the world premiere of M-G-M'
Tt Happened in Brooklyn a produc
ton which helps. show the rest o
the universe some of the glories o
our fair community. In order tina
you may enjoy this motion picture
to the fullest, I hereby extend tt
you honorary citizenship in the Bo
rough of Brooklyn. An official care
attesting to this status is being
mailed to you. 1t assures you thu
warm welcome of your fellow Brook
lynites when you have an opportun'
ity to visit US in person.
X x X x
That's what it said, word for word
But, then, something must have
happened. Apparently on the theory
probably sound, that critics wert
curmudgeon types who might taxi
an unfriendly attitude toward hon.
orary citizenship of Brooklyn, Mr
Cashmere neglected to send the card
Perhaps he never intended to sene
it, and merely said he would to- ge
rid of a press agent who had corn
cred him at a party which the pres!
agent-not Brooklyn-was giving.
This is no doubt just as well. /
could be embarrassing for a mar
suddenly to become a Brooklynltt
(honorary type) who has had thou
sands of opportunities to visit the
place and has never taken advant.
age of a single one. AS matter o1
truth, even if Mr.. Cashmere !.
listening, we admit to having beer
in Brooklyn a dozen times without
ever knowing it. That was when WI
discovered Brooklyn was the thing
we had driven through getting from
La Guardia Field to New York. No
knowing that it was Brooklyn unit
later, it might just as we'll have beer
Toledo, Ohio, which is famous fol
not having Leo Durocher as man
ager of ITS baseball team.
A man with this sort of Brooklyn
background-not even knowing the
place when he saw it-would Ger.
tainly feel like fool suddenly being
caressed by honorary citizenship.
X y X Y
Washington probably could laugh
off that sort of discovery about
some one it wanted to honor, bu
Brooklyn is no such cosmopolitan
place if its declaration of war or
Noel Coward is criterion.
Washington is light-hearted about
such things, a city of the world, sc
to speak.
A dozen times, for instance, We
have heard and seen Commissioner
John Russell Young present the
keys to the National Capital te
visitors, always with droll inflec-
ton that if the stranger actually
takes them, he will be arrested as 8
kleptomaniac. Or something worse
This takes a light touch, giving 6
visitor the keys to the city and dar.
ing him to take them, all in a single
sentence. 1t is doubtful that Brook
lyn has the touch. This perhaps is
what Mr.. Cashmere knew when he
let the press agent send the wire
but when he, himself, neglected tc
send the promised card.
1t is reminiscent, nevertheless, OF
old times, thing like this wire from
Brooklyn. And, maybe, if yester-
days drugs were good for today's
pains, the movie press agents would
be the panaceaists every one is look
ing for.
But they are not good, not very
good even for Saturday column.
+ n
Bulletin board: Community Ed
ucation, Inc, sponsoring a new film
series, will show Intolerance" at
4 pm. today, at 4 and 8 pm. to-
morrow. The presentation il
at headquarters, 935 G place
NV. Nathan Golden, j. E
Fontaine and E. A. Lichtman viii
represent the local Variety Club al
the organizations annual conven.
ton in Los Angeles in May.
High light of the convention will bt
the presentation of Variety's annua
humanitarian award.