Rotated Halls

The great American Museum of Natural History last week showed lesser museums a new way of dodging a deficit. The museum has 35 exhibition halls, 500 employes. Frederick Trubee Davison, the American's new president, and George Herbert Sherwood, its harried director, have found that their available $1,600,000 is $123,000 too little. To save $50,000 they did the obvious--discharged help. (Wages had been cut long ago.) Their new trick saved the balance. They closed exhibition halls in rotation, ten at a time, except Saturdays and Sundays when only four will be shut. The visitor to Manhattan who wants to survey everything in the American Museum must remain in the city at least two weeks--unless he is a student or special investigator. Then he may secure admission to any hall any day. President Davison, who just left Herbert Hoover's service as Assistant Secretary of War for Aviation, knows he must raise money for the American Museum. It is finishing three new wings, can no longer count on much municipal support. This week Mr. Davison makes his first feint at pocketbooks, by speaking before the New York Advertising Club. Soon he & Mrs. Davison are going to Kenya Colony. Africa, "to see the lions, not shoot them." Their hosts, the camera-wise Martin Johnsons, have two planes which air-wise Mr. & Mrs. Davison may fly for sightseeing.

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