"Fingertips"

"I had an appointment with my dentist," said Lillian Greneker in Manhattan last week, ''and I was impatient to leave the beauty parlor. I watched the manicurist drop the orange stick to pick up the emery board, and so on, grudging the seconds wasted, when suddenly it occurred to me that the different tools might be at tached to various fingers. At the dentist's I borrowed some wax to mold a thimble and began to experiment with my idea." An artist and architect who uses her hands a great deal, Mrs. Greneker experimented with different materials for her tool-carrying thimbles. After discarding wax, she tried leather and cellophane, finally chose silver, christened her gadgets "Fingertips." Last week, with patents applied for, she gave a demonstration in Manhattan for friends and newshawks.

On her own hands she placed Fingertips with these attachments: complexion brush, hair tonic brush, medicine dropper, eyebrow brush, eyebrow pencil, screw driver, paintbrush, pencil, three-bladed manicure tool and crochet needle. She showed how a man could make a fairly complete toilet without putting anything down or picking anything up, predicted that Fingertip-equipped housewives would find it easier to peel oranges, pit grape fruit, scrape pans. Motion pictures showed how the devices were used for drawing, painting, etching, needlework.

Reporters who waxed skeptical while trying to write with a Fingertip pencil were quietly shushed. Some practice was needed, it appeared, for proper handling.

Declared Mrs. Greneker: "They will stimulate the dexterity of fingers and make us more sensitive, rhythmical and free in finger movement. The five digits, instead of corrupting freedom of movement, will support and complement each other." That the inventor of Fingertips received such a volume of good-humored publicity for her gadgets was largely attributable to the fact that she is the wife of Claude Greneker, veteran pressagent for Broad way's play-producing Brothers Shubert.

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