The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 24, 1926, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT ‘PLAY LAST NIGHT AT GARDEN THEATRE | Thompson’s curio establishment at BILL ENTITLED “THE FLAP-|°24 Margaret street. PER GRANDMOTHER” TO BE| Hundreds of specimens of rare REPRODUCED THIS EVENING | creatures of the sea, denizens of the BY REQUEST | deep, pretty shells, corals and vege- | table growth from the floor of the’ ocean. are attractively arranged for the inspection of visitors, who are cordially we'comed by Mr. and Mrs. Thompson at any hour of the day. Admission is entirely and cheerfully free. Key West's «The Flapper Grandmother” was such a decided success last evening ; at the Garden Theatre and so many people were so anxious to see this interesting play that it will be re- peated this evening. Tickets can be secured from the Gift Shoppe on Mr. Thompson has spent his life in Fleming street, or after this place close touch with all the living curi- closes at the box, office. | osities of the sea, and he has a thor- Each character deserves mention ! ough knowledge of every curio that and praise for the excellent way in he has on display in the delightfully whieh he enacted his part. However pretty place which he has just com- Mrs. Melvin Russell’s portrayal of ' pleted to house his remarkable ex- the Flapper Grandmother was hibit. He tells visitors of each ar- especially good. ‘ ticle in a most interesting way, using Miss Emma Martin deserves much! no technicl retams2-1-t shrdlu hm h commendation for directing the play. ! no. technical’ terms or biological The play is managed by the Wayne james, and so large and varied is P. Sewell Play Producing Company ' the collection that it takes nearly two of Atlanta. h t ete the lecture. ; The Hotel La Concha Orchestra ws 3 eee “i ees | Scientists Surpris: played during intermission. : : The cast of characters in “The, This wonderful display, that has Flapper Grandmother” is as fol-j been gleaned from the sea, piece by lows: | piece, year after year, has been visit- Andrew Spriggins (who believes in @d by Dr. Geo. Howard Parker, head nothing modern)...Emil Sweeting , of the zoological department of Har- Mat Spriggins (his wife, who wants | vard University; representatives from to be up-to-date)........M. P. Harris , the Museum of Natural Science. Day- Lena Spriggins (the wild child) , ton, Ohio; members of the Marine cioestststuessgesssesneesee.-Mrs. Vera Cold; Products Conrpany, Chicago; scien- Belindy Spriggins (old fashioned and tists from the Southern Biological out-of-date type)....Bobbie Roberts ; Station, New Orleans, La; Mr. Mow- Maggie Pepper me ssppee eee a collector ——_ specimens ~ mother) -........ irs. Melvin Russell’ the Battery Park Aquarium, an Jimmy Swift (auto salesman in love hundreds of others, many of whom with Lena)............Raymond Seum j are recognized authorities on marine Dick Tate (motor sont love tee life, sea plants and foods. ny! = i Lena) verett Rivas these people express surprise at find- Bobby Smith (Sweet sissy type, also ing such an extensive and highly in love with Lena) ....Ed. Freyberg | valuable collection of marine curios os (village oe ee with in Key West, stating that they find ndma)..................Bugs Warner it one of the finest and most com- Count Seekum Rich e- follows , plete they have ever seen. | Grandma home to America) | Every shell looks as though it had TREE OOO NIB TI CS been highly polished to add to its Rastus Jones (gentleman of color) beauty; but Mr. Thompson says all cotoess ssstesserseaee-vqee~eeeHarold Holman | : F Lillie White (lad: shells are that way if taken while, i J life exists within, while an empty; a shell is rolled with sea until it is rough, is —s lap) eras \on the surface and is made less at-| race ne jarie On, tractive. Marguerite Capo, Louise Falk, Vir-| ok ginis Sheppard, Grace Mildred tonal The several little sea horses that Emily Vignal, Jane Curry, Mary Lightbourne, Edith Hilton, ‘Bessie | he has there are wonderful to see. Hotchkiss, Helen Claude Williams, | A” interesting fact about them is, of. ebony hue)! Sam Goldsmith | Curio Shop coral, the fan, baby finger, staghorn, propeller coral and brain coral, the name of each being strikingly sug- gested by the form of each variety. The Sponge Family There are six kinds of sponges on display, the sheepswool, velvet, yel- low, grass, glove and wire sponge, the grades running in the order mention- ed. The exhibit shows the sponge in its original, animal state when taken al've from the sea. It is then expos- ed to air until life is entirely extinct. after which it is soaked in water for a few days. Then, with an ordinary stick, it is beaten until all the animal matter is eliminated, leaving on'y the “skeleton,” or sponge, the use of which :s so general and well known throughout the world. Mr. Thomp- son has one freak sponge that looks almost exactly like a chicken. To this he has added a real chicken head and chicken feet, so the hen is all there but the cackle. Queer Cuttle Fish Preserved in alcohol there is a com- | p’ete cuttle fish, rarely found in these waters, and its name was difficult to determine. In almost every qanary bird cage is a piece of bone from a cuttle fish for the bird to use in shar- pening its beak. This fish abounds in some foreign waters. Sawfish bills, Mr. Thompson has a lot of them that were taken from fish 22 to 23 feet in length. Curious Creatures In one jar is a specimen of the salaris lobster, the only one of the kind ever known in these waters. There is also a preserved octopus that was captured near Dry Tortugas. They are small in this section, rarely weighing over seven pounds; but in some parts of the world they grow té immense size and are terrors of the sea. The sea urchin is shown as alive and also in shell form; and there is the sea spider with a thousand legs; the saltwater centipede, whose myriad creepers have a sharp sting but are not very poisonous; a baby logger- head turtle that would have weighed perhaps 400 pounds had he been ‘per- mitted to grow up. é Rare Ribbon Fish Mr. Thompson’s specimen of the ribbon fish is conceded to be one of the prettiest ever captured a where. Crabs and Crawfish : The widely famous Key West craw- ny- aes | Dicki: ‘ that the “father” sea horse carries! Dames Mi inson, Caridad | 1. eggs in a pocket until they hatch fish and Florida lobster form an at- " Rag Dolls and then protects the little “sea tractive part of the curio collegtion; @olts” the same way until they are there’ is also the crab with all his “Ruth Rose Galey, Lenor Warren,’ terge enough to take care of them- kith.and kin. On the shells of the . Loraine Armstrong, Hilda Salgado, !seives. Some of them grow to be, familiar old horseshoe crab some at- Lillian Roker, Eloise Guito, Helen cioht inches long, and they are valued tist has painted human eyes and fea- Clayton, Florence Crowson. j by Cubans as a cure of asthma when tures and the result is most amusing. Deer Knobs } Worn next to the flesh like a locket, The five-pointed star fish is represent- Tessie Falk, Katherine Light-; suspended from a string about the j as =s Rather strong high pressure * «ee se eee e022 © © © eee) with its crest superimposed wn * erry Estrada Palma Keb tre middle Atlantic coast covers * alee ted oe lan, arrived vin _ ia Kew . xP ee the eountry from the Mississippi * ioe with 27 ee “ae Siete One ares? Valley eastward, while pressure * vana with cars of miscellaneous is low and faliing over i. pa ee cad = Rocky Mountain plateau and *} Great Plains. 15 | WEATHER CONDITIONS MARINE NOTES Except occasional light * Fe 5 prot a ni als -— showers in the Florida penin- * = = morning with 147 la fair weather was general * a sailed Havana = passengers and for at during the last 24 hours. * 39- = ‘The shen a Sy 10:30 a. m. with 236 passengers. slight except in the Carolinas +) Jorthia: Captain and southern Virginia where it * Genie: pede ok = this} — is 10 to 20 degrees colder, and * s¢ternoon, i in Oklahoma and northern and *~ | : western Texas where it is de- */ pate agg orat It is freezing * Captain Hansen, ‘will sail for "Be cal from the Missouri Valley east- * = with ie ward to the north and middle * yaue, None ri aap ] S. S. Estrada Palma, Captain w.! Phelan, will arrive from Havana} tomorrow morning. frow on the trip home. Atlantic. const. . ,cellaneous commodities. The winds over the Florida * Keys tonight and Thursday will * y be moderate to fresh southeast. * H. B. BOYER, * Official in Charge. * + . * 2 * * * * * * * * * * a * + = * * * * * = * * * 2 * = . See eeeesessesesteses! TODAY IN WASHINGTON * a8 . seecececececerecsccsessse (By Associated Press) | CLASSIFIED COLUNN eoccesccccccocceccoscesess | i 2 . . + . * . ee eect ee eene eee sl Education convention continues. . * . House debates railroad labor bi aS Sar | < hi 1 2 3 Senate hears ments t Advertisements under this head | posed aluminum oeniee : will be) inserted in The Citizen at! the rate of le a word for each in- sertion, but the minimum for the first insertion in every instance is 25e. Advertisers should give their street address as well as their telephone number if they desire results. Payment for classified. advertise-| meres is invariably in advance but, regular advertises with ledger ac-. counts may have their advertisements | charged. pro- ir DR. HARRY N. S. JONES DENTIST 532 Fleming Street OFFICE HOURS: 8:30.to 12:30; 2:00 to 6:00 i LH bit FOR RENT ' FOR RENT—For the season, nicely’ furnished apartment with modern | conveniences. Apply Johnson &; Johnson, 508 Fleming street. S jan20 Furnished apartment, modern con- veniences, White street. Apply 503 Duval. feb2 WANTED POR Ri ERAS TS ON ase EPO WANTED at once cook and waiter, ; steady work. - Apply Sanitary. Restaurant. feb23-3t , WANTED at once two -waitresses, h . Hi 4 & it i) iy i i : | { t ed by a number of fine specimens, and PORTER wanted, white or colored. bourne, Pauline Phelan, Eileen neck. . jthere are many other interesting’ | products of the sea of which mention made here. R Ocean Vegetation Vegetation from “submarine gar- in length, and, weighed 2,000 pounds. dens” as shown at Thompson’s curio This big denizen of the deep was, includes sea fans of pleasing tints, fotind dead near Markese Island on, such as yellow, lavender and brilliant land four feet above sea level. Scien- purple. They are formed s‘milar to tists tell Mr. Thompson that this giant, swimmer was at one time a mammal, same as is claimed that the whale was, and they cite as proof the shoul- der blade that forms a part of its skeleton, and which is also found in the bones of a whale. When the black fish gets old and ready to die, the theory is that his original in- stincts prompt him to return to high, dry land in order that his carcass may not be devoured by sharks and other ferocious inhabitants of the, briny blue. « Could Swallow Jonah The complete and yet intact mouth of a mammoth shark is-one so large that it could easily have swallowed Jonah if it had tried to. It was taken from a leopard shark 14 feet long. Mr. Thompson has a lot of loose sharks’ teeth in a box there, and they are all so keen edged that thev will shave just like a razor) blade. } Conch Shells Galore | There is an endless variety of! With Musterole conch shells, but the famous Florida’ Influenza, Grippe and Pneumonia pink coneh shell is the prettiest one/ usually start with a cold. The mo- Hellings, Mary Stewart, Loraine Sheppard, Anna Johnson, Laura May. Albury. ' Grandma Chorus Sylvia Guito, Ruth Kirchheiner, ; Anna Kirchheiner, Harriet Johnson, | Celia Salgado, Paula Tuell, Sylvia Coller, Fay Kitchen. Jellybean Chorus | Jerry Trever, Raymond Seum,| Robert H. Givens, Jr., Edward Frey- | berg. i Elf | Volla May Dickinson. j Matrons Lundquist, Mrs. James Sam Filer, Mrs, Henry, Russell, Mrs. A. D. Luethi, Mrs. J.° I. Watrous, Mrs. Harold Holman, ; Mrs. R. B. Boyden. The Woman’s Club is indebted to the Lewinsky Furniture Company for | the interior decorations used in the third act of “The Flapper © Grand-! mother.” i Watch Your Frail, Puny j Child Grow Strong Take on Weight In just a few days—quicker than you ever dreamt of-—these wonder- | ful flesh making tablets called Mc- Coy’s Cod Liver Oil Compound Tab- lets will start to help any weak, thin, under-nourished little one. After sickness and where rickets! are suspected they are especially | valuable. No need to give them any! more nasty Cod Liver Oil—these/ Mrs. Otto Adams, Mrs. |“black fish” that measured 22 feet) Giants of the Sea The giants of the sea are represent-, ‘s not ed by the complete skeleton of a big} ed like fine lace. The seq feather, or sea plume, is luxurious in growth and is most appropriately named. The coloring is about the same as the sea fan, and it is also of tough fibre. It is fine for decorative purposes. Excellent Exhibit Free This truly marvelous curio exhibit has been created by Mr. Thompson at his own nersonal efforts and ex- pense, and it is conceded to be one of the most valuable and interesting features of Key West. He throws it open to the public cheerfully and free. Many visitors have expressed surprise that the city and county do not aid him in maintaining this im- portant enterprise that means so much for Key West and this section of the state. Guard A = t “Fla” lof all. Other shells of the conch'ment you get those warning aches, family are king helmit, queen helmit,'get busy with good old Musterole. mickermark, in all its pretty tints;; Musterole relieves the congestion the ivory conch, the lamb she!l, the!and stimulates circulation. It has all milady’s folding fan, and composed of tough fibre that is pliant and is mesh- Apply Sanitary Restaurant. ! feb23-3t | WANTED—Delivery boy.. Apply at: Bearup’s Dry Cleaning Works, 514! Margaret street. feb 24-tf FOR SALE FOR SALE—Good paying restau- rant. Good location. Lease. 608 Duval street. feb19-6t ——— el FRESH Key West eggs for sale, 60¢ per dozen. Telephone 454. F E feb. 22-3t , FOR SALE—Return ticket to Miami; good until March 2. Inquire Citizen Office. feb. 24-4t | Corner Duval and Fleming Sts. Opposite Le Couche Hotel RETAIL DEALERS IN Lumber, Shi and Laths, Walter's Galvanized Shingles, Alpha Portland Cement, Congo Rubber Roofing, .Keystone Galvanized Nails and Carey’s FOR SALE—10-piece Queen Anne dining-reom suite, mahogany, 1016 H. B. DAVIS 100 PER CENT PAINT AND O98 months old, but never been used. seeeece $200. Will éxchange for good; second hand car. App'y 1013; South street, phone’ 198-W. Terms.‘ feb 24-3tx FOR PRINTED SOCIETY STA-| TIONERY, The Artman Press, 125) Duval street. ‘Phone 66. } RUBBER STAMPS.—When in need. of Bubber Stamps, see the Artma: Press, 125 Duval street, Key West. | REAL ESTATE FOR SALE—N. ¥.! MAKE MONEY in Long Island’s) Acreage Boom. Get in now; prices right. Details, maps fur- nished. VAN & VAN, Inc., Floral Park, Long Island. } + LOST SCCSTSSSESHSSSETESee Tonight and All Week Key West Fire Dept. Mid-Winter Festival Presenting | i | | i porgie dwarf conch and others too the good qualities of the old-fashion- | tablets are made to take the place of that good but evil smelling, stomach | upsetting medicine and they surely | Most Perfect Loud Speaker do it. They do put on flesh. . | The Tropic conch shell is rapidly Ask Key West Drug Company or | becoming a valuable article of com- any druggist for McCoy’s Cod Liver! merce, since it is found to be the Oil Compound Tablets—as easy to! most perfect loud speaker for radios. take as candy and not at all expen- It does not vibrate, is perfectly sive—60 tablets 60 cents. smooth inside and is said to reduce Be sure and get McCoy's, the drig- | static to a remarkable degree. inal and genuine and give the child; Beautiful Shells numerous te mention. i Rub it on with your finger-tips. First you feel a warm tingle as the healing ointment penetrates the pores, then a soothing, cooling sen- sation and quick relief. Have Mus- terole handy for emergency use. It may prevent serious illness. Te Mothers: Musterole is also made in milder form for babies a chance for 30 days. If you aren't . delighted with results just get your money back. WATER IN BRITISH BEER LONDON—Government tests show heavy adulteration of British beer, in = some cases as much as four gallons of water per barrel being added. Mrs. Coolidge is prevented by se-! vere cold from attending dinner by Attorney Conera! and Mrs. Sargent. and small children. Ask for Children’s Musterole. The sunbeam shell is one of rare beauty in its lovely variegation of delicate hues. The heart shell, when the two sections are fitted together, have a striking resemblance to the human heart. The halves of these re used extensively by wealthy peo-) ple as salad dishes for the dining) table. i Ceral Formation devoted to peculiar formations. There are the rose Fosette) s coral and ,ed mustard plaster without the blis- ;osT at Parish Hall, night of Sock ter. " | Social, black ostrich neck piece. | Reward if returned to Mrs. J. L. | Weatrous, 227 Duval. feb. 22-3t ICE CREAM Butter Scotch and all other flavors. Free, Prompt Delivery. 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