The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 14, 1938, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service - For 58 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West The Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1938. VOLUME LIX. No. 62. ' . } SOSSOSOSHSOSSSSSSSSSOSSSSSSSSSSSOSSOSSSSOSSSOSSES i ome on Pocmece-arv, RAIN BOATS, ‘IN. ART: I Opening Of Highway ==, on OLIVIA srazz Sectsialy of Key West SOTTIIIOS, ° SCCCCOSSSSSSSOSSSHSLOSSOSESSSESSSSSSSESSESSSESS: VISITORS ENJOY Chamber of Commerce eee eee @®y L. P. A. Jr) light. The schooner is: immersed | TO BE COMPLETED By Anton Otte Fischer's reproduc- in foggy darkness, a Jight amid- | Furst Steps Ave Te : | tion of the peculiar beauty of Key ; Ships glowing, the bow of the ANGLING HERE. Gives Report of His Trip| colonel G. R. Reay. Medi- suse cal Reserve, U. S. A.. of La To Miami | ie Sixty-Two West waters, something which “iP emerging out of the dark, Demolition of Busidimgs Crosse, Wisconsin. and his 4 - and a light shimmering across the ‘ . hasn't: been done before; the waters of the bay from an island. Now Situated con | Work recently begun on the) Sensitiveness of the beautiful! His “Windforms” show a poetic) assengers e : quarter block at Olivia and Wind-/ forms of light of F. Townsend | touch. An etching of the cigar box perty |Sor Lane, which is to be convert-! Morgan: a startling modernistic| saw mill, the schooner “Lydia E. ‘ nephew. John Killey of Chi- Wilson” on the ways, “The Hav-| Travel via the P. and O. S. S. cago, Ill. leave by auto for their homes tomorrow, after a five weeks’ stay in our city. | Co., to Key West continues regu- lar, the vessel | Frunning. Mrs. Brunning Brows numbers of visitors with each ar-| p Ward, —— Price, Miss - Mere 5a rival of the steamer. This morn-| Smith, Edward Griffith, Mrs. F Incorporazec. purchasers of ing the vessel arrived with 162|Hornagle, Frank Hornagle, Mrs. the remaining holdings of passengers. |R. H Pierson, Dr. J. F. Baez. Of this number were five first yo ed into a park surrounded by = ay quaint white and Havana blue **¢tch called ‘Alstrection bY! ana Boat” and “Rum Runners” houses, will be completed June 1, Sally Sortwell; evening shadows! are other “local color” scenes, Guy Carleton, Gilford, Connecti-.on beached derelicts, a vivid | which are striking in their excel- jiownees = nya aie scer@ of a boat on the ways by|lence of detail without the fact uses mn ‘indsor Reed: 7 striking one. |Lane, with a two-story house at | =/@nor aud Snaly fe unr | “Several scenes of ‘St. Thomas the corner of Windsor and Olivia, |@« beauty of Key Wset “Rain” j320q show a primitive settle- {four houses will be on Olivia! of Martha Watson appealed most! ment and have a depth of beau- | street and one house will be set! to me in a trip through ‘the ex- 4 i ty which is not easily analyzed._| back in Sek AD Ge bose sbtion of paintings of the Key|@ne scene in particular catches| and three second cabin passengers | of are being remodel ¢ 4t-! West Art Association in the Fed- D | tropical skies in their dark, even-| from. Tampa, and two first-eabin | freight jo ia area | eral Art Center. img and orange lighted clouds|from St. Petersburg, for .Key Tampa. page oo ah ‘Walle ona|.. Mf. Fischer mentioned some blue shades. I don’t think | Kest; 29 first cabin and two sec-| Cuban capitol, for a few days —_—_— visit to the island. “I feel just like Governor Cone | : did when that delegation of wom- en called on him. and he inter- | rupted the session to say ‘my feet. hurt’ and proceeded to take off his shoes. The more I see of Mi-| ami, the better I like Key West.| If any one in Key West is pining cisterns have also been consruct-| i back that he was going to Fischer has caught a tropical sky ed. The “old style” construction is remarkable for strength and preservation, Mr. Carleton said. All fences and unsightly weeds in the Park are being cleared out. The entire central section, which for a chance to talk, all they have| fo do is to pin on a Key West’ badge and stand anywhere on! Flagler street said S. C. Single-_ fon, who has just returned from | at present has a great number of a visit to Miami. sapodillas, spanish limes and oth- “The short ferry ride was just| estat ahaha ee ee : interior Janes. @ pleasant interlude. and the road Mr. and Mrs. Carleton who have been here several months and have acquired 20 pieces of property, state that there are two ‘types of picturesque homes here, the Bahama style and the Cuban style. Development and modern- \ization of these picturesque homes attempt to capture Key West waters and skies. He was a sailor for quite a long time and knows the sea in all its sheen and moods, so much so that many of his sea pictures are painted entirely from memory far up on dry land. When I saw his “Old Dock,” I very nearly exclaimed in delight, the water was so much the water! T've known in Key West. It was the water of a calm day at the! Simonton street dock. The chan- nel runs a little way out and there is a glassy, oily sheen to it. which I've never seen caught anywhere else. Those who attended the first exhibition of Key West artists will remember sunset, channel buoy, and Rest Beach scenes, on .| which Key West waters as they ,' are is the arresting feature. or most of them, | West Woman's Club )gates from Key West. us to keep Key | jas is president-elect of that and not an imi-| organization. Coney Island. } TEMPERATURES _.. CQMES OUT FOR REPRESENTATIVE FOR POSITION IN COLUMNS OF THE CITIZEN Lowest Highest last night last 24 hours 60 80 70 74 54 80 | 52 70 48 76 into a race with his fleet of , Abilene yachts, and the story of the local | Apalachicola patriotism has given us the op- | Atlanta “We have few better anywhere than we have in John Morris, the efficient secretary of the Miami Chamber of Commerce, and another friendly booster for Key West is Bob Booth, sec-' retary at the YM. C. A. Every- 4 one wants Key West literature Galveston and we made liberal promises, Hattéras along that line; Jike the man who. evens —! promised friends eighty-five. pups. Beyene out of the next lifter, ..on the jae me oat grounds that ‘t w: be. a dam 3c — Promise @ man-a pup. ‘Tittle Rock DOG “One of the high-lights of Los Angeles e the trip was the Rotary lunch Louisville where the speaker of the day Miami was Rev. Dr. Smith, president of Mpls.-St. P. Louisiana State University, who New Orleans told more than two hundred and Now york thirty members and guests, what oO. ishoma City a really big man Huey Long was, Pensacola and they had to like it. It was an Phoenix awful dose for some of them, and Pittsburgh @ big treat for the rest of us. St .Louis “Well I find that although Sait Lake City Young Steve has been working San Francisco continuously, while I have been sit Ste Marie away, correspondence has crept Seattle en him until he is literally Tampa Swamped, and I must get busy ‘Washington also. We will take up this chat Williston some time later.” Wytheville ee (Mseesssageesese 1 42 SRELSSSRESSERLSREITES SIVSLLLLLSAVsSPstgSLSSSSSS Rl TILSISs Everett W. Russell, native of Key West and a progressive and energetic young business man, to- 'day-announces his candidacy for | Representative in the Florida Legislature, subject to the May primaries. Mr. Russell was educated in the public schools of the city, and though at different times the role of office seeker has been suggest- ed, this is ever heeded host of friends, and announced for office. That being the case, “I have no record of performances in the past to present to the voters, but I do feel that I am able to repre- sent the people of the county in she Legislature and you may rest assured that did I not feel quali- fied, I would not seek the office” Mr. Russell has for the past 14 years been local representative for one of the largest oil compan- ies in the world, has been in touch with many of the foremost busi- ness men and knows the legisla- | tion which works for the best in- terests of the people of the state. When calling at the office of The Citizen to place his an- nouncement, he said. “Though I have no political record of accom- first time he~ has. RESTAURANT ow what ie eccear ond fwomise that my every effort ‘will The purple evening shadows on the old boats at the foot of Greene street of the painting “Derelicts” would make me homsick if I were away, for the angles and colorings | 38 well. “Sea Breeze.” a scene on the Keys, by P. W. Muncy, is inter- | eSting. One of those spots where , you come upon the sea over a sandy knoll with a seagrape tree ,; to your right, underbrush before you and trailing vines tangling four feet. An excellent character sketch of a deep heek-boned, dull-black colored ‘woman leaning against a | fence, the mystery of the Congo: | im her eyes, and two colored men! |lolling around a shambling porch | in the background is an excellent touch. The picture is by Board- tian Robinson, who is one of the more “serious” artists. ‘The faded colors of the sawdust ‘beach at the foot of Greene) street around the boats is the) highlight of “Beached Boats” by; | of the boats touch off that store-' pup picture in the mind of the, unique beauty and mood of such Key West groups as- this. contrast is the sunlight scene of “Docking” by the same artist. The blue waters of the F. E. C. harbor, and deep, smooth green water in which undulating shad- ows almost seem to move reach- ing down to depths beside the dock scene make one want to sit for hours admiring the living beauty a brush has created. Whether the painting “Abstrac- tion” by Sally Sortwell is sur- realism, dadaism. or something equally as strange, is not for me to point out. Suffice it to say that there is a hint’of the horizonal 4 fields of deep abstraction, which, however, seems to me to be brought to startlingly to life in the crumpled rolled pieces of tin or paper, which may signify thought unrolling. There are hints of promise in the work which may bear fruit by study, but, for me, it js just too “abstracted.” I've often watched Key West just after it has been w: in rain; both during the day the evening, marvelling at dark tones, catchin; the the pall and the idealism of silver in the sky, and the philosophy of the wet, unpainted, gray houses. “Rain’ by Martha Watson has caught all that for me. F. Townsend Morgan, Federal Art Project director who is an outstanding artist, known princi- pally in the field of etching, has an excellent collection of etchings and paintings. Among the etch- ings is “Key West—The Island City of the Sea,” a panorama which won the Frederick J. Tal- cott prize Society of American etchings, in New York, in 1935, and speaks for itself. Another, “Bargaining” Was ‘selected for “Fine Prints of the "Year" last year... Morgan's “The Bugeye” shows clearly his-ability to por- mystieal forms of A: colors. { The sort of sunlight, which} promises to burn down later in the day, is cause in a painting by Cyril L. Marshall. It is an early morning sunlight, warm in the cool dews of early morning, and | i in through Spanish! blands, playing on a white walled room in which stands an old decorative rocking chair. | Excellent craftwork in which Key West scenes are portrayed is that done by Mr. and Mrs. Dud- ley in rubber, pewter, «masonite and copper. Sailfish, yellowtails, old homes, are all pictured in these various matters and are painstakingly worked in. The silver colored, modern style, pew- ter work is most attractive. Lino- leum block-prints of various scenes of thie city have also been made. inf’ suggestions of his hint 6f sadness in the light ‘gray* TIME OF FUNERAL FOR KEY WEST RESIDENT TO BE ANNOUNCED LATER Mrs. Nora Antoinette Kemp, 47, died this morning 1 o'clock, in the home, 815 Southard street. Ar- rangements under the Lopez Fun- eral Home for the funeral services will be announced later. Pallbearers will be Louis Ma- loney, Earl Adams, Anthony Alonzo, Willard Albury, Charles Garing and Ray Elwood Mrs. Kemp is sufvived by the husband, Sam Kemp: one son, Osgood: two daughters, Olga and Lauriette; two sisters Mrs. Leo! Warren and Mr. Virx Gwynn:: Shriners club of that city, who! were on their annual visit to the | FERRY TRAFFIC OF | LAST WEEK SHOWS FOR METAL WORK As far as the number goes. number of cars have dropped: off very much, high bei 7 the 425-mark, and a 3 from the drop to 313 of two | ago to the present figure is en-| couraging. The week follows: Sunday, sengers, 23 bus passengers, cars. Monday, 85 car-passengers, 21) bus passengers, 61 cars, six trucks. | Tuesday, 82 car passengers, 14' bus passengers, 65 cars, six trucks | and one trailer. } Wednesday, 82 car passengers, | 24 bus passengers, 55 cars, four trucks and one trailer. | Thursday, 110 car passengers, 21 bus passengers, 69 cars, three trucks and one trailer. | Friday, 68 car passengers, 24 bus passengers, 43 cars, one truck, and one motorcycle. Saturday, 73 car passengers, 29 bus passengers, and 48 cars. CRIMINAL COURT STARTS SESSION DOCKET SOUNDED: VERY. FEW CASES TO BE CON- SIDERED Criminal Court of Record for Monroe County for the March term was convened 9:30 o'clock this morning in the county court house with Judge William V. Al- bury presiding and all court offi- cials present. Directly after the court was convened the jurors were ques- tioned and the osth administered, ed for the term. .There are very few cases to be eonsidered. After sounding.of the docket the cas¢ of Abe Alien, charged with assault and bettery, was set Mrs. Engle. Ross Galvanizing $9,360; Johnson City Machine Co., $9,720; R E and Son, $10,680; Spuck Foundry Co., $10,775; C. Freder- ick Wolfe, Inc, $11,000; Ellicott Machine Corp.. $11300; a 4 Sid: Aronovitz, who is in the first year of law at the University of Florida, at Gainesville, has been elected as one of the four members of the Law School De- bating Team. Sidney is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charies Arono- vitz, of this city. The Law School team is a crack debating outfit, and it is consider- ed a signal honor that Mr. Arono- vitz has the team in his freshman y: of lew. The team left yesterday on a fefter which the dorket was sound- ‘UF of southern colleges ifs ¢ £ be if PITT PZZLZL2L2 LL \ BUY NOW"... 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