The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 21, 1942, Page 3

THE KEY WEST CITIZEN MS GAs ROOSEVELT PAYS-HIGH PUT INCLAIM |7RIBUTE TO ‘SCOUTS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1942 MANY STRANGE PRACTICES TO BE lthe nation’s 1,570,962 Scouts, Air] hs Scouts, Sea Scouts, Cubs and|STRONG ARM BRAND COFFEE | their leaders follcws: THE SWAP - RIDE CLUB FOUND IN OFFICIAL WASHINGTON By JACK STINNETT WASHINC TON, Dec. 21.—The Capital in Wartime: The Washington landmarks are numerous and interesting, but no visitor who has ever been here more than a few hours will mis- understand when I say that one! of the never-~to-be-forgotten things has been cabby chatter that comes from. the capital’s taxi drt vers. For. years it has been impossible to sit in a Washington taxi and | discuss the weather, the high price | of eggs, the state of the nation, the defections of certain congressmen, or what’s the matter with Aunt Tillie, without getting a windy, | but frequently salty, dissertation | from the driver's seat. 1 a a Capital cabbies put the tradi- tional gabby barbers in the shade. Some of this is no doubt due to the fact that Washington cabs are | small and have no glass partitions | between the back and front seats. | But there’s something deeper than that, something that only can be! explained by the nature of the{ drivers. They're a class apart; either friendly southerners who just can’t keep from being friend- ly, or northerpers who have lost their inhibitions, , : So far as I krfow, the only man | who’ ever thotent of putting. thts? characteristic to use is Public Utiliites.. Commission) Chairman James H. Flanagan. { “directives,” Flanagan has taken stépg\to chan- | nel cabby chatter into those di-; rections where it will do the most} good. { From now on, the conversation you get from the front seats here is supposed to run something like this: “Now look at that crossing in the middle street. He almost got hit. might have gotten a lot of broken ; bones. I hope you don’t do any | thing like that, lady. Always! cross’on the green light and never | cut across the middle of a block. } That way, the chances are 100 to 1—and no bookie ever gave bet- ter odds than that—you won’t end | up as a pedestrian casualty in some hospital.’ Or: “Did you see that lug—the way he shot out from the curb without signalling? And then; made a left turn across two lanes of traffic? Do you drive a car,! Mister? Well, I hope you don’t! drive one like that. We got to get our accident rate “down ‘and it’s fellows like that that run it up.” eee of the! He | In other words, the more than 1,700 loca drivers here are | now traffic safety lecturers and some of them take their work pretty seriously. But that isn’t all. Flanagan, having gotten this idea of directing the capital cab- bies’ conversations into channels that be of some value to the com- munity, has issued another “di- rective.” Instead of Pal,” to those a tip to the fe even those who don’t), Washington jehus are now supposed to usher fa with: “And now, Madame (Sir Miss), you sure you ain't forgot nothing?’ According to Flanagan and the PUC, this is just anot i combatting the ravage: While the rest of the country has had a marked decline in fie fa- talities since tire and gasoline ra tioning and reduction in driv speeds started, Washington mounted to an all-time high. “Thanks, who add saying, has | COSTLY DIVIDEND NEW YORK—It cost the Jam town Board of Public Utiliti more to deliver a dividend check to one of its electr than the check was worth. It was mailed to his Jamestown ad- dress and then rema to Cali- fornia. It was for one cent. Turn in war tide in favor of the United Nations is seen. EVENING SHOPPERS— Until Christmas we will be open from 7 P. M. ito 8 P. M. for your) convenience. 1F You'Re Looxiwe For SEE PAUL SmitH ‘334 Simonton ST. mug, | © HEARTBREAK ALLEY Road That Leads To The’ ‘Met’ Is Short, But Few Survive It By RAY PEACOCK AP Features Writer NEW YORK, Dec. 21.—Heart- break Alley is the corridor le d- | ing to Studio 3A of ihe Blue } i work in Rockefeller Center. For | eight seasons, since inauguration of Metropolitan Opera of the Air, thousands of have walked their last 1 that corridor. A few got tracts; the rest went back ire 0 the town, or back io ieacher. | Sometimes a shortcut to fame and fortune, sometimes an abrupt realization of the bitter truth, the ; annual broadcast auditions come | , in the wake of preliminary audi- tions not heard outside the studio. Over a period of two months, | promising singers are auditioned tenors and two, days a week. lected to sing on each of the Two are se- j aired auditions beginning in No-| vember,;and heard on Sundays from, 6:30 to.7 p. m. EV Some- times more than 32 are deemed worthy of aired auditions. Som timés'orle’ findlist is given a con- tract, sometimes four. Chief reason for faliure, cording to gray-haired, court: Wilfred Pelletier who auditions the singers, is-not lack of voice, but lack of tra iz On a day when I listened to tt preliminary auditions, in a in room off Studio 3A, I heard a baritone and a soprano sing for Mr. Pelletier. ger a panist were a in the big stu- dio; in the glassed-in we could see and hear, bi sing- er could not hear the critical com ments. The man. 33, of medium he build and wear i suit, had had training and was as well. His high ence liked his voic fault with his diction. less he was asked to sing more numbers, including the logue from, Pagliacci, which is a toughie, and while he didn’t know he was getting exceptional treat+ ment and was very Happy. The woman, young and bru- nette, was nervous: In her first offering her voice tigt on her, but she too was asked ta sing again’ She sounded good to me. The chief comment seemed to be that she would be more at- tractive if she would remove her al re S= accom on audi- » but found Pro- |FIVE auditions |! down | con- |. ~ 16 .¢ , audit FOR LOST COFFEE! (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Dec. 21.—The Lost and Found department of the Hotel Belmont Plaza posted a notice that a ring, a pair of gloves and a pound of coffee were awaiting claim- ants. No one :asked for the gloves, two ‘persons inquired about the ring—but — five claimed the coffee. SEA OTTERS RETURN | years, RA AASAOSALS We | i} MONTEREY, Calif.— One of the richest prizes of the old fur has come back to life— otter. Long conside , a number of the anir n sighted along this ro astline. Th are now. strict protected by law. a second song ters their ego. s freeze up beca nds on those few song. Pelletier’s ears have bedn as- saulted many times y whisk sobbing sopranos, they have sémetimes be« med by a really promi: oice. A French-Canadian, h nas for 26 years been assistant and then senior conductor at the M and. has worked with the great c Oh, Rise was runnc¢ and turned contract bes n't 1 nembe! ause she Nok won cha felt she ac scems to rer pla DON’T MISS P.A.R. La Revista Mensual en Espanol Ingles. Mailed at Havana Month. ly on the 13th. Ten Cents $la 7 Year. Six Years $5. Sample FREE. ican Review) at San Ignacio 54, | Havana. P.-O. Box 329. Tel. Havana - Cuba _ Florida - Gulf Coast - West Indies - Mexico - Regions South. 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