The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 20, 1943, Page 3

Every time I've tried to read a Paper lately I've started to ery. While Some of the things I've read might justify a few salty tears, News generally has been tco Sood to call fur a guy breaking out iD @ continuous baw! every time he sits down to read. Seein’ dou- bie don't seem right, either, when I was cold sober, so I took an hour off and paid a visit to my favorite ng PT Karl Eychaner. never got much of a thrill out of havin’ folks fool with either my lamps or-my teeth, but I swal- Jowed my Adam's Apple and said “All right, Doc, you finally got me. Now take a gander at my Peepers ancl seo if you can figure out why they insist on running like a leaky hydrant.” In the eld days when a guy wanted to be fitted for “specs” he'd simply read the smallest type he could on a test card, the doc would drape a pair of glasses over his nose and send him on his mer ry way But not any- more. Nowadays an up to date optome- dust has @ toon full of mechanical gadgets for testing your visual skill and I spent over an hour in this strange new world and really found it downright interesting. You start off with a beautiful and charming young lady leading you t comfortable seat where you face a machine that looks like a cross between a motion picture projector and an X-ray Then you find yourself on the answer end of a quiz contest While you look through a sort of stereopticun lense, the attendant drops a variety of is in the machine and you find y staring at vari-colored de cal and horizontal lines and other hieroglyphics while the young lady asks CLASSIFY By RUSSELL KAY |HORSE JAILED BUT IMy Associated Press) ATHENS, Tenn, Aug Two davs after Sam Bishop ‘elected to the Athens police force he received | It was only three Victory gardens. The po! man te uear the bars, without bail ‘I don’t know just what charge the animal with,” Bishop of his initial arre- that is # offense, gardens.” first call ee ee But all this is just prelumipary work. After twenty minutes or so of this you are turned over to the doctor and taken into another chanical den whe ay ave seat- -- ed in what seems t» be a kind of a cross between a dentist and bar- ber chair, surruunded with all manner of mechanical bric-a-brac More tests follow, first with Fon MoNneE eye then with the oti if there ne is anything a guy u ice with WARGO PERSHING SA \FIF ‘es, from uh oem te Piaint Tem, that init ix wowhat it is. W they put you through an ind ail the time t.« 1 at he Thow a makes a nota- you rest Now and then be | while he quessens yeu as to ‘ whether or not you ind. ige in al coholic bev Ps, read in bed or while lying dow: nder ar- tificial light, and se on Part of the time tests are in a darkened room and part of the time in the light. Just when é you are getting the impression County Florida that the procedure is never ending Bye CR) Males Wat and never over, the doctor says, (Sd) HAN EE CLENIE “Okay, that’s all—and you hop Solicitor for Miainvi¢e eut of the electric chair, feeling like a condemned man who has just got a reprieve. Then you sit at the doc’s desk and he starts adding up the seq He mumble something t sounds like a mess of footabll sig- nals: “20-30, 20-20°—and then smilingly informs you that it could be a lot) worse and asks what style of glasses vou prefer Sal ' WILLIAM FURMAN LANGI I'd never given much thought to it before. but nowadays opto- metrists are not satisfied with : merely fitting a patient with #He« Sof aid bill as taken as confesse glasses that will aid his sight. They Mm vou see two white lines? and Ordered at Key W —Do they cross?—How many red. #@ equally concerned with ap- Florida, "this Isth aa balls do you see?—How many - pearance, and the Ss -& PFOPET (Circuit Court © Saw low ones?—Now see if they merge. style for every kind of face, some Seal) e Pe —Which is higher, the red or the With rims, some without, cut in a Sic deta sinines yellow?—How many verticle lines iety of stvles. You try on one : i do you see néw?—How many h zontal?—Which are the clearest, the verticle or the horizonta You squirm and squint and give your answer which she write down on a report card which is eventually to disclose your batting | and his opti average. i] PLAYTIME FOR THE ARMY By ARLENE WOLF AP Features Writer NEW YORK, Aig. 20.—Any play-reader in a Broadway pro ducer's office thanks his lucky scripts if he finds in 200 worthy 6f passing along to the boss. And a large percentage of the then guaranteed “sure things’ turn out to be anything but sure when the critics take to their type writers. But the U.S. Army doesn't tol erate such a low batting average When Uncle Sam decides to bx come an angel, he wants good plays, and lets of them Funny thing, he gets them too. Shower of Plays Out of the 115 scripts dumped in hig lap when the Second Ser vice mand and producer John Bolden sponsored a play wrighiting contest some nths ly ago, Uncle Sam got five expe: finished one-acters from khaki They reached Bre under the title « Army Play also got fifty that for distribution to soldier theaters throughout the world. Just shows what happens when a large organ scripts are ization takes over the theatre. Et ficiency on the Rialto. Return Engagement And tt the half This is a return engagem the GI actors and authors — s ching most Broadway folk would gladly give their eye teeth for. In June the same cast pulled in $100 @0—the world’s record for a sin gle performance of a non-musicé non-star attraction Written, directed and acted by soldiers, “The Army Play By Play” is alse proof that theatrical and professionals can ther on the scurrying to the Ss not amateu ame stage and box send people office. In this case, the box-office just represents Army Emergency Relief, which gets all the p its The five soldiers who captured prizes in the playwrighting con test all had previous theatre train ing—Pfc. John B. O'Dea, of Hol lywood, Calif; Lt. Ralph Nelson. of New York: Pfc. Irivng Gaynor Neiman, of East N. J Pfc. Alfred D. Geto, of New York and Vienna-born Cpl. Kurt Kasz ner. of New York But the casts arc former outright novices to the footlights. Which only to prove, if anyot er doubted it that the Army 1s 4 & ¢ 4 mixture o! goers they look. being prepared ;¢ E_ ESQUINALD®. et after another like you might © A try on a hat, and result you whale of a lot of difference in how ntiff Well, thanks to Doc Eychaner | MONROR COLN | gadgets, | am able rronare. tu read without weepung and th Le MEA merican Optical Company man ‘ : a, dl to vide me wilh a set of “a weodern spees that give me a rath ' er distinguished look Now all Pve tified ane got te worry about is where did Ta leave and Kk cout 1 don't h break ased augl art ANE Ht Ne. tet property the « ofM sa State of Florida ¢ t Island of Key Large, Vlat & ; Pace 65, Medel Land ¢ Except Gov Lets a how Acres F-twe, A vos ‘ Mout ‘ ‘ tof th 1 « " ‘ Nore or vt Ares FoR TAN peep emate WH Ne. tity Ne t Th ment of " The a ‘ h riifica r was in th “n f Kes Lar- sued Sound Corp. ge 5 Ua eid cortif r redeemed a proper he . it ~ Ider at sold th he f M which ry ' A oth b Ane seal SEA NO BAIL REQUIRED 20. w + horse gobbling up hice k the horse to jail, tied it LD. t ’ " DNA vs JOHN M THE KEY WEST CITIZEN HEROINES OF WORLD WAR Il |MILITARY COURTESY because, PAYS DIVIDENDS , autogrgbNey he nesitates —_ 4 1 them for senti- | AP Ff res Writer mental + \ tradition ieee LOGAN, W. 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