The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 12, 1951, Page 4

Page 4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Tuesday. June 12, 1951 BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH THAT INFUNNEL RUNAWAY DON'T CONTRAPTION OF HIS’N FERGIT DING-NIGH BUSTED DOWN / HE'S A MY JAILHOUSE AnN’-- WHAR YE (M GOIN’ TO SNAP ON” (N SICH TH’ HANDCUFFS ON THAT NO 'COUNT INVENTIN' WINTON, JEDGE !! yi rosea s RUN, RED FLOWER! co OUT THE WINDOW! mri alfa ge cis: 5 VAMOOSE! y A "LADY"! Ciscoe ON — c | THE SIDE OF THE INJUNS! HE'S AGIN Us! By Fred Lasswell HAW-HAW AAW, ) 5S one BOYS WILL BE BOYS TO YORE WON'T THEY, { SENSES, ati JEDGE PP \. SHER'FE —- ETTA KETT YOU'RE MAKING A BiG MISTAKE, BRUSHING ME, CHICK! WE COULD MAKE BEAUTIFUL MUSIC / “AND Witt. YOU PLEASE STOP ~~ FOLLOWING ME LIKE ‘ A BLACK Bey Youre VAN LUCK : THIMBLE THEATRE—Starrir Popeye OF COURSE UNDERSTAND MUST HAVE A GOOD LOOK =~ FLIGHTS HAV \ CANCELLED.” f ANOTHER STORM ert Aaa Pee! Bachan s C= by Tom Sins, and B, Zabol “PL AM VERY SORRY, A | BUT } CAN'T SEE You WITHOUT MY EARMUFFS 'M GONNA PUT A STOP To THis! WELLCOME IS ON OUR m MAT= YOU'RE WELCOME AS THE FLOWERS IN MAy/ Weld rights weserond George McManus 284 | =e MAT OUT AND BURN (T= Toe sar iy MAH DINAHS.,. DATIN’ ANOTHUH FELLUH BLAME HER FER WANTIN A UTTLE NIGHT-LIFE ‘NL GULP) f DID OZARK SEE YEAH, LOLAZ AND ME WEARING BETCHA HE STAYS Sse Nae ater Sune Se in ao, SHAPE FOR TOMORROWS PF Th e |Navy Governor re OR RE ae Southernmost § ¥& | Corner | By | Charles Duerkes According to a Hollywood re-} port the vene le H. B. Warner is getting fan mail since the re- lease of some of his old silent films to the television business. It has been many semesters} since I enjoyed the acting of Mr-.| | Warner and it did not take this Hollywood report to recall him | to my muddled mind. He was one of my heroes of the dear, departed silent films and I have often wondered if those movies| weren't better for us, in many | ways, than some of the present} day million dollar super-produc- | tions. In retrospect the scenes that} (P) Wireg stand out most clearly are the}; NAVY CHIEF STOREKEBPEA ones from the old silent pictures.| Frederick A. Pobst (above “ Perhaps that is because there Pueblo, Colo.. who has tens weren't so ‘many things, like} assigned to govern a group ¢ radio and television, to immed-} islands dotting 30,000 P ot iately blot a good movie from our ‘ . thoughts. At any rate, as a guy} miles of the awe Western Pa. who has seen a right smart pas- cific. Pobst * the first enlj sel of movies since 1914, not too! ™4@" ever assigned by the many were of the calibre to) 35 @ Tepresentative of the ty leave indelib] impressions on| Government. " the scratch pad of my mind RUN STREOR ER ee | The last time I saw H, B,| ten Men.” Although Bing Crosby Warner was in one of the f did a good job of “A Conneétiny talkie-color production Th : . ur’s Cou was a prologue in which he play- remember . more. @& hh ed the, role of Prologue, and he! p yed by. Haly was hanged on the. scaffold. Pro and ine Frederik. logue, it was t be understood,| Way back in the:gilent days% was to be doomed on the screen] late Will Rogers did it in Jai that day hence. years, But the first one wae Mr. H. B, Warner, I regret to| best: Who could’ forget ‘i report, died in: wait: . Boswarth and ; May Allis My personal Oscar goes to a es ee ress Mig} seene in a picture titled “Dice Of Richie -Busthelince in a pi Destiny” starring H. B. himself. D: vid?” ie gush f ‘al . Iv in knee pants and so was nee gat z nae the movie industry but that pic-| ,,“ ian Kerrigan, i ture had me on the edge of my| 71% ‘en! sf Walthall gs seat, gnawing my nails and hold : F Bs Ae Bus 5 ing my breath as has no filn oS vance, ling a since. H. B., you see, was a surg- sane eg and it isqam eon. There was a dame, And a sae 2 socal the scenese® guy who was not only a villain} Paved than it is to but H. B.'s rival and enemy to| the ballyhood, movie boot. The scene where my Mr, | 1st week : : Warner was called upon to op Hollywood, tae ce ae Es erate on the dirty villain was the *'©!y for something to pull igi one that had me in such a tizzy. OF ie doldrums, would dos wl Was he to savesthe heel and be go back over some of jlet the heel get the | girl? (H. B,| ler silent films _ and do a grimly adjusted his mask). Make | Y&.,UR., t% date. , But to f | the heel squirm ‘neath. the scal- | Plot and sequence as much: i pel?. (Warner's eyes blazed with: 544, 45 possible. ae | fierce light). Kill the louse neat~} Hollywood's: trouble ee lly? Who would know? (A scowl, p 18S. to. change _ everything” las ne stripped on. his . rubber} YO", recognition, We | gloves). Is love, hatred, lust for | Stand more of the old tit | revenge, greater than my oath as} *0™ime as a substitute for 4 a surgeon? (Agonized eyes raised|°f the current corny di to the ceiling). What of Hipproca- | Simplicity and honesty wow ites? (Head down, sweat breaking} "efseshing change from out on forehead, as he picked. up}! the present day hokum, |a cuttin’ knife), » = | .Coulds Hollyweod do "Se | ‘The theater orgah boomed and} Heaven today, for. exa | growled and set ‘the house to | Potain the Sane Deere | trembling with ‘suspense music, hip vate: wid yo | Then Warner was Staring down | geed, that H. B. Warnie |at his man. Patient or victim? setting fan mail, I wi | The heel didn’t know H. B. be-} couig bring back that “Di |neath that mask. The. nurse, | Destiny” number so 1 co 4} | think she was the dame in thet 5 ot heey sk. B. made out | case) shoved her fist in her mouth } operating Toom. jand allowed her eyes to pop.} | Warner’s brow was drenched} | with sweat. (So was mine). He} | had ‘a’crazy look in his eyes. | rT] ' Brother, that was a_ tense} USF | scene. I'll never forget it. | I often wish I could remember | | how it came out. | In “King George,” Warner por- | trayed The Chrisi. A superb, per- | formance. One, scene that still | stands out is the one in which | Christ is on his way to. Calvary. | He is, bowed down beneath his} i | heavy cross. A. handsome. young} |} man steps out of the crowd, lifts} | the cross from the shoulders af} | Jesus and carries it beside his Master. ‘ | | The young nian was William | Boyd. Hopalong Cassidy to to-; iday’s fans. These days he goes | about shooting hell out of people. | Telephone 51 | It just goes to show how people Classified Advertisement | change. | I well remember Percy Mar- mont in “The Street Of Forgot-!