The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 29, 1951, Page 2

See 2 ee a s 4 i fe. —— ee o ‘THE. KEY WEST GIrTZEN Tie Key West Citizen Friday, June ase al toast & eblistea day) by L. P. Artman, owner and pub- wa siatier eg See fundies corner of Greene and Ann Streets” ~ Quly Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County p Pe ee PES i Editor ta + temneTt is. always diffieult for vee tar NORMAND, ARTMAN _ Business Manage: Entered at Key West, Florida, us Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 5! and 1935 wor Mem! The Associated Press—-The Assoc! iated Press is exclusively + eatitied-to use for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it ¢x.not.otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news «aublished here. @iember Plorida Press Association anc As L mreree tebe ociated I Dailies of Florida ‘ "Phe Citizen is.an open forum and invites discussion | of public issues and,Subjects of local or general interest, but it will not publish {.aponymous communications. ESS ON FLORIDA Ass ~ je: IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED Ta ri 2 YY THE CITIZEN 1. More Hotels sa Apartments. roves 2. Beach and i otysed Fasten ..... 3. Airports—Land and “Consolidation of Conny eee Sig Governments. - FOR “INDEPEN Ome dey ore ) oplevof one ¢oentry to ad mitterstand the results of elee! ae gther ands. This : _ gomment, is particularly apptopri gard to the re- » “geentrelection j in France, the first sities? 1946, to determine Who’ Will rule France and, pérhaps, to have some effect wa Upon the detense plans of the Western powers, ‘ss While economic conditions in France are better than "| Yive Wears ago, widespread hardships exist among the lower-income groups. In addition, the electoral system has * *Heen'altered in the hope of increasing the voting strength ,o&mmoderate parties at the expense of extremists. The résults show that the Communists, on the basis *of-popular vote, remain the largest party, in France. Their -oSeals-in the Assembly were sharply reduced, however, be- ‘cause’ the new election law permitted other parties to com- _ pine Against them. The de Gaullists, led by the General of Ahat name, got more than 100 seats and may develop as “ertheratrongest party in the Assembly, Of course, control is in the eenter coalition, wenerally expected. to Yemain vo Whigh is,expected: to moy¥'simemthat to the right, 3 “Interesting to Americans is the fact that General de Gite made his appeal he basis that France, needs ' jon ’ Orr, leadership and or albiwed: Weaknesses of thetexist- HE Welicdeie: Th ‘i g Mrs. Genevieve Warren, for s.@lhey are nothing but “wild strawberries,” |instance. She loves and work ‘ imported by airplane from France and going on the mar- |toward the betterment of Key r suketnthe day after being gathe red. West. Though I've seen little of cetods “Our ow i é ado swe art Orr ry her irl Jate years, she has always r own advice, if anybody wants it, is to forget | been representative in my mind government, whivh, e aiidin Inaddition, t i “Pianeers’ past glory, th army and independence erted, could not stop Com- meral promiséd to restore sblighinent of a great French ‘the United States. ie “PRAISES DES BOIS” « re you ever eaten “those famed fresh fraises des "pots’' that are advertised as a gastronomical treat by a New York department store? Frankly, we have not. In fact, we were a little bit, bs sitet that. the French term might mean something that weé,do, hot care to eat, fearing some interference with nor- mal-digestion. But, you can rest easy, if you want to try ae a “hholtithe fresh wild strawberries (fraises des bois) and concentrate on enjoying the strawberries that are grown uthome, We imagine that they are at least equal, if not s4perior, to the imported product and, besides, you won't have to pay $2.a pound for them. _____- Peace on earth will be maintained by the nation, or : foe “ot ger ipsa ind to beh for it, ant pihe-caaeliyy i ijstey of the present war are longer be- roMune the nation was not adequately prepared. ystém fn. iiisineds a great asset if you can find Sa té opétate the system while you take it easy, rN eee wr Of Ours My BILL GIBB | Suppose we let the politicians jstew in their own juice for |awhile and return to another pet subject of this column—art, (with especial emphasis on paint- | ing). | The show at Clinton Place be }ginning next Monday should be a good-one. You can take that sentence, and. furnish. your own| | interpretation. |. There is no use denying that | I think the Sidewalk Art Show | jis a mockery of all the ideals most of us hold toward the field of art. True art, that is. | A real painting is an expres sion of the innermost feelings of |the person wielding the brush And as such it is something to be honored, respected, treated with dignity. This can't be done in a public square where the domin ant mood will resemble the mid way of a carnival. | much difference between this | proposed show and a normal art | exhibit as ‘there is between bur lesque and a Shakespearian drama, And the public should view it with just such an _atti- tude. There is nothing wrong with burlesque. There is nothing | is truly representative of its own | particular ‘branch of art. Miss Grace Kemp Struggled heroically’ quite a | few years ago to teach me to} paint. At the end. of about year, she gave up as a hopel iat case. A coffee-pot that, I “tried to | draw in charcoal had a closer re. semblance to a tornado tangled up with a coal-burning locomo- | tive than it did to the origina coffee-pot. j Yet other youngsters were able | to do fine under her guidance Malcolm Pierce, my schoolmate was her star student. He painted , horses that actually looked like | horses. It took me a long time to learn | that although I could not paint | myself, I still had the capacity | to look at other people’s work | and enjoy it. This solution might | work for some of our local art-| ists. | Principle Objection On mpart concerning art work j, eneral here on the} Rock * hot stem from the| fact of. whethera man or woman can of gannot paint, What I dis-, like to’’see’'is the gullibility of local people in ming that be- cause a person assumes freakish | attitudes, characteristics, an d| dress, that the person must ne cessarily be an artist. Therefore, | he sho@ldi’be taken in—wined, dinedyand supported. | Jus as a beautiful woman needs no jewelry to enhance her | beauty, so a true artist needs no ‘Bohemian’ atmosphere to ex- press himself. } women in this town who are culturally, as well as intelligent- | ly, able to guide us in our choice of art. | | | of the pest that a woman can of 88, gentleness, and | 1 . She has man- agediito advance art without dra} a cigarette out of the of her mouth, getting a f bebe jof.and. in general, "rin: pa BP! an+ hie ay inte a a ‘su; jal Knowlisive of Freud | and rofound Knowledge of the vulg We need to encourage our art For my own part, there is as | } New York. Died Jan 1861—William J... Mayo, elder jot the two famous Mayo Clinié’ There are dozens of men and | wi j Jan. AP Newsteomoes Chapter 23 ‘THE cabdriver asked, “Where| Pe Jigger through the| Midtown Tur Rolling Manhattanward, Red said, “You sure played God.” Jigger said dreamily, “Why pur ish her for working at her trade his ing for you. We've somebody » moves with stop- watch timin “Got to tuke a If the en stub’s gone. \ way, Red, e checking . And this time] conviction. That r ) the FLEMISH ARM has ht out in the open now w Arents fits some- where in the pl. “Maybe he hired the “Where we thous and a ol b No. wrong with the Clinton Place | mE Me ttied tc lens Art Show. But everyone should | ® Oy ean total be mate to realize that neither if: that we'd have ‘to eall Matthew Hunter.” J smiled, Ironic, if it turned out that Red was ‘right. “And doubly ironic, if Matthew Hunter had been driven to hire a girl to masquerade a daughter whom he had murder igger sai candidate. top plu; oice sing your ose in op- imism, we trumped omebody hen we exposed the masqu Red painted to the taximeter. ow long do you expect to ride th ne wrong end of a ta: Jigger laughed out loud. Jigger peered through the win- dow of G.P.O. Box 370. It was mpty. He hurried through the revolving door and raced down the steps to the waiting taxi. \Today’: s Anniversaries 1835—Celia L. Thaxter, popular New England poet of her gener tion, born in Poirtsmolith, ‘N.“B. Died Aug: 26, 1894. M * 1846—Daniel O'Leany, champ- jon 500-mile walker in post-Civi War days, when walking was a\|, National sport,,,born in Died in Los Angeles, May 1852—John Bach McMas‘er, inent University of Pennsylvania | historian, born ih’ Brooklyn, N. Y Died May 24, 1932, 1858>-Geory dier-engine der of the\P; 9, 4933. dnama brothers, surgeon, born at La Sue- r, Minn, Died July 28, 1939. 1865—-William E. Borah, famed longtime U. S. senator from Ida- ho, born in Fairfield, Vt. Died 19, 1940. 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PIERCE BROS, Corner and ¢ Elizabeth Streets \Corpse on the Deask | him out here.” He pulled Re: -\ ceding day jin the hattle bata in Ireland. [ oe Horace Heidt s ‘Music Not Wanted Today's Horoscope forcefui nature jlikely to be made gives exteremely progress ig ; by sheer fopie | LOS ANGELES. —:).— Thelof strength, without any~ corisid- By JOHN ROEBURT music on Horace Heidt’s estate| eration eee. ids in the way. seems to be getting a little too| There pees s of appli- |loud for the neighbors. cation, but h r lies in the “HE window of the Baroque Art| Sundemann | was short, roly Horace has six acres in a sub- jnature becomi nous, with | rio J rums, - rai erpetu py : : a |plays in metals, woods, and oils| some missing deta!L He looked at j think that was room enough to) eo were as tortured.as.a nightmare. | Jigger morosely, this intru- |absorb a few saxophones and; Nejson Eddy of Los Angeles | sion was a final s Jigger trude,” Sundemann ,motioned vaguely. “What cand dofor-you?” “Tm thtbrested in a painter you're showing, Etic Arents.” rents.” | One oil painting, centered in the | show window, was identified by a neatly inscribed card as “Teardrop Through the Eye of a Needle.” The rtist was Eric Arents, Jigger said thoughtfully, “Arents was frazzled when I confronted to- smilec. est. “You want to"buy hi im?” Jigget. nodded. “But the price is discouragingly high. extras; they’ye watched anxieties, | dislikes, personalities, The exhibi- tor is creditor, keeper, wetnurse, Boswell—” Sundemann shook his head. Red closed the door behind| “The price is the artist's.” A shoul- them. der hoisted and lowered.“ He wants so much, and we try to get so much | for him,” “But $2500, if you'll pardon me | —for a downtown gallery, and an} obscuré painter—?” i Sundemann nodded sympatheti- | cally. “High. I agree—a rich man’s price. But we got it.” He held up two fingers. “Twice already, in the same Week; and by a collector who is never feolish.” The» shoulders worked. “ric Arents is being dis- covered.” Jigger sked, “Did lector buy. both paint The dealer nodded. : Jigger asked mildly, “Who is the collector?” Sundemann started ‘to réply, but stopped...“l. am not, at libenty to reveal his name.” Jigger lifted his brows. “What's so special and secret about purs. chasing Ap.?” Sundemann smiled weakly “Nothing. But if! a buyer wants everything confidential —” shoulder hoisted “Do > you think he might drop his price? Sundemann shook his head. “The artist fixed the price himself, Twenty-five hundred, and not a penny less; Arents swore we would get his price. A woman came up to Jigger jand handed him a one-page cata- | logue. Jigger pointed to a hanging | oil painting. “What's the price of | that Arents?” “Just a moment,” the woman} | said. She vattered across the floor to a table and consulted a note- | book. “Twenty-five hunded dollars,” she announced. | Jigger whistled. “Steep.” She looked at Jigger levelly, with a curious lack of expression, | but said nothing. Jigger read |from the catalogue. “How about | number 29, by the same artist?” a n the notebook turned. five hundred _ dollars, | si "was plainly as much | of an. epithet as she could permit herself. Jigger read from the catalogue jagain, “Then how about number | 372” Her hands wv orked the notebook impatiently. “Number 87 has been sold.” “For twenty-five hundred dol- 2” Jigger’s incredulity was unconcealed. The woma same col- hi logked at him cold- ly. Jigger id disarmingly, “I’m really interested in the man’s work. But the price!Can I see the gallery owner perhaps?” “He was that sure of a demand She seemed disposed to refuse, | for his work? sae but she said, “This way.” Jigger| {We got the artist's price, twice.” followed her to_a door in the rear ‘And . weren't fs yu surprised of the yallery. She knocked light-| when it happened, Mr. Sunde- | ly, then held the door open, “This | mann? : Hier ae is Mr. Sundemafin,” she ai “Frankly, yes; a little surprised.” | nounced (To be continued) i | | | tion and lished 1937, toyie Naturalization estab- Today In History 1778—Gen. Washington com- missions herdie Molly Pine ® be President Roosevelt's A. plague his- on both your) garoos, but few shoot kangaroos have. been re- fused, but farmers and ° @raziers are reported to be’ killing: hun- dreds just the same. tablishment of a musie school by | Mr. Heidt. He has asked the city to re-| zone the property for commercial joined in opposing the change. es KANGAROOS MENACE AUSTRALIAN SHEEP HERDS SYDNEY. —(?).— in great and causing They are eating the: grass and driving the sheep from water- holes. Feed is so scarce in some | ' parts that sheep are | by road transport. One | who traveled 200 miles grazing country along the “Dar- being moved reporter through ing River saw hundreds of kan- sheep. Permits a Joan Davis, comedian-actress; born St. Paul, Minn., 39 years ago. BIG eech. bite inducted ‘into they ive Order, ie Oteen Mary: arrives: sheds with some 143000 res’ ‘i Pre: ident sergeant for her bravery, the |mouth, Ne dy } 1794-icownitrys first “ Nabal) in church, Bethel, dedicated in Phil} ae | Adelphia, : 1865—6-week*tri#l of those mae < ‘plicatedy jn Lin eee, ends—four, ehoathe oman, hanged on a E 1869—The . National “Ban | Davenport, Towa, chartered- ¢ ional bank under the new! | banking laws. 4896—An early showing of moy¥= ipg pictures at the Union Square Theatre, New York City. 1906—-The Bureau of Immigra- é beac Sty (10 IN. POPULAR “10 IN. CLASSIC RE 12 IN. CLASSICS - POPULAR ONLY $2. 1? EACH eon | wa h r thi ory.|_. “He is*a fie painter— | Sasohow. ae oes ae are It was: said autgmatigally. Then | Use—so that he can legally = ‘ lbetter than a gallery owner? | Sundem#an. at Jigger |as a training center for talent. | They’ ve haggled over percentages, harply, Diatente stirred to inter- |But 56 of the neighbors have| Thousands of| SALES kangaroos are moving } mobs in the inland part of south- eastern Australia hundreds of sheep to die. squeeze-boxes. But the neighbors! singer, born in Providence, R. I, have complained. 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