The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 2, 1951, Page 4

Page 4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ((* GOIN’ OVER AN HELP WINTON DIG FER THAT BURIED TREASURE, MAW WWHAR YE GOIN' IWIF QLL THAT THAR eS ERNALIA, Thursday, August 2, 1951 BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH KEERFUL YE DON'T OVERDO IT, PAW CA THE CISCO KID “ISCO KID! BAH! NOT SUCH A SMART ALECK... yc JEALOUS ? IS THERE ANY REASON WHY I SHOULD BE JEALOUS? IF THERE 1S, I'LL...1’LL... pte a Background (By The Associated Presa} ‘Birthday Of The Movies It was a very hot day in July some 60 years ago that Thomas A. Edison went through the famil- | iar routine of getting another pa- tent. Just ho hum for young Tom. But that patent of the 3ist of July, 1891 was a gimmick that has upset the whole world’s way of living and thinking. It was “"f called the Kinetoscope. We call it ‘| the movies. The rest of the world calls it the cinema. Hollywood calls it colossal. Tom Edison could not see much of a future in it except as a sort of amusement gallery peep-show. For years, people tried to talk him into working on a means of projecting the pictures onto a screen. Edison was a man of un- precedented vision, but he was also terribly stubborn. He liked his little old Kineto- scope the way it was. He wasn't interested in projecting it on a screen. He said if you did that, too many people would see it at once, and interest in the thing would peter out. Even Edison could be wrong, you see. ; So it was a man named Armat, Thomas Armat, who went to work improving the thing. The big forward step was the trick of intermittent motion. Armat worked out a device which would stop the film momentarily while each picture was being taken— and likewise stop the film as it ran through the projector in the te The Gul Next Door Chapter 14 Peet evening after dinner, when George had left for his weekly lodge meeting, Edith and Betsy were alone in the living room. Betsy sat in a big, deeply cush- joned chair, one slim, tanned leg flung over the arm, the other foot tucked beneath her—a position completely impossible to anyone except a very young, supple body, ie looked up from her sew- ra “What, no date tonight?” she asked. Betsy grinned and shook her head. “Nobody asked me. I'm afraid you're stuck with an old maid daughter, darling. Do you mind?” \Edith laughed. “Well, of course we'll be bitterly disappointed, but we'll try to bear up,” she teased. ‘Now what's this business about ‘nobody asked me’? The _tele- phone has been ringing all day.” Betsy shrugged. ‘They're in- fants,” she scorned. “I’m sick of kid stuff.” Betsy sat for a moment, her book forgotten in her lap. There was a tar-away look in her eyes, and Edith waited for some clue to her daughter's secret thoughts. But when Betsy was ready to confide, she would—and not a moment before. “Mum,” she said presently, and} Edith’s heart warmed at the old childhood term, “do you think it’s true that if you love somebody— well, pretty*terribly—that some-| ! body sort of has to love you in return?” Edith’s eyes widened and then she dropped them to her sewing. By Peggy Gaddis AP Newsfecturas I suppose if you work at anything long enough and hard enough, you get what you're after. 3 “It's Peter, I suppose?” Edith asked, impulsively. Betsys eyebrows went up a) little and she seemed to retreat. But she answered promptly, ‘Of course. Who else? It’s always) been Pete and it always ae “But, darling, Pete’s blind, Sure-| ly, you must realize—” Edith) stopped, halted by the look on} her daughter's face, “And that only makes me love! him all the more. Because I can help hira and take care of him— and do things for him,” Betsy said quietly, : : “I Know, darling—but Pete's voice shook a little. . “I know that, Mother.” Betsy's face seemed drained of all color. “He’s not in love with me now. But if £ work very hard, and do everything I can to make him realize I'm all grown up and everything—” A little later, Betsy yawned} and said good night. DITH sat. on alone, until she heard the door close at the top of the stairs. Then she put her face in her hands and burst into/ tears. Sh2 w tartled when she} heard George's footstep and} looked up at the clock to see that litw irty. George dame | in, looking plea and relaxed. , leaning over “Waiting up for me?” You . What's the mat-/ ter? You look worried, I’m not that late, am I?” Edith hid her face against his} shoulder, “Of course I wasn’t He watched her as she briskly to and fro, makin; sandwiches, pouring tw i of milk. When they were at the ‘tle table in the bi nook, he said quietly. “All Let's nave it. What's wro! Edith tried to smile. “Tt’s ting to the point where afraid to come home, for something is wrong. Darling, ¥ sorry. It’s just that I'm su fool.” She paused a moment, added, “I had a talk with Bets “Oh.” George's shoulders s a little. “What's the kid up now?” “She frightens me, Geo said Edith. George nodded. “Think Pet Marshal cares about Betsy. hot in leve with - you.” Edith’s»way she cares for him?” he uneasily “I am afraid not. I don’t beli Pete would marry any handicapped. as he is.” They sat in unhappy silence a little while. Then George s! up, helped Edith to her feet, they walked arm in arm to stairs. “Well, I guess there isn’t a thing we can do about it,” he “This is part of the fun of a parent, I suppose. Lord, why think bow uncomplicated life when she was sma, and what been like thi. f . again: . Short of drag her away by the hair, and ki ing her under lock and key, couldn’: be done.” born: tittle cuss.” G out, nut without an o % is ; - 1, i é it’s | w .” she told him, “I thought me theatre. This gadget is what! true" che admitted. “Ite natural] you might he hunsry, Would You day sere Sa as =z 2 deed meee SOSA 5 af makes movies worl today, enough. If you love a person, you| like a sandwich and a glass of| But she was no nearer a solu you ~ | The first picture ever projected] naturally shaw hin your best and| milk? to the problem of Betsy than 6 on the screen, with Edison’s and| most attractive self. You work at| Before he could answer her, she| had been the night before. Armat’s inventions, was a name-| the job of winning his love. Andlhad turned toward the kitchen. | (Te be cexntinucas hin less short subject made by Robert! a _ W. Paul, of London. That was five i ‘ : lac : iday. are menial pence Those first Edison films, made in b) ° {a collective holiday—-a lot of bus- me) ETTA KETT Fbiiealy after Edison's patent was) the nineties, were shown last Busmen Ss Holiday [men filed into one bus for @ é issued. But the patent didn’t pro-| month by way of a birthday cele- * | little midsummer outing. ; ee Quickne My WELL, How cozy.” HoPe] | Qu (Gulp) ~Erra tect Edison outside the United) bration at the Museum of Mod- N E say d | Unhappy to report chit ~Bur I CANT GET) HANDKERCHIEF IMNOT BARGING INTO Al | FELT KINDA RAIN States, an he jost zillions for this} ern Art in New York ot ukjoye | the eos oveniened TEDDI'S RING OFF } AROUND Youre SO I PUTMYARM little oversight. Shcianatedcinis I eae AaNE * Tice | end of businenta holidua. MY FINGER.” od » What Edison really did was to iat : SELLINGE, Eng. —-(@)—Bus- End of busmen’s holiday hav...) WHATLLT 00? take an idea that had been kick English is compulsory in all} man, you will be interested to See ae the ing around for 50 years, and pq: state schools in Japan from ele-| know, really do take busmen’s! American motorists are put at it to work. Several earlier inven-|™&Mtary to university grades. jholidays, and in this case, it was} some 44 million. | tors had made gadgets to make far ‘pictures appear to move. These pub all consisted of various sorts of - es wheels, with little pictures stuck two ‘around the rim. As the wheel was pevI © turned, a semblance of a moving cou picture appeared if you watch- : ed closely. Edison himself made COM act g@iie but regarded it as a failure. ‘ Mai Tt was, Like most triumphs of = human inspiratian,,Edison’s idea c was.simple. He said to himself slor ‘hy fool with a wheel? Why tion Ba ES ht: ie neva moving belt or something?” tive «He learned that George East- 2 man had developed. sparent thei film of celluloid, ich’ he ‘sold asi¢ : in rolls to the box-camera cus- e OG ern a e s in tomers. For $2.50, Edison got THIMBLE THEATRE—Star ring Popeye By Tom Sims and B. Zaboly Eastman to send him the longest ’ i i es strip ef film he could make— in 5 SPORE TY NOPES TY. .{avhich was 50 feet. That was the plav pats ZS mis 1 ae Oe Le rn, BAB? ws Gor Tre Oe length of the tables on which the YOu WON'T NEED THAT, SPINACH Now) HE GETS THE SAME tt t ur film was made, and 50 feet was Cor —|sin# 1 SENT oscar FoR ELEPHINK #! it, Edison's first film ran 48 min- tha AN ELEPHANT 70 AsGiST utes per second, so the fifty feet y pf film didn’t make what you'd call “Gone With The Wind” for WORK T ‘ lan length. It ran 13 second. ece one 4&| But it was colossal, as it has ing been ever since ; Edison was bored to extinction’ wil! with it. One fo his phonograph MONEY — salesmen finally boxed it up pret- fort." ty and sold it to the New York pase shooting gallery trade in 1894 - Sans Edison spent the next ten year: . : PP ed - ig the CUA ying ta Gat Oe Old fashioned, inefficient methods cost dough out of the investment. He = mo aon, you more—but modern, easy-to-operate, r - a em cou = a= Ind iT We COMIN rs Ue We tally, the width ae: het fil, % also cost much less than an automobile. You use T A DANDY . S millimeters, is also Just Wi thes GONNA £2 Mo tne Foi "vier was in that original 50-foot strip electricity for convenience, safety, ease and nicety ABOUT THs Vv MACE youn 510’ | STOPPIN' TRAFFIC wh BRINGING UP FATHER A YOU - AS HER. HUSBAND HAS 3 BEEN ACREGTED!! UH--NOW ALL AH NEED 19 A BASEBALL BAT T’PERTECK MAH SELF FRUM ALL TH’ FLIRTY GALSZ.. { von An’ BRUNG M SUNGLASSEST BUT MAYBE Y THEY WONT OO NOTHIN’ J BUT SWOON WHEN THEY See ‘MG IN THIS SNAPPY § WHERE'S TH MASQUERADE BALL, BIG BOY # The first movie that could be called a movie shown in this country was a short reel run off at Koster and Bial’s music hall in Herald Square, New York, on the night of April 23, 1896. The show was such a hit that the produc ers rapidly expanded the capaci, ty of the projector to take 1,000 fet of film. Thi still the stand- ard length of a reel. And inciden- that Edison got from Eastman. A reel now runs about 11 minute: but in those days the time vari- ed. They didn’t always run at the same speed, and it was years be- fore cameras and films were per- fected to the point of eliminating the dreadful flicker which blight- ed early movies. The advent of sound forced a [speed-up of cameras for technical reasons, and the early standard speed of 16 pictures per second is now 24. Edison lived to see the flicker eliminated, and to hear the advent of sound, though he was pathetically deaf in his old Key West Citizen NEWS and EDITORIAL TELEPHONE 1935 BUSINESS - ADVERTISING age. And now the movie «is art.}/ time-and-labor-saving electric conveni- ences mean better living and easier work—at lower cost. Coal or wood may be cheaper than either gas or electricity. A bicycle or a pair of walking shoes of control, for its many uses to save labor, make money, produce better products, and to improve your standard of living in the community. Use electricity exclusively. It does jobs better... more economically. Use it freely ... because it does more work for less. THE MORE YOU USE, CHEAPER NOW THAN EVER BEFO! RE x kk * City Electric System matinee ibe Me deg BR MR ARE GE Oy ehh Soba y CUM TNOED | CemR ed RD Eth ap neseeten,