The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 5, 1952, Page 10

THE KEY WEST CITIZEN — Wednesday, March 5, 1952 By Fred Lasswell ERVESDRAP AROUNE TH. DEPARTMENT AN’ SEE IF FIND OUT WHAT WUZ' ON THAT TWTED HAND AN FOOT é TO TH’ WASH KITTLE GN’ ] WHAT DO {Ret Ti DING DONE . PAW-- WOULD YE sein oa PAW-- i 4 : ie en oun TH SETTLEMENT, + f 3 i ALL YOUR HUSBAND NEEDS 15 MORE RELAXATION - MRS. JIGGS - YOU SHOULD LET HIM SPEND MORE TIME WiTH THE BOYS - ANIGHT OLIT NOW AND THEN WOULD DO Hi’ GOODY po you” |{ To AHUNDRED-AT LEAST! THERE ISN'T MUCH WRONG WITH OU WERE RIGHT -JIG6S -- THAT SESS 1S NO GOOD! TILL CALL ANOTHER ONE ‘\ TO EXAMINE [2G YOURE MISTAKEN - siege nee THE DOCTOR.JN TOWN # I INSIST THAT YOU LET HIM EXAMINE YOU! / A MOST UNFORTUNATE ATION a NaN ¥r0 World sights | By Paul Robinson HS 76 THe sv Senda eS 5%. R MAIL ITIN A ALARM BOX.” OKAY, I'LL PUT UP THE DOUGH!/—|'M LOADED.” My FOLKS 21 ( went AWAY AND GAVE ME THREE WEEKS ALLOW= Sty, ANCE, IN WHAT DOES MONEY LOOK OKAY, GUYS, DIG.” WE A | a Chapter 9 pony sat on the edge of one '. twin bed, taking small sips of iskey. "The drowsiness was leaving him “She doesn’t even know had a husband,” he <aid. Moe stared. “In fact"—a smile flicked across Johnny’s face—‘she thinks I’m someone named Bart. She thinks i'm her lover.” Moe looked worried. “You'd be in some spot if Bart is someone who knows about her husband’s murder!”* Johnny nodded. “Wouldn’t I?” He got up and walked over to the windows again and stood there looking out toward the balcony. “But I don’t think there’s anyone named Bart. Otherwise, someone aroun® here would have heard the name in the past.” “But she called you .. .”. “Well probably iearn that it’s some@one entirely fictitious.” “You mean...” é There*was a sharp, impatient knock at the hail door. Before Johnny Saxon could even start toward the door it burst open and the wiry little man popped into the room, Moe Martin, half-dressed, had started to reach for a robe. Then, seeing the old fellow with the shock of white hair, he stood there and stared out of puzzled a she eyes. “Phe fellow, spying Johnny, moved toward him quickly, “Got any pgnnies?” he demanded in his_shrill voice. Moe looked more puzzled than ever, Reaching into his pocket, a smile flickering across the cor- ners of his mouth, Johnny. pulled out some change. Several pennies were in his hand. The old man’s hand darted out, picked up the coins. Examining them swiftly, he returned two and kept two. These he put into the pocket of his baggy jacket. “Thanks,” he said hurriedly, and. went out of the room. Moe Metin stood staring at the di oor. “That was Grandpoppa Smith.” “And who would he be?” Worth perhaps several million dollars.” = Moe shook his head. “Then why is he -bumming pennies? ie collects things—including. era t?"” Johnny shrugged. “Just eccen- tric, is my, guess.” “From now on,” Moe announced with determination, “I’m keeping the door locked! Turning back to the window, Johnny saw that the nurse, Karen, had finally come out on the balcony. She was arranging cushions in a chair. Tz tall, dark-haired nurse had come from the bedroom door- way directly across the courtlike space formed by the two rear wings of the house. It would have been possible for Sonar to step from this room and walk around the baleony to where the nurse was bent over the chair. Instead, he watched her. At first he thought Karen was fixing the chair for Irene Smith, for she had disappeared inside the bedroom again, Then Karen reappeared with a magazine in her hand. She sat down in the re- clining chair and started flicking the pages of the periodical. Behind him, as_he_ finished dressing, Moe asked, “What’s:ao interesting out there?” Johnny said, “Moe, there's something I want you to do,” “Yeah?” “Phat nurse —- Karen — who. is | taking care of Irene see what you n find out about her, Where she’s from. been here. Stuff like thal “Now “Now's as good a time a8.afhy. Just ask a few casual questions of some of the servants here.” hed “Just another one of the Smiths. | # entered the estate: Fi they have any other wa’ P ‘guards around. i mean, afiypne who is supposed to ste. | Strangers don't enter thé Smith grounds.” f Moe said, “I thought we Were hired to guard Irene Smith?" ‘Johnny . “Fm not to stay up night and day on this ase Besides, I'm not a, tweni ¢- dollar-a-week nursemaid. being paid to find out wha ened, exactly, the night her: Bana was murdered. For they're paying plenty.” aK] fe guess we'd better get to then. foe Said, disturbed. ~~ % t do you think I’m ing?” snapped Johnny. “I'm ing right: now. I'm watching nurse.” He walked over to dresser and poured himsel! other shot of whisky. aa “But if Irene is in danger... .” “Tf strangers are not on the estate, how ean. she. Johnny wanted to kno tainly members of hér own f aren't going to harm her..Ji be sure, though, check on ‘guards. And ont forget to about the nurse?” : “What would she have to” with it, Johnny?” $ “For some reason,” said Ji “Karen doésn’t like me, (Te be continued) HOLLYWOOD NOTES By BOB THOMAS | HOLLYWOOD — \#—Here’s one leading man who admits that bob- | by soxers aren't his main follc.v- ing. Wha‘ more, he’s glad of it. The actor is Robert Rygn, Chi- | cagé-born former I»xer and ma- rin. He is good-looking in a rag-} ged sort of way, “but he readily | confessed that the teen-age fans don’t bly their tops over him. “They never have,” he re marked. “One® reason is that 1 have never played the kind of role! that would make the kids mad for me. Ba ' sole exception was the picturé in which I got my first big break—‘Tender Comrade,’ op- posite Ginger Rogers. That was during the war, when the movies | were making a play for thé bobby sox audience. “I probably would ‘have. gotten typed in that category, because the | studio had four or five scripts | lined up for me “and they tended | in that direction. But luckily I was | saved by going into the marines. “It was actually a good break } for my career. A lot of young guys who were playing leading men in those days and were the rage of the malt-shop set are forgotten to- day. | bobby sox audience is fickle. The kids drop their idols when someone new comes alcag. Also, they grow up and find other interests. An actor who bases his career on them alone finds him- | self in trouble when they lose in- Perest in him.” Ryan’s theory seems to have been evidenced in recent Holly- | wood history. Frank Sinatra evoked the omst hysterical te- sponse from the bobby soxers, and | his later career has failed to '‘main- | tain the momentum of the wat | years. Van Johnson was dropped like a hdt spud when the young- sters were disenchanted with his | marriage. His studio had te cast | him in dramatic roles instead of | relying on his romantic appeal. Montgomery Clift was another who hit a let-down. His miscast- ing in “The Heiress” didn’t help his career at all. Even Hopalong Cassidy has expexienced the fickle nature of the juvenile audience. “I car watch it happen with my own little boy, Tim,” Ryan con- tinued. “Every week he has a new favorite on television. Just the other day, he asked me, ‘Have you ever been a space man?’ I had to admit that was one of the few lines of work that I haven't been in.” . The actor. added that the bulk of his fan mail comes from adults. “Most of the letters are from in- By Roy Gotto 50 CAN ALOT OF ROOKIES, J, P.—UNTI TH'OLD BROS INTRODUC "EM TO TH £ RaeerecOcee YS rete Rees.) telligent people,” he said. “That's the kind of a response that makes the actor think he’s doing a good ” Ryan observed that he would like to pattern his career after that of the late Walter Huston. % “He was a great actor and he did the things he wanted to do,” remarked. “I would like to} ly Work into character act- ing. That’s where the fun is in this business. I've gotten myself | prison, $1,000 fine and was ordered |to pay court costs of his trial for jand one woman found him guilty of eriminal intent in refusing: to | declined to answer all other ques- Aceardo $ MIAMI (® — Martin Accardo, } brother of Capone Gangster Tony Accardo, today faced a year in contempt of the Senate. Federal Judge Charles A. Dewey imposed the maximum senténce Monday after a jury of seven men! answer questions before the Senate Crime Committee here last June 21. ‘ Accardo was led {rem the. court. room and to jail declaring: “I still | believe I was within my rights.” The jury deliberated only 50 minutes at the end of the 3-day trial. When Defense Attorney George | Gallaghan, Chicago, asked if the defendant could remain free on his present bond, Judge Dewey re- plied:, “Not the way you have acted. You've irritated me in every way enteneed To Year In Jail For Senate Contempt _ the Miami Beach Morning (now de ). : The committee’s report | ex-convict named Harry 0.. testified he Started the ne but dénied that’ any. money, Rad been invested by Martin Ace formerly of the Capone gang: Be gcaros Mrs. Oretta’ ¥. who had been m dt umentary Carrier Joins ~ SINGAPORE. (®)—The_ Fri aircraft a formerly H. 1 passed through’ this colonial: recently en route hom om | do-China. Se While in the Singapore » in conjunction’ with the seasons possible throughout this entire trial, You have raised every’ tech- nicality. Now we stand on our rights.” At the Senate hearing Accardo acknowledged only his name. He tions “on groutids that I might ineriminate myself.” Accardo’s trouble with the Senate committee began when the group, headed by Sen. O’Conor (D.-Md.) out; he’s now at U-1 in ‘The Texas Man.” Luckily, he doesn’t mind working. “I’m not selective, like Mont- gomery Clift and Marlon Brando,” he commented. “I. think an actor should keep working, and I’m al- ways ready to try new things.” locxed into financial backings of |* Navy and the Royal Air its aircraft carri out | tack” on the haval base CEPT si into the financial position so that 1 know my children will be taken eare of until they are able to take care of themselves. Now I'd like to do different things. 1 want to do plays and television, as well as pic- He probably won't get much of a chance to for another 2% years. "rege hag contract ex- tends . studio gener- ally keeps him ‘busy or loans him DAILY EX. caer TRON Ra as