The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 23, 1952, Page 11

BARK<cY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH (MAW 1S ALL LOADED UP AN’ FIXIN' TO LEAVE, CRICKET--. TH LEAST YE CAN DO IS POKE YORE HAID OUT TH MARRY PBANCHO! HE |S BESTEST EATER IN THE WORLD! By F; red Lasswell ® By Bey Gotto | Wednesday, April 23,1952. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN jaganmock RU! he look in as he re a sion as Alw: over accepted ane: be oF BY ARCHIE JOSCELYN = reins ‘ try.| with bells o: she NOTES By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD # — When I ar- rived on the movie set, nearly everyone had gone. The picture was “Tribute to a Bad Man,” which is a picture about Hollywood, I guess, but you wouldn't think so from the title. The cast includes people like Lana Turner, Kirk Dougles, Walter Pidg- eon, Diek rowell and Gloria Gra- hame. Most of them had home or had moved to an ou! set miles away. Pidgeon was in his dressing toom, playing checkers with an- other fellow while a press agent snoozed in the corner. When Pidg- eon is playing checkers, you might as well interview Taft “about Ei- senhower’s chances. Or vice versa You get about the same degree of silence. Such is an interviewer's life. A | large part of the time you're ar- | riving at the wrong time to talk | | to anybedy. But the empty film set eangnt | | my eye. It was supposed to be a | | movie producer's offi¢e in the | early '30s. On the walls were some interesting portraits. I recognized | them as Marie Dressler, Alice | Brady, Edna May Oliver, Robert | | Benchley, Wallace Beery, Ted | | Healy and Thelma Todd. They had | | this in common: All had died at lthe top of their careers. (Miss | Todd had died aecidentally or was | | murdered; it has never been fully | determined.) | There were three other photos that started me thinking about the | fleeting nature of film fame. They | wees pictures of John Gilbert, nee Adoree and Karl Dane. go Gilbert . . . There was a lover! He was married four times, and his wives ineluded Actresses Leatrice Joy, Ina Claire and Vir- ginia Bruce. His other romances dealt with such figures as Great Garbo, Lope Velez and Marlene Dietrich. i Gilbert had been bern in Logan Utah, despite his fame as a Latin- type lover. A stock actor, he came te Hollywood im 1917 and played cowboys and bit parts. He first | scored as “The Count of Monte Cristo” in 1922 and his big bit T | racing through two marriages and “I'd like to go to the dance, Miss Pascoe, if you'd ge with me! How abo Miss Paseos, pheaneh alned. " wae sort my mid, Ten | ih rt oO! pier go i ie me! How ab! Soy rae ee ee fate will cecal ne cos me at al atte ut it?” Steve asked. w ht of peat eke a a Ki jtevi go with him E But he nent nad really a 1 asked me, so ve not pr ou have.” ‘ou bet I have,” Steve agreed. my name’s Steve. I'll home and get ready, and be here ready—Steve,” Melody Poun JOE had arrived with the deer w cre reached ay ane ouse. Burt sip pom A seraning it. men as AS pies bu ue a got, ppg the ‘head ten you. bia) og 3” lea,” - Ste and ates ride w was ia his| th fe wend to the eaiieg just sounded silly when words were heard. Garbo gave him.a-comeback chance by de- manding him for “Queen Christi- ana” in 1933, but he sank back to inactivity. He died of a heart at- tack in 1936 at the age of 38, Sentimentalists said the real reas- on was a broken heart. Renee Adoree . . . Born under a circus tent of her father’s travel- ing show, the French girl had known struggle and privation. She eame to Hollywood and soared to fame ag Melisande in “The Big Parade.” She loved her new-found suecess and played it to the hilt, a fortune, A lung ailment sent her to aj} sanitarium, and friends said it was gaused by her inability to pass up a party. She never recovered, and died at 37 in 1935. The funeral featured her own song, “What You | FOR HOME or COMMERCIAL U Toe he ree a a tee ts ee it b+ ae sipped iy oo are a tscietng ae ment. Then he sat down in a chair and sent a 38 caliber studio provided a funeral. His final belongings ‘were worth $197. More than 2,000 species af snakes are known, SE... We Are Prepared To Furnish You With Clear, Pure Cube » Crushed ICE Thompson Enterprises, Inc, ACE DIVISION) { TELEPHONE NO. & career. His volee wasn't as bad | ‘ as people think; bis style of love-