The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 28, 1952, Page 9

BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH ‘ STOP CLAWIN' ME WIF THEM INFUNNEL TOE-BLADES OF YOR'N, RIDDLES 6a, STC> BRAGGIN', SUT-- YE KNOW GOOD YO LET ME COUNT TH! VOTES-- (LL LET YE KNOW WHO'S TH' NEW MAYOR OF HOOTIN’ HOLLER, SNUFFY--ME OR SUT TATTERSALL ?? Zt swow!! I NEVER SEEN SICH A RAINY VOTIN' DAY-- COUNT BEYAND YORE THUMB DURN THAT DADBURN DON'T KEEP US RAIN'ON VOTIN' DAY !! (N SUSPENDERS, SNUFFY !! COUNT GREAT BALLS FIRE! A NECK- WAKE uP !? ‘T HORRID \ ; : ING ! THE NEIGHBORS HUH! NOW THE EVEN WAKES ’ By Fred Lasswell | | jet-propelled grandma. BOYLE SAYS By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (#—This is the hey- day of grandma. Grandma no longer worries about acting her age. Grandma is the spirit of the modern age. We are living in the age of the There was a time when women hated the thought of becoming a grandmother, and maybe most of | ‘= mother then meant putting on little lace eap and sitting by the fire with a cat in her lap, while life passed you bp. Dear old gran- ny—all she had left was her mem- ories of more active days. But today? A girl just starts hitting her stride by the time she’s a grandma. Some of the best years of her life are still ahead | « of her after she finishes untying her apron strings. - Look at the world around you. You'll find grandmas taking lead- ing roles in practically every field except flagpole-sitting, and the only reason they don't go in for flagpole-sitting is that it is just toe doggone sedentary for them, Who is the best known living American artist? Most people would say Grandma Moses, whose brush is still as busy as ever. Glamor is supposed to be the property of the young-in-years, but three Hollywood grandmas—Joan Bennett, Marlene Dietrich and Gloria Swanson—have a seeming- ly timeless beauty that is the envy of many a more youthful actress. One of the newest television stars is a grandma—Mrs, Arthur Murray. And in the bright arena of the theater who shines more luminously than dear old granny Gertrude Lawrence? She twinkles forever young, forever fair, and NEIGHBORS WILL THINK THE HOUSE 1S FILLED WITH COWS! THINK THERE'S A ME UP TO CALL DOWN! ME Me. JIGGS WAS WAGHING THE CAR-HE PROBABLY LEFT IT IN THE CAR -ILL PHONE Him! JIGGS~ DID You LEAVE THE BIG SPONGE IN YOUR CAR? IF SO-BRING ) 'T HOMEY 7 NOQ-I SAW THE BIG SPONGE ON THE SOFA IN THE HALL-YOU'LL FIND IT THERE - will keep on, we trust, until she is at least a great great grandmoth- er. Grandma’s place used to be the home. Not any more. grandmas hold top industrial and Political posts. They direet gress. Get elected now and then, too. There's even grandma sher- iff around somewhere. The literary world has known few more consistently successful authors than grandma Mary Rob- erts Rinehart, who has writaen so many best sellers it would take a catalog to list them all. ’ The busiest grandmother of all, of course, is Mrs. Franklin D, Roosevelt, who year afte yea in polls taken among women is voted by them as one of the outs! epesentatives of the sex, Pe- haps no woman of he time has been more widely recognized in se many fields. Her only concession to her years has been the pur- chase of a new hearing aid. About the only role in life this sprightly grandmother has not played is grand opera. The top star in grand opera for many years, however, was another srandmother—Kirsten Flagstad. It is hard to name a human activity in which some grandma doesn't excel. Dear old granny has put away her lace cap for good. She's ut there pitchin; with the boys, and making por | at their game. About the one sure formula for THEATRE—Starring Popeye By Tom Sims and B. Zaboly ELL ME, MY LITTLE FRIENDS. 1S THI: [A UKELY PLACE?) > | BEG PARDON, SIR, MAY | HAVE] [COME, POPEYE, | WILL SHOW sitet 7 THEM 82 7 PENE, You HAVE SEEN ro BIRD * EAGERLY LEAD NOT SMELL | start in life. | jand auction success today is to be born a grandma. It gives you a real head Old-Car Hobby Thriving PASADENA, Cali!, (P)—San Gabriel Valley's Horseless Car- riage Club har revived the old game of scavenger hunting. Members think nothing of traveling hundreds of miles in| hopes of getting @ pair of nickel) door handles for @ 1926 Packard | or a rumble seat lid for a 1906) Buick. Those in possession of old car parts can swap them for some-! thing that goes on an early mod- el they're reconstructing. Wives of the horseless car- riagemen conduct their own sea- | Wednesday, May 28, 1952 HAL | venger game. They comb attics! c sales for celluloid} old style shoes and pic- | e hats to complete old-time! m, when they go! in their horseless they can dress ‘he part. TV For Thialand | INGAPORE, (=A British | manufecturing company | may get the contract for erecting | mitting station — the only one jin Asia. | An American redio firm was | also said to be interested in the} vision contract. The British | e said Shailand had 5 $400,000 for the pro- +. Work ie expected to begin next year | Tne Buropean corn borer has been found 37 states of the, tates Seaton ‘THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Page % HOLLYWOOD NOTES By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD (® —There’s a battle of wits going on at 20th Fox Studios, so I dropped out to get caught in the crossfire. The wits are Fred Allen and Oscar Levant, two of the most widely quoted gents of our time. Both are appearing as confidence men in “The Ransom of Red Chief,” an episode in O. Henry’s “Bagdad on the Subway.” The script couldn't be as good as the byplay ‘that occurs on the set. 1 found Levant and Allen wear- ing their usual sour expressions. Then they started spouting. Or at i |least Allen did. Oscar was quiet, which is unusual for Oscar, “They just saw yesterday's rush- ” Remarked Allen, “and they’re awarding the Academy Awards this year.” ait until they see today’s rushes,” Oscar added. “They'll take the Oscars back.” I commented that this was Al- len’s second trip to the coast this year. He appeared earlier in an- other episode picture, “We're Not Married.” “I'm just an episode actor,” said Allen. “When they need someone to close a door, they send for me. They're afraid to put mé in a full- length picture, No, I don't think I'll be back again, I'm afraid I just got in on the tail end of a trend. “I've been fending off oblivion for seveal yeads now. When I appear on television, the audience rushes to the movies. When I’m in the movies, they rush home to television, I keep the audience in constant motion,” T learned that Allen was driving a car in the picture, and it's just squadron VF-17, he received | about the first time he has per- the following decorations: sonally tangled with the automo- ‘The Navy Cross (for bagging |tive age. He’s a non-driver, and five Japanese aircraft during |had to take lessons on the studio one mission), the Distinguished | Prop, a 1912 model. ‘ing Cross, the Air Medal “I've never owned a driver’s li- with five stars for each suc- | cense,” he admitted. “I'm the only ceeding Air Medal, and the | driver in California who uses a Presidential Unit Citation. He rea Actors Guild card for a icense. le also araitied ta: weensthe “I drove once before—in a Jack Asiatic-Pacific Area ribbon, the |), " H fs nny picture, The producer sent American Area ribbon, the | me out to the San Fernando Val- American Defense Service rib- |iey to learn how to use a‘car. I bon, and the World War II Vie- |had a scene where I had to drive tory medal, A World War II |right up to the lights and cam- “ace,” Lieutenant Hardy was |eras. The producer saw the setup credited with 18 “kills” in | and decided to have the car pulled aerial combat. ° into the scene by ropes. Lieutenant Hardy is the son I've never nay repays of Mr. and Mts. Willis J. Hardy | F'the piace you live in Now York ot Corning, Calif. He is married jqrstric is terrible and you have to the former Miss Marilyn /tg leave your car in a garage Miles Burke, of Norfolk, Va. | blocks from your home. Traffic They resided at 2205 Harris [tickets are a menace. Why, even street in Key West with their |the good humor man was Paying arlene, 5, and | 50 cents protection every day to Peli seg . ¥ he Mig en get a ticket in our block. Lieutenant Harfy ie a gredu- Allen and Levant had to don ate of Corning Union High | their goggles and dusters and re- School, Corning, Calif. He |hearse the ‘scene. ‘Action was studied at the University of California at Los Angeles under the Navy five term program, stopped when the director, Howard Hawks, decided the brook in the The Veterans Official U.S. Navy Photo LT. WILLIS E. HARDY, USNR, fighter director officer for the last two years at Fleet All Weather Training Unit, At- lantic, Key West, has recently been transferred to Combat In- formation Center, Naval Air Station, Glenview, Ill, where he will serve on the staff of the Officers Training School. He entered the Navy in Feb- ruary, 1939, as an apprentice seaman. Following three years of enlisted service, he was selected to receive flight train- ing as an aviation cadet in the Navy V-5 program. In Decem- ber, 1943, he was designated a naval aviator at Corpus Christi, Texas. During a subsequent three year tour of duty with background wasn't lively enough. “We've tried a new format, a quiz show,” he explained. “I¢ gives me a chance to talk to peo- ple, and I don't have the pressure of a variety show. I'll do it on film, so the best parts can be picked out of it, the same as |Groucho Marx does on TV and Here are authoritative answers | Bing Crosby has done in radio, from the Veterans Administration; “Actually, it's the same thing to four questions of interest to|I used to do om radio. Every- former servicemen: |thing’s been done before. I used 3 school un2-*to-bave a feature called ‘People ent mh ed tas entitlement | You Didn’t Expect to Mee ‘ will run out a couple of weeks|the same sort of thing is on before the end of my course. Will | ‘What's My Line?’ But I’m not I have to pay for the rest of the claiming anything. In this busi- course myself? | ness, fe apnsen is someone who A. No. So long as your GI en- | Was alive yesterday. ee Pisin ae Aten past the} “I think this next season in TV midway point of your term semes- | /s going to be the tough one. Mil- ter, you will be permitted to/ton Berle was the sensation of finish that term or semester un- | early TV because there were three der the GI Bill, even though you | snd wa hundred bgp ~ 1. | being bought every month. He PERE Y: Sy: Ste: aT OTEN could keep using other people's material because there was always a new audience. Now the audience is stable, and only the best shows will survive As I was leaving, it looked as though Levant was getting ready Q. May I join with « non-vet eran in starting @ business, and seta GI! loan to finance my share? A. Yes. However, the guaran tee cannot extend to any portion of the loan which may constitute) all or part of the non-veteran'’s contribution to the business Q I'm a totally disabl eran of Korea and m ties are service-conne apply for the new insurance dis.vled veterans who ser since Korea? If so, may | my premiums waived becau my total disability? A. You may apply for the new insurance and, at the sam premiums. But be sure y¥ clude the required prem your application, and con pay premiums unti] VA you whether the w: granted. Ther the aiver is a pie premiums paid under, Triumph that weiver will be refunded. Coffee Q Does the new insurance for Mill veterans who served mnce Korea pay dividends ” aLL GROCERS A No; Mearns no dividends a eaeemmttenennrne nena '