The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 25, 1952, Page 8

Page 8 ‘THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Friday, July 25, 1952 British Magazine Says American Women Are Cannibals LONDON # — Britain’s biggest picture magazine told its readers | today that American women “have a terrible reputation for cannibal- ism—they eat their men.” ‘The discourse on the U. S. female ‘was by way of explanation of Lon- don’s new American ballet, “The Cage,” a story of mating insects which ends with the female eating her mate, The mass-eirculation weekly Pic- ture Post called it all degrading and nasty and said it was just a good picture of the way American | women treat their men. “They eat them up until virtually nothing is left but the inevitable gastric ulcer and a series of fig- ures in blood red on a debilitated | bank statement form,” the maga- zine explained. “At this punctuation mark in the digestive process the women of America are said to hand out the | coup de grace (Reno style) and | set off earnestly in search of a new and fatter victim. “Simple old fashioned Europeans might have thought that this was @ way of carrying on that had better not be given too much pub- iy. “But the New York City ballet, this season's invaders of the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, have no inhibitions about portray- ing their country’s national do- mestic sport.” BLONDE HAIR AND (Continued From Page One) would change the character and I | don’t want that. The story is based | on a character study, and it is real. | My uncle who is a lawyer in New York is taking care to see that if movie rights are in line, that 1 will be protected legally.” The story has to do with a sales- man. Not the death of one, but the life in one! Miss Gilson flashed brilliant blue eyes and laughed at that suggestion. “Yes, you're right. | It is about the life of a salesman and a happy story. I want to help | people enjoy themselves. Goodness knows, there is enough grimness and unhappiness and unsettled con- ditions in life, and I want to make my writing opposite to that.” What can a 20 year old girl know about life so that she can write well of it? Melvina traveled around the country with her artist father ever since she was in the third grade. She never gets homesick be- @huce she has never called any one Place home. When they were in Cuba, her father left her there | alone to her own devices. She had & job, at 16, as a dise jockey on @ Cuban radio station. “TI got along all right,’ she said. “I was a little overwhelmed with the ‘mash’ notes, but I never let that sort of thing bother me. I think being on my own was good | for me. It taught me independ- ence. My father died in 1948, and I kept on going, and to. school. 1} came back to the United States and entered college at St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri. I had a major in psychiatry, that is, the prelim to psychiatry, with a minor in art and music. I was) teaching at the same time, working | my way through college. And try- ing to do my writing too, I sold | s and my $ encour. me. But that was a little | uch for me. I got so that I | very time anyone came | mm where I was studying. ie to Key West to rest for | step-father, Bayard Barns, whom she admires so much has “Mr. Marvel. because I like people. I want to be a good writer. Although I do short stories, I really want to write no- vels and postry because I believe that they influence people more permanently. I’m working on a book now with the theme of why a girl enters a convent.” Asked if she had been to a con- vent school, Melvina said that she had been in several boarding schools as she knocked about the world with her father and that she had attended St. Mary of the Pines at Chatawa, Mississippi. It is near New Orleans and many Crole girls attend as well as girls from South American and Central America. “The convent school allows for greater concentration in studies. Why those sheltered Spanish girls come in and in six months they speak excellent English. It’s incre- dible!”” Miss Gilson expects to return to collese someday, but, she empha- sized, “When I have enough mon- ey to continue studies without ex- pending time working.” Meantime, she is enjoying Key West. Says she, “It’s peaceful, at least in atmosphere and it has oth- er qualities which help a writer. Here you have all sorts of people. This is a truly cosmopolitan place. You have all levels of society, workers, white collar workers, the wealthy, artists, writers, Cubans, Conchs and tourists. And I’ve no- ticed that the ages of the people are over a wide range. There are the older and retired people from out of town, the older generation of Key Westers who don’t migrate and so have a sphere of living which is established, and then the younger generation. It’s a wonder- ful combination. I expect to stay at least another two years and Sather a wealth of material for writing. I’m not going to attempt my ultimate goal as a novelist yet. I feel that I need more experience and knowledge of life and that I must develop a style. It takes time to develop real ability in order to write what is close to your heart.” This last note strikes a chord in harmony with just how the inter- view with the budding writer was sparked. The Citizen received a letter from Mrs. H. B. Bargington, who is leaving to join her husband for Washington, in which she point- ed out that Miss Gilson was “Do- | ing a wonderful job without praise or assistance from anyone.” She wrote a perfect description of Mel- vina which she credits to her hus- band: “She is like a candle in a dark room, a warm and beautiful Personality.” The interview ended with my taking Miss Gilson to be registered for the Key West Artists Group and to put her on the mailing list of the Key West Players. It is time such talent came out of that dark. The climax followed on Thurs- day morning when I found the fol- »"* influenced her trip to Flori- For six months she worked on | ia per and then came on | West where she lives | sister at 1100 Margaret street. To support herself and keep | that independence, Melvina got | ith the Key West Gas com- | » She has continued writing | pen names and added to her e. “I'm not sure of my ability as @ writer yet, and I like my job shipment BATON AND WHITE AND WYCKOFF STATIONERY SEE OUR BARGAIN COUNTER MANY ITEMS AT COST METAL AND WOOD DESKS FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY = | SEE THE NEW ROYAL HM MODEL enamel OPEN AIR SERVICE | . Elder Willis Shaklin ef Columbis, Onie } te the Ministry for 27 Years. | Subject: “How te Better the World” Saturday Night 8 P.M. SO SHAVERS LANE Everyone Welcome Ee \ | | TORTURE CASE (Continued From Page (ne) Joseph Greene finished for the de- fense. ‘The Cliffes are accused of pun- ishing 4-year-old Wayne Dolham until Ne died, “ The state says the couple made the boy go without food for three days and suspended him from a rafter at night. Prosecutors say the boy strangled when he collapsed from hunger, exhaustion and in- juries after beating. Both the Cliffes admit the boy was whipped, metre and — They disa on who was - sible. Clitte says his wife beat the boy while he was away from home. Mrs. Cliffe says her husband was responsible for the ordeal through which the boy went because Cliffe wanted to break the boy's will. She also said she permitted it be- cause she feared her husband. Neither the farmhand nor his ex-barmaid wife said they thought the boy would die from the 3-day ent, eee ats demanded the Cliffes get the electric chair for the death. Assistant State’s attorney J. Frank Umstot said they had committed “one of the most dastardly crimes’ he'd ever heard of. Umstot called the death “‘an un- usual case of cruelty” in which a mother had stood by and permitted her child to be abused and starved in a “well planned murder and torture.” John §. Buchman, court - ap- pointed attorney for Mrs. Cliffe, pictured her asa woman who never had a chance. She suffered from polio when a child, never has recovered from the disease and had mothered four illegitimate children. When at last she found a home and security she feared if she dis- obeyed het husband's slightest whim she would lose everything, Buchman added. MORE FLYING SAUCERS (Continued From Page One) said that they had no knowledge of any abnormal happenings in the skies around Key West. They said they were at a loss to explain the in Tampa indicated that they are continuing their investigation of the reports in that city which bave reached forty in number. The description of the objects seen in Tampa is similar to those reported in Key West. lowing verse on my desk, with a note attached saying the poem is dedicated to Stanley V’Soske and that it had never been in print. WILD WEED Put thou no tombstone at my head Nor planted flower seed; Dig me deep, black earth for my bed And my bones wild with the weed, I'll be caged all my life ‘Till they lay me down, Let me be, free in death! So when you pass by The scent of the ground Will be mingled with my breath. e+ Melvina Gilson. Patterns = enfivey’ sure-fire fovorite in your sock egllecticia Carefully chosen colors = famous! KANTOR’S ders shop OPPOSITE SAN CARLOS THEATRE Soldier Sought COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.m— Law enforcement officers today sought a Pensacola, Fla., soldier whose companion was shot and killed during an attempted holdup of a sporting goods store at Wood- land Park. Sheriff Rufus Jones, Cripple Creek, said the store owner, Charles Oramo, 32, apparently killed Richard Stevens, 25, Orion, Mich., when he fired two shots at the soldiers’ automobile Thursday as they fled the scene. Jones said Stevens’ body was found in the wrecked car and that Edward J. Roberts Jr., 19, Pensa- cola, fled while a passing motorist was attending Stevens. Woodland Park is 22 miles west of Colorado, Stevens and Roberts were sta- tioned at Camp Carson near Colo- rado Springs, the sheriff said, McCarthy “Fair” WASHINGTON (#—Sen. McCar- thy (R.-Wis.) was reported “in good condition” today following a major operation Thursday at the U. S. Naval Hospital at nearby Bethesda, Md. “Sen, McCarthy had a satisfac- tory night,” said a medical bulletin issued at 8 a. m. EST. “He is in good condition.” The operation was performed to mend a rupture of muscles sepa- rating the chest and abdominal | cavities, Twenty Drown ISTANBUL, Turkey — At least 20 persons were drowned and scores injured in a flood which swept the valley of the Kizil Irmak River following a recent heavy rain, it was reported here today. The waters inundated villages lying on the banks of the river and heavily damaged grain crops. The Kizil Irmak, which flows into the Black Sea, drains a large | basin north of Ankara, the Turkish capital, ° ° Child Killer LONDON, England @® — John Straffen, 22-year-old gardener, was sentenced to death today for mur- dering a 5-year-old girl a few min- utes after he escaped from Broad- moor Asylum for the Criminal In- sane. The body of the victim, Linda Bowyer, was found in bushes on April 29. Straffen was apprehended in the vicinity. He had been at Truman WASHINGTON (#—~ President Truman flies to Chicago and what is expected to be the concluding session of the Democratic National Convention today with the air of a happy man, An agreement pointing to the end of the prolonged steel strike dangled from his belt. He could tell fellow Democrats tonight that the victory was won without use of the Taft - Harley Act they are pledged to repeal. And with Gov. Adlai Stevenson Woman Guerrilla IPOH, Malaya (# — Police today announced the capture of a gun- toting Chinese woman said to be the highest ranking female leader in Communist guerrilla forces. She was identified as Lee Meng, whose activities as a guerrilla leader in the tin-mining state of Perak resulted in the government offering $40,000 reward for her ar- rest. In a post-midnight raid on an Ipoh house, police. seized her and three other women and confiscated a number of Communist docu- ments. SETTLING STRIKE (Continued From Page One) as condition of the stored tin plate. How fast it can be delivered to can manufacturers and how quick can deliveries can be made to can- ners.” York estimated that approxi- mately 10 per cent of the nation’s annual canning business already has been lost. York said Pennsylvania tomato farmers will not suffer as much as farmers in Southern and Western states, adding: “Canning will be rolling to can- ners in time to take care of the state’s eight million dollar tomato crop.”” Asked if the price on canned food will show marked increase because of the canning loss, he said: “I think not. If at all, it might be on peaches. California lost a great part of their annual canning.” FT. LAUDERDALE (Continued from Page One) dition to the hospital but also enough to pay in full these out- standing bonds.” The $114,000 is the balance due on a $150,000 loan floated to build liberty only four hours, the hospital. PEARLMAN’S “THE STORE OF QUALITY” Key West's Largest Ladies’, school-or-play action Our shirt-with-a Misses’ and Children’s Store shirt.......... 198 ‘reach can grab a basketball—or a chocolate frosted! Tailored by SHIP'n SHORE with ac- tion-back pleats... stap-put shirt tails... a bPlow Johnny collar, Ever lovely, cotton broadcloth. In white ever washable combed SEE OUR LARGE DISPLAY OF SHOES SOR GET THE HasiT BOYS AND GIRLS of SHOPPING ot PEARLMAN’S of Ilinois a heavy favorite for his Party’s presidential nomination, there were indications Mr. Tru- Picked a winner there, too. *eF 3 iE. i é 2 Bee i 2 a ib see n» oF Fe keep pace with the rapid growth of Key West. Dorsey, who has an engaging Southern drawl, pointed up the serious factual sides of his speech with highly amusing jokes and held the attention of the well- attended luncheon throughout his address. A former Army offi- cer, Dorsey was introduced by Chet Cold. Paul Sher, program chairman, announced that next Thursday's luncheon will be held at Mar- tello Towers near the airport at 12:15. Those i - tion are to assemble at the St. Paul’s Parish Hall, the usual meeting place, at noon and cars will be available to take the Ro- tarians out to the Towers. A tour of the historical spot will be part of the next week’s program. 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