The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 15, 1952, Page 8

Page 8 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Friday, August 15, 1952 WAX REPLICA OF ELENA MESA FOUND: IN VON COSEL'S HOME % DID EVERYTHING HE Read the Classified Ads in The Citizen| coup To Keer Love FOR BEAUTIFUL GIRL ALIVE ie ZEPHYRHILLS (# — A romantic poe old man who believed his love for a young woman was stronger than SEVENTEEN death itself lay in a simple grave today near a life-size replica of the girl. Even at 83 Karl Tanzler, who | liked to be called Dr. Karl Tanzler tt er von Cosel, did everything he could to keep alive his love for the beau- tiful Elena Mesa. School Sports Officers searching the cluttered little house where the old German X-ray technician was found dead Wednesday discovered a wax rep- lica of Elena’s body and a wax image of her head. Both were skilfully made and the' features were faithful repro- ductions of pictures of the girl found in albums bearing such titles as “The Secret of the Tomb” and “Elena in the Battle of Life.” Not far from the house a hand- ful of neighbors watched Thurs- day while Tanzler was buried be- side his daughter Crystal, who died in her teens some years ago. Tan- zler’s wife, Doris, a nurse in Hunt- ington Woods, Mich., was unable to attend. i . The bearded, eiesaive old tyles galore 39 man took with him to the grave , 3 the secret of what really did hap- pen to Elena’s body. Tanzler fell in love with the girl while working in a hospital at Key 3 West. When she died of tubercu- ry A. losis at 19 he obtained permission from her family to build a vault for her in the city cemetery. Eight years later, in 1940, the body was. found in Tanzler’s shack, dressed in a filmy negligee, There your favre sol-oe, lt bock mocs wih the extre-flsible }] SEDO “hea tmere were’ fresh soles...now with new cuffs! new buckle straps! new vamp bowst flowers in her hair. Ry Ae Tanzler told deputies he sere- naded her nightly with a pipe or- T gan he constructed and planned to b fly away with her in an airplane EL he SAE Hae EN nen: abe. Teen fe. The nearly disintegrated parts of 926 TRUMAN AVE. the airplane still lie in the yard : of his home. > light asa Royal Coachman... strong as a 40-test line! That miracle fabric, NYLON; teams up with fine calfskin to make the coolest and most durable Ventilated She you ever wore! 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Belinda,” she won one of those against the cai Bia tes, have’ bit { gold things that the Academy a sour note which their Propaganda hands out annually. Last year she directors are suddenly trying to | snagged her third Oscar nomina- oft pedal. tion with “The Blue Veil,” which | ‘The situation created an open- 5 “rl paras strictly a four-handkerchief | ing for a U. S. propaganda counter- “But audiences don’t want to see | attack which the Voice of Amer- pictures like those right now,” she ica has been pressing for some | protested as we lolled beside her weeks. Russian reaction indicates, pale blue swimming pool. (Some officials say, that the counterat- | lolling!) “‘They have enough trou- _ 3 ~ a | bles of their own, without going to tack is worrying the Kremlin, see more problems on the screen.) Here is what happened: That's why I want to sing and | The Soviet Union has always daugbein the te gale eee Se | tried to present itself to the world a me. I can breeze right through a 4S 4 friend of all peoples and an happy picture. But ‘The Blue Veil’. enemy only of small groups of was 17 weeks of hard work. It “Wat mongers,” “enemies of | took a lot out of me. So did ‘Be- peace,” “‘Wall Street imperialists” linda.’ I was 16 weeks on that, | and the like. but I spent months seeing films| For many months and particu- | about instructing deaf people and ‘arly since the beginning of their ‘learning how to act like one. ‘The | charges that American forces were Yearling’ took almost a year. At | Using germ warfare in Korea, how- | the end of the picture, we actually | ever, the Soviet propagandists have used the deer that had been in| attacked the whole American Ar- the first scenes. It WAS a year-| my as an army of “monsters” and ling.” “cannibals” guilty of committing Miss Wyman is all hepped up | the most violent atrocities. about her new picture with Bing! Coupling this with the germ war- Crosby, “Just for You.” It’s the | fare campaign they have pictured kind of a movie she wants to be | the United States to the rest of doing in the future. But I suspect | the world as a. nation capable of the thing she likes about it is that | the most horrible and fantastic she gets an ample opportunity to| crimes. They also have assailed sing. many aspects of American life The gal fs as giddy about her | such as sports, politics, business new singing career as a starlet is | and social activities, about her first contract. She ripped | Taking all these elements to- open a newly-arrived copy of Va- | gether, the Voice of America began riety to check the progress of her telling the world that the Soviet latest record with Croz, “Zing a| Union was conducting a “hate Little Zong.” America” campaign, blackening This singing kick started when | the reputation of a whole people the groaner encouraged her to do | for the first time in Soviet history. a record or two after they ap-| In recent days two Soviet pub- peared together in “Here Comes |lications have carried articles dis- the Groom.” Since then, she has | avowing any such campaign, and gone wild, recording right and left | re-stating the familiar line that and singing at the drop of an ar- | the Russians love everybody. peggio, whatever that is. Now she | Similar denials and protests have even plans to hit the road. been voiced by Russian radio com- “I was supposed to open in Chi-| mentators usually in English or cago next month and go on to the | some other non-Russian language. Roxy in New York with my own | ——————_—————_- stage show,” she ‘said, “But the|timize American husbands by date came too soon, and I have | bringing back the late, unlamented to do a picture at Columbia. But | new look. What does Jane think I intend to do it next year, when } about that? e my film commitments are squared! “I think it’s awful,” she said away. Then I'll go on to play the | firmly. ‘‘That fashion was so un- Palladium in London.” flattering to women. Besides, it’s Ok, yes, we also talked about | too hard on the pocketbook. No fashions before we ended our pool- | woman can afford to get a whole side loll. 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