The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 22, 1952, Page 6

Page 6 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Wednesday, October 22, 1952 Holl Stand On Presidential Race By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD (#—Just two more weeks and we’ll have something ‘o talk about besides politics. But until the nation goes to the | polls, everyone will still be hash- ing over candidates and issues far into the night. Hollywood is no dif- ferent from any other community, People aren’t talking about TV, box office and Jane Russell. All you hear is: “Did you see Adlai last night?” or “What did you think of Ike’s speech?” Since actors can talk about little else- these days, I followed the trend when I visited the “Forever Female” set. I found myself stand- ing between Paul Douglas, who is @ampaigning for. Stevenson, and William Holden, who has taken no public stand. So I pitted the pair against each other. Although they remained friendly, both Douglas and Holden expressed strong views about actors’ getting into politics. Holden said he hadn’t loaned his name to either campaign and didn’t intend to. “TI don’t think a film actor has @ny business antagonizing any seg- ment of the motion picture public,” he remarked. “In the past, actors have become associated with un- g@avory causes, and that has been bad for themselves and the indus- try. I don’t at all mean that either the Democratic or Republican cam- paigns is unsavory. “But the fact remains that people on both sides feel very strongly. An actor makes a mistake to risk | censure from either side.” Douglas countered that he saw no reason for actors to abstain from politics. “I say there are limits to the campaigning which an actor should do,” he commented. “I have nar- rated a film short for the Demo- | crats and have been making some | appearances at rallies. I think I | am entitled to do so as a citizen. “Yes, I suppose I might alienate | some Republican members of the | movie audience. But I’m not wor- {ried about alienating Republican | motion picture producers.” Said Holden: “I am a member of that dying breed of people who think they are entitled to a private | life. Oh, I don’t mean myself as }an actor; I expect to have my | professional life scrutinized by the public. But as a citizen, I expect some privacy. And that includes my political opinions. | “I think there is a dangerous [Local Sailor ywood Stars Take Varied Has Sons That Are “Navywise” Man Has Three Sons In Naval Service At Various Posts Bell bottom trousers have real meaning for member of Helicop- ter Anti-Submarine Squadron One. } Cecil Wheeler, Damage Control- man Second Class, is proud of the fact that his family is definitely “Navywise”. Wheeler, father of active duty in the Navy. serving in the National Guard and in Portland, Maine. fi Hedley Edward Wheeler SN, 22, is mow serving aboard the USS movement to destroy one’s private conscience. For one thing, I think it is shocking that a candidate for | office must reveal his income tax. This sort of thing could continue | until we have what George Orwell |described in ‘1948’: cemplete thought control.” Said Douglas: “I see no reason why an actor shouldn't be eble }to express his views—if he feels | strongly about them. Look—I like |it here in Hollywood. I've got a | good job, a fine house, a swimming |}pool and a wonderful wife. I'm | living much better than I ever did | as a boy or as a young man. “But if I have to crawl in a‘) | hole and keep my mouth shut in order to keep these things—I’ll toss in the whole works and leave town.” KEY BOOKS By A. de T. Gingras ‘ (A MOON FOR THE MISBEGOT- TEN by Eugene O'Neill - 4 act play published by Random House, 177 op.) When playwrights like Eugene | O'Neill, Maxwell Anderson and Tennessee Williams write a new play, publishers now find it profit- able to publish the work immediate- - ly in book form. This considerably widens the enjoyment of the play, and permits book reviewers to say what they think of it as dramatic ature, + moon which Eugene O'Neill a with great largesse to the misbegotten characters in the play is @ round, yellow harvest moon. He gives it to them in Connectieut in September of 1923. And there is still some question at the end of the fourth and final act whether they should have been given the moon at all. Excepting in one long and de- lightful scene! Then they should have not one moon, but six. Old Phil Hogan and his daughter, Josie, play conversationally with a stuff- ed shirt millionaire, T. Stedman Harder, and the scene is brilliantly and wonderfully comical. As always Author O'Neill's crafts. manship is very able, and the play follows all the Greek unities, The action takes place at the home of tenant farmer Hogan between the hours of noon on one day and sun- rise the following day. With the use of lights and scrim to show the interior of the sitting room in Act II, only one set is necessary as all the action happens on the porch | in front of the farmhouse. There are only three principle characters the two already men- tioned, and James Tyrone, Jr., the man Josie loves, The most begot- ten of the three is Josie. She is twenty-eight and made in too gen- erous proportions Yor delicate fem- Inine appeal. Her warm bigness is an exaggerated Junoesque ver- sion. bordering on the grotesque, And as O'Neill did give these characters the moon, he has made them vivid and real under its light. The two drunks who move in Josie’s life ang the big hulking gir! herself are portrayed with almost the author's usual excellencies. But looking at the play only in writ- ten form, they do not seem to have quite the spark of the Hairy Ape and Electra. Or maybe it is only because this reviewer has added years since the carly plays. {HEAD AGAINST THE novel by Herve Bazin, published by Prentice Hall, New York City, 255 op.) A novel about the peregrinations of a human being in any institution f very easily take on elements of a case study. This tale of a young Frenchman incarcerated in some half dozen state mental in- stitutions during a lifetime, smacks intermittently of a textbook or lect ure on the need of intelligent psy- chiatric treatment in mental in stitutions The hero, Arthur Gerane. ways a shade clinical, The @ climbs on the back of his princ character to ride his own ity with pre-World Ward mental ia stitutions, The great emotional pen. erations of Freud have not yet reached these hospitals to show that the chandelier swinging tally diseased are rare is al taen WALL, | with the stupidities and horrors which result. To say the book is depressing is mild. This reviewer was ready to throw in her own chips a half doz- en times in the course of its thirty- four chapters. A black cat has godmothered the Athero’s cradle. At Mr. Bazin’s manipulation he was in bad luck even before he was born. His mat- ernal grandfather and his mother toth ended in mental institutions. Involved in natural adolescent re- bellion against his father, the boy who only requires a few months’ proper psychiatric treatment is put into a mental hospital. And the fellow then becomes the pawn to illustrate bad institutional -manage- ment, bad legislation affecting the mentally ill, and general stupid- ity on the part of doctors, attend- ants, and families. W% any reader wants to get down into another snake pit, this is it. But he mustn't expect to emerge from the pit with any cheeriness in his soul, (NEW WORLDS FOR NELLIE by Rowland Emett, picture book for adults and children, published by Harcourt, Brace and Co., New York City, 40 pp.) The heroine of this book is an antiquated train, consisting of Nel- lie a rusty old locomotive, and two coaches. How sadly the world of current children’s literature needs Nellie! A humorless photographic real- ism in illustrations stalks thru ninety-eight percent of the book- | store offerings. And the pictures are usually interpolated by one syl- labled sterile prose from which all the imagination has been wrung. But with Nellie, no child will run to the comic books for relief and excitement. This book is one of the | {most completely delightful child- | ren's books which has appeared on the market in the past 50 years. The intermittent prose passages jinterlarded between the amazing | illustrations are pastel, simply be- }cause Mr, Emett’s drawings are so wonderiully comic and brilliant, any prose would suffer. The great cartoonist for Punch has taken that most masculine of human mech- janical devices, a locomotive, and | with delicate lines, and a pen dip- ped in the highest English tradi- tion of nonsense in wonderland, has made Nellie a lady engine who is destined to be a classic. Nellie operates once a day twice | a week in a forgotten corner of | England through Cloud Cuckoo val- ley, Duckwallow marsh, and But- tergoose hill, to Starfish point by the sea. She carries hens and pigs | on market day and people to see | the paddle boats on Saturday after- | noon Albert. Funnel is the driver | and Frederick Firedoor, the guard, fireman and porter, In the rippling course of the tale Nellie goes on a trip to the United | | States, where she experiences sky- scrapers, the Philharmonic, Deep South, a heroine tied to the tracks, a gold rush in Smoky Patch | maguntains, CoPish Cape. She and a fast frieght we) is making a big bit bere | CECIL WHEELER Kula Gulf which at present is sta- tioned in Norfolk, Virginia. The third and youngest Charles Esmond, SN, 20, is serv- at the Naval Base, Key West. Wheeler joined the Navy in the fall of 1942. He enlisted in the Sea- Bees as a Carpenters Mate and re- ceived his training at Camp Perry, Virginia and also at Camp Pendle- ton, California. of training, He was assigned to the 16th Engineers SeaBee Battal- jon. Engineers were assigned to the Seventh Fleet in the Pacific. Dur- ing this period, Wheeler took part in the landings of the Philippines the Marshall Islands and the East- ern and Western Caroline Islands. During the invasion of Iwo Jima his battalion was assigned to the Fifth Marine Division. and returned to work with the Wil- ton Woolen Mills, Wilton Maine. Soon after separation, he enlisted was recalled to active duty Sept- Squadron One, Key West. Recently father and son, Charles, | left Key West on leave together to return home where the seagoing the first time in several years. vice, Wheeler plans to return to { da Turner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leuther E. Turner of Auburn, Maine. They have three daughters, Kathleen, Carol, and Janet. Wheeler is authorized to wear the Philippine Liberation Ribbon, Asia- tie Pacific American Theater, and the World War Two Victory Rib- bon. tlers of carbonated beverages closed their 34th annual convention here Monday, re-electing all of- | is president. | MIAMI W—The American Socie- ty of Travel Agents opened its an nual convention here Monday Bas | elected Laurence C. ‘Tombs, treal, Canada, president. He is 8 first Canadian to be named to the post, ful candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, will ad dress a political rally in the Miami | Beach Auditorium en Nov. 1 in j behalf of Adiai Stevenson, Demo |sute nominee. | KISSIMMEE W—The third an. nual Kissimmee bostcade is scheduled Yo leave here Thersday ,and arrive in Stuart Sunday The bostcade will proceed dows We only regret that « welcoming | the Kissimmee River to Lake Oke committee wasn't op the docks te meet her, The snnas the United States would fi 2.000 m a river sous (leet deep. ch long, 46 feet wate and 3 ing to jechobee and down the Si. Lucie} | River te Stuart where an official lwelcome will be extend milk production im) types of craft will part @ outboards from Or that city via ( Waterway, six children, now has three sons on The oldest son, Cecil Jr., 23, was | has now joined the Naval Reserve son, | ing aboard the PCS 1385 stationed | Upon completion | During World War Two, the 16th | Returning to the states in 1946 | he was separated from active duty | in the Naval Reserve Program. He | ember 1951 and was ordered to re- | port to Helicopter Anti-Submarine | Wheeler family had a reunion for | Upon being released from the ser- | his 200 acre farm where he special- | izes in raising registered prime He is married to the former Hil- | News Briefs. MIAMI BEACH u—Florida bot- | | ficers. T. N, Henderson, Tampa, MIAMI BEACH @—Sen. Estes | Kefauver of Tennessee, unsuccess- | .--the way The Key West Citizen gets around in the best family circles! One second it’s under Dad’s arm, the very next . . WHOOSHI! it's gone! Junior has the comics on the living room floor. Then Daughter swoops down to get the fashion news. After the dishes are done Mother gathers the paper together care- fully to start tomorrow's shopping. Poor Dad! But lucky you. for this is the kind of magic that puts a song in your cash register. An interested audience in every home! What a place for your selling message! Where else can you meet so many people who have so many things to buy : . . in one fell swoop! Grab a piece of this merchandising magic for yourself by using the newspaper more consistently. Call one of our representatives and let him show you how you can build more business with consistent advertising. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN