The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 3, 1952, Page 3

Melinda Bennett Maintains Two Century Acting Tradition By Making Her Hollywood Debut. By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 13 “#—Mel- inda. Markey, ninth - generation member of the acting Bennett | clan,..was getting her first break in the movies this week. * Melinda is the pretty, brown- | haired daughter of glamor grand- | mother Joan Bennett and grand- | daughter of the stormy Richard Bennett. The 18-year-old gal is heiress to an acting tradition that goes back a couple of centuries, and she gives all indications tha she will help keep that tradition alive. Despite being around show busi- tess all her life, she maintains a | test for the show biz life. She was excited about her role in “Nearer | My God to Thee,” in which she! plays one of a group of coeds re- | turning from Europe on the Titanic. “It’s really not much of a part, | bar at least it lasts throughout | the picture,” she explained. “It’s ; a good role to break into the movies with. I’ve only been in| films once before; that was a very | brief part in a picture produced | by my stepfather (Walter Wan- ger).” Melinda hasn’t pushed her ca- | ters reer. She made her debut two years ago when she played in summer stock with her mother in “Susan and God.” Since then she has served a vigorous apprentice- ship in the theater and television. “I did about 30 TV shows in New York,” she commented. “It was good experience, but live TV is a rough deal. There isn’t time enough to do things right, and many of | the producers and directors don’t | know what they’re doing.... “My ambition is to land a con- tract at 20th Century-Fox,” she added boldly. “My mother started here when she was quite young and has been coming back through the years. It’s fun for me to, be here, because I know so many of the studio workers.” What about the rest of her sis- following acting careers? Melinda remarked that her older sister, Diana, 24, is now Mrs. John Anderson and the mother of two. Stephanie Wanger, 9, hasn’t shown any great desire to act, Melinda added. “But Shelley, who is 4, knows what she wants to be,” she re- marked. ‘‘She says she’s going to be a toe-dancer.” BBC BANS TUNE LONDON (#—The British Broad- casting Corporation has ordered dise jockeys on its ‘‘Music While You Work” program for factory employees to stop playing a_ top- hit tune—‘Sugarbush.” Said the BBC: “Sugarbush fea- tures intricate handclapping as a part of its rhythm and some ma- chine shop workers reportedly have been hitting machinery with | their tools in time with the hand- claps. “There have been some disas- trous results,” the BBC admitted ruefully. enaaie THREE HOTELS IN MIAMI at POPULAR PRICES Located in the Heart of the City RATES REASONABLE with BATH and Ritz Hotel 132 &. Flagler St. Rooms Elevator Solarium 226 N.E. 100 Elevator Heated ROOMS WRITE or WIRE for RESERVATIONS TELEPHONE Pershing Miller Hotel Hotel Ist Ave. 229 N.E. 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I readily appreciate the amount of volunteer work which jis necessary to even attempt such an event through working with Boy Scouts for many years, and my hat is off to all who lent a hand. However, crowds such as attend- ed iast night and also last year were never intended for the Poin- ciana Recreation Center as used. Only one.doo: was made available | as both an entrance and exit for all persons wishing to buy refresh- ments: and attend the movie, The jam became so great that I left and placed a complaint with the Key West fire department fearing a panic or fire would cause almos certain loss of life. My wife, who later returned found that a Key West police oi ficer had been stationed at the offending door and had suceeded in easing the situation but this was not the solution. The serving of refreshments was delayed causing further crowding at the food booths because of the rumored discourt- eous tardiness of one of Key West’s own political leaders, who had agreed to aid in judging the cos- tumes, and by the refusal of the carnival officers to offer anything | for sale until after the contest was completed. Such difficulty is not encountered in other Key West carnivals nor | in school carnivals held elsewhere | as the school building is used. This large area permits the crowds to thin where sales are carried out. According to reliable reports from the meeting held to plan this car- nival, the reason that the Poin- ciana School building was not made available was due to the over- zealousness of its principal in at- tempting to preserve it from un- tidiness and possible damage. This appears to me to be foolish economy when the safety of the puipls are at stake. Since the P. T. A. is the sponsoring organiza- tion, I heartily recomtmend that it bring pressure upon the school | authorities su that a repetition of last evening’s fiasco will never be repeated in Key West. Sincerely yours, Kenneth H. Beers “SAYS ‘LET'S LOOK AT THE RECORD’” | Editor, The Citizen: I don’t know by what authority | contributors, like the good Erma Wagner and brother Sam E. Har- ris, set themselves up as political prophets and authorities. Undoubt- edly they say much of what they Whave written in perfectly good faith --- but to use the words of the “Happy Warrior”, Al Smith, and a leading Democrat (spelled | with a capital ‘D’) — “Let’s look at the record!” In the first place the so-called Democratic Party of today, is no | more the true Democratic Party jthan I am the Duke of Pastafa- | zool. Like the ostrich, we may bury our heads in the sand and PEOPLE’S FORUM will be careful to point that out to our first voting children. They also want us to “impress” upon young voters, that the Demo- cratic Party is the Party of ‘Peace and Prosperity”. Just how much do they think we can take? Before many of us try to “im- press” this on anyone, we will again look at the above-mentioned record and we will find that the sun didn’t rise and set each day just because the great Mr. Frank- lin Dlano Roosevelt said so. We'll also find that Franklin (God is MY Lieutenant) Roosevelt virtual- ly beat his head against a wall trying to get us back to the pros- perity we enjoyed under many Re- publican administrations, with his ‘pump-priming’, WPA, PWA, NRA and so on, ad infinitum --- until the only thing left was for us to do under the bungling Democratic ad- ministration, in order to offer to the public something that even re- motely resembled normal econo- mic stability, and to make us be- lieve that we were enjoying pros- perity was for us to get into the war. es Well, --- in other words, after taking Hoover’s advice (and the credit for it being his own idea) Franklin the'Ist, declared the now famous Bank Hol!?-v, and held the line at the start, but after he ' ‘ere Vie Lott think that danger will pass us by beeause we can’t see it, but — | even HST has never successfully | been able to convince anyone that the Pendergast mob hasn't been} | playing the Edgar Bergan to Har- | ry’s Charlie McCarthy. It’s a mat- | ter of open record that cousin Har- | jty is Pendergast’s protege — he| hasn’t even tried to deny that!! Then again, all of us know of the hundreds and hundreds of ‘Missou- rians’ who are holding Federal political plums in Washington | through Harry’s largesse. Let's pull our heads up out of the sand | and find out how many recipients of Trumans largesse are also mem- | bers (openly or otherwise) of the | Pendergast gang. To many of us, the name Pen. | dergast doesn't mean too much, | except in a vague sort of way, simply because we haven't lived too close to Pendergast’s home bailiwick. But to the honest, sin- | cere, God-fearing Kansas City citi- | ten who has lived under Pender- gast dictatorship, the fear of main- taining a livelihood and the safety of his family under that mob-rule was a terrifying thing. Now, both Erma and Sam, et al, maintain that the Democratic (2). Party is the party of prosperi- ty; and said Democratic Party realizing the precarious balance of its regime, are telling us to remind our children who may be voting for the first time, that the bread. j lines and apple-salesmen came in Hoover’s time, and that Hoover and the Republicans did nothing to remedy the situation. Weill, tak | ing Democratic Al Smith's good advice, I shall look at the record and when I do, I see that during | the time that they use as a basis | for the vilification and crx n | | of Hoover, the Senate and House | | was almost 80 per cent Democratic, | and that they not only re cooperate with him, but de matters even worse by t every effort he made. Many of us se 601 DUVAL ST. was on his own, except for the help of the Dem::ratie party we still continued deep in the throes of depression, 1937 -- seven years of FAILURE. Then ™ Addlepated Adolph struck in Poland, and Op- portunist Q, -Roosevelt declared the U. S. to be the Arsenal of Democracy. It was the European war that ‘primed the pump’ for us, and our factories began operat- ing again, and put people back to work. It was merely a question of time before we would be officially in the war. I wonder if brother Sam and sister Erma realize that from 1939 thru 1952, or a total of 13 years this great country of ours hasn't seen a single day of honest peace -- but that instead, we have with- out any surcease,- been actively engaged in official or unofficial war, cold war or so-called ‘Police Action’. "7hy? Well, among other reasons including the colossal blundering under the inept steward- ship of the Truman unadministra- tion, that was the only way that they could keep things going -~ they had the war tiger by the tail and still don’t know how to let go. It would be comical, except for the fact that so many thou- sands and thousands of American boys have been killed and maimed, and so many more -- yes, many of these boys we daily see. around us in Navy uniforms right here in Key West will suffer the horrors of war (no matter what fancy name the Democrats(?) and: the bankrupt haberdasher might think up for it) will either die or be permanently maimed. And all for what? Just to main- tain a so-called prosperity where a dollar is worth only 56 cents as they tell us, but where it is actual- ly worth only about 18 cents in real purchasing power after de- ducting hidden taxes, and inflation. Yes, many of us will remember these things, and we are telling the young voters about them, and we absolutely refuse to lie and pressure them into believing that they quote never had it so good unquote. Many of them have be- gun to realize the truth even with- out our telling them about it. Another thing — why is it that so many old line military men are voting Republican? Because among other things they know that war is hell, and that war never solved any problem, and they know that corrupt Democratie adminis- trations inevitably get and—or keep us tied up in wars, and they are tired of risking their lives and the lives of their men pulling Demo- cratic -hestnuts out of the fire. Now why do these two good people, Mr. Harris and Mrs. Wag- ner suddenly get so het up that they have to pepper us, through the valuable medium of The Citi- zen’s People’s Forum, with all this well intentioned, but misguided ha- ranguing to have us keep on voting “Democratic”? I won't be snide nor accuse them of liking to see their rames in print -- but I will NOW ON DISPLAY ‘The huxwriows new Chrysler New Yorker Deluxe Convertible Monday, November 3, 1952 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN say that they give every appear- ance of wanting to see the so-called Democratic ‘‘-ket elect-* - -~*- so badly that it hurts, and they are using legitimate although frantic means to try to stem the tide locally. I don’t think that they'll have much cause to worry about Steven- son and Sparkman carrying a majority of the Monroe County vote, but I will say this -- although there are only 400-odd registered Republicans in the county, Eisen- hower and Nixon will poll at least 2500 votes in Key West and the rest of the county. These votes will come mostly from REAL DEMOCRATS. One thing that I do admire in both Mr. Harris and Mrs. Wagner is their courage in publicly and strongly stating what they belitve, and I say, ‘“‘More power to each of you.” But I also say to them, as well as to all the rest of the voters, that they should look at the record, and then vote. Vote as your conscience dictates, but VOTE regardless of whether you vote the way I vote or not. You are entitled to your opinion and your vote, so make full use of it. Sincerely, J. M. Carson Subscribe to The Citizen Page 3 This is nota contest. It's one of the most serious elections in the history of our country! Listen before you vote! ON ALL NETWORK RADIO STATIONS | Governor Adlai E. STEVENSON Senator John J. FROM CHICAGO PRESIDENT TRUMAN FROM KANSAS CITY VICE PRESIDENT BARKLEY FROM ST. LOUIS 10:30 PM STEVENSON~SPARKMAN FORUM COMMITTER John |. Sayder, Chairman + Arnold mM, Gront, Treas. » Wolfe R. Charney, Asst. 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