The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 15, 1952, Page 12

THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Saturday, November 15, 1952 Keys Fishing Guide Off < OT RET To Isle Of Pines Citizen Staff Photo VIC BAROTHY AND BETTY, his wife, are taking their 40 foot houseboat “Jucaro” to their fishing camp on the Cuban Island where it will be used to carry fishing lodge guests to the South coast on week-long voyages. ‘Vie Barothy’s 40 Foot Boat *“Tucaro” Takes Off On Trip To Isle Of Pines, Cuba WILL CARRY FISHERMEN TO SOUTH COAST OF I. OF PINES By SUSAN MCAVOY The trim houseboat ‘“Jucaro” owned by Veronan fishing guide, Vie Barothy of Barothy Fishing Lodge looked more like a moving van yesterday than a yacht. “We're taking everything we can to the Isle of Pines for our Lodge there,” Barothy explained. Betty his wife said: “Please excuse the washing machine.” The galley was all but blocked with the white washer, linens, and extra gasoline for the 400 mile voyage. The Barothys took off last night at 6 o'clock and expect to enter Neuva Gerona, Isle of Pines by Sunday or Monday. They will not stop in Havana but will round the western tip of Cuba, Cape San Antonio, and pray for good weather. The Barothys opened their fish- ing lodge on the Jucaro River, Isle of Pines, last winter. As this season’s opener Vic and Betty are making a trial run from the Jucaro river on the north end of the island to the famous, iso- lated South coast of the island. “Since we'll be taking sports fishermen down to the South Coast for the magnificent fishing there we want to make the maiden voy- age ourselves.” The “Jucaro” will take fishing trips from the north shore to the south coast for a week at a time Vic, himself, will not be able to accompany the parties many times since his thriving lodge up at Windley Key keeps him here dur- ing the season. His resident mana- ger and native fishing guides will take care of the Isle of Pines lodge. Yesterday the Barothys had Cleared customs with Cuban Con- sul Oscar Morales and were also set for their departure. Departure for such a voyage means intensive preparation. We stepped over gasoline drums, boxes, and around the washing machine. Betty served us coffee from the Wsual pot of coffee on the galley gas stove. “We have 500 pounds of ice in the deep freeze now, because we don’t want to use the } much for the trip down. The deep freeze, however, will be used on our fishing trips around the Isle of Pines. Future Movies Will Outshine Present Shows By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD (#—“The present method of making and showing movies will be as dead as a door- nail.” These are strong words, but they come from one of Hollywood’s soundest business heads, Merian C. Cooper. The movie man has made great early documentaries such as “Grass” and “Chang,” spectacles like “King Kong” and jin recent years has ‘been associ- jated with "ohn Ford. He is now general manager of the Cinerama Company. Cinerama is the most important word in the Hollywood lexicon these days. Using a huge, curved sereen and three projectors, Cin- erama has brought new scope to the movies. It was hailed as a triumph in its New York debut last month. “Hollywood will now- have to start thinking in new terms,” Cooper said. “We are at the same place now as when sound came in. Television is getting better all the time and we have to beat it some- how. The way to do it is with Ret ; Cinerama, or some other device that will give added scope to the scene, “Within 18 months, we hope to have a Cinerama theater in every major city in the United States. In five years, I foresee that most of the country’s theaters will no longer be showing the flat-screen picture.” Cooper added that’ Louis B. Mayer, chairman of the Cinerama board, is responsible for lining up theaters. Cooper himself is in charge of production and his plans are advancing rapidly, “I expect to start shooting a feature-length picture in the Cin- erama process within 90 days,” he reported. “I have others in pre- paratino, And they are not merely Westerns and other pictures with spectacle value. I also plan to shoot other kinds of stories. Even a bedroom farce would be better in Cinerama than in the present | method of shooting. | “The reason for this is simple. | Cinerama is the first form of en- | tertainment to take the picture out lof the frame. In the stage, the Key Books by A. de T. Gingras (AN ANTHOLOGY OF FAMOUS BRITISH STORIES edited by Ben- nett Cerf and Henry C. Moriarty, collection of short stories publish- ed by Modern Library, New York City, 1233 pages.) Gift books become increasingly important with Christmas only a flip of a calendar away. And when in doubt, buy an antho. logy! prepared for the consumption of a soldier overseas whose personal tastes are a little vague to the gift giver, If the recipient doesn’t like the tinned sardines, he’ll like the grape jelly. If he doesn’t like the salted almonds, he’ll like the Christmas candy. And what he into the package will enjoy. Questions may always be raised about an anthology under any title. Why didn’t the book contain this favorite or that? But the authors are the selectors of what goes into the package, They may agree that some tinned ‘ish or jelly should be included, but they choose the kind. A book of British short ‘ies should include Katherine Mans- of Ma Parker” or her short story classic “The Garden Party” are in the volume is up to the antho- logists. And ‘the success of an antho- logy depends not only on the taste of the anthologist, but also on the variety in the selection. Bennett Cerf and Henry C. Moriarty have long been immersed in the liter- ary trade, and the two authors have managed to get together a collect- ion of 80 stories which would make a thoroughly satisfactory gift for almost any reading adult. If the reader doesn’t like to re- capture the delicacy of spring un der the “‘Apple Tree” of John Gals- worthy, he may go with F. Bulwer- Lytton into a London house in the grip of horror, in his “House and the Brain.” If he is a sentimental Yellow, he may want to renew his acquaintance with Tiny Tim and Scrooge in Dickens’ ‘‘ Christmas Carol.” Or he may want to go back into the ancient April of English prose and read Geoffrey Chaucer’s “Pardoner’s Tale.” The Victorians are well repre- sented— Anthony Trollope with “Malachi’s Cave,” Thackeray with "Sultan Stork” and James Barrie with “The Courting of T’nowhead’s Bell.” A dozen or so of the more recent prose writers are also there, including James Joyce in ‘The Dead” and Evelyn Waugh in his deeply moving “Belle Fleace Gave ja Party.” Some of the stories like Joseph It is like one of those packagés | doesn’t like, somebody else dipping | field, but whether the chosen “Life | DESTITUTE ITALIAN CHILD . |WILL HAVE A BETTER LIFE or’s alleged native gifts as a liter- ary craftsman and historian. Now most critics and readers have no quarrel with the historical novel as a genre, and they can be done very well indeed! Sienkiewicz the author of Quo who wrote “The World Is Not Enough” are two of the rare ex- amples of writers who were ac- complished novelists and con- scientious historians. They mana- ged to impose a true creative gift on an adequate job of research. To this reviewer, who has never read a Costain book before, the author doesn’t seem to succeed very well as either a creative novelist or as an historian. He deals out double-harness plots |as he would double decks of cards, the Grail theme purely white, the Simon the Magician thread purely black. Mr. Costain allegedly writes at jabout 307,000 words per seven | months, and produces a heavy and depressingly pallid Victorian style, unrelieved by either the stately prose and magnificent description associated with the best novelists jof the 19th century, Beginning a chapter seems di- ficult for this man, whose struct- |ural diagrams are as painfully \clear as if had furnished blue- prints, especially chapters two and seven. Costain does not-seem to be | able to approach his prose simply. The “sun went down” becomes “the bitterness of the solar assualt | having abated.” Attempts to modernize his tan- \gles disagreeably with archaic | words and phrases, as “........Keep | your toga clean” and Okhe!” as an | approximation of our okey. And this reviewer would like to know how Romans ‘‘iace about and fight off the peering men of Jerusalem.” At other times Costain uses ob- viously Moslem words such as “‘al- |iyyah”, “wadi’’, ‘‘villayet’ which |follow the early Christian era by seven centuries. As an historian too, there seems Mr. Costain’s accuracy and taste. An immense amount of research |is purported to have gone into this book, but the reviewer is not con- vinced. The last sections dealing with the hero’s visit to Rome is an example. Compare the ceiebrated description of Nero by Sienkiewicz in “Quo Vadis”, pages 47-48, and that by Costain on his page 406. The similarity is interesting, but the superiority of the Pole, even in the clumsy Curtin translation is evident. Both descriptions of the Emperor are given by Christian or potentially Christian, innocents. In one the climactic transfiguration of the craven Greek, Chilo, denounces | Nero before the Emperor himself. |In the other the hitherto benighted | Syrian Greek hero Basil, does the |same thing in publicly admitting his faith at an imperial bacchana- lia. This similarity is unforunate, for it seems to this reviewer to be Costain’s one worthwhile scene. Also there seems to be certain other |simliarities between the two Lil- iths of these epics, and the Em- | press Poppaea and the Magician's assistant, Helena. This reviewer also wonders if Mr. Costain is aware how objectionable | the Grail legend is, at least histori- cally, to the Christian church, For | centuries the pagan basis of this |tale and of its Arthurian counter- parts, has been recognized. In the | words of a review of a recent defin- |itive work on this subject by a | trained historian in France,, these | legends” remained pagan and | subversive. they evoke racial as well as religious memories.” (Jean Marx, La Legende arthuri- enne et le Graal, Paris, 1952.) Rac- jial and social prejudices are in- \evitably evoked by Costain where |he refers to the problem of rela- | |tions between Gentile and Jewish | Christians to relapsed Jews and to the attitude of the apostles to- ward rich Christians. | But one of these deficiencies | seem to have kept the book frorh | the best seller lists. The public has a definite need and liking Yor this Vadis and Madame Zoe Oldenbourg | ing in the Key West area. They’ve to be definite question regarding | By ROBERT SMITH, USN A very pretty little nine year old Italian girl with dark brown hair and big brown eyes is undoubtedly lookingéforward to a much bright- er future because of the officers and men of the destroyer escort USS George E. Davis, now operat- “adopted” her. The little girl, Marcia Carmela LaVecchia, lives in Tricarico (Mat- era), Italy, with her sick mother and aged grandmother. Her father died in a military hospital in April, 1946, of a disease contracted while on active duty in the Italian Army. Marcia and her 30-year-old mother were left unprovided for, except for a monthly war pension of $15.00. This small sum must also support a grandmother Who is too old to work. To add further to little Maria’s trouble, her mother is suffering from chronic bronchitis, rheumat- ism and general depression, and as a result is unable to work. Their “home” is one miserable room with an unfinished ceiling and a warped floor. The place is lacking hygienic facilities and has no running water. All % contains is one bed—in which all three sleep—a chest, table, trunk, and some rusty tools. Yes, Maria’s childhood has been sadly disrupted through war and; its consequences. She has never | even owned a toy. Now, however, things are going to be different. Little Maria will have clothes to wear, food to eat, toys to play with, specific medical \eare, schooling and instruction in the religion of her birth, and a cash grant of seven dollars per month. Because of» the generosity of the officers ‘and men of the DE 357, and in particular, Lieutenant (junior grade) P. F, Conniar, Jr., USN, of Glens Falls, N. Y., all this has been made possible. It was Lt. Conniar’s idea to “adopt” Maria. He hit on the idea after reading an article on The Foster Parent’s Plan for War Children, Inc. in a religious magazine. He presented his idea to the officers and men of the Davis and they were for it one | hundred per cent. Money began rolling in before donations were even asked for, and Lieutenant ' Commander George B. Howe, USN, of Lowell, Mass., skipper of the Davis, backed the idea from the start. Lt. Conniar then wrote the Fos- ter Parent’s for War Children, Inc., in New York City, to find out the details involved when “adopting” a child. He found that “adoption” is ‘in- ancial only — 180 dollars a year} or 15 dollars per month helps provide for a child for a year. On the application he indicated the na- tionality, age, and sex of the child the USS Davis wished to help. And} that’s all there was to it. The crew of the Davis, however, were not the first ones to “adopt” a child through the facilities of | F.P.P.W.C., nor will they be the last. Foster parents can be found the world over in every state of | the Union, in every Province of | man kangaroo are all there in clear readable print, and in il- lustrations with a flair of laughter in them. The reader is addressed as Best | Beloved, and Mr. Kipling invites him into the jungle world of India, where wild animals figlt for sur. vival in the tangle of lush veg. etation, and along the river banks. Again Mr. Kipling uses all the devices of rhythmic language «to | give the young reader a song ru! | restitution to many of these ac- ner inside the whale jumps and thumps and bumps, and prowls and | howls and crawls and bawls. The ; kolokolobird tells the Elephant’s Child to go to the banks of the great gray green greasy Limpopo river all set about with fever trees. j And all the wild animals walk in jthe wet wild woods. ‘TWIN Official U.S, Navy REAR ADMIRAL W. B, CREERY. CBE, of the Royal Canadian ’ Navy, inspects a DRT Plotter during a familiarization’ tour of _ the U.S. Fleet Sonar School. Looking on -is Captain W. H, Truesdell, Commanding Officer of the school as G. E. Bottcher, ~ $03, Wisc., demonstrates. Formerly Flag Officer of the. Pacific Coast, RADM. Cyeery leaves Key West tomorrow and will as- sume the duties of Vice Chief of Naval Staff, Canadian Navy, early next year, ———$ $$ Canada, Alaska, America to far off Singapore, Pak- children have been touched by love from the farthest reaches of the |ren a faith and confidence. Th : 2 " have given them Jove and ‘ane : Terminal Service Station canlf globe. The Plan has been called, “the standing in place of fea: Who true -application .of the Christian | believe other than that tomorrow principle”. It has been a great force for good. Although the Iron Curtain governments prohibit fur- ther work in their countries, the friends made in Czechoslovakia, Poland and China will never forget that Americans were their friends, and that Americans stretched out | their hands across the seas in the knowledge that someday, somehow, these children as future citizens of the world will help cement the | peace, For many the shrill air raid warnings are stilled and the school bells ring instead. But for many others there is still the road of tears. And so, the Plan goes on, helping children where the need remains great and individual relief is permitted. Thus far, more than 70,000 children have passed through the hands of F.P.P.W.C. It has been said that the touch of the Plan has meant to them a new health, a new life and a new hope, For this F.P. P.W.C. is grateful to the more than 50,000 groups and individuals who through their generosity and un- derstanding have made this pos- sible. These people have found in their relationship with the child- ren their greatest reward. It is incredibly hard to realize | that the very enlightened and pro- gressive Twentieth Century could have visited on children such tor- ture and cruelty, both physical and mental—children doomed to hor- rible deformity from loss of limbs —shrinking from life and their fel- lowmen because of torn ugly faces, empty sockets needing surgery and prosthetic eyes—children so psy- chologically pulled away that there was deep fear and distrust of all adults and an accusation of regpon- sibility for all their torture and misery. Foster parents and con- tributors, through the Plan, have been able to make at least partial cusing little ones. They have been supplied with a great many pros- thetic limbs and eyes, plastic sur- gery and medical care by the best - | available doctors, surgeons and ex- ning through the stories. The mari- | pe: rts. F.P.P.W.C. hopes that with good grace it may continue to help them to the point of rehabilitation where each child becomes a self-sustain- ing individual, no longer insecure, but firm in his outlook toward decent future. | And so through the years, march- ing in time, and side by side with must be a better day for all: of - Right here in our PROMOTED BY POINCIANA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL _ COMPLIMENTS OF 132 DUVAL ST. Its Time To Think of Shopping for Christmas WE'RE ALL SET — LOADED TO THE Hawaii, South | the armies of these lost and. burt j| ™#y prevent repairs later. Make little people are foster parents, like istan, Liberia and Istanbul. Foster |the crew of the USS Davis. They 1 habit of letting us protect your tar through careful service. U. S.No, 1 Key West, Fla. Phone 1512 This Is No Time To Slow Down! Ail over the country scheal boards are working hard to provide the additional slassrooms, facilities, and teachers needed to take care of increasing enrolments. unity much has been done, but Key West Floor Covering Co. The “Jucaro” is a Cris Craft | present movies and television, the |Conrad’s “Youth” have taken on | kind of thing. The past, artfully if with a Packard-Marine Engine. | picture is framed. But in Cinerama, | anthological contours, so accust- | badly presented, is a layer of old Gleaming white with blue trim, |the screen is wide enough to en-|omedare they to appearing in col- | ghosts, a destroyer of present ted- she is spacious and homelike in- | compass even your peripheral lections, But most of the selections | ium, and an assurance of a splend- side. In addition to the ice she | vision have not. The authors have at- | id future. In this kind of affair, the carries 400 gallons of fresh water | The only other example I have |tempted to represent the import-| public creates the book, not the in stainless steel tanks ever seen of this is the Sistine | ant British writers who have con-| author. The public gets what it Yesterday tied up at the A and | Chapel art work by Michelangelo. |tributed to the short story, but | wants, and it gets what is deservés. RAFTERS WITH CHRISTMAS GIFT ITEMS — GIFTS FOR EVERYONE ON YOUR LIST . .. SAVE TIME AND ENERGY BY SHOP. PING EARLY! FOR THE LADIES... SPECIAL PRE-BUILT B fish house docks, she looked slight and delicate compared to the big shrimp bo; ‘ound the Bight “We hope to make Cuba by day light,” Betty said And they probably have. Vic and Betty have two friends Carl Car roll and John Osterholt with them who are rotating the watches on the voyage down them to make a s all the way to the I 5 they run into unexpected bad weather. EX-SLAYING SUSPECT DIVORCES HUSBAND LAS VEGAS, Nev. —Mrs. B ell Ca If you get close enough to it, your entire vioisn takes in the pic- ture. Although Fred Waller devel- oped Cinerama, you might say it was really- invented by Michel- angelo.” Can Cinerama pictures be made as cheaply regular films? In some cases, You will need more lighting, be- @ the three lenses take in the e set, But also you do not ed to make new setups for med- nots and closeups. The whole n be shot from the same nt to the i- * the time ear more cheaply. | joften with stories critically super- jior to the better known ones. GUEST REVIEW by P. Farwell (THE SILVER CHALICE by Ti om- jas Costain, historical novel pub lished by Doubleday Company, New York City, 1233 pages.) This widely acclaimed arrival | has recently burst upon the literary scene, an historical novel of deep portent according to its blurb, a phenomenal book by a phenomen- al author, Thomas Costain. | For Mr. Costain seems to be ad- |mittedly neither a trained nov ist, nor a trained historian He directly says as much in his o reticent comments on his empl ment prior to his admittance to the charmed circle of phenomenal sales. However, the admission is buried in the blurbs and cal - ted to endear as wel ced A lack of professio paration. according to the jacke cover writers, © aces the auth The Silver Chalice is a real pheno- menon, not as an historical novel, not as another glorious product of a brilliant author, but as an all-time catch-basin for sales. NIOR CHRISTMAS SELECTION (JUST SO STORT by Rudyard Kipling, new illustrated edition by Nicolas, published by Garden City books, Garden City, New York city, 84 pages.) Putlication of a new edition of Just So Stories is always good holi- day news in the book world. Dressed up in new illustrations and nearly a ruler high and long, the bock is a perfect Christmas for any child up to ten or twelve rs old. All ¢ classic Kipling animal favorites, and how they got their various shapes and appendages mareb across the pages. Again the ceros ge skin MATTRESSES SINGLE AND DOUBLE SIZE $24.95 Eisner Furniture Co. 3428 Duck Ave. TELEPHONE leo! KEY WEST’S LARGEST STORE Bath Robes, Lingerie, Hosiery, Under- wear, Bedroom Slippers, House Coats, many ‘other items that will delight her on Christmas morning. FOR THE HOME... Curtain Sets, Bathroom Sets, Scarf Sets, Dresser Sets end many novelty items that will beautify the home. Robes, Ties, Slacks, Socks, Shirts, both dress and sport, Sweaters, Sport Jackets, House Slippers, etc. CHAS. ARONOVITZ "scr?" and