The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 2, 1952, Page 6

Page 6 THE |The By Don Barry Southernmost Cet ime 77 77 i YOU WON’T WASH YOUR HANDS WITH OUT HIM-GET IT?! I WANT YOU TO . TALK TO NOBODY BUT HIM OR YOUR Ey ener WE CUT LEETLE EBENEEZER’S RAIR IT'S A SUMMER CAB THE BLECTRICITY—THe > PHONG = ‘ Corner By CHARLES DUERKES Gorgeous Esther Williams will glamorize water skiing in her next | Picture. The film, as yet untitled, ; will be shot in Cypress Gardens, Florida. Lucky cameraman will be Harry “Knobby” Walsh who has such chores to his credit as ‘‘They Were Expendable”, “The Barefoot Mailman” and “Slattery’s Hurri- cane”, to mention films with a Florida locale. At present “Knobby” is shooting “Jeanie” for Ball Films of Miami. “Jeanie” was written and is being directed by the author of “Miami, Crossroads Of The Americas” which is now being shown across the nation via TV and in color. I hope Mr. Artman will not think me too brash for mentioning that said author-director is the same modest writer chap who whomps up the Citizen’s ‘‘Southernmosi Corner”, Johnny Terjesen, Ball’s top sound man, buzies down to Key West now and then to- visit his pal Bob Youmans, a southernmost legal eagle. Bob appeared in ‘some Ball Films earlier pictures, such | as “What Is Your Destiny”. Fred Frink, one of Florida’s most famous all round athletes of yesteryear, is bossmi at Ball Films and has firmly established | a movie industry in South Florida. | On the agenda is a TV serial, “Carrie Williams, J. P.”, starring Margaret Lindsay, a new film | about Miami, and “Call of The | Everglades”, a thriller-diller which | is inching its way out of this cor- | ner’s typewriter. In casting for ‘‘Jeanie” I screen- | ed talent sponsored by Matilda | Krause, who asked that I send her regards to the Conch Chowder lady. Likewise greetings to that column from Phyllis Kapp. This pillar of organized con-' fusion reported, many months agone, that Mary Pickford would return to the screen in a film titled “The Library”. The title was later changed to “Circle Of Fire” and was scheduled to go before the cameras at Columbia on Octo- ber 9. As the deadline approached, Miss Pickford insisted that her re- turn to the screen be filmed in Technicolor instead of the black- and-white version planned. by pro- ducer Stanley Kramer. So, wha’ | hoppen? Miss Pickford withdrew and top flight dramatic star Barbara Stan- wyck was signed for the picture The script is now being altered slightly to fit the new star. Bar- bara recently completed ‘‘Jeopar- dy” for MGM, is now doing “Ti- tanic” for 20th Century Fox and, should be ready to step into Co-| lumbia’s “Circle Of Fire” in mid- | November. | MGM is readying a sequel to the “Stratton Story”. . . In ‘Million Dollar Mermaid” you'll see, be- sides Esther Williams (gasp!) a Parker-Curtis Pusher Aeroplane, model 1911, the front page ofa news- paper for June 11, 1911, on which is recounted a daring cross-coun- try air flight, and a 1911 limousine, originally built for Nicholas, Czar | of all the Russias!. . . In “Latin | Lovers”, Lana Turner will wear | an evening creation trimmed in| pearls and diamonds called | “Smoke Dream.” Wotta combo! . . « Those Pilgrim bonnets worn by the gals in “Plymouth Adven- ture” are expected to set a new | style in milady’s headwear. But | won't they look a bit silly matched up with some milady’s modern dress creations? . . . K. R. G. Granger’s western novel, “Ten Against Ceasar”, has been pur- chased by Columbia from galley | proofs. Houghton-Mifflin ought to have the book about the Panhandle OZARKS HIT AT BTN bts Chapter Your KENtUCKY’s injured leg was slow to mend, although Clay bathed it night and morning in a feaking, Uniment Dex had sup- plied. There was no more trouble with Buck’s supporters and Dex observed with a wry humor, Some folks sure step light and speak soft right after there’s been a fresh buryin’ in th’ neighbor- hood.” The time passed slowly, as time does in an obscure backwoods set- tlement, but it was not all wasted, Cla began to widen his knowl- e of Texas and of Texas ways and Texas customs, The old rules had been suspend- ed and nobody had taken the time or trouble to set up new ones. It was a wonderful country for men who were vigorously and profane- ne determined to do exactly as ey damn pleased. Clay was sampling the locally pecan bearbon in the pleasant- ly cool dinginess of Wash Tobin’s store on the morning he first saw Toni Venita O'Neill. She canie riding sidesaddle down the dusty trail, the sleek blackness of her| § smooth hair like a dark crown above her olive skin and the smooth softness of her shoulders. The little knot of loungers be- side the store knew her; that was plain in the way the younger men pulled themselves self-consciously erect, resettling their wide hats upon their heads. She stopped halfway up the — that led into the store and flashed a sudden, half-contemp- tuous smile at the group of men before her. “No knives? No battles? No bloodshed, amigos? Perhaps there is no stranger here today—or per- haps you have no taste for strang- ers who can defend themselves!” She was still smiling, that same scornful, taunti: smile, but her voice was an insolent thread of ice and fire, as insulting in its open —_ as a whiplash across the ace. The little rat-mouthed man who had intervened in Clay’s quarrel three days before shoved himself and New Mexico on the stands by the time you read this. . .On the same studio’s docket is “The Liszt Story”, dealing with the life, loves and music of Frans Liszt... YOU'D BETTER BELIEVE IT DEPARTMENT. . . Today political | whistle-stops still play an impor- | tant role in election campaigns, | but they fade to insignificance when! compared to the non-political ver- sion whereby a boy whistles and a girl stops. . .Snuff and chewing tobacco sales have declined dur- ing the past year, in case you are not interested. . . There'll be great changes in the 1953 automobiles. And the trend will be toward great- er power. Over 200 H. P. in the larger cars . . . South Florida is due for the boomingest, healthiest, most bodacious tourist winter season in its golden history. . . . And there'll be a néw flurry of interest in Treasure Hunting in the Keys. Yo, ho! And a bottle of . « « Oops! ‘Scuse me: it’s time for my hardening of the arteries preventative, but ere I close down for the day I would fain propose a slogan for Bill Gibb to have printed and pasted to his car. “SOUND YOUR KLAXON, JAX- ON!” Although it was long believed jthat dinosaurs became extinct be- cause the world suddenly got cool- er; some scientists now believe these creatures were accustomed to cold weather and disappeared when the world warmed up. Mt. Mitchell in Western North Carolina is the highest peak in the Eastern part of the United States, rising to 6,684 feet. forward, his mouth twisted in an- ger nd the small red eyes flaming wit cage. “we ain't got too much likin’ f greasers here any time—an’ we shore don’t jike half-breeds that start shootin’ off their mouths once they got the wrinkles out of their belly, You come crawlin’ in- to this settlement with nothin’—” ‘TH sharp crack of her hand on «his stubbled face was like a pistol shot. It snapped the flow of abuse in midspate so that they stood facing each other in a sud- den tense circle of silence. He drew back his hand in the begin- ning of a blow and in the same instant the slim gleam of naked steel glittered in her hand. Swift- ly, effortlessly she moved forward, so suddenly that the sharp point of the blade was against his dirty shirt before he was poised to strike. “Would you?” she said softly. “Would you dare to strike against the steel?” Her lips had writhed back in a snarl of naked hate and her blue eyes challenged him like twin res. Slowly he looked down at the knife, and as he looked the strength seemed to drain out of him so that his shoulders drooped and his whole body seemed to shrink away from hers. He fell back a pace and the red eyes were haggard with fright. “Don’t cut me, Miss Toni! Please don’t cut me!” He turned suddenly and half stumbled, half fell down the steps behind him. There was a glimpse of his gray-stained face, turning for one quick look behind him, and then he was racing away be- side the building. There was no sound for an in- stant, and then Toni laughed. “A man!” she said contemptu- ously. “Madre de Dios—they call that a man in this pigsty of fools and thieves!” The knife had vanished as the fascinated stares of ward group of coarsely dressed louts. silently removed _corncob ‘that served a cork in the clay whi before him and meticu! filled both Dex’s waitii and his own, As he eyes uns) inquiry, “Toni O'Neill, us Dex “Toni Venita O'Neill: a rig! fine girl even if she has got @ we like a Mes ms like you an’ ought to get together. Fiona shore as ‘like as two peas it comes to dealin’ with th’ weleom- in’ committees we're with around these rts.’ “Why, yes,” he “T think of anything Te nae tight now than get with Toni Venita. aude J we like to take me over there and do the honors for us, Dex?” Standing close beside her, he was aware of a warmth and fra. grance that had been only gested from a distance. The so! glow beneath her cheeks and odor of strange flowers in her hai had suddenly transformed her to a woman, erasing the defiant; spitfire he had seen only @ few) moments before, Her bive Hl like bright flowers in the ‘ owed glow of her face, looked at) him searchingly, unsmiling, intent! with the realization that this was no chance meeting barren 6f meaning or significance. i “I have heard of you—and of your trouble here. I'am in your} debt, sefior, Will you accept my thanks?” He frowned a Bittle, “Your debt, sefiorita? There: isn’t any debt that I know any- thing about.” She smiled at him her eyes shifting from him to x ih a quick flicker of und “Dex has not told then. will, when he is ready, like, we can ride back quickly and inexplicably as it had |! appeared, and suddenly she was jain only a bizarre, exotically beautiful woman entering a littie back-country trading post under ACROSS: 33. Summoried in 1, High moun- a public in place 4 Kind of cloth * Metal-bearing 9. Tally 12, Chinese pagoda 18. Pertaining to “ man + ; hi 5 14 Philippine * we us pi na 4. 15. Not inherent 42, Worthless: 17, Lock opener Biblical 44. Atmosphere 18 Wine cask = 45. Cravat 19. Be defeated 47, Free from 21. Church dig- difficulties big 52. Vas 25. Wash tly 53. 28. Not cooked 54. Plaything through 55. River bottom 29. Sea eagles 56, Covered with 31. Compaeative a kind of endi coarse 32. gavern = aa did adda 208 2 FIELD AFTER INTERCEPTING THAT PASS! SENOR HARRY! ) CANT STOP! 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