The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 21, 1953, Page 8

Page 8 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Wednesday, Ja FLASH GORDON KNOCKED OUT, MARK ON HIS JAWS THE WHAT'S THAT SIGNATURE ? Z\ “CAPTAIN THADDEUS BOLT’! SAY, WASN/T THAT YOUR THIS IS GOODBYE. I'M ENGAGED TO CHARLES’ IMEAN, “S PRACTICALLY- QONE MISSED \ ANOTHUN ONES £ By Lee Falk and Wilson McCoy RADIOMANS KNOCKED] [S0<YOU WERENT fel! REPEAT+< CE eID (T? THAT MEANS gut |BLUFFING? YOU FQ YOULLFIND HE MAY HAVE ray OUT OUT. A RADIO MESS. OUT,COLD# SKULL NO, IT-IS-CHANGED. YOU ~WILL-NOT-EAT~YET. BUT YOU TOLD ME T.MUST. BESIDES, T'M HUNGRY NOW, SO HERE GOES-- HOUR PASSES:| BUT THESE / OF COURSE! BEN, CiuES... / MY BOY, THAT TREAS- THEY HARDLY SOUND LIKE! | URE IS ACTUALLY HOEGAKE -- DON'T NE CRAVE TO HEAR ABOUT--UH-- (1M A SUCKE sce isT CONTINUOUS P' CANT, UNNUH- STAN’ IT, FELLUKS .. AK AINT SUNK A SINGLE Swor by A. de T. Gingras (THREE TO BE ‘AD, . three mystery stories, iy hae “wiley, Published by Rinehart and Com- pany, Ine. New York City, 312 Pages.) Mr. Wiley uses south Florida as the setting for these long stories which first appeared in Saturday Evening Post. “The Smuggled Atom Bomb” is a spy yarn, and brings the villain right into the midst of a very law-abiding American household near Miami Beach. Mowing, lawns and peeling pota- toes goes on in the midst of uran- ium hoarding and secret meetings of subversives. The principal. character is. a favorite type of American fiction hero. He is awkward, scholarly, Chapter 12 flushed angrily. A girl you want. A potential angel, might be a great saint or a great st And she'll be very difficult to find.” ‘The two men were both looking at her intently now. “Go on,” said Joe,’ and she glanced at him, saw the smili encouragement in her eyes, ant with a sudden lift of her heart knew that she had understood, and that what she was saying was important to them all. “There are women,” she said slowly, “in fact and in fiction, whose beauty and vitality are ir- resistible. The du Plessis, Carmen, kind - a Cinderella type of fellow whose talents take a long time to be recognized by the heroine and everybody else. Secret trips to Baltimore and New York, night visits to the ware- houses of giant trucking com- Panies, a. rendezvous with a white Russian college widow, a mad sailing to the Bahamas, and the explosion of an atom Yomb, are all included in the swift action pattern of the tale. The only thing which seems un-} convincing to this reviewer is one of the villains, During the cdurse of a lifetime he is not rewarded, and the author has not shown a sufficient motivation for his fanatic brooding desire to destroy. The second story “Sporting Blood” involves Crunch and Des, two characters already introduced by Mr. Wiley in other stories. These two fishing guides of south- ern Florida waters get mixed up with a family of sporting blue- bloods. , “Experiment in Crime,” the third story, takes a young man normally untouched by any but the most usual occurrences, and living in the very familiar milieu of a university in Miami, and tosses him into a cops and robbers tale. Suddenly revealed to the young college professor hero is a world of vice and dangerous romance which has never been revealed in either his lectures, or his text- books on the stupidity of criminals. JUNIOR SELECTIONS (PUSS IN BOOTS, by Charles Per- rault, pictures by Marcia Brown, translation of old French tale, pub- lished by Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York City.) Even more famous than the Giant’s seven league boots and Cinderella’s slipper, are Puss’s boots! Scribners offers English-reading children Puss in a bright new cherry-colored version of his boots, and a crimson plume to match. The tale starts with the three inevitable sons of the fairy tale pattern of the western world. Their father is a miller, and when he dies, the eldest son gets the mill, the second, the ass, and the young- est, the cat. And from then on, it is up to Puss to see that the third son receives as acceptable a heritage as the other two. And so Puss and his master move through adventures involving a beautiful princess, golden coach- es and castles. And everything winds up with the youngest’ son, as the Marquis de Carabas, walking off with the happy ending and the hand of the princess tucked under: his arm. Which brings this reviewer to a comment on the infiuence of fairy tale patters. If the first and second sons, or the first or second daugh- ters of families in the western world have a subconscious guilt complex, it has, something to do with these once-upon-a-time tales. And if the youngest son or daugh- ter are early convinced the world is their peculiar brand of oyster all opened and dripped in butter, the fairy tale is also to blame. The third and youngest of the traditional once-upon-a-time ‘three always walks off with the gravy, the meat and the jam. The two oldest, whether they be Cinderella’s step-sisters or the two in this tale who get the mill and the ass, are destined to be unbeautiful and no darlings of fortune. (HIGH WATER AT CATFISH BEND by Ben Lucien Burman, illustrations by Alice Caddy, child’s book, published by Julian} Messner, Inc., New York City, 121 Pages.) While this story doesn’t reach the caliber of Wind In the Willows | or Bambi, Mr. Burman demon-| strates a very nice gift of per- sonification in his attribution of human qualities to his animals. Besides, the animals have a Manon, Ninon de Lenclos, Lady Hamilton, Lola Montez. This girl must be of that type, and she must be able to act that girl before life has touched her, and also the three women these men make of her, It’s going to be difficult to find someone so young, and yet so clever.” “I think Anthea’s got our diffi- culty, Papa,” Joe said quickly. “It's the old story of Juliet. By the time an actress Mario brought his hand sharply |, down on the table so that the cof- ‘fee cups rattled in their saucers. “That one there,” he pointed to Anthea with his thumb and a comprehensive gesture of his head, “she has that,—but not quite what strike like a blow. Innocent, and yet voluptuous.” For Spence Anthea was em- barrassed, until Joe’s appraising eyes made her laugh. He shook his head. “No, Anthea wouldn't do. Too much intelligence, too much sense of humor. You stick to the secretary idea, Anthea. I’ll show you how he ‘needs you.” He reached over a long arm to a-desk by the wall, and pulled it open. An avalanche of letters, bills and By JAMES BACON (For Bob Thomas) HOLLYWOOD, (#--Sad news to- day from Groucho Marx, who is seldom sad, even for a comic. The Marx Brothers will never perform again as a team, predicts Groucho. That is sad, because the Marx Brothers at their zaniest would make Martin and Lewis appear like. temperance lecturers. “The same people who yell for us to appear again as a team are the same ones who would be the first to holler, "Why did they have to bring those guys back?’” Groucho says. Groucho adds that he and his brothers believe it is better to follow the old vaudeville maxim— “Always leave them laughing.” Besides, both he and Harpo are well fixed financially. “Chico is broke, of course, but that’s not news. If that guy made $10,000 a day, he’d sperd $10,000. That’s his life. He’s happy. What puzzles me is that he sleeps better at night than I do.” Groucho has one of the softest touches in television and radio. His quiz show, “‘You Bet Your Life,” is telecast simultaneously, It requires little time on Groucho’s part. He says that after 22 years, he |finally has completed the cycle of peculiar American’ folk quality about them, a shot of Davey Croc- which makes them very amusing. Mr. Burman’s principal animal figures include a raccoon, a rabbit, a fox, a snake and a frog. His device of throwing them together is a flood on the Mississippi river when they all have to seek the same bit of high ground, in order to survive. Each animal is afraid of one of the others. Yet they put asidé their fears and cooperate in a way which puts some human efforts in this direction to shame. Together they go down the swollen river to New Orleans in a shanty boat on a mission to per: suade the human farmers to get together on building some Jevees on Catfish Bend to prevent fur: ther flood disasters. Alice Caddy’s black and white line drawings are quite in tune with the character cf the animals, and the thread of humor and wis jdom which runs through Mr. Bur. iman’s text. SHERIFF, 1 GOING TO TELL YOU HOW YOu CAN PROVE WHO KILLED GYPSY JOE. 7: know exactly what kind of or a potential devil. A girl who is -clever/ enough to play it, she’s too old to} look it.” I want—the sex-appeal tMat must | Groucho Says Marx Brothers Will-Never Perform As Team and broadcast | ket and another of Brer Rabbit, | By Mary Howard papers tumbled out on to the floor. “Paid, unpaid bills, letters ‘all unanswered,” he said. “May I start sorting them,” she asked, “when I’ve finished my shorthand test?” — went into the sitting room with Mario, and he gave her some dozen or so letters. He did not dictate them properly, but merely ferreted through the ca- pacious pockets 6f his suit, or through the brief case he had brought with him from the car. Letters from his company, his producer, leading actors and ac- tresses wanting parts, friends, |tradesmen, none of them an- sweéred, He stuck a great pair of horn-rimmed glasses on his nose, glanced at the letters briefly, and handed them to her, with a casual, “Tell him this. ... Tell her no... . See if this is paid.” Anthea took | them quickly, scribbling his in- structions down in shorthand on the reverse side of the letters. When he had finished she rose | with the pile of letters in her | hand, and weut to the door. “I'll get Joe to show me where his typewriter is,” she said quietly. “Til have these finished by the time you get back tonight.” He looked over the top of his spectacles with his strange smile, } a smile of unexpectedly innocent | friendliness that was both appeal- | ing and heart-warming. “I need someone very much,” he said, “When could you come?”, Tomorrow? Passport? Packing? She had her passport, and she | could pack. “T can start next week,” she | said. “I have been ; oes today to interview you, but I have a week | longer at the céfice. I can start and |be ready to go anywhere next | Monday, and I can come in every | evening for letters until then. Wil) that do?” “Forget the week. You work for your father, don’t you? He won't! mind.” “T'm sorry,” Anthea said firmly. “I couldn’t do that.” He smiled, rose, and patted her PROMISE OF DELIGHT shoulder. “It is very good,” he | said. “If you will not let him down, you will not let me do This is what I want; someone | can trust. Finish your week, then come to me. If I have found my Pierette by then, I shall be off to France, and you will come too, | with Bianca and Joe? I will pay wages. Five pounds a week. I do \that because I.do not work with the same company always, and when I move on, then I like to take my secretary with me. You will live with us en famille, and |the company will pay your ex- Penses and fares.” Anthea’s heart stood still. She said, “Do you mean that I'll do? | That you’ve made up your mind | already =to engage me, without | seeing how I do these letters?” “Yes,” he said, and once again came that’strange appealing smile, “you'll do. Many people one can j love, and many people there are | to hate. But people one can like }and. trust—those are the ones to Work with.” He patted her shoul- |der again. “Go and tell Joe 'm jready. We must go up to town.” She found Joe in his bedroom, It was neat with a ship’s cabin | Sort of tidiness. No frills of any kind. There was a typewrter on j the desk in the good light near a window overlooking the garden, and as she knocked, and went in in answer to his call, he was. tak- ing a manuscript out of the m chine, and putting it away in a folder. He looked up at her eager- ly. “Well?” r “I seem to be engaged already.” “I knew he'd like you. What do j you think of him?” Anthea put her work down on* the desk. , “I like him. He’s not at all as I imagined him, He’s so warm and friendly—like you.” His arm went round her shoulders, and she put up her lips for his kiss. “This is j no way for a secretary to behave,” she said quickly. “I'm to tell you j he's ready to go.” (To be continued) he Easterners who move to Cali- fornia. z “When you first come out here, you buy a home on a mountaintop, install indirect lighting so you can ‘better enjoy the view at night. You look at the view just once, “Next, you live at the beac Before long the Waves are break- jing in your living room. “So you move .9 a “>on home. The storms come in the winter and wash your neighbor's house on top of yours. “Finally, you buy a house on a nice, quiet street like this. (in Beverly Hills) where the milkman comes évery morning and the kids play with the kids next door just Wichita.” His home is large but not over! large, in the movie star traditic ACROSS 1, Wonder 4 Sour 8. Laterai* 2. Patriotic or- ganization: abbr. Bacchanalian Reward of cry 14. Arabian merit chieftain Icelandic saga 15, King of iNars | idian Newly mar- 16. Inclined waik tied man 17. European 18. Drink slow!; ; Roman’ road . Part 13. Summon . Redact . Poorly Arabian seaport instrument . Former Rus- Sian ruler Garden plots UAT irl aan Jee ri Trl a 2 a J888 He had a big house once but got rid of.it after an incident that almost scared the pants off him. He was way off in a back bed- room strumming his guitar when the door creaked and he looked up to confront a giant. monster. It was his friend, Boris Karloff, made up for the first time as Frankenstein. Karloff had driven across town from the studio in the monster get-up just to/play a gag. ema maid let him in just be- |fore she fainted,’ recalls Groucho. | ebsiecaagpeiasrieniies |TRAIN WRECK CAUSED BY BELOW ZERO SNAP SIOUX LOOKOUT, Ont. @—A ;10-car Montreal-t¥innipeg train de- jrailed Tuesday, killing a railroad worker end iviticine come Officials of the Canadian Nation- , ‘i rail snapped in the 14-below cold. 1 Ghost River, jabout 140 miles north of the Min- like they do in Philadelphia or jnesota border, Doctors and murses sred there from other points in ness. Cros d Puzzle Solution of Yesterday's Puzzie 56. Anarchists Heather ke —— Gull-like bira . Expert ringed Billows dunsier Lukewarm Observed Obtruded necessity By means ot Rains hard Between: pretie