The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 27, 1953, Page 10

Page 10 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Tuesday, January 27, 1953 | Widower Became Movie Actress At 61; Vitality Not Dimmed - OFFICIAL FOUND HANGED. John C. Montgomery, 41, chief of the State Department’s Finnish desk, was found hang- ed in home of Attorney A. Mar- vin Braverman in fashionable Georgetown section of Wash- ington,-D. C. Montgomery lived there.—(#) Wirephoto. SEC’Y OF INTERIOR BACK. AT DESK WASKEINGTON (®— Secretary of tie Interior Me‘fay, still a little weak after a boat with influenza, worked at his office Monday for the first time since being sworn in. The seeretary had a cold when he took bis oathat the White House y ° Cabinet members ‘sony and Friday, missing “mecting of the Eisenhower RUSSIAN EMBASSY TURNS i] wood, only to face the heartbreak By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD (#—What is left for a woman who is widowed at 62? ‘All I could look forward tc was a life of dinner parties and teas,” savs Mus. Gertrude Hoffman. “So I decided to be an actress.” That was almost 20 years ago. At 81, Mrs. Hoffman is still lead- | ing a busy life as a film actress, | and her friends and family never | cease to wonder. | For 38 years, she was happily | married to Ralph Hoffman, found- er of the Santa Barbara Museum | of Natural History. Then the nat- | uralist was killed during an exped- ition to Channel Islands off the! California coast. Her three chil- dren had grown and left home and | she couldn’t face an inactive life in Santa Barbara. “One of my daughters, who had been living in Europe, hurried home with the intention of making her home with me,” she recalled. “T had quite a time convincing her that I really wanted to go to Holly- wood to be an actress, Uusually it’s the other way around: The daughter wants to leave for the movie life.” So Mrs. Hoffman came to Holly- of most film newcomers, “For nine months, I: made the rounds of the studios,” she said. “I would get furious when a snip of a boy with his feet on a desk would say, ‘Nothing today, Ger- trude.’ They all told me I had to have an agent to get a job. The agents said I had to have a job to get an agent.” Finally. she landed a part in a Warner Oland fitm at RKO. From then on she earned a comfortable living with her portrayals of grande dames, although one of her most noted roles was a ‘ifer in the prison film: “Caged.””_ At 81, Mrs. Hoffman has started }a new career—IV. She has been | playing a leading role in the Gale Storm-Charlie Farrell series “My Little Margie.” This can lead to pretty strenuous things. In a recent chapter, she and Gale were crashing Hollywood. “Mrs. Hoffman was dressed in a clown’s out fit with a putty nose, and the. pair had to race down a studio THEM AWAY.—A New York group; calling to present a petition to Russian Ambassador Georgi Zaroubin, poses at the door of the Soviet embassy in Washington after being turned away. They carried a sign read- ing: “End Soviet Persecution of Jews.” Meanwhile, a black cat which wandered up the walk, heads toward the closed door. It didn’t get in either —(#) Wirephoto. IT's so IMPORTANT TO BE RIGHT In the wording, design and printing of the:for- mal Announcement or Invitation, it is of utmost importance correct form be served. Our familiarity established customs applying to all types of social printing is_at your command. We will be glad to make suggestions, show you samples and quote - all without the slightest obligation with the prices . on your part. DIAL 2.5661 the that ob EiSEWHOWER AND TAYLOR CONFER.—President Eisenhower and Lt..Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor confer at White House. Taylor is leaving Jan. 26 to take command of the Eighth Army in Korea as successor to Gen. James A. Van Fleet, who is retiring —-(P) Wirephoto. Earth Tremors DYERSBURG, Tenn. — Resi- dents in western Dyer County were startled by two minor earth tremors yesterday. No damage was reported. street and jump on a motor scoot- er. “I ran as fast as my legs would carry me,” said Mrs. Hoff- man. The rugged life doesn’t seem to dim her vitality. She drives her own car 20 miles to the studio daily and drives the 2¥-hour jaunt to visit her daughter in Santa Barbara several times yearly. On the day I saw her, she had been up since 6 a.m. studying her lines for the next “Margie” show. Grounded Fleet To Fly Again LONDON, #—The British Over- seas Airways Corporation says its grounded fleet of 10 stratocruisers will be flying again in a few days. BOAC announced American air- craft experts, flown here to inspect the liners’ Pratt and Whitney engines, had determined faulty lubrication caused the 15 engine failures which resulted in ground- ing of the planes Jan. 22. The line’s announcement said suspicions of sabotage had been ruled out. By DOROTHY ROE AP Women's Editor A man who should understand women is Phil Meyers of Cincin- nati, who employs 50,000 of them and sells dresses to millions throughout the United States- and nearly 40 foreign countries. But Phil is still learning. The ’ latest thing he learned is that ron 3 can’t expect several thousand girl office workers to type up orders for millions of dresses every year and never seen the darn thirgs. | These frustrated females recent- ly complained to the boss that if he expected the office workers for Fashion Frocks, Inc., to retain their sanity, then, by golly, he’d better produce some of the dresses they were always writing about. The upshot is that a unique fashion show will.be staged next week in the business offices of the firm in Cincinnati, with secre- taries, stenographers, clerks and bookkeepers modeling the clothes. A special runway will be erected across the sea of desks, and‘ the girls who have been building up complexes will get a chance to express themselves at last, and actually wear those fashions which thus far have just been numbers on an.order blank. The office staff members ‘are training. for the big show at a series of évening classes (for which they are paid overtime), and in- structors from modeling schools have been engaged to teach the IN GERMANY, a radio-relay team makes adjustments of its transmitter. On the left is Cpl. Bill Browlie, 506 Grinnell Street, Key West, and on the right is Sgt. Henry E. Holton, Jr., 1216 N. 15th Avenue, Birmingham, Ala. The Signal Corps men are members of the 28th Infantry Division ,and are attached to the 112th Infantry Regiment.—U.S. Army Photo. free buffet lunch and even an orchestra, i More than 100 dresses will be Chinese Girls Make Occupation Marriages girls how to walk, turn, make up| modeled—from house dresses to| NEW DELHI, India #—Nearly and so on. cocktail and evening frocks—and 500 Communist Chinese girls from During the performance ofjafter it is all over Meyers feels |‘‘cultural squads” attached to the “Styles in the Aisles,” work will be abandoned for the afternoon and the steno-models will parade that the air should be cleared. The Romans used glass for win- Chinese Army have made “occupa- tion marriages” with~ Tibetan youths, the newspaper Times of before an audience of fellow work-|dows, but there is much debate | India reported. ers. The company will provide a about how extensively it was used. 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