The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 3, 1953, Page 8

THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Tuesday, February 3, 1953 FLASH GORDON FLASH! WE COULD ALL GO HUNTING AND FISHING | THREE BE TOGETHER — AN’ HAVE. THE PHANTOM THE WHOLE THING 4, SOUNDED PHONY. SILENT, OULL SERVANTS. I AM > LONELY. q y\ THAT WE ARE QUICK, SOMEBOD’ (COUGH) ... GET AG CREW... CRASH CREW. THE ROCKETSHIP.. LETS HAVE A LOOK ATCOME am OF THE OTHER ISLANDS. T WATCHED YOU CAREFULLY. WHEN YOU ARRIVED. L DECIDED, UTHIS MAY J I _——— FOR.’ = AND IF YOU DECIDE THAT I"MNOT TH RIGHT ONE? ALL RIGHT, BUT ONE SUSPICIOUS: MOVE, AND MANEATER = BELIEVE pole gs WAS MORE Z ASSURE YOU, MADAME, \ CAN WE COME LecitiMate | DOWN? T DON'T GIVE A HOOT HOW GREAT YE ARE, CAUNKY-- WHAT ARE YE DOIN’ DOWN HERE 'N GOOTIN' HOLLER ? 2v Lee Falk and Wilson McCoy |P' MANS WAS CLOSE? cy H $0} ) THEN THOSE CALLTI THAT ( HIP-HIP. By Lee Falk and Phil Davis YOU'LL BECOME ONE OF --WHOM THE NATIVES HE LIVING-DEAD’--AND L’LL FORGET YOU EXIST. ‘ ARN, TH' SHIF'LESS SKONK'S A REVENOOER!! By John Cullen Murphy By Fred Lasswell (THE GIANT by Edna Ferber, novel published by Doubleday Pub- lishing Co., New York City, 447 pages). If this book is any - evidence, Miss Ferber has tangled unfortu- nately with two kinds of Texas wind - the kind that blows up from the prairies and makes the Tex- ans nervous and edgy, and the kind the Texans blow up verbally when they talk about their out- size state. She also seems to have had un- Jr fried food, and cows and oil wells! The author uses the excellent fictional device cf moving a stranger into the milieu which she wishes to show to her readers. Les- lie Lynnton, the highly intelligent daughter of a Virginia doctor mar- ries Jordan Benedict, a Texas cattleman, and goes as a bride to Reata Ranch. In the course of twenty-five years, as her two children, Jordy and Luz grow up, Leslie looks at Texas for the reader. Other ranch- ers and their wives are introduced into the story, her husband’s re- latives and the Mexican servants and vanqueros. But before the reader gets into this, the first 65 pages describe the coming together of prominent Texans to celebrate the opening of a new airport. They are today’s Texans who live in a world of pri- vaté airplanes, bourbon’ whiskey and millions made in cattle and oil. The effectiveness of this device of the introduction of ‘a current incident and then the cutback is questionable. This reviewer be- came intensely interested only when the cutback began, with Les- lie Lynnton coming to Texas as a bride. She had to go back and re- read the first 65 pages again in order to get the complete pattern of the book. If this is a universal experience, Miss Ferber might as well have told her story chrono- logically straight. As to the truth of the picture which the author gives of Texas during the past quarter century as oil began to make inroads on the massive cattle ranches, this re- viewer cannot judge. But if. any judgement is to be passed on these people for their treatment of the Mexican minority from whom they took the land, and for the small dictatorships they set up on their | ranches, it is a judgement which must be passed against man in many parts of the world, Men have always abused power, sometimes with viciousness and sometimes with a blind noncomprehension of what they were doing. Time and the younger generation in this book seems to be adjusting mat-! ters very nicely when the book leasant experiences with Texas! PROMISE OF DELIGHT TANCA said in surprise, “You * still want him? You are still in love with him? After all these years.” Her shoulders went up. “Tf I felt so, I would go after him. I would not sit and eat my heart out. What good to anyone are dreams?” She went on rumi- natively, “It is strange that I, Bi- anca, who do not love him, should be with him always, When I was ill, and in trouble, without money, I went to.him, and because I came from his village, he helped me and -gave me a home. I am grateful. The other women come and go, and yet I, Bianca, always stay,” she said with sudden, sharp shrewdness, “But still, you would not.like Anthea to know of this?” Marian said indifferently, “Even that, I don’t know. A month ago I could. not have borne that she should know. And yet if I had told her then, I might have broken off this thing between her and Joe Carlotti. She asked me for a reason. That was my rea- son, my fear that the son would be like the father, and I could not tell her. Now I see that per- haps she is right to take a risk for happiness. I don’t know.” She opened her bag, took out a thousand-frane note and gave it to Bianca, saying, “I’m sorry, Bi- anca, that you've had all this trouble for nothing.” 4 “But what are you going to lo?” “I don’t know. Stay here for a while. I would like to see Mar to talk with him, to out if it meant anything to him. Bianca said, “Sometimes, quite often, he is alone. In the evenings after dinner, when the young people go to swim or to Cann Sometimes he does not w go to the café, and he sits 2 plays cards along, and tt about his work, the story he 1 making, all by himseif. On c such evening, I id phone. .. .”. She finge € thousand-frane note, making it crackle. “You could take a bus, Kiner Trade | Is Talked At Baseball Meet By ORLO ROBERTSON NEW YORK (#—If Ralph Kiner, the National League’s home run king for the last seven years, leaves the Pittsburgh Pirates he | will,.in all probability, don the uni- form-of either the Cincinnati Reds or the Boston Braves. ‘Out of the wave of reports cir- culated during the major league meetings here ‘over the weekend came these two definite facts con- | ends. And another interesting point to remember is that the same sec- tions of the world have very often been simultaneously interpreted sympathetically and otherwise by two different authors. In American cerning a deal for the 30-year-old | slugger: 1. The Reds have offered Pitts.) burgh five players, valued by Vice President Gabe Paul of Cincinnati | at $300,000, for Kiner. 2. The Braves have handed | » | evening, By Mary Howard © and come out to speak to him.” Marian looked at her, at the stubby brown hands holding the money, smiled bitterly, and said, “All right. Do that. I'll give you another thousand francs when you do. You can’t frighten me any more, Bianca.” She went up the stairs to her room, leaving Bianca glowerin, after her. Presently the servant went off, carrying her basket, along the narrow cobbled street between the shuttered houses, tucking the money away in her apron pocket... . TT evening at Cannes went according to plan, apart from the intrusion of the amiable Mr. Donati. He joined the party, to the fury of Ivor Street, and the amused interest of Joe and Anthea. Gina liked to have two or even more strings to her bow, and purred like a Persian queen because she had two men snarling across her for possession. “This,” whispered Joe, “let’s us out, darling Anthea.” And so it did, and they danced each dance together after that. There was a beautiful floor, and a first-class band, and Anthea found just how well Joe could | dance, and he told her, his chin touching the top of her smooth brown head, that she danced quite beautifully, “for such a little creature.” Anthea forgot the time, and forgot the small, secret doubts that had beset her earlier in the until midnight. They were ‘ing together on the ter- race, as a clock struck a silvery chime. She looked up, and said regretfully, “We must find Gina, and go.” Jce took her hare, spreading small bare fingers out on his nd; he took the other, the hand, and looked at it. “No ings on her fingers.” He glanced down at the bare brown feet, smell and perfect in the white to sandals, “None on her toes. You never wear jc \ Anthea? Why not?” | | yy, “I haven't got any,” she said simply, and suddenly the memor of the pearls round Gina’s nec! hung pale & again, like a chain around her heart. “What stones would suit you?” He was speaking quite lightly. “Not diamonds. Rubies? Emere alds? If you could choose, what would you like? Pearls?” She said unthinkingly, with a little touch of irony, “You seem to like giving pearls to people.” He said, “I suppose you mean Gina’s necklace? Did she tell you?” Anthea nodded, and he laughed, and touched her ear with his lips, whispering, “Were you very jeale ‘ous, darling Anthea?” “Tm only human,” said Ane thea in a small voice, “and as female as the next woman. I can be as suspicious as anyone, once I set my mind to it.” “All right.” he said, “this is how it was. Mario bought it. You know how she opens her mouth like a cuckoo-chick, and says, IT want that!’ It might be a race- horse, a diamond, a fur coat—or a man. She said, ‘I want some pearls.’ Mario gave me the money, and told me to drive into Cannes and get the cheapest cultured pearls I could buy, and to give them to her, and tell her to prom= ise to be a good girl until he'd got the film in the can. That was yesterday. She was behaving like a fiend, He said, ‘Better let her have the pearls, or else she will fe off with someone like young ulac, who will give them to her, or stay up all night trying to win the price of some at the Casinot” id you -believe her when she said I gave them to her?” “What could I believe?” “Do you believe me, when I say I didn’t?” She touched his face with a gentle, troubled touch, and he caught her hand. “I always want to believe you, Joe,” she said se- ru . (To be continued) regularly for Pittsburgh. And he | od icat K’ner’s reported salary ‘of $90,000 last year doesn’t worry uum even though the figures show | Ralph never has hit well in Cin- cinnati’s Crosley Field. “Any investment that pays a div- idend is a good investment,” Paul said. “Kiner would more than make up for his salary by his ability to draw people in at the gate. “If Kiner doesn't pan out with our club, he’s stili a good com- modity for another club that can | use his talents. He’s definitely worth a gamble.” ° Paul hastened to explain, how- | Kiner merely for trading mater- \ ial. John Quinn, general manager of the Braves, said he had tajked with Rickey about Kiner and turned over a long list of players for study. “If he is interested in any of them, then we'll tell him how many we are willing to trade for Kiner,” Quinn added. Jcée Black of the Dodgers needed 154 innings, or eight more than he pitched, to lead the National League officially in least earned |Tuns last year. His ERA was 2.15, Giant Hoyt Wilhelm led the league ever, that the Reds don’t want with 2.43 based on 159 innings. literature the pictures which Willa | Branch Rickey, general manager Cather and Hamland Garland give |of the Pirates, a long list of play- of the same section of middle|ers whom they are willing to in-| = America is one of the striking ex-|clude in a deal for the home run , amples. hitter. j (MR. PICKWICK by Stanley} There were other reports the Young, comic play freely drawn|Brooklyn Dodgers and the Phila- from Charles Dickens’ Pickwick delphia Phillies also were inter- Papers, published by Random ested in Kiner but they were de- House, New York City, 181 ages.)|nied by top club officials. And Mr. Pickwick, the baywindowed }still another had Wid Mathews, By George McManus MAKE ME Sick! GET OF THAT CHAIR! ALL ee NOw T WANT WL. ON MR. Cal - LAIT-HE'S A GUSNESS MAN you TO SEE A MAN WHO 1S ACTIVE IN BUSINESS- : Laughton have been giving read- balding gentleman created nearly a century ago by Charles Dickens, is enjoying a revival. Actors of the renown of Charles ings from him on the radio and television. During the spring of last year, he made the Westminis- ter theatre in London, and on Sep- personnel director of the Chicago | Cubs, offering $200,000. The offers of the Reds and Braves fit in with Kickey’s pattern of disposing of top-notch players just a little past their peak and rebuilding with younger talent. | Rickey. the pastmaster at double | talk, declined to say what, players tember 17 he opened on Broad- way at the Plymouth theater. And nobody deserves more to be dramatized than does Mr. Pick- wick. He is a natural hero of comedy, and his half wistful half | absurd charm has maintained for By Paul Robinson |"¢4rly a century. ae ot ye eta nape This play is an excellent way of igs oes Sn = onrs making Mr. Pickwick a little easier |*5 #00ther 24 hours to swallow for the reader accus-| ‘I am not interested in class. 1 tomed to the economical prose of |W@nt young players who can help the 20th century. While the leisure- | U5. That. is the only reason Kiner ly pace of Charles Dickens is pecu-|i8 0n the market.” liarly suited to the peregrinations| Paul: declined to identify the of the Pickwickians, a lot of/Reds’ players but said they were, modern readers shun anything lei-| all highly regardea and could play | surely despite its quality. —_h ~ The story and the characters do |ed to play up in the *ir'r on not suffer at all by this placing of |things which would be most in- the incidents in dramatic form. |teresting to Mr. Young has managed to <etain and readers. the essential essences of Pickwick} This reviewer's ety ro and his friends, and of Sam Weller the play is that the lady in the and the ladies. He has also manag [yellow curipapers was not inciudeu had been offered or even with w clubs ‘he had discussed a possil deal. } “Let's put it this way,” said; Rickey. “A deal for Kiner definite- ly. is contemplated and is nearer WITH THE SODA SET JAMMING HIS PLACE, OLO MAN GiBBLETT- SMILES HAPPILY AS 2 _| BUSIWESS Buzzes ~ Bur WAIT! WHAT GOERS? COME 7HE KINER REJECTS BIG SALARY CUT—Ralph Kiner. who say he won't stand still for the 25 per cent sa t Pirates want him to take, talks over th the forme meena ¥ cut the Pit *h ituation with his wife, Spr. Cait Kiner says Nancy Chaffee, at their hor a Pa The home run king's 1952 salary was $90,000 s a cut, but not for 25 per cent e run hilt moucra i he ex- average and 247 and His batuing ng dropped off last yea: Wirephots, slumping to -HTLOTS. By Roy Gotto| THE CISCO KID ‘ose Salinas and fied Reed