The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 5, 1953, Page 2

THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Is Problem Of Chuck Connors By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD ® — Tall, rangy Chuck Connors is faced with a de- cision: He’s either going to pursue @ movie-acting career or continue as first baseman for the Los An- geles Angels. Pretty soon the baseball star will have to decide. Spring prac- tice is just around the corner. But he’s leaning toward a choice of the movie life. “I’m in the twilight of my base- ball ecareer—I'll goon be 32,’’ re- marked Chuck, who played for the Brooklyn Dodgers and Chicago Cubs in other years. “‘At best, I'll have two or three years left in baseball. Supposing I get hurt this year, as I did a season ago. The Angels would have every right in the world to drop me from the team.” - The movie outlook seems bright- ér. He is playing his fifth screen role, his biggest part to date. He has the third most important role in “Sulu Sea” with Burt Lancaster and Virginia Mayo. “It’s a terrific part,” enthused Chuck, a talkative man who sounds like a baliplayer out of Ring Lard- ner, except that he’s shrewder. His sense of economics is causing him to favor grease paint over the baseball diamond. “The baseball season is 26 weeks, including spring practice,” MEET THE LA CONCHA HOTEL'S NEW RESTAURANT PERSONNEL Pierre, who supervises the pre- Paration of our delicious food, has been associated with many of the finest hotels from Maine to Florida. You are cordially invited to dine in the charming at- re of our Rainbow Room. Enjoy the delicious foods Prepared by our new staff. LA CONCHA HOTEL This is the te Our tow’s Edition of The Citizen. OPENING MONDAY Second of a Series of Ads to intreduce you New Restaurant Staff. Watch for More In Tomor- LA CONGA Thursday, February 8, 1953{he said. “fT am making as much Acting Versus Baseball from seven weeks on this picture as I do during a full season for the Angels. “I love baseball, but I’ve got two sons who love to eat, and an- other one on the way.” I hazarded a guess that the hours were nice in baseball. That was a mistake. He remarked that he is gone from his house from 4 in the afternoon to 1 in the morn- ing on week days and Saturdays and for about 12 hours on Sundays. It’s a 60-mile round trip to Wrigley Field for him. He added that he is on the road two weeks out of every month. Chuck’s advent to the movies is in keeping with the Hollywood leg- end. He was picked right off the baseball diamond. Baseball fan Billy Grady, head of MGM casting, was impressed with Connors’ clownish antics and offered to test him for pictures. The ballplayer tried out for the punchy fighter in “‘Pat and Mike,” but lost the part to Aldo Ray. How- ever, he landed a role as an ar- resting cop and had a fat scene in the station house. “I had to take cues from nine different people in that scene,” said Chuck as proudly as though he had belted out three jhomers in one game (which he did for the Angels). Although he had never acted be- fore, he was no stranger before diences, ‘I've done a lot of after-dinner speaking,” remarked the Brooklyn boy. “I recite a real corned-up version of ‘Casey at the Bat,’ and it usually gets some laughs. “I’ve always liked to do things with my voice, It all stems back to when I was taking an elocution course at Seton Hall University. I wasn’t taking much interest in the class; so the teacher taunted me into entering @ contest. I delivered Vachel Lindsay’s ‘Congo’ and won.” Chuck is an energetic fellow who will probably succeed whether he chooses baseball or the movies, And he won’t be lost if either of those fail. He also sells insurance for two top companies. © It was all I could do to convince him I was well covered. RUGS CLEANED All Permal Garments chemically processed. All work guaranteed and fully insured, POINCIANA DRY CLEANERS 218 Simonton St. 4 FEB. 9TH THINKS SHE’S IN SUBWAY Feminine Dog Fan Has System For Wagering|Waste By AF. BY JAXON Like most everyone else in Key West, I wouldn’t have missed the opening of that Dog Track for any- thing in the world. So, arrayed in my best bib and ticker, out I-went at 8 P. M. on Saturday night. At first I though I’d wandered into a New York subway by mistake. You just don’t get in the gate until you put a coin in the turnstile, and it takes a two bit piece at that. Of course, along with other curious people I had been out to the track several times before, but much to my surprise, those little pens down front were supposed to be for people, not dogs. Then, also being very wise in the ways of racing, I knew that the little pens down the track where they shut the doggies up before each race is the starting gate. What I’ll never understand however is why they have that race before the doggies run when the red coated attendants run mad- ly up the track, and why they al- ways let the same one win. Doesn’t that make the others rather dis gusted with the whole thing? Of course there’s no use even watching a race if you’re not bet- ting. . .either where they take your money, or at least the price of a hot dog with a companion. This is where I found oui that you can lose money faster than a wo- man can spend it in a dress shop. | ed. Now I thought that I was a pretty 00d picker. The method is to wad your program up in a ball and Poke the little pencil they give you through it in two places. When you unfold your program, this Sives you first and second winners and lets you bet “Quinielas” which are a manner of betting and not a new flavoring. I didn’t believe very much in picking my doggies that way until I found that the first six races came out exactly as I had picked. So I tried to put 50c on British Isle in the seventh and found I would either have to find a partner with the other dollar and a half, or pay it myself. Those little slips of paper cost two dol- lars apiece. Of course British Isle went “Thataway” and I keep won- dering if he ever did get to bed that night. Well I found out that my method only works on the first six races and after that you're are on your own. I tried to find out other people’s methods and encountered a strange jargon that must have some meaning, but which will have to be translated, studied and learn- Another phenomenon is the way ithe air around those oddly marked. windows affects people. You see them all heading in the same direction. . towards the windows. Each one has a fistful of green money. As they get closer, they get a queer glazed expression in their eyes and they breathe like a run- ner after a fast mile. Coming away they finger the little cardboard and look thoughtful and vaguely un- easy. Then as the race is run they verge on hysteria which can end only two ways. They slump down in what looks like partial collapse or they take off in a dead run for the little windows I haye come the dog races. and they ought to feed them more. Those poor dog- gies sure look awful thin. hungry. SIGN OF IRONY—The sign in the background lends an ironic touch as blanket-wrapped refu- gees are evacuated from Jay Wick, near Clacton, England, in the wake of Europe’s greatest storm i CELEBRITY CLUB Featuring Your Favorite Pair Dial 2-7632| and flood disaster in centuries. The death toll has mounted past the 1,500 mark.—(P) Wiréphoto. 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Price Administrator Joseph Freehill acknowledged that a de- control order, including meat, will be touched on in a statement this week. He said it is part of Eisen- hower’s program, revealed public- ly in his State of the Union mes- Sage to Congress Monday, to “eliminate controls in an orderly manner and to erminate special agencies no longer needed for this Purpose.” Eisenhower said then he would | seek the end of price-wage-mater- jials controls, except for scarce items needed for defense, when | authority for them expires April | 30. The decontrol order expected |tomorrow would just about end Price ceilings on wearing apparel. It would lift the lid on children’s ances as stoves, refrigerators and | Now In Third Phase gre a fest woul the rd, from sogky __ to, butcher, ‘and would inc! ie nat the onl ymeat not now well. below ceiling prices. Lamb, mutton and pork prices are controlled now only at retail. 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