The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 12, 1953, Page 6

T WATCH You RACE! You V7 VEREE CLEVAIR ORivaiR! SO f HAVE ZEE JOB FoR -|HOLLYWOOD By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD ‘® — Marjorie Rambeau, vivacious star of 50 years on the stage and screen, today told how she found faith aftér a highway accident that nearly cost her life. A chance meeting with Western stars Roy Rogers and Dale Evans changed the course of her life, said the actress, who will be 64 next month. The story begins in 1945, when the successful character actress was driving home from work with her Sister. A truck smashed into their car, then drove away. The sister was killed. Miss Ram- beau’s face was slashed and her leg was crushed. The driver of the truck was never identified. Plastic surgery restored her famous face. Many months later, she managed to return to acting with the aid of a cane. But she had no hip socket, and her leg began getting shorter. A year and a half ago, she began a series of three operations to arrest this condition. During one seven-hour session, she was on the operating table, so long that the surgeon fainted, “I was feeling pretty low after the operations,” she related. “‘then one night I went to a birthday party at Jack Oakie’s house. Din- ner was late, and I: ate too fast. I fainted dead away.- It scared everyone, and they took me to a bedroom and sent for my doctor. “After the doctor left, Roy and NoduOD HSV13 WOLNVHd 4AHL casually, and we talked for a while. They asked if I would like to attend a meeting of the Holly- wood Christian Group. I hesitated. Although I had always been as- sured before the footlights, I had always been shy about meeting strangers. But I said I would come.” |. The Hollywood Christian Group is composed of film workers like the Rogers, Jane Russell, Colleen Townsend, Connie Haines and Porter Hall. They meet each Mon- day night to discuss religion and listen to ministers, rabbis and other religious leaders. Miss Ram- beau said she has never mised a meeting ince she first started attending. “I. never had time for much religious training,” she said. “When J was 13, I was playing ‘Camille’ in Portland, Ore.—the youngest leading woman in the American theater. I never had time to go to church, because I I always had a matinee and even- ing performance on Sunday..1 was not a disbeliever; but when” I talked to God I was usually, angry about something. “But mow I have found that Christ is my guide. It has ght me a spiritual happiness |that I have never known before jin my life. If I had to go through: the agony of the last eight years again in order to find God, I would gladly NVIDIOVW SHL ANVAGNVYW AP Newsfeotures Chapter 12 ‘HE clerk stared at him with suspicious brown eyes. “I don’t ee the man, sir.” That was Sally returned and they drove into the sleepy business section. A cop stood in an island at the main intersection, but the traffic was negligible. Brindle ked the car and walked over to him.| go, “Where can I find a public let- ter writer?” he asked. The Mexican’s eyes were smart- ing from sun and dust. He looked very young and was trying to gtow a mustache onan unwilling upper lip. “Seftor Solares,” he answered, pointing. “That green house.” Brindle turned and saw the small stucco house at the end of the street. “Any others in town?” “No, sefior.” — : soe he write English?” i.’ ‘ Brindle left Sally in the car and walked. The house looked old and the stucco was cracked in isin tagged Potted ferns lined ie se th é ‘When Brindle knocked, a mid- dieagee woman with grayin; hair braided. into a bun ope the door. Her face was intelligent and her beauty was only just be- ginning to fade. “May I sce Sefior Solares?” “My husband is taking a nap,” she answered with a heavy ac- cent. “Can you come back?” “Who is it, Mamacita?” a voice came from inside. Dale came in. I had just met them ; do so—and I’m not being ja: Polly- anna about this.” af Miss Rambeau is again‘at work in the studios. By a typical Holly- wood quirk, I saw her just after she stepped off an operating table for a scene in “Scalpel.” She joked to surgeon Charlton Heston: “I just want you to remove some YaHLV4 dN ONTONTUS AT A MIDWEST AIRPORT w— A man who travels regularly by air today no longer lives at home. He spends most of his life at air- Ports. The slogan of the air age is the same as the Army's: “Hurry up and wait.” A fellow might just as well di- vorce his wife and marry an air- plane. You don’t have time in one life to wait for both of them to get ready. The airplane is an instrument of hurry which is supposed to get you from city to city. It doesn't do that at all. It gets you from one re- formed cow pasture to another. you sit down and wait for your baggage. which supposedly is the belly of the plane but actual- | anited, you borrow a} mpass and set out for your real | All airports are waystops in fu-/ She hesitated for a moment. “Please come in. Brindle took a worn overstuffed chair by the small curtained front window. He hadn't realized how warm it was oufside until he sat in the coolness of the room. Senor Solares appeared, his dark face deeply lined. He wore no tie, but his clean striped shirt By A. S. FLEISCHMAN was buttoned to the neck. A brown armband held each sleeve = in re 2 “How do you do, sir,” he said. “I hate to trouble you on Sun- day, but this is rather urgent, Can you write a letter for me?” “Of course,” Sefor Solares an- swered sleepily, seating himself top, got out a shee! of paper and top, got out a paper an a stick pen in ink. “Write this in English.” Seftor Solares turned and a puzzled smile crossed his face. “But, sefor, certainly you write English.” 2 “To Max Brindle, Verlaine Building, San Diego, Califor- nia.” ‘HE Mexican dutifully scratched the words on paper. Brindle got up and looked over his shoul- der. The label he had clij from the putas was in his eTlelag ut he didn’t need oo ere was no use going - ther. This was the same hand- writing. “Does that name and address look familiar?” “I write many letters, sefior. I do not remember.” Brindle took a business card from his vest pocket. The old man read it and was visibly impressed, if not frightened. “I have done nothing wrong, sefior, It is my business to write letters. Like a doctor, I do not gossip about what T learn.” “Think back. Wasn't there an~- other American here who asked me write that address on a el?” a) Sejior Solares nodded. Brindle leaned forward anx- iously. “What did this man look like? Describe him to me.” “My memory is bad, sefior.” ¢ “Think!” “An old man,” the Mexican said finally. “Very pleasant to deal with. He smoked a cigar. Mama- cita was very angry. She says THE STRAW DONKEY CASE ee “That is all . rr? “Did he wear a mustache?” The older man shrugged H shoulders again. “My eyes, Q are not what they once were.’ “What day was he here?” Sefior him, Each move, 3 been carefully Tina yore me ace gas “down there” “What reason did this man we i having you address “He paid me fi ' x geaia ere tens Brindle him a which was ited with vo hs ‘a ican e grinned sheepishly—“but are expensive for one of my, means. % rt in the affair, but it off and that was counted. “Mil vad Brindle was at the door. more. Sng He didn't pay! ee ‘ol im ‘La Bahia Hotel.” ¥ (Te be continued) Today's Business Mirror of the bad parts I've had in my lifetime.” The actress, whose natural beauty has a soft quality with the years, said she noticed a new attitude among film workers. “I have never seen so much receptivity to faith among show people,” she remarked. “You don’t By SAM: DAWSON NEW YORK @#— Billion-dollar businesses are growing—both in size and in number. There are 29 now with assets of one billion dol- lars or. more. Before World War (Ir there were 12. Five joined the list just last year. The 29 included irdustrials, util- even hear so much as a ‘damn’ lities and railroads. To these could on a movie set. The people show|be added 18 commercial banks, a kindness’ and courtesy that I haven't seen before. ~ j14 insurance companies and two finance companies topping ‘a bil- “It wasn’t like that in the old!lion dollars in assets—but their days, Everyone was. stabbing each other in the back, and ‘it paid to get there-first with the knife and | sharpening set.” Miss Rambeau now gets around on crutches, and film parts are written for her accordingly. She may face another operation, which could determine whether she will walk again, “I can't be sorry if I don’t walk,” she said. “I’m able to get -around pretty well, and I've had a long and enjoyable career, Be- sides, I couldn't be happier than | Piljion I have been since I found God.” The island of Zanzibar, former ivory and slave trade center, and nearby Pemba produce 9-10 of the world’s supply of cloves says the Nationa: Geographic Society. HAL BOYLE SAYS The least they could do is put a widow's walk on the roof, so a pas- senger could pace back and forth and scan the skies, waiting for his ship to come in. My theory is that the air age has brought America to the crossroads. Sooner or later we are going to have to choose between living at airprts or in cities. The prospect of commercial jet piane travel will Probably force a solution. The jets will require airports so distant ffom any settled piace it will no longer be practical to make the journey from airport to city. Since the big aluminum sky birds can't adjust themselves to man, 1 think man might as well start ad- justing himself to them. Tt is high time we started gradu- ally deserting our out-of-date cities, | and began building new temples of culture around our airports. What good does it do to zip through the jair from Chicago to New York in three hours, if a man can watch assets are of a different type than those .of manufacturing or service companies. Sixteen of these 29 billion-dollar babies also topped a billion dol- lars in gross revenues in .1952. Thirteen other companies, whose assets were less than one billion dollars, also turned in better than a billion dollars in sales. Thirteen of the 29 reported net earnings after taxes-of more than Topping the list of giants is the Bell telephone system with ne. , 10% billion dollars, It is t the size of the next Rnere sey Standard Oil. Other ‘ panies in the list include, in of size, Sozony-Vacuum, Inds: Standard, Texas, Gulf, Califérn a |Standard, Cities Service and Sin- clair. Third largest company is 0-5 eral Motors. Ford a!so belon: the group, but : ahect of the Dillon doles wget Pade ogy sehen Railroad ‘8 fhe largest company, Oth-rs are New York Central, ey Pacific, Santa fe, Uae Peel i. and Baltimore & Ohio, === °° Other companies in the in- 100 million dollars each. No com- | Edison. pany with assets of Jess than one ion dollars entered into this charmed earnings group. The big keep getting bigger, too. In 1951 there were 24 companies in the billion Jollar asset class. Their assets totalled around $52,- 675,000,000. Last year these 24 had increased their total assets to last year but the great plant build- ing spree of Amecican industry sent the asset totai up. SRSBEBS RESESEE EER e tility. They all took exactly alike | his fingernails grow while he is try- | | and have one thing in common—no|ing to get from the airport into | matter which direction you go from | town” | ‘any of them you are bound to get| Fifty years from now Manhattan, closer to civilization, | Chicago, St. Louis and Los Angeies | The typical airport has a soft- | probably will be abandoned, crum- | drink machine which is empty, and | bling symbois of the past, inhabited __ GI OOSID FHL