The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 13, 1953, Page 10

AS THE ROCKET PIECES FALL RAPIDLY TOWARD EARTH, THE ivi THe NEY -DeTERMINED NOT TOLOSE THEIR CAPTIVE £ Vaudeville Not Coming -<] So © i ES < o By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD \w—Can the old two-a-day vaudeville come back? “I’m afraid not,” is the sad reply NOdUuOD HSV13 Cy ee room phone rang. Still smil- ing, Rose lifted it from the cradle. Then he looked at Inspec- tor Carlton. “Long-distance. Eagle River calling Mandell. That’s ling summer lodge of its leading practitioner of mod- belgrat ney ern times, Danny Kaye. The brick- | 25" t ** ville show to sell-out audiences at| ting. “Let him take it.” Carlt moved closer to the haired comic has played his vaude-! chair in which Mandell was sit: New York’s Palace, the London “Barney, my boy.” Attorney Eb- bling’s Harvard drawl sounded Palladium, the Curran in San Fran-| thin and far away, as if he had a cisco and other noted theaters. not return, says Kaye. WOLNVHd AHL cities. a circuit going.” ville. for those who can do it.: His example has stirred hopes ete Pa that bigtime vaude might again] tell you how nice it is to hear rise to the glory which it held in| YU voice. the first three decades of this century. Every sizable U. S. city had at least one vaude house and sometimes more. Those days will “There aren’t enough situations for an actor to appear 50 weeks out of the year, as in tie old days,” he remarked. “You can only play a vaudeville show in certain big “Bésides, there aren’t enough acts to go around. The only ones who have tried to: do vaudeville on the old scale are myself, Judy Garland, Jack Benny and Betty Hutton. That isn’t enough to keep Despite his pessimistic outlook, he was- enthusiastic about vaude- bad connection. “I've been trying to get you for hours. And I can’t sie nice to hear you,” Mandell said. Attorney Ebbling chuckled. “As you know by now, the good news. that you were being released found Gale in Bermuda. But she ‘ot there as fast as she could. Now let me talk to Gale a moment, will you, Barney?” “Gale isn’t here,” Mandell said. “Not there?” Attorney Ebbling sounded puzzled. “Oh, I say, now. That’s odd. She should kave reached, Chicago this afternoon.” Mandell’s shoulders sagged, then: his whole body. He tried to speak and couldn’t. Gale was fiying to be with him. And he’d let her down a second time. The receiver drop from his hand. Lieuten- ant Rose caught it as it fell. Attorney Ebbling’s Harvard drawl crawled out of the receiver again, crisper this time. “Is some- who had allowed his ring ability and_a fortunate marriage to a|i wealthy girl to go to his head. He |i was an ate with a swollen ego, who it ne was above the law, For some reason, Joe had for a party and killed her with a blow of the fist that had compiled forty-two consecutive knockouts. HE lay back on the bunk and put the newspa; over his eyes. Then high heels clicked on the cement and a turnkey said, “A dame to see you, Barney.” Mandell got to his feet. He hoped it was Gale. It wasn't. It was Rose- mary. She are ~ suit soe igi was carrying to the turnkey. “Some clean clothes for Barney. With Inspector Carltcn’s permission.” ‘Then she squeezed both hands in between the bars. “Hello, Barney.” Mandell held her hands, think- ing how he! she was in her nurse’s white “uniform and red- lined blue cape. And she was still the same good — still Ajost the irl next door. No beef. No tears. io “Why did you do it?” “How's Ma?” he asked her. “Fine,” Rosemary said. “Just Mandell explain: ~ when I knew I was ‘And. why were you sore at Gale?” He said quietly, “Because, as I was, I timing me. crazy ht Gale was two- it was all in my mind, see? Gale swore it even while I was slapping her around that night; swore there’d been no other man, that it had only been the it I'd heard. “Then, when I woke up the next fine. But you should have gone to | 4 see her, Barney.” “Yeah,” Mandell said. “I meant to. Then all this came up. You and I both know what the joint was. I was as balmy as Old Man Giovan- “Tt’, ‘ i thing wrong?” i used to get when h looped. ter than the old two-aday. You| hands.A man couldnt cry, but he} “I don’t believe it,” Rosemary 3 could laugh. He started to laugh| said. “I don’t believe you killed | M don’t have to do two shows a day—| and couldn’t stop. that girl. I don't believe you're only matinees on Wednesdays and} Was something wrong? carzy. That’s one of the reasons Saturdays. Otherwise you only do Pp T'm here. Why did you ever let one show a night. MAsgEty felt emotionally | them commit you, Barney?” His “one show” is a rigorous drained. He sat with his} Mandell attempted to explain. workout, however. Kaye stays on| Formed the headboard of his bunk | many, see? And it did something | © stage for an hour and 40 minutes} and read Joe Mercer's story in alto = marbles. I was ale sapien of dancing, singing, telling jokes | five-star-final edition..The head-|and seeing and hearing things that | ¢ and generally cutting up. But, as| line read: didn’t except in my mind.” anyone who has caught his act Rosemary gave him a cigarette will testify, he certainly enjoys his | FIGHTER HELD IN MURDER OF MODEL/and lighted it, “How, acting ey want you work. He evokes the warm re-| A¥T#® DRUNKEN HOTEL-ROOM SPREE tia ecient g why, as pretty smart sponse from an audience which The story was as bad. I.. the re- sR ae nw NVISIDVW JHL SAVUGNVW 1108 NAg DIS : : performers in the more mechanical porter’s opinion, he was a loud- mediums seldom experience. mouthed, know-it-all wise guy, It’s not only fun, but profitable. paueey =: eee oo gE eS ra “Take a show like ‘Oklahoma!’” he observed. “It represents an T day 8 He L a eo investment of perhaps $250,000 to °o $ UES SS ! r $300,000. It has a cast of perhaps SAM \WSON 40 to 50 people and carloads of | NEW sist rg day of the scenery and costumes. It can play L4 | full: tomatic fact: ed a theater in San Francisco and anis ees | " y to _ eae eae rawing ae $45,000 a week, which is good Payee — oe doveloning, usiness. ° ; “Then I play the same house, I I Kn vill : Automatic macnine tools, still carry my whole show in one small n Ox € , being perfected. suitcasef I take along five vaude- New “brain machines” to solve ville acts and no scenery. This N tP. ular | production problems. quickly. sac can draw $50,000 for the 0 op Wider use of control instruments, week. Kaye has earned such fantastic] KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (?—A pro- : figures wherever he plays. posal to banish pees from Knoxville So it’s no wonder that he has|has the city buzzing and the city tracers, and X-ray. sluffed off the other entertainment |law director's telephone ringing.| Oilmen estimate 50,000 control | hel mediums to concentrate on vaude-| You might say he’s busy as a bee. instruments now guide U. S. oil ville. He is currently making one| In fact, few bees realized how refineries, reducing to an all but of his infrequent movies, called| many friends they had until the automatic pattern the highly com- “Knock On Wood.” He plays a/ whole thing came up with a loud | plicated process of deriving many ventriloquist in the film, which is | yelp. products from crude oil. being made independently with} “Bees have rights like everybody |" The fully automatic machine tool those triple threat men, Norman | else,” one caller observed. is certain to be perfected, in the Panama and Melvin Frank. Kaye| ‘The trouble with bees is that opinion of Walter Baird, president and the two writer-producers-|they’re not all sweetness and] of Baird Associates, Cambridge, directors are using Paramount’s|honey. They sting. Particularly, Mass., maker of direct reading financing and facilities and will|they seem attracted to barefoot | Share in the Profits. children trying to beat the heat. A residential neighborhood, it seems, has six beehives. The| uring the wave length of light c . J e *|Service Brides neighbor’s kids, barefoot, got bad- ly stung, The neigabors let out the emitted or absorbed by atoms or molecules. Spectrometers are used by steel MOM.'=THIS ad ba Rageters REALLY L MEAN: GIN OSSID BHL = yelp. z a Take Course At The City Council heard the yelp | companies to analyze in five min- and proposed the ban on bees./utes the metal and mineral con- About- then, City Law Director /tent of molten steel. The older Ark C I] {Clarence Blackburn's telephone | method was to burn the mix and ° 0. ege | started ringing and the bees dis-/ photograph the colors of the vari- covered they — had it so — ous elements. One irate bee-lover suggested JONESBORO, Ark, Wf — Poten-| nat an ordinance rou chil tial service brides and Wacs,jdren to wear shoes be substituted Waves or Wafsto-be get a fore-|for the anti-bee proposal. 4 taste of what life holds for them—|" «11 this suggestion is followed,” NIE WEEE IRI 1A) and rifle practice too—in an eX-/he noted, “naturally stings on the af ii SIP Ol rity] Perimental course at Arkansas/ feet would be eliminated and ons State College. of the objections to tees removed.” Based on the premise that most) Another called it rank diserim-| of today’s college women will mar- | ination, Ty men who are or will be con-/ “q¢ you're going to deny bees a nected with the armed service: S$, | home in the city,” he argued, “you the no-credit course has two aims: | should eniarge the ordinance to To teach something about the} include hornets, wasps and dirt various branches of the military | daubers.” services, and to break down preju-| One nature-lover was concerned dices against women in the serv-| jest the banished bees leave city ice. | gardens, flowers and fruit trees The course is the brainchild of | without pollination. Lt. Col. Walter J. Haberer, pro-| Blackburn advised him that fessor of military science, He pro-| “country bees” are better for this posed it last year as an explora-|job than “city bees.” tory class, offering an hour credit,; An economy-minded citizen won- was started. i girls en-|dered if this would create a new rolled. \eity job—the bee inspector. Black- The coeds studied the history of burn assured him it wouldn’t. the service, rates and rank, base; One person put the thing in pay and the “extras,” saw films| slightly different perspective, de- ranging from drill to combat, and | claring “the city iiself will be the heard lectures by officers from first violator.” the four service branches. | “There's been a swarm of bees This year school officials were/in the Market House (a city-owned curious whether the girls were | building) for years,” he said, taking the course as a “snap.”/ | The one hour credit was withdrawn 110 YEARS OLD. but 19 girls enrolled. Detroit, Mich. — Mrs Mary | Ann Mizell, Bay, Ark., started King, who began life as an Ala-| the course because she wanted to|bama slave, recently celebrated | become a physical therapist in one her 1i¢th birthday in customary | of the nurses corps. Now she’ fashion —— smoking her pipe and engaged to a military student. | Watching television. “I took the course again this; ————————____ year just to learn a little bit more | given almost free run of the ROTC) | about the services,” she said. “It's | rifle range. ja course that should be offered| . “Some of the girls spend two or » i three hours a day over hrere, some { Td like to see it expanded times firing. sometimes asking i into more detail.” |questions.” Haberer ssid. “We}| they jhave some girls shooting cards “) have been 94. aul WUYZO