The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 11, 1953, Page 12

Art And Historical Society Works By JIM COBB “How to save the old that is worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions or human types, is one of our greatest problems and one we worry) least about,” John Galsworthy once said in commenting; on the charm of antiquity. And as the face of Key West sincerely interested in preserving) what they can-of Key West's old- world charm — the Key West Art and Historical Society. Since 1950 when they took over the West Martello Towers and transformed them into a museum and art gallery, they have worked diligently on 2 program to restore the huge Civil War citadel to its = point where it ‘role in the cul- EE i ‘ance from the east wall the more readily ac- tampart, adjacent to ile Fendt i ve been season. mediums “from lusty! water colors —most of familiar island scenes sentedqmong the paint- are repre- 8, Effie Fer- , Edythe and Reilley, Lephe Greene,. Burret, » O. A. San- , G. B. St. John, Ebey, Jose Fer- nandez, Claudia Michaels, P. P. will show his dec-| orative maps from Dec. 29 through Jan. 2% and on Jan. 26 paintings by Edythe and Hari Kidd and El- vira Reilly will be shown. A one-man show of paintings by Gene Otto, renowned Key West ar. tist will take the spotlight on Feb. 4 and continue through March 14, And then on March 16, one of the high points of the season will be reached — an exhibition of 12 portraits by Vittorio Borriello, who is famed throughout this country, Europe and South America. His Paintings will be on loan from Key Westers who commissioned them. That. showing will run through April 1 when the Key West artist Page 12 .| started to whimper. Mrs. Travers, THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ' By RAY KOHN | BLUE POINT, N. Y. Early; jin the century it was “the face’ jon the barroom floor.” But that | was a fable | The face on their television lis nota fable, and they wish it| would go away, It doesn’t, though, | even when the TV set is turned) of, Here’s their story: The three pre-school-age Travers’ children first saw the| |face—a woman with a fixed stare. The youngsters lined up in front of the screen for a favorite morn- ing program. They got the show, but 6-year-old Caroline ran to her mother, crying: “We can’t see it. A face is in the way.” Mrs, Jerry Travers indulgently investigated. One look and she staring out of the 17-inch screen even as the telecast went on. The children got scared. They a little nervous herself, turned off the set. The face remained. She then placed the screen side of the ‘set to the wall, | When her husband, an aircraft .|company employe, returned home from work, they swung the set around. The face was still there. Radio and TV experts were con- sulted. One export said, “It can't happen.” Network officials, given a de- scription of the woman, could not her, Ray Clurman, chief engineer at) color television laboratory Searby Amityville, had an tion. : Thé fice Was probably an image from a program, Clurman said, And became engraved on the tube as a result of faulty To erase the face, Clurman said, would require a new tube and a complete overhaul, The Travers took another look at the screen yesterday. The face was still there. They turned the sereen-side back to the wall. Needed Tax Money JACKSON, Mich. (#—Police found Willie’ Jones, 42, hiding in a stairwell of a store. When they asked why he'd broken in, he told them: “I’m in trouble with the | government because of income tax and I was trying to get some money to pay if off.” sin ie li aha ae SS will hold their annual spring fes- tival. End Of Season The season will wind up with the| showing of the work of art students| in Monroe County Schools, April| |20 to March 16, | | These programs, as well as the! financed from funds of the Art and| |Historcal Society and from reve- {nue from visitors to the galley. While increases have been shown) annually in the number of winter) visitors at the fort, the Society con-| tinues to invite those interested in| jthe past and future of Key West |to join them. | Those interested should phone Mrs. Taylor at 2-3913. Friday, December 11, 1953 ip jrarned pale, There was the face,| a le i} sereen, the Travers family says, | | = Soy THREE MASSIVE WOODEN DOORS graced the entrance of the Florida National Bank before bi Martello Towers Have Rave Lifting tn et they were given to the Key West Art and Historical Society and erected at the new entrance to their museum and art galle vations to the Towers.—Citize: Dies In Fall DALLAS, Tex, (P—A construc- tion worker plunged to his death yesterday while posing before a giant Santa Claus. Roy V, Davis, 46, toppled from a crane cable 3° feet to a side- walk shortly afte: photographers Snapped his picture hanging in front of the giant advertising mannequin at an automobile agency here. Davis’ had helped to build the 5t-foot-high figure of steel rods and asbestos mache, When news- paper photographers and television cameramen gathered to take pic- tures of the completed job he sug- gested a picture of him dangling before Santa’s face on a slim cable would make a good Christ- mas card, Police said Davis had been bothered with a heart ailment for four years and may have suffered |restoration of the fort are being| a” attack. REASON FOR SPREE DETROIT —John Viaikov, 64, charged with drunken driving, testified that he went on a spree after his 70-year-old wife Theresa went on a shopping binge and bought 35 hats and 40 dresses. 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