The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 18, 1954, Page 9

“Four Poster” Opens Tuesday At Drive-In Lilli Palmer will not admit that, in Columbia Pictures’ “The Four) Tuesday, May 18, 1954 Poster” opening tonight at the Is- lander Theatre, she does the long- est (10 minutes) and most com- plicated (12 items) “strip tease” ever seen on the screen. “‘The Four Poster” is the Stanley Kramer pro- duction from the Broadway stage’s heartwarming comedy success of a successful marriage which also stars Rex Harrison, Miss Palmer's husband in real life. In “The Four Poster,” Lilli por- trays a New York bride on her night and Harrison plays THE FIT’S THE THING—The THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Page 9 seamstress at left is adjusting the waistline fit of new pattern which has printed inch rulers at adjustment points. At right. finished princess dress with Perfect waistline fit. In this case waistline was ‘shortened by an inch, skirt lengthened an inch on pattern before fabric pieces ‘were cut, Pattern Innovation Makes Correct Fitting Easy Even For Beginners By DOROTHY ROE, Associated Press Women’s Editor Jigs out of the panties, the corset | Project is the fitting. cover, the corset and the chemise. She sits on the four poster, lets ‘Women who sew report=that the toughest part of any sewing Now a pattern innovation makes correct fit almost automatic. Even a beginning. seamstress can make clothes to her exact meas- her shoes fall to the floor, and re-| urements, if she takes the time to make pattern adjustments before move her stockings. cutting into the fabric. ~ Suddenly panicky, as the bath-} The new aid to proper fit. con- room door handle turns, Lilli slips} sists of rulers with inch measure- her wedding dress over the night-|ments printed right on the pattern gown and races around the room| at points where adjustments us- lighting all the candles again. ually are necessary in waist and When Rex returns to the bed-| skirt length. To shorten, fold on room, splendid in a monogrammed | the printed line and pin in place. nightgown and a nightcap with a|To lengthen, cut along dotted line, tassel, Lilli permits him to unbut-| sprezd the necessary amount, us- ton the buttons of her wedding|ing the inch rulers for guidance, gown. It slides to the. floor and,| and insert an extra piece of tissue man and wife, Rex and Lilli face| paper, using celophane tape to hold each other — with just as much| the pieces together. acreage covered as ever! Since very few women are. ex- Allan Scott penned the screen| act pattern sizes, here aré some play of “The Four Poster,” which | tips from many sewing center ex- tells of all the wonders’and the pro-| perts on pattern adjustment: “ blems of the marriage bed and the| First go over. your pattern pieces years beyong, based on Jan de|With a warm iron, to remove the Hartog’s Broadway comedy suc-| creases. Then pin in any “tucks,. cess. Dimitri Tiomkin composed | arts or pleats before measuring. NOTES Poster” and Scott served as asso- ciate producer on this Columbia By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD (#—It’s hard to picture. « Strong Screen imagine. Shelley Winters as a inking violet, but the doll claims Drama Accents she'll no longer air her personal public. 66, hd ” ‘Crime Wave mates nO ; a new. policy,” she Filmed in the actual Los Angeles | says, “From now on, my personal a Aug! ei viadee gti life is my own. I also have a new “Crime Wave,” opens policy concerning my career. I’m Strand Theatre. It stars Sterling} through with playing blonde Hayden, Gene Nelson and Phyllis | fioozies,” Kirk in a story of the seamy crim-| 4 reporter inal segment operating. in the City | hearing remarkable remarks from of the Angels, and tells of the des-/ Shelley, but this time she seems perate efforts of an ex-convict to] earnest, Having just gone through free himself from his sordid past. | a highly Puplicized breakup of her Cast in the role of the ex-con-| marriage to Vittorio Gassman, she viet is Gene Nelson. Noted in the] says she’s had her share of-head- past for his nimble-footed dancing | lines and wants no more. parts in gay musicals, Nelson is} “I’m serious,” she insisted. “I’ve given the opportunity to display) had it. I see no reason why a more dramatic ability in the role} star has to live her personal life of a man caught in an emotional] in the public prints.” ~ grows accustomed to | . Finally, compare the measure- ments of the pattern with your own measurements, and adjust by pinning up or letting out. When. adjustments are com- pleted, try on the pattern before your mirror. If it fits properly, release darts and tucks and lay out the pattern on, your fabric. If you have a dress form made to your own measurements, much time is saved in fitting and as- sembling. To show the technique of pattern adjustments, we have chosen a princess dress, since this, more than any other style, requires per- fect waistline fit. A waistline high- er or lower than your natural waist will ruin the rib-hugging silbouette, vise. “Crime Wave” marks Nel- son’s first straight acting role. Sterling Hayden is seen as a I mentioned that it was hard to fight the system. “Marlon Brando does it,” she Hal Boyle Says NEW YORK (#—In 1920 a young bank teller named Frederick Bick- el got paid $7 for a single day’s work as an extra in a silent movie. Overwhelmed at this vista of sud- den wealth, Bickel decided he was tired of counting other people’s money and went adventuring into the world of the theater. Some of the other tellers natur- ally thought Bickel was crazy to give up a nice warm job in a cage for an actor’s hungry freedom. But in this case the banking world lost a handsome teller—and gained an even more handsome depositor. By 1937 Frederick Bickel was known by sight to more people than J. P, Morgan—under the name of Frederic March. A U.S. Treasury’ Department report listed him as having the nation’s fifth largest earned income—$484,687. Today March, a veteran of some 50 plays and 58 motion pictures, is still handsome and youthful look- ing. But he and his equally talented wife, Florence Eldridge, have takeh a long hard look at the years behind, and the years ahead—and decided the rest of the journey should be more relaxing. They’ve had plenty of fun along the way and brought up two chil- dren, but they worked hard for both money and fame. “We have no long term goals left now,” March said. “We're tapering off. And my wife agrees it’s about time. “We're not even reading new plays. We're not looking for any. “Right now I guess I’m theater sour. Either a Broadway play is a flop—and who enjoys a failure, even if it was worth a try?—or else it is a hit and runs for a year or two. That means you are away from your family and friends too much, I don’t see it any more. It’s fine. for those who do, as I did for many years. But not now. “I like movie work. The films have grown up. They are more adult in their themes, the people who make them are more efficient. They waste less time, effort and money. “You can learn your script, go out to Hollywood and make a pic- ture in 18 to 20 days and earn as much money as you would in 40 weeks on Broadway.” March won Academy awards for his performances in “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” .and .The Best Years of Our Lives.” He is being mentioned as a candidate for a third Oscar for his taut acting in “Executive Suite.” Fred and Florence have disposed of their Hollywood home, their big apartment in Manhattan and are happy on a 15-acre place in Con- necticut. “If I hadn’t been an actor,” Fred said. “I'd like to have been a writer. I still fiddle around with a little poetry. I fool around with a tape recorder, putting on it the classical music I like. I also fiddle around occasionally with some water colors, but not very se- Tiously. “I don’t want to be a director or a producer. I still want to stay an actor. But we've put in some busy years, and now spending more time with our family and friends is just more and more im- Portant to us. “What am I afraid of? Only the world situation. I think our best hope at the moment is the United Nations, and I'd like to see it this could be argued—is certainly more idealistic—and more intelli- gent, too, if it is a sign of intelli- gence to plan a well-rounded lfe toward a happy ending. Thieves Almost Keep Mail From Delivery ATHOL, Mass. (—Thieves yes- terday came close to doing what neither rain nor snow nor dark of night cannot. They almost stopped the U. S. mail, The robbers who stole the four wheels off rural mailman William Peacock’s car delayed the swift completion of his appointed rounds. But Wiliam Kelly, a neighbor, took over mail delivery for the day. CIFELLI'S t's--:. 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Arnold, of suburban Southfield Township, obtained the restraining order yesterday. He told Circuit Judge Vincent M. Brennan his wife beat him with a slipper and poured water on him while he was sleeping; made him scrub floors; made him take off his shoes when he entered the house. He also said his wife was a back-seat driver. A normal human ear can distin- guished about 333,000 different ton- es. Cabinets - Counters - Book- cases - Etc., Custom Built FLOOR COVERINGS Free Estimates IMPROVEMENT COMPANY 515 Front St. Tel. 2-650 STRONG ARM BRAND COFFEE Triumph Coffee Mill at ALL GROCERS Your Grocer SELLS That Goed SHE’LL SELL VOTE CARSON CTY, Nev. —Among the political advertisements in the Nevada Appeal was this one by Dorothy Hersey of Carson City: “If you want my vote, find a home for my mother cat and four kittens.” Red Jet Flies Over South Korea SEOUL #—A Communist plane crossed the neutral zone and flew south as far as Seoul today while U. S. Defense Secretary Charles Wilson, South Korean President Syngman Rhee and other officials watched a U. S. 8th Army review 65 miles to the northeast. The Sth Air orce said radar tracked the Red plane southward, but it never was sighted visually. A spokesman said it apparently "was a jet. American Sabre jets tried with- out success to intercept it before it returned north. The 5th Air Force said the in- cident would be reported to the Military Armistice Commission as a violation of the Korean truce. BILL'S LICENSED PAWN SHOP 711 Duval Stieet For A Quick Loan 708 Duval Street TELEPHONE 2-8555 A Question That Means Much To Your Future in Florida CAN THE OFFICE OF GOVERNOR BE BOUGHT? CAN IT BE BOUGHT WITH PROMISES? The BIG promise is the false coin used by political hucksters fo buy a public office they can't win on their record. Such is the case in the race for Governor. One candidate promises everything to everybody. Total cost of keeping his promises would amount to several hundred millions—far more than will be available. So you know his promises are false and meant only to"buy”votes. CAN IT BE BOUGHT WITH FEAR? Another method of the huckster politician is a vicious fear technique. Half-truths, deceitful inferences and deliberate lies are spread by ruthless rumor mongers, and by campaign oratory to frighten you, the voter. One example is the absolutely false rumor being spread that LeRoy Collins is opposed to homestead exemp- tion. Nothing is farther from the truth. In his platform LeRoy Collins emphasizes that he will preserve and protect homestead exemp- tion. As Governor, he will oppose any bill which will in any sense reduce the benefits of homestead exemption. OPPONENT FAILS TO SAY Yet, while the Acting Governor makes this claim against Collins, he himself has failed even to mention homestead exemption in his own campaign ‘platform. His interest in homestead exemption has only lately come about and for the sole purpose of scaring a vote out of you. Don't you be fooled! CAN IT BE BOUGHT WITH YOUR TAX DOLLARS? Since the Acting Governor took office, State payrolls have increased, not by the $452,000 originally reported, but by more than $600,000 a month, a recent study of the records proves. That's more than seven million dollars a year of tax money being used to pad State payrolls to keep the Acting Governor in office. In addition, he has increased the estimated cost of the bob- tail turnpike by 25 million dollars. These are the things we know about. How many more cases there are of political-machine financing with fax money is anybody's guess. But it is time now to stop guessing about our Governor and get rid of machine hard-working, wily detective of the said. “Grace Kelly. and Audrey Lost Angeles police force. His por-; Hepburn. They’ve been able to trayal called for the display of a|keep their private lives private. combination of brains and brawn. Why can’t I?” Hayden, who once brushed aside} I further reasoned that people his screen stardom to return to his} just couldn't get used to Shelley first love — the sea, plays the role] a8 the. quiet type. Her past was of a veteran cop under the direc-| against her. tion of Captain R. A. Lohrman of} She admitted that she has never the los Angeles police force. been adverse to publicity, but ‘The only woman appearing in| Claimed that she never sought the “Crime Wave” is a stellar role is Personal kind. What about the big pretty Phillis Kirk. blowup with Gassman in Italy? The action of the film is reveal- ‘We were egged into it by the ed against the background of the |Press,” she claimed. “I never said efforts of Gene Nelson to thwart 2 lot of the things I was supposed a major crime by a band of es-_ have said. I never said there caped convicts. The cons hold his 8S too much ham in his Hamlet.” “You don’t remember your Daddy, but he certainly remembered you! He bought us this home and planned to have us keep it whether he lived or not. He also arranged with Gulf Life to send us a check each month for food and clothes and everything. Why—when ~ you get ready to go away to college, there'll even be money for that, too.” oe o of every doller behind your Gulf Life policy is invested ~ in the South. ] ? e s 2 ‘ 8 8 % %, wife as a hostage in order to in-' sure his cooperation. “Crime Wave’ was based on a story ap- pearing in a national magazine. Poet Continues His “Death Fast” GENEVA (#—A 45-year-old Viet- namese poet, Vo Song Ray has begun the third week of his “death fast” for Indochina peace and po- lice threaten to go beyond the law to force him to call it off. Geneva Police Chief, Charles conceded fast have - worked. it out. He was all Nations, scene Ciference on Far lexis. * domesticati Ah, but what about her remark that Vittorio would have to guar- antee- that he would marry his stage co-star, Anna Maria Ferrero, before she would agree to a div- orce? She blanched, then said: “I don't want to talk about it. All I can Say is that both Vittorio and I did some foolish things. We never saould have married. We were ‘both so romantic that we got car- tied away. “But when we faced the facts, it was apparent our marriage couldn’t last, The idea of spend- ing six months in this country and six months in Italy sounded fine at the outset. But we never could wrapped up in ‘his career, -and J wasn’t about to give up mine. I’ve worked too hard for it.” Dogs and turkeys were the only animals in North Am- erica when Columbus arrived, says the National Geographic Society. Your life insurance policies are among your most precious possessions. Your Gulf Life representative can give you valuable advice on how to make your Gulf Life policies meet your family’s needs, both now and in the future. J. B. SYMMONETTE, Manager, 515¥2 Duval Street “A Souther Institution Since 1911" © Home Office, Jacksonville, Florida politics in Florida. LeRoy Collins is the real people's candidate and he merits your support on his splendid record. BEAT MACHINE POLITICS