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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-12-24
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Dickens 'fChristmas CaroP' was
a good book and is still favorite
gem of prose to be read by the
fire and over the radio at this
season. 1t was written, offhand,
to amuse young folk, not to sell.
Although it was the work of a
master it would have been famous
if Dickens had written nothing
else. 1t stood on its own merit,
like "Alice in Wonderland" the
masterpiece of Lewis Carol and
a love offering.
So that although there is no
end to the making of books and
no lack of clever authors, there
is very definite end to the 'life"
of most books. They die young
and most of them, mere spot
boilers, deserve to.
There is a difference between
amusement and substance. Money
can purchase the former. Art is
the expression of heart and soul
and a work of art is substantial,
resists decay, wears well, inspires
and beauties, because of the
love that inspired the creator OF
it. You can be machine, or an
artist. in writing as in anything
else. 1t is a matter of aim.
The strength of Dickens, Thack-
cray, Goldsmith and a hundred
others, is the fact that they were
never machines but were lovers
of art. If they were grand, they
never knew it having aimed be-
yond human praise.
AS you turn the pages of "a
Christmas Carol" the heart of q
great writer beats before you and
speaks again, through "Tiny Tim, :"
the Christmas message, "God
bless MS, every one"
SO S. E. 7th St,
Miami, Fla,
Dec. 81 1886.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-12-24
Miss Trevor Has
House Guests

Miss Nell Lawler, former teach
err in Key West Junior-Senior
High School; Miss Maggie Mae
Lawler, J. R. Daniels and son
Ramon, all of Canton. Miss, ar
rived here recently and are house
guests of Miss Mary Trevor on
Division street.
Another house guest of Miss
Trevor is Miss Anne Green of
Nashville. Tenn, who is secretary
of the Library School where Miss
Trevor studied.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-12-24
CHURCH SERVICE
ON CHRISTMAS

Divine services will be conduct
ed at the Trinity Presbyterian
Church on Christmas morning,
beginning at z o'clock.
Rev. De Basritt will preach at
this service.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-12-24

Senator William H. Malone was
enthusiastically proclaimed "the
youngest man in the crowd" by
the seventy guests assembled last
night at his home 626 ~Grinnen
street to join with him in cele-
brating the forth-ninth anniver-
sary Of his birth. A number of
distinguished visitors to the city,
leading citizens. officers of the
army and navy. and those off
GERS from the U. S. S. Argonne
now in port. attended. A superb
musical program was rendered
following reading of a telegram
from Judge Jefferson B. Browne.
who expressed his regrets at not
being in the city for the anniver-
sarv celebration.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-12-24

Lucille Smith set a turkey-pick-
ing record at cooperative asso-
citation plant in Ainsworth, Neb.,
by picking A in one day.
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Attorney Harry Luethi, Of NJ
ami, arrived this morning by
plane to spend Christmas with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A ID.
Luethi, who was at the plane land
ing to greet him.
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Ricardo Sanchez, who is max
ing his home in Miami, arrived
this morning to spend the holidays
with his parents, and etber mem
hers OF the family.
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ment at Key West, left over the
highway this morning TO join Mrs.
Plummer who IS visiting their son
and daughter-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph Plummer and their baby
Lionel, in Miami.
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Commander Ralph d. Spalding
U. S. N, arrived this morning By
plane from Miami, for q visit over
the Christmas holidays with Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Brown Ralph
SpaIding. Jr.. was at the plane
with Mr.. Brown to meet his
father.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-12-24

Largest Christmas Pudding

L4rBeSb CuElStm8S xuuNluB
The largest Christmas pudding
ever made was that which was
boiled for II days In a brewing cop
per for ''mine host Of the Red
Lion. Southwark. In Ills. Il
WEIGHED more than 1850 pounds.
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KEY WEST IN
DAYS GONE BY
Happenings Here just 10 Years
Ago Today AS Taken From
The Files OF The Citizen

One OF the biggest roundups of
aliens ever made by the local inn
migration forces was concluded
this morning when Inspectors A.
S. Caviness and d. A. Goldberg
brought their captures to the city.
Yesterday it was learned that a
large number OF aliens had been
landed at Key Largo from a YES
sci which Immediately afterward
sailed away. immigration Of
ficers were at once sent to in
tercept the arrivals and this morn
ing they returned with the men
and women, numbering Fl. In.
the group were Spaniards, Rus
slams and Pollocks. Some of the
prisoners tried to evade arrest
and several started to run away.
However they peacefully submit
ted to arrest when the officers
drew near.
The Cuban Stars and Box Fac
tory baseball teams are announc-
ing a thrilling contest which is
scheduled for next Sunday morn
ing at the barracks. There will
be double header in the after
noon tomorrow when the Monroes
and the Coast Guard players will
meet at / o'clock to be followed
by a contest between the Amer
lean Legion and the regulars.
Editorial comment: Increasing
divorce records show that the
American people are developing a
remarkable gift for marrying the
husbands and wives they do not
want.
B. Castillo, manager of the
Cuban Club, is planning great
fight in Key West to be called off
January /. He is arranging for
the best Iugger in his class in
the south to meet Baby Reyes, a
Key West pugilist who has just
returned from Chicago where he
established good record.
Prisoners in the county jail
will have a great and grand
chicken dinner tomorrow Sheriff
Cleveland Niles will provide the
Christmas feast with young ten
der birds for his Jail birds that
they will remember all their lives.
Chickens galore and all the trim
mings that go toward making a
real Christmas dinner. There will
be a total of 43 prisoners at the
festival board, including the Fl
aliens who were arrested yester-
day and brought down from Key
! Largo. Six of these are women.
/ Of the local prisoners only two
are women, one white and the
other colored. At the table will
be two prisoners convicted of
murder and ready to start serving
sentences.
| A pretty home wedding was
solemnized at the home of the
groom s24 Elizabeth street at 10
| o'clock this morning when Miss
| Violeta Alfonso became the bride
OF Horatio Gutierrez. The cere-
mony was read in Spanish by
Notary Public Jose G. Piodela.
i The bride is the daughter of Mrs.
Pillar. Sawyer. wife of Samuel
! Sawyer, both of them being pres
ent at the wedding. with other
! near relatives to witness the mar
uRnxyrsnn ErUv1 TIT !,
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PERSONAL MENTION

Captain and Mrs. w. j. Mosher
were recent arrivals IN Key West
rom Miami TO spend Christmas
with Mrs. Moshers mother, Mrs.
Dora Roberts, at the home on
Fleming street. They were ae-
'companled on the trip here by
Mrs. Mary Schaho of Philadei-
phia.
Jonathan Gates left over the
highway this morning for Miami,
where he will join Mrs. Gates,
who is now visiting in that city.
They will spend the holiday sea-
son there with relatives and
friends.
w. S. Barstow and party, who
are visiting in Key West on Mr..
Barstow's yacht Freba which is
berthed at the F. E. C. terminals,
left on the Cuba this morning for
visit in Havana.
Miss Linton Vitte, who had
been attending the Woman's
State College at Tallahassee, has
arrived in the city to spend the
holiday season with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Mcdonald at
the home on Elizabeth street.
A. r. Miller, superintendent of
the P. and o. S. S. company. and
Mrs. Miller, arrived on the Steam
ship Cuba this morning from
Tampa to spend the Christmas
holidays with their son-in-law and
daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin
Trevor and the children.
Fred E.. Howard, who was in
Key West for a few days vaca-
ton, left on the Cuba this morn
ing for Havana.
j. NJ. Leishman, of New York,
winter visitor in Key West, left
this morning for Havana for a
short stay and will return to
spend the winter here.
Charles Gillick, who has been
here for several days on a va
cation, was a passenger on the
Cuba this morning for a short
visit in Havana.
James T. Ryan and Reginald
Ryan. who arrived here yesterday
on one Of the yachts in the har-
Dor, left this morning for a short
visit in Havana. taking passage
on the S. S. Cuba.
Lionel Plummer, disbursing Of
ficer in the lighthouse depart
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rage. The newly weds will make
their future home in Key West.
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Miss Eloise Lowe, who Is en-
ployed in one of the offices n
the Charleston, s. C., navy yard
as clerk stenographer, Is visiting
her mother, Mrs. Joseph Love,
and other relatives in Key West
John Key. Jr., son Of JOAN Key
the port steward Of the P. and o.
S. S. company. in Miami. was an
arrival this morning from Miami
for a brief stay n Key West with
friends.
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w. S. Barstow and party, who
are visiting in Key West on Mr..
Barstow's yacht Freba which is
berthed at the F. E. c. terminals,
left on the Cuba this morning for
visit in Havana.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-12-24

Lionel Plummer, disbursing Of
ficer in the lighthouse depart
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-12-24

James T. Ryan and Reginald
Ryan. who arrived here yesterday
on one Of the yachts in the har-
Dor, left this morning for a short
visit in Havana. taking passage
on the S. S. Cuba.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-12-24

Fred E.. Howard, who was in
Key West for a few days vaca-
ton, left on the Cuba this morn
ing for Havana.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-12-24

Charles Gillick, who has been
here for several days on a va
cation, was a passenger on the
Cuba this morning for a short
visit in Havana.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-12-24

j. NJ. Leishman, of New York,
winter visitor in Key West, left
this morning for Havana for a
short stay and will return to
spend the winter here.
Evening star., 1936-11-15
n. B. c. Regime Holds.

THAT the new management regime
of National Broadcasting Co. is in
to stay in spite of numerous rumors to
the contrary, was indicated last week
with the announcement by M. H.
Aylesworth, founding president of the
big network organization, that he has
resigned as vice chairman of the N.
B. c. board to devote his entire time
to his duties as chairman of Radio
Keith -Orpheum Corp. Maj. Lenex r.
Loflr former Army engineer and ex-
ecutive director of the Chicago Gen.
tury of Progress, succeeded Mr.. Ayles-
worth as president of the company
last January /.
Richard c. Patterson. jr., ex-Ayles-
worth aide, who also left N. B. c. as
executive vice president January /,
it was also learned, has been active in
recent months as representative of
banking interests seeking to acquire
radio properties. Mr.. Aylesworth is
not connected in any way with the
Patterson ventures, but it is UNDER
stood Mr. Patterson made an offer to
purchase the N. B. c. Blue network,
which was rejected on behalf Of RADIO
Corp. of America, N. B. c. parent COM
pany, by David Sarnoff, r. c. A. pres
ident. Mr. Patterson also made ten
tative overtures to purchase WOR
of Newark.
Mr.. Sarnoff is chairman of the N
e hoard and Mr. AVleSw0rth since
last New Year has been serving under
him in a part-time advisory capacity.
Mr.. Aylesworth's present duties with
the big film corporation have largely
to do with its reorganization. Half in
terest in r. K. o. was sold by r. c. A.
to Wall Street bankers early this year,
with an option to purchase the other
half, which is expected to be exercised
around next January /.
Evening star., 1936-11-15
Major Features
and Notes

THE phenomenal progress of the
National Broadcasting Co. will
be signalized in a special broadcast
over both WRC and WMAL from
to 10 am. which will mark the close
Of the organizations tenth anniver-
sary celebration. Many novel features
are on the Commute program. In one
Of them radio organizations m 13
major nations throughout the world
will combine to present their best
talent.
Gov. Landon of Kansas will be
the principal speaker in the third of
the series OF 1886. Mobilization for
Human Needs program on WMAL
at 7. The musical background will be
provided by the Minneapolis SYM
phony Orchestra.
John Charles Thomas, baritone, will
be the soloist with Emo Rapeeis Sym
phony Orchestra on WRC at 10. He
will sing "Credo" from Verdis
"Othello." the "Toreador Song" from
Bizet's Carmen" Sanderson's Green
Pastures" and Wolfe's Sailor Man"
DR.. Ales Hrdlicka, curator of ply
sical anthropology of the Smith
sonian Institution, will take part in
the World is Yours" program on
WRC at 1880 a. m
Jose Iturbi. celebrated Spanish
pianist, will again be the guest soloist
with Alexander Smallens' Symphony
Orchestra during the Sunday Evening
Hour on WJSV at 9. He will play a
group of major classics and several
lighter selections. These include the
third movement from Beethoven's
Concerto in C Minor" and Brahms
"Intermezzo in C Major" and the
"Seduidillas" of AlbeniZ.
A crippled Boy Scout who has won
ID merit badges and a man who can
see his bride only on a ferry, will
contribute to the I'VE, the People"
program on WMAL at S.
Stuart Churchill, tenor, formerly
with Fred Warnings Pennsylvanians,
will be one of the three singers to
compete for Metropolitan Opera STAR
dom during the additions on WRC
at 3.
Charles Laughton, British stage
and screen star, and Alexander
Korda, English motion picture di.
rector. will be featured during the
Magic Key" program on WMAL
at 2.
Rosa Tentoni, soprano, will be the
guest soloist with the Pittsburgh
Symphony Orchestra during its con-
cert on WJSV at 2 Her program in
cludes Little Star" by Ponce, and
"Giannina Mia" from The Firefly."
Nelson Eddy and Francia White
will sing the duet from Leoncavallo's
opera "Pagliacci" during their program
on WJSV at 8. Eddy also will con-
tribute Valencia" and Song of the
Vagabonds."
Marjorie Lawrence, dramatic So
prano of the Metropolitan Opera Co.,
will sing with the New York Phil
harmonic Symphony Orchestra during
its concert on WJSV from 3 to 5.
Her numbers include "Arabella's S Aria"
from Mozart's "Cosi Fan Tutte," and
Bruennhilde's music in the final
"Immolation Scene" from Wagner's
"Goetterdammerung" The orchestra
will play three major excerpts from
this great music drama.
Evening star., 1936-11-15

1890. beginning next week and fea-
turing that witty cosmopolitan story
teller, Dwight Fiske Another bright
array of talent debuts on the after
noon kilocycles next week, the new
c. B. S. three-a-week matinee star
ring Morton Bowe. Meri Bell and Ray
Sinatra's orchestra. The Hollywood
comment portion of the program,
without which no new program seems
to be regarded as complete just now,
will be aired by Bill Johnstone.
IT LOOKS as if Lights Out" is on
the verge Of getting commercial
sponsorship. Lucky Millinder and
the Mills Blue Rhythm Band, OPEN
ing at the Savoy, are to play for the
dialers, too. =. Marion Talley will
come East for her November % and
29 broadcaStS. Lily Pons heads
for New York right after her Monday
night Radio Theater" date and will
sing in that N. B. C. Sunday night
motors concert series December 6 at
White Plains. Lois Bennett will
be guest singer on Ted Hammersteinrs
program Tuesday night. Juliette
Kay begins series Of four talks Nom
day for that morning Magazine of
the Air" on which Theodore Dresser
and Gretta Palmer will be heard on
the coming Wednesday. Dick Sta
bile will be right back where he started
as star saxophonist for Ben Bernie's
orchestra this week-but for one
one night only-as guest star for the
OF Maestro. He has his own band
now, OF course. =. Cab Galloway is
also due at the Bernie microphone
that night,
Evening star., 1936-11-15
SHORT WAVE FEATURES
TODAY.

BUDAPEST-10 am-Gypsy
Band: Messages to Hungarians
Abroad; musical program. HAS
3, 1875 m, 1897 meg.
PARIS p.m.-Concert. TPA-
3, 25.2 m. 11.88 meg.
BOSTON-5 p.m.-Sunday Re-
view. W1XAL, 496 M, 6.04 meg.
BERLIN-6 p.m.-Sunday eve
ning's program. DJD, 25.4 m,
HIT meg.
MONTREAL-6 p.m.-"And 1t
Came to Pass"-biblical drama
tizations. CRCX, 49.2 M, 500
meg; CJRO, 48.7 M, 6.15 meg;
CJRX, 25.6 m. 11.72 meg.
HaNDHOVEN, Netherlands -
p.m.-Special transmission for
Central South America. PCJ,
31.2 M, $50 meg.
LONDON-7:20 p.m.-Recital
by Margaret Wilkinson (Canadi-
an mezzo-soprano). GSP, 1876
M, 1881 meg; GSD, ass m,
Ills meg; Csc, 31.3 m, 9.58
meg.
BERLIN -9:l5 pm. - Sym
phony concert. Conductor: Hans
Rosabaud. DJD, 25.4 m, 11.77
meg.
LONDON -9:16 pm. - The
band of His Majesty's Coldstream
Guards (by permission of Col. Ar
thur Smith. d. S. o.. M. c., COM
manding Coldstream Guards.
GSD, 25.S m, Ills meg; Csc.
3l.3 m, 9.S8 meg.
Evening star., 1936-11-15
Railroad Buys Radios.

A PPARENTLY relenting on its
unwritten but heretofore invoked
agreement with the Baltimore &, Ohio
and Pennsylvania not to equip passen-
ger cars with radios, the New York
Central has announced the placing
Of an order for 20 large home-type
console radio sets to be placed on its
Twentieth Century, Southwestern
Limited and other crack trains in
order to provide its passengers with
important broadcasts such as election
returns and major sports events.
The radios were first used election
day, the Pennsylvania also placing sets
on its trains that day. They are kept
at central point, so that when an
important event is to be on the air
they can be installed Immediately on
the trains. Usually, at the end of
the run, the equipment is removed
to await another important broadcast,
but the New York Central states 1t
win be left installed when circum-
stances warrant. Hitherto the three
big Eastern railroads have refused to
equip their trains with radios on the
ground that many passengers COM
plain they are annoyed. On the other
hand. most Of the crack trains of the
Western roads and some of the smaller
Eastern roads for many years have
carried radio as regular equipment.
Evening star., 1936-11-15
British Radio Gains.

I INDER the newly promulgated
charter of the British Broadcast
ing Corp, operated as separate cor
poration, but owned by the govern
ment, it is estimated that the full year
OF its operation, starting next Janu-
ary l, will bring it at least $12, 500, 900
in operating revenue from radio set
licenses, according to report to the
Department of Commerce
At the end of July there were 7,718,-
557 radio set licenses in force in Great
Britain, states the report, representing
a gain over the preceding IL months
of 572,228-and representing the larg-
est number of radios in use in any
country, except the United States,
where more than 22,000,000 homes
have one or more radios.
British listeners pay 10 shilhngs
year to the government as radio tax.
of which 6 shillings pence Cor about
$1.60) goes to operate the B. B. c.
The estimated $l2,5oO,0 900 in revenues
for the B. B. c. next year do not in
clude normal gains in set licenses.
Evening star., 1936-11-15

y c. A. has something like 10 ex-
perimental televiewing sets in
operation in the homes and Offices of
its executives and engineers in and
around New York City to pick up the
ultra short wave transmissions from
its tall Empire State Building station.
Fifteen such sets were used in last
weeks demonstrations-12 of them
framing the small pictures on the
f1uorescent surfaces of cathode-ray
tubes inches in diameter and three
of them framing the larger pictures on
similar 12-inch tubes. The former
use greenish-hued luminosity the lat
ter yellow. Though green is tradi-
tionally the easier color on the eye, it
is the latter tube with some modifica-
tions that will probably be adopted
within the next year or two for home
receivers that will go on the mar
ket locally in New York City
Television in its first years will
inevitably be a metropolitan serv-
ice, and rural and remote folk will not
get an opportunity to enjoy it. The
reason is that extremely tall radiat-
ing points are needed to send out its
signals" and its ultra short waves
hardly ever penetrate beyond the
horizon. Thus, even from the tall
Empire State Building, it is calcu-
lated that a radius of not much more
than 35 miles can be served. And tele-
vision transmitters will be extremely
costly-probably running up to half
million dollars or more each-so that
it is entirely unlikely they will be in
stalled outside of urban areas at the
outset.
THE general reaction of those who
saw the demonstrations was that
the pictures are clear enough and
enjoyable enough to furnish satisfac-
tory home entertainment in their
present stage, but the researchers have
other plans. In lieu of building up
images at the rate of 343 scanning
lines per image, exposed so times per
they intend to improve. the
definition by fixing upon a standard
of AL lines per image with the same
number of exposures. This means the
present equipment is already obsolete,
for as one official explained it. trans
mitters and receivers must fit one
another like lock and key, so that
new receivers must be built along with
new tranSmitters.
The problem of transmitting stand
ards being thus inextricably inter-
locked with those of receivers, the
entire radio industry must agree upon
fixed standards for all so that all
sets can pick up all transmissions as
IN audible radio.
Evening star., 1936-11-15
Auto Show Program.
SpECTAI, radio hroodcest N,

A SPECIAL radio broadcast viii be
a high light of the opening of
the Seventeenth Annual Automobile
Show in Calvert Exhibit Hall this aft
ernoon at 4:3o O'Clock.
Put on the air for Is minutes over
Station WMAL. the program will fea-
ture William A. Van Duzer, director of
traffic; Barney Oldfleld. veteran racing
driver, and Bill Coyle, sports an
nouncer.
From 1880 to pm. Tuesday Radio
Joe" kaufman, who is turning his
program over to the Community Chest
campaign, will conduct his broadcast
at the auto show.
Evening star., 1936-11-15
To Cut Programs.

THE HIT PARADE" sponsor is
planning to reduce his programs
on both Columbia and N. B. C. from
so to 80 minutes. If this arrange
ment goes through, the account will
have gone long way toward adjusting
its differences with the music pub
fishers by cutting the number Of men,
toned hit tunes from Is to z.
Evening star., 1936-11-15
Personal Column Idea q
Is Basis of Radio Show
Human Interest Angle Marks Latest Con-
tribution of Octavus Roy Cohen-Benny
and Baker Programs Improve.
By Dorothy MaffiSOn.

ME debut OF the new ocavs Roy Cohen show tomorrow
works Finds another barking
tutes the seasons most popular air formuthe
angle of this
the Good Will Court Smiths
ana wives to mention those good old sandb
Evening star., 1936-11-15
10 INTERVIEWS ATTAIN HIGH POPULARITY MARKS
Bearers of Microphones
Now Are Invading Homes
Rudy Vallee Considered Expert at Question.
and-Answer Art-Bing Crosby's
Improvement Rapid.
By The Radio Editor.

day the radio interview here Not that hasn't been here all
viewing moments the practice has steadily
Autumn, witnessed a striking
question: