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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-10-27

City Council gets all dressed up and
ready to 60 after delinquent tax payers
and then decides that the season will not
be open for that kind of game for another
three months. So, the old scatter-gun is
put back in the corner. andgall hands turn
in for another nap.-The Key West Over
Sea Sunday Star. -. - ~
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-10-27

South streets where zmpae sp@1E
viii be provided for Lzy< SO
the big show Ths shsw cs
Il clowns with Hzzk Sy3uE a.
their head Fur1her $780,
ments VII be MADE 81 lbs ar
izati0n which i canslaereE 60
Of the II On rne uazG
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-10-27

1828-Jacob d. Cox, Ohio law
yer, noted Union general, Ohio
governor, secretary of the interior,
historian of the Civil War, born
N Montreal (Of American parent
age). Died Aug. 8, 1900,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-10-27

Mrs. Simpson wants to be Queen, but
that's rather difficult She'd have to be
born again.-Tampa Tribune. Nothing in
English law preventing a king from marry
ing cOmmOner. 1t has been done before
1t is prescribed, however, the king cannot
marry profesSed Catholic.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-10-27

worldwide. and
some were COM
paratively mild.
The one chief
cause of all de-
preSsions is un-
W a r T a n { e d
speculation that
is inspired by
abnormal fcti-
tious prosper
ity. Due to hu-
man limitations
men miSinter-
pref economic
conditions. and
are led to mis-
take the unreal
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-10-27

Florida is B. V. D. state as far as
the men are concerned We are not at
tempting to make guess what the women
wear in the Winter i'm this state-Times-
Union. Why essay a guess; why not find
out, if you are curious.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-10-27

1827-Albert Fink, American
railway engineer, manager and
economist, who revolutionized the
traffic management of American
railroads, born in Germany. Died
in New Y ork, April 3, 1897.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-10-27

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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-10-27

1836-Erasmus ID. Leavitt, not
cd mechanical and consulting en-
gine2r of his day, born at Lowell,
Mass. Died at Cambridge, Mass,
March IL, 1916.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-10-27

1858 - Theodore Roosevelt,
Goth President, statesman, solder
man of letters, born in New York
City. Died at Oyster Bay. n. Y,
Jan. s, 1919.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-10-27

The Literary Digest has never been
wrong. and it will not be found to be
wrong this time. In the final analysis the
poll will shOw the vote favorable to Roose-
welt
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-10-27

If Father COughlin is going to eat up
a reporter, he may find him quite in
digestible. Reporters have thick hides
and are tough birds.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-10-27

We have been having depressions
in this country about every decade
for more than hundred years. Some
of these depressions were violent and
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-10-27
Today's
Anniversaries

1811-Isaac NJ. Singer, sewing
mach ne inventor manufacturer,
born at Pittstown, N. Y. Died in
England, July %, 1875.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-10-27
Today In History

17871FirSt' of the celebrated
Federalist essays, anonymously
written 3y Ham lton, Madison and
Jay, defending the newly-written
Constitution, appeared.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-10-27

1933-Henry Ford. found ineli-
gible for S6TtfHmeilt u contracts.
even thaugh he7kept l9etter and
spirit of NRA code, because he did
not sign tago bar,,,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-10-27

After the rebels have taken Madrid,
the real fight will begin, and it may end
i'll another world catastrophe.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-10-27

1S56-Kenyon Cox, noted New
York City painter and art critic,
son of the above, born at Warren.
Ohio. Died March II, 1919.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-10-27

Mussolini is grooming his son-in-law
to be his successor but he reckOns without
the people who may not continue to be so
acquiescent.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-10-27

Mayor Leslie A. Curry an
nOunces that he is accepting do
nations to the fund being raised
to aid the Cuban people LETT desti-
tute by the hurricane which swept
the west end OF the island repub-
lie, one week ago today. Mayor
Curry is personally conducting
the program Of soliciting and is
meeting with much encourage
ment, he says. To date four con-
tributions have been received
which total Sis.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-10-27

1S45-M;raffR. %. Dewing
painter. born in New York. DIED
there, Dec. IL, 1927.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-10-27

1878-BurgIars robbed the
Manhattan Bank, New York, of
more than two million dollars.
- - vss~s
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-10-27

1806-French under Napoleon
occupied Berlin, after battle Of
jena.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-10-27
IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST
ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN

1. Water and Sewerage.
2. Bridges to complete Road to Main
land
3. FREE Port
4. Hotels and Apartments
5. Bathing Pavilion.
8. ATports-Land and Sea.
7. Consolidation of County and City
Governments
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-10-27

Bob Morton's Circus, said to
be better than it has ever been.
will show in Key West under the
auspices of. the Key West Fire
Department, beginning November
Is. The attraction will be at the
Cato grounds at Simonton and
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-10-27

1810-West Florida annexed to
Louisiana by Presidential proela-
mation-people of Baton Rouge
district had declared themselves
Independent of Spain, declared
themselves the Republic of West
Florida and asked admission to the
Union.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-10-27

The American Legion is plan
ming to make repairs to the Lee
gion Club House, and to secure
funds for doing the work, will
have the Cronin Shows, consisting
of ten feature acts in Key West
on Armistice Day. They will
open the attraction at Whitehead
and United streets on Monday,
November 8, and remain for sew
eral days. Further announce
ments will be published.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-10-27

1S71-wilIiam NJ. Tweed of
New York City. most notorious of
American political bosses, quickly
raised two-milliOn dollar bail de-
manded when arrested.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-10-27

While operating a band saw at
the plant of the Sawyer Novelty
Works, John Sawyer, proprietor,
had the misfortunate of losing a
finger from his right hand yes
terday. Mr.. Sawyer was handling
a piece of lumber when the saw
jumped and injured three fingers,
one of which had to be am
putated.
Evening star., 1936-05-15

ceedings against John Barrymore was
Dearest" mother to Freddie Bartholo-
NEW in Little Lord Fauntleroy."
shes SWELL" interrupts George
Raft-who should know.
I'm a lucky woman-I've always
been lucky" Dolores continues.
Things went well with me from the
very beginning of my movie career.
I was Is when I left Chicago and
George Whites Scandals for Holly
wood. Being the daughter of Maurice
Costello helped. Good stories came my
way one after another. Then I went
into The Sea Beast That was
significant picture for me because 1t
was destined to bring to an end
period in my life. 1t was in this pic
ture that I met John Barrymore I
became his wife, and left the screen.
There was much sweetness in the
years that followed. There were
cruises in our yacht (the same yach:
in which Elaine Barrie and her mother
were guests of the great screen lover).
We followed the midnight sun far up
into the arctic seas. of the coast Of
Alaska. In the Winter months, the
prov of our boat nosed into the trop-
ical isles of the South Pacific.
1T was pleasant-and made no less
pleasant by the fact that the years now
lie between. 1 have two children now,
John Barrymore, jr., aged 4, and
Dolores Barrymore, aged 5. They are
very important to me.
The good luck that I had in the
Evening star., 1936-05-15

happy MIN couples invariably develop
genuine friendships Immediately the
divorce or separation is announced?)
Bitter-tongued gossips here discount
the explanation of marital failure
voiced by the attractive red-haired
dancer and blame the break on the
fact that the film rating Of the couple
has see-sawed in typical Hollywood
fashion since their marriage a couple
of years ago. At that time Lew Ayres
was greatly in demand for leading
movie roles. Ginger, newcomer from
the Broadway stage, was just break
ing in. Today Miss Rogers, owing to
her dance partnership with Fred
Astaire, is among the biggest box
Office draws in the world. Mr.. Ayres,
however, has slipped from the stellar
position he once occupied and is now
beginning his film life anew as a
director with minor studio.
With Dolores Costello Barrymore on
the set Of Yours for the Asking" in
which she plays romantic young So
ciety woman opposite a gambler by the
name of George Raft.
Il was very nervous at the prospect
Of playing a young woman again."
says Dolores, whose first screen role
after her separation and divorce pro-
Evening star., 1936-05-15

Goes Round and Round" in operatlc
rhythm and then disappeared.
Mike" hasn't, however, disappeared
for good and all Friends of this
former Princeton Triangle Club per-
former will be glad to hear that he
still lives in a great Hollywood home,
high up in the hills of Beverly; that
his mother and father are out there
visiting him; that he plays golf almost
daily; that he does vocal lessons for
many hours at a time, and that he
goes every day to the Columbia studios,
hoping that there will be something
for him to do.
For a long time, however, there
hasn't been anything for him to do.
So Mike" being an artist, an in
tense, energetic person, has fretted
and stewed and thought much of his
earlier days when he sang opera in
Rome and THE Cat and the Fiddle
on Broadway and did radio broadcaSts
. somewhere in between.
No actor, no singer, and especially
no young movie actor, who has had
success ring in his ears, likes to be
treated that way. Life is too short.
If there isn't anything for him to do
in Hollywood, there are other things
calling in the not SO dim beyond
Once a guy has been boosted to the
top, why not keen him there? Bart
lett, as a single example, deserves just
that sort Of a boost.
A CCORDING to Kay Mulvey, one
of Hollywoods infallible guides
Nelson Eddy was greeted on his re-
turn to the M-G-M studio with such
enthusiasm that the poor man
couldn't get past his chicken soup
course on his first luncheon there.
After the soup, presumably, he and
Evening star., 1936-05-15

jeanette Macdonald began work right
away on "Maytime," their latest as
signment.
CPEAKING of Grace Moore Git was
- she who called Bartlett to Holly
wood for his first "talkie" role) ad-
mirers of this gracious songbird will
be glad to hear that she will be seen
and heard at the Earle Theater
week from today in THE King Steps
Out" her latest, and possibly her
last, singing film.
Vague recollections of Miss Moore's
recent departure from Hollywood in
which she fiouted certain people,
things and conditions Ca COW came
in for headlines) are the reason for
the last film" business-which has
perhaps by now been corrected.
At any rate Miss Moore will be at
the Earle one week from today with
Franchot Tone, Walter Connolly,
Frieda Inescort, Raymond Walburn,
Victory Jory, Elizabeth Risdon. Thurs
ton Hall, Herman Bing and Mana
Bryant In supporting roles.
HOWARD STRICKLING came to
town yesterday with Louis B.
Mayer to attend that dinner which
Mrs. Willebrandt gave at the Carlton
last night.
Fats" Walters here today, too, and
the lines are beginning to form outside
the Howard Theater.
THE Shining Hour" will have its
first local performance here when the
Columbia Players dig into it next
Wednesday and Thursday nights. Dor
othea Lewis is directing the company.
The author, Keith Winter, youngest Of
England's popular playwrights, re-
Gently completed a book called I'm
passioned Pygmies," which is being
gobbled up by the intelligentsia.
Thomas Gas Thousands Cheer')
Hamilton will be week end D. c. Wis
itor.
Mabelle Jennings is getting plenty
of congratulations these days on the
nice piece of broadcasting cake she
has cut for herself.
Under Two Flags" with Ronald
Colman, Claudette Colbert. Victor Nc
Laglen and Rosalind Russell (not
Fuller will follow Small Town Girl"
into the Palace
The Variety Club is going great
guns these days. Last Saturday night,
and practically every Saturday night,
it is q sell-out. Sam Wheeler Is one
Of the continual lions present.
1t is said that Swing Music" was
provided last night at the White
House for the first time. Sidney did
the swinging"
Evening star., 1936-05-15
FIRST CARTOON SHOW

WHEN Washington's first All-star
Cartoon Show is presented at
the Tivoi Theater tomorrow morning
at 1890 the following cartoons will
make up the 90-minute program:
Steam Roller Mickey" and Orphans
Benefit" starring Mickey Mouse;
Tortoise and the Hare" and "Robber
Kitten" Silly Symphonies; 1--WE Aim
to Please" and Beware Of Barnacle
Bill" starring Popeye; The Lost
Chick" special technicolor cartoon;
Flowers for Madame" and Bill
board Frolics";; two Merrie Melodies;
1.-TWO Boobs in a Balloon" starring
Edgar Bregen with his famous
dummy, Charlie Macarthur; Lucky
Beginners" starring Our Gang.
Evening star., 1936-05-15
TEACHER COLLEGE PLAY
TO BE "PLACER GOLD"

"PLACER GOLD" written by two
senior students, Kathleen Crowley
and Margaret Freeny, has been
selected as the play to be presented
in celebration of the annual May day
of Wilson Teachers College. The
celebration will be held on May 20
at the Sylvan Theater at 2:3O pm.
Plans are being carried forward
for this festival under the sponsor
ship of the Wilson Women's Athletic
Association and under the direction
of Miss Alma Ebeling of the Physical
Education department and Florence
HUM, student chairman, aided by
Miss Augusta Kriener and Mrs. Ber-
nice Angelica of the faculty.
Evening star., 1936-05-15

Rogers to your correspondent during
brief lull in her strenuous rehearsals
with Fred AStaire for R|K-O- Radios
picture, "Never Gonna Dance"
I'VE are definitely not contemplat-
Evening star., 1936-05-15
Irish Must Learn Irish.

Officers of state institutions in the
Irish Free State have been ordered to
learn Irish.
Evening star., 1936-05-15

and often fulfills little. Today perhaps
less than yesterday. Nevertheless,
waiting" still exists.
Take the case of Michael Bartlett.
Evening star., 1936-05-15
Fish Has Fur on It.

APPLETON. Wis. (P).-Fred Kran-
hold came forward with a fish story
that had fur-if not whiskers-on it.
He showed pictures of a mounted
piscatorial specimen. 1t had the head
and tail of a trout. The body was
covered with thick fur. He claimed
he had caught it in a Northern lake.
He didn't say where he had trapped
the rabbit.
Evening star., 1936-05-15

Gossip on the boulevards =. Jean
Hersholt gives a great performance in
Sins of Man"-u you don't weep
when you see the film there is some
thing wrong with you Amazing
how George Brent has blossomed forth
as an actor since his parting with
Ruth Chatterton, ex-first lady Of the
screen His work in 1.-THE Case Against
Mrs. Ames" is little short OF inspired
:. Lili Damita, Enrol Flynn's bride, is
one Hollywood wife who Is determined
to keep up with the progress Of her
husband. She takes art lessons in the
morning, singing and dancing lessons
in the afternoon, and tennis lessons
all Sunday.
(Copyrisht, 1885, by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc)
Evening star., 1936-05-15

ing divorce at
this time" Gin
ger said emphati-
caNy. And then
S he enunciated
the modern mar
r a g e d e a t h
dirge: 1--WE both
have the highest
respect and ad-
miration for each
other. We shall
see e &c h other
very often and
u n d er friendly
terms"
(Writer's query
Why do I'M
Evening star., 1936-05-15

W h q I has
b e G o m e of
this a b lie
singer who
" a S C a t a.
pull t e d to
cinema fame
W h e n h e
sang a single
6 o n g with
Grace Moore
in her sec
ond film? So
far as we
X n o W, h e
h a d one
other small
role, S a n 6
THE Music
Evening star., 1936-05-15

movies several years ago seems to
have remained with me. ! returned to
pictures with the idea Of starting all
over again. But now, after one pic
ture, I find myself in q starring role.
I'm a little surprised and very grate-
full. have decided that no matter
how many times may remarry-if
at ALL shall never again abandon
my screen career"
Dolores receives her California final
divorce papers In the Fall. and 1t Is
anticipated that Elaine Barrie (nee
Jacobs) will then take over the WELL
worn title Of Mrs. John Barrymore" !"
Evening star., 1936-05-15
A Game Called "Waiting"|
WellKnOWn to Film Actors
Many A Hollywood Star Spends Time on
Casting Directors Doorstep-Whats !
Happened to BARTLETT?
BY f. de S. MELCHER.

OF called waiting Tnls
actor into small dis
appointed the out Of greatness
~ beauy winners mans and torch singers from e aha OF
nnise This is what gives personality stomachache
forget 1t promises much
Evening star., 1936-05-15
Ginger Rogers Explains
What Wrecked Marriage
Dolores Costello Says She's Lucky to Have
Such an Easy Comeback After
Screen Retirement.
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM.

oLLYWooD May Is NANAo-And so another Hollywood couple
/ afterwards, and finally decided
1T Is difficult to explain Lew
hnd that ideas and mutual interests dfted
Evening star., 1936-04-23
tional Law met to discuss problems Of

tional Law met to discuss problems OF
neutrality.
Likewise on the same day, the
Board Of Superintendent Of the New
York City school system prescribed
penalties for the participation of stu
dents in anti-war demonstrations
planned for the following day. and
Tulane and Oklahoma Universities,
and Hampden-Sy College an
nounced that high school students
participating in such demonstrations
would be barred from enrolment in
their institutions Of learning, while
Gen. Dennis e. Nolan, in an interview
upon retiring. recommended that every
boy who possibly could should enter
West Point or the Naval Academy and
urged the selective draft. better espi-
onage methods and r. o. T. c. in all
the high schools as preparation for
"the next major hostility" And at
a meeting of the Foreign Policy Asso-
citation in New York, Eustace Seligman
said: Wars are caused by barries to
international trade" Harold Laskl
said: Competition between national
states in which vested interests pre-
vent free movement Of goods cause
wars" william Allen White said:
Children must be taught other values
than the acquisitive" Un Italy chill
drer of 6 are attired in gas masks
and sent through real gas attacks be-
Evening star., 1936-04-23

openly dares to blaspheme. 1t is the
symbol of the ultimate good. Peace,
usually depicted as lady in flowing
robes, carrying a branch of olive. has
been enshrined in monuments through
out the Western World, eulogized IN
poetry and song, and extolled from
platform and pulpit. No man running
for Office in any country would dream
of saying: Ladies and gentlemen,
recommend myself to you on the
ground that shall take you into war;
war, heroic, glorious, exciting. destruc-
tive, purifying, expensive and superb.
Vote for me-" On the contrary. Hitler,
parading the worlds most impressive
war machine, says: II would be happy
if my only memorial monument were
the historical recognition of my labor
for peace-not at the sacrifice OF Ger
man honor" Similar words are in
the mouths of the statesmen of every
other country And the amount OF
attention devoted to the great desid-
eratum in the columns of our press
is only rivaled by the space devoted
to crime.
The New York Times for Tuesday
contains no fewer than IL separate
statements from several parts of the
world regarding peace and the ways
of attaining it. They are from Anthony
Eden, Baron Aloisi. Vladimir Potemkin,
Alfred Duff Cooper. Senators Nye,
Clarke, Pope and Bone, President
Roosevelt, the General. Council of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, A. A.
Berle, Eustace Seligman, Prof Harold
Laski, Mr.. William Allen White and
Gen, Dennis E. Nolan.
Eden's Peace Hopes.
Mr.. Eden wants peace. He wants
peace with security. No hand-to-mouth
peace. no peace for just now, but peace
now and for all time by international
collaboration. He wants peace to the
extent that he will risk a fight for 1t.
Mr.. Eden, therefore, urged cessation of
hostilities between Italy and Ethiopia
Evening star., 1936-04-23
ARCADE T0P[EAD
FOR FLOOD FUNDS
Delegation in II AirpIanes
to Join Rivers and Har.
bors Congress.

A delegation Of so f1ood-control ad-
vocates from five States, travelling in
IL airplanes, will arrive at Washington
Airport at 10 am. tomorrow to con-
fer with the National Rivers and Har-
bors Congress and the United States
Chamber of Commerce and to request
passage by Congress of the Copeland
bill, providing S215 100000 for con-
struction of 80 control reservoirs in
the Ohio Valley.
Members of the ARCADE" repre-
senting Indiana, Kentucky. Ohio,
PENNSYLVANIA and West Virginia, spent
last night in Columbus, Ohio, accord
ing to the Associated Press, after a
day of flying which took them from
Cincinnati to Portsmouth, Ohio;
Huntington, w. Va, and Gallipolis and
Athens, Ohio.
The party is led by DR.. Charles E.
Holzer of Gallipolis, president OF the
Ohio Valley Conservation and Flood
Control Congress. which is sponsoring
the fight. and by Maj. Fred L. Smith,
chief of the Ohio Bureau of Aero
nautics.
Flood Control Foremost.
The group will establish headquar-
ters at the Powhatan Hotel. Tomor-
row and Saturday, the visitors will
meet with members of the National
Rivers and Harbors Congress, which
will open its thirty-first annual meet
ing Monday in the Mayfower Hotel.
On Monday, the aerial delegates will
meet with officials of the Chamber of
Commerce They will confer with
members Of Congress from the food
areas and will submit evidence gath
cred during the fight of lives lost and
property destroyed during the recent
floods.
Formulation of national hood-con-
troll plan will occupy the foremost
position on the program of the rivers
and harbors congress.
Meanwhile, a two-day session Of
the Projects Committee of the con-
gress, which opens tomorrow, will
discuss individual waterway and food
control projects in all parts of the
country. to lay the groundwork for
action by the larger group. Repre-
sentative Driver of Arkansas is chair
man Of the committee.
Wallace to Speak.
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, a
member of the Natural Resources
Board, will deliver one Of the princi-
pal addresses at the Congress- and a
message from President Roosevelt on
flood control as a national problem
will be heard.
Other speakers listed on the program
include Senators Robinson of Arkan.
sas, Copeland of New York, McNary
of Oregon, Overton of Louisiana and
Hatch of New Mexico. Representative
Wilmington of Mississippi, Gov. Blan-
ton Winship of Puerto Rico, Maj. Gen
Edward NJ. Markham. chief of Army
Engineers; Dr. James NJ. Smith, pres
ident of Louisiana University; Repre-
sentative Wilson of Louisiana, chair.
man of the House Flood Control Com.
mittee, and Representative Mansfield
of Texas, chairman of the Rivers anc
Harbors Committee.