The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-12-22
gMADE UP TO killer
by Kelley Rocs-

and arms that SO few knew abo:t
she took up her career again.
She became famous and wealthy.
the darling Of the early twenties-
Then she started slipping. her
looks were going, her youth fad
ing, and she wasn't q good enough
actress. She was down, out"
Poor Eve"
"Yeah, poor Eve, she had to re-
sort 20 blacklnail, a very esoterie
type of blackmail. By then Bow
els was the white-haired boy of
the American theater. She simply
said 10 him, You produce for
me, darling; star me, or else the
whole world viii know what
young man locked another young
man in his dressing room IN the
Detroit theater fire. What could
he do?"
He could produce for her"
Exactly. He produced for her
and starred her, and ruined him.
self financially and artiStically. II
must have torn him to pieces to
do all those bedroom comedies
and bad French translations
after all the beautiful stuff he
had been producing. It ripped
him to shreds. The theater was
his life. Some people let that
happen to their lives. Why,
Haila?"
60 on, darling"
The Limit
yNELL, finally it got him. II
w was either Eve or he. Rather
selfishly he decided it would be
Eve. He just told US that he
looked for a play for two years
that would give him a chance to
kill her. Finally he found Green
Apples. It was perfect. II had a
drinking scene exactly in the
right place. But Phoebe Thomp-
son forgot to put the flowers on
the table. Eve, the trouper, re-
arranged the glasses instead of
the flowers, and Carol, not Eve,
got the poison
Bowers dropped the poison
into Ewes glass just before the
curtain went up on the third act.
And what he must have gone
through when Carol got it
and when the play turned out to
be hit He told US If Eve hadn't
figured out the poison was meant
for her, he would have let her
live, because Green Apples
would'v made enough money TO
put him back where he could
produce other plays, too, the
kind he wanted to do"
Isuddenly remembered, when
you went in to talk to Eve be-
tween the acts the second night
Yeah, that was the first time
Eve heard about the poisoning"
"And Clint was in the hall; he
heard you and Eve; he realized
then that
JEFF nodded Right. When
asked her why she had been
fussing around the table, she
knew that she had changed the
glasses. given Carol the poison
that was meant for her. She
knew then that Bowers was out
to get rid of her."
Why didn't she run? For her
hfeI"
Il don't know" JEFF said. 'aThe
shock. She thought she was pro-
tected by the twenty people
backStage. She couldn't imagine
any way that Bowers could have
her dead within thirty minutes.
She couldn't believe that he
would dare strike again so soon.
or at the theater again.
"And when the places were
called, she took her place on
stage as she had been doing for
twenty-five years. Then Bowers
watched for his chance. dis first
attack had been planned for
months. This had to be one Of the
moment.
That chance came at Ewes
first exit IN the second act-and
everything worked into Bowers
hands. Eve. waiting there IN the
wings for her next entrance.
leaned UP against the scenery
and the paint came off On her
jacket She whipped il off to look
at 1t after she realized what she
had done.