Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-27

that something Is awry with his love impulses.
Another interesting thing keys suggest
about peoples character is that those who
Iangle keys, who collect great numbers Of
them, are likely to have an indecisve streak
in their natures.
Their inner doubts and quslms make it
difficult for them to make decisions quickly
Having the keys may relieve their filters, but
does not help them reach decisions.
They are likely to continue in doubling
safeguarding vaguely over their unco1.-
scious impulses and contradictions.
Understood men go in for carrying huge
punches of keys They are not likely to be
janglers just because they are small but their
smallness vexes them inwardly and they com.
pensate In degree by carrying many keys
to indicate that they are powerful and manly,
and important.
One Of the classic stories dealing with keys
is the story of old Bluebeard and his pet
chamber of horrors.
In most of the versions of this story which
betrays unconscious but sound psychology,
Bluebeard had great ring of keys of which
the smallest one TO the room in which he
kept the heads Of his murdered wives
The great ring of keys gave Bluebeard
feeling of power and the fact that the key to
the room of murder was the smallest was
because subconsciously Bluebeard felt the
imperative need to hide his murder chamber
Here is an example of the most modern
findings of psychology which were recognized
hundreds of years ago by ancient story tellers
even though they did not know what their
facts really meant.
Modern writer's too have frequently made
effective use of keys as integral parts of their
plots-two outstanding examples being the
popular old thriller, Seven Keys to Bald
pate which was supposed to have taken
place in Baldpate Inn in the Colorado noun
tains, now famous for its collection of KEYS
and the current Broadway hit, Angel Street"
In Angel Street" Miss Judith EVELYN the
heroine, is accused by her husband of hiding
an imaginary Key she never possessed, and
just when he has driven her to the verge of a
mental breakdown, she is rescued by a Scot
land Yard detective played by Leo G.. Carroll
who saves her by finding the right key to a
secret drawer in her husbands desk
Inspired, no doubt, by the ingenious psy-
Geological torture she suffers in the play. Miss
Evelyn recently donated her own collection of
1000 keys to the scrap metal drive-but keeps
right on suffering the stage, night after
night, and matinees.
Locksmiths and police officers say that
most keys and locks give very little protec.
ton against an intruder who is really bent
on looting place.
In short, far as mechanical things 90.
there is not a great deal of sense in keeping
things under lock and key But the feeling
OF security the keys give the person who has
locked things up is entirely another thing
That feeling Of security is not so much
about the pseudo-safety of the jewels or
bonds or insurance policies that are locked
up. Rather in some symbolic way the KEYS
suggest that the persons inner secrets-per-
haps a guilty conscience from ohildhood-are
carefully concealed from being examined by
others.
The keys assuage the secret worries, but
DO not cure them
Giving up those keys may be equivalent to
giving up the secret worries by bringing
them out into the open where they won't seem
anywhere near so real or terrifying as when
locked up tight in the dark recesses Of the
mind
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