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everything ever to encourage the
hope that it can be dragged into a
dramatic whole. Not even by a
glamorous cast which includes Faye
Emerson, Andrea King, Helmut
Dantine, Raymond Massey, George
Coulouris, and most of the other
studio males who can wear monocles
with the best of Hitler's ex-super-
men.
The overall message which Hotel
Berlin" undertakes to deliver is an
important one. In assembling the
whole rat horde under one roof from
which it is planning to flee to va
rious corners of the world to lay
plans for the third World War it has
dramatic warning to impart. The
method of imparting it robs it of
considerable of its power.
X X x X
The gallery of Nazi demons in
Hotel Berlin" is as complete as any
yet seen on the screen. There is
the Prussian general who foresaw
defeat and undertook a role in the
coup that was tc destroy Hitler, his
actress mistress whose political con-
fusionS made her switch sides more
often than she changed frocks, the
great teacher who went almost in
sane trying to uphold the tradition
of scholarship and freedom, the
hotel hostess who played all sides
in furious effort to get new pair
of shoes, the underground leaders
who wanted to be in on the kill, the
Gestapo and Storm Troop leaders
and their stooges arranging escape
to the Argentine, there to spend
their loot of continent in laying
plans for the next and more sue
cessful looting.
These, with all the minor charac-
ters to which such scripts have ac-
customed the public, give Hotel
Berlin" an undeniable tlmelineSS.
The course laid out for this rat
race starts in the lobby Of the hotel,
runs thence to the AFRAID shelter
in the sub basement, thereafter to
the suites occupied by the actress
and the hostess, and ends up in the
servants quarters. British and
American bombers have seen to it
that the elevators are running very
seldom, so the criss ss-croSsing of the
various lives keeps the camera To-
cussed very largely on the grand
staircase. Lots of times, you wish
it were given more scope.
Many of the passages of Hotel
Berlin" have their unquestioned
elements of the dramatic. This is
most notably true of those played
by Massey as the Prussian general
seeking to escape from SIS doom as
a traitor, and Miss King who is
hattered by his devotion but wants
to be sure her neck will be saved
by the man with whom eventually
she decides to flee. Excitement also
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derives from several sequences in
which Coulouris, the SIS leader
seeks to complete his purge before
fleeing in submarine. The comedy
of the picture is Miss Emerson's as
signment and she does a fair job
of creating a wryly humorous spec
tacle as a good girl going constantly
wrong in order to get a pair of
shoes.
Dantine, as usual, Is the under
ground hero, a man of such spartan
nature that he can kill the actress
who betrayed his love with as much
ease as he shoots down any male
Nazi dog.
AS we say, Hotel Berlin" rates
an "a" for effort but otherwise is
merely passively diverting despite
the high timeliness of its story.
The Earle's stage show this week
underwent some drastic last-min-
ute changes, but it could not
have been to the shows disadvant-
age. Andrea, Andree and Bonnie
were forced to cancel their manni-
kin act by virtue of illness in the
group, but Harry Anger's magic
took care of that very nicely. 1t
was done by adding the Calgary
brothers, those funny fellows, and
talented dancer Barbara Blaine at
the last minute.
The headline act, that of Jim and
Mildred Mulcahy with their har-
monica virtuosity, turned out to be
its usually excellent self and the
Roxettes and Joe Lombardi's or
chestra were the same.
1t turned out much better than
any one had any right to expect.
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Capitol Has a Horse Show

'aTHUNDEKHEAD SON or FLrcKA." Z
goth Century-Fox Picture with Roddy
By Robert Bassler. directed By Louis King,
screenpIay BY Dwight Cummins and Do
rothy Yost, based on novel by Mary
O'Hara. At the Capitol
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and his All Girl Orchestra.
AS Abbott and Costello picture!
go-uSually with a series of louC
bangs-the latest one at Keith's has
the virtue of looking considerably
more fresh as to plot. Here Come
the Co-eds" is its title, which Il
highly inexact, since the school in.
volved is exclusively for girls, but il
manages nevertheless to rise severa
cuts above the previous slapstick
product of the same pair of clowns
1t looks almost as If Universal Pic.
lures, the boss, had in mind seeing
If it could not increase the boys
popularity by appealing to that
audience which previously has founc
their antique burlesque routines 9
colossal bore.
1t would not be just to create the
impression that the comedy o1
Keith's latest picture is anything
but physical-the foot in the par
Of dough, the swallowed pair OF
dice, the housekeeping routine, etc
but 1t is a better grade of the ole
stuff. There is, for instance, q
basket ball sequence that will make
the most rabid anti-Abbott and
Costello fanatic laugh. ut did, as
matter of fact1.
The story that finally seems
worthy of the ribald recruits from
burlesque takes them to a girls
school campus, where their jobs are
those Of pair of caretakers. The
campus is what they are supposed
to take care of, naturally, but they
end up taking care of not merely
most Of the student body but of the
mortgage which is the institutions
most acute problem.
Universal, with Donald O'Connol
no longer available as her partner
gives exuberant Peggy Ryan to the
cast Of Here Come the Co-eds," anc
then, by way of more than good
measure. adds Phil Spitalny and
his orchestra and Lon CLANCY, jr
Between the three of them, Peggy
the orchestra and CLANCY, they pro-
vide the proper intervals between
A. and G. sequences, and when
they work with the principals
somehow manage to modify the lat
ter's usual style quite pleasantly.
The Keith farce, as a result, is
something to be recommended, not
merely to the Abbott and Costello
coterie but to those who have
kept an open mind on the point
that their slapstick might get bet
ter. j. c.
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Song Specialty-Bob Allen.
Joan Davis gets her man, this
week, at the Metropolitan, and you
can guess what you get enough
slapstick to last most people a life
time. If you're still game, in addi-
ton to the routine works and every
dialogue cliche that was ever in
vented, 1t does contain two very
funny sequences.
It's mostly comic cops and robbers
stuff with Joan Davis as the cop
She's called in to pick up a gentle
man whose hobby is homicide, but
before she's finished has just about
every one on the police force ready
to commit suicide. Joan trails the
suspect through cellars, trapdoors
and broken windows. She gets
knocked down, bruised, and tram
pied on but She Gets Her Man
if it will put your mind at rest.
In one of the final scenes which
Miss Davis carries off in a mildly
hilarious manner she breaks up a
love scene IN darkest Africa Cor
some such place, wherever the jun
giles are thick enough to conceal a
native and his poison blowgun. It's
all a rather harmless stage produc-
ton but, unknown to the actors,
Joan unwittingly deposited a knit
ting needle in the blowgun. She
tries to prevent manslaughter by
walking out in front of the audi
ence and ad libbing the idea across
To say that pandemonium results
is putting it mildly. P. S.
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Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time Of Showing

Stage.
National-"Winged Victory: $3.50
pm.
Screen.
-"Thunderhead":: II am,
las, 4:30, tbs and 10 pm. Stage
shows: /. 3:45, $3.50 and els pm.
Columbia-"Music for Millions:
11:30 am, 2, 4:30, and $50 pm.
Earle-"Hotel Berlin: IL am,
1:50, 4:25, 7:10 and 9:55 pm. Stage
shows: lis, $50, $50 and $40 pm
Keith's-"Here Come the Co-eds"::
11:40 am, lao, 3:45, 5:45, 7:45 and
$50 pm.
Little-"Fire in the Straw: II
am, 1:35, 4:25, 7:05 and 10 pm.
Metropolitan - "She Gets Her
Man: lilo. am, lis, 800, $50,
7::35 and 9:45 pm.
Palace-"Ill Be Seeing Your:
1o:45 am, 1855, $40, SIS, TAO and
$50 pm.
Pix-"Revenge of the Zombi"::
3:05, $50, 7:55 and 1920 pm.
Trans-Lux - News and shorts,
continuous from 10 am,
Evening star., 1945-03-30

HOTEL BERLIN" Warner Brothers
picture with Helmut Dantine and Faye
Emerson, produced by Louis Edelman. di-
rected by Peter Godfrey, screen play by
10 Pagano and Alvah Bessie from the
book by Vicki Baum. At the Earle.
The Cast.
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Keith Farce
Finds a Plot
With Novelty

versai picture with Abbott and Costello,
produced by John Grant, directed BY Jean
Yarbough, screen play by Arthur T. Her
story BY Edmund L. Hartmann. At Keith's.
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want for Easter appear magically
from the balloon artistry of Wally
Boag. If there's a shortage of vita
min B over the holiday however
you might blame 1t on the Murtah
Sisters. In order to put over a song
they do everything but eat the cur
tain and tear up the floor boards
The audience seemed to like it. The
Montana Kid closed the show which
his very talented horse Coley Bay
stole completely.
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Earle's Hotel Berlin Gathers
Nazis for Final Blasting
Nv JAY CARMODY.

effort undertaking depict
Earle Yesterday be blessed oncede that they brought
matter
producers the meodrama based w book look If
complexities
unfortunately too much Of
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An Easter Festival complete with
stained glass windows and the
Hallelujah Chorus set the holiday
mood on stage this week. Chickens
rabbits, ducks, anything you might
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-04-27
TODAY'S
ANNIVERSARIES

1791-Samuel F. B. Morse, in
ventor of telegraphy, at first met
with a storm of ridicule, born in
Boston. Died April 2, 1872.
1822-Ulysses S. Grant, soldier,
farmer, from colonel to lieuten-
ant-general and victor of the Civil
War, 18th President, born Point
Pleasant, Ohio. Died near Sara
toga, N. Y, July %, 1885.
1843 - Ira Barnes Dutton
(Brother Joseph, famed lay mis-
sionary to the lepers of Molakai,
born Stowe, VT. Died Honolulu,
Mar, 26, 1881.
1946-Charles J. Van Depoele,
Detroit's famed scientist-inven-
tor, pioneer in light and traction,
born in Belgium. Died Mar. Is,
1892.
1853-Alice Morse Earle, noted
antiquarian, born Worcester,
Mass. Died Feb. 16, 1911.
1883 - Arthur Somers Roche,
popular novelist his day, born
Somerville, Mass. Died Feb. II,
1885.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-04-27
THE WEATHER
FORECAST

Key West and Vicinity: Clear
to partly cloudy and continued
warm this afternoon through Sat-
urday; gentle to moderate winds,
mostly south to southwest, be-
coming variable Saturday.
Florida: Fair, not quite so
warm in extreme north portion;
partly cloudy, continued warm
with a few widely scattered thun-
der storms in south and central
portions today, tonight and Sat
urday.
St. Augustine Through Florida
Straits and Fact Gulf: Moderate
southwest to west winds over
south and central portions, mod
crate northerly winds over ex-
treme portion today and tonight,
becoming moderate variable Sat-
urday;~ partly cloudy weather
with a few widely scattered thun-
derstor411s over south and central
portions.
Jacksonville to Apalachicola:
No small craft or storm warnings
have been issued.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-04-27
THE PEOPLE KNOW BEST

In referring to the repeal of the poll
tax in Georgia, Governor Ellis Arnall said,
Il am convinced that the people of the
South and Georgia in particular, are much
more liberal in their thinking than are
many of our leaders"
In so saying Governor Arnall shows
himself to be a valuable leader, one who
has stayed close to his constituents. He
was born and bred in Georgia. \ He has
never lost touch with the people of Georgia.
And 10 and behold, under his leadership,
Georgia becomes the first of the southern
states which now have the poll tax to re-
peal it.
Do we take it that the people of
Georgia are more liberal in their think
ing than the people of Mississippi, for in
stance !. or Alabama or South Carolina?
Governor Arnal thinks it possible.
And vet, the experience of democracy
has shown that anywhere. in any state or
in any nation when the people shout loud
enough, liberal steps are taken. And when
the people are apathetic and let their lead
ers do the shouting, the clock of progress
seems 20 stand still.
The greatest names in our history
and out because as leaders, they humbly
considered themselves servants of the peo-
PIE. They kept their ears acutely attuned
to what the people were thinking and say
ing. II a democracy is to work, the will of
the people must be done. We the people
are at fault if any one Of our elected lead
ers is allowed to withdraw into the ivory
tower of his own convictions. 1t is our re-
sponsibility, as citizens of a democracy, to
make ourselves heard. There lies the hope
OF sound and liberal government
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-04-27
WE WANT ASSURANCE

Ernest F. Coe, director of Everglades
National Park, has sent letter, with
copies of other letters, to Chamber OF
Commerce committee, comprising William
w. Demeritt, Fred o. Eberhardt and Will
liam M. Arnold, in which he clarifies sew
eral questions pertaining to the boundaries
of the proposed park, one of them con-
corning commercial fishing.
He eneloses copy of letter on that
subject, concerning the only other mari
time park at the time the letter was writ
ten, which is the Arcadia National Park in
Maine.
There fishermen, the letter says, are
permitted to ply their trade, with only
state restrictions enforced. The term fish
ermen'' applies also to spongers, so that,
if the Everglades National Park is operated
on basis the same as the Arcadia Park,
then fishermen will be permitted to con-
tinue operation in the waters that would
be included in the park.
OF course, that question should be set
led definitely in favor of the fishermen
before opposition that has developed here
to the park will be withdrawn. AS Mr..
Coe himself knows, the waters that come
within the outlined boundaries are among
the best for commercial purposes along
the chain of keys, and an authoritative
statement from a national source should
be received as an assurance that the fishing
will be continued after the waters in ques-
tion become a part Of the park.
This park would be Of inestimable
value not only to the Florida Keys but to
all Florida also, but it would be unwise, in
getting the park. to curtail the source of
the livelihood of many residents and sew
eral commercial enterprises in Monroe
County
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BLAMING THE u. S.

A newspaper columnist asserts that
food and health crisis is developing in In
Ola and that ''some local Indian politicians"
blame the United States for current strin-
gencies, with the result that three SIS Ger
tain amount Of bad blood"
This report, il TRUE, is extremely m
teresting. Despite our best intentions and
deliberate policy to'recognize the rights
Of small countries, the United States is
blamed for developments with which it has
had nothing>to do.
1t is somewhat strange that the local
politicians. in ASSAM and Bengal should
take time to denounee the United States.
They have long-standing target In the
British Empire and their denunciation Of
he British has even persuaded many PEG
pie in this country that their complaints
are just
1t is just possible that the criticism of
the United States, HOW reported by All ert
Lenan, will persuade some Of the good rco-
Die OF the British Empire, and other ma
lions, that the United States is ''nistreat-
ing" the people o. India.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-04-27
PROBLEM OF EDUCATION

'The problem of American education
is not to secure adequate financing" de-
clareS DR.. Allan V. Healy, but Ito set up
system of schools good enough to be worth
financing"
The New York educator thinks that
American education is. 'aimless, unorga-
nized and purposeless" and adds that while
Federal funds are indispensable" to the
solution of education's postwar problems,
the gift of such money at the present time
to the states to use as they please will be
money thrown away.
There will be many persons to agree
with the outspoken sentiments quoted
above, but considerable number will de-
muir to the Indictment of the educational
system.
It is no doubt quite true that the sys-
tenn of education now practiced is not per-
feet. The same can be said for the at
tempts of the home and the church 10 pro-
duce an improved human race There are
many factors to be considered in apprais-
ing our institutions which, on the average,
perform about as we'll as the people de-
mand.
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> NEGLECTED. CHAPTER OF HISTORY

Hidden away under the mountainous
Recommendation of this war are $4,000 pages
o. testimony taken in the long, meandering.
inconchsive mass trial of seditonists which
ended in Washington when the presiding
Judge died.
Only about 1000 pages of the whole
vast array of words is actual testimony by
witnesses. The rest of the palaver is what
the legal fraternity calls lawyer talk,
Wrahgling. stalling, objection-raising, mo-
tions for this and motions against that.
It's too bad that the facts have got OBJ
seured by all this deliberately manufac-
tured verbal fog. For there probably was
"seditiOn and treachery" in many of those
hearts. The evidence pointed strongly to
te-ups end le!a..onsIips that led straight
g. Berlin.
The scdition cases should be brought
into court again and the ISIS ues sifted to a
decision.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-04-27
TODAY In HISTORY

1905 - Derne in Tripoli taken
by Notwithstanding the first
time American flag flew over
conquered land in the Old World
18l3-York. now Toronto, TAX
en- by Gen. Zebulon M. Pike and
some 1900 Americans, in End war
with England. Gen. Pike, aged
only "a, dies in assault.
1875-First American Cardinal
named-John McCloskey of New
York.
1898 - A farmers mob drags
judge from bench at LIE Mars,
Iowa, for his refusal to stay farm
mortgages foreclosures.
l935-Government begins NOV
ing Ozark farmers to better lands.
1871 - Germans enter Athens,
Greece.
l942-Americans, As to 81 reg
lister for draft
l943-John l.. Lewis announces
some half-million soft coal miners
Will stop work May /.
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trolling Il 2st of the mill, a
brilliant nllnd, and far-reaching
vision for his mill and the en-
ployees. His people looked to his
leadership with confidence and
admiration. and Francis success
was known and envied in all in
dustriaI centers.
Yet Ned was in a position to
know that Katherine had exer-
cised considerable influence over
her husbands management of at.
fairs in Lowell; that 10 was, In
reality, Katherine who had made
Lowell one of the outstanding
mill villages of the nation.
KATHERINE had died six years
M ago and Ned had seen Francis
overwhelmed with his load of
grief. Then during the depression
he had seen Francis work long
and tirelessly to keep the Lam
bert MN what it was today. Dur
ing the last year or two he had
sensed the older mans CROWN Z
loneliness and Festlessmess. his
need of something besides work
in his life.
Now the mill was making
money for the stockholders, the
village affairs were running
smoothly, the people were con-
tented. Why shouldn't Francis
look at his own life and seek hap
piness in remarriage?
1t was Lucia Wentworth whom
he had chosen, and Ned had been
disturbed. According to rumors,
Lucia was not the right person to
take Katherine's place either in
Francis life or in Kay's. He had
tried tactfrlly to warn Francis.
But Francis was a man in r5ve:
and for all his generosity, he Was
arrogant and impatient of advice,
and in spite Of his greatness, he
was vain.
AS Ned stopped his car in 'front.'
of the clubhouse and looked do !. il
at the lights of Lowell, he tried
to forget his apprehension. Even
if the new Mrs. Lambert should
try to interfere with affairs down
there, didn't Francis set his stan l.
ards so high that he could ne ar
be influenced?
To be continued
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1z-..=-.e'--,--T4EkAAA THOMPSON.

Chapter 5 Fslf'S'
CHE stared at him, her face
- growing white. She gasped a
little as understanding struck her
like a blow. Francis many alb
sanees from home, the gossip, and
Jimmy trying to warn her. -.
She tried to think Of something
to say, but the words stopped in
her throat; the lights in the room
seemed to go out as she felt again
the loneliness that had blackened
her life when Katherine died. She
recalled Francis voice, soothing
her then: She'll live forever in
our hearts"
Kay stared desperately about.
Suddenly it seemed that her
friends were looking at her with
pity in their eyes.
"It's true" she whispered in
credulously. Hes going to marry
her"
YES" Ned agreed miserably.
"ThiS very evening""
"Oh. Ned! take me home," she
said, and was surprised in dull
sort of way that her voice re-
manned steady. "Pll get my wrap
and meet you at the car"
THE dressing room was empty.
L Kay closed the door slowly
and stood for a moment leaning
against it. Then she moved to the
dressing fable and sank down
upon the seat Her white face and
grieved eyes stared at her from
the mirror
Presently she heard steps ap-
preaching. She turned. to see Babs
enter the door, her brown eyes
full of tears. "Oh, Kay" she cried
brokenly. Pm so sorry. | wish
thefe was something l could do"
Kay sighed as she drew her
wrap about her. Tell the others
good night for me. I'm going to
Slip down the back stairs, and
Ned is taking me home. I@guess
II just can't take it.
Ned was waiting for her beside
his car. They drove in silence
for few minutes and then Kay
spoke her thoughts: IF you had
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told me-if I had known, | could
have stopped it. know | could:"
mo, Kay, you couldn't. Francis
has had this on his mind for a
long time. I tried to approach
him, but he let me know quickly
he considered it none of my bust
ness"
"But I would have reminded
Francis of the years with
Mother''-her voice broke" and
of what she meant to us. l believe
could have convinced him that
it would be sacrilege to bring an
other woman to kat1erfne's home
to hve-especially Lucia Went
worth. who is vain and selfish and
totally unit--I'm sorry. Ned But
you know what she is"
Maybe we're wrong about her
in spite of the gossip we've
heard" Ned suggested. "Maybe
she cares so much for him that
she'll try to make him happy"
"But why should he want to
marry?" Kay cried, and Ned.
aware of the misery and loneli-
ness in her voice, looked at her
with concern. 1--WE have our trips.
our home, our fun. We've always
been so happy"
"But you won't be with him al
ways" Ned pointed out. You'll
marry and leave him. Then he'd
be lonely
But Kay could not be COM
forted. She felt the dread in her
mind tighten every nerve and
fiber in her body. Suppose Lucia
decided to turn Francis against
his daughter? Suppose she should
interfere with the Lambert Mill
where Francis vote was the de-.
Gliding factor on every question?
Kay didn't speak again. Ned
wished ferveltly there could be
something comforting TO say to
her, she locked SO unhappy. so
lonely and beWildered as he left
her at the door of her home.
Well, maybe Jimmy would win
her now. Yet, was Jimmy the man
for Kay Lambert?
Ned's thoughts turned to Fran
els and the new mistress of the
Lambert home. Francis had in
herited from his father, Godfrey
Lambert. the presidency and con-
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Judge, remember that place up in the noun
tains where we went trout fishing last year,"
Il sure do, George. We had a great time
up there, didn't WEI"
"Pll never forget it. But this will interest
you. Judge. heard just yesterday that the
revenue men raided big still right near
there. Guess that's where all that high
priced moonshine we heard about has been
coming from"
Wouldn't be a bit surprised. saw in the
paper the other day where the Government
has raided thousands of such stills during
the past year.