The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-08-30
CONCH
CH0WDER
BY RAYMER


| some the comedy dialogue for al
Boca Chica show. she was 'a-doin'
what comes natchurly" when she
wrote some Texas gags into the
script.
/ D'JA KNOW that Norman Mark
well has new name for DuvalI
/ Street He suggests that
some stretch of ii be renamed
"Honsy Conch Lane" -. His
wife, Carmen. received a clipping
from Honolulu where her two
nephews and niece have become
partners in a children's shop
/ called the Kahala Kids Store
/ They run it themselves and
sell secondhand comic books,
marbles and other kiddie stuff.
Pictures of the group made the
front page of sone of the leading
Hawaiian newspaper. Shown in
it were the young tycoons, Gary
Cotton, 9 years old, Ginger Col
ton, years old and little brother
Buzzy who is all of fivei -.
Maybe they will end up in the
States as members of that Ray
mer Distributing Company" mem
toned in the column THE South
ernIhost Corner" which appears
in The Citizen -. actually, the
said company heads are exporters
and importers and are shirt-tail
relatives of mine from North
Carolina.
MAPLE LEAF LAD, Al Palmer,
our new staffster, took pictures
of bridge players and sunbaskers
the other Sunday which will be
forthcoming Watch for the
one in which Dick Lundgren
really mugged at the camera as
if he were Wild Bill Hickock with
that fatal poker hand in his mitt
Palmer also turned this one
in under the label Assignments
You Dream About But Never
Get Dept: Romey's Bar, Key
Vests Oldest. closed its doors
for the first time in Il years tot
hold the wedding between Elsa
Johnson and Navy man Elton
Folmar. Bottles were uncorked
about 10 pm, and approx 100
drooling guests were among the
screaming shrieking group pre-
sent" Al added, will check the
police blotter in the morning to-
see how the clambake went. =
There We're no reports on
that but we know what's cook
ing For the next 100 days
Cookie!
SLIP is SHOWING section: At
a pleasant get-together for 1t.
Hal Eddones birthday, things
were zippy, including the upper
on my dress The lock slip
ped off the upper and for few
minutes l thought I'd have to
| borrow a bathtoWel -, Lor-
raine Adams and vi Veidt fixed
it temporarily with safety pins,
but for an hour before an expert
izipper flipper arrived, sat with
my back to the wall, afraid to
move Chop Chop Cowan,
helicopter agent sympathized
He'd had trouble like that
once and is now an advocate of
button, button, who's got a but
ton games Add color note:
that gorgeous royal purple beach
| jacket worn by singer Reoa Wal
Ter -. The show must go on
| (why?) tradition was carried out
| last night by Dorothy Berlin, who
I despite two dislocated vertabrae,
entertained at the Hammond or
gan with her music and singing
| ANONYMOUS RETIRED is the
name signed to the last of the
| postcards mailed to this column
| Addressed Flowerpot McRaymer
and goes in sad farewell, sis:
| From my first card on.I was sure
you knew. Now | am backing off
your front lawn at this point
am scrouched behind the rocker
covered with grandma's shawl"
Is there anyone around who
has seen Pell Mel Adams? i.
Little Robin Jones swallowed a
portion of the ocean the other
| day but came out of ii none the
worse for the scare Post
ponement of the oleo tryouts for
the Key West Players until Sept,
| 7 will give more potential acts
time to whip up special exhibi-
tons . What about girl
Beauty Shop quartette instead of
Barbershop harmony?
| An eight pound girl, Just
what they ordered, was born TO
| Cofndr. and Mrs, Walter Schlech
at 4 o'clock yesterday morning
Proud mother is the former Bar
bara Bowser whose father and
mother, Capt and Mrs. Frank
Bowser, now of OpaLocka MAS,
| hava hpau visiting here awaiting