The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-11-29
The
.Southernmosi
Corner
By
Charles Duerkes

Get yourself a good case or la
grippe anG you'll discover many
amazing things. One is that near
+ ~ everyone you know has sure
cure for the sickness. Everyone
that is. but the doctors, who are
reokoued to be authorities on
such matters,
| have q list of highly recon-
mended cure alls ranging from
mysterious concoctionS o. rare
herbs TO hot salt baths. Friends
deposited various types of bottles
containing strange pills and cap
sules upon my night table. My
recovery is due. in a great mea-
sure, 10 the fact that | left the
pills untouched and recipes I'M
tried.
NV illness was cured by simply
doing nothing. A few years ago
! haG a mighty fine doctor for the
same ole debbil flu, virus, grippe
or whatever one chooses to term
it. He told me to stay in bed,
keep warm, guzzle great quanti-
ties of citrus juice and other liz
uids, includine plain water, read.
relax and mail him a check for
four dollars.
This time | saved four dollars.
And ] found out some things /
never knew. That Florida. for
example. with the, help of bees,
of course. produces" eighteen mill
lion dollars worth of honey per
annum and ranks third in the ma
! ton in honey production. This
, would appear to be a sweet way
of turning an honest dollar.
I also discovered that there is
a new humour magazine on the
market. II is named Here" and
is the successor to Gags" It
| will probably be the top banana
in the humour field.
/ Cosmopolitan Films, Ltd. is a
J new company being formed out
in HOLLYWOOD This ambitious
J outfit is dickering TO buy out
Eagle-Lion films, They believe
that what TV needs is newer
/ and better TV films. they're
.scriptirig sFisIms for, Bssils ] atgs-
hone, Vera, VAGUE. Hedda Hooper
andsothers. Charles Reaun1e. head
Of the sales apartment. is Tyrone
/ Powers uncle.
Locally. the Ball Film Pro-
auctions are now we'll established
in their new Coral Gables studios.
President Frank Frink should be
back from that New York bust
ness trip with a contract to pro-
Guce an adventure serial for TV.
! Georpe Chatterton is back in
our midst, living at the swank
new Saxony hotel He and / APP
peared on the Ted Miller show
from that place q few weeks
ago, The singing comedian is
shopnine for club of his own in
South Florida. He'll call il The
Funn@bone.
| incidentally, George is one of
| the first, if not first. artist to
appear on television. 1t was for
/ DuMont. several semesterS ago.
/ ! struggled through some large
doses of radio during my ailing
spell All the sheriffs in the air
lane horse operas dash about bel
lowing silly questions in loud,
| gravely foghorn voices. They are
| ALWAYS asking the hero questions
| like" Whut in thunderation air We
gonna Go. Tawm?" or "Whut in
tarnation does it mean. Roy?"
4 I've known number of Sheriffs
| in my time. and in Texas. too.
| pardners. and | have vet to meet
| one that boots and hoilers and
| stumbles around and about like
| a clown
! Also. I've known a lot of cops
and few private investigators
| The radio versions OF private
| eyes. police and newspaper people
make me ween in my beer. All
the scripts follow set formal
! and II is all quite horrible and
| impossible.
| Racio, like the motion pictures.
| opines that TV is threat, but
keeps grinding out some highly
Misunderstanding tripe Radios two
| naran1ntluf aims are ia info,,>,