The Key West citizen., 1952-10-30
CONCH
CHOWDER
BY RAYMER

Witches eve is close upon US
again and l must 60 buy q new
broom. Tuesday night l went to a
costume affair as a stacked hay
stack from the painting called
'sThe Mowers. Thank heaven no
one had pitchfork along. Simple
costume grass hula skirt at
tached in shower fashion over q
coconut straw hat given me by
Duffy of Duval street. Much jok-
ing about what the farmer said to
the haystack, making hey-hey, and
all that, It'll ! blew my stack. The
party was at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Gene Baughman and guests
were members of the Key West
Artists group and everyone repre-
sented some phase Of art. Larry
Karns was a perfect portrait of
the Toulouse Lautrec. When he
posed for a flash, he doubled his
legs under him so that he would
have the short limbs of Lautrec
who was nearly a dwarf. Larry's
nickname is now Too-Loose lie
Screw. Richard Brooks was framed
. . he just put his face in q
picture frame as 'Self Portrait"
Adeline Ross wore a bottle around
her neck over her shorts and re-
presented her own work, vanilla
Abstract" Claudia Michaels was
Louise without Maurice Cheva-
lier, of course.
DEEP FREEZE pose with formal
ly out-flung palms was Jeanne
Skewis as Egyptian Frieze." in
a costume which would have had
King Tut's mummy sitting up to
take notice and murmur "Tut-
tut" He would have done some
whistling If he could have glimpsed
Toni Karns as a maid from "Mou-
lin Rouge" Foreground was the
conventional musical comedy
French black dress and white ap-
ron. Aft. a foam Of enticing lace
cascading at the right places. She
is now known as 0oo-LaLa La
Ruffle" although nothing really ruff
fles her. Lee Albert appeared as
Van Gogh Just after he had chopped
off an ear and sent it to .
scornful lady of the evening who
refused 10 twinkle for his hazy
horizons. Also going as Van Gogh
was host Gene Bughman as q por-
trait Of the artist as young man.
First rate, too. Hostess Yvonne was
charming as a Vatican shepher-
dess complete with be-ribboned
crook, bouffant gown with becom-
ing bodice and huge picture hat
tilted up in fetching sweep.
DRESS UP DRINK UP parties
for the weekend include the ones
at the CPO clubs on the Naval
Station and at Boca Chica and the
Halloween dance given by Socie-
dad de Cuba :. The yellow -throated
warbler who took Gver the ham
ster's cage rested, gobbled food and
finally managed to fly off on his
way Monday. George and Mickey
Renna kindly contributed q bird
cage so that Hammy the hamster
could come out of the bucket and
live in his own snug cage at the
Ski Skewis domicile. What
policeman who drives q metallic
green Buick four door sedan dis
covered that some ambitious car
parts peddler had removed the
fender skirts from his carr
REMEMBER TO MAIL overseas
packages Nov. IS II they 60 BY
ship with the air mail deadline
set for Nov. Is -. Watch for reg
uiation notice wrapping In the
paper. Ask Jaxon the Claxon about
the battle Of the commanders
It's q turn about unfair play by
play game.
CITY MANAGER DAVE KING
and Hank Day say the 50 ques-
ton Is really less than that and
King hopes no long line Of citizens
comes TO bis office 70 demand
se4.s4 cents as legal share 10 the
town, I'VE would have 10 hquidate