The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-08-05
CONCH
CH0WDER

This being my very first stint as
a guest columnist, and like the
after dinner speaker with a brief
case full of notes, unprepared as
i am, and all that, l shall try to sub
for a vacationing Dottie and made
with We old chowder. Clam style
that is.
Barn Theatre going being a spe-
cial interest Of mine, would like to
take a few paragraphs of your
time to extoll we olde Players
Workshop production that took
place last Friday and Saturday.
Most loud silence I ever heard fol-
lowed the curtain of "You were
Perfectly Fine" Saturday night. In
fact you could have heard a pun
drop! What really happened was
that this particular Parker Opus
is but a few pages long and seems
to start and end right in the middle
of situation after little speech
between the principal characters.
Well, my parting shot was as quot
ed by Susan in her review, "You
Silly Idiot, as if l would ever let
you 60 now. Don't worry about it,
you were perfectly fine" The
speech preceding this indicated
that l was about to get the young
man a drink, following my disclo-
sure that during a complete black
out caused by drinking he had pro-
posed and ! had accepted. Well
anyhow, the audience expected a
quick curtain with me returning
with the drink. Truth of the matter
was that and the leading man
both needed a picker upper mighty
bad after such a curtain. Right
then my ego had hit a new low but
on returning with the drink for
Don, was much tempted to par
ade it across the stage in the mid
die of For Better or Worse"
Discretion being the better part of
valor, the last named play galloped
through to a funny climax and
much hand clapping. Various
friends of mine had various ideas
of presentations, nom phoney or
chids to the famous Raymer Ask
er, It's a very lucky thing that
they all decided not to bother, or
] would have been covered with
deep purple embarrassment
Departing Ronnie brought new
guests to the house f1bm up in Yam
kee Land; Fortunately they arrived
a full day before he had to
leave. so auld acquaintance was
renewed. The guests are Steve and
Francis LitkoWEki, Godparents of
daughter Gail. They will stay ano.
Their week before returning to the
hot and sweltering north. Word
from Ronnie that he arrived safe
ly via MATS and wishes he were
still in Key West, which wish is
fervently echoed by me.
La Raymer in Miami, left via
car early Sunday. wonder if she
made it. win stay visiting her
brother few days, then back to
little cottage on Angela to the
We Cayo Hueso to move from the
Charles Street address. 1t is en-
tirely possible that will employ
"Goliath" the big grey Caddy to
move a few items and hope fan
gets lost back OF the new seat COW
ers, Dottie has an out of this world
collection of fans that turns me
bright kelly every time / see them.
Expected to see Poor Pierre Ian
gushing back Of The piano Satur-
day night, but nothing of the sort.
He was gay as gay and making
weeth re Fransh songs like mad.
Dottie's departure from the scene
Is more apt to make for big deep
silence and no fun at all. | know
] miss her like anything. No ex-
citement around here now.
Sun bathers at the Sun and Sand
yesterday who were chased off the
beach by the rains when they
came, were compensated by the
view OF not one but two water
spouts at sea. The spectacle drew
many watchers to the pier despite
the damp weather. l didn't parti-
cularly care, being rather wet from
q recent swim. and these the finest
water spouts had ever seen. Also
just missed the excitement at
DredgerS Key. Was out showing
the visitors around the Sea Plane
base and saw all the Whirly Birds
taking off in great hurry and
then circling around certain spot.
Had the feeling that something un-
usual was aStir, but the sun was
warm and watching the circling
grew boring so l left before the
big fun started. That's me, Miss.
out Jaxonl
Now that I've CLAIMED up the
Chowder in my very best style.
think / viii leave it to simmer
awhile. Been keeping it clean. and
items under threat of accidental
have had to suppress my very best
homicide from Billy and Gloria,
but If YOU should ask me anything
and promise TO keep it secret. will
De glad to give you all the dirt.
Heard that this will be followed
by various ehowderS by Jim Cobb
and Poor Pierre himself. so keep
watching!