The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-08-30
HAL
BOYLE
SAYS
By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK R -GlflS, our sue
cess formula for today is simple
"Stay in there and keep pitch
ing those curves"
/ The symbol of this vibrant max.
i'm is Marilyn Monroe, who has
proved an ambitious girl doesn't
have to come to the big city {,
get ahead. She can do it in hel
own home town.
At 8 Marilyn earned five cents
a month spending money setting
tables in a Los Angeles orphans
home. At "a, in the nearby film
studio where she now has to wait
on nobody, she draws down $75C
a week. In Hollywood, where she
is rated as one of the most sultry
discoveries since the late Jean
Harlow, this naturally is consid-
red peonage.
"They keep saying that one of
these days they'll tear up my con-
tract and write me better one,"
she said. "And one of these days
1 wish they would
She arrived for our luncheon
appointment in good time-well be-
fore dusk.
"They keep me so busy" she
complained, sorry I'm so late"
She turned her wide blue eyes
on me, and had an uneasy feel
ing they would melt and drip on
the table. Then she sat down be-
side me-real close-and had an
uneasy feeling that maybe I'd
melt.
81 was having my hair fixed in
my hotel room, and all / had on
was a towel" she said, and added
carefully-"a small towel. Some
reporters were on the other side
of the door asking me questions.
And such questions! They wanted
to know If knew how many stom-
achs COW had, and they seemed
real surprised when I gave them
the right answer-four.
"Then they asked me if / knew
what heat was? I told them sure
heat is something that is general
ed. Isn't that right"
! Marilyn, who recently was in a
film called Monkey Business"
rather enjoys people who take her
for a real life dumb. blonde. She
is dumb the same way Mae West
is.
AT the moment she is rather
amazed by the public interest in
her disclosure that she never
wears brassieres, girdles or any
other form of underclothing, and
sleeps raw except for a nightly
dab of perfume.
cts more comfortable not to
wear underclothing, and / don't
like to feel wrinkles" she said.
whats so unusuale about that?
You must know lot of girls who
do the same thing--and who put
on perfume before going to sleep"
Editors note: If Boyle does, he
never mentioned it before:1
Miss Monroe feels most Ameri-
can women should follow her ex-
ample and emancipate themselves
from bras, corsets and girdles.
"But, first, some of them ought
to exercise" she said, Sin order
to be. :. to be. you know. i.
firm. | exercise with light weights
myself.
II lie on my back with my arms
overhead and lift the weights Is
times. 1t is kind of pull against
gravity, I guess. / used to walk
a lot, too. Walking up a steep hill
is the best thing for woman's
legs"
| But what about the subject on
the minds of 10 million girls this
leap year-how to catch a hus-
band? Marilyn, whose own mar
riage at is didn't last, gave two
simple rules:
81. A girl should follow her in
stincts.
20. That viii about take care of
things, as instincts are important. |"
AS for sex Ga current events
topic most movie stars and base
ball players usually have opinions
on, Miss Monroe said:
"Truthfully, I've never given it
second thought"
And she was gone before I
thought Of asking her what her
first thought was.