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Evening star., 1952-12-14
The Passing Show

If you are ever on a quiz
show and asked to name the
most unidentiflable idol in the
field of entertainment, tell the
man: Martyr Green.
Should this answer fail to win
you the $4,000 and six deep
freezes, see your lawyer. You've
got a case.
So much Of Mr.. Green's pub
lie life has been spent in the
makeup of one or another OF
the supremely comic characters
in Gilbert and Sullivan-Ko-Ko.
the Lord Chancellor, Maj. Gen.
Stanley, etc.-that he can walk
unrecognized anywhere. He en-
joys this anonymity quite as
much as the latest shapely fe-
male Aim star relishes her lack
of the same thing.
MonocIe Is Bi-Focol
When he is not wearing his
bifocal. unbreakable monocle,
which is most of the time. Mr..
Green Is the most distinguished
indistinguishable man of his
time. Even with the monocle.
he Is never recognized as one
OF the most prominent figures
In show business, but Is taken
rather to be the sort Of English
type that is sure Of its privacy.
Mr.. Green. as q man Of in
finite Jest might, positively
relishes this submergence OF
his identity in the great comedy
characters Of Gilbert and Sulli-
van. Where, he would like to
know, could a man find q more
congenial hiding place? Where
may q man be more conspic-
uous In his professional life,
more submerged in his private
one?
Nevertheless, the man behind
all those inspired nonsensical
masks Is quite q character in
his own right. He would have
to be In order to be the char
Rcters he Is on the stage.
One thing about him is that
while he does not have an
actual aversion to talking about
himself. he has clever ways OF
sidestepping the need to do so.
He would prefer to talk about
the interesting people he met
In war-he was in two of them
or perhaps whisky, wine and
the different merits implied in
different military decorations.
He is a bright. witty conversa-
tlonalist on these and many
other themes. Or, If one ill
Sists, upon Gilbert and Sulli-
van.
Unaffected Politically
What is the effect upon a
man Of making a profession
satirizing politics in the words
of Gilbert and to the music
of Sullivan?" this correspondent
asked Mr.. Green.
None. that I can see." Mr..
Green says. Every one en-
joys caricaturing politicians.
And no one apparently enjoys
seeing themselves satirized more
than these do. I can't think of
single Prime MINISTERIAL the
way back to Lloyd George-who
was not an addict Of Gilbert
and Sullivan. And I under
stand, although I was not there,
that the same is true all the
way back to Gladstone.
AS their greatest interpreter
over more than two decades, the
fiftyish Mr.. Green refuses to
make q choice between Gilbert
and Sullivan as the superior
artist In the collaboration.
1T Is like asking which is
the more important. the ship
or the rudder," he says. "Or
Evening star., 1952-12-14
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK.
1t is a long road that Bette
Davis has been travelling to get
back to the Broadway theater
after % years absence. For most
Of those % years she has been
one of filmdom's top stars, win
ming two Academy Awards.
She has come back to play in
a new musical revue, "Two's
Company" and the road has
been rough both for the show
and her ~srsonal health. It's a
mu, -.Jre tempestuous return
than when she first attracted at
tention as a shy teen-ager in the
comedy, Broken Dishes
Miss Davis first met trouble
during the show tryout in De-
troit, October 19. She tainted on
stage during the opening per-
formance. However, she re-
turned and finished the show.
The show then went to Pitts
burgh where it broke house rec
ords at the Nixon Theater, then
to Boston where it broke house
records at the Shubert T'heater
with weekly crosses of $4,000.
During the workout weeks, the
show was getting frequent cast
changes, and reports filtered in
Of extensive rewriting and alter
ing that "TC" was experiencing.
Delayed Opening
The producers finally decided
what with one thing and an
other, the official Opening
night" in Gotham wouldn't take
place until II days after the
show was scheduled to start
giving daily performances in
Manhattan. This would give
the cast a change to get well
shaken down before being ex-
posed to the attention of New
York's drama critics. Perform
ances were sold out in blocks
to theater ticket clubs and
society benefits.
A few days before its sched-
uled New York start on Deem
Der 4. Miss Davis suffered a ma
jor attack of laryngitis and her
doctors announced the show
wouldn't 60 on for a. week or
10 days. AS of this moment, it
is set to open tomorrow night.
While Miss Davis was taking
treatments. the rest of the
"Two's Company" players have
continued to 60 through daily
rehearsals at the Alvin Theater
with John Murray Anderson as
supervising director and jerome
Robbins directing the dance and
musical numbers.
The principal headaches have
been for the box-office treasur-
ers. In the past fortnight they
have been deluged with ticket
Evening star., 1952-12-14
The Passing Snow
Martyr Green Is Theoter's S
Best Known Unknown
Player Of Gilbert and Sullivan Clowns
Lost Behind Their Numerous Masks
By Joy Cormody

which came first. the chicken or
the egg. The operas are a mu-
tual work. indivisible so far as
/ can see. With what of Sulli-
vans music are you familiar
outside of the operas, although
there is a lot of it? Onward
Christian Soldiers Of course,
but what else?
They're q Blend
"And how many of Gilbert's
plays do you hear of, or the
Bah Ballads except as they are
encountered in the operas?
They achieved greatness to-
gether. which is nice way to
leave it,"
Sullivan admirers, Mr.. Green
points out. do occasionally un-
dertake to write new lyrics to
his music. But, a couple of
days later. every one is back
humming the original words"
he adds.
Which of his roles in the
large repertory Of the former
D'Oyly-Carte company does Mr..
Green prefer?
THE one I'm to play next"
he says. unless by chance it
happens to be the one I'm play
ing" w. S. Gilbert, clearly, is
not the only one who can COM
pose Gilbertian sentences.
Those wonderful stage faces
he makes for himself in his
dressing. room are no problem
for Mr.. Green. although as
some of the older characters the
vitality of his performances
worries some of his fans. His
dance as the Lord Chancellor in
"Iolanthe" at the Shubert last
Monday night positively
alarmed one female spectator.
She felt it must be quite a
strain on "such an old man."
He Changes Rapidly
Making up for this particular
character takes about 20 min
utes of Mr.. Green's time. When
he has 35 minutes, he says. he
usually is rushed at the finish.
II dawdle." he explains.
Mr.. Green who has spent q
lot Of his life discussing Gill
bert and Sullivan with repre-
sentatives of the press has a
number Of anecdotes unrelated
to his professional career.
One of these is about whisky.
It's setting is a castle on the
Irish coast, north of Dublin.
Here. one day, Mr.. Green met a
gangling man who might have
come up out of the sea to join
the actor and his hostess in a
drink.
when I ordered Scotch, a
natural English taste it always
seemed to me, the man told
me I had no taste! Irish, he
said. was the only whisky. I was
not Influenced and he had sew
eral things to say about the
stubborness Of the English.
II kept wondering who he
was, since he obviously was a
person of some standing. but
having lost the name in the
strong Irish wind that was
blowing. I never did get it. At
least; not then.
"A couple of nights later, in
my dressing room at the theater
in Dublin, received a couple
of bottles of unlabeled whisky,
with a note defying me to take
one drink and find that I did
not. like it,"
Mr.. Green drank, liked the
whisky, turned the note over
and found on it the name Of
the donor: John Jameson.
Since then, he has been an
admirer of the Jameson family
and all its works.
Evening star., 1952-12-14
Costs Money!
BY the Assoeioied Press
HOLLYWOOD.

f1OILY WOOD.
II you wonder why you don't
see some of your favorite radio
shows coast to coast on TV,
here's why.
Jim Morgan. producer of
Queen for a Day." estimates it
would cost 81 million a year to
beam the show coast to coast
five days a week on microwave.
The radio version is broadcast
coast to coast but the teleylsion
queen" is seen only locally.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-07-10
BEST BET TO LURE SUMMER TOURISTS:
TARPON IN KEY WEST WATERS

Hundreds of thousands of sportsfishermen in the
United States are interested catching tarpon and
mer the best time in the year Key West waters to
gle for that doughty fighter The Citizen thinks it is
good idea to payup arpon fishing in local waters
of the attractions tourists may enjoy in Key West at this
time of the year
Peter b. Roberts, who has kept fish market at the
foot of Front street Sc does not pretend to know
much about the art of rod and-ree fishing but he has
kept in close touch with the increase decrease of this
that fish in Key West waters
He has informed The Citizen that during his more
than three of keeping in close touch of the sea
and what out of it in Key West waters he had
before in all his long experience large school
of tarpon he last Monday off Currys abutment
He explained that the tarpon had been bated-up by
small brms and shads caught in shrimp nets and shrimp
that had been damaged the process of catching Them
thrown overheard from shrimp boats berhed the Key
West Blight side of the wharf abutment Mr.. Roberts
added he would not venture to the size of the
school that covered half block in size and that
If he did. what would appear be exaggeraon real
ly would be underestimation There were hundreds
and hundreds of them. tumblng and breaking he said
from few feet from the abutmen and the boats to we'll
out into Main Ship Channel.
He expressed regret that nobody enjoying the
sport of catching OF the arpon and stressed the de-
light sportsshermen would have in casting among them
and having their lines tauten almost their hooks
struck the water.
Sailflsh running also in local waters Captain
William Wickers caught the FOURTH though not
in large numbers they do in the winter But amber
jacks another haraising fighter just plentiful
now as they are during any other time of the year.
Sportsfshing would lure many a tourist here in the
summer if he knew about It, We have the fish. and We
should endeavo: to let tourists know about them.
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THIS ROCK OF OURS
BILL GLIB

thereby making everyone's job
easier and more successful.
What about if?
Taxing Utilities -.
More taxes are in the offing and
there doesn't seem to be anyone
willing to fight them. After they
go into effect, the public will start
bowling but by that time it viii be
too late.
Have the city commissioners
stopped to think who is going to
collect utility taxes? If the utility
companies do it. we'll have to pay
for this extra bookkeeping?
And why does Dave King think
that if a person has a utility bill
of twtney-five dollars because of
luxurious appliances, JUST WHY
does he figure that person should
be taxed proportionately lower
amount than the suggested per-
cent which will be levied on run
of-the- mill consumers.
The whole thing smacks of that
old saying: Those that have gets,
while the poor sucker that doesn't
have money enough to hire law
yers or is incapable of competing
with orators gets socked where it
hurts him most his pocketbook.
Jack Delaney proposed the tax.
| have always considered him a
friend of the little man but can
only presume now that, since en-
tering the political field, he has
forgotten the hardships many of us
face in attempting to meet month
ly utility bills.
City commissioners flaunt the
need of an air-conditioned city hall
as being necessary.
We need a city hall = granted.
But not just so that the commits
sioners can sit in comfort. They
are spending the peoples money
How many of them have their
homes conditioned where the
money comes out of their own poc-
ket?
Enough for today. ;.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-07-10

Practically all of the following
is taken from information fur
nished by the Hillsborough County
Crime Commission about itself:
A successful crime commission
should be a non-profit, non politieal
organization formed with the idea
of promoting wider respect for the
law and better enforcement of it..
To accomplish this, it employs
trained investigator; studies con-
ditions leading to crime and cor
ruptness; sponsors legislation to
correct these conditions Financial
support is obtained through volun-
tary membership and contribu-
tons.
In Hillsborough County, any per-
son of good moral character and
a voter may join the commission
in one of four classes: regular,
contributing, sustaining, or associ-
ate membership. Corporations may
join through duly accredited re-
preventative.
No person who holds an elective
job is permitted to serve as an Of
ficer, director, member of a
committee, or to be employed by
the commission while he holds
such an office.
The Tampa group has a board
of directors composed of fifteen
members plus a president, 1st.
vice president, End. vice president,
secretary, and a treasurer. There
are two paid employees, the oper-
ating director and his secretary.
The above covers in brief. the
Hillsborough County Crime Com
mission.
Key West Observers
Many folks here in Key West
have had reason or sufficient in.
terest to watch its progress. 1t has
not accomplished any miracles -
no more than the Miami or Chica-
60 crime commissions. However,
such places are on their way to
cleaning up local sordid conditions.
Any job that must be accomplished
through legislation and education
takes time.
If we do not do something here
in Key West to keep abreast of the
times, we're going to find ourselves
looked upon more than ever as a
frontier outpost.
By forming a county crime
commission now, we could work in
conjunction With neighboring cities,
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1t Eugene Dente
Reports To mob

Lieutenant Eugene Dente, USN,
recently reported to the L. S.
FLEET Sonar School, Key West,
for duty as an instructor in sub
marine warfare.
He began his naval career in
November of 1910 as an enlisted
man, serving on board the USS
New York and the USS Wyoming
until July of 1912 when he was
appointed to the U. S. Naval
Academy. He graduated from the
Academy and received his COM
mission as Ensign In June of
1945.
He served in the Pacific Thea
ter of War on board the USS
Helm ODD 388) until 1916, and
the USS Sutherland ODD 743)
until 1947.
1t. Dente graduated from the
Submarine School at New Lon
don, Connecticut in 1947. He re-
turned to the Pacific on board
the USS Carbonero (SS 337)
where he renamed until 1850.
He was transferred from the
USS Carbonero to the Electronics
School in San Francisco. After
completing the electronics course,
1t. Dente served on board the
USS Bashaw (SS 24D until June
of 1852 when he reported to the
U. S. Fleet Sonar School.
1t. and Mrs. Dente have one
daughter, Adrienne Jean, age Is
months. They reside at 23-A Sigs-
bee Road, DredgerS Key.
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No Action
On Tidelallds

WASHINGTON uR-Sen. Holland
tD.-Fla.) said today I'VE are fan
from giving up the fight for clear
state title to the submerged coast
al lands.
Congress adjourned Monday
without acting on President Tru-
mans veto of a bill which would
have returned control of the dis
puted lands to the states. The veto
was not called up for a vote, but
Holland conceded at one point that
the bills supporters could not mus
ter the two-thirds vote required to
override the veto.
He was more optimistic on long
range prospects.
Look when you check the list of
men most prominently mentioned
for the presidency" he said. THE
chances are excellent we can put
across our bill next year."
He said Sen. Taft of Ohio. Gen.
Dwight d. Eisenhower and Gov.
Earl Warren of California among
the Republican aspirants all have
publicly supported state ownership
of the oil-rich offshore coastal
areas.
Sen. Russell of Georgia and
Speaker Rayburn tD,-Tex.) of the
House. among the Democrats, take
the same position, he said. Ray
burn has been mentioned as
Democratic presidential possibili-
ty. but has announced no plans
to seek the nomination. Holland
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, did not mention the stand Of other

did not mention the stand OF other
aspirants.
He expresSeA the opinion, how.
ever, that the controversy woule
be a factor in selection of presi-
Dental nominee at the Democratic
convention opening in Chicago July
81.
The issue also played part. he
said. in Russell's victory over Sen.
Kefauver of Tennessee in the Flor
ida Democratic primary election.
Kefauver is an advocate of federal
control of the disputed areas, with
receipts from oil and gas develop
ments being devoted to educational
purposes.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-07-10

the businessman could keep closer
tab on how he stands.
Some of these machines already
do remarkable jobs for business.
One is particularly appreciated in
making up payrolls which involve
large numbers Of employees with a
variety of unit rates and different
hours of work. with complicated
deductions and overtime.
Electronic engineers. however.
say you haven't seen anything yet,
compared with what the machines
they are developing viii do for
business.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-07-10
Todoy's
Business
Mirror
By SAM DAWSON


drudgery-the making and keep
ing of business records and re-
ports-may yield soon to smaller
and cheaper mechanical brains.
Electronic computers can figure
in few hours what battery of
clerks takes months to compute.
But engineers say these machines
soon may come into more general
use in business due to new de-
velopments: Electronic tubes only
one-third the size of those now
used; and new substitute, the
transitor-little larger than your
finger nail-which can do many
of the tasks the tube now per-
forms, without overheating as the
tube often does.
These developments could bring
the mechanical brain down to a
size and cost practical for bust
nesseS staggering under a mount
ing load of clerical work. The num-
Der of pencil pushers and typists
has increased in the past Is years
out of proportion to the increase
IN factory workers. The expense
is terrific.
Some companies see the me-
chanical brain as the answer. AL
ready some 100 companies, large
and small, are developing cleo
tronic computers. Walter Mitchell
Jr., managing director of the Con-
trollers Institute, says the ma
chimes may bring about "a major
revolution" in office work.
Controllers are the men who do
the mastermind figuring and keep
the records for business. Mitchell
foresees the day when "we shall
need supervisors and management
accountants adequately trained to
understand these machines, their
potentials and their application. 4"
One company already has ma
chine that keeps a complete rec
ord of 10000 items of inventory. It
is about the height and width of an
office desk and can pass through
a 30-inch door. On request, the
machine produces a typewriter
record of any item or group of
items--as fast as the typewriter
can pound ii out.
Other machines can produce
through electronics in eight hours
financial reports which consume
So man-days to prepare by pencil
pushing. Daniel M. Sheehan, vice
president of Monsanto Chemical
Co, st. Louis, thinks future cleo
tronic equipment may produce
them in one hour"
Ii business turns to these ma
chimes, one of the first results
would seem to be a reduction in
clerical workers, since reports now
being made manually could be
made with fewer clerks and less
extensively, but machines also
produce new jobs.
Paul G. Drescher, vice president
and controller of Associated Hos
pital Service of New York, points
out that no mechanical brain can
work unless it is fed material. And
this is prepared by men and
women.
The lightning.like speed of the
eiectronic computer also must be
geared to the comparatively slow
speed of the electric typewriters
and punched tapes which prepare
and feed the data 10 the compu-
ters and electronic memory units.
The really important thing the
electronic machine will do for bus
mess, Drescher holds, is not the
saving in clerical help, but the
chance IT gives businessmen to de.
velop data once considered too
hard and too expensive TO get. For
example: Financial reports could
be prepared once a month instead
OF once every three months. and
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Fly To Chicago

MIAMI R 49, Florida's delegates
will fly to Chicago on July 10 for
the Democratic National Conven-
ton and will hold their first caucus
shortly after arrival, Delegation
Chairman G. Farris Bryant an
nounced.
Bryant said Tuesday the first
caucus actually will be reorgani.
zation meeting Ito ratify action
have taken" since the delegation
was elected in he May q primary
Nineteen members of the dele.
CATION are pledged to Sen. Richard
B. Russell of Georgia and five to
Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-07-10

Somebody says the world is being led by the poet -
10 that is what our trouble is!
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-07-10

Asbestos was first used In auto.
mobile brake Innings in 1906.
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Peoples Forum
Observation-Disclosures

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The CitizeD welcomes ex~re~.
siOns Of the views Of its reaa.
ers, but the editor reserves TIE
right to delete any ftems vvhicS
are considered libeious or unwar.
rsnted. The writer's should -
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Of the paper only. Signature Of
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less requested otherwise.
Thanks The Citizen.
Editor, The Citizen:
Thank you for still another book
which has arrived for our library
this time Bahamas Murder
Case.
We appreciate these contribu-
tons very much.
Cordially,
Bessie Schuck
Librarian
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1952-04-15

make month"; meals glamovrous TO in
baker, homcl
good they look They fao Of the home baker
providing
time treats and
Orange Bread will be for its efreshs
flavor and thrifty nutrition
You6 especially this bread cottage &C.
far
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1952-04-15

Two new stars have been added to
e visions top pre- gram, The Star
I aeater Damn OI'ay and his ven-
trlioquist, Jin Nalson, have NJ.
come perms 4mbers of the
~ lton Bcrle y night show,
f(NBC-TV) IS on and on
a the most lewiston show
o. the air.
Nelson, y'Aree-year-old
from Chicago u.iaered one Of
in Tx i
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1952-04-15
III. B. "A. Drive For
1900 Members Moves
Al Higher Speed

We are happy to state that quite
a few OF the local lodges have begun
to work on their quotas since the
close OF the March Board. We az
very happy over the nice shoWina
that some of the local lodges a-
making in adding members to their
local lodges.
We want to increase our member
ship badly, however, we do no,
want the Presidents to take. in any
5p .cants who will be a liability IT,
the local lodges IN particular and the
Association in general We are urs-
.ug the President to be very cauu
Jus in taking in applications. Be
sure to investigate all applications
and have the satisfaction OF know
ing that you have not put any BAG
!sks on the Association.
We are getting letters from differ
mt sections of the State from Pres
idents asking for application blanks,
stating that they have g~Nl ther
quota but are out of blanks. Please
seep a supply of application blank,
on hand for future use. We must
make a nice showing in the Conven-
ion and at the speed we are making
of now we honestly fec, -
viii make a nice 7N0-s'~r