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PAGE 5- -THE CORAL GABLES RIVIERA- FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1941

"BIG PEP" AT OLD-TIMER

With Mary Greene and James Crow carrying the ball most of the time, the Fifteen brought an old but sure comedy to their audience at their Wednesday night opening this week. "Big Hearted Herbert" is an old-timer, but there's life in the old boy yet as the Fifteen produce it. The play is notable for a portrait of an almost inconceivable grouch and bore, which Crow brings alive with terrifying clarity. Mary Greene, as the wife who heals her horrible husband with a dose of his own medicine, hits a point in a broad comedy scene that had the audience in convulsions. Surprise of the show is Andre Ricou, a moppet with a splendid ease and poise, who steals an occasional hunk of the show from his more experienced elders. High point of "Big Hearted Herbert" is a plain dinner for fussy people, when Herbert's family goes to work to cure his boorishness. Most of the cast members play only a fleeting part in the background of the struggle for power between Herbert and his family, but are all competent folks with their material. Outstanding is Barbara Parmily in a character part. Louise Long and Willard Thompson are the star-crossed lovers.

RESERVISTS CALLED UP

All members of the Regular Army Reserve have been called to duty effective Feb. 15, according to a notice received this week from Headquarters Fourth Corps Area. The notice reads: "The War Department has called all members of the Regular Army Reserve to active duty effective February 15, 1941. Those not authorized for deferment and who failed to report to directed are now shown on War Department records as AWOL and will be dropped as deserters March 15, 1941, provided they have not reported by that date. "All members of the Regular Army Reserve who failed to report are advised that they are subject to military law from the date ordered to active duty and should report immediately at the nearest Army post or recruiting station."

Fine Season For Winter Institute

The ninth annual Winter Institute of Literature of the University of Miami came to a close last Friday evening, Feb-ruary 28, after Fulton Oursler, editor of Liberty Magazine had lectured on "New Frontiers In Story Telling." In the opinion of Walter Scott Mason Jr., director of the Institute of Literature, this year's meetings were the best in the past few years. Seven notable figures of the literary world were featured, including Mary Ellen Chase, Erskine Caldwell, Jesse Stuart, Raymond Holden, Fulton Oursler and Edwin Granberry. Outstanding writers all, they stood behind the rostrum and orated convincingly and interestingly. They presented their ideas with an essential essence of excellence and ease. They discussed the practical aspects and details of literature; the technique of writing; the importance of understanding literature; and the fascinating experiences of a writer.

Robert Casadesus Scores Triumph In University Symphony Concert

A Frenchman who looks like a Mid-Western businessman but plays superbly anyway, joined with the University Symphony last Monday night to provide what seemed to us as musically enjoyable a concert as we expect to hear for some time. The orchestra was in excellent form and Robert Casadesus can come play on our piano any time he wants. Of the whole program, only the opening number was com, mentally unsatisfactorily. It was Brahms Academic Festival and it seemed to us that the orchestra wasn't too sharp with it. It is an unimposing thing at best and needs a fairly rousing performance to be interesting. There was discomforting lack of precision, right up to the finale "Gaudeamus Igitur"-"played by the full orchestra." as the program noted. A full orchestra on "Gaudeamus igitur" is undeniably impressive, and inevitably nostalgic, so perhaps we should not cavil. Mr. Bitter and his friends redeemed themselves on the eternally sinuous suggestions of Debussy's "L'Apres Midi D'un Faune." Perhaps they endowed it with a little too, too soild flesh, but surprisingly little. It was a very commendable job indeed, and showed that Mr. Bitter's poetry is not all in his hands. The piano and orchestra numbers were of course the treats of the evening. Mozart's Concerto in A Major is one of our favorite compositions. The purity of its emotion gets us. It appeared to us entirely congenial of Bach to fairly personal ro-thereby something unique and special, like a piece of exquisite lace. carved by a warm heart. It is neither absence of feeling, nor feeling thrown in your face, but feeling respectfully suggested through form. Robert Casadesus was the man for it. His playing is, it seems to us, definitely kindred to Mozart's composing. It is of the same order of controlled and perfectly proportional perfection made the themes sing, and kept his chords unblurred, his phrasing distinct, his transitions heartstoppingly right. His fortes were powerful but not noisy, his pianos gentle but not sentimental. In a word, he was good, very good. We shan't call the Konzert-stueck of Carl Maria von Weber a comedown. It is good fun, quite special, too, in its own happy way. It gives us the flavor of a lile that contrived with elegant selfcomplacency to be at once civilized and naive. The Chatelaine pining on her balcony. The music stopping abruptly to demonstrate she's at last really swooned for fair, and then the galump-galump-galump of her returning Crusader and cronies, and finally the light-hearted joyfulness of reunion. In the hands of a genuinely nineteenth century romanticist this might all have been very messy, but von Weber's eighteenth century elegance makes it a refreshing occasion. Again Mr. Casadesus gave full measure. His music sparkled and danced, or pined with a rose in its hand, or marched from a gallant battlefield with un-scratched armour and unsoiled plumes. Swift and sure manshmanship was required and he supplied it expertly. In both these compositions, the orchestra performed ably, particularly in the Mozart. The program ended with Tales of the Vienna Woods played by the orchestra. We liked the arrangement. We got a little impatient in the beginning, after about the fourth time of being led to believe that the waltz doings were just around the corner, only to be dropped back for another approach. On the whole, however, it was satisfying, with interesting variety and tonally rich texturing. The rendering was a bit heavy at times. But we were too involved in watching Mr. Bitter swing and sway to be very critical. Our big disappointment in the evening came when we glanced at the clock just as Mr. Bitter executed one of his more intricate turns and we saw it only out of the corner of our good eye. J.K.S.

Liberty Flight Carries Weight

W. F. Mannagh's Liberty Flight, winner of the Hialeah Inaugural Handicap, has been assigned top weight of 126 pounds for Saturday's running of the $3000 added Pan American Handicap at Tropical Park, first of six stakes to be decided during the 34 day Spring meeting. Liberty Flight heads a field of 31 nominations for the six furlong feature and has been training well for his week end engagement.

Trio Tells "Philadelphia Story"

With an ex-husband on the left and the current interest on the right, Katherine Hepburn is the witty Philadelphia Mainline miss in the center. Cary Grant and James Stewart are the leading male actors with la Hepburn in "The Philadelphia Story," which plays at the Gables Theatre Saturday, Sunday and Monday

BILTMORE BRIEFS

By MILTON M. CHAPMAN Sponsors of many of the nation's most important golf matches during a season, we at the Miami Biltmore are not a little proud that the benefit Red Cross match to be played in Nassau next week was conceived here on the Miami Biltmore course. We are proud because the match will benefit a worthy cause and is sponsored by the Duke of Windsor, who was our gracious guest earlier in the season. Plans for the match were arranged by my good friend, Fred J. Corcoran, the indefatigable tournament bureau manager of the Professional Golfers Association. I was talking with Fred the other day while he was here for the Interpational Professional Four-ball tourney. Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen, who have never lost an official match since they teamed up back in 1926, will meet Gene Sarazen and Tommy Armour, the great Ryder cup pair, in the benefit match which will be refereed by the Duke. The match was given birth during the sojourn of His Royal Highness in December. Fred was also staying at the Biltmore as were Gene Sarazen and Sam Snead, the latter two being invited to play a round with the ex-king on the Biltmore course. It was then that Fred had the idea of holding a match for the benefit of the Red Cross in which the Duke would be the principal figure. When H. R. H. came down from his suite to go onto the course, he recognized Fred, whom he had met in England a few years previously, standing in front of the publicity office. After a cordial greeting, he invited the tournament bureau manager to follow the match. This Fred did, and during the match made the basic arrangements for the benefit performance. Shortly thereafter he flew to Nassau to visit the Duke and complete plans for the event, which will be held March 15 and 16 at the Bahamas Country Club in Nassau. It is needless to point out how worthy is such a cause, as the funds derived from it will be put to good usage. The committee, through Mr. Corcoran, has set up headquarters in the United States here at the Miami Biltmore, and under the Duke's sponsorship it is expected that the match will realize a healthy sum to benefit the Red Cross.

Carbide Executive Moves to Gables

F. W. Mittenmeyer, representative in the Miami area of the Union Carbide and Carbon Co., who has been in Greater Miami for the past year, has purchased a home from A. C. Eddy at 430 Almeria Ave. Mr. Mittenmeyer, a Union Carbide veteran of 30 years, has brought Mrs. Mittenmeyer and his son from their former home at Forest Hills, Long Island. The Mittenmeyers will make their permanent home here. Manley Ineho negotiated the sale of the home with the cooperation of L. E. Huguelet.

Allison Curry Shows Paintings

Allison B. Curry, Jr., son of the City Manager of Coral Gables, is exhibiting a one-man show of paintings at the Miami Art Center, .Miami Woman's Club, 1737 North Bayshore Drive. These consist of watercolors, oils and mural sketches. Admission to the Art Center is free. Visiting hours are: 10 a. m. to 4 p. m. daily, Saturdays until 1 p. m.

Big Pebble, Large Field Named for Tropical Stake

Big Pebble and Get Off, the Circle M Ranch's one-two procession in the $50,000 Widener Cup, head a field of 44 named for the $10,000 Tropical Handicap, closing day-April 10-feature of the Tropical Park spring meeting. The leading routers of the southland have been nominated for the rich event and include Mrs. M. Evan's Shot Put, Maxwell Howard's The Chief, Le Mar Stock Farm's Many Stings, Mrs. R. Palladino's Little Beans, Woodvale Farm's Dorimer and a host of others. The Tropical Handicap will have its fourth running at the meeting which opened on Monday afternoon for a 34-day stay that will ring down the curtain of Miami's 1940-41 racing season. Past winners number Tatterdemalion, Teddy Weed and Dolly Val, although the present field far eclipses, in number, and in class, any previous band of nominees. Six stakes are slated for decision at Tropical Park, and entries for the sextette of Spring fixtures all closed at Saturday midnight with a record roster of 211 thoroughbreds. The first feature, the Pan American Handicap, a $3000 added prize, will have its running on Saturday, with 30 horses among the probable starters. Weights will likely find Sweet Willow, Liberty Flight and Royal Man high among the top packages. The Orange Blossom Stakes, for male two-year-olds, also enlisted 30 nominees, a substantial increase over last season, and will attract the best juveniles in Miami, led by Bold Question and Eternal Bull. The mile and seventy yards Royal Palm Handicap drew the largest number of early enlistments, 46 being listed with Racing Secretary Robert S. Shelley. Like all other events, this is well above last year. Thirty fillies in the Viscaya Stakes and 31 older sprinters for the Coral Gables Spring Handicap also indicate thrilling contests in both of these features. Executive Vice-President Nicholls of the Gables Racing Association expressed keen satisfaction at the response to the Spring stake schedule and believe it augurs the best season the Bird Road course has yet known.

Miss Frost Wins On "Miss Parader"

Miss Willie Jane Frost of Coral Gables carried off second prize in the $500 5-gaited stake at the recent Tampa Horse Show, riding "Miss Parader", who was judged in the Reserve Championships class.

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