Coral Gables Riviera

CORAL GABLES RIVIERA

AN INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER Published every Friday by the Miami Riviera Publishing Company, 306 Coral Way, Coral Gables, Florida Established January, 1926 Combined with The Dade County and Coconut Grove Times, 1929. JOHN D. MONTGOMERY President JAMES B. MOORE Editor and General Manager Mailing Address, P. O. Box 704 Telephone 4-1634 SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year by Carrier, Coral Gables and immediate vicinity $2.00 Six months $1.25 One Year by Mail $3.00 Entered as second class matter May 21, 1926, at the Postoffice at Miami, Florida, under Act of March 3, 1879.

Wade Livingston Street

Coral Gables lost one of its greatest boosters and we residents lost a great and true friend this week when Wade Livingston Street left us to join his Maker. It's difficult to portray in cold type the warmth of personality, the great kindliness, the love for his fellow man that were Wade Street's. Wade was probably the only wholly altruistic man we have ever called friend. He was no merchant. He was retired, and had he chosen, he could have spent his last years relaxing at his beautiful Bird Villa and never bothered his head about the men and women who operated stores in our community. Yet, until ill health prevented his doing so, Wade Street attended every meeting of the Merchant's Bureau. He headed committees, sold hundreds of tickets, gave advice and worked like a Trojan all for the joy of helping the business folk in Coral Gables. He often jokingly called himself "The Poinciana Pest" because of his tireless campaign to add beauty to an already beautiful city. In doing so, plazas and parkways with the gorgeous flaming tropical trees. And here again his altruism was shown-because although hundreds and hundreds of these beautiful trees were planted through his efforts, many of which were gifts from him, it was purely for the enjoyment of others. Wade, you see, was blind and could not see them himself. His pleasure was derived from knowing that others were seeing and enjoying the beauties of the poinciana. Wade Street had no children-yet the sons of other Gableites have benefited because Wade was here. He was an active founder of Boys Town. He fostered it and saw it grow into a character building institution for the young men of Coral Gables-the future citizens of tomorrow. He was a model member of the Kiwanis Club and there too his kindly spirit was felt. Wade made it a point to find out when the birthdays of his fellow members occured and always presented them with a beautifully bound book on the American Flag. We could go on and on writing about Wade, and still feel that we were totally inadequate in trying to tell what he meant to the community. We think Wade's personality is best exemplified in a poem he wrote himself some years ago. It shows his love for beauty which he found through friendship and we can think of no better epitaph for the man we all loved and whom we will miss so greatly. —jbm

MY MEMORY CHEST

I have seen the glory of a setting sun In hues of gold and pink; The radiant stars of the Southern Cross On a night as black as ink; The foam-flecked waves of a turquoise sea As they broke on a palm-crowned reef; An orchid-tree festooned with moss, And a lily-pond beneath. I have gazed afar at mountains high With diadems of snow; Sparkling brooks that dashed and foamed In canyons far below; A flowering shrub with scented bloom In the heat of a desert's hush; Distant crags of orange and blue Done with a master's brush. I have watched the birds with plumage gay As they winged to some feeding ground; A mother doe with her baby fawn In the Fall woods still and brown; A river that winds like a silver cord Through a valley of waving grain; Our Country's Flag in a war-torn land Like a rainbow after the rain. With awe transfixed I have stood at night In a world of ice and snow, While the Northern lights with pastel flares Kept the Arctic skies aglow; The crowns and jewels of kings and queens Who ruled with pomp and power; A thousand fields of tulips gay That covered the earth afar. All these have I seen but many more Are stored in my mirrored brain; I have tucked them away in my memory chest Where I see them again and again; Day by day as new ones come I choose the rarest and best, And put them away where the others are And feel I am truly blessed. From many lands o'er the seven seas Are tokens strange and fair That I've tucked away in my memory chest And often see them there; Though the sight be dimmed it does not mean That one may not yet see, For loving hearts and kindly lips Paint pictures rare for me. —Wade Livingston Street

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IN OUR MAIL

May 7, 1941 Mr. James Moore Coral Gables Riviera Coral Gables, Florida Dear Mr. Moore: Since we are one of your advertisers, we feel a sincere pride in the Riviera's recent honors, awarded by the Florida Press Association, namely: Best Front Page, first; Best Florisa Weekly, second; Best Column, third; "Our Town"; Most Local News, third, and Best Job Work, second. Five outstanding merits, thus recognized, are an unusual number for any newspaper. This was the greatest number of awards granted any Florida paper, we believe. Please accept our heartiest congratulations. Sincerely yours, Bernal Clark Advertising Manager Florida Power and Light Company May 1, 1941 James B. Moore, editor Coral Gables Riviera Coral Gables, Fla. Dear Mr. Moore: The city of Coral Gables wishes to thank the Coral Gables Riviera for its splendid cooperation during our recent birthday celebration and entertainment for the National Editorial association. The Riviera always has been a vital force in our community, and a great help in any undertaking planned by the city. Our recent program could not have been the success it was without the publicity given it through your newspaper. I thank you for all past favors and hope for your continued success. Sincerely, Paul D. McGarry, mayor Mr. Jim Moore, Editor Coral Gables Riviera Coral Gables, Fla. Congratulations on all those honors The Riviera won in the State Press Association. Nice going! You turn out a dandy sheet. Ev Clay The Miami Herald

Traveler

Mrs. Ray T. Gallagher of 1105 Avenue Palermo is traveling through the North visiting relatives and friends in Philadelphia, Delaware, Princeton, and New York. She expects to return the latter part of this month.

To Spend Summer

Mrs. Daniel H. Charles left Tuesday accompanied by her young daughter, Carol Diana, for Washington, D. C. She plans to spend the summer at Greensburg, Pa., and with friends in Ohio before returning here late in the fall.

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At the Grove Theatre

Those two screen favorites, Alice Faye and Don Ameche are together again in one of the most colossal musicals ever produced, "That Night in Rio" in Technicolor. The picture plays Sunday through Wednesday at the Grove Theatre.

Legion Holds Installation

William E. Winegar was installed as commander of the Coral Gables American Legion Post Wednesday night at ceremonies in the Legion building on the corner of Salzedo and Alhambra Circle. The installation took place at 8 p. m., with Sheldon C. Greb, vice-commander, officiating in place of Gene Hunter, retiring commander, who is ill in the Bay Pines Veterans' Hospital. Taking part in the ceremonies were the Auxiliary unit, the Dade County Guard of Honor, Coral Gables city officials and representatives of civic and service clubs. Ralph Freeman of Belle Glade, Fifth District Legion commander, made an address to post members following the buffet supper.

Pennies, Prizes Purchase Famous Holbein Painting

Another step in the beautification of Ponce was taken by Mrs. Belle S. Crutchfield, through the purchase of an excellent reproduction of Holbein's famous painting, "The New Learning." As in all Holbein paintings, the detail and coloring of the picture, which depicts the education of Edward the VII is unusually fine. In the background are portrayed all the great scholars of the time, giving an idea of the features of many of these great men, whom no other artist painted. The purchase of the picture was made possible by Mrs. Crutchfield's white elephant money, saved pennies and penalization of gum chewers.

Gables Music Club Presents Talent in Music Week Celebration

The Coral Gables Music Club was ably represented at Bay Front Park Wednesday evening for the program given for National Music Week. Mrs. Parks Hunter, the club's program chairman presented Mrs. Dorothy Moore, pianist; who played Perey Grainger's "Country Garden"; Eldride Pen-nock, violinist played a composition of the late Prof. Leo Portnoff, accompanied by Ralph Roth. Miss Roberta Rymer and Fred Reibel sang the duet, "La Chita Romano", from Don Giovanni, by Mozart and "Because You're You" from the Red Mill. Mrs. A. Beverly Kelley, Mayor Paul McGarry, Mrs. J. Atmore Wright, jr., Mrs. Evan D. Roser, Mrs. S. E. Giffen, Mrs. Clintn McCreedy, Mrs. Irma Betts and Miss Margaret Phelan comprised the committee for Coral Gables participation in National Music Week.

D. A. R. Will Hold Final Meeting Tuesday; Hear Reports; Present Awards

Coral Gables chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution will conduct its last regular meeting of the year at 2:30 p. m. Tuesday at the home of Mrs. James Sottile, sr., 1533 N. W. 9th Street, Grove Park, Miami. The executive board will meet at 1:30. Roger Carlson, junior, Ponce de Leon High School and winners of this year's National Defense medals awarded by the chapter, will be presented to the group by Mrs. Henry Trafford, National Defense chairman. Betty and Carl won their medals for their essays on "How to Defend America Within and Without." The National Defense through Patriotic Education Committee, its membership reaching into everyone of the nearly 2500 chapters of the D.A.R. is exceedingly active during these critical days, and its work is bearing good results, Mrs. Imogen B. Emery, national chairman reports. A country-wide study of subversive activities and of foreign propaganda is being made besides comparative studies of every day living in the United States and in dictator nations. The Committee is endeavoring to double the number of Good Citizenship awards. Bronze medals for good citizenship are awarded to outstanding students in schools. Many medals are awarded to C.C.C. boys and C.M.T.C. students in citizenship classes. Barbara Browne, senior, having been chosen as the outstanding girl student at Ponce de Leon High School by the faculty and student body alike, was awarded this year's Good Citizenship Pilgrimage medal by the Coral Gables chapter. Qualities necessary to receive the Good Citizenship Pilgrimage medal are: Honor, co-operation, meritorious behavior, kindliness, unselfishness, true Americanism, individual responsibility to Home, To Country, to God. Mental and physical courage, determination to over-come obstacles, leadership, personality, originality, ability to lead and to hold others. Good sportsmanship, responsibility and scholarship. From the National Defense Committee's office in Memorial Continental Hall in Washington thousands of copies of the Constitution of the United States and the Committee's publication, National Defense News, are being distributed together with much additional material on the subject of national defense through patriotic education. Besides the presentation of the National Defense medal winners, Tuesday's meeting for the local D.A.R. chapter will also feature the election and installation of officers for the coming year. Annual reports from Committee chairmen and Officers will also be received. Speaker for the occasion will be Richard B. Roberts, jr., who will talk on "Selling Americanism to Americans." Hostesses are Mrs. Sottile, Mrs. Leslie Lide, Mrs. Laurence E. Westerdahl, Miss Helen Grace Warner and Mrs. Roger North.

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Recuperating

Mrs. U. J. Hiss is now at her home 689 Avende Vela fe recuperating nicely from an operation performed last week at University Hospital.

[Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Carreno]

Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Carreno, 6929 Mindello Street, entertained a group of friends at dinner Sunday night.

[Mrs. J. G. Stickley]

Mrs. J. G. Stickley, 2121 Country Club Prado, has returned to her home in Easton,

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PHONE 4-1221 25c TAX INCLUDED 35c MATINEE Smoking Loge EVENING No Extra Charge OPEN DAILY 2 P M Sat.—Mon. May 10-12 ROAR like the devil with Jean ARTHUR in The DEVIL AND MISS JONES ROBERT CUMMINGS CHARLES COBURN Tuesday May 13 FRIEDA INESCORT PAUL CAVANAGH "SHADOWS ON THE STAIRS" Wed., Thursday May 14-15 LIONEL BARRYMORE EDWARD ARNOLD in "THE PENALTY" with Marsha Hunt Friday May 16 MADELEINE CARROLL FRED MacMURRAY "HONEYMOON IN BALI" with Carolyn Lee

GROVE Theatre COCONUT GROVE

Saturday May 10 "Ride Kelly Ride" with EUGENE PALLETTE MARYN STEVENS An Exciting Story of the Racetrack Mickey Mouse Matinee FREE Candy for the Kiddies Thursday, Friday May 8-9 MARGARET SULLIVAN JAMES STEWART in "Next Time We Love" ALSO VAUDEVILLE FRIDAY 9 P. M. Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday MAY 11, 12, 13, and 14 1941's Great Glamour-Musical! Alice FAYE • Don AMECHE • Carmen MIRANDA IN THAT NIGHT IN RIO IN TECHNICOLOR! 5 Great Songs!

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EVERYTHING FOR THE LAWN OR GARDEN

There's no better hobby than growing things . . . your garden or lawn, for instance. And you'll derive a lot more fun out of it if you have the proper garden tools to work with. Visit our Hardware Department here in the Gables and see the complete line of quality garden tools on display. RE-NU-ART LUMBER YARDS, INC. "Everything to Build Anything"

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