Coral Gables Riviera

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by HELEN REYNOLDS With a perfect moon overhead and no mosquitoes, Miami Biltmore Country Club members enjoyed the first of the fall parties Saturday night in a naturally air-conditioned setting, that is, around the pools adjoining the hotel and club buildings. Dinner was Chinese—delicious chow mein; decorations were Chinese; lanterns and balloons; but the dancing was good old American out on the pool deck. Mr. and Mrs. James McFarlane and Mr. and Mrs. James E. Boykin, formerly of Havana, Cuba, who are now living in Coral Gables, were together ... Mr. and Mrs. Daniel R. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. J. Allen Brown, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Hodges formed a table. President of the club, Mr. and Mrs. S. H. McCormick, and Mr. and Mrs. McGregor Smith were a foursome ... Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Simpson and Mr. and Mrs. Marvin B. Adams, just home from the Carolina mountains, were together ... Mayor and Mrs. Cliff Reeder, the Briggs Brannings, the Bill Reeders, Mr. and Mrs. John Sullivan, the Frank Bryants, the Garfield Millers were there, Dr. and Mrs. William Dismukes, the Jack Montgomerys, the Gordon Walters, the Donald B. Johnstons, the E. F. Johnsons and many others enjoyed the dancing. Mrs. Fred H. Stutz, 1238 Lisbon Street, left Tuesday for Jacksonville, where she joined her mother, Mrs. B. B. Pickens, for a month's stay at North Jacksonville Beach. . . . Miss Rosemary Stutz has returned to Durham, N. C., where she will enter her freshman year at Duke University. Mrs. James N. Ammen has returned from a six-weeks' visit in New York, Cleveland, Ohio, and with her brother, at Front Royal, Va. Mrs. Davis Estill has returned from Chanute, Kans., where she spent about seven weeks with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John W. Heminger. . . . Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Lewis and three children and Mrs. Lewis' mother, Mrs. E. C. Hume, are home from a vacation spent at the Linville Country Club, on Grandfather Mountain, and Aunt Salley's farm, N. C. Mrs. Hume visited Mrs. M. E. Adamson, formerly of Coral Gables, now of Asheville, N. C., during her North Carolina stay, and is at present in Rome, Ga., visiting relatives. This column has from time to time carried stories of "Mike" the goose that actually, or figuratively speaking, lays golden eggs for his mistress, Miss Joyce Culley, the fifteen-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar F. Culley, 906 Columbus Boulevard. Now comes word that Mike has made the movies—at least he is being seriously considered for a "speaking" part in the forthcoming picture, "Here Comes the Marines," being made at the Colonnade Studios. Mike won his spurs as an actor by winning first prize (hands down, or we should say web feet down) at a Miami pet show about three years ago. Then he appeared (at the Lighthouse for the Blind garden party earning a sum of money for the benefit) as the other half of "Old Mother Goose." If Mike can be as intelligent as a trained seal and be taught to pull the bed-clothes off a sleeping Marine, he gets the part, we hear. Mr. and Mrs. Jerry A. Frazel have bought the large Colonial home at 3300 Granada Boulevard, which was completed late this summer by the Batcheller Construction Company. With their two sons, Jerry, Jr., and Bill, both students at St. Theresa's School, the Frazels will now call Coral Gables home. They formerly lived at 1800 Fairhaven Place, Coconut Grove, and came here many years ago from Chicago. Mrs. Richard G. Schmidt, Jr., met more than 200 friends of her new husband's family when she visited in Chicago at the Edgewater Beach Hotel, home of his mother, during the belated honeymoon trip she and Mr. Schmidt took, and from which they have just returned. "At one cocktail party alone there were 100 guests," exclaimed the attractive Mrs. Schmidt, the former Miss Eileen Girtman. They visited New Gretna, in upstate, the J. D. Girtman's, at their summer home in Cloudland, Ga., en route, where George (Skeeter) Girtman, up from Texas, met his new brother-in-law and his new sister-in-law (Mrs. Charlie Girtman) for the first time. Visits in the Thousands Islands with the W. T. Foulks and Miss Lillian Foulks, who winter here at 609 Majorca, and with Lieutenant and Mrs. W. B. Scheiber, the former Edith Foulks, in Bangor, Me., rounded out the trip. Claude Corrigan, president-elect of the senior class at the University of Miami, had the pleasure (or pain) of wearing someone else's shoes and playing with strange clubs this summer when he attended the Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity convention at Excelsior Springs, Kans., as delegate. Claude shipped his clubs and shoes for a scheduled golf match he was to be in, only to have the stuff go on to the West Coast via the Santa Fe Railroad. . . . Mr. and Mrs. George Corrigan, parents of Claude, are planning a trip to New Orleans come the 18th of September, where Mr. Corrigan will attend the National Investment Bankers convention. WHAT PRICE GLORY—Miss Pauline Spofford, former staff writer for The Coral Gables Riviera, is in the Gables this week visiting relatives and friends. With a friend from New York, she recently returned from Guatemala, where she spent her vacation. Her passports, still carry her occupation as journalist altho' Miss Spofford ended her writing career when she left The Riviera. During her stay in the foreign port, a newspaper man called at the hotel to "secure an interview from the supposed 'newspaper' women their registered as guests". After the lengthy interview the next morning papers carried headlines announcing that "The Coral Gables Riviera was one of the Greatest Papers in North America".