Coral Gables Historical Archive
Coral Gables Riviera-Times
Monday, November 24, 1947, page 3 (of 8)
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PONCE NEWS / Lowering of Voting Age To Be Fought by Students
By DENIS O'DONOVAN and PAULINE MARKS Riviera-Times Correspondent "Lower the voting age to eight-een!" will be the cry of Ponce's five delegates to the Florida Student Congress at Jacksonville, December 11, 12 and 13. Charles Steers, Allen McCormick, Howard Mizner, John Leonard, and Denis O'Donovan (whose name keeps creeping into the column) were chosen last Saturday as Ponce's Congressmen. They will sponsor a bill to lower the voting age to 18 and speak for and against bills proposed by other schools all over Florida. Ponce will be host to forensics from Jacksonville, Beach, and Edison on December 4 for this year's first round of Dade County debate conventions. A run-off will be held soon to determine Ponce's A and B teams. Comedies Presented Thursday's assembly was an entertaining one for Ponce students. Thespians, the national honorary dramatics society, presented two one-act comedies, starring Thespians and dramatics students under Mrs. Marguerette Harvey. "I'll Eat My Hat," a farce about a typical young married couple, featured John Towns as the bewildered husband and Barbara Johnson as the scheming wife, with Sally Peacock as the young bride next door. Barbara, tired of John's smug statement, "I'll eat my hat if I'm wrong!" refuses to feed him until he dishes up his old straw and bleaches every morsel. He prepares a succulent sauce and is ready to eat it when two clubwomen enter. Jackie May threw herself into the role of a gushing clubwoman with extreme gusto, while Sarah Sumners portrayed the other clubwoman with a little more subtlety. The clubwomen, whom Barbara is anxious to impress, have mixed their dates up and arrived for luncheon a week early. They insist on taking "Pot Luck" pot luck being the beforementioned hat. When they discover that the delicious dish is casserole a la Cheapeau they hit the ceiling. The perplexed clubwomen tell Barbara they wouldn't think of accepting her into the club, because she eats hats. Tearfully Barbara explains that she was just trying to cure John of his awful phrase by making him eat his hat. Everything turns out wonderfully when Jackie May thanks Barbara for telling her how to cure her husband of the same affliction. John and Barbara both put in a convincing performance. Getting Pinned The second play presented was "Getting Pinned," a college comedy starring Kitty Pollock, who finds herself in a difficult position, Betty Ruth Geiger as her precocious sister, Mary Elizabeth Bird as their charming and devoted mother, Bill Farwell as a football hero, Russel Morrison, a confused and bewildered young man, Taj Hanna, who loves to talk about himself, Gail Clinton, as the girl who usually gets what she wants, and Betty Read, as Clover, the colored maid. Kitty cleverly was natural in the role of the college girl and Russell Morrison actually underacted (an unusual thing in a high school dramatics). Russell is trying to pin Kitty, but Kitty refuses him as she has just received a telegram from an old fame, Taj Hanna, saying that he is coming for a visit. Bill Farwell has also asked Kitty to wear his pin, but he asked her in a very insulting manner and she also turned him down. Whenover Kitty is alone with a male, her darling little sister walks in and takes over. Gail Clinton walks in just in time to hear Kitty refuse Russell's pin and takes over in Kitty's place. Taj arrives and Kitty just can't believe that anyone could have changed so much. When he left town, Taj, was going to write great classical music. But when he returns he is famous for his hep-cat band and is dressed in a zoot-suit. Kitty tells him to leave. The whole mess is cleared up when Gail returns with someone's pin on and leads Kitty to believe it's Russell's. When Russ walks in he tells Kitty that he wants her to have his pin. Kitty accepts and soon discovers that Gail's pin belongs to Bill. Bill Farwell and Taj Hanna were ideally cast as the stumbling football hero and the blabbermouth glamour boy respectively. Journalism Staff Mrs. Vyva Kerr, journalism teacher at Ponce, has announced the '48 Cavaleon staff. They are: Editor-in-chief, Ronald Abrahams; associate editors, Jeannette Watters and Ann Topping; subscription manager, Tish Wilkins; art editor, Betty Jones; art assistants, Joan Hunt, Shirley Black, Betty Montgomery, June Widman, Alice Davidson, Janet Fuller and Carolyn Copelin; boys' sports editors, Ed Mellon and Frank Baker; girls' sports editors, Lolita Carballo and Pauline Marks; business mgr. John Gould; business assistants, Mary Margaret Chafer and Nancy Lesh; staff photographer, Frank Baker; circulation mgr., Mario Alfonso; senior editors, Charlie Steers and Betty George; junior editor, Pat Padgett; sophomore editors, Gloria Johnson and Yvonne James; freshmen editor, Pauline Marks; club editor, Joanne Wilson; clerical and typing staff, Helen Barbier, Frank Coleman and Jackie Mendenhall. A prize of $20.00 was offered to the student turning in the best and most suitable theme for the Cavaleon. Tom Pennykamp won the prize with his "Freedom Train" theme. Students from Ponce, the University of Miami, Miami Hi, and Miami Beach are now practicing at the Venetian pool every Saturday morning for the Orange Bowl Aqua Follies to be presented December 29-30 at 8 p. m. Forty-eight girls will take part in the forming of stars, pinwheels, and various swimming ballet formations. Pete Desjardins is directing the ballet. P. D. L. pins with chain guards designating the year of graduation are now being sold to seniors, juniors, and sophomores during all three lunches. The money will go towards the junior-senior prom that comes up in June. The junior class is collecting dues of $1.00 to help finance the prom. Ponce's B upperclass volleyball copped second place at the annual volleyball tournament held Friday at Moore Park. In the first game they beat Redlands. Edison took the second game. The girls then beat Jackson and had to replay Edison for second place. Miami Hi and Ponce met for first place, but the Stingarees took both gaves leaving the B team in second place. The A team placed fourth.
Sounds Complicated But It Works
WHITTIER, Cal. (UP)—J. C. Hunnicutt took that adage about "building a better mousetrap" to heart. His latest de luxe "automatic jail" trapped 13 rats in one night at the city dump. A rodent who sniffs the bait and enters Hunnicutt's gadget first trips a floor trap which closes the door behind him. Then he goes down a tunnel and squeezes through an opening into a larger box, automatically opening the front door for the next victim. Hunnicutt says he has been working up to this masterpiece through 50 years' trap-making experience.
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