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Coral Gables Riviera-Times
Monday, December 1, 1947, page 4 (of 8)
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CORAL GABLES Riviera-Times
Published Monday through Friday afternoons by the RIVIERA PUBLISHING CO., INC. 2026 Ponce de Leon Blvd., Coral Gables 34, Fla. Established as a weekly news- paper January, 1926; combined with the Dade County & Coconut Grove Times, 1929. Published daily except Saturday and Sunday. MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSO- CIATION and Florida Press Association. Albert E. Harum, Editor and Publisher; Kenneth S. Reynolds, Business Manager; James B. Moore, Managing Editor; Helen Reynolds, Society Editor; Edward W. Wright, Circulation Manager. Class of Member: New York-Chicago-Atlanta-Detroit. National Advertising Representatives. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS FULL LEASED WIRE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS NATIONAL EDITORIAL 1947 ASSOCIATION Active Member RIVIERA-TIMES SUBSCRIPTION RATES-Six months, $6:00; one year, outside of United States, $15.00; local, $12.00; one year, out-of-town, $12.00; daily delivery by car- rier 25 cents per week. Entered as Second Class Matter May 21, 1926, at the Post Office at Miami, Fla., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Mail Address, Box 6373, Coral Gables 34, Florida. Phone 4-1624. Classified Dept., 48-2641. The Coral Gables Riviera-Times is liable for errors In advertising only to the extent of the space in which the advertisement appears.
It's Up To You!
Suppose your family were hungry-sup- pose they had been living on critically short rations for a long time-suppose the fu- ture was filled with the prospect of even less food. What would you do? You would eat food somehow. You wouldn't care who gave it to you or what you had to promise in return. This is the problem of the people of Western Europe. The help we give these hungry people who are trying to build a decent, free, democratic way of life is our insurance for a peaceful world. As Secretary of State Marshall has said, "Our foreign policy has entered the American home and taken a seat at the family table. Every man, woman and child in this country has a direct per- sonal influence on the course of interna- tional affairs." The food conservation program is hitting its stride. All industries which use grain- brewers, distillers, bakers, restaurant oper- ators-all are voluntarily curtailing use of grain. The armed services are contributing to the program by strict observance all over the world of meatless Tuesdays and eggless Thursdays. Farmers are cooperating and are taking effective steps to reduce flocks and herds. But you-140 million Americans-are the key to this whole food-saving program. On you rests the hope of hungry millions abroad. It's up to you whether they live or die. Remember this-bread shared is more than bread. It is a means of communion between men of good will. Those who begin world wars lose them. To begin to learn from history, start here. Don't make more excuses. There are too many going 'round already. Moral backbone is the strength of a free people.
HOLLYWOOD FILM SHOP
By PATRICIA CLARY United Press Staff Correspondent HOLLYWOOD (UP)-Styles in popular music like styles in women's clothes, are reaching back 20 years and more. Dance bands, juke boxes and radio sing- ers today are heavily plugging the sweet tunes of the 1920s, and the movies are keeping step. Four of the most popular tunes are old- ies. "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now," revived by the movie of that title, is one of the tops. It was written in 1899. An- other, "When You Were Sweet Sixteen," goes back almost half a century to 1898. The others are "That's My Desire," 1931, and "Peg O' My Heart," 1913. But the resurgence of old-time "sweet" in competition to modern boogie-woogie has hardly begun, according to Irving Berlin, dean of Tin Pan Alley song writers, who this year celebrates his fortieth year as a composer. Writers Self-Conscious "We can expect that just about every tune that was hummable or singable in the old days eventually will be revived, first by the movies and then by radio," Berlin said. He said the self-consciousness of today's song writers was partly responsible for the popularity of yesterday's songs. "They are afraid of being accused of writing corny," he said. "They are writing for the publishers instead of writing direct- ly for singers as we used to in the good old days. "And besides today the taste is for the sweet, and that used to be our long short." Berlin currently is writing eight new tunes for the movie "Easter Parade" which along with some of Berlin's old hits will be forthcoming "Easter Parade," based on his popular oldie of that title. More Revivals Along with the new songs will be such old hits as "I Love a Piano," "I Want to Go Back to Michigan," and "Snooky-Ook- ums." Another old-time Berlin tune, "What'll I Do"," is being given the Hollywood revival treatment. The song, written almost 25 years ago and first introduced by Grace Moore in a "Music Box Revue," will be the theme song and key number in the background score of "The Big City," a Margaret O'Brien picture. Just to make sure that "What'll I Do" will land on the hit parade, it is being re- corded by Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, Dick Haymes, Art Lund and the King Cole trio to saturate the country early in Janu- ary. The saturation treatment is being lined up also for all the other oldies being taken off the shelves for introduction to a new generation via pictures.
Miami Maelstrom
By Jim Moore I took one of my rare, infrequent trips into the city of Miami on Friday. I had to see a man about a story. And I came back to Coral Gables firmly resolved that future trips into that maelstrom of auto- motive confusion will be made only on life and death matters. In case no one has re- minded you recently, it's Christmas shopping time again and I'm told that some folks out here in the Gables will make shopping excursions into Miami to buy neckties for Uncle Zeke, a rubber ball for lit- tle Willie and an antimicas- sar for Aunt Josephine. If they do, they're as mad as March hares. Honking horns, squealing brakes, exhaust fumes and irritable traffic cops all add in- sult to the injury of traffic jams. On the sidewalks, mobs of human beings turned animal shove, push and elbow each other into a frenzy that is far removed from the Christmas spirit they are endeavoring to emulate. Parking lots are jammed full and ex- pensive. Crumpled fenders are the order of the day. Headaches and sore feet, ach- ing muscles and bad dispositions are the typical symptoms of those who venture in- to Miami's business district. The odd part about it is that it's per- fectly possible to please Zeke, Willie and Josephine with articles purchased from Coral Gables stores-and the process is pleasant, painless and practical. I took a tour around the Gables business district saturday. The stores were busy as wise shoppers did their Christmas buy- ing. But the atmosphere was entirely dif- ferent than that I encountered in Miami the day before. I had little trouble parking. No one el- bowed me on the streets or in the stores. Nobody snarled at me and clerks were smiling and courteous. More important than that, the shelves in our local stores were loaded with mer- chandise that could solve anybody's Christ- mas shopping problems. The articles cost no more than they did in Miami and in many instances they were more reasonably priced. So here's a tip to those of you who are about to embark on Ye-olide shopping tours. If you would retain your sanity and seren- ity-your attitude of peace on Earth, good will towards men ... stick to Coral Gables!
In Our Mail
Editor, Riviera-Times: I wish to congratulate you on your ef- forts in making the Riviera-Times a daily paper. It shows the progress made in Coral Gables since we first started to go down there in 1934. Although we are not citizens of Coral Gables, we have quite a heavy investment in our home at 1700 Granada Boulevard and naturally, Coral Gables is of supreme interest to us. In all our travelling through Florida, we finally decided on Coral Gables as our winter home and as far as we are concerned there is no better place to live. Wishing you the best of success, I am Sincerely yours, PAUL FROILAND, Springfield, Mass.
SHORT QUIRKS
Savings Go Into Homes CHICAGO, (UP)-Ralph M. Smith, West Somerville, Mass., president of the United States Savings and Loan League, said the volume of dollars which savings associa- tions are providing today for new home building is the greatest in their 117-year history. Perms for Orphans Oklahoma City (UP)-Some 1,500 Okla- homa orphan girls will get permanent waves this Christmas, Mrs. Jessie Fountain, secre- tary of the state Santa Claus Commission, says hair-dos have been agreed on as part of this year's yuletide celebration for state orphans. How It Goes Flint, Mich. (UP)-Hurley Hospital has the figures on the rise in food prices. Mar- garet Ross, dietician, reports that meals cost an average of 50.77 cents, compared with 27 cents in 1941. Cost of food at the hos- pital is $13,000 a month higher than it was pre-war. Offers His Services Dunmore, Pa. (UP)-Albert P. Morrell, undertaker and a battle veteran himself, has offered to handle free of charge the burial of Dunmore's World War II soldier dead re- turned from overseas graves. "It's the least I could do for my fellow veterans," said Mor- rell. Pigs Come First Tulsa, Okla. (UP)-A local man sentenced to 30 days in jail on a liquor possession count was granted a deferment three times so he could doctor his ailing pigs. Fox Not So Smart Detroit, (UP)-A sly red fox picked out the wrong hunter to leer at. Frank Rhea sat down to rest after a fruitless day of pheas- ant hunting. The fox crept within a few feet of him and sat there grinning. The hunter shot the animal and claimed the $5 bounty. Highway Gummed Up Ripon, Calif. (UP)-Things were gummed up on the Ripon Highway when a truck car- rying 3,000 tons of molasses sprang a leak. Half a mile of molasses was spread on the highway. It took the state highway depart- ment three hours to clean up.
THIS MEANS EVERY AMERICAN!
--Courtesy Washington (D. C.) Evening Star
Dot Says HERE
Cutest anecdote (and it's true) of the week is being told by Proprietor Loos of the Sharyn Juvenile Shop. The other day a breathless young man ran into the shop and asked how to pronounce the store's name. "Why it's pro- nounced something like Sharron only with an 'in' sound on the end," Mrs. Loos replied. "But why do you ask?" she inquired. "Well," said the R. Y. M., "my wife just had a baby girl and I've always thought the name of your shop was cute so that's the baby's name and I wanted to know how to pronounce it." Add odd names: Proprietor Schuh of the Coral Coy Shop (it's pronounced like shoe) and D. Lis, a new shop in town, on which we have not yet secured an authoritative pronunciation. Our story on Christmas tree bulbs and the shortage thereof upset the owners of Bell Hardware. Seems they weren't included in our cross-section poll-and they HAVE the bulbs. Report: Ted Cowell was giving Ed Keating a going over for some tiny specks and while America. The Heller effective Ed wanted to borrow a "seeing-eye" dog. Leland Shepard, conductor of the "Stolen from Other Thieves" department in the Rotary-gram, wants to know: "Why is it that a black cow can eat green grass and give white milk that makes yellow butter, the price of which leaves a dark brown taste in our mouths, making us blue and so mad we see red?" Ralph Smith says: "We're in the embers of the dying year-Nov-ember and Dec-ember." The official bulletins of the Kiwanis Club of Coral Ga- bles and the Rotary Club are unanimous in their thoughts for the week: "We may look it over think it over, talk it over, and read it over, but we shall be judged by our abil- ity to PUT it over."
Prehistoric Bison Found
SAN FRANCISCO (UP)-Bones of a seven-foot-long animal, believed to have been a prehistoric bison, were dis- covered in the Tomales Bay area north of here by a Marine Junior College geology field party. Stephen C. Bruff, leader of the party, said the bones were at least 25,000 years old, dating back to the pleistocene period.
"Sweetest Girl" Sought
NEW YORK (UP)-The latest press agent's brain wave is a hunt for the "Sweetest Girl" in America. The Heller Candy Co. is sponsoring a contest in which the winner will receive $200 in cash and a free course in modeling and actual assignments at the Barbizon Studio of Fashion Modeling among the judges are Kitty Kallen, Emanuel List, Florence Pritchald, Helen Fraser and Patricia Shay.
Whale Hunters Find Radar Doesn't Work
PORTLAND, Ore (UP)-Whale hunters along the west coast say that war-developed submarine de- tectors don't help much in spot- ting the silent mammals. The gadgets, including radar and sonic spotters, didn't work out as well as the old crow-nests "Thar she blows" method. Fath- ometers actually frightened the whales away. However, surplus naval mine sweepers are being used with a deadly effect as killer boats. They are equipped with muzzle-loading harpoon guns and 80-pound har- poons with an exploding head. The modern Capt. Ahabs can knock off a whale at a hundred yards. If it's a close kill, they saw it in tail first. Otherwise, they have to play the whale as sports- men play salmon, sometimes for several hours.
Fruit or Vegetable? No, a Pin Cushion
ST. LOUIS, (UP)-When is a pineushion a fruit and not a vegetable? Morris S. Rosenthal, New York, president of the Na- tional Council of American Im- porters, asked the 34th National Foreign Trade convention here. He brought up the problem in connection with tariff classifica- tions. Rosenthal reported that a silk pincushion shaped like a pear once bore a higher rate of cus- toms duty than a pineushion shaped like a tomato. "The former," he said, "was classified as an artificial fruit, but the Supreme Court decided long ago that a tomato (bio- logically considered a fruit) is only a vegetable."
ELKS WIVES TO BE SANTA'S ASSISTANTS AT YULE PARTY FOR HOSPITALIZED VETS
Coral Gables Elks will settle for the role of reindeer on Christ- mas Eve when they serve as hon- or guard to escort Santa Claus through the wards and to the theatre of Pratt Veterans Ad- ministration Hospital. In one of the heartwarming gestures that have earned them the unofficial title "Best People On Earth," B. P. O. E. members of the local lodge and their ladies will share their Yuletide cheer with convalescent veterans at a party slated to get under way at 7:30 the night before Christmas. A red-jacketed St. Nick, who will bear a startling resemblance to Brother Tom Dillard, will pluck gifts for every patient from a huge 18-foot Christmas tree. And from his voluminous pack will al- so come candy and gifts for the wives and children of veterans here for the holiday. A special choir will be on hand to sing out the old familiar Christmas carols and hymns. Wives of Elks Club members will assume a yeoman's share of the entertainment. They have volunteered to decorate the hos- pital theatre with holly and yew for the occasion and will wrap gifts for patients and their fami- lies. Mrs. Hunter Nugent, chairman of the decorations committee, will have as her assistants Mrs. George Darrow, Mrs. Fritz Gor- don, Mrs. Johnny Rosasco and Mrs. Buddy Hawkins. Assisting Mrs. Andrew T. Healy, who is in charge of wrap- ping the gifts, will be Mrs. Ro- bert Cribben, Mrs. Walter Wig- man, Mrs. Earl Hyed, Mrs. J. W. Liversedge, Mrs. Leo Frutkoff, Mrs. Charles I. Gobat, Mrs. Rich- ard Oelkers, Mrs. Harry Morgan- thaler, Mrs. Frank Haversham, Mrs. Francis Hickey and Mrs. Harry Reising.
MUSIC CLUB PRESIDENTS MEET TODAY
The Miami Chapter of Past Presidents' Assembly of National Federation of Music Clubs were to meet at 2:30 p.m. today with Mrs. Charles M. Moon, 2101 Brick- ell Avenue. Appearing for the members will be Miss Leatrice-Faye Drazin, coloratura. She will be accom- panied by Mrs. Phillip Head. Miss Drazin is from New York and Philadelphia and has won Super- ior Rating and National Honor awards from the National Federa- tion of Music Clubs. Last August she was soloist with the Philharmonic Orchestra, Oliver Washburn, Conductor, at the Coral Gables Country Club. The officers of the assembly are Mrs. George A. Wight, presi- dent; Mrs. Phillip Head, 1st vice president; Mrs. Philip A. Kell- cher, 2nd vice president and Mrs. Victor Sharman, secretary and treasurer. Mrs. J. Bruce Langdon is the immediate past president. On February 19, 1948 the Emory Glee Club of 40 voices will be presented by this group at the White Temple Auditorium.
Mrs. D. E. Hawkins Leaves for North
Mrs. David E. Hawkins of 1041 Coral Way left last week for her annual Fall jaunt to the North. She will spend at least a week visiting friends and relatives in her native Baltimore before going to New York City. In the lat- ter metropolis, she will divide her time between seeing old friends, attending the new Broadway shows and shopping-both the window and buying variety! Husband Buddy Hawkins pre- dicted today that he'd be standing "that lonely house just a couple of days more. "Then I'll probably hop in the car and go up and join her," he declared.
LESLIE H. COOMBES REALTOR
FOR YOUR REAL ESTATE NEEDS SEE LESLIE H. COOMBES REALTOR 2312 Ponce de Leon Blvd. Phone 4-2586
CORAL GABLES FEDERAL Savings & Loan Association
Let Your Money Earn More WITH INSURED SAFETY Our Rate of Dividend Has Never Been Less Than 2 1/2% Per Annum Accounts opened by December 10th will start earning as of December 1st CORAL GABLES FEDERAL Savings & Loan Association GEORGE B. CASTER, PRESIDENT 2501 Ponce de Leon Blvd. Telephone 4-7627 Member Federal Home Loan Bank Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation
Institutes and concerts are reg-
ular features of the winter season in bringing distinguished lectur- ers and artists to the University.
Gablesgrams
By HELEN REYNOLDS, SOCIETY EDITOR Her thorough knowledge of Spanish brought Miss Vir- ginia Goodrich, daughter of the Edward Goodriches 1217 Castile Avenue, a new job this fall with the Imcompex Export Company in New York. Virginia, armed with her bachelor's and master's degrees in the ancient tongue, is completing work towards her Ph D at Columbia Uni- versity. Fortunately for the exporters, who are personal friends of Virginia, her ad- vance classes were at night. This arrangement enabled her to do their foreign corre- spondence and look after the cablegrams for the company's farm machinery outlets in Algiers and Cuba as well as Spain. Last year Virginia taught at Duke University. In New York she resides at the Kings' Crown Hotel which is practically on the Columbia Campus. * * * Home for her first vacation since entering Florida State University last fall, Miss Patsy Fitzgerald left yes- terday accompanied by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Fitzgerald, 439 Avenue Minorca, for Tallahassee. After the Fitzgeralds have delivered Patsy to her dormitory they will go on to the western part of the state on business. At "Tally" Patsy is a member of Alpha Chi Deta Sorority. * * * Mrs. Richard E. Trippe of 438 Avenue Minorca has as her guest her sister, Mrs. William H. Schrodet of At- lanta, Ga. * * * Mrs. S. M. Greene, Mrs. Fred Grinham, Mrs. Edmond A. Hughes and Mrs. W. W. Zinsmaster all from Coral Ga- bles; Mrs. Dewitt C. Jones and Mrs. J. Laurence Carroll of Coconut Grove form the Christmas Tree committee, with Mrs. Franklin C. Bush, chairman, for the annual Fairchild Garden Ramble December 9th and 10th. Mrs. Roy Page heads the large committee on arrangements for the coun- try store. Mrs. Gordon L. Walters will have charge of an- tiques and Mrs. Ralph E. Chapman and Mrs. Charles Fuchs, refreshments. Sandwiches and drinks will be on tap all day, that is, from 10 o'clock in the morning on until dark, the committee promises. * * * Mrs. Ellen H. Miller of 3595 Main Highway, Coconut Grove makes Santa Clauses out of coconuts. A pioneer in this section, she was the first to make the jolly little St. Nick's in this area and her idea has been copied by hun- dreds; first by the Garden Clubs, then church societies, be- cause the Kris Kringles sold like hot cakes. Mrs. Miller tells us that to prepare a Christmas coconut Santa study the brown husk carefully choosing the side best adapted to form the face. The rest of the coconut is painted a bright shiny red. Pure white cotton is pasted on top for the crown and underneath for the beard. The face is done in white paint with red cheeks. Be sure the eyes look merry. Mrs. Miller feels residents overlook the native plant material right in their own back yards for making decorations. Take the "swag" for instance. A swag is a drape of rope cover- ed with fresh leaves or long leaf pine, then shellacked. The shellacking holds the freshness and color indefinitely. Mrs. Miller makes a beautiful swag out of Spanish moss covered with Schinus berries.
Magic scents
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