Coral Gables Riviera-Times

CORAL GABLES RIVIERA TIMES

PAGE FOUR RIVIERA-TIMES THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4 CORAL GABLES RIVIERA TIMES Published Monday through Friday afternoons by the Riviera Publishing Company, 226 Aragon Avenue, 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; Jane B. Moore, Managing Editor; Helen Reynolds, Society Editor; Edward W. Wright, Advertising Manager. In Association with New York-Chicago-Atlanta-Detroit National Advertising Representatives METROPOLITAN PUBLISHERS REPRESENTATIVES FULL LEASED WIRE ASSOCIATED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS NATIONAL EDITORIAL 1947 ASSOCIATION Member ACTIVE MEMBER SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Six months, $6.00; one year, $10.00; by carrier, per month, $1.00; local, $12.00; one year, out-of-town, $12.00; daily delivery by car-rier, 25 cents per week. Entered as Second Class Matter July 11, 1945, at the Post Office at Miami, Fla., under the Act of March 3, 1897. Mail Address, Box 7017, Coral Gables 34, Florida. Phone 4-1674. 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.

Important Question

The decision not to hold the "No Man's Land" election at the same time Gables voters ballot on a proposed gas franchise may work out to be the best thing, after all. Wording of the special legislative act, requiring balloting on the inclusion of No Man's Land to be done only at City Hall, makes it impossible to include it with the three-precinct franchise vote. By having two separate elections, any confusion that might exist in the minds of the voters will be eliminated. It's important for residents in the contested area that their balloting clearly understand the issue before them. It must be clearly understood that the Gables residents will vote as to whether or not they want to afford the privileges of being a part of the community to the area in question. It must be understood that this is not an attempt on the part of the city to grab additional territory against the wishes of the residents living there. This will be definitely known when the No Man's Landers conduct their own election prior to the Gables vote. In the gas election, voters should also clearly understand the subject upon which they are voting. Long before March 2, James Henderson and Charles E. Starr should outline to the electorate exactly what plans they have. Residents should have some idea who will be serviced by the gas mains and when. They should also know what the gas will cost them, or at least have a close approximation. They should know the advantages and disadvantages of private operation as compared to municipal operation. The sponsors of the company should make an effort to determine what questions are in the public's mind concerning the franchise and should answer them. Both the gas franchise and the inclusion plan are important issues—and the voter should decide each with a clear comprehension of all the ramifications.

OUR TOWN Could Happen Here

By Al Harum The wave of strikes, slowdowns, sitdowns and other organized spiraling of the high cost of living apparently gave 600 high school students in Mankato, Minnesota, an idea last week. Their school facilities are scant—even more so than in other sections of the country because a school building had been destroyed by fire just as World War II got started. Obviously, to build a new school requires money—lots of money these days—so the school board asked for a $870,000 referendum issue to secure these funds. The city council refused to issue $870,000 in bonds until the taxpayers' approval was necessary. The taxpayers—the mothers and fathers of the children who were to use the new school building—turned the proposition down. Faced with their lack of facilities and upset over the vote, 500 students walked out in protest in the mode of the day, by a walkout. Mankato, Minnesota is far away, you say? Yes it is. It couldn't happen here, you say? Oh, yes it could—and for the same basic reason. We don't VOTE down these bond issues for improved projects such as schools and other vital public works. We defeat them by NOT voting. Just as sure as though we cast a ballot against the project we defeat it by recording a vote insufficient to be representative of the freeholders. The sins of omission are often more serious than the sins of commission. Public officials in Dade County are resigned to the fact that it is impossible to secure a sufficiently large vote to either pass or deny a project. The law requires that one more than a majority of freeholders vote on a bond issue. While the walkout of students in Mankato, Minnesota, may seem to be a brazen bit of childish trend-following—it could very well be a child's answer to a parent's indifference. And it COULD happen here.

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UP AND DOWN BROADWAY

BY JACK GAVER United Press Drama Editor NEW YORK (UP)—The somewhat mysterious life of Emily Dickinson, the poet, seems to have unfailing attraction for American playwrights. In one way it is understandable, but the fact remains that outwardly the life of Emily of Amherst was a rather static affair and the dramatic material is almost nil. Undoubtedly plenty went on inside the head of the poet, but she left no explanation beyond her poems, which often were on the mystical side. The marvel has been that she wrote so wonderfully of love when it is well known that she died an old maid and was a recluse for the greater part of her life. The explanation has been that she knew one tremendous love which was never consummated because she couldn't bring herself to break up the home of a married man, and a min-ister to boot. That is the point of "East-ward in Eden," by Dorothy Gardner, pro-duced at the Royale Theater by Nancy Stern. Best of Three "Eastward in Eden" seems to be much the best of three Dickinson plays that have been seen here in the past 17 years. The first of them, "Alison's House," won a 1930 unexpected Pulitzer Prize for Susan Glaspell. In it the characters were disguised with different names, the time element was changed and the locale was the Middle West instead of New England. "Brittle Heaven" a few years later scorned such disguise, as does Miss Gardner. The new play takes Emily from the age of 22 in 1852, when she is a spirited rebel in the staid Dickinson household, until about 1878, when she has been a recluse for 20 years, living on a spiritual plane which leaves her in only nominal touch with reality. It shows her emotional attraction for the Rev. Dr. Charles Wadsworth of Philadelphia, how he pulls out for California when he decides that for their own good they must never see each other again, and how, as a dying man, he returns to her 20 years later for a sort of fulfillment that only the individuals concerned can under-stand. No General Appeal Miss Gardner has written with as much understanding of Emily as it would seem possible for anyone to achieve. With the limited dramatic materials at hand, it can be said she did a good job. However, it is not a play that will appeal to the general public, especially since it has no great female star in the leading role. Beatrice Straight plays Emily, and quite well, too. She is capable of portraying successfully the spirited young woman of the early days and the serene, spiritual Emily of the middle years. It is a difficult assignment. As the minister, Onslow Stevens gives a good if not inspired performance. Others involved are John O'Connor, Beatrice Manley, Emma Knox, Penelope Sack, Gerry Hood, Ernest Graves, and Edwin Jerome. Ellen Van Volkenburg directed smoothly and Donald Oenslager provided the one ex-cellent set.

FROM A RIVIERA NOTEBOOK

By Mary Helm Clarke HORSE AND WAGON DAYS ON November 27, 1921, the first lot was sold in the city of Coral Gables, with "Doc" E. E. Dammers as auction-eer. The blueprint of the new city designated the Merrick farm as a Municipal Golf Course with a Country Club on the former potato patch. George H. Fink had al-ready designed some houses along Coral Way, the thorough-fare in front of Coral Gables Plantation. North and South Greenway Drive circled the golf course and Alhambra Circle made a wide arc around the acreage designated as the Country Club and Riviera sections. Beyond this, to the north, the first street to be designated for residential pro-motion was Obispo Avenue, and it may have been a lot on Obispo that Doc Dammers, Miami Auctioneer and Real Estate promoter, knocked down to the highest bidder. Lots sold fairly well, but many people said Coral Ga-bles was too far out in the sticks—not near enough to the center of things for anyone but a farmer to choose as a homesite. Shucks, that was easy to fix, thought Doc Dam-mers. He promoted a tract of land even farther west than Coral Gables and called it CENTRAL MIAMI. That put Coral Gables right near to the center of the city! In fact, right in it! This tract was totally uninhabited except by the ghosts of Indians who used to traverse the Indian Mound Trail, and a million little frogs who broke the silence of the Everglades rim by a chorus of guttural, but high pitched notes. Scoffers dubbed "Central Miami" Frog Hollow, and that name sticks to the subdivision still. The only differ-ence is that thanks to Mary Hickey, the term now implies lots of happy voices,—good neighbors, young marrieds and little children. As fast as Merrick and his associates bought up the surrounding groves and homesites, Doc Dammers, from his soap-box in the wagon, would sell them again to an in-creasing number of buyers. The Coral Gables Corporation met with little opposi-tion in securing the "blueprint" square (Bird Road, Red Road, 8th Street and Douglas Road), occasionally, however, a home owner such as Mr. Frank Gebhart, collector of art items, felt that offers made by the corporation were too low. They could promote their own sub-divisions and retain the homeplace. Mr. Gebhart's Antilla Park sub-division in Lower No-Man's-Land was one of these. What has George Merrick got that I haven't got? they asked themselves. They didn't realize that George Merrick had a verit-able art gallery of paintings and drawings—a blueprint for the City Beautiful—and most important of all, he had Jocelyn P. Yoder as publicity director.

HOLLYWOOD FILM SHOP

By PATRICIA CLARY United Press Hollywood Correspondent HOLLYWOOD (UP)—If you can't afford a winter tan at Palm Springs, ladies, you're lucky. An artist's representative says it's better you should have that peaches-and-cream complexion. A group of nationally-known California artists say the fad for sun-tanning is over-done—and so are the movie stars who fol-lowed it. They commended actresses Ingrid Berg-man and Marilyn Nash for having "sense enough to come in out of the sun" and scolded Joan Crawford for lacking it. "Sun-kist is dandy, but sunblitzed is something else," said Jerry Lee, represen-tative and spokesman for the magazine illustrators Earl Cordrey, Fritz Willis, Joe DeMers and eight or nine other painters of scantily-clad beauties. "Ingrid Bergman looks like a peach, and Marilyn Nash like a bowl of honey," Miss Lee quotes the artists as saying. (Miss Nash is the Charlie Chaplin discovery who made her screen debut in Chaplin's "Mon-sieur Verdoux"). Too Much Sunshine "But Joan Crawford occasionally wears a weathered, hell-for-leather look which would look better on Randolph Scott." The artists' complaint is that their mod-els follow in the steps of their favorite star right out into the desert sun. "Most of us came here for the sunshine," they admitted, "but now we can't find a model who doesn't look like either some-thing out of a lobster pot or a piece of old shoe leather." The artists approved the color line drawn by Dorothy Lamour. "Her New Orleans background must have taught her something about parasols and lemon juice," they said. "A real southern beauty never gets a blazing tan." Marlene Dietrich was too white—"sort of Pagliacci," they said, and Lana Turner too variable. "She changes her hair so often," they commented, "that she has trouble making her skin come out to match."

The World Of MUSIC

NEW YORK (UP)—Dr. Fabien Sevitzky will include four American works in the six premieres which the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra will play during its 1947-48 sea-son. The new American works are "The Quest," by Roy Harris, which was commis-sioned by Dr. Sevitzky; "Big Sing," by Henry Cowell; Lionel Barrymore's "Our Orchestra," and Frederick Jacobi's "Two Pieces in the Sabbath Mood," a revision of two of his orchestral compositions. The other new works are "La Citta Per-duta," by Dr. Sevitzky's long-time friend, Guida Guerini, and the Bach-Guerini "Pre-lude and Fugue," adapted from the first violin sonata. Zino Francescatti will give his 300th American concert this month. The French-born violinist will mark the anniversary when he opens a two-day series with the Cincinnati Orchestra Dec. 19. Francescatti will be in the midst of his seventh and busiest American season as the date arrives. The Cincinnati concerts will be his 25th and 26th this season. There-after he will give recitals in Reading, Pa., Minneapolis, Rochester, Akron, Dallas, Hartford, New York and Montreal. He will appear with the orchestras of St. Louis, Pittsburgh and Toronto. Towards the end of the season he will play six times with the Philadelphia Orchestra in its home city, and on an eastern tour which will include New York's Carnegie Hall, Washington, D. C. and Baltimore. After his 45th concert March 18, he will leave for a post-season European tour. The Esco Foundation for Palestine will bring a young Palestinian composer to the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood, Mass., this summer for post-graduate study. A contest to be judged by committees in Palestine and New York will determine the winner. The scholarship, open to Palestine-born or naturalized Jews, can be either sex, under 30, includes full transportation to and from the Center, room and board dur-ing the six-weeks' session and tuition fees for the composition course. The competition is open also to accredited Palestinian com-posers now in the United States. Heading the United States judges' com-mittee is Leonard Bernstein, composer-con-ductor. A memorial to the late Edward Ziegler, assistant general manager of the Metro-politan Opera Association, in the form of a gift of $1,000 to the production fund for the Ring Cycle was voted by the Metro-politan Opera Guild. The Guild authorized appointment of a committee, with Mrs. August Belmont as chairman, to raise the balance of $31,500 needed to fulfill the Guild's pledge of $100,-000 for new productions of Wagner's Ring. Jascha Heifetz has returned from a five weeks' tour of Europe during which he gave recitals in Paris, Brussels, Zurich, Geneva and London. Heifetz will make only one radio appear-ance, on Dec. 15, and play concerts in Cuba before retiring from public life for one year, until January, 1949. Blanche Thebom, Metropolitan Opera mezzo-soprano, has been invited to sing at the golden jubilee celebration of the Royal Opera in Stockholm next summer.

SHORT QUIRKS ODDITIES AND HUMOR IN THE NEWS

Milwaukee, of All Places! MILWAUKEE (UP)—Visitors to Mil-waukee's 1947 food show who expected free samples of the city's famous beer were dis-appointed. It's the food emergency, brew-ery officials said. Names Make Sales OKLAHOMA CITY (UP)—There are al-most as many fancy names for hair styles as for perfumes, it was observed at a con-vention of Oklahoma hairdressers and cos-metologists here. A few of the names of hairdos: "Lines of Allure," "Meticulous Miss," "Smooth Duo," "Cap Contour," "Fashion Encore," "Neo-Classic," "Suave Sidelines" and "Martha Washington." They Changed Their Minds BOSTON, (UP)—City Registrar Michael J. Manning reports that of the approxi-mately 11,000 marriage licenses he issued during the past year, 500 were returned, unused. Solves Weed Problem BATTLE CREEK, Mich. (UP)—Herbert G. Goslin built his summer home and hunt-ing lodge on a marshy lake but had trouble reaching it because water plants fouled his outboard motor boat. So he mounted an airplane-type propeller on the rear of his duck boat and makes the trip with ease. Grandma Cuts Up ROCHESTER, Pa. (UP) — Mrs. Bertha Huntington, a 77-year-old great-great-grandmother, is still an active barber here after 61 years of hair cutting. She has been the village barber for more than two gen-erations, conducting her shop in what would otherwise be the dining room of a daugh-ter's home. Suicides Not Wanted NEW YORK, (UP)—The Empire State Building management is building a $30,000 stainless steel parapet on the building's 86th floor observatory to thwart suicides. The barrier will rise seven feet above the ob-servatory's promenade, 1,050 feet above street level. BELOIT, Wis. (UP)—Harry Lorens chained his boat to a tree six inches in di-ameter. He thought that would guarantee its safety. The thieves chopped down the tree and stole the craft.

IT SAYS HERE

Don't slap John Halifax on the back if you care about reaching a ripe old age. . . . he's suffering the agonies of the condemned from bursitis of the shoulder. . . . Polly Brinson is gloating over the rest of us shivering Gabelites. . . Mrs. Tom Hughes brought her a set of woolen snuggies from the North. They're pink, not red, Pol-ly says. . . . While rasslers at the Coliseum's opening Tuesday night were stomping on each oth-er Hurricane Coach Jack Harding was tossing a few verbal penalties for unnecessary rough-ness in the wrestling game the matches would have wound up in Homestead. . . . asked if she were on hand at Jackson Memorial Hospital for the birth of grand-son W. Keith Phillips III, Coral Gables' First Lady teased "Heav-ens no! I wouldn't have been there when my own were born if I could have gotten out of it!"

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IN THE WORLD OF SCIENCE

By PAUL F. ELLIS United Press Science Writer NEW YORK (UP)—The progress of sci-ence—this time the construction of dams in a flood control plan—has led to the dis-covery of more traces of early American man. The new finds were turned up in the Columbia River Basin during a survey of lands to be flooded by 14 proposed dams. At least 120 sites containing remains of pre-historic Indian settlements were found. The excavations may throw much light on the migrations and the ways of life of post-ice age man and his descendants in the Columbia basin. Scientists believe that the sites apparently were fishing bivouacs to which the Indians returned year after year. The area apparently was inhabited for thousands of years by people who depended on fish for food. The survey was conducted by the River Basins Surveys of the Smithsonian Institu-tion, the Bureau of Reclamation, and the Army's Engineer Corps. It was directed by Dr. Frank H. H. Roberts, Jr., associate chief of the Bureau of Ethnology. Scientists in the survey believe that some of the remains are those of historic peoples—the so-called Sahaptin bands, whose pres-ent representatives still live on Oregon and Washington reservations. They believe, however, that the origins may reach back to some of the earliest known inhabitants of the North American continent, those who lived from the closing days of the last ice age. The survey also disclosed geological indi-cations that a corridor into the Columbia basin may have been free of ice quite early, and that the abundance of fish certainly would have proved a strong attraction to incoming peoples. A new method of measuring radio inter-ference has been developed by the Signal Corps Engineering Laboratories at Fort Monmouth, N. J. The army scientists point out that the development may lead to the solution of major noise measurement prob-lems now encountered in industry and gov-ernment. They further point out that noise inter-ference represents a serious obstacle to the proper functioning of radio communications and that it should be reduced or eliminated. The new procedure, they said, will deter-mine the exact extent to which noise sup-pression has been accomplished.

Atomics Progresses

MINNEAPOLIS (UP) — University of Minnesota physicists are working on a 42-million-volt atom-smasher which will mimic action 20 miles above the earth. Three nu-clear physicists say they have nearly com-pleted a 14-pound cloud chamber and a motion picture camera to catch the traces of natural atom-smashing at high alti-tudes.

Builds His Big

MELROSE, Mass. (UP)—In the parlor of Clifford Lind's home is a 306-pipe organ which he built, as a hobby, during a 10-year period.

No Fooling?

BOSTON (UP)—Sign over a drugstore soda fountain: "Our Employes Are Master Soda Fountain Engineers."

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