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CORAL GABLES Riviera Times

Published Monday through Friday afternoons by the Riviera Publishing Company, 306 Aragon Aragon, Coral Gables 34, Fla. Established by Albert Harum, October, 1926; consolidated with the Dade County & Coconut Grove Times, 1939. Published daily except Saturday and Sunday. MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION 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. N.A.S. Member, New York-Chicago-Atlanta-Detroit. National Advertising Representatives. MEMBER, AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS 1947 NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION ACTIVE MEMBER SUBSCRIPTION RATES-Six months, $5.00; one year, outside of United States, $15.00; local, $12.00; one year, out-of-town, $12.00; daily delivery by carrier, 25 cents per week. Entered as Second Class Matter May 10, 1926, at the Post Office at Miami, Fla., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Mail Address, Box 5158, Coral Gables 34, Florida. Phone 4-0821. (Night-all depts., 48-1815.) The Coral Gables Riviera-Times is liable for errors in advertising only to the extent of the space in which the advertisement appears.

Nothing Else Matters

A life and death struggle for freedom is being waged. On one side are a minority of determined, fanatical and ruthless men whose ideas dominate a huge area of the earth. They marshal millions directly and other millions indirectly through fifth-column sympathizers in the free nations. On the other side are nations with a faith in moral standards and in the eternal destiny of the individual and nation in God's plan. But the weakness of these still-free nations is that we have been living on the spiritual capital of the past. Our handed-down and watered-down faith is no match for the fire and fight of a modern religion of materialism. What must we do if we and our children are to continue to enjoy real freedom and security ourselves and to spread these throughout the world? First of all, we must know the tricks and tactics of the enemy. We must not be hoodwinked by his attempts to sow confusion and division. Second, we must have a united, determined force of people who are willing to risk their lives on the front line of the war of ideas until a God-inspired democratic ideology conquers the creed of militant materialism. That is the great issue of the century and it will be decided in the next months and years on a world scale. Nothing else matters. No country is immune. No citizen can be neutral. If a ruthless power-hungry materialism wins, we hang -or hang on in servitude. Third, we must go on the offensive with our Big Idea and our faith. We must live it as individuals and as nations. We must show a pattern of society that works, which millions in nations now doubting or desperate will demand. Otherwise the world, for lack of a constructive idea to marshal all of its positive forces, will be plunged into the ultimate destruction and chaos of another war of arms. Nobody believe that that is the way to a new world. Above all, we in the democracies must export our ideology through our representatives abroad in business or diplomacy, through our press and radio and by special missions. It has been the experience of Moral Re-Armament that every nation welcomes a "task force" that brings evidence of a practical answer to the inroads of materialist ideas. A nation on the offensive with a superior philosophy can win the world war of ideas.

HOLLYWOOD FILM SHOP

By PATRICIA CLARY United Press Staff Correspondent HOLLYWOOD (UP)-Michael North, as an actor, is under orders from his boss to lead a wild, wicked life. And darn it, he says, he just can't stand to on. North, 29, looks like a downy-cheeked youth. No wrinkle, no bags, no lines from loose living, no lines at all. That's what director Michael Curtiz is complaining about. "A man should look his years," Curtiz told North. "No makeup can give you maturity. The only way you can get it is by living right up to the hilt." That was an order that would have sent most actors out on a two-week spree. North paled and crept back to his fireside. "How am I going to live up to the hilt?" he inquired. "I can't stay up late, because I just get plain sleepy and dull. I don't drink. And I can't go to wild parties because there's nothing worse than a very sober guy at a wild party." But if Curtiz tells him he needs wrinkles, North will do everything he can to get them. Curtiz lifted him to stardom overnight in "The Unsuspected." Stickler for Reality "I never thought I'd be urged to burn the candle at both ends," he said, "but that's what Curtiz wants me to do. And all for a few character wrinkles." Curtiz is a stickler for reality. If he thinks an actor should have a weather-beaten brow, he sees to it that the actor gets weatherbeaten. He insisted that Joan Crawford wear no makeup for certain domestic scenes in "Mildred Pierce." He said no housewife puts on lipstick, eyeshadow and curling lashes to wash the baby's diapers. When North was supposed to show fatigue after a long ride, Curtiz had him stay up late a few nights. It worked.

Herring Go Inland

CALAIS, Me. (UP)-The St. Croix river miles from the sea-yielded a large school of herring that had been driven up-river by preying fish.

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 AND 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

OUR TOWN 'The New Look' By Jim Moore

I just sent my tuxedo to the tailor's to have all the padding taken out of the shoulders and sewn into the seat. After all, why should the "New Look" be confined to the women of Coral Gables? I'm still amazed that the gals would let a lot of sales-hungry dress designers foist the old-fashioned junk on 'em, but they've gone for them hook, line and sinker. To be seen on Ponce de Leon Boulevard with a knee-length skirt these days is as bad as doing a Godiva act. No siree, you've got to have narrow shoulders, padded hips and a skirt that's reached that awkward length somewhere between the calf and the Achilles tendon. You may not elicit a single low whistle from a passing truck driver-but, you're in step, sister. You've got the New Look-and you're stuck with it. I tried to start an argument the other day with a Gables woman about the New styles. In the most scornful tones I could muster I asked her why she allowed the whims of a few screwball couturiers to change her complete attire and cause her to throw several hundred dollars' worth of perfectly good clothes in the ash-can. I didn't get my argument. She merely half closed her eyes, shrugged her shoulders and said, "Women are sheep." How are you gonna argue with a crack like that? Then again, I guess maybe we males shouldn't be too severe with the new mode, the ballerina figure and the so-called "high-style." I remember back when I was in high school I saved up my allowance to invest in a pair of grey corduroy slacks with 22-inch cuffs. Brother, did I have the new look then! I also tripped on my slacks cuffs while running for the cafeteria and ended up with a sprained ankle. But that was high school. Even though I went in for bell-bottoms, tattersall check vests and a couple of other equally outlandish ideas in clothes the local haberdasher sold us, my Dad didn't seem to change his style too much. But today's new look is all-encompassing. Mother and daughter have both discarded present wardrobes with reckless abandon-all the time calling the curses of Allah on the designers-but getting the new look just as fast as they can, nevertheless. It's even reached the point where I saw a local dress salon trying to peddle a hobble skirt the other day. The woman almost bought it too, until she saw the murderous look in her husband's eyes. I guess we might as well steel ourselves. That'll be next. But we mustn't forget for a moment-it's high style that counts. High style?-Ho hum.

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It Says Here...

It's calendar season again and they've started to arrive at the office in various themes, shapes and sizes. We're getting everything from lush nudes to pictures of printing machinery. Strange thing about it is that the printers seem to grab off the pin-up gals and leave us with the machinery. We always thought they were interested in new equipment. And while we're on the subject of calendars, B. Dec Rothschild, the local real estate man, was the first to get his in the mails. It's a neat little desk job. . . . Somebody sent us the new Esquire calendar too, and we haven't quite figured out yet why they even bothered to print the calendar part on it at all-the dates are so small the gals overwhelm them, and we do mean calendar dates, smarty. We know a local person who is heartsick because they aren't going to be able to make it over to Everglades City to see Harry Truman open the Park. . . . They have a windshield sticker and a barbecue ticket and everything but they can't go. They tell us it's a school kid desire to see the President of the United States in person and we know what they mean. We overheard this the other day and the woman was dead serious. She approached a couple engaged in deep conversation and after hesitating a moment said, "Pardon me, may I protrude?". . . Larry Larson is drawing plans for a house that will have a radio, telephone and inter-communication system in the bath room. He says he's gotten up out of a nice hot tub too many times to answer a phone or the doorbell. . . . City Commissioner Frank Holley bought his wife a new Cadillac for Christmas and it arrived yesterday. We caught a glimpse of her enjoying her gift. Frank and son Buddy were in complete charge of the front seat while the car's new "owner" was seated alone in the rear. Sorta looks like Pop's a bit envious from here. . . Mark Erwin had a daily double ticket on the right two horses out at Gulfstream the opening day. . . . Cy Washington played an evening full of old songs at the Country Club on Monday night and had more people dancing longer than he ever does with all that Latin mumbo jumbo. . . . We still think "Tea for Two" is the most agreeable tune ever written and George M. Cohan's ditties the most singular. . . . Carl Singleton, who'll go quicker for a new novelty than he will for a blonde, is now giving away miniature siren whistles imprinted with the legend "Whistle for Carl's" . . . We'd like to pass a verbal orchid to Miss Tancorvo over at the Coral Gables Hospital for being one of the nicest people we talk to over the telephone. Even when she doesn't have a story for us, she makes us feel good. . . . Which reminds us we overheard a city desk reporter checking funeral parlors the other morning asking each one, "got any Coral Gables customers today?". . . The Chamber of Commerce has already received over 30 inquiries as a result of the first ad in the national campaign which appeared this month in National Geographic.

CORAL GABLES WOMEN ARE HOSTESSES AT METHODIST CIRCLE MEETINGS TODAY

Coral Gables women were hosts today to various WSCS circles of the Coral Gables Methodist church. Meeting in the home of Mrs. J. D. Girtman, 1700 Ladonia Road, was Circle 1. Following the meeting, a luncheon was served. Circle 2 met with Mrs. J. L. Anderson, 3580 Matheson Avenue, while members of Circle 3 gathered at the home of Mrs. Charles F. Miller, 3613 Alhambra Court. Mrs. E. L. Griffith, 1321 Avenue Sevilla, entertained Circle 4, while Mrs. George Dixon, 1415 Alhambra Circle, was host to Circle 5, and Mrs. J. M. Dillard entertained Circle 6.

Poet's Lyrics Win Acclaim

Local poets came into their own at the regular meeting of the Poetry Department of the Coral Gables Woman's Club. Popular votes for excellence of lyric lines went to Mrs. A. W. Epps for her "Little Colored Girl", to Mrs. Frederick B. Kopf for her work "Springtime," and to Mrs. Dorothy Waggoner for her poem "Gay Defiance." Authors whose lyrics previously gained the plaudits of the group were Mrs. J. Riley Staats, composer of "Solitude Earned", Mrs. Ralph Engle, who wrote "Life Is Hope"; and Mrs. Waggoner for her lyric "Love Is a Peddler." Mrs. Edith Etrwiler and Miss Leila White were ten hour hostesses.

Church Society Announces Tea

"Get-acquainted" tea for old and new members of the Little Flower Society is planned at 3 p.m. Monday. Mrs. J. J. Dysart, president, will be hostess for the event which will be held in the rectory of the Church of the Little Flower. Mrs. W. M. Bain is general chairman and will be assisted by Mrs. Mona Nickels, Mrs. Cyril A. Hass and Mrs. T. R. Lanigan Jr. Mrs. A. M. Russell will be in charge of table decorations and Mrs. A. J. Muzzy, decorations. All the ladies of the parish are cordially invited to attend.

Reunion IN CORAL GABLES

How the Riviera-Times can boast of being a "reunioner"! Yesterday Mrs. Henry W. Fredenberger, 4360 Avenue Madeira, dropped by the office to tell us that due to a personal item which ran on the society page of a recent issue of the paper, her husband was able to learn the whereabouts of an old friend of his from Louisville, Kentucky. Since Mrs. Fredenberger had misplaced that particular issue of the paper, she wanted the address of Henry's friend, R. D. Ezell who arrived November 29th to visit his parents at the Mirasol. With the address in her pocketbook, Mrs. Fredenberger and her husband can now go visiting the Ezells.

Creative Arts Group Of AAUW To Meet

Mrs. Leslie Shaw will preside at the 1 p.m. luncheon Monday at the McAllister Hotel when the Creative Arts Group of the AAUW meets. Mrs. T. W. Hagan will review Stephen Vincent Benet's narrative poem on early colonial life "Western Star." This poem is quite apropos of the times, with the Freedom Train crossing the country, Mrs. Hagan is a poet in her own right, having had poems published. Mrs. Robert F. Underwood is in charge of reservations. Mrs. E. Norton McKenzie is chairman of the hospitality committee.

KAPPA XMAS PARTY WILL BENEFIT NEEDY

Kappa Kappa Gamma alumnae and actives will give themselves a party Tuesday evening-but the party itself will be dedicated to giving to others. Booths decorated in Christmas green and red will line the porch of the A. V. Harrison home at 812 Alhambra Circle, where Kappas are to gather at eight o'clock. Each booth will carry the name of a philanthropic project of the sorority, and proceeds from sale of gifts and goodies will be turned over to the respective charitable funds. Mrs. Harrison and daughter Sue Harrison, hostesses for the evening, are assisting Mrs. John Fiske, general chairman for the give-unto-others entertainment. Mrs. Hamilton G. Gerber will be in charge of the Golden Key House booth where Kappas may order Christmas baskets and boxes of luscious tree-ripened citrus sent to Northern friends. The counters will also display jellies, jams and honey made from exotic tropical fruits. Circling the sun-haunted people of France and layettes for tiny ma'mselles and m'sieurs will be the aim of Mrs. Barbara Kane and her committee when they hawk gifts and craft articles behind the counters of the French Project Booth. Mrs. J. M. Shepherd will have charge of the display for the Nora Walhn Fund, a project of the national sorority. Gifts for boys and girls, donated by sorority members, will be hung on the Kappa Christmas tree by Mrs. P. J. Cesarano, who will later see that the tree and its "ornaments" are passed along to underprivileged children. Mrs. Robert Shelley has been named chairman of the membership project for the party, while Mrs. Frank Newman will serve as hostess at the refreshment booth. "Surprise" entertainment has been planned to wind up the evening, but about that Mrs. Fiske declined to talk.

Bookfellows Fete Mrs. W. L. Street

Mrs. Wade Livingston Street, president of the Miami Branch, Bookfellows Library Guild, will be honored Saturday evening, when the group meets at the home of the National President, Marie Tello Phillips, 5190 N. Bay Road. Mrs. Street, who has done special study at the Julliard School of Music this summer will sing "Depuis leJour," from the opera Louise; "Charmant O'Seau" from the opera LePerle and "Let all my Life be Music" by Spross. In her second group Mrs. Street will sing a group of Christmas songs by local composers: "Beneath a Southern Sky" by Vivian Laramore-Rader; "Merry Christmas Beloved" by Maude Kimball Massengale and "My Quest" by Marie Tello Phillips. Madame Hallowell will accompany Mrs. Street. Assisting Mrs. Thomas Edgeworth, chairman, will be Mrs. Harry Marshall, Mrs. Alan Connell, Mrs. Clifford Hall, Mrs. O. H. Charles and Mrs. William Kent Lounsberry. Miss Eileen Edge-worth will preside at the punch bowl.

Back from Coast

Mrs. Margaret Hargreaves, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Wait, will return to her parents' home on Riviera Drive tomorrow. For the past month, Mrs. Hargreaves has been visiting friends in Los Angeles, California.

INTERESTING NEIGHBORS One Time Prisoner of Japs Longs to Cook 20-Dish Two-Hour Javanese Dinner

(This is the second part of the story of Mrs. Herman Arens, daughter of a Dutch government official in Java and now a Gables resident. Mrs. Arens lived in terror of death from the Japanese for three years after she was taken a prisoner and interned in Java.) BY MRS. J. RILEY STAATS Once the madhouse in the mountains, organized by Japanese propaganda into wild youth groups, marched on the prison camp screaming and beating their drums and everyone expected to be murdered as a similar group had been in other camps in Java. A dreadful silence fell on the camp as the sound drew nearer but the Japanese guards protected the women against them at the last moment. For three years the former Anne Oehke kept up the spirits of those around her and it was not until the British took over the camp that she broke over, and against the rules slipped outside the stockade to a Chinese restaurant formerly frequented by her family. There she had a real dinner with ice cream, which she had dreamed about most often when rations were low, and came back with all the bags of food she could carry. Although she has been in America a little over a year Mrs. Arens speaks fluent English with a pleasing little accent. She says that she had wanted to, come to America to which she was sent by the Dutch government before coming here with her parents, when her father accepted the position of professor of Tropical Botany at the University of Miami. She was engaged to Captain Herman J. Arens, a war hero in the Royal Dutch Air Force when she left Java. He was one of 10 Dutch pilots who fought in all theaters of war. He had taught in the flight training school in Jackson, Mississippi, during the war and also served as a test pilot for the United States Army. His combat record looks like something unbelievable because at 32 he has 10,000 flight hours. At that time he decided that he liked America so well that he wanted to make it his future home as soon as his services to his native country were ended. Last August he received an honorable discharge and came to America and they were married in Miami. As soon as possible both Mr. and Mrs. Arens hope to become American citizens. Mrs. Arens applied for her first papers when she came and Mr. Arens is here on a visitor's visa. He was disappointed that he could not immediately apply also but the quota was filled and he must wait until other Dutch immigrants enter. He is studying law at the University of Miami and assisting in the Physics Laboratory, while she teaches French, German and Physical Education at the Riddle Inter-American College. Mrs. Arens likes American styles and says that in Java she always looked for clothes from the States. She compliments American girls by saying that the thing which impresses her is their ability to look so fresh and neat and well groomed after working all day. She believes that this is truly a land of opportunity for education is free and anyone can aspire to become the president. She particularly enjoys the friendliness of the American people and says "we are so happy here." From a large pleasant Javanese home staffed by Indonesian servants to three years of privation and hardship in a Japanese prison camp to a small apartment at 519 Avenue Anastasia, Coral Gables, all in the space of seven years is more contrast than most of us ever know. Her unhappy experiences and the loss of her home, all of her money and possessions has not daunted her. "It is over now and it is better to forget," she says. She does miss cooking the dinners characteristic of Java and her husband sometimes speaks in a nostalgic manner about a "rice meal." It consisted of 20 dishes among which were chicken cooked in three or four ways, four or five kinds of fish, shrimp, vegetables, and always fruit for dessert. It takes about two hours to eat one's way through the courses. The recipes call for a wide variety of spices and her husband, with an eye to future dinners, had a box of them made up before he left Java but somewhere along the line the box became side-tracked. When it does catch up with them she promises him a real Javanese meal again. This is one of a series of stories on interesting Coral Gables neighbors. Mrs. Arens might be called a twentieth century pioneer for she certainly has the same spirit and fortitude which made our American women in the early days able to rise above hardship and misfortune and build a new life in a new land with calmness and courage. America will be proud to call her and her husband citizens and Coral Gables will welcome them as good neighbors.

Gables Soroptimists Are Dinner Guests

Coral Gables Soroptimists were recent dinner guests of the Miami Springs-Hialeah Soroptimists at the Green Lantern on Avenue Aleazar. Speaker of the evening was Mrs. Mary Lee Minar, first president of the American Federation of Soroptimist clubs and immediate past president of the Miami Springs-Hialeah organization. Main guests of the evening were Mrs. Easter M. Russell, 1028 Hardee Road, who is president of the Soroptimists of Coral Gables, and Mrs. T. V. Moore, director of the Soroptimists of the Southern Region and president of the Soroptimists of Greater Miami. An invitation was extended by the Gables Soroptimists to the Miami Springs-Hialeah group to attend a Christmas party which is to be held December 17 at the home of Mrs. Margaret Ely, 3635 Stewart Avenue, Coconut Grove.

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THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI PRESENTS MISCHA ELMAN

MISCHA ELMAN MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 8, 8:30 P. M. MIAMI SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, 2400 W. Flagler Street Tickets, Incl. Fed. Tax, $2.40, $1.80, $1.20 At the U. of M., room 207-A, Main Campus, Admin. Bldg., Room 207-A; U. of M. Ticket Off., 340 S. E. 2nd St., Miami, Tel. 3-2417; Amidon's, 340 Alhambra Circle, Coral Gables (Music Dept.); Gable News Co., 1319 LeJeune Rd.

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