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Coral Gables Riviera-Times
Wednesday, December 17, 1947, page 4 (of 8)
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Coral Gables Riviera-Times
CORAL GABLES Riviera-Times Published Monday through Friday afternoons by the Riviera Publishing Co., 200 Avenue Aragon, Coral Gables 34, Fla. Established as a weekly newspaper January, 1926; combined with the Dade County or Coconut Grove Times, 1928; published daily except Saturday and Sunday. MEMBER, NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION, FLORIDA PRESS ASSOCIATION AND CORAL GABLES CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ALBERT E. HARUM Editor and Publisher KENNETH S. REYNOLDS Business Manager ARTHUR B. McGINLEY Managing Editor GEORGE SHAPLEIGH Circulation Manager HELEN REYNOLDS Society Editor JIM CUDDY Sports Editor JULIA D. HARUM Women's Page Editor PEGGY NORTH Classified Mgr. THEIS & SIMPSON, National Advertising Representatives New York Chicago Atlanta Detroit MEMBER, AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS FULL LEASED WIRE, UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS SUBSCRIPTION RATES Three months ........$1.35 | Carrier Delivery: One month ........$0.35 | Out of Town: Six months ........ 2.60 | Three months .....$1.00 One year ......... 5.20 | Six months ....... 2.00 | One year ........ 3.00 | Outside of the U. S.: One year, $15.00 Mailing address: P. O. Box 6973 Coral Gables, 34, Fla. Telephone: 4-1654 Classified Department: 48-2641 RIVIERA 36 The Coral Gables Riviera-Times is liable for errors in advertising only to the extent of the space in which the advertisement appears.
Community Heritage
On first thought, the most remarkable thing about the towns and cities of America might seem to be their diversity. Old or new, large or small, each has its individual character and history. Climate, geography, interests and culture contribute to the difference. Even the names of our communities—English and French, Spanish and Indian, towns named for British lords and American statesmen, for saints and for soldiers—tell a story of their varied background. Yet they share in common the quality of independence. That quality is the distinctive share in the American heritage which the American heritage train—and to which we have given a special day in this Week of Rededication. The American town has always been a community of free men. Many of our great cities have grown from a fort or stockade where free men united to protect themselves from the perils about them. None of our cities traces its history back to a cluster of serfs' hovels around the castle of a feudal lord. Urban America is a magnificent monument to the industry, enterprise and prowess of its citizens. But however great and populous and seemingly impersonal a city may grow, the feeling of independence, equality, ownership and responsibility is never entirely lost to its inhabitants. This feeling varies in intensity from time to time. And thus many municipalities have known periods when corruption in their local government has brought shame to their citizens and to the heritage of independence and freedom. But even then the citizens of the American community are free. They are free to choose between silence and daring honesty, between civic vice and civic virtue. And always, eventually, their community conscience is awakened and their choice is right. The town or city is America. Here are the opportunities and challenges of democracy. Citizenship is to choose an honest, responsible government, to promote health and comfort, to foster education, to adjust social and economic differences, to aid the needy and to strive for an equalized prosperity. These are the obligations which our heritage imposes upon the citizen of the community. The good local citizen cannot be a bad national citizen. An American of honest reservation, progressive communities can not fail to be a strong, just and democratic power for good in the world.
HOLLYWOOD FILM SHOP
By PATRICIA CLARY United Press Staff Correspondent (Editor's note: This is the third of a series on the creation of a movie star). HOLLYWOOD (UP) — Movie makeup men don't like to be told that they make all actresses look alike. They say the ideal makeup is the one that accents an actress' individuality. Mel Berns, David O. Selznick makeup artist who was one of the industry's first makeup men, studies the face of every starlet who comes to him to see which feature is most expressive. Most people express their emotions with the mouth, eyes or eyebrows, he explained. A few, like Katharine Hepburn, express themselves with their nostrils. "Each one is different," Berns said. "We accent the feature for the camera and we bring out its individual expression, but we never change it." In 20 years as a makeup man, Berns has worked on nearly every top star—Joan Crawford, Betty Grable, Irene Dunne and Claudette Colbert to name a few. Steps In Makeup He spends about 35 minutes each morning making up Jennifer Jones for Selznick's "Portrait of Jennie," but he may take 45 minutes to an hour giving a hopeful a portrait makeup such as he gave this correspondent. The face has to be clean to begin with. Then Berns pats on spots of pancake makeup and smooths them out, filling in any large pores. He puts on a film of eye shadow—for any eye color isn't brown—eyebrow pencil and a thin line of black along the lashes. It brings out the color of the eyes. Then he blends them all in with cologne. The next step is dusting on powder and rouge. The rouge won't show in black-and-white photography, but it makes a girl feel better. The actress blocks in her own lipstick and Berns evens out the edges. He brushes the lashes up while he puts on mascara to curl them. He brushes the brows to disguise the penciling. And the final step is blotting off the extra foundation and lipstick. A beautiful face, however, is only the first half of the Selznick beauty treatment. The second is a beautiful voice. (Tomorrow-The Voice Coach)
OUR TOWN | Quien Sabe? | By Al Harum
After three years of high school Spanish (with good marks, too) it irked me not to be able to find the washing-up room in a Cuban night club. It wasn't that I didn't know what to ask—but it was difficult to keep the waiter's attention long enough to say: "Donde esta el cuarto de hombres." After three or four attempts I asked a ticket-taker in the lobby who seemed to have plenty of time and patience. His eyes gleamed as he set me straight on the path to the washroom and a much shorter name for it: AL HARUM "Cuartito!" The sex of the person asking for the cuartito determined to which of the "little rooms" the questioner was directed. The Latin-American countries, by the way, have several strange and unauthorized names for the aforementioned room. In one section of Central America it is known as "El Chicago." It seems that when the station was built most of the plumbing was purchased from a Chicago firm and the piping bore the stamp of that city. What better, then, than to call this new fangled collection of piping and bowls by the name written on it. In many parts of Mexico "it" is known as Numero Cien—Number 100—and earlier this past week I had Senor Dan Rivera, who sets type in the Riviera-Times plant, attempting to learn the origin of this numerical designation. Senor Rivera catechized his sundry relatives and reported his inability to find any basis in history—Cuban or Spanish—for the appellation. Since one goes to the cuartito to wash one's hands it is perfectly natural that another Spanish designation should be "el servicio"—even though the service is usually self rendered. The advantage of the Spanish language is that it dispenses with detail and it is necessary only to shout in a loud and firm voice any one of the three words mentioned and you are unmistakably directed—no verbs or inverted question marks. This is not only interesting information but may prove handy in an emergency.
Science at Work | BY PAUL F. ELLIS United Press Science Writer
NEW YORK (UP)—The city dweller appears to run less risk of malnutrition than his country cousin. The reason, according to Dr. Firman E. Bear of Rutgers University, is that the urbanite's food generally comes from a much greater number of sources than that of the farmer. Dr. Bear, chairman of the department of soils of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment station at Rutgers, believes malnutrition can be avoided by eating foods grown in many different regions. In a report to the American Chemical Society, Dr. Bear pointed out that the health of those who eat only local produce is likely to reflect deficiencies in the soil of the surrounding area. "One of the developments that has been operating to ever-increasing advantage to the human race," he said, "is that of corn-bined improvements in transportation facilities, by which produce of regions that are far removed from the point of consumption is brought to our doors. "During the last half century, the ships and trains of commerce have been reinforced by trucks and airplanes, so that foods move more faster and farther than formerly. The possibility of restricted development of man as a result of some local soil deficiency is thus greatly reduced." Dr. Bear also said there is "abundant evidence" that the livestock of some areas is handicapped by the lack of certain minerals in the soil. Fertilizers that supply all the nutrients needed by plants do not always furnish the materials required by the animals that feed on the plants, he said. * * * Women are not the weaker sex in one respect, according to Dr. Paul Boeder, director of the American Optical Company's Bureau of Visual Science. About four per cent of men are color blind, he said, compared to three-tenths of one per cent for women. He explained that the reason for the difference lies in the fact that color blindness is hereditary in many cases, remaining latent in the female while manifesting itself in the male. * * * Dr. Milton Burton, noted radiation chemist of Notre Dame, believes atomic bombardment of common coal, tar and other common substances may provide many new and industrially useful materials. He said that in the atomic piles of the future, provision may be made for use of radiations in new chemical process. Dr. Burton said new materials, low-temperature cracking of petroleum oils, and more effective chemical utilization of some natural resources now inefficiently employed are among the benefits to be expected.
66 Years Enough
PROVINCETOWN, Mass. (UP)—Resigning after 66 years' service with the Provincetown fire department, Chief T. Julian Lewis, 80, gave as his reason the fact that he was "getting pretty old."
It Says Here...
Four members of the Riviera-Times staff who received telegrams from the mayor, yesterday inviting them to play golf at the opening of the Biltmore course were wishing that his honor could also suggest some substitutes to get the paper out while they pitched and putted around the 18-hole lay-out . . . That power failure last night caught Jimmie Baldi right in the middle of a fancy hair-do for a Gables gal who was headed to the Country Club style show. There were some anxious moments until the lights went on again . . . First Christmas card of the season has been received from Pete and Liz White, showing their attractive North Carolina lodge, Whitemont . . . We'd like to explain to the folks who keep calling up and asking why we don't put who won the $2500 automobile that it's against the postal laws and regulations to report the results of a lottery. Young Bobby Macy, who played the page in the Fashion Shows last night, tore off his necktie as soon as the show was over, stating that he guessed he was still to young to enjoy formal affairs that called for tight collars. "It doesn't get any better as the years go on, son," he was quickly advised by one of the male participants in the style show . . . Incidentally, we hear that a large percentage of the models were so entranced with the gowns they wore that they bought them for themselves . . . The balloons used by Phyllis Kapp in her "bubble" dance were supposed to float away. Holley's store imported a tank of helium especially for that purpose, but the night air caused them to sink to the floor . . . Anyhow, it didn't detract one iota from the dance or the spangled one-piece bathing suit . . . The gals really did a professional job, and one of them who flopped coming down the steps, still managed to make a dignified exit . . . Jim Moore, who played Santa Claus, tells us that he was approached by at least four gals asking for mink coats . . . one later changed her order to an ermine stole . . . If he gives ermine to anybody it will probably be "stole" allright.
FROM A RIVIERA NOTEBOOK | By Mary Holm Clarke | WHO LIVES THERE?
How many times have you conducted a sight-seeing tour with guests who invariably asked "Who lives there?" and how many times have you been obliged to admit that you didn't know? That is life's most embarrassing moment for many of us in a resort city like Coral Gables, so we will riffle the pages of the Notebook and find answers to some of those queries. There is a charm about the residence at 892 S. Greenway Drive that frequently attracts interest. First you notice a tree straddling a wall, then you catch a glimpse of the swimming pool through an impressive wrought iron gateway, and on either side, on the outside of the wall, are stone benches flanked by rare tropical planting. If you stop to examine the tree on the tip of the triangular lot, you see that it grows round a post. 832 South Greenway Drive is the home of Dr. and Mrs. Homer J. Rhode, director and loyal supporter of the Fairchild Tropical Garden organization. The Riviera Notebook records that it was built in 1924, with permit 35, by George and Eunice Merrick. Near and south, the third home of George Merrick, the founder of Coral Gables. The first, of course was the manor house of Coral Gables Plantation (907 Coral Way). The second, at Coral Way and Granada Boulevard, just west of the manor house, he built for his bride, Eunice Peacock of Coconut Grove. This third home, on South Greenway and Castille (familiarly called Soap Avenue by the family) was planned by the two of them. The walled stucco residence was built on the site of the original Coral Gables Plantation packing house. The fig tree at the point of the lot has grown round a post of the old packing house. The tree straddling the wall is also a strangler fig vine. It climbed the wall and used it for a trunk until its own vine-like stem was strong enough to support a tree spread. The swimming pool has been added since the Merricks built the residence with permit 35. That is a modern feature, which, like the use of pastel stucco to cover limestone rock, represents the transition to concrete block stucco now generally in use. The next home to be described in the "Who Lives There?" series will introduce a luxurious Orphan of the Storm.
SHORT QUIRKS
Real Estate Booms Miami Beach, Fla. (UP)—Real estate is a big business in this resort city of 35,000 permanent residents. The city's 148 realtors sold $140,000,000 worth of property last year, and may top that mark in 1947. Groundhogs Like Music Patton, Pa. (UP)—William B. Huber, a miner, has a hobby. He has built dens for groundhogs and feeds them. "I have to make them sit up and listen to the radio," Huber says. "They are fond of music and will sit for hours and listen." Senator's Widow in Business Salem, Ore. (UP)—Mrs. Charles McNary, widow of the United States Senator for Oregon, plans to operate a tea room and antique shop at Fir Cones, her estate near here. Thieving Crow Nailed Harrisburg, Pa. (UP)—The State Game Commission finally has taken Blackie, the tame crow of Gap, into custody. Blackie is a crow. It usually made the rounds on wash days in nearby Lancaster and picked clothesfins off neighborhood lines. Guam Takes a Cut Guam (UP)—Cock-fighting on this island has been legalized by the island congress. Betting is permitted under a system which gives the government a percentage of all wagers. Sandals Survive War CHICAGO (UP)—The War Assets Administration here has 737,000 pairs of "hygienic bath sandals." You have your pick of basswood, cypress or pine. They cost Uncle Sam more than $400,000.
FOR YOUR REAL ESTATE NEEDS SEE LESLIE H. COOMBES REALTOR
2312 Ponce de Leon Blvd. Phone 4-2586
George Dacy, Jr. Gets Diploma, Navy Commission
George H. Dacy Jr., who was graduated from the United States Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, N. Y., December 10th, brought three classmates along when he came home for the Christmas holidays. Enjoying Florida sunshine in the Gables and Southern hospitality at the home of Mrs. George H. Dacy Sr., 6400 San Amaro Esteban, were Richard Alvarado of Washington, D. C.; John Scanlon of Buffalo, N. Y.; and Don Stewart of Boston, Mass. The visiting Merchant mariners will remain a week before heading North again to spend Christmas with their own families. Young Dacy was graduated from the Academy with the commission of Ensign in the United States Naval Reserve, and in addition holds a license as Third Mate in the Merchant Marine. He was appointed to the Cadet Corps in January, 1945 and took his preliminary training at Pass Christian, Tex. Ten months sea duty aboard the S. S. Sea Pike, with stopovers in England, France, Panama, Japan and the Phillipines, followed. He wears the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Pacific service ribbons.
Dance Students Present Show
Dancing students will entertain their fellow dancing students at the Casa Plum Woman's Club Monday when Mrs. E. V. Woodard of South Miami is host to ninety-five of her students and their parents at a Christmas party. Beginning at two-thirty in the afternoon, a stage show featuring dancing and acrobatics will be presented by some of the guests. These will include beginners through professionals. Mrs. Carnegie Cline will present three of her students in three dramatic numbers. Following the stage show, "Mickey Mouse" and other cartoons will be shown. Gifts, which will be exchanged by the children, will be distributed by a genial Santa Claus. Christmas stockings will be given to each child present.
ZTA's Announce La Gorce Luncheon
Zeta Tau Alpha Alumnae Club will celebrate the Yuletide with a luncheon honoring girls home from college at one o'clock December 27th at La Gorce Country Club. Poinsettias, miniature Christmas trees and red tapers in silver candelabra will decorate the tables for the twenty expected guests. Miss Frances Mann, president of the alumnae will bring greetings. Mrs. Donald Marion has charge of the program. Others assisting include Mrs. Paul C. Taylor, Mrs. Dorothy Carmichael and Mrs. David Abrams. Mrs. Harry Jack Coleman and Miss Carmichael are taking reservations which must be in by December 23rd.
Daughter to Visit Mrs. Robert Pentland
Mrs. Robert Pentland Sr., 900 ElRado will have as her holiday guest her daughter, Mrs. Margaret Pentland Austin of Jacksonville. Mrs. Austin, who is a member of the Coral Gables Woman's Club and well known in Coral Gables, will spend two weeks here. She is a member of the faculty of the Jacksonville public school system.
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Gablesgrams | BY HELEN REYNOLDS, SOCIETY EDITOR
Mrs. M. F. Wittichen, 1024 Avenue Asturia, will have as her holiday guests her sister, Miss Emma Maud Slaughter of Jackson, Miss., and her brother, Blant Slaughter of Akron, Ohio. Visiting and sightseeing will occupy the visitors' one week's stay. For Blant, who celebrated 25 years with the Firestone Company this month, it will be a first visit to Florida, Mrs. Wittichen says. . . . Mrs. Wittichen is entertaining at luncheon today at Burdine's tea room honoring Mrs. Edith H. McAllister who is the houseguest of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur H. Curtis, 937 Avenue Roderigo. Mrs. McAllister recently completed work for the American Red Cross at West Palm Beach, as a member of the disaster service corps. She will remain with the Curtises through the holidays. * * * Mrs. O. A. Sandquist, 3010 Segovia Street, left Sunday for Green Cove Springs for a visit, which will include the Christmas holidays, with her son-in-law and daughter, Navy Captain and Mrs. Richard Davis McClathery, nee Barbara Sandquist, and their daughters "Sandy" and "Davy." Mr. Sandquist will join the family circle for Christmas. * * * It will be Christmas eve and his birthday dinner party all rolled into one for James M. Coleman who is arriving by plane from St. Joseph, Mo., to spend Christmas with his son and daughter-in-law, the Harry Jack Colemans of 12 Avenue Santillane. For the senior Mr. Coleman it will be a first Florida visit and the second time he will have seen his grandson, three-year-old Harry Jack (Pat) Coleman, Jr. * * * Mr. and Mrs. John Hampton and their daughter Ann are arriving in time to spend the Yuletide season with Mrs. Hampton's mother, Mrs. Howard W. Sullivan, 711 Avenue Asturia. The Hamptons reside at their country place, "Backacres," Baltimore County, Maryland. The Hamptons recently remodeled the little house which was on the place, twenty miles out from Baltimore, when Mr. Hampton bought it because the pair. A Baltimore attorney, Mr. Hampton commutes daily to Baltimore. * * * Saturday is Diane Nichols' sixth birthday anniversary and she is celebrating it with a party at two o'clock at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John C. Nichols, 1148 Alhambra Circle. Diane has invited the boys and girls from her sixth grade at the Elementary school as her guests. * * * There was a day when an exclusive model was an exclusive model. Three prominent Coral Gables clubwomen bought exclusive "one-of-a kind-in-your-community" hats this fall. The beautiful headpieces are winter white softly draped felts with matching ostrich plumes encircling the crowns. They cost a pretty penny. Recently the three ladies appeared at the same cocktail party each wearing her exclusive model. Mrs. Maylen Newby Pierce bought her's in Virginia. Mrs. George Corrigan's came from Miami and Mrs. Ben Turner bought her's while vacationing this fall in Syracuse, N. Y.
John R. Hoehls, Mary Lou Weiland Join Collegiate Trek to Coral Gables
The Weiland girls are coming home for Christmas. Arriving first will be Mrs. John Robert Hoehl, the former Johanna Weiland, and her husband, who is son of Mr. and Mrs. John Hoehl of 1104 Malaga Street. They'll get here the nineteenth from Gainesville where John is a senior in law school at the University of Florida. The day after their arrival, Mary Lou will get here from Durham, N. C., where she is a sophomore at Duke University. The visitors will stay with Dr. and Mrs. Arthur H. Weiland, at 1104 Avenue Malaga until after the holidays.
Larsons Expect Sons Home
Robert Larson, son of Dr. and Mrs. B. M. Larson, will arrive Friday from Maryville, Tenn., to spend Christmas with his parents at their home at 1219 Columbus Blvd. Robert is a member of the freshman class of Maryville College where he is a liberal arts student. With an extended vacation to brag about, he will be here until January twentieth. Also arriving at the Larson home either Saturday or Sunday will be Bertram M. Larson, another son of Dr. and Mrs. Larson. Bertram will journey all the way from Ames, Iowa where he is a Junior at the Iowa State University. Not as lucky as his brother, Bertram will have to return to his science studies on the fifth of January.
Jaycee Wives To Meet Tomorrow
Junior Chamber of Commerce wives who recently formed an auxiliary will meet tomorrow afternoon at the home of Mrs. Robert Searle, 3928 Harlano Street. All members of the auxiliary and all wives of Jay Cee members are urged to attend. There will be a small refreshment charge.
Personalized Christmas CARDS
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