Coral Gables Riviera-Times

CORAL GABLES Riviera Times

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1947 PAGE SEVEN

CHRISTMASTIDE DRAMA PRESENTED BY COCO PLUM MEMBERS, CHILDREN

-Riviera-Times photo by Binner Some thirty Coco Plum youngsters laid gifts before the picture of the Christ Child in the stage-land of make-believe yesterday - but in reality they were playing the role of the patron saint of all children, St. Nick himself. For the gaily wrapped football pants and sweaters, toys and games they offered in the presentation of "Only a Bright Gift" will turn up again Christmas morning under a huge tree at the Kendall Home for Children. Members and guests who filled every row under the vaulted ceiling of the Coco Plum Woman's Club theater were bade welcome by their president, Mrs. C. Ernest Snyder, who then turned the program over to Mrs. Frederick F. Ravlin, general chairman for the day. "This is our Christmas gift to you," Mrs. Ravlin told her fellow members as she signaled for the raising of the curtain on the drama-story of the woman who offered the best gift of all: an unselfish heart. Sons and daughters of club members joined adults in the cast in the scene wherein townsfolk bring offerings to the Christ Child. Led by the three "Wise Men" pictured above, Mike Galbraith, Jimmy Shafer and Frank Rich, with "Angel" Judy Reber and "Choir Boy" Johnny Fiske, the youngsters marched down the aisle with their gifts, singing "We Three Kings of the Orient Are." Later the students of the Coco Plum Kindergarten, led by Mrs. Brooks Leffingwell, director, and her assistant, Mrs. John Fiske, sang "Silent Night" and accompanied piano presentation of "Adeste Fidelis" on cymbals, bells and tambourines. As serious musical portion of the program, Mrs. Ravlin introduced baritone Roy Croyper, who chose a series of Christmas hymns for his solos, and Mrs. Rome Wayne, who lent her sweet soprano to Schubert's Ave Maria. Guests and members adjourned after the program to the dining lounge of the clubhouse to take tea, punch and Christmas cookies and cakes from lace covered tables decorated with poinsettias, gilded fern fronds, red tapers and branches plucked from "gumdrop trees." Kindergarteners enjoyed ice cream and cake in their own "club rooms."

Gables Business, Professional Women to Discuss Charitable Projects Over Eggnog, Cake

Eggnog and fruit cake, traditional Christmas party fare, will be served members of the Coral Gables Business and Professional Women's Club when they gather from four to six o'clock Sunday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Claire Weeks, 3914 LeJeune Road. Miss Edythe Harrison, chairman of the Christmas gifts-for-old-people committee, will collect gifts members have provided for fifty-nine patients in convalescent homes. Presents from the club will range from skirts, bathrobes and house shoes to bath salts, talcums and soaps. One specific request from an aged man had the gifts-chairman stymied, though. "When asked what he wanted, he answered 'Oh, if you would only bring me some Brown Mule chewing tobacco I'd be happy'!" Miss Harrison reported. She and her committee obtained the names of lonely oldsters in need of Christmas cheer through cooperation of the City and County Charities of the State Welfare Board. Then they called upon prospective recipients personally to learn their wants first hand. The oldsters who will receive gifts from the BPWC live in nine different homes in the Greater Miami area and all are wards of the State.

Gables Girl To Sing in Recital Tonight

Miss Margaret Matthews, talented daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Matthews of 6905 Avenue Talavera, will be presented in a recital tonight at the School of Applied Arts. An honor voice student for the past three years at the school located at 34 West Flagler Street, the Gables girl is the bride-elect of Arthur Berney Burgess. A coloratura soprano, Miss Matthews has chosen as her first selection for tonight's recital "With Verdure Clad" by Joseph Hayden and "La Girometta" by Sebella. For her second group she will sing "Caro Nome Che al Mio Cor," by Verdi and "Ah, Te Veux-Vivre," by Gounod. Netta Symes Morris will be her accompanist. Miss Matthews will be assisted (Please Turn to Page 8)

Gables Organizations Help Assure Merry Yuletide for Hospitalized Vets

A bright light for reading at night will be the gift that every patient in the Veterans Administration Hospital will receive in his Christmas stocking. A number of organizations in the Greater Miami area are co-operating to provide each of the 350 beds with a night light as their "Merry Christmas" gesture to hospitalized veterans. Other plans to insure a traditional Yule celebration for convalescent ex-soldiers were well under way today. This morning members of Biscayne Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, of which Mrs. Harold F. Machlan is regent, decorated a ten-foot Christmas tree for third floor bed and tubercular patients. They were assisted by a committee from the Coral Gables and Everglades Chapters. Mrs. A. Louis Brown and Mrs. Robert Shelley of the Gables Junior D.A.R. aided workers from the senior chapter here in trimming the tree. Trees will also be trimmed and lighted on every floor and in the patio and chapel, according to Mrs. Machlan, wife of the hospital commanding officer. Responsibility for decorating the trees will be taken by American Legion Auxiliary groups, the Elks Club, D.A.R. chapters and the Miami Beach Woman's Club. In addition, colored lights in the shape of a huge tree have been strung up on the outside of the building, with a star dominating the top.

The cotton textile industry in North Carolina has raised more than $800,000 for textile education at North Carolina State College.

Mrs. Craig Hostess

The Woman's Christian Fellowship Group of the Gables Presbyterian Church will meet tomorrow at ten-thirty at the home of Mrs. Henry Craig, 1223 Lisbon Street.

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