Coral Gables Riviera-Times

Clubs And Restaurants List New Year's Eve Plans

Kappa Delta Alumnae Fete Gables Co-eds

"New Year's in Italy" will be the subject of the talk Miss Anne Ceci will give at the annual holiday luncheon Kappa Delta Alumnae will present December 27th honoring the sorority's new college actives and pledges. Miss Ceci is language instructor at the University of Miami. The party will be held at the Barcelona at one o'clock. Coral Gables honors the sorority with the greatest number of pledges, three; Miami has one. The Gables girls are Dorothy Jean Emmett, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Emmett, 506 Avenue Sevilla; Barbara Brown, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Allen Brown, 3820 Alhambra Circle and Bettie Bollinger, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Newton H. Bollinger, 915 Avenue Andalusia. Dorothy attends Florida State University, and was recently initiated. Barbara is a pledge at Duke University and Bettie was pledged at the University of Georgia. From Miami, Elizabeth Hudson, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Hudson, 135 N.E. 43rd street, is a freshman at Florida State University. Miss Flora McLeod, member of the alumnae group and head of social studies at Miami Senior High school, will bring greetings. Mrs. D. Roy Clonts is in charge of the decorations and Mrs. Kenneth C. Wittich is in charge of reservations for members and their guests. College seniors at the luncheon will include Betty Kuhl, Duke University; Lamar McKey, Randolph-Macon; and Pat Gleason, University of Georgia, who is a junior. All Coral Gables and Miami Kappa Deltas and their guests are invited.

Langdons Host To Gableites At Gulfstream

A day at the races and luncheon were "on the card" for eight Gables friends who were guests of the J. Bruce Langdons at Gulfstream Park recently. The eightsome enjoyed an al fresco lunch with their host and hostess on the Clubhouse Terrace overlooking the miniature midfield lake before repairing to a box at the finish line to watch the bangtails run. Guests of the Langdons for the day were Mr. and Mrs. Altheus Collings, Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Ball, Mr. and Mrs. Percy Ainsworth, Mrs. George Arnold and Mrs. Charles W. Cross.

Goodwins To Pay January Visit

It's not the three feet of snow around Schenectady, N.Y., that's keeping Lt. Col. James M. Goodwin from spending Christmas with his mother, Mrs. Hunter T. Nugent. He just couldn't get leave from his executive duties at the Army Base there before the first of the year. The towering six-foot-four veteran of overseas service, Mrs. Goodwin, and their sons Gregory, three, and Blake, four, expect to arrive in the Gables around January 5th, however, to spend a couple of weeks with Mr. and Mrs. Nugent at their Avenue Majorca home. En route to Florida by car, the Goodwins plan to stop off a few days in Baltimore to visit Mrs. Nugent's sister, Mrs. G. B. Hall.

Optometrist Auxiliary Plans Pot Luck Supper

Gables members of the South Eastern Florida Optometrist Association Auxiliary will journey to the Beach tomorrow for a Christmas party being held at the home of Dr. S. C. Schneider, 600 West 51 Street. Husbands of members will be guests of the auxiliary. About twenty-five couples will partake of a pot-luck supper which will be served. Members of the auxiliary will give their husbands Christmas gifts which will be toys that will finally be given to Jack Bell for distribution among needy children. Mrs. Robert Bradford is in charge of this Christmas party. She will be assisted by Mrs. Joe Arias, and Mrs. J. M. Widdersheim.

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Gables Students Arrive Home By Train, Plane

Meeting trains and planes was the favorite pastime in Coral Gables today as parents welcomed sons and daughters home from Northern campuses. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Rankin will be at Gate Five tonight when the giant Constellation from Chicago wings into the 36th Street Airport. Aboard will be Judy Ann Hoffman who will spend the holidays with the folks at their home, 719 Avenue Escobar. Miss Hoffman, who is studying basic art at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts preparatory to a career as fashion illustrator, will return to the Illinois school after a two week vacation here. * * * * * James Attmore Wright will find a warm welcome from his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Attmore Wright II, when he returns to the Gables today from The Choate School at Wallingford, Conn. A member of the Sixth Form at the preparatory school, young Wright is president of the St. Andrews Cabinet there, serves on the Choate News, and is a member of the soccer team. The Wrights live at 1430 Avenue Placentia. * * * * * Another prep school student home for a bright, not white, Christmas is Charles Manfred, son of Mrs. Charles N. Manfred of 4514 Alhambra Circle. Spending the holidays with Charles is a fellow-student at the Fishburn Military School, Waynesburg, Va., Cadet Allyn Fish, whose home is at Portland, Conn.

S. Miami School Arranges Party

All children present will receive a gift from Santa Claus at the Sunday School Christmas party of the South Miami First Methodist Church Monday evening. Beginning at seven-thirty o'clock members of the Sunday School will assemble in the church auditorium for a Christmas program and carol singing. A big Christmas tree will complete the red and green decorations in the auditorium. Following this party, members of Dr. Raymond Van Dusen's Fellowship Class will have their Christmas party in the church parlors. Gifts will be exchanged.

Tariff for Ringing Old Year Out, New In, To Be $10 to $20 Per Couple, Survey Shows

By Chuck Wiley You can "ring out the old and ring in the new" for from ten to twenty dollars per couple in most of the nearby restaurants, night clubs and private clubs New Year's eve a Riviera-Times survey of the whoopee situation revealed. And this includes tax, ice water, napkins, service, favors, music and dinner. For example, over at VICTOR'S DRUM on Coral Way, the ten dollar per person charge for New Year's Eve festivities will include a special dinner, souvenirs consisting of horns and hats, and the privileges of "eyeing" a floor show and dancing. Most of the 150 reservations which the club can handle have already been taken. * * * * * AT FOX'S RESTAURANT in South Miami the charge per person is also ten dollars but there'll be no floor show to liven up your New Year's celebration. In spite of this, there'll be plenty of noisemakers on hand to enable you to furnish your own show. Dinner, including shrimp cocktail, French onion soup, sirloin steak, etc., will be served up to, and including, nine o'clock. From nine on throughout the evening a special New Year's eve supper will be served. Two hundred and fifty persons can be accommodated here. * * * * * Roast prime ribs will be the dinner feature at the COUNTRY CLUB OF CORAL GABLES. Served between nine and twelve midnight, dinner will be limited to reservations numbering five hundred. The public will have to go elsewhere for his beef this night because these five hundred include only club members and their immediate families. Guests will be furnished with plenty of noisemakers which they'll probably use in competing with Cy Washburn and his musicians. Six dollars per person will include dinner and everything at the Club, while two dollars and forty cents per person will be the "cover" charge for dancing and souvenirs alone. * * * * * A formal dance is in store for the six hundred members of the RIVIERA COUNTRY CLUB who received an engraved "invite" this week. Music for the dance, which begins at ten o'clock, will be furnished by Art Giles and his orchestra. The five-dollar-per-person charge will include, not just common ordinary ole' hats but brightly-colored top hats and clackers plus a midnight supper of either roast beef or ham, which will be served between twelve and one ayem. * * * * * Reservations numbering three-hundred are available for the party which the ANTILLA HOTEL is giving at five dollars per person. Here you may have a choice of five dinners, including turkey, roast chicken, and baked Virginia ham, or, if you prefer, you may take your dinner a la Carte. Hats and horns will be given to all merry-makers, and music will be furnished for those who like to dance. * * * * * In the dining room of the CORAL GABLES INN there'll be no special celebration, but for those of you who prefer to dine out and then retire to your homes for a quiet New Year's eve, there'll be a special dinner of either steak, turkey, duck, chops, or seafood ranging in price from two dollars and fifty cents through four dollars and up. * * * * * Joe Di Orio and his singing Spanish troubedours will compete with guests' noisemakers at OSCAR'S HASTA MANANA. Dinner will be served from eight o'clock until, and the charge per person will be not over five dollars. * * * * * At JIMMIE'S-ON-THE-TRAIL, the five-dollar-per-person minimum charge will include drinks only. If you wanta eat here that night, you've gotta pay from two dollars and fifty cents up for turkey or ham. The favors, consisting of noisemakers, hats and yo-yos, will be thrown in free gratis. Three floor shows, featuring the Watson girls, will be given. * * * * * The SKY CLUB will offer a floor show with a line of chorus girls. Dinner will be served and a five-dollar-per-person beverage minimum will be charged. Favors will be distributed among guests. * * * * * If you're one of those all-night New Year's eve celebrators, you can have your dinner and breakfast at the GABLES ELKS CLUB for only five bucks per person. Or if you just want to take dinner and dance it won't cost you but three dollars. And if you just want to dance you'll only have to pay one dollar and ten cents. The breakfast will be served at two ayem. Music for the dance will be murnished by Andy Somms and his band. Noisemakers and hats will be given to all dancers, one-meal eaters, or two-meal diners.

Little Theatre Casts Play

Casting for the Miami Little Theatre group's next play will take place Sunday afternoon at three o'clock in Room 203 of the Professional Building in Greater Miami. The play, George Kauffman's "George Washington Slept Here," will be directed by Robert Eades. All persons interested in dramatics are invited to try out for a part in this production.

Gables Girl To Sing In Recital Tonight

(Continued from Page Seven) by Joseph Schreibman, concert pianist and Daniel Breeskin, guest violinist, who will play "Souvenir," by Drdla. James J. Marshall will present honors for the school. Serving as ushers will be Dolly Brimson, June Wilson and Charis Duke.

REUNION Planned by Gobats

It'll be a reunion for real Christmas Day at the C. I. Gobats, eighteen hundred Country Club Prado, with the away-from-home members of the family joining mom and dad over turkey and cranberry. Bill Gobat has obtained a fifteen-day Navy leave and will arrive from Bethesda, Md., in plenty of time for the festivities. Mr. and Mrs. Lauren G. Snarr have sent word to the folks to reserve drumsticks for them. The former Adria Gobat and her husband will bring daughter Susan along when they come down from Gainesville.

Coco Plum Club Welcomes Ten To Membership

A hospitable welcome and a Christmas greeting was extended to ten new members of the Coco Plum Woman's Club at the group's traditional Yuletide program, musicale and tea yesterday at the Clubhouse. The newcomers were introduced individually to the general membership by Mrs. Robert Symington, chairman of the Coco Plum membership committee. Welcomed into the club were Mrs. James W. Casey, Jr., Mrs. Mary E. Ward, Mrs. S. M. Marfak, Mrs. Gaynell Brewster, Mrs. Shirl Black, Mrs. Raymond W. Pierce, Mrs. Fred Gabriel, Mrs. L. H. Solie, Mrs. Carroll Varner, Jr., and Mrs. John A. Gautier. The new members were honored guests at the tea which followed the club program.

Day-after-Christmas Dance Planned By Home-coming Gables Collegians

Way back in the good ole' summer time, when oodles of shopping days were left before Christmas, five young Coral Gables couples decided to give a formal dance during the Yuletide holidays. Immediately they began working out plans for the dance before they had to go off to schools in various parts of the country. Since all the plans could not be completed before those school bells began ringing, letters, full of "dance plans," travelled fast and frequently between these Gableites. Now the plans are completed, the date is set, four hundred invitations have been sent out, and all that is needed to complete the picture is for the hosts to come home from school. The Riviera Country Club, decorated with Florida holly, pine, mistletoe and poinsettias, will be the scene of this formal dance December twenty-sixth from nine until one ayem. Freddy Daw, head of a group of local musicians, and his five-piece orchestra will furnish music for the young dancers. Hosts for the dance will be Miss Mary Lou Weiland, Miss Sue Adams, Miss Ann Simpson, Miss Harriet Quillian, Miss Jane Thomas, Lee Stapp, Jim Adams, Tom Mumford, Gene Ely and Staples Pierce.

Century Club Sets Dance Date

The Century Club of Coral Gables today completed plans for the festive Dinner Dance that is a yearly tradition with the organization. Members will bid guests to the festivities at the Surf Club December 27th or will join fellow, members and their wives at No Host tables. Dinner will be served at the exclusive club fronting the ocean promptly at eight o'clock, and will be followed by an evening of dancing, according to an announcement by Henry Clay Anderson.

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