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Coral Gables Riviera Times

Published Monday through Friday afternoons by the Riviera Publishing Co., 300 Avenue Aragon, Coral Gables, 34, Fla. Established as a weekly newspaper January, 1926; combined with The Coral County & Gables Times, March, 1947; published daily except Saturday and Sunday. MEMBER, NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION FLORIDA PRESS ASSOCIATION and CORAL GABLES CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ALBERT E. HARUM KENNETH S. REYNOLDS Editor and Publisher Business Manager JAMES R. MOORE ARTHUR F. MAAS Managing Editor Circulation Manager HELEN THOMPSON JOYCE BARKER Society Editor Sports Editor ELSIE B. GIBSON PEGGY NORTH Woman's Page Editor Classified Manager THEIS & SIMPSON, National Advertising Representatives New York Chicago Detroit MEMBER, AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS FULL LEASED WIRE, UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS SUBSCRIPTION RATES One week.. $ .20 | Three months.... $ 2.00 One month.. | .75 | One month.. | 6.00 Three months.... | 1.10 | Three months.... | 11.00 Six months.. | 2.00 | Six months.. | 1.00 One year.. | 12.00 | One year.. | 15.00 Outside of the U. S.: One year, $15.00 Mailing address: P. O. Box 6073 Coral Gables, 34, Fla. Telephone: 4-1624 Classified Department: 48-0641 The Coral Gables Riviera-Times is liable for errors in advertising only to the extent of the space in which the advertisement appears.

All in a Day

By GEORGE McNEILL RAY One of the best lessons we ought to learn early is tolerance. Some folks have the simple idea that tolerance means being a doormat for the other fellow to walk on. But that's not true. Being tolerant means allowing the other person to think as he will, do as he will, act as he will—without having someone condemn or stop him. It could be that the other person is right in his opinion—provided that opinion is based on intelligence. The antonym for "tolerance" is "prohibit," and to be intolerant means to cut off one's freedom. And, if I have the power to cut off one's freedom then I have too much power—plus the wrong conception of liberty and justice for all. In America we have the right to pursue any course we wish, so long as we are going in the right direction and searching for the right objective. If this is not true, then all the forces of right come together (or should) to steer us aright. What puzzles most of us is how we allow an undercurrent force to remain active until its firm realease has the upper hand on the attitudes and thoughts of the general public. It could be so among religious, racial or social groups—even political minds. The best method of drying out wet clothes is to hang them on the line and let old Man Sol have a lick at them. Give the other fellow a chance. After all, he could be right, too!

SHORT QUIRKS

Let There Be Light PERRY, Okla. (UP)—This city is encouraging residents to put up Christmas lighting displays by advertising that no extra electricity charge will be made to persons who do. It was announced that the bill for homes with Christmas lighting will be the same as for the previous month. Guests Now Unwelcome FORT WAYNE, Ind. (UP)—John Dry, 79, is going to be careful the next time he puts a welcome mat outside his trailer door. Dry told police he permitted a man and a woman to spend the night in his trailer. Soon after they left he missed his billfold with $750. Game Called Off LANCASTER, O. (UP)—Judge Earl D. Parker has turned down a petition to change the name of the twin villages of Baltimore and Basil to "Baseball." The court decision held that ample proof was not shown that the twin communities desired the change. Truants On Spot HARRISBURG, Pa. (UP)—When a Harrisburg school kid skips class these days, he rarely goes to the movies. That's because the theater managers have agreed to cooperate with Edward Brubaker, protection officer and be on the watch for suspected truants. Diver Also Miner CALUMET, Mich., (UP)—Lawrence Michel is in his 22nd year in an unusual job. He is a professional diver for a copper mine, whose workings run beneath the waters of a lake. Michel's most recent work has been in Lake Superior, supervising repairs to huge water intake pipes at the Calumet and Hecla Copper Company's water works. Cop Leaves Too Soon NEW YORK (UP)—A policeman escorted Louis Fineman, while he carried a $1,561 payroll from a bank to his plant in Brooklyn. Unfortunately, the policeman left him at the door. When he entered his office, two men appeared with pistols, took the payroll and escaped—in Fineman's car.

Century Club Members Tell Dinner Plans

The Century Club's traditional holiday dinner dance tomorrow evening promises to be one of the gayest in years as members announced plans to attend the formal event at the Surf Club and bring their houseguests too. Cocktail parties in Coral Gables homes will precede the exclusive event to open members of the club, their wives and out-of-town guests only. A table of sixteen members which has been arranged 'daffodil' style by Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Thiel will include Mr. and Mrs. J. Mark Wilcox, Mr. and Mrs. Warren W. Zinsmaster, Mr. and Mrs. Byron Sperow, Mr. and Mrs. Earl DeNoon, Mr. and Mrs. William L. Huntley, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Harum, E. C. Hodge and Mrs. Ruth Boles. Mr. and Mrs. Zinsmaster will entertain the group at cocktails at their Madrid Street home. Very informal, in fact, "just stopping by for a drink" will be the atmosphere and guests at the table of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Gentry, who will gather at the Harding home, 3702 Toledo Drive. They are Dr. and Mrs. Marvin Cissenera, new members of the club, and their house guests, Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Ball of Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Draper, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Greene and Dr. and Mrs. William Dismukes. Assisting the hosts and Dr. and Mrs. Phil J. Laurence whose table mates will be Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Walker, Jr., Major and Mrs. S. T. Layton, Mr. and Mrs. Clinton T. McCreedy, Mr. and Mrs. Harold G. Sweet who will have as their guests, Mr. and Mrs. John Mumford and Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Haines. Others making up tables of six or more are George Custer, Mr. and Mrs. Maurice H. Connell, Mr. and Mrs. George Corrigan, Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Gardner, Mr. and Mrs. William C. Griffith, Major and Mrs. R. R. Hogan, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Hoover, Mr. and Mrs. John A. Hilton, Mr. and Mrs. S. Duffield Hopkins Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Walter Pierce, Judge and Mrs. John W. Howland, Captain and Mrs. Leonard C. Lewis, Harry Link, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard J. Usina, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. West, Mr. and Mrs. John Sullivan, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Mayes. W. Scott Deming, member of the board of governors, and Mrs. Deming, will arrive from Indianapolis today and will be seated at the governor's table at the Surf Club headed by president Roy Page and Mrs. Page. While here Mr. and Mrs. Deming will be guests at the Towers, Miami.

BRIDE'S COOK BOOK Baked Ham, Idaho Potatoes And Apple Pie Is Specialty Menu at John Hoehl House

By GRACE STONE HALL Christmas holiday homecoming of Mrs. John Hoehl (formerly Johanna Weiland) makes a delightful story for our Bride's Cook Book today. From Gainesville she came with her husband to visit her parents, Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Weiland, 1104 Malaga Avenue. And there's where, according to family custom of numerous years, the bird of the festive holidays is wild turkey, Dr. Weiland's own trophy from his Florida cattle ranch. Tangy flavor of the wild bird, a tribute to the doctor's marksmanship, is enhanced by dressing of wild rice in epicurean blend of celery, onion and mushrooms sauted with butter and added to the rice. With this background of family cooking and aid of the cook book "Joy of Cooking," which Coral Gables brides seem to "set great store by," it is not surprising that Mrs. Hoehl rates a bride's cooking diploma this year. As she talks about her MRS. HOEHL home and home management, it is evident that in the Hoehl, Jr., apartment at 1722 East University Avenue, Gainesville (Mr. Hoehl is studying law at the university), good cooking is the order of the day. A specialty of Mrs. Hoehl is baked tenderized picnic ham. Appetizingly baked with brown sugar, studded with cloves and garnished with pineapple slices, the ham is served with baked potatoes, split and well buttered and... apple pie, her husband's favorite dessert. While she's ordinarily quite lucky with this menu, Mrs. Hoehl does remember one occasion when "lady luck" did seem to fail her. That time the ham was just right but the baked potatoes (Idahos), being larger than the ones she was accustomed to cooking, yielded not to time allowed for their baking; the peas refused entirely to "come across" properly and the apple pie juice spilled out over the pan. And her guests were her husband's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney F. Hoehl, being entertained at the young couple's first dinner party! What Mrs. Hoehl calls her "thrift dinner" mainstay is baked baked beans placed in casserole, topped by frankfurters split and filled with cheese, touch of mustard with a slice of bacon wrapping each "frank." Casserole is placed under broiler and the ensemble is browned. For a coffee during her stay here, Mrs. Hoehl planned a menu (informally served) of little sausages wrapped in pie dough and baked, and big, bright strawberries with the stems on to be dipped individually in powdered sugar and chunks of pineapple with toothpick "lifters."

UP AND DOWN BROADWAY

By JACK GAVER United Press Drama Editor NEW YORK, (UP)—From all I read and hear, this is going to be an adverse minority report of one on "A Streetcar Named Desire," by Tennessee Williams. Some of the critical brethren tossed their hats so high into the air that they never came down and have had to enter the cost of new chapeaux on their expense accounts. Williams first hit Broadway over two years ago with a fragile but run piece of playwriting called "The Glass Menagerie." One of the words tossed about lavishly in connection with him is "imagination." He had it and still may have it, but you'd never know it from "Streetcar." He is simply playing the Jack Gaver other side of the "Menagerie" record, with emphasis on sex. The play has been described as "the disintegration of a southern belle." It isn't. The disintegration of his heroine has taken place before she sets foot on stage. In fact, the play he should have written—about events which are mentioned constantly as "Streetcar"—has been left offstage while the late hemerhage after effects are on sale at the box office. Set in New Orleans Briefly the plot concerns the arrival in New Orleans of the genteel daughter of a once wealthy Mississippi land-owning family to live with her sister, who has married a rough youth of Polish extraction. She says she has taken a leave of absence from her job of teaching school because she is threatened with a nervous breakdown. She puts on airs, drinks on the sly, scorns her brother-in-law and generally makes herself objectionable in the household. She makes a marriage play for brother-in-law's friend and is in a fair way to succeed when her hopes are shattered by the brother-in-law's discovery that she had become the town strumpet back home and had been forced to leave the place. In a drunken moment the night his wife goes to the hospital to have a baby, he takes his sister-in-law to bed and then discounts her tattling by saying she is crazy, which she is and has been all along. She is taken off to an asylum at play's end. Play Runs Long The drama dawdles for two long acts before getting down to business in the third, when Williams manages to make things fairly interesting. The show runs for almost three hours, which is much too long for a thin piece like this. Jessica Tandy plays the leading role, one of the longest for women in stage history, like the cultured English woman she is, I didn't believe her. Kim Hunter is good as the married sister. An excellent performance is given by Marlon Brando as the husband. He is a young fellow who has been praised beyond reason for a couple of mediocre jobs in recent seasons, but this time he makes the grade with plenty to spare. Others involved include Gee Gee James, Peg Hillias, Karl Malden, Rudy Bond, Nick Dennis and Vito Christi. Elia Kazan directed and did an uneven job, permitting too much artistic frou-frou to get in the way. Irene M. Selznick produced. * * * Charles Laughton came out of Hollywood with his own version of the German original of "Galileo," by Bertolt Brecht to play it for a limited engagement for the Experimental Theater, which is putting on a season of six productions over several months under supervision of the American National Theater and Academy. The play about the famous Italian scientist was interesting in a limited, sort of way, but obviously wouldn't have much chance as a commercial production. Laughton gave a performance that was almost flip at times as he strove too strongly to make a human being of his subject. However, the Experimental Theater should have much better start than it did in its first season last year.

HOLLYWOOD FILM SHOP

By PATRICIA CLARY United Press Staff Correspondent HOLLYWOOD (UP) — A veteran film cutter, whose job for 25 years has been to keep movies from boring you, says the average home movie photographer is losing friends and alienating people with every reel of film. Cutter Jack Murray said home photographers could throw as much footage of Cousin Suzy and the dog on the cutting floor as he does of famous stars. "Home movies can and should be very diverting," he said. "Bad cutting, or no cutting at all, is the reason they are not." The people in home movies usually are bigger hams than movie actors, Murray said. "They all want to be stars. Turn the camera on them and they chew up the scenery." The home photographer should not be afraid to cut their right out. "He usually is reluctant to throw away a single foot of his product for fear of wasting film or hurting feelings. The result is just plain boring—too much of everything, nothing finished." Kiss Edited Down Murray, knee-deep in cut film, was editing the John Ford-Merian C. Cooper picture, "War Party." On the tiny screen, Shirley Temple was being kissed by John Agar. The kiss lasted four seconds. "Too long," Murray grunted, shortening it in the middle. "Detracts from the drama of the scene." "Cutting that kiss is a difficult choice we have to make, but it illustrates what home movie fans should do. Three seconds of your wife squatting on a cannon or baby pattycaking is enough. Imagine how you'd squirm if we showed you all 100,000 feet exposed on 'War Party.'" He suggested that home movie makers balance their movies by working out a sort of a shooting script before unpacking their cameras. "Then film should be cut so as not to appear cut," he said. "If you are shooting baby running down his dog, catch him starting, move up for a closeup of the dog, pan-ing and pan to baby pulling up before him. It tells more than a continuous truck shot."

If You Like Old Clocks See Chief's Collection

ALBANY, N. Y. (UP) — You wouldn't like living in the home of Police Chief David Main of nearby Bethlehem without earplugs. He's an old clock hobbyist, and still tick, too. But the noise isn't anything like what it used to be. Mrs. Main persuaded the chief not to try keeping them all running at the same time. The noise, she said, was loud enough to hear over the telephone. Main himself admits it's good to let a few of the clocks take a rest. "If you'd been ticking for 150 years, you'd like a little time off, too," he said. "Clocks are more like anything else." The 70-year-old police chief has been collecting clocks for 35 years. His special pride is an Eli Terry clock. Experts say there are only four others like it in the United States. Clocks and Clocks Also in the living room is a Thomas Hadley pine grandfather's clock, more than 200 years old and still containing the original works; a Jerome two-poster grandmother's steeple clock, about 125 years old; a Japanese clock; several other mantel clocks, and a huge solid mahogany German clock. But being only 75 or 80 years old, that one doesn't qualify as an antique. Main says the German clock is primarily interesting for its unusual strike and chimes. A 65-pound weight runs the 7 feet, 9 inch high clock, and a 22-pound weight runs the chimes. Among the hall clocks is an old-fashioned solid cherry model with a glass front and a rack under it to hold a comb and brush. A combined bedroom-study contains an oak mission clock with an iron face, a Seth Thomas banjo clock, a shelf clock with pillars, a blue and white china plate combination into a clock, a light teakwood miniature grandfather's clock, a rosewood mantel clock, and a picture painted iron, made between 1780-85. More Clocks Then there is the dining room collection: a white marble wall clock which came from an old inn near Boston; a French marble mantel clock with inlay; an Aaron Willard mantel clock; an Aaron Willard grandmother's clock; a heavy wood one with brass trim, and a cuckoo clock, decorated with wood carvings representing hunting life and a powder horn outlining the circular face. One of the clocks in the kitchen is believed to be at least 115 years old. Main's oldest is an Abraham Johnson clock with wooden works and pictures painted on the face instead of numerals. The chief also has several modern, electrical clocks.

Alpha Chi Omega To Honor New Pledges At Annual Christmas Event

Pledges to Alpha Chi Omega will be honored guests when the sorority presents its annual Christmas luncheon at noon tomorrow. The traditional event will be held at the Plaza Hotel in Miami, with Mrs. Harry Horn in charge of arrangements. The chairman is being assisted by Miss Norma Kesinger. Mrs. Sam Mosely will be program director and Mrs. W. T. Edwards is handling reservations. Pledges who will be honored include Miss Mary Lou Caldwell from Florida State University; Miss Jean Cuthriel and Miss Mary Nance Ellison who attend the University of Alabama; and Miss Minivan Brown whose alma mater is Florida Southern College. Active members who are home for the holidays and who will join the festivities are Miss Lillian Brown, Miss Betty Sweet, Miss Betty Cook, Miss Barbara Vaughn, Miss Jean Henderson, Miss Dorothy Schoonmaker and Miss Maxine Carpenter, all of Florida State University; Miss Joan Barrett, Miss Marjorie Mayberry, Miss Lucretia Snyder, Miss Marilyn Collar and Miss Mary Beth Freeman of Stetson; and Miss Mary Axelson of American University.

Alpha Gams Plan Holiday Luncheon

Mrs. George MacArthur of 805 N.E. 94th Street, will be hostess for the holiday coffee honoring active and alumnæ members of the Delta Alpha chapter of Alpha Gamma Delta sorority Wednesday morning. Among the guests will be the sorority's national rushing director, at eleven o'clock party will be the Misses Louise Sutton, Mary Lou Cooney, Mrs. Bob C. Brunson and Mrs. Burtin Ames. Pledges to be honored are the Misses Edith Ann Bate, Olive Jane Whitehead, Helen Joanson, Barbara Hutt, Elise Reese, all of Florida State University; Miss Dorothy Walker, University of Miami; the Misses Betty Jane Roberts, Hilda Eikins, Jackie Hinson, of Ft. Lauderdale, FSU; and Miss Nancy Lee Ward of Hollywood, Brenau.

Members' Birthdays Marked By Club

Third in a series of twelve birthday parties was given Monday night by the Harmony club of Greater Miami. Natalie Weinstein of Miami Beach was host to the group this month as they gathered to honor the December birthdays of Helen Wolf, Jeadi Josileti, Jeadi Sapiro, Esther Tierter, Rebecca Bast and Samuel J. Rand. A buffet supper, including a big birthday cake, was enjoyed by guests while they were entertained with violin solos by Rosalyn Rind. The Harmony Club is a newly chartered organization with over one hundred members. Their main goal is to adopt children from Europe and raise them here in America. President of the club is Sydney H. Scelo.

Druggist Auxiliary Sets Dance Date

Invitations have been extended to all members of the Dade County Pharmaceutical auxiliary for the annual Christmas party and dance to be given at nine o'clock Tuesday at the Miami Policemen's Benevolent Association hall, 2300 N.W. 14th Street. Mrs. W. L. Johnson, chairman of the social committee is in charge, assisted by Mrs. R. W. Gibbs, Mrs. H. R. Adams, Mrs. Michael Troy, Mrs. F. L. Capers, Mrs. Edwin L. Bridges, Mrs. D. M. Weaver and Mrs. J. O. Bowen. Gifts will be exchanged and refreshments served.

Raccoon Has Fun

OXFORD, Md. (UP)—Howard M. Dobson wonders what use a raccoon would have for bricks. Dobson and his family were awakened by loud thumps on the roof. Dobson found a raccoon engaged in tearing down his chimney, brick by brick.

REVIEWING THE NEW BOOKS

By UNITED PRESS Frank Luther Mott, dean of the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri, is a book author who has a big bump of curiosity. Among other things, he has pondered over best sellers and what makes them sell. So he decided to look into the matter. His research into this huge subject turned up much absorbing and sometimes surprising information, which he has set forth in "Golden Multitudes (Macmillan, $5). To define a best seller Mr. Mott had to invent a yardstick. He decided that a book to qualify as a best seller should have a total sale equal to one per cent of the population of the United States for the decade in which it was published. Thus, The Pilgrim's Progress, published in 1681, needed to sell only 1,000 to make the list; Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719, had to pass the 20,000 mark; Dickens' Christmas Carol, 1843, 175,000; A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 1943, 1,300,000. His list of 324 titles embraces general literature and omits Bibles, hymnals, text-books, almanacs, cookbooks, doctor books, manuals and reference works. The Bible has always been far in the lead in American publishing history. Present distribution is estimated at three million annually. The difficulties in the way of writing a book of this kind are enormous. As Mott points out, "In most cases exact figures are completely and hopelessly unavailable." And hundreds of publishing companies have sunk beneath the waters of oblivion in the century and a half of active American book publishing... A few contemporary publishers require sales figures to be kept a close secret." The book, however, is not merely a compilation of statistics. Far from it. It touches on the whole field of American publishing and is replete with anecdotes connected with some of the best-known works and their authors.

Money in Bank, No Taxes, Proves Too Boring for Town's Officials

By WILLIAM J. FOX UP Staff Correspondent ARLINGTON, Tenn. (UP) — This must be about the only town on earth where the officials want to quit because there's money in the treasury. Come Jan. 15, the 500 townsfolk will hold an election and the current group of unpaid city fathers is not interested in keeping their jobs. The current administration isn't being chased out, and no one has yelled for the sheriff. It's been a good administration and everything's legal. But that money business makes it a different story. It makes off-fice-holding work, and Arlington officials want no more of it. How It Stands The situation is this: It's been 20 years since this one-square-mile hamlet held an election. It's been 14 years since Arlington had municipal taxes. It's been 20 years since it had a new regime. It's been years since the town treasury worried about money. But now this taxpayer's paradise has a little cash in the till. And the new state retail sales tax is about to provide more. That's how come the Dec. 18 election. C. C. McAuley, a railroad agent, will retire as mayor. His successor will be a present alderman, C. W. Bond, an automobile dealer. One of the original aldermen is dead, and will be succeeded by his son. Two others are retiring and will be succeeded by new faces. Only M. S. Wilson has been persuaded to succeed himself as alderman. It will be a strange election. There is no opposition. There has been no name calling. No "throw the rascal out." Everybody is a friend. When the last election was held in February 1928, the town was $28,000 in debt. Taxes Disappear Two years after the administration took office with a $1.50 tax rate for each $100 of assessed valuation, they cut it to one dollar. Two years later they lowered the rate to 50 cents, and two years later cut enough for the end of all town taxes. In that time, they put in a new modern water system and retired every cent of outstanding indebtedness. But now they're tired and want to quit at the Dec. 18 election. Anyway, there's that money in the treasury—a nuisance.

EGGNOG SERVED AT OPEN HOUSE

Between seventy-five and one hundred friends dropped by the E. B. Wyatt home at 325 Avenue Alesio yesterday for eggnog. Hours for the "open house" were from nine until twelve o'clock.

FOR YOUR REAL ESTATE NEEDS SEE LESLIE H. COOMBES REALTOR

2312 Ponce de Leon Blvd. Phone 4-2586

CLOSED ALL DAY WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1947, and THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 1948

Following usual custom the Federal Savings and Loan Associations of the Greater Miami Area will be closed Wednesday, December 31st, 1947, for the purpose of computing dividends on savings accounts and commerce credit's accounts at the end of the year, and Thursday, January 1st, 1948, a Legal Holiday. CHASE FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION 1111 Lincoln Road Miami Beach 39, Fla. CORAL GABLES FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION 2501 Ponce de Leon Blvd. Coral Gables, Fla. DADE FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION 45 N. E. First Avenue Miami 32, Fla. FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION OF MIAMI 100 N. E. First Avenue Miami 32, Fla. MIAMI BEACH FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION 401 Lincoln Road Miami Beach 39, Fla.

$10 WILL OPEN

A Personal Checking Account without obligation to maintain any fixed balance. As much or as little may be kept in the account as desired. The cost is only 10c for each check written. General Banking MEMBER Federal National Group AND Insurance Corporation Federal Reserve System Florida National Bank at Coral Gables 1806 Ponce de Leon Blvd.