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South Miami's Play Opens at Studio M

(A REVIEW) Produceable home - grown playwrights are scarce items. So it was with anticipation we caught the opening night Monday of "Not by Bread Alone" at Studio M Playhouse in the Gables. It is the second play by Ed Seney, South Miami newspaper-man, to be produced here and Director Ruth Foreman is to be encouraged with her experi-ment of original dramas. "Not by Bread Alone" re-volves, somewhat familiarly, around a middling-age account-ant for whom everything adds up but himself. In search of Being Somebody, George Nolt-ing goes through a series of situations whose ends are frus-tration. The play has much to com-mend it, yet the sum of the parts do not add up to a whole. There was good acting - it often glistened - good direc-tion and certainly some good playwriting. Rarely, though, were they magnetically attract-ed at once. Seney is a good phrase mak-er with pleasing style. He has a sense of stagecraft. His bookkeeper Nolting, played by Ada r Merritt High teacher Edward C. Lassiter, is handicapped by having to spend too much time, however, set-ting the stage. All the punch is saved for the last round. The major criticism is that I never felt involved in the play. All of this sounds more detri-mental than it really is. "Not by Bread Alone" is an eve-ning's entertainment and in Seney I believe we have a de-veloping playwright. Ed Lassiter seems a bit smile-stricken for a man with so grave a problem as he pre-tends to have. His finest mo-ment is in a well-done dream sequence. Sally Hankoff is very believ-able as the wife who can not get over the idea that Daddy was a better man. We hope Ruth Foreman will give us more of Jennifer Phil-lips and Toni Simeon. The lat-ter has a passion that raches out. Miss Phillips, in a minor part, has a freshness that can be made use of. Minna Wallman, as the matter-of-fact, over-sexed of-fice secretary, performs well. John Vella, the life-loving Italian, should be restrained a mite as could be Guy V. Hous-ton Jr. Houston is Mr. Bonner, the bewildered bookkeeper's boss, and we felt uncomfortable all evening for fear he would have an apopletic attack right on stage. Sets by Andrew Greenhut are economical and well done. His dream scene lighting is especially effective. A final comment is that while cheering sections for the home team are understand-able, they seem somewhat out of place in a professional thea-ter. Visiting cousins could bet-ter applaud when we've seen something and not when their kin and idol first appears on stage.-RN

At Palmetto High Awards Given Seniors

By EUNICE TALL Correspondent Several outstanding Palmet-to juniors and seniors were rec-ognized May 10 at the third annual scholastic and academ-ic awards assembly. The highest award a senior can receive, the Elks Leader-ship Award, was presented to John Rietz, president of the Student Council, and to Lynne Leonard, vice president of the senior class, by Dave Davis of the South Miami Elks. Another outstanding award, the DAR Citizenship Award, was given to Sandra Pearce, president of Palmetto's Future Teacher's Club and vice presi-dent of Girl's Council, by Mrs. Thomas S. Gowin. George Miller, junior, was the recipient of the Harvard Book Award, sponsored by the Miami Harvard Club. The club presents this annual award to the student best designed to at-tend Harvard. ESSAYISTS Students winning the Civil-tan Essay Contest on "Citizen-ship" were Mike Street, Carla Holt, and Shuford Davis. These seniors were awarded United States Savings Bonds. Winners of the Danforth Foundation Award, a book en-titled I Dare You, were Alan Nichols and Mary Wey. A special science citation was given to Jim Butcher, senior, by the Bosch and Lamb Sci-ence Society. Paul Browning and Pauline Russell received social studies awards. Several subject area achieve-ment awards were presented. The Barnard College Award for English composition was ac-cepted by Gwendolyn Grizzle, junior. Roger King was the rec-ipient of the South Miami Rotary Club Mathematics Award, and Emerson Moran, Mimi Klein, and Douglass Greist received journalistic awards. SCHOLARSHIPS Many Palmetto seniors have been accepted to colleges with scholarships. Paul Browning and Bill Brown will attend the Univer-sity of Miami; Mike Street to Depauw; Carla Holt to Scripps; Peter Eloff to the General Mo-tors Institute; John Kiraly to Dade County Junior College; and Jon Preu on a four year Naval ROTC training program. CONCERT The Palmetto Triple Trio, a nine-piece ensemble from the Chorus, is now planning its first annual Spring Concert. It is to be May 27 from 3 to 5 p.m. at Suniland Hall, Suni-land. An initiation ceremony will introduce new Triple Trio members for next year. These members were selected by 1960-61 Triple Trio members after a series of tryouts. Original members still with the Trio are Diane Conerly, Sandy Hoff, Betty Pressley, and Kathi White. New mem-bers are Linda Knight, Dee La-Manna, Jill Ford, and Pat Shull. Paul Dickey, sophomore, will be the accompanist for the group. Tickets to the concert are 25 cents.

Nancy Kelly Wins Title

Nancy Kelly, 1688 SW 9th St., is the new Miss Fraternal Order of Police, Metro Lodge 6. She was chosen from a group of 20 contestants at the lodge's Ship Wreck Dance last Saturday at 15100 NW 27th Ave. Miss Kelly will compete for the state title in June at the state convention in Jackson-ville.

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A comedy sketch will intro-duce new members of the Cor-al Way Jewish Center Sister-hood and their interests to members at a meeting sched-uled for 8:30 tonight (Thurs-day) at the center. The program was arranged by Mrs. Leon Weinstein, pro-gram chairman. The meeting, a general one, is open to visitors, according to Mrs. Robert Parent, publici-ty co-chairman for the sister-hood. Those participating in the hobby program and to be in-troduced are: Judy Green, Glo-ria Davis, Norma Rashkind, Reggie Levinson, Marilyn Goldstein, Diane Miller, Lor-raine Cohen, Kitty Soto, Mu-riel Merker. Marilyn Kreisberg, Helene Lanster, Jennie Solo, Carol Seidman, Shirley Shenkman, Ruth Hirsch, Esther Gordon, Jeannette Snyder, Evelyn Schwartz, Betty Sculnick. A parody, written by Paula Herris, will be sung by Renee Raymond and Elizabeth Rosen-berg, will cap the program.

Herbertans Elect New President

Mrs. Paul L. E. Helliwell, 9800 SW 62nd Ct., South Mi-ami, is the new president of The Herbertans, a parliamen-tary law club of Coral Gables. Mrs. Herberta Ann Leon-ardy, president of the Nation-al Association of Parliamenta-rians and a Coral Gables resi-dent, installed the officers. Others seated were Miss Lo-retta Sheehy, vice president; Miss Dorothy MacMaster, sec-retary; and Mrs. J. C. Del Camp, treasurer.

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