The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 20, 1940, Page 6

PAGE SIX : SOCIETY Senior Class Play, ‘June Mad’ To Be Presented Friday, April 26: The Senior Class will present|Jack Einhorn; Shirley Went- edu ero telat ork convey: worth, Joaii Bowen; Ralph Went- riday, April ai ie 1g] School Auditorium. The cast in- — mac Vives fli Hare ris, Magali DeLeon. cludes the best talent ‘in ~ the; A The production crew ineludes: Senior Class: | Characters: ‘Student Director, Jack .Weech; Penny Wood, Sylvia Pinder;|Business Mgr., Lorayne Harring-! Chuck Harris, George Cates; Mrs, |ton; Ticket Mgr., Ella Nicolai; Wood, Jessie Watkins; Elmer! \Stagée Mgr., Charles Pierce; Cos- Tuttle, Arthur Hollerich; _Dr.|tume Mgr., Lois Malone; Make- Wood, Roland Keeton; Effie! up, Elaine Carney and Shirley (maid), Eva Valdes; Milly Lou, | Elbertson; Scenery, Jack Murray Mary Sawyer; G. Mervyn Rob-/and Jack Miller; Entertainment, erts, Ray Perez; Roger Van Vleck, | Phillip Orta; Property Mgr., Walter Maloney; Mr. Harris, Belva Hicks. Spirituale And Play ‘Tomorrow To Benefit Negro Aged Home For the many people in the|the city to care for indigent city who have expressed a de-}white people, this will be the sire to hear the Island City |first home of its kind for negroes. Choral singers, there will be an! Work will be begun by the first Opportunity to do so tomorrow |of May, and there will be ac- afternoon when that group will|commodations for thirteen peo- present selections of negro spirit- | ple. uals and songs of the old south. | Negroes of the city who have At the same time, the faculty;not been able to of the Douglass High School will|money to the ‘cause have offered present a play, “Mystery At Mid-|their services in other ways. night”. }Once the home is - established The performance is for the pur-|they will make the repairs that pose of raising funds for the es-/will be hecessary, take care of tablishment of a Negro old peo-|the laundry and general upkeep ple’s home. It is being given un-jof the establishment. der the sponsorship of the Key} Many of the. white people of West Lions Club, and will take|the island have become interest- place at the Palace Theater at'ed in the undertaking and have 3:00 p. m. jmade generous contributions to- Although there is a home in ‘wards the fund. NOTES OF TODAY To Pirates Cove Educational Meet For Service Wives The educational meeting of the Service Wives Club was held street, left yesterday for a visit yesterday afternoon at La Con-|with Mrs. Irving Wright at Pi- cha Park. rates Cove. She will ‘return to The meeting was called to or- | Key West in the near future for der by the president, followed '#M indefinite stay. by the roll call and reading of | ae | St. Augustine Visitor the minutes of the previous ses- | (George-F dolianaen,-whor had sion by the secretary. jbeen visiting in the city for sev- President Anderson then gave eral days, was a passenger on the a brief resume of the activities}early bus this morning for St. of the officers during the week. | Augustine. She read a copy of the letter sent | Sn Eas to Captains Jacobs and Carpen-| Leaves For New York der, and a letter she had receiv-|_ Miss Adelaide Marchant, who ed from Captain Jacobs in re- ‘had been a visitor in the city ply. oe last Wednesday and _ re- It was announced that the|Ported a very pléasant time, left regular meeting“next week will|this morning for her home at! be held Friday, April 26, 2 p.m, | Port Jervis, N. Y., with a stop at at the Mess Hall in the local nav- 7 Bellwood for a few days. al station. All Navy Wives are urgently requested to be present. | Meeting ‘then adjourned in or- | der that Mrs. Eva Warner and{ Miss Josephine Ubieta mgiht in- terest those present in the art of making belts. |To Pythias Convention Frazier Pinder, delegate to the convention of Knights of Py-/ | thias, which will be held in St. Petersburg next week, left this j Morning on the 7 o’clock bus. oe |On Miami Visit Magicians Appear | Arthur Espinola left this morn- contribute | Mi Mrs. R. T. Menner, 724 Eaton | Fire Department Opens Bingo Members of the Fire Depart-| ment announce the opening of a week’s run of Bingo Games to be played in the Strand Theatre building on Duval street. Games get under way tonight and last until next Saturday night. > Proceeds. go,.fo, the Uniform lamest of the department. TRANSPORTATION. S. S. OZARK WAS HERE Mallory Lines arrived from New | Orleans this morning and docked : at 1:45 with 73 tons of freight consisting of flour for local mer-| chants and miscellaneous _ shi ments of assorted freight. There were about 20 tons of| jcommodities for the WPA, and the entire shipment was un- loaded at 4:45 and the ship sailed sonville. four days and were guests at the Hotel La Concha, left for’ their homes in Tampa this morning... / P| ee as | Mrs. John R. pratt ail i mie Hegner, from —~Greenwood, of Handsboro, Miss;,. and Mrs. | Bill Davis, ‘of Greenville, “Miss., formed. a party of ;vigitors at, the | Aquarium this morning. Housing Officials ‘Here Russell Pancoast and Francis J. Tarloush, of Miami, arrived in the city yesterday afternoon for the purpose of meeting with the, local branch of the United States! Housing Authority of which Wal-! lace B. Kirke is the directof. Enjoyed The Fishing E. L. Beck, General Superin- tendent of the Chesapeake and Ohio R. R., with his wife, Mrs. Ed. Oakley, Betty Beck and Jenny Thompson, all of Hunting- | ton, W.. Va., spent a few days! here this week enjoying the fish- ! ing with Captain Verai~Roberts on the Lil-Dot. ‘They stayed at the Overseas Hata. Visitor From 1 Tilinois Mrs. George Morrill, wood; Illinois, /. sublirb’ of Chi- cago, is spending _ a_two-weeks’! vacation wi the” Harry Bakers, | at 1125 United 5 reet. Leave Next Monday |}. Mr. and Mrs. W. .J.. five-times successive visitors to} Ingling, day on an extended trip to the! west coast, ,.returnirig by way of! Ontario, Canada, ‘and New York. | Much time will be spent at both | World’s Fairs. Both plan to re- jturn here next year. To Visit Sick Father | Mrs. Harry Dongo, ‘and _ son, Truman Harry, left last night to Steamship Ozark of the Clyde-} at that hour for Miami and Jack- | ne, Miés?,°Mr." ane Mrs. Geo. E. Pugb,, their evening hob- cunbbing? ~swith, of May- } iKey West, will leave next Mon- | visit her father, Albert Terison, | MARY PEACOCK DIED THURSDAY PASSED AWAY IN UNIVER- SITY OF MIAMI HOSPITAL {of Coral Gables, have ‘advised; -.| Walter Maloney, brother of Mrs. |Peacock, of the death Thursday jat 12:30 -o’clock, of their daugh- |ter, Miss Mary Peacock, 23, in | University. Hospital of Miami. Miss Peacock was born in Key West and moved with her par- {ents to Miami in 1926, where ‘they have since made their home. | Survivors are the parents and |two sisters and two brothers. Funeral services will be held jin Miami 3 o'clock Monday aft- jernoon, It’s Dance Night At Pena’s Garden | Johnny Pritchard’s Orchestra is featured again tonight~ in a Saturday Night Dance and round j of entertainment to be presented jat’ Key. West's fayorite, (might »Pena’s Garden of Roses. “Polks who icniow: a.chance to spend at leas their friends at Pena’s on-Satur=|P ‘day night. 201 16 Real Estate Transfers | Transfers of realty recorded at the county court house are as follows: From Marion H. Lowe and her jhusband, Murray H. Lowe, to Shelby C. Leasure and wife, Catherine D. Leasure, part of Lot 8, Square 3 of Tract 16, on \the north side of South street, 76 feet from the corner of South and Whitehead streets. Consideration was mentioned as $10 and other {valuable considerations. From W. S. Edgar and_ wife ,Zedora Edgar to Emma. Ayala, \Lots 2.and 4 in Square 8, at a point on Division street, begin- ‘ning 148 feet from the corner. of |Division and Duval streets, ‘con- | sideration given as $10. | SMALL SPONGE SALE .° A small offering of sponges | was "placed -on.. the municipal |dock yesterday for buyers to] pmeke their bids.- The entire lot |was bought by different ones land the offerings brought $182.09, There were 40 bunches of sponge in the lot, one of which was of yellow sponge, which sold |for 65 cents. All the others were ‘wool sponges and the largest lot | consisted of 26 bunches, | selling |for $152.09. LISTEN IN! HEAR FRANCIS P. | |DAISY HARRIMAN GOT A QUIET JOB (Continued from Page One) matic faux pas just ten minutes after she was sworn in here. Just the sort of thing that suave men diplomats tremble over. : Started With Faux Pas She was asked: “Will you nego- tiate a trade agreement. between, Mr. and Mrs. Milton’ ‘Peadodk, late and the United States?” “Thats ‘been; done”, she said. It was the:first any, one, knew of it. She must have been cha- grined.\, But»she didn’t do any back-tracking, Just took the gaff, and sailed for Norway. ; Her first-test-under fire is the kind in which you need friends. She came through with flying colors. That was the “City of Flint” incident. Remember. the boat the Germans captured, took to Murmansk, Russia, and then tried to run down the Norwegian coast? From Russia we got no cléar reports. of the Flint’s crew. Then the Germans put in at a Norwegian port. It became Mrs. Harriman’s task to remind the Norwegians ‘that the Germans had Begs the boat by dock- is peee Re delicate iB abs iplomiat.The:Nor-| aid jecided to retiiriy (ithe|!ME- tq, its. American ‘créwi)’ Mrs. (las? ott ai tanmnediate Te- ey frofa! thé’ Pifat’s captain; and was the’fitst:to report to:the state | iment what actually a4 happened) 5 Came The Invasion A Then ..came..the.=morning of April 9. About three o'clock Mrs. Harriman’s phone rang. The Brit- ish minister was calling to ask if she’d' take over hisduties. The Germans were invading. He was leaving. She rushed into her clothes and to her office. She called the Nor- wegian foreign office, confirmed the story, then cabled Washing- ton. The arrival of her wire here was the first the rest of the TRY fT TODAY— > : The Favorite in Key West STAR % (BRAND . |didn’t have messages as. quickly. | | Historic debates were held. She |Timan”, said a friend. || Swedish. border Phoning, to re- . | Ingles, Mailed at Havana Month- SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1940 world knew the war had broken | Washington. She gathered for her/and said, “Well, there's ay | t out in earnest. There’s no way ot | Sunday night dinners 32 guests—|Garden”. 7 knowing yet why other. offices ithe cream of the day’s leaders. “| “No, it isn’t. That's Daisy wast Maybe it was because Mrs. Har-/had two rules. No one could get, “Nonsense”, said Darel timan sent a straight wire stat-| angry. No one could repeat what| “There's only one back like: ing the facts in regular English | they heard. | that”. —no code. | She'll hate all the hullabaloo | But it was Daisy, whd's busy By five she had her whole.staff/ about her row. But no story |these days proving thaty her and their families around her, | about Daisy Harriman is quite | backbone’s straight both lite eating breakfast, and ready to set /complete _ without mentioning and figuratively. out across country to safety. It |something about her appearance. was some Gh¥s'later-! when she ishe hates that, too. ‘Slie “argued was heard \dtomagpin—on the} with, me once- that: she, certainly | was ngt handsome. ‘But shé is! Her height and her erect carriage’ does if So up comes the. story | about Charles (Hell ’n” Maria) Mati Balcony 10c, Or- Dawes, He saw her back ACTOS |} 6p 15-20e; Ni 15-25¢ a Parisian hotel lobby one night, ight -MONROE. THEATER Bette Davis—Miriam Hopkins Geo. Brent THE OLD MAID This is her se¢ond war. During the last one she got together a corps of 300 women volunteers and*took them to France as a Red Cross motor corps. She’s a rich woman, private school graduate, had her debut} at Delmonico’s. At 19, she mar- ried the banker, J. Borden Har- timan. She had a daughter, and for years lived a protected life. Then she began reading social problems. One day she ‘startled her Republican family by saying that from here on she was voting Democratic. Her husband, now dead, used to laugh and say, “It’s fine. It makes our dinner conver- sations so interesting”. ‘Washington Liked Her Dinners They must have been interest- ing.:Since the 20’s.Mrs. Harriman has run the only true salon in The Store of Fashion invites your inspection of all the new spring merchandise now arriving! SHOES Dea es othes popular Dissses 1.98 up favorite -f Mics and ae OUR WINDOWS Sette rr y L PIECE GOODS’ ‘! SAREE Wham cn New, large stocks are now ° now ‘ NET, all shades, yd. SOG" in, in the latest Spring inch 40 _ . 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