The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 22, 1952, Page 4

THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Saturday, November 22, 1952 SOCIETY ... PERSC DOROTHY RAYMER, Society Editor Initiation Of Nine New Pledges Conducted By Beta Sigma Phi Group The annual formal “Pledge Ritual of Beta Sigma Phi was held Tuesday night at the home of their sponsor, Caro of 1014 Johnson Street. Nine new pledges were in the sorority with a beautiful candlelight ceremony. Vic Sylvia Knight conducted the im pressive ritual, assisted by Eliza beth Acheson, Nellie Pearson and Ida Gellrich. Business concluded, there follow- ed a social gathering to which husbands and guests were invited. The house was charmingly de- corated with seasonal flowers and greenery. Hors d'oeuvres of tea biscuits and ham, shrimp and sauce and cheese spreads were served with] a delicious lunch, Members attending were Misses Gloria Rivas, Maud Roberts, Mari- lyn Watson, Julie George, Eliza- beth Acheson, Margaret Scully, and Virginia Witmarsh. Mesdames Mary Florence Rabon, Margaret Con- nor, Ann Barber, Ruby Dickerson, Catherine McManus, hlanche Mil- ler, Pauline Ketchings, Dolice Cur- ry, Nellie Pearson, Angelo Caro, Sylvia Knight, Ida Gellrich, Ann Gene Landrum, Bonnie Swan, Le- na Bervaldi, Jennie Fay Berval- di, Edith Lopez. Pledges were Miss Marina Sikes and Mesdames Elsie Peters, Mil-| dred Witherspoon, Ella Castro, Lorraine Woods, Norma Roberts, Marion :Strunk, Edna Miller and Pat Pearson. Guests present were Dr. Paul Laundrum, Dr. Delio Cobo, Judge Thomas Caro, Lt. Douglas Pear- son and Messers Lino Castro, N. W, Ketchings, E. A. Strunk III, George Curry, Jeff Knight Jr., Jim Har, Norman Kranich, Joseph Swan, Edward Miller, Carl Ber- valdi, Hollon Bervaldi, John Pear- son, Manuel Lopez, John Spotts- ‘wood, Donald Barber, J. M. Dick- erson and James McManus, Special Party Set By Navy Wives At White Hats Club The Island City Navy Wives’ Club held their weekly meeting at 10:30 Wednesday morning in the White Hats Club Lounge on the Naval Station. Mary T. Smith, pre- sident, presided. During the meeting the club de- cided to give a Stanley Party under the supervision of Mrs. Mae Atkins, representative of Stanley Products. Refreshments will be served. The party will be held in the White Hats Club on the Naval Station, December 3rd at 10:00 in the morning. All Navy Wives are cordially invited to attend. Gifts boxes for two boys in Korea, who have no one to re- member them, will be sent this week. Each member is donating a gift and the Welfare Committee Chairman; Ann Anderson is taking care of the mailing of packages. Rose Mary Majors, a new pros- pective member, was present. The next meeting will be held Wednesday morning Nov. 26 at 10:30 in the White Hats Club on the Naval Station. Spottswood, | Key West Scene Described In Famed “Monitor” David A. Heller, special corres- pondent to the travel page of the Christain Science Monitor, Boston newspaper, has a story in the Noveniber 14 issue which opens up ‘with the- question of whether or not President-elect Eisenhower will continue ~President Tkuman’s visits to Key West. He attributes |\the Island’ City’s tourist boom to |Truman’s repeated vacations, The writer points out that Frank. |lin D. Roosevelt also had a fond- |ness for the Florida Keys an¢ was |planning to buy Channel Key off {Long Key. “He (Roosevelt) even went so far as to design a hurricane-proof lodge to be built there. The Over- seas Highway was one of his pet | projects and he followed its pro- gress with great interest while it was being built during his admin- istration.” Heller lauds the highway as an “engineering marvel.” His story is headlined “Highway Plays Is- land Leapfrog In Gulf,” and he describes the beauty of the view and the fishing for old and young done along the bridges. the island, Heller writs of Indians, pirates, and finally the interest the Navy took to weed out the free- booters and éstablish a naval base which is still one) of th nation’s strongholds. He speaks of the points of interest: turtle crawls, the lighthouse, the open-air aquar- ium, the old homes, the vegetation and the “blending cultures of its people, Spanish, South American, New England and the culture of the British Bahamas are mingled in‘an unusual byt charming com- bination.” In the last paragraphs of the interesting article, the author adds: “Although Mr, Truman has brought Key West to the fore as a vacation spot, he inadvertantly created a minor problem for city officials. The nafme cf Division Street, one of the city’s principal thoroughfares, was changed to Tru- man Avenue, in the President’s honor. But, it seems, one of the oldest streets in town is named Margaret Street (not named for the President’s daughter), and Margaret Street, unfortunately for Key West, intersects Truman Ave- nue. “The street sign reads: Margaret Truman. ‘ “Chamber of Commerce officials report that the sign\ has become a mecca for camera hounds (Hel- ler was. evidently one of them since the paper carries a picture, too) and souvenir seekers. The sign, they add sadly, has to be constantly replaced because it is ists.” Wedding Date Is Set Bt MARRIAGE OF MISS IRAIDA RIVERO VASCOS to Manuel Delgado Chavez will take place November 30 Chureh of Monserrate in Havana, Cu! West girl, daughter of Mrs. Jose; She attended the Convent of M to be is a lieutenant pi is in Cuba. Both of Miss Vascos’ ding in Havana. pare: Reviewing briefly the history of | always being ‘collected’ by tour- | |. BETA SIGMA PHT £ home i | buffet sex Harris School \Enjoys Program |For Book Week Book Week v € rved at F The pr Announce | | sell, | el Curry; Joe Perez and I | ny Kolhage. Theme, Darlene : Kenneth Wallace. Malbon, Bonnie ¥ | cord, E jry, Ric } A Book is a Pla j and Terry } | ROARING. 20'S BAND LEADE DIES Mother Goose Rhymes — Scotty!’ | NEWS OF INTEREST TO WOMEN EMS OF INTEREST TO EVERYONE - ‘or Beta Si By RAYMER go tonight, Jim Cobb «© a party which was to be Kar Agricola’s, terday, we learned that ne by the house after mid- t only to find that*the party- s had dispersed. So for his re’s the guest list, or arianne Cavanaugh, ns, Earle “Jobnson, Ed DeHart, Jeanne and Ski Duffy, ‘Lt. * Comdr: immerman; Gladys rey Greenbaum, Ro- eth van Kluyve, ertz, George and and Bobs Pinkerton, or of the Woman's n be told dept: The es ‘and guests viewing stand, Maria, and out but one of the arner Gibson, ge. Much laugh+ acking, naturally. had just returned i home area. ner party of the ed last night with his mother, Mr, Vicki Walden, myself. Pre-din- e Codder: . bout ‘She Provinee- ce is Chef tear ~ . but the party at Ft, Taylor s a trio of of- fongies, real- gma Phi Sorority the organization at a candlelight ceremony held at the Lined up behind the beautifully decorated They are, left to right: Mesdames Elsie Peters, stro, Pat Pearson, Mildred Witherspoon, Marian Strunk and Miss Marina sday night. camera. Jack Clarke is now working in single harness and that makes him a horse of a different color He’s directing olios for the November 26 fashion show sponsored by Beta Sigma Phi sorority. Variety show entertainment is springing up all over! The sophomore class of the High School will present “Conch Capers” November 24 and 25. And the Key West Players open their first of the season play, “John Loves Mary” on Monday night. You'll love the comedy with that |rennavated touch. Mickey Renna |directs ‘and George Renna is pro- ducer, — 'FT, TAYLOR BRIDGE CLUB, TOPPERS NAMED | played by the Ft, Taylor Bridge Club have been announced. High, north and south, were Mrs" Irving T. Duke and Mrs. Frederick. Chapman. Second, north and south, Capt. | and “Mrs. A. 0. Momm. Top score, east and west, was made by Mrs. Wales Benham and Miss Katherine Lowe. Second, east and west, Lt. and Mrs. R. A. Harris. STAR BEHIND THE SCENES is Mickey Renna, director of the Key West Players comedy, “John Loves Mary” which opens time out handling the reins. She says that now the work other directors have had! When the curtain Monday at 8:30 p.m. her initial production will be presented PHONE: Citizen Office, 1935 Winter Art Program Of Exhibits For East Martello Towers Told Program director of the Key West Art and Historical Society, Elvira B. Reilly, an accomplished artist herself, announces the schedule for the art shows to be exhibited at East Martello Towers following the current one. The dates are subject to a few days leeway, but as the schedule stands now, Dixie Cooley will close her show in St. Petersburg Art Museum this weekend and open Sunday, November 23 at East Martello gallery. Her paintings will Maid’s Night Out By RAYMER “THE SNOWS OF KILIMAN- JARO,’ at the San Carlos Theatre. Whether or not Ernest Heming- way was pleased with the movie version of his story, whether or not hardboiled cinema critics agree, this impressive screen drama, Dar- ryl Zanuck producing, will hold _| be hung at East Martello through December 6. Mrs. Reilly expects to be in Key West at that date. _ Other exhibits scheduled for the winder are: - December 7 to December 27. . . Key West Artists (a special story on this is forthcoming) with an eye to a Christmas gift slant. December 28 to'January 17... . Contemporary American Gulf Coast Art Association Exhibit. January 18 to January 31.... Portrait of Key West by local artists. February 1 to February 14.... | Winners in this week’s games| pli Provincetown Art Association Ex- hibit. February 16 to February 28.... Lithographs by Alice Murphy. and water colors by Rosa Loesch. March 1 to March 14. . . New Jersey prints and drawings. March 29 to April 11. .. .National Society of Painters in Casein. For further immediate informa- tion, until November 28, contact 4 Mrs. Reilly, at 116 Central Park South, New York 19, N, Y., gies biifle : g25% gE He a E : 3 PARENTS, TEACHERS TO\ 22ers, cntranced sont HAVE PARTY MONDAY |¢0 all stratos of society. The Parents and teachers of | faces aye poy lle the four first grades of Harris around an artist’s Elementary will be entertained | Paris listening to blues in | by the P. T. A. at a party to be | noon played by a held in the Parish Hall of St. | Ava, afraid that I’s Episcopal Church, Mon- | love if she settles day evening at 8 p. m. Hostesses | ticity. throws herself down ‘for the evening will be the room | flight of stairs. representatives for these rooms. | is more than tha‘ ELF EE PRL GRIPS of a child. She TICKETS NOW ON SALE} from pat Loe Rago more tragedy. Tickets for the Key West Play- ers” production,’ “Sehn Loves | Pog aban ‘ent HON sSe8e et e i ef z: rt ; g $ jay is Monday, Novem! The performances will be at man’s Club on Duval Ea Lee William Helwig, 22, USS Saufley, and Grace Louise Barn- hill, 26, 1007 Whitehead Street, have Ty z 3 i i |Director Mickey Renna i 4 applied for a marriage licence at the office of County Judge Ray- mond R. Lord. 5 rl iv + i = : [ RAUL’S Music by Gus Ayala & His Orchestra DINNERS SERVED 6 P.M.-12:00 MICHAEL ARNOLD'S PIANO MAGIC BECAUSE OF THE HOLIDAY WEDNESDAY WILL BE POSITIVELY THE LAST DAY! Selling Out To The Walls BY COURT KOTTON KING Citizen Staff Photo at .» and that's what the zadiant smile is about.