The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 8, 1953, Page 3

SOCIETY — PERSONALS — NEWS OF INTERES. TO WOMEN JO ELLEN KELLER, Editor Tyesday, December 8, 1953 TH iE KEY WEST CITIZEN Page 3: Christmas Ball At Officers’ Club Will Highlight Social Season’s Holiday Festivities The Officers’ Wives’ Club o the grand manner at their forma the Officers’ Club there on Frida A fifteen foot Christmas tree, ¢ will dominate decorations in the downstair lounge, painted star fish will give a nau- fireplace. ‘The bendstand will be flanked by a large snowmen on either side with: smaller cherub-snowma sprinkled around throughout the club. Tables ,will carry out the snow- man theme with the addition of Friday Eve { Ft. Taylor will open festivities in! 1 Christmas Ball to be given at y, December 11th. lowing with lights and ornaments and brightly | tical touch to the wall above the \Garden Club Will Meet On Thursday Christmas arrangements and de- corations will be featured at the greenery and candelabra, while} meeting of the Key West Garden splashy. red poinsettia vlants will|Club on Thursday December 10 at! add a ‘gay note to decorations/® p. m. at the Woman's Club. everywhere. Mrs. Thomas Chandler, program Admiral George C. Towner, USN,|chairman, announces that a very Commanding Officer Key West|interesting program is planned. A Naval Base, and Mrs. Towner willreading, “The Christmas Flower,” | have*at their table Capt. William! will be given by Mrs, Lee Goddard. H.: Truesdell, USN; Command-'Table decorations and other ar- ing Officer Fleet Sonar School, rangements are being made by ind Mrs. Truesdell, and the members of the club for display. Srruesdell's houseguests, a visit-/Mrs. B. C. Moreno is chairman! ing “Admiral and his Chief ofjof the Decorations Committee. Staff. Also: at the Towner’s table! Mrs. D. G. Heinly is planning the will be Capt. C. M. Murphy, USN,|tradional Christmas refreshments Chiet of Staff Key West Naval |to be served to members and their Base, and Mrs. Murphy. guests. Mrs. ‘Towner will wear a laven-| der ans silver iridescent sown, |H, Cc. Campbell oo ake toe tage, wil TO Attend gown; also floor length. will be of| shocking pink satin with matching Conference According to a release from the Chairmen of the wrsclgrigcat eres. or stay scott ‘Terri, ‘ate University of Florida, Gainesville, Mrs; C. Adkins, decorations, as- sisted. by the Mesdames W. W Bair, F. Butler, C. Johnson, . Featherstone, W. E. Campbell, and) J.P. Moran. Menu chairman is Mrs. J. W. Carter, poster and publicity chair-| man are the Mesdames B. F. Weart and H, Faxon. Ticket chair- man is Mrs. W. T. Bruce and band chairman, Mrs, B. Rice. ‘There will be many pre dance cocktail parties among the Navy people, and there will be jewel- hued evening gowns, white uni- forms, black tie, and the gaiety! |H. C. Campbell, principal of Key) |West High School will attend a meeting of county school superin-| endents and principals of second- ary schools in Palm Beach tomor- row, These educators from the Palm| |Beach area will meet with repre- \sentatives from the University of |Florida in order to plan closer cor-| relation in college and secondary testing programs. The meeting will emphasize the position of second-) |ary schools in relation to the pro- gram for superior sutdents at the! university level. ITEMS OF INTEREST TO Peace On Earth anal The four “corner boys” of the St. Paul's Cathedral Choir, London, receive instructions from the Headmaster. “Corner boys” are the four senior boys who stand or sit at cach end of the Choir when singing at Cathedral services. The Choir of St. Paul's, composed of 30 boys and 18 men, will include in its program during the tour EVERYONE Ce, Me? | ANNOUNCEMENT CALENDAR TUESDAY, December &th 9:00—Thrift Shop, at Naval Commissary, 9-12 9:00—Ladies’ Day Golf Tournament, Key West Golf Club 10:00—ZX-11 Officers’ Wives’ Club, at Aeropalms 6:45—Kiwanis Club, La Concha Hotel 7:30—Youth For Christ, Fleming St. Methodist Church 7:30—Order of Demolay, Scottish Rite Temple 7:30—First Methodist Church, WSCS, at the church 7:30—Truman School PTA, at the School 7:45—Duplicate Bridge, at Fort Taylor 8:00—Beginners’ Bridge, at Fort Taylor 8:00~—Knights of Pythias, Pythian Hall 8:00—Southernmost Pistol and Rifle Club, Legion Home Stock Island 8:00—Harris School PTA, at the school 8:00—FRA Ladies’ Auxiliary, at FRA Home 8:00—VFW Post 3911 Ladies’ Auxiliary, at VFW Home 8:15—Rumba Lessons, Fort Taylor | WEDNESDAY, December 9th 9:00—Thrift Shop, at Naval Commissary, 9-12 10:00—Fleet Training Group, OWC, place to be announced 10:00—FAWTU, OWC, place to be announced 10:30—Navy Wives’ Club No, 88, Bldg. 178, Naval Station 4:30-—United Daughters of the Confederacy, Setphen R. Mallory Chapter, place to be announced 7:30—Key West Art and Historical Society, place to be announced 30—Junior Debs, at Woman’s Club 00—DOES, No. 89, a: Elks Club Annex 8:00—Scottish Rite Bodies, at Scottish Rite Temple 3:00—Arthur Sawyer Post, Amer. Legion, at Legion Home 8:00—Sacerdotisas De Hogar No. i, 919 E:izabeth St. of the United States and Canada this fall, much of the music sung by them at the Coronation. The Rt. Rev. H. K. Sherrill, Presid- ing Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in extending his cordial welcome to the Choir, stated that the event will be an added tie binding the two nations and their Churches. Christmas Carols Will Be Heard Throughout Key West This Year With Singing By Church Groups The Carols of Christmas, deep in tradition, are a part of the greatest of annual festivals of the Christian ethic. Here on an island of palm tree s and sunshine, in a climate not unlike that of the Holy Land, the old familiar Christmas carols sung by the young people of Key West will be a heart-warming contribu- tion to the Christmas season. ; Carolers from most of the church-'spending his Christmas in the Holy es will go through the streets of Land in 1865. On Christmas eve he the town in the evenings during jeft Jerusalem for the near-by vil-| Christmas week, and to hospitals Jage of Bethlehem, and as he drew! and to the infirm to sing the songs|near to the village, he saw it lying that mean Christmas to everyone. across the valley, its streets al- The young people’s Service Lea-\most dark, and, even after eigh- gue of St. Paul's Episcopal Church teen centuries, appearing much as will carol throughout the town and on the evening of the Nativity, to shut-ins on the evening of Tues-| He rode out to the field where day, December 22nd. the shepherds saw the Star in the! The intermediate age group of East, and here, toq, he saw other 8:00—Junior Chamber of Commerce, at clubhouse THURSDAY, December 10th 10:00—Gray Ladies Corps, place to be announced 12:15—Rotury Club, St. Paul’s Parish Hall 1:00—Thrift Shop, at Naval Commissary, 1-4 2:00—Women’s Auxiliary (sewing), Monroe General Hospital 7:30—Nu Phi Mu sorority, at St. Anne’s Hall 7:30—JayShees, at JayCee clubhouse 7:30—Amateur Radio Club, at National Guard Armory 7:30—Mothers’ Club, CMI and St. Joseph’s School, at the con- vent auditorium 7:30—FRA Ladies’ Auxiliary, at U. S. Naval Hospital 8:00—Key West Garden Club, at the Key West Woman’s Club 8:00—Executive Board, PTA, at the high school 8:00—Busy Bee Club, place to be announced 8:00—Ladies’ Auxiliary, Post 3911, at VFW Home 8:00—Civil Air Patrol, at Poinciana Community House 8:00—Knights of Columbus, at NCCS Hall 8:00—Dr. Felix Varela Lodge No 64, 919 Elizabeth St. 8:00—CAP Cadets, Poinciana Community House Senior Class Pre-Views Play This Evening ezuEe DESIGNERS ” J, REIDS Salon of Beauty |423 Fleming St. LA CONCHA HOTEL The Senior Class of 1954 after TELEPHONE: Citizen O 25661 Dorcas Society Is Planning Christmas Party went to the Walther held officers were elec Corner Caroline and Whitehead Antiques Gifts Featuring the Antique and the Unique for Christmas Giving Oxf OPEN 10 A.M. - 5 P.M. AND 7 P.M. - 9 P.M, | 8:00—Ladies’ Auxiliary, Arthur Sawyer Unit, Legion Post House Phone 2-5263 and sparkle that mark the events) There will be other meetings as the highlight of the Christmas Scheduled at Tampa on December scence. 10th, and in other sections of the state later in the month. Audubon Society Opens Screen Tour Tomorrow Night B’nai Zion Auxiliary Serves Holiday Dinner ‘The second annual holiday din- of! First (Old Stone) Methodist Church will carol after their Christmas and all Methodist young people will| sing carols throughout Key West jon Christmas Eve. Christmas Eve is also the time chosen by the young people of First Presbyterian Church for their’ caroling. Joining the singing groups on party on Sunday, Dember 20th,} shepherds still keeping watch over "* ners ie siahdes a oe, |their flocks. Three years later, the T¢4dy to give their new play. beauty of the Bethlehem night still) Tonight, a special preview of in his memory, he wrote “‘O, Little/“A Curse Of An Aching Heart’ Town of Bethlehem” which was is to be given at 8 p. m. in the sung the following Sunday, Christ- high school auditorium for several | mas Day, by the children of his|organizations in town that have church to music written hastily by been invited as special guests. Mr. Redner, the organist, December 9th and 10th, Wednes- American Composer jday and Thursday of this week, the “It Came Upon The Midnight Play will be put on for the public| 0 S$ ADELINE Interiors Custom Work Done In Our Own Decorating Workshop DIAL 2.2365 904 FLEMING ST. KEY WEST ner was served to 120 guests by the womien of the B’nai Zion Auxiliary at their social hall recently. The menu had, as entree, turkey with ‘all the frills and trimmings. They were roasted to a turn, all five of them, and expertly carved by Al Miller, The rest of the din- William H. Wagoner, Jr., Homestead, Florida, is the nation-| jally known photographer and lec-| turer who will open the 1953-54) jAudubon Screen Tour Season at/ the Harris School Auditorium at! this eve of Christmas will be the Clear” is American also. It was youth fellowship of Church of the written by another clergyman, Ed- Rock. There are several. other! mynd Sears, a good pastor in a church groups who will carol, but small Massachusetts village. As Plans and dates ave not yet been ithe snow piled high on his window completed. jsill, he thought of the words of jelght o'clock Wednesday evening, | Wagoner, a former U. S. Signal Old Carols Sung {the angels with their message of The carols they will sing are as|“Peace On Earth, Good Will To Corps Photographer and Ranger-old as “‘Adeste Fideles,” the ma-| ward Men,” and he reached for at 8 p. m. in the Key West High; School Auditorium. | During the play the audience will be told when to boo and hiss for the villian and when to cheer for the hero. Community singing will follow all intermissions of the play. It is a guaranteed evening of COMMUNICATION WORKERS OF AMERICA Ist ANNUAL BENEFIT DANCE Friday, Dee. 11, 1953 9 P.M, till “2 FAMOUS FEATURES » Steel arch bridge * Extra side arch © Metatersal pad © Snug fitting heel 2 Soft tld leather 9.99 La Concha Hotel ner was prepared by the ladiesiNaturalist at Grand Canyon Na-|jestic Christmas hymn that is his pen and wrote the words of the, auehs for your enjoyment, so come Elks Club Annex under the direction of committee chairman Mrs. Clara Lipshitz as- sisted by her co-workers Mrs. Gil- da Weintraub and Mrs, Gloria Ber- man. There were charming table dec- orations of autumn foliage and flowers arranged by Mrs. Sophie Perlman, and music during the dinner and dancing was by a five- piece band. The door prize was won by’ Bill Appelrouth. Hostesses at the affair were The Mesdames Rae Appelrouth, Phyl- lis. Traub, Edith Blatt, Rose Ein- horn, Gladys Mulberry and Edna MONROE HOSPITAL AUXILIARY MEETS ‘There will be a Christmas meet- auspices of the Monroe County} Audubon Society and the National! jAudubon Society, presenting his! jown natural color film “Wander-| jland,” which contains a variety of |Sequences ot fish at the bottom of| the sea, big game of the Rockies, jthe beauty of the Everglades, de- jsert country, forest and swamp.| \“Wanderl, is a pictorial ac- jer’s wanderings to out of the way Places. bon Society for the sixth Spa | tive season, the Audubon Screen! Tours offer incomparable educa- tional, cultural, and entertaining tional Park, has just completed a)known to be translated into 76 dif-!verses. His friend, Dr Morrison, and be prepared to roll in the aisle, jlecture circuit in many states. He ferent languages. The origin of the sent it to Boston to another friend, during the play “Curse Of An Ach- appears in Key West under the|words existed in latin from the 13th/Mr, Willis, who set the words to ing Heart.” century, and the first English trans-|musie in the few days remaining lation was in a collection by John before Christmas, Francis Wade, an English clergy-| The desire for | | Peace on earth i |man, in 1751. The tune is ascribed was also expresse: Darien Zerbe | d by America’s to John Reading, an English or- loved poet, Henry Wadsworth Long- ganist, however there is some con- fellow in his own lovely Christmas troversy on that point, as others song “I heard the bells on Christ- claim Marle, a Portuguese born in| mas day, their old, familiar carols Lisbon in 1763 as the composer. |play.” Each stanza ended “Of He was choirmaster to the King of|peace on earth, good will to men,” have been sung in the Portuguese ten in the dark years of the War chapel in London about 1785 to that | Between The States, and Longfell- “Portuguese hymn.” {Army of the Potomac, lay seriously “Silent Night” brings memories wounded. to those who have known enough| The music to Longfellow’s ver- Christmases to remember Madame ses was composed by John Bap- Programs for the enjoyment of the|Schumann-Heink’s singing of it. It tiste Calkin, an English organist. NORMAN KRANICH’S ORCHESTRA Door Prizes Public Invited | Tickets are available at the door. ADMISSION, $1.20 Is Honored At Party It was a happy birthday for lit- count of William and June Wagon-| Portugal. Because it was known to! and with good reason. It was writ. U@ Darien Zerbe, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Zerbe, 1025 Ro- berts Lane, who was seven years Brought here by the local Audu-'same tune, it is known also as the ow’s own son, a lieutenant in the aes ee Her parents honored her at a party at their home where games |were played and refreshments in-| cluding a birthday cake, ice-cream | and sandwich fritos were served. | HAPPY HOMEMAKERS SAY: Ga THIS MOP WASHES — = ing of the Auxiliary of Monroe Gen- 3.13 ‘Seid only by your Fuiier Bruch decker / entire family. was a part of each Christmas Eve| Mendelssohn's Music | pelloons sod Fans y, andinelees foe eral Hospital tomorrow evening at! World famous photographers, sah hear her voice in the dearly! And no Christmas would be com.|the pruners it comes mace Bi 8 p. m. As it will mark the an- |turalists, writers and lecturers ap-|loved “Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht,” plete without “Hark The Herald {¢Stive occasion for the many lit- nual holiday season's observance, pear in person on these Programs. /a song that had its beginning on a Angels Sing,’ with its glorious We guests. all members are askec to attend|Here are men who have made Christmas eve in the last century |music by Felix Mendelssohn, one! The meeting will be held at the movie sequences for the Walt Dis-/in the small village of Oberndorfjof the few anthems where the hospital, ney nature films who, in their nar- in the Tyrolean Alps. words were written after the mus-| ze pas babpeain the montes: and) “Silent Night’ age jical score. “We Three Kings Of! Le auties of nature in a vivid, in-/ The young rector of the village The Orient Are” is called by the Will Speak Here timate, and gripping manner, church there was called by a knock Oxford Book of Carols as one of The local Society has purposely at the door to a climb up the the most successful of modern men kept admission costs to the mini-|mountainside to a rude cabin |carols. It again was written by an § f°">\S;|mum necessary to defray actual where he found a re-enaction of American, the Rev. John Henry "expenses of bringing the lecturers the Nativity scene, the young mo- Hopkins, Jr.. son of the first Epis- ‘|4nd their films to Key West to|ther on a bed of boughs, the baby copal Bishop of Vermont. Permit school children to attend boy in a rough cradle made by} All of these carols will be heard the matinees at the lowest pos-\the mountaineer father. Having throughout the Christmas season in sible price, since it is Tecognized given his blessing, Joseph Mohr’s|the voices of the caroling young » that the material presented is the|heart was full of the scene he had people of the Key West churches highest type of nature education just witnessed. It inspired him/and in the clear chimes and earil- available. By special arrangement anew with the miracle of Christ's lons that mark the noon and eve- service personnel (through Ist (birth and bright in his mind was ning of each day. Class) and their wives are invited the new melody which was to be to attend the Audubon Screen, “Silent Night, Holy Night.” It was Tours at student rates. Service-'played the next morning . . .the jmen and high school students! church organ was broken, but an Reger attend the evening program/old guitar was used as substitute) Girl Scout leaders in the Key) jat the Harris School, |and the choirmaster sang the West area will hold their annual The two matinees presented in words. \Christmas party at Wesley House the elementary schools are differ-| It was unknown except to the lit-'on Varela St., tomorrow evening ent from the adult program in that tle community in which it was at 8 p. m. Eee ae masted to epoca i chil-|written for many years until, in Saaeaiaeineeee jGren. In addition to the adult pro-'1833 it was sung at a Christmas K fs Sram to be presented Wednesday concert at Leipzig where it was >. Sane at 8:00 p. m. at the Harris School,'subsequently published and be. 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WAGONER, JR.. nationally famous lecturer and | naturalist, will open the Audu- bon’ Society’s Annual Screen Tour Series tomorrow evening ess| One of the largest single bloc! y of marble in the United States is incorporated in the Tomb of the . Unknown Soldier in Washington, bv. Cc. I School children, one at 9:00 a. m.| “0, Little Town of Bethlehem” meet: Thursday et Poinciana School and was written by America’s ~'’- C the other at 2:00 p. m. Thutedas lips Prooks, a vourg E> at Truman school. rector of P| Iphia, who was