The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 5, 1954, Page 3

5 4 SOCIETY — PERSONALS — NEWS OF INTERES; TO WOMEN ITEMS OF INTEREST TO EVERYONE _§0 ELLEN KELLER, Editor “Tooedey, January 5, 1954 THE KEY WEST Citizen ls By Noted Novelist, Playwright Hardly anyone in a quiz pro; of “Who is Hereu - novels, BUTED gram could fail to answer correct- le Poirot?” Next to Sherlock Holm- After five years find Mr, W. L.| her admirers feared|Stephens back again at his cottage im of thelon Big Pine Key, He has as his *8-\buddy William Ryan, a prince be pro- Theatre for six play ran| Myrtle and Wesley Gibson are half years days with|Myrtle had a serious fil in her} of Mrs, Christie’s fiction, it is she was born levotees, hav- Veterans Admupistra at Tho- masville, Ga. _ still sunring their tavern and are! bath room, broke two ribs and a bone in her foot, Here’s speedy recovery, Dr. Fletcher arrived here two on her fiction,|weeks ago and is beautifying his to a WALLACE B. KIRKE, staging director of the Key West Garden Show, is making early be- ginnings on backgrounds for the forthcoming flower displays. He is shown above putting some skillful touches on the framework of the tropical hut which he designed and construct- resident's Wife Meets Exacting Role n Her First Year In White House By JANE EADS Mamie Eisenhower ends her first year in exacting role of First | ‘Lady with the A-plug—and no doubt an aching hand—for doing a -rate public relations job. No other hostess in Washington has the grueling task of a/ House mistress. Others can rest up for dinner parties or refuse | TELEPHONE: Citizen Office, 25661 arbara Curry Is Engaged ITo Navyman The engagement of Miss Barbara Jean Curry, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Otis R. Curry, McDonald Ave, | ones they feel they're not up to. ———--— Stock Island, has been announced not called on to snip rib-| s ite gat .jthe White House ruled out most to rest up a few moments while|by her parents to Leland B, Ren- the surging guests were called to|nicks, USN, a momentary halt. The groom is the son of Mr. and Bess Truman, a born homemak- | Mrs. David Rennicks, Machias, N. er who disliked formal social do-|Y., and he is attached as seaman ,jings and the limelight, set herito the Fleet All Weather Training own pattern. She was a gracious|,,. . hostess, popular with the press and|™* #¢ Boca Chica, sincerely liked by everybody, but) They will be married January she didn’t go all-out the way other|15th, at 8 p. m. at the home of first ladies have. She probably|Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Estenoz, thanks God that the renovation of|3528 Avenue E. formal official social functions dur- pee her husband’s tenure as Presi- lent. Mamie is a slow starter in the’ day’s occupation of a first lady. Her first day in the White House she had breakfast in bed, some- thing she certainly was entitled to .jafter the grueling campaign, elec- COIFFURE DESIGNERS J. REIDS Salén of Beauty 423 Fleming St. Phone LA CONCHA HOTEL tion and inauguration activities. She still often stays in bed until noon, though she awakens early) ed at his Von Phister Street home. It will hold arrangements of blossoms of flowering trop- ed in Yan-|visifed each night by racoons,| ical trees among many other displays. New York it ran|The come for something to eat. Work Has Begun O deductive me-|three lots. He is here for the en- have their lo-|planted on his place and a fire- of Devon, fre-|place surrounded by trees. A beau- town of Tor- the ind is the i" tiful place, Mr. and Mrs. Ziegler are still) she was encouraged tojoperating the Big Pine Key Inn, Some very handsome ground wi tionally famous Key West Flower S: Garden Club here. Working in cooperation with ¢ the Flower Show’s staging direct: bining his technical skill together w: at an early age,land are very successful in their) Mr. Kirke, who is a graduate of was music andienterprise — she serves a very/the Sheffield School of Yale Uni- and sin: ging that this jed well in)she is still down at the end of thelness and airiness. He constructed] own home, the an audience she $ a novel that, never published, significant encourage- nillpotts, the famous, ist who was a friend of her family at Tor- iE a2 fr E g £ zg g 28 rE g & E . ; = £ a Mysterious Af- its success set eee j she had seemingly ability to take away her readers with a , she had continued i s SEey aig gist Little | Indians” has r greatest successes. ae z iis i : y Evenin; tempting Southern Dish, versity, designed the beautifully porportioned hut that has an al- A word from Mrs, Shannahan —|most Japanese feeling in its light- County-Rd. it of seasoned, softly mellowed long) leaf pine which he purchased from Miller, a resident of Palm Vil-|an old building which was being ler is handy man for Dr. Fletcher. razed at United and Simonton He takes care of his motor boat) streets Egypt with her/and sure knows how to blow holes! te painstakingly cut the wood in the coral rock to plant fruitlinty proper lengths, removed nails trees. He had his baby born New| and extraneous material, and used| Years, and Key West has givedithe lumber to build the hut. This him many valuable butlis being done at the Kirke’s Von the most valuable of all is the/ppister Street home, as the” hut baby. has been skillfully designed so it) n Backgrounds ork is being laid for the now na- jhow sponsored annually by the hairman Mrs. Katherine Monroe, or Wallace B, Kirke is now com- ith his artistic capabilities in build- ing a charming structure to house the central exhibit. dens contained in eight-or-nine-| inch trays placed on shallow shel- ves on the side brackets. From the “eves” of the hut, which are more like a clerestory, there will be a dozen Peter Hunt trays with trailing greenery. Though the hut is only a sec- tion of the entire show, it is being constructed at an early stage to allow time to work on the staging ‘of the rest of the exhibits which will of necessity have to be done at the approximate time the show is assembled. This auspicious beginning to the gradual building up to the com-' as a serial in the The post office has heen moved! from Ramrod Key to Summerland Key, Fla, “ whose title of “And Then There Were None”), this story later was pub- lished in book form, and as a play telling of the mysterious deaths .|that came upon ten people invited by an unknown host for a week- end on a lonely island estate, it has bee one of the most popular stage attractions of this genera- tion. Its presentation at the Key West Barn’ Theatre will be one of the main events of the season. In the leading roles will.be seen Pa- tricia Angleman, Edmund Giesbert, Gertrude Splaine, Jack Clarke,. J. Johnathan Jackson, Ray Byrns, can be taken down in sections and reassembled at the flower show. The soft brown tones of the wood will complement the base cover- ing which will be of woven coco- nut fronds in an interesting pat- tern which lends both texture and a rustic quality to the hut. Screenings of the woven fronds will also be made for the bases lof the tables holding flower dis- plays around the room. The idea of using the theme of the hand- woven matting which is so effective came during a trip of the Kirkes to Cuba where they were guests lon one of the large estates which was beautifully and ingeniously landscaped, ‘and included several] little garden houses in the same gs’ Post (under the ‘Ann Carleton and LaVerne Lee, |feeling as the one that Wallace pleted displays gives all indi-' cations of growing into .one of Key West’s outstanding Flower' Shows which draw the interest not only of Key Westers and visitors to the Island City, but also achieve national standing in magazines and also publications of garden en-| thusiasts throughout the country, Garden Club © Will Hold Meeting Thursday Evening There will be a meeting of the \Key West Garden Club on Thurs- day.evening at 8 o’clock at the} |Woman’s Club at which Mrs! A. J. Mills will be in charge on the; ANNOUNCEMENT ‘CALENDAR TUESDAY Janvery Sth 9:00-Thrift Shop at U, S. Naval Commissary 9 - 12 9:00—Ladies’ Day Golf Tournament Key West Golf Club 10:00—Executive Board Meeting of OWC at Ft. Taylor 3:30—Key West Woman's Club at the Woman’s Club 6:45—Kiwanis Club La Concha Hotel ‘ 7;00—National Sojourners Chap. 283 Church of the Rock 9:30—Youth For Christ Fleming St. Methodist Church 7:30—Minoca Council No. 13 Redmen’s Hall 9:30—Order of Rainbow Girls Scottish Rite Temple 7;30—PTA Executive Board Meetings at Harris School 7:20—Catholic Daughters of America St. Anne’s Hall 7:45—Duplicate Bridge Ft, Taylor Officers’ Club 8;00—Beginners’ Bridge Ft, Taylor Officers’ Club $:00—Stock Car Ass’n at Legion Home Stock Is. $:00—Knights of Pythias Pythian Hall 00—Disabled Amer, Veterans Chap. 33, 422 Amelia St. :00—Junior Woman’s Club at the Woman's Club $:00—Key West Players at the Barn Theatre 8;00—Coral Shores PTA place to be announced $:00—Sea Finigee Cootiette No. 371 at VFW Home $:15—Rhumba Lessons Ft, Taylor Officers’ Club WEDNESDAY, Janvary 6th 9:00—Thrift Shop, at U. S.Naval Commissary, 9 - 12 0;00—ZX-11 OWC, place to be announced 20:00—Subron OWC, at Ft. Taylor Officers” Club 10:30—Island City Navy Wives’ Club 88, Bldg. 178, U. S. Naval $:00—Dade Lodge No. 14, at Scottish Rite Temple $:00—Junior Chamber of Commerce, at ouse $:90—K. W. Outboard Club Auxiliary, place to be announced \Y, January 7th 10:00—HS-1 Officers’ Wives’ Club, Aeropalms 32:15—Rotary Club, St, Paul’s Parish Hall 2:00—Thrift Shop, at U. S. Naval Commissary, 1 ~ 4 2:00—Woman’s Auxiliary (sewing) Monroe General Hospital Il, First Methodist Church, place to be announced @:30—Lions Club, at the den, 1007 Seminary st, :30—Dorcas Society at the Lutheran Chuteh $:00—Key West Garden Club, place to be announced $:00—CAP Cadets, at Poinciana Community House $:00—Elks Lodge, at the clubhouse VFW Post 3911, at the Post Home FRIDAY, January Sth o: singe peat an ane Wiveramtys 9-12 m Classes cers’ Wives, p =r ai what Payler ig. 88, Seaplane Base ¢:30—Youth For Christ, Poinciana Baptist Church @: Waters Rebekah Lodge, Pythian Hall Chapter No. 21, OES, at Seetith Rite Temple Kirke has designed and construct- ed. Within the hut there will be a central display of bloom arrange- iments of tropical flowering trtes including the tulip tree, bombax, lignum vitae, golden shower, Alex- ander laurel and an orchid tree, though these will be subject to sub- stitution because of weather con-| + [ditions or seasonal changes On the six broad ledges in the side bays will be tropical flower arrangements in clear or colored glass containers to carry out the feeling of lightness and delicacy. ‘There will be potted bougainvillia in the corner niches, and one of the most interesting of the hut’s dis- plays will be tiny miniature gar- Key Wester RS AIRMAN FIRST CLASS Jack F. Spencer, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Spencer, 1026 Virginia Street, Key West, is serving with the Aviation Engineer Force of the United States Air Force in Texas at Wolters Air Force Base, Texas. \Gray Ladies jat a party at the Old Folks Home’ »|fred Curry, In charge of the par-| ity was Mrs. J. B. Hartley. | val Officers’ Wives’ Club sent ice @ |cream, program. | Speakers will be George Solomon} jon the subject of the “Culture of House Plants.’ Mr, Solomon is di-| rector of the gardening and lands-| caping at the U. S. Naval Station. | Mrs. Roland Goulet will talk on the topic of ‘plant identification.” | There will be a question box at| the door where members attend-| ing the meeting may drop ques-| tions pertaining to gardening. | which will be answered later in the program. Are Hostesses At Party The Gray Ladies Unit of the Am- erican Red Cross were hostesses | honoring the birthday of Mr. Al-| The birthday cake was donated | by the Business and Professional Women’s Club, and the U S, Na- There was a program of piano selections by Miss E. Garcia. The Great Lakes could be seen | |from the moon with the naked eye. | Call 2-3254 For The Garden Club Show, Drawing sate: National Interest Here Each Spring ce R 8 2 5 Now that the holidays. are ever and a new year has be- gun, the ZX-11 Officers Wives Club are holding their first cof- fee of 1954 on Wednesday, Jan- vary 6, at 10:00 e’clock in the home of Mrs. Wm. A. Spooner at 3808 Duck Avenue. All new wives whe have not been contacted are cordiaily in- vited to attend. Pythian Sisters HS-1 Wives To Be OWC Hostesses The first meeting of Fort Taylor Officers’ Wives for the year 1954 will be a luncheon on Friday Jan- duary 8th at which the wives of Helicopter Squadron One will be} hostesses. Guest speaker will be Mr. Han- nan Leeds of Key West who will) talk on the topic of astrology. Luncheon reservations can be Install Officers _Tanchemn ceservetions_ cin be members up until Tuesday, Jan- ' Evening uary Sth, or by calling Fort Taylor At a meeting of the Pythian Sis-|before noon on Wednesday, Jan- ters held last evening by Templejuary 6th. No. 20, the following officers were| Anyone wishing the available installed: baby-sitting service should men- Past chief, Christine Key; mostition that when aking reservations. excellent chief, Lula MeClintock;| Cocktails will be served at 12;30 and holds long conferences with! the White House housekeeper and| Mrs, Mary Jane McCaffrey, her| Secretary, She’s been described as| a “ball of fire” once she’s on her ADELINE Ris Custom Werk Done In Our Own Decorating Workshop DIAL 2.2365 904 FLEMING ST. KEY WEST excellent senior, Niomi Sjursen;|in the lounge and luncheon will|}} excellent junior, Louise Thompson; begin at 1 o’clock. eee, van Stickney; secre- T tary, Katie ran; treasurer, iene a Papal le; guard, Flossie Taylor; in- Esk Vines Louw ond ecoriciete es i PTA Counell e erna Lowe -| Monroe iy ex: tive, Irma Braxton. ecutive Board will meet at the Refreshments were served fol-/Board of Education administration lowing the meeting. building Wednesday morning at At the prior meeting, the last/9:30. of 1953, the members of; Pythian Sisters exchanged gifts and went| In 1850, the clipper ship Sea to Bennie’s Cafeteria for refresh-| Witch went from New York to San ments. Pictures were taken of the|Francisco around the horn in 97 event, and there was discussion of|days waich was faster than any the “Grand Temple” meeting to be| steamship of that day could make held in Key West in April. Ithe trip. To The ARTMAN FAMILY and City of Key West We regard the passing ef Mr. L. P. Artman net only the loss ef a printer-publisher but alse a public benefactor and that he contributed te the best welfare of the civic, business, social and religious life ef ovr community. We hereby extend eur deep sympathy te the family and wish for them and their friends, Christian fortitude and consolation. TRINITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Right for That Social Occasion Giving a party? Making qm announcement? Bring your social stationery needs to us. We know what's right! -” Many Colorful Styles to Choose From ‘soon find that there is no one to tug theis toys from, ond end up by playing ofl alone! So share your toys With gis anh, We" tach mere fen” To have 2 chur!