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WINTER PARK TOPICS
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Vol. 22—No. 4
Winter Park, Florida, Friday, January 28, 1955
Dr. Eugene R. Shippen
Distinguished Minister,
Observing 90th Birthday
Fabulous Deering Estate,
Now Dade Co. Museum
To Be Shown In Film
Dr. Eugene Rodman Shippen,
celebrating his 90th birthday, has
packed into one lifetime enough
constructive work, erudition and
honors to distinguish half a
dozen men.
Listed in Who's Who as a "clergyman," he has been that and a
good deal more. He was born in
Worcester, Massachusetts, and
has held Unitarian pastorates in
Kansas, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Michigan.
At the age of four, young Master Shippen was already learning
to read and write. At ten, he was
living in Germany, acquiring, he
Winter Park's University Club
will enjoy an unusual illustrated
lecture program by Robert Tyler
Davis, director of "Vizcaya," the
Dade County Art Museum in Miami, tonight, Friday, at 8:00 p.m.
The program, which will be
presented free to the public at
the Club, promises to be worth a
good deal more than the price of
admission.
"Vizcaya," formerly the mysterious Alhambra-like estate of
the late Chicago manufacturerphilanthropist, James Deering, is
a 16th century fortress-palace
surrounded by 30 acres of spectacular formal gardens and subtropical woodlands bordering on
Biscayne Bay. Named after the
province in Spain, Vizcaya was
built in 1914 by 1000 artisans at
a cost of fifteen million dollars.
Mr. Deering spent 25 years collecting the rare European art
treasures that now are on view
throughout the great 69-room
house. Among the treasures: a
gigantic fireplace built for Catherine de Medicis, Queen of
France; a rug woven for the
grandfather of King Ferdinand,
patron of Columbus; a magnifi(Conlinued
on Page Eleven)
Sir Roger Makins, Ambassador from Britain to the U,S, who visited Rollins College Tuesday, talks informally with an attentive
group of Rollins students after his address at the Student Center, in
which he praised President Eisenhower's recent statement of American policy on Formosa defense.
C. Max Stanley, UWF's
4th National President,
Speaks Here Tomorrow
Mr. C. Max Stanley, national
president of United World Federalists, will be the speaker and
honored guest at a dinner meeting tomorrow night, Saturday, of
the Orlando-Winter Park Chapter
The third subscription concert of UWF, to be held at the
of the Florida Symphony will for Woman's Club, 6:30 p.m.
Mr. Stanley is the fourth presithe second time this season present a Brilliant young artist as dent of the organization which
guest soloist, Leonard Rose, 'cell- was founded in 1947 to gain pubist, who will play the Dvorak lic support for the transforma'Cello Concerto with the orches- tion of the United Nations into a
tra next Friday, February 4, 8:30 federation of nations based upon
p.m., in the Orlando Municipal worlrl laws to prevent war and
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Auditorium.
The orchestra, under the direction of Frank Miller, will play
Beethoven's overture to "Coriolanus" and the Symphony in D
Minor by Cesar Franck.
The Beethoven overture was
written during a period of the
composer's life when he was profoundly sympathetic to the revolutionary ideas of the day. His
closest friend, Schindler, said of
him, "He was an upholder of unlimited liberty and national independence and desired that everyone should take part in the government of the State . . . " Evidences of this valiant spirit roar
like a tempest throughout the
V
pages of the "Coriolanus" overture.
The D Minor Symphony of
Franck was completed in 1888
and given its first performance
at the Paris Conservatoire. His
biographer and pupil, Vincent
d'Indy, described the audience
response thus, "The subscribers
Leonard Rose, 'Cellist,
Plays Dvorak Concerto
With Symphony Friday
Dr. Eugene R. Shippen
Nonagenarian
says, "a taste for German literature and music, and beginning
the study of Latin." Preparing
for college, he attended the
famous Hoxbury Latin School in
Boston and later the Emerson
Institute in Washington, D. C.
Graduated from Harvard in 1887,
Dr. Shippen says that his scholastic record was "not distinguished
—I gave too much time to extracurricular affairs: president of
the Harvard Glee Club, secretary
of the Shakespeare Club, Business manager of the Harvard Advocate, and whatnot."
Three years in the Harvard Divinity School prepared Dr. Shippen for the Unitarian ministry,
and one year of study at Oxford,
1893-94, finished his formal education.
In April, 1900, the Spring
weather and heady atmosphere
of a bright new century-brought
Dr. Shippen to a felicitous decision: he would marry Elizabeth
Herrick Blount, of Dumbarton
Oaks, Washington, D. C, And
this he did, forthwith.
Their marriage, he says happily, has been "completely • suc(Continued on Page Eleven)
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on Page Twelve)
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C. Max Stanley
UWF
President
The Budapest Quartet,
Superb String Ensemble,
On Town Hal! Tuesday
The Budapest String Quartet,
whose playing has been called
"unsurpassed" and "irresistible"
by leading music savants, will
play for the Town Hall audience
next Tuesday, February 1, 8:15
p.m., at the High School Auditorium, as the fourth attraction in
the current series.
The Budapest is generally recognized by concertgoers to be
the premier string ensemble of
the day. Its members—Joseph
Roisman and Jac Gorodetzky, violinists, Boris Kroyt, violist, and
Mischa Schneider, 'cellist, first
came to America in 1930 with a
brilliant reputation already established on the Continent. After
very few concerts in tliis country
they were acclaimed as consummate masters of their art. Tours
of the United States, Canada,
North Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, South America
and Japan have further enhanced
their distinction and renown.
The program next Tuesday
night will include: String Quartet in E flat major, Opus 33, No.
2 by Haydn; String Quartet in G
minor, Opus 10 by Debussy; and
String Quartet in E flat major,
Opus 127 by Beethoven.
The last two Town Hall attractions, on February 8 and 15 respectively, will be "Castles and
Fiestas in Spain," and the famed
Dublin Players in George Bernard Shaw's "Devil's Disciple."
The former promises a colorful
kaleidoscope of the story-book
cities of Spain—Seville, Segovia,
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Social Notes
Dr. and Mrs. Eugene R. Shippen have announced the list of
friends who will assist at the
party on Sunday at Casa Felice
to celebrate Dr. Shippen's 90th
birthday.
Hostesses at the party will be
Mrs. Frederick Atherton, Mrs.
Marshall Clark, Mrs. Arthur
Cone, Mrs. Oliver K. Eaton, Mrs.
Henry James Forman, Mrs. Herman Gade, Miss Ethel Gray, Mrs.
Henry Shippen Lord, Mrs. Hugh
F. McKean, Mrs. Terry Morehouse, Mrs. James G a m b l e
Rogers, II, Mrs. Rodman Shippen,
Mrs. Dorothy Lockhart Smith
and Miss Sally Hammond.
Lovely arrangements of gladioli, gerbera and tropical leaves
in shades of yellow and brown in
the house and native fruits and
leaves in the patio, will be under
the artistic direction of Mrs.
Henry Jewett Greene. The 'birthday cake will be encircled with
a wreath of rare camellias.
In the event of rain the party
will be held at the home of Dr.
and Mrs. Rodman Shippen on
Golfview Terrace.
Mr, and Mrs. Archibald G.
Bush entertained at a dinner
party recently at their estate on
North Park Avenue for Dr. and
Mrs. Peter Ward and for Mr. and
Mrs. Herbert Charles. The Wards
-were guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles at the Seminole Hotel.
Other guests at the party were
12 to 44
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Phellis and
Mrs. Edward W. Van Horton, also
of the Seminole. Last week Dr.
and Mrs. Ward and Mr. and Mrs.
Charles motored to La Gorce
Island, Miami, where they visited
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. McKnight, of
St. Paul, Minn. Mr. McKnight
is chairman of the board of the
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, of which Mr.
Bush is chairman of the executive committee.
The Board of Trustees of the
Central Florida Museum have issued invitations to a number of
their friends to a reception to
meet Mr. Robert Tyler Davis, director of Vizcaya, and Mrs. Davis,
at the Morse Gallery of Art, Rollins College this afternoon at 4
o'clock,
Acting as hosts and hostesses
will be Mrs. Frederick W. Sleight,
Mrs. Chun. Ku Huang, Mrs. Robert Chapman, Mrs. Daniel Draper
and the trustees of the Central
Florida Museum who are Mrs.
Robert Hufstader, Mr. I. T. Frary,
Mr. Sleight, Mr. Draper, Mr.
Chapman, Mr. Huang, Mr. C.
Earnest Willard, Mrs. Loomis C.
Leedy, Mrs. Rhea Marsh Smith,
Mr. Henry H. Kubik, Jr., and
Mrs. Grace Phillips Johnson.
Mrs. Carl J. Friedrich, of Cambridge, Mass., is arriving next
week for a visit with her father,
Mr. William F. Pelham, of Osceola Avenue.
Mr .and Mrs. George Devon,
of Sylvan Drive, entertained at
cocktails on Sunday for a group
of over twenty Mends. The De-
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vons will have as their house
guest during the middle of February, Mr. Angelo Romano, of
New York.
Mrs. Rees McDuffie and her
sister, Mrs. Harvey L. Clapp,
have arrived at Virginia Inn for
the season from their homes in
Guilford, Conn.
Mrs. W. T. Buice, of Charlotte,
N. C, who is visiting her daughter, Mrs. John C. Fosgate and
family, of Laurel Road, was the
guest of honor on Tuesday at a
small luncheon given by Mrs.
Charles 0. Andrews, Jr., at her
residence on Palmer Avenue.
Other guests besides Mrs. Buice
were Mrs. Fosgate, Mrs. Irving
Reuter, Mrs. J. Beauchamp Coppedge, Mrs, Charles O. Andrews,
Sr., and Mrs. Frank A. Mizener.
Dr. Harry C. Barnett, retired
from the romance language department of Michigan State College, and Mrs. Barnett were
guests the first of the week of
Mr. and Mrs. Victor R. Gardner,
of Phelps Avenue. The Gardners
invited friends in Monday evening to meet them. Dr. and Mrs.
Barnett have taken a place at
Daytona Beach for a month.
Judge Thomas H. Brown and
Mrs. Brown, of Jersey City, N. J.,
are making a visit of several days
with Dr. George H. Opdyke, of
Interlachen Avenue.
Mrs. George W. Johnson, Jr.,
and little daughter, Cathy, have
come from Spokane, Wash,, for
a visit with the former's parents,
Mr. and Mrs, W. Butler Neide,
of Bonita Drive. Lt. Johnson,
USAF, is attending Staff and
Command School at Maxwell
Field, Ala., after receiving his
commission in the regular air
force at Christmas time.. Mrs.
Johnson and Cathy leave shortly
for a visit with her husband's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson,
Sr., in Tampa.
Dr. Edward Hume, formerly of
Yale in China, with Mrs. Hume
has arrived from New York to
spend six weeks at Mrs. M. Butler Moody's, 346 East Lyman Avenue. Mr. Hume is the author
of the book, "Doctors East and
Doctors West".
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Long, Taylor Briggs is a garden Missionary Assemblies
columnist and contributor to national magazines.
In Orlando Feb. 5-8
Mrs. Pennington Sefton is
The Florida Chain of MissionThe theme of the Garden chairman in charge of the arClub's annual flower show this rangements section, and all those ary Assemblies, which for the
year will be "Garden Dreams" interested in entering exhibits or past quarter century has made
and it will be staged February wishing further i n f o r m a t i o n annual tours of the State bringing inspiring messages from re5 and 6 in the new American should telephone her.
Mrs. Alfred W. Shepherd is ligious educators in the foreign
Legion Home.
will be held at the First
All residents of Winter Park chairman for the horticulture field,
Presbyterian Church, Orlando,
are invited to enter exhibits and section. AH those wishing to en- February
5-8. The theme this
there will be special classes for ter specimen plants or flowers year will be
"Firm Faith for a
those who have never exhibited may telephone her to get further Trembling World."
or won a blue ribbon in a flower information.
The Missionary Assemblies in
Among the many exhibits
show before.
which will be welcomed in the 1929 first visited only three FlorSpecial features of the show horticultural
section are roses, ida cities — DeLand, St. Peterswill include a class for men's ar- camellias,
orchids, begonias, burg and Orlando. In 1930 it exrangements, with the general
panded to include Tampa, Clear(Continued on Page Tan)
theme "Was It a Nightmare?",
water and Miami. It now goes to
and a number of displays by pronineteen cities, with 24 speakers
fessionals, including a mystery Benefit Card Party
spending six weeks each year
exhibit by Mulford Foster, interconducting not only the Assemnationally-known landscape ar- Of Unitarian Alliance
blies but discussions with high
tist and horticulturalist; and a
school students, civic clubs, adult
"Dream Garden" by Briggs and At Dr. Martin's Saturday forums
and university conferMembers of the Unitarian ences.
Prominent among this year's
Women's Alliance and their
friends will meet for a speakers are Dr. Karlis LeyasWe Major in Minors many
card party at the home of Dr. meyer, a Latvian, who miracuJohn Martin, Genius Drive, to- lously escaped death from a RusSmart, inexpensive clothes
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The card party will benefit the missionary on furlough from JaUnitarian S e r v i c e Committee pan; and the Rev. John A. Havea,
boys and girls . . .
which directs the missionary whose father and grandfather
work of the Unitarian Church were Methodist ministers in the
overseas. The Committee has Tonga Islands but whose ancessent medical and dental teaching tors were cannibals.
This is the first time in many
missions to Europe, the Near
East and South Korea and is years that the Assemblies have
doing a great deal of humanitar- not met in Winter Park but many
New Proctor Centre
ian work in the underprivileged Winter Parkians are expected to
attend the Orlando meetings.
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'Garden Dreams' Theme
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Jeanne Newton To Sing
For Community Series
Jeanne Newton, gifted young
soprano of Winter Park, will give
a song recital in the Monday
Evening Community Series January 31, 8 o'clock, in the Congregational Church.
Miss Newton is the recipient of
A full scholarship at the Rollins
Conservatory of Music which was
offered her by the University
Club and the College in recognition of her unusual musical talents. She is now in the Junior
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Mrs. Alice King, our milliner, is here
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Social Notes
Mrs. Clarence F. Gaines, of
Green Cove Road, accompanied
by her sister, Miss Grace Ryan,
of Syracuse, N. Y., went to Fort
Lauderdale this week to spend
several days at the Sea Ranch
Hotel. Mr. Gaines operates
Gainesway Farms in Lexington,
Ky.
Miss Charlotte T. Niven, of
Virginia Court, who for fifteen
years was general secretary of
the world Y.W.C.A. with headquarters in London, went to Miami to attend an unusual celeb r a t i o n commemorating the
100th anniversary of the Y.W.C.A.
A parade, in which members of
the board, past and present, were
dressed in quaint costumes of the
period and led by mounted police, was followed by a luncheon
at the Columbus Hotel.
The Rev. Victor O. Boyle, rector of St. Marks Church, Malone,
N. Y., and Mrs. Boyle were guests
over last week-end of Mr. and
Mrs. Herbert S. Hirshberg, of
Bonita Drive. Mr. Boyle has
charge of St. Johns by the Lake,
Merrill, N. Y., during the summer
months, where the Hirshbergs go
orlando
each season.
Dr. Jerry Stout, of the horticultural department of the University of Florida at Gainesville,
and Mrs. Stout will be guests
over the week-end of Mr. and
Mrs. V. R. Gardner. Dr. Stout
did graduate work at Michigan
State College under Mr. Gardner.
Dr. R. S. Morton, of Brewer
Avenue, invited a number of her
friends in for tea on Tuesday to
view her collection of over 250
bells from different countries of
the world. Dr. Morton's collection of Balinese sculpture is being shown at the Hobby Show
this week.
Mrs. Homer Smith, of Greenwood, Mass., is again spending
the winter with Mrs. William F.
Yust, of Glencoe Avenue. Mrs.
Harry A. Carpenter, of Rochester,
N. Y., who was with Mrs. Yust
last winter, is taking a world tour
and sailed recently from New
York on the Christopher Columbo.
At the annual meeting of the
Women of the Church, of the
Winter
Park Presbyterian
Church, the following were elected to office: Mrs. John C. Fosgate, president; Mrs. Ralph H.
Gordy, vice president; Mrs. G. L.
Blough, treasurer, and Mrs. Harlen M. Chapman, secretary. Dr.
Fremont Vale led the installation
service which was held January
17 in the Woman's Club where
services are held until the new
church is built.
Mr. Alan Hurst, of the Hercules Powder Company, Wilmington, Del., made a recent visit with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
E. Hurst, of Osceola Avenue, and
with his brother and family, Dr.
and Mrs. Ralph E. Hurst, Jr., of
Temple Drive. Mrs. Hurst, Jr.,
is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs.
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Dr. and Mrs. James W. W.
Walker, of Detmar Drive, have
recently returned from a delightful trip by air to Port-au-Prince,
Haiti, and Montego Bay and
Kingston in Jamaica. Dr. Walker,
whose beautiful pictures of his
travels are often shown in Winter Park, will have new ones of
this recent trip.
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Armstrong, of Nottingham, Pa., have
departed after a week's visit with
Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Park, of
Sunset Drive. This is the third
winter the Armstrongs have
spent in Florida, where Mr. Armstrong comes particularly for the
fishing. When Mr. Park was consul in Barraquilla, Colombia, in
South America, several years
ago, Mr. Armstrong was superintendent and chemist with the
water department there.
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Hot Potatoes
How would you feel if you
should awaken, in the middle of
the night to find your home on
fire? AND THEN —how would
you feel if obliged to stand out
in the cold and watch that home
burn to the ground? "Oh," you
say, "that couldn't happen here,
we have too efficient a Fire Department!" But it did happen
here, within the past few weeks,
right here in our own community. Do you want to know why?
Well, the reason was that the
house was, unfortunately, located
on a street that has the same
name as two other streets in Winter Park and Orlando.
"That's mighty stupid," you
say. And the answer is that it
is more than stupid, it is criminal.
"Well," you say, "why don't
they change the names of two of
these streets?" The Owl answers,
"Just try it."
It was tried a few years ago
at the request of our Postmaster,
our Fire Chief and our Chief of
Police . The result? Well, everyone was willing that the other
fellow's street name should be
changed, but not his. Some had
just had stationery printed and
certainly didn't propose to throw
it away simply because someone
wanted a street name changed;
others were attached to their
street names; others just didn't
like the idea, the old names were
plenty good enough.
Then the matter was brought
up before the City Commission-
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ers. Everyone was there, with all
his neighbors. The matter proved
to be a "hot potato" and "hot
potato" in political parlance
means trouble at the next election. So this hot potato was
quietly dropped, as is the wont
with hot potatoes, whether at
bonfires or in legislative halls.
Someone brought the matter
up again within the past few
months, and the result was dittoditto.
Now, why all the fuss about a
few street names? Well, think of
that house that burned to the
ground simply because it was on
a street that had the same name
as two other streets. The Fire
Department was notified that a
house was on fire on such and
such a street. They raced there.
No fire! Then they remembered
that another street bore the same
name. Away they drove. No fire
there! A third street was recalled
that had the same old name. The
fire was burning merrily there,
but the house was gone!
The family was left homeless
because of the stupidity of naming the street without looking up
the records to see if that name
had been used previously; and
because of the selfishness of
some Winter Park residents in
refusing to permit the renaming
of certain streets.
Moreover, the postmen are
constantly "up against it," in trying to decide which of several
streets is the one to which a certain letter should be delivered.
The police also experience difficulty in trying to locate the citizen who may be shooting up the
neighborhood, or perhaps beating
up his wife.
The Owl does find a lot of fault
with folks, doesn't he? Perhaps
he should call attention to the intelligence shown by street christeners in selecting names so
beautiful that several streets
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John Mason Brown Artfully Tickles Ribs,
Stirs Gray Matter of Town Hall Audience
Take one part George S. Kaufman, two parts Adlai Stevenson,
one part Oscar Levant, and one
part Will Hogers, and you have a
rough idea of the humor and sagacity which John Mason Brown
sprinkled liberally over his audience last Tuesday night at the
Winter Park High School auditorium in his long-awaited stint
for Dorothy Lockhart's Town
Hall Series.
In a f r e e - w h e e l i n g , loosejointed style, critic Brown meandered over the fields of modern
literature, Broadway theatre and
opera, the American political
scene, and motion pictures, picking out glittering nuggets here
and there and stringing them together for his listeners on
strands of delicious whimsey.
Beneath J.M.B.'s jocular, entertaining style and pyrotechnic
personality lurks a deeply serious purpose; namely, to shake
people out of their comfortable
stereotypes and prejudices and
make them think.
As he spoke Tuesday evening,
this purpose emerged and gathered surprising force. Using political events, recent books, plays,
operas and movies as illustrations, Mr. Brown described the
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the forces of fear and hate on the
other.
There is, he said, a too-prevalent surrender to fear in both
public and private life—initially
a fear of the Soviet-Chinese bloc
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tive Committee; Ted David,
Speaker of the 1955 House of
Three students from the Con- Representatives; James M. Milliservatory of Music will give a gan, Chairman of the Democratic
program for the Orlando Sorosis Executive Committee; G. Harold
next Tuesday, February 1, 2 p.m. Alexander, Chairman of the ReThey are Ann Bowers, soprano, publican Executive Committee;
and John Mette, baritone, pupils and others.
Registration will start at 9:30
of Prof. Ross Rosazza, and Richard Weilenmann, pianist, who a.m.
The committee in charge of
studies with Prof. Walter Charmbury. Miss Bowers and Mr. Weil- local arrangements includes: Olienmann are both scholarship stu- ver K. Eaton, Dr. Geneva Drinkdents. Mr. Mette will be seen in water, Dr. A. J. Hanna, Prof. Gora forthcoming production of don F. Lewis, Dr. James H. Rus"Gianni Schicchi" the Puccini sell, and Ronnie Butler.
one act opera to be given at the
Four Interesting Lectures
Annie Russell Theatre.
Coming On Community Courses
Four lectures will be given by
Citizenship Clearing House
members of the Rollins College
To Hold Conference at Rollins
faculty during the next week.
On Monday, January 31, WilThe Florida Citizenship Clearing House at Rollins College will liam A. Constable, Associate Prosponsor the second annual con- fessor of English, will speak on
ference on the subject "Prepar- Shakespeare's "As You Like It"
ing Young People for Politics", at 4:15 p.m. in Fred Stone Theatre. On Tuesday, Edna Wallace
next Saturday, January 29.
Speakers will include C. Farris Johnston will discuss the featurBryant, Speaker of the 1953 Fla. ed work on next week's SymHouse of Representatives and phony program, the Concerto in
Chairman of the FCCH Execu- B Minor for Violoncello and Orchestra, by Antonin Dvorak, at
10:45 a.m. in Dyer Memorial.
Dr. Francis J. Thompson, Professor of English, will review
Anya Seton's "Katherine" at 4:15
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Johnston, Asst. Prof, of Political
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Japanese Prints At Gallery
Never Before Shown In U. S.'
The exhibition at the Morse
Gallery of modern Japanese
prints collected by Karl A.
Bickel, of Sarasota, former president of the United Press Assn.,
will continue through Sunday,
January 30. Acquired by Mr.
Bickel directly from Japan, these
prints have never been seen before in this country. Morse Gallery of Art is open daily free of
charge from 2-5 p.m.
Recital Of Song Cycles
By Rosazza And Carter
Next On Rollins Series
Song Cycles of Beethoven,
Faure and Moussorgsky will be
interpreted by Ross Rosazza,
baritone, and John Carter, pianist, Conservatory faculty members, for the third recital in the
Rollins Concert Series on Sunday, February 6, 8:30 p.m., in the
Annie Russell Theatre.
As soloist with the Westminster Choir, Mr. Rosazza has appeared with the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra and the NBC Symphony. He
was the first American to receive
a Fulbright award to study
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Mr. Carter is well known
throughout the Southeast for his
performances, with Mr. Rosazza,
of chamber music.
MR. RICE REASSURES US
"According to the best estimate of leading astronomers the
sun will not die for at least five
billion years," This comforting
assurance was given members of
the University Club at last Tuesday's Pow Wow by Laban L. Rice,
retired scientist, educator, author
and lecturer.
Dr. Rice, armed with highly
complex and technical charts and
graphs, led his audience of more
than 100 through questions involved in "The Life and Death of
the Sun," such as "What was the
origin of the sun?," "What kind
of fuel has it been burning for
billions of years?," and "What is
to be the destined end of the
sun and how soon?"
The "how soon" seemed to be
the matter of greatest interest to
those present, and Dr. Rice's
answer was highly satisfactory
to all
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When deciding where to go for
a vacation trip, the reasons you
pick a certain place may be
weighty as taxes or frivolous as
the breeze. Last year I needed
a new sports jacket, and as I
had heard of the good buys you
can obtain in English woolens in
the British West Indies, I cast
my vote for the Caribbean. My
wife, Marie, just likes to travel
and doesn't need an excuse, so
she was agreeable to Jamaica,
Trinidad, and a few of the other
islands.
We left Winter Park in late
December, and after spending
the night in Miami, took the Pan
American plane to Jamaica. Stopping at Camaguey, Cuba, the
plane took on a couple of passengers and we took on a couple
of rum punches—-compliments of
the island. At Montego Bay we
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Arriving at Kingston, Jamaica,
we were met by the owner of the
Bamboo Lodge, a small place accommodating only 14 people.
Twenty-four hundred feet above
Kingston, on the side of the Blue
Mountains which rise to a height
of 7000 feet, the Lodge overlooks
the city and. the harbor beyond.
At night the twinkling lights of
the town make it look like a
fairyland.
Jamaica is filled with historical
lore. Port Royal, in the seventeenth century, was the chief
base for buccaneers, including
the notorious Henry Morgan. It
was considered one of the wickedest cities of the world and that
is why some people believe half
the town sank into the sea during a terrible earthquake in 1692.
It's said that when Columbus
returned from one of his voyages, Queen Isabella asked him
what Jamaica looked like, and for
answer he just crumpled up a
sheet of paper and dropped it on
the table.
We learned that thirty of the
items on the Bamboo Lodge
menu, including the coffee, were
grown on the premises. Although
they had a swimming pool, the
water got so cold at night that
the warmth of the day was not
sufficient to make the water comfortable, except for the most
hardy. Marie and I enjoyed most
the walks along the little parochial roads, which aren't built
for motor travel—just for burros
and natives.
Several fascinating trips about
the island were arranged by the
Lodge keeper for his guests. The
most memorable, I think, was to
the Rio Grande for rafting. After
loading three autos with passen-
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Feb. 15—The Dublin Players in
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gers and lunch, we started at 8
a.m., driving over the mountains
to the far coast of the island. We
passed through beautiful scenery,
stopped at Errql Flynn's hotel—
at Port Antonio on the north
coast—for a refreshing drink,
then drove back into the country
to a point on the Rio Grande
where we embarked on bamboo
rafts to drift down the river and
through many rapids.
These rafts are native-made
and are thirty feet long by four
feet wide with seats for two passengers amidships. A native
stands at the front of the raft
with a long pole to guide it down
the current. It's a thrilling ride,
especially when you are shooting
the rapids.
Along the way you see native
women doing the family wash at
the river's edge and little naked
native boys playing home-made
fifes, hoping for a few coins. The
tropical scenery is marvelous.
Part way down, we landed on a
sandy beach for a swim. Then
after lunch we were met by our
cars close to the mouth of the
river, and enjoyed the drive back
over the mountains, through the
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At this afternoon's meeting,
Friday at 3 o'clock, the members
will have the pleasure of hearing
a talk entitled, "The Violent
Drama of Ireland," by Mr. Oliver
K. Eaton, former mayor of Winter Park, who had a distinguished
career as a trial lawyer in Pittsburgh before coming here. He is
an active member of the University Club and a leader in civic
affairs.
Next Wednesday morning, February 2, at 10:30 o'clock, members
and guests will hear an informal
program of music by Miss Helen
Benner, former member of the
Philadelphia Grand Opera Company and radio artist, who sings
to her own accompaniment and
gives sprightly commentary between songs. Mrs. Florence Mulford is chairman of the music
committee arranging the program, and Mrs. Leonard Smith is
co-chairman. Morning coffee will
be served with Mrs. Nelson
Arend, social committee chairman, in charge.
As usual, Mrs. Geissler's bridge
lessons will be held Thursday
morning, February 3, at 10 o'clock, proceeds from which will
benefit the Scholarship Fund. On
Thursday night will be the
weekly dinner at 6 o'clock, followed by films. On February 11,
a Hospital Benefit is planned in
cooperation with the Garden
Club, featuring colored slides of
Morocco shown by Mrs. Ray
Greene.
JOHN MASON BROWN
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but now a fear of our neighbors
and ourselves, a kind of creeping
malaise of the mind which is
hamstringing education and sci-
ence and poisoning human relationships. Mr. Brown referred to
Senator McCarthy, to Los Angeles hate groups, and to the unthinking, ignorant self-appointed
"vigilantes" in America as feeding this fear or succumbing to it.
He cited examples of shameful
episodes involving the abridgment of civil rights or the acting
of officials on malicious, idiotic
gossip to embarrass and even imprison innocent people. He lambasted anti-intellectualism, the
fear of the "controversial," and
the "preference for the mediocre" we see around us; and he
called in an impressively serious
tone for a return, both in literature and in public life, of the
"hot voice of protest" against
such abject conformism.
He smiled, he clowned, he had
his responsive audience in rare
high spirits; and behind the jokes
came the clean breath of liberal
thought and the bright gleam of
a razor-sharp mind. John Mason
Brown is worth hearing again
and again.
—D. H. H.
UNIVERSITY CLUB
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Featured speaker at the seventh regular meeting Saturday
evening, January 29, will be W.
H. Twenhofel, distinguished geologist and author of numerous
books and articles in the field of
Sedimentation, Stratigraphy and
paleontology. His topic will be
"The Mountains of the Past and
Those of Today." Dinner will be
at 6:15 followed by a brief business meeting at 7:30 and Dr.
Twenhofel's talk at 8.
Twenty-eight new members
and their wives and sponsors will
be honor guests at an informal
reception to be held at the Club
Monday evening, January 31, at
8 p.m. The group is made up of
those elected to membership December 18, January 8, and January 15. There will be entertainment and light refreshments.
A large attendance of club
members and their guests is expected at the regular Pow Wow
to be held Friday afternoon, January 28th, when Ingersol Rand's
motion picture of the great
power development in.British Columbia is to be shown. Entitled
"Breakthrough" the film was procured for the University Club
showing by club member Frederick W. O'Neil, a former executive of the Ingersol Rand Co.
"The Chemical Revolution" is
the title of a talk to be given
Tuesday, February 1st, at the 3
p.m. Pow Wow of the University
Club, by Dean Sidney J. French,
of Rollins College. Dean French
is the author of a book by the
same title. Before coming to Rollins he held a professorship and
was Dean of Men at Colgate University.
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World War I, aviation was in it's
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Development of the Air Force
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A special showing of new
color, sound wildlife movies
will be shown at the Colony
Theatre Monday, February 14,
by Mr. John Storer, President,
Florida Audubon Society.
The proceeds from this Audubon Benefit will support the
Florida A u d u b o n Society's
teaching in the public schools,
a program of great value to
the development of our youth.
The Audubon Society advocates Nature Study as the
greatest deterrent to our national scandal, juvenile delinquency.
The theatre doors will open
at 10:30 a.m. and the show will
begin at 11:00 a.m.; admission
is $1.00 per person. For further information call the Florida Audubon Society, phone 49271.
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Park Congregational Church,
sponsored by the Laymen's Fellowship of the Church, opened
Wednesday afternoon with a
flourish and continued through
the 26th and 27th to draw fascinated spectators.
More than eighty exhibitors
presented f o r display their
various hobbies of collection or
construction, ranging from buttons through the gamut of original paintings, enamelling on copper, textile weaving, rughooking,
to original ceramics, mineralogy
and two collections of rare dolls.
The Suzanne Ruyker collection
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rare and delicate.
There was a handsome collection of miniature vases (Evelyn
Bauder). Coulter Craig's enamelling on copper is in excellent
taste and a hobby for discriminating craftsmen.
Helen C. Dudak displayed her
collection of exotic bells. Outstanding are the camel bells with
their reminiscence of desert caravans.
The Fosters, assisted by Claudia Cunningham, of the Weavers
Guild, showed a growing collection of beautiful handwoven articles made on their Nadeau
Hand-Skill Looms.
Dr. Rosalie Morton had a small
but distinctive exhibit of Bali
carvings with their primitive
technique and strange woods,
Dr. Grover had selected from
his storehouse of treasures two
examples of Sumer Clay Tablets
over six thousand years old. One
is in cuneiform. There is also a
page from the first Gutenberg
Bible as well as samples of the
works of the apprentice, Peter
Schoeffer.
Louise S. Schultes' dolls are as
much joy to the mature as to the
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them.
The quaint Madonna
seems to be outstanding.
Both Ralph M. Tenney and the
J. C, Moores exhibited minerals,
crystals and lapidary information each with special interest.
An unusual hobby is Dr. Marion Shepard's collection of letter openers.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Arthur had
a surprising display of fossils
under the title, "Hunting Extinct
Animals in Florida."
The original specimens of Ceramics by the Ceramic Society of
Orlando held an important place
in the exhibit.
The next two weeks' Hobby
columns will be written by Mrs.
Schultes and Maj. Tenney, both
stars of the Show.
of business with the cast of the
play no longer in character—just
their real-life selves, discussing
the point of the piece and
whether the author knew what
he was doing, and so forth.
It is certainly bright and different, and some of the effects
provide real fun of the most authentically theatrical kind. The
only criticism one might make is
that Mr. Wilder just gets the dramatic fire of his story wellkindled, then douses it out—this
not once, but a dozen times during the course of the show. But
as another playwright said after
trying vainly for the Pulitzer
Prize for years, eventually decrying it as hokum, and finally winning it, "Those Pulitzer Prize
people are a lot smarter than
they used to be."
Players especially worthy of
mention among the excellent Rollins cast are: Sally Huggard as
Sabina, Peter Adams as Mr. Antrobus, and Joan Jennings as
Mrs. Antrobus.—D.H.H,
Mankind Gets Bravo In
"Skin Of Our Teeth" As
Rollins Players Shine
The Rollins College production
of Thornton Wilder's "The Skin
of Our Teeth," which holds the
Rollins stage this week, is notable for several fine performances and the able direction of
Peter Dealing, new head of the
Annie Russell Theatre.
The play itself, a Pulitzer Prize
winner, offers the most extraordinary, not to say provocative,
handling of a weighty theme
(mankind's historic struggle and
his ultimate destiny) that theatrical experimentalists could wish.
Interrupting his characters frequently, the author tosses in
numerous asides and novel bits
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The Dublin Players will return for their third Winter Park
engagement to again delight theatregoers who have acclaimed
them "one of the finest acting
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this country."
Tickets are available at the
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Reviewer Applauds Symphony's Glinka, Handel,
Sondra Bianca's Versatility, In Second Concert
The second concert of this season's Florida Symphony programs last Thursday evening,
proved to be as delightful and interesting as the first one. Glinka's
Overture to "Russian and Ludmilla," a standard work in orchestral repertory, provided a
fine, spirited opening to a varied
program.
This was followed by one of the
highlights of the evening, a
splendid reading of Handel's
"Water Music." The task of projecting the fine classical nuances
and phrasing necessary in such
music is demanding even for a
group of seasoned and mature
performers. Let it here be said
that Conductor Frank Miller and
his associates proved themselves
capable of understanding and
performing music of this exacting style.
The soloist of the evening was
Miss Sondra Bianca, 24-year-old
pianist, who performed two
works of contrasting nature,
which is not always easy to do on
Roane's Radio & TV
one program. The first of these,
Concerto-Ballet, by Andre Bloch,
a Frenchman, is not really a concerto at all, but a piece of chamber music in which the piano is
a solo instrument. It has much
to offer in the way of rhythmic
and melodic inventiveness.
After the intermission, Miss
Bianca was presented in one of
the r e a l l y formidable "warhorses" of piano repertory, the
Franz Liszt "Concerto in E Flat."
Works such as this and of this
musical era, were designed to
show off the musical and physical
prowess of their performers.
What Miss Bianca may have
lacked in sheer "titanic strength"
in some of the more thunderous
passages, she certainly made up
for in her musical approach,
which is, after all, more important.
The program closed with a
spirited playing of Georges Enesco's First Roumanian Rhapsody, an interesting, if a little
too long, compilation of folk
melodies. This reviewer would
like to state that, having heard
it many times, even under the
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direction of the composer himself, our Mr. Miller made it more
interesting than any of them!
A large and enthusiastic audience insisted on many curtain
calls. There is no doubt that the
Florida S y m p h o n y Orchestra,
now in its fifth season, is on the
upward road and we should be
justly proud of its achievement.—L. H. S.
Azalea Park Shop Area
Opens Soon; "Tropical
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A new shopping center will
open formally at Azalea Park,
the rapidly-growing residential
development on route 50 near the
airport, on Thursday, February
3; and the owners of the smart
shops in the area will continue
the grand opening celebration
through Friday and Saturday,
February 4 and 5.
The shopping area will allow
for parking 2000 cars on a spacious paved lot.
One of the finest of the new
shops is Tropical Moderne, a gift
shop that prides itself on being
"modern as tomorrow." The shop
is a model of modern design and
decoration, and Mr. and Mrs.
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taste developed from long experience.
Mr. Melone had his own store
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his wife, Patricia, who managed
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his partner in managing the
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whose former home was Rio de
and Orlando
Janeiro, Brazil, speaks Portuguese, Spanish, and French—besides English—and like her husband is delighted with Orlando
and Winter Park, The couple
have bought a home on Rose
Island in Orlando and plan to
stay here "from now on."
FLOWER SHOW
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flowers of bulb plants, annuals
and perennials, branches from
flowering vines or shrubs, foliage
plants, flowering plants, plant
collections, etc.
Mrs. Arthur Henn is general
chairman in charge of the show
and is being assisted by Mrs.
Houston Wilson, co-chairman.
"The whole idea of the show is
to let people see what can be
grown in Central Florida and
what can be done with local plant
materials," Mrs. Arthur Dear, Jr.,
club president, said in discussing
the event.
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WINTER PARK TOPICS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1955
A NONAGENARIAN PROPOSES A TOAST TO CHIVALRY
Before I fall asleep to wake elsewhere,
I beg to lift my glass to Chivalry:
A colorful and fragrant memory;
"Noblesse oblige," its altruistic creed;
A knightly code for all true gentlemen;
Transcending duty as the day the dawn;
Revealing man's innate nobility;
Its essence, proud indifference to self;
Its glory, valorous service to the weak;
The one solution for mankind's malaise;
A magical elixir for the times.
Ah, Chivalry, if only you'd return,
Full soon, I swear, the world would be transformed.
—Eugene R. Shippen
January 30, 1955
DR. SHIPPEN
and records both Cotton Mather
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cessful." Speaking of his wife's and Ralph Waldo Emerson as its
love of beauty and artistic creati- ministers. Later he was elected
vity, he says they "opened a new moderator of the Boston Associaworld to this New England Puri- tion of Ministers. In 1925 he retan, and have been a continual ceived the degree of D.D. from
source of inspiration to me and the Meadville Theological School.
to a large circle of friends."
In 1927 he was a delegate to
The Shippens have four chil- the International Congress of Redren: Harold, an electrical engi- ligious Liberals in Prague, and
neer; Zoe, a portrait painter; in 1934 was sent by the American
Sylvia (Mrs. John M. Wells), the Unitarian Association to Egypt to
mother of three, and Rodman, a establish friendly relations with
psychiatrist.
liberal Moslems. Abroad a total
Dr. Shippen has served as min- of 14 times, he was "foreign corister in two Boston churches— respondent" for Winter Park
thirteen years in the First Parish Topics on one Middle East trip.
in Dorchester, and ten years in "All these trips abroad," he says
the historic Second Church in smilingly, "may account for my
Boston, which was begun in 1649 internationalism, which makes
me suspect in certain quarters."
He attributes his health and
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Mr. Davis, director of Vizcaya,
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He has been director of the Portland, Oregon, Art Museum and
more recently of the Montreal
Museum of Fine Arts. He has
published a number of works in
the art field.
The program is sponsored by
the Central Florida Museum, of
which Mr. Frederick W. Sleight
is director.
tion of University Women.
Mrs. Wolfe, with a twinkle in
her eye, assured her receptive
audience that she "loves dogs
and likes people," and quoted authors Papashivly: "We shall try
to tell of all the dogs and all the
people who have shared the
world together, and of what they
have meant to each other since
they made their pact, the first between man and animals, aeons
Board Of Day Nursery
ago."
Paying homage to the painstakHolds Monthly Meeting
ing research into history, legend,
Mrs. Loomis Leedy, first vice- folklore
and science which the
president of the Colored Day book revealed,
Mrs. Wolfe also
Nursery Association, presided at seasoned her talk
pathos
the January meeting of the Board and humor as she with
told of the
in the absence of the president, dogs that had been dear
to BenMiss Lydia Rometsch. The meet- jamin Franklin, Abraham
Lining was held at the home of Mrs. coln, Lord Byron, Dr. Schweitzer
James S. Capen.
Because of the addition of two and other eminent men.
At first expecting to find "Dogs
new teachers, it will be possible
to enrich the program of the and People" amusing "comic reSchool. There are now three lief" material, Mrs. Wolfe ended
teachers on the staff of both the by rating it an important book, a
Nursery and Kindergarten de- book with "great erudition — a
valuable and interesting work."
partments.
The Association is fortunate to
The usual Literary Luncheon
have Mrs. John Lipke as a new at Markham's restaurant in the
mepber. Mrs. Lipke was with the Eola Plaza, followed the meeting.
Chicago Board of Education for
Mrs, Edward Ashdown, chairtwenty-five years. Fifteen years man of the Literature Group, anwere in elementary school work nounces that the guest speaker
and the other ten were with the for Wednesday, Feb, 2, will be
Bureau of Child Study, in the Mrs. Edward Furey, who will dispsychiatric department, She is cuss "The Apprenticeship of Era graduate of Chicago Teachers nest Hemingway: T h e E,arly
College and holds B.A. and M,A. Years," by Charles A. Fenton.
degrees from Northwestern University.
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Lillian Lauferty Tells
Of "Dogs And People"
Mrs. James Wolfe of "Winter
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House," r e c e n t l y acclaimed
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THE McCAULLYS
(Continued from Page Seven)
most exotic, luxuriant foliage
you can imagine.
After three weeks in this delightful spot, we left for Haiti,
where we stopped just briefly,
then for Curacao, where we met
an old friend who is originally
from Peru. Curacao has interesting jewelry stores where you
can buy European jewelry, diamond watches, cameras, etc.,
duty-free.
Next we left for Trinidad by
way of Venezuela. Port of Spain,
Trinidad, is full of colored people
whose forebears were slaves until the British outlawed slavery
in the islands about 1834. Now
the Negroes and East Indians
outnumber whites there seemingly 100 to 1, and many of them
are prosperous, some quite rich.
After five days in Trinidad, we the island we prefer above all
flew to Tobago, the island where the others for interest and
Robinson Crusoe is supposed to beauty.
have been wrecked. Here we en- P.S.—When it comes to a place
joyed viewing hundreds of differ- for a permanent home, you can't
ent types of colorful fish through beat Florida.
a glass-bottomed bucket provided
by local boatmen. It was an as- LEONARD ROSE, 'CELLIST
tonishing sight.
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In Tobago a native tailor was could make neither head nor tail
recommended to me who could of the symphony, and the musimake the jacket I had in mind. cal authorities were in much the
We found him in a little shop same position. A professor at the
about ten feet square. When I Conservatoire commented, 'Who
asked to see his materials, he ever heard of writing for the
said, "Come with me." He led English horn in a symphony?' "
us to a general store and invited
Leonard Rose, the soloist, alus to look over their stock. We though only thirty-six, has been
went to two more stores before called "the superlative 'cellist of
finding just the British woolens our day" by Dmitri Mitropoulos,
I wanted. I had the jacket made conductor of the New York Philand was wearing it less than two harmonic. The 'Cello Concerto of
days later!
Dvorak which he will play
We spent three weeks on To- abounds in "all the rarest and
bago, then flew back to Jamaica, most beautiful melodies that
grow in the composer's native
land of Bohemia."
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JEANNE NEWTON
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Class, a member of the Chapel
Choir, Rollins Singers and Phi
Beta honorary fraternity.' This
spring she will have a leading
role in the Puccini opera "Gianni
Schicchi" to be presented by the
Rollins
Conservatory and Art deContributors to the Florida partments,
will give her JunSymphony Orchestra are to be ior Recitaland
April
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Newton's
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