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Whitehall, Golf Clubs Open Today man's orchestra returning. Additions to the staff include Rudy Rosenbauer, chef; and William Gavigan, maitre d'hotel. Miss Mary Reardon is in her 18th winter as executive housekeeper. Mr. Borsten announced plans for reviving a number of Whitehall traditions, which will be open to the residents of the Palm Beaches.

THE PALM BEACH POST, SATURDAY, DEC. 17, 1949 Pag. Via Mizner Merchants Decorate 2 Huge Trees Two towering trees, one with blue lights and one with red, form the unusual Christmas decorations in Via Mizner, where the Via Miz ner Merchants has undertaken to spearhead Christmas activities, according to Mrs. James F. Wolcott, chairman.

Carols are heard in this little center each night from 7 to 9 o'clock, she announced. With prophecies by A. M. Son-nabend, president, and Larry Borsten, general manager, that this will be the best season in Whitehall's history, the big hotel opens for the season today. Already host to the International City Managers' Assn.

conference here and a number of seasonal guests, Whitehall this weekend greets an arriving holiday crowd with a full entertainment program, under direction of Mrs. Lucy Foley Lewis, social director. In addition to Whitehall, the Sun and Surf Club, with its extensive cabana colony and entertainment features, and the Palm Beach Country Club, with its golf course, begin their formal seasons today, Bert and Charlie Nicolls will again be pros at the country club. In Jardin Royal on the lake terrace, Bob Russell is to be master of ceremonies with Ruby New- eases at a morning coffee Friday at her Charles A. Munn gave a dinner last night at Amado.

In compliment to Mrs. Harold Young of Washington, who is visiting Mrs. Breckinridge Long, Mis. home in Plaza Circle for members of the Azalea Circle of the West Palm Beach Garden Club of which she is sponsor. Mr.

and Mrs. Simonson spent the summer at Seven Acres, their place The Vie to Hotel COCONUT ROW AT AUSTRALIAN AVE. PALM BEACH NOW OPEN iilinclion A Favorite for Granville R. Fortescue entertained with a luncheon, followed by bridge, Friday at Sun Dune, her Society of the Four Arts preview tea, were guests at the Biltmore last night. Mr.

and Mrs. Clarence W. Happ, of Kenilworth, 111., are at the Brazilian Court for several weeks. The Breakers will inaugurate its tea dances today when several parties will be given on the terrace and in the clubrooms. Music will be by Walter Miller's Meyer Davis orchestra, which will also present the first of the Sunday night con 100 WOOL Toppers for Christmas Gifts at Highlands, NC, going to New York for a month before returning to Palm Beach.

Their son, Byron, is attending school here and their daughter, Dawn, is arriving today from the Principia in St. Louis fai 3 th holidays. Mr. and Mrs. Stacy B.

Rankin Home at Manalapan. Col. and Mrs. Fortescue's daughter, Mrs. Fortescue Reynolds, and her son, Roland Reynolds, are arriving today from New York to be at Sun Dune for the holidays.

Invitations have been issued for the Junior Assembly Christmas party, a dinner dance to be held at the Bath and Tennis Club Dec. 27. Mrs. William Y. Sayad is chairman and Mrs.

Henry R. Rea and Mrs. Lorenzo E. Woodhouse hon certs in the grand loggia tomorrow. Thomas F.

Hulbert and V. J.I Roy entertained dinner guests at entertained a small group for lun cheon Friday at the Bath and Ten. nis Club as did Mr. and Mrs. Walter E.

V. Schulke. CATERING PARTICULARLY TO LUNCHEON AND DINNER PARTIES the Breakers last night. Paul Hassall, manager of the Ponce de Leon at St. Augustine, and M.

H. Westberry, also of St. Winners of the Sailfish Club's Phone 5164 2 John Waller, Mgr. canasta tournament Thursday night Smoo won were Mr. and Mrs.

John Wheeler ft Augustine, are at the Breakers for a short visit. i Peck, first; Mrs. Macsherry Robin son and Boone Porter, second: Alfred V. Leaman and B. Davis and dot and Crowninshield, third.

At the Coral Beach Club's tournament that night Mr. and Mrs. Iff KA B- 4 rj warm Robert E. Bissett were first; Mrs, Charles H. Warwick, and Mrs orary chairmen.

Comprising the committee are Mrs. James M. Bal-lentine, Mrs. Henrv K. Harding, Mrs.

Edward H. White, Mis. Frederick D. Morrish, Mrs. Milton A.

Fuller, Mrs. Wiley R. Reynolds, Mrs. Matthew T. Mellon, Mrs.

Thomas D. Mallory, Mrs. J. Stanley Reeve, Mrs. A.

Parker Bryant. Also, Mrs. Bailey B. Sory, Mrs. James A.

De Peyster, Mrs. Paul L. Maddock, Mrs. Abram Nesbitt, 2d, Mrs. Edgar W.

Jackson, Mrs. Charles R. Wilson, Mrs. T. G.

Townsend Phillips, Mrs. Robert L. Chastain, Mrs. Robert W. John P.

Wakeman, second, and Mr. and Mrs. H. Erwin Schur, third yj TaMc Mai. and Mrs.

Charles W. S. Rague of Brooklyn, NY, are at the Palm Beach Biltmore for two months. Mr. and Mrs.

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Mrs. Byron Simonson was hostess for a pre-holiday visit. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C.

Behnke of Rockville Centre, LI, are new arrivals at the hotel as is Miss Marguerite Mundt of Ferguson. St. Louis Mo. Mrs. Martha Lummus, society editor of the Miami Daily News, and Mrs.

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Van Dusen, Mrs. Marion Sims In the 12lh Four Arts Annual Show, previewed Friday afternoon at the gallery with a membership tea, the Society has presented an exhibition attesting to its real stature as an art center. The exhibition will be open to the public through Jan. 8. Here Is a show giving evidence Of rigid jurying to trip it of any Wyeth, Mrs.

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Matthew T. Mellon, president, and Mrs. Mellon, art chairman, were hosts. That art knows no age is evidenced in prize winners ranging bull Nelson, the Infant. Archangels are Paula Schulke and Joan Frail; angels, Judith Lynn Kersting, Dale O'Brien, De I 2.98 von Crummer, Toni Sue Scotti, Susan Stiles, Joan Roswell, Rosa dltrtitmai May Caler, Nancy Wilson, Nancy Long Henderson, Genie Richardson, sleeves in assorted medium and large Janice Beth Weiberg, Gail Gorton, smal 3.98 Gretchen Galloway, Joan Marie Patterson, Eden Gray Gerli, Suz from 20-year-old Keith Ingermann to 72-year-old Frank Ring, both of this city, each a recipient of a SPORTSWEAR, STREET FLOOR third place.

Proof that it Is a show "1 to which Florida may point with pride is that virtually all 40 ex hibitors are from the Palm Beaches anne Raymer Reynolds, Bonnie Milne, Helen Woodward, Julie Woodward, Deborah Fairfax Steele, Mary Jo Gibson. Children will bring their presents for the children of St. Patrick's Church in West Palm Beach, St. John's Mission in Lake Worth, and the migrants at Belle Glade. The gifts will be placed at the foot of the altar where the tableau Is to be presented under direction of Mrs.

Miriam B. Graham. or nearby centers, while the few from far away are known here an harqe" account uie our Illustrative of the modern art trends were the first place winners in each of the three media: (au 0, an. aw a Gertrude Schweitzer's "Girl in outstanding oil, a portrait (only one-third down) of rare charm, yet recognizable, reduced to simplest lines and col or: Constant Rey-Millet's gouache Birds a painting of sheer design, almost primitive, with a mo saiac-like quality, holder of first place In watercolors: Lorrie Gou let's (Mrs. Jose de Creeft) "Stand ing a forceful direct carving, which carried off the sculpture top honors.

Other winners: Oils, "Umber Harmony," an abstraction, by Jeannette Genius, second; "Trib ute to August Strindberg," a highly decorative allegorical studv in underwater blues, by Jack Haw WILL BE OPEN EVERY NIGHT TIL CHRISTMAS EVE OUR BOOKS ARE CLOSED! Charges made from Dec. 17th, on, will NOT BE PAYABLE until 1950 LINGERIE, SECOND FLOOR kins, third; watercolors, "Agare and Eros," a colored pen and ink drawing, of abstract design accented by calligraphy, by Ulfert S. Wilke, of the University of Louisville, first known here as a GI, second; "Ilka," a natural, simple wash portrait, by young Keith Ingermann, third; sculpture, "Ruth," an heroic finely carved head of coquina rock, by Joseph Benson Bishir, second; "Pelicano," a small black granite carving, simple arid humorous, by Frank Ring. Other entries range from the masterful, non competitive portrait studies of Charming Hare and the fine satiric, non-competitive work of Hopkins Hensel, both well-known here, to the Impressionist inspired work of such painters as Frances and Harold Vosseller and Carroll Tyson and the Cublstic derived technique of a newcomer, Robert Sargent Draper of Miami. There are hints of the School of Paris in Georges Duplaix's "Ballet Dancer;" abstractionism in the work of Wes Dunaway; modern, primitive effects in that of Richard L.

Merrick; humor in Jane Downs Carter's collage, "Women Walking;" and sheer brilliance of color and design in many others. Others exhibitors, all of whom had the distinction of being chosen from 200 entries, included: Mount-ford Coolidge, Hugh F. McKean, Heinrich Pfeiffer, P. K. Robinson, Olive (Mrs.

Bertrand) Taylor, Marlon Terry, Chester Tingler, oils; Carum Baroud, W. Douglas Burn-ham, Lily Converse, Sylvia Chilton, Jose de Creeft, Margaret Duke (Mrs. Angier Biddle Duke), John M. Klinkenberg, Riccardo Magni, Eliot O'llara, Ouida Romanoff, watercolors and other media; Marilyn Downes, Madeline Herink, John Hovannes, Eugene Kormendy, and Ouida Romanoff, sculpture. At the tea table were Mrs.

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