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The Miami News from Miami, Florida • 65

Publication:
The Miami Newsi
Location:
Miami, Florida
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65
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i Way Out In DAVIES LAMENTS Old Mansion 'End Of Era5 where you will place Candlelight Inn in your ratings of fine dining establishments. La cated in the heart of Coconut Grove, this well known gathering place for artists, professional people and theatrical groups offers a relaxed, Bohemian atmosphere 'a la Greenwich Village' A CasdliHjhrs 4-ttsr Speclsl JUNIOR FILET MIGliO'! $2.50 ALL DINNERS INCLUDE! Shrimp Cocktail PreWi Li no Solod Baked Idaho tctoio Plue a plotter of hof D'Ouvtee contntipo of Chopped Crisp Bacon Cottago Cheete one Lhivee Chopped Liver Beett Sou) Ceum Imported Che SpreocM CHnire ftf Prveroqe Choife of frt SOME OF OUR SPECIALTIES Prims Aged Steaks Prims Rib Seel Double Thick lamb (hops Slons Crabs African lobsln Tails Alaskan King Crabs Aed meay etket eMtktrvt IteeM IipetleU Preeere4 DADE COUNTY AUDITORIUM Mon. Jan. 48:15 P.M? Benefit of W. Miami Volunteer Fireman' Ass'.

COUNTRY MUSIC Hit Porode Jamboree) 2-HOUR-2 T.V. Notwork Stew Moddod ltrvflaai 35 GREAT Country MmsIc Stars ON STAGE-IN PERSON Bill VYLER, MC Channel 10 ladt1 AIRDALES 7 Pioco tati Vret lecordi Recordini Artiste CHARLEY HALEY THE YO DELING COWIOY TV ond Rodio Star ANDY'S DANCING MAVERICKS (Nino People) -AT We NOVELTY RICHARD HALEY etk-a-Silly "eoaMtSaa" JUDY TAISOT Tka Society HlllblHy RADY WIUON And Hie Cellar aWCoanoll St Mooro, Pea? STAN DOTTII Raajo Oroat ALL THESE AND MANY OTHERS MUSIC-COMEDY-TUH ADULTS only $1.00 CHILDREN only JO Ticket! en telei Deae Ceentr Avditeritm W. Miami Volunteer Fin Stetlea tOI I.W. ne At. In Tko Loongo KING-SIZE MARTINI TAo 8 tit lm Town Lsnckee keibit st 11:30 an.

ar 0es til 1:00 a.ra. By James Bacon At Merte Write THE SITE that onc housed Marlon Davies (even inillion dollar beach house soon will bo parking lot. And that Just about tells )he whole story of what Income tax has done to Jhe rnode of living among movie Wars. Miss Davies, who now lives In a Beverly Hills mansion that is still fabulous by today's standards, thinks it a shame that her house Is no longer. A Masterpiece "It should never have been Jorn she told a reporter.

"It could have been kept open for the public to see. It was an artistic and historic masterpiece." Real estate maa 3, W. Prowi, present owner the land, is selling it to the State el California for ae rb Its master beach plan for the Santa Monica water-i front. A state source reports that Drowa's selling price was "relatively low" eonsld-gCring the market value of the land, which is near ex-r pensive beach homes owned MARION DAVIES A Landmark Doomed run as a private club aad later as a hotel. Marion has spent lots of money on herself, but she has spent millions more on others.

When a star finishes a picture nowadays, he gives each member of the crew a gift, 'a wrist wutch or a bottle of liquor. But Marion's Idea of a gift was to give a crew member's son a four-year scholarship to a medical school or pay off a staggering hospital debt She still bands out plenty of money. Associates estimate she has given away more than million dollars ia a 28-year war against childhood diseases. Construction will start this spring oa the new Marioa Davies Children's Clink at the medical center of the University of California at Los Angeles. It was made possible by a beqnest of from Miu Davies.

'i ll probably be remembered more for the parties I gave at the beach house," says Miss Davies, "but the clinic is the real Joy of my life." Candlelight Inn elded she must have an ocean home and bought two buildings for a price she has long forgotten. She does recall ordering a $7,50 hallway to connect the two buildings. Somehow the hallway made the ceilings ia the houses toe low and the rooms too small "Let's start over and build a new house from the ground up," Marlon decreed. And what a house! When it was finished in 1930, the price tag was $1,750,000 and building materials didn't cost as much then. But that was only the start Miss Davies had agents scour Europe to find rooms in ancient manors of impoverished nobility.

Whole rooms were transported intact to Santa Monica. Chandeliers were hand cut crystal from Tiffany's. A downstairs rathskeller with room for SO persons had once been an inn in Surrey, England, dating back to 1560. Fabulous Gifts In the 15 years that Miss Davies lived there, she esti mates she put three millions in the house, and four millions more in furnishings. When she sold the place in 1945, she got $600,000, almost to the dollar what the 37 fireplaces, many of them 300 years old, bad cost her.

For awhile the place was JaT XWVRI 3131 Commodore Plozo la the Heart of Coconut C'ovs r4 in 1 1wcl Rertk trtr PIvkMu IkMtre COmi At ITS DEST' THE WORLD FAMOUS by Darryl Zanuck and Bar- VjlIJ. Federal Highway, JALUNDALE Next to Hollywood Dog Track NOW OPEN tiA A' old Lloyd. But a condition of sale for the Davies' property was that Drown be able to lease back the land for $20,000 year Jor i as a 900-car parking Twenty thousand Is a pat-try sum compared with the that Miss Davies 'poured Into the place to make literally the Versailles of Hollywood. Miss Davies, then a reigning queen of Hollywood, de- TWO SHOWS NI6NTLY M0 P.M. Eeererifif "MERRY WIDOW OPERETTA" "STUDENT PRINCE OP NEIDELBER6' "SLUE DANUBE OPERETTA" Dinners ROAST TURKEY BROILED FISH LIVER (Smotre Onlem) ROAST CHICKEN wauotsi Ttittl Sale! tin VettUMH Tail at WkiU PitaUM The One The Only A dottier Seetee Dmine mm4 Dentin Mi OM WerM Atmee- ehere feeturlne Mwie Prent er Charcoal Breilei Steaks, H65 Chept, Chickes (re I Skew Bane end Inperted Bavarian Creep.

LARRY LYNN Htlerleea Steyeki Act ERICA, Reeutlful Lyri Soprene BARRY HILL C. it tMILINO PRITI if ANNALISA The Swka sealer RUDY Tke Swiai Bar) Rrnpef OUR Group ef Smeine Wetter It Pemeua Operettet StRVINQ DAILY AND SUNDAY 4 TO FJM. -A la mho hoor. Own and Operate) by FRANK POERCH Mammoth Atm Cocktail tvC 1,1 i ALL YOU CAN EAT BROILED LOBSTER or STEAMED JHRIMP $2.75 RESTAURANT Holdovers This Week Open Daily 11:30 1 a.m. Sunday Noan te IS pea.

and LOUNGE DINE IN AN OLD WORLD ATMOSPHERE AT THI 6815 BISCAYNt BLVD. Private (enqu.t Reem FREE PARKING Pk. PL -04S7 AIR CONDITIONED BAVARIAN PINE TREE INN All first-run theaters In Greater" Miami have movies which are holding over for German American Cuisine another week. SPECIALTIES SAUERBRATEN WITH OUMPLINQ Beef Riul.de Schnitzel Pigt Knuckles In the legitimate field, Co conut Grove Playhouse has "Come to the Dance'' for a Caterlo To: I 2441 S.W. 3 til AVE.

rn. Ill O-O40U parties" 4 llickt Swtt Star. I Mintii Frta llmf lt banquet! Ample Perfctne Ak Cene'ltleMo' two-week pin. Two new nightclub shows open this week. -eh THE EDEN ROC has comedian Alan King and Jan Kean with Ron Fletcher in 0t BtT I EST.

songs And dance opening TEAROOM Yeer heitf ni Set Sella) PRESENT Southern Homo Dinner OUR FAMOUS fUa COURSE PRIED OP VlWIUl Sunday, IS Noon till PJH. Widely Varied Menu 3340 MAIN HIGHWAY COCONUT GROVE Pet Reeervotlona Pk. HI 0-13 "FINE FOOD RESPECTFULLY YOURS" Wednesday. -w er If 44 JOHANJIN THE DEAUVOXE offers Member Diners Clab Propflotor Liberace with singer Janet1 Medlin, the Bob PeVoye Trio and Winnl Hoveler's Can-Can dancers for a week Am. neon ond European Dinners OPPOSITE THE CITY HALL IN OPA-LOCKA starting Thursday.

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