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"Warm Peninsula” Will Play
Aug. 13-16 and 21-22 At HCT
Hihlands Community Thea
tre director Michael Hall has
scheduled two hold-over per
formances of "The Warm Pen
insula” next week end, follow
ing four showings tonight
through Sunday afternoon, Aug.
13-16. Last weekend's capacity
crowds for "The Mousetrap*
prompted the Community Thea
tre group to increase its per
formance schedule.
"The Warm Peninsula” is a
romantic comedy by Joe Mas
teroff featuring Broadway ac
tress Claire Luce in the''guest
artist" role of a witty silent
screen star. Appearing in die
two leading roles are Debby
Russell and Susan Hatfield.
Miss Russell plays Ruth Ar
Museum
Lecture
Dr. Edmund D. Brodie, Jr.,
of Clemson University will pre
sent an illustrated lecture Wed
nesday night, August 19, at die
Highlands Museum of Natural
History, beginning at 8 o'clock.
Dr. Brodie, who has done
research at Highlands Biolo
gical Station at various times,
has made an extensive study of
salamanders, particularly in
regard to the toxins within their
makeup. His subject Wednesday
night, "Toxins in Salamanders”
will reveal some interesting
discoveries concerning both
common and less well-known
types of salamanders.
The public is cordially in
vited to attend.
Town
Commends
Firemen
At the regular meeting of the
Highlands Town Board of Com
missioners last Monday night it
was voted to send a letter of
commendation to the Highlands
Volunteer Fire and Rescue De
partment in recognition of the
valuable service rendered by
them to the town of Highlands
and surrounding area.
The men who make up this
volunteer organization are Jim
my Talley, Chief; Olin Vinson,
Assistant Chief; Bobby Houston,
Captain; Bobby Creswell, Lieu
tenant; Sam Zachary, Lieuten
ant; Herbert James, Secretary
Treasurer; Gilbert Beck, Am
bulance Captain; Bud Lamb,
Ambulance Lieutenant; and L.
C. Billingsley, Maurice Cleave
land, William Creswell, Guy
Crisp, Arnold Keener, Floyd
Lamb, Fred Munger, Lawrence
Munger, Romaine Owens, Ben
son Picldesimer, Roy Potts,
Furman Reese, R. L. Reese,
Jr„ Arthur Rogers, Jr., George
Schmitt, Bobby Talley, Paul
Waldon, Curt Wilson, Mike
Zachary and Richard Zoellner.
nold, a loveable but plain girl
from Milwaukee who hopes to
find a husband while vacation
ing in Miami Beach. Susan
Hatfield plays Joanne, the love
lorn chorus girl who befriends
her. The roles were origin
ally played by Julie Harris and
J une Havoc.
Romantic interest is pro
vided by Robby Smith, Bob Han
cock and Bob Jones. Original
music has been written for the
production by Jones, who will
perform backstage with assis
tance from Jaoqui Kams and
Gene Nellsen. Lighting tech
nician is Jim Painter. The
Miami setting has been designed
by Frank Bennett.
Tickets are now on sale at
Wit’s End Shop between 10 a.m.
and 4 p.m. Headquarters will
be open again next Tuesday
through Saturday for the addi
tional performances next week
end. Admission is $3for adults
and $2 for students. Patrons are
urged to call 526-2695for extra
tickets or cancellations.
"The Warm Peninsula” is
suitable entertainment for stu
dents. It is a "summer ro
mance”, at once comic and
dramatic. The play has seldom
been produced in this area and
presents Highlands' theatre
goers with an excellent change
of pace from the usual comedy
fare.
Attention
Book Lovers
Here is your chance. A Silent
Auction, sponsored by the
Hudson Library will be held at
the Library on Tuesday, August
18th, from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
A carefully selected assortment
of books, both old and new, all
interesting and some unusual,
will be on display. Come in and
browse.
Should you desire to own one
or more of these attractive vol
umes, write your bid on the
bidders’ sheet provided with
each book. If no one raises
the bid the book will be yours
when the bidding stops at 3 p.m.
You may raise your own bid or
others’ bids if you wish. You
do not need to be present to
receive your selection, but be
sure to register your address
and telephone number.
Also, this is the season of
the Library’s annual clearance
sale. You will want to look
through the books on the bar
gain bookshelf.
The Silent Auction is an op
portunity you will not want to
miss. Please note the date:
Tuesday, August 18, from 10:30
a.m. to 3 p.m.
Broadway actress Claire Luce is appearing in “The Warm Peninsula” opening tonight at HOT.
Miss Luce will also model at the hospital benefit fashion show August 19 at King’s Imu
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Auction To Benefit Local Hospital
One of the nation's notame
collections of American and
English antiques will be pub
lically auctioned September 9
12 at Highlands, on VZTOP,
the estate of the late Blanche
Edmondson Rainwater, by O.
Rundle Gilbert, nationally
known auctioneer of New York.
The forty room residence and
grounds have been donated
by the Rainwater family to the
Highdlands-Cashiers Hospital,
Inc., and Baptist Hospital of
Pensacola, Florida. Mr. Rain
water and his three sons are
all Pensacola residents.
Mrs. Rainwater was the wife
of Charles Veazey Rainwater,
Coca-Cola Bottling Company
executive, who directed the bot
tie design, basic sales techni
ques and standard operation
practices. VZTOP property,
named for the Coca-Cola in
dustrialist and the estate's lo
cation, is situated on fifty-one
acres, the entire top of Little
Yellow Mountain, 4,200 feet
above sea level.
The 18th and 19th century
furnishings of VZTOP are the
finest to be seen anywhere in
the South and were personally
selected during the 1920s and
1930s by Mrs. Rainwater who
died before she could occupy
the home. Construction of
VZTOP was started in 1937
and completed in 1940. The
antique furnishings are not only
the Southern hard-to-find
Cashiers Fish Fry
The annual Cashiers Fish
Fry is coming up this Satur
day, August 15, at Cashiers
Community Center, beginning
at 5 p.m. The sponsors are the
Cashiers-Glenville Lions Club,
Cashiers Community Council,
and the Fire Department
The Fish Fry is free and
invitation is extended to Cash
iers area residents to attend.
Dancing and musical enter
tainment follow the Fish Fry,
and drawings will be held for a
color television set and
Polaroid camera.
Members of the Highlands Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department day.
donned white aprons and served barbecue most of the day Satur
(H.H. Photo).
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pieces but also from New Eng
land and New York as well
as England. These are all
beautifully arranged, giving one
the feeling of perfect har
mony, from the very rare im
portant Connecticut walnut and
birch highboy, circa 1750, to
the set of twelve American
mahogany dining chairs with
pine seats, also of the 18th
century, which are comple
mented by two Sheraton break
fronts. The table decor Includes
Georgian and Early American
coin silver. The Grill Room
furnishings were taken from
the Paul Revere Room of Mrs.
Rainwater’s Atlanta house. In
her husband's interest, Mrs.
Rainwater also acquired a fabu
lous collection of Audubon bird
prints including "The Great
American Sea Eagle”, "The
Night Heron” and ‘The Brazi
lian Caracara Eagle.”
Mr. Gilbert stated that a
donation of $2.00 will be col
lected by the Highlands-Cash
iers Hospital, Inc., on the days
ot the exhibit, September 6, 7
&8. Illustrated brochures and
a catalogue covering over 130
photographs of the furnishings
are available.
This auction represents the
disbursement of one of the
South’s major family collec
tions.
Mrs. Worley
Dies In Fla.
Mrs. George A. Worley, 73,
long-time summer resident of
Highlands, died August 5 at her
home in Miami, Fla., from a
stroke.
Mrs. Worley and her husband,
who died in 1959, first started
coming to Highlands in 1935,
and owned a home on Satulah
which is now the residence of
their son, Richard, and family.
Mr. Worley was a prominent
attorney in Miami.
Survivors in addition to Rich
ard are another son, William
C. Worley, of Miami; a sister,
Mrs. Mary Chase of Miami;
and six grandchildren.
Services were held in Miami
Saturday, August 8, with the
Rev. Robert Hall, of Holy Com
forter Episcopal Church offi
ciating. Interment was in Miami
City Cemetery.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Worley
returned to Highlands Sunday
night from attending thefuneral.
They were joined in Miami by
their daughter, Elizabeth Gold
smith, of Dallas, Texas, for
merly of Highdlands.
An outstanding event of
August is the 3rd Annual Ball,
Dinner and Fashion Show at
King’s Inn, scheduled this year
tor Wednesday, August 19, at
7:30 p.m. In addition to pro
viding a full evening’s enter
tainment and pleasure, the
major portion of the event’s
proceeds go to Highlands
Cashiers Hospital which has
been serving this mountain town
and surrounding communities
for almost twenty years.
Always drawing special at
tention is the fashion show,
under the direction of Mary
Norton's House of Fashion,
whose gowns have adorned the
"Miss Universe" contestants at
Miami Beach for a number of
years.
Models tor Wednesday night's
affair have been chosen from
Broadway Actress Claire Luce
Appears Tonight At HCT
Broadway and London stage
star Claire Luce opens tonight
in "The Warm Peninsula” at
the Highlands Community Thea
tre and will continue her stay
in Highlands for a second ap
pearance in William Saroyan’s
“The Cave Dwellers" Aug. 27
30.
Miss Luce is appearing in
Highlands at the invitation of
director Michael Hall and de
signer Frank Bennett who
worked with her in Florida.
Introduced by mutual friend and
actress Julie Haydon of “Glass
Menagerie” fame. Hall and
Bennett first met Claire Luce
in Gramercy Park, N.Y. City.
She accepted Hall’s offer to
play leading roles in three plays
entitled “Three With Claire”
at the Ocala Civic Theatre in
1967. She has made several
recent appearances in Florida,
notably at the Asolo Theatre,
Sarasota; Central Florida Civic
Theatre, Orlando; and with Ruth
Foreman’s theatre group in
Miami.
A long and glamorous career
has taken Claire Luce across
the world in musical comedy,
drama and Shakespeare. As a
Ziegfield Girl she danced her
way into the leading role op
posite Fred Astaire in Cole
Porter's "Gay Divorcee’where
she and Astaire introduced die
song "Night and Day".
She was cast as Curley's wife
in John Steinbeck’s "Of Mice
and Men” and later played al
most every major Shakespear
ean heroine as special "In
vited” actress at the exclusive
Royal Shakespeare Academy in
London.
Of local interest. Miss Luce
and Highlands’ actress Collin
Wilcox appeared together in a
bill of Tennessee Williams’
plays in a stock production in
New Jersey. The perform
ance rates a special rave In
Gilbert Maxwell’s biography of
the playwright, "Tennessee
Williams and Friends".
Christian Science
Lecture Aug* 22nd
Mrs. Florence C. Southwell of
Miami, Florida, will present a
free lecture on Christian
WinsCamper
Neville Wilson, native High
lander and employee of theU.S.
Forest Serivce, held the lucky
number Saturday when the
drawing was made at the an
nual Firemen’s Barbecue for
the new camper trailer.
There was activity most of
the day at the fire station, where
the barbecue was held, and
youngsters especially enjoyed
the rides about town on the
fire truck every thirty minutes
or so.
Treasurer Herbert James
reports that the amount cleared
on the camper trailer raffle was
$1290. which will go into the
fund toward a new ambulance
which is needed to meet pre
sent day requirements. As to
barbecue proceeds, Firemen
expect to approximately break
even, since it is primarily held
for “fun” rather than “funds.”
Science on Saturday, August
22, at 3:30 p.m. at the High
lands Methodist Church, tided
"God’s Love and the Human
Need”, The public is welcome.
MRS. Southwell has been a
Christian Scientist since early
childhood. Christian Science
came to her family when her
father was Instantaneously
healed of a deadly illness. She
has witnessed many physical
healings in her family during
the years since then. Before
becoming a full time Christian
Science practitioner, she was an
assistant manager of a large
business and so had many op
portunities to prove die healing
power of Christian Science fa
the business world. Mrs. South
well is an authorized teacher
of Christian Science and has
lectured throughout the United
States, Canada, and Europe. She
has also served as a member of
the Board of Trustees of The
Christian Science Publishing
Society.
Claire Luce has always
wanted to play the Queen In
William Saroyan’s beautiful
fantasy, “Cave Dwellers”, and
director Hall's Invitation was at
once accepted because the Sar
oyan play is so special to her.
The play about homeless actors,
clowns and circus performers
who find shelter in an aband
oned but soon-to-be demolished
old theatre is a "timely play,
very pertinent to today", says
Miss Luce.
"Today, when people's beau
tiful old homes and buildings
are being destroyed by die
wrecker’s ball and chain, this
play speaks out as an eloquent
plea for preservation of beauty
and dignity”, she says. “Sar
oyan writes about beautiful
people who have great humanity
and charm. His play is very
special."
Miss Luce will play the Queen
when "Cave Dwellers" is pre
sented Aug. 27-30 at the Com
munity Theatre. During her
stay in Highlands, she will be
feted at a luncheon by members
of the "Elsies” ladies auxil
iary.
full-time and part-time resi
dents of Highlands, and some
special visitors.
Heading the list of special
visitors this year will be Claire
Luce, weU-known Broadway
and London stage star who is
currently in Highlands per
forming at Highlands Commun
ity Theatere.
Other attractive ladies who
will model include Gary Phelan,
Gary Ritter, Eileen Long, Mary
Fish, Jane Schroeder, Lib
BoutweU, Rae Keating, Becky
Phelps, Anne Matlock, Martha
Whithead, WU1 Allen, Virginia
Horn, Carlie Laskey and Mar
tha Minter.
Dinner in one of Highlands'
oldest and most picturesque
inns, followed by a special
fashion show and dancing make
this 3rd annual hospital benefit
at King’s Inn an occasion that
shouldn't be missed.
Reservations may be made by
calling King’s Inn.
Humane
Society
Meeting
The annual meeting of the
Macon County Humane Society
will be held at 2 p.m. August
20, in the Macon Building and
Loan building in Franklin.
Members of the Humane So
ciety urge all citizens who are
interested in animals, es
pecially homeless domestic an
imals, to attend.
This is a very important
meeting to determine whether
or not the Humane Society in
Macon can continue to function.
Florence C. Southwell, Christian Science Lecturer
Rides on the big red tire truck were special treats tor youngsters Inst Saturday at the Firemen’s Annual
Barbecue. (H.H. FhnteX