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(7W-g?DF0RD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Thursday, December 8, 1953
G leisure is
New Product
" from Italy
By ELIZABETH TOOMEY
United Presi Correspondent
New York (U.P.) We al
ready have improved tailored
shirts, tomboy haircuts, sharp
toed shoes and well-rounded
movie stars from Italy, and now
we're showing interest in a duty
free Italian product leisure.
At a growing number of marble-topped
tables in this city
busy people are encouraged to
linger longer over a single cup
of coffee, demi tasse size at that.
A machine from Italy started
this slow down a grinding,
sighing contraption that sends a
stream of inky black brew from
a thin spouf)
We began to import Espresso
coffee machines after World
War II, which was not surprising
for a gadget-minded nation. But
now Espresso coffe shops are
appearing in prosperous Man
hattan neighborhoods, and they
are successfully selling the folksy
leisure that is part of Italian
shops as well as the strong
steamed coffee.
Umberto Romanelli is a pro
prietor of one of these Espresso
coffe shops here. He rwtterned
the shop after Motta, a famous
coffee shop in Milan, and cov
ered one wall with a wallpaper
mural of Venice, his former
home.
Then Romanelli set about
slowing down his American cus
tomers. The experiment began
last May.
"The time is right for it," Ro
manelli said. "Americans get
more continental minded all the
time."
"Sometimes they wait now for
hours," Romanelli said
(proudly. "In Italy it is nothing
for a man to come in for a cup
of coffee in the morning and sit
all day. Now I have some cus
tomers who sit for two hours
with one cup of coffee. They
are learning."
When the weather gets warm
er he will put three tables and
eight chairs on the sidewalk, a
aestalgic gesture to the famous
outdoor tables in St. Mark's
Square, in Venice.
"It is hard to give a neighborly
feeling in New York City," he
confessed sadly. "But it is get
ting better. And itOmust be the
same in other cities. I sell Es
presso machines too, and recent
ly I sold three in Chicago, one
in Dallas and one in California.'!
Auxiliary-Guild
To Meet Friday;
Electior9 Planned
Hostesses for the Christmas
meeting of St. Mark's uxiliary
guild will be Mrs. H. C. Beeler,
Miss Ann Livingston and Mrs.
H. C. Goldsmith. The meeting
will be held in the parish house
at 12:30 p.m. and luncheon will
be served.
Those attending are asked to
take canned or packaged foods
for distribution to the less fortu
nate at Christmas time, and an
inexpensive gift to go on the
Christmas tree.
Reports from retiring commit
te chairmen and election of
new officers fr the coming year
are on the-program for the busi
ness meeting, last of the year
O for this group.
Comedy Tickets
On Sale Today
Tickets are on sale a Puruck
ers' Piano house. 111 North Cen
tral avenue in Medford, and at
The Mart, 270 East Main street,
Ashland, for the comedy, "Mr.
Pirn Passes By" which is to be
presented by the SOC Players
Deteember 9 and 10 at eight p.m.
in Churchill Hall. Mrs. Dorothy
Stolp is director.
Further information may be
obtained by calling the SOC In
formation Office, phone 2-4611.
Student body tickets will be
honored, it was announced.
Party, Election
Planned by Club
Election of officers will be
held when Junior Degree of
Honor club meets Saturday, De
cember 10. The session will be
at the home of the director, Mrs.
H. G. Wilson, 7 Chtnut street,
from 2 to 4 p.m.
A Christmas party is planned
and members may invite friends.
TO FIND THE
SffOP RIGHT
Concert Set
For Sunday
First concert of the season for
the Philharmonic Society of
Southern Oregon, postponed
from the first announced date,
will be given Sunday, December
11, at 3 p.m. in Medford Senior
High school auditorium.
Richard D. Werner, director
of the orchestra, will be violin
soloist for the program, playing
"Romance in G" by Beethoven.
John Drysdale will serve as con
ductor during this number.
Mr. Werner will also play a
group of solos with Bruno Pelle
grini as accompanist, and will
be conductor for the remainder
of the concert.
Major work on the concert
program will be Haydn's "Sym
phony No. 7," one of the com
positions he wrote . under com
missions during his stay in
London.
Robert Miller
Shows' Paintings
In College Hall
; Robert Miller, graduate of the
University of Oregon School of
Fine Art, has placed 11 oil paint
ings on exhibition in Churchill
hall, rooms 107-108, for students
and interested townspeople to
view according 'to Miss Marian
Ady of the SOC Art Department.
The artist, who resides at 514
West Jackson st., Medford, is a
private instructor in painting
and has visited the galleries and
museums of Rome, Paris and
London.
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He has been actively engaged
in painting for eleven years and
is a disciple of the landscape tra
dition prior to the modern art
movement. His versatility of
style and diverse subject matter
are well brought out in the ex
hibit, it was pointed out by Miss
Ady. One work, a photo-montage,
has excited much comment
by viewers since the paintings
went on display.
The oils may be seen during
class hours throughout this week
and the next. One evening ses
sion is planned for Monday, De
cember 12, from 7 to 9 p.m. with
Otto Wilda, SOC faculty mem
ber in charge.
College Women
Plan Symposium
College Women's Club of the
Rogue River valley will meet
Saturday, December 10, in the
parlor of First Methodist church,
it was announced today. The
meeting was originally announc
ed for the home of Mrs. A. C.
Pierce.
The program will be a timely
symposium on "Christmas in the
Fine Arts." Mrs. A. V. Hardy
will open the program with the
subject, "Literature, beauty and
truth endure f o r e v e r." Mrs.
Charles R. Adamson will present
Christmas music and will play
themes from the Christmas mu
sic of some of the great com
posers. Mrs. Annette Gray will
read some of the great poetry
inspired by the Christmas sea
son. Vola Tolman, artist from Gold
Hill, will close the symposium
with the subject of art and pre
sent an interpretation of a
Christmas picture.
CALENDAR
Thursday
6:30 p.m. Lincoln PTA, an
nual Christmas dinner in school
cafeteria.
7 p.m. P y t h i a n Sunshine
girls, Pythian building.
7:30 Phoenix Lady Lions,
Oakwood motel.
8 p.m. Miriam circle of Zion
Lutheran church.
8 p.m. Reames chapter, OES,
Medford Masonic temple.
Friday
11 a.m. Medford Truth cen
ter, "Unity," Room 203 Holly
theater bldg.
12 noon Phoenix Garden
club, Community bldg.
12:30 p.m. St. Mark's aux
iliary guild.
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Public Card Party
Planned for Friday
Wenonah club will hold a pub
lic card party at Redman hall
Friday, December' 9, at 8:15
p.m. Bridge, pinochle and ca
nasta will be played.
I EST ARRAY
AWAYJFOR
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