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Newspaper
Coronado Compass
Location
Coronado, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1948
Page
4
The Coronado Compass explains it cannot print unsigned letters due to postal rules and fairness. Readers may use aliases if the real name is provided and the content serves the public interest.
A local hole-in-one contest at The Compass event drew about 150 golfers and spectators from Coronado and the San Diego area. Organizers thank San Diego papers and local firms for support while promising a fall rematch with trophies and plans for a repeat event.
A roundup of new titles includes The Moth by James M Cain from Knopf about a man’s intense relation to a woman, Morning Song by Dorshka Raphaelson from Random House set in 1920s New York, We Need Not Fail by Sumner Wells from Houghton Mifflin on Palestine peace, Telepathy and Medical Psychology by Jan Ehrenwald, Bleeding Scissors by Bruno Fischer from Ziff Davis, Chocolate Cobweb by Charlotte Armstrong from Coward McCann, and other works spanning mystery, social history, and science.
A local column celebrates Coronado quirks with a soda fountain sign joke, Juvenile Police Officer Pop Millar’s popular movie trips for youths, and a county scene of a moonlight Crown Cove beach party with guests Mr. and Mrs. Frank O Dwyer. It mentions polio precautions with DDT spray and a former council woman serving as city secretary.
The Coronado Players stage I Remember Mama at the Coronado Auditorium with Beth Mohr as Mama and Bob Jay Roberts as Uncle Chris in a heartfelt true life story adapted from Kathryn Forbes. Cast includes Gwen Challacomb Henrietta Atkinson and Mary Lou Cumberlidge.
A reader petitions renaming the Hog Ranch area to Coronado Strand Heights. The editor agrees to adopt the title Silver Strand Acreage until a formal, dignified legal name is established by city officials.
The scene features Bill Roach as timid undertaker Mr Thorkleson and Louise Dobler as novelist Florence Dana Moorehead. Florence Dana Moorehead and Phil Magee join the Players with a comic turn as Papa, while Louise Dobler's vaudeville style draws laughs.
Coronado's Gertrude Doolittle earns praise as a skilled director for Mama a technically demanding amateur production. The Coronado Players are the first community group nationwide to stage Mama on an amateur basis with West Coast performances ahead, drawing attention from notable Actors Company guests. Tickets cost 1.20 and are sold by cast members or at the Coronado Auditorium box office.
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