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Newspaper
Coronado Compass
Location
Coronado, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1947
Page
1
The Coronado Merchants Association schedules its regular monthly meeting at City Hall tomorrow at eight. The bulletin highlights four months of activity including support for the Safety Queen contest and launching a campaign to select Coronado’s first Official Coronado Mother, Mrs. W. W. Harvey, to serve until Mother's Day, 1948.
Traffic congestion marked the opening of the first children feature at the Village Theatre. More than 500 youngsters saw Five Little Peppers and How They Grew and cartoons. William Sale said entry blanks were given for a children's movie club name with a prize to be announced June 21. Doors open at 9 30 a m and the show starts at 10 a m with Mickey Rooney in A Hoosier School Boy and color cartoons.
The Community Youth Chorus under Arthur D. Sale will perform sacred and light humorous numbers at 7 30 pm in the Social Hall of Coronado Presbyterian Church. Richard Renner will play a violin solo. Officers include Patricia Miller and Leonaine Grimaud. A children's opera Little Red Riding Hood is planned for late August.
The Coronado Players mount Kaufman and Hart comedy The Man Who Came to Dinner with William O Roesch as Sheridan Whiteside and Norma Smith as Maggie Cutler. The four night run begins Wednesday June 18 at Coronado High School auditorium with tickets obtainable from cast or box office.
More than 100 children aged 4 to 13 enrolled in the two week Vocational Church School directed by Arthur D. Sale. Classes run 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. daily in the Presbyterian Church Social Hall and Christ Episcopal Parish House with Bible study art music and crafts. Commencement is June 20 at 7:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian Church.
Nearly 1400 brokers and salesmen gathered at the Hotel del Coronado for the California Real Estate Association 43rd annual convention hosted by the San Diego and Coronado Realty Boards. The three day event marked the first Coronado gathering since 1929 with sessions opening after a welcome by Louis Millen of the Coronado Realty Board.
Compass readers are urged to turn to page 5 for details of the Village Theatre Best Years of Our Lives contest. Ten pairs of guest theatre tickets worth 2.40 each will be awarded to winners. Enter easily for a chance to win.
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