The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-01-27
Closing Exercises Of Stamp
And Coin Exposition Held
Yesterday At Convent Hall
Excellent Musical Pro-
gram Rendered In Con-
nection With Interesting
Event

On Sunday afternoon the clos
ing exercises of the Key West In
ternational Stamp and Coin Ex-
position were held in St. Cecilia's
Hall of the Convent of Mary Inn
maculate, with a large audience
in attendance.
The convent orchestra opened
the ceremony with William
TelP', the members in the playing
group being: B. Brantley, L. Lee,
A. Parks, C. Ybarmea, S. Arono-
vitz, G. James, E. Moffat, M.
Knowles, c. Bethencourt, O..
Kemp, M. Perez, S. Cabrera, N.
TrujilIo, c. Hernandez, H. Bar
salon, M. Hernandez, o. Vasquex,
b. Moreno, A. L. Castillo and O..
Perez.
The second number rendered
was the Soldiers Chorus" from
the opera Faust, with M. M.
Dion and Alice jerks at the two
pianos.
Commodore Matho Fridericus
Won Mietk-Liuba, H. D. W., gave
then a brief review of the closing
exposition, praising the Sisters Of
the Convent for their cooperation
and thanking all those who have
given assistance in putting on the
event. He especially thanked the
twenty-one foreign governments
and the U. S. government for par
ticipation in the exposition.
NCn0GES OOAO
A, piano solo, "Calm as the
Night, was then rendered by the
commodore, followed by the or
chestra's presentation of the Gave
Maria" by Schubert, with the
Misses Louise Delaney and Alice
jerks at the two pianos.
In q few brief words, the COM
modore explained the work of the
Spanish Main Museum of Key
West and thanked Sister Superior
for her gracious consent to have
the museum frames of the stamp
division, community property,
hung in some convent building I'M
til such time as a building for
the museum can be found.
"Pomp and Circumstance" was
the next orchestra number, fol-
lowed by the announcement of
the prizes awarded the foreign
government entries.
All foreign government entries
were judged by Lieutenant Will
liam Klaus, U. S. NJ, DIR. Blenn r.
Bales of Circleville Ohio, and the
commodore and the following
prizes were awarded unanimously,
each government winning first
prize in the class mentioned:
Australia, neatness of display
Austria, commemorative stainps
Bahamas, King George the Fifth
issue: Barbados, King George
jubilee set; Bermudas, Queen Vic
toria set; Brunei, highest face
value; Colombia, unusual airmail
stamps; Cook Island. interesting
arrangement; Cyprus, best pic
torial issue of 1884; Czecho-
slovakia, blocks of stamps and
cancellation prints; Denmark,
complete sheets of stamps; Es-
tonia, Symmetry of arrangement;
Filand, completeness; Lebanon,
unique mounting and framing;
Luxembourg, beauty of arrange
ment; New Zealand. Niue and
Western Samoa, simple attractive
ness; Syria, striking display;
Transjordan, postage due stamps.
Thanks were voted to the colo
NAL postmaster in Grenada and to
the Philippine Islands for sending
displays to Key West.
Music BY Orchestra
The grand march from the
opera "Aida" was played by the
orchestra after which the local
prize winners were announced.
First prize in the novelty division
was awarded to Mrs. Ruth B. Ora
ham for novelty stamp map,
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