The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-11-17
Casa Marina Making Ready
For Coming Tourist Season
Cocktail Bar To Be One
OF Many improvements
At HOsteIry This Win
ter Season

A magnificent cocktail bar will
be an addition at the Casa Ma
rina this winter season.
Architects Shuttle and Weaver,
who built the Waldorf-Astoria in
New York City, The Breakers at
Palm Beach, the Atlanta Bit.
more and others of the country's
finest hotels, have designed the
bar and also an adjacent out-of-
door dance floor and band shell.
Such a gorgeous thing will the
bar be that Manager Peter b.
Sehutt insists it will be the "most
attractive bar in South Florida. I"
Long glass windows will enclose
the new addition. The bar itself
viii be octagonal shaped. and
above and around it will be the
crystal clearness of mirrors and
the magical color of blue glass,
decorated with metal crests. All
fittings will be in chrome steel,
and a beautiful chandelier will
hang from the ceiling. Deep,
leather-cushioned lounge seats
and a rubber tiled floor will COM
plete the picture. The bar will
have an entrance to the hotel and
another to the outdoor dance
floor.
Outside, there will be color
full scene. A terraced portico
decorated in Spanish grillwork
will overlook the circular outdoor,
Cuban tiled dance-floor under the
coconut trees, around which
brightly-colored lawn chairs, tab
les and beach umbrellas will be
grouped.
The setting win be complete
with the acknowledgements or.
chestra from 'sThe Homestead"
at Hot Springs, Virginia, engag
ed for the season.
Mr.. Schutt predicts wonderful
season, much better than last
year" Visible proof Of this state.
ment is already available, Mr..
Schutt continued, in the fact
that advance reservations are
"much larger at this time than
at the same time last year.
Asked when the Casa Marina
would open, Mr.. Schutt stated
that the formal opening would be
on Christmas Day, but that the
hotel would be available. with
modified service, on December /
for early guests. Last yeas this
service was inaugurated for the
first time and proved very popu-
lar. The date for the annual
opening Dinner Dance will be an
nounced later.
Other improvements at The ho-
tel are; The new glass enclosure
on the south loggia, new modern
oil burners for steam heaters, and
enlargement of the bathhouse.
The popular couple, Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter Buzzell, are in
charge of the Beach again this
year.
A new tennis professional,
Walter CaSSitty. viii take over
the court duties.
The operating staff this year is
much the same us last, with the
addition Of Newton Grove as chief
clerk.
''Prinee". head bellman, who
has been in Mr.. Sehutt's service
for 2S years, win be back again,
Below Is the list OF those on
the operating staff;
Peter Sehett, manager; Newton
Grove. chief clerk; Robert VooFhis,
cashier; Lawrence Day. from.
clerk; Mrs. Everett Kinsman,
private bookkeeper; Miss Bobbie
Gordon, private secretary: Airs
f. MeCarty, housekeeper: ]. A,
Maep9ugan. head waiter; Chas
Hnreher. ehef-steward: X. A.
Jordan. chief engineer; Walter
BuzEell, in charge Of bath house
end beach; Ed. cussitty, tenni:
professional: Harry Scales. head
barkeeper; Miss Mae Beale. pub,
licity and correspondent; Prince"
head bellman.