The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-07

family at their home in Oleander.
Col. Page is in charge of the
ROTC at William and Mary col
lege, Williamsburg, Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Willetts
with their daughter and son, Miss
Eleanor Willetts and Fred Will
let's, Jr., have moved to their
home "Wil-Har-Dale," in Glen
Arden, after spending the warm
weather at their cottage on Chan
nell Drive at Wrightsville Beach.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willetts expect to
leave the middle of this week for
San Francisco, from where they
will fly to Honolulu, being away
from Wilmington for several
weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. P. R. Smith and
family returned to their home on
Forest Hills Drive in the city yes
terday after summering at their
cottage on South Lumina Ave,
Wrightsville Beach.
Mrs. Gordon Seagrove Of Bronx
vile, N. Y, has returned to her
home after a brief stay mere with
her daughter and son-in-law. Mr..
and Mrs. Carl N. Dunn at their
home On the new Wrightsville
highway. Mrs. Seagrove came to
Wilmington to accompany her two
granddaughter, Jean and DIANA
Dunn home, after they had spent
two months with her in New York
state.
Friends Of Sam c. Sweeny of
6 Channel Drive, Wrightsville
Beach, will regret to hear that he
is a patient at The Lahey Clinic,
Boston, Mass. Mrs. Sweeny is with
him, both of them having left here
last Monday night.
Otis L. Barnes of st. Augustine,
Fla, returned to his home by
motor On Friday after a weeks
visit with his sister and brother
in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. j. Irving
Corbett at their home on Chestnut
street in the city. While here Mr..
Barnes and Mrs. Corbett motored
to Durham for a short stay with
Mrs. Corbett's daughter and SON.
in-law, MI. and Mrs. Hunter c.
Phelan, Jr.
Colonel and Mrs. James w. Wal
bach and daughter Miss Mary
Vann Walbach of Roanoke, Va,
have returned to their home after
spending two weeks at Wrights-
vile Beach. While here they &C.
cupied one Of DR.. James F. Rob-
ertson's apartments on east Ra-
leigh street. The Walbachs were
the recipients of numerou social
courtesies during their brief stay.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Parker
and little daughter, Orrell Parker,
Of New Rork city, have returned
to their home after visiting Mrs.
Parker's parents, Mr.. n Mrs.
Louis B. Orrell at their Wrights-
vile Beach home. Elizabeth
Parker and little Orrell spent the
summer here while Charles Park
err arrived only two weeks ago for
his vacation.
Mrs. Maxwell Droke Of Indi-
annapolis, Ind, returned to her
home by motor last Tuesday after
visiting her cousins, Mr.. and Mrs.
S. L. Marbury at their Wrights-
vile Beach home for several
weeks.
All Of Wilmington is thrilled by
the announcement that North Car
olina's own Norman Gordon, bass
baritone, who rose to fame with
the Metropolitan Opera company,
will give a concert in Wilmington
'on Thursday, September 10. Nor
man, as you know, left the Met
ropolitan last theatre seafon to
take the lead singing role in the
Broadway m u S c hit "Street
Scene" Norman's singing ability
is known far and wide, and he
has a great number of personal
- 1S110S d4Ao du11l1l CHS 1lGIG. so IL
seem very likely that his concert
will be a complete sell-out soon
after the tickets go on sale. The
recital is being sponsored by the
Wilmington Jaycee. and the en-
tire proceeds will 60 to the South
Eastern North Carolina Beach as
ISOLATION. That means that every
penny raised from the concert will
60 right back into increasing bust
ness in this area through the
Beach associations resort adver-
Using program. I do so wish that
you could be here for the Gordon
concert, because not only does
Norman plan to sing some Of his
favorite opera selections, but he
has announced his intentions to
sing several Negro spirituals and
popular numbers that he has re-
corded for Victor, such as "Water
Boy" ION the Road To Manda-