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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1955-03-23, Page 751, To Top , GREEN /0fi. THUMB 601`40t1, 510111, They Warbled Their 'War I I 4 I sang for the fun of it, but there was never a thought of a singing. career. * She had a brief fling as a dancer, on a Canadian tour, then, was laid up by an appendicitis attack. While recuperating she sang. And—this is real life, too —somebody heard her, offered her a, record contract, and her first record was the biggest hit of the year. While their backgrounds dif- fer, both Dinah Shore and Joni. James have one thing in com- mon. And, this item is what makes them singing stars—their voices are distinctive. You can't mistake them. You can always tell Dinah's creamy voice and. Joni's tear-spattered sound. And, in the opinion of many top students of the field, it is im- possible to achieve fame in pop singing unless you have a voice that is quickly recognizable. There are many great singers around who've never made it, simply because their voices lack any distinguishing sound. A thrush without a sound is nowhere. But, despite this modest self- appraisal, Dinah gradually grew in popularity, She achieved her first real fame on a great radio show, "The Chamber Music So- ciety of Loaner Basin Street." And she went nation-wide on the Eddie Cantor show. A re- card, "Yes My Darling Datralla ter," hiilped, too. It was a long pull for Dinah Shore. It was quicker and easier for Joni James. But stardom is never a pushover. Joni is a 'tiny Chicago girl, who'd been studying dancing since she, was 12. Ballet was her dream, She lived it, slept it, ,studied it. She worked as a baby-sitter to Pay the $1.50-a- Week tuition for ballet classes at Chicago's Children's C i v 1 c Drama Group,. Later, she worked In a bakery, icing cakes. Still later she modelled — underthings. She's a dark- haired beauty, with a model's figure. A tiny model's: figure, since Joni is barely five feet tall. All her earnings went for danc- Mg lessons. She—like Dina— had mastered it. Tften he' re"- ceived an accidental bloir On 'the head while playing football. The blow 'caused him to 'forget .all the Greek he, had learned „al- though the rest of his memory was left intact. cheese is graded by Federal graders, and the results for 1954 show over 94 per cent to be of Canada First Grade quality, * et * Concentrated milks and ice cream required considerably more milk by 1953 and their combined requirements of milk increased by 51/2 per cent, Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking d521 C5AV -1 d V 0 3S03 -70 .1.0SVPV V' H3 S W 02/0M N iVi 5900 77 A bewildered.man fouled wan- dering in a Philadelphia park was placed in the care of a woman social wOrker' Who 'de- cided to help him regain his' lost Inerriery with the help of a tele- phone, ditectory. • Painstakingly, the so cial worker began to go through the half-million names in the direc- tory, convinced that 'the man's name was there. She started with the letfer A and' read down the columns—roughly ninety. five names to a coluinn and 285 names to a page. 6 Ivry mottler used to say that a hearing of Bach's Chaconne al-, Ways reminded her of the Ser- mon 'on the Mount, and that the introduction of the major varia-- tions represented the Beati- tudes. —Albert Spalding. /1 dWE • - • 12 kffirmative 118, Pull hard cElosswoRD 122, 9 beast 43, Lure feevolving part 45.1{1rid of drain 22; Sheep 41, Legendary Finally, on page 659 of the directory, she read the name "John J. McMenamin," The am- nesia victim leaped to his -feet. "That's it!" he cried. "That's the name of rhy brother John." They telephoned the 'number and the identity of the man was confirmed as James McMenamin, whose distracted family had been searching vainly for. him. "As she read Out my name from the 'phone book, my Memory came flooding back to Me," he said. For hours she read, but the weary man shook his head. No name she uttered struck a chord of recognition, Next day she started reading where they had left off the day before, She read 250,000 more names.- The man still shook his head, PUZZLE _ 25. Copking city of 511 tfteriell Dorado 27, Author of "The ,48, Cominefice " • • • - Agd of , 51 Steck gi AC116$S 4. :Milt Bee5oit" 62, nary 1. Nearly 6. Waller-rat • 28, Vase 54, C169,01144 7. Hire negate 29, Light hioe a thipltineht 18. 2fore .4511110 7. Night before 31, Blunder , 555 '1.8rititelY 14, Velvet atauata. 32, Idle 'bilk 55, Rage 'alts15. Pladd Sehemee 35, Blacic bird' 57. SPread ItioeelY 133 ntberal Ora.' 10. Paul 88, Self 59'. Dote tie Flaw metal 27, 2711 511 Devoured 17 OutopartltiVe • - ' - .„, _ _ ouditit 33 12„ River eaihatilf ni et) t. 20 8512e of a hi,t • 21 Old musictil ru 'hen t 21 515ataity "28, Tiff 20 Tie ye fle1)47.' l'eft+ter, 81, (101'fflifirniP 95. Will to do bY. ,4o. l ploonit 42, T1dIngp 44. ttii.t541=eliilliti, ftiitt taseatateastaass, 45. "*.t. ^ Near 14, 060(1,1'6614 Olia rniiii; Pmilt • 61: ()Ilk 62, F.iiirl tlent npteaket „ts et etonoken 14, etWittua. ',.061#1.4 reAoaii bleekbtrd , 55 perience on the use of strepto- mycin will no "doubtyield data and information to permit more specific directions .for coml.-her cial use. * Milk production in Canada has increased 7-4 per cent dur- ing the past fifteen years, most of the increase taking place in the last two or three years when, conditions favoured such in- crease, b, M. Beattie, Associate Chief, Dairy Products Grading' and Inspection Services, stated at, the annual convention of the Saskatchewan Dairy Associa- tion, 4 Use of fluid milk- as such in- creased 11,4 per cent in the fifteen-year period, said ,Mr. Beattie, due, to increases in populatiOn and continued edu- cation and pubficity on the' food Value of milk. Over the same 15-year period milk utilized for manufacture of butter decreased by 7.0 per cent. In the years 1935-39 over 53 per cent of Canada's total milk supply was made into but- ter, in 1953 only' 46 per, cent. Butter continues to, be the larg- est single outlet with fluid milk next at 30 per cent. Milk for 'cheese Has followed a similar trend to butter. In the 1935-39 period 9 per .cerit, of the, milk went into cheese, In 1653 only 5 per cent Was so utilized. There is a trend'toward larger and fewer factories, tinny of them eqUippect to Manufacture other dairy prociticta as well as cheese, depending on , Market C011diU011.8. "Pocket" Piano Brilliant pianist Moiseiwitsch, who will be sixty-five on Febru- ary 22nd, owns a silent, dummy piano in the shape of long suit- case which has travelled all over"' the world with him. He uses it daily for exercising his fingers and frequently "plays" it just before a public performance. After he had performed in Holland some years ago, cus- toms officials were puzzled by the dummy piano and asked what it was. Moiseiwitsch ex- plained its purpose and invited an official to play on it. When no sound was produced, the cus- toms Men looked even more mystified. Then another offieial - ex- clained: "I remember seeing one of these things before, A. fellow named Moiseiwitsch has one." And no further trouble followed. During an Australian tour in We-(Jolt Plan Anyway No Matter what the thera inometer may say, or the. Weatherman may warn, the calendar and seed catalognes say that spring is lust around the corner. Even if we cannot actually get out and dig for a few weeks yet, at least we can sit by the fire and plan the gar- den we are going to have this year. And a little planning will prove useful a$ well as pleasant. In this, a Canhdian seed cata- logue will be most useful. These are packed with all sorts of vital information such as the heights of flowers and the color and the time of bloom. In vege- tables, we learn whether they are hardy or tender, how much room they require in the row, what sort of special soil and sun preferences they have. With such information we can plan a continuous show of bloom in the flower garden and we can get the utmost out Of vegetables from even a tiny plot of ground, Not a Feast or Famine The modern garden is no longer a feast and famine propo- sition, with more peas, beans er corn than we could eat for a week and then none at all, or with a great showing of bloom in July but not a single flower in August. With planning, there is no reason why either flower or vegetable garden should not be yielding something every day from the first blooms and greens in the spring until long after the ground is frozen hard neict fall. Very conveniently, most flow- ers and vegetables -arrange themselves into three main planting groups so far as the Canadian climate is concerned. In the seed catalogue the usual description is hardy, semi-hardy and tender. The first of these can go in just as soon as the soil is ready. These things love the . cool wet weather and, thrive best and longest when planted early. In this class are the sweet peas, cosmos, alyssum, and4other flowers which normally seed themselves. In the vegetables: lettuce; radish, spinach and gar- den peas are all hardy. All these will stand quite a bit of frost. The semi-hardy group will usually survive' a touch of frost but they don't like it and it will certainly set them back. These include beets, carrots, beans and corn in the vegetahle line and petunias, asters, balsam and so on among the flowers. Then there is the really tender group, the plants like cucumbers, melons, dahlias, geraniums and such, that will kill almost in- stantly if the mercury falls be- low 32 degrees, There is no use risking any of these, putdoors before both the air and soil are really warm and, all danger of frost is over. A Few Cenisa But Vital Nothing is so vital as the right kind of -teed. Suitable seed is more than just high quality. It is seed of varieties especially selected and for Canadian con- ditions. In vegetables it also means that the variety has been ' approved and tested officially for Canada. As seed is the only factor in gardening over which one has absolute control, and the cost is negligible, nothing but the best should be ,„considered. Thirty Years. .Late For His. Own. Wedding Attractive 17-year,old Beryl • Sharp one day last September. Went fur "a ride on her bicycle, She met with an accident---her mind became blank,. • Even when her sailor ilatic4. visited her in hospital she could • not recognize him, He was granted special leave from his ship to bola the girl he loved recover her lost memory, Four clays after leaving hospi- tal Beryl suddenly regained her - memory while sitting at table, There was a. happy sequel a , short time ago when she and Able Seamen Kenneth Aber, Petty were me'rried at South- ampton, Beryl's loss of memory was only temporary, Amnesia, as. doctors call these mental black, outs, can last a day or a life- time, sometimes with amazing results, Just as the verger of a Paris church was locking it up one chilly February evening, a grey, haired, dishevelled man burst through the door crying: "Where is everybody? Why is the church so empty?" The verger gently explained that it was time to 'close the, church, but he would wait, for the stranger if he wished to kneel for a few moments in prayer. "Don't you understand?" said the man. "This is my wedding ''day, Where are all my friends? Where is my beloved Jean, my bride?" The puzzled verger 'asked the man's name and searched vainly for it among those of couples due to be married, • Then, after • scrutinizing the man, he remembered something —and turned pale, With trembling fingers he thumbed through an old register . and found the entry he wanted. "You, arranged to marry Mlle?" he queried. "Yes, yes!" craide the other eagerly. "Where is she? What can have happened?" '- Realizing the real nature of the tragedy, the verger asked. the man to wait, saying: "Every- thing will be -ail right, mon- sieur," He rushed from the church aand fetched. a doctor. Then it was confirmed that the pathetic would-be bridegroom; as the • register showed, was to have been married, thirty years before —and bad only just remembered it. The verger recalled the tragic day when, a young and pretty Frenchwoman had waited vainly at the altar for the man who, " victim of sudden loss of memory on his wedding morning, never arrived. During those thirty years the man had been missing, He had gone to sea, travelled fat and wide. Then suddenly he renaema bered and life had begun again - for him where it had brOken off thirty years before. What had happened in the interval • was a void. Victims of loss of memory nearly always remember what happened up to the time mem- ory left them—and nothing afterwards, A man walked into a doctor's consulting-room with a pretty young woman and declared: "Thia . lady says she is my wife. She is 'not. I have never mar- ried arid .have no recollection of ever. proposing to her or any other woman.",, - It was revealed that he. had received a blow on the head in a railway accident which had caused him to forget that he. was married and many Other things. There is also a fully authentia. cated instance of a young atta dent Who spent five yeats study- ing the Greek •latigUage until he Ghost „, The, little Royalty Theatre. in Dean Street, Soho, Tedious as the place Where Gilbert and Sullivan scored their -first eees, "Trial by Jury," is to be demolished at last, It attracted LoncietietS arid' visitors for' al-, most a century until it he,. earne a Nita casualty. The Royalty is Ohe of the playlibuSeS Ili Landed that is, by reptite, hatinted, The story the that yeara agd, When the theatre was being bitilt on the Site:, Of an a n el e n t clwelling-house, *Ottairiert came libroSs the body ef a girl Welled tip in one of -the' teerna. .a, • She was the SWeetliCart of a fiddler;: and When passion died , lie eletiVa tier arid concealed her hotly lit the wall of the death= She IS,. however, able to rest it peace; ,and at,. Certain seasons wanders about 'the. theiti& 15' 17 28 528 5, 4 'K a, * Consttinption of c Neese by diinadi till s is disappointing, There "s been' a alight itiateeie ' in -Per capita ..eopsiniiptiori the past few years,' ..ettri= bitted to improved packaging and ii geniune &Sire. by Piatiy retailers'to Sell cheese' of htt- ter titlillity. danedialis do 'riot . 'At Seetii to Obiisit!dr" cheese as the Main dish of • at. Meala- but ' rather a sandWieli ,propOSitiem or the small partner of some • varieties Of pie, Skye Uri Beattie. Ftiotidelly 011 Catittii&e• Cheddar a.. :%,45,5.:,1::::',1111it • • ' JUST FOR KICKS--When- betirge- Murphy, lefty visited Cagney at MGM's studio in` Culver City, the two former vaude- villians go to reminiscing about the 'good Old daye and' went into 9 vaudeville. hoefing-routine .seen -only five of-' his 5d"pictures because "that guy up there. on the screen tnaket mitt nervous:" In his Slit picture he'll costar -With DOHS bay 14 -- "Love Me or Leave Me." Atli' er eiSeidiere 014 tale Oat. .41' a 52, tr •-• NPAY SCHOOL ',MON DINAH SHORE AND MELISSA: It was a long road, but a record called "Yes, My Darling Daughter" helped on the way up. gelicve PO," to establish-her as a big star. 9 * Bat Dinah Shore didn't have it so easY, Her first record IS now a collector's item. It fee. toed Xavier Cugat and his band on a tune called "Thrill of a New Romance," In small print it said, "Vocal by Dinah Shaw." She was just a scared kid then —too scared to do anything about correcting the misspelling of her name, She was scared for several years. Dinah never particularly wanted to be a singer. As .a atarry-eyed teen-ager, she fixed her starry eyes on a career as an actress, In fact, at Hume- Fogg High. School, in Nashville, she was the leading lady in the dramatic society, (Leading man, incidentally, was Delbert Mann, now a top television director with the Philco-Goodyear TV PlayhouSe.) . She always sang,, but just for fun. She was going to be an- other Helen Hayes, and Helen Hayes, was no thrush. So, after high school, she decided to storm New York. Her mother had died when she was 15, and her father was set against the little girl going to the wicked city. But Dinah went. Her father wouldn't help her financially; so she sold' her camera and en- larger (photography is her hobby) and lit out: for limed- way with a bankroll of $232. She was lucky. Inside of -three months, she was embarked on her career—but as a singer,' not ari actress. She switched for the best of reasons: got a job sing- ing. It was 4 spot on a local New York radio station, At first, there was no pay. But it led to occasional band dates, complete with money. And there was a two-week engagement at the ` Strand Theatre at $70 a week. Then' an NBC.' eaaecutive heard her and soon she had her own ,15-minute show.• • , a 5Iz "During my first five years," Dinah recalls, "I wa's always nervous. I never sang well at' all. I don't know why anybody liked me. My father used to write me letters saying. 'Save your Money—you Can't sing like Gracie Fields'." IV DICK KIAKINtiL, NEA Staff Correspondent New York (nA). It is very simple to become a lien, famous and beloved girl singer, Just follow these tested rules, as Practiced by the richest, most f a nt o u a and. most beloved thrushes of the day: 1, Start out to, be an actress, as Dinah Shore did, 2, Start out to be an artist, as Patti Page did, 3. Start out to be a dancer, as Joni Jamesa,did. 4, Flip a coin, as Rosemary Clooney did. And if these are too compli- cated, just keep singing, as they all did. For there is no simple path to thrushdom, and these• girls—the top atars—all achieved fame in different ways. Dinah Shore and JoniaJames, for example, are perfect con- trasts. Miss James is celebrated as record's "Cinderella Girl," and not because of a glass ,slip-. per. It took her just one record, the smash hit, "Why Don't You JONI JAMES: A thrush without a sound' is' nowhere at all.. By Key. Iffarcia:Warren FLA.. %Do The -christlEm. and .t.h.e Serial 014`, Matthew fia3-16; Romans 13:0- 10'; Peter 4:12-16. Memory Selection — Be AO overcome of evil, but evereona0 evil with good. Romans 12:21. In the dark ages there was 0 tendency for Christians to with,. draw from society in order to keep pure, Today the line Of distinction between the Christian and the world is very ill-defined, There is a happy medium be- tween these two extremes. The Christian is to be the salt of the earth and the light of the world, He must not lose his savour nor hide his light, In the dark ages the Christian tended to hide his light: today he is more likely to lose his savour, Either is bad. Paul says, "Owe no, man any thing, but to love one another," The debt of love to each , other can never be fully paid. Many other debts are being paid these' days by the returning of the purchased article. The Wave of credit buying may stimulate business but it finally proves very trying on the nerves of those who yield to the temptation - of overbuying. The frusfrations will be remembered when the pleasure of the temporary pos- session will be forgotten. Par- ticularly is this trite when the articl4L was decidedly a luxury and not a necessity. We bring some trials on our.; seles. Others come for which we can find no apparent cause. How- ever there can always be a pro- fitable result. The sufferer cati learn to glorify God by.suffering as a Christian should suffer. Her'4, may even rejoice as he considers himself a partaker of Christ's sufferings. Not all achieve this point of victory but those who do are a marvel to their fellow- men. Their lives inspire. Let us not suffer as an evildoer Or as a busybody. If we suffer because we have takeh our stand for Christ there is no Occasion for shame. We may glorify God in suffering. 1923, the pianist was beguiling the time playing a piano in the train's drawing-room when it chanced to stop right in the middle of the huge desert divid- ing West from South Australis. Moiseiwitsch stopped playing. looked out of the • windovv` and was surprised to see dozens of scantily-clad aborigines clustered round the window staring open- mouthed. Moiseiweitsch wore a velvet suit with a lace collar when he made his London debut as a pianist in 1909. A native of Odessa,, he became a British citizen in 1,937. He loves London more than any other city in the World. The true medicine of the mind is philosophy. —Cicero. Much interest is being shown in the recent development of antibiotic products, such as streptomycin, and their possible use in combating bacterial dis- eases of agriculture crops. Of these diseases, fire blight is very severe on apples, and pears. It is at times particularly des- tructive on the widely planted Bartlett pear, Ontbreaks of the disease are feared by, growers because disease development is sudden and rapid and the toll , is heavy in loss of branches, limbs or entire trees. Further- more fire blight is a most diffi- cult disease tocontrol, and to remove all of the numerous catikers requires hours of care- ful pruning. It is eritoiwaging to learn that reaulta of ,orchard trials show that streptemycin applied as a spray reduces the -incidence of the disease. It may well be that in "the future this. antibiotic product will proVide growers with a helpful' aid in the control program for 'fire .blight. * 85, Much remains to be learned about the desirable- dosage rate, time of application,: number of applications wid the effect of eilariromnental conditions: Pres- ent suggested dosage rates vary from 50 to 100 parts per. million (p.p.ria), time of application froth early bloom to• early cover sprays, and the numbet of ap- plications from 2 to 7. Environ- Mental conditions, such as tern- petature, rairifa.11, age of trees„ and Vigour Of ,growth, and the danger from lire blight, in the area must be considered in do= tertnining how, the antibiotic can lie used to the best advantage. Antibiotic 'sprays are likely to lie expensive and for this reason their tlse may be Whited. Tern- peratute is important arid the disease is not likely to: be trenbIeSoine in the bloom period if the temperature ranges be- lore 60 to 05 degrees, P. Above these temperattireS, the chanced Of infection increase, but de- pend, of detttad, on the Ptekenee of fictive blight or on birerwiti= tering canker:' within the or- eliard tieriiiitY". ;0 )1, '4' Ftirther investigation' and ink 3+ 31 •• 1 311.5 57 9 GO