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The Brussels Post, 1958-08-13, Page 6Moments They'd Like To Forget BEHIND THE SCENES—Expert cutters transform modern Canadian textiles into authentic Shakespeareon costumes for the Stratford productions. Here Ottolie Douglas (left) gets ad- vice from Barbara Gray •(centre). Miss Gray and Pot Scott (right) left their own theatrical costume business in England to work at the famous Canadian Stratford. 9 1 TABLE TALKS t ; 11111, 11106!(16-!7•WA'ill dam AnCiZeWS. Study in Browns Bob Addie, a Washington sportswriter, was itting in a restaurant shooting the breeze with Lyall Smith, of the Detroit Free Press; Red Smith, general manager of Toledo; Joe E. Brown, movie comedian; Joe E. Brown, Jr.; and young Joe's wife, Later they were joined by a Mr, and Mrs, Stanley Jones, and still later along came Bobo Newsom, then pitching for the Athletics. Addle made the in- troductions: "This is Mr, Smith, Mr, Smith, Mr. Brown, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Brown, Jr., and Mr. and Mrs. Jones." Bobo hesitated fer a moment, then said, "If nobody is going to give their right name, I ain't either." Squirrel Prefers Indoor There has been a progressive deterioration in my reletioe* with Nette, a, female .gray sc1,141P, rel weo has lived in my house since last autumn, When she • first arrived she was small end lived in the nursery, "Just a little ornament!" Nanny would' admiringly exclaim when Nutto sat bolt 'upright on the .mantle, piece, eating e grape in her fore.- pawa;. she Was affectionate a0.1: liked being played with. But as she grew lerger, the. squirrel, always bold, became positively imperious. A. success sion of thefts Arid breakage* led to her exile to a large wireds in balcony outside my dressing. room, from which she can be, ' allowed egress by unblocithig rainwater drain, She pops through this onto. the wisteria and one would expect her to go off into the woods which came down close behind the house. But Nutto is deaf to theft call of the wild, She pines for the great Indoors and seldom fails to effect an entry, She has practically destroyed a valuable pair of curtains; she has totally destroyed—by using them as interior decoration in her nest—four of my best ties, and the other day when we onto back from a point-to-point all that remained of half a pound of. cheese was a lacerated morsel, conterriptiloply sited half-way up the s4p,irease, How does one disembarrass oneself front a situation this kind? , . If I take her to a distant part of the woods and Iet her go I make myself liable, to prosecution under the Gray Squirrel Act (1947), Our des- tinies seem to be inextricably interlocked as though we were characters in some ghastly play, A. Month Later. Nutto still uses my. house as a sort of pied a terre, but apart from stripping the wisteria and on two consecu- tive mornings stealing the but- ter off the breakfast table she has not done a great deal of harm. She seems, however, bent on establishing a reign of terror in the neighborhood and has af- fected an entry into several. cots -tages within. a radius of a mile or so of us, to the consternation. of their iehabitants. "Nutto,," I Said, "one of these days you will go too far," —From "My Aunt's Rhinoceros," by Peter Feming. Drive With Care FASHION HINT • What a vast difference the salad dressing makes—and here are some hints and recipes that will help to make your salads a success, First of all— The Basic "French Recipe; Into a serewtop jar put a Vs teaspoon "salt," Mt teaspoon pas prika, 1 teaspoon sugar, IA cup vinegar or lemon juice, and V2 cup salve oil. Shake well. Keep in refrigerator and shake well before each use, Same of "the possible additions are: 2- -tablespoons finely chop- ped anchovies; lA cup finely chopped chutney; 1/4 cup tomato catchup; or 4 tablespoons crum- bled Roquefort cheese, You can use tarragon vinegar and add 1 hard-cooked egg chopped very fine; or, for chiffonade dressing, add 2 tablespoons chopped pars- ley, 2 teaspoons chopped onion, 1 chopped hard-cooked egg and 1/4 cup chopped cooked beets. For a dressing for fruit salads, reduce vinegar by 1 tablespoon and add le tablespoon liquid honey and le teaspoon paprika; for piquant dressing, add la teaspoon prepared brown mus- tard, le teaspoon Worcestershire sauce, teaspoon onion juice and 2 drops Tabasco. Or, to make up your own dressing, add chopped stuffed olives, chopped green pepper, chopped r,ed pepper, chopped celery, in the proportions you like. oil to the dance floOe And begun, to try to watt; with hine Then he, told her who he Wee and repeated what he had mur- peered to her earlier — that she Was wanted by a. Wend on the telephone! Waiting for an interview with a prospective etenleYer a pretty yelmg Barnes typist wanted, to look her beet and - so powdered her rate. Then She went into his *Vice, "Unfortunately there was a rouge puff as well as a powder puff in my handbag," he reveal- ed afterwards. "Only when I got home later did I find out that MY nose was as red as a rose, What the man who interviewed me must have thought, I daren't guess, but I got the job," An awkward situation in which an absent-minded, good-looking Manchester bachelor found hime self led to romance some years ago, He had moved into a new flat where he was living alone. One evening, returning late after a busy day at his office, he walks ed into a flat two doors below his, after opening the front door successfully with a key of his Own flat, which chanced to fit the lock. Re hung up his hat and coat, sat down, helped himself to a glass of wine front a bottle on the sideboard, took off his collar and tie and was beginning to look round for his slippers when the young woman tenant of the flat came into the room from the bathroom, wearing a dress- ing gown T h e embarrassed bachelor stammered his apologies, He was so confused that she realized he had made a genuine mistake and forgave him. The pair later fell in love and married. In a Spanish cinema a young man was so bored by the film, that he fell asleep and dreamt that he was at home getting ready for bed. The large audis mice were startled when he sud- denly arose from his seat and started to undress, stripping quickly down to his underwear. An outraged usher jerked him fully awake. Amazed and em- barrassed, he had great difficulty in convincing the manager that he really had been dreaming, It's not likely that a young girl would go to a big seaside resort for a holiday and thenelose her hotel. This, howeyerneyeas the recent experience eakeeiteitovely Swede. She spoke perfect English but had arrived at the resort without booking a room. ,.itet ,the station she asked a taxman to drive ,her to a good private hotel. Hz did so. Next morning she left the ho- tel to go for a swim. Returning later she realized that she did not know the name of the hotel and could not remember the rather complicated way back to it. Embarrassed, she went to the police. At first they would not believe her story,, but later it was clear that she was teeing the truth and that her wallet and luggage were at the hotel. The police rang up nearly 40 private hotels in the resort be- fore they found the right one. Two very "wealthy Arit ri e c businessmen, cousins, had long ardeetty wooed the seine girl-,a proud, but very desir- able !platinum blonde, Her prettiness and gaiety ‘cans tivAted both. men but their ey remained friendly. They took $t in turn to take her out and the was quite content for a year Or two to let them lavish teensy on her in their efforts to win her. Each bought her costly jewel- lery; each, drove her to luxuriates parties, flew her en expensive holidays abroad and sent her huge bouquets of flowers almost daily. Finally the younger suitor, who was forty, persuaded her to say "Yes" after proposing to her dozens of times. The wedding day was fixed. There was to be a spare.-no-expense ceremony in a flower-banked church to Which some hundreds of guests were invited. "You must look especially smart and handsome on our wed- ding day," the young bride told her husband-to-be. "Don't° for- get that Sam — the rejected suitor — will be there and he always looks well dressed," On the great day- the bride wore a wedding dress — paid for by her generous groom --weitch cast e750. And the bridegroom, Who had never worried much about his appearance, certainty leoked smart in a well-cut suit. His bride had never seen him looking better. She smiled happily as they met at, the altar, and, the service be- gan, A few moments later some- thing happened which caused her to blush crimson with embar- rassment, Her groom's trousers began to sag and then, in full view of the large congregation, they fell down, leaving him standing in his coat and under- pants. The worst had happened. The 41)1d pair of braces he had hur- riedly put on that morning had broken. The groom turned pale and nervously hitched up his trousers with his left hand, hold- leg them in position until the end of the ceremony. The priest pretended he had not seen them, fall. The congre- gation, Including the rejected suitor, could not refrain from tittering, although everybody felt sympathy for the embarrassed pair. - We can only imagine how they felt when they faced their rela- tives and friends as they emerg- ed from the vestry. The bride- groom had borrowed some braces from the verger. Embarrassing incidents can oc- cur to mar otherwise happy 0C- tasions, It was also a pair ief races which caused a man's lace to go red when he got up to speak a short time agb at a dinner for old age pensioners near London, They broke sled-, eerily, He was given two safety pins by a woman present, made a quick adjustment and went on with his speech, An attractive woman says she will never forget what happened when she was invited to join a dancing party of young people at a Mayfair night club. During the evening an elderly waiter came along, stood behind her chair and murmured some- thing to her. She rose automatically, think- ing it was one of the men in her party and continued to think so until she had practically pro- pelled the astonished old man JUST CALL Mt JOSH At his appearance in a Lan- caster, Pa., court, Joshua Hietize Baussloipezkuffbergarzime con- fessed to the presiding magis- trate that he also used an alias, A somewhat bewildered mag- istrate asked the offender what it was. Came the answer: Joshua Hietize Baussloipeekuffbergi ingredients added to it to form interesting variations, Basic Cooked Dressing: Put into the top of a double boiler 3 tablespoons sugar, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon pre- pared- mustard, 11h, tablespoons flour, 1 egg, ea. cup milk and 4 tablespoons -vinegar (add vine- gar slowly, blending). Combine in the order given. Cook over hot water, stirring constantly, , until thick, Add 1 tablespoon butter and blend thoroughly. Cool, f lyou want to use this dress- ing for fruit salad, add 1 table- spoon sugar • and substituth 1/4 cup pineapple juice plus IA cup orange juice for the milk. Omit mustard, if you wish, If you like your fruit salad dressing fluffy'," fold in nA cup whipped cream. For coleslaw, add 2 table- spoons yellow prepared mus- tard to the basic dressing. For a peanut butter dressing — good either on mixed fruit or vege- table salad—add to basic dress- ing, when cool, 4 tablespoons peanut butter. Or add 1 chopped hard-cooked egg, 1 chopped pi- miento and 1 tablespoon chop- ped sour gherkins—good on egg or lettuce salad. * A different taste is obtained in cooked dressing by using sour cream and lime juice. This is the way to make it. Sour Cream Cooked Dressing :.2 teaspoons salt teaspoons dry mustard 2 teaspoons sugar Dash cayenne 2 tablespoons flour .2 eggs, slightly beaten 1 cup scalded milk le cup lime juice 1 cup sour eream Mix dry ingredients and add to beaten eggs, Add milk and lime juice and cook in double boiler, stirring constantly until mixture thickens: Coal. Add Sour cream, blending well. Store in covered jar in refrigerator, Makes about 3 cups. 4 * Homemade Mayonnaise 'Used to be considered almost a neces- sity tot party salads, especially for ehickeh or fish salads. It is rich and, some, new cooks think difficult to make, but here is an easy recipe. Basle Mayonnaise 1 teaspoon prePared Mustard Iv! teaspoon teaspoon salt no teaspoon pepper 1 egg (or 2 egg yolks) tlft tablespoons vinegar , 2 cups, salad oil Mix mustard, salt, pepper and paprika; add egg and beat well. Add Oil gradually, by teaspoon- fuls at first, until les 'cup is used, beating ell the time. Add I tablespoon vinegar and beat wail, Add more oil, thinning as the mixture thickens, Until all oil and• vinegar ate used. hit StONtiitN8t kit oNttlitittlito,-A okint Proof is lifted info' isfoto- atop the i5tuidq- Circle Stbiieli61146`, Etigreittelt, five pis' ularly eappoSed to have been the weir-Shipping.- plate of the eitteCent Drat-die is being teetetietrueted OS et in-dnuffierth Many restaurants have partly built their reputation for serv- ing good food with their special blend of salad dressing. One fatuous eating place uses tomato soup ):tench dressing. Here is the way to make it. Tomato Soup Frehell Dressing 2 tablespoons sugar 3 tablespoons dry mustard 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon paprika ea teaspoon pepper I can (114 cups) condensed to- mato soup 14 can each vinegar and salad oil (;2 cup plus 2 table- spoons each) 2 tablespoons rented onto.) Combine dry iegreciients in order given hi a I-quart jar; add remaining ingredients and shake well. Store in refrigerator; shake well before using. Makce about 2% cups. A "creamy" Freech dressing contains no cream but is prob- ably so named because the white of I egg is beaten In as the dressing is mixed, Creamy Itterielt Otesshig 3 dine salad eil clove garlic 2 teespOints grated ottioa 4i teespieni 'city linistard ins teaspoon ground black ate- pet , teaspoon paprika 1 ,teaspoort eelt `chit tomato 'catsup 2 tablettionits 8ttgak butt cider vinegar 1 egg *bite - Combine first 6 ingredicsits And let stand 1 hour Add re- Meeting ingredients h'- .t dimly with rotary egg heater (or beat with- electric bettor) Makes 3 cups salad dressing,. • Chicken salad, veserteble ad, coleslaw, fruit end Molded salads.,• as ~veil ,as suritmer'e fa- vorite, potato - Steed, are good ;with rooked areseing, 'This dressing, too, may have other Famous *siding Due For Overhaul London Bridge niter wit be falling dawn -a, but 10 Downing Street gives cause for apprehens sion. In the famed Whitehall rests fleece,. of British Prime Minis., tars, fleece,. of • to be earefut. at Official meetings and reeeptioes net to allow too many Cabinet Ministers or distinguished gueets to congregate on Mara that have a tendency to sag. Number Ten became the °fat dial residence of the British Prime Minister in 1735dveeen Sir Robert Walpole moved in. Even then the house was 55 years old, and had a reptitatien for having been ferry-`built by Harvard graduate Sir George Downing, whose name the street hears. The door of Number Ten stilt bears only the legend, "First Lord. of the Treasury," for in olden days, the term Prime Minister was not used in, this country, and the occupant was indeed First Lord of the Trees sury — a title which Prime. Min- isters. today retain. That much-photographed door with its nail's head knocker, pre- sents a problem — for it is the only open access to the house. I remember a scene for the Moni- tor anniversary film, "Assign- ment Mankind" required me to walk up to the door of Number Ten, and knock. The door open- ed all right — but out -walked the milkman with bottles in, his baud, and we had to shoot it over again, On the practical side, that one door makes it too easy to keep tabs on the. Prime Minister's visitors — and too hard to se- parate those entering from those they might not care to encounter coming out. Yet somehow that plain front door, opening directly onto a dead-end but public street, sym- bolizes the Britain that was mo- dest in its times of greatness, that is orderly and safes. thatis disinclined to fuss, and likes enduring things to, remain as they always were. It is enclis- tiagtiishable front hundreds of other -London front "doors. Number Ten's ailments how- ever are manifold and manifest. Its walls are shaky and out. of plumb. Its floors are weak and wobbly. Its stairways and roof are in bad condition, There's beetle decay en the 'rafters, The plumbing, heating, and light-. ing demand more ,or less cone stant attention. The elevator is balky, but a new one would re- quire extensive rebuilding. Doors and windows stick. The place, in short, needs a thorough structural overhaul writes Henry S. Hayward in T h e Christian Science IVIonitor. The cost of an overhaul is estimated at 400,000 pounds ster- ling which is a good bit, even though it includes adjoining numbers eleven and twelve, con- sidering an average of 8,000 pounds sterling has been spent on upkeep for Number Ten each year since the war. The question therefore arises: Wouldn't it be betLer to pull Number Ten down and build it anew? One answer is that this would be more efficient, more permanent, probably in the end, less costly. But another answer is that this probably would be lees -sa- tisfactory to Britons who are used to Number Ten, love Num- ber Ten, and want Number Ten to stay just as it is To such the comfort, safety, and effici- ency of the resident apparently are secondary considerations, When it became necessary for Prime Minister Harold ellacroil- , gun to report to the House of Commons that a major overhaul iri Downing Street was neces- sary, lee gave political punsters no opening. "I wish to make it clear," the current occupant said t "that the committee was concerned oniy with the fabric of the buildings," Sir Winston Churchill appar- ently had tto great affection for the house lie occupied twice as ?time Minister "Downing Street," he has written, 'con- sists of houses 250 years old, shaky, arid lightly Wilt by a profiteering contrastOr whose name they bean" And' Lord Attlee., when he was Prime Ministers took retuge, in an apartment on the top float. In the basement is a singular tahiet which reads: 'Tit this room during the seceed world War, 'His Majesty the Itieg Was gees ciously pleased to dine Oft teen occasions with the Priebe Minister,. Sr',ltChurchill, the Des puty Prime Ministet, Me. Attlee Sold eottie Of their-principal tel- leagnes in the national governs meet etid various high Ott-, Main:tete Of the British and "Uxliteil States forces ''On two of thesh betesiene, the compang wee ferced tti evithe draw into. a neiglibmitig thelttit by the- air bOthbardthent of the ifiemY," Recent history that. And ope itairs, even' More. Byer try to cut a treated cake-- or an angel' teke—end Dave the frosting get Messed up! by the time you eeech the second alit' If you clotet know this trick, try if AbOrr 'hurt a steal ta knife teidet Very hot water shake to remove excess moisture, then tut thee. nue the knife under the water again, before making each in- tisloni. and you'll 'haulsno more messy trosting, • I