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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1959-08-27, Page 2•Prtok N DaYSenool NEWSMAP ABLE TALKS ektue Andrews: a ss - • '.>"£4.• T MONTH — IN HISTORY Vice President Nixon arrireitleMoscoetteepeetees exhibition; debates with Premier lehrusheliesel?egiet toutofeoyietclties, JULY 23 -411111811116.11111111116.)Ut 141111E111101;111101111.12MVPYernment Flash flood in Colombia wipes out three tome; 250 perish. Muscles Mean Big Money Rippling his mel eeles in. a Meaty arpeggio, the Strong Man Bells the gods: "I want to live like any other mortal. I want Children of my own," The dia- logue is, typical of one of the funniest Isicheres to reach U.S, seereeris hi yore — altheueh the ktimour is not deliberate, A sort of Homeric Tartan, heavy on Sex and mixedsup mythology, Hercules is also the biggest stir- Priee heessoffiee smash in Holly.4 Wood's memory, Starring a one-, time (194'7) Mr, America named Steve Reeves, Hercules d r e w $900,000 in its first week when it, opened in 145 neighboterhoed houses last Month. Now, with total of 600 Eastmancolour prints ready to go (largest order Pathe Labs has ever had), Hercules premises to fill 135 houses in New York City alone. By mid-August it may well be the biggest movie money-maker in the U.S. -The brain behind the big b.o. caper is. Joseph E, (for Edward) Levine, 53, a onetime Boston newsboy who beat his way out of the slums by chasing a ra- pid dollar with indiscriminate energy. Salesman, shopkeeper, ,restaurantrnan, driving Instruc- tor, art-theatre owner — Levine tried them all. Then he drifted into movie distributing, and his talent for what he calls the "big, big sell" began to pay off. It is a talent for recognizing the odd and often awful stuff that the public can stomach, buying it, and then peddling it behind a rolling barrage of ads and publicity gimmicks that have often cost more than half a million dollars. Until Joe Levine came along Hercules was just another Ital- ian film that several 1LS, dis- tributors had seen and sneered at, And Steve Reeves was just another refugee from Califor- nia's Muscle Beach set who had tried Broadway and TV and even studied a little chiroprac- tic before an Italian producer picked him up for Hercules. On a tip, Levine flew to Rome and looked at the picture. Says he: "It had action and sex, a near shipweeck, gorgeous women on an island and a guy tearing a goddam building apart. And where did you ever see a guy with a body like Reeves has?" Levine bought the picture for $120,000, dubbed in English dialogue, even for Reeves ("Who gonna win no Oscar this veer"). Most of the movie is ground- ed. in muddled mythology; the scriptwriter seems to get Her- cules mixed up with Samson, the Amazons with the ladies of Lemnos. But no matter. Few Amazons ever looked better, especially in a scene filmed ainst the background of an obviously m o der n cemetery, where one of the big, tough gals explains that this is where visiting men are buried "when , we kill them after the mating season." The good guys fight the had; Hercules topples pillars .on horses and men, breaks iron chains as if they were. Zippers and routes an army singlehand- ed. "If this picture had a star," says Levine frankly, "it'd be a top, Nobody could imagine that even Clark Gable or Victor Ma- ture could do such things. But they never heard of Reeves — a year ago he couldn't have got arrested — so they'll believe anything he does." To make it all even more be- lievable, Joe organized a typical Levine prornotion campaign -- Hercules comic books, "Hercu- lean Hamburgers," Test-Yeur- Strength machines, strategically spotted in key cities, with Le- vine making a contribution to charity every time some ideal muscleman rings the bell, Be- f o r e lie has finished, Levine plans to spend $1,200,000, seine $e50,000 of it on. TV ads alone, The most impressive statistics ' about the movie are still those concerning Mentalist-born strong Man Reeves * 6 ft. 1 in, 200 chest 48, waist 29, biceps 17%. On the Strength of his first picture, he is one of the most sought-after U.S, performers in 4urnne, has already made a Hercules sequel (says one fluit: "We lied a few labours left Over"), issnow hi Spain making The Last Pays of Pompeii, will go, from there to The Battle of Marathon. Reeve's acting is con- siderably more expressive than King Kong's, and he feels he needs only the right director ("Joshua Logan, Elia. Kazan dr John Ford") and the right scripts; he w o u l d particularly like to do a western, apparently unaware that he is making noth- ing but westerns already. As for Joe Levine's big U.S, promotion campaign, R e e v es will haee no part in that Says Joe; "I don't want Steve over here for the buildup, With clothes on, he ain't Hercules." —from TIME. Brings Religion Down to Earth "The church is still talking about lilies and sheep to a gen- eration of men who work with coal and steel: It's about time it used a language the industrial worker can understand." The Rev, William Gowland, a 47-year-old. Methodist minister who is the author of these vigor- ous sentiments, has been doing just that, He is an industrial evangelist whose parish is the grimy community of Luton, not far from London. Long interest- ed in labors' problems, he dis- covered a church in Luton five years ago that "looked like a cross between the Kremlin and a prison, a derelict church with no future," and promptly ex- changed his top flight pastorate at Manchester's Albert Hall for Luton. His first Sunday there "I preached at 1,800 empty seats, so I decided to change the church." He rustled up the money for a new facade with the Pub-style swinging doors famil- iar to British workmen, later added a cafeterie and a com- munity centre. But the question remained, how to- get the workman throne.), those swinging doors. One night, early in his Luton ministry, Bill dropped into a factory to chat with the men on the graveyard shift, "What's the matter, Padre?" asked one. "Did your wife turn you out of the house?" This didn't faze a man who be- lieves that the only way to "overcome suspicions is to slog around factories." His approach is deceptively simple. "What's your first name? Mine's Bill," he says to all corn- ers. But beneath the warm hand- clasp and the lilting Yorkshire accent lies a deep commitment to his faith. "Officially, the church would say I've been called by God," says Bill. "But that's too pious for me. I prefer to say that I couldn't keep out of the church." This sort of dedication has convinced industrial Luton that Chirstianity must be taken seriously. His congregation has swelled from 60 to 500, he serves as industrial chaplain to nine local factories, and two and a half years ago opened an Indus- trial College to train other min- isters in his specialty. Perhaps because he so clearly practices what he preaches, the padre is succeeding in his uphill fight to make Christianity relev- ant to an industrial Society. As one ex-mine worker said recent- ly: "I drifted away from the church because L didn't think it had any of the answers to the problems with which labor ist faced. Today Bill Gowland has given me the Christian answers to problems that have bothered me for 30 years." TO MOSCOW — British balle- rina Anne Stone, 14, Will fol- low her twinkling . toes from London to Moscow. A perforrri- er for seven years, Ann will be the first British girl to train with Russia's Bolshoi Ballet. Bathing Suit Issue Stirs Controversy Her future is a "horrible pros pact," said she, but she hoped that her action might "dispel the false, absurd and danger- ous notion that Catholics can- not speak for themselves," The speaker was Sue Simone In- gersoll, 20, Roman Catholic and New Mexico's entry in the lat- est Miss Universe Pageant, and she was explaining to reporters in Long Beach, Calif., why she was defying her archbishop by appearing in public bathing-suit exhibitions. Albuquerque's Archbishop Ed- win Vincent Byrne, who consi- ders such contests indecent, had warned her that if she took part in the pageant 'he would deny the sacraments to both her and her mother. In a "statement of conscience," redheaded Sue (37- 24-36) described herself as "a symbol of one of the, great prob- lems in the country today," in- sisted that she was "in no way immoral." Then she put on a white bathing suit and posed for photographers. Threatened w i t h expulsion from Nebraska's Catholic Du- chesne College unless she sticks to the no - bathing - suit ban, blonde Mary Jean Belitz, 18, last month gave up her Miss Omaha title. To Mary Jean's mother, the bail was bewildering; her pert (36-24-36) daughter had of- t e n appeared in the briefest drum-majorette costumes with- out causing church disfavour. s Clerical Error ' At Lambeth Palace in London where the Archbishop of Can- terbury was marrying his son Humphrey to pretty Diana De, Geoffrey 'Francis "Fisher intoned: "A woman should he lovely," then hastily corrected himself as the congregation smiled, "a evoinari should be toying?" Late Mrs. Fisher ad- mitted: "Yes, my husband did get it a little' wrong. But 1 thought the lovely wife was re- aler sweet. riti net sure whe- ther. he gets enough practice at weddings-,or perhaps he didn't have hie reading glasses' In Old Saybrook? Conti., eftee explaining that he was rushieg to hie wedding when arrested` for speeding, Kerry Cashion Was fined $50 when the judge discovered that the wedding. was sie months away'. JULY 14 JULY 4 JULY 28 littera 170711, first Congressional elections; Republions outpeint Democrats, Jual-sYC'.7banfpidreeml Ciifirs,tfroor rceinsgigns ouster of President Urrutia. Castro yields to huge rally in Havana end returns, o premiership, Here's a useful hint about keeping fresh fruits, If yeu're not using them at once put them in a cool place or in the refrig- erator and do not wash them un- til serving or cooking time. BLUEBERRY SAUCE 2 cups blueberries 1 cup orange juice 11/4 cups water ee to 3/4 cup sugar 1 tablespoon corn starch 1/8 teaspoon cinnamon 1 to 2 drops almond extract Combine blueberries, orange juice, 1 cup water and sugar in ,saucepan. Place over heat and bring to a boil. Mix corn starch and remaining 1/4 cup water un- til smooth; add a little of the hot blueberry mixture and blend well. Stir into remaining blue- berry mixture and blend well. Stir into remaining blueberry mixture in saucepan. Cook blue- berry mixture over high heat, stirring constantly, until it be- comes clear and thick. Remove from heat and stir in cinnamon and almond extract. Store sauce in refrigerator, in a container, with a tight-,fitting cover. BLUEBERRY PIE Pastry for two-crust, 9-inch pie 1 cup granulated sugar lee cup all-purpose flour % teaspoon cinnamon 4 cups blueberries 1 tablespoon lemon juice 1 to 2 tablespoons butter 1 to 2 tahlespoons milk Line a 9-inch pie pan with half the pastry rolled about %- inch thick. Combine sugar, flour and cinnamon and mix well. Sprinkle sugar mixture over blueberries and toss together gently. Sprinkle with lemon juice and toss again. Turn blue- berry mixture into pastry-lined pie pan; dot with butter. Roll out remaining pastry about %- inch thick. Make several slits for steam to escape. Moisten edge of bottom crust with water. Place top crust over blueberry mixture, Seal and flute edge. Brush crust with milk and sprin- kle with sugar. Bake in hot oven, 425 degrees F,, for 35 to 45 min- utes or until the crust, is nicely browned and the juice begins to bubble through slits in crust. . * * * PEACH MOLD 1 cup sliced peaches 1 cup blackberries (or other berries) 2 cups boiling water Milk s 1.1/2 efeheetesoeutice packages cream 1 tablespoon lemon juice 1 package orange flaVor jelly powder Arrange berries 'in bottom of tined, medium-size ring Mold. Place jelly powder in bowl; add boiling water and Stir until dis- solved, Pour 1 cep over black- berries in ring mold. Chill until firm, Do not allow remaining 1 cup jelly powder mixture to thicken; keep it on the kitchen table: Add enough milk to cream cheese to give it a good epread- hig consistency, Spread over firm jelly -hi mold, Sprinkle lemon juice over peaches; arrange over cream cheese, Pout. remaining 1 den jelly powder Mixture over peaches. Chill until firm. Uri- mold on chilled platter and gar- nish with additional betriee. Serve with Whipped cream or dairy sour ordain. APRICOT'HESSEILT % cup phis 1 teblespoorl sugar 1 tableetiode corn etakeli 1 cup -teethe et orange Mee of half and half 3 tripe steered, Washed apricots to 1 teaspoon !often. Aid (optional)' 1 to 2 drops diraiond blittact l/ teaspoon einnemon 1 to 11/e tablespoons butter 1 Cep sifted all'-purpose flour Pee teaspoons hiking pOevder % teaspoon salt , tablespoons ietteolog i/2 top milk Mae' k cup sugar' and Wei starch iii saucepan. Arid„water or &range Mee slowly; stirring the time. Add apricots. Place saucepan over high heat and bring apricot mixture to a boil, stirring continually. Boil for 1 minute, stirring constantly. Re- move, saucepan from heat and stir in lemon rind and almond extract. Spoon apricot mixture into buttered, 11/2 -quart baking dish. Sprinkle with cinnamon and dot with butter. Sift to- gether sifted flour, remaining 1 tablespoon sugar, baking powder and salt. Using a pastry blender or two sharp knives, cut in shortening until mixture has consistency of coarse corn meal. Stir in milk. Stir only long enough to moisten ingredients. Drop by*spoonfuls onto hot apri- cot mixture. Bake in hot oven, 400 degrees F., for 25 to 30 min- utes or until golden brown. Serve warm with thick cream or ice cream, Lots Of Big Money In Britain Yet When detrain at. Waterloo Station these mornings and pre- pare to walk or bus across Wa- terloo Bridge to the office, I cannot help noticing the -gel:sw- ing arra y of shining, black, chauffeur - driven limousines lined up. outside. Each is there to pick up one high-ranking, presumably high-powered' exe- cutive — and whisk him to his managerial desk with his deci- sion-making and money-making capacity as fresh as when he left_his suburban home. These conveyances are for ex- pense - account gentlemen, and the expensive limousines are company cars with company dri- vers, provided for two good rea- sons.' One is that in, a country with a high tax 'rate, this is one means of recompensing and re- taining a good man with a legi- timate perquisite. He need not compete for a taxi, queue for a bus, or risk Walking in change- , able weather. Some persons have only the welfare "state's ex- pensive social services behind them. But the few in luxury limousines also have welfare business backing them. A second reason for provid- ing exclusive transportation is that the company probably can charge off the car and driver as, a business expense, W hie h means, if you care to look at it that way, that those of us who conipete, queue, Or walk indi- rectly are paying for our col, league's plush ride. Without pursuing the social rightness or wrongness of this• practice I only wish to call at- tention to one point it plus- trates about Britain he this pros- perous summer of 1959. It is that signs of big' money are more obvious here than ever be- fore in the postwar -era. A London man, for example, recently provided a wellscatered party for his daughter, After noting the festivities, a news- paper columnist suggested to the father he wouldn't get much change from £10,000 ($28,000) when he paid the bills. And Father reportedly turned not a hair at, the mention of his stag- gering sum. Recently, £275,000 ($770,000) Was paid for Rubens' picture, "Adoration of the Magi." The next day, the Westminster tiara, a piece of jewelry containing the two Arcot diamonds of more. than 57 carats, was sold for 4110,000 ($308,000) in two min- utes and ten seconds. Even that large and famous department store, Harrod's which is an institution known not only to the British but tb legions of foreign visitors, has had an offer of £35,000,000 ($98,000,000). This big spending mood has caused a lot of jocular com- ment, One cartoon portrayed two housewives with their bat- tered shopping bags meditative- ly contemplating the Rubens canvas with its "Sold for £275,- 000" price-tag. "I still say," says one, "I'd rather 'ave 'Arrods," The f a b u 1 o us Westminster tiara, the two large diamonds of which were owned by, the Rajah of Arcot until Clive of India captured Arcot, and the_ jewels passed to Queen Char- lotte, was sold to an American dealer. But the Rubens was ac- quired for a British collector and will remain in this country writes Henry S. Hayward in The Christian 'Science Monitor. So great is the drawing power of famous art works and so high the prices offered that some of London's best known auction° rooms have been forced to• limit admission to the big sales by ticket only. Tickets, for Sothe- by's a n d Christie's sometimes are as searce as those for Trooping the C olo ur on the Queen's birthday, or "My Fair Lady." With sums of money such as these being exchanged, it be- comes difficult indeed to con- y ince the average worker it would be to the nation's detri- ment if he were permitted a few more shillings in his pay packet. Some of the sales of neaster- pieces, however, are made neces- sary by the settlement of great -estates which are being broken up to meet inheritance duties. So the leveling process between Britain's very rich and those of low income still is going on. After taking one of those summer cruises, friend of ours says that he's shesick, ley Rev It. leareete Wertele est,As. B.O. Prayers of the Captives (Dauleit Hanle" 9; Is-10, L7-19. Winery Selection: If my people, which are .tailed by my name., shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their Wicked Ways; then tent I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sins, and will heal their land, 2 chron- icles 7:14. Prayer is natural in time of trouble. The coal miners, res- cued several' days after the ex- plosion had brought death to many of the comrades, did not hesitate to say, "We prayed," People driven from their homes into the lalee as a refuge from. the fierce forest fire; passen- gers passen- gers on a plane as the pilot tried to bring her in safely with one engine out; hunters lost in the woods; yes it is' easy to pray when we are in trouble. And why shouldn't we pray then? God has invited us to do so, "Call upon me in the day of troub16: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me." Psalm 50;15. I asked a Psychiatrist who was having wide hospital experience in the treatment of the mental- ly ill, "Is it true that some people go insane over religion?" He discounted the idea and put it this way. Here is a man who. feels himself slipping mentally. Like other people, becoming aware of serious trouble, he turns toward-religion, He needs the help of a Higher Power, People observe this increased interest in religion. The ill- ness may become worse and he is taken to a hospital. Some neighbours may say that his in- terest in religion made him ill, But actually it may have beene his awareness of his illness that prompted his sudden interest in religion. s, In the first portion of the les- son Daniel is confessing the -sins of his People. In the second por- tion he presents his entreaty. Confession naturally c om es first. William N. Blair, a Pres- byterian missionary in North Korea, in his book, Gold in Korea, tells of a remarkable scene of people confessing their sins. "Every sin a human be- ing can commit was poblictly confessed that night. Pale and trembling with emotion, in ag- ony. of mind and body, guilty souls standing in the white light of that judgment, saw themselves as God saw them,— Pride was driven out, the face of man was forgotten, — The scorn of men, the penalty of the law, even death itself seemed of small consequence if only God forgave." Public confession of sin is certainly not always de- sirable but in this instance it couldn't be stopped. ConfessiOn and repentance are Tollowed by forgivenese ISSUE 33 — 1959 tAkiNa A BREATHER — Designed for babies, the' world's 'linieet resuscitator Can eveet be used on birds, It.was developed es- Petially for new-born babies who helve Jr-feeble drciwirig their first breaths, forty-nine-stara wares as nation celebrates' independence Day, Steel milli Idle ai501/,000 workers strike. JULY t3 Big Four foreign ministenopee second pee n of Berlin talks in Genera. JULY 27 Third major baseball league—the. Contieental League—. Is formed in. New York. JULY 5 wadi Prime MittzpllucteeoGyeerriesanlereostigns sesioneek11111111leffilt armies W. Germany; he stays on in caretaker Pro- Communist revolt in Iraq is put dawn by 'Premier Kassern, FRIENDLY TOAST .— Soviet. Peeniiee Khrushchese and Vice Rees', tient ,Nieon tocist.ecich other in Moscow, Next to Nixon is Or. 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