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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1961-04-27, Page 2LIFE HANGS ON SOME THREADS — These two boys in Chicago are thankful for a new gauze which forms its own blood clot, Tom Setina, left, 6, and Ken Carrano, 9, both hemophiliacs — "bleeders" — had teeth pulled with only slight loss of blood. Holding Tom is Charles Cor- rigan, president of the Midwest Chapter of the National Hemophilia Foundation. sloppiuk sauce OB U Clean nib* cloth — c-von becau 4e ne have! lint soap to get sticky ,mad soft in a wet soap dish. With hwbantls, however, the counsellor reports, diVO VCQ is usually contemplated only where infidelity is suspected, 'Mel) are, perhaps, more pre- pared to Torgive their partners' little fads and fancies, as long as they remain faithful," he states. This does not seem to apply abroad, though, Reeently a re- port from Calais announced that a man had sought divorce from his actress-wife because she la, sisted upon wearing gowns 'with plunging necklines, Lightning Does Strike Twice 141t. One Tree They Cannot Kill A TABLE TALKS e4 slaws Arssisews CREAMED HAM 3 cups chopped cooked ham 3 cups chopped cold, boiled potatoes green1 pepper, chopped 2 cups milk Salt and pepper 1 tablespoon butter. Combine chopped ham, pota- toes and green pepper, Place in skillet and add milk. Cook uncovered over very low heat, stirring occasionally, until quite thick, about 25 minutes. Add salt and pepper to taste, Stir in butter and serve. pine" practically ever since. Asked about his views rst a. national theater, Sir Michael said he felt such a theater Should: not be confined to London but should have brenchea up and down, the country. As. for the Wilding,. he would, suggest two auditoriums, one for the Mailer intimate production and the other for larger productions such as Ibsen's. 'Peer Grit." Vanes-se would like three—an extra one for a theater in the round. Sir Michael's "ideal engage- ment," lie said, would be one where he worked with the same company for a long period. ',Even a year is not enough," he said, "because at the end of the year the company breaks up." At another holiday session, Judi Dench and John Stride, the Old Vic's lovers in "Romeo and Juliet," conveyed to the young audience their enthusiasm at working under the Italian pro-. .darer Franco Zeffirelli, This was the, first straight play in Britain produced by the famous opera • producer. • At first this fiery Latin found the English actors "too mourn- ful, too miserable," Miss Deitch recalled. "He , denounced us for having no fire," she said. The two speakers acted the first meeting of Romeo and Juliet as they had originally played it to Zeffirelli in traditional Eng- lieh style. This made Zeffirelli cry out in agony: "No, no, what is. it . . the end of the world?" Mr. Stride and Miss. De.nch. then played it taking note of. Zeffirelli's coaching. By Melite Knowles in the Christian Science Monitor. rather( Daughter And Backstage Secrets TA'king allele Actor Sir Ml- eheel liedgrave and his daughter Vanessa let their gtiesta eoree backstage secrets when they gaye "saucepan session" at the Criterion Theater here re- tently, The young members of the audience were guests of the British Drama League, Vanessa Paine onto the stage With a shopping basket and a saucepan. Sir Michael threw a sheaf of questions into the sauce- pan, and they were drawn and answered one by one. A question on improvision drew from Sir Michael a story about Robert Bolt's "The Tiger and the Horse," the production in which father and daughter both appeaxed. He recalled that one day his dresser had forgotten to put a flower into his buttonhole — an important item. in the plot, Ca- therine Lacey, his stage wife, made• him aware of the fact when she suddenly said; "So, I see you are net wearing it," in- stead of exclaiming that he was wearing it, Sir Michael found himself making up some sen- tences explaining how he had lost the flower, and she improv- ised: "Ill go to the garden and pick you another!' When a questioner suggested that playing Shakespeare was "playing safe," Sir Michael dis- agreed entirely. Nothing was further from "pleying safe" than apppearing in Shakespeare, he said. The actor is being compared with all the best actors whom the audience has seen play the Shakespearean role before, He Is also up against the audience's own image of how the part should be played. New plays were less dangerous to the repu- tation, but so far Sir Michael had not come across many with suitable parts for him. Vanessa told of early recol- lections of seeing her father in reheansai of a Christmas play when she `was five. He was sup- posed to be killed and thrown over a parapet. She was taken backstage 'to see the mattresses and other objects to minimize the fall. When she saw the per- farmancer she had a feeling of being "in the secret, in on the game." She has been "in on the An apparatus which can mea- sure down to one millionth part of a second and record a hundred, flashes of lightning in less than a second will -be in use at a Swedish "thunderstorm research, laboratory" this summer when a. learn of weather experts starts a. new probe into the mysteries of lightning, ,Big efforts are being made in many parts of the world this year to learn more about light- ning, one flash of which can be live miles long, have a potential of 1,000 million volts yet last no more than one-thousandth of a seeond, . It is now estimated that at any given -moment in the .world 2,200 thttnderstOrms take place. But the risk • of being struck by lightning is estimated as high as two million to one. For some unexlained reaoon, for every woman in the 'world killed by lightning about -.nine men are killed. South Africa has the highest death rate from, lightning. The official figure is fifty-five per million or about 600 deaths a year. e• There are hills in South Afri- ca whose rocky summits have been turned into slag by innu- merable' shafts of lightnings proof that lightning does strike twice — or even more times — in the same place. In three year, New York's Empire State Build- ing was struck by lightning sixty-three times. • , • BITES DUST — Veteran film star John Payne is recovering in a New York hospital from a broken leg received when he was struck by a car, He is the hero of TV western, "The Rest- less Gun." Lady on the Bus: "Our neigh- bor, studying for an opera ca- reer, believes in stereophonic sounds—she opens windows on both sides of the house during her practice periods." Wife :Stvfliorpd ,- He Sou. bt• Pivprcp, When film actress Anita galls sone waked fora divorce from, box sevon.d husband on the gro hurie,rd jtloliacetsive‘fvtiltste3c,1 repartee, hrttege; llro Californian judge, 'Wilbur Powa remarked: `"ft i4 preposterous that you should seek to thus discard a man merely because he sees. Ilattiagfunnrinur 17 rks. Iridii eniextrcL l)1g unny Wire live in strange times, in- deed, if such suits should sue- reed, judges will be asked, shortly, to grant divorce just be- cause a partner snores, lisps, stutters — or parts his hair on the unfavoured side." Probably the judge was un- aware a divorce suit was brought on the ground that a wife stuttered, It happened in c A Pole, Vladislaw Wrecznski, sought freedom from his pretty, young American wife because she stuttered 'when trying to pro- nennce his name, The husband complained that it made his name sound ridiculously long when she stammered and stum- bled through its combination of consonants, Equally optimistic was the Mi- ami businessman who sued for divorce because his wife had an affliction of ' the left eye. The ailment caused her to wink — to- her own embarrassment and her husband's jealous rage. The demented man claimed 'that he was involved in a brawl at least once a week — because cf men' mistaking the woman's • wink for an invitation to flirt. In England, a Portsmouth chandler told a divo,-20 judge that his wife insisted upon tak- ing their pet budgerigar to bed with them. Not only did the bird soil the bed linen, but the band awoke each morning with bird seed in his hair, ears and m4th The judge ruled t h a t there were not sufficient grounds for -.granting a divorce, but advised the 'husband to seek revenge by 'taking the family Airedale into bed with him. In a recently-published report, a London marriage counsellor stated that some wives, ask for advice on h a ow to get divorce for such trivial thing5 as hubby dropping his clothes around the bedrooM floor instead of plac- ing them neatly on a chair, or When, an international party of nature lovers touring Europe to study the trees that flourish in capital cities reached London recently they were amazed at what they called "the majesty and hardiness" of the fine old plane trees w hich grow well despite London's fog, dust and soot. One reason why these trees, known as the Londoners' own trees, are much more successful in London than any other vari- eties, they learned, is that they are constantly shedding their bark. And with the bark goes the film of soot and dirt left by the city air. A London plane may reach a height of more than 100 feet It is long-lived and a hybrid pro- duced by two trees brought to London from the East more than 300 years ago. Among the oldest planes in London are some in Berkeley Square which were planted in 1789 — the year the French stormed the Bastille, But -the most famous al the London plane trees is a land-a mark in Cheapside and stands on what is said to -be one of the most valuable patches of land in the City — a disused burial ground. This centuries-old tree, in the heartof a business area, has long been legally protected from des- truction by special clauses in the leases of shops in the vicin- ity, It is in the tiny churchyard of the St. Peter le Cheap, burnt down in the. Great. Fire and nev- er rebuilt. Wordsworth wrote about this tree and a thrush he heard. sing- ing in it. "All love the old tree because 'it is a solitary thing surviving strangely out of place," wrote an 'authority on London:. "Lonely stands the old tree through the years on land that is worth, maybe, a little forum." Boinbing in two world wars failed to wipe' out the London plane tree& One famous news- paper described them as "daunt- less." The branches of one of the trees were killed during a 1942 raid whet incendiary bombs rained on it, but soon afterwards vigorous • shoots appeared from dormant buds up and down its old trunk. That tree continues to flourish today. "My Fair Lady" Breaks All Records On March 14 the Alan Jay Lerner-Frederick Loewe ver- sion of Shaw's "Pygmalion" en- tered its sixth year at the Mark Bellinger Theater in New York. According to Variety, the show business weekly, it is "the top musical comedy hit of all time, the most profitable, and the most widely circulated." Since opening night (March 15, 1956) "My Fair Lady" has been seen in New York alone by 3,000,000 patrons, who have paid $17,000,000 into the, box office of the Bellinger, the entertain- ment's first and only Broadway home. On its fifth New York anni- versary "My Fair Lady" was also playing in London, Stockholm, Sydney, Amsterdam, and Auck- land. It has been acted—in suit- able translation—in Copenhagen, Oslo, Helsinki, Mexico City, and Melbourne (where it stayed for 90 weeks). The National Com- pany recessed for 10 weeks last spring to play engagements in Moscow, Leningrad, and Kiev. Lars R. Schmidt, who owns for- eign language rights, is planning a Berlin production. The total worldwide audience now exceeds 10,000,000; the total box office gross, $48,000,000. The original cast album has sold 3,200,000 copies, and there have been 30 other recordings by va- rious bands, singers, and or- chestras. The New York run of "My Fair Lady" is exceeded only by that of "Oklahoma!" which lasted five years and nine weeks; On. June 13 ;the musical comedy about a phonetics professor and a London flower girl will over- take the legendary Rogers-Ham- merstein western. There seems no doubt that "My Fair Lady" will set a new Broadway record. Optimists feel that it may even run for another season. SPACE FOR SPACE — Every time a missile nose cone races hundreds of miles' into space and thousands of miles down the test range in a few minutes, it leaves behind miles of magnetic recording tape that takes months to decipher. The taped information is valuable since it records every detail of a flight. Photo shows a small part of ihe 2,000 pounds (four million feet) of .tape that has been amassed from 135 flights by GE-made nose cones, They represent 32,1 hours of flight over 230,960 nautical miles by 162,000 pounds of equipment. They include such firsts as the first ICMB flight of a nose cane and first object ever recovered from orbit. 3P CREAM JUBILEE 1 envelope gelatin 3 tablespoons cold water 11 cups milk .34, cup sugar Pinch salt 2 egg yolks, slightly beaten 1 teaspoon vanilla 2 egg whites, beaten stiff 14 cup sugar 1 cup ,whipping cream CHERRY SAUCE 1 20-ounce can sweet,black. cherries 2-inch strip lemon peel 11/2 tablespoons lemon juice 2 tablespoons cornstarch 2 tablespoons cold water Soften gelatin in cold water. Mix milk, sugar and salt together and heat in double boiler. Beat egg yolks slightly and stir hot milk-sugar mixture into egg yolks. Cook over hot water until slightly thickened, stirring con- stantly. Add softened gelatin and stir until dissolved. Remove from heat and add va- nilla. Cool until slightly thick- ened. Beat egg whites until stiff. Gradually beat in 1/4 cup sugar. Whip cream until stiff. Fold beaten egg, whites into cooled mixture, then fold in whipped cream. Turn into 11/2 - quart ring riled. Chill until firm. Turn out on serving platter. Place" small bowl in centre, fill with cherry sauce, To make sauce: Drain 'cherries, reserve fruit and juice, Combine juice, lemon peel, lemon juice, and bring to boil, Mix cornstarch with water, stir into cherry syrup. Cook and stir until clear and thickened, Re- move lemon rind. Add cherries, Chill thoroughly. PROBLEMS — Ingemar Johans- son isn't worrying about his ring fights. He is discussing his tax problems with newsmen in Palm Beach, Pia. The U.S. gov- ernment claims he owes about SI million. ISSUE 14 -- 1961 'DIOGENES CAN GUlt 'LOOKING --- Candidate tat "Mast i'knesl Mann title'- baualas iphosaa, rr ht receives a hatidthcike from Brink's guard P. R Young, Jtilinstsn tatilid a sack of Money' — $240,060 — on a Cos ,Arigelet greet, and tarried it o'er' to the The G-men gave if back„ta Btftik's Who dropped it ft6M area riaored ta, thy h.B.h head looks one Lizard, For Dinner Australian Treat An Australian inland patrol officer, Bill Hartley, has just Pro- duced the first ever "Bush Cook Eook"—a collection of more- than-original recipes used by Australian aborigines. Bill knows as much about aborigines as any man alive, For years, he has watched their ceremonies, trek- ked with them, eaten their foods and shared their hazards. Now in his fascinating book he parades a rare feast of aborigin- al delicacies — including such tasty items as baked crocodile eggs and kangaroo steak. The latter, 13i1l infernie readers, 15 extra nutritious if served with bacon, Aussie' ovens are sizzling these days with teeny of till's fantas- tic recipes. "It's, net possible,'' he says, "to deSeilibt the flavour of the Meet of the native iiiardeeeWhich the aborigines havo- eaten foi' tbdtv. Sande of Years and 'Which I end Many ethers find deliciMIS. ThOS, hate their owti epetitil flavour like beets I uttoh or chicken." HAM-BONE SOUP 1 ham bone 8 cups water w 2 onions, sliced 1 clove garlic, chopped 1 bay leaf .1/t cup pot barley 2 carrots, sliced thin 2 potatoes, pared and diced 1 green pepper, chopped Vs cup diced celery 1 28-ounce can tomatoes Salt and pepper. Place ham bone in large kettle. Add water, onions, garlic, bay leaf and pat barley. Cover, bring to boil, reduce heat and simmer 11/2 hours. Or, cook in pressure cooker for 30 minutes. Remove bone, pick off any meat, chop the meat and return to stock. Discard bone. Skim off excess fat. Add carrots, potatoes, green pepper, celery and canned toma- toes. Reheat to boiling. Reduce heat and simmer for 1 hour long- er, or until vegetables are tender, Add salt and pepper to taste and serve. SPICED PRUNES These may be served either hot with a roast or cold, as a relish. 1 pound prunes, cooked 1 cup vinegar 1 cup sugar 1 cup water 1 teaspoon each, cinnamon and ground oloves Combine all ingredients except prunes and boils 1 minute, add prunes; bring to boil. Cool and leave in refrigerator for 24 hours. , • • OATMEAL QUICK BREAD This is a slightly sweet bread, and it stays moist, It's very sim- ple to make and can be served warm or cool, toasted, or in sand- wiches. Combine 2 cups sifted all-pur- pose flour, 1/2 cup sugar, 1 table- spoon salt, 1 teaspoon soda, 11/2 cups rolled oats (quick or regu- lar), 1 cup whole bran cereal, 1/2 cup raisins, In a separate bowl combine 2 beaten eggs, 11/2 cups buttermilk or sour milk, 1/2 cup molasses. Add liquids to dry in- grediehts and stir just until dry particles are moistened. Pour in- to a greased loaf pan (9x5x3) and bake at 350'F. about 1 hour, or until well done and browned. I used a glass bread pan, and found I had to cook the loaf. about 10 minutes over the hour. • • k GLAZED CARROTS 1 pound new carrots Boiling salted water 1/2 cep corn syrup 3 tablespootte butter Cut off tops and scrub carrots with a brush. Serape, if desired. Place in rapidly boiling salted. Water. Cover and cook 15-20 minutes, until carrots are tattler. Drain well, Heat corn syrup and butter in a skillet, Add drained carrots, simmer until well glazed, turn- ing frequently. Serve irnreedi- ately. s ASPARAGUS WITH LEMON BUTTER- 1 pound fresh or frozen asparagus Boiling salted water 4 tahieStio4tig butt& tahieSPOOns leiriort teasPeon 0%04 teMbii kind. dot& asparagus, iti boiling Salt, ed water for 10-1 inintitta, Until just' tender. Heat louttexi, rind Until piping het. Pair' Over 0.60tht,gus and. serve. CAPSULE hitVitttg — A itiadei Of the. Mercury capsulE.# coals pie with. &Meng astronaut. gets the once-over by itehri 12, IfletettylV.d 'by National Aeronautics arid Space AdMirlittra- iiati to *lake the Arrieritan into taacer, the modal is dieplay- illit thiicity Museum of SOailid* dill Industry.