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The Brussels Post, 1954-3-3, Page 6by DICR KLEINER NEW YORK (NEA).--There's.a strong possibility that Sir Laurence .Olivier and Vivien Leigh will come to'Tdew York next season, to de three plays at the City Center. They'd do two classics -"Antony end Cleopatra" and "Romeo and Juliet"—and the play they're currently doing in London, Terrence Ratigan's "The Sleeping Prince." With the Oliviers on stage, the Prince will be the only one sleeping. e The TV version of One Man's Family" dropped by 11l3C in 1952, is coming back It wasn't particularly missed by some, but what's one man's family may be another man's meat. What It was, was Andy Griffith. He's the fellow from Xvlt. Airy, N.C., who rode to glory on a small-town record called "What It Was, Was Football." It led to a Capitol record eontrrct, TV shows and a New York night club. What he is, is a nice young chap with a shock of wavy blond hair and a degree from the University of. North Carolina. He taught school in Goldsboro, N.C,, for three years—you could call him a southern Sam Levenson—before he took his monologues and went into show business. "I just sort Of driftedinto it," says Andy. One drift led to another until'he made The Record, To show yeu how amateurish it was, it didn't even have dubbed -in laughter. It usedL Ohl horror—real laughter. The recording was made while Andy entertained at a party thrown by the Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Co. So those are insurance salesmen laughing, which is unusual enough to stamp the record as a collector's item. After The Record hit the big time, Andy got the call to New York and his big-time night club debut. "The first show was terrific," Andy says. "You see, I'd done' some little theatre work with Ainslie Pryor in Raleigh. Pryor is now playing the Judge Advocate, in ''The Caine Mutiny Court Martial.' I entertained for a party they had after that show's first night. In return, Pryor brought the whole cast—Henry Fonda, Lloyd Nolan, everybody—to my opening, Everything turned out Axle for me, "But then came the black week. Monday was awful, Tuesday was awful, Wednesday was awful, Thursday was awful—and Friday was bad. I began experimenting. I dropped some things and added others. I changed my whole attitude. Humor is all attitude." It all ended happily. The new attitude was just what the agent ordered. The people loved him, and he loved the people. Just one thing—he gets heckled by some who say he's not a real southerner. He sure enough is. Camilla Wicks, a very pretty, very talented and very blond concert violinst, played a Sibelius concerto over a Finnish radio station on one of her European tours. As seen as she finished, °she says, came, a call from the great composer, asking: "Who was that man who played my work?" He couldn't believe the artist was a woman and an American woman at that. * a a Percy Faith was the conductor when Helen Ward made her "It's Been 8o Long" album for Columbia. Faith, noted for soft, dreamy backgrounds, had to provide an almost -jazz accompani- went for the rousing Miss Ward. When he listened te, the playback, he sighed and said, "Well, there go all the friends I made with 'Moulin Rouge.". a * 5 The latest model electric sinus mask—a device that fits around the head and provides heat for curing sinus headaches—has a special slit in the front so you can watch TV. You gotta be careful what show you see, though—or else you'll be going from one head- ache t0 another. - Atomic. Nonsense Not long ago an American columnist made the statement that if it had not been for espionage the Soviet Union might never have got the atomic secret." It is astonishing that at this late date some people still think there is or was an "atomic secret" The feet is, as one nuclear scientist put it some years back, that the biggest secret about the atom bomb„was that it could be made at all, and the Americans broke that secret when they dropped it on Hiro- shima. Given the assurance that it could be done, and given the in- ternationally known physical dis- coveries of this century (most of them made in Europe), nuclear scientists anywhere were bound to duplicate the feat sooner or later. It was the discovery, through espionage, of some of the technological secrets of ef- ficient production that made Russia produce the bomb earlier than expected. A correlative myth, held by many people, has recently been honored by no less a figure than President Syngman Rhee, who stated; "A few atomic bombs could have freed Korea of the Chinese and assured Korea's unity.” It is just . as foolish to think that "a few atomic bombs" dropped on a few clues—Pyong- yang? - Peking? Moscow?—would solve any of the problems con- fronting the world today as to believe that under any circum- stances the atom bomb could have remained an American monopoly. .The incantatory ap- peal of the bomb is considerably greater today than its diplomatic persuasiveness. — From The Christian Science Monitor. Two boys spending a day in the country came upon a man fly-fishing. After watching him cast his line several times, one of them remarked to the other: "Oh, come on, Bill. Hell never catch anything—he's trying to lasso. "em." Love Wins Out — JoanTonbirrn and her fiance, Donelson Kelly, Jr., shown above at a New York City night club last year, re; calve sgood news from the court. Her great-grandfather, Abra- dm Rosenthal, stipulated' In his will that tiny relative who married outside the Jewish faith would be cut off without a cent. However, the court ruled that on a technicality Jean was really inheriting the money from her father. She will receive $10,000 in cash and $6500 -a -year for life. One Hour's Sleep in 36 Years IJgo Dell'Aringa, who works as a 'bankclerk in 'the beautiful and' wealthy little Italian' town r of Lures, has net slept for 56 years. Remedies are useless, lie has tried them all, from hot baths taken before Oleg to bed, to sedatives Of double strength, and the inose violentexercise, Lung•age he gave 'up hope and gave•up worrying; deciding that his wisest courts weuld be to ack newledge the fact that he will never sleep again. Wlfen:he gets out oi' bed each morning, he at. first feels a great sensation Of weariness; his eyes are red' and smarting, his face pale, • Lithe by little, .however,, his complexion regains its colour, his eyes cease to smart, his ' limbs loosen' up' and'heis'ready to fare the day; ,, • His•strange story, began 1917, when he was a prisoner,of-war the Austrian camp of Spratzen• It was bitterly cold, the prison- ers were desperately -hungry, and they passed the time as best they could .playing tennis and , poker, and skating; One night Dell'Aringa was• eo cold that he even added a table to the bedclothes' and overcoats which were covering him, It was the first night that he did not sleep. When he got up in the morning he felt tired and stiff, but he did not tell his fellow -prisoners that he had laid awake all night; nor did he tell them when it happened the following night, nor the night after. He was afraid of being taken for mad—a fate that had befallen several prison- ers.. • 'Instead, he 'lid everything he could to tire himself out, play- ing tennis for hours, running 25 miles a day round the perimeter of the camp, playing poker into the smellhours of the morning. It was' no use. Sleep eluded him. When Ugo Dell'Aringa was at last released and went home to 'Italy,' he hoped that his troubles would be ended; they had pro- bably been caused, he thought, by malnutrition and cold; He was disappointed. Doctors could not help him; they eventually told him he had probably received a ''nervous shock which' had affected; his "centres of sleep." • During the war, the•seeond war, the wheel came full circle, and he found himself set td guard an Allied prisoner -of -war camp, He did his normal duties during the day, and took over from any col- league who felt tired at night. To say that he has not slept for 36 years is not quite aceturate —he did sleep once. In "1947 he was 'seriously 'ill' with bronchitis, was taken to hospital, and there fell asleep. When .he. awoke, .he felt .• as though he had slept for a day, but instead he was told that he had been asleep only for an hour. One hour, in thirty-six years! .,,• t:r1? ,; ate al. r:l4 iantr art! .,,d71 Erinlel Streets and Sea Gulls There are multiple tales about sea gulls, of course. What seacoast would be com- plete without their haunting cry and lazy, graceful wheeling over- head? They scavenge behind the fisherman cleaning his vessel from a catch. They fly inland to tell of coming storms. Probably the best-known sea gulls of all are those which. saved the crops from grasshoppers in Utah in early Mormon history. Undoubtedly they started a tradition of aid and comfort to the men they flew beside. Down the years their descendants have cried the tale aloud over beaches and cliffs and kept up with tra- dition by appearing in hosts of paintings and photographs as "authetic atmosphere." But now sea gulls are really going places. Specifically to Longport, New Jersey. Here they have become road builders, and they don't even halt for lunch. In fact, lunch could be the mo- tive power for the whole thing. When the gulls of Longport seize on clams for their mid-mornnig snack they fly high over the streets and drop them on the pavement. Swooping down, they seize the clams, leaving the shells to be ground to powder by' passing cars —• and, incident- ally, to 11 in the pavement cracks. "' Maybe the gulls should be pUt on the payroll of Longport, Or at least given a liberal handout from residents' picnic baskets as recognition for faithful service. —From the Christian Science Monitor, GOING VP! Th a grocer's ;shop several people were waiting to be served. Suddenly the cash register went crazy, clicking wildly and ring- ing up the same' amount twice, after Which it spun out the tape without a pause, The assistant stared in amaze- ment, and One customer exclaim- ed: "Heavens! Prices are too much even for machinery newt" for Better Fatting inventor in Paris has created this "mag- netic silhouettor" so manufacturers con make clothes that fit like one's shddowl Tfhe'Wstomer steps into the fitting device, and' in -'r •.xr'shorrtime; the toiler has the measurements that permit him 'oat do>itixr r akemacirtnents'without extra try -ons or alterations. Glum — "Curtis," the boxer, seems upset after being told that the London, England, dog show in which he was to hove appeared was called off. He was all dressed up for the gath- ering, only to have an electri- cian's strike ruin his chance to show. off his party clothes. She Had Mirrors By The Thousand A French scientist has calcu- lated that as most women spend thirty minutes a day in making up, preening and admiring themselves, they waste 349,575 minutes — 242 days of their lives, mostly between the ages of twenty and thirty-five—in front of their mirrors. Yet half an hour a day would not have, sufficed for the toilets of some well-known beauties. Elizabeth, Empress of Austria, was so vain over her chestnut hair, which fell below her knees, that she once had every hair counted, and used to spend hours in front of her mirror having her tresses arranged in exotic fashion. Fonder still of gazing at ,her own reflection was an Italian Countess of Castiglione. She was so vain that once, after inspect- ing a full-length nude portrait for which she had posed, she took the 'artistes knife and rip- ped his painting to shreds in case art lovers should prefer that likeness to herself. But the most amazing passion for mirrors was that which en- slaved Kate Horvoath, wife of a prosperous Hungarian wine merchant. Accustomed to spend- ing hours', admiring ; her own good looks, she entered a com- petition in which a prize of $5,000 was offered to the entrant collecting the greatest number of mirrors. Wit)1 plenty' of mon- ey at her disposal, Kate bought specimens from castles and mansions all over the country, and then travelled abroad buy- ing more -mirrors; Then, when the time came for her collec- tion to be examined, the Turk- ish millionaire who had Organ- ized the contest • committed suicide, No* Kate possessed 2,700 mirrors;, stored in nine of the ten rooms in her home, and when her husband died in 1922, they represented her total as» rets. One by One she told them to buy food, still Spending hour. gazing at her reflection in the others. One day, however, .she 'tripped and fell against one mas- sive mirror, "smashed it and cut herself badly. When neighbours answered her screams they were too •late to help. She died a vic- tim of the strangest mirror mania on record One only man seems to have sought mirrors with anything like Kate's enthusiasm. Sir John Soane, founder of the Sonne lvluseum in London, could: never resist them and had hundreds built into' the house in which his treasures are now housed. Strangely enough, a number of women have disliked mirrors. Lady Montague, the once famous English society beauty who died in 1762, never looked at herself in a glass during the last twenty- two years of her life, Small- pox had ruined the beauty that had once made her the toast of London. Charles Worth, of America, was one of., the opposite sex who never knew what he looked like —but for a. very good reason. lie was the victim of premature senility, and at the age of seven was as grey -bearded and totter as a man of seventy. When he should, have beenplaying with boys his •own age, he was hob- bling round on a stick like a bent old man. His parents. kept him away from mirrors and refused to let him see his own reflection' in veater. One day, however, he did gaze into a mirror in an un- guarded moment, and the terrible shock of what he saw is said to have killed him. ;ar Many home -makers think of croquettes and the like es an Raay way of serving up ;"left -overs." This, in my opinion, is a mistake as croquettes, served in various shapes, are u favorite luncheon or dinner dish in countless fam-- flies — and well worth your spe0ial attention. • . ' Hut be sure they come to the table hot and crisp; and a tangy sauce, such as the one I give the recipe for, adds the crowning touch. 1AM ORUQUE'TTES 1 cup thick white sauce 2 cups cooked, ham, coarsely ground 1 tblsp. finely chopped onion 11/4 tblsps prepared mustard 1 egg, beaten 34 cup lino cracker crumbs Add ham, onion and mustard to cold white sauce. Shape into patties. Dip ,; in egg, theft in crumbs. Allow to stand 5 min- utes. Fry in deep, hot fat until. brown: , • HORSERADISH- WHIPPED CREAM'SAUCE 1 cup heavy cream, whipped 3 tblsps, fine, dry bread ,crumbs„, 2 tblsps. for snore)prepared horeradish Dash of monosodium gluta- mate (optional) Combine all ingredients, Chill M: hour before serving. CHEESE CROQUETTES 4 tblsp. butter or margarine 4 tblsps: flour 34teaspoon salt 34 teaspoon onion salt Dash ground black pepper Dash ,paprika 1 cup milk 34 teaspoon caraway seed (optional) ' 11 cup shredded Cheddar cheese f , Sifted bread crumbs 1 egg, lightly beaten 1 tblsp. water. '•• Melt butter in saucepan; re- move from heat. ' Add flour, salt, onion salt, pepper ;a1k1 paprika. Stir until blended. 'Add milk gradually, stirring well after each addition. Add caraw y,seed. Return to heat and • cbtok , stir- ring constantly, until thickened. Add cheese and stir osidr"'low heat until cheese is melted, Turn out onto well greased.'Iilatter to. cool. When cold, -shape into cylinder, cone or, bhll f shapes; roll in crumbs, dip in MiXture of the egg and the 1 4ttspoon water, then into crumbs again. Fry in deep, hot fat (380°F.) about 1 minute, or until `crust is golden brown. Makes 5,- 6 cro- quettes. Serve the cheese croquettes with a sauce made by adding ' 3 finely diced hard cooked eggs to a can of condensed cream of mushroom soup. MOCK CHICKEN LEGS 3' pound beef, ground irk• pound veal, ground R tblsps• ehoppod onion Yt teaspoon sage a/ tgaspoon salt teaspoon black pepper 3i out) finely crushed cora chips, measured after crushing 4 tblsps, fat or oil 5 wooden skewers Combine beef and veal; mid With anion, sage, salt and pop- per. Mold into drumsticks around skewers. Roll in cork chips and fry in'hot fat until done, • Serves 6. • 5 * o `LOBSTER CROQUETTES 2 tblsps. butter or margarine 3 tablespoons flour 1 cup light cream, heated 3s teaspoon pepper 3 ,teaspoon salt 1t/ cups (7 -ounces) lobster meat, shredded 3 egg yolks, alightly beaten 3'cups corn flakes 1 egg, well beaten , 2 tblsps. shortening Melt butter in sklUet, stir hs lies' and ` cook until lightly browned. Add cream, salt, and pepper; cook until thickened, stirring constantly. Fold in lob- ster meat. Stir small amount of hot mixture into egg yolks; add to remaining • hot mixture - and cook over low heat about 3 min sites longer, stirring constantly. Spread 3,1 inch thick in greased shallow pan 8 x 9 inches. Cool; shape into chops. Crush corn flakes into fine crumbs. Dip chops in beaten egg then roll in corn flake crumbs: Fry in hot shortening, * * * SHRIMP -POTATO PA7TIEs 1 can (5 oz.) shrimp, chopped fine , 4.5 medium potatoes. 1 egg Dash salt and pepper 1 teaspoon finely chopped parsley. Boil and gnash potatoes; add all other ingredients, Mix well. Shape into cakes. Fry in deep, hot fat until golden brown. Drain on absorbent paper for a minute before serving. MERRY ENAGERIEtI S"w4":tx-,.:7n i i t 41 "We may have to leaye suddenly, but It's the only warm place In ' the house!" Maybe It's Abominable But What Is It By Tom A. Cullen , London.—Not since Stanley set out to find Livingstone in .dark- est Africa has there been any- thing quite like the British ex- pedition which is now crawling around the Himalayas in search of the "Abominable Snowman," Sir Henry Morton Stanley's safari to the Congo in the 1870's was kid's play by comparison. At least Sir Henry had a pretty geed hunch that he would find Liv- ingstone, the missing Scottish missionary. The present British expedition, has nothing to go on but a set of footprints, a dried scalp said to have belonged to a Snowman or to his Unspeakable Spouse, -'and a batch of confusing reports. According to the latter. Yeti (which is the Tibetan name for the Snowman) is anything from pint-size to eight feet tall. His face is alternately described as heavily bearded, clean-shaven, or with a five o'clock shadow. Some say he walks backwards to throw people off his tracks; others say he does it to throw the flair .out of his eyes. It is to settle these fine points in dispute that a nine -man team is now on its way from Katman- du, Nepal, to Namche Bazaar on the siopes'of Mount Everest. The team includes' a lone American, Gerald Russell; a naturalist, It will conduct most of its search at altitudes of, from 14,000 to.19; 000 feet. • The London Daily Mail is pick • Ing up the tabs for the Snowman expedition,. 11 is the Daily Mail's answer t0 the Lendbn Times' "'scoop"' of the conquest of Ever- est last year, Unlike Stanley, who travelled With only a toothbrush, a butter- fly net and a change of seeks, the Snowman expedition is loaded down with seven tons of gear. It includes m 0vi a cameras, walkie-talkie radios - everything but oxygen cylinders, An army of 300 coolies is required to tote this equipment Vein Katmandu to the base of Everest. Per "the best' equipped' scien- tific expedition ever sent•to the Himalayas," the team's findings, have been rather meager 10' date. Anthropologist 'Charles Stoner, who i5 acting as "advance" man for the party, is; said to, have talked to. sherpas "who have seen one." Yeti's description; a -s /sliced to- gether by Stonor: I1 is about the, size of a 14 - year -old boy, of.the •game'build as a tnath It covered with light,, •,3reddish stair, which is ,•longest, about "th" head' and Waist. Its Bead is "strikingly pointed," It has a loud,' wailing, yelping call, and When heard near at hand often makes a chattering noise Normally it wanes on two legs like a man, but when in a hurry it drops on all fours. It lives in "1 rocky region above the timber- line. Members of the expeditson "pooh-poohed" the idea that Yeti Auld be a red Himalayan hear er a Langur monkey, At the same time, they are somewhat doubtful that they will come to close grips with their quarry. "A layman," writes Ralph lz- zard, a journalist member of the expedition, ; "would possibly be astonished ,et the picture that a man such as Russell (the Am- erican naturalist) can construct from . a footprint or two, a few hairs or a tuft of fur, and droppings;" • With the aid of this residue Russell is expected to tell, not only the animal's weight, Size and sex, but "where it was com- ingfrom, where it was going" — always supposing that Yeti knows where it i5 going. Meanwhile, beguiled by the newspaper circulation war which is being",,,fought on the world's highest peaks, London readers are looking forward eagerly to Yeti's .first 'encounter with a Briton, Already many have pictured the historic meeting when the hairy Himalayan steps before the sound cameras and Anthropolo- gis Stoner greets him with, "Thi. Abominable Snowman, 1 pre- sumo".