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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1958-04-17, Page 2Princess and Pianist -- Lowe Conquers Protocol by Rosette Hargrove' NEA Staff Correspondent Stockrolm •— The most popular song in Sweden these clays is "Spring Is In the Air," a love ditty with words and music by Robin Douglas -Home. Douglas -Home may be British, but young and old, students and shopgirls here are humming. his song with knowing smiles, for some time this spring it's expect- ed Douglas -Home, 25, may be permited to announce Ms en- gagement to Sweden's eldest princess, 23 -year-old Margaretha. The fact that they are in love is not news, but for a time it looked as if the romance might well, end to the strains of "Stor- my Weather." The royal family, considered a piano -playing com- poser a poor matrimonial pros- pect for pretty, lissome Mar- garetha. In March, however, they re- lented. Robin was allowed to pay a visit. When he departed, a royal communique said word of betrothal might be forthcoming - if they were still in love after a cooling off period, Since the romance seems to have been a case of love at first sight, there's little doubt in Swedish minds about the out- come. Margaretha met Robin a year ago at the plush London cocktail lounge called "Casanova" where she was taken by the "Duke of Kent's set." The handsome piano player stepped over to say hello to friends in the party and was presented to the princes. And from that evening on—for some- thing like the next three months —the princess and the piano player met every night. Then word of the romance reached Sweden. Margaretha, who was in London to study do- mestic science- and nursing, was ordered home posthaste. Robin's official letter of proposal (which bore the family seal, "Faithful Until the End') was answered with a courteous but firm "No." After a stormy family coun- cil the first marshal of the Swed- ish court announced: "The young man is charming. But he has no title, no money. His present position would not permit him to give the princess the standing to which she is en- titled. Princess Margaretha is not sufficiently wealthy to keep her husband and the cost of living in London is high. Therefore the marriage is impossible." For the British this looked just like another Townsend affair, Both Margarets were victims of unfortunate loves. The Swedish press unanimously said: "The dreams of greatness of Princess Sybille (Margaretha's mother) will condemn her four daughters to blessed spinsterhood." With great dignity Robin re- fused tempting offers to appear In various nightclubs at home and abroad. He also refused to discuss his. romance. Meantime, back in the palace in Stockholm, Margaretra looked lovelorn. Behind the scenes, however, Margaretha was fighting for her Love. She started to win over her adoring grandfather. She pointed out that the Swedish royal fam- ily descended from Marshal Ber- nadotte who came from a "petit bourgeois" French family before he was crowned king of Sweden in 1810. Robin, on the other hand, was a member of the royal aris- tocracy and could trace his fam- ily tree back to 1473. Margaretha's mother, daughter of a German duke, seems to have been the main objector to her marriage. Despite her marriage into the ultra -democratic Swed- ish court, Princess Sybille has always been a stickler for eti- quette and firmly believes in the grandeur of princes. On the other hand, there is no law in Sweden which can pre- vent the princess marrying Douglas -Home. She is 23 and need not obtain the royal con- sent, as is the case of Margaret of England. Now it looks as though love had conquered in Sweden. There PIANIST DOUGLAS -HOME: Prin- t;ss believed In grandpa.. PRINCESS MARGARETHA: Mom- ma believed in grandeur. are even rumors that betrothal will be followed by a June mar- riage, to which all the crowned and uncrowned heads in Europe will come. Commented a Palace official, a romantic and a poet like most Swedes: "It is best for the mar- riage to take place when the trees are in leaf and the roses in bud. Then, too, all the chil- dren will be out of school and they will be delighted to see the wedding," Tracked By Shoes When a man stripped himself naked to commit a murder he reasoned, quite rightly, that he could not be identified by his victim's blood on his clothes. But he forgot that he was wear- ing shoes and the police found traces of blood on them. Twenty years ago, in Massa- chusetts, two pairs of shoes con- victed another murderer. He had strangled a girl and placed her body between two mattresses on the bed. He then took off his old, cracked shoes and swapped them for a new pair which he found in the house. When arrested he was wear- ing the new shoes which the owner identified, and the shoes found on the scene of the crime fitted the murderer perfectly. In 1935 an old-fashioned fa- ther in Virginia took a whip to his twenty -year-old daughter because she had been out after dark with a boy friend. 'The daughter retaliated by beating him to death with a high -heeled shoe. Two years ago, in North Lon- don, there was an epidemic of house -breaking. It was eventu- ally traced to a thief with out- size boots. He used to kick the doors in! When Night Falls Along The Cape From Monomoy Point to Race Point in Provineetown fully fifty miles — twelve coast guard stations watch the beach and the shipping night and day. There are no breaks save natural ones in this keep of the frontier. , . • Every night in the year, when darkness has fallen on the Cape and the sombre thunder of ocean is heard in the pitch pines and the moors, lights are to be seen moving along these fifty miles of sand, some going north, some south, twinkles and points Of light solitary and mysterious. These lights gleam from the lan- terns and electric torches of the coast guardsmen of .the Cape walking the night patrols, When the nights are full of wind and rain, loneliness and the thunder of the sea, these lights along the surf have a quality of romance and beauty that is Elizabethan, that is beyond all stain of pres- ent time.... Every night they go; every night of the year the eastern beaches see the comings and go- ings of the wardens of Cape Cod. Winter and summer they pass and repass, now through the mid- night sleet and fury of a great northeaster, now through August quiet and the reddish -golden radiance of an old moon rising after midnight from the sea, now through a world of rain shaken with heavy thunder and stabbed through and through with light- ning. And always, always alone. Whenever I rise at earliest dawn, I find the beach traced and re- traced with footprints that van- ish in the distances each step a chain forged anew each night in the courageous service of man- kind. — From "TheOutermost House," by Henry Sestet', Whenit comes to getting into an evening gown, some women don't go far enough. FIT FOR A PALACE -Looking dike' an aging giant's birthday cake is the world's largest chandelier as it is turned on after its completion in Limburg, Germany. The massive fixture is 16 feet high, 11 feet in diameter, weighs more than a ton and a half, and has 545 electric candles and some 20,000. pieces of hand -polished crystal. Destined to hang- In a Chicago concert hall, it may be exhibited at the Brussels World's Fair. TABLE TALKS eiaue Atvatitws. Pizza is a sort of pie, having a raised dough for its crust. There are many variations for the filling, but to be authentic it should contain tomato paste, cheese, garlic, oregano, olive oil and either sausage or anchovies. For a small family with diver- gent tastes, you might try mak- ing half your pie with sausage and half with anchovies. There are those who hold the opinion that almost anything can go into a pizza, as into a stew! Some of thepossibilities along this line are tiny meatballs, mush- rooms, ripe olives, onions, capers, fish, parsley, heart Of artichoke chopped ham, chicken, shrimp,' lobster. It is said on good authority that there are now about 19,000 pizzeries along the roadsides and in the cities and towns of the United States, elbowing out some of the 'hamburger stands. In these restaurants or drive- ins, usually pizzas and spaghetti only are served, To make things easy for your- self, try using packaged hot r011 mix for your first pizzas (and you may like it so well you'll always use it for this purpose). ITALIAN -STYLE PIZZA 1 pound pork sausage roll 1 package hot roll mix s/2 eup minced onion 8 -ounce can tomato sauce 6 -ounce can tomato paste 1 teaspoon salt Y teaspoon oregano r4 teaspoon garlic salt 8 ounces sharp cheddar cheese Slice and pan fry sausage un- til pink color disappears; drain. Reserve 2 tablespoons drippings. Prepare roll mix by package directions. Let rise until light (30-60 minutes). Only one rising. period. Pan fry lightly the onion in 1 tablespoon drippings. Add tomato sauce, tomato paste, salt, oregano, and garlic salt. Divide dough into four parts, roll and arrange in 9- or 10 inch pie pans. Brush surface of dough with sausage drippings. Arrange half the cheese on dough. Cover with tomato mixture. Top with saus- age and remaining cheese. Bake immediately in hot oven, 450° F. for 15-20 minutes. Serve hot. If desired, sprinkle, with grated Parmesan cheese, finely cut pars- ley, or sliced cooked mushrooms. Serves 6. .0 * a One Italion woman claims that nothing makes a pizza so good as Mozzarella cheese sliced or cut in small pieces. She advocates brushing the dough with olive 011 instead of drippings to pre- vent sogging. However, she re- luctantly admits that Parmesan or some , nippy cheese may be substituted if Mozzarella is not available. "But it won't be the real Neapolitan pizza," she warned. She uses clove of garlic minced fine instead of onion and garlic salt as is used in the above recipe. ° * b Roquefort .cheese and anchovy fillets make another good filling. ROQUEFORT PIZZA FILLING 3/4 cup crumbled Roquefort cheese 3 tablespoons olive oil 1 can (11 -12 -ounce) tomatoes, drained and crushed Vs teaspoon each oregano and salt V/ teaspoon pepper 8 anchovy fillets, cut into small pieces 7 Sprinkle dough which you er have put into piepans with Roquefort cheese;. sprinkle cheese with 1 tablespoon olive oil; cover with tomatoes. Sprin- kle with oregano,• salt, pepper, anchovies,. and 2 tablespoons olive oil. Bake at 450° F. for 25 minutes or until golden brown. If you'd like to use pizzas for hors d'oeuvres, cut the pies into thin slices, or make small in- dividual pies and serve hot, If you want to cook them early, stick them under the broiler for a few minutes just before serv- ing. * * r Have you ever noticed that frying pineappleor tomatoes in a skillet leaves your pan shin- ing and free from stains? The Vermont Extension Service says this is a helpful result of cook- ' ing an acid food. The Service also recommends using fresh water when washing your elec- tric frying pan. Any grease in dishwater will leave a film on the outside of the pan, which will then become discolored the next time you turn on the heat. It's also all 'right, they say, to - use steel or aluminum cleaner pads if your pan has become stained. * r French -fried fruit looks much harder to prepare than it is — but there's no debate about its goodness. This coating forms a golden crust which stays on, I am told, and it's equally use- ful for frying meat, fish, or vege- tables. Just blend half a cup, of corn oil with a cup of sifted flour, add an egg and 11 cups milk, and beat smooth. (The batter will be thin.) Dry thoroughly such fruit as strawberries, ba- nana slices (thick), or pineapple slices or wedges; coat with un- seasoned flour, dip in batter, and fry in oil three to 'four inches deep at about 375° F. You'll have something very special to show for your efforts. Triumph Of A Hypnotist In the comfortable consulta- tion room of psychotherapist. Karl Schmitz, in Munich, Ger- many, a grim man sat in,/hyp- notic . trance Before him was a notebook on which he Was scrib- bling wildly. Desperately strain- ing to jog his memory, he tore up page after page, Dr. Schmitz, a 'towering man .with a bland smile, limped about the room on a cane, encouraging and ca- joling his patient. Finally, the writer's confusion disappeared; his scribbling be. came an orderly sequence. After three weeks of six -hour days un- der hypnosis, the patient's mem- ory cleared and, so the doctor said, he wrote lucidly of long - ago events. The patient was Heinrich Ger- lach, once an obscurer Latin tea- cher in a school. near Bremen. His hypnotic treatment got him started on the writing of a cur- rent German best-selling book, "T h e Betrayed Army," a 600 - page shocker presentinga vivid picture of the gradual decima- tion and final surrender of 22 German divisions on the icy plains before Stalingrad in 1943. Published• only three months ago, the book already has reached its sixth printing and is being translated into seven languages, Next summer it will be intro- duced to U.S. readers by Har- per. Last month, Gerlach's enthu- siastic readers heard an amaz- ing explanation of the book's grim accuracy and authentic autobiographical flavour: A t least 120 pages, originally writ- ten at the time of the Stalin- grad crisis, had been recon- structed eight years later under hypnosis — that, at least, was the story Munich newspapers printed. Moreover, they said, Dr. Schmitz was suing Gerlach for• 20 per cent of his royalties be- cause of his help toward getting the book written. Gerlach had started his book shortly after becoming a Russian prisoner of war at Stalingrad. His first draft was confiscated by prison guards. Doggedly, he set to work .again, and once more his notes were discovered and torn into shreds. A third at- tempt — in microscopic hand- writing in a tiny notebook—was also seized before his release in 1849. - For the next two .years, Ger- lach vainly strained his mem- ory to reconstruct his experi- ences. Penniless and desperate in 1951, the papers said, he went to Dr, Schmitz, who had gained a reputation for evoking total recall through hypnosis. In Gerlach's case, ,hypnosis worked. "It was like being back in two places at once," the . wri- ter said. "In the silent hell of the prison camp and in t h e nerve -shattering hell of the battlefield. Suddenly, I had found the thread again. Gerlach completed his manu- script in 1951 and submitted it. tO several 'publishers, Not until. 1957 was the book published by the Nymphenburg Publishing, House. By then, Dr. Schmitz had. lOst touch with Gerlach. When the hypnotist saw the book fill- ing the show windows of book- shops in Munich, he decided to remind his former patient of his financial obligation. "I can't and won't deny that my work was helped by Dr. Schmitz's' treatment," Heinrich Gerlach, now 49, said recently. "But then, couldn't a gynecolo- gist, with equal rights, ask for a part of all future earnings Of • any child he has helped into this world?" To this, Dr. Schmitz replied: "The reason I am suing Gerlach is not because I am after money although I do have an explicit contract signed by himin which be voluntarily offers me • the 20 per cent for spiritual and materi- al assistance rendered. My main motive is the hope that the triol will help me publicize what ' hypnosis -may and can do." Gerlach said: "I don't recall signing such a contract. If I did, I must have been under his hyp- notic influence," — From News- week, ONES FOR THE BOOR Booksellers sometimes need crossword puzzle minds to inter- pret requirements of their pros- pective customers, One, with long experience of the trade, was telling of an elderly woman who came to him asking for a book by a man called Herbert. She was vague at first but later her mind cleared. "I've got it!" she called out, brightly. "It's called 'Deadly Hollyhock.' " What she really wanted was "Holy Deadlock," by A. P. Herbert! On some days, when a man arrives, knowing the book's title, publishers and price, the book- seller feels sure he is dealing with the author himself. He sim- ply wants to ensure that the shop stocks a copy. OFF WITH THE COONSKIN—After six outdoor action films, Fess Parker decided he was ready to ditch the coonskin and the wild frontier in favor of some indoor roles. And that's why he took on Playhouse 90's production of "Turn Left at Mt. Everest", •a romantic comedy in which he plays a devil-may-care Air Force romeo. Fess is shown above In an exciting scene with Patricia Cutts. FROZEN FOODS—Outdoor mess is no picnic for these 1.1.5 Marines as they dine (?) in a snoW stnim. Whas-fcr chew? Strictly cold cuts for the faceless, park -clad troops of the 5th Regiment, 1st Marine Division. No, they're not in Antarctica, but "sunny" California, .vleu.ra they are undergoing cold -weather exercises a t Pickle Meadows Training Center near Bridge- port, yin the Sierra Nevada Mountains.