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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1943-04-08, Page 3THURSDAY, AP (uR BREAD CAN'T BE (BEATEN ! 1943 ROYAL 1 YEAST CAN'T BE BEATEN MadeIn Canpda Mukes13reod;`,that's rich, delicious, tight tax tared, tasty, more digestible! ALWAYS FULL STRENGTH, ALWAYS DEPENDABLE AHE MIXING G O VV L By ANNE ALLAN Hydro. Home Economist CHEDDAR CHEESE — FLAVOR, FUL AND NUTRITIOUS Hello Homemakers! For centuries the nomadic . tribes of Asia and Af- rica made different kinds of cheese but it was an enterprising English farmer in the village 'of Cheddar, near Bristol, who systematized the former crude methodof processing. Cheese made according to his method is called Cheddar and has become the model of cheesemaking the world over. In Canada, Cheddar cheese is both plentiful and cheap, and for quality— did you know that the cheesemakers of Ontario ]rave won many prizes for their products ? There's high nutri- tion value, too, in cheese: it is made from milk — that wonderful food. A small quantity 1/4 lb.) supplies ee of the calories needed per day by the average adult. It's a grand neat sub- stitute and, being a cooked product, it requirep only a small amount of electricity to blend flavours together —both important factors today. * * * • • NUTRI-THRIFT MENU Breakfast: Orange juice, cooked cereal with • wheat germ and milk, French toast, coffee. Dinner: Potatoes (to be mashed) and steamed' ciscoes — one one ele- ment — coddled apples and tomatoes (heated) — on one element. • Supper: Cheese ring with creamed peas, baked potatoes, cottage pud- ding (electric oven). k * * RECIPES Cheese Ring 4 eggs slightly beaten, 1 cup milk, 2% tbs. melted butter, 1/s cup grated cheese, % tsp. salt, eft tsp. pepper, few grains cay- enne, few drops onion juice. Combine ingredients in order given. Turn into buttered ring mold or timbale molds, set in pan of hot water, and bake until brown in slow electric oven (325 degrees. Turn onto hot serving dish and fill centre with creamed peas, Serves 4. Luncheon Cheese. Dish 2 eggs slightly beaten, 1 cup thin creme, 1 tbs. butter, 1 tsp. salt, 1,b tsp. mustard, 44 tsp. pap- rika, few grain cayenne, Bee 11). mild cheese cut In small Deices, stale bread But in finger -shaped pieces 1/3 inch thick, Spread bread with butter. Arrange' close togetheraround sides of•butter- ed baking dish, having bread extend about 1 inch above dish; also line bottom of dish. Combine other in- gredients, pour into dish, and bake 30 minutes 111 electric oven (350 de- grees . Serves 4. Cottage Pudding (Requested) 1Ile cup baking fat, 2/3 cup sugar, 1 egg beaten, 1 cup. milk, . 21/4 cups flour, 4 tsps. baking . powder, ee tsp. salt. Cream fat; mix in sugar gradually, beat in egg. Sift dour, measure and add baiting powder and Salt. Add alt- ernately with milk to first mixture. Pour into cake pan or muffin tins. Bake in electric oven at 375 degrees. Serve with left -oven fruit; or pudding ea.uce. THE QUESTION BOX Mee, 0. D. says: '"Tried cleaning Washable Wallpaper with soap and water and it tnrhed very brown, What should I have used?" ' Answer. el cloth wrung dry, out of lukewarm suds. Water softeners, har'sit soaps, alkalis' and hot water' -must be ,avoided. Ml's; J. M. asks: "Recipe for a Cake called 'Burnt Leather'?" Answer: Burnt Leather Cake 4 cup brown sugar, 1/4 cup boiling water, 14 cup baking Rat, 1 cup white sugar„ 2 cups house- hold flour, 2 eggs, 2 tbs. baking powder, 1 tsp. vanilla, 1 cup cold water. Syrup — Heat brown sugar in pan over fire until dark brown; then add boiling water. Method: Cream fat, add sugar and beaten egg yolks; creast well. Sift flour with baking Powder and add, alternately with water, to fat mixture. Add syrup (there should be about 6 tbs.) and vanilla. Lastly, add stiffly beaten egg whites. Bake in layer cake tins in electric oven of 350 degrees for 20 minutes. Fade - Out You won't find their names on a easualty list, but the war has slain radio's erstwhile stars of stars, Amos 'n' Andy. On. February 19, 1943, they fell silent wtihout expectation of re- gaining their voices, at least for the immediate present. For nearly fifteen years — to be exact, on 4,627 weekday nights — they: poured. their trials and tribulaa tions into the microphones or nation- al networks. Their peak audience at- tained astronomical totals; as many as 13,450,000 are said to have heard them on an average evening in 1939. First for Pepsodent'toothpaste, then for Campbell soups, they spread the gospel of super -sales over the ether. The demise occurred when the seaa'city of tin cans made their cost to Campbell Soup Company an ex- travagance and when the sale of clean chowder and potage no longer needed promotion at an expenditure of $1,800,000 annually. Offered a weekly half-hour national program, the one-time rulers of the air waves rejected the notion as beneath their dignity. As a matter of cold fact, the black - face comedians — whose real names are Freeman F. Gosden, the plaintive Amos, and Charles J. Correll, the blundering Andy — had lost their punch, For eight years, they ranked first in radio popularity. By the end of 1942 they had dropped to 61st, a 'Precipitous tumble which literally took away their breath. The reason for this decline was• unquestionably a change in the public's appetite for their old-fashioned mocking satire of Negro speech, habits, and customs. In 1928 they were earning $125 weekly apiece as etudjo Jacks-of-all- trades when Ben McOanna, general manager of Chicago's WGN, suggest- ed that they create a 15 -minute serial comedy program. McCanns 'wanted. them to do comic strip impersona- tions. Gosden suggested that two Negre characters would prove a novely. They chose Amos's ltigh- pitohed voice and Andy's rumbling basso for auditory contrast. Their success was imnmediate;. the Negro background was unusual, and no comedy serial' had ever before been aired. Antos 'n' Andy were first broad- cast 00 March 19, 1928, By 1929, they l were iwetutit nightly by 5 )pillion cls= yoked fans. Ten years later, theti' voices bridged the gap between the aerials of. 55 stations of the Columbia' 13roadcasting System. In ,February of that year, their peak weekly audience l was estimated at, close to 70 million,` and they were: receiving the lordly salary or 3400,000 atnt>,ially. They, and the characters they Created, the Kingfi'sh, Brother Crawford, Ligittnin'r Madam Quern!, (Miss 131ue, the only voice not theirs, was played by Made. line Lee) were admitted to countless homes as welcome guests for 15 min - THE SEAFO11T,EI NEWS utas on live nights each weoku. Both Goshen and Correll are Southerner's. freeman Gosden bails from Richmond, Va., whore Ilia father, Welter Goadetr, settled after the wet' between the states, Walter was a rebel raider, Freeman was born in 1899, He was educated ill 111c)nttoutl ,and Atlanta, leaving school to soil tobaeao and hater'. automobiles, During World War I, he enlisted in the navy and be- came. . a I1adio operator. He. returned from the war with a new ambition, to enter the theater. One clay be wrote a letter ,to a Chicago organization which produced pageants and. other enteetaiuments for trateenal groups. "I've had Wide experience in amateur theatricals," he exaggerated; "And I'm a proficient player' at the ulcu- lele." To has surprise, be was ordered to report at Durham, N. C, to coach members of a local lodge of Eike who were trying to stage an extravaganza they had hopefully titled Elks' Jolli- ties of 1919. When Gosden arrived in Durham he fouud,another young man, Charles Correll, in charge of the production, And Correll had his hands mull. Correll was vainly trying to stake the Durham Dike and Elkesses sing in unison a number called "How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm ." He was fagged. "Sorry to interrupt you," said Goa. den, "I just started with the com- pany, and they sent me down to pick up some scripts and maybe start an- other show in Elizabeth City." "Gee, I wish you'd give me a Band here," Correll replpied. "Where'll I hang my coat?" Gos- den asked eagerly, And thus the part- nership. began. For six months the boys traveled all over the South, struggling against the inertia and dumbness of rank amateurs. They were in New Or- leans one day early in 1920 when someone suggested that they appear before a mysterious device known as the wireless telephone, a new inven- tion released for public use immedi- ately after the war. They stood before a queer -looking horn. "What's this?" Gosden asked the studio announcer, "Looks like a cheerleader's megaphone." 'That's what you talk into," the an- nouncer replied, "And people can really hear it, eh ?" "Why, this morning we had a call from a woman who lives five miles from the studio." "No kidding?" • "Stand by," the announcer said. !".You're an..the ain't, ., They sang "Whispering." Charlie' Correll, later to become Andy, is the son of a Southern family who moved north in Reconstruction days. They had been loyal Confeder- ates — Charlie's paternal great- grandniother was a cousin of Jeffer- son Davis. The Corvette settled in Peoria, Ill., where Charlie was born on February 8, 1890. His tether was a stone mason who developed a profitable business as a building contractor. Charlie graduated from a Peoria high school and then attended business col lege, Music was the magnet which eventually drew Charlie from the prosaic trade of stone masonry, which his father wanted him to enter. He studied piano, and soon was widely sought as an entertain- er in local amateur theatricals, His success on -the keyboard spread from Springfield to Chicago, where he was engaged for the amatuer producing unit which also hired' Gosden. That first 'New Orleans radio broadcast was really a publicity stunt for the little show they were producing in the Queen City. But it set a cog whirring in their heads. A few months later, they reported to the home office of their' employers in Chicago, Their success brought them promotion; both were made de- partment 'heads and devoted them- selves to amateur show direction, After two years of this, the boys, sal down in their• rooms one evening and talked things over. "Charlie," said Gosdeu, "we'll never get anywhere producing these tiddly-wink affairs. Remember, a few years ago in New Orleans —" "I )snow what You're going to say," Correll interrupted. "Radio?" "Right you are. I've been talking to this fellow, Ben Bonier, up at W1;73T1 in ,Edgewater Beach Hotel. Wonder what he'll charge to let us bi'oadcast 7" They saw 13oniel, who charged.— and paid then nothing, They sang, "Yes, Sir, That's My Baby," with a hot ukelele accompaniment. T3oniel listened and was convinced. 'Pou. boys aren't bad, brit we gota lot of singers on this station, Drop around at twelve tonight, and I't1 put you on for ono song." They looped pleased. "13y the way," 13oniel added, "We servo a Plato luncheon for al't- fats. Don't miss it." "Gosh,: nal" Goscleit said. As they left the studio, Correll remarked, c'hat's great, Prete-nate We bit have to pay, aed we ,get a free lunch besides. Let's go haste and practice." Eight months later„ the . team of Gosden and Correll worked all day producing amateur shows and sang from 10 to 15 Bongs nightly on WEBB. 'Tiley clicked, 'rimy cliched to well that Harry Selihtger, man- age ref powerful WGN, *eat for them. Aglllir they hail no idea of their value, as radio performers. Correll discussed Sellinger's invitation with, Cosde+n, tuol iu•gunl that they tisk ten dollars per program and accept no less than five, In the Tribune office, Bellinger ltended the mcigars. iheu said: "I don't kilo\' what al'1'allgeltlente you have over al WEBFI, but we'll clo the best we' can for you on WW1." "Well," Gosden hemmed and haw- ed, "radio is all right, but --" 'I can offer you $126 a week," Bellinger cut in, , "A ltun-a-uli . , . you mean, that is ... a hen . . each " "Each," Bellinger said, "I know it's notmuch, but —" They earned the money. From tete in the morning until two the next Clay they acted, read commercial. advertisements, sang, told stories, used five and twenty voices in five and twenty dialects, played piano and the inevitable ukulele. Slowly they built an audience which responded to their fresh humor. Then cane a call from ' rGN's gen- eral manager, Ben Malanna, and the suggestion that they attempt a serial. McCann proposed that they drama- tize the Gunms, but Gosden replied: "You see, I'm not.married, and I — uh, I don't know much about it." • "Got another idea?" McCanns ask- ed. "Charlie and I have beeir thinking this over. I'm from the South, and Charlie's traveled all over the South. We know Negro characters pretty well, How'd you like us to work up an idea along. those. lines'?" All that night they labored over a typewriter, As the sun rose, Amos 'n' Andy were born. The adventures of -Antos 'n' Andy have follolved a pattern . made famil- ial' through the years by white writ- er's, particularly on the vaudeville stage. The linguistic blunders and dull-wittedness of much of the Amos 'n' Andy dialogue stems from a per- iod in which all stage Negroes were represented as clowns. What has distinguished Amos 'n' Andy from most of these fictional creations is that the radio adventures they have enacted are of the common- place stuff of life. Radio fans trembl- ed for weeks in 1933 When Andy was placed on trial for murder.. Andy's in- terrupted marriage in 1939 brought thousands of eager queries from tnol•- ried fans. Lawyers submitted briefs to aid Gosden and Correll in extricat- ing their hero from the toils of Ole courts, Now time has taken its toll — time, the wee, and the fickle public. LANDOWSKA Wanda Landowska has devoted a good deal of her life of making race understand 'that museums of 1110510 are as vital and necessary as museums of art. The world preserves its Titans, Velasquezes, and Raphaels in the service of art, and, thanks to Landowska, is now beginning to preserve its ' Palest - eines, Bachs, Couperins, and Ramoaus in the service of music. In herself, Landowska is the contemporary of all artists, with an encyclopaedic knowl- edge of all music. This great artist was born in Warsaw, Poland, of parents who were both linguists of genius and musical amateurs. She graduated as a pianist from the Warsaw Conservatory at the age of 14, even then attracting the notice of great conductors, Her villa near Paris was one of the most famous musical meccas of the world from 1900' on. Since coming to New York in 1941, she has given several radio recital series. She is now beteg nosed from Toronto every Sunday night at 10.15 pen, in the premieres of seven Philipp Emanuel Bach concerti for harpischord and string orchestra, which reutaine0 steadfast to Amos 'n' Andy longer than to ' any other radio program. Will they come back? Two talented artists, such as Free - i man Gosden and Charles J. Correll will return to popular favor. When they do, however, they will undoubt- edly impersonate characters more to the taste of 1943's audiences. MORE SUNLIGHT AT POLES THAN AT EQUATOR "If what you want is sunlight, live either at the •North or South Pole, not at the Equator," is the advice of illumination engineers, judging from a study recently completed. he poles receive 65 hours more sunlight it year than does the equator, their study reveals. The explanation is that the earth's atmosphere refracts the sun's rays, so that the sun is visible even when it is below the horizon. At the equa- tor this increase amounts to 40 hours a year, compared to 105 hours at the poles. More close, to home, they found that the south side of a building in New York City, or other places el like latitude, annually receives four and a half times as much sunlight as the north side. The north side re- ceives 300 hours of direct sunlight each year; the south side receives 8600 boars. Etiects'ef fog and clouds are not taken into consideration in the study, however. By knowing the compass direction of a building, together with its lati- tudinal and longitudinal location, a formula devised by the two engineers makes it possible to determine ac- curately within four minutes the: number of hours the sun annually will shine on a building or enter a. given window. The study will make it possible,. fax architects to plan such rooms as, snnporches, solariums, sleeping porches, or any structure where sun- light or its absence is a factor, with a more concrete knowledge of the amount of sunlight directed at any particular area. "It's a bottle of hair tonic, deer." "Oh, that's`very .nice of you, darl- ings, "Yes, I want you to give it to 'your typist at the office; her hair is con- ing out rather badly on your coat," The thrifty. `wife • had persuaded her husband to buy a small cask of beer instead of going each evening to the local nub. When be had drunk the fust glass his wife said, "Now, John, lad, you can reckon you've saved a penny." "You're right, lass," replied John. "I'll draw another one and make it twopence we've saved. At this rate I'll soon be able to buy thee a Bur coat." Guard Your easolise Ration look KEEP IT ON YOUR PERSON • DO NOT LEAVE IT IN YOUR CAR MOW that you have your 1943.1944 gasoline ration book, it is up to you to IN keep it at all times in a safe place. If it is lost, burned, or stolen, you will be deprived of coupons which will not be replaced. In this regard, the policy of the Oil Controller is as follows: • If, through negligence, you lose your gasoline ration book before October i, 1943, you may be allowed no more, and perhaps less, than half the coupons' to which you would be entitled if you were making an original application. • If, through negligence, you lose ybur ration book on or after October 1, 1943, you may be allowed no more, and perhaps less, than 25 per cent of the coupons to which you would be entitled if you were making an original application. The new gasoline rationing system, effective on April 1, will be strictly enforced. Under its provisions, the motorist, as well as the service station attendant, is held responsible if any infrac- tions occur It is contrary to the orders of the Oil Controller. 0To purchase gasoline with 1942-1943 coupons; To purchase gasoline unless you have the correct category sticker affixed to your windshield: To detach coupons from your own book. (The removal of the coupons is the duty of the attendant.) 0 To have in your possession a. gasoline ration coupon not attached to, and forming a part of, a gasoline ration book: To have in your possession a gasoline ration book other than the book 0 issued in respect of a vehicle you own, or in respect of a vehicle driven by you with the full consent of the real owner: To alter, deface, obliterate, or mutilate any gasoline ration book or coupon. If you sell your motor vehicle, remember that before making delivery you muss remove the windshield sticker or stickers: Remember also that after the sate is completed, you must mail to the nearest Regional Oil Control Office in your province the gasoline ration book or books issued for the vehicle, 0 THE DEPARTMENT OF 'MONITIONS AND SUPPLY Honourable C. Q: HOWiE, Minister ;:.,CANADA IS SHORT OF GASOLINE 1190 PARtNGL,