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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1954-11-18, Page 3Stage Realism That passion for realism long permeated the theatres of sophi- sticated London, Hansom -cabs drawn by real horses and even four-in-hands appeared upon the stage of the Standard Theatre. Boats were rowed from wing to wing in real water. Such. touches had little to do With real acting, but they drew real money. Not to be outdone, we in New York had real Are engines in a play called The Still Alarm; also motor cars and race horses. I myself was the victim of the mania for realism, when my manager insisted on introduc- ing a real fountain with real water into the balcony scene of Romeo and Juliet, What Bulwer Lytton describes as the "mur- mur of low fountains which gush forth ' the midst of roses," it was declared, would enhance the beauty of those tender con- fessions indulged in by Verona's lovers, The hateful fountain behaved well enough at rehearsal. But overcome by stage fright or mis- directed ambition, it contribu- ted such spasmodic gurglings when poor Juliet began to breathe to the moon her adora- tion for Romeo that no one but a capable plumber could have controlled its utterances. "Romeo! Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?" Phit! Phit! Gurgle! Squirt! went the water. "How silver sweet sound lov- • ers' tongues by night." Tiddle! Babble! Phit! went the fountain. "Like sweetest music to at- tending ears." Squirt! Gluk-k-k! Fuddle! gushed the ... water. With a final . effort to mono- polize the attention of the audi- ence, the hose which supplied the water became detached just as wretched Juliet cried: 'Part- ing is such sweet sorrow!" Phit! Foil Wrapping, High Real. CutsFowl's Roasting Time BY DOROTHY MADDOX There's something new in chicken and turkey roasting. Attkie recent Newspaper Food Editors Conference •in New York We learned how it's done -- quick, and with highheat. Eleanor M, Lynch of Reynolds Metal Company explained tit the revolutionary high-speed method cuts the roasting time ap- proximately in half. Here's how you do it: Instead of the usual low temperature of 300 degrees F., use a very high temperature, 450 degreep., Instead of stuffing the turkey, bake the stuffing separately. W 'alp the turkey completely in aluminum foil during all but the aajt 30 minutes of the roasting time. With chickens and. small Beltsville -type turkeys, the cavi 1 in time is great, too. A 31/a to 41/2 pound eviscerated, broiler- fryer roilerfryer type chicken may be roasted in one hour and 45 mineite as against 21/2 to 3 hours by the low-temperature method .C- pound eviscerated Beltsville -type turkey can be roasted in'1: hours as against 3.1/2 hours by the low-temperature method Reports from housewives state that these chickens and ' keys rate high in flavor and moistness. And since. the juice can't evaporate, you have all the makings for wonderful gravy right at hand. Directions for Foil Roasting Prepare chicken or turkey for roasting, as usual, Truss. Wrap in heavy-duty aluminum foil. Overlap the foil over breast' of turkey; fold top foil down at neck and drumstick ends -Bring underneath foil up, letting it extend 2 to 3 inches upward. Place Cook foil -wrapped fowl at high temperature for a new taste treat. Eviscerated Weight 3-4 pounds 4-6 pounds 7,9 pounds wrapped bird in shallow roasting pan, according to following instructions: In each instance, open foil during last 30 minutes for browning. NOTE: Testing was done with both stuffed and =stuffed birds. It made no difference in roasting times. Time 11/2-13/4 hours 2 -21/2 hours 21/4-21/2 hours Roast at 450 degrees F, Whee-k went the water and squirted over the whole stage as the curtain went down. "Never again!" said I, - Since that misadventure man- agers tried to induce me to en- cumber my performance with realism, especially Mr. Belasco, who wanted me to play under his•management in As You Like It. "We will have real deer," said he, "and real foliagedipping into a real stream." "No," said I. "I'll stick to real acting, thank you." - From "Julia Marlowe's Story," by E. H. Sothern. You can make choice beef in drylot for 15 to 16 cents a pound. Purdue University ex- periments show how. s * * "Five years ago I wouldn't have believed that you could get Choice and Prime cattle with so .little feed," remarks Purdue's a n i m al husbandry head, Claude Harper. * * * At a feed cost of 18 cents per pound of gain, Purdue put 2.3 - pound daily gains on 670 -pound steers, using high-quality corn silage, 3.5 pounds of Purdue Supplement A, and minerals. But another lot on the 161 -day trial did it for only 16 cents feed cost, by cutting the supple- ment to 2 pounds and adding 11/2 pounds of shelled corn. M. T. Mohler figured the corn silage at $11 per ton, Supple- ment A at $80 per ton, and corn at $1.50 per bushel. * * * In another test, grass silage with corn and cob meal preser- vative pumped on nearly 21/2 pounds daily gain, when fed with 7 pounds of shelled corn. * * * But don't expect much from grass silage without preserva- tive unless you feed supplement. Shorthorn steers weighing 480 pounds gained nothing for 70 days when W. M. Beeson fed straight grass silage and min- erals: * * * Yet the same steers put on 1.6 pounds gain per day during the following two months, after he added 1 pound of shelled corn and 1 pound, of soybean meal to the full feed of "grass silage that had been `° made without preservative. And the cost per pound of gain -only 15 cents. * * * Why the extra kick from soy- bean meal when grass silage is already rich in protein? Says Beeson: "There's something else besides protein in soybean meal that is responsible for the addi- tional gains." * * * If dry weather has made a serious dent in your orchard yields, maybe you should try mulching, * 4. 4 After four years of experi- mental work on ways and means of saving soil moisture for fruit trees, Roy Simons, University of Illinois scientist, recommends these steps: * * * 1. Avoid clean cultivation. Use a cover . crop to help build up organic matter in the soil, and cut down the amount of run-off after rains: * * * 2. Keep that cover -crop mow- ed. Better yet, mow the cover crop, chop it up with a culti- cutter, and put it back on the ground .as a mulch. * * * 3. Mulch under the trees with straw, old hay, or any other CROSS ORD PUZZLE 3. American - soldier 10. Important persons 11. Wife of Geralnt --^" 12. Printing 2. iF3�oltemian forms rit'er . 17. Cuokoopint 3. Solar disk 22. Romain 4. Venture 23, Help 5, And (Lat.) 24, Mournful 6. Cold remedy 25. Preceding 7 Weak-minded night person 26. Picturesque 8. friend of 28. Measures of Amos length ACROSS 1. Crown 7. Loadstona 18. Landed property 14, Strong flavored 15. Ogle 16. Spikenard 18. Point. 19, Eagle 20. System of weights 81, Fruit (eine 22. Avoid *3. Hebrew month 24, Dry 27. Ma% turkey 28. Rasps 21. AGknowledl;•• toent 88. Distribute again 84, Hold again 25, Perceive 36. Pigpen 87. Ahead 88, Cionohed hand 39. 'Blunder 41. Extinct Bird 42. Luzon native& 46. Royal Air Faroe (ab,p 47. Russian eitl' 48. Close the seams 9. Charm 81. Lost antin&l 60. Shatter $4. Nun 7ow16 L tinned 29. Dino 80, Crafty 32. Pale 33. Repairs shoe* 85. Lateral 38, Onward 39. Ages 40. Inclined walk 41. Performa 42, Deeds 43. Sour 44. Wings 45. Curdled milk 50. Note of th* scale •52, 01 mese river Answer Elsewhere on Thls Page NEXT TIME HE'LL REALLY: GE.T ERVICE-Mrs. Lucille Gregory shows the grand tip she recee red'.or:services in a Dallas restaur- ant. She served his:Fifties.a $1,50 sirloin., steak and when she returned ;o pick up the dishes she found a $100, $50 and $•1 bill on the table. mulching material you may have. • * * * Simons found only 25.3% moisture available at the 24 - inch depth when he left • the cover crop unmowed. But when he mowed it, and then used a culti-cutter, . available moisture at the 24 -inch depth jumped to 46.9%. * * * When mulching material was added under trees, Simons found increased available soil moisture down as far as 36 inches. They Don't .An Lhhe; Souh of the Border, A new campaign is under way. It is launched with the slogan "Keep America Beautiful" and paradoxically, it is initiated by American industrialists who, as every reader of the Daily Work- er should know, should only be interested in beautiful dollars. The campaign is designed to get Americans to mend their untidy ways. Felicitously, the drive is headed by William C. Stolk, president of the American Can Company. He calls the litter habit "a national disgrace" and says when he walks around New . York streets on Sunday it makes him ashamed. Perhaps the sight of all those empty cans in the wrong places: does to Mr. Stolk what it does to every other person of decent instincts. Certainly there is nothing so calculated to make a householder blow his top than to find the remnants of a midnight snack on his front lawn, tossed there by motorists with porcine instincts. If these are accom- panied by a few paper con- tainers, a few empty beer cans or . an empty bottle, the house- holder can hardly be blamed if he does not express a silent hope that they all had a good time the night before. But these outward breaches of manners are nothing corn - pared with the state of mind 1 they indicate, When people can carelessly litter beach, highway, or private lawns, they are indi- cating is completely unsocial point Of view. There are few things more distressing than to see a group ofpeople at a pub« tic park or beach spreading their wake of discarded news- papers, watermelon rinds and empty cans behind thein, If the drive to "Keep America Beauti- ful" will drive these creatures undercover or get them to mend their ways, it will be a distinct step forward. One of the early objectives of the group is to train motorists to carry a "litter bag" in the car with them. We are not unduly hopeful. People who are so ob- livious of the rights of others are not likely to respond to any- thing less than swift sure pun- ishment for littering. That's what they should get. -e Hart- ford Courant. SALES PSYCHOLOGY According to Paul Toal, psy- phology determines .the sale, He knows a cigar owner who was Worried because a competitor was packing crowds to his win- dow by hiring a stunning Span- ish girl to roll cigars. After a sleepless night the man had an idea. Next day a blonde was rolling cigars in ' his , window, But her back was to the street. And now the crowd was inside his store. The Graaf " • ear On 'The oi1zon The windmill at the top of the hill was big and protective to the boy as darkness came and the autumn wind increased. He pressed his back close to the weather worn shingles but he had no thought of the sharp wind; his mind was on the heavy black clouds in the west. They had covered the sun be- fore it had reached the horizon and darkness had begun, but the north was clear and a blue afterglow domed the sky. It was just as the old whaler said it would be: "It will be a good night fox thee to see the North Star; darkness will be early, there'll be heavy clouds in the west, but the north will be clear; perhaps before six the Pole Star will be in sight." Walter had asked the old ship -master how the whaleships found their way over the ocean and for the first time he heard 01 the Big Dipper and the North Star. "Look to the north," said the old whaler, "and down low thee'll see the Dipper; 1Our stars make the bowl and three stars make the handle -a little bent. Now remember! The two stars, opposite the handle are called 'the pointers'; follow a line through those `pointers' up ,and up, and thee'll see the North Star -not very bright -rather pale -but there it is, and re- member, boy, it's always there, and if thee is able to fix one sure point in the heavens, thee can nearly find out exactly where thee is on the big ocean; that is, if thee has a quadrant." As Walter waited • for the darkness to increase, his mind galloped and bits of knowledge that he had picked up began to fall into intenselyinteresting relations. All the maps and charts had lines that went round 'the earth and up and down from pole to pole. If the whaler could see the North Star and knew how to use a quadrant, he could locate himself on those lines of the chart. A quadrant! That's what he must get. When he had asked the cap- tain how he could get one, the old whaler hesitated; he waited and looked out over the harbor and then up into the rattling rigging of the big ship. Then he said: "There's a lot to say, Walter, about finding where you are on the sea. . "It takes time to study' navi- gation, but we can do it -and we will. Some day we will go up on the `walk' of my house, ;and I'll take my quadrant and we'll make a real observa- tion.. Much+ of the afterglow in the north had now passed. Thou- sands of twinkling lights ap- peared in the darkening dome, They flashed new meaning to the boy's mind; those tiny lights were useful, there was some connection between this earth onwhich he lived and this great mysterious blackening dome that overshadowed him, Turning his attention to the low north, he gazed at the area just above the horizon. . Then below, closer to the hori- zon, he saw the Big Dipper. Its seven stars gleamed brightly and the two stars, the pointers, formed the side of the Dipper opposite the handle, while above them was the pale star which he was sure was the Pole Star. •Satisfaction in achievement was followed by wonder . . • He had metthe universe.- From niverse:From "The Clock. That Talks and What It Tells„' by Will Gardner. SCHOOL LESSON Bev. it, R. Warren, b.A.,18,113. God's Abundance for Mann Need. Psalm. x04; 1-5, 10-1i 24, 33, Memory Selection; The earth is the Lord's, and the. fulness thereof; the world and they that dwell therein Psalm 24:1. Today we enter upon a study Of a few of the psalms. The one for today graphically describes the care of God over all his works. As we read we are im- pressed with the majesty and wisdom and power of God. One has said. "Liffe stately pili:.•rs supporting a solemn temp le, three noble psalms, placed sale by side, exalt the glory of Jeho- vah:. 103 glorifies the God of grace; 104 the God of nateu e; 105 the God of history. Ea It •springs from a strong pedestal of adoration and is crowned with a rich capital of praise.` The person who is not thrilled when viewing some of the great sights of nature is poor indeed,. Here are some of the sce..es which have led me to a gre... Br appreciation of the God who has clothed the world in beauty and given man the capacity to en- joy it: the changing colour of the sky as the sun goes down on the othee side of the lake at my boy- hood home; the Laurentian Highlands in October when the leaves are at their best; the un- ceasing mass of water breaking over the precipice at Niagara Falls; Lake Louise nestled in the Rockies. These and many others in. everyday life are fascinating be- cause they remind us of the great and mighty God. We join with the Psalmist when he says, "I will sing unto the LORD as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being." And God has made provision for all his creatures. Not even a sparrow falls to the ground without his notice. This great God invites our love and service. He gave His son for us. Shall we not give ourselves to Him? TREY SAVE MONEY ON COSMETICS' Face powder ' manufacturers in France have found the rea- son for a 30 per cent drop in sales: thrifty housewives are using ,oatmeal : In rural distric'ts> the -en -641 >s applied with a powder puff and dusted off with a handkerchief. Results are said to be good for the skin and look just as natural as customary face -powders. The cosmetic makers are not taking the situation lightly, They remember that oatmeal was used as an external as welt as an internal beautifier by Scots girls until about 1900. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking 2i d .A s I S . H 5 ti' "I di it + s'=ave'd, Ada 0 , r � . a . � �' tt ZI altiNaMill Lam," :'L.;© _. ANO N: .i.a Nett'oR4Ya. 'S leeigee KEEP 1T QUIET -- This pretty young lady finds the world's largest "quiet" room a perfect place to take a break from her work. Supposedly one of the quietest places ever constructed, th6a room is part of a General Electric sound laboratory. The raw faxing girl is seated in front Of a 41 -foot -high door covered with fiber -glass wedges that absorb sound. There are more than 12,000 of these wedges in the room. 4 J 1