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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1952-12-18, Page 2Wh Was Harpo 'r'� as A "Thief" In Hollywood the story is told Of the occasion on which film director Alfred Hitchcock invited a party of six distinguished guest s, including Sir. Cedric Hardwieke, to dinner at his house. Unknown to his guests he had employed fifty film extras to dress up as waiters and footmen. As soon as the party sat down the waiters swarmed about them, elbowing them, shouting at them, taking away food before it was touched, and spilling wine over their shirt fronts. Outnumbered eight to one the guests did the only thing possible. With the waiters hurling abuse at them they departed. Another time Hitchcock's friend Gerald du Mauriflr' was acting as Richard the Third, and • declaimed loudly on the stage, °'A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!" A few moments later he strolled into his dress- ing -room and found a large horse, thoughfully provided by Hitchcock. A simple enutigh joke, but one which nearly induced apoplexy among his employees, was played. by Orson Welles on the opening night of a radio show some years ago. The show was due to be broad- cast at eight o'clock, and at five minutes to eight the entire stu- dio was in a panic because Welles could not be found. With one minute to go Welles strolled in, smiled, and walked up to the microphone. Just as he ap- proached he seemed to trip, and the papers he was carrying scat- tered all over the floor. Made for the Door Everybody, including the pro- ducers, rushed round picking up the sheets. While they were madly scrambling, Welles pro- duced the real script from his pocket and went on the air as if nothing had happened. Harpo Marx was the central figure in a rather elaborate prac- tical joke perpetrated in Holly- wood's most exclusive jewellery store. ' Looking so furtive that every rnnember of the store's detective contingent singled him out, Har- po went over to the counter where the rarest jewels were dis- played. ead BY DOROTHY OTHY MADDOX iterANY times during cold weather, a snack •of warm Sally Lunn sweet bread and hot coffee will be very welcome. Of course, sweet breads make good breakfast treats, too. The following sweet bread recipe uses nonfat dry milk. Nonfat dry milk is sifted with the flour and other ingredients, and water is used as the liquid. Nonfat dry milk, which is milk with only the fat and water reznpved, is also budget saving. It will keep almost indefinitely on a cool, dry shelf if the foil -lined package is closed carefully after each using, Sally Janne (Makes 16 Wei -inch squares) One and one-half cups sifted flour, 3/4 cup nonfat dry milk, 2 tea- spoons baking powder, Sia teaspoon salt, l cup shortening, ee cup sugar, 1 egg, well beaten, .x cup water. Sift together flour, nonfat dry milk powder, baking- powder and salt. Cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Add egg and mix well. Blend in water. Stir in sifted dry ingredients and mix only enough to dampen the dry ingredients. Pour into a well -greased 8 -inch square pan. Sprinkle nonfat dry milk powder, brown sugar crumbs over the surface. Bake hi a hot oven at 400 degrees F. about 30 minutes, or until surface springs back when pressed lightly with finger. Brown Sugar Crumbs One-half cup brown sugar, firmly packed, 2 tablespoons nonfat dry milk, ei teaspoon cinnamon, 1 tablespoon butter, melted. Mix sugar, nonfat dry milk powder and cinnamon together. Add butter and mix to make crumbs, resembling cornmeal. Sprinkle evenly over surface of Sally Lunn. Orange nut bread goes over big with all the family. This recipe comes from Edith Barber's new and very practical "Short -Cut Cook- book," Edith is one of the outstanding food people in the country. -Orange Nut Bread Two cups sifted all-purpose flour, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon 'baking powder, 1 teaspoon baking soda, ie cup sugar, Ifs cup short - .t'5 a ChillMorn.. Piping hot sweet bread and steaming coffee make a chill -chasing • breakfast on cold mornings. They are wonderful for hot snacks after the theater or an evening out. ening, 2 eggs, 1.2 cup orange juice with pulp, / cup water, ' cup chopped nuts. Mix and sift flour, salt, baking powder and soda. Cream sugar with softened shortening. Beat in eggs, one at a time. Stir in the liquid alternately with the flour mixture. Add nuts and pour in greased • •9 x 5 x 3 loaf pan. Bake in moderate oven (350 degrees E".) . 51) to 60 minutes. Fondly he handled the gems, then glanced round him and started to make for the door. By this time the detectives had drawn a tight cordon round him. Just as he reached. the doore he sprawled and jewels scattered all over the floor. The detectives pounced, but in a moment they saw that the whole lot were glass imitations, purchased for a few dollars. His brother Groucho once went to the trouble of buying six false teeth to practise a little decep- tion on his fellow -passengers of New York's subway. After making grimaces of pain and holding his head Groucho reach- ed into his mouth and produced one of the teeth, which he had painted red and threw it on the floor, Under the fascinated eyes of the passengers he repeated the operation five times, getting off at the next stop with the near- est approach he could manage to a toothless grin. 1 .26m A .clews. Nous for that Christmas pud- ding—almost as important as the turkey or the cake, both of which were discussed in former columns. 4 ftp; Here you have your choice of two excellent puddings, The first Js of the rich type—and if you choose it. don't forget to plan your schedule to allow one and a half hour's steaming on the day it is to be served. And you'd better make certain ahead of time that your pudding bowl will fit into your steamer in such a way that the cover may lbe put closely in place. If the water gets low in the big saucepan, add more from a boil- ing kettle—not cold water—so as to have as little interruption as possible with the cooking Iirecess. '" CHR1STMA.S PUDDING (YIELD -- 8 LARGE OR 12 MEDIUM SERVINGS.) 2K cups seedless raisins, wash- ed and dried i/s cup seeded raisins, washed • and dried if necessary 1 cup currants, washed and dried '6 cup slivered or chopped mixed candied peels and cit- ron Vi cup almonds, blanched and cut coarsely 1 cup coarse soft bread crumbs 1.• cup finely -chopped suet a4 cup lightly packed brown sugar 1 14 cups once -sifted pastry flour or gyri cups once - sifted all-purpose four IA teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1 teaspoon ground ginger teaspoon ground cloves 14 teaspoon grated nutmeg 144 teaspoon ground allspice teaspoon salt 2 eggs i4 Cup grape juice 1 teaspoon grated lemon rind Prepare the seedless raisinse iueeded raisins, currants, peels end almonds; add bread crumbs, ee et and brown sugar and com-. 'imide well. Measure and sift together three times, the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, nutmeg, allspice, and salt; add to fruit mixture and combine thor- oughly. Beat the eggs until thick and light; stir in grape juice and lemon rind; add to fruit mixture and again combine thoroughly. Turn mixture into well -greased pudding bowl, packing it lightly; smooth the top (bowl should be no more than about three-quar- ters full). Cover mold with a piece of cookery parchment that has been wrung out of cold water or with greased heavy paper and tie down. Steam over rapidly boiling water, closely covered, 3 hours. Uncover pudding and let stand in the bowl until cold. Cover cold pudding with a dry tea - towel and store in a cold place. For serving, re -steam pudding about tri$ hours. s. The other pudding, as I said, is of a much lighter variety, and the use of carrot, apple and po- tato in • its making •results •in a product that is especially moist, yet thoroughly ''Christmas-sy" in character. The same care is necessary in steaming as for the first pudding I gave you — a steamer with a close -fitting lid, the adding of boiling water only from a boil- ing kettle, and • some careful treatment when the pudding is re -steamed for serving. 13e careful, too, about the complete cooling of your pudding before you cover it with a tea towel for storing until needed in a cool place. Yield -- 15 to 18 servings. CHRISTMAS PUDDING 3 cups seedless raisins, washed and dried 1 cup currants, washed and dried cup cut-up pitted raw prunes cup slivered or chopped mix- ed candied peels and citron cup almonds, blanched and halve.) l.y;; cups once -sifted pastry flour or 1? cups once -sifted all- purpose flour 1.11i teaspoons baking powder :4 teaspoon baking soda 1.1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon :t'. teaspoon ground nutmeg te teaspoon ground ginger its teaspoon ground allspice !,z teaspoon ground cloves lz teaspoon ground mace left teaspoon salt 11 cups finely chopped suet 3, Hit A New Hollywoo ►r� r® kg g In Scandal Hollywood's short-lived cam- paign to convince the world that movie stars are really as respec- table as church deacons has been smothered to death in the worst series of scandals to blight the movie city in thirty years. Not since the days of "Fatty" Arbuckle, grotesque comedian of the "silents" have decent people in the United States been so shocked. Arbuckle added notoriety to his fame when he was found at a wild drinking party where a young starlet clied in a bathtub. The current crop of shooting, mysterious death and sex entan- glements promiees to equal the sensationalism of those earlier chapters in Hollywood's • lurid history. Scarcely has one set of scream- ing headlines been printed before they are followed by more start- ling disclosures "John Garfield Dies in Blonde's Room" was a t z recent unhappy et. seee r^e y; socia be outdated by new revela- tions of the private lives of some of movieland's brightest names. Duped Millions Garfield's death followed a po- litical scandal which reduced him to playing seventy five -dollar - a -week roles in minor play pro- ductions, the only work he could. find. Jules Garfinkle, his real name, was a steeet-brawling pro- duct of New York's slums who was an easy mark for scheming Communists when he found fame in tough -guy roles like "They Made Me a Criminal." For years he lent his name to all kinds of Communist - led crusades that duped millions of Americans. Last year he swore to the U.S. Government that he had never been a member of the party. He was already a rick man who had suffered a heart attack and been warned by doctors to take it easy. Then Came Poverty But the mud stuck, and he was blacklisted by the movie - I leee cups coarse soft bread crumbs 1!': cups lightly packed brown. sugar 1?e cups shredded raw apple lee cups shredded raw carrot q. cup shredded raw potato 4 large eggs or 5 small eggs !e cup fruit juice Prepare the seedless raisins, currants, prunes, peels and cit- ron, and almonds. Measure and sift together three tines, the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, allspice, cloves, mace and salt; add to fruit mix- ture and combine thoroughly. Add the prepared suet, bread crumbs, brown sugar, apple, car- rot and potato; combine thor- oughly. Beat the eggs until thick and light; add to fruit mixture and combine thoroughly; stir in fruit juice. Turn mixture into two well- greased large pudding bowls, packing lightly; smooth the tops (bowls should be no more than about three-quarters full). Cover molds with a piece of cookery parchment that has been wrung out of cold water or with greased paper and tie down. Steam over rapidly boiling water, dosely covered,'about 31/2 hours, Uncover: puddings and let stand in their bowls until cold. Cover cold puddings with a dry tea towel, tie down, and store in a cold place, For serving, re -steam pndclin s about 11/2 hours, makers. As comparative poverty closed in on him he brooded. He quarrelled with his wife Roberta, left her and their two children, and moved into a Broadway hotel. His dinner companion on the eve of his death was a blonde ex -actress, Iris Whitney. He went home with her to her lav- ish apartment and she reported to the police that he complained of feeling ill. Police found him there dead the next morning when they broke down the front door after Iris Whitney had barricaded herself alone with his body for one hour and twenty minutes. "He was troubled and needed help," she said crypti- cally. "I don't want to talk about Death from a heart attack was the medical examiner's ver- diet. • Joan Bennett's agent and friend, Jennings Lang, escaped el*h .d.t : 'ott t -a. in the glomi when. her Jealous husband producer Walter Wenger, open- ed .fire with a. pistol. This is a scandal that still echoes around the studios, and landed Wenger with a brief fail sentence. It echoes the louder because all three members of the tense tri- angle were formerly considered as being among Hollywood's most virtuous citizens. The trouble , began a full twelve months before it flared on to the front paves.' Wenger, for- mer Academy Award president who had been down on his luck since his "Joan of Ard" flopped, warned Jennings Lang then: "I'1] shoot anyone who tries to break up my name." A few days before last Christ- mas Wainer stood in a Los An- geles car park waiting for Joan Bennett to return from a drive with Lang, who often accom- panied her on business trips around the country. After her gleaming car pulled to a stop, 'Joan screamed, "Don't be silly, Walter! Don't!" Then one bul- let from Wanger's pistol smash- ed into the car and another struck his suspected rival. • Tried to Blush Outcry Joan Bennett the beautiful forty -one -year -Ad screen grand- mother, tried in vain to hush the outcry. Her car ride was a business conference and nothing more, she explained, adding: "I hope Walter will not be blamed too mach." Though Lang refused to press charges, the Los Angeles district attorney stepped in, t o give Hollywood's other jealous hus- bands cause to reconsider before they reach for their guns. Franchot'Tone resorted to fists, not firearms, to win a blonde he was pursuing — and landed in hospital with oroken bones and a brain concussion. Now, after eight months of rough-and-tum- ble, matrimony, he is free of Bar- bara Payton, the blonde in ques- • tion, who is a star of such epics as "The Bride of the Gorilla." Tone and Barbara Payton were often seer out together while he was fighting a court battle with' his ex wile, another blonde star named Jean W'llace,, Then Bar- bara happened to glimpse Tom Neal, cowboy actor and one-time annateur boxer, clad in ae pair of swimming trunks at a hotel pool. Her dates with Tune promptly ended, and she went around with Neal. "She asked me to marry her," Neal reported with gentle- manly gallantry. "It wasn't the other way round." Police Called In The happy pair decided to be married two days after Barbara's divot. ce from her current hus- band, an Iowa car salesman, went through. But Tone and Neal met on the wedding eve, at Barbara's home. A neighbour later told the police that Neal knocked Tone down and thee hit him thirty times, "like a punching bag." Tone was hurried off to hospi- tal, where Baroara demonstrated her affection by climbing a fire escape and spending two hours in his room. When Tone won his divorce be 'told the judge inmply t although Barbara lilted to eo she would keep their gueei waiting for hours before she ar- rived home and got into tbS kitchen. Another scandal has been re- vived by news that the ill-fated Lila Leeds, companion of Robert Mitchum in a drugs sensation f 1949, is undergoing treatment fol' addiction once more, Lila Leeds starred in "Devil's Weed" af- ter she served her jail sentence for a marihuana party that para- lelled the movie story. Magnates Horrified But hers was not the prison term that shook the film capital. It was the spectacle of Robert Mitchum. spending sixty days in the Los Angeles county jail that horrified the movie magnates. Police trapped Mitchum, Lila Leeds and two other small-time players at a marihuana, or 'ree- fer," party in a secluded cabin in the Los Angeles bills. Mitch- tun has since made his come- back, though he and his wife still swear they will get out of Holly- wood and forget his stardom as soon as they've saved enough money. This Lczrid City However persuasively movie - makers argue to the contrary, on the evidence that continues to pile up Hollywood must be judge egg a lurid city. A considerable number of its inhabitants, in -s eluding one distinguished British actor, have from time to time been clapped behind bars for drunkenness or public brawling or their uninvited attentions to beautiful women. Such "routine" escapades scar- cely win a paragraph in the local newspapers these days, however, when more scandalous events come fast and furious. Decent. Americans, including the vast majority of Hollywood's stars, shake their heads in dismay, - A Pittsfield, Mass., woman, af- ter being elected president of the ., Twins Club, gave birth to triplets. ENROLL - in the SPRING GLASS at The Memorial hospital St. Thomas, Ond. Receive a sound edue t'on in the Arts and Skills of Nursing under enmpe.eni, well qualified instructors in Nursing at a low coat. Write -Director of Nursing. How To Save Money and Get Fest Cough Relief Here's an old, tested, home mix- ture your mother knew .. still a most dependable remedy for dis- tressing coughs. Fast and effective, children like its pleasant taste. Make a syrup by ° stirring two cups of sugar into one cup of water until dissolved ... no cooking need- ed (or you can use maple syrup r honey instead) . Now pour 1/2 ounces of PINE:. 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