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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1942-05-08, Page 794,24, Yi r • MCCoNOTe a $Tr LAYS Barristera, 'Solioitore, Etc. CILD. MoCo hell - T•1;\Glenn Hays SEAFORTH; . ONT. Telephone 174• 8692- L 699 Lm McLEAN Barrister, Solicitor, Etc. SEAFORTH ONTARIO Branch Office Hensall Hensall;' Seaforth Phone 113 Phone 173 MEDICAL SEAFORTH CLINIC DR. E. A. McMASTER, M.B. Graduate of Un(versity of Toronto PAUL L. BRADY, M.D. Graduate of University, of Toronto /210,A,... ..,f.wr d,' oda: lantfiar NM NW. Nat 16, 422.16121 Mini? sfinguis- .6 • I Itli NM ( '� VaNNr 111 fir The Clinic is fully equipped with complete and modern X-ray and other up-to-date diagnostic and therapeutics equipment. Dr. F. J. R. Forster, Specialist in diseases of the .ear, eye, nose and • throat, will he at the Clinic the first Tuesday in every month from 3 to 5 p.m. Free Well -Baby Clinic wililbe held. en the second and last Thursday in every month from 1 to 2 p.m. 8687- " JOHN A.' GORWILL, B.A., M.D. Physician and Surgeon IN DR.. H. H. ROSS' OFFICE • Phone 5-W Seaforth MARTIN W. STAPLETON, B.A'., M.D. Physician and Surgeon Successor to Dr. W. O. Sproat Phone 90-W - Seaforth. DR. F: J. R. FORSTER Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Graduate in Medicine, University of Toront * • Late' assistant New York Opthal- mei and ,Aural- Institute, Moorefield's Bye •and' Golden Square Throat Hos- pital, . London, Efts At COMMERCIAL HOTEL, SEAFORTH,. THIRD • WED- NESDAY in each month, from 2 p.m. to 4.30r'p.-m.;. also at Seaforth Clinic first Tuesday' of each month. 53 Waterloo' Street South, Stratford. 12-87 -AUCTIONEERS HAROLD JACKSON Spedia1kt in Patna and Household Sales. Licensed in Huron and Perth Coun- ties. Prices reasonable; satisfaction guaranteed. For information, etc., Write or phone Harold Jackson, 14 on 661, Seaforth; It.. R. 4, Seaforth. 8768 - EDWARD W. ELLIOTT Licensed' Auctioneer For Huron ' Correspondence promptly answered. Immediate a.rrangemenis__can_,be_made-' for Sales Date at The Huron Exposi- tor, Seaforth, or by calling Phone 203, Clinton... Charges moderate 'and satis- faction guaranteed.. 8829-52 LONDON and WINGHAM NORTH A.M. Exeter 10.34 Hensall 10.46 Kippen 10.52 Brucefield 11.00 Clinton 11.47 SOUTH P.M. Clinton 4 3.08 Brucefield 3.2$ Kippen - ' 3.38 Hensall 3.45 Exeter 3.68 C.N.R. TIME TABLE EAST - Doderioh.:............. Holmesviile Clinton Seaforth St. Columban Dublin Mitchell A.M. 6.15 6.31 6.43 6.59 7.05 7.121 "7.24 WEST` Mitchell 11.06 Dublin ' 11,14 Seaforth ' .. , .. 11.30 Clinton 11.45 Goderich • • ' 12.05 P.M. CHAPTER XI. SYNOPSIS , • Despite Leonard Borland's pro- tests that his bank aGeount is ample, thougih the contracting business in `New York ,is dead, his pretty, opera -struck wife Dor- is resumes her "career;"_... inter- rupted by her marriage at 19 and the birth of two children. Bor- land knows her avowed purpose, to bolster the family income, is just another ' subterfuge. Hugo Lorentz, her teacher, always around, irritates him. After Dor- is gives a recital, Cecil Carver, opera singer, phones Borland. At her hotel, ' Cecil says Doris has a good voice but lacks style. Cecil is to sing., for war veterans but hasn't the words of a certain song. He sings it and she says he has a fine baritone voice. Cecil knows of Doris through Lorentz, says 'Hugo is hopelessly, in love with Doris, and that Doris tor- tures. every man she gets in her clutches. Leonard ought to wake her up by giving a recital, she Says."Go get yourself . .a , tri- umph." Cecil demands payment for lessons -kisses. He pays but. declares he loves his wife. He spends much time with Cecil, making • good progress. While she is on tour she wires him, he sings in, upstate recitals, makes. a hit ad she gets him en en- gagement with an opera company. Again lie makes good and tear- fully Cecil, telling him she loves him, says he can now bring Dor- is to his feet. A movie audience gives Doris the "bird." Broken - `spirited, she says she's no 'good. She tells Leonard she loves him. Doris learns about Cecil, and de- cides it wasn't business that kept him out of the city. There is a scene at Gwenny Blair's cocktail party and Gwenny, to smooth matters over, laughingly suggests that Leonard sing. ; Hel does and 'Doris is furious -he is so good. Doris has -gone home, and Leon- ard is staying 'at a° hotel. I quit kidding myself .thea. I knew I'd give anything to' have it back, what I had pulled at the party that afternoon. It, wasn't brave, it wasn't g, it was just, ,plain silly,, I Aad made .- a jackass off' myself and put something terrible between me and Doris. I began thinking of her, then, and knew that it didn't make any difference what she had dome to me, or anything else. I wanted her so bad it was just a terrible ache, want- ed her worse than ever.' And here I• was; I .had no wife, I hadno home, I had no kids, I had no work. l didn't even have Cecil. 1 had, just madea' mess of my life. I think I hit an all- time low that night. I never, felt worse. I couldn't. The next day I took a suite at a hotel in the fifties. I took it by the month. 'I didn't hear anything from Doris., I"- .began reading the society' pages after a couple of days, 'and she was' in. Every time I saga her name I saw Leighton's. On the singing, I a week guaranteed. That's a little more than Rossi was paying you, isn't it?"' "Yeah, quite a little." "Well -will you think it over?" "I got a couple of good tenors and another one coming. I got a 'couple of sopranos I think are comers. But in opera you've got to have one good baritone before you've got a• show." "You certainly have." "All right, then, I'll' come up a lit- tle. How' about $150?" "Maybe you didn't understand what I said when you came in here,y,I ap- preciate what you -say. I'm' grateful to. Rossi, but I'm just not interest- . ed." •- • The idea of singing made me sick. He went, and I put on my hat and engaged in my favorite outdoor•, sport about that time. That was walking around the opera house hoping I'd see Cecil. A couple of days after that I did see her.; I raced back to the office as fast as I could get there and put in a call for her at her ho- tel. They said she wasn't in. I knew she wouldn't be. That was why I had been watching. I 'left word! that Mr. Borland called. Then for a week .I stuck at my desk, hoping she would call back. She never did. All that, .what -I've just been' tell- ing you, was in the last part of No- vember. When the first of December came it crossed my .Mind it was fun- ny no bills had . been forwarded to me. On 'the third I found out why. When I came down stairs in' the' morning"- and crossedthe lobby my cheque in hand, the one I had, given him .for my 'next month's room rent. It -had bounced back.. I blinked at it, and I knew then ..why there hadn't been any bills. Doris was paying her own: bilis. The money was in a joint account, 'in her name and mine, and she had drawn every cent of it out, started an account somewhere else, and -there I was. I said there must be some mistake and !< would see' him that afternoon. I went' out, and hustled over to New- ark and borrowed $300 fromr a manu- facturer of . power shovels we had done some business with. I got back' just -in time to get in the bank, so I could cover that cheque before they closed; then went back 'and told the clerk itwasall right, I had drawn on thewrong account, and he could put it 'through. R went up to my suite and counted my money. I had $75 over what,I had deposited in the bank. My ex- penses, over the $170 a month r was paying for the suite, were about, $50 a week, not counting. club dues and other things I couldn't stave off very long. I was just about a week and a half from the bone yard, and I ,be- gan to feel it again, tilt: ' thick rage against Doris and the wy she treat- ed me. - It would suit her fine, I knew, to have me coming on my knees to her,' begging for money. I ' walked around the suite and after a while something in me clicked! I began to think about Horn and the Hippo- drome and his $150 a night. Next day he called up: "Mr. Bor- land?" • 2.30 2-.48 3,00 3.22 3.23 3.29 3.41 9.28 9.36 9.47 10.00 10.25 C.B.R. TIME TABLE EAST derich litenset $eGaw n Auburn Blyth Walton McNaught termite • WEST Toronto SteN'aught ... , . *Kelton a a a , T.' -a .-, ' ll1lyGit Auburn filianGatt a d..c•ad d,a,.y ., Menset, ,r, ;rb ,d.b. v.. rJ • P.M. 4.35 4.41 4.49 4.5$ '5.09 5.21 5.32 9.46 "I'm looking, for the Leonard Borland , sang wi • Scala Opera Company under the name of Logan Benne the American a.: never opened my trap. One day a guy showed up at the office by the name of Horn. He kept looking around kind of puzzled at the drafting -room, and' in a minute I asked hitt pretty sharp what he wanted. "You're Mr. Borland? Mr. Leonard Borland?" "Yes, I'm Leonard Borland." "I'm *looking far the Leonard Bor- land who sang with the American Scala Opera• -Company under the name of Logan Bennett: ' Ah.fllay, I hear be did." "Where did you hear that?" "I was in Pittsburgh last week. I heard it from a friend of mine. Gius- eppe /{loss/." "Well? What of it?" He knew then he had the -right guy, and, kept looking me over. "I'll tell you What of it. I'm connected with this new outfit that's 'giving op A.M, era over at the Maxwin Theatre, 8,30 and-" P.M. "Not interested." i2464 "I need s, baritone." "Still '•net interested." 1 62 "tf yenrre as good as he says you are, I. could' make you a pretty niae1 israiiasition. t could; .biter you $12ii a slight say: with three - appearances a 12.49 12;47 12.44 1.00 "Marcel,• Germout and/ $igoletto. I sang one other role,- but it was a pinch hitting job and I w uldn't 'know it now if I heard it."' .. "What role was it?" "Wagner in `Faust.' I don't sing French, but. they let medo it in Ita- lian. They shoved it at me in the morning. I -sang- it --that afternoon, and I had forgotten it .by, night." That made the same, impression om, him it had on the others) An opera impressario, he's a little,. 'like a base - bail manager. He knows all about smoke. He gets that 'every day. But a guy that can come out 'df the bull 'pen and finish a ball -game, that's dif- ferent, When he heard that he quit worrying,and began to lay it .out. what I'd have to do. • The hitch came' over the guarantee.. -'With just those three operas, he couldn't make it three times a week, because they weren't giving ';Traviata" on a week- ly schedule. ' He wanted,- me to get up "Trovatore," "Lucia's and " tlida." And then later "Dons Giovanni," and they would revive it if they thought I was right for it. I said I couldn't get up that many _roles 'by the end of the winter if I had to sing three timese a week, too. So then he had a..different idea: "All 'right; we'll say 'Lucia' and 'Trovatore,' but get 'Pagliacci'' up by next week, and. then --we oan pat you on three times. You see, ham . and eggs is once a week, too, and-" "What 'is?" • 1 "Ham and eggs. 'Cavalleria Rus- ticana' and 'Pagliacci,' thesd.ouble bill. 'Pagliacci' you ' can get up quick. Af- ter the 'Prologue,' which I suppose you know, you have -almost nothing to do, just two real scenes, not over ten minutes of actual singing alto- gether. Theft we can-" • "Oh. All, right, -then,". "You'll need a coach. I 'recommend Siegal. ' He's' a 'good man, works' with us." • "Fine, I'll take him. When do We start?" "Next week. Get 'Pagliacci' up by then,' and then later we- can work you in on the others. But' we want to bring you out in 'Rigoletto.' That makes you important." So by that afternoon, I had' con- nected with Siegal, and was back in the same old, groove. I found out, then how much Cecil had been giving me„ for nothing. Do you ,• know what 'that 'bird' tea?' HeChaiked me $25 an hour, and I had to have him every day. I had to borrow $200 more in Newark, and it was an awful crimp in my- $600 a week. But, at that $450 was nothing to be sneezed at. I asked for a rehearsal. on "Rigo- letto," with three or four of the chor- isters. In the scene before the courtiers •. there was some stuff I wanted. to . do, and I had to make them slam me down so I, really ' hit the deck, so when I, came crawling back to them I would really be on my knees: They told me to come ov- er to the theatre. When I got. there, I walked out to the middle of the stage, let out a cou- ple of big ones, and it felt pretty good. I stuck out my chest. I thought flow I was putting it over on' Doris and how I wouldn't come begging her for anything. - The conductor, Gustav Schultz, was at the piano, .and we went through it. I think he wanted to look me over. I shower ahem hqw I wanted them to heave me, and after a while they got it so it suited me. When we quit, I saw Parma in the wings, and went over and shook hands. "Hello, boy, hello. How'sa old kid?" he said. "Fine. How's yourself?" "O.K. Say, it is swell, how you do this scene. Alla baritones ran for bedroom, make little try," audience alla time wonder why he don't get in. Look like he must be weak. Ought to fight, just like you do 'em now, and then, pow! -down he go, just like this!" He `threw his shoulder at me, and I went head' over heels onto the fleor. It was one stage fall I didn't expect. Then he laughed. Singers, they're a' funny breed. They've got what you might call a rudimentary sense of humor, in the first place, and .they're a'rwfnl proud) of their muscles, in the second place. people think they're soft. Well, singing doesn't come from the spirit. It comes from- the belt, and it takes plenty of chest to do it right. I got up, and laughed, and he and Schultz and' I went out and 'had a drink . . The afternoon of the performance I put off lunch till three o'clock, and then went out and had a good one. I came back to the office and vocalized my voice. I came up quick and felt good. I wag beginning to get nerv- ous. They all get nervous', but this was different from what I had felt before. It had 'a little tingle to it. I felt I was good. I walked tip to the hotel ands' it was about half past four. I lay down and got a little sleep. It seemed funny to be putting fthe makeup on without Cecil bobbing in t6 give me the double O, hitt 'I- got it in place, and put on the funny clothes, and tried my voice. It"'was still uii, and was all right Thorn three iii, 1iolted nye over, and nod- ded "'the donitraets are ren!*," 'tact got tbaant with:" +1')i `/0J- •. "Yes?" "This is Bert Horn again. Remem- ber?" "Oh, yeah. How are you?" "All right. Listen; my other tenor got to town last night.' Fact of the matter, I stole him off Rossi. Guy' by the name of Parma. 'You .know'him?" "Yeah. I sang with him." "Listen;. if you're as -'good as he says you are, I might raise the offer. I might up the ante to $200." "Now you're talking. Come on ov- er."' He came and looked• me over again and the place over again, and then he laughed and shook his head. "You play?" JI asked. ' "Some kind of way, yes," "Coins on up." I took him up on 'the third floor, where'the piano was, and opened the windows and shoved the, "Travia'ta'•i area infront of him. . Ii'e played it and I,sang it. When I got through he nbd'dnd. "Guess they weren't kidding We went down aghiti; aiidl Tie got oqWu tt1' eases. "flow many roles do you know?" "Thived." "IOW ' three?" MAPLE piwit J.:CTS This year the housewife Will Wel- come maple products not only for their flavour value but i'or their sweetening -properties too, for., in s4 many cases, maple products" can take the place of sugar. 'r'liie Consumer Section, Marketing Service, Dominion. Department of Ag- riculture, suggest the .•following rec- ipes made with maple syrup and maple sugar. Maple Syrup Pie Boil milk and syrup together, add starch which has been blended with ai .little cold milk; cook ' in double boiler stirring constantly for five minutes, Pour over the beaten eggs andreturn to double boiler. Cook five minutes.. Popr into baked pastry shell. Cover top with meringue made from two egg-whites. Maple Trifle Crumble stale cake crumbs in four custard' cups until half full. Over' them pour maple syrup allowing about three tablespoons to ,each cup. Allow to stand 20, minutes. Then pour over a custard made as follows: 1 cup milk 2 tablespoons maple syrup 2 eggs. Heat milk and syrup '- .to boiling poaint. '`heat egg and one yolk until thick, add hot. 'milk and cook in a double boiler until the mixture coats the spoon. Pour over crumbs while het. When cold, cover with a mer- `_ngue made from one egg white and two tablespoons granulated sugar and brown in a slow oven.. Maple Biscuits Use a basic tea biscuit recipe and mix and cut as directed. Make an. indentation in the top of each biscuit and all this with maple sugar. Bake as usual in an oven of 425 deg. F. for 12-15 minutes.. Maple Syrup Sauce (For ice cream or puddings) 1 cup maple syrup , 1 teaspoon butter 1 teaspoon flour. Melt butter, add flour, cook until frothy,slowly add syrup and boil one minute. ' Serve hot or cold. . Use one-quarter cup maple syrup to replace granulated sugar in apple pie -an entirely 'new flavour is "My secretary's bringing them ov- er. I'll be in with them after the show. 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