The Brussels Post, 1955-01-19, Page 3First' White Child.
It • W4s AVM. his• York Yor
correspondent the schoolmaster
(Chevalier) had. learned how it
was not chiefly and solely the.
Dutch who had reared. New Am-
sterdam. Indeed the Walloons
were French, native-born in the
province of that narrie on
.France's northern border,. when,
to outflank the horrible dra-
goons, they had fled into the
,Estate of Holland, whereto later
French Protestants also repair-
ed in. the century following the
Massacre of 5t, Bartholomew,
.And eventually a certain Jesse
de Forest proposed to the Dutch
West India Company, then in
process of formation, that he
was. prepared to transport a
French colony to America. And
this offer being accepted, it was
French Protestants, and not
merely Hollanders; who made up
a great portion of the thirty
families sailing in, March, 1623,
in the "New Netherland", and
thereafter • aiding the formation
and maintenance of that Dutch
colony at the mouth of the Hud-.
son River, . .
"What then.did the new colon-
ists find? No more than a few
huts near the southern end of
the island; a trading post main,
tained by Amsterdam merchants
and with the remainder of the
country one . vast wilderness.
THIS IS A TOY?—If you've got about '600 bucks to spare, you
can buy your youngster this miniature Model of a popular sports
car. Complete with headlights an a battery-driven motor, it has
a top speed of six miles per hour. Here Joan Voorhees tries it on
-for size in q department store, while Pat Landregari looks on.
Plastic Time-Saver-
How do, you keen parsley?
If you use. .4. few sprigs then
have to throw the rest away in
a few days, you're probably
us.uing. the old-fashioned method.
keeping it in a glass. of water,
parsley, will stay fresh up to
three weeks in the refriger,
ater if ,it's in an, air-tight con-
tainer. .',Select only the crisp,
dark green sprigs, shake off most
c),f the water,. then tuck the
bunch in a polythene refrigera-
tor box with .4 snap-on lid, With
parsley ;always in the house, you
will soon learn. to use it for its
flavor, not merely as a festive.
garnish,
* t6
Modern table tops which look
like ordinary polished wood but
which have an amazing resist-
ance to scratches and stains
have a plastic to thank for their
durability, They are coated with
transparent melamine t he
same plastic as is used in high-
quality unbreakable tableware.
Laminated to the wood, the
melamine gives a glossy, per-
.. manent finish which is not dam-
aged ,:by burning cigarettes, hot
coffee, alcohol or any Of the other
hazazrds which menace most
furniture. A damp cloth keeps
it clain and shining.
.
Silver polished up for holiday
entertaining will still be shin-
ing months from how if stored in
air-tight polythene bags. You
can buy bags for the purpose,
or use the ordinary transparent
bags groceries come in — the
ones without holes, of course.
Each piece of the tea set, every
tray and bonbon dish can -be
kept in a bag securely closed
with a string or elastic band.
Merchants use polythene to store
their stocks .of silverware; they
find it keeps polishing to a
minimum.
Blind, But Sees TV
Mrs. Marguerite Silver, of
Winnipeg, can tell you what it
is like for the blind to see again.
But in her story there are no
miracles, for there is a logical
explanation for what happened, -
and she knows better . than to
count on regaining her sight to
the full.
Mrs. Silver was visiting
friends recently, and the tele-
vision set was turned on. As she
faced the screen, a small shaft
of light entered her world of
darkness.
"I 'could see television,"
she 'says, "it wa., a children's
shove, • and a lady was reading
out of a hook. It was something
about a circus. This woman was
sitting at a desk; and I could
see her dark dress against the
white 'background. I was all
shaking inside."
She could not make out the
woman's actual feautres, but
even shadows are better than
nothing.
Mrs. Silver, who had been
robbed of her sight by' an eye
disease, was so excited that she
telephoned a local television
firm in Winnipeg. She got her
set, and can make out• figures en
the screen six feet ,away.
A doctor who has treated Mrs.
Silver says that she ,has "bare
light perceptiot in one eye,"
nothing more. To Mrs. Silver
this means she can tell some-
'times when Ahe lights are on in
a room. '
There have been several 'other
cases 'in 'which the blind have
,been able .to make out television
but nothing else.
The docter said 'a possible ex-
planation was that the Ultra-
violet light from the television
screen ithnulated the eye suffi-
ciently for sight to be possible.
Petrified Forest
Across the Arizona plateau,
almost a mile high, the Little
Colorado flOWs northwest to join
the big Colorado in the Grand
Canyon. The broad valley Of this
river is called the Painted •Desert
because the rocks are red, green,
yellow and gray and 'pastel. shad-
es that change With every pass-
ing cloud. In the Painted Desert
lies the fambus Petrified Forest
with 'the trunks of ancient trees
changed to opal and agate of
brilliant colors.
"Where the Painted Desert now
lies, some millions of years ago
lay the delta of a large river like
the Miesissippi. Floods from the
Uplands carried down logs that.
bedairie stranded on the Sand
bars and Were later covered with
thud and sand, During their long
burial the irtinks of the trees
turned to stone, and When the
land Was upraiSed the rain Wat-
ers Washed away the sand and
ihttd, leaving the truhke of the
trees, ekpcised, once More on the
ground. Part of the Petrified
Forest is new Preaertied as it NA-
tional /Vientizeient.
"Yee sir," Said the ealesmans •
smoothly, "this car IS abSolutilly
the last Word."
"Ah, just What I went for my
Wife," beamed the custaxter.
"She hives the last were
So Rollins stood out, like a lighthouse. He became the
first goalie to win since New York's Chuck Rayner in 1950,
and the first winner from a last-place club since defense-
man Tommy (Cowboy) Anderson, a forward, of the 1942 New. York Americans.
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This consists of concentrating
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More than 100 eye-witnesses
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CHARLEY HORSE
Many times we have wondered
about the origination of the ex,
pression "charley horse." Here
'Us:
During the 1890's, baseball
diamonds weren't given the spe-
cial care that is given them to-
day. However
'
club owners did
try to keep their fields playable,
In. Chicago, the White Sox em-
ployed a heavy roller to smooth
out the playing surface, It was
drawn by a lame horse called
Charley. It was natural for the
fans to apply the term "charley
horse" to any player who ex-
hibited a muscular injury result-
ing in stiffness or lameness of an
arm or leg, One 'morning in 1905 a French
comedian named Max Linder
received a terse note from one
of the pioneer film producers:
"Sir,—I have observed you. In
your eyes lies a 'fortune. Come
and act in front of my cameras,
and I will help you to make, it,
—Charles Paths."
• The, most reniarkable player In the
National Hockey League, in many re-
Wets, Is tall, Elwin Ira (Al) Rollins,
born in Vanguard, Sask., netminder foe
the lowly Chicago Black Hawks who
finished last In 1953-54 and were flirting
with last piece In the, current race when,
theSe lines were written.
Rollins is remarkable because, with a teil-end team,
he was last Spring opted winner of the Hart Trophy, most
coveted award in the major league, designating as it does
the player most useful to his club. In the 31-year history of
the trophy, this happened only once before. As the Hawks
finished last in the race, the voters possibly assumed that
without Rollins, they might have fallen right uut of the
League. It's possible.
When Rollins won the trophy, one cynical observer re-
marked that he deserved some sort of award for escaping
with his life. Rollins played in 60 of his club's 79 games last
season. He was scored on 213 times, or at the average of
3.1 goals per game. But two others called in to replace Rol-
lins when he was ill had 29 goals rolled up against them in
fpur games, over 7 per game, indicating by comparison
what a superb job Rollins was doing.
The remark about escaping with his life is not entirely
in jest. The 213 goals scored on Rollins is a lot of goals,
but what of the shots he stopped? It would be most con-
servative to say that, in the course of the season, he was
bombarded by not less than 2,000 shots from the sticks of
hockey's greatest snipers.
Besides being a great goaler, Rollins is something Of a
philosopher. After winning' the trophy, he told a sports
writer:'"When you're with a team like Chicago, every game
is a tough one. But maybe it's a good thing. When you've
got all• that work, you keep warm and loose. Some goalies
get beat on the easy shots because they're cold and all
tightened up. Maybe a fellow can look better with a weak
club than with a strong one. If ,he's any good at all, he
stands out."
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pantomime. They annihilate the
great beauty of silence,"
But like it or not, they had "
come to stay, and with them a
new generation of comedians—
the men with a fast line in pat-
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and Hardy, the Marx Brothers,
Jack Benny, Jimmy Durante—
these were the great names of
the talking screen.
Since they demanded a com-
pletely new style, talking come-
dians had to begin from scratch.
Twenty years of developing si-
lent films counted for nothing.
W. C. Fields realized how much
had been lost, and fought hard
to restore it, despite the per-
sonal fortune he was making
through talkies. "My ambition
is to, bring ,back the old burles-
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ter," he said.
Fields lived to see his own
generation of comedians super-
seded by another—Danny Kaye,
Bob Hope, Abbott and Costello.
With them, the gag-book came
to count ,for more and more, the,
visual comedy for less.
But the *latest humorists —
Martin and Lewis, and Norman
Wisdom, are leaning back•to the
silent style of comedy.
This book leaves us with .
rather a disturbing thought.
Perhaps, after all, we don't
laugh any more 'at the fast-
talking funny men on their
wide screens in super colour
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The thousands of comedies the
film industry has produced since
then all owe something to that
letter. According' to the author..
of a new book ("Comedy Films,"
by John Montgomery), it was
Linder who established, the fun-
ny man of films as an artiste,
who, dragged comedies out of
the class of films like "What
Little Willie Did," and "Oh,
That Terrible Odour!"
At that time, of, course, the
film was silent, so that the come
is had to rely on his antics in-
stead of his script. Before Lin-
der, the success of a comedian
was gauged by the number of
custard pies he had thrown in
his face, or the length of time
he was chased by a horde of
overfed policemen.
It was with the most. famous
• slapstick company of all time,
the Keystone Cops, that the
great Charlie Chaplin received
his training. Mack Sennett, the
founder, used to adVertise:
"Wanted. Players of India Rub-
ber! Apply to the Keystone
Company." And his private po-
lice force certainly had .tei earn
its wages. One of them recalls:
"Five days in the week we
had to ride in the patrol wagon.
On tile sixth day, which was pay
day,' we all •fell' into the lake.
. . Or sometimes, just for a
change, we fell in the ocean--
just 'off the pier. It . was better•
to fall in than to be kicked, in.
Charlie Chaplin has kicked me
into every lake in Los, Angeles.
Those were the good old days.
No actor was too' great to kick
another actor . . ."
" Good old days they, were.: The
.clays of Ben Turpin, whose cross
- eyes preyed so. valuable to him
that he :insured therri for $40;-
000 against going straight.: The
days of Mabel Nor-Mend,' who
'made enough to spend $89,000,
a year -on clothes -alone; and a
Fatty Arbuckle, one, e litne
• plintiber's mate, 'whose eixteen-
.
stone fraMe Wet knoWn all over
the' everlde
Btit ,Chaplin had. no heart ,for
the slepetiek of _the keyitOne
company. Inspired by Max Lin-
der, he wanted "to try ac.more
delicate brand of htittiOUr: .He
borroWed a pair of Fatty eAr-
bueicie's trousers, a Cane, ,.and
ail Oversiied pair 'of ehoes,,'and
adopted the tole of a seedy' aari-
dy. It wee an immediate
cess,
fie explained : "'Tile bowler,
too small, is striving for dig-
'nity. The moustache is venity.
The- tightly bUttOned coat and
• the stick and, his Whole Manner
are a geettire, towards gallantry
and dash and,Efedilt.'' He 'is try-
ing to meet the, world bravely,
JO put up a bluff; and he knows
thete too. He knouts It So well
, that he, Can laugh at hinieelf,
and pity liiinself a little,"
'Harold LloYtt Buster". Keaton,
'end terrY Seinen ,were the. only
comedians who Caine near to
rivalling Chaplin, ,B e t w e
them, 'in filth& like "Grentlifria'S
-toy,' "The Ph4tographeri'o and
`The Perfect CloWiii" they made' pictiireS that still 'rank
Hollywood's beat •
But it .was beeerning More :end'
More diffietilt to Make the, eitide,
fence• leugh.' They Were 'groWi,
uig tip. The.timiniekg that Meek
Sennett had Used couldti'f be
employed any Mord,
Then, almest, Oterniglit, came
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came as ett-Ofettate as ,'ester-
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