The Brussels Post, 1955-05-11, Page 24t,
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Where is "Bill."..Fiekls' Missing Money?,
Tales of Eccentric Comedy King
low It's. Glass
'You Can't :Break.
THEY Chll LIST4LSOemn- ac eTerry „ a ). has'
never seen a creature quite like the skinny, many-limbed one
one on the' wheel, and who has? Called simply '"UnicyclisQ
modernistic statue by Raymond Finak was shoWn at the outdoor. -.7..?
sculpture exhibit. The conventional statue in the background and
the stone dice player at right doesn't seem to interest two-year-
old Terry.,
VA cup nut meats
Brown sups
Sift soda with flour. Add
sugar. Add other ingredients ex-
cept brown sugar and mix well
(it is not necessary to beat).
Pour into greased pan, Sprinkle
brown sugar• over, top, Bake 25.
or 30 minutes at 350° F.
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Swee t potato pudding is con-
sidered a real delicacy. You and
your family will probably like
it :s3t ‘oitce7eueE, agpEsgaspTnogdor eec
POTATO;
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sweet
Dot ImN
potato
Gak make
it.
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1,4. teaspoon each, cloves, all-
spice, and salt
242 Le acuulesaPnei
brown
iol ikis.isni el taerd butter
Beat egg slightly. Add all
other ingredients and mix well.
Pour into a but,ered baking dish.
Bake at 325° F, for 45 minutes,
or until ,well broWned, stirring
• 4 4 occasionally, Serves 8,
Now'that we're "down south"
here's an ancient recipe for corn
bread - easy to make and, 1.
might add, with the proper ac-
companiments, very easy to eat,
And enjoy!
CORN BREAD
egg1
5% cern sus:ar
cup yellow corn meal (scant)
1 cup flour
2 teaspoon's baking powder
% teaspoon salt
1' can Milk
2 tablesnoons shortening,
Sift togethercorn meal, flour,,
salt, baking Powder, and sugar.
Acid egg and milk and stir quick-
ly until well mixed, Stir in
shortening. Pour batter ',lit will
be rather thin) lute greased pan
anclbake at 400° F.
Belleve'lt or not, but the eook•
ery experts for a big manufac-
turer of cooking oil have Nina
up with a recipe for a no-roll-
pastry which is made right in
the pie-plate. No mixing bowl -
no bread board ---no rolling pin
sounds incredible, doesn't it?
This pastry is said to be quick
and easy to mix; they do say
that it never gets tough, never
shrinks, never balloons and al-
ways stays crisp no matter how
moist the
,All you do, for a single meet,
is sift into a pie pan these dry
Ingtedients: I1/2 cups sifted flour,
11/2 teaspoons sugar, and 1 tea-
.epoon' salt, In .,treasuring, cup,
combine 1/2 cup oil, with 2 table-
spoons cold milk; whip With
fork and pour all at once over
flout mixture; Mix with fork ue-
'61 flour is completely dampened.
, Frees evenly and firmly with
fingers to line bottoni of pan;
then press doligh up to line sides
and partly cover rim, Be sure to
limes' dough in uniform thick-
nese, To flute, press dough lightly
with fingers, Do not use a high,
„fluted edge.
For baked shell, prick entire
stirface of pastry; bake at 425°
F. 12 minutes, or until lightly
browned. Cool before filling. For
unbaked shell .with filling such
as custard, pumpkin, or pecan,
bake at 400° F, for 15 minutes,
then reduce to 350° F, and bake
until crust is lightly browned
and filling tests done.
According - to the lady who
sent it to The Christian Science
Monitor this cake recipe is "al-
`most fool' proof and the cake is
'delicious 'even if 'it falls!' It's
easy to make, requires no frost-
ing; and ,keeps, well.
FRUIT COCKTAIL CAKE
l: cup flour
i'teaSpoon soda
I cun'sugar
1 cup `.fruit Cocktail (small
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1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
Dropping a glass usually means
the end of it and splinteredfrag-
rnents to pick up, But for a
crash helmet that is light to
wear yet cannot be dented, glass
is best! Glass with the aptrength
of steel and lightness of elan
xrilnium is on the way. Its full
p7amsteics,is glass fibre reinforced
Scientists tried using glass
"fibres, with plastics unsuccess-
fully at first. Then, during the
lcaosvtert dar hnaetwmpaldat tchse
were
ew Ind
is-
torial. Glass fibres in the form
pf a woven Mat or loosely woven
,felt are' treated with one, of the
new piastics in its pee-eet liquid
"form. ',The 'liquid, quickly runs
Over the fibres. Then heat brings
,about •the 'chemical. -change that
sets the plastic resin.
.4.. totally new material is pro-
duced. Weight for weight, it can
have tensile strength greater
than that of steel.
The new material is already
being used for. making• small
lsoats-even one lifeboat has
been Made from it. One car
model has been MAnciPally
loOdy-built from' it and recently
two motorcycle models
, exhibited carrying far mO*1),r0-
. .tective body-work . thaim:.pany
metal-made cycleL-laecatiee;: the
new material is so light afee.. ts
strength. " '
One large company will soon
start making piping and tubing
from it; it may well become to-
morrow's water and, gas pipes.
EVentuaily we may live in all-
glass houSes, for one everyday
use it is already meeting is
eugated roof panels to let light
through. Glass fibre reipforced
plastic can easily be, in,otilded
into this form.
But you Can"drop a lithe-pound
brick on it from fifteen feet up
and the brick won't go through;
and a man can stand on it.• Yet
it only weighs eight ounces per
square foot.
Succesies have already been
scored with fishing rods, golf
club shafts, ammunition boxes,
crash helmets, and-because it
doesn't dent-dodgem cars.
Every addition to true know-
ledge is an addition to human
power.
e--Ildrace Mann.
A. Stretch a worn brussels
carpet wrong , side up and apply
two coats of floor pairit, 24 hours
apart. After this, use' one or two
coats of waterprobf varnish. *
Q. How ".can :I give aJluffiness
to blankets? •• •
A. After washing .and .drying
woolen . blankets, swhip them
-with a cerpet" beater. It will
make the woof light and soft
agaiin," - •
Q. 'How can. I remove spots
from wall paper?
A. If dry bran is rubbed on the
spots it absorb a good deal
of the grease and dirt. Grease
spots can also be removed by us-
ing blotting paper, placing over
the spot and placing a warm
iron .over. the raper. Do, not, have
the iron too, hot.
SITTING PRETTY - There's no
wrinkle to this new wrinkle in
travel apparel. It's a skirt with
overlapping panel at the back
which wearer Can unbutton
while seated. Inner panel gets
the wrinkle treatment, leaving
flannel skirt wardrobe-fresh at
end' of journey.
Calling all batilters! Have you
, account in a queer sounding
name - such as Felten J. Sat-,
chelstern, Mahatma Jeeves, Pro-
lessor Curtis T, Bascomb, or
Mortimer Snavely e.„- that was
Opened, some years ago by an
American?
If you have, it is very likely
that your bank is holding some
of the missing money of the
comedian W, C. Fields who died
on Christmas Day eight years
ago.
The great comedian had often
starved as a tramp before his;
geniue lifted him to wealth and
the experience had left him with
a, horror of ever again being
penniless.
Wherever he went, on thine
that carried him around the
world, he would open a new
bank account by paying in most
Of his weekly pay cheque and
use some grotesque-sounding
name. Then he would go away
leaving the money in the bank
and apparently forget all about
it.
In time he came to have about
400 bank accounts in banks all
over the world.
When he died his executors
set out to try to trace these
counts. They, are still. searching
land after eight years they hive
succeeded in running down only
thirty of them.
Some hundreds of thousands
e dollars earned by 'this king
of comedy remain undiscovered:
they lie in idle acounts in Eu-
rope, America, SOuth. Africa 'and
Australita-to the credit of Pro-
fessor S .t i m us "Schmelling-
horne, Henry J. Spitzburger
and others.
Nevertheless, Field's recover-
able ,estate amounted to nearly
* million dollars. He willed that
et should be used to build a
:home for white orphans.
This man's fear of being short
of money, a heritage from the
days when he slept on park
benches, under newspapers,' also
led him to carry enormous sums
*bout on his person.
Once when, setting out for
California in -his,, , limousine, he
showed New York reporters
$350,000. he was carrying-in 1,-
000-dollar bills. •
His legacy to white orphans
was not without its ironic side.
Claude William Dunkenfield, as
he was until the stage discovered
his better-known name ter him,
was one of the few men to try
seriously to make -himself an
orphan. Up till the age Of eleven
he lived with his father, a• strug-
gling fruit pedlar, , in ,Philadel-
phia. Father Dunkenfield chas-
tised his sqn.
One story says that Fields
ruined some of his father's stock
'with clumsy practising of the
juggling art , of Which he was
' later to become-such a master.
Another story says that Pa
Dunkenfieid stepped on a shovel
and, goatkeds his shins, and, to
teach his son not, to leave such
things about, Pa hit Claude WU-
lam on the shoulder blade.
Whatever the cause there
was a misunderstanding , which
Claude Williams made worse by
ambushing his father and drop-
ping a heavy wooden box on his
head. Pa, was knocked out by it
and Claude' William seiked the
opportupity to leave home and
never return. ' •
Only when he was famous and
Woman's idea
Saves Many' Lives
Hpw, Can ?
.Up,, AND
PROTECT YOUR
.FLovvoi BEDS
AND' 'SHRUBS
with "'
If you're a housewife, take
pride in• the achievement of Mrs.
John Dorr, who has halved' the
number of accidenti"on I main
read in Connecticut.
Mrs. .Dorr runs • a small car
and whenever: she ,used it at
night she found herself specially
subject to' the hypnotic cittizle
of headlights on Ether cars.•She
found herself swerving towards
them, Wheh, eteered, away
she found hee, car went over the
curbless edge of 'the road:
While Washing one day she
thought over the problem and
had an idea. "Why don't the au-
thorities put .a white, line, ate the
„edge, of the road?” she asked
,her huthband. "
' HO Was so impressed 'by the
idea that he told the Connecticut
„highway department.' They, de-
cided to try it out on the main
• road where the Dorri' live,
They were delighted to' find
that accidents" were at once cut
by fifty per cent, thanks to Mrs,
Doer's idea. Now it has been de-
cided to make the newe edge-of-
the-road line luminoue.
Highway officials 'of' the 'other
forty-seven states are now con-
templating introducing the idea
on their Main roads, for 38,300
people die in accidents on U.S.'
roads every year.
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Q. How can I remove the lime
deposit from a teakettle?
A. This is caused by hard wa-
ter. If the kettle is 'aluminum or
iron empty it and heat it cau-
tiously and slowly. As the heat
expands the, metal the deposit
will crack and can then be re-
moved. If there is not much de-
posit it can seinetimee be re-
moved with vinegar if allowed
to stand in the kettle until, the
lime dissolves. Acid a little salt
to the vinegar, The deposit is
dissolving if little bubbles-ap-, pear,
Q. How can I make a good
solution for cleaning painted
walls?
A, Use 1 cup of kerosene, 1 cup
of vinegare 1 cup het, water. Ap-
ply ,with, a, cloth, then wipe
theecateghly with another soft
cloth.
Q. How can I avoid frosting
thatruns?
A. ,Add a half teaspOonful of
baking soda to the boiling frost-
ing and it will keep it fawn run-
niriM
Q. How can I get rid of centi.
pedes?
A. House centipedes feed on
roachee, flies, spidets, and other
peete 'so if one is Seen in the
hotiad allow it to go on its way
as it ia really helpfni.
Q. HOW .Can 1, sWeeteri"direaM
that has turned slightly sour?
A, It ean be sweetened and be
used ter coffee Withetit, curdling
or tasting 'sour, if a very small
itittentitY 'of baking Ode is add-
ed to At.
Q. can f 'keen white
ibliniSea from turning
A, Whitd blouses will keep,
white if a small amount of lierak
added to the warm seep elide'.
Renee in .water ccintainifig a lit=
tle bluing.
Q, How Can I:preVent having
lutri}is in the tablecloth?
There will be no lutrip in,
the tenter of the table-Cloth when
It Is piathel fable after laufi-
tiering, if ft feldect three flmea
lengthwise before it ler folded
iteraea,- 4, ti0* Can It .*glit
lute for titinteind
earning' $1,000, a week es the
"greatest juggler on earth" did
he attempt a reconciliation. He
eent home a letter and ten dol-
lars.
In later years he had a man-
sion Hollywood with the usu-
al lavish, swimming pool, But he
could never be persuaded to use
it. In fact, he shuddered violent-
ly every time he saw it,
The reason was that in his
teens he had got his first pro-
fessional engagement as a jug-
gler and drowner-or, rather,
"drownee"-on an amusement
pier in Atlantic City, New
Jersey, for 'ten dollars a week
and cakes,
The pier charged no admission
to see Fields and the other
artists, but made its profits from
the sale of sandwiches and beer,
When, business was good Fields
juggled. When it was bad he
"drowned": that is, ' he would
fall off the end of the pier and
pretend''he was drowning in
order to, draw a crowd,
The "rescue' would be carried
out by a fellow-artist, a sword-
swallowere Saved, Fields would
be carried into a bar and rolled
on a barrel while barkers urged
sandwiches and beer on the on-
lookers,
When he was hailed as the
greatest comedian in the world,
-W. C, Fields presented us with a
heavy, belligerent, pompous fi-
gure with a fruity alcoholic nose.
As, he would sometimes admit,
the nose was not made-up but
had been acquired with the help
of whiskey and gin bottles.
Once Fields and his booking
agent, Billy Grady, were lavish-
ly entertained with Irish whis-
key by a friend. They left their
host's Long Island"(New York)
home at four o'clock in the
morning in Fields's car. In the
back of the car were several
quarts of whiskey-a parting
gift. Their minds were hazy but
they had an idea it was snowing.
When their minds cleared, a
tropical sun was shining in the
hotel window and palm trees
were waving before their eyes.
Fields was relieved to learn that
Grady saw the palm trees, too.
They rang the bell and the wait-
er surprised them with the news
that, they were in Ocala, Florida.
Worried, Fields hurried to look
at his car; there wasn't a scratch
on it. The perfect timing that
had enabled Fields to juggle
anything-eggs, boards, cigars,
hats canes; frying-pans, dishes,
shoes, flat-irons, cigar boxes-did
-not desert him when he was
driving a car. Deep in his cups,
Fields could juggle five ivory
balls.
Once during his juggling act
his hat and his cigar dropped
together by accident. Without
any excitement, 'Fields caught
both and juggled them along
with the rest and in good time
restored hat and cigar to their
proper places. This got such a
good laugh that Fields from
then on made it part of his act.
Fields got on welltwith all the
other ,performers on the same
bill-with the exception of what
the profession calls "fly-catch-
ers." These are comedians who
get their laughs by grimaces
and pretending to catch flies and
othereinsects. Fields used stage
properties to get his' laughs, and
he got them by building up sus-
pense gradually.
One night Fields found the
audience was laughing at the
wrong places ,,during an act in
Which a billiard table and cue
!Were. the props..,Eventually, he
found a 'comedian called Ed
Wynn under the table, catching,
flies.
"I'll kill him if he does that
again!' Stormed
Wynn took the hint for some•
time. (Fields had punched an-
other "fly-catcher" for much the
same thing.) Then one night in
Boston, Fields found the laughs
coming at the wrong time again,
and he caught Wynn at his "fly-
catching'' wider the billiard
table; Enraged, Fields brought
the cue down oh Wynn's head.'
Wynn fell on his face with a
loud groan and the 'audience
howled with laughter at what
they thought was well-panned
corhedy business. From time to
time Wynn would let out a low
howl to the, huge delight Of the
audience. Fields later incorpo-
rated this episode into his act,
in his last years) Fields took .to ambushing his closest friends. But when . he
died on Christmae Day in lii4d
they took a full page Ira Metriori.1
am notice ire a Los Angeles pa-
per, It ran:
"To the mast prejudided, hon-
est 'aeleV beloved figure of Oar
so-called film colony. We loved
hies-- and Peculiarly he loVed
It would upset Fielde if he
could know of his Missing
thousands Of dollars, But he'
would have the lag laugh any-
WaY--at all the•trouble he's been
causing his lawyers.
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