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The Brussels Post, 1957-08-28, Page 211. Laughing Boy On Television Do Ugly Girls Make Best Wives? By, Dick Irlether NE4 Staff Correspondent NEW YORK-- Critics of tele- Iasi= frocitiently charge that. Vie newest, of the entertainment media doesn't breed its own *tars.. But nobody en, deny that develops amazingly talented "secOnd bananas"—men like Ski Caesar's Carl Reiner and Jackie Gleason's Art Carney, 'And now you can acid a new WHILE OUR THROATS ARE PARCHING—Beer is king for a day in the Bavarian town of Riedenburg, Germany, as these foaming "beer mugs" march through the streets during the festival of the "Day of Beer." Held for the first time, the celebration drew thousands of visitors. It featured the symbolic marriage of "Miss Barley and Mr. Hops:" Britons Go In For Odd Societies. Are you interested In tUre? Do you like folk-dancing, or do you feel strongly about smoke pollution? If so, there is a society of fellow enthusiasts waiting to welcome you to their ranks For in Britain .to-day hundreds of such .organizations are flourishing.. Possibly you consider King Charles I was wrongly executed in 1040. If so, there are at lea it two societies who would like your support. One is the Royal Martyr Church Union, whose object is "to rescue the memory of Char- les, I from the tradition of damaging fiction which passes for history." Arfother is the So- ciety of King Charles the Mr- tyr, who also agree with the. aim of the' R1VI,C,U. Due to the cancer scare, many people have given up smoking, They would be welcomed by the National Society of Non- Smokers. This society, which publishes a quarterly magazine called ''Clean Air," safeguards the privileges of non-smokers, particularly in trains One of the aims of the society is the prohi- bition of smoking in restaurants and cinemas. Then there is' the Smell So- ciety who want to make every- one smell-conscious. The So- ciety's keen noses were once called in by the authorities of a seaside town to assist in lo- cating an unpleasant smell which. was driving visitors away, Are you fond of goats? If so, there is a British Goat Society which will tell you all you want to. know about these sensitive creatures, Another animal organization with a wider scope is the So- ,T iQJam Andtkews. ON SCREEN, Louis Nye's face, yoke change with each role, Have you met any really ugly men and women lately? Prob- ably. not. For, according to some anatomists, men and women are. less ugly than they were a cen- tury ago and, there's a much higher percentage of good-look- ing people. This improvement in looks is general, they point out, and is likely to continue, although no- body knows exactly why, One reason may be that on the whole we are better fed than were past generations, Ugliness has drawbacks, but also advantages. Some years ago a London man whore bobby was attending weddings set out to prove that ugliness is an aid to matrimony, After spending two years studying the faces of a hundred brides on their wedding days his records showed that only five per cent. were very pretty. Ten per cent, were pretty, fifteen per cent. "passably good look- ing," and seventy per cent, "downright ugly," Three Gloucestershire brothers were so convinced that plain girls made the best wives that they spent a fortnight's holiday in Wales looking for three eligi- ble but ugly sisters, They found them staying with their father at an inn and, without telling the girls of their quest, set about wooing them. The marriages proved highly successful and the brdthers said this proved their theory was correct. An ugly burglar of Cleveland told a judge that he took to burglary because his ugliness made society reject him. He was placed on probation and a plas- tic surgeon undertook to re- shape his face and make him more presentable, ' Proving One's Age Often Difficult always Reiner and even Carney U.S.A." and the sensational flap, 4Tlehooley." And then he began to do some TV work. About five years ago, he worked an ABC-TV' show called "Talk Of The Town." At that same time, Steve Allen was doing the old amateur song-writer show, "Songs For Sale." Allen and. Nye exchanged fan letters. Then they met on an ele- vator and Steve said, "You'll be hearing from me." As soon as Allen got his "Tonight" show, he kept his word, He and Nye have been working together Of and on, ever since. Nye comes from Hartford, Comm., where, as a kid, he says he had to play a part, "You know how kids are," he says. "Every kid has a certain role in life to play. There's the tough kid and the cry-baby kid and the best ball-player kid. I was kind of skinny and weak and I didn't have a part. So I began to do imitations of the neighbors and then I had a part—the funny kid." At 18, he was working on a, Hartfor radio station for $2.50 a broadcast. He's been working pretty steadily since then. All these years, he's been ob- serving people. He has a great gift omimicry. With a gesture, a facial expression, a tone of voice, he can capture a per- sonality type. His Gordon Hath- away is that sort of characteri- zation; it is nothing like Nye himself. Where Hathaway is hail-fel- low-well-met, Nye is quiet. Hathaway has a ridiculous ex- pression. Nye is serious, Hath- away thinks of himself as quite a wit, Nye seldom says anything funny. Hathaway is a dapper dresser, Nye is a sober dresser, They are opposites in every sense. Nye is married to Anita Leon- ard, the songwriter who com- posed "Sunday Kind of Love" and the current hit, "Graduation Rings." They have a 31/2 -year-old son. While Nye, leads a comfor- table life, he admits to the urge . ANCHOVY SUPREME 1V2 teaspoons anchovy paste 2 tablesPoons mayonnaise or salad dressing 1 dash each, garlic powder and seasoned salt 5'g teaspoon pepper 2 tablespoons each, chopped celery and chopped Chinese cabbage 1 hard-cooked egg chopped 1/2 medium avocado, crushed 1 tablespoon chopped pecans or cashew nuts Blend all ingredients together and serve on. toast. piety for the Preservation al nntna of the Commonwealth, t There are more than fo;'ty societies devoted to the eaus4 of temperance, but the P,V.P.a, or Pub Users' Protection Soy eicty, is definitely on the othef side of the fence, Members of this organization who have reason to suspect a landlord of giving short meas- ure are liable to whip out a spe- cially devised ruler which will calculate the bulk loss due to an. excessive quantity of froth on their beer) Many trades and professions have their own special societies, among them flour millers, dow- sers, magistrates, coroners, for- esters, cab drivers and 'oyster merchants There are societies. for the protection of wild life and flowers, for equal citizen- ship, for the preservation of place names, for the introduc- tion of the decimal system, for early closing, and the abolition of slavery. Before the formation of the London Fire Brigade, members of the Society for time Protection of Life against Fire manned .the fire appliances of the metropo , lis To-day their active partici- pation in the work of fire-fight- ing is no longer necessary, But the funds of this same organization are now devoted to the provision of .rewards for acts of bravery in fire-fighting and grants for the depend entsild of firemen and others killed while trying to save life in fires. Beekeepers, numismatists. (coin exp er ts), toxophilites (archers), ornithologists (bird experts), bankers and railway guards have their own profes- sional societies, The Society of London Moonrakers preserves a link with old-time lawlessness, but its members whose presi- dent is the Duke of Somerset, are strictly laW-abiding these days. This Society, all Wiltshiremen, takes its name from a gang of Wiltshire smugglers who were once surprised by excisemen as they were dredging a pond with rakes.. in the light of a full moon. When challenged, they said they were trying to get the "fine big cheese" they could see re- flectd in the water. After the officers had departed, chuckling at the stupdity of countrymen, the • "moonrakers" proceeded to fish out their keg of illicit brandy undisturbed' pieces). Use scissors dipped in water for cutting. Do not use black or spiced drops. Cream together the shorten- ing and sugar. Add egg, orange rind, vanilla, and salt, Sift to- gether the flour, soda and bak- ing powder. Add to first mix- ture. Add all remaining ingred- ients. Press into rolls 2 inches in diameter.; wrap in waxed paper; chill overnight in refrig- erator. Slice; place on greased cookie sheet, Bake at 340° F. 8 minutes, * * * Long summer days lag some- times, especially for teen-agers who are used to being in school. Suggest that they use their in- genuity to invent new drinks and desserts, The turn-around method may appeal to them— for instance instead of making a chocolate soda with vanilla ice cream, make a vanilla soda with chocolate ice cream. The same method may be used with strawberry or pineapple or peach sodas. Color may be added to marshmallow sauce— green, red, or yellow, and different flavors added, too. For instance, a sun- dae or parfait may be made with chocolate ice cream and this marshmallow sauce colored green and flavored with pepper- mint writes Eleanor Richey Johns ton in The Christian Science Monitor. GREEN PEPPER CHEESE DELIGHT 5 medium or 4 large green peppers, washed, seeded and Cut up 1 medium onion 2 tablespoons salad oil 2 tablespoons sugar 1 teaspoon salt Juice of 1 lemon 1 package (6-ounce) cream cheese 2 tablespoons Mayonnaise Grind peppers and onion in meat chopper. Add sugar, salt and lemon juice. Allow this mixture to stand in refrigera- tor 2 hours or longer. Drain in colander. Combine cheese and mayonnaise and add to first mixture. Stir until well mixed. * * * Fifteen minutes is all that is required to ibake these country- style buttermilk biscuits. Buttermilk Biscuits 5 cups flour 2 teaspoons soda 3 teaspoons baking powder 2 teaspoons salt 6 tablespoons lard 2 cups thick buttermilk Sift dry ingredients together and cut the lard into them until all is grainy, Beat in the butter- milk. Knead slightly in the bowl. Turn out onto floured board and roll to 3/2 -inch thickness. Cut with 3-inch cooky cutter: Place in greased tins and bake 15 min- utes in hot oven. * * Could you prove your age if you hadn't a birth certificate as a check? One man asked doctors to examine his teeth to Check his claim to being seventy; but they explained that the margin of error could be. as much •as. five years. A woman brought along a soup spoon she had beena given on her eighteenth birthday, and the officials granted her pension on checking its hallrhark. Family Bibles often yield valid evidence,' yet" the "authorities pinned a forgery charge on a man who produced aa Bible with entries. dating back,to 1880„The particular editiop had.-not ,been printed until 1920. One woman said she could remember Soldiers going off to the Boer' war when she was a girl of thirteen. "In that case," said an investi- gator, "you can't be much more than sixty-five." But the old lady was so sure that she was seventy that a more thorough check was made. It turned out that she was recalling- the Boer War but a campaign of 1885. An old man turned up with a roll of wallpaper twenty feet long, listing his family tree for 100 years. An elderly woman blushingly invited officials to visit her home and inspect her bed. Embroidered on the side of the mattress was the date and place of her marriage as a young bride of twenty-one. Old school books, old photo- graphs, military records have all helped the pension detectives. A man was able to prove his eligi- bility because he could remem- ber the names of the trading ships that had served the Arctic rim in his boyhood. One old soul had always cherished her child- hood doll and the pension provers were able to gauge her age by its costume. * OFF SCREEN, Nye is serious opposite of TV Hathaway. to have his own show, "pro- vided I find something that I would fit into." Meanwhile, he goes on with Steve Allen. The strange thing about this relationship is that there is no contract. He waits until -Allen calls him, otherwise he doesn't. go on (and doesn't get paid). The best second ba- nana currently working, in other words, is up for grabs. MILL KEEP ON TRYING—At Stateville Prison, Joliet, III., Nathan Leopold, who was denied executive" clemency by Gov. Wil- liam Stratton, tells newsmen that he will keep trying to win his freedom until "my dying breath." Leopold is serving 85 years for the slaying of 14-year-old Bobby Franks in 1942. You may like to top off your party with some colorful gum drop cookies. GUM DROP COOKIES 1/2 cup shortening 1/2 cup sugar 1/2 cup brown sugar 1 egg 1 teaspoon grated orange rind 1 teaspoon vanilla teaspoon salt 1 cup flour 3 teaspoon each, baking pow- der and soda 1 tablespoon water 1 cup rolled oats Y2 cup shredded coconut 34 cup gum drops (small The 18-hole golf course, con- structed on the high rolling slopes east of Prospect Point, offers a variety of hazards which will test and^ delight the average golfer visiting Saskat- chewan, one, Steve Allen's Louis Nye. Bis most frequent character — the Madison Avenue laughing boy, Gordon Hathaway — is a small gem. And. Nye does so many other characters on the Allen show, many of them lul- ls easily spotted. But Louis Nye's face and voice and even his car- riage change with each of his portrayals. He is, first and fore- taost, a highly talented actor, This comedy streak in him is 4 late-flowering facet of the Man. He was, for many years, a ;edict actor, He called himself '"an emotional juvenile," and generally played highly-charged soles. He was also a competent "double," a radio term meaning that he could and did play two parts on the same show. "All this time' he says, "I had a feeling, inside, that I was fun- ny. To myself, I thought that I was a funny guy. So what I'd do would be to play benefits. I'd do monologs, whatever came into any head, "One time, I did one of these monologs and a Broadway col- umnist was there. He wrote me up for a whole column, I was so scared somebody would offer me a job as a comedian that I ran home and hid." Nye, during this period, had no confidence in himself as a funny man. There was something Inside him, wanting to come out, but he would have died of fright on a nightclub floor. It's a strange situation, one he won't go into very deeply, but one that is happily over. "Now," he says, "I could do a nightclub. But there's no long- er the great need there once was. Before, I wanted to, but I couldn't, Absolutely could not face it." What changed him, more than anything else, was the Army, He began to do little things in the recreation hall at Camp Crowder, Mo. He did sad mono- logs and funny monologs and patriotic monologs. (At one time, he had a partner for some of these—Carl Reiner.) He came out and went into Broadway shows, like "Inside der heavy make-up, that chances are you don't recognize him half the time he's On. This, of course, is a tribute to his own acting skill. Reiner is Catching Crooks By Puth-Button A new use for TV, as a real life crime detector, became ap- parent after h recent bank hold- up in the Middle West, At this bank the management had a few days earlier installed a secretly positioned movie-camera. The girl at the counter merely had to step on a special button to start the camera working. So when a masked man, accompan- ied by his alluring blonde ac- complice, burst into the bank arid shouted "This is a stick-up," the clerk pressed the hidden but- ton and the camera photograph- ed their actions. Within a few hours of their getaway, the film negative recording their hold-up was being flashed on television screens to millions of viewers. The than in the mask, twenty- four year-old Steve Thomas, had an unmistakable prance - like walk. Through this TV screening he was soon arrested, as was his girl accomplice, Wande de Cerizi, eighteen. Now this "arresting eye" is being installed behind vast numbers of cash desks as ar counter to *stick-ups". NO STEP THERE — Nancy Jamieson looks as if she wants to take another step drawn as she acts cif hillcisf during o wild *ail on Lake CctlhOdit Chivalry took ti beating, too, as her bro- thers Torn and Jerry fake if easy inside the class D sailboat. yltt itself—solar or artificial—has been topped exposed film. 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SPECIALTY DARK BREAD 1 cake compressed yeast I/2 cup molasses 1,4 cup lukewarm water 1 cup milk scalded 3A cup water 2 tablespoons shortening 1 tablespoon salt , 4 cups sifted flour 2ai cup whole wheat flour 36 cup cracked wheat Vs cup rye flour 1 cup oatmeal Dissolve yeast in the 1/4 cup lukewarm water and about half the molasses. Pour hot milk over shortening and salt; add water and remaining molasses and cool to lukewarm. Combine with yeast mixture, Combine flours and oatmeal and add mixture to liquid mixture, 1 cup- at a time, beating until smooth after, each addition, When dough is stiff, turn out on lightly floured board, and knead until smooth and elastic (about 10 minutes), Shape into a ball, grease top lightly and place in greased bowl, Cover and let rise in warm place (80°85° F.) until double in bulk. Punch down. Let rise again. When half again its original sac, divide into two parts, Roll in balls. Cover and rest 15 min- utes. Mold into loaves, Let rise until double in bulk, Bake at 450° E. for 15 minutes. Reduce temperature to 375° E. arid bake 40 minutes longer. Turn out on rack and let cool away frern drafts, * * Here are two sandwich spreads which may be new to you, They're well worth trying.