The Brussels Post, 1959-10-08, Page 2Great Opera Star
Biows Top Again
'4xy best hours are in bed,
1)(1 they are my best work
..hours, too, There 1 study the
scores. With my dog cuddling
beside Me, and my husband fast
*sleep."
This cozy scene was once des-
gibed by the usually tenipestu,
OS, New York - born Maria
Callas, while discussing her ten-
GZeal' Marriage to 62-year-014
feelovenni Battieta Meneghini.
An opera patron and sponsor of
bung divas who finally found
Otte with a voice, Meneghini
trimmed Maria down to size
(from a slab-sized 202 pounds
to a nicely rounded 130) and
took over as her manager,. It
was no easy chore,
In the grand tradition of such
luridly temperamental sopranos
es Geraldine Farrar and. Mary
Garden, Maria whooped it up,
She brought glamour — and
sensationalism—back into grand
opera and while doing so walk-
ed out on performances ("bran,
thitis") and split spectacularly
With La Scala in Milan and the
Met in New York. But on other
stages, when she soared up to
high C or raged through her
favourite role as the Greek en-
chantress, "Medea," she brought
her audiences cheering into the
aisles.
Through it all, including court
battles, upstaging assorted ten-
ors and baritones, and a running
feud with her mother, Massager
Meneghini stood firm. In quiet
counterpoint to her fieriest out-
bursts, he bought the travel
tickets and 'handled the family
checkbook. "I would give my
life for this man," said 35-year-
old Maria. "He owns me as a
husband."
But apparently this wasn't
quite true, The other day la
Callas sent Menegliiiii packing
, "with a terse suggestion that he
,go live with his mother. At her
aide as she dismissed Meneghini
was "an old frierel," Aristotle
$ocrates Onassis, the fabulously
Wealthy Greek tanker tycoon,
who reportedly was ready to
'bankroll a spectacularly new
movie film for her,
The blowup came duiing an
August cruise on Onassis's yacht,
Christina. Aboard, besides Ones-
els, his beautiful blond 29-year-
Old wile Athina, and the Mete-
eihinis, were Sir Winston and
'lady Churchill. So was Greta
Garbo but somewhere along the
3 oute, she had picked up her
:sunglasses and gone ashore.
As the seas ran high, tem.
pers on board ran higher. The
husk y, 53-year -old Onassis
prowled topside. Below decks,
Maria grew "more tigerish" by
the hour, as Meneghini put St.
She flatly refused to sing for
Sir Winston who chomped down
on his cigar and huffed: " I un-
derstand."
By the time the yacht reached
Istanbul, both Onassis and Maria
were ready for a fling. They had
it together, hitting the night
spots and drinking champagne
until the wee hours.
This annoyed husband Mene-
ghini to the point that he call-
ed his lawyers — and they soon
were shouting it out with
Maria's lawyers in a Milan hotel
3 oom. Meanwhile, Onassis (in-
sisting that Maria is "like a
sister" to him) returned to the
Christina off St. Mark's Square
in Venice, and held a solemn
eonference with his wife. She
headed for Paris, installed the
A machine capable of produc-
ing a jet of energy three times
hotter than the surface of the
sun is being used by an aero-
space company in its research
program,
What Are Your
Secret Fears?
Have you ever been seared.
by flowers? Do you teethe.
lilies? Does the sight 13:pa smell.
of violets upset you?.
Silly qttestions? Not at all, All
over the world are men and
•
women Who have strange .pho,
bias — .queer fears they find:
uncontrollable and can't ex-
plain,. • And the phobias most
.comrnonly encountered are those
associated. with, flowerS,
Most of us love roses and
their sweet scents, but, incre-
dible though it may sound, some.
People are filled with dread of
them„
• One of the fleet Queen Blize-
beth's ladies-in-waiting, we're
told, shuddered every time she
saw a rose, Many famous people
have had similar aversion,
Francis Bacon, the great es-
sayist, never saw roses growing
without complaining that they
made him feel "indisposed."
Cardinal Olivierius Carassa had
such a horror of roses that
forbade anyone to introduce
them into his palace. °retry,
composer of fifty comic operas,.
detested ail. roses.
One, well-known bishop of
Bohemia is said to have been
poisoned by the mere smell of
a ease. Ancient chroniclers re-
cord that- the perfume of roses
was fatal to every member of
a famous Venetian. family name
ed. Barbarigi, They were oblig-
ed. to remain in their home
throughout the time roses were
in bloom.
Her strange feareof roses led
to the death of a French queen,
Maria de Medici. She became
suddenly ill ,after looking at a
.painted rose in a portrait: She
went to bed and never got up
,again.
-- You may laugh at the exag-
.
•
.HE CAN BLAME MR. K An-
toine Sinibaldi, 44, left, is in
custody as an mdirect*reeult of
Soviet Premier„Khrushehev's
sfay in San ...F.ranciscid
An employe security check, in-
cluding fingerprinting, turned
up Sinibaldi, waisted -11w Enies-
tioning in Paris, France, in con-
nection with a 1 3-year-old mur-
der and quorter-million-dollar
bank robbery. A kitchen helper
at the hotel, Sinibaldi denies
any connection with the crimes.
gerated, apparently unfounded
fears of others, but psycholo-
gists say that everybody has a
pet aversion. T h e imagination
and emotional sensitivity of
civilized men and women ex-
pose them to extraordinary
fears.
A submarine commander who
made jokes while his vessel was
being depth-charged by an
enemy destroyer is today terri-
fied of taking even a short
journey in an underground
trains
Supporters of the theory of
reincarnation believe that some.
people's trivial but uncontrol-
lable dislikes are vestiges of
some happenings in a former
life.
A Frenchman says he is al-
ways stricken with fear when
lie sees a pig. The Duke of
Epernon was terrified by the
sight of a hare, while a mouse
made the Itallen writer, Carac-
doh, ill for a week.
People can be allergic to al-
most anything and not neces-
sarily to things they don't like.
The case is quoted of a young
American soldier who could not
kiss because he Was allergic to
powder and lipstield
He could hardly ask his girl
friends to stop using these
beauty aids, so he went to a
doctor who had (Weed many
other allergy cases.
"My treatment is thaj you
must kiss in small doses,* said
the doctor, "a little kiss Ofie
w e e k, two bigger kisses the
week after Aid, so on,”
This advice proved medically
kound. The Man reached full
kissing eapaeity in abbUt six
vT;eelts,
ti ftlAit WITH tAktli
KHRUSFICflEV TASTES HOT DOG — Soviet -Premier Nikita
Khrushc66, tastes 'his firif American hot slag, complete with
mustard.' After' finishirifthe hcir dog, the Communist boss said
It was "wonderful," and cieiPped, "We have beaten you to
the moon`but yde have beaten us in sausage-making."
children,. Alexander, 1.1, and
Christina, P, is school, and eon,
ferred with her wealthy pare
eats,
13ackin Venice, Onascis wait-
ed until Maria showed up
this time without
Together, she and Onassis board.
ed the ?heist/Ise and Sailed Oft
down the Adriatic, Coast, into a
purple sunset, any a sailor,
amid t h o ae things happen to
sailors"- w a s .0nassis's parting
shot. A gondolier leaned
sweep and. commented:: "Well
you know how • it is, when
Greek nieets Greek,"
This Time Father
Didn't Know Best
His neighbours know Charles
Butts as a good provider. No
one doubts his love for his fa-
mily, particularly for his raven-
haired daughter, Charlene, But
he rules his own with an iron
hand; his will is as unyielding
as the austere horizon of his
Southeast Kansas I a r m. Thus,
when Butts decided against an
operation for Charlene, noth-
ing the doctors could say about
the tumor that was threatening
her eyesight could sway him.
But Charlene, 19, has a will of
her own, As a minor child, she
began a court fight to overthrow
her father's decision — and per-
haps save her life.
About a year ago, Charlene,
a Kansas City, Kans., clerical
worker, had started suffering
dizzy spells, headaches, and im-
paired vision. Then, about two
months ago she began to black
out. At the University of Kansas
Medical Center in Kansas City,
brain specialists told her she
was suffering from a tumor of
the pituitary . gland, Without
quick surgery, they said, Char-
lene would go blind and, in five
or six years, she would die.
The girl wrote to her parents.
They seemed to agree that sur-
gery was required, and brought
her home while the hospital
prepared for the operation.
"On the way home," Charlene
said last week, "Daddy said to
me, "You know, I think take
you down to Oklahoma to see
Doc Hunt. I think if he can
heal you, he will say so'."
So they took Charlene
through the rolling countryside
to the small white house where
"Doc" Hunt lives. There, H. C.
Hunt, who claims only to be
a masseur, gave her steam baths
and exposed her to a device
labelled "ultrasonic." Charlene
said: "He told me my sight
wasn't damaged 40 per cent. He
told my parents I had an excess
of water in my system, and it
was filling up my lungs and
head. I think my folks paid him
$81 for the eleven treatments."
"She had a kind of scum over
her eyes," Hunt himself told a
reporter. "I'd hesitate to r e -
commend an operation. What I
mean is that understand the
chances are one in nine of sur-
viving an operation."
Back in Kansas City, Char-
lene's headaches and dizziness
became snore frequent. Still,
her father refused to permit an
operation, Charlene went to an
attorney, Emil Anderson, who
started proceedings in the Wy-
andotte County District Court
to remove her from her father's
guardianship.
Late last week, before the
court acted, Charles Butts fin-
ally bowed to pressure from his
daughter's lawyer and doctors:
He agreed to the operation, and
it was set for this week. "Of
course, we're not sure about re-
storing all Charlene's sight,"
said Dr. Vernon E, Wilson of
the Medical C e rnt e r. "But at
least, the operation will prevent
it from getting worse."
OlittlING THE FUTURE Winkler, 5, peers into a Pocks
660 box lined with 6 mesks for Hallowe'en, in a spooky
fitakeVieW of fun 3p tome.
If —you want ,a variety of
cookies for school lunches and
your cooky jar with some left
over to freeze for another day,
here ,is a recipe that makes
seven kinds of cookies. They
number about 18 dozen, depend-
ing, of course, on the size of
those you make. Bake at 425° F.
SEVEN-FROM-ONE 1 COOKIES
2 cups shortening
3 cups sugar
4 eggs
.144.. cup milk
4 ,teaspoons vanilla
5 cups sifted flour
. I-teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
Mix shortening, sugar, and
eggs thoroughly. Stir in milk
and vanilla. Sift dry ingredients
together, and stir into first mix-
utre until well blended.
Divide dough: 32/z to use as
plain dough, 1/4 as spiced, as
chocolate, •
.Plain dough: Divide into 3 pore
tions: wrap and chill.
Scalloped Cookies: Roll and
cut. Decorate with small col-
ored candies. 'Bake about six
minutes.
Crescents: Work into' dough
1/2 cup moist coconut, Shape
small portions of dough into
crescents 1.114 inches wide in
center. Chill. Bake 8 minutes,
Trim with tinted 'uncooked
icing, if desired.
Nut Wafers: Sprinkle dough.
with chopped nuts or mace-
room crumbs. Roll; cut into
desired shapes. Bake 7 min-
utes.
Spiced Dough: Mix 3/4 teaspoon
ground cloves and 1 teaspoon
ground cinnamon into basic
dough,
Frosted Spice Cookies: Chill
half of spiced dough. Roll and
cut. Bake 7 minutes. Cool and
frost,
Cherry Drops: Soak 20
glazed cherries in warm water
5 minutes. Drain. Cut in quar-
ters: Work cherries and Ye cup
chopped nuts into remaining
spiced dough. Drop by tea-
spoonful onto cooky sheet.
Bake 10 minutes.
Chocolate Dough: Pour 1/4 cup
boiling water over 1/4 cup co-
coa, Stir to blend, Mix into
remaining 1/4 of basic dough.
Pecan Crisp: To 1/2 the
chocolate dough add 1/2 cup
chopped pecans and 1 cup
GOING STRONG Mrs, Annie
Mary. Rob ertson, above, known
Mose s"
lands of primitive art erithusl,
bete, celebrated her 90111: births'
clay' Vecerifty,
corn flakes. Drop by teaspoons
onto cooky 'sheet. Top each
with pecan half, Bake -hall 13-10
minutes.
Date WrapsUps: Use a
rounding teaspoon of chocolate
dough to completely cover a
pitted soft bate: • Bake' On
cooky sheet-10 minutes, ,-Cool; -
speinkle with confectioners'
segar.
HONEY RAISIN NUT BARS
2 eggs
3/t cup honey
lei cup sifted flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
IA teaspoon salt
-3/e cup ready-to-eat bran
1 cup seedless raisins
tax cup nutmeats, chopped
Beat eggs until thick and
lemon colored; beat in honey,
Sift together flour, baking pow-
der and salt; add bran, raisins,
and nut meats. Acid to honey
mixture; beat well. Spread bat-
ter 1/2 inch thick' its greased
shallow pan 10x10 inches. Bake
at 375° F. about 25 minutes.
Cut into bars while warm and
sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Makes 40 bars 2x11/4 inches.
* *
No matter how cookies are
made, that sugar-and-spice smell
that comes from the kitchen is
the same in every generation
and forms an attraction kitchen-
ward. that never fails. Molasses
cookie's, especially, give off a
wonderful aroma, writes Eleanor
Richey. Johnston in The Chris-
tian Science Monitor. If .you've
lost Your grandmother's. recipe
for these childhood delights, here
is one you may want to use,
Shape them like footballs if. you
want to make a real hit with the
young aspirants for the back-
yard team.
MOLASSES FOOTBALL
COOKIES
VS cup shortening •-
eel. cup mssulphured molasses
2 tablespoons sugar . ,..,,
2 cups sifted flour
M teaspoon salt ' -.
1 teaspoon soda
1 teaspoon Cinnamon
M teaspoon ginger
Ye teaspoon cloves
1 small egg
Melt shortening in sauce pan
large enough for mixing cookies.
Stir in molastes and sugar; cool
Sift together -flour; salt, ,socia
and spices. Stir a ainall,emounts
of dry sifted., elotteespile V ,e ble,
into molasses mixture, teat' in
egg. Add remaining flour, blend-
ing until striooth. Chill dough
about 2 hours, Shape into II/2-
inch balls; form into oval shapes.
Place on baking sheets, about.11/2
inches apart to allow cookies to
Spread during. bakieg. Bake at
350' F. 15-20 minutes.. de-„
sired, putt "lade" do "footballs"
with the folloWing frosting;
Frostifit - jar`
i cup confeabilistret ettgete--
ee teaspoon' creates 0,0144e-race .
s I egg white , ▪ teaspoon vanilla
Sift together the sugar and
cream of tartar; add' egg -gate
and vanilla, 13e6 t "Cvitir ratdiFy —
beater until frosting holds its
shape, Covet with damp cloth
until ready to use.
NO SITTING ON THE JOL1
Employed as an attendant in
a museum at Belgrade, Yugo-
slavia, Rudolph Z:ird iS:,,able to
walk arid lie down, hut cannot
bend sufficiently at the waist, to
sit,
AS a result of an injury to his
spine during World War I, Zorc
hat been unable to sit down for
Wet forty yearS.
Better Paddies.
And Butter Making __-
A lady from ,Georgia passed
this way the other day, and she
contributed to our stUll
She had been on a puffin, hunt
up around the Gaspe, but had.
incidentally garnered a few
antiques, for that is her business
and she buys and sells, The
only antiques we have around
here are some fine old pieces
I made myself, so our interview
was wholly en the intellectual
side; and she said she could
• sell every butter paddle she
could lay e. hand on,
Inasmuch as the gentle art
of spanking butter is not on the
increase; this becomes an inter-
e s t i n g commentary on the
mores of America, which has
some pips. The importance of
butter paddles in Georgia •aston-
ishes me,
This lady also said there is a
definite difference between a
northern butter paddle and a
southern butter paddle, and
with all due respects to the
Confederacy she had to admit
the northern butter paddle is
superior, and there is more call
for them in Georgia.
This seemed to me, to explain
many things, I remember "The
Tarheel Cow" by Bill Nye, in
which he said if the Carolinians
would work their cows less and
their butter more, they" would
confer a boon on the consumers
of. both. Now we learn that. the
rank -quality of southern butter
is the'. fault of the paddle and
its structural design, rather than
of the citizenry, and we may
have fought the war over the
wrong cause. A southern butter
paddle is straight from handle
to blade, requiring an open or
forthright approach, and - gives
the operator no leverage advan-
tages.
A, northern butter paddle,
which -- we always called a
spherker; had an offset to it, so
the wielder sneaked up, sort of,
and worked at a helpful angle.
This,. if nothing else ever did,
shows the superiority of the
North, and shows who woo the
War. Even Georgia, this late,
now recognizes that we were
right. I have not only spanked
Union butter, but .1 have' made.
Union spankers, and if the
South grows as an outlet for
northern butter paddles, I could
take down a maple and get to
work. Maple is the proper wood.
It grows wild in these parts.
'Tis true a .new butter .paddle,
made a-purpOse for the southern
trade, would not have the patina
and sheen • the antique shops
prefer. I doubt if it could be
simulated easily. New maple, no
matter how _artfully , sanded
down, becomes a butter paddle
only through the Making 'of but-
ter. Butter is not much of an
abrasive; and smoothing some
rock maple n by rubbing it on
butter takes a long time.
It also takes a • kit .of rubbing
to make butter, You spank and
pat, turn and push, sad w44.
and rinse, and gradually 'mock:
out all the buttermilk. Then you.
have to work it quite a bit more
just to be sure, after which you
work in the salt, A paddle thus,
after many years, gets its pores
filled, and feel friendly and
smooth as silk, It would be nnagi
a project to start from. the log
and make northern butter pad,
'dies in quantity for the .discri-
minating southern trade,
This lady said she could also
sell any number of butter bowls.
She seemingly MODS '"wooden
bowls" a n d •`"chopping bowls,"
which . we also used for making
butter;. Lately we hear people
eall them salad bowls, I neglect-
ed to ask if there is any market
down there for the butter board,
I • suppose . a modern people
knowing only fission and space
hydraulics' would find it hard to
understand the peculiar me-
chanics of a butter board,
It was a device .an four legs,
a kind of table, with a rack
and pinion, a crank, and a roller
that came and went, You slob-
bed your butter from the churn
into the thing, and as you
cranked the roller belabored
the butter wondrously. This dis-
entangled the buttermilk, which
ran off in channels and dripped
into a pail on the floor.
This p at e n t butter-working. •
• machine had • numerous disad-
vantages, Usually in the exer-
tion of cranking • you. Licked
over the pail. There was also a
stormy-weather reaction, 'some-
times you cranked in a deluge
of buttermilk. If anything stuck,
and it sometimes,. did, you could
crank the thing so it would
climb right up your back, Also,
they .invariabley "travelled," go-
ing back and forth across the
floor as you worked.
Our womenfolks dismissed the •
butter board as inefficient, tend-
ing to make the butter "strong,"
at least after a time. Certainly
it couldn't das as well as a pad-
dle, with muscle attached.
I didn't find out; why Geor-
gians want butter paddles, pare
ticulatly those from the uncul-
tured North. It would help if 1
knew what in the -world they do
with them .nowadays.--By John
Gmooehlidtdn The Christian Science
- It Happened In
In Jackson, Miss., after his
home-was invaded by a swarm
of bees and his family severely
stung by bees while on a picnic,
Alon Bee mused: "We'd change
our name if we thought it would
give us any rellete - 4
In ComptenS Calif., when.
burglars held up Liquor Store
Owner -Max Stanman, and in-
vited the half a dozen customers
in the store to help themselves,
customers ande.c r e.o,k s alike
marched' out "with,'arms full.
ISSUE 41 — 1.959
For the "Junior Miss"
Chanel-inspired suit with easy-tit jacket over scoop-
t d blouse, arrow-U-4in skirt. Note Trimtex,rayon fold-over braid:
that gives a catturier look when applied -to edges of jacket,
Printed F'etterri 4076 in JuiSioe Miss Sips 11, 13, 15,.:17. TO
order, send bitty Cents (50f) (Stemps-ceneot be accepted, use
postal note for safety) td ANNE ADAMS, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth
Si, New Toronto, Please print plainly NAME, ADDBISB.
611.1,t NUali'd It argil SIZE..