The Brussels Post, 1960-09-08, Page 2ssereefee Big. Rush To. Put
Oscar On. Films
• Toward the end of March this
I lunched -with Sir 3410
Richardson, We talked nlaini ry oe
some autobiographical articles
that be was writing at the time,
but near the finish of the luneh-
Olt Sir Ralph pulled out of his
brief case a bulky script and
said, "This is one of the best
parts I've ever seen. It's net
particularly long, but every
word is gold."
As I say, that was in March,
and at the close of May I saw
the film of which it formed an
important section. Sir Ralph had
ictuelly received the script the
very morning of our luncheon
and the film was made in two
months and exhibited in the
West End, It must have been one
of the fastest films ever made.
There was a reason for this.
'awe British. film companies,
;orking quite independently of
each other, decided to make e
film of Oscar 'Wilde.. In rivalry
they got to work as quickly as
possible, The Wilde in one film
was to be Robert Morley, in the
other Peter Finch; the Edward
Carson of the Morley picture was
Sir Ralph, and. of the Finch
film, James Mason.
The race between the two be-
time the talk of London, and
the film in which Sir Ralph ap-
peared won by about a fort-
night. It thus secured the first
West End showing, thereby giv-
ing it great commercial advan-
tage. But on the whole it was
the second picture that won the
greater praise, writes Harold.
Hobson in the Christian Science.
Monitor.
NevertheIcas, it is generally
agreed that the finest thing in
either picture is the perform-
ance of Sir Ralph. 'as Edward
Carson. Carson was the counsel
who defended the Marquis of
Queensbury in the libel suit
which Wilde 'foolishly brought
against him. Sir Ralph's per-
formance is an extraordinary ex-
ample of how to fight a masked
battle.
At the beginning, Wilde scores
point after point off Carson. All
the time, Carson's face wears a
half smite. He never loses his
temper, He gives Wilde every
opportunity to make speeches.,
to jest, to ridicule Carson. And
then, of course, in the full flood
of his exuberant eloquence,
which Carson has encouraged,
Wilde makes a mistake,. Carson
is upon him in a 'flash, and the
retribution for everything that
has gone before is terrible.
The film was shown in London
just before the time Soviet Pre-
mier Nikita. S. Khrushchev was
at his most loquacious. Scarcely
anyone in the audience failed to
notice in what a dangerous po-
sition a loquacious man puts
himself, if he has an opponent
who is clever enough to pounce
upon his first mistake.
Why these films should .has e
been made at this moment is not
very clear. The film industry,
feeling strongly the competition:
of television, is anxiously search-
mg for new paths to explore.
But there is nothing very' new
about Wilde. It is not even as
'though his reputation had alter-
ed much of recent years. His
fame in England is still below
his fame abroad, where he ranks
as one of the greatest writers
in all English. literature. And
his • plays are, and have beet,
for a long time, familiar upon
the British stage.
John Gielgud's production or
"The Importance of Being Earn-
est" is one of the peaks of the.
theatte. Nevertheless, the race
between the two Wilde pictures.
has been exhilarating and shows
that the English can hurry, ef
they really try.
ISSUE 34 — 1960
BOUND. FOR THE CONGO — Four Canadian doctors prepare to leave from Montreal where
they will serve in the Congo.
MRS. MINISTER — Mrs. Masi
Nokayema is the first woman
eabinet member in the history
of the Japanese parliament.
She is minister of health and
welfare. The 69-year-old des
cribed as 'motherly type" by
the Japanese press, says she'll
work for social welfare insur-
ance that will cover a person
from "cradle to grave."
Praiseltl Of Aunts
— God Love Them!
Again we put the roses, this
year, on the hoewood table, for
thus Aunt Eunice came to make
friends with Aunt Helen, We
are glad for aunts, but we
aren't much on the family tree
etuef, and I can't tell you ex-
actly where these wonderful
ladies fitted into the genealogies.
Certainly neither of them has
become a statistic, limited to a
line of the chart, and doomed
forever to wait for attention un-
til somebody gets down the re-
cords to see where he came
tom. Aunt Eunice and Aunt
Helen hang around.
Aunt Eunice was mine; Aunt
lielen was not. Aunt Eunice is
'the one who lived with the
/evilly, since she had nowhere
else to live, and made herself
useful in ten thousand ways. She
was the one who planted roses
by the front door, and a per-
ennial and everlasting routine
was started when somebody first
eaid, "Be careful of Aunt
ieunice's roses!" All down the
time that the family has been
here, somebody was always
careless and somebody was al-
ways mindful of Aunt Eunice's
roses. They still grow by the
front door.
I don't know what kind of
roses they are, They don't grow
too tall, and they are pretti-
est in tight buds. They burst
quickly and pass by quickly, fill-
ing the brief morning with rich
flavour and shedding before the
night. They are red. They are
the roses the early settlers had,
and they resist the blights and
bugs of modern roses wonder-
fully.
Everybody else who has roses
takes care of them and worries.
We never do anything to Aunt
Eunice's roses except pick them
— which we always do the first
day they burst, and a silver
bowl of them is erected in the
front room to adorn. Aunt
Eunice comes a-visiting, sort of,
and is back at the old stand.
Of course, I never knew Aunt
Eunice — she was contemporary
with the beginnings, and I've
always imagined her a prim
English spinster who came to
this detestable land of hardships
and savages only to look after
h e r brothers. 0 n e brother,
seems-if, appreciated it enough
so he gave her bed and board
while she repaid him a thou-
sandfold. Her roses, alone, have
added enough to our summers
so I hope she lived better than
eny queen.
Now, Aunt Helen is quite an-
other character. She belongs to
Will and Lillian Harding, who
are friends, and Aunt Helen, too,
went a-wandering in the pee-
neer days. She went to Yokoha-
ma after Japan was "opened,"
and was the office force there
for WeIls-Fargo. If you think.
Wells-Fargo was lust a stage-
coach ride on Monday nights,
you are forgetting Aunt Helen,
who tossed her curls in adieu
to the settled habits of Maine,
and went to the inscrutable East
to seek her fortune.
Maine people had been about ;
everywhere in the days of sail,
and Aunt Helen had the true ;
blood in her body. She also had
ir bit of the old Yankee sharp-
tress, too, for the Vessels that
ealied between Japan and home
brought many a souvenir of her
astuteness. It has been suggest-
ed that while she managed
*MO well for Wells-Largo, she
Otelri't let this duty interfere
'With free enterprise,
At Otte time she sent home st,
beatleed of hoewood tables,
rOtIsly and ettrirtirigly fashiened,
:they 'Maid iri slat pieces tour
ifggc s lower 'pelf; and a hand-
iley hand-tooled top. All
fee,S6 peels Were contrived. kb
HATS OFF — Jay Hebert (Hee-
bear), waves his cep after
griking a birdie putt on the
17th hole of the. PGA Champ-
lonshipt, He parsed the next
one to win..
Eileen Really
Belts Out Blues
For all their l training and,
talent, few opera or concert
stars have ever mastered the
subtle, if less demanding, art of
singing popular music, All too
often when a big-voiced tenor
or soprano tries a pop tune the
result sounds about as natural as
Lawrence Welk playing Brahres.
Last month, however, buxom
Eileen Farrell — acclaimed by
many as America's finest dra-
matic soprano — clearly showed
that a lush operatic voice can he
a booming asset in singing jazz
and pops.
In a crackling good new record
entitled "I've Got a Right to
Sing the Blues!" the amiable
Miss Farrell belts out a dozen
blues and pop tunes with such
an amazing feeling for the jazz
idiom that many cats will won-
der why she has bothered sing-
ing anything else all these years.
Brilliantly supported by an or-
chestra directed by Luther Hen-
derson, Miss Farrell (who makes
her Metropolitan Opera debut
this winter in Gluck's "Alcestis")
swings out with a solid, driving
beat that would make a Bird-
land booking agent bounce.
Miss Farrell's range is amaz-
ing. In "Ev'rytime," her voice
has the husky sexiness of Lena
Horne. But at other times, parti-
cularly in a sizzling version of
"Blues in the Night," she sings
with a soaring power reminis-
cent of Judy Garland. At all
times, however, there is a
luminescence in her singing that
is distinctly Eileen Farrell, When
the record was recently preview-
ed at a Columbia Records con-
vention in Miami Beach, the
assembled disk salesmen, accus-
tomed to the awkward pop
singing of most opera stars,
broke out in a spontaneous round
of cheers and applause.
Interviewed by phone at the
Maine hideaway where she is
vacationing with her husband (a
retired New York. City police-
man) and their two children,
Farrell confessed: "I've never
been as excited about anything
as I am about this. Playing my
own records makes me nervous,
but I've practically worn this
one out. I've always loved to
sing pop tunes at parties."
Is there anything that the
versatile Miss Farrell won't
tackle?
"Well, I positively will not
sing rock 'n' roll," she said
emphatically. "I leave that to my
7-year-old daughter, She's been
going around her all summer
long singing that 'Polka Dot
Bikini thing."
Three Wives Don't
Make Paradise !
In the British movie, "The Cap-
tain's Paradise," actor AlecGuin-
ness became one of the best-
known sailors to have a wife in
every port. His little woman in
Gibraltar greeted him with the
pipe and slippers; his mistress in
Ceuta, Spanish Morocco, broke
out champagne.
Last month, in Ilford, Essex, a
33-year-old businessman, Donald
Goodman, was found to be one
up on Guinness. He had three
women waiting upon him.
Collectively, Goodman's trio
supplied everything an imagin-
ative husband ever dreamed
about. His legal wife, Anita, 25,
a Swiss-born redhead, was the
cosy type and a demon with the
pots and pans. Then there was
Gwen, 28, a brunette who had
been Goodman's secretary. She
was an intellectual, a Well-read
and fascinating conversationalist.
And finally there was Dorothy, a
25-yeareOld blond bombshell, She
was beautiful, vivacious, fun-lov-
ing, and unpredictable.
For a while, Goodmann had
tried to keep the three in separ-
ate houses. But when he lost his
job this year, career girl. Gwen
suggested that he move all three
Into one home — "to cut down
overheads." The girls agreed, and
everything went. swimmingly un-
til home-loving Anita round she
was expecting.
But Gwen, too. was expecting
and, having left her husband for
Goodman, insisted that she was
his latest and his onetrue love.
Arid glamour-girl Dorothy argued
that not only had she known
Goodman longest, but it was her
place in which they were all
staying. Besides, she had borne.
Goodman one son and was also
caring for another son of his by
a previous marriage,
The British press leaped joy-
fully on these tangled affairs, and
Geteirtiell'e happy home, was
wrecked by publicity. What's
mere, he told newsmen, space
problems iiitaeo-bedrobre bailee
now totted him to sleep on
settee in the living room, "BLit
what worries roe most," rte
added, "is that the three wanien
are getting so friendly. They may
even decide that t, wilt be the
one'who, has to
Pointers on cooking are legion
and here are a few that Cook's
Corner readers may find helpful:
About rice — regular white
rice triples when it is cooked;
so 1. cup of raw rice gives you 3
cups of cooked rice. If you use
precooked rice, it approximately
doubles when cooked.
In order to make a rice ring
quickly, from cooked rice,
simply add 3 tablespoons butter
to 4 cups and pack into a 1-
quart ring mold. Set in pan of
water for 1 minute. Invert on a
heated platter to unmold,
Flavor, color, and variety may
be added to rice by cooking it in
liquids other than water: apple,
orange or tomato juice, bouil-
lon, or milk. Test for doneness
— it takes longer to book in
some liquids (tenderness test —
press a kernel between two
fingers; it should feel soft all
the way through).
* e
About prepared mustard in
appetizers — spread half slices
Of bacon with prepared mustard,
Wrap around fresh oysters; se-
cure with toothpicks. Bake in
hot oven; serve hot.
Spread sliced bologna with
prepared mustard. Spread with
seasoned cottage cheese. Roll
cornucopia style and fasten with
toothpicks; serve cold.
Add 2 teaspOons prepared
mustard to small jar of cheese
spread. Spread on slices of sa-
lami; stack 4 high; cut into
wedges. Top each wedge with a
small olive on a toothpick.
A Christian Science Monitor
reader, Clara K. McDivitt of
Petrolia, Ont., writes that when
she is asked if her berry jam
will keep because it is put in
the jars cold, she answers, "Yes,
if you put it in a locked cup-
board!" Here is her jam.
Clara's Jam
1 quart box strawberries
3 cups sugar
Wash. and hull 1 box at a
time (if you intend to make more
than one recipe). Cover with
boiling water and allow to stand
for 2 minutes. Drain well; add
lei cups sugar. Bring to a boil
and let it boil for 3 minutes, stir-
ring frequently. Add remaining
sugar; boil 3 minutes. Skim it if
necessary.
If you intend to make the
recipe several times, pour this
into a container big enough to
hold all the jam you are going to
make, Make up one box at a
time and pour all. in this same.
container'. Allow to stand over-
night.
Next day, stir well. Fruit will
be at top and juice below, but
stirring distributes the fruit
throughout. Put this cold jam
into sterilized. jars and cover
with wax,
*
Ti' any reader is in the mood
for barley breads or cakes, here
are recipes from Dr. E. Donald
Asselin, Falmouth, Mass., for
several types,
"I read about Mrs, Hatch's
query about recipes and looked
through my files which date beck
nearly 50 years — my Mother
started them. I hope these are
what she wants," he wrote,
Welsh Barley Cakes
1 cup barley ineat
i4 teastiobti salt
2 tablespoons butter
Skint Milk to make a stiff
dough,
Add butter to dry ingredients
and mix in milk to make a stiff
tough, Molt but on floured beard
%.-iricit Bake on a greased
griddle. Split and serve buttered,
"The following recipe *ha
given to me by a medical mis-
sionary," noted Dr. Asselin,
Biblical Barley Loaf
1 pint warm, water
114 quarts barley flour
1 yeast cake
2 tablespoons olive oil
le teaspoon salt
4 tablespoons honey
Make a dough and set in warm
place and allow to rise double.
Knead and allow to rise double
again. Knead and make loaves.
Bake in moderate oven (about
350' Fe.
Chinese Millet Bread
6 eggs
1 cup confectioners sugar
1 cup millet flour
1 teaspoon salt
Beat eggs for 2 minutes. Add
sugar and beat 10 minutes. Add
flour and salt and heat 2 min-
utes. Drop by tablespoonfuls on
greased griddle, end brown,
turning to brown 'ether side, If
you do not like it/sweet, sugar
may be omitted are.a little more
flour added,
Scotch Oat 'es Barley Bread
14 cut fat
1 teaspoon salt
)...e cup sugar, brown stipr or
molasses
3 cups finely ground oatmeal
1 cup boiling water
1 yeast cake
1/4 cup warm water
1 teaspoon sugar
1 cup cold water
4 cups barley flour
Combine fat, salt, sugar, oat-
meal and boiling water; cool.
Add yeast, warm water and 1
teaspoon sugar, combined. Blend
in cold. water and barley flour.
Knead and let rise. Knead again
and make into 2 loaves, Bake at
375' F.
"Here is a recipe for potato
pancakes which we enjoy. 'It is
both economical and easy to
prepare" writes Mrs. Carolyn
Heintzelman. "A touch of grated
onion perks these pancakes for
a tasty meal with your 'favorite
meat," she added.
Potato Pancakes
4 large potatoes
2 tablespoons milk
1 tablespoon bread crumbs
1 teaspoon salt
1 egg, separated
Grate potatoes and mix with
milk. Drain and mix with bread-
crumbs and egg yolk. Add salt,
•Beat egg white and fold into
mixture, Drop into hot grease in
shallow pan and fry on both
sides. *
Have you ever wanted to bake
a carrot cake? Mrs. Emily Kal-
barer sent a recipe for one and
writes, "This cake is very satis-
fying and will stay moist a long
time.
Delicious Carrot Cake
Y2 cup shortening
lee cups sugar
2 eggs, separated
cups grated carrots (about
4 medium carrots)
lie cups sifted flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
1.0 teaspoon salt
1e cup milk
1 teaspoon lemon extract
Cream shortening and add
sugar gradually; cream until
fluffy. Add egg yolks, one at a
time; beat well. Stir in grated
carrots. Sift together and stir
into creamed mixture alternate-
ly with milk, Add lemon extract.
Beat egg whites until stiff and
fold into cake mixture, Pour in-
to a greased and well-floured 8-
inch square pan. Bake 55 min-
utes at 350' F. Frost with a but-
ter cream icing and sprinkle
chopped nuts on top.
Coincidence — Or
Something Else?
At first her body was only a
speck in the sky, 5,000 feet above.
Biscarrosse field near Bordeaux,
She dropped a thousand feet . •
another thousand , still an-
other. At 1,300 feet, airfield at-
tendants could see that her body
was turned on its back — a sign
that she might be out of control.
Breathlessly they waited. Per-
haps, somehow, she could still re-
lease her parachute. But the
chute did not open. Claudette
Brigillon's body crashed on the
same field where, nine months
ago, her handsome parachutist-
fiance, Jean - Louis Lazurick,
died when his parachute also fail-
to open.
Investigators said officially
that Claudette's death had fol-
lowed a blackout in mid-air.
Others wondered,
At twenty-seven, Claudette
was an expert jumper, She had
doubled for, Brigitte Bardot in
the film "Babette Goes to War"
and she held the altitude record
for w o in e n parachutists in
France.'
When Lazurick was killed, it
was the only jump he ever made
in which she had not personally
inspected his chute. Claudette
brooded about it and always
carried with her, as a talisman,
her dead fiance's gloves,
Last week when her body was
picked up, Claudette's hands
were still clutched tightly about
a small leather bundle. Inside
were Lazurick's gloves,
they fitted Precisely, and the
table would go together solidly
without, any glue or fastenings.
The investment in Japan was
small, but the tables were to
fetch, a Line figure here, It is,
therefore, odd that most of them
are now in Will Harding's barn
attic,
They got mixed up somewhat.
Will found that you couldn't
just talce four legs and make a.
table. You had to find the same
four the original craftsman fit-
ted, Extending six to the Nth
power gives you the variables
of this close trade, and shows
that at times the Japanese im-
port business had its drawbacks
even then.
Will, who inherited this dubi-
ous treasure from Aunt Helen,
would go up in his barn every
once in a while and hunt around
to see if he could find one piece
of a table that would fit an-
other piece of a table. Occa-
sionally he would, whereat he
would feel like the ancient one
who jumped from his bath and
coursed Athens> shouting Eure-
ka! There has passed a consi-
derable number of years now,
since Will first told me that
someday he would find the fit-
ting parts and make me a pre-
sent of an Aunt Helen table.
Come to think of it, quite a
few years have also passed since
he did so. Whether or not he
shouted Eureka and offered up
a hecatomb he didn't say, but he
came driving into the dooryard
where Aunt Eunice's roses were
in full bloom, his Stanley Steam-
er heaving, and delivered said
prized, item.
We thus joined that favoured
group who belonged to Aunt
Helen. Her table is sufficiently
out-of-place in our Early Yan-
kee living room so people notice
it, admire it, and ask where in
the world we ever got it. There-
by, Aunt Helen is discussed and
remembered often, and we have
become so natural with her that
we seldom explain that she isn't
really our own personal aunt,
She's just as good as, perhaps.
So, what could be more pro-
per than placing Aunt Eunice's
silver bowl of front-step roses
tenderly atop the Aunt Helen
table?
This is known, of course, as
"having roots," which more and
more people now-aways are not
having. Right?—By John Gould
in the Christian Science Monitor.
Ignored Warning
All Seven Died !
As seen from Cortina d'Ampez-
ea, crowded with gay, fashion-
able vacationers, 10,686 -foot
Mount Antelao, or the "Good
Mountain," as climbers call it,
looks deceptively easy to con-
quer. Its snow-covered peak rises
gently into the blue Italian sky,
and its glacial approaches are
hidden from view,
Thus, one morning last month,
seven young Italians set out to
climb the Good Mountain to cele-
brate the saint's • day of the
youngest, Anna Galavotti, 18. All
seven were linked by a single
40-foot nylon cord, in flagrant
violation of a basic climbing rule:
Three persons are the maximum
on one rope. On the way up they
passed Gianni Bonafede, one of
Antelao's oldest guides. "Separ-
ate," he warned. "Don't all go
together like that,"
"We'll make it," shouted Anna.
On the second day, Anna and
her friends did make it, to the
topmost peak, where they basked
in the sunshine and the warm
glow of the conquest,
But on the way down, still tied
together, one of the seven lost
footing and fell over the edge.
For a brief moment, the other
six clawed frantically at the ice.
Then all tumbled to the rocks be-
low. When rescuers reached the
scene, they found seven broken
bodies, still bound together by
that single nylon rope.
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