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The Brussels Post, 1952-12-10, Page 6Hit A New High. In Hollywood Scandal Hollywood's short-lived cam- ipaign to convince the world that Movie stars are really as respec- table as church deacons has been Mothered to death in the worst series of scandals to blight the movie city in thirty year's. Not since the days of "Fatty" Arbuckle, grotesque comedian of the "silents" have decent people In the United States been so shocked. Arbuckle added notoriety to his fame when be was found at a wild drinking party where a young starlet died in a bathtub. The current crop of shooting, mysterious death and sex entan- glements promises to equal the sensationalism of those earlier chapters in Hollywood's lurid history. Scarcely has one set of scream- ing headlines been printed before they are followed by more start - :ling disclosures. "John Garfield Dies in Blonde's Room" was a recent unhappy story. It may soon be outdated by new revela- tions of the private lives of some of movieland's brightest names. Duped Millions Garfield's death followed a po- litical scandal which reduced him to playing seventy -five -dollar - a -week roles in minor play pro- ductions, the only work he could find. Jules Garfinkle, his real name, was a street -brawling pro- duct of New York's slums who was' an easy mark for scheming Communists when he found fame In tough -guy roles like "They Made Me a Criminal." For years he lent his name to all kinds of Conununist - led crusades that• duped millions of Americans. Last year he swore to the U.S. Government that he had never been a member of the party. He was already a sick man who had suffered a heart attack and been warned by doctors to take it easy. Then Came Poverty But the mud stuck, and he was blacklisted by the movie - makers. As comparative poverty closed in on him he brooded. He quarrelled with his wife Roberta, left her and their two children, and moved into a Broadway hotel, His dinner ' umpanion on the eve of,his death was a blonde ex -actress. Iris Whitney. He went home with her to her lav- ish apartment and she reported to the police that he complained of feeling ill. Police found him there dead the next morning when they broke down the front door after Iris Whitney had barricaded herself alone with his body for one hour and twenty minutes. "He was troubled and needed help," she said crypti- cally. "I don't want to talk about Death from a heart attack was the medicas examiner's ver- dict. Joan Bennett's agent and friend, Jennings Lang, escaped death but was wounded in the groin when her jealous husband producer Walter Wanger, open- ed fire with a pistol. This is a scandal that still echoes around the studios, and landed Wenger with a brief jail sentence. It echoes the louder because all three members of the tense tri- angle were formerly considered as being among Hollywood's most virtuous citizens. The trouble began a full twelve months before it flared on to the front pa,"es. Wanger, for- mer Academy Award president who had been down on his luck since his "Joan of Arc' Bopped, warned Jennings Lang then: "I'II shoot anyone who tries to break up my nome." A few days before last Christ- mas Wenger stood In a Los An* geles car park waiting for .roan Bennett to return from a drive with Lang, who often accom- panied her on business trips around the country, After her gleaming car pulled to a stop, Joan screamed, "Don't be silly, Walter! Don't!" Then one bul- let from Wanger's pistol Smash- ed into the car and another struck his suspected rival. Tried to Husk Outcry Joan Bennett the beautiful forty -one -year -aid screen grand- mother, tried in vain to hush the outery. Her ,car ride was a business conference and nothing more, she explained, adding: "I hope Walter will not be blamed too much," Though Lang refused to press charges, the Los Angeles district attorney stepped in, t o give Hollywood's other jealous hus- bands cause to reconsider before they reach for their guns. Franehot Tone resorted to fists, not firearms, to win a blonde he was pursuing — and landed in hospital with broken bones and a brain concussion. Now, after eight months of rough-and-turd- ble matrimony, he is free of Bar- bara Payton, the blonde in ques- tion, who is a star of such epics. as "The Bride of the Gorilla," Tone and Barbara Payton were often seen out together while he was fighting a court battle with his ex-wife, another blonde star named Jean Wallace, Then Bar- bara happened to glimpse Toni Neal, cowboy actor and one-time amateur boxer, clad in a pair of swimming trunks at a hotel pool. Her dates with Tone promptly ended, and she went around with Neal. "She asked me to marry her," Neal reported with gentle- manly gallantry. "It wasn't the other way round." Police Called In The happy pair decided to be married two days after Barbara's divorce from her current hus- band, an Iowa car salesman, went through. But Tone and Neal met on the wedding eve, at Barbara's home. A neighbour later told the police that Neal knocked. Tone down and then hit him thirty times, "like a punching bag," Tone was hurried otitis hospi- tal, where Barbara demonstrated her affection by climbing a fire escape and spending two hours in his room. When Tone won his divorce he told the judge simply that, although Barbara liked to cook, she would keep their guests waiting for hours before she ar- rived home and got into the kitchen. Another scandal has been re- vived by news that the ill-fated Lila Leeds, companion of Robert Mitchum in a drugs sensation in 1949, is undergoing treatment for addiction once more, Lila Leeds starred in "Devil's Weed" af- ter she served her jail sentence for a marihuana party that para- Ielled the movie story. Magnates Horrified But hers was not the prison term that shook the film capital. It was the spectacle of Robert Mitchum spending sixty days in the Los Angeles county jail that horrified the movie magnates. Police trapped Mitchum, Lila Leeds and two other small-time players at a marihuana, or "ree- fer," party in a secluded cabin in the Los Angeles hiIle, Mitch - um has since made his come- back, though he and his wife still swear they will get out of Holly- wood and forget his stardom as soon as they've saved enough money. This Lurid City However persuasively movie - makers argue to the contrary, on Lilliputian king's Horses—The tiny, 3O -inch high, 50 -pound horses, above, are believed to be the smallest full-grown equines in the world. They were recently brought to America from Sussex, England, by Willis D. Parker,.who will use them for show and breeding purposes.. Handler Doc" Elliott, left, will take care of the tiny animals. dot .tweet BreadWarms a Chilly morn '13Y D0110 1111' MADDOX ANY times during cold weather, a snack .of warm Sally Lunn sweet bread and hot coffee will be Very welcome. Of *course, ;tweet breads make goad breakfast treats, too, The following sweet bread recipe uses nonfat drY milk, Nonfat !dry milk is sifted With the flour and other ingredients, and water Is ;used as the liquid. Nonfat dry milk, which is milk with poly the fat and water removed, 'is also budget Saving. It will keep almost indefinitely on a cobl, dry "'shelf if the foil -lined package is closed carefully after each using. Sally LWu (Makes 10 two-inch squares) One and one-half, cups sifted flour, 3'a cup nonfat dry milk, 2 tea - Amens baking powder, IS teaspoon salt, r4 cup shortening, sly cup sugar, 1 egg, well beaten, SE cup water. Sift together flour, nonfat dry milk powder, baking. powder and salt. Cream shortening and augar until light and fluffy. Add egg and mix well, Blend in water. Stir in sifted dry ingredients and mix only enough to dampen the dry ingredients. Pour into a well -greased 8 -inch square pan, Sprinkle nonfat dry milk powder, brown sugar crumbs over the surface. Bake In a hot oven at 400 degrees P. about 30 minutes, or until surface springs back when pressed lightly with finger. Brown Sugar Crumbs One-half cup brown sugar, firmly packed, 2 tablespoons nonfat dry milk, 54 teaspoon cinnamon, 1 tablespoon butter, melted. Mix sugar, nonfat dry milk powder and &enamors together. Add butter and mix to make crumbs, resembling cornmeal, Sprinkle evenly over surface of Sally Lunn. Orange nut bread goes over big with all the family. This recipe comes from Edith Barber's new and very practical "Short -Cut Cook- book." Edith is one of the outstanding food people in the country. Orange Nut Bread Two cups sifted all-purpose flour, Si teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon baking powder, r4 teaspoon baking soda, % cup sugar, lis cup short - Piping hot sweet bread and ;steaming coffee make a Chill -chasing breakfast on cold mornings, . They 'are wonderful for hot snacks after the theater or an evening out, ening, 2 eggs, 1,4 cup orange juice with pulp, 1 cup water, SS cup chopped nuts. Mix and sift dour, salt, baking powder and soda. Cream sugar with softened shortening. Beat in eggs, one at a time. Stir in the liquid alternately with the flour mixture. Add nuts and pour in greased 9x 5 x3 loaf pan. Bake in moderate oven (350 degrees F„) 5D to 60 minutes. the evidence that continues to pile up Hollywood must be judg- ed a lurid city. A considerable number of its inhabitants, in- cluding one distinguished British actor, have from time to time been clapped behind bars for drunkenness or public brawling or their uninvited attentions to beautiful women. Such "routine” escapades scar- cely win a paragraph in the local newspapers these days, however, when snore scandalous events come fast and furious. Decent Americans, including the vast majority of Hollywood's stars, shake their heads in dismay. QUALIFIUATION Geoffrey Parsons, tells of a lad in Mt, Kisco who was suf- fused with family pride. "My father," he announced, "is the best damned tennis player in Westchester." Noting that he had not made the. desired im- pression he amended his state- ment to "My father is the best damned tennis player in - the whole world." His f a t h e r thought it time to tone him down a bit and said, "Tommy, better just say I'm the best tennis player in our house." "But that's not. true, Daddy, said the boy. "Mommy is." TA LE ALKS 2Jane Andrews. Now for that Christmas pud- ding—almost as important as the turkey or the cake, both of which were discussed in former columns. 0 0 • Here you have your choice of two excellent puddings. The first is of the rich type—and if you choose it. don't forget to plan your schedule to allow one and a half hour's steaming on the day it is to be served. And you'd better make certain ahead of time that your pudding bowl will fit into your steamer in such a way that the cover may be put closely in place. If the water gets low in the big saucepan, add more from a boil- ing kettle—not cold water—so as to have as little interruption as possible with the cooking process. ♦ A 0 CHRISTMAS PUDDING (YIELD — 8 LARGE OR 12 MEDIUM SERVINGS.) 254 cups seedless raisins, wash- ed and dried 14 cup seeded raisins, washed and dried if necessary 1 cup currants, washed and dried l4 cup slivered or chopped mixed candied peels and -cit- ron !x cup almonds, blanehed and cut coarsely 1 cup coarse soft bread crumbs 1 cup finely -chopped suet Si cup lightly packed brown sugar 143 cups once -sifted pastry Pour or 11% cups once sifted all-purpose Sour K. teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon e% teaspoon ground ginger r/ teaspoon ground cloves 1, teaspoon grated nutmeg % teaspoon ground allspice 'Vs teaspoon salt 2 eggs Mx cup grape juice 1 teaspoon grated lemon rind Prepare the seedless raisins, seeded raisins, currants, peels and almonds; add bread crumbs, suet and brown sugar and com- bine well. Measure and silt together three times, the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, nutmeg, allspice, and salt; add to fruit mixture and combine thor- oughly, heat the eggs until thick and light; stir in grape juice and lemon rind; add to fruit mixture and again combine thoroughly. Turn mixture into well -greased pudding bowl, packing it lightly; smooth the top (bowl should be no more than about three-quar- ters full). Cover mold with a piece of cookery parchment that has been wrung out of cold water or with greased heavy paper and tie down. Steam over rapidly boiling water, closely covered, 3 hours. Uncover pudding and let stand in the bowl until cold. Cover cold pudding with a dry tea- towel and store in a cold place. For serving, re -steam pudding about 134 hours. 0 e The other pudding, as I said, is of a much lighter variety, and the use of carrot, apple and po- tato in its making results in a product that Is especially moist, yet thoroughly "Christmas -ay" in, character. 0 0 0 The same care is necessary in steaming as for the first pudding I gave you — a steamer with a close -fitting lid, the adding of boiling water only from a boil- ing kettle, and some careful treatment when thepudding is re -steamed for serving. Be careful, too, about the complete cooling of your pudding before you cover it with a tea towel for storing until needed irk a cool. place. Yield -. 15 to 18 servings. CHRISTMAS PUDDING 3 cups seedless raisins, washed and dried 1 cup currants, washed and d:rled IS cup cut-up pitted. raw prunes 1 cup slivered or chopped mix- ed candied peels and citron N cup' almonds, blanched and halved 1?y; cups once -sifted pastry flour or 11 i cups once -sifted all- purpose flour 11S teaspoons baking powder si teaspoon baking soda 1?, teaspoons ground cinnamon Si teaspoon ground nutmeg 1.5 teaspoonground ginger la teaspoon ground allspice ?4 teaspoon ground cloves ?S teaspoon ground mace 31"2 teaspoons salt 1% cups finely chopped suet 1% cups coarse soft bread crumbs 1;i cups lightly packed brown su gar 1% cups shredded raw apple lye cups shredded raw carrot 34 cup shredded rhw potato 4 large eggs or 5 small eggs 'A cup fruit juice Prepare the seedless raisins, currants, prunes, peels and cit- ron, and almonds, Measure and Sift together three times, the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, allspice, cloves, mae.,g and salt; add t0 fruit mix- ture and combine thoroughly: Add the prepared suet, bread crumbs, brown sugar, apple, car- rot and potato; combine thor- oughly. Beat the eggs until thick and light; add to fruit mixture and combine thoroughly; stir in fruit juice. Turn mixture into two well - greased large pudding bowls, packing lightly; smooth the tops (bowls should be no more than about three-quarters full). Cover molds with a piece of cookery parchment that has been wrung out of cold water or with greased paper and tie down, Steam over rapidly boiling water, closely covered, about 31/2 hours. Uncover puddings and let stand in their bowls until cold. Cover cold puddings with a dry tea towel, tie down, and store in a cold place. For serving, re -steam puddings about 11,4 hours. When Harpo. Was A "Thief" In Hollywooa the story is told of the occasion on which film director Alfred Hitchcock invited a party of six distinguished guest s, including ,Sir Cedric Hardwicke, to dinner at his house. Uallcnown to his guests he had employed fifty film extras to dress up as waiters and footmen. As soon as .the party sat down the waiters swarmed about them, elbowing them, shouting at them, taking away' food before it was touched, and spilling wine over their shirt fronts. Outnumbered eight to one the guests did the only thing possible. With the waiters hurling abuse at them they departed. Another time Hitchcock's friend Gerald du Maurier was acting as Richard the Third, and declaimed loudly on the stage, "A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!" A few moments. later he strolled into his dress- ing -room . and found a large horse, thoughfully provided by Hitchcock. A simple enough joke, but one which nearly induced apoplexy among his employees, was played by Orson Welles on the opening night of a radio show some years ago. • The show was due to be broad- cast at eight o'clock, and at five minutes to eight the entire stu- dio was in a panic because Welles could not be found. With one minute to go Welles strolled in, smiled, and walked up to the microphone. Just as he ap- proached he seemed to trip, and the papers he was carrying scat- tered all over the floor. Made for the Door Everybody, including the pro- ducers, rushed round picking up the sheets. While they were madly scrambling, Welles pro- duced the real script from his pocket and went on the air as if nothing had happened. Harpo Marx was the central figure in a rather elaborate prac- tical joke perpetrated in Holly- wood's most exclusive jewellery store. Looking so furtive that every member of the store's detective contingent singled him out, Har- po went over to the counter where the rarest jewels were dis- played. Fondly he handled the gems, then glanced round him and started to.make for the door. By this time the detectives had drawn a tight cordon round him. Just as he reached the doore he sprawled and jewels scattered all over the floor. The detectives pounced, but in a moment they saw that the whole lot were glass imitations, purchased for a few dollars. His brother Groucho once went to the trouble of buying six false teeth to practise a little decep- tion on his fellow -passengers of New York's subway. After making grimaces of pain and - holding his head Groucho reach- ed into his mouth and produced one of the teeth, which. he had painted red and threw it on the Iloor. Under the fascinated eyes of the passengers he repeated the operation five times, getting oft at the next stop with the near- est approach he could manage to a toothless grin. Coelcels and Mussell Still Plentiful The Shellfish Iteseareh Station on the Welsh Boast has estimated that some estuaries in Britain have over a million cockles to the acre, a reserve of food which is almost untapped. In addition, there are between 40 and 50 varieties of shellfish that are, edible, the chief among these being ordinary mussels which havethe blessing of the experts becausethey are so nu- tritious, . In the Midlands and the North of 1ngland the demand for'mus- eels has been so' great lately that supplies have become scarce. The fibrous black material found in- side them whet they are cooked is not poisonous, as commonly supposed, thotfgh it should be re- moved ' It consists of the strong silk threads 'vitli which' the shellfish attaches it§elf so firm!$' to rocks arid breafkwaters,' Mussels ' should "ifbt be eaten when found near sewers or in other contaminated }eaters. All c?n'lnlercial Basel$; are . given baths of sterilized sea -water and inspected, They are placed in sealed bags and stamped by the Fisheries inspector before being t sent to market. The finest' mus- sels Come from open, wind-swept, rocky beaches. • NO. SALE A .crusty old Arkansas far- mer was approached one day by an eager young , salesman who was peddling a set of books on scientific agriculture. The old farmer was a difficult prospect, "What do I want them things for?" he scowled. "If you had these `books, sir," the salesman pointed out, "you could farm twice as good as you do now." "Hells bells, son," roared the old farmer, "I don't farm half as good as I ]mow how now." ENROLL in the SPRING CLASS at The Memorial Hospital St. Thomas, Ont, Receive a sound education in the Arts and ek111,, or Pursing under competent, well aual111ed Instructors In Nurulns at a IoW 001t. Write—Director of Nursing. How To Save Money and Get Fast Cough Relief Here's an old, tested, home mix- ture your mother knew ... still a most dependable remedy for dis- tressing coughs. Fast and effective, children like its pleasant taste. Make a syrup by stirring two cups of sugar into one cup of water until dissolved ... no cooking need- ed (or you can use maple syrup or honey instead). Now pour 244 ounces of PINEX CONCEN- TRATE into a 16 ounce bottle, and add the syrup you've made. 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