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The Seaforth News, 1957-11-28, Page 339tleottUe Stopped Fan -Dancer Show Can you imagine Danny ICaye as fan -holder for a strip -tease dancer? Maybe not. But for a time he toured with the famous Sally Rand, One night, before a packed house of me.. in Cincin- nati, ' she was bothered by a large bluebottle, and to ward off the buzzing ,attack momen- tarily removed her right arm from where it was meant to ,; stay. The audience approvedbut the police and judge didn't. The show was closed locally and Danny, then unknown, of course, was given the jobof holding her fans to ensure that she was properly covered when the show visited other towns. He was once errand -boy for dentist, Dr. Samuel Fine until Fine found him making a . needle -point design on a piece of wood with a dental drill, He also worked asa soda -fountain • jerker, then an automobile ap- praiser, walking past long rows of . cars, making recommendaz tions and appraisals until he'd lost the insurance company. 40,- 000 dollars. "I was not only fired," he .said. was . shadowed for months by two detectives hired by the company to establish my sabo- tage scheme. After a while the dicks, and I got quite chummy. In fact, when We all got tired of loafing around, those nice guys used to take me to the movies." Years later the company's president write to him: "1 saw your' act at the Riviera Club and enjoyed it very much. Back when you cost us that 40,000 dollars .1 ' thought you were either` a thief ora nitwit.` It never occurred to me that you were a comedian and just didn't possess a mathematical mind," For four summers, with a friend,„ Louis Eisen, he com- bined the jobs of waiter, singer, juvenile lead, character actor, villain, comic and all-round fool in the summer camps and resort hotels of New York's Catskill , Mountains. Often he had to amuse the guests by falling into the swim- ming -pool fully clothed, straw hat and all. "I'm helping the ho- tel manager to prevent the bored guests from moving out en rainy days," he told his fa- ther. "We play games, entertain, FOR SPACE TRAVEL -With the "moon madness" at its height, thanks to the launching of the Soviet earth satellite, designer Oleg Cassini reveals his con- cept of milady's traveling en- semble of the future. The elec- tric blue suit is complete with a silver, hip -reducing, dial con- trol belt. A matching oxygen helmet and handbag complete the outfit. and when the going is rough, Louis r and I chase each other through the halls with meat - choppers and make a final graceful lunge into the fish pond," Later he became a dancer as one of The. Three Terpsichore ahs, and on the opening night in :U'tioa had: to twirl- to the girlas the music quickened up; and .ro- mantically kiss her hand., But the twirl ended in a wob- ble and he"fell 'on the floor. The audience roared. "They love it don't get up," whispered Dave Harvey, the other man in the trio. Raising his face from the floor, Danny said. in a "whisper" that could be heard all over the hall: "I can't get up - I've split my pants!" And that night a pro- fessional comic was born, says Kurt Singer in a first-rate biog- raphy, "The Danny Kaye Saga". Travelling road -showman A. B. Marcus, who saw them in Detroit, engaged them to tour China and Japan. "Marcus," Danny explained, "was running a cleaning establishment in New England a few years before and got stuck witha lot of stage costumes because a theatrical unit travelling through town couldn't pay its bill. Marcus de- cided the only thing he could do to get his money back was to. go out and get the costumes fill- ed. And that's how he went into show business." Dann added that when he • took the stage at the Tokyo premiere the whole audience seemed to rush at him, shouting and gesturing. Actually it was demllnstrating with come la- bour agitators who objected to Americans getting jobs in Japan, but he couldn't understand a word, thought they were after his blood and left the stage in a hurry. r. "The management," ho said, "committed some minor in- fringement of the law, and our entire cast was ordered to serve thirty days in jail. I. was quite upset. But they put our pictures into jail instead and let the show go right on. Crazy? What do you think? During the great Osaka ty- phoon the theatre light blew out, but Danny, holding a -flashlight in each hand, kept the audience from panic by singing every song he knew and improvising a couple. At the end of the tour Marcus refused to renew his contract, saying: "He can't sing. He can't dance. His jokes are terrible!" Years later, when he'd become a star in "Let's Face It, well on his way to earning more than. 100,000 dollars a year, the calf - boys noticed that he always left the theatre during each second act, between his two performan- ces, arriving back only just in time to race on to the stage. The stage manager discovered that he stepped across the alley to a neighbouring theatre play- ing "Beat the Band," in which the hero bade farewell to a flock of chorus girls as he left by train. ' Danny had the unseen, unpaid role of standing in the wings and yelling "A11l1-aaaa-board!" at the proper cue. Then he sprinted back to his own play, all keyed up for his entrance. It helped to relieve the nervous tension of waiting to go on, he explained. At one of his London perfor- mances Danny spotted a tiny wisp of a child watching him wide-eyed from the first row, invited her on to the stage, asked what she wanted to be, and when she replied. "An actress,". got her to sing a nursery rhyme. "That was beautiful," he said. "Andnow will you give me a litre kiss?" She shook her head in a vehement No. "Why not?" he asked, a little hurt. "It isn't healthy," she replied -- and a storm of laughter filled the huge hall. Kurt Singer presents Danny and the technique of his humour In a masterful way that all Ms fans will appreciate. CROSSWORD OR PUZZLE ACROSS Renowned . Move to and fro 9. Chart 12. Plxpunge. 13. Literary frag- ments 14, Arabian gar- ment 15, Squander 16. 10trlmontal 18, Lukewarm 30. Meaning 21. Bazaar 23. Clear rain 26. Renulre ' 20.5nrite 27. Playa care- lessly 29. Pollute Bt. Teeter 25. Ruler 37. 107nllnnd com- mune 52. have interest 41 Sesame,: 42, Long narrow nnening 48. Regions 46. Award 47. Plunder 49. Useful 52. :Compass point 52 Great dietanre 54. Subterranean worker 55. Steen 56. English letter. 57. Wrn1h 120 WN 1. Not many 2. Constellation 3. Rind of'dng 4: Compound 'ether • 5. Profound 6, Stray 7. Babylonian deity 8. Openings 9. New England 23. 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The action, in Peralta's private r ng near Madrid, may have been what sent Ava into seclusion on her return to her London hotel, She reportedly was butted, upended and kicked in the neck and cheek, while try ng her hand as a matador. Ava may hale been practicing for the role of a bullfighter re- portedly offered to her in a Hollywood film. TIILFMM FRONT A water -trap, devised by F. L. Watters of Winnipeg, leader of stored product -insect research work for the Science Service, Division of the Canada Depart- ment of Agriculture, has proved; generally superior to grain samp- ling as a method of detecting the presence of insects in stored grain. Such a simple, sensitive warning system is•'of vital impor- tance to the success of a pest control program as stored grain insects are capable of increasing their numbers by tremendous proportions in a short period of time. Furthermore, once an in- festation is established it is more difficult and costly to eliminate. * * * This water -trap, tested recent ly in four 1,000 -bushel, granaries and one 25,000 -bushel annex, ' consisted " simply of six -ounce glass jars filled with water to within one inch of the top. These jars were spaced uniformly and pushed into the grain until the tops were level with the grain surface. After a week to ten clays the jarswere taken to the labo- ratory and examined for pests. Most species of insects common to stored in grain in Manitoba were found in the traps. How- ever, it appears that the useful- ness of this method of detecting stored grain insects depends on the depth of infestation. Fewer insects were taken in traps as grain depth increased. * * * Indications are that insects do not wander aimlessly throughout stored grain and fall into water traps by accident. There is strong evidence they are attracted to the water -trap areas ' by the higher moisture content. Jars with no water in them were used as a check and spaced through- out the grain in a similar manner to the water filled jars. At the end of the test period the empty jars contained fewer insects than the water traps. * * * Grain temperature is probably the most important single factor affecting the distribution of in- sect in stored grain. During spring, summer and autumn, the majority of these pests are found in the upper half of stored grain. In mid -winter, insects rarely ap- pear near the surface but seek warmer regions near the centre. Therefore water -traps are more effective in the warmer seasons of the year, Insect distribution is also effected by moisture con- tent. Invariably more insects are found in grain with 'a high moisture content than in dry grain. * * 4, When using water -traps in the winter, anti -freeze should be added ' to prevent freezing. Mr. Watters also advises the use of waxed cardboard containers in- stead of glass jars if there is any. danger of freezing . This will ob- viate the risk of a jar breaking and broken glass being mixed with the grain. In Canada only One process is used with any degree of success in storing eggs for long periods. It consists of immersing the eggs in a colourless, odourless, taste- less mineral .oil for several sec- onds, and after draining a few Minutes, immediately packing the eggs in new packing material and moving to a cold storage room. These storages must be capable of being maintained at a controlled temperature of 30 was left unvacummed. In two 5 - degrees F. and a relative humid- ity of 86 per cent. * * Complaints by consumers that oil processed eggs show a shini- ness on the shell and in some cases absorb a characteristic odour and flavour induced the Poultry Products Division, Can- ada Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, to experiment with a new type of packaging material (Cry -O -Vac bags) in which eggs could be packed at the egg grad- ing station and moved imme- diately to the cold storage hold- ing rooms. Eggs used in the experiment were obtained over a period of three days from a large commer- cial flock. They were divided at random into 12 different lots, one lot receiving the standard oil treatment and storage, the others packed in Cry -O -Vac bags in one dozen cartons, 5 -dozen lots, and 15 dozen lots. One-half the lots were immersed in oil before packing and one-half left unoiled. In each group, air was withdrawn from half the bags to create a vacuum, the other half * * * dozen lots, carbon dioxide, (CO2), was added after the air was withdrawn. * e * Uniform samples of each lot were withdrawn from storage at monthly intervals and submitted to a panel of nine tasters for scoring In comparison with two samples of fresh eggs produced under conditions comparable with the original flock. All eggs sub- mitted to the tasters were iden- tified onlybynumber. They were handled and cooked under care- fully controlled conditions. 41 * * Scores recorded by the taste panel indicated that eggs stored under the standard oil processing procedure gave on the average poorer scores for flavour and odour than those packaged in Cry -O -Vac bags in either one - dozen cartons or the larger lots. The 5 and 15 -dozen lots in Cry - O -Vac packages were superiorto those in one -dozen cartons, Addition of carbon dioxide gas resulted in lower scores by the taste panel for flavour and odour. eggs packed in vacuumized and were not improved by oiling and there was no difference between eggs packer in caummized and non-vacuumized Cry -O -Vac bags according to taste panel results. St11001 LESSON By Rev. R. Barclay warren B.A., B.D. Christian Giving. 1 Corinthians 16:1-14 Memory Selection: Let all your things be done with charity. 3 Corinthians 16:14. In Paul's day there was no united appeal for funds to be turned over to • various welfare agencies. Neither did the gov- ernment overnment provide social security and step in to help in times of disaster as is done today. " To provide charity was one of the functions of the church. Of course, the church still ministers to the needy in heathen lands and in instances of special need in our own land. But the general pictu re has greatly changed. Paul instructed that "Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him." Here is an indication that the Christians in Corinth met for worship on Sunday. Satur- day, the seventh day, was the Jewish Sabbath. But gradually the Christians came to make Sunday the day for their wor- ship. This was called the Lord's Day for it was on this day that Jesus Christ arose from the dead. Nearly three centuries later Emperor Constantine de- creed that Sunday should be of - officially recognized as the day of worship. He gave approval and legal status to what the previously persecuted Christians had already been practicing. Under Old Testament law the tithe was the Lord's. Indeed, the giving of the tithe was practiced by the patriarchs Abraham and Jacob before the giving of the law. It is hard to conceive of a Christian in this dispensation 02 grace being less conscious of his stewardship than were the pa- triarchs and those who lived un- der the Mosaic law. In our les- son- the measure of giving is suggested is based on one's pro- sperity. R. G. LeTourneau was $30,000 in debt when he decided to honour God with the tenth, Now nine -tenths of his hugs profits from his manufacturing plants go into the LeTourneat foundation for promoting reit, gion around the world. The tenth is a good place ti start. If professing Christian/ gave that amount there would" be plenty for expanding oua missionary endeavours around the world. As it stands, mora money was spent last year hi USA for dog food than for all religious purposes, We need a revival of New Testament Christianity. A national survey shows 70 per cent of the workers et France, land of the two-hour lunch period, eat their midday meals at home. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking JUST A BAG - Playing peeka- boo in her plastic "beauty mask", pretty Beverly Bridges prepares to zip closed the bag, which is designed to prevent smeared make-up and mussed coiffures when trying on clothes. The transparent sheath, re- sembling a bee_keeper's net, fits comfortably into a purse. DESIGN FOR SURVIVAL -Shown above is the result of five years' study of auto crashes by Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory and Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. Designed with the sole aim of eliminating the major causes of passenger injuries and fatalities in smashups, the car affords maximum safety to its occupants without sacrificing exterior styling;. Innovations include centrally seated driver, lever system to replace steering wheel and column, padding, seatbelts or yokes and roll-over bars above passengers. Note one "club - car" seat facing. rear. Outside, shock -absorbing material is sa ndwiched between the bumpers. Telephone booth type doors and reinforced frame prevent cava -ins of the sides in collisions.- The car is experimental only and not intended for production.