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The Seaforth News, 1959-11-05, Page 2Famous Singer Had Audience Of One Before Diana Napier and Rt - 'chard Tauber married in 1916, she played an opera -singer in his flint "I•leart's Desire," At the premiere her, mother sat behind them, prepared to enjoy it. But when Diana an - peered, with bosom heaving, mouth producing the glorious notes perfectly in tune (which had been dubbed on) her mo- ther almost collapsed with laughter and had to leave her seat and escape into the foyer. When she'd recovered, she re- turned red in the face, wiping here eyes, still giggling uncon- trollably. Dian a, keeping a straight 'face, ignored her. But the climax came when Diana produced, without apparent el; fort, the final top notes. This was too much for her mother, She heard a stifled scream be- hind her, Her mother made for the ladies' cloakroom and miss. ed the rest of the film: ` Afterwards the three. met in the foyer. •Still laughing weak- ly, her mother said: "Oh, Ri- chard, you might have warned me! She can't even' sing 'God Save the King' in tune! Never heard anything sa funny in my .life!" Mrs. Tauber revives other amusing memories in "My Heart and 1" which is mainly an account of their romantic life together. As a young actress she land- ed the part of the maid in the touring company of "The Man with a Load of Mischief" when it was running successfully in London. Long afterwards she learned that her photograph was hanging at the Haymarket Theatre, and it made her very proud — until someone told her It was decorating the wall al the ladies' cloakroom! When Richard gave a series of concerts in Holland they ar-. rived at Haarlem — to discover that his manages had mixed up the dates and the concert hall was empty. "Never mind," he said. "You sit in the stalls and I will sing for you only." He walked un to the platform, as if he were facing an audience of thousands, end sang Eric Coates' "Bird Songs at Eventide," specially for her. Diana's mother, anxious about their future, once told him: "Richard, please try to save some money. Take out an in- surance policy. The world is upside down a n d you must think of your old age." "Mother dear," he laughed, "my music will never be old. When my strength ,goes, and my voice starts to wobble, I will sing pianissimo with a micro- phone tied to my frail body," But he died leaving a mountain of debts, and his widow had to set to work courageously to meet her obligations. He loved jokes. During the filming of "Pagliacci" Albert Coates, who was conducting the music, noticed on a table a little packet apparently containing lozenges f o r Richard's throat. Opening it out of curiosity, he feend, to his astonishment, an • assortment of nails and serews. "It's no use," Richard said, pre- tending to be angry, "1• can hide it no longer. You, Mr, Coates, have learned the seeret of my voice." Tou round off a tour of Egypt. with Lehar's operettas, a Ma. harajah gave a large party in Cairo in Richard's honour. Di- ana iana was presented with a love- ly diamond brooph and "drank far too much." Knowing Richard's views on drink, she awoke very much worried the next morning in their hotel suite, "Darling, I'm so sorry," she said. "Did I be- have badly last night?" "No, you did not," he replied "You sat in a chair andslept through all the speeches.. When. they were over you stood up very carefully, without saying good-bye and, said: "Richard,. shall we go back to Elstree?' I. put you in the, ear and we came home . You carefully put your artificial flower in water before you went to bed," A story she enjoys telling concerns a 1 conductor famous for engaging orchestras in .dif- ferent parts of the world, who paid large sums just to conduct. When someone at the festivals asked the first violin what was being conducted he replied: "We have not the faintest idea, but 'we're going to' play Beethoven's Fifth Symphony." Mystery Of Those Tailless Cats Flow :did the Isle of Man come to possess a tailless cat— the world --famous [Manx cats which, says a recent report, are tend- ing to disappear and may one day become extinct? Nobody knows. it's a mystery, say naturalists. There are some amazing theories as to the origin of these cats which, when per- fect, sell for as much as $150., One scientist accounts for their lack of tails by suggesting they are a cross between a rabbit and a cat. Others disagree, a few suggesting that Manx cats are "probably the result of a, pre- historic accident" Ask a Manx child why these cats are tailless and you will Sear the old legend that a Manx cat was the last animal to enter the Ark and that its unpuncual- ity cost it its tail which was trapped when Noah slammed the door. The Manx is known to be one of the oldest cat breeds in the world. They usually have a. tuft of hair instead of a tail and some Students of natural history believe they came to Britain originally from J a p a n. The Manx has been found as a type entirely distinct from the ordin- ary tailed cat in Japan, China, Siam, Malaya and . parts of Rus- sia. A romantic theory is that • Manx cats were introduced into the Isle of Man from Spain in the days of the Spanish Ara- mada when two galleons were wrecked off Spanish Point near Port Erin. WHERE ARE THEY NOW? — Ever wonder what happens to Miss America contestants after the winner is selected and the hubbub dies away for another year? Well here are two from fhe 1959 contest about to make their singing debut with Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians. Mick' Wayland center, Miss Ten- nessee arid Suzanne Johannsen, Miss Illinois, get instructions from Maestro Waring. They'll take port in a 125 -city, 43 -state const rt tour over the winter. STAND BY AT FIRE .SCENE. — Firemen at right stand by with hoses as fire sweeps through 1,000 feet of waterfront at Jersey. City, N.J, fallowing a series of chemical explosions. The blaze apparently started at the Wheeling Transportation Co. and threatened several other plants along ,the Jersey Citypiers that are a part of the Port of New York. 67'ABL E T Cupcakes are always good for a lunch -box "treat" as well' as . for home eating,• and the follow- ing recipes will come in useful, I hope. 4 % i BROWN -AND -BLACK CUPCAKE?; 11/4 cups sifted cake 'flour 366: cup cocoa 314 teaspoon salt 3^ teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon double-acting baking powder 1/ cup shortening 1 cup sugar 1 egg, unbeaten Milk (1/3 cup with butter; I/ cup 'with veg. shortening) 1 teaspoon vanilla Y2 cup black coffee Measure sifted flour, add cocoa, salt, s o d a, and baking powder and sift together 3 times. - Cream shortening, add sugar gradually, and cream together until light and fluffy. Add egg and beat well. Then, add flour alternately with milk in small amounts, beating after each ad- dition until smooth. Add vanilla and coffee; blend. Spoon batter into paper, baking cups, set in' muffin pans, filling only 2/s full, Or spoon into muffin pans greased on bottoms only. Bake at 375 degrees F. about 20 min- utes. Makes 15-18 cupcakes. * * * MILK .CHOCOLATE FROSTING 1 cup (6 dunces) chocolate chips 14 cupundiluted evaporated milk 1_ pound (about 414 cups) sifted confectioners' sugar 14 cup softened butter Melt chocolate in milk in me- dium-size saucepan over low heat, .(this takes about 3 min- utes). Remove from heat. Add sugar, 1 cup at a time ,mixing well. Stir in butter and blend well. Makes ,21/2 cups or enough for tops and sides of two 8 or 9 -inch layers or 15 cupcakes. o * if you're looking for the sIm• plest type ' of cupcake, try one of the several mixes that are now on the market, or try the variations with your • own fa- vourite recipe. Follow package directions and then try one of these variations. Marble Cupcakes To half the plain batter, blend in 2 tablespoons cocoa. Then, combine this with the remain- ing plain batter (do not beat). Run a knife througb the two batters until a marble effect appears: Spoon carefully into greased muffin cakes. Orange Juice Cupcakes ' Substitute I/2 cup orange juice for lnilk in the basic recipe. Add 1 tablespoon grated rind to batter. Cherry Cupcakes Substitute 1/s -cup cherry juice for half the milk in basic cup- cake recipe. Stir hi Ili cup chop- ped maraschino cherries before baking. Frost these mincemeat cup, cakes with a lemon - flavoured cream frosting for best results, * MINCEMEAT CUPCAKES 1/a cup shortening A cup sugar 1 egg 2 cups sifted flour 1 tablespoon double-acting baking powder 113 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup milk • 1 cup' mincemeat 'Cream shortening and sugar. •.B e.a t in egg until, light and fluffy. Sift together flour, bak- ing powder .and salt. Add alter- nately with '.milk, adding flour first. and last, Blend mincemeat into the batter. Rub muffin tins with shortening or line with fluted muffin pan liners. Spoon batter into pans, filling one- half full. Bake at 375 degrees F. about 25 minutes. Cool. and frost. Makes 20 medium cakes (2s/4 inches in diameter). Foolish Killer Caught By Comb Here is the true story of a man who committed an utterly senseless murder at the seaside. The killer himself said that he strangled his victim, whom he hardly knew, to prove his love for another woman. The murderer's' ex-wife, giving evidence on his behalf, told the court that her former husband was given to bouts of violence— "but he was always worse when the moon was new," The crime occurred at Yar- mouth in 1950, It was the third murder in this famous East Coast seaside resort in the first half of the twentieth century. In 1900, Herbert John Bennett was hang- ed for the murder. of his wife on Yarmouth sands. In November, 1945, Stanley Joseph Clark was hanged for the murder. of Flor- ence May Bentley, a chamber- maid in a Yarmouth boarding house. Exactly five years later, in November, 1950, Norman Gold- thorpe, a forty -year-old cook at a Yarmouth holiday camp, was hanged for the murder of sixty- six -year-old Mrs. Emma Howe. In the older parts of Yarmouth, some of the streets have strange names. It was at a house in Owles Court Row that the partly cloth- ed body of Emma Howe was found. She had leen strangled. The police soon picked up Norman Goldthorpe and charged him with murder. He made a statement, freely admitting his guilt, and told the police "I done her in; I left my comb behind," The police had, in fact, found in Emma Howe's room a comb with the name "Norman Gold- thorpe" embossed :on it in gold letters. Goldthorpe was lodging in Stone Road, Yarmouth. When Goldthorpe appeared at Yarmouth magistrates' court to face the murder charge, he plead- ed "not guilty" and reserved his defence. It was stated in evidence that Emfna Hdwe was last seen alive at 11 p.m. on August 11th, stand - Ing at the corner of her street. Earlier that evening a man iden- tified as Goldthorpe, had knock- ed at the door of a cottage in 'the row where Emma Howe lived, and had asked for her by name. He had been directed to her home. The licensee df the Great Eastern public house in Howard Street, Yarmouth, said he first saw Goldthorpe on August 9tb, when he, came in fora drink and inquired about Emma Howe. The publican told him it would be better if he had nothing to do with her. On August 12th Gold- thorpe came to the public house again and was arrested by the police. Goldthorpe came up for trial at Norwich Assizes in .October, 1950, before Mr. Justice Helberry. The prosecution amplified the alleged statement of the accused,_ After saying, "I was with that woman Emma last' night and I done her in," Goldthorpe had added, "I went there to prove my love for another woman. 1 will' take the cats baelt;" Later Goldthorpe had made: another statement,, in which he. said, "I was full of jealousy last night because the woman I was staying with had gone away for a short time. I was in love with this woman and rather than take her life I took this other wo- man's, "When I was with her, some- thing ,came over me and I 'just strangled her. I did it because I Wanted to keep faith with the ether woman,"' The wife of a lay preacher was called as a witness.She said that Goldthorpe had told her he loved her. When she said she was going back to Yorkshire Gold- thorpe was annoyed. The defence eallect a woman who was living in Rugby Road, Brighton. She told the court she had been married to Norman Goldthorpe and had lived with him for ten years. He divorced her in 1947, Por the first two years of the marriage Goldthorpe was nor- mal, but afterwards he acted very strangely at times, "On, one occasion he attacked me with a poker," the woman told the court. " We had not quarrelled. I was sitting by the fire tying up my shoe laces." • He had hit her on previous occasions and "seemed to be worse when there was a new moon." On one occasion be tried to cut his throat with a razor blade. Hit wife had managed to take it away. In cross-examination the wit- ness would not agree that her former husband was a man of violent temper, easily excited, The defence put in a plea of insanity. Goldthorpe had served in the Royal Norfolk Regiment and a reoprt, dated November, 1943, by the medical officer of the 95th General Hospital, Al- giers, described him as: "a psy- chopathic personality, with anti- social trends." A second report from the same hospital stated that "his impulsiveness to self - injury or the •injury of others will not be readily eradicated except by prolonged psycho- therapy." At the end of 1943 Goldthorpe was sent back to Britain and eventually discharged from the Army in December, 1945. The defence called Dr. Louis Rose, a consultant psychiatrist of Wimpole Street, London, who said Norman Goldthorpe was suffering from a disease of the mind. At 5.20 p.m. the jury retired. At 6.10 p.m. the Judge called the jury back and said to them: "I understand you have been asking for cups of tea, In the old days a jury was left without food, re or drink until they agreed on their verdict. I have no intention of applying the full rigour of the law, but there are no facilities in this building for making tea!" Once - again the jury retired, tea -less, to consider their virdict. A few minutes later they were back with a verdict of "Guilty." When asked if he had anything to say before being sentenced, Norman Goldthorpe answered, "Only that I thank my counsel and. respect the prosecution. , They had a rotten time." Goldthorpe's appeal was dis- missed and he was hanged in Norwich jail. ISSUE 44, 1959 Delicate and Colorful; Pimentos for Fall BY DOROTHY MA1)DOX Heep a few cans of pimentos on your pantry shelves. Then you w01'always be able to ntalce special dishes by adding thorn to other recipes, As a garnish, of course, they give extra color with a delicate flavor. Chicken Chew Mein (Yield; 6 servings) One tablespoon butter or oil, 1 clove garlic, 2 (5 -ounce) cans b'o n ed chicken, sliced, 1 (7 - ounce) can or jar whole pimen- tos, cut in strips, 1 (5 -ounce) can w::ter chestnuts, sliced, 1 cup (canned) drained bean. sprouts, 2 tablespoons soy sauce, 2 table- sedans cornstarch, 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper, 3 cups hot cooked rice, 1 (11/2 -ounce) can chow mcin.nooclles. In largo 'heavy skillet, heat butter, add wile and chicken elices and brotivn for 2 minutes; remove garlic. Acid pimentos, water chestnuts, bean sprouts anti soy sauce; heat over low name. Blend cornstarch with a few tablespoons cold water; stir into chicken mixlura enol cook until thickened, stirring constantly, Season With pepper. Serve on bed of rice with chow mein noodles. Latin -Style Meat )Balls (Yield: 6 servings) Two (11A -ounce) 'cans meat balls in spaghetti sauce, 1 (4 ounce) can or jar whole phnon- tos, sliced or cutin strips, 443 cup canned grapes, whole or cut in half optional), 1 (3 -ounce) can sliced mushrooms, 1 tablespoon, prepared horseradish, 1 teaspoon brown bottled gravy sauce, 1 (1 pound) can small white pato Autumn menus feature pimentos; at top, in chow mein; bettor*, in Latin -style meat 'halls. loos, 1 tablespoon butter or oil; cup „rateditalla0-style cheese, de. irrd, lhr heavy :.um: l fl h •at over low limo., inc•.1 ball; with sauce, aim:c,tos with liquid, grapes, mushrooms with liquid. 131end well, Add horseradish and gravy' sauce, and bring to boil once. Meanwhlle, heat potatoes in hot butter, Serve meat dish' on bed of potatoes,. with grated cheese In separate dish, if die, aired.