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___By Virginia Vale -
yTOLLYWOOD does not
1 1 know yet what the Euro¬
pean war is going to do to its
fnajor industry. foreign market The very for
profitable is out now, of course
pictures ^ said that Metro might
t ’ s
have made two million dol¬
lars on “Gone With the Wind”
alone). So the picture-makers are
going to economize.
Then there are th<* foreign-born
stars to consider. Samuel Goldwyn
decided not to go ahead with “Raf¬
fles” because David Niven might be
called back to England.
Victor McLaglen, Ray Milland
and George Brent have all become
American citizens; McLaglen got
his final papers years ago.
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Herbert Wilcox and Anna Neagle
departed for England; Mr. Wilcox
announcing that, because of the war,
he would postpone making his pro¬
posed picture about Bonnie Prince
Charlie. Robert Montgomery had
to cancel making plans for working
in “Busman’s Holiday” in England
and started for home. Maureen
O’Sullivan also had to turn right
around and start back to America
again, instead of making the pic¬
ture for which she’d gone abroad.
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If Carole Lombard had to havt
appendicitis she certainly picked a
convenient time for it. Of course,
production on “Vigil in the Night”
was held up. But it gave Brian
Aherne time to marry Joan Fon¬
taine— incidentally, they had one of
CAROLE LOMBARD
Hollywood’s few church weddings
—and afforded Miss Lombard an
opportunity to study nurses and hos¬
pital procedure at first hand. Of
course, in “Vigil of the Night” she
plays an English nurse, but the
experience was a help anyway.
The government requested that
release dates on two pictures be
advanced. They are “Thunder
Afloat,” a tale based on the defense
of the American coast against sub¬
marines during the last war, with
Wallace Beery and Chester Morris,
and “Twenty Thousand Men,” an
aviation picture full of thrills which
it cost a small fortune to stage.
Phil Baker had miniature repro¬
ductions of his accordion made for
the charm bracelets of some of his
friends. A manufacturer is respon¬
sible for launching on a defenseless
public one of the most unattractive
dolls that it has ever been our fate
to see; it’s a “Baby Snooks” doll,
but we’d say that Fannie Brice had
material for a libel suit, if it’s sup¬
posed to look like her.
Benay Venuta, the radio singer,
still corresponds with Myrna Loy,
though it’s years since they met.
At that time they danced side by
side in the chorus at Grauman’s
Chinese theater, we’re told.
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Two dramatic serials will take
over the Thursday evening hour that
has belonged to Rudy Vallee for so
long. The first half hour will fea¬
ture “One Man’s Family,” that ace
among radio serials; the second
will be taken by “Those We Love.”
Madeleine Carroll, who returned
recently from Europe, has turned
over her 200-year-old chateau near
Paris to the Sisters of the Poor, for
the shelter of orphans evacuated
from the city.
Brenda Joyce comes into her own
in “The Rains Came,” and is likely
to become the movies’ next glamor
girl without the usual buildup given
by the publicity department. She’s
blonde and beautiful, and what’s
more > she can act.
ODDS AND ENDS—News comments-
Iors , named to be neutral when they dis-
cuss ^e war, walk a verbal tight rope
®~ i ery he tlme they face the microphone . . .
W omen ” promises to be one of the
hugest hits of the current movie season
• ■ • And “The Old Maid” is another . . .
Irene Dunne finally convinced everybody
that she wouldn’t play the heroine of the
re-made “Front Page,” and Jean Arthur
* te P s Into the role “ Arizona ” won’t
he made . . .
at present despite the large sum
spent on preparation Norma Shearer,
i . . .
'‘ r [ ll n % from Europe, said she thought
Charles Boyer had been mobilized; she
s fPt on an army cot, because the boa’
*•*’ returned on was so crowded.
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Household News
DON’T THESE LOOK AWFUL GOOD?
(Recipe* Below.)
My Favorite Recipes
Lucky, indeed, is the homemaker
who has among her treasured reci¬
pes Aunt Martha’s “receipt” for soft
molasses cookies, Mother’s rule for
old-fashioned apple pan dowdy, or
grandmother’s instructions for mak¬
ing home-baked beans. Those old,
favorite recipes are the mainstay
of many a tempting meal.
Each one of us has our own prized
collection of just such recipes—some
old, some new, but all of them tried
and approved by a critical family.
The recipes I’m giving you today
are some of my own favorites—fam¬
ily “heirlooms” and contributions
from friends and neighbors who are
excellent cooks.
When you’re a “seasoned” or ex¬
perienced cook you may take lib¬
erties with a recipe or with direc¬
tions, but if you’re a beginner, or
if you’re trying a new dish for the
first time, it’s better to stick to a
proven recipe and the accurate
measurements it calls for.
Accuracy in cooking means level
teaspoons and tablespoons and cups
in the amounts the recipe specifies;
it means sifting flour once before
measuring; combining ingredients
by the method given, and cooking or
baking according to time and tem¬
perature recommended.
Oven Fried Chicken.
(Serves 4)
1 2 to 3 pound chicken (cut for
frying)
1 cup flour
1 teaspoon salt
Yt teaspoon pepper
2 eggs
Y\ cup water
1 cup fine cracker crumbs
Fat for frying
1 onion (chopped fine)
1 cup cream
Dip pieces of chicken in flour to
which salt and pepper has been add¬
ed; then dip in
beaten egg to ( X,*
which water has
been added and
finally roll in
cracker crumbs.
Brown in hot fat
(1 inch in depth). \ / l ^%
Place in baking
pan, sprinkle with onion, and top
with cream. Cover and bake in a
moderate oven (350 degrees), until
tender, approximately \Vz hours.
Surprise Muffins.
(Makes 2 dozen small muffins)
1 egg (well beaten)
1 cup milk
2 tablespoons butter (melted)
2 cups cake flour
3 tablespoons sugar
3 teaspoons baking powder
Yz teaspoon salt
4 tablespoons cherry preserves
Beat egg and add milk and melted
butter. Mix and sift the flour, sug¬
ar, baking pow-
V <gq *1 der and salt.
jjL JVH Pour liquid ingre-
« c • ^ dients into the
\7 / dry ingredients.
n\vAi \mS#4bs>; p ° ur int ° well_
g^ ased muffi n
.JL r tins and place , L Yz
.
~~ teaspoon of pre¬
serves on top of each muffin. The
preserves should be partially cov¬
ered with muffin batter. Bake in a
hot oven (400 degrees) for approxi¬
mately 12 minutes.
Vanilla Ice Cream.
(Automatic Refrigerator Method)
% cup sweetened condensed milk
Yz cup water
V/z teaspoons vanilla
1 cup whipping cream
Blend sweetened condensed milk,
water, and vanilla thoroughly. Chill.
Whip cream to custard-like consist¬
ency and fold into chilled mixture.
Pour into freezing pan. Place in
freezing unit. After mixture is about
half frozen remove from refrigera¬
tor. Scrape mixture from sides and
bottom of pan. Beat until smooth
but not until melted. Smooth out
and replace in freezing unit until
frozen for serving. Serves 6.
A Chocolate Sauce for Ice Cream.
2 squares unsweetened chocolate
2 tablespoons butter
% cup boiling water
5 tablespoons white com syrup
2 cups sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
Ya teaspoon salt
Melt chocolate and butter and add
hot water gradually. Bring to a
DADE COUNTY" TIMES: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1939
boil, add corn syrup and sugar, and
cook over low flame for 5 minutes.
Cool slightly, add vanilla and salt.
Gingerbread Waffles.
(Serves 6)
1 cup molasses
% cup butter
1 teaspoon soda
Yz cup sour milk
1 egg (beaten)
2 cups cake flour
2 teaspoons ginger
Yz teaspoon salt
Heat molasses and butter to
ing point. Re¬
move from fire ■$ §§p
and beat in the
soda. Add sour
milk, beaten egg, /A\ vOf
and the flour
which has been
sifted with the ginger and salt.
well. Bake in hot waffle iron.
with whipped cream and a dash
nutmeg.
Honey Spice Cake.
% cup shortening
% cup granulated sugar
% cup strained honey
2 eggs
3 cups cake flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
Yz teaspoon soda
Yz teaspoon salt
l x /z teaspoons cinnamon
Yz teaspoon cloves
x /z teaspoon nutmeg
Yz cup nut meats (broken)
1 cup buttermilk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Cream shortening. Add sugar
beat thoroughly. Add honey.
arate eggs, beat yolks and add
mixture. Mix and sift all dry
gredients. Add Y\ cup of dry
gredients to nuts and add to
mixture. Add remaining dry
dients alternately with
and vanilla, beating between
addition. Beat egg whites until
Fold into mixture. Place in
greased loaf pan. Bake in
oven (350 degrees) for 45-50 minutes.
Clam Chowder.
Yz cup carrot (chopped)
2 tablespoons onions (chopped)
1 Yi cups potato (chopped)
% cup celery (chopped fine)
1 pint clams
2 cups water and clam liquor
Salt and pepper to taste
1 pint milk
3 tablespoons flour
3 tablespoons butter
IV 2 tablespoons parsley
Yz teaspoon paprika
Chop the vegetables in
pieces and place in large
Chop the clams and add
with the clam liquor, water,
and pepper. Cover and cook
% hour, or until vegetables are
der. Scald milk. Make a
paste of the flour and water.
half of this flour paste to the
mixture and half to the
milk. Cook each, stirring
ly, until the mixtures thicken.
bine and add butter, parsley, and
paprika. Serve very hot.
Whipped Cream Fluff.
(Serves 5)
1 cup rice (cooked)
% cup shredded pineapple
Yz cup canned red cherries
1 dozen marshmallows (cut in
pieces)
Y\ cup sugar
% cup whipping cream
Chill rice thoroughly. Then
fruit and marshmallows, and
kle lightly with sugar. Just
serving, fold in whipped cream.
Serve in sherbet glasses.
Send for ‘Better Baking.’
Feathery cakes, tender, delicious
pastry, and biscuits that melt in
your mouth—Eleanor Howe
you tested recipes for a'll of
in her cookbook, “Better Baking.”
To get your copy now, send 10
in coin to “Better Baking,” care
Eleanor Howe, 919 North Michigan
Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
Is Making Good Pie a Problem?
In this column next week Elea¬
nor Howe will give you her se¬
crets for making tender, flaky
pastry that literally melts in your
mouth. You’ll find recipes for
pies, too—double crust pies, fluffy
chiffon pies, and dainty tarts.
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Faith Essential
If Youngsters
Trust Parents
• MISTAKF.S WILL HAP-
pen and children often re¬
gret them as much as their
parents. Confidence comes
much easier if child is sure
he will receive fair treatment
for self-admitted mistakes.
By MARION BROWNFIELD
"DETTY, aged 11, was in the kitch-
en washing the dinner dishes
while her father and some relatives
were visiting in the breakfast room
adjoining. Betty often “did” the
dishes alone. She now proceeded
methodically to stack them as she
had been taught to do. Then she
prepared the soapy dishwater and
placed a second pan to rinse the
dishes in. All the time, however,
one ear was straying toward the
pleasant conversation nearby. Moth¬
er was across the hall putting the
last stitches on a dress Betty was
to wear on the morrow, and the lit¬
tle girl was dawdling in order to
enjoy the chat Daddy was having
with the “company.”
Suddenly, Betty breathed a pro¬
longed, “Oh—!”
Daddy’s head appeared in the
kitchen doorway. “Break some¬
thing?” he inquired.
“The hot water did!” explained
Betty replacing a tea kettle of hot
water on the stove.
The guests in the breakfast room
smiled at the explanation. But Bet¬
ty bravely held up a cracked tum¬
bler.
“Too bad,” said Daddy sympa¬
thetically.
“I’d better go and tell Mother.”
Betty marched gravely out of the
kitchen.
“I’d give anything if my boy,
George, would own up when some¬
thing like that happens,” remarked
Cousin Harriet. “I scold him and
scold him, but it doesn’t seem to
make any impression.”
“H’m,” said her husband, “it
makes him afraid to confess.”
Betty, back in the kitchen, ap¬
proached the breakfast room door,
holding the cracked tumbler. She
smiled at her father. “Mother says
I must be sure to have the rinsing
water cool enough to put my finger
in. But she says not to worry about
this particular glass, because it was
a cheap one.” Betty resumed her
dishwashing humming softly to her¬
self.
“Well, it’s a sort of habit, I think,”
her father said in an undertone to
his relatives, “this ‘fessing up,’ but
Betty’s mother never makes it hard
for a child to tell her anything. She
says confidence is the one thing she
wants from the children. And we
find that they themselves are as
regretful over a mistake or an acci¬
dent as we are. We simply talk it
over and sometimes, not too often,
use it as a basis for a future re¬
minder to avoid repetition.
Honesty Is Natural for Ted.
“When we gave Ted his new bi¬
cycle I told him to be careful where
he parked it—not to leave it long in
unfamiliar surroundings. He was
pretty careful the first month. Then
he forgot one day and left his wheel
in a vacant lot down near the rail¬
road tracks, while he pitched an
impromptu ball game.”
“And it was stolen?” inquired
Cousin Harriet.
“No; when he went for it, appar¬
ently it was all right. Then he dis¬
covered about half a dozen of the
parts were gone!”
“Well,” said Cousin Harriet’s hus¬
band, “I expect he didn’t relish tell¬
ing you!”
“No,” said Ted’s father with a
laugh, “he didn’t. He commenced,
though, by saying, ‘You were right,
Dad, about my bike.’ ”
“It’s expensive,” complained
Cousin Harriet, “the things these
youngsters do; I would whip George
if he disobeyed me like that!”
Ted’s father shook his head.
“That’s out of date, Harriet. I said
to Ted, ‘What happened, Son?’ He
then told me just what had happened
and what was missing. Well, I told
him it was his job to earn back those
missing parts.
“ ‘I’ve been thinking it over, Dad,’
he said, ‘so I asked Mrs. Clark,
down the street, if I could mow her
lawn, and she said she would like to
have her car cleaned. It’ll be every
two weeks, Dad!’ ”
“To have to work for something,
like that, will make S man of him!”
approved Cousin Harriet’s husband.
“We must go.” Cousin Harriet
arose.
Betty hurried from the kitchen and
soon returned. “Mother wants you
to see my new dress!” she said.
Cousin Harriet looked around the
kitchen. It was unmistakably in or¬
der. “Your wife must take a lot of
time and trouble training the chil¬
dren.” She sighed.
Betty’s father hesitated. How
much dared he say? “Well, an
‘ounce of prevention—’ ” he ven¬
tured. “But after all, children are
people—they are seldom intentional
miscreants—that is if you treat them
as if you expected them to be re¬
sponsible.—If you—well—take it for
granted, you know.”
National Kindergarten Association
(WNU Service.)
Television Stage
The exact position the actor is to
take must be chalked out on the
floor, in television programs.
OPQ sew
Ruth Wyeth Spears
New life for an old rocker
T'HERE were rocking chairs
-*• hanging from the ceiling of a
certain second-hand furniture
store. “Nobody wants them any
more,” mourned the dealer. “I’d
sell any one you see for 50 cents.”
The little bride with me promptly
chose one. Perhaps she would
paint it for the porch, but I should
have known better.
What she actually did is shown
here in the sketch. The result was
the small but comfortable, mod¬
ern looking chair at the upper left.
The bride raided mother’s attic
for two things that w r ent into the
making of this chair. One was an
old quilt that she used to pad the
back. The other was feathers
ANOTHER .ASK ME O A Offering Quiz With Information Answers
r on Various Subjects
The Questions
1. What is the country of the
Lamas? Of the llamas?
2. With what controversial ques¬
tion did the Missouri compromise
deal?
3. What famous street in New
York begins at a cemetery and
ends at a river?
4. What is meant by “absolute
zero”?
5. With what state did Ohio
come near war over a boundary
question?
6. The Mississippi separates
many states, but flows through
only two. Which are they?
1 7. In how many states can mat¬
ter exist?
8. What is the origin of the term
boulevard for a broad avenue?
9. Does the crypt of St. Peter’s
in Rome contain only the bodies of
>nen?
The Answers
1. Tibet. Peru.
2. Slavery.
3. Wall street.
4. That point of temperature
.vhen a body has no heat.
5. Michigan.
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Camels are long-burning. Recent
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the largest-selling brands confirm
the superior burning quality of
America’s favorite cigarette. Here
is a summary of the scientific test
findings:
4 CAMELS were found to contain
* MORE TOBACCO BY
WEIGHT than the average for the
15 other of the largest-selling
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COSTLIER TOBACCOS
from an old bolster which were
used to stuff a seat cushion tightly
so that it would raise the seat
which had been lowered by re¬
moving the rockers. Cotton basted
to muslin could have been used
for the back padding and a cottoto
substitute for the cushion filling.
The new sewing book by Mrs.
Spears contains 32 other useful
homemaking ideas, with all di¬
rections clearly illustrated. You
will be delighted with it. The
price is only 10 cents postpaid.
Enclose coin, with name and ad¬
dress, to Mrs. Spears, 210 S. Des-
plaines St., Chicago, 111., and book
will come to you by return mail.
6. Minnesota and Louisiana.
7. Three: solid, liquid, and gas¬
eous.
8. From the boulevards or bul¬
warks, the old walls of the city of
Paris, which, when demolished,
were replaced with streets.
9. Although the crypt of St.
ter’s in Rome is supposed to
reserved for the tombs of
popes and princes of the
Catholic church, it contains
women—Countess Matilda of
cany, who died in 1115, and Queen
Christina of Sweden, who died in
1689.
Peaceful War
Ever hear of a peaceful war?
There’s one in West Virginia now.
For “War” is the name of a com¬
munity of 1,500 people in the state.
Until quite recently War also had
the distinction of being the larg¬
est town in the country without
telephone service. But that dis¬
tinction exists no more. Now you
can “go to War” by telephone
from any of the other 70,000 com¬
munities in the United States
which have phones.