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. McCOKMICK McGQRMJGK.,g. CU THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1940 ;•• •• vw-jn^ By VIRGINIA VALE , (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) D ON WILSON, the plump and genial radio announcer,' has turned actor with a venge ance. He led up to it gently by using liis voice, but not his poundage (he tips the scales at 800) , in “Buck Benny Rides Again.” You’ll see him in person in “The Round-Up,” in the role of “Slim,” made famous by the late Macklyn Arbuckle. And who knows, he may like acting so well that he’ll never want to return to announcing. The chief difficulty so far has been finding a horse that would hold him, but he’s promised to iake care of that by producing one that he rides frequently— seems that, though hefty, he’s an expert horsefnan. Right off the griddle is the report that Professor Quiz is all set to sign a deal with one of the major movie companies for a series of shorts centering around the Professor’s ra dio specialty of questions and an swers. Perhaps he’s been inspired to do it by the success of those “Information Please” shorts. } ‘ —*— Gone are the days when a hero had to be perfect every minute that he was on the screen. In Para mount’s “Road to Singapore” Bing Crosby is a shift less sort of guy, aided and abetted m in a career of idle- || ness by Dorothy || Lamaur and Bob Hope. Three other matinee idols have forgotten the max ims of their copy books, so far as new pictures are concerned. Robert Crosb y ? Montgomery gets himself hanged in “The Earl of Chicago”; George Brent portrays a fugitive from jus tice in “Till We Meet Again”; and Tyrone Power, believe it or not, is a gangster in his latest. —*— 1 Judy Garland is on her way up, and rapidly. This year it was quite a distinction for anyone who wasn’t in the east of “Gone With the Wind” to win one of the annual awards of the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences. Little Judy got a spe cial one for work as “an outstand ing juvenile.” —*— Janice Logan looked so attractive in the brief costume that she wore when working in “Dr. Cyclops,” the forthcoming Paramount technicolor picture, that the Art Students league voted her “The Best Undressed Woman of the Year.” (That’s the JANICE LOGAN trick picture in which the members of the cast are reduced to one-fifth their natural size.) So now Miss Logan must be all-round champion so far as clothes are concerned. When she was a senior at swanky Sarah Lawrence college she was voted the School’s Best Dressed Student. —X— According to Joan Bennett, one of the greatest predicaments well- dressed women fear is putting on a new outfit and then finding someone else wearing one just like it. That’s what happened to her not long ago when she appeared to take part in a Bing Crosby broadcast. She was wearing a nifty new hat. She glanced around, and saw one exact ly like it on the head of Sabu, the young Indian movie actor—he’d just put on his native turban. —*— ODDS AND ENDS . .. Douglass Mont gomery will mike a Star Theater appear ance March 27th with Florence Reed and Helen Claire in "Double Door" . . . Basil Rathbone had to pet a black cat for a scene in "Destiny**—the mangled thumb that resulted has just healed ... Have you listened to the new fFestinghouse pro gram, "Musical Americana", recently? Its even better than it was in the begin ning . . . Joel McCrea had a perfect va cation not long ago—according to his ideas; he stayed on a ranch where he worked as a cowhand, branding cattle and living in tents with the cowboys. Some thing new in vacations. THIS SEASON BRINGS EGGS AND MORE EGGS (See Recipes Below) ' For an Easier Feast The Easter season brings eggs and more eggs to the tables of the whole world, it seems. There are tinted eggs, eggs with dainty and intricate patterns adorning their glossy shells, and eggs decked out to look like Easter bunnies. Eggs may be decorated, too, with gaily colored stickers—and if you’re clever with your fingers, you can make a giddy blonde or demure brunette egg, sporting a new Easter bonnet! Use bright blue round stick ers for eyes, and a tiny gummed heart for a mouth. Or, if you like, paint in the features, and tint the “cheeks” with ordinary water color paints. Cotton or fringed crepe pa per may be glued on to resemble hair, and an Easter bonnet is made from a tiny paper nutcup, bits of colored paper, and a tiny feather or artificial flower. When the bunny* comes around with his gift of eggs, keep him as a guest at your Easter table. He’ll be a delight to children and grownups alike if his basket is filled with candy eggs that the children themselves can eat. But Easter Sunday demands more than eggs in the way of food! It’s a day of feasting and most of us plan and plot for weeks ahead to give the family a truly delicious and unusual meal. Leg of lamb or baked ham are the traditional foods around which most of us plan our Easter menus. Either may be used in the menu below, to excellent advantage. Broiled Grapefruit halves Roast Leg of Lamb or Baked Ham New Potatoes With Parsley Asparagus Spring Salad Hot Rolls Butter Boston Cream Pie You’ll find another Easter menu and additional recipes, too, in my cook book “Easy Entertaining.” Boston Cream Pie. % cup butter • 1 cup granulated sugar 2 eggs (well beaten) 1% cups cake flour % teaspoon salt 1% teaspoons baking powder % cup milk 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Cream butter and add sugar grad ually. Add eggs. Mix and sift all dry ingredients and add alternately with the milk and vanilla extract, beginning and ending with the flour mixture. Bake in 2 well-greased layer-cake pans in moderate hot oven (365 degrees Fahrenheit) for 20 to 25 minutes. When cool, put together with Boston cream pie fill ing and sprinkle top with powdered sugar. Boston Cream Pie Filling. % cup sugar % cup bread flour % teaspoon salt 2 cups scalded milk 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Mix all dry ingredients and add scalded milk gradually. Cook 10 minutes in top of double boiler, stir ring constantly until mixture thick ens. Add eggs and cook one minute longer. Cool and add extract. Broiled Grapefruit. Select thin skinned, juicy fruit, cut in halves and remove the pithy cen ters and rib sections. In the cen ter of each half, place half a tea spoon of butter and 1 teaspoon of brown sugar. Broil until the grape fruit is heated through. Roast Leg of Lamb. (Serves 12) 1 leg of lamb 1 teaspoon salt Vt teaspoon pepper Wipe leg of lamb with damp cloth and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Place, skin side down and cut sur face up, on a rack in an open roast ing pan. Roast in a slow oven (300 degrees), allowing 35 minutes per pound. Remove to hot platter and garnish with pineapple rings and fresh mint, or with orange cups filled with mint jelly. Currant-Mint Sauce for Lamb. 1 cup currant jelly 2 tablespoons fresh mint (chopped) ( Melt jelly over very low heat, then bring to boiling point. Remove from heat and stir in the chopped mint. Fresh Asparagus With Lemon Butter Sauce. ^ (4 servings) 2 small bunches fresh (or 1 large bunch) asparagus 5 cups boiling water 1% teaspoons salt % cup butter 1 tablespoon lemon juice Cut off lower parts of asparagus stalks as far down as they will snap. Discard, or use in soup. Tie stalks together loosely in a bundle and place upright in saucepan contain ing the boiling water to which salt has been added. Cook, uncovered, until ends of stalks begin to be ten der, about 15 minutes; then lay bunch of asparagus flat in pan and continue cooking until tips are ten der, 5 to 10 minutes. Then drain. Cream butter and add lemon juice slowly. Pour this mixture over hot asparagus and serve at once. Magic Easter Eggs. % cup sweetened condensed milk 1 teaspoon vanilla 4 cups sifted confectioners’ (4X) sugar (about) Blend sweetened condensed milk and vanilla. Add confectioners* sug ar gradually and continue mixing until smooth and creamy. Divide into three or four parts. Color with different vegetable colorings in very light tints—pink, green, yellow. Form into eggs. One end of each egg may be dipped into melted chocolate that has been allowed to cool. Makes eight eggs 1% inches long. When dipping candy eggs, melt the chocolate in the top of a double boiler, but do not let the water boil. When melted, remove from heat, and let the chocolate cool to about 83 degrees Fahrenheit, a tem perature slightly cooler than luke warm. Baked Ham. 1 whole ham 1 teaspoon whole cloves 1% cups sweet cider 1% cups brown sugar % cup orange juice Wipe ham with a damp cloth and place in an uncovered roaster, skin side up. Roast in a very low oven (300 degrees) allowing 25 minutes per pound of ham. About % hour before ham has finished baking, take from oven. Remove skin and pour off all excess fat. Cook cider and sugar together to thick syrup stage. Add orange juice and pour mixture over ham. Dot with whole cloves. Return to oven and bake one hour longer, basting frequently with liq uid in pan. Have You a Copy of ‘Easy Entertaining’? Eleanor Howe’s cook book, “Easy Entertaining,” is crammed with menu and recipe suggestions for hol idays and parties of every kind! You’ll find in it menus and recipes for children’s parties, for picnic sup pers and for a wedding reception, too. If you haven’t yet ordered your copy, send 10 cents in coin, now, to: “Easy Entertaining,” care Eleanor Howe, 919 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. What Every Good Cook Should Know. There are lots of secrets to suc cess in cooking and baking that ev ery good cook should know! Next week in this column Eleanor Howe will give you some of her cake se crets and hints on measuring and mixing ingredients, to insure satis factory results in the all-important business of feeding a family. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) S55SS * i ~IMPROVED’ UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY | chool Lesson Bv HAROLD L. LUNDOUIST. D. D. Dean of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Lesson for March 24 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education; used by permission. THE SEPULCHER: TRIUMPH OVER DEATH LESSON TEXT—Matthew 27:57—28:8. GOLDEN TEXT—But now is Christ risen from the dead, and bfecome the firstfruits of them that slept.—I Corinthians 15:20. The inspiration and spiritual re newing of Easter day comes to us again. How thankful every Chris tian should be for this day of re membrance of our Lord’s triumph over death. How much we should praise God that the day for us who are His disciples is not one of out ward display but of inward revival. May this Easter bring a real quickening to the Church. In our series of lessons in Matthew we have followed our Lord in His life and ministry on through Geth- semane to Calvary. Today we find loving hands giving themselves in what they thought to be the final act of devotion to their Lord, and we also see the hands of wicked men active in what they thought was a final act of hatred. Then sud denly the Lord Himself breaks through in resurrection power. I. Love Is Kind (27:57-61). The women, whose devotion to their Lord never wavered, were joined in the final act of taking the body of Jesus from the cross and burying it by two secret disciples of the Lord who now came out into the open, Joseph of Arimathea, a member of the Sanhedrin (Luke 23:50, 51), and Nicodemus (John 19:39, 40). It was a courageous act on their part and undoubtedly the expression of their great love for Jesus. The two Marys seemed to have stayed to watch the grave even after Joseph had gone to his home. The death of Jesus may have crushed their hopes, for they apparently did not recall His promise of resurrec tion, but they still loved Him. After all, is not that the ultimate and es sential mark of a disciple, love for our Lord? Faith may waver, hope deferred may make the heart sick with discouragement, but neverthe less we will follow the example of these disciples and never let our love for Him grow cold. In due season such faithfulness finds a glo rious reward. II. Hatred Is Relentless (27:62- 66). The wicked men who had brought about the crucifixion of Jesus were not content to let their hatred of Him die at the grave. They lusted after His life and they had taken that, but even as He lay silent ih the grave, the priests and the Phari sees came to Pilate and called Him “that deceiver” (v. 63) and demand ed a special guard. They feared that His disciples would perpetrate a fraud, and after stealing the body declare that He was risen. Wicked and deceitful hearts can imagine all sorts of treachery on the part of others. The hatred of unbelievers toward Christ and toward His followers knows no stopping place. In civi lized lands and among cultured peo ple it operates under a cloak of respectability, but it is none the less bitter and relentless in its pur suit of Him and of His Church. Observe that while the chief priests and Pharisees acted in hatred and unbelief, they unwitting ly did the cause of Christ a great service by demanding the guard over the tomb. They made it for ever impossible for any charge of fraud to be successfully made against the truth of the resurrec tion. III. Christ Is Triumphant (28:1-6). Victory and praise should be the keynote of Christianity. Why should we be doleful and sad? Our Lord has come back victorious from the grave! We may be glad and sing even in the midst of earth’s sorrows and distresses. Let praise be the employ of our lips constantly as we worship Him and work for Him. The picture that greeted the sur prised eyes of the two women as they came to the grave as it began to dawn on the first day of the week was one resplendent with the glory and majesty of God. The earth quaked as the lightning and white angel of the Lord broke through the unbreakable seal of Rome and rolled back the stone which was to have permanently closed the door to the tomb. This was done, not to release Christ—for He had already gone, no grave could hold Him—but that men might see the empty grave and know that He was risen. To the foes of Christ represented by the keepers, the coming of the angel and the revelation of the power of God brought absolute dis comfiture. That is still true. Men will argue with theology, church methods, even Christian profession, until they see the power of God re vealed, and then they can only be “as dead men.” To the friends of Christ the angel brought comfort and assurance. Their fears were assuaged by his word of comfort, and then their faith was revived by the assurance that Christ was risen. The resurrection declares that He is the Son of God with power, the Saviour of the world. 4— Ruth Wyeth Spears KNOW what becomes of old automobiles for their graveyards are all too obvious. But how about that backseat cush ion with springs almost as good as new? The sketch shows what became of one such seat. It was padded out at the ends to make the back the same length as the front. Extra padding was also used on the top to make it smooth. A simple base with a back and wings was made of one- inch boards, to fit the seat. Next, came the cretonne slip-cover for the spring seat, with a box pleated ruffle around the front and along the sides up to the wings. A bright peacock blue tone in the cretonne was used for seam cord- ings and was matched in paint for the wings and back of the seat. NOTE: Sewing Book 1 contains 32 pages of directions for making slip-covers and curtains; books 2 and 3 give directions for the em broidered pictures over the man tel. The knitted rag rug and pil lows in this sketch are in Book 4. Books are 10 cents each; if you enclose 40 cents with your order for four books (Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4) you will receive a FREE set of quilt block patterns of Mrs. Spears’ Favorite Early American quilt designs. Send your order to: MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS Drawer 10 Bedford Hills New York Enclose 10 cents for one book, or 40 cents for four books and set of quilt block patterns. 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