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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, 3. C, THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1940 By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) W HEN you see Para mount’s “Arise My Love,” with Claudette Col bert and Ray Milland, you’ll miss the most thrilling thing that has happened so far in the filming of the picture. It occurred in the scene where Milland, Miss Colbert and Garland Lincoln, a veteran Hollywood stunt pilot, are scuffling beside a plane; Miss Col bert, who plays an American news paper woman in Paris, has a port able typewriter, and Milland is bat tling with Lincoln. Just as Milland struck Lincoln, a mechanic inside the cockpit of the plane knocked one of the throttles forward. The right motor was run ning, and the plane swung around, striking Milland and knocking him to the ground. Wires braced to the tail surface gashed his leg. He insisted that he could continue working, after a doctor had dressed his leg, but Director Mitchell Leisen sent him home and shot around him for the next few days. *—- They’re de-beautifying Louise Platt for “Captain Caution,” be cause Bill Madsen, head makeup artist' at the Hal Roach Studios, thinks that the average young screen actress, after being made up, looks just like all the other young ac tresses in the cast. So he did things to her that hadn’t been done for her previous screen appearances. She’s always tried to hide her high forehead; he empha- LOUISE PLATT sized it. She has a distinctive mouth, strong and wide—he did very little to it, instead of cutting it down. He gave her a complete new jaw line, took some of the spar kle out of her eyes by using small, heavy eyelashes at the ends of her own. And that’s the way you’ll see her, playing “Corunna,” a strong- willed, determined girl who helps to fight the war of 1812. * The artificial fog that hung like blown flour over the “Captain Cau tion” set at Hal Roach Studios dur ing the shooting of several se quences bothered members of tbe cast and crew; they complained that the oil mixture left a bad taste in their mouths. So the special effects men, always obliging, introduced vanilla into the fog. The result was worse than ever— even roast beef and ham sandwiches tasted like vanilla. The next day plain fog was used again, and cast and crew did no more complaining. * By this time motion picture stars ought to know what to expect if they go to South America. (Remember Robert Taylor’s visit?) The enthu siastic fans practically mob them, but the stars seem to love it. Errol Flynn is the latest of the visitors to find out how popular he is. In Port au Spain, Trinidad, at least 3,000 people stormed the airport to see the star of “The Sea Hawk”; later, while Flynn was dining, part of the crowd broke through police lines in the hotel lobby and streamed into the restaurant, over turning tables and chairs. A splin tered chair gashed Flynn’s leg so badly that it had to be stitched up. His clothes were almost torn from his back. AJt Bahia 4,000 fans greeted his arrival. That’s the way it’s gone everywhere that he went—it’s hard on the wardrobe, but fine for the box office! * Recently Frances Langford was just about to go on in the Star Thea ter program when she was notified that her husband, Jon Hall, had been injured in a powder explosion. Without being able to learn just how seriously he had been hurt Miss Langford sang her song and read her comedy lines, and then rushed to the hospital. * ODDS AND ENDS C. Have you been listening to that new Drew Pearson-Robert Allen program, 'Washington Merry-Go-Round, n giving in timate glimpses of the nation’s capital and what goes on there? .. . Melvyn Doug las, playing a Paris policeman in “He Stayed for Breakfast,” had to learn to salute, but the man who taught him was lefthanded, and Douglas got it in reverse. HRita Hayworth may be Hollywood’s best dressed girl, but in “It Happened in Paris,” her last Columbia picture, she wears only $50 worth of clothes, and in 'Before l Die” her present one, she wears only a tawdry $10 evening dress. SERVE A SUCCULENT STEW (Recipes Below) There’s something so homey and tasty about a good stew, that most folks feel cheated unless a stew of one sort or another appears on the family table fairly regularly. There are stews and stews, of course—lamb stews with feathery light dumplings and an assort ment of vegeta bles to add flavor (and vitamins!); hearty Mulligan stews; and stews of chicken that masquerade under all sorts of fancy names. There are even “Cinderella Stews,” which start out as leftovers and end up as a well-seasoned one- dish meal. _ Remember that “serving a stew” is an economical measure, and a time-saving one, as well. Stews and meat pies usually make use of the less expensive cuts of meat. Their preparation is simple, and they make a satisfying “One-dish meal,” indeed. Lamb Stew With Mint Dumplings. % cup butter 2V4 pounds lamb (cut in pieces) 4 cups boiling water 1 tablespoon salt % teaspoon pepper % cup carrots (sliced) 3 cups potatoes (cut in cubes) 3 onions (sliced) 1% cups tomatoes (canned) Va cup flour. Ya cup cold water Heat butter in large saucepan. Add meat and brown. Add boiling water, and seasonings; cover. When boiling, reduce heat and simmer lYt hours. Add vegetables and continue cooking slowly for 1 hour. Mix flour and water to a paste and add slowly. Cook, stirring constantly until thick ened. Increase heat and when boil ing vigorously add dumplings. Mint dumplings: 2 cups bread flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt Va cup lard 2 tablespoons fresh mint or pars ley (chopped) % cup milk (approximately) Sift together dry ingredients, cut in fat and add chopped mint. Add milk and mix gently with a fork. Drop by spoonfuls into boiling stew. Cover and continue to steam for 15 minutes without lifting the cover. One-Dish Sunday Dinner. For a practical, one-dish meal that can be left simmering while one is in church on Sunday, chicken rice pilaff is unsurpassed. Cut a 3-pound chicken in pieces and fry in butter to a golden brown. Add salt and pepper to taste. When nearly brown drain off all but Ya cup fat, add an onion, finely sliced, a little chopped parsley and % of a bay leaf and fry 10 minutes longer. Wash 2 cups rice and spread over the chicken; add 4 cups boiling water, one small sliced tomato (or 2 tablespoons canned to matoes) and 1 teaspoon salt. Stir gently; cover, bring to a boil and then simmer for one hour. A small family might have the best parts of the chicken fried one day, and the rest cooked this way the next day, using only 1 cup of rice and 2 cups of water. Lamb Riblet Stew. (Serves 4 to 5) 4 pounds lamb riblets (rib ends of breast of lamb) 4 tablespoons fat 3 Vi cups water 1 tablespoon salt % teaspoon pepper 5 medium size onions (peeled) 5 medium size potatoes (pared) 3 carrots (scraped, and cut in halves lengthwise) Have butcher remove breast bone from breast of lamb, and cut be tween rib ends to form finger-like pieces. Wipe meat with a damp cloth, dry, and brown in hot fat. Drain off the fat, and add 3 Vi cups of water to the meat. Cover, and simmer for one hour. Add season ings and the onions, cover, and cook for 30 minutes. Then add potatoes and carrots. Cover, and cook for 30 minutes longer. Pour off the gravy, and add a tablespoon of flour mixed with 2 tablespoons of cold water to form a paste. Cook, stirring con stantly, until the gravy thickens. Ar range lamb riblets in the center of a serving platter with the vegeta bles around the sides. Pour gravy over top. Creole Chicken Gumbo File. 1 4-pound chicken Flour, salt, pepper Vi pound lean ham 2 tablespoons lard or butter 1 onion (chopped) 1 sprig thyme 1 bay leaf 1 tablespoon parsley (minced) Garlic, amount you like, rub bowl Ya red pepper pod, without seeds Boiling water 1 dozen shrimp or more Creole Gumbo File Clean and cut up chicken as for a fricassee. Dredge with flour, salt and pepper. Cut ham into small dices. Place lard or butter in soup kettle or deep stewing pot and when hot put in the chicken and ham. Cover close ly and brown for 5 to 10 minutes. Then add onion, parsley, garlic and thyme, stirring occasionally to pre vent burning. When nicely browned, add boiling water just to cover chicken. Add bay leaf broken very fine—and red pepper pod. Lower flame and allow Gumbo to simmer gently until chicken is tender—2 to 4 hours. Remove carcass and bones. Just before serving, add 2 dozen shrimp, diced. Heat through thor oughly. Remove from flame and add Yt tablespoon to 2 tablespoons of Gumbo File. Brunswick Stew. Put one gallon of water in a large iron pot, bring to a boil, and add one tablespoon of salt. Add one onion minced fine* one pint of shelled butter beans, six potatoes peeled and sliced, six ears of corn cut from the cob, one-half pound of fat salt pork or bacon cut into shreds, one- half teaspoon each of black and cay enne pepper. Two squirrels or one large fat hen, disjointed and soaked in cold water to draw the blood out, are next thrown into the pot. Cov er closely and stew very slowly for two hours, stirring occasionally from the bottom. Stew one hour longer, add two teaspoons of white sugar and one quart of tomatoes peeled and sliced. Ten minutes be fore serving add one-fourth pound of butter cut into bits and rolled in flour. Bring to a boil again and serve on soup plates with dry rice. This is a dish men like and one they can excel in preparing. Mulligan Stew. (Serves 6) 1 medium size can corned beef— 1 onion — minced fine 1 No. 2 can peas with liquid 1 medium size bottle tomato catsup 1 cup water Salt and pepper to taste Put all ingredients in saucepan and simmer gently over low flame for about one hour. The flavor im proves with the length of cooking time. Get This New Cookbook Now. You as a homemaker—of course— want to serve to the man of your family the food he likes best and it is for that reason that you should immediately secure your copy of this new 48-page cookbook entitled, “Feeding Father.” This book contains almost 150 rec ipes, and among them you will find such tested men’s favorites as a rare old recipe for plum pudding, strawberry shortcake, deep dish ap ple pie, Boston brown bread, ham cheese rolls, baked stuffed pork chops, spare ribs with apple stuffing, barbecued steak, oven fried chick en, etc., etc. To secure your copy, send 10 cents in coin to “Feeding Father,” care of Eleanor Howe, 919 North Michi* gan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) * .Kma, ~ t — minced V • —^ at— C I IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I chool Lesson By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D. Dean of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Lesson for July 28 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education; used by permission. WEIGHING CONSEQUENCES A Principle of Temperate Living LESSON TEXT—Proverbs 1:7-10; Isaiah 3:11, 12, 18-23; Galatians 6:7-9. GOLDEN TEXT—Godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.— I Timothy 4:8. An intelligent approach to life calls for an understanding of prin ciples governing thought and action. Our lesson for today recognizes that every act and thought of man brings consequences, either good or bad. Man himself must make the deci sions of life, and what he sovrs he must also reap. Matters of crucial importance to modern young people are involved in our lesson. They are asking these days, “Shall I listen to God’s voice, or is that just old-fashioned nonsense? What about obeying par ents? Should I drink intoxicants? ‘Everybody’ does—why should I be different? Of course, I don’t want to be a drunkard or ruin my future life, but I’d like to have ‘my fling’—' can’t I have it and still avoid dis astrous consequences?” The answers to these questions are in our lesson. May God help young people to find the right answers, and enable every teacher to present.the truth clearly and ef fectively. I. Safe Counsel (Prov. 1:7-10). No sane person wants to make a fool of himself. He is looking for the right way and will lend his ear to good counsel. Here it is—“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge” (R. V., “wisdom”). Fear o^ God is not a cringing ter ror, but a sincere appreciation of His wisdom and a desire to do His will. The best counselors a boy or girl has are father and mother. Only a fool will pass up the golden oppor tunity of profiting by their experi ences and avoiding their mistakes, and will miss the opportunity of car rying forward their high hopes. Those who fear God and honor their parents will not be misled by the enticement of sinners (v. 10). They just will not “consent,” and that settles it. II. Steps to Ruin (Isa. 5:11, 12, 18-23). Isaiah lived and ministered in a time of prosperity, which led to drunkenness and immorality. This in time led, as it always does, to the decay and destruction of the na tion. We face similar moral con ditions today. Let us not shut our eyes to the lesson so oft-repeated in history and in false security go on to national ruin. We need outspoken and deter mined opposition in civic, social and religious circles to the liquor traffic and to all the vices that follow in evitably in its train. The portion of our lesson from Isaiah vividly por trays the downward path of the drinker of intoxicants. Ponder it well, young man and young woman. III. Seedtime and Harvest (Gal. 6:7-9). Everywhere about him man sees the inexorable operation of the law of cause and effect, of sowing and reaping, and yet he listens to the lies of Satan and of his own lustful heart and tries to convince himself that the law may be suspended in the realm of the moral and spiritual. Sowing to the flesh always brings corruption. No matter how well ed ucated, no matter what his position in life, or his family connection, the man who takes his first drink has smarted on the road to a drunkard’s grave. Statistics reveal that the victims of drink come from every sirata of society and every circum stance of life. Young people, the sure way to avoid the consequences is to not take the first drink. Sowing to the Spirit brings “life everlasting.” That, too, is always true. There is also another pre cious truth: namely, that by turning to Christ the one who has begun on the downward path may stay the ruinous hand of sin upon his life. Taking Christ as his Saviour, he finds regeneration and renewal of life. The Works of the Lord Praise ye the Lord. I will praise the Lord with my whole heart, in the assembly of the upright, and in the congregation. The works of the Lord are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.— Psalm 111: 1, 2. OP?. SEW ^ Ruth Wyeth Spears Xl^HEN war came to Finland a Red Cross group to sew for refugees was started in our com munity. The feeling that our home needs were more important was so strong that exactly two work ers came. When the Low Coun tries were invaded more joined. Now, 12 or 14 women meet faith- Ask Me Another % A General Quiz The Questions 1. What is the origin of the word sophomore? 2. What is peculiar about the Chinese language? 3. Duncan Phyfe’s best Renown carved motif on furniture pictures what? 4. Who was the mother of King Solomon? 5. How does a guest at an Es kimo dinner show that he enjoyed the meal? 6. What is meant by prima fa cie? 7. Have diamonds ever been found in meteorites? The Answers fully and make about 50 woolen dresses every week, in sizes 9 to i4. The group is financed through gifts of money and material which they themselves have solicited. They bought the simplest dress pattern that they could find and then eliminated every unnecessary detail. “Work for quantity—don’t bother with a collar or pocket,” the county Red Cross leader urged. I have just sketched here some short cuts used to speed up pro duction; and as I write this, look ing out of my studio window over a beautiful and peaceful garden, I am trying not to think of winter and what it will be like in Europe when some child is wearing this little blue woolen frock. * * * , EDITOR’S NOTE: Readers who have had practical help from these articles and Mrs. Spears’ Sewing Booklets 1, 2, 3 and 4, will be pleased to know that Book 5 is ready. They are a service to our readers, and a charge of 10 cents is made for each one, to cover cost and mailing. 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