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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1941 " By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) I T IS difficult to know what to say about the National Legion pf Decency’s banning of Greta Garbo’s new picture, “Two- Paced Woman,” with Archbish op Spellman also condemning it, and various cities banning it as well. The plot, that of the woman who poses as her twin sister to prove to her husband that she is glamorous, has been used in Holly wood over and over. Will H. Hays’ office had passed the picture. There is hardly a picture-goer who hasn’t seen things on the screen that shocked him. But since “Two-Faced Wpxaan” was banned, there must have'been some excellent reason for it. —*— Do you remember that delightful story, “The Constant Nymph’’? It will be made again by Warner Brothers, with Charles Boyer and CHARLES BOTER Joan Fontaine—who can have prac tically anything she wants these days—in the principal roles. — Bob Hope and Victor Moote are to be teamed in Paramount’s ver sion of “Ready Money,” the farce about ‘a young man who becomes a financier by mistake. Last time it was filmed was in 1914, after it had been a successful stage production. —*— Barbara Stanwyck may have con tributed a new slang phrase to onr language. During the making of “Ball of Fire” she happened along when Director Howard Hawks and the picture's authors were trying to think of something slightly slangy for her to say when she walked up to some men she didn't know very well, in a night clnb. “That’s easy,” said Barbara. “I’ll say *What’s bnzsin’, cousin?' That's what we used to say in Brooklyn.” It's in the picture. —*— “For Whom the Bell Tolls” is un der way even though the cast isn’t complete. More than 120 techni cians and actors left Hollywood re cently for the loftiest location site in film history—a spot 9,300 feet up in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Technicolor and long shots had to be made now because of favorable snow conditions, similar to those in the book. —*— Donivee Purkey knew what she wanted years ago; now she’s got it. She wanted to get into the movies; she worked hard in high school and college dramatics, for four years, and a Paramount talent scout plucked her out of a college play and sent her to Hollywood for a screen test. You’ll see her, proba bly, in “The Fleet’s In.” Oh yes— she changed that name to Laura Lee. —*— When Gilbert Roland, Philip Reed, Errol Flynn and other Hollywood- ites who like tennis enter the an nual motion picture tournament next spring they're likely to rue the day that Paramount signed up Jim Brown, who’s now playing the ro mantic lead in “Out of the Frying Pan.” Brown is Texas tennis cham pion. —*— Radio’s “Woman of Courage” has two leading women who made names for themselves in the mov ies in the days when radio was a lot of strange machinery and a cou ple of ear phones. They are Esther Ralston, one of the most beautiful blondes of that day, and Enid Mar- key, one of the most striking bru nettes. —*— If you’re a star of “Meet the Peo ple” you’re destined for Hollywood fame, apparently. First Virginia O’Brien, then William Orr, signed up for the movies. The third mem ber of the cast to face the cameras is Betty Wells, who was nabbed by Metro. —*— Neat Wrapping Aids Appearance Of Holiday Gifts Men are seldom noted for their daintiness, especially around Christ mastime. But they aren’t the only ones whose gifts present a sorry sight with bulgy paper covering and loose string that portends early dis integration of the wrapping. Even some women confess that they wrap their gifts several times before their appearance is satisfactory. The best of “wrappers” are only amateurs, however, compared with the girls in large department stores who “gift wrap” all day long. For most articles whose shapes make wrapping difficult they have an effective solution: “Corrugate it.” This means that the bundle is wrapped lengthwise and sidewise in corrugated pbpef before putting fan cy Christmas paper around it. “Cor rugation win cover a multitude of shapes,” they explain. They sug gest five steps when wrapping sim ple packages: * 1. Fold the paper over the bundle. Line up the two open sides, then fold them back two or three inches to prevent paper cuts by getting the sharp edge of the paper out of the way. 2. Draw folded paper snug. The paper should be made to rest tightly around the lengthwise section of the 3. Fold in the ends. Holding the package as shown in drawing num ber 2, turn the corners diag onally inward. The pointed section that remains is then folded back against the side of the package. 4. Wind string around package. First wind the string around the bundle lengthwise and then make a “figure 8” knot. This is an ordi nary slip knot that is turned once before it is slipped. It looks like a figure 8 when tied and makes a per fect slip knot. 5. Tie the string. After the string is run through the figure 8 knot lengthwise, simply continue the string around the bundle sidewise, and tie the ends of the string. Extra care in wrapping will make even the most inexpensive gifts more presentable. Cleveland Sells Stocks To Buy Community Tree Sale of stock certificates unparal- . leled in history brought America’s I first community Christmas tree to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1912. To raise money for a community tree, preferred stock was sold in “Cleveland, the City of Good Will (Unlimited), Incorporated.” It was listed at the head of other securities on the Cleveland Stock exchange. Although no personal solicitations were allowed, more than $12,000 was realized from the sale. A communi ty celebration was held around the 70-foot, illuminated tree that was erected in the public square. The next Christmas brought a ver itable avalanche of community Christmas trees throughout the country. The idea has become al most a national custom, with more than 15,000 American cities and towns setting up their own commu nity trees during the Christmas sea son. ODDS AND ENDS—It’s rumored about that Errol Flynn tucceeded in making him- telf exceedingly unpopular with the newt- paper photographers of New York recent ly . President Roosevelt will be heard aver the Mutual chain December 24 dur ing the ceremonies at the annual lighting of the National Christma* tree . . . The actor-raven of “True to the Army* has been offered to the U. S. army signal corps, to co-operate with the army’s carrier pig eons . . . Bob Hope and Rita Hayworth have been selected by the news camera men assigned to Hollywood as “the most photogenerous stars of 1941.” Over 300 Years Ago The hymn “Hark! The Herald An gels Sing,” was written in 1739 by one of the greatest hymn writers, Charles Wesley, brother of John, the founder of Methodism. The music to the hymn is a chorale from Men delssohn’s beautiful cantata, “Gott 1st Licht.” The hymn “Adeste Fideles” (“Oh Come All Ye Faithful”) has been translated into 76 languages. The words are sometimes ascribed to St. Bonaventura, bishop of Albanno in the Thirteenth century. IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I chool Lesson By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D. Of Tbs Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Deck the Table Greetings, homemakers! Here’s my Christmas present to you, a menu with recipes designed to ring in the holiday season and to crown your table with luscious food, just wonderful to eat. The menu is worked out in the best colors of the season. THIS WEEK’S MENU Christmas Dinner ’ •Grapefruit-Persimmon Salad •Sweet French Dressing •Baked Ham •Holiday Sauce •Virginia Cranberry Mold •Sweet Potato Pone •Green Peas With Beets Crescent Rolls Celery Olives Jelly Plum Pudding with Sauce Coffee •Recipes Given There’s a touch of the traditional in the menu in the baked ham and sweet potato pone, topped off with the plum pudding, and then there’s a dash of newness in the cranberry mold, the salad and its perky dress ing and the holiday sauce. Whether you’re welcoming your sons from camp, your daughters from college, make this their gala feast, for Christmas din ners are some thing to cherish and remember. •Grapefruit-Persimmon Salad. Be versatile with your grapefruit. Peel, separate into sections, then slip the thin peeling off the sections being careful to leave the section whole. Alternate the sections of grapefruit with thin slices of persim mon, having the outside sections on top so the fruit together gives the appearance of a mound. Use three sections of grapefruit per serving. Lay this on a crisp bed of lettuce and serve with dressing. Avocado and pink grapefruit sections, may also be used in this way. •Sweet French Dressing. (For fruit salads) 9 tablespoons oil 3% tablespoons powdered sugar % teaspoon salt 3 tablespoons paprika % teaspoon Worcestershire sauce 4 tablespoons lemon juice Set all ingredients in icebox for three hours before mixing. Com bine in order given, blending thor oughly. Chill again in mason jar. Before using, let melt, then beat until thick with wooden spoon. •Virginia Cranberry Mold. You’ll want something tantalizing- ly tart as foil to the bland sweetness of the ham. Here it is: 1 17-ounce can cranberry sauce Juice of two oranges Grated rind of 1 orange 1 cup hot water 3 packages gelatin Mash cranberry sauce fine; add rind and orange juice. Dissolve gel atin in hot water and add to first mixture. Pour into molds and put in cool place to set. •Sweet Potato Pone. (Serves 6 to 8) Delicately spiced, heart-warming and gracious accompaniment to your dinner is this sweet potato pone. Satisfy your desire for sweet potatoes with ham this new-old way. It’s like grandmother used to make, homey, tasty, just won derful food! 2% cups grated raw sweet potato Vi cup butter Vs cup sugar Vi cup milk 1 teaspoon powdered ginger Vi teaspoon mace Grated rind of 1 orange Blend sugar and butter. Add sweet potato and milk. Beat well, then add soices and orange rind. vY.-.r*. Bake in a shallow, buttered casse role in a moderate (350 degrees) ov en, 30 to 35 minutes. i •Baked Ham. You can depend upon your holiday dinner to go over if you serve a ham, glistening and shimmering, baked in sweet, spicy juices. Wrap the ham in clean wrapping paper. Place fat side up on a rack in an open pan. Use no water. Bake in a slow oven. Hams weighing 16 to 18 pounds require 4 to 4Vi hours baking; 12 to 15 pounds, 3Vi to 4 hours; 10 to 12 pounds, 3 to 3Vi hours; and 8 to 10 pounds, 2% to 3 hours. Remove paper and all rind. Cov er with a glaze of pickled peach juice or 1 cup honey and Vi cup or ange marmalade, or 1 cup pureed apricots for extra special goodness. To make stars, cut slices of pineap ple and form into a star. Use a maraschino cherry in center. Bake until brown (about 15 minutes) in a hot (400 degrees) oven. •Holiday Sauce. For your masterpiece, the ham, serve a sauce that’s rich and jewel- red. Ladle it over the ham gener ously to bring out the best in the meat. Like all good things, the sauce is a simple, good-tasting combina tion. Melt 1 small glass of currant jelly in double boiler, add 3 table spoons chili sauce, blend, and serve hot. •Green Peas With Beets. Bright red and green touch in the best tradition of Christmas is your beet and green peas vegetable com bination. Boil the beets with two inches of their tops left on until ten der, 25 to 35 minutes depending on age and size. Plunge into cold wa ter and remove skins. Scoop out center, add salt and butter. Just before serving, heat beets, fill cen ters with cooked, seasoned green peas, heated piping hot. Don’t forget the big, overflowing bowls of fruits and nuts for the family to nibble on during Christmas day. Cluster raisins, apples, yellow, supple bananas, and nuts in thft shell—all these the family will want to make their festivities complete The children will give you three cheers if you string red cranberries and popcorn on a string and hang on the tree or in their stockings. Steaming the Pudding. Plum puddings are best when served piping hot. This means they should be steamed for at least 1V6-2 hours before serving. If the pudding is in a mold cover with a lid or with heavy waxed paper. Place on a rack in a large kettle. Have about 2 inches of water in the bottom of the kettle, and have this water boiling all the while. More water may be added if necessary. A double boiler or a pressure cooker may also be used to good advantage for steaming. To serve, unmold the pudding and garnish the platter with holly or other leaves and bright berries. LYNN SAYS: Few holidays can offer you the same decorative possibilities as Christmas season, so make the most of the evergreens, berries, cones, candles, ornaments, and rich colors. Here are some centerpiece ideas which would be effective: Use a green wreath on a mir ror and fill with evergreen branches dipped or sprayed with white paint and place brightly colored ornaments or fruits among the branches. Surround candles with pine branches and cones and have sev eral small silver bells around the base of the centerpiece as though they came out of the branches. Make a gingerbread house, frost with a thin powdered sugar icing and sprinkle with silver snow. Set this on a mirror or surround with spruce or pine branches and cones. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Lesson for December 21 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education; used by permission. THE COMING OF GOD’S SON LESSON TEXT—Isaiah 9:6. 7; John 1:1-4, 10-14; I John 4:9-11. > GOLDEN TEXT—The Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.—I John 4:14. Christmas again! How shall we keep it in a world torn by strife and poisoned by man’s bitterness against man? Let us keep it with all the joy and gladness at our com mand. Let us make this the best Christmas we and our families have ever had. How? By giving more and richer gifts? No—although they have their place when rightly given and received. By feasting and mer rymaking? No—although they too have their place when carried on in the true spirit of love and friend ship. What then? Let us make this an outstanding Christmas by cen tering our thoughts, our affections, our joys—yes, and our gifts of self and substance—around God’s Son, whose “birthday” we celebrate. May Christmas, 1941,. be the best you have ever spent. This is the writer’s sincere wish for you. One way to make it just that is to dili gently study our lesson for this next Sunday, which tells of the coming of God’s Son. I. His Coming and Character Prophesied (Isa. 9:6, 7). God who was to send His Son into the world to become the Saviour of sinful man fittingly made known His coming through Isaiah (and others) 800 years before it took place. This greatest event ip all history was the subject of exact and detailed proph ecy, which was completely fulfilled. Although Isaiah calls Him “a child” (as indeed He was), he saw Him as the divine One whose glory and pow er is revealed in the magnificent ar ray of names found in verse 6. “Wonderful,” a much abused and misused word, found its real mean ing in Him—He really is wonderful in every way. “Counsellor!” He does not need or seek the counsel of others—He is the Counsellor. Have you sought His counsel? “The Mighty God”—not a mere man, but God unlimited in power. “The Ever lasting Father,” which is really the “Father of eternity,” the One to whom eternity owes its existence. “The Prince of Peace,” who will one day bring peace to the earth when He comes to reign; something we need not expect before that blessed day. Little wonder that “the govern ment shall be upon his shoulders” (v. 6), and that He shall reign on the throne of David forever. That is prophecy yet to be fulfilled, but it will be, even as the others, for “the zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.” II. His Incarnation and Redemp tion Completed (John 1:1-4, 10-14). The Eternal One—who was in the beginning with the Father, He who was God and who made all things, this One who was the life and the light of men—humbled Himself and took upon Himself the likeness of sin ful man. He was “made flesh and dwelt among us,” revealing the grace and glory of God. The in carnation of Christ is a truth the greatness and glory of which we cannot fully understand; but we know that it was for us that He came—for our redemption. The world—His own world—re ceived Him not. “But”—and thank God for that blessed “but!”—“as many as received him, to them gave he the power (or better, ‘the right,’ as in R.V.) to become the children of God.” Redemption is by a new birth, a divine birth, “not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man.” It is a complete redemption by faith in Him who re vealed the grace of God to man. This is the great message of Christ mas. Let us not miss it. But there is another word for this precious and blessed season—it is that of love. HI. His Love and Our Love Mani fested (I John 4:9-11). The love of God has been ex pressed in many precious ways, but the full and final manifestation was in the sending of His only begotten Son into the world that we might have life through Him. This is love supreme, that God loved us when we did not love Him, the altogether lovely One giving His best and dear est in loving sacrifice for the alto gether unlovely ones. Such love in making the unspeak able gift to us must of necessity call forth from us not only love to ward Him, but also for one an other. Christmas is an excellent time to deepen and sweeten the love which exists between Christian brethren. We need to be drawn very close to one another for mutual en couragement, strengthening of our faith, and for the effective outreach of Christ’s love to the whole world through us. The eternal, glorious Christ came. 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