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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.
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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.
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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.
He wrought out redemption full and
free. He revealed God’s great love
to us—and to all the world. What
a delightful Christmas message that
is. Let us receive it and declare it*
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