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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 1942 By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) T HANKS to the war, Errol Flynn lost his chance to be Prince Charming at a huge debutante party in New York. Picture the scene as it was planned. According to an nouncements, he was to be seated in a silver coach, which at midnight would rise from the or chestra pit. But the debutante can celled the party, feeling that it was not fitting to go through with it ih war time. —*— Hollywood’s station wagon bat talion, formed a few weeks ago to meet emergencies in time of war, is now being put through its paces, ac cording to the King’s men, the quartet of the Fibber McGee and Molly program. They are listed among the 200 members of the bat talion. ^ Ginger Rogers will star in “The Major and the Minor,” a romantic comedy, as her first picture under her recently signed agreement with Paramount. It ought to be a swell GINGER ROGERS picture; its authors wrote “Hold Back the Dawn,” “Ninotchka” and “Ball of Fire.” Incidentally, Ginger has spent six years attempting to gain six pounds, and has finally achieved that goal. » . With practically all the other girls in Hollywood going in for very short hair, Claudette Colbert, who has warn hers fairly short, will have the longest bob she’s ever worn in “The Palm Beach Story.” Her hair will fall to her shoulders, bat she’ll keep her famous bangs. It’s a Preston Storgerf picture, this new one, and Joel MeCrea plays opposite her. —*— Once again Director Norman Taurog is looking for a baby. He’s the man who, eight years ago, con ducted the search for an infant who could mimic Maurice Cheva lier’s out-thrust lower lip—a search that brought Baby Le Roy to the screen. Later he was responsible for the casting of Jackie Cooper in “Skippy.” Now he seeks a year- old child who resembles Ray Mil- land, for “Mr. and Mrs. Cugat.” —*— As soon as the first word of Japan’s attack on Hawaii reached the United States the March of Time began preparing as its next release a comprehensive film story of*'how this country, in the last war, came through to final victory. Titled “Our America at War,” it ends by show ing that, as America won the last war through co-ordinated effort, so she will win this one. —*— One night not so long ago Mickey Rooney was called to the telephone. It was Carmen Miranda — she’d heard that he was going to do an impersonation of her in “Babes on Broadway.” To make sure that it would be a good one, she arranged to coach him, and the result is the very funny burlesque of her that he does in the picture. —*— Cary Grant’s main idea, when he finished working in “Suspicion,” with Joan Fontaine, was to catch up on sleep. Said he hadn’t had a day or evening to himself since he started work in “My Favorite Wife,” more than a year ago; “Sus picion” was his fifth picture in a row without a good long vacation. Maybe all those extra-curricular activities that we heard about were just rumors. * Joan Blaine, who soon starts doubling between two air serials for a total of three broadcasts a day, vastly prefers radio to any other branch of show business. “Stage and film stars are so visibly beau tiful,” says she. “Their waists are thin, their eyelashes sweep alarm ingly. Their slips never show. But —the radio actress is just folks to her audience.” Nfr s't\ ODDS AND ENDS—Paula Winslow urns brought in to do Shirley Temple's screams in the little star's first radio se ries; the first time she yelled Shirley her self jumped in alarm .. . Two young play ers, Anne Rutherford and Robert Sterling, get breaks in Metro's “Just Between Us" —they have leading roles . . . Kate Smith now does her mid-day broadcasts from the CBS newsroom . . . Robert Montgomery got home from England, for a vacation, just in time to be called into service, here . . John Scott Trotter is making the most of his flair for good food, he's preparing B cook book, which he ought to dedicate to Bing Crosby. Invite the Club — Serve Apple-Banana Rings (See Recipes Below) Dessert Parties “Come over for dessert” has be come one of the most popular ways of entertaining at luncheon or after noon meetings of bridge or sew ing clubs. Your guests will take a light snack at home and come over to your home for dessert only. Easy? Yes, and a very successful way of starting out your afternoon. So, take out your best recipes for dessert and let’s go: Whatever you have must be at tractive, so bring out your nicest dessert plates and doilies. First idea on our list today are these broiled Banana-Apple Rings which will polka-dot your table in dessert per fection : *Broiled Banana-Apple Rings. (Serves 6) 1 cup sugar % cup water 2 apples^, unpeeled 3 firm bananas Melted butter Salt Cinnamon Bring sugar and water to a boil and cook until sugar is dissolved. Core apples and cut crosswise into three thick slices. Add to syrup and cook until tender, but firm. Remove from syrup and place on a broiler rack or pan. Cover apple slices with overlapping slices of bananas which have been peeled and sliced thin. Brush with butter and sprinkle with salt and cinnamon. Broil about 10 minutes or until bananas are brown and tender, easily pierced with a fork. Serve hot with sweet ened, whipped cream. To make your dessert party a dou ble success, serve: Banana Oatmeal Cookies. (Makes 3% dozen) cups sifted flour % teaspoon soda Vs teaspoon nutmeg % teaspoon cinnamon % cup shortening 1 cup sugar 1 egg 1 cup mashed bananas (2 or 3 bananas) 1% cup rolled oats Vz cup chopped nutmeats Sift together flour, soda, salt an spices. Add sugar gradually to shor ening and creai well. Add eg and beat wel Add banana rolled oats an nutmeats and mi thoroughly. Ad flour mixture an blend. Drop b teaspoonfuls onto an ungrease cookie sheet about 1% inches apar Bake in a moderately hot oven aboi 15 minutes. Remove from pans i once. Simply elegant will be your guest or family’s verdict when you serv LYNN SAYS: When planning your luncheon dessert parties, be sure to use this season’s rich color schemes on your tables and favors and placecards. White with silver, gold, blue, red are tops right now. If you like three color combi nations, there’s green, white and gold, blue, white and gold, or white, red and green. For an elaborate color scheme use the rich tones of violet, em erald, gold, blue and red. This is especially good in a center- piece. Bridge placecards may be made out of paper chrysanthe mums in your favorite color with the card tilting out of the flower. The white cards may also be dec orated with painted flowers, or candy-shaped flowers pasted in the corner. Evergreen, holly, mistletoe, bright berries, pine cones, used alone or with a sil ver ornament such as a bell on the place card are sure to bring delighted murmurs from your bridge guests. THIS WEEK’S MENU Tomato-Pea Soup Breaded Veal Cutlets Riced Potatoes Broccoli Molded Gingerale Salad •Broiled Banana-Apple Rings Cookies Beverage •Recipe Given an ambrosial concoction so easy to make, it’s no trick at all. Here’s a dessert that proves you don’t have to spend hours of cooking and bak ing to get a first-rate dessert: Krispie Cream Roll. (Serves 10) IVt cups whipping cream 8 marshmallows % cup honey % cup chopped dates Vs cup chopped nutmeats 3% cups oven-popped rice cereal Whip cream until stiff, reserving % cup. Cut marshmallows .into small pieces, adding them to cream. Add honey, dates and nutmeats. Roll rice cereal into fine crumbs and add .1' cup of crumbs to cream mixture. Blend well. Spread re maining crumbs evenly on a piece of waxed paper and place cream mixture on top. Mold into a roll and chill for several hours. Slice and serve garnished with remain ing whipped cream, chopped nut meats or fruit slices or berries. No list of dessert tempters for parties is complete without super smooth, delecta ble ice-box cake. Made with or ange flavoring the ice-box cake can be truly pro vocative in both %pvor and ap pearance and still be easy on the waistlines of your diet-conscious friends: Orange Ice-Box Cake. (Serves 8.) 1 tablespoon gelatine 3 tablespoons cold water 2 cups milk or 1 cup evaporated milk diluted with 1 cup water 2 tablespoons cornstarch 1 cup sugar 2 eggs Vs cup orange juice 1 teaspoon grated orange rind 2 dozen lady fingers Soak gelatine in cold water. Scald the milk in a double boiler, mix cornstarch and sugar, and add to hot milk. Add the eggs slightly beat en, combined with cold milk. Cook several minutes, stirring constantly. Remove from fire and add gelatine. Add orange rirjd and juice. Line a mold with lady fingers, then fill with alternate layers of the cooked mix ture and lady fingers. Have a layer of lady fingers on top. Chill in re frigerator overnight. Serve with whipped cream, garnished with or ange sections. Piquant peppermint adds a nev er-to-be-forgotten flavor to choco late, and served in quaint tarts, here’s a dessert that will mark you as a leader in your crowd: Chocolate Mint Tarts. (Serves 6) 2 squares unsweetened chocolate 1 cup evaporated milk diluted with 1 cup water Vs cup sugar 5 tablespoons flour Vs teaspoon salt 2 egg yolks 2 tablespoons butter 1 teaspoon vanilla % cup chopped nuts 6 baked tart shells Sweetened whipped cream % cup crushed peppermint candy Add chocolate to diluted milk in double boiler and heat until choco late melts. Beat with rotary beater until chocolate is blended with milk. Combine sugar, flour and salt and add gradually to chocolate mixture. Cook until thick and smooth, about 15 minutes. Beat yolks and add to cooked mixture gradually. Cook two minutes longer. Remove from fire, add butter, vanilla and nuts. When cool, pour into tart shells. Top with whipped cream, mixed lightly with the crushed candy. (Ttcleared by Western Newspaper Union.) + FIRST-AI D + | to the AILING HOUSE 4, By ROGER B. WHITMAN JL (© Roger B. Whitman—WNU Service.) Cleaning Rugs and Upholstery COILED carpets, rugs and uphol- ^ stery can be cleaned by sham pooing with soap jelly. Ordinary soiling will come out easily, but oth er methods should be used for obsti nate and unusual stains. These may call for professional Work. Fur ther, shampooing should be applied only to fabrics of which the colors are fast. The jelly is made of chips or flakes of pure and mild soap; the kind of soap that is used for fine launder ing. Four cups are put in a bowl or wide-mouthed jar, and one cup of water is added. The jelly will form within an hour. A portion of the jelly is put into a mixing bowl and beaten with an egg-beater, which will raise suds as stiff as whipped cream. Using a soft brush, jelly is worked on the fabric in a space 12 inches or so across. After a few minutes for the loosening of the dirt, the space is wiped with a cloth damp with clear water, and with a stiffer brush, the nap is brushed in its proper direction. An adjoin ing space should then be cleaned. The suds are so dry that upholstery 1 fabric will not be soaked, as would be the case with soapsuds as usually used. After cleaning, the fabric should be quickly dried. A rug can be supported on boxes and chairs, so that air can get at the back as well as the front. Mounting Maps There have been few times when maps have been studied to the ex tent that they now are; maps of Eu rope, Africa, the Near and Far East, as well as the parts of the world not at present involved in war. For a map to be useful, it should be mounted on a stiff support. One- eighth plywood, is excellent. The first step in mounting is to lay the map on the plywood, and to mark the positions of the four corners. The plywood is then given a coat of shellac on both sides and on the edges. When this is dry, another coat of shellac is applied, the map is rolled up, and one of its ends is laid down with the corners on the marks. With the worker leaning over the board, the rest of the map is then thrown over the head, to be supported by it. The rest of the map is then quickly laid on the damp shefiac, and smoothed with the two hands, which are free. As soon as the map is down, it should be gone over with a stiff brush, working from the center toward the edges, to push out air bubbles that may have been caught. Should any remain, they can be disposed of through a pin hole in the paper in the center of the bulge. Room Decoration Question: A study used by four people has a white ceiling; walls are light blue, and window frames are light yellow. Walls and ceiling are dirty and should be done over. The room is 11 feet square. In re decorating, what colors would make the room appear larger? Answer: A light room will seem larger than if finished in dark col ors. Had I your problem I should use one single light color for every thing; ceiling and woodwork as well as walls. My choice would be light ivory or a pastel shade. Colors to relieve the monotony could be in curtains and upholstery. Floor Cleaning Question: Good oak floors are dis colored and revarnished. How can I clean them and make them light? How can I clean stair treads? Sand ing would be expensive. Answer: At a hardware store you can get an alkali powder to be mixed with water that will take off the varnish and the discolorations. Directions on the label of the box should be carefully followed. Floor Finish Question: What would make a good finish for a newly sanded oak floor? We dislike varnish. Answer: Use a treatment called a seal, which soaks into the wood and becomes part of the surface, rather than lying on it. Any good paint store should have a sealing liquid. If you want to, you can finish it with wax. •White Paint on Red Question: How can I give a white finish to a red seat without the red coming through? Answer: Take off all present fin ish with paint remover, which will also take out much of the red. The remainder can be sealed in with one or two coats of aluminum paint, to be finished with white enamel. Alcohol Stain Question: What will remove white spots left on my walnut bed bf* spilled alcohol? Answer: Rub with camphorated oil, or use scratchless cleaning po\rt» der moistened with household oil, rubbed on with your finger tip. Removing Verdigris Question: What will remove verdi gris from brass pipes and bathroom fixtures? Answer: Verdigris can be taken off with household ammonia or by applying a paste made with sal am moniac and water. Green stains on enameled plumbing fixtures can be removed by rubbing with scratch less cleaning powder moistened witf kerosene, or with a powder for cleaning porcelain that can be had at dime store. Be sure to obtain a “scratchless” type of cleaning pow der. Learn to Sew if Your Budget Is Limited—It’s Fun, Tool By CHERIE NICHOLAS $.vKw.vH npHIS year the fashion picture is literally packed with drama. What with a whirl of midwinter fes tivities and gala occasions in full swing one is almost sure to yearn for more than the usual amount of clothes glamour. The good news is that, by making sewing your hob by, you can easily manage to have an enchanting array without suffer ing a single budget twinge. Simply pick the pattern that measures up to your idea of a dream dress, get your material in hand and then dash off to your nearest local sewing center where expert help is cheerfully given in sewing short cuts and fashion tricks, at little or no expense. Fabric counters are literally bub bling over with an endless display of smart, inexpensive rayon jerseys, tweedy weaves that tailor beauti fully, gorgeous taffetas and moires that look twice as expensive as they really are; velveteens in alluring pastel and brilliant jewel-toned col ors; handsome laces of every type from sheer to the new linen effects, which, for the most part, can be had for under a dollar a yard. This year a merry war is going on between traditional black-and-white and lush, ravishing colors like fuchsia, tur quoise, black plum, alarm red, to paz, gold and beige, Kelly green and seafoam tones and tints. For the twilight hour and its flat tering candlelight, there’s romantic elegance needed, and you will be equal to the occasion if you make a dinner dress which combines a long- sleeved, front-buttoned, long-torso basque top of black cotton lace with a shirred wide-spreading rayon moire skirt which repeats the black lace in a hip border inset after the manner of the gown which the fig- mi ure seated in the foreground is wearing. And again your evening splendor will be definitely established in a mist-blue jersey dress that molds, and tapers to your form in draped and flowing lines like those of 'the gown shown to the right in the trio of evening modes pictured above.’ Drapery treatments are very im portant and are outstanding this season. They are ever so easy td manipulate, even for the inexperi enced, with the aid of a new molded* to-you thermo-plastic dress form* With an exact reproduction of you# figure before you, it requires no special gift to drape the folds of s' material in a way that will most ef« fectively dramatize your silhouette* 1 Gay and inexpensive material# make the luxurious looking dinner dress centered in the group above. There is style distinction reflected in the chrome yellow velveteen jacket that hangs with easy grace from broad-looking shoulders encrusted with importantly new embroidered motifs that are repeated on the pock ets. This jacket would be lovely with a candle-slim forest green crepe floor-length skirt. Believe it or not, the embroidered motifs that so defi nitely enhance this jacket were stitched up in practically no time on a modem sewing machine, and the finished job looks for all the world like fine handwork. Thq fashion suggestions above are destined to turn your “date” into a successful drama, and they will inspire repeat performances in the future. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) White Fur In keeping with the vogue for “winter white,” this season, comes the prediction from furriers that snow white lamb will prove one of the most popular furs of the season. The young set is “rushing” the idea. It’s a treat to the eye to see young girls wearing coats like the one pictured. These coats are strik ingly new, and they top the now-so- modish white jersey “date” dresses to perfection. Rain Now Calls for Gay Fashion Parade Away with somber attire on a rainy day! No longer are leaden- cast skies, downpours of rain and muddy streets a sign that one must match the somberness of the scene with clothes equally depressing. Ac cording to the new theory, a rainy day is just the time to come out in bright array. In fact, rainy days are turning into cheerful events. There are gay new capes, fitted coats and trench model coats, some in white, some in blue and, most ex citing of all, those in bright red rainproof transparencies or proc essed cloth, if you prefer. You can get red or white boots to match. a There’s style and charm, too, in the new processed black satin rain coats that are fashioned with smart details and given a glamour touch, in that the newest out are fashioned with jeweled buttons. Magazine Tells What the College Girl Is Wearing According to a new women’s mag azine : College co-eds are braiding their hair in “country cousin” style. Earrings are being worn with the braids. Sixty inch pearls worn on “Sloppy Joe” cardigans are “tops” every where. Cowboy boots, plaid sweaters, lime yellow shirts, corduroy jack ets, the “V” neck sweater and knee length argyle plaid socks also storm the American campus scene. For the Young Take yards and yards of bright red net. Fashion this into a full skirt. Top this with a snug-fitting bodice made of jersey in matching red. Outline the decolletage, sleeve edges and finish off the waistline with a single-row beading of spar kling red sequins