Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY, S. C Broadway Stardust'. The fountain pen firm which in troduced the under-water pen soon will bring out an under-water per fume so you will smell sweet while swimming. Greatest invention since soap. .. . Bess Myerson (Miss Amer ica of 1945) is organizing a 21-piece all-girl band. They will follow Tex Beneke’s crew at the 400 in January. . . . Greenwich (Conn.), home burg for some of the wealthiest people in the world, is in a tizzy with ex citement about the identity of the 20 locals who voted Communist. Some of the millionaires there are suspected. . . . Lindy’s raised its excellent coffee a nickel per cup. Multiply that nickel by the over 50,000 patrons weekly and get dizzy. •. . . How night club concessionaires get rich: The recent half-cent per pack rise in cigarettes prompted concessionaire Ellis to tilt his price a jitney per pack. Midtown Vignette: Blanche Vurka, a fine actress, got her first stage assignment in ages recently, and therein lies this paragraph. . . . Blanche wear ied of playing frowzy character roles in the films and returned to Broadway open to offers. . . . None came—until Eve Wygod (owner of a beauty parlor) per suaded La Turka to let herself be glamourized. ... So wot? . . . When showmen saw the “new” Yurka they became en tranced and goose-pimply. . . . But the role she got—is that of a “progressive” German wom an—mit oudt glammer! Cure of alcoholism isn’t as simple as the movies make out. Many such sanitariums around H’wood aow charge as high as $100 daily. . . For a little number called "Mother Wore Tights,” Betty Gra- ole wears mink tights—mink, not pink. . . . Realty experts are amused at the 10 per cent raise (the news papers are giving them) when rent controls die—they expect the aver age tilt to be at least 20. May go as tall as 60. . . D. Smart, the mag publisher, will offer Elliott Roosevelt $20,000 for “a good interview” when ne returns from Moscow. Elliott is cleaning up a mint, mainly because he became “good copy” following all those press attacks on him for over a year . . . Street Scene: Sec’y of State Byrnes saving a woman from being hit by a bus at 50th and Madison. The other night in the House of Dixon the swellodic Joe Moo ney quartet started playing its humorous arrangement of “Just a Gigolo.” ... A pleasant-look- ing young chap (sitting with an older woman at the ringside) became uncomfortable as Moo ney started singing the special lyrics directly at him. ... As the laughter grew, the fellow squirmed. ... He excused him self and beat a hasty retreat to the lounge room until the song ended. . . . When he returned, his companion teased him about his self-consciousness. . . . “But he was singing it right at me,” he remarked, “and everyone was laughing.” . . . “My dear,” the woman replied, patting his hand, “Joe Mooney was singing directly at your imagination. You see, Joe is blind.” The Intelligentsia: Henry Miller’s novel, “Tropic of Capricorn,” (banned in the U. S.) has been one jf France’s (English-language) best sellers. It recently was translated into French and was banned! . . . Tom Costain, author of “The Black Rose,” a click, has finished a new 3ne, due in March, “Money Man.” . . “Contact,” Nebraska peniten tiary’s publication, features “pro files” under the title of “Prisonali- ties.” . . . Philip Wylie’s “Genera tion of Vipers” book, foui years old, still sells 1,000 copies a week, via boosters. His next will be called "An Essay on Morals.” The few times H. S. T. does something right he doesn’t tell the country about it. Recently, frinstance, he’s alleged to have received a scorching letter from a newly - elected big shot, screaming against raising the immigration bars. The President supposedly re plied: “Unless you happen to be an American Indian your atti- Itude is stupid. Applied retro actively, you could never have been born here, since your for bears wouldn’t have been able to emigrate from their foreign birthplaces.” Sounds in the Night: In the Mer maid room: “That’s a lovely dress, but her face is showing!” ... In the Stork: “She’s , the sort of gal men look at twice. They don’t be lieve it the first time.” ... In the Village Vanquard: “A nice guy is someone who takes a lady out. A wolf takes her in.” ... At Chateau briand: “That nobody used to be somebody until he thawt he was ev erybody.” ... At the Henry Hud son: “Who writes his smuterial?” ... At the Victorian room: “Oh, don’t be a jerk. Or am I too late?” from two years in the air force, he’s co-starring with Edward G. Robin son in Sol Lesser’s “The Red House”; plays a handsome young swain who captivates the hearts of the girls. That should come easy! Five - year - old Karolyn Grimes seems to be in a rut—has to play bedroom scenes all the time. In her first three pictures she went into a clinch with Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire and Fred MacMurray, re spectively. Now she’s playing the daughter of Catherine Craig and Richard Webb in “Sweet and Low.” When the sponsors of “Highways in Melody” wanted a new, unknown ex-serviceman singer whom they could build into a star they picked Mac Morgan. He was born in Tex arkana, Texas, but his mother was born in Oklahoma before it was ad mitted to the Union as a state, and his uncle is now mayor of Ard more. He met his wife when he and she were students at the Eastman School of Music, and she was his accompanist for five years before they married; now she not only ac companies him, but writes songs for him as well. The American Schools and Col leges association advises that cer tain types of broadcasts should be required listening; its School Advi sory Committee cites as examples “Superman” and “Let’s Pretend,” for children, and the Alan Young show, “The Aldrich Family” and “Date With Judy” as comedies. “It’s Up to Youth,” the “CBS School of the Air” and the “NBC University of the Air” are the educational pro grams. -V Valya Valentinoff danced well enough with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and in several musical hits to be acclaimed as “the great est male dancer since Nijinsky.” So of course he wants to do straight act ing roles. He’s changed his name to Paul Valentine, and gets his wish in his film debut in “Build My Gal lows High,” in which he has been awarded the top badman role. Joan Davis is being paged by RKO to form a new comedy team with Wally Brown, who appears on her Monday CBS air show. He’s already under contract to the studio, and is being groomed for top comic roles, so they seem like a natural for pic tures. At a rehearsal for his Sunday CBS broadcast Eddie Bracken was asked by a young girl to join a Janet Waldo club—fee $5. Janet’s fea tured on the show, so he joined. Then it developed that there are eight Janet Waldo fan clubs in Los An geles; he joined them all. RKO announces the purchase of "Sacajawea,” an original story, the romantic adventure of the Indian girl who guided Lewis and Clark into the Northwest. They’ll film it in Technicolor. Joan Blondell was signed as the first feminine star for the forth coming “Christmas Eve”; there’ll be two more feminine leads, and George Raft, Randolph Scott and George Brent play opposite them. It’s a Benedict Bogeaus production. ODDS AND ENDS—Luis Van Rooten, )f the MBS "Exploring the Unknown," oas gone to Hollywood to play a leading 'haracter role in "Saigon.". . . Recom- nended as the best comedy stunt of the tear—Phil Baker’s "Search for an Apart- nent,” which took him to Hollywood to and on a dozen leading ait shows. . . . kerb Shriner and Lanny Ro.s may team tp for a concert tour next year. . . .{ Kenny Delmar ("Senator Claghorn" of he picture "It’s a Joke, Son," and the •red Allen show), has been chosen Chair- nan of the South for National Laugh Veek, 1917—and January 19, 194' 1 , will >e Senator Claghorn Day, when the pic- ure opens. . If you want to establish yourself as a givet of welcome gifts, let them come from the heart of your warm and cozy kitchen. Jars of jelly, buttery, decorated cook ies that simply melt at the first bite, or crunchy candy and popcorn balls are certain to delight your friends. Think of all the time you can save by doing your Christmas things at home—no waiting for clerks, no time spent in searching for things that will really be the ideal gift. Your range and oven, mixing bowl and pantry are all right there in your own home, at your service. Gifts that come from your kitchen will be doubly welcome because they have such a personal value. So make out your list and start to work on a really merry Christmas. Here are some suggestions for all kinds of homemade gifts. You’ll really like this conserve and mar malade because they’re kind to the sugar bowl. Raisin Conserve. (Makes 11 6-ounce glasses) 4 cups prepared fruit 2 cups sugar 2 cups light corn syrup Vi cup nutmeats, finely chopped 1 box powdered fruit pectin To prepare fruit, add 2V2 cups wa ter and Vz cup lemon juice to 1 15- ounce box seeded or seedless raisins. Cover and let stand 4 hours or over night. Bring to a boil and simmer, covered, for 30 minutes, stirring oc casionally. Drain, chop or grind and mix with water in which fruit has been soaked. Measure 4 cups of fruit into saucepan; add nuts. Measure sugar and syrup and set aside. Place saucepan containing fruit over high heat. Add fruit pec tin and stir until mixture comes to a hard boil. Add sugar and syrup at once, bring to a full rolling boil. Boil hard 1 minute, stirring con stantly. Remove from heat, skim and pour quickly. Cover with paraf fin at once. Honey-Orange Marmalade. (Makes 6 6-ounce glasses) 114 cups prepared fruit 214 cups honey 14 bottle fruit pectin To prepare fruit, remove skins in quarters from 1 medium orange and 1 lemon. Lay quarters flat, shave off and dis card about 14 of the white part. With a sharp knife, cut remain ing rind into fine shreds. Add 14 cup honey, 14 cup water and Vs tea spoon soda. (This honey is in addition to 214 cups specified above.) Bring to a boil, simmer, covered, 10 min- ptes, stirring occasionally. Remove sections of fruit pulp, free from membrane. Add pulp and juice to cooked rind, simmer 20 minutes longer. Measure honey and fruit, solidly packed into large kettle. Bring to a full rolling boil over hottest fne. Stir constantly before and while boil ing. Boil hard 1 minute. Remove from fire and stir in pectin. Stir and skim by turns for 5 minutes to cool slightly and to prevent floating fruit. Pour quickly and cover with paraffin at once. LYNN SAYS: Wrap Gifts Prettily Half the joy of receiving a gift is untying its pretty trimmings. It will be fun to wrap if you can get to gether a sort of gift-wrapping party before Christmas and have all your trappings assembled at a large table. Besides your usual assortment of papers and ribbons, lay in a special supply of such things as lacy paper doilies, ornaments, Sunday school stars and harmonizing stickers, rib bon and paper. LYNN CHAMBERS’ MENU Meat Loaf Scalloped Potatoes Lima Beans Red and White Cabbage Slaw Toasted Muffins Beverage Baked Pears Cookies Christmas Cookies. (Makes 6 dozen cookies) 314 cups flour 1 teaspoon baking powder \ Vz teaspoon salt 1 cup butter or substitute 114 cups sugar 2 eggs, well beaten 114 teaspoons vanilla Sift flour; measure, sift again with baking powder and salt. Cream but ter, add sugar and beat until light and fluffy. Add eggs and va nilla and blend well. Combine dry ingredients and creamed mixture, blend thoroughly and chill. Roll dough as thin as pos sible and cut into fancy shapes with cookie cutters, using stars, wreaths, Xmas trees, etc. Sprinkle some with red sugar, others with green sugar. Decorate with pieces of red and green candied fruit and silver dragees. Bake in a hot (400 degrees) oven for 6 to 10 minutes. Mincemeat Drops. (Makes 4 dozen cookies) 114 cups flour 14 teaspoon salt 14 teaspoon soda 14 cup shortening 1 egg, well beaten 94 cup moist mincemeat 14 teaspoon vanilla Sift flour, measure, add salt and soda and sift again. Cream short ening, add sugar gradually and blend well. Add well beaten egg and combine with dry ingredients. Fold in mincemeat and add vanilla. Drop by teaspoonfuls 2 to 3 inches apart on a greased baking sheet. Bake in a moderate (375 degrees) oven 10 to 12 minutes. Maple Popcorn Squares. (Makes 3 dozen 2-inch squares) 1 cup maple or brown sugar 14 cup maple flavored syrup 14 cup water 1 teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon butter 1 quart popped corn Cook sugar, syrup, water and salt to 230 degrees or to the brittle stage. Add butter and cook slowly to 294 degrees. Meanwhile grind popped corn coarsely through a meat grind er or chop in a wooden bowl. When syrup is cooked, remove from heat and stir in corn. Pour onto oiled marble between irons. Roll with oiled rolling pin. Cut into squares or bars. Chocolate Nut Slices. (Makes 5 dozen slices) 7 to 8 ounces semi-sweet chocolate 94 cup powdered sugar 2 tablespoons cream 1 egg, well beaten 1 cup broken nutmeats Heat chocolate in double boiler until melted. Remove from heat and add remaining ingredients. Shape into rolls 94 inch in diameter on waxed paper. Let stand to hard en, then cut in J4 inch slices. The nuts may be omitted and the mix ture rolled into balls, ‘then rolled in chopped nuts, chocolate shot, coco nut or malted milk powder. Released by Western Newspaper Union. On Christ mas morn ing when I awake, and sleep-dust from my eyes I shake, I see a sight that makes me start and causes thumpings in my heart! A Christmas tree— oh, pretty sight—with can dles, bells and balls alight. With horns and dells and sugar plums, and skates and trains and beating drums. And oh, it is a won der-tree, with heaps of things for me to see! Rare gifts hang upon the side, which tinseled fairies cannot hide. A soldier- doll, a doll house, too, and strings of gold come to my view, and as I look I seem to hear sweet Christmas music soft and clear. A Merry Christmas it seems to say, A merry, happy, holy day! Stocking Hanging An Old Custom Almost without exception the chil dren of American will put up their stockings by the side of the chimney for Father Christmas or Santa Claus. For generations children have gone eagerly to their stocking. Santa Glaus Provided With Variety of Toys Cowboy and Policemen Replace G.l. Uniforms Toyland, 1946 style, is geared to reproduction of America’s peace time living, reproducing in purpose ful miniature every phase of home making, building and road construc tion, transportation, science, agri culture, fashion and art. Cowboys and policemen have staged a come back as juvenile heroes and minia- Cross Stitch Charm For Lovely Linens on Christmas morning to see what Santa Claus has deposited in them. The origin has nothing whatever to do with Christmas. The custom’s only connection with Christmas is through Saint Nicholas. Saint Nich olas, or Santa Claus, the saint who liked to do good by stealth, heard that three lovely sisters, who lived in a poor cottage on the outskirts of town, were destitute. Saint Nicholas made his way to ' their home one night, and threw a gift of three gold pieces through | the smoke-hole of the cottage. Instead of gold pieces falling on ; the hearth, as he had expected, they | fell into the stockings of the girls, which had been hung up over the fire to dry after washing. Hence, when the tale became known, the custom of hanging up stockings over the fire came into being—in hopes; and Christmas Day was chosen for the doing, because it was Saint Nicholas’ day. tures of military equipment are keyed to the armed forces’ training programs. New toys have been test ed by children for fun appeal, age interest and safety. More than 100,000 different kinds of playthings with a retail value of 250 million dollars, a 35 per cent increase over 1945, are ready for | Christmas distribution. The first lines of rubber and steel playthings in four years will bring back such deeply missed favorites as rubber balls, balloons and animals, wheel toys, electric trains, movable eyes and voices for dolls, steel construc tion sets, musical instruments, noisemakers and pop guns. Many new uses of plastic as well as a bumper crop of wood, cardboard and paper toys also will be repre sented in Santa’s 1946 pack. Special requests to Santa Claus will call for early shopping. Al though volume in most lines is close to prewar levels, unprecedented de mand is likely to create out-of-stock conditions in popular lines before Christmas eve. This will be due to the fact that in addition to pent-up , demand for toys caused by wartime Bear in mind a person’s interests when you wrap the gifts and try to personalize them as much as possi ble. Children’s gifts, for example, can be given in bright wool socks; men’s gifts can be placed in a shav ing mug and decorated with red and white striped paper. Boxes of cookies are nice if you give them in candy boxes, glass candy dishes or gaily paint ed tins. You might even cut down an oatmeal box into a sort of a hat box, line it with Xmas paper and ti« with a fancy bow manufacturing restrictions, five mil lion extra children of toy age were added to the population during the var years (in comparison with the' average of the preceding peacetime lecade). ’zechoslovakia Cards Designed by Cripples Christmas cards, produced by the .\merican Relief for Czechoslovakia, vere drawn by Ann Halamova and Premek Blazicek, two of hundreds >f Czechoslovak children who lost Jieir arms or legs through the ex plosion of bombs, grenades or mines vhich the Nazis strewed throughout heir country. These tots were rained by the Jedlicka institute in Prague, and the cards, made by | :hildren without hands, would be re- narkable for normal children even jlder than they are. WILD BLUE YONDER . . . Daniel Greening, like most American boys, prefers that his tricycle be modeled after a fighter plane. World War II weapons and equip ment soon will give way to fan tastic “cosmic weapons,” as the motif for children’s toys. first Christmas Dance Until Midnight. Mexican Christmas Eve is a pretty combination of the religious and the festive observance. There is a dance in every village until mid night. At the stroke of twelve the musicians play a myslical sacred melody, and everyone converges in front of the “nacimiento,” or crib representation. How Washington Observed Christmas in Virginia George V/ashington celebrated Christmas in much the same man ner as it is observed today. With his neighbors he attended Christ mas Eve sacred services at the vil lage church. On Christmas Day an elaborate and delectable dinner was served, followed by hours of fun and merry-making, at which most of the neighbors tcok part. Rhythmic feet stepped the Virginia reel, followed by the jigtime of the country. Vhat sweeter musick can we bring, Than a Carroll, for to sing, Che birth of this our Heavenly King? \wake the Voice! Awake the String! deart, Eare and Eye and everything 9wake. . . . Che Darling of the world has come, 9nd fit it is, we finde a roome To welcome Him. The Nobler part Df all the house here, is the heart, Which we will give; and bequeath This Hollie, and this Ivie Wreath, To do Him honour; who’s our King, \nd Lord of all this rejoicing! —Robert Herrick (1591-1674) Make Christmas Happy By Making It a Safe One Th tree, the drying holly and mistletoe, lighted candles, defective log, all increase the danger of fire. If the carefree spirit that charac terizes Christmas slips into careless ness, swift catastrophe may over take us, our loved ones and our pos sessions. There is no time of the year when it is so essential that ex treme care be taken to insure that any possible danger of fire be avoid ed to make Christmas a happy one. yOU needn’t envy your friend’s lovely linens . . . for just see what the simple cross stitch can do! The crocheting is beginner- easy, too! • • • Pattern 890 has transfer of a by 21, two fiVa by ISti. eight Z'.i-inch motifs; crochet directions. Due to an unusually large demand and current conditions, slightly more time is required in filling orders for a few of the most popular patterns. To obtain this pattern send 20 cents in coin to: Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept. 564 W. Randolph St. Chicago 80, 111. Enclose 20 cents for pattern. No Name. 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