For Supper Simplicity, Prepare It
(See Recipes Below)
in Advance
Simple Suppers
Feel rushed on wash day? Too
tired to put together a big meal?
X I la i S uic W a j m
lot of our home
makers feel, so
you’re not the
only one. But I
have some nice
cures for those
washday blues
with a number of
quick dinners, or suppers, if you
prefer calling a simple meal that
instead of the other.
The trick to making mealtime
easy on washday is to get as much
of the supper together before you
become involved with washday.
Make a Jellied salad while you're
waiting for the breakfast stragglers
to come down to eat, and prepare a
casserole that can be refrigerated
until baking time, and plan to have
■oft Banned, chilled fruit with home
made cookies as a dessert. Round
these main foods out with beverage,
bread and butter and your dinner's
prepared.
There are loads of casserole
dishes that won’t suffer any by be
ing refrigerated before baking, and
I’ve selected a few of these to pass
on to you today. Cheese is good
and very nourishing too, if you want
a substitute for meat. Leftover veg
etables combined with shreds of
meat from the Sunday roast also
whip up nicely into one of those all
inclusive entrees for washday.
How would you like to serve this
Cheese and Noodle Pie? Yes, it’s
actually made like a pie and is
aerved simply by slicing in wedges.
Cheese and Noodle Pie.
(Serves 4 to Si
t tablespoons shortening or ba
con drippings
I tablespoons chopped, green
pepper
1 cup milk
1 bouillon cubes
1 cup soft bread crumbs
* eggs, beaten
% teaspoon salt
* teaspoons grated onion
t cups cooked medium noodles
(4 ounces, uncooked)
Wedges of American cheese
Melt shortening in pan. add green
pepper and saute for 5 minutes,
then add milk
and bouillon
cubes. Heat until
cubes are dis
solved. Add re
maining ingredi
ents, except
« cheese and turn
into a buttered
baking dish, a nine-inch pie plate.
Bake in a moderately slow (325-de
gree) oven for 35 minutes, or until
the custard is set. Cut 3 slices of
cheese, and then cut these into 6
wedges. Place on top of the hot pie,
Lynn Says
Eat More Eggs: They’re "in
season" now, plentiful and eco
nomical. You’ll like these savory
ways for preparing them:
Make eggs into an omelet, add
ing lVi cups of soft bread crumbs
(for 4 eggs) to the fat in the pan
before pouring the egg mixture
in to cook. This gives a crispy,
crunchy omelet.
Omelet with herbs? Yes, in
deed, they’re fine. Use any one
of the following: chopped chives
or parsley; chervil, basil, thyme,
tarragon, sweet marjoram or
fennel.
If you’re scrambling eggs,
make them glorified by adding
frizzled dried beef or ham;
chopped sauteed mushrooms;
leftover vegetables.
While you're baking eggs, add
little touches to make them more
attractive. Partially cook bacon,
fit around a muffin tin before
breaking in the eggs. Or. sprin
kle eggs in custard cups with
grated cheese before baking.
Line individual dishes with rice,
break in egg and serve with
mushroom sauce.
Lynn Chambers’ Menus
Baked Stuffed Fish
Anchovy Sauce Fried Potatoes
Stuffed Beets
Lettuce Salad Rolls
Chocolate Cream Pie
Beverage
the sharp points to the center. In
crease oven temperature to moder
ately hot (400 degrees) and bake
10 minutes to melt and brown the
cheese. Cut pie into wedges and
serve piping hot.
Leftover vegetables need not fur
nish good material for the garbage
pail. If you have several of them,
combine them into delightful tim
bales for supper with a cheese sauce
to go with them. A cheese sauce is
easily made by melting % pound of
cheese with ^ cup of milk in the top
part of the double boiler while the
timbales are baking.
Vegetable Timbales.
(Serves 4 to 6)
1H cups cooked peas
1H cups cooked, drained corn
1 cup drained, canned tomatoes
1 tablespoon chopped onion
1H cups soft bread crumbs
3 eggs
% cup melted butter or substitute
Salt and pepper to taste
Mix all Ingredients with a fork
and add seasoning to taste. Pour
into seven buttered custard cups
and bake in a pan of water in a
moderate (350-degree) oven for 45
to 50 minutes. Serve with cheese
sauce.
If you are using all the eggs
which rightfully belong to the diet,
there’s no better way to prepare
them than curried. Here is a dish
that can be prepared in the morn
ing—yes, stuff the eggs and make
the cream sauce. Then 15 minutes
or so before dinner, light the oven
and pop them in to heat.
Curried Deviled Eggs.
(Serves 6)
12 hard-cooked eggs
1 teaspoon dry mustard
1 teaspoon grated onion
Mayonnaise or salad dressing
Balt and pepper
3 tablespoons butter
6 tablespoons flour
lH teaspoons curry powder
3 cups milk
3 cups cooked peas
14 teaspoon sage
1 teaspoon sugar
Halve eggs lengthwise. Remove
yolks. Mash. Add mustard, onion,
and enough salad dressing to moist
en. Season to taste with salt and
pepper. Refill egg whites with yolk
mixture. Heat butter, blend in flour
and curry powder; gradually add
milk. Cook over boiling water, stir
ring constantly
until thick. Sea
son to taste with
salt and pepper
and cook 5 min
utes. Arrange 4
halved eggs in
individual serv
ing or baking dishes and pour sauce
over eggs. Combine peas, sage and
sugar and arrange in border around
the eggs. Bake in a moderately hot
(375-degree) oven for 15 minutes or
until thoroughly heated.
A dessert that can be started bak
ing before the Curried Devil Eggs is
this quick and easy Fudge Cake. It
takes it easy on shortening.
Fudge Cake.
(Eight-Inch square pan)
2 squares chocolate
cup shortening
t cup sugar
2 eggs
H cup sifted flour
% teaspoon salt
1 cup chopped nuts
Melt chocolate and shortening to
gether. Blend in other ingredients.
Bake in a greased square pan, in
a moderate (350-degree) oven for 35
minutes.
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REPORT ON THE
RUSSIANS.
'W. L
White
INSTALLMENT TWELVE
The head of the Soviet labor
movement was a very smart man of
forty-three called Kuznetsov. He
was really keen. He’d lived in
America, graduated from Carnegie
Institute of Technology with a mas
ter’s degree in metallurgy, and if
you tried to point out that his labor
movement here wasn’t really free,
he’d come right back at you with
some American example trying to
prove that ours was even less free.
He outlined their set-up like this.
All Soviet unions—representing 22,
000,000 workers—send delegates to
the All-Union Trades Congress. This
meets every year or so but hasn't
since the war. This corresponds to
our AFL and CIO national conven
tions rolled Into one. It’s strictly
labor—no soldiers or farmers are
in It. This big Congress elects fifty
five members to something they call
the Plenum. These fifty-five elect
eighteen to something called the
Presidium. And these eighteen elect
ed him its secretary, which makes
him head of the workers. He said
at least 90 or 95 per cent of all
workers belonged to trade unions.
Stalin stayed in Moscow when Ger
many advanced on city.
So we asked him who didn’t belong.
‘‘Well,’’ he said, “some apprentices
are too young, and then in the re
occupied regions, it takes a little
time to convince all workers they
should belong." He said the dues
were 1 per cent of a worker’s sal
ary. There is no initiation fee, but
they sell you a book costing only
one rouble.
“Now, is this a perfectly free
union movement,” we asked him,
“or is it directed by your govern
ment?”
It was perfectly free, he assured
us. Of course, he said, anyone they
elected to their Congress must be
approved by the government.
He said, “in 1919 a strike in one
steel mill lasted two days. And in
1923 there was another little strike
in western Russia. We were chang
ing over from the old czarist money
to Soviet roubles, and it took time
to get it all printed and out to the
workers. As soon as the situation
was explained to them, they went
back to work. There have been no
strikes since, and in the future there
won’t be any because our workers
understand they are all working for
each other."
“If a worker is discontented and
gets discharged for any reason,
would it be difficult for him to get
a job some place else?”
“Very, very difficult,” said Kuz
netsov.
"Do you have any absenteeism?”
“We simply don’t have it without
reason.”
“But aren't workers sometimes a
little late?”
“Occasionally,” he said. “The
first time he is warned. The second
time he may be fined. If it happens
again, he is discharged. If a work
er fails to co-operate, damages too
much material or does anything else
which we consider serious, he may
be arrested and tried before a judge,
and if he is unable to prove his in
nocence, sentenced to a number of
years’ penal labor. The rules in the
factories are very strict and rigidly
enforced.” And the union officials
encourage the workers to testify
against a man guilty of these of
fenses — maybe they themselves
bring charges against him.
"Joining the trade union in any
plant is completely voluntary,” Kuz
netsov said.
“How do you account then, for the
fact that practically everyone who
is eligible joins?”
“It is to their advantage in any
country, and particularly in the So
viet Union, Vhere the Trade Union
Movement offers many benefits.
Here a union member received
greater sick benefits than a non
union member. There is a housing
shortage here and most factories own
apartment houses which they rent
to the workers. Union members re
ceive first consideration.
“All workers are entitled to vaca
tion with pay, but non-union mem
bers cannot spend their vacations in
the rest centers maintained for
workers. If a worker is sick, the
physician may recommend an ex
tra week’s vacation, and he can go
to a special type of rest center
equipped to care for invalids. But
non-union members are not eligi
ble.”
‘‘Usually about 6 per cent of an
employee’s salary goes for rent in
these factory-owned apartments,”
he said. "Young apprentices live
in rent-free dormitories. Older
workers may live in them, too, but
they pay. Skilled workers, or those
who exceed their norms, are entitled
to better quarters. Because their
pay is more, their rent is propor
tionately higher,”
‘‘What relations do you have with
American labor?” we asked.
‘‘None at all with the AFL,” he
said. “We're very much disap
pointed. Also, their representative,
Mr. Watt, criticized our Russian
Trade Movement at the last meet
ing of the International Labor Or
ganization in Philadelphia. He
claimed we were not a free move
ment. You can see that we are. I
don’t understand why your govern
ment would permit this criticism of
our trade unions.”
"Russia is your ally,” he said. “I
can’t understand why your govern
ment would permit it, and we sim
ply don’t understand the AFL. It
probably isn’t the workers, but only
the leaders who have these distort
ed notions. Here we are sure that
your workers really want to co-op
erate with ours, only the leaders
won’t permit it. We do have some
relations with the CIO—letters from
Mr. Murray and several others. It
is more sympathetic, and desires to
co-operate, and more nearly under
stands the true position of workers
in America and workers here. We
hope some day we can co-operate
with the American labor movement.
After all, we are working for the
same cause.”
Until we reach the Urals, which
divide Russia-in-Europe from Rus
sia-in-Asia, the country we fly over
is exactly as it was up from Teheran
—the same thatched villages domi
nated by white churches with fced
painted onion domes. We crossed the
Urals, which are, in this area, not
mountains but low, rolling hills,
wooded with birch, oak, elm, ma
ple, but no pine.
At this airport, as at all the others
we are to touch, we are met by the
local dignitaries and important
Communists—all grave, cap-wear
ing Russians, well-dressed by Com
munist standards. Zeeses take us
across the city to the house of the
plant director, where we will spend
the night. We-drive through teem
ing, unpainted slums which are
worse than those of Pittsburgh al
though we keep in mind that Mag
nitogorsk is crowded because many
industries have been evacuated
here.
we leave me slums and go up a
hill which, overlooking the slums
and the blast furnaces, are the spa
cious homes of the executives—
even as it is in Pittsburgh. We come
into a paved residential street with
gutters, sidewalks and big yards.
Except for architectural differences,
we might be in Forest Hills, New
York, or Rochester, Minnesota’s
“Pill Hill.”
Magnitogorsk was started in 1916.
There are now 45,000 workers in his
plant, of whom 25,000 are construc
tion workers, for it is expanding.
Twenty open-hearth furnaces and six
blast furnaces are operating, two of
which were opened during the war.
The mountain they mine contains
an estimated 300,000,000 tons of ore
which is 60 per cent iron, and an
other 85,000,000 tons which will run
from 50 to 45 per cent—quite a stock
pile! Eric tells me that we have
only about 100,000,000 tons left at
Hibbing, and are using these up at a
wartime rate of 27,000,000 tons a
year.
After lunch we drive to the big
steel plant. I am riding with a cor
respondent.
Suddenly our car turns to one
side as we overtake a long column
marching four abreast, on its way
to work at the plant. Marching
ahead of it, behind it and on both
sides, are military guards carrying
rifles with fixed bayonets. The sec
ond thing is that the column itself
consists of ragged women in make
shift sandals, who glance furtively
at our cars.
The correspondent nudges me.
Nick, the NKVD man, is riding in
the front seat.
I don’t know how those women got
there or where they were going, so
I leave them as material for some
mightier talent with greater imagi
native powers.
Entering the blast furnace section,
the director bellows two noteworthy
statistics at us; the first, that hn a
1,200,000,000 rouble business this
year, he hopes to clear a 50,000,000
rouble profit. Secondly, that in this
inferno, they have per month only
eight injuries per 10,000 employees.
The armament factory takes the
prize for the most sloppily organized
shop we have seen in the Soviet Un
ion. Stockingless girls with crude
sandals, lathing shells for the Red
Army, stand on heaps of curled
metal scrap from their machines.
Occasionally they are protected
from its sharp edges by crude duck
boards.
Some attempt is being made to
remove the scrap. We see two girls
carrying out a load of it on a Rus
sian wheelbarrow, which is a kind of
homemade litter, with one pair of
wooden handles in front and one be
hind. It carries a modest wheel
barrow-load but requires two people.
They stumble along with it through
the rubbish.
We watch them milling shells for
the Red Army. There is no as
sembly belt but at one point they
have devised a substitute. When
one operation is finished, a shell is
placed on a long, inclined rack,
down which it rolls into the next
room for the next operation. Only
the rack is badly made and now
and then a shell falls off. Instead
of adjusting the rack, a girl is sta
tioned by it to pick up the shells
and put them back on straight.
Now we go through a brick plant.
We watch the women laboriously
moving bricks by hand after each
processing operation. As we are
leaving the plant, we see another
column of women marching under
guard.
A few hours on the plane brings
us to Sverdlovsk, before the revolu
tion called Ekaterinburg because It
was founded by Catherine the Great.
It was here in a cellar that the hard
headed Bolsheviks shot weak-willed,
well-meaning Czar Nicholas II, his
wife and family, later changing the
name* of the town. Sverdlovsk is
another Soviet Pittsburgh, bustling
with a million people.
Sverdlovsk is the Soviet center for
the manufacture of heavy machine
tools. In one big shop we see a
gigantic drop forge, made in Duis
burg, Germany. I can well be
lieve that there are only four like it
in the world. It can apply pressure
of 10,000 tons.
The plant itself is the same old
Soviet story we have so far seen—
no light, dirty, bad floors, and in
this one the roof leaks. Outside there
is a summer shower and we watch
the water pour down from the high
ceiling onto the hot steel and get
soaked ourselves as we walk
through. But they have mended the
roof over the most important ma
chines.
Across the street from our flve
year-plan hotel Is the marble opera
house. It is a little too ornate, but
Russians like it that way. It seems
to be the most substantial and care
fully built structure in town. It ia
the provincial opera house, built in
1903 under the czar.
At Omsk the delegation of digni
taries shakes hands with us and tells
us that our bags will be left at the
airport, where we will spend the
night. The building is excellent,
modern, simple and in good repair.
Martial law was declared In Mos
cow and ack-acks brought to city in
great numbers.
It seems substantially constructed.
Omsk before the war had a popu
lation of 320,000 and now has 514,000
—evacuated workers, of course.
We inspect the Mayor of Omsk—
Kishemelev Kuzma. This is his sec
ond year in office. Before that he
was Director of Automobile High
ways, a confusing title since the So
viet Union has few passenger cars
and almost no highways.
We ask him how he got elected
and he answers promptly that the
people did it and goes into detail.
There were in all five candidates,
each representing one of the vari
ous trade unions. Everybody in
Omsk could vote, he says, and of
course the ballot was secret.
In the empty airport waiting room,
sprawled on the benches were two
khaki-clad figures. One asked me
something in Russian. The other
one said, "Hell, Tex. he’s no Rus
sian."
I said, “I’m an American. You
guys Americans too?” "I should
hope to kiss a horse we are," said
Tex.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
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By VIRGINIA VALE
IF YOU’RE all agog about
who’s going to portray
whom in “Forever Amber,”
here are the most recent
casting additions: Peggy
Cumming, the young Eng
lish actress, has the role
of “Amber,” of course, and
Cornel Wilde is the dashing ‘‘Bruce
Carlton.” Paul Guilfoyle, Clyde
Cook and John Rogers are ‘‘Jim
my-the-Mouth,” ‘‘Deadeye’’ and
“Blueskin” respectively. Twentieth
Century-Fox is doing it in techni
color, and the production has al
ready gone before the cameras,
with John Stahl directing.
-*
Osa Massen, who has a featured
role in RKO’s ‘‘Deadline at Dawn,”
was a photographer and film cutter
before she became an actress. Lat
er, when she was a star in her na
OSA MASSEN
tive Copenhagen, she pitched in and
cut and edited her own pictures.
And she’s still at it—she now
makes a weekly photographic rec
ord of Susan Hayward's twins; the
girls became friendly while in
“Deadline at Dawn.”
-*
Cass Daley had a beautiful dream
the other night. She dreamt that
she was in the White House, singing
as she never sang before. And her
accompanist—President Harry Tru
man, of course. Now her one am
bition is to make that dream come
true.
Housewives, take a bow! Profes
sor Quiz says housewives usually
make out the best on his program,
with doctors, lawyers and teachers
on the rear ranks. And he should
know. He’s had contestants from
every state in the Union on his
Thursday night radio show, and
there have been some from Canada,
Europe and South America.
-*
While Ingrid Bergman was mak
ing "Saratoga Trunk” she also
made an abridged version of it for
herself, shooting it in color with her
own 16 mm. camera. Gary Cooper
was camera man for the few shots
of herself which she Included. She
began making her own pictorial rec
ord of movie-making in Holly
wood shortly after she arrived
there; “Casablanca” turned out so
well in her miniature version that
she attempted a more ambitious
record of “Saratoga Trunk.” Inci
dentally, she read “Saratoga Trunk”
aloud, when it came out, to perfect
her English, and was so much im
pressed by “Clio,” the Creole hero
ine, that she envied the actress
who’d play her—and got the role
herself.
-*
Teresa Wright dreamed for years
of having her name in lights on
Broadway; then she made her de
but in "Our Town”—and had to
change her name, because her
name was Muriel, and there was
another Muriel Wright on the Equi
ty rolls. Teresa’s her middle name.
--
Ricardo Cortez is resuming bis
acting career after four years’ re
tirement from the screen. He’ll re
turn In Republic’s “The Twisted
Circle,” starring Adele Mara, and
will play a suave villain.
-«
British actresses seem to be step
ping into the lead in a lot of our
pictures lately. Lilli Palmer, a Brit
ish film star, has been signed to a
long-term contract by United States
Pictures, the new producing com
pany headed by Joseph Bernhard
and Milton Sperling. Her first as
signment will be the leading role
in “Cloak and Dagger,” in which
Gary Cooper will play the lead.
-*
Grace Albert, a “Crime Doctor”
regular, is a successful business
woman as well. She’s purchasing
agent and eastern sales manager
for her mother’s fruit cake busi
ness, operated in Minnesota.
-*
ODDS AND ENDS—Ted Collins, Kate
Smith's manager, has lined up Hay Mil
land, Cary Grunt, Dorothy Tumour and
Olivia De Havilland for guest broadcast
on the Kate Smith show. . . . Vnited
Artists is so pleased with Tom Brene
man's first picture, “Breakfast in Hol
lywood," that he's been signed to
make a picture a year. , .. Though Joan
Caulfield's first film, “Miss Susie Sla
gle's," is just being released, Joan's al
ready been named in eight polls as the
most promising new star of 1946. . . ,
Ellen Andrews and her Belgian shep
herd dog started their theatrical careers
in the same Orson Welles production
. . . but the dog’s now retired.
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