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Popular Comedy i
Slated Early
In February
As “Cradle Snatchers”, the
three-act farce-comedy to be pre
sented by the Thalian association,
went into the second week of re
hearsals, local theatre enthusiasts
seemed assured of two evenings
cf -side-splitting laughter on the
nights of February 8 and 9 when
the play is given locally in Thalian
Hall.
Director Margaret Darst Smith
has expressed herself as highly
pleased with the progress of the
cast, and the play promises to take
its place among the most lively
and most laughable shows ever
presented by the local cast.
When “Cradle Snatchers” was
originally presented in New York
city, where it played for a solid
year in the famous Music Box
Theatre, it was hailed by critics
as one of the funniest shows in
town.
A typical comment appeared m
Graphic, which reported “Unques
tionably the funniest play in town.
Shames any other comedy stage
farce. You’ll see it—if not this
"winter—next.”
. “Nothing better than ‘Cradle
Snatchers’,” commented a critic
for the Herald-Tribune. “At last
. a hit! It is a riot of laughter,”
opinion ed the Sun.
\Jritic cieorge jean Iranian wiutt
“The funniest show in town,” while
■ the ever-reliable Times reported
.“Gales of almost hysterical laugh
ter.” The Journal of Commerce
jBlso came through with praises of
the production, reporting “it is the
first real hit of the season.”
“Cradle Snatchers” deals with
.threewiv-es who learn that their
'husbands, when they say they are
.going on a hunting trip, have oth
'er ideas in mind. The wives are
■not long in bringing about coun
ter-measures, using three young ;
collegians as their weapons.
, The play is packed with situa
tions that you don’t expect, and the
fun mounts to a finish that lifts
'the audience out of its seats.
The local cast includes Elizabeth
'Williams, Emma Bellamy William
son, Lucy Nash, Elizabeth Hard
■ wicke, Gibbs Holmes, Dorothea
Love, Pat Darden, Andy Johnson,
Dick Cassidy, Guerard Simkins,
Julian Morton, Jimmy Burns, Sgt.
G. L. Dixon, Lester Preston, and
Hannah Block.
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Betty Compton, Former
Movie Actress, Here
Betty Compton, who won fame
in Hollywood in such movies as
“The Miracle Man,” “The Bar
ker.” “Weary RivA” and many
other hits, is in Wilmington and
will appear tonight at the Manor
theatre on the stage in person at
9 oclock for a short beauty lec
ture. __
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Shrimp and Cauliflower Casserole
Baked Potatoes
Twin Mountain Muffins
Prune Whip
(Recipes serve four)
Shrimp and Cauliflower Casserole
l”head cauliflower
2 cups canned or cooked shrimps
2 tablespoons margarine
2 tablespoons flour
1 1-2 cups milk
1-2 teaspoon salt
1-4 teaspoon pepper
1 teaspoon parsley, chopped
1-2 cup bread crumbs
Divide cauliflower into flowerets
and parboil in salted water ten
minutes. Drain. Place in casserole.
Place shrimps over cauliflower.
Meanwhile, melt margarine in
saucepan. Take off heat and mix
with flour making a smooth paste.
Return to heat and add milk, stir
ring until thickened. Add salt,
pepper and parsley. Pour sauce
ov^r cauliflower and shrimps. Top
with bread crumbs. Bake at 357
degrees for 30 minutes or until
crumbs are brown and cauliflower
tender.
Twin Mountain Muffins
1 i-2 cups flour
l 1-2 teaspoons baking powder
1-2 teaspoon salt
1 egg
! tablespoons sugar
1-4 cups milk
1 tablespoons margarine
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Combine milk and well - beaten
egg ar.d add to the dry ingredi
ents. Add melted margarine and
stir only enough to moisten flour.
Fill buttered muffin tins 2-3 full
and bake at 400 degrees for 20-25
minutes.
To save sugar, cook raisins or
prunes with cereals to sweeten
them.
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Mrs. A. T. St. Amand
Will Address Women
Of St. James’ Parish
Mrs. Ashley T. St. Amand of St
Paul’s Episcopal church, will ad
dress the various branches of the
Woman’s auxiliary of St James’
parish Friday afternoon at 4
o’clock in the Great Hall of the
parish house.
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Luncheon Party
Given Honoring
Miss Washburn
Mrs. William Raney entertain
ed yesterday at a iuncheon at
St. "John’s Tavern on Orange
street honoring Miss Louise Worth
Washburn, who is to be married
on Saturday evening, January 27.
Mrs. Raney’s guests were in
vited for 1:30 o’clock and places
were laid at a, long table centered
with an arrangement of v hite
flowers and tapers.
Those attending were: Miss
Washburn, honoree, Mrs. Peter
Gordan Bradley Stillman, Mrs.
William Edgar, Mrs. Winston
Broadfoot, Mrs. Henry Deas Mrs.
Robert C. Cantwell, 3rd, Mrs. W.
H. Tillery. Mrs. Charles E. Noell
Mrs. Henry R. Watson, Jr., and
Miss Jane LeGrand.
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Mrs. L. G. Calhoun
Will Address Women
Mrs. L. G. Calhoun, returned
missionary from Lavras. Brazil,
will speak to the auxiliary of Pear
sall Memorial Presbyterian church
on Sunday morning at 11 o’clock
at the conclusion of Sunday school.
Mrs. Calhoun will talk on her
interesting work in Brazil, and all
women and girls of the community
are cordially invited to attend the
meeting.
Mrs. Calhoun will be remember
ed by many friends as the former
Miss Eliza Whitted, of this city.
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CLUB CLOCK
The Past Matrons and Pa
trons of Goldenrod chapter.
No. 14.2, will meet with Mrs.
J. M. Woodward, 315 Walnut
street, Friday evening at 8
o’clock.
A meeting of the East Wil
mington Home Demonstration
club will be held this af
ernoon at 3 o’clock at the home
of Mrs. H. S. Lewis, Lake For
est. This will be an anniver
sary celebration and a full at
tendance of members is desir
ed as matters of importance
will be brought up at this
time.
The Myrtle Grove Home
Demonstration club will meet
this evening at 8 o’clock
at the home of Mrs. J. R.
Hollis. This is joint meet
ing of the men and women of
the community and all women
are urged to bring their hus
bands.
The Bradley’s Creek P.-T. A.
will meet this afternoon
at 2:30 o’clock at the school
at which time Mrs. Earl W.
Bergnef will address the group
on the topic, Social Hygiene. A
meeting of the executive com
mittee will be held at 2 o'clock.
The monthly meeting of the
Woman’s auxiliary of Oak
Grove chapel will meet this
evening at 7 o’clock at the
home of Mrs. Bessie Riven
bark. All are cordially invited
to attend.
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DEATH VERDICT REVISED
AUSTIN, Jan. 17. —(UP)— Th«
Texas court of criminal appeals
today reversed the c-eath verdicl
case of Chesley Arthur Gragg, con
victed in Dallas of drowning his
wife, because the indictment did
not say in what liquid she drown
ed.
NANETTE COMES
HOME TO CREW
BOSTON, Jan. 17. —(UP) —A
saucy mongrel mascot named
Nanette was returned today to 400
overjoyed French sailors who had
taken legal steps to recover her
before weighing anchor.
Nanette was relinquished by Mr.
and Mrs. Harry G. Morris of Wel
lesley, to whom the small dog al
legedly was loaned to board, in
an out of court settlement.
Making a second appeal, Sheriff
Harold S. Hanks of Norfolk county
visited the Morris home and was
given the mascot, who reputedly
understands only French.
Previously, Hanks and a seaman
from the French warship were re
fused by the Morrises who claimed
the dog had been given to them,
riot loaned.
The sailors filed a bill in equity
in Superior Court here yesterday,
claiming that the family became
so enamoured of Nanette that they
refused to give her up.
Filed by the crews spokesman,
Seaman Rene Gautier of Del-de
Braetagne, Ile-et-Villaine, France,
the bill added that Nanette had
been the vessels mascot four four
years and the crew would be
heartbroken to leave without her.
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PERSONALS'
Mr. and Mrs. William Raney left
yesterday afternoon for Windsor,
Va., where Mrs. Raney will be
matron-of-honor in the wedding of
Miss Carson and Sidney Cox this
evening at 8:30 o'clock.
* * *
Mrs. R. F. Walker has return
ed to her home here after having
spent the past two months with
her son and daughter-in-law, Mr.
and Mrs. Hazard Reeves in New
York City.
* * *
Lieut. Gwendolyn Blackham, Ar
my Nurse Corps, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas Blackham of this
city, recently notified her family of
her arrival in England. Lieut.
Blackham is serving with an eva
cuation hospital unit.
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A. E. Straughn is a patient at
James Walker Memorial hospital.
• • •
Dr James H- Smith left Tues
day night fot New York City.
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Major and Mrs. Graham Ed
wards arrived- Monday from Vic
toria, Texas, for a visist of two
weeks with Major Edwards’ par
ents. Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Ed
wards, at their home, 1512 Market
street. .
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LAKE WACCAMAW
LAKE WACCAMAW, Jan. 17—
W. P. Nye spent the week-end
at Proctorville with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Nye.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward D. Seigler
has arrived from Philadelphia,
Pa., and will make their home
hpre in one of the Brinkley cot
tages on the Lake beach.
Mrs. Russell Vare of Washing
ton. D. C., and Raymond Bell, Jr.,
of Burgaw, spent Sunday here at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. W.
Chauncey and were accompanied
home by Mrs. Bell and son, Bob
bie. who had been visiting Mr.
and Mrs. R. E. Stone for several
days.
Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Croom of
Fayetteville and Fort Bragg, spent
the week-end with their sister,
Mrs. J. G. Hall and family.
Mrs. R. B. Morse, Mrs. J. N.
Dawson and H. E. Goodwin visited
friends in Southport this week.
Miss Patsy Smith of Fayette
ville, spent the week-end with
Miss Betty Hall at her home on
the Lake beach
Mrs. Joe Rose of Charleston, S.
C., spent several days here with
her mother, Mrs. L. L. Dempsey.
Mrs. D. S. Neilson has returned
home from Los Angeles, Calif.,
where she spent several weeks
with her husband who is in camp
there.
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War's Innocent Victim
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(Signal Corps photo jrom NEA)
Pvt. James Dun of Brooklyn, a 1st Armored Division medic,
dressed the back cf a small Italian boy who was wounded by frag
ments of the shell that killed his mother. The boy’s father had
been taken away by Germans, to work in a labor battalion His
aunt, who holds him, brought him through the German lines to
U. S. forces in the San Benedetto area.
Ickes Asks Coherence
In Colonial Policies
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17, —(UP)
—Secretary of the Interior Harold
L. Ickes tonight called on Congress
to adopt a “coherent ‘colonial’ pol
icy.”
Stating in an interview that the
present “colonial” situation is a
mess, the man who since 1934 has
been charged with the administra
tion of outlying territories and pos
sessions, suggested a definite con
gressional decision on whether we
are to “hold on or let go’ of our
present holdings.
“There has never been a real
policy towards our ‘colonies’,” he
said. He added that reports of dis
satisfaction in Puerto Rico, Alaska
and other areas can be largely
traced to the simple fact that the
United States hasn't “thought
through the question whether it
should be an “empire.’
“Until we make up our mind
about that, there will be dissatis
faction in our colonies,’ he said.
The Interior Department is charg
ed with the civilian administration
of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands,
Hawaii, Alaska and the Philip
pines. '
Ickes said the fundamental ques
tion is whether we are going to
create an “empire’ — a word he
dislikes—after the fashion of the
British, or whether we are going
to adopt the policy that, we finally
shall have no colonies at all.
$1,500,000,000 Navy
Work Bill Is Approved
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17. —UP)—
Legislation authorizing $1,500,000,
000 for Navy construction, two
thirds of which will go to build
and operate advance bases in com
bat zones, was passed today by
the House.
The bill was sent to the Senate
on a voice vote.
No details of the advance base
building program were made pub
lic on the floor because of mili
tary security, but an accompany
ing report from the Navy indi
cated much of the money will be
spent in the Pacific.
An attempt to exclude all Navy
property from provisions of the
Surplus Property Act failed when
such a provision was kriocked out
on a parliamentary objection. The
proposal would have exempted
from surplus property disposal
“ail ships, boats, barges and float
ing dry docks of the Navy Depart
ment.”
In addition to the money for ad
vance bases, the bill authorizes
the following sums to the Navy:
Ship repair $230,222,000; fleet
training facilities $12,000,000: avia
tion facilities $59,410,500; storage
facilities $19,950,000; Marine Corps
housing and training $14,190,000:
ordnance facilities $65,500,000; per
sonnel training and nousing facili
ties, $40,022,000; ho;pital facilities
$28,519,000; shore radio facilities
$3,230,000; Naval research labora
tory $224,000; miscellaneous con
struction $41,265,000.
Joseph Grew Supports
Bilateral Agreements
NEW YORK, Jan. 17.—tUP)—
Undersecretary of Sta'e Joseph C.
Grew tonight discounted fears that
bi-lateral pacts in Europe signal
a return to “balance of power"
politics and said unequivocally
that they are consistent with prin
ciples of the Dumbarton Oaks
world security proposals.
Without naming them, he ap
parently referred to the French
Soviet pact, signed during Gen.
Charles deGaulle's visit to Moscow
last month, the Soviet-Czech pact
signed in December, .943, and the
Anglo-Soviet pact signed in June,
1942.
Americans need not be disturbed
that because of those pacts that
‘‘our Allies are falling out of step
with us,” he said.
"After careful study of those
agreements, we are satisfied that
they were concluded in the spirit
of what we all are trying to
achieve through the Dumbarton
Oaks proposals," ne said.
He appealed to Americans to
avoid defeatism in the field of in
ter-national relations and urged
them to get out into the race and
run rather than withdraw at the
staring gun and criticize from the
sidelines.
He warned that proDlems of in
ternational relations concerning
~A ■"
he United States no longer were
heoretical.
“We are face to face with them
n the liberated countries and else
where,” he said. ‘In all probabi
ity, they will increase rather than
Iecrease. We are out in the real
world and the going will be
:ough.”
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Germans Say Belgian Withdrawal
Foils Plan To Trap Many Troop*
LONDON, Jan. 17. —(TP)— TheE
German radio claimed tonight that
Marshal von Rundstedt’s “Clevel
and methodical” withdrawal from
the Belgian bulge had toiled any
plan General Eisenhower had for
trapping a large part of the Nazi
forces in the salient.
Capt. Ludwig Sertorius, German
military commentator, said that
Allied entrapment attempts with
flank attacks had been unsuccess
ful “thanks to the slow, methodical
withdrawal from the German sali
ent.”
“Now Eisenhower must start
these operations still farther^east,”
he added, “which means starting
at points more distant from each
other. But there is really only
one large-scale operative pincer
movement possible — an attack
from the area between Aachen and
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