Screenland (May-Oct 1939)

You'll forgive Virginia Gilmore's pensive mood when we tell you that she's still up in the clouds, deliriously happy because she's the new film "find," transplanted overnight from radio shows to movie-making. Watch for her in "Winter Carnival." Inside the Stars' Homes Continued from page 1 3 milk. Add Crisco and mix lightly. Put in muffin tins well oiled and bake twenty to twenty-five minutes. "Another salad I like very much and often serve is this one : A slice of pineapple and a slice of tomato, set in shredded lettuce, and dotted with hearts of artichoke. My special summer drink is lemonade, but zvhat a lemonade ! I use seltzer water, which gives it a sparkle, put mint leaves on top and serve half a fresh peach in each glass. "I like plain food, and never care for sauces and dressings, but while I was abroad I got some delectable recipes for sauces and dressings — you know how they specialize in these in France. I usually have two or three kinds of sauces on the table so my guests can choose which they please. One that my guests like is called Italian Sauce. ITALIAN SAUCE Cover one-third of a cupful of dried mushrooms with one cup of boiling water and let stand one hour ; drain, save the water and chop fine. Heat four tablespoons olive oil in a saucepan, add one finely minced onion and one tablespoon chopped parsley ; cook until the onion is clear, add the mushrooms, one cup and a half of canned tomato puree. (Gerber Products Co.), one cup beef stock, seasoning of salt and pepper and the mushroom water. Simmer for thirty minutes and serve. "Speaking of unusual dishes, Cauliflower Soup served cold is delicious. It gives you the same cool feeling that raw cauliflower does — you've served raw cauliflower in tiny pieces on toothpicks dipped in mayonnaise ?" COLD CAULIFLOWER SOUP Chicken stock cauliflower 2 cups milk Yi cup cream 1 onion 2 stalks celery Dash white pepper and salt to taste Cook cauliflower in stock until very soft. Mash and put through sieve. Simmer in milk, strain and mix with other ingredients. Again let simmer, then chill. Serve with hot muffins. "Cauliflower Bouquet makes a nice salad, too. This can be very pretty." CAULIFLOWER BOUQUET Select 1 large perfect cauliflower and boil until tender but not soft enough to break ; drain it and set it to cool. Arrange in the salad bowl a lining of well washed red and green beet leaves ; place the cauliflower in the center ; cover with remoulade dressing made of 1 raw beaten egg, tablespoon vinegar (Heinz) 3 tablespoons olive oil and 1 teaspoon chutney syrup. Garnish with little carrot roses that have been marinated in lemon juice and sugar for half an hour, and put in the center of each a little bit of chopped red pepper. "Fresh fruits are my usual dessert in summer time. I don't think you can use enough of them. I like my fruit plain, but if you have guests you can dress up your fruit in different ways. Strawberry Coupe — or any other berry — is an example." STRAWBERRY COUPE Crush with a silver fork a quart of washed and hulled berries. Leave in a sieve to drip for an hour. To the pulp remaining (which should measure 2/z cup), add 1 cup powdered sugar, drain again. When quite dry, fold into 2/z cups heavy cream, beaten stiff. Serve in glasses. "Oh yes, there's a special dish served here that we call Eggs a la Golden Rod, but guests call it Eggs Russell. You powder the 3'olks and put them on top of the whites, which you have creamed with white sauce. Serve it on toast, with a sprinkle of paprika. I don't know why my guests are so fond of it. But often they call me and say : 'I'll come over, if you'll have Eggs Russell!'" Rosalind has always been interested in houses. "At home we had an immense household— you can imagine, with seven children and my father and mother ! Almost always we had guests, too, in fact I can scarcely remember sitting down to dinner unless there was at least one guest. My mother j had to run her home as if it were a small ! hotel. She's one of those women who have I never eaten anything in her own home that she didn't select herself. She can pick but! melons, grapefruit, steaks, avocados, anything, and she's never wrong. "I didn't consciously learn anything abcu decorating houses or the difference in furni ture and so on. I must have picked it up painlessly, simply because I was interested When I went on my own, I always had ; small place to myself, even if it was onl; an apartment, and I always did the room over myself. Once when I was in Nev York and not very well off, I had a tin; place with a garden. A garden is very ran in New York, so I concentrated on thathad Dutch doors opening out into it, am did the place as a Dutch house, plenty o color, tulip shades and lots of yellow, used crisp white curtains, inexpensive ma terials but the best of its kind. I never ha* cheap damask or cheap chintzes. I believ in having the best of whatever it is you ca: afford, not cheap imitations. I've neve cared much for modern furniture. I'll admi there is some beautiful modern furnitur being designed, and if you can afford th very finest things, you can get somethin beautiful, but I like to live with good ol pieces, lovely old things. A house is an in vestment, if it's properly managed. I lik to decorate a house nicely ; then if I war to go abroad I can rent it and have a snu : income." When Rosalind was abroad last year, sh bought some things for her house, as wh doesn't? "I collect glass and got som gorgeous pieces in Venice. I found som china in Czechoslovakia as well as i! France. I happen to be interested in glas and china so I've read enough about thetj to know hall-marks and be able to juda whether I'm buying wisely. I bought pir : tures, too. I'm a fool for Michael Angeb so I . loaded myself with pictures of h: things; Then there were other picture from the Sistine Chapel. I know what aj peals to me in pictures ; I don't claim might not pass by the most valuable ol painting in the world if I didn't happen 1 like that sort of thing." Everywhere in Rosalind's house you fir flowers. "I think we need gay flowers the< days," she observed, "I used to think I liked white flowers best and when I coufll I'd have a white garden, but now I'm suajl that colors do more for you. I'm plantir I every kind of gay bloom I know." SI I glanced at the long garden, where Californ I summer flowers bloomed in colorful arra 1 "I use every flower I can get hold of, if it ■ gay enough to pick up an otherwise dr I room, but I'm actually old-fashioned enoug p to love roses best of all. "Don't know where I got that streak < I old-timeyness ! My mother is terribly mo< I ern about life. She believes in large far I ilies, but she also believes that each chi I is entitled to his own life. She thinks i 1 laws or parents often break up what mig 1 have been happy marriages. She wouldi I interfere with one of us for anything. A I ter all, she says, she has had her own lii I why mix into her children's lives? SI I won't even stay overnight with her tv I married children. She will go to dinn 1 with them, if invited, but at ten-thirty hor I she goes ; no weather short of a cyclone a cloudburst would keep her later, and far neither catastrophe has occurred. "She uses good psychology, I grant yc I If she isn't always barging into our homi I we'll all want her the more. All of us a begging her to come to our houses. S \ I makes it an occasion and we appreciate Do you know, she has only been to n I house once since I've been in Holly woo< I I hope I can be as wise as she is, if I mar I and become a parent. We all bless her I 98 THE CUNEO PRESS , INC. , U.