davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1941-09-14
Relieve Monotony

But just about everything possible to
relieve the monotony of life within a
space three and half miles long and
three quarters Of a mile wide has been
provided.
The men take their leave at a special
recreation camp at one end Of the rock.
There for three or four days at a time
they are permitted to do as they please.
They receive special food, sleep late,
listen to the radio, read, swim, play
tennis and squash, even football and
hockey.
In general, life on this rocky bulwark
of the British Empire isn't so bad, even
today.
There is no blackout in Gibraltar-it
wouldn't do much good, since towns
across the bay in neutral Spain are all
lighted
There Still is night life in Gibraltar.
Down the bright main street there are
four movie houses and various cafes
which offer orchestras and entertain
ment, but no dancing
You notice the absence of women.
The only women on the rock are go Brit
ish nurses and Office workers and a
number of Spanish girlS-servants and
shop girls-most of whom return to the
Spanish mainland each night.
The cafes close at $50 pm, and at
the II pm. curfew all is quiet on the
Gibraltar front except for the rumble of
dynamite blasting out defense tunnels
and perhaps the heavy cough of anti
aircraft guns driving off an. occasional
interloper.
By day, Gibraltar shops offer variety
of products long since unobtainable at
any price in most of wartime Europe
everything from American shaving cream
to butter, from silk stockings to white
bread.
Yes, Gibraltar continues to live we'll,
but no longer inexpensively. The cost of
living has risen until it is about as high
as in England-which probably is the
highest in the world now
There are paradoxes, however. Gig
arettes at 20 cents a pack are cheaper
than in England, but beer costs up to
80 cents for half pint, and thus joins
the ranks of expensive drinks.
Evening star., 1941-09-14
By GiadlCin Hill.

away from the exotic, down to earth,
there is an increasing demand for the
hometown type rather than Park avenue
stuff
Three of the most successful current
models, Dusty Anderson, Betty Cs n
pion and Paula Meadows, come respec-
lively from Toledo, Cleveland and Gal
lipolis, Ohio Another standout is a
genuine American Indian, Princess Pay
Toe-Mah- mo, a Cherokee -Menomi-
nee-which certainly is getting back to
grass roots.
Unusual, distinctive faces are fine,
paradoxically, for fashion modeling-the
endless thousands of anonymous maga-
zine and newspaper pictures of coats
and capes, satins and sables. In this
work girl can be almost homely, and
if her face is striking enough, do fine.
Just what makes a girl photogenic is
an intangible that eludes even Conover-
who, incidentally, used to be a model
himself.
The decision depends on a standard
set of test pictures he has devised, with
out the f1attering benefits of makeup,
fancy lighting, favorable poses and re-
touching-often indulged in by we'll
meaning hometown photographers
which can make any girl beautiful.
Distinctive Names
Conover regards his office as an ad-
vertlslng agency, marketing instead of
corn flakes and corn plasters the indivi-
dual girls on his list
He started the stunt of giving models
distinctive names. Dusty Anderson
sounds much more glamorous than plain
Ruth Anderson. One winsome half pint
he tagged Flea" One girl is billed as
just "Sabrina." One had no name at e.ll.
Nobody could think of an appropriate
soubriquet for her, so for months photo
graphic agencies would Just call and
demand that girl without any name"
The goal of a lot of models is the
movies, but Conover loses more girls
through matrimony-and age. After 25
it's tough going.
The average model doesn't care much
about being a publicized glamour girl of
the stork club type. Plugs in Broad
way columns don't make you any better
a silent salesman for soap, cigars and
sequins, and late nights in the cover
charge lethal chambers only put satchels
under the eyes and make it tougher to
hop out of the hay at 9 am.
Which brings us to the less pleasant
brass tacks of being a model.
Modelling may be balm for the vanity
but its tough on the feet, the patience
and the ingenuity.
Let's take a typical busy day with
Grace Horton, a practically perfectly
formed and featured, slightly smallish
blond girl who is one of the most active
models today.
She's 81, the daughter of a commercial
artist, graduated from high school in
New York City and studied fashion de-
sign for year.
Her first job, four years ago, was mod
Evening star., 1941-09-14

and said to be speedy. The heavy-me-
dium tank weighs from IS to 81 tons
and carries rs or los nm. gun, Al
mm anti-tank gun and a number of
lower calibered machine guns.
1t is manned by a crew of seven Or
eight men and small periscope pro-
trudes from the top of the main turret
for the benefit of the tank commander.
Both tanks are equipped with two-way
radio instruments.
The approach of panZer division may
be as gathering storm. Perhaps widely
separated elements are in concealment
ready to strike. Enemy positions have
been spotted by aerial reconnaissance
and points OF attack selected.
Perhaps the transport planes have
winged their way beyond the enemy's
main line of resistance and dropped
parachutists to cut telephone and tele-
graph lines, destroy bridges or prevent
their destruction, and create civilian
panic so that roads favorable for the
foes retreat or to be used as supply
lines may become hopelessly clogged
with refugees.
The behemoth tanks move relent-
lessly forward. If opposition is too fierce
or distractions impossible, they run
around them to a more favorable posi-
ton. Yet they always maneuver to at
tain pincer approach.
If stream must be bridged, the en-
gineers rush forward with equipment
while defense gunners are blinded by
smoke shells fired from the already
smplacsd panser .arttllery.
Evening star., 1941-09-14
Tunnels Add New Strength to Gibraltar

and planes on aircraft carriers would
head for sea, where they would have
Job cut out for them.
How effective Gibraltar's barrage will
be is an undetermined factor, since
there has been no occasion to turn it on
full blast Many military experts say
it will fill the sky with a canopy Of
lead such as the world never has seen.
The defenders are confident, though
not boastful.
High on Gibraltar, they point out. lives
a band Of apes-the last ones in Europe.
The beasts are not tough unless molested,
and there's an old saying that the apes
will be here as long as the British. The
modern version says the British will be
here as long as the apes. And an officer
sees that the apes are fed every day.
Evening star., 1941-09-14
By UHIiam McGaHn.

hard surfaced roads, filled with camou-
flaged military cars and ancient Amer
lean taXis.
Drivers have been forbidden to sound
their horns, so now they warn pedes-
trians by banging on the outside Of the
car doors with their hands
But everywhere the thing that i'm
presses you about Gibraltar is its con-
centration of guns. 1t is speckled with
them. Some fire straight up, others
straight down. Many are so cleverly
camouf1aged it is hard to pick them out,
even at short range. If need be, Gibral-
tar can spit fire from all sides.
The reason for this heavy concentra-
ton of guns-and it's no secrets that
they will constitute the principal defense
OF the fortress if attacked. Warships
Evening star., 1941-09-14
Toothpaste Queen

1t seems that the first girl, divested
of her glasses and poured into Ver-
onica Lake anatomical dress, is one of
our leading toothpaste queens. And the
bandanna girl, with nose and freckleS
toned down by little powder aud lights,
was the cigarette glamour girl whose
f1irtatious smiles from billboard nearly
made me wreck a car the day before.
Not that the modes aren't naturally
attractive, pretty, or even beautiful
But the fact is that if you take away
the fancy clothes. careful color and the
81 think-youre wonderful smiles, you
Just have the nice, simple girl around
the-corner in various editions.
AS matter of fact, that's the secret
Of their success.
The ideal national advertising model
has what Conover calls simple pretty"
face, wholesome, but Cwithout any refec-
ton on her morals "CharaCterleSS '-un-
individual. She can't look like girl who
obviously likes field hockey more than
fudge-making, or she may ALLEVIATE the
fudge-making fans. She's got to be
universal in appeal She's got to re-
mind everybody of the girl-around-the
corner, just duded up little.
With the war bringing public tastes
Evening star., 1941-09-14
Moda+4.rg Calls for Hard Work

cling in a wholesale house-a regular
eight-hour- a-day job-at SIS a week.
In her first year sne had 16 jobs and
worked up to $35 week. Then she
went into advertising r1o cling.
Prepares at Night
Grace lines up her days appointments
the night before. She has to get to bed
by midnight. No matter how tired she
Is, she has to take off all her makeup,
costumes she is going to have to carry
along in her traditional models hatbox
for the next days work. If a girl is
modelling garments, they are provided,
but generally she had to bring every
thing else herself.
Grace's first appointment of the day
is at one of the many photograph stu-
dios in the midtown Grand Centra,
area.
This Job is to model two fur coats for
fashion pictures. She spends Is minutes
at an improvised dressing table arrang-
lllS llCl hldhC-up, lldl dilu SlOtllCSs
The photographing is slow and fin
nicky. An hour under the strong lights,
and you work up hefty perspiration,
which is death on dresses Also, after
a few sessions of fur-coat posing, dress
picks up an ineradicable odor of furs
and isn't good for much.
At 1890 Grace has to be 2 miles up
town at the Seventy-ninth street yacht
basin, outdoor modelling sweaters -
ummmm. There's another model there,
and they have to rearrange their make
ups to harmonic, and battle wind in
their hair, and sun, concentrated by
metal reflectors, in their eyes.
Missionary Work
GraceS next job, 2 miles downtown
at. Eighteenth street. is unremunerative
trying on dresses for a photographer
Models have to spend lot of time in
missionary work like this.
After a diet lunch grabbed en- route
overweight is the models constant men,
ace-Grace has her big job of the day,
from 2 to 5, posing for color cigarette
ad. For color, she has to redo her
makeup.
The photographer and cigarette rep
resentative don't like either of the
dresses she's brought, so she has to
change a third time into an outfit Of
theirs
Special scenery for the pictures is late
arriving frantic telephoning .
there's going to be man in the picture
with her, in Army uniform. Somebody
questions the braid 6. q. more telephon-
ing. to be sure it is right -.
Finally they're ready for the test pic
tueS-ShotS developed on the spot TO
see if everything photographs right. 1t
all takes an hour Meanwhile the hot
lights have been beating down steadily
and Grace is dabbing her second pound
of perspiration of the day off her make
up. BY the time they get through the
dozen final shots, three hours have
passed, and Grace nearly has, too.
Evening star., 1941-09-14

NEW YORK, Sept. 13-Monday
morning is always busy at the Harry
Conover Model Agency, because over the
week end a let CT kcTs have told their
girls that tcc--'ro tccutiful-beautiful
CROUCH to he rodels-and thet girls
believe it, and turn up Monday to begin
their careers.
But modelling isn't that easy At Con-
overs, one of the top agencies, about
IS girls apply every day, and only four
make the grade-a month!
Modelling is just about as hard as any
other business to get into, just about as
hard work. and, discovered, just about
as unglamorous.
It's the birch-paneled waiting room
at Conover'S, 8 a.m-early, and nobody
in sight except the receptionist.
Phones Are Busy
For a few minutes there's nothing
but the constant brrrrring of IA tele-
phones in an anteroom, manned by
five girls.
q. Oh, hello Emily no, moth
ing this morning. But do you want to
come in and see some fashion show
people? . . Hello? Yes, Mr.. john
son E. Bea Blaxton? I think can get
her for you. . ="
At 9:03 in walked a girl with rumpled
blond hair, glasses, galoshes raincoat,
and some books in her arm-apparently
on the way to school.
At 9:06, a girl with five-and-ten
bandanna around her head, an over
long, turned-up nose, and freckles. OBJ
viously a jitterbug, hunting for her
mate. Nobody else in sight.
"Parm me, miss" I said to the
receptionist, is this model agency?"
Yes, certainly" she said.
"Well. where are the models?"
''You just saw two of them. 80"
Evening star., 1941-09-14

way through a maze Of tank traps each
night and morning.
The road leads past small artificial
lakes and a landing field constructed on
one of the few pieces of fiat land. This
will be abandoned, because of the diff
Guilty Of defending it. if and when the
day arrives when Gibraltar passes from
its present phase-occasional air raids
through succeeding phases toward big
time siege. .....
At the moment, army navy and air
force men stationed at Gibraltar are liv-
ing on the slopes in houses reminiscent
of 18th century England.
The only signs of assault to date are
few smashed houses struck last fall by
French bombs during retaliatory raids
after Dakar.
The men occupy themselves by day
with variety of exercises designed to
keep them on their toes and perfect de-
fenSive efficiency.
A few weeks after Lord C'Tiger'D Gort
took command of the rock, he staged a
dummy attack with bombers dropping
sand bags. During my visit land bat
teries were potting at a target towed
across the water by swift warship.
Evening star., 1941-09-14
Food Provided

Gibraltar's ample breadbasket pro-
vides the hotels the wherewithal for five
course meals Spanish workers, too, are
permitted to dip into it, returning to the
mainland at nightfall with bulging shop
ping bags.
Life for self contained Gibraltar is
complete even to automobiles and daily
newspaper.
Looking at the rock from the sea, you
think it will do well to have anything
better than paths. Arriving, you find
oufpr1sinS network Of Ndewalk1 and
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-11-26
flue Causes Fire

y defective flue in the wai,irr
room at the High Price wareLn,'ls
this morning at 9:l0 O'Clock careos
small i.c. with t.remen being con
ed There was no reportable daraga
lIrcmcn said. se'
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-11-26
WEDNESDAY,, NONEMBE Err 20. 1911
Lions to Meet

TIE vc.h.l .uec,ng of tho
club viii be held Wednesday c,.o m,H'
al : o'clock al the Capitol Cafe
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-11-26
! 1RAImIN G
that IS Wort|1
, ! S 1900 90

TT YOU WANT to get ahead fast, to serve your country, to build
L yourself good paying future . here's the opportunity you've
been waiting for.
The L. S. Navy may train YOU to become an expert in any one
of nearly SO skilled fields. Each month, over 5000 new men will
be sent to a Navy Service School, where YOU can learn to be
a Diesel engine operator, machinist, aviation mechanic, aerial
photographer radio operator, or whatever specialized work you're
best fitted for. This first years training which you get is worth
at least $500.
The Navy foots the entire bill. You earn while you learn. In
fact, it Is possible for an enlisted man to earn up to $l26 per
nonth-With keep.
You'll have plenty of opportunity for advancement in position
and paV-and yOuW hare fun uHHe 1Ou learn! You'll come out of
the Navy fully prepared to take on a good job in private industry.
And if you want to stay in the Service, you can go right to the
top and retire at the end of 20 years or 80 years with a liberal
monthly income.
You can choose now between the regulars or the reserves. Both
offer equal opportunities for advancement.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-11-26

regardless of the length of time remaining
IN their enlistment
ifemember-the regular Navy and
Naval Reserve offer you the same travel,
Falning promotions, payl increases. Phys
1Dal requirements in the Naval Reserve
are more liberal. Find out all about the
Naval Reserve. Send in the coupon now.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-11-26
Are you considering joining a military service?
WHY NOT CHOOSE THE NAVAL RESERVE!

Don't wait. Choose the Naval Reserve
noW. The Secretary of the Navy has an
nounCed: 'All men now enlisting in the
Naval Reserve will be retained on active
Navy duty throughout the period of the
national emergency, but they viii be
released to inactive duty as soon after thc
emergency rs their services can be spared,
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-11-26
Get this FREE BOOKLET

Mail coupon for your free
copy of Life in the u. S.
Navy "a illustrated pages.
Tells what pay, promotions,
and vacations you can expect
-. how you can retire on a
life income. Describes how
you can learn any of 45 big
pay trades. -. how many may
become officers. II scenes
from Navy life showing
sports and games Won NAV
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-11-26

play, exciting ports you may visit. Tells enlistment
requirements and where to apply. If you are between
II and 81 no high school required get this free book
now. No obligation. Ask the Navy Editor of this paper
for a copy. Or telephone him Or mail him the coupon.
You can paste 1t on d penny postal card.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-11-26

q 8 :: :: !: 4: !: !: i: : :: =: :: =: :: s.: !; !: ): ): !: $: $: s.: !: :: =: :: !: :: !: {: $: {: !:
Evening star., 1941-02-23

day or jellied on hot day. New pota-
toes are best with this combination
and | always cook them with a little
fresh mint in the water. You'd also
want a mixed green salad prepared in
wooden bowl that had been rubbed
with garlic, and served with French
dressing. In just few weeks now
when fresh fruit begins to be plentiful
in almost any city market, fruit folded
into whipped cream and chilled would
be the incest and simplest dessert l
can think of.
Then Mrs. Rinehart reminds us
again that chicken cooked according
to her Fighteenth-Century recipe is
also a very good main dish for COM
pany, while "a fine parsley omelet,
though difficult to make with the
perfection a Frenchman achieves,
should be placed high among fine
luncheon entrees. This is one thing
am always annoyed at myself about.
Evening star., 1941-02-23

~LM of figure, red-gold of hair,
casual for the morning in skirt
~ and sweater of softest blue,
Mrs. Stanley Rinehart talks to us, in
the book-lined study of her Fifth
Avenue apartment in New York,
about her two hobbies: cooking and
bookbinding. Off the shelves she
takes samples of her craftsmanship -
a private book, for instance, whose
pages, intended only for the family,
she has bound in sky-blue leather
fooled with gold stars. From special
corner of the bookcase she next fetches
some of her collection of rare recipe
books. One dates from 1889, another
from the early part of the Eighteenth
Century.
Have you ever used any of these
Evening star., 1941-02-23

intimately in the center of Americas
intellectual and artistic life. Writers,
artists and theatrical people have
always been her friends. however; and
it was, in fact, through the gifted
American actress, Peggy Wood, that
Mrs. Rinehart first met her husband
on one of his visits to England.
In addition to their city apartment.
the Stanley Rineharts have a farm on
the Tri-state border of New York,
Connecticut and Massachusetts. And
last summer Mrs. Rinehart did all the
Evening star., 1941-02-23

recipes?" we ask with considerable
curiosity.
From the Eighteenth-Cen one,
/ have - yes," Mrs. Rinehart says,
and points to a recipe which reads
ITO Boyle Pullet - Mrs. Knightly."
This excellent chicken recipe, descend
ed from the otherwise unknown Mrs.
Knightly of two hundred years ago,
Evening star., 1941-02-23
M 8sxce t&essses

is one which we later tested, wrote out
in modern form, and which appears
at the end of this article.
Though she is English by birth and
citizenship, yet as the daughter-in-
law of the American novelist, Mary
Roberts Rinehart, and the wife of a
distinguished American publisher. the
versatile Mrs. Stanley Rinehart moves
Evening star., 1941-02-23

cooking up there, for a family en-
larged by refugee nephews and
sister-in-law from England.
$50 cooking is not just a hobby
with me any more" Mrs. Rinehart
says. "You couldn't call it that after
| cooked for at least nine, and most
of the time eleven, persons all sum-
mer. | did it partly because it was an
economy and partly because we hadn't
room for any servants. The house was
full - what with my brothers wife
and her son, two of my other nephews,
my step-daughter, my own son and
daughter and ourselves.
"You see," Mrs. Rinehart pauses to
explain, my two brothers are in the
army and my sister is married to
a naval commander. Both brothers
fought through the last war; both
were in France by 1915; both were
wounded, one of them very badly
with shrapnel all over his body, and
the other in the lungs where he is still
carrying fragments of shrapnel"
Yes. one sees why the naturally
sparkling Mrs. Rinehart seems to be
under strain. we'll controlled but def
nitely present; why there were so
many to cook for last summer; why
the need for economy is in the fore
front of her. thoughts - even great
deal of money is hard to stretch for
all the needs when your friends and
relatives live in England nowadays.
To competent Mrs. Rinehart, how
ever, problems may be troubling but
they are also challenge. When large
scale cooking ceases to be relaxation
and becomes big business, Mrs. Rine-
hart simply tries to go a professional
cook one better.
"If | were giving dinner for not
too many persons in early March,"
she says, 81 would have steak. but
serve it with savory butter. That's a
butter mixed with dry mustard and
savory and marjoram and spread over
the top of the steak just before it's
taken to the table. But be sure this
butter is completely melted, before
you carry the steak in - it's delicious,
though not too attractive to look at
in the unmelted stage.
For a vegetable with this meal,
I'd be guided by what's the very
freshest and finest | could find in the
market; or else I'd use the quick
frozen lima beans or peas. The kind
of salad would depend on what | made
for dessert. If | baked an apple pie
I'd have plain green salad with
French dressing. But if | made a
souffle for dessert, then a fruit salad
would be good.
Actually, what | serve when there
are guests depends very definitely
on whether we're in town or in the
country" Mrs. Rinehart goes on.
"For instance, we raise pigeons in the
country, and so would serve squads
up there, preceded by a clear beef
broth which would be hot on a cool
Evening star., 1941-02-23

| can make a good one, but not as
completely right as I'd like, she says.
For the chicken, a marvellous fruit
salad, and the savory-butter sauce for
steak we now give you the recipes
Chicken with Herbs
frying chicken (315 lbs.)
2 anchovies
onion. peeled
MIXED dried herbs
Lemon peel " lemon)
3 peppercorns
blade mace
cup water
n cup white wine
egg yolk
tablespoon butter
6 slices crisp bacon
use a mixture of any of the fol-
lowing: dill, basil, marjoram, rose
mary, savory. thyme, sage. tarragon.
Clean the chicken. In the cavity
place anchovy. onion, II cup favorite
mixed dried herbs, tied in cheesecloth
and lemon peel. Truss the chicken as
for roasting, wrap it securely in cook
cry parchment and tie. Simmer in
water to cover ~ hours. Place the
neck, liver, heart and gizzard in
small saucepan with remaining an
chovy. peppercorns, mace. cup water
and 4 cup shredded dried herbs.
Simmer u hour. Strain. Add wine
and simmer until about a cup of
liquid remains. Beat the egg yolk and
add liquid and butter. Cook slowly,
stirring constantly until thickened.
When the chicken is done open the
paper carefully and drain the gravy.
which is inside the paper, into the
wine sauce. Pour the sauce over the
chicken and garnish with bacon.
Approximate yield: servings.