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EXPERT ADVICE ON SOIL
PREPARATION
BY PROF. C. H. NISSLEY
THE honie gardener will get lots of real fun out of starting his own vegetable plants. The require ments are few, the cost is trivial.
block, ains show, to fole distribution of moisture through copillary action, to give the sect lngs stronger sepport, and to make Here are shown the materials the essential plant nutrients with which the gardener must mediately available to the seed- start. At right is a pile of good lings. The flat at left has not been garden soil. This is sifted through firmed. The three-quarters-inch mesh screen shown in the left, background.
The coarser garden sail is placed After thin sifting has removed in the bottom of the flat and firmed stunes, roots and other undesirable with the firming board. matter, a alfting through the one- quarter-inch mesh screen will re-
After the flat has been filled with
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stopping myself by recollecting that even public charactors might prefer to discuss sweetbreads and vegetables in solitude,
But it was tiresome to sit o near celebrity without taking advantage, of it. I gave my order to the walter and then yielded to the temptation of expanding to my- aclf the possibilities of opening a conversation. For Instance. But something in my thought must have caught her attention. She looked at me and smiled, which was, of course, all that I required. I tenned my elbows upon the small table.
"What," I said, “ild the Québa say to you when you were pres sented to her at the theatre the utlier night? I am a journalist of sorts, and I would love to know.”
It was bold, but 3tigs Wynyard, did not appear in the least taken aback. She reached over and, collecting a roll from a basket that lay between us, cominenced to break it into little bits on the plate at her side.
"I have a niotta," she said, Thou shalt not be embarrassing by reason of bad manners. It amounts to an eleventh command raent-almost. And I see that you have a motto, Thou shalt in wise be dishonest. Not every hody would have confessed to be- Ing a journalist. If I remembered what the Queen said, I would tell you-hat I don't. 3 went to the
sult in the fine soll shown in the the finely sifted soil, it should be little room at the back of the royal centre of the picture-an excellent watered with a very fine spray box after the second act, and she When the talked to me very kindly for some medium in which to grow seed-prior to see sowing.
surface soil is dry enough to pre-time. But I don't think I remem-'į Inges.
chule ita sticking to the marker, ber any special thing that she said. the rows are marked out, the seed It is not easy to remember things sown, and covered with moist soil.like that."
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"No," I said realizing that Migs Wynyard was practicing her ele venth enmmandment
behall both of the Queen and myself. "No. I understand.”
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TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1985.
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of London-faring lights flashing typewriters" to the players on the your name from the theatres?" morning of the actual shooting of
OFFERED A PART.
Miss Wynyard shook her head.
it.
TO BITTER END
lay in bed after each awful
She continued to play with her "No, oddly enough. I never thought day," she said, looking tragienlly about being famous. I only want-ovie my head, "wondering by what ed to net--for the sheer satisfac possible manoeuvre I could escape. "I am sorry," she said presently.tion of it. I suppose. And every- And I took myself each morning "Can I tell you anything else?"
ented-"
I laughed, "Tell me something thing was so nice and uncompli to the authorities to implore them for release. But all without grail. about the stage.", I suggested.
She broke off while the waiter i played in 'Rasputin' to the bitter "How long have you been on it ?"į
settled our dishes in front of us. end. DETERMINED ON CAREER.
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And then you played the wife low long? Well, that is dim-salt over to her, elt, think the answer mighti
"Well, then, we were playing at and mother in Cavalcade, I said, ELOW are lettuce seedlings in a times their diameter.
simple, home-made flat, show. Don't plant the seed too thickly, truthfully be always, because Nottingham, and Basil Dean wrote changing the subject with as much ing correct planting of needs. The for this will result in a spindly believe that from the moment to me, and afterward wired offer-haste as sympathy permitted.
Miss Wynyard removed her eyes row's should be about two inches growth. Watering to much also knew anything at all, I was, deters ing me a part. Frightful thrill,
that!
And I went to London and from the ceiling and smilled. for it may help to mined to do the work I am doing. apart and one-quarter inch deep foris dangerous.
"Yes, Cavalcade. Thut was love- most plants. A safe rule to follow ring on damping off," a disease Peggy Ashcroft and I were played with Marie Lohr.",
"And enjoyed it?" school together, and we were both Miss Wynyard wrinkled her playing of Cavalcade.
ly. Everyone was inspired in the is to plant seeds to a depth four which quickly kills the seedlings.
determined."
small nose. was terribly procurious, it just seemed to happen, Diana Wynyard began her stage vinelal," she said, "und I didn't don't know why. We had our career, as a matter of fact, in know how to wear my clothes, parts, too, six weeks, before we be- 1926. She had been through But it was good for nie-got megan to work." venr's training in dramatle work, into trim. was older-actually and had sat in the pits of most 21-and more sophisticated when! "And which do you prefer, the London theatre, marvelling, so she I got my next job and went on films or the stage?" Miss Wyn- says, at the beauty of most London tour for eight months, and it was yard hesitated and then said that artresses-especially of Margaret merey, because that touring she did not like to make compari- Banneriuzn--when she got her company might have done for mesons. firal engagement, a walk-on at the altogether had joined it a year Globe Theatre. She is amused by earlier.
"In making a picture," she said, We played twice nightly, one is conscious of being a speck, the memories of that engagement. I remember, and the whole atmos merely a speck in a great machine | 2009, She-was-terribly unforgiv phero-was-so-sordid_that_I_hate_tal, that keeps moving, moving-in- nbly" young. "I dressed," she ex- think of it even now.”
making a play, the whole baais is plained. "in a small room sur-
It But fane was on its way. rounded by mirrors, with five older was after the sordit experience different. A play is a changing women who were rather hardened of the "twice-nightly," followed by thing and its people are alive. It is delicious to work with a com- theatricals. They called me Palma perind spent with the Liverpool Chive because of my complexion." Repertors Company, that success any of people who are enjoying
But the experience of the Globe met Miss Wynyard, and met her things.
Next Thursday: Transplanting seedlings.
MISS WYNYARD FOR LUNCHEON
did not last for very long. One suddenly in a one-night show given | “And are not jedoys'of each member of the cast had worked at the Arts Theatre in London in other because you yourself are with a touring stock company, and 1980.
not Jentous ? 1 sugated, sock- she offered the young Diana an "Strange, wasn't, it sald Missing confirmation for my Scottish introduction to its manager... Wynyard leaning back in her friend.
"It was a terrific adventure,"chair and looking across at me, said Misa Wynyard, “because the "Because I didn't expect il. "I didn't say that," said Miga. slock company was playing at Things happen like that, some | Wynyard, "I might be jealous sesside town in Yorkshire, and times. Suddenly everything you have page now and again. I am the fare to Yorkshire was 26 shil-do is exactly right—so odd.” quite human. But
my
reason
FAMOUS ACTRESS TELLS tings. But I got the money to- And then there come America would generally come to the roa
OF STRIVING YEARS
By Phyllis M. Lovell
In the Christian Science Monitor.
"Driend, "would make
IANA," said my Scottish I paid much attention to him,
is enthusiasm, I supposed, had | success of anything she attempted, resulted more from the influences and that's a fact." We were, I of a pleasant afternoon than from remember, wrestling our way real inside knowledge. It was not through the late afternoon crowds until I happened to come, myself fice with the young of Shaftesbury Avenue, having face. to spent the last two or three hours nctress a few weeks later that I in the stalls of Wyndham's began to give my friend some of Theatre watching. Diana Wynyard the credit always overdue to those play in "Sweet Alors," and I, who live north of the Tweed. greatly hoping for a bolated tea, My meeting with Miss Wynyard felt a little argumentative,
camo about purely by chance. I "Why," I remember asking, be- had been busy that morning on tween dodging the hurrying peo- some work in the West End and, ple, "why do you suppose that turning at lunch time into a small bocause Miss Wynyard can pro- restaurant in Soho, had made my duce good acting she should be way through the somewhat crowd equally successful at producing ed and overheated room to a table good novel, or a good dinner, or a in a far corner where I espled a good anything else, for that mat-seat that was vacant. Ter? I don't see it."
But my friend was adamant
YIELDED TO TEMPTATION
Half on and half off the pavement, On the opposite side of the table, he explained to me that, first and as I drew in my chalf, a young foremost, Diana Wynyard was a woman was bending over a menu, Seot which accounted, of course, running a finger down the list of for a good deal. But, besides be- Italian names while a waiter hung Ing a Scot, she was clear-headed-over her with penell polsed. She. very. Moreover, she was one of ordered sweetbreads and vege those remarkable and strangely tables-"lots of vegetables"-and uncommon Individuals who are un-something in her voice arrested touched by professional jealousy my attention. It took me back to and unmoved by that tiresome an afternoon spont at Wyndham's trait which, in the profession, is Theatre several weeks before. I known as "avidity. Diana, he looked across at her narrowly, re- Bald-ho persisted in calling her calling the fair hair, the charm- Dlana was not "avid," and thle ingly rounded face, the small nose, Sfact, taken in conjunction with her and the mouth with corners that ☎thor: attributes, insured success. turned upward. 1, nearly-said. At the time, I do not think that "Miss Wynyard, I believe?! Only
gether and went, and I ant and Hollywood, and a first expe- cue. Besides, why be jealous?! caravan looking out over the sea.rience of the films, startling in its like people, and I like to feel that and rend parts with all the dragon- novelty and its tremendous dim-I can move along with them with tic effect could muster. And culties. Miss, Wynyard was en-out struggling without being too got the job, and worked it for a gaged to play in the flm "Ras urgent, if you know what I mean." year-six plays in a week, some putin," and called upon to enact. She signaled to the waiter. "And times, and utter, blissful hay each day, a part to which she had I like keeping my eleventh com- piness, especially during the early been able to give no single mo-mandment.” days of it."
ment of preparation, since the "Thou shalt not—” I began, "In view of big things that were script was always written over quoting it. She looked at me and coming?” i suggested. "West End night and hurried "hot from the laughed.
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