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18 Easter Story

36 Movie Reviews

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166 Cinco de Mayo: Guacamole Fish Tacos Jalapeño Daiquiri Quesadillas Taquitos

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174 Healthy Eating: Chicken Noodle Soup Chicken Parmesan Tilapia with Garlic Sauce Granny’s Stuffed Corsets

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50 Kids Take Nashville

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From the Editor’s Desk

A Mother....

When you’re a child she walks before you, to set an example. When you’re a teenager, she walks behind you to be there should you need her. When you’re an adult, she walks besides you so that as two friends you can enjoy life together.

e can’t pick our family members and sometimes can’t see eye to eye with them. But whether you’re a chip off the old block or not, you share a bond with your mother unlike any other human connection. Did you know that some of your fetal cells are believed to stay in your mother for decades after your birth, and that you may also retain a batch of her cells? Perhaps that explains why she always caught you trying to sneak out or always knew when you needed a phone call. Maybe she even knew that you didn’t really have food poisoning after your 21st birthday or think that bringing home a dog was a good idea. But in case she didn’t, I’m sure you have shared a series of funny, beautiful, sad, and heartwarming moments with mom. Now stop and think what is the most poignant, how terribly she’s missed when all that’s left is what’s alive in you.

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AN EASTER TIMELESS MESSAGE:

Rich-Poor Family in Church By: Eddie Ogan -- from: Bill Rayborn

I’ll never forget Easter 1946. I was 14, my little sister Ocy was 12, and my older sister Darlene 16. We lived at home with our mother, and the four of us knew what it was to do without many things. My dad had died five years before, leaving Mom with seven school kids to raise and no money. By 1946 my older sisters were married and my brothers had left home. A month before Easter the pastor of our church announced that a special Easter offering would be taken to help a poor family. He asked everyone to save and give sacrificially.  When we got home, we talked about what we could do. We decided to buy 50 pounds of potatoes and live on them for a month. This would allow us to save $20 of our grocery money for the offering. When we thought that if we kept our electric lights turned out as much as possible and didn’t listen to the radio, we’d save money on that month’s electric bill. Darlene got as many house and yard cleaning jobs as possible, and both of us babysat for everyone we could. For 15 cents we could buy enough cotton loops to make three pot holders to sell for $1. We made $20 on pot holders. That month was one of the best of our lives.   Every day we counted the money to see how much we had saved. At night we’d sit in the dark and talk about how the poor family was going to enjoy having the money the church would give them. We had about 80 people in church, so figured that whatever amount of money we had to give, the offering would surely be 20 times that much. After all, every Sunday the pastor had reminded everyone to save for the sacrificial

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offering. The day before Easter, Ocy and I walked to the grocery store and got the manager to give us three crisp $20 bills and one $10 bill for all our change. We ran all the way home to show Mom and Darlene. We had never had so much money before. That night we were so excited we could hardly sleep. We didn’t care that we wouldn’t have new clothes for Easter; we had $70 for the sacrificial offering. We could hardly wait to get to church! On Sunday morning, rain was pouring. We didn’t own an umbrella, and the church was over a mile from our home, but it didn’t seem to matter how wet we got. Darlene had cardboard in her shoes to fill the holes. The cardboard came apart, and her feet got wet. But we sat in church proudly. I heard some teenagers talking about the Smith girls having on their old dresses. I looked at them in their new clothes, and I felt rich. When the sacrificial offering was taken, we were sitting on the second row from the front. Mom put in the $10 bill, and each of us kids put in a $20. As we walked home after church, we sang all the way. At lunch Mom had a

surprise for us. She had bought a dozen eggs, and we had boiled Easter eggs with our fried potatoes! Late that afternoon the minister drove up in his car. Mom went to the door, talked with him for a moment, and then came back with an envelope in her hand. We asked what it was, but she didn’t say a word. She opened the envelope and out fell a bunch of money. There were three crisp $20 bills, one $10 and seventeen $1 bills. Mom put the money back in the envelope. We didn’t talk, just sat and stared at the floor. We had gone from feeling like millionaires to feeling like poor white trash. We kids had such a happy life that we felt sorry for anyone who didn’t have our Mom and Dad for parents and a house full of brothers and sisters and other kids visiting constantly. We thought it was fun to share silverware and see whether we got the spoon or the fork that night. We had two knifes that we passed around to whoever needed them. I knew we didn’t have a lot of things that other people had, but I’d never thought we were poor. That Easter day I found out we were. The minister had brought us the money for the poor family, so we must be poor. I didn’t like being poor. I looked at my dress and worn-out shoes and felt so ashamed--I didn’t even want to go back to church. Everyone there probably already knew we were poor!   I thought about school. I was in the ninth grade and at the top of my class of over 100 students. I wondered if the kids at school knew that we were poor. I decided that I could quit school since I had finished the eighth

grade. That was all the law required at that time. We sat in silence for a long time. Then it got dark, and we went to bed. All that week, we girls went to school and came home, and no one talked much. Finally on Saturday, Mom asked us what we wanted to do with the money. What did poor people do with money? We didn’t know. We’d never known we were poor. We didn’t want to go to church on Sunday, but Mom said we had to. Although it was a sunny day, we didn’t talk on the way. Mom started to sing, but no one joined in and she only sang one verse. At church we had a missionary speaker. He talked about how churches in Africa made buildings out of sun dried bricks, but they needed money to buy roofs. He said $100 would put a roof on a church. The minister said, “Can’t we all sacrifice to help these poor people?” We looked at each other and smiled for the first time in a week. Mom reached into her purse and pulled out the envelope. She passed it to Darlene. Darlene gave it to me, and I handed it to Ocy. Ocy put it in the offering. When the offering was counted, the minister announced that it was a little over $100. The missionary was excited. He hadn’t expected such a large offering from our small church. He said, “You must have some rich people in this church.” Suddenly it struck us! We had given $87 of that “little over $100.” We were the rich family in the church! Hadn’t the missionary said so? From that day on I’ve never been poor again. I’ve always remembered how rich I am because I have Jesus! cinamagic APRIL - MAY 2014

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Easter

DAY Delights Models: Jelly and Seanna Photo by: Amy Cannon Photography

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EASTER LILY Easter morn with lilies fair Fills the church with perfumes rare, As their clouds of incense rise, Sweetest offerings to the skies. Stately lilies pure and white Flooding darkness with their light, Bloom and sorrow drifts away, On this holy hallow’d day. Easter Lilies bending low in the golden afterglow, Bear a message from the sod To the heavenly towers of God. -Louise Lewin Matthews

he Easter Lily, also known by its Latin name Lilium longiflorum, has become the traditional Easter flower. With all the different flowers available in the spring garden, it is this beautiful, white flower, that has come to symbolize the spiritual values of Easter: purity, life and renewel. The flower’s trumpet shape is a reminder of the heralding of Jesus, returning triumphant to Jerusalem. The History of the Easter Lily Native to Japan, Easter Lilies were imported to the United States until 1941, when World War II prompted Americans to start growing their own bulbs. Today, nearly all of the 15 million Easter Lily bulbs grown in America are produced by just ten farms along the California-Oregon border. The bulbs are harvested in the fall, and then shipped to commercial greenhouses in Michigan, California, Pennsylvania and Ohio, where they are planted in time to bloom for Easter. Easter Lilies are the fourth largest selling potted plant in America, upstaged by the popular Christmas-time poinsettias, mums and azaleas. The Easter Connection According to Biblical scholars, the Easter Lily was found growing in the Garden of Gethsemane where Judas is said to have betrayed Jesus. Legend tells that white lilies miraculously sprung up from the ground where drops of Jesus’ sweat and tears fell during his last hours. The Easter Lily also has close associations with Jesus’ mother, the Virgin Mary. In early religious paintings,

the Archangel Gabriel is pictured extending a branch of white lilies to Mary, symbolizing that she had become the virgin mother to the savior. Today, many churches use large bouquets of lilies to adorn their alters and crosses during the Easter season. Taking Care of Your Easter Lily To keep your Easter Lilies fresh and fragrant for as long as possible, purchase potted plants with flowers at various stages of opening and with abundant, dark green foliage. As the flowers open and mature, pinch off the yellow anthers before the pollen sheds. The yellow pollen will stain the other white flowers. Once a mature flower has started to wither, you may cut it off at the base to better showcase the new buds. Easter lilies thrive in moderately cool temperatures (no higher than 65 degrees Fahrenheit) and enjoy bright, but indirect natural sunlight. Keep soil moist and welldrained. Avoid over-watering. Remove any decorative wrappings or coverings, which can trap standing water in the pot. You can expect your potted Easter Lily to bloom for 1-3 weeks around the Easter holiday. Despite its name, the natural bloom for the Easter Lily is actually during the summer. Under controlled greenhouse conditions, the lily is brought to an early bloom in time for Easter. If you want to continue to enjoy your lily for years to come, try planting the bulb and remaining greenery in your garden after the flowering is finished. Subsequent blooms will occur naturally in the summer. cinamagic APRIL - MAY 2014

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Classic Old Movies

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olly Golightly lives in a brownstone on Manhattan’s swank East Side. Totally madcap, she has a partially furnished apartment, owns a cat with no name, gets rid of the “mean reds” by visiting Tiffany’s, and is forever misplacing her door key, much to the dismay of her upstairs neighbor Mr. Yunioshi, a Japanese photographer. Holly makes her living in two ways: she receive $50 from her gentlemen escorts whenever she needs powder room money, and she is paid $100 for each weekly trip she makes to Sing Sing, where she visits Sally Tomato, an ex-mobster. One day Paul Varjak, a young writer who is supported by an older woman nicknamed “2E,” comes into Holly’s life. Following one of Holly’s wild cocktail parties, Paul unexpectedly meets Doc Golightly, a gentle Texan whom Holly married when she was only 15 years old. Holly explains to Paul that the marriage was annulled long ago, and he helps her send the heartbroken Doc away. After a day on the town together, Paul realizes that he is in love with Holly and proposes to her; but she is determined to marry José, a South American millionaire. However, when it is publicly revealed that Holly has been innocently carrying narcotics ring information from Sally Tomato to his New York associates, the stuffy José abandons her. Furious at everything and everyone, Holly throws Cat into the rain and decides to leave town, but Paul lectures her and then goes out to find Cat. Holly realizes how much she is giving up and races through the wet streets to a happy reunion with Paul and Cat. Cast & Crew Blake Edwards: Director Audrey Hepburn: Holly Golightly George Peppard: Paul Varjak Patricia Neal: “2E” Buddy Ebsen: Doc Golightly Martin Balsam: O. J. Berman Mickey Rooney: Mr. Yunioshi Vilallonga: José Dorothy Whitney: Mag Wildwood Stanley Adams: Rusty Trawler Alan Reed Sr.: Sally Tomato John McGiver: Tiffany’s salesman Beverly Hills: Nightclub dancer cinamagic APRIL - MAY 2014

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ob McLaughlin, an unsentimental, disciplined ex-Army man, struggles to make a success of his Wyoming horse ranch. Despite reassurances from his wife Nell, Rob worries that Ken, their ten-year-old son, will never outgrow his dreamy, clumsy nature and become a good student and productive worker. Ken is obsessed with having a colt of his own, but after the boy carelessly causes the horses to stampede as they are being rounded up, Rob angrily rejects Ken’s request. Later, Rob frets over the ranch’s mounting bills and worries that the herd will be ruined by the “loco” strain introduced by a wild albino stallion. Nell interrupts Rob and pleads with him to give Ken a colt, saying that he needs the opportunity to prove himself and learn responsibility. Rob reluctantly acquiesces, and the next day, Ken chooses the beautiful year-old filly of Rocket, one of the albino strain. Rob voices his disapproval, telling Ken that the filly will be “loco” like her mother, but Ken insists that Rocket’s swiftness, and the good sense of Banner, the filly’s father, have produced a fine horse. Ken names the filly Flicka, which ranch hand Gus tells him is Swedish for “little girl,” and eagerly anticipates winning her friendship. On the day that Flicka and Rocket are to be rounded up, the McLaughlins are visited by neighbor Charley Sargent, who breeds racehorses. Charley is amazed by Rocket’s speed and offers to buy her for $500 if Rob can deliver her to his ranch. When Rocket is loaded in the truck, however, she rears in terror and is killed when her head hits the ranch’s overhead sign. Furious and heartsick, Rob calls horse broker Williams and arranges to sell all of the albino breed, but Ken still refuses to part with Flicka. When Flicka is brought to the corral, however, she also reacts wildly and cuts herself badly on a barbed-wire fence. Ken

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again refuses to believe that Flicka is as untamable as Rocket and gently tends to the filly while she heals. As time passes, Ken wins Flicka’s confidence and is surprised at how readily she allows him to put a halter on her. One of Flicka’s cuts becomes infected, however, and she grows so ill that Rob tells Ken that she must be shot to end her suffering. Rob asks Gus to shoot Flicka when Ken is not present, but Ken sees Gus leave for the pasture and begs him to wait until morning. Ken then sneaks down to Flicka’s pasture and spends the night holding her as she lies in the lake. In the morning, the cool water has reduced Flicka’s fever, but now Ken is seriously ill. Although Rob still wants to shoot Flicka, Nell asks him to wait, and he goes to check on the young horse. Rob shoots at a maurading mountain lion, and when Ken hears the shot, he assumes that Flicka is dead. Unable to kill Flic-

ka, Rob sits with her throughout the night, and it is her warning nicker that alerts him to the reappearance of the mountain lion. Rob kills the beast and in the morning, takes Ken to the pasture to see Flicka. As the boy happily runs to his horse, Rob admits that Flicka has taught Ken responsibility and inspired him to have more patience and faith. Cast & Crew Harold Schuster: Director Roddy McDowall: Ken McLaughlin Preston Foster: Rob McLaughlin Rita Johnson: Nell McLaughlin James Bell: Gus Diana Hale: Hildy Jeff Corey: Tim Murphy Arthur Loft: Charley Sargent Country Delight, a horse: Flicka Nevada Chief, a horse: Banner Hazel Cloud, a horse: Rocket Blendatta, a horse: Cigarette Dewey Wrigley: Dir. of Photography cinamagic APRIL - MAY 2014

LASSIE Come Home

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naware that his poor, unemployed father Sam has been forced to sell his beloved collie Lassie to the Duke of Rudling, young Joe Carraclough, of Yorkshire, England, is immediately concerned when the dog fails to meet him, as usual, after school. When Sam and his wife Helen finally break the news, Joe is inconsolable. Lassie, meanwhile, is taken to the duke’s kennels, where she is locked in a pen by Hynes, the cruel, Cockney dogkeeper. The next day, however, Lassie digs her way out of her pen and shows up at Joe’s school at the usual time, four o’clock. Although Joe is overjoyed to see Lassie, his parents know that they must return her to the duke and reluctantly hand her over to Hynes. Lassie soon escapes a second time by jumping over the pen’s fence. This time Joe runs off and hides with Lassie, but the two are quickly found by Sam, who insists that Joe return Lassie to the duke in person. At the duke’s estate, Joe is somewhat cheered by the presence of Priscilla, the duke’s sympathetic young granddaughter, who promises to give Lassie special care. That evening, Sam lectures Joe on the importance of honesty and informs his son that the duke is taking Lassie hundreds of miles away to Scotland for a dog show and will be staying there indefinitely. Later, in Scotland, Priscilla notices that Hynes has chained Lassie inside her pen and complains to her grandfather. The duke soundly chastises Hynes and orders him to walk Lassie around the estate’s grounds. Hynes is so rough with Lassie, however, that the dog breaks away from him and dashes to the front gate, where Priscilla and the duke are standing. Priscilla opens the gate and allows Lassie to escape, then comments to her astounded grandfather that the collie is headed south, toward England. Lassie runs and runs until a rain storm forces her to take shelter. The next day, she resumes her journey and is almost killed by two shepherds, who suspect her of killing their sheep. After traversing a swampy area, Lassie then swims a river into England. Once in England, an exhausted, hungry Lassie collapses outside a cottage owned by Dally and Dan’l Fadden. Although the elderly couple eagerly adopt the dog, Dally soon realizes that Lassie, who whines to be let outside every afternoon at four, is not happy. Sensing that Lassie is anxious to continue her trek but is too “polite” just to go, Dally orders Lassie to leave

the next day at four. Lassie takes off and eventually meets up with Rowlie Palmer, a tinker who travels with his little dog Toots. Lassie is cautious around Rowlie, but accepts his food and follows his wagon. Later, as Rowlie is selling his wares in a village, Lassie performs with Toots, doing tricks that Rowlie has taught her. That night at his camp, Rowlie is attacked by two roving thieves, Buckles and Snickers. Both Toots and Lassie help Rowlie in the fight, and when Buckles mortally wounds Toots, Lassie unleashes all her fury on him. Although the crooks scamper away, Rowlie is crushed by Toots’s death. Soon after, Rowlie parts with Lassie, sensing as the Faddens did, that she is on a special journey. Lassie then makes her way through a city and is pursued by two dog-catchers. To avoid capture, Lassie jumps from a warehouse window, injuring her leg. Despite exhaustion, hunger and lameness, Lassie perseveres until she arrives at the Carracloughs’ cottage. Helen and the still out-of-work Sam are stunned to see Lassie, filthy and thin, but gladly welcome her home. Soon after, the duke and Priscilla drive up to the cottage, and Sam and Helen, now determined to keep Lassie, hide her. To their surprise, the duke offers Sam a job as his new dogkeeper, and Sam gratefully accepts. Lassie soon gives her presence away, but the duke and Priscilla pretend not to recognize her. Then, just before four o’clock, Lassie limps over to Joe’s school for her long-awaited reunion. Upon seeing Lassie, Joe, who has never stopped yearning for his dog, runs to her side and gives her a joyous, tearful embrace. Sometime later, Joe and Priscilla enjoy a bike ride together, accompanied by Lassie and her sprawling litter of collie puppies. Cast & Crew Fred M. Wilcox: Director Roddy McDowall: Joe Carraclough Donald Crisp: Sam Carraclough Dame May Whitty: Dally [Fadden] Edmund Gwenn: Rowlie [Palmer] Nigel Bruce: Duke of Rudling Elsa Lanchester: Mrs. [Helen] Carraclough Elizabeth Taylor: Priscilla Ben Webster: Dan’l Fadden J. Patrick O’Malley: Hynes Alan Napier: Jock Arthur Shields: Andrew John Rogers: Snickers cinamagic APRIL - MAY 2014

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n New Mexico, policemen Ed Blackburn and Sgt. Ben Peterson find a little girl who is stunned and unresponsive, walking through the desert, tightly gripping her damaged doll. Nearby, they find an unoccupied trailer hitched to a car by the side of the road, its metal hull ripped from the inside out. While they investigate, they hear a high-pitched buzz and discover a large, unusual animal footprint on the ground. On their way back to town, the policemen find that a general store has been wrecked and its owner mysteriously killed. Ed stays behind to guard the store, and he, too, is brutally killed after hearing the high-pitched sound. Later, the coroner reports that the storekeeper died from a large injection of formic acid, not from the many fractures on his corpse. Upon learning that the owner of the trailer was a vacationing agent, the FBI sends Robert Graham to investigate. Bob sends a cast of the animal track to the FBI’s Washington, D.C. headquarters, and in response, Department of Agriculture entomologists Dr. Harold Medford and his daughter and fellow scientist Patricia, are flown in. At the hospital, Harold examines the little girl, who remains traumatized and uncommunicative until he uncaps a bottle of formic acid under her nose. Jolted into a panic, she screams “Them! Them!” Although Harold has a frightening theory, he withholds it, until it is later confirmed by the appearance of a ninefoot, insect-like creature at the trailer site. By ordering his companions to shoot at the creature’s antennae, Harold saves the group from its attack and the creature is killed. Harold then explains that it was a descendant of an ant that was present when the atomic bomb was first tested in the desert in 1945, mutated each generation by lingering radiation. With the help of the local Air Force officers, Brig. Gen. O’Brien and Maj. Kibbee, Harold instigates an aerial search of the desert for the creature’s nest. When the nest is found, it is torched and its tunnels gassed with cyanide. Afterward, to determine if all the ants were killed, Bob, Ben and Pat gear up and enter the nest, rappelling through the tunnels hundreds of feet into the earth. After passing many gigantic, dead ants, they reach the queen ant’s nest. Seeing that two eggs have hatched, Pat anxiously orders that everything be burned. Back on the surface, Harold and Pat announce that the problem is not over, as two queens appear to have hatched and escaped before the nest was destroyed, and will now mate and start other nests. Ants have limited flying ability during the mating process, Harold explains, but ants of that size would be able to travel a large distance. In top-secret conferences, the Medfords, Bob, Ben, Kibbee and O’Brien meet with Washington officials. After showing film footage demonstrating the strength, ferocity and mating habits of ants, Harold predicts that humans will be

extinct within one year if the queens are not destroyed. Secrecy is maintained to avoid worldwide panic, but news is monitored for unusual sightings and mysterious disappearances or deaths. When ant-shaped flying saucers are reported by Texas ranch foreman Alan Crotty, who is then institutionalized, Bob knows that the man is not insane, but to keep the story from spreading, tells his psychiatrist that the FBI will let him know when his patient is well. Having assumed that, so far, only the American continents are in jeopardy, the Medfords and their colleagues are disturbed by reports that a ship on its way from Mexico to Singapore became infested with giant ants that killed all hands. Shortly after the ship is sunk to kill the queen and her offspring, forty tons of sugar is ripped out of a railroad car in Los Angeles. Thinking that the second queen is the culprit, Harold and his colleagues go there to investigate and learn that a man, who was last seen flying model airplanes with his two sons, died mysteriously and his children are missing. From a hospital room overlooking the Los Angeles River, Jenson, a half-coherent drunk, reports that he saw the family and the giant ants near an opening that leads to 700 miles of tunnels under the metropolis. Martial law is instated and the Army is called in. However, because they believe the children are in the tunnels with the ants, they cannot gas or burn out the creatures. Instead, armed with bazookas and flamethrowers, Ben, Bob and Kibbee ride jeeps into the tunnels with the soldiers. After finding the boys alive in a storm drain, Ben gets them to safety, then is killed by an ant. Later, Bob radios to the waiting Pat and Harold that new queens have not hatched in the egg chamber. He orders the chamber burned and the crisis is over. However, Bob later wonders if more mutations from later tests will be discovered. Harold responds that when man entered the atomic age, he opened a door to a new world and what will eventually be found in that new world no one can predict. Cast & Crew Gordon Douglas: Director James Whitmore: Sgt. Ben Peterson Edmund Gwenn: Dr. Harold Medford Joan Weldon: Dr. Patricia Medford James Arness: Robert Graham Onslow Stevens: Brig. Gen. O’Brien Sean McClory: Maj. Kibbee Chris Drake: Ed Blackburn Sandy Descher: Little girl Mary Ann Hokanson: Mrs. Lodge Don Shelton: Captain Fess Parker: Alan Crotty Olin Howlin: Jenson cinamagic APRIL - MAY 2014

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hen Captain Crewe is called to service during the Boer War, he enrolls his little daughter Sara in a boarding school run by the heartless Amanda Minchin. Sara, a generous, unspoiled child, is dubbed “The Little Princess” by her schoolmates because of her distinguished family. At the school, Sara is befriended by Amanda’s jolly brother Bertie; her riding teacher, Geoffrey Hamilton; her tutor, Rose, who is in love with Geoffrey; Becky, the little skullery maid, and Ram Dass, the servant of Lord Wickham who lives across the way. On the day of Sara’s birthday party, Miss Minchin receives word that Captain Crewe has been reported killed in action and all his assets confiscated by the enemy. To pay for Sara’s expenses, Miss Minchin sells the girl’s clothes and makes her a kitchen servant, sending her to live in the attic. After losing her father, Sara also loses her friends when Geoffrey goes off to war, Rose is fired by Miss Minchin when she learns of her love affair, and Bertie leaves because he can no longer tolerate his sister’s cruelty. However, Sara’s spirit remains undaunted, and she refuses to believe that her father is really dead. After each debarkation of wounded men, she rushes to the hospital to find him, missing him several times as he lies in bed, shell-shocked. Finally, on the day that Captain Crewe is to be shipped to Edinburgh, Sara

runs to the hospital where Queen Victoria is visiting. The queen intervenes on behalf of the little waif, and with her help, Sara is at last reunited with her beloved father. Cast Directed by Walter Lang William A. Seiter (uncredited) Writing Credits Ethel Hill (screen play) and Walter Ferris (screen play) Frances Hodgson Burnett (based on the novel by) Shirley Temple: Sara Crewe Richard Greene: Geoffrey Hamilton Anita Louise: Rose Ian Hunter: Captain Crewe Cesar Romero: Ram Dass Arthur Treacher: Bertie Minchin Mary Nash: Amanda Minchin Sybil Jason: Becky Miles Mander: Lord Wickham Marcia Mae Jones: Lavinia Beryl Mercer: Queen Deidre Gale: Jessie cinamagic APRIL - MAY 2014

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honetics professor Henry Higgins gets involved in an altercation with Cockney flowergirl Eliza Doolittle as he is taking notes on her speaking accent outside of London’s Covent Garden in 1912. Colonel Pickering, another language enthusiast, quiets the argument, and Higgins boasts to him that after training Eliza for 3 months he could pass her off as a duchess. The next day Eliza arrives at Higgins’ house, prepared to pay for diction lessons so that she may realize her dream of obtaining a position in a shop. With Pickering’s help, Higgins begins a complete transformation of Eliza. Her first public appearance at the Ascot horseraces is a dubious success. A few months later, Eliza is a greater success at the season’s biggest social event. After the affair, Higgins and Pickering congratulate each other on Eliza’s transformation, completely ignoring her and her part in the process. She leaves Higgins’ house in anger. Finding her father preparing to marry, Eliza seeks refuge with Higgins’ mother. She is paid court by Freddie Eynsford-Hill, a young admirer. Higgins finds Eliza at his mother’s, but they quarrel and he returns home. Sitting alone in his study, Higgins realizes that he cannot be happy without Eliza. As he sits listening to recordings of her voice made during her diction lessons, Eliza quietly enters the room through the door behind him. Songs : “Why Can’t the English?” (Higgins), “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly?” (Eliza and chorus), “I’m an Ordinary Man” (Higgins), “With a Little Bit of Luck” (Alfred Doolittle, Harry, Jamie), “Just You Wait” (Eliza), “The Servant’s Chorus” (servants), “The Rain in Spain” (Eliza, Higgins, Pickering), “I Could Have Danced All Night” (Eliza and maids), “Ascot Gavotte” (chorus), “On the Street Where You Live” (Freddie), “The Embassy Waltz” (instrumental), “You Did It” (Pickering, Higgins, servants), “Show Me” (Eliza), “The Flower Market” (instrumental), “Get Me to the Church on Time” (Doolittle, chorus), “A Hymn to Him” (Higgins), “Without You” (Eliza), “I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face” (Higgins). Cast & Crew George Cukor: Director Audrey Hepburn: Eliza Doolittle Rex Harrison: Henry Higgins Stanley Holloway: Alfred Doolittle Wilfrid Hyde-White: Colonel Pickering Gladys Cooper: Mrs. Higgins Jeremy Brett: Freddie Eynsford-Hill Theodore Bikel: Zoltan Karpathy Mona Washbourne: Mrs. Pearce Isobel Elsom: Mrs. Eynsford-Hill John Holland: Butler John McLiam: Doolittle’s cronies cinamagic APRIL - MAY 2014

SEVEN ALARM AFFAIR: Our San Francisco Cookout

By Patsy Trigg

t is funny how one thought leads to another. How your mind begins to remember life changing events ablaze with innocence and the impact these experiences carry into the future. As I attempt to impart these impressionable highlight to pen and paper I ask you to think back to life in San Francisco in the early 70’s as the Age of Aquarius was beginning to flower. We were four vibrant young women in our early twenties from diverse backgrounds who became friends at the TW training center in Overland Park, Kansas. Training was six weeks and we were divided into smaller groups of twenty out of a class of one hundred twenty young women. The students hailed from primarily small rural towns throughout the United States. I was from Smyrna, Tennessee. For many, including myself, this was our first time to be away from home. During the final few days of training we began packing, waiting with trepidation for the results of our final exams to find out if we qualified to graduate and more importantly getting our base assignments. We made it! All four of us were on our way to a wonderful career filled with travel and adventure. As we walked down the

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hallway to the main auditorium for our assignments, our training instructor told us that the available bases to select from were Kansas City and New York and placement choice would be based on seniority. As a well-planed afterthought she added, “Oh, by the way, we just got notice today that there are now 60 openings in San Francisco.” You could have heard us all the way to California as all of us in unison let out with an ear splitting scream of excitement that would have pegged the meter of any decibel reader. Upon arriving in San Francisco TWA put all sixty of us up at a Hotel near San Francisco International Airport. Our first priority was to find an apartment. We were too new to get assigned flights so were on stand-by and had to be ready to go out on a flight at a moment’s notice. It was unanimously decided that we would concentrate on finding a place in San Francisco proper and that whoever wasn’t out on a flight would search for an apartment. After several weeks we found an apartment in San Francisco down on Fisherman’s Wharf. What better than a celebration Bar-B-Q with a few friends to memorialize our new beginnings?

Pooling our funds we headed out to purchase a cooker, charcoal, lighter fluid, matches, food, wine and the appropriate dining accouterments. The remainder of the afternoon was spent preparing the side dishes, decorating and adding the final touches to our feast. The perfect moment arrived. We poured ourselves a glass of wine and joined our friends on the balcony. We toasted to our new lives in California and watched the sun settle across San Francisco Bay. Being on the seventh floor added to the dramatic beauty as the few remaining golden rays of sunlight began to fade. We oohed and awed, as the evening sky became alive with the lights of the city. This breathtaking panoramic view of San Francisco Bay was framed by the flickering lights of the Golden Gate Bridge to our left. This blended into the silhouetted rolling hills of Sausalito and Tiburon and brought our attention to the twinkling lights on the Sailboats lilting lazily in the bay. Our eyes soon drifted toward Alcatraz Island. The sound of tugboats pulled our attention on around to the Oakland Bay Bridge. The tall skyscrapers completed our frame on our right as they began to light up the financial district. It was a magical night I care to remember to this day. The time arrived to get the charcoal started and that was my job. A little dab didn’t do it. After squirting on about half of a can of lighter fluid and a flick of the match, we had a robust flame and considerable smoke. Nothing to worry about. I had it under control in short

order. Apparently, not to the satisfaction of our neighbors living above us. After a small lapse of time we became aware of sirens off in the distance. We all moved to the edge of the balcony and began to search the horizon for the source of some pending disaster. As the sirens got closer, we could see the red twirling lights. The sound and lights were now coming from several directions. More and more people in the building were being drawn to the edge of their balconies. They talked back and forth in an attempt to determine the destination of the fire trucks. Within minutes our block was surrounded by fire engines, flashing lights and several dozen firemen moving quickly everywhere, unraveling water hoses and ladders and then scanning our building. Noticing that the coals were ready Brenda and I told the others, “We’ll be right back,” and then headed indoors to collect the hamburgers. Brenda added, “Let us know what happens.” As we walked back into the apartment we heard the doorbell ring followed by a sharp rap on the door. Brenda and I hurried over to answer the door. As I pulled the door open, there standing in front of us were four or five firemen. The man closest to the door and now closest to me was just pulling back with a big ax over his right shoulder. With my eyes probably as big as saucers and my mouth hanging open, we stood there and stared at each other like two deer caught in the headlights. The silence was broken when the young fireman lowered the ax on to his right shoulder and asked, “Are you okay?” At this point Marie came running into the apartment and announced in a panicked voice, “It looks like they are aiming those hoses at us!” We immediately invited them in and told them we were fine and were having a celebration cook out. They went directly to the balcony to check out the cooker. After giving the high sign to the fire crews on the ground that all was okay, we were given a few pointers on the proper procedure for starting charcoal with lighter fluid. After a polite refusal to our offer to join us for hamburgers and our profuse apologies, these fine and incredibly daring young men said their farewells. As an afterthought, one of the firemen offered us some sage advice to ponder concerning unavailable career options. As he turned to leave he added with a mischievous smile, “By the way, we need your names to make sure you never get hired to cook for the fire department.” The next day the San Francisco Chronicle informed the world that our celebration Bar-B-Q was a seven-alarm affair. I promise you that there isn’t a time in my life that I don’t think back to that day and give serious thought to what I am doing as I strike a match and set it to charcoal soaked in lighter fluid. cinamagic APRIL - MAY 2014

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rdinary kids doing something extrodinary, recording a song for radio play. That is just what the new reality TV show is doing. Taking ordinary kids ages 4-14 on a journey that could land them a music career in Nashville, Tennessee. The show features music industry veteran’s such as Patsy Trigg. Patsy had the mega hit and triple platinum record “Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer”. In addition to Patsy, Microwave Dave joins the cast. Microwave Dave had the mega hit Roadrunner and performs it for the kids as he mentors them on the art of giving of yourself on stage. Both Patsy and Microwave Dave are truly inspirational mentors for not only the kids, but their parents too. It is a no drama show. So, if you are tuning in to see a spectacle of drama mammas, you will not find it on this reality show. What you will see is good wholesome programming. You will follow each kid as they record in the studio. A few even attempt a music video. The show promotes only the positive nature of kids. The kids and parents are coached in a positive environment so that every memory is warm and yet exciting. This helps build each child’s self-confidence as they strive to make their dream of being a music star a reality. There are a few stand outs in the crowd for sure. However, most of the 15 kids have never had a music lesson, let alone stand in front of a microphone with ear sets on and everyone staring at them. For most, that would be very intimidating, however, most of the 15 was not intimidated by this at all. In fact, most you could see them blossom as they relaxed into the session and recorded their song. Many of the songs recorded will be in upcoming movies. “I Can Fly” recorded by 5 year old Destiny Christian will be in the animated movie “It’s A Merry Christmas When Pigs Fly”. The song Hero, recorded by 11 year old Veronica Anderson will be in the animated movie “Toodles The Pink Poodle”. You will also hear “ You Are Loved” recorded by 9 year old Mia Bailey in the anti-bulling film “Tuff KooKooshka.” The host of Kids Take Nashville is a Country Music Recording Artist, Melissa Ramski. Melissa also ran a mentoring session for Entertainment Law. Her session “Avoiding The Sharks” is a must for the entertainment industry. In addition, Melissa also performed what is sure to be a hit “Moonpie My Old Friend”. She also shows the kids and parents how to record a music video with her song “Never Give Up.” The show will follow the top six kids; Carly Green, Mia Bailey, Landon Wall, Veronica Anderson, Alaska Mathews and Bailey Brandner for 22 episodes. They will also bring all the kids back for 4 episodes. We will see the top six performing at venue’s, in the recording studio again, songwriting clinics and with music industry specialists. All to chronicle their journey to success. We will see the wee ones ages 4, 5 and 6 will be put together as a group to record another song. Now just how cute will that be. cinamagic APRIL - MAY 2014

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WHAT HAPPENS NOW?

By Patsy Trigg

s. Roose has been sharing with me the feedback she has been receiving from the parents and kids who participated in the Kids Take Nashville project. The primary concerns are, Should I get an agent? Would you book my child? Would you make my child a star? Would you promote my child? Would you market my child? Would you get my child a record deal? These are all good questions and it shows that you are thinking in the right direction. Speaking from firsthand experience there are a few important steps that cannot be overlooked in answering these questions on your way to fulfilling your goal in the entertainment business. Some of the key ingredients that affect the outcome of your success are pretty much the same for any successful venture, business or personal. A few of these are passion, patience, practice, flexibility, continued growth and fine tuning of your craft and application of your craft in the real world. At the age of ten I picked up my brothers plastic ukulele that he got for Christmas. As I began to work up several songs and continued to practice every day, my parents watched closely and saw that this was something more than a passing fancy. My Dad took me to the music store and we picked out a quality wooden ukulele. Next came the lessons and as I got better, I decided I wanted to play the guitar. By this point my sister Kim, 9, and my brother Larry, 8, decided they wanted to play an instrument. Kim chose the bass and Larry decided on the steel guitar. Dad lined up weekly lessons and daily practice, both individually and as a group. For me, I would wake up in the morning and practice till breakfast and then at lunch make a b-line home from school to get another hour of practice. After school it was homework first and then I would practice till bedtime. It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t long before we had a family band, The Trigg Kids, and we had enough material to do a thirty minute show. (This would be roughly nine to eleven songs.) Dad was our manager and would line up local performances that showcased young talent and entered us in numerous contests. We even got to perform at the Huckleberry Hound and Yogi Bear Show. Here is what happens next! Hone your craft, build up your repertoire of songs and material, get experience and develop a sound and a look. Take voice lessons,

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instrument lessons, dance classes and even gymnastics. This will give you balance the ability to move gracefully. This will take time. Go out and listen to groups and soloists. Listen to how they put their sets together, how many fast songs to how many ballads? Do they entertain their audience or do they just play one song after the other? Do they introduce their songs, tell a story, and in general have fun with audience? As you observe you can begin to decide how you want to present yourself. Musical entertainers and groups can be found in social clubs like the Moose lodge, Masonic Lodge, Legion and VFW. In restaurants, fairs, colleges, Universities and even on the street. If you like the way someone or a group sings or plays see if they give lessons, if not can they recommend someone. Be sure and check out music stores for singing and instrument classes. Think about whether or not you want to work as a solo act or if you want to form a group.

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Some of the key ingredients that affect the outcome of your success are pretty much the same for any successful venture, business or personal.

Begin to learn as many songs as you can and learn to do these songs without having to read the words. Also begin to write your own songs. Until you get a good following you will primarily do cover material with a few original thrown in. You will find that most of the people in your audience will lose interest if they don’t recognize the songs being performed. Bottom line and definitely an important part of this process is to ALWAYS have a strong beginning and a strong ending and most audiences will think you are the best group on the planet. Once you have enough material to do fifteen minutes begin to perform for family get-togethers, at your Church or any small local functions that will allow you to build up your confidence in front of an audience. Soon you will be ready to get a paying gig. These are a few of standards that are followed. When you are doing a one time performance the pattern usually followed is that the warm up acts do fifteen to thirty minutes. The main act will do an hour, hour and a half up to two hours. If more than one show like at a fair where they turn the crowd over, you will repeat the same performance. When working situations where you will be performing five or six nights a week your sets will be forty five minutes to an hour long and you will do two to four

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sets a night. This would be restaurants, bars and even the clubs In the Nevada circuit, sometimes called the Steak & Lobster circuit. Check out teen clubs and clubs that are family oriented. Decide where you want to ultimately be. As kids we just wanted to play music. As we got older and had more experience we began to study headliners, people who drew big crowds and had number one hits on the radio. Put these goals in front of you and aspire to reach these goals. These are a just a few simple guidelines to help get you started. Kids Take Nashville is one of those once in a lifetime opportunities that gives you the opportunity to a step out ahead on many levels of ninety percent of today’s young and upcoming talent. Remember an overnight success usually takes five to ten years, even with the opportunity that this project offers. Kids Take Nashville has put you in front of a mike, let you record your first cd, let you perform in front of an audience, and filmed you for a TV presentation that has the potential to make you that “overnight success.” It is now up to you to make sure that you can meet the challenges and be the talent that can step up to the microphone and perform as the next shining star that Kids Take Nashville is giving you the opportunity to be. cinamagic APRIL - MAY 2014

AN American heritage wrapped in beautiful melodic music:

Marilynn Powell-Greene

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arilynn Powell-Greene possesses a voice of extraordinary quality. To listen to her songs is an audio history of out American heritage wrapped in beautiful melodic music. Over many years she has collected these ballads with an unerring sense of what was and is a part of all of us. She collects music like others collect works of art; the difference being, she shares her art collection with the listener. Her voice is God-given, but the expression and empathy that comes through her music comes from having lived and worked where many of us only dream to be. From the pinnacles of the High Sierras where she spent much time climbing, to the high seas; when Marilynn sings, we believe she has been there. Her rendition of “Old Jack” the mule, is done with such sincerity you can feel the soil under your boot and the plow in your hand. Her Love of mules came during ten frustrating years of ranching. She has owned and trained many mules including a National Champion saddle mule. She has lived on land and

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made a complete switch to life on a working sailboat. The latter change was softened when she learned of a “mule sail” which is yanked on when the going gets tough. The sailboat, like the mule is only as good as her handler. Marilynn says “Both lifestyles are similar in that they are both full of self-imposed misery.” The Tennessee “Mule Balladeer” can and will take you back to a simpler time when we were independent and a man’s success de-

Her Love of mules came during ten frustrating years of ranching.

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pended upon his relationship with his animals and land. Marilynn sings and plays Guitar, Dulcimer, Mouth Bow, and Jew’s harp, and isn’t one teensy bit stubborn.. That’s not to say she isn’t absolutely “mule-headed most of the time, though. Widely applauded as the “Tennessee Mule Balladeer”, this multi-talented farm wife, cheerfully sang critters praises cross country when she was not putting them through their paces on the acres she and her husband Ron own. Marilynn always included a musical tribute to mules as part of her singing act. So, whether she’ was serenading the long-eared objects of her affection on the road or perched atop a fence post at her own place, however this farm based balladeer holds to a firm belief she wouldn’t consider changing. “To me, animals and music are the two best tonics for happiness, “she asserts. “So when I needed a lift, I either saddled up a mule and started singing or did a little bit of both” What a tribute to the American Ballades. I have a new found love for those simple yet true American songs from a lady that is rich in the American Spirit in its truest form.

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Natalie Gabriella Harrison is a beautiful 6th grader with an amazing outlook on life, an excitement in her eyes, and a very bright future ahead of her! She has been a member of the Girl Scout Organization for the past 6 years and has volunteered the past two years at the local community Thanksgiving Dinner. Natalie is a talented girl! She has been acting in the Summer Youth Musical Theater for two years. Like most girls her age, she loves music and is very active [looking forward to being in track]. She was the pitcher on her softball team this past summer, is an ice cream junkie, and she wants to be a lawyer when she grows up. She can really do anything!! She helps out at home, gets wonderful grades, is a very loyal friend and loves her family. In fact, for her Mom’s birthday she wants to give her the day off by doing ‘all the things that Mom does’ so her Mom can have a TRUE day off. She’s amazing. .

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“DOODLEBUG”

Monument Story

A memorial garden at Front Street and Hudson Drive in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio By H. Craig Erskine III

ragedy visited the sleepy community of Cuyahoga Falls on July 31, 1940 at 6 p.m. when a northbound freight train plowed head-on into the onecar Doodlebug commuter train between the crossings at Front Street and Hudson Drive. The resulting impact, and fire in the passenger section, caused the deaths of 43 of the 46 people on board. The only survivors were the Doodlebug’s engineer, conductor, and another employee, who managed to jump from the train just moments before impact. There were no injuries to those on board the two-locomotive, 73-car freight train. The Doodlebug was operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad on a dedicated run between Hudson and Akron. As fate would have it, the freight train experienced a three-hour departure delay and should have completed its trip from Columbus to Cleveland long before the ‘Bug’ was heading south. By the same token, the Doodlebug was to have pulled onto a siding at Silver Lake to let the freight through. It did not. The cause of the crash was cited as: “Failure to obey an order,” but formal charges were never brought against the engineer. According to Liz Cross, curator of the Cuyahoga Falls Historical Society, “The accident remains the worst disaster in Cuyahoga Fall’s history and one of the worst train wrecks in all of Northeast Ohio.” Self-propelled railroad cars were commonly referred to as “Doodlebugs,” although the origin of the term is

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uncertain, and it also applies to other small vehicles. Typically, a gasoline-operated engine powered a generator which in turn provided energy to an electric traction motor that turned the axles. Doodlebugs were built by the Electro-Motive Corporation beginning in 1924 and used coach bodies built by Pullman and the St. Louis Car Company. They provided passenger and mail service on branch lines that were not heavily used. Rich Merino (91) and Minnie Wagner (93), both of Hudson, would ride the Doodlebug to Akron to shop. Asked what she remembered about the Doodlebug, Wagner stated, “I rode it to Akron, a lot, by myself. I was probably 18. It ran a long time. Many, many years. It just went to Akron. It seems to me it was one car and it went straight through to Akron,” she added. Asked if he ever rode it, Merino said, “Yep, my mother took us to Akron to go to Federal’s [Department Store] and O’Neil’s to buy clothes, and we took the Doodlebug.” Asked how long it took to get to Akron, Merino replied, “A half-hour...little over a half-hour, maybe.” He added that it made no stops. Asked what the experience was like – was it more like a train, or a trolley? – he thought for a moment and replied, “I can’t remember, but I kind of thought it was more like a train, because when I was a kid, I figured it was a train. It didn’t ride like a train though, it rode a little different.” Asked if the seats were comfortable, or were they more like a bus seat and hard-backed? Merino responded, “I can’t remember, I was just a kid, I didn’t know what was comfortable,” he said with a laugh, “or what wasn’t comfortable,” he added. “I rode on it when I was younger, probably before the teens.” Merino did not remember the cost of a ticket. “My mother would have paid for it. I had no idea what it cost. I didn’t ride it too much, but I remember, you looked way down in the Gorge, it went by the Gorge, where the river was, and it was kind of scary because I was just a young kid.” Asked what the experience was like, Wagner said, “It went back and forth, like this [sways from side to side]. It wasn’t like riding a bus. The seats weren’t nice seats, no, they were just leather, old leather seats. In some spots it went fast. It went faster than the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad train does,” she added. It went right to Akron and let us off there.”

Wagner said she did not remember where the Akron station was, nor did she remember the cost of a ticket. “Probably I went to Polsky’s,” she replied, when asked what she might have done in Akron in those days. Wagner heard about the accident on the radio while babysitting some children in the neighborhood. “I was shocked,” she said. Neither Merino nor Wagner was motivated to visit the site the next day. But three Sill Middle School students were motivated, thanks to a school project, to raise funds to have a monument and memorial garden erected in 2005. Former students, Joseph Gajovski (20) and Nathan Gera (20) spoke with the Akronist by telephone and shared their memories of the school assignment. [A third student, Clarissa Melvin, also involved in the project, could not be reached in time to contribute to this article.] What began as a seventh-grade group project soon turned into a visit to the mayor’s office and a major capital fund-raising campaign, which ultimately resulted in the creation of the beautiful Doodlebug Memorial Park along the banks of the Cuyahoga River next to the railroad tracks. Gera explained, “It started out as a ‘mock-project’ that was just supposed to be something that we thought would be worthy of building a monument to. I remember kids were doing stuff for Michael Jordan and stuff like that. Then we found the Doodlebug and we thought that was more worthy...because these were actually lives lost of local people. And it just came from being mock to real life. We got the idea from a magazine called Then and Now. He added, “That’s where we found the actual Doodlebug story.” Neither student had heard of the accident before. Said Gajovski, “We didn’t hear anything about that until we did research for local things, just anything around here in the city that we could do the project on, that we could identify with, and we found it in a book of history that our neighbor gave to us.” As to how many people were involved in this particular project, Gajovski said, “For the actual student project, we were assigned in groups of five and after we took it to the mayor, the three of us pursued it farther and then the continued maintenance was mostly Nathan and I. We took it to the mayor first and he thought it was a good idea. Then we went into a city council meeting and we presented our idea to them.” Gera added, “There were a couple of other kids involved in it when we first started out, but as it progressed, a couple of the kids fell out or even moved to a different group. I remember it being me, Clarissa and Joseph, and after the monument got put up it kind of was left to me and Joseph to take care of it.” Once the project was approved, the resourceful students set about the task of raising the money to make it a

reality. A special Doodlebug fund was set up at FirstMerit Bank where donations were accepted. Also, inscribed paver bricks were sold for $150. In excess of $5,000 was soon raised. Gera said, “We had Summit Memorial do the actual monument. They did it for no cost other than the granite price. The mayor donated the piece of city property to us to put the monument up on.” He went on to explain, “We wanted to put it where the actual crash site was. There is a grass strip between Hudson Drive and Rt. 59 and we were going to put it there, and the mayor said how about we actually put it over here, because people can actually come and sit down and enjoy it and not to have to worry about somebody getting run over.” The students themselves designed the monument and came up with the inscription and submitted it as their class project. The plans were turned over to the monument company who assisted with giving it a professional look. Gera said, “We did a ‘mock-size’ for class and then we did our own big one for our real-life city one.” Gajovski added, “We went down to the monument company and we actually assisted them in the carving out of the monument as well as doing the gardening at the site. We also put all of the brickwork in ourselves. We pretty much did everything ourselves. We had help from other people and our families.” Gera said the design of the site came from Your Backyard landscapers. “They gave us the design, but the students did all the work down there. We designed what the monument looked like and Summit Memorial just put it on a bigger scale. The students came up with the inscription and all other information on the stone.” When an announcement ran in a local newspaper with a picture of one of the Doodlebug cars, a sharpeyed reader noted a discrepancy. “Somebody contacted us and told us that was the wrong model,” Gajovski said. “They provided us with the actual model of the car and we were able to change it before we got the actual monument put up.” Gajovski added, “We appreciate the continued interest. The reason we made it was because we wanted to remember that. Because it was such a local catastrophe, and I had, personally, as a child and teenager never heard anything about that happening in Cuyahoga Falls and I was real shocked.” The inscription the Sill students came up with reads: “On an average summer day, a passenger shuttle that ran from Hudson, Ohio, to Akron, Ohio, collided head on with a 73-car freight train. There were 46 passengers aboard. It was the worst crash in Cuyahoga Falls history.” The students received national recognition and made a trip to Orlando, Fla., to accept the Keep America Beautiful award. Gera is employed by Aspen Tree Service and Gajovski is working in the area and will be attending college in the fall. cinamagic APRIL - MAY 2014

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rom All Movie Guide: Joan Weldon was lucky enough as an actress to get in briefly at the end of the Hollywood studio system, make some good movies (and one great one), and then land on her feet in musical theater, which is where she wanted to be in the first place. Born Joan Louise Welton in San Francisco, she was the daughter of a prominent attorney. As a child, she showed a keen interest in music and studied piano and voice. She joined the chorus of the San Francisco Grand Opera Company and later sang with the Civic Light Opera Company. It was during a performance with the latter that she was spotted by screenwriter-turned-producer Stanley Rubin (Macao, The Narrow Margin, River of No Return), who arranged for her to have a screen test at 20th Century Fox. The studio passed on her, however, because it wasn’t in the market for vocalists. Meanwhile, she appeared on television as a singer on the series This Is Your Music and later crossed paths with William T. Orr, the son-in-law of Warner Bros. co-founder Jack L. Warner (and later the executive in charge of the company’s television division), which led to a contract with Warners. Her last name was changed to Weldon and she narrowly missed out being cast as a victim of Vincent Price’s malevolence in André De Toth’s 3-D horror classic House of Wax. Instead, her contribution to the 3-D movie craze was as the second female lead in De Toth’s The Stranger Wore a Gun amid a cast that included veterans Randolph Scott, Claire Trevor, and George Macready and future stars Ernest Borgnine and Lee Marvin. Weldon was also loaned out to MGM in the Sigmund Romberg bio-musical Deep in My Heart (1954), and ended up cut from the picture for her trouble. Weldon was cast in a series of Westerns, including The Command and Riding Shotgun, but her greatest contribution to the screen was as the female lead in Gordon Douglas’ Them! The first and best of Hollywood’s radioactive/giant monster movies, the film relied more on characters than most others in the genre and featured an extraordinary cast, including one Oscar-winner (Edmund Gwenn), one Oscar-nominee (James Whitmore), one future TV star (James Arness) in the lead, and another two (Fess Parker and Leonard Nimoy) in small roles. Weldon broke some cinematic ground, playing a notably intelligent and assertive female character who also happened to be beautiful. “We took the movie very seriously,” she recalled in a 2004 interview, “exactly like any other drama.” Of her co-star Edmund Gwenn, she said, “He was the sweetest man, and he was quite elderly by then and riven with arthritis, but he worked as hard as any of us; when the director called ‘Action,’ he did everything asked of him, all of the climbing and the walking through the desert. It was just that, when they called ‘Cut!,’ he had a manservant that would rush over to him and get him to a chair.” Weldon’s career in movies ended with the expiration of her Warner Bros. contract in 1954. She resumed her singing career with Jimmy McHugh and was later in the road company production of {+The Music Man}, playing Marian Paroo. Weldon made her way to Broadway in {+Kean}, starring opposite Alfred Drake, and opened the State Theatre at Lincoln Center in New York playing opposite John Raitt in a scene from {+Carousel}. She later toured with Fess Parker in {+Oklahoma} and, in 1967, played the lead in a production of Franz Lehar’s {+The Merry Widow} at Lincoln Center. Weldon retired from the stage in 1980, but was still well remembered by opera and musical fans in the early 2000s. She also attracted a crowd when she turned up as a member of the audience in March 2004 at a rare 3-D screening of The Stranger Wore a Gun in New York. cinamagic APRIL - MAY 2014

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“America was not geared to make me into a Liz Taylor, a Monroe, a Gardner.” – Dorothy Dandridge

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orn on November 9, 1922, in Cleveland, Ohio, Dorothy Dandridge sang at Harlem’s Cotton Club and Apollo Theatre and became the first African-American woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for best actress. Many years passed before the mainstream entertainment industry acknowledged Dandridge’s legacy. In 1999, Halle Berry played Dandridge in Introducing Dorothy Dandridge. EARLY LIFE Born on November 9, 1922, in Cleveland, Ohio, Dorothy Dandridge sang at Harlem’s famed Cotton Club and Apollo Theatre and became the first African-American woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for best actress. Her ability to break new ground for African American women in film has drawn comparisons between her and baseball great Jackie Robinson. In her childhood, Dandridge experienced some difficulties. She never knew her father. Her mother, actress Ruby Dandridge, left her father while she was pregnant with Dorothy. Dandridge later suffered at the hands of her mother’s girlfriend, Geneva Williams. Williams was the displinarian in the family and was known for being strict and cruel with Dandridge. Dandridge was pushed into show business at a young age by her mother. Dandridge performed with her sister Vivian for a time as a song-and-dance team billed as “The Wonder Children.” The girls performed throughout the South, playing black churches and other places. CAREER BEGINNINGS In the 1930s (one source says 1929), Dandridge moved to Los Angeles, California, with her family in search of stardom. She found some success with her musical trio, the Dandridge Sisters. The group included Dorothy, her sister Vivian and Etta Jones. They performed with the Jimmy Lunceford Orchestra and Cab Calloway. The duo even played gigs at the famous Cotton Club in Harlem. As an African American singer, Dandridge confronted early on the segregation and racism of the entertainment industry. She may have allowed on stage, but in some venues she couldn’t eat in the restaurant or use certain facilities because of the color of her skin. As a teenager, Dandridge began to appear in small roles in a number of films. She and her sister appeared in the Marx Brothers film A Day at the Races (1937). The Dandridge Sisters appeared in Going Places (1939) with Louis Armstrong. On her own, she danced with Harold Nicholas of the dancing Nicholas Brothers in the 1941 Sonja Henie musical Sun Valley Serenade. The duo’s tap dancing routine was cut from the version of the film shown in the South. She played an African princess in Drums of the Congo (1942). That same year, she married Harold Nicholas. But their union proved to be anything but a happy one. During their turbulent marriage, Dandridge virtually retired from performing. Nicholas reportedly liked to chase other women. But her greatest heartbreak came in 1943 with the birth of her first and only child. She was stuck home alone when she went into labor. Dandridge blamed her husband for their daughter’s severe brain damage. Dandridge paid for their daughter Harolyn to receive private care. INTERNATIONAL STARDOM After her divorce in 1951, Dandridge returned to the nightclub circuit, this time as a successful solo singer. After a stint at the Mocambo club in Hollywood with Desi Arnaz’s band and a sell-out 14week engagement at La Vie en Rose, she became an international star, performing at glamorous venues in London, Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco, and New York. She won her first starring film role in 1953’s Bright Road, playing an earnest and dedicated young schoolteacher opposite Harry Belafonte. Her next role, as the eponymous lead in Carmen Jones (1954),a film adaptation of Bizet’s opera Carmen that also costarred Belafonte, catapulted her to the heights of stardom. With

her sultry looks and flirtatious style, Dandridge became the first African-American to earn an Academy Award nomination for best actress. Though many believed she deserved to win, Dandridge eventually lost the award to Grace Kelly (The Country Girl). Still, after the phenomenal success of Carmen Jones, Dandridge seemed well on her way to becoming the first non-white actress to achieve the kind of superstardom that had accrued to contemporaries like Marilyn Monroe and Ava Gardner. In 1955, she was featured on the cover of Life magazine, and was treated like visiting royalty at that year’s Cannes Film Festival. In the years that followed her success with Carmen Jones, however, Dandridge had trouble finding film roles that suited her talents. She wanted strong leading roles, but she found her opportunities limited because of her race. According to The New York Times, Dandridge once said, “If I were Betty Grable, I could capture the world.” Her Carmen Jones co-star also addressed this issue, saying that Dandridge “was the right person in the right place at the wrong time,” according to the Boston Globe. Besides Carmen Jones, Dandridge’s only other great film was 1959’s Porgy and Bess, in which she played Bess opposite Sidney Poitier. She turned down the supporting role of Tuptim in The King and I because she refused to play a slave. It was rumored that she would play Billie Holliday in a film version of Lady Sings the Blues directed by Orson Welles, but it never panned out. In the racially disharmonious 1950s, Hollywood filmmakers could not seem to create a suitable role for the light-skinned Dandridge, and they soon reverted to subtly prejudiced visions of interracial romance. She appeared in several poorly received racially and sexually charged dramas, including Island in the Sun (1957), also starring Belafonte and Joan Fontaine; Tamango (1959), in which Dandridge plays the mistress of the captain of a slave ship; and Malaga (1960). PERSONAL STRUGGLES While making Carmen Jones, Dandridge became involved in a heated, secretive affair with the film’s director, Otto Preminger, who also directed Porgy and Bess. Their interracial romance, as well as Dandridge’s relationships with other white lovers, was frowned upon, not in the least by other African-American members of the Hollywood filmmaking community. On the rebound, she married her second husband, Jack Denison, in 1959, which proved to be another troubled relationship. He was verbally abusive and mishandled her money. She lost much of her savings to bad investments, including Denison’s restaurant, which failed in 1962. He left her soon after. As her film career and marriage failed, Dandridge began drinking heavily and taking antidepressants. The threat of bankruptcy and nagging problems with the IRS forced her to resume her nightclub career, but she found only a fraction of her former success. Relegated to second-rate lounges and stage productions, Dandridge’s financial situation grew worse and worse. By 1963, she could no longer afford to pay for her daughter’s 24-hour medical care, and Harolyn was placed in a state institution. Dandridge soon suffered a nervous breakdown. On September 8, 1965, Dorothy Dandridge was found dead in her Hollywood home. It was later ruled that her death was caused by a barbiturate overdose. Dandridge had little more than $2 in her bank account at the time of her death. Dorothy Dandridge’s unique and tragic story became the subject of renewed interest in the late 1990s, beginning in 1997 with the release of a biography, Dorothy Dandridge, by Donald Bogle, and a two-week retrospective at New York City’s Film Forum. In 1999, actress Halle Berry won Golden Globe and Emmy awards for her portrayal of Dandridge in an acclaimed HBO movie, Introducing Dorothy Dandridge. cinamagic APRIL - MAY 2014

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eading American character actor James Whitmore specialized in giving tour de force solo performances on stage, screen, and television, notably with his Oscar-nominated solo turn as President Truman in Give ‘Em Hell Harry! Whitmore is short and thickset with a well-aged face and gentle smile; he is known for portraying outwardly tough but inwardly caring men. Born in Buffalo, NY, Whitmore attended the private school Choate in Connecticut and then studied prelaw at Yale. While there he was a member of the Yale Drama School Players and co-founded the Yale radio station. He was drafted into the U.S. Marine Corps where during boot camp, he finished his degree and became an officer. Following his discharge, Whitmore joined the U.S.O. and also spent time studying at the American Theater Wing. Before making his Tony-winning debut on Broadway with a supporting role in Command Decision, Whitmore gained experience in summer stock. He made his film debut in The Undercover Man in 1949. That year, he also appeared in Battleground and his performance as a battle-scarred sergeant earned him his first Oscar nomination. Though primarily a supporting player, Whitmore occasionally played leads, notably in films like Them! (1954) and Black Like Me (1964). In addition to his film and stage work, Whitmore also performed on television as a guest star and as the star of the series The Law and Mr. Jones (1960-1962). Between 1972 and 1974, Whitmore costarred on the series Temperatures Rising. During the ‘80s, Whitmore often appeared in television miniseries. His career slowed dramatically in the ‘90s, though in 1994, he offered a memorable performance as an old lifer who finds himself unable to cope outside of prison in The Shawshank Redemption. He died in February 2009 at the age of 87. cinamagic APRIL - MAY 2014

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“The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we’re only half alive.” – Ralph Waite “I have vanity and greed enough for one person. But at the same time, I feel in my bones you lose a lot of life’s value if you don’t see yourself as a member of the family of man.” – Ralph Waite

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orn on June 22, 1928, in White Plains, New York, Ralph Waite earned degrees from Bucknell University and Yale Divinity School before beginning an acting career. Best known for playing the role of John Walton Sr. on The Waltons (1971-1981), when the series ended, Waite continued to work in television and film. Following long-held political aspirations, he unsuccessfully ran for a seat in Congress in 1990 and 1998. He died on February 13, 2014, at age 85. EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION The eldest of five children, Ralph Waite was born in White Plains, New York, on June 22, 1928, to Esther Mitchell and Ralph H. Waite. After graduating from high school, young Ralph joined the U.S. Marines and served for two years between 1946 and 1948. He then entered Bucknell University in Pennsylvania, graduating with a Bachelors of Arts degree. In 1951, Ralph Waite met and married Beverly Hall, who inspired him to go into social work in New York’s Westchester County. Bureaucratic barriers and the indifference of his superiors discouraged him, however, so he quit to enter Yale Divinity School. Ordained as a Presbyterian minister, he soon found himself at odds with church protocol and disenchanted with the hypocrisy he saw in his fellow clerics. Waite eventually found a position as a religious editor for book publisher Harper & Row. He also became active in politics, picketing for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. ‘THE WALTONS’ By the time he was 30, other demons in Ralph Waite’s life had begun to reveal deeper problems, and he went through a period of deep soul-searching. He began taking acting lessons in 1960, making his professional debut in the off-Broadway production of The Balcony. He began drinking around this same time, starting a battle with addiction that would last for the next 14 years. By 1965, Waite was starring opposite Faye Dunaway in the play Hogan’s Goat—a role that brought him both critical acclaim and self-confidence. Waite met with tragedy in 1964 when his 9-yearold daughter, Suzanne, died of leukemia. After Waite’s marriage to Hall ended in 1969, he traveled to Hollywood, California, where he found small bit parts in films such as Cool Hand Luke (1967). He also continued his stage work, appearing in The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald and the Shakespearian classics Hamlet and Twelfth Night. Ralph Waite caught a big break in 1970, landing the part of Carl Dupea, Rpbert Dupea’s (Jack

Nicholson) brother in Five Easy Pieces. More critical acclaim for the actor followed, and in turn, so did many offers. In 1972, Waite was cast in the role that would forever define him as an actor, of patriarch John Walton Sr. on the immensely popular television series The Waltons, which told the story of a small farming family living in Virginia during the Great Depression and World War II. Over its nineyear run (1971-1981), The Waltons earned high ratings and several Emmy Awards. Not wanting to be forever identified as John Walton, however, Waite extended his talents into other projects, including the lead in the film The Secret Life of John Chapman (1976) and the role of Slater on the blockbuster miniseries Roots (1977), for which the actor received an Emmy nomination. In 1980, Waite wrote, produced, directed and distributed the film On the Nickel, which told the story of a recovering alcoholic who seeks out a friend on Los Angeles’ skid row. During this same time, in 1977, Waite entered his second marriage, to Kerry Shear Waite. The union didn’t last long, however, ending in 1981. After The Waltons ended that same year, the actor continued to work in film, theater and TV, including a number of Waltons TV movies. In 1982, Waite married his third wife, Linda East, who would remain with the actor until his death in 2014. RUN FOR CONGRESSIONAL SEAT In 1990, Waite acted upon long-held political ambitions and ran for a seat in U.S. Congress as a Democrat in Riverside County, California’s 37th District. He ultimately lost the race, however, to GOP incumbent Al McCandless. In 1998, Waite was a late candidate for the seat left vacant by Sonny Bono, who had died in a skiing accident. Before deciding to run, Waite had signed on to play Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman in New Jersey. Committed to both, the actor turned politician endeavored to do both, traveling on Sunday to California to campaign, and then traveling back to New Jersey on Tuesday. He was ultimately defeated by Bono’s widow, Mary Bono. Following the race, Waite continued to appear in TV roles, occasionally in guest spots on shows such as the legal drama The Practice, HBO’s Carnivale and the primetime crime series NCIS and CSI. In 2010, Waite returned to his religious roots and joined the Desert Presbyterian Fellowship in Palm Desert. He also lent his talents to the pulpit, delivering some Sunday sermons. cinamagic APRIL - MAY 2014

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PHOTOGRAPHER SPOTLIGHT Rob is a professional videographer having recently developed a passion for still photography. He has always enjoyed exploring the beauty of creation and finding fresh ways to share the experiences he encounters. Rob was born and raised in northeastern Ohio and he comes from a long line of artists on both sides of his family. Still photography emerged to become his most prominent artistic frontier by the Spring of 2012 and he has been snapping countless photos ever since. He specializes in Landscapes, Wildlife and Macro Photography, though he occasionally does events and portrait work. Please feel free to browse his photos and experience God’s beautiful Creation through his eyes. You can do this by browsing the gallery on this site, subscribing to Rob’s daily posts on facebook, or by browsing his work on FineArtAmerica.com.

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Mother’s Day History O rigin of Mother’s Day goes back to the era of ancient Greek and Romans. But the roots of Mother’s Day history can also be traced in UK where a Mothering Sunday was celebrated much before the festival saw the light of the day in US. However, the celebration of the festival as it is seen today is a recent phenomenon and not even a hundred years old. Thanks to the hard work of the pioneering women of their times, Julia Ward Howe and Anna Jarvis that the day came into existence. Today the festival of Mothers day is celebrated across 46 countries (though on different dates) and is a hugely popular affair. Millions of people across the globe take the day as an opportunity to honor their mothers, thank them for their efforts in giving them life, raising them and being their constant support and well wisher.

Earliest History of Mothers Day The earliest history of Mothers Day dates back to the ancient annual spring festival the Greeks dedicated to maternal goddesses. The Greeks used the occasion to honor Rhea, wife of Cronus and the mother of many deities of Greek mythology. Ancient Romans, too, celebrated a spring festival, called Hilaria dedicated to Cybele, a mother goddess. It may be noted that ceremonies in honour of Cybele began some 250 years before Christ was born. The celebration made on the Ides of March by making offerings in the temple of Cybele lasted for three days and included parades, games and masquerades. The celebrations were notorious enough that followers of Cybele were banished from Rome. Early Christians celebrated a Mother’s Day of sorts during the festival on the fourth Sunday of Lent in honor of the Virgin Mary, the Mother of Christ. In England the holiday was expanded to include all mothers. It was then called Mothering Sunday. History of Mother’s Day: Mothering Sunday The more recent history of Mothers Day dates back to 1600s in England. Here a Mothering Sunday was celebrated annually on the fourth Sunday of Lent (the 40 day period leading up to Easter) to honor mothers. After a prayer service in church to honor Virgin Mary, children brought gifts and flowers to pay tribute to their own mothers. On the occasion, servants, apprentices and other employees staying away from their homes were encouraged by their employers to visit their mothers and honor them. Traditionally children brought with them gifts and

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a special fruit cake or fruit-filled pastry called a simnel. Yugoslavs and people in other nations have observed similar days. Custom of celebrating Mothering Sunday died out almost completely by the 19th century. However, the day came to be celebrated again after World War II, when American servicemen brought the custom and commercial enterprises used it as an occasion for sales. History of Mother’s Day: Julia Ward Howe The idea of official celebration of Mothers day in US was first suggested by Julia Ward Howe in 1872. An activist, writer and poet Julia shot to fame with her famous Civil War song, “Battle Hymn of the Republic”. Julia Ward Howe suggested that June 2 be annually celebrated as Mothers Day and should be dedicated to peace. She wrote a passionate appeal to women and urged them to rise against war in her famous Mothers Day Proclamation, written in Boston in 1870. She also initiated a Mothers’ Peace Day observance on the second Sunday in June in Boston and held the meeting for a number of years. Julia tirelessly championed the cause of official celebration of Mothers Day and declaration of official holiday on the day. Her idea spread but was later replaced by the Mothers’ Day holiday now celebrated in May. History of Mother’s Day: Anna Jarvis Anna Jarvis is recognised as the Founder of Mothers Day in US. Though Anna Jarvis never married and never had kids, she is also known as the Mother of Mothers Day, an apt title for the lady who worked hard to bestow honor on all mothers. Anna Jarvis got the inspiration of celebrating Mothers Day from her own mother Mrs Anna Marie Reeves Jarvis in her childhood. An activist and social worker, Mrs Jarvis used to express her desire that someday someone must honor all mothers, living and dead, and pay tribute to the contributions made by them. A loving daughter, Anna never forgot her mothers word and when her mother died in 1905, she resolved to fulfill her mothers desire of having a mothers day. Growing negligent attitude of adult Americans towards their mothers and a desire to honor her mothers soared her ambitions. To begin with Anna, send Carnations in the church service in Grafton, West Virginia to honor her mother. Carnations were her mothers favorite flower and Anna felt that they symbolised a mothers pure love. Later Anna along with her supporters wrote letters to people in

positions of power lobbying for the official declaration of Mothers Day holiday. The hard work paid off. By 1911, Mother’s Day was celebrated in almost every state in the Union and on May 8, 1914 President Woodrow Wilson signed a Joint Resolution designating the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day. History of Mother’s Day: Present Day Celebrations Today Mothers Day is celebrated in several countries including US, UK, India, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Turkey, Australia, Mexico, Canada, China, Japan and Belgium. People take the day as an opportunity to pay

tribute to their mothers and thank them for all their love and support. The day has become hugely popular and in several countries phone lines witness maximum traffic. There is also a tradition of gifting flowers, cards and others gift to mothers on the Mothers Day. The festival has become commercialised to a great extent. Florists, card manufacturers and gift sellers see huge business potential in the day and make good money through a rigorous advertising campaign. It is unfortunate to note that Ms Anna Jarvis, who devoted her life for the declaration of Mothers Day holiday was deeply hurt to note the huge commercialisation of the day.

GAMES: Mothers Day is an occasion which calls you to spend quality time with your mother. A

great idea would be to indulge in Mothers Day games and activities. This will help you get closer to your mother and have a memorable holiday. Here are some interesting ideas for activities and games for Mother’s Day. Purpose of organising programmes and activities on Mothers Day is to honor your mother and show her how deeply you love her and need her support.

Skits/Plays: Along with siblings, cousins and friends you can organise a skit or a play on Mothers Day. This will be hugely entertaining for your mom and she will feel so special to have a play hosted just for her. Surprise her with your hidden talents and she will feel proud to be your mother. Interviews: It is great idea to organise a special interview with your Mom or Grand Mother on Mothers Day. Call it “Coffee with Mom” or any name you like. If you have a camcorder record the event and take a few pictures. Besides this session will help you know more about your mother, if you dig your Mom about her childhood, her friends, teachers, husband and children. You can also ask her about how she met your father, best moments and most trying circumstances of her life. This is a nice way to make your mother feel important on her special day. Do not forget to express your love for her and to thank her at the end of the interview. Play Games: You can celebrate Mothers Day by playing various indoor and outdoor games on Mother Day. If your mother is an active person play tennis, badminton or any of her favorite sports with her. You may also play chess, carom, cards or any game your mother is fond of and spend time with her. There are several online games too which you can play with your mother. Here is an for an interesting Mother/Child Game idea which can be played with a few other families. Steps: Divide into four mother/child teams. ask the mothers to leave the room while the children sit in chairs. Ask the same four or five questions to each child

about their mothers. Bring in the mothers and ask them the same questions. Will the mother and child have the same answers? Switch places and see how well the mother’s know the children. Award a red carnation to the winning mother/child team. Question Ideas: Favorite color, movie, dress, animal, memorable moment with you, best friend, hobby, talent, food, animal, cartoon, pizza topping, ice cream topping, restaurant. Most embarrassing moment. Favorite holiday. Lunch Get Together: If your parents are living alone plan a get together over lunch, dinner or tea inviting all your siblings along with their families. You may also invite her friends and their families and host a big Mothers Day party. Ensure that you have your mothers favorite food in the menu. And don’t forget to play her favorite music. Tea Parties: You can organise tea parties in honor of your mother on a Mothers Day. Pick up the best crockery in the house, decorate a tray with a beautiful tray cover and vase of fresh flowers. Compliment the tea with a delicious cake and her favorite snack. You can present songs in her praise and let her know your feelings for her. Craft Activities: Mothers Day can also be celebrated by participating craft activities together. Mothers can work along with their little children and have fun with them. Grown up children can surprise their mothers with some craft work for them. cinamagic APRIL - MAY 2014

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Granny Mattie Childs Smith 1872-1959 By Patsy Trigg

Patsy Trigg’s great grandfather Walter Smith, Mattie Childs Smith and their daughter and my grandmother, Eunice Smith (Trigg).

hen you read in history about the women who settled the frontier, Granny Smith was one of those strong women who brooked no nonsense and was firm yet had a heart of gold, a wonderful soft spot in her heart especially for her first great grand-baby, ME! Granny lived during a time when a hard life, even on the farm, was part of the daily routine and you dealt with it. The depression added to this hardship and any fun loving and spirited expressions and expenditures were kept to a minimum. It wasn’t very often that you heard laughter ringing through the house. Every penny was counted for and you definitely did not waste anything, including your time. Telling stories was a form of inexpensive amusement that was popular and was a great source of entertainment. One of my favorite stores about Granny that was told to me on numerous occasions and often times at my request was Granny’s learn-

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ing to drive a horse-less carriage. Granny, for the majority of her life, knew nothing other than traveling by horse and buggy to go to town and to visit family and friends. Granny was brought abruptly into the 20th Century with her introduction to the horse-less carriage or motor car and her first lesson in driving. Once it was decided that a motor car was to be purchased by the family it was understood that each member of the family was to learn to use this new piece of equipment. Granny, being of stout mind and determination, her heart probably thumping a hundred miles an hour, her knuckles white from her tight grasp on the steering wheel, set off down the dirt road going a terrifying 5 miles an hour. Fear and challenge intermingled with grit and resolve soon turned guarded and confidence. After a couple of runs up and down the road Granny relaxed and was beginning to enjoy this somewhat bumpy and noisy mode of transportation.

Patsy Trigg’s Granny and Patsy, her first grandbaby

Great Grandpa, who I unfortunately never got he opportunity to meet, decided that enough fun had been had and everyone seemed accomplished enough to be able to use the motor car. Great Grandpa then told Granny to go ahead and park the motor car in the shed. In hindsight, not one of Grandpa’s better decisions. Granny put the motor car in gear and headed for the shed. As she got closer, it became apparent that she was not slowing down. Granny’s guarded confidence was overtaken by old habits in a new and alarmingly frightful situation. Grand Grandpa frantically shouted orders. Her daughter, Eunice, screamed hysterically. “Mom slow down! Be careful! You’re going to hurt yourself.” Granny gripped the steering wheel with great strength and in a frozen position of surprise and alarm proceeded forward into the shed and drove right out the other side the whole time hollering WHOA!!!! I don’t believe she ever drove again.

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You’ve got the nachos, the cerveza and mariachi music all set for a great Mexican fiesta. But what’s a party without the fun and games? Just in time for Cinco de Mayo, check out some of the best fiesta icebreakers and party games for both kids and adults: Spanish Word Scramble - Pass out a sheet of jumbled Spanish words and see who can unscramble the greatest number of words correctly. Have pity on those unfamiliar with Spanish by using the most commonly understood words, i.e., casa, mucho, nada, senora, etc. Find the Worm - Place gummy worms in bottles of water or sodas. The first one to jug-a-lug to the bottom - and eat the worm is declared the winner. Pass the Sombrero - A bit like ‘musical chairs’ but instead party guests have to try on a sombrero. Play Mexican mariachi music as the game begins and when the music stops the guest wearing the sombrero is out of the game. For extra laughs, give eliminated players the option to perform a Mexican hat dance to get back into the game. Nachos-Eating Competition - Have several bowls of nachos and party dip ready for guests to pair up into teams. One team-member must stand behind the other, acting as their ‘arms’, who must feed the nachos to their partner. The first team to empty their bowl is the winner. Provide bibs and floor covering and be prepared for a big MESS - and loads of great laughs (and have the camera ready). Mexican Hat Dance - Turn up the mariachi music and have each person place a sombrero on the ground and dance around it. Whoever doesn’t get dizzy and dances the longest wins a prize! Or, hand out several prizes for most original dance, funniest dance or most unusual. Fiesta Scavenger Hunt List - Get partygoers embark on a Mexican party theme scavenger hunt through the house or the backyard. Set up the game so it can be played either individually or in teams, with each item assigned a point value. The person or team who scores the most points wins a prize! Happy hunting...

Fiesta Guacamole Ingredients • 3 medium avocados, halved and pitted • 3 tablespoons fresh lime juice • 1 (2-ounce) bottle TABASCO® brand Green Jalapeño Pepper Sauce (about 1/4 cup) • 1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro • 2 tablespoons chopped onion • 3 medium plum tomatoes, diced • Salt to taste Preparation Scoop avocado pulp from shells into a medium bowl and mash with a fork, leaving some chunks. Gently stir in lime juice, TABASCO® Green Sauce, cilantro, onion, tomatoes, and salt. cinamagic APRIL - MAY 2014

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Pan Seared Jalapeño Fish Tacos with Spicy Slaw • • • • • • • • •

Ingredients 3 tablespoons olive oil 3 1/2 tablespoons TABASCO® brand Green Jalapeño Pepper Sauce, divided 1 1/2 tablespoons lime juice 2 pounds tilapia fillets 6 cups shredded green cabbage 2/3 cup sour cream 1 tablespoon TABASCO® brand Chipotle Pepper Sauce 1/2 teaspoon salt 8 six-inch flour tortillas, heated

Preparation In a large resealable plastic bag or glass bowl, combine olive oil, 1 1/2 tablespoons of the TABASCO® Green Sauce, lime juice and tilapia fillets. Refrigerate for 30 minutes. In a bowl, toss cabbage with remaining 2 tablespoons TABASCO® Green Sauce and set aside. Combine sour cream and TABASCO® Chipotle Sauce in a small bowl and refrigerate. Heat a nonstick skillet over medium high heat. Remove fish from marinade and sprinkle with salt. Place fillets in pan and cook for 4 to 5 minutes per side or until desired doneness. Spread a little chipotle sour cream on each warm tortilla. Top with the fish (about 1/2 fillet for each taco) and jalapeño slaw. cinamagic APRIL - MAY 2014

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Jalapeño Frozen Daiquiri Ingredients 2 oz. apple cider 1 oz. limeade, frozen concentrate 1 oz. lemonade concentrate 1/2 oz. rum, light 1 tsp. sugar 1 drop food coloring, green 3 dashes TABASCO® brand Green Jalapeño Pepper Sauce Garnish: 1 small jalapeño pepper and 1 fresh lime Preparation Combine all ingredients in a 1 gallon plastic container, blend well and place in freezer. Check container in 30-40 minutes. If mixture is beginning to freeze, shake or stir occasionally until the liquids are a slush consistency. Serve in a margarita glass; garnish with a jalapeño pepper or a lime wheel, or both.

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Quickie Quesadillas Ingredients 1 (16-ounce) can refried beans 3 tablespoons TABASCO® brand Green Jalapeño Pepper Sauce 8 (6-inch) flour tortillas 1 red bell pepper, finely chopped 1/4 cup chopped cilantro or parsley 8 ounces (2 cups) shredded Monterey Jack or Cheddar cheese Preparation Preheat oven to 450°F. Combine refried beans and TABASCO® Green Sauce in a bowl and mix well. Spread bean mixture over each tortilla and sprinkle with bell pepper, cilantro, and cheese. Place tortillas on 2 large cookie sheets and bake 5 minutes or until cheese melts and tortillas are golden around edges. To serve, cut each quesadilla into quarters. cinamagic APRIL - MAY 2014

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Spicy Taquitos With TABASCO Dipping Sauce • • • • • • • • • • • •

Ingredients 1 tablespoon olive oil 1 garlic clove, crushed 1 medium onion, finely chopped 2 teaspoons ground cumin 1 cup cooked chicken, finely diced 1 cup cooked red or black beans 1 cup shredded Mexican-blend cheese 1 tablespoon TABASCO® brand Green Jalapeño Pepper Sauce 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup butter 1 teaspoon TABASCO® brand Original Red Sauce 12 sheets frozen phyllo dough, thawed

Preparation Preheat oven to 425° F. Heat oil in 2-quart saucepan over medium heat. Add garlic and onion; cook about 5 minutes. Stir in cumin; cook 1 minute. Combine chicken, beans, cheese, TABASCO® Green Sauce, salt, and onion mixture in large bowl; stir until well mixed. Melt butter in small bowl; stir in TABASCO® Original Red Sauce. Set aside half of butter mixture; keep mixture warm. Assemble the 12 sheets of phyllo dough in 3 sets of 4 layered sheets as follows: place one sheet of frozen phyllo on work surface; brush with some butter mixture. Place second sheet of phyllo dough on top of first sheet; brush with butter mixture. Repeat with 2 more sheets of phyllo, brushing each sheet with butter mixture, to make 4 layers. Repeat this process with the other two sets of 4 sheets. Cut each of the 3 layered sets of phyllo sheets (horizontally and vertically) into 4 equal pieces, to make 12 cut pieces of layered dough. Place 1 heaping tablespoonful of chicken mixture in lengthwise strip on each cut piece. Fold in short sides about 1 inch to enclose filling; roll lengthwise to form a 4-inch-long tube. Place on cookie sheet; brush with butter mixture. Bake 12 to 15 minutes or until golden. Serve with reserved warm butter mixture for dipping. Makes 12 cinamagic APRIL - MAY 2014

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Healthy with a Gourmet Lifestyle Recipes by Jewel Howard “Healthy” Gourmet food, is this possible can these two words really go hand in hand? In the Fit Chef’s kitchen it is! Chef Jewel Howard aka the “FIT CHEF” has created MANY variated gourmet recipes and cook books to fit the most health concsience individual! While the Fit Chef will tell you herself she was not always the healthiest Chef, and along with her recipes her eating habits portrayed this to be true as well. It wasn’t until she met her husband, who of course was by chance a weight loss expert who owned his own gym and helped many thousands of individuals with their lifestyle changes and weight loss goals that she had an aw-ha moment and like she likes to say “crossed over to the dark side” and became known as the Fit Chef. The Chef was at her heaviest and wanted to change her life but as a Chef she knew she wasn’t going to eat plain chicken breasts and broccoli every meal and she thought why should I. Certain traits come with the name CHEF such as creativity and the ability to think outside the box which is how her “HEALTHY with a GOURMET LIFESTYLE” cook book and concept came to be. So wether you are a mom, food enthusiest, home cook, health conscious, fitness competitor, wife or just wanting to try a new recipe the Fit Chef has something for everyone! Some of her recipes, how to videos and digital download cook books can be found on http://www.facebook. com/l/9AQFTPziLAQGY7Zw6GvoZu_0wbXRtV2wCTps08UFgfWYZgA/www.FitChef.TV. Roll up your sleeves, sharpen your knives and get ready for a lifestyle change with the Fit Chef’s Healthy with a Gourmet Lifestyle recipes/concept which are sure to please the pickest and most aprehensive individuals in your household! cinamagic APRIL - MAY 2014

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Italian night?! Try this healthy alternative of

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Breakfast on the go or a quick meal replacement? Well this is a sure fire winner!!

Blueberry Struesel Shake

Ingredients 1/2 cup unsweetened vanilla Almond Breeze milk 1/2 cup water 1/4 cup fat free cottage cheese 1 Tbl sugar free vanilla pudding mix 1/2 tsp vanilla extract 1/4 tsp lemon juice 1/4 cup old fashioned oats 1/4 cup frozen blueberries 1 Tbl Truvia Ice Lemon zest How to make it Place all ingredients into a blender and mix until well mixed and starts to become frothy. If you need to add a bit more ice do so.ď&#x20AC;˝ Makes 1 serving

Need a quick snack or fighting the urge to get that box of Girl Scout cookies out of the freezer. Well this is the perfect solution to both!

Mint Thin

Ingredients 1/2 cup unsweetened vanilla Almond Breeze milk 1/2 cup water 1/4 cup fat free cottage cheese 1/2 Tbl sugar free chocolate pudding mix or cocoa 1 scoop vanilla, chocolate or chocolate mint protein powder (pick just one) 1/2 tsp mint extract 1 Tbl Truvia Ice How to make it Place all ingredients into a blender and mix until well mixed and starts to become frothy. If you need to add a bit more ice do so.ď&#x20AC;˝ Makes 1 serving

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A homemade soup to warm up the body.

Chicken Noodle Soup

Ingredients 2 Tbl olive oil, split 5 (4oz.) chicken breasts, trimmed of fat and diced 15-20 baby carrots, diced (the baby carrots are much sweeter) 2 celery stalk, diced 2 Tbl minced onion, dried 1 tsp garlic, minced 1/4 tsp ground pepper 1 tsp salt 1 Tbl parsley, dried 2 cartons (48oz. each) low sodium/low in fat chicken broth 1 cup of uncooked whole wheat egg noodles Nutmeg, for taste (secret ingredient) How to make it Place 1 Tbl of your oil in a large stock pot that has been placed over medium to high heat. When oil is hot add your diced chicken and brown. When Chicken is browned remove from pot and set aside. Place pan back over the heat and add the remaining Tbl of oil, when oil is hot add your carrots, celery, onion, garlic and all spices EXCEPT for the NUTMEG. Lower your heat and saute until veggies are tender but not soft. Add you chicken back to the pot along with your chicken stock and noodles. Bring to a simmer and cook until noodles are el’dente (crisp to the bite). Dish into bowls and sprinkle the top of each with just a pinch of nutmeg. Enjoy!! Makes 4 -5 servings Did someone say Italian?!

Chicken Parmesan

Ingredients 4 (4oz.) boneless, skinless chicken breasts, butterfly if needed 4 egg whites 1 cup whole wheat bread crumbs 1/2 tsp. salt 1/4 tsp. pepper 1 Tbl parsley, minced 4 Tbl Parmesan cheese Grape seed oil 1 jar of Classico marinara, 4 cheese flavored 1 cup mozzarella cheese, shredded

How to make it Place your egg whites in a bowl and whisk until slightly frothy. Place the bread crumbs, salt, pepper, parsley and parmesan cheese on a large plate and toss with a fork to mix. Place a large pan over medium heat and add you oil. Coat your chicken breasts with the egg whites and then dredge in your bread crumb mixture. When oil is hot add your chicken to the pan, skin side down and cook until golden brown then flip to cook opposite side. Place chicken in a glass pyrex dish and cover with marinara and top off with cheese. Bake in an oven preheated at 350 and cook for 20 to 30 minutes or until cheese melts and sauce starts to bubble. Serve along side some baked spaghetti squash that has been prinkled with some fresh parmesan cheese and a side salad!! Enjoy! Makes 4 servings New ways to eat fish!

Tilapia with a Garlic Cream Sauce

Ingredients 1/3 cup fat free Miracle Whip 1/2 cup fat free cottage cheese, blended until smooth 2 Tbl lemon juice 1 1/2 Tbl of garlic, minced 1 Tbl Mrs. Dash Garlic and Herb 1/4 cup coarse parmsean cheese, shredded 25 fresh asparagus spears, woody ends removed and not cooked 5 (4 oz.) frozen tilapia fillets Tin foil Cooking spray 1 crock pot liner How to make it Place a crock pot liner in your crock and place crock setting to high. Mix the first 6 ingredients together in a mixing bowl and seperate in five equal parts, but remember your cottage cheese needs to be blended until smooth before using, however you can also use a plain greek yogurt to substitute if you would like. Take a peice of tin foil and tear out making it about 11 x 11 or so, repeat this 4 for times giving you 5 total. Spray each peice of tin foil with cooking spray then place one of your cottage cheese mixtures in the middle and spread around a bit and repeat onto the other peices of tin foil. Place a frozen tilapia fillet over the middle of each mixture and top each fillet with 5 asparagus spears. Fold each side of the tin foil in to make a nice little packet and place each packet into the crock cinamagic APRIL - MAY 2014

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overlapping a bit. Cook on high for about 3 hours and serve with some cooked whole grain rice and sprinkle a bit of fresh parmesan chese and a bit of parsley and enjoy! Makes 5 servings Its true Granny stuffs her corsets and oh boy are they good!!! A recipe that can be easly done in your Crock Pot!

Granny’s Stuffed Corsets

Ingredients 1/2 cup raisins 1/2 tsp cinnamon 1/2 cup quicl cook oatmeal 1/2 cup walnuts, chopped 3 scoops vanilla protein powder 4-6 small Granny Smith apples, cored 1/2 cup orange juice, no pulp 1/4 cup white wine 1 crock pot liner For Topping: 1 container of sugar free Cool-Whip 2 scoops vanilla protein

10 large basil leaves , very thinly sliced 4-6 fresh mozzerella slices 4-6 (4 oz.) chicken breasts, butterflied 1 bottle of Kraft sun dried tomato salad dressing Press and Seal How to make it Lay butterflied chicken breasts out smooth side down and cover with press and seal. Using a meat mallet beat your meat until just slightly thinner so it can be stuffed and rolled. Place all of your chicken breasts into a large baggy and top with 1/2 of your bottle of salad dressing. Seal your bag and toss to make sure all chicken is well coated with dressing.Place your chicken in the fridge to marinate for at least 30 minutes or over night. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Remove your chicken from the bag and place them smooth side down onto a flat surface. Place a piece of fresh mozz. cheese on top of the fat end of your chicken breast and top your mozz. with some tomatoes and basil. Roll the top of your chicken breast down and over the mixture, fold in the sides and and continue to roll. Repeat until all chicken breasts are stuffed. Place each chicken breast crease side down into a baking dish and pour the remining bottle of dressing over top with any remaining tomotoes and basil. Cook for 25-30 minutes and serve alongside some roasted red potatoes and freshly steamed green beans.

How to make it Place a crock liner in your crock and place your crock on the low setting. Start by very thinly slicing the bottoms off of each apple and coring them. Place the first 5 ingredients in a mixing bowl and mix. Take the mixture and stuff each Granny Smith apple. Once all aplles are stuffed place each apple down inside your crock pot and if there is any extra of your mixture pour over top of all the apples. Mix your wine and orange juice and pour down around your apples. Cover and cook for about 3-4 hours or until apples are fairly tender. While apples are cooking take your cool whip and place it into a mixing bowl add your protein powder and mix but be carful not to over mix. Place cool whip back into your cool whip container and place back into the freezer to harden. Serve each apple with a scoop of whip cream and enjoy!

Makes 4 - 6 servings

How to make it Place all ingredients in a blender or food processor except for strawberries and mix until smooth. When your ingredients are smooth you will place them into your icecream maker and run for about 30-45 minutes. The last 15-20 minutes you will add your strawberries. Once ice cream is all done serve and enjoy!

Other Recipes:

Caprese Chicken

Ingredients 4 firm Roma tomatoes, diced

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Strawberry Cheesecake Ice Cream Ingredients 1 cup plain greek yogurt 2 oz. greek cream cheese 1 cup unsweetened vanilla almond milk 2 scoop vanilla or strawberry protein powder 2 Tbl pistachio pudding mix 1 Tbl cream cheese pudding mix 1/2 cup sliced frozen unsweetened strawberries, thawed

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