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...Neill had no reason to worry about money. His plays had netted him some $2,000,000; he could hope for a steadier income only if he had also written the Bible and a cookbook. His third marriage, with lovely Actress Carlotta Monterey, who had played opposite Louis Wolheim in O'Neill's The Hairy Ape (see cut), was an eminently happy one. After an all but mythically swift rise to fame, with 37 plays, he was still relatively young. In experience, he was a brilliant, confident professional, at the height of his hopes and powers...
...stand for Indian pudding as the nation's prize dish-"sweet . . . nourishing . . . sends you away . . . with a satisfied feeling." Breaking home-grown-dish precedent, he declared candidly that his favorite recipe was not handed down in his family for generations. Said he: "We just found it in a cookbook...
...Britling Sees It Through, which described the effect of two years of war on a literary Briton who lost his son. Robert W. Service's Rhymes of a Red Cross Man became one of the rare volumes of poetry to make the list. Mary Green's cookbook, Better Meals for Less Money, designed for shortage-harried housewives, brought Author Green considerably more money. But by the end of 1918 the U.S. public had tired of both war and "hooverizing" and was hungrily gulping the cactus and sage-scented paragraphs of Zane Grey's The U.P. Trail...
...writer, Mrs. Rombauer got off to a late start. She was 52 and a widow when she wrote her first cookbook. It began in a small way when she made up a list of recipes for her children, who were about to be married. "I realized," says Mrs. Rombauer, "they didn't know how to poach an egg." This sudden realization turned into a privately printed book that sold 3,000, copies, assured many an egg of perfect poaching. Mrs. Rombauer's expert, explicit manner of writing recipes is nearly baffle-proof. Of the various edi tions, over...
Encouragement has come to her from far & wide. One eloping bride telegraphed her family: AM MARRIED. ORDER ANNOUNCEMENTS. SEND ME A ROMBAUER COOKBOOK AT ONCE. One man gazed fondly at Mrs. Rombauer, announced, "At last I can eat spinach." A firm Rombauer fan is Mrs. Leon Henderson, wife of one of the New Deal's best-fed figures. Once the Hendersons had kitchen trouble. Nothing "seemed to work out right" until one day Mr. Henderson brought The Joy of Cooking home. Since then, the Hendersons have eaten well. Mrs. Henderson believes that Author Rombauer has "really done something...