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Show f What Do Footlights Mean, Anyhow, Compared to the Gas Flame Under a Fudge Kettle? NEW YORK, Here's one woman who has kept her word! Mie said she would leave the stage when she was 35. and she did on the dot! Recause She wanted a kitchen to fuss around In And friends And a husband. In Just a year she has made all these dreums come true. xcept the husband and that dream Is to be realized soon, for the mUtress of 'Dolly's Fudge Shop" Is engaged and her welding wel-ding Is to be In the near future. "I always loved kitchen, anyhow." I says Miss Dolly Lewis, who until Just a year ago this July, was a member of such theatrical companies as those of Madame Modjeaka. Ben Greet. Otis j Skinner, and several others managed I by Frohman. She was educated In England, ond at 16 began her dramatic eareer by running away to Join a clr-Icus clr-Icus at Manchester, Eng She's n C'oiiiitc?. 'li. Resides being an actress and a fudge maker. Dolly Is a countess, but she doesn't talk about that now Her re-il name Is Wllhclmina ..nna Helena Paulina Maria Gerhardt. Iler mother was German and her father Russian. She lias adopted hoi stepfather's n..mo Ix-wls. T "lien Dolly left the stage to open I a fudge shop, she found a very dirty cellar In Greenwich avenue, which she1 rented for $20 a month Then sh' , began to clean and paint and hammer i She rays that the neighbors did not . know whether the new tenant was a man or woman, for she worked in overalls I'll never forget my first cus-j tomer," Dolly s.tys. ' Before h- got his' candy. I had dropped the box, the I string, the paper ind some of the fudge Rut everyone down here Is v ery kind and Informal It Is c rtalnly the best 'place In the world to open a shop for the first time. Cooking Not Drudgery "I'm fundament illy a housewife. I'm perfectly happy planning a::d f.x-Ing f.x-Ing up mj apartment and working In my fudge shop kitchen. I've done all the work here mse!f, painting, building build-ing counter-i and theles, a?id even painting my own sign. l tanno; understand how any woman wo-man can Complain that cooking is drudgery. 1 make Quantities of candy every day. even beginning n new batch as late as 10 o'clock at night, when the demand has been heavy. I'm tired when night comes, of course, but It's' the pleasant kind of tlresomo that comes after one lias accomplished BontjOthlng I wouldn't give up my t'uJge shop for the very best theatrl-l tal offer of the season!" Doii.v's Recipes Here are some of Dolly's fudge reel-' Dolly, the cock, has no regret for the v-r.niched glories of Dolly, the actress. . A pes. The f.r.st. Peanut butter fudge, is what she calls a "happenstance." ' "I didn't think of It." shj says "It just happened." I'runut Butter Fudge Two cups granulated sugar One tablespoon corn syrup y i ( inc cup milk Pinch of salt Cook to 23S degrees Fahr. Then ben; Into it four tablespoon. peanut butter. Plain t hoc-lule Fudge Two cups sugar Three-fourts cup milk Heaping tablespoon butter n tablespoon corn Lvrup .ne-eighth pound bitter choco-1 late. "no-half teaspoon vanilla After cocking let mixture cool until un-til you can touch It lightly with your hand. Then beat .horoughly It Ij Impossible (o give the exact tme for cooking, as It varies according to the tempera i:re. To the plain fudge any kind of fru'.t rr- bo added during the beating. ( offs- i mlgc One nnd a half cups bluek coffee Three levri teaspoons nut butter (not oleomargarine) Two cups brown sugar Cook to 2:J,.'. degr- es Fahr., then add chopped nuts, Ltron, raisin?, orange jpeel, and beat well. Never let fudge rystallze on sides of the pan, and don't stir while cooking, cook-ing, Mrdiv. the cook, lu no regret fo r the vanished glories of Dolly, the ai tn A |