From the October 7, 1938 edition
of The Salem Times-Register
Salem Theatre, starting Monday, October 10, and continuing for three days. Lock the doors and attend the show!
The Times-Register’s Motion Picture Cooking School entitled “Star in My Kitchen” will be the real attraction for three days at the Salem Theatre starting at 12:45 P.M., Saturday, October 10.
This fascinating and different cooking school is open to every woman, and The Times-Register as well as local merchants extend this last invitation to join in the home-making lessons and jolly entertainment for at least one day.
The Motion Picture Cooking School will be a practical rally of home-makers to contribute fresh perspective for the “same old job,” the monotonous day-in-and-day-out job, yet the most important business in the world. Just as men have their annual conventions, where they listen to lectures from specialists, local women will have their convention to consider home-making problems.
Just as fresh inspiration for the job is one of the by-products of the familiar cooking school, which presents a lecturer in a model kitchen, so are new ideas and keen incentive born in the film class for home-makers, with its novel approach and modern setting.
No “false-front” camera beautiful kitchens satisfied these specialists. They insisted on working in complete, compact, modern kitchens, which actually reflect more scientific ingenuity and careful planning than any living room.
Recognizing the demands of home experts, the producers of “Star in My Kitchen” signed all-star kitchens, with an all-star cast, adding a continual procession of closeups, so that every seat in Salem Theatre is a good seat for this amazingly-pictured home-making course.
Everyday happenings have been dramatized in the plot of “Star in My Kitchen.” Behind the sparkling humor and suspense that are so necessary to screen stories was a deliberate plan — an ambitious determination to carry instructions, inspiration, and worthwhile home news to women in every community. If any stray husbands get into the theatre, they are certain to ask, “When do we eat?”
What about recipes? Naturally every guest of The Times-Register will want to test these tantalizing cures for menu monotony. Free recipe sheets will be distributed daily. And other things will be given away—valuable gifts that will find long and useful life in many a home. ‘Guests at the school will want to meet and remember the local firms and nationally known products that are helping the Times-Register in the community undertaking.
Does your home run you? If so, why not accept the Times-Register’s invitation to join the neighborly cooking school party.
-Prepared by Shelly Koon
