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18 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE, Thursday, September 24, 1958 Bare Foot Immigrant Trains Opera Singers By JOHN TRACY Vetra calls himself "one of Can Canadian Press Staff Writer |ada's first, DPs, if not the first yl. i one."" He landed in Halifax in DECRONTO lor Ope a and found a job in the vocal de- the Maritime provinces is starting |Partment of the Halifax Conser- a movement in Toronto to turn |Vatory of Music. daytime workers into opera stars| But opera was his first love and at night. {he set out to found an opera com- i | pany. 3 pase bing A oi * the "Because I had to grow the sing- age of 20, hopes to "start a new 7S, 1 opened my own school," he fight for opera" here with a night said. school to train young Canadian singers. Vetra, now 55, foresees the day when Canadians will be as opera- conscious as Europeans "but it may take 10 years." Meanwhile, he plans to 'grow' his own talent from the pupils who will put in two-hour sessions twice weekly at his opera workshop. ESCAPED TO SWEDE N The singer, who played in Euro- pean films and has sung on most o: the operatic stages in Europe, fled his homeland nearly eight years ago in his "bare feet." He landed in' Sweden in a fishing boat and then headed for Canada. SALLY'S SALLIES |was formed and in quick succes- sion produced 'Don Giovanni', | "Tales from Hoffman", "La Travi- ata', 'Madame Butterfly', "The | Marriage of Figaro' and "Countess | Maritza." PROUD OF PUPIL One of the Canadian pupils of {whom Vetra is most proud is June Grant, former Halifax Mail-St rs the London production of 'Paint | Your Wagon." The 26-year-old Miss Grant studied for five years with Vetra and was awarded a two-year government scholarship to continue 'her operatic studies. @ope. 1933, King Festurés Syndicate, "Even if I'm a little overdrawn, please cash this check. I'm willing to gamble if you are." The Nova Scotia Opera Company | reporter who has been playing in | ® \ 4 | PRINCE ALBERT ' Many Attend - ' Sunday Service F. E. SMITH Correspondent PRINCE ALBERT -- Something that Prince Albert United Church | has not seen for a very long time was as large a congregation as was at the evening service on Sun- day. Those that came from far (and near were not the least dis: appointed when they heard the | very fine message given by the guest preacher, Rev J. -M. Finlay of Toronto. y Murray Luke of Hamilton wel- comed and introduced Mr. Finlay, | as well as all others there, and told {how so many Sunday morning lis- teners have heard him on CKEY (and how privileged we were to secure him on this, our anniver- sary day. Many baskets of late fall flow- | Vetra says he is here because he 'has found that of all Canadian cities interest in music is highest | in Toronto whose Royal Conserva- tory has held opera festivals for the last four years: "I very seriously hope that this opera school will produce some- thing soon," he said. "If it is pos- sible in Halifax it surely will be | possible in Toronto." The opera director looks forward |to the day when opera in Canada will be supported by the govern- | ment. "In Europe every opera house has government support," he said. { "Latvia had two government-sup- | ported opera houses. In Germany {there are 60. | 'Canada will eventually develop lits own opera but it may take 10 years. Up to now Canadians have {been busy with the economic side | of things. Now the art will come." ers made bright the setting against the Port Perry choir of over 25 voices, led by 'organist and choir- leader, Mrs. Elsie Dobson. who deserves much credit for the un- tiring efforts given to this very fine choir. They rendered two beautiful anthems. The afternoon service was not as well attended but the guest for this service, Rev. E. Harold Toye, Toronto, was also a very interest- ing speaker. MUSICAL SERVICE The music in the afternoon was supplied by the Port Perry male quartet comprising Messrs. Wes- ley Jackson, Bruce Hull Ted Grif- fin and Jack Griffin, The renditions by these young men were most in- | spiring. We were pleased also to see our own choir girls present during the | afternoon, after an absence dur- ing the holiday season. The ladies of the Women's Association served light refreshments following the evening service and enjoyed meet- ing with the visitors. PERSONALS Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Bert Raines, nee Doreen Doupe, on the safe arrival on Saturday of a bouncing eight-pound, two-oz. baby boy. Sorry to know Mrs. Jack Brain is on the sick list but hope she will be around again soon. Elmer Still has done a fine job of painting his house and now is waiting a buyer. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Pickard of Port Perry were Sunday guests with her people, Mr. and Mrs. E. Mc- Crea Miss Edna Vanee spent most of {last week in Toronto. Mr. and Mrs. C. Hill of Black- stock and Mr. and Mrs. Albert Harper, Donald and Sandra of | Saintfield spent Sunday afternoon | with Mr. and Mrs. F. Vickery and {Mr. and Mrs. L. Beacock and at- | tended our church services here. | Edward Heayn invited several {of his boy friends to his birthday party last Wednesday. All pres- |ent report an enjoyable time. { Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Beacock anc boys were guests at the Bea- {cock - Ritchie wedding on Satur- {day in Woodgreen United Church, | Toronto. : |" Miss Shirley McLaughlin, Los | Angeles, Cal., and Mrs. Florence Keenan, Toronto; Mr. John Bush, Port Perry, were guests with Mrs. Mabel MacGregor and Mrs. Sarah | Town last week. Several birthdays have been cele- ' ® Motors '® Switches TELEPHONE 3-2248 ® Pulleys ® Parts brated during the past week. Two of whom were Mrs. Jonas Smith, on September 15, and Miss Lil lian Cawker on September 16. Sympathy is extended to the relatives of the late Mrs. Thomas Turner who died last week. The late Mr. and Mrs. Turner lived here many years ago in the house now owned by William Heayn. Mrs. Elsie Dobson, Mr. and Mrs. George Prosser -and c"ildren of Cadmus were guests at supper on Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Ben Smith. SERVICE CLUB The Good Neighbors Service Club resumed its meetings again | on Monday, September 21, when they met at the home of Mrs. Winnifred Middleton. Eleven members weie present and the president, Elinor Davidson, opened the meeting with the Lord's Prayer repeated in unison. Merle Murphy read the min- utes and the main topic of discus- sion during the evening was ways and means of raising funds to help the community hospital. It was decided to hold a bingo, October 16, in the school. Elinor Davidson, Lorine Wilson, Merle Murphy and Esther Heayn are the committee put in to buy prizes and make fipal arrange- ments. The prize- will be on dis- play in a Port Perry window. Watch for them, then come and join us in this worthwhile cause. The hostesses for October will | be Hattie Porter with Leta Doupe, Merle Murphy and Esther Heayn providing refreshments. SURPRISED ANGLER VICTORIA (CP)--Victor Griffin hooked a small salmon on his light line and was reeling it in carefully when something tore off hundreds of feet of line. Griffin discovered a seal had taken the salmon. He cut the line. NATIVE SPORTSMEN DURBAN, South Africa Natives are the keenest race-goers of any racial group here. The Dur- ban Turf Club reported 155,000 na- tives attended the Greyville track during the summer and wagered about one-seventh of the entire betting total. (CP)-- | Timmins Is Scared Strikes { TIMMINS (CP)--Mayor J. Wil- fred Spooner plans to go to Tg ronto, probably today, for talks with Labor Minister Daley to stave off threatened economic doom for this northern gold-mining town of The United Steelworkers of America (CIO-CCL) has its mem- bers on strike at five of the area's gold mines and threatens walkouts at others among the six still oper- ating. Its officials have said they believe the mines are determined to smash the union. The union, which called out 1,400 men and brought about the closing Tuesday of the big McIntyre mine, indicated last week that Hollinger, district, also is on its strike list. It is believed the shutdown at Hollinger may be hours or, at best, {days away. The Mcintyre management acted on shareholders' struck. As pickets entrances to the mine, IM. L. Urquhart announced: | 'The mine is closed. Pickets are {not required here." However, the union placed about | 100 pickets on each of the two roofs | leading to the mine, which has | beem operating since 1912. | A similar announcement was {made by the Delnite mine Aug. 25 second-largest gold producer in the | instructions to | close the mine at once if the union | crowded two | manager May Make It A Ghost Town The union struck at Broulan Reef today were Hollinger, Pamour, and Hallnor mines July 11 and at Paymaster, Aunor, Coniaurum and | Preston East Dome two days later. Dome. The strikes at mines other than | Civic officials, mindful of a 1941 | McIntyre involved upwards of 900 | strike which almost proved disas- men. trous to the gold-mining commn- Hallnor and Preston East Dome ity of Kirkland Lake, asked Prem- are considered effectively closed. ier Frost to intervene. 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