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SUPERB SKATERS REPRESENT OSHAWA Oshawa was represented by two superb figure skat- ers in the persons of Don- ald Jackson, the world champion, and Hugh Smith, at the dazzling Ice Follies of 1966 in Maple Leaf Gar- dens, February 1, for a six- day run. During the eight performances in Toronto, worid champion Donald Jackson demonstrated his Olympic-winning routine for the first time in. North America. Hugh Smith, right of Oshawa and his skating partner, Bill Thom- as, are almost enough alike to be twins. Both are 5 feet 1014 inches in height, brown- haired, hazel-eyed and 26 years of age. Met Opera Star Stratas Once Called Oshawa Home Toronto takes credit for being the hometown of Metropolitan Opera Star Teresa Stratas, but most of her biographers seem to forget one thing. The famous singer resided in Oshawa for more than six years as a child when her parents operated a small lunch-counter on King st. e. across from the Regent Theatre. Teresa was in Grade 5 here at the E. A. Lovell Public School when she returned to To- ronto with her family in 1948. The temperamental and_ tal- ented Teresa remembers the Motor City with affection. "TI love Oshawa for two rea- sons,' she once told The Osh- awa Times. 'I love it because it was there, as a young girl, that I first learned to appre- ciate good music; secondly, I love it because it was there that my family got its fiest good financial break after so many years of hard times and re- verses." Teresa -- the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Emmanuel Stratas (originally from Crete, Greece) -- worshipped her mother, who died two years ago. When the family first came to Oshawa and opened a_lunch- counter, another son and daugh- ter were sent to school, but Teresa was too young. She could not be left alone in the flat above the store, so Mrs. Stratas »- to keep her out of the lunch- counter as much as possible -- frequently deposited her in the Regent Theatre. The Stratas' lunch-counter, at the corner of Albert and King, was known as The Victory Lanch. "T guess you would call it a' hamburg joint,' said Teresa later, "but it was there that my parents got their first real fi- nancial break that set them on their feet. At the Regent The-| atre I acquired a love for beau-| tiful music by: watching stars like Jeanette MacDonald in mu-| sicals. Sometimes 1-would stay! in there long enough te see the | same picture two or three} times, but I will never forget | the experience."' | FIRST BIG BREAK | The Canadian soprano got her | first big break in 1959 when she | won the Metropolitan ,Opera | auditions in competition with | more than 2,000 entrants trom | Europe and North America. She | internationally acclaimed in the | world of opera. When her name goes up in lights on the mar- quee of Munich's' Bayrisch Opera House, people line up to buy tickets days in advance. The Siratas' musical magic has also been acclaismed at Mos- cow's Bolshoi Theatre, where Muscovites have brought her back for as many as five en- cores. The same is true of Lon- don's Covent Garden and the famous LsScala in Italy. The temperamental Teresa walked out of Moscow's Bolshoi be- cause the audience failed to ap- plaud her performance -- she later apologized publicly when informed that Russian opera audiences did not always ap- plaud spontaneously, but waited was dubbed the "Baby Maria yntil the performance was over. Callas (which she disliked)! The beautiful and dark-haired and given a two-year contract Teresa -- the late Mrs. Helen with the Met, which signalled Bakogeorge of Oshawa was her the start of her professional godmother -- is only five-foot career, Today the name of Stratas is} | tall, but her great talent and vibrant personality 'have made O 26 King W.. FINAL CLEARANCE BLITZ Up to 50% OFF! SHOES TO MAKE YOUR FEET LOOK LOVELIER. Also In Hamilton Sr TERESA STRATAS her a household word in the world of Opera. Today, at 26, she has _ not achieved all of her ambitions, despite what has_ transpired thus far. Rita Chose Real Role \As Cinderella -- By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP)--She was only a grecer's daughter, but she refused to be put on a shelf. So, at 23, Rita Tushingham, who never took a formal drama lesson in her life, has become one of Britain's brightest young film stars. Her story is that of the ugly duckling who became a success without turning into a swan . . . a Cinderella who looks more like a wistful gnome. Rita is five feet two. Her face would never win a beauty con- test, but her face is her fortune. It looks like an elf toy drawn by Walt Disney, and shines with the awkward grace of youth. 'It's the face that helps in films," she said. "It has to have something that comes through. I've been lucky." Going to football games in her native Liverpool -- stirred Rita to dream of a career in the theatre. "TJ thought the response of the crowd was marvellous. It thrilled me. But since one can't become a footballer--it gives you such muscular legs and arms--I decided to become an actress." Rita quit school at 15, spent three months taking a business course during which she learned to type and write "I love you" in shorthand. WON: FILM ROLE Finally she landed a job as assistant stage manager with the Liverpool Repertory The- atre. She played a few small parts, served as a prompter, and worked from nine in the morning until 11 at night. "It was good training," she recalled. "I studied the actors and the reactions of the au- diences. "But I had to leave because I wasn't experienced enough. I hadn't been to drama _ school. So I went and got myself a film part." The part she got was the role of heroine in A Taste of Honey, and she got it by winning out over 2,000 other applicants. SLOT RACING Ali popular makes ond models, of cors in stock. 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