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Wheres Johnny The folks in Johnny Car sons home town Corn ing Iowa say he doesnt visit anymore but they dont seem to hold it against him Financier was one of rare breed By FRANK KAPLAN The stock market has been booming in 1979 If you havent had hot tip from your barber on western oil and gas stock or gold drill hole then you probably havent had your hair cut recently This kind of speculative mar ket atmosphere recalls the re sources booms of yesterday those eras like the 19305 when gold fever burned and the mid 19505 when the atomic age gave birth to uranium discoveries Although the amounts of money being played with this time around are vastly greater than in the old days theres certain something missing at least to those of us who were around back when reminder of the missing in gredient is contained in IIirsh horn Medici from Brooklyn by Barry Hyams Iarke Irwin and Co 206 pages 550 The title gives the clue to any stock market watchers who know something of the history of Ca nadian mining especially Hirshhorn is Joseph Hirshhorn born in Latvia in 1900 and raised in Brooklyn NY He is one of the rare breed most often referred to as promoters dynamic color ful nononsense financier Having made fortune in Wall St and selling out just be fore the 1929 crash he hit Can ada in the 19305 in typically flamboyant and challenging style with fullpage advertise ment headed My Name is Opportunity And am Paging Canada MAN SIAIllt As Hymans book establishes Little Joe or Bantam Joe was much bigger man than his relatively diminutive physi cal size might indicate much bigger than most of the thou sands of people who knew of him would ha vc appreciated For that matter the biogra phy by Hyams who was theatrical publicist and pro ducer on Broadway is only tease for much more com plete biography that should be written one day if only as project on Canadian history As financial journalist sat at ringside while Joe Hirshhorn and the other promoters of min ing and oil development battled to raise money to drill holes and come up with the egograt ifying elephants which they were certain remained to be discovered in mineralrich Dominion learned enough through two decades to know that much more remains to be told about Hirshhorns activities and interests in Canada than Hyams tells TORONTO CP Once youve established yourself in the world as homosexual hair dresser tumed female imper senator what are they going to accuse you of smoking too much Craig Russell isnt being ac cused of anything unsavory these days Hes established himself in the world period Torontoborn Russell has just returned from successful in ternational tour of what he calls family show 90minute extravaganza during which he MelDonalds recreates the appearance and personalities of 40 famous fe male entertainers including Judy Garland Marlene Die trich Carol Channing and Mae West He played only to nice night clubs and big concert halls and won acclaim through Eu rope the United States and most recently Canada Its far cry from the days when his career seemed to be going nowhere except paying the rent But that was before Out rageous 1976 film that won him awards as best actor at the Berlin Film Festival and best actoractress at the Virgin Islands Film Festival The film about hairdresser who finds happiness as fe male impersanator wasnt autobiographical but it wasnt foreign to his nature either GAINED CONFIDENCE At 31 his nature is changed Hes more confident now more professional year ago was frantic was nervous showing off and MI enough to the whole family the examiner Friday Oct 26 1979 1A Craig Russell is cleaning up his act bit too selfindulgent But now its much more professional show and think Im getting better was always pretty tacky He waves an elegantly mani cured hand at his dishevelled room But now working in big halls youve got to give them more Hes put many of his ladies into elaborate gowns and an nouncos them during splitsec ond costume changes with newly added offstage male voices And although he per NEW ORDER FROM McDONAlDS BAYFIEID ST NORTH BARRIE 7262121 ASK US ABOUT OUR SPEClAl CHILDRENS BIRTHDAY PARTIES EVERYDAY EXCITING STORE TOURS ORANGE DRINK DISPENSER CONTEST ENDS NOVEMBER IO I979 the examiner serving barrie and simcoe county forms the rest 0t ms snow in revealing swim suit he claims hes cleaned up his act In the beginning was too dirty too risque Now its family show It was one of Russells 40 ladies who led him to imperso nations in the first place Several years ago he met Mae West in Hollywood and she started him questioning the dif ferences between the sexes had all those traditional beliefs shaken up when met Mae West She treats men like Hugh Hefner treats women