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rT ------------------ TRE RR RE RR EE -------- J Simcoe County Youth Groups Visit Oshawa A former Courtice man, James Hancock, now Simcoe County Ag- ricultural Representative, was in . charge of a party of 275 boys and girls who enjoyed a summer visit to Ontario County farms in the Oshawa district yesterday. Mr. Hancock is in 'harge of the North Simcoe office at Barrie while his assistant Frank Stone, from Allis- ton, looks after the South Simcoe territory. One hundred, eighty-two of the youths were from the north of the county while 93 were from the south. ; Accompanying the party were Howard Ritchie of Elmvale and Allaster Crawford of Oro 'Station. All the boys and girls members of either the 4-H ubs or the Girls Garden and Homemaking Clubs. They travelled in seven buses. STOPPED AT MILLIKEN First stop of the morning was at the Massey-Harris farm at Mil- liken where experimental farm procedures were observed. Then the party came to Lakeview Park in Oshawa for a picnic lunch. The weather was ideal for the trip, cool with bright sun and brisk breeze. The party was well pleased with the picnic facilities here and the fine summer picture present- ed at the lakefront. Leaving there at two o'clock, the party went north on the Port Perry road to George McLaugh- lin's "Elmecroft'"' fa where they were particularly interested in his new stables built last year, in his outstanding Holstein herd, his im- proved pasture and rotational grazing. Across the road, a brief visit was paid to E. P. Taylor's "National Stud" farms. Then on to Brooklin, a visit was made to Ontario County Warden Heber Down's acres on highway No. 12 where Canada's first soil conservation field day was held four years ago. Brooklin Women's Institute cat- ered for supper in the Whitby Township hall to conclade a day of profit for young Simcoe farmers and their wives-to-be. Guests at the banquet included John Gill of Uxbridge, assistant Agricultural Representative in Ontario County. VISITORS FROM BRITAIN With the party were two British exchange visitors who are spend- ing a few weeks in various parts of Ontario. They will spend one week in Simcoe and have now been two weeks in Canada. Audrey Seller: of Yorkshire and John Jones of North Wales were delight- ed with what thev have seen in | Canada thus far. Footlight Flashes Extensive plans for the season of 1953-54 of Oshawa Little Theatre were discussed at a directors' meeting held at Adelaide House this week. .. Ernest Winter, chairman of pro-! ductions, with his committee of Mrs. Robert Schell and Guy Colm, is busily at work on a schedule first two weeks in September, but | that any who may desire to renew memberships in the meantime may see him at 74 Sincoe Street North, or phone him at 3-8388. The Little Theatre in Oshawa exists because of the earnest ef- forts of a small group of people who have worked very hard, with ' ever-iner dificulties to cope of productions for next s 'Announcement should be made early in September as to plays, directors and approximate dates of all major productions. The important announcement of the evening was made by Guy Colm, as chairman of the Studio Club. Mr. Colm has selected Mrs. Schell, Jim Foskett, Russell Flut- ter, Clay Boyes and Ken Morley as his committee. Plans are al- ready underway for three-- count em, three -- evenings of one-act lays to be presented shortly be- pa each major production. In addition to the preparation of the one-acters, which is itself vital to the improvement and expansion of the amateur theatre in this city. Mr. Morely, who is qualified in all departments of the drama, will give short courses to Studio Club "members between productions. Business manager Harry Chap- man announced that the member- 'ship drive will be held during the with, and cultural needs in a large in- dustrial city. By and large, these efforts have met with the success they have deserved. It would be a worthwhile thing if the enterprising executive could book a block of seats for either "Richard 111" or "All's Well that Ends Well" at the Stratford Shake- speare Festival, charter a bus and take down a load of Oshawa the- atre-lovers. It would be a calcu- lated financial risk, but one decid- edly worth taking. There must be several dozen people in the Motor City who would like to see the Bard done as only the triumvirate of Guthrie, Guiness and Moiseiwich can do him. If OLT underwrote the venture, and took a small commission on | the net cost, they would doubtless {find many a pilgrim ready and | eager for the trek to the Stratford 'BOWMANVILLE hrine. s y AND DISTRICT Regresentative--Donald Hendry, 77 Ontario St., Phone 881 History of Rotary Theme of BOWMANVILLE -- Members of the Rotary Club were treated to an informative talk by one of their own members yesterday at the regular luncheon meeting in the oral Hotel. The speaker was popular Dave Morrison, chairman of the Rotary Information Committee, which al- so includes Ross Stutt, Morley Van- stone and Rex Walters. Mr. Morrison discussed some of the early mermolies of RAS, d the original ill feeling whic A directed at the club shortly after its inception in 1905 im Chi- cago. NEED FOR FELLOWSHIP Discussing the need of men to get together in informal brother- r. Morrison delved deep into anciient history, saying "There are evidences of men's casual as- sociation as far back as the days |ed Rotary of the cave man." ; "We see this need continue on through the period of glo , when the men assembled (4h Roman bath would discuss affairs of importance, and perhaps even have some well informed per- gon read them the news of the " "Then we have the celebrative '¢lubs_ which were very popular in old England, and which based -their friendly association on good food and drink, and a general in- "terest in the topics of the day. It "was the finest way to get together and relax as they forgot the cares of the day." © "There was even a fat mans club then," said Mr. Morrison, ""where the 15 members weighed an accumulative 6000 nds. They bonded together in their obesity, and offered each other solace. %" Then Mr. Morrison posed ti ~Siestion, "When do we cease to 3. a gathering and become a ub? To illustrate the process Mr. "Morrison told of the first Rotary "formation by Paul Harris in Chi- ,.cago, in 1905. . SELF-HELP CLUB The original, Rotary was a self- help club, the various business- an members actually kept ac- unts of how much business was ansacted among themselves due to associations forthed at the club. This strictly business idea wander- t ed away considerably from the , founders original conception of . what Rotary should be. The excessively "clubby" repu- + tation of the clyb did it great harm, + and when the second Rotary was instituted it was in Oakland, Cal- ! ifornia, which was about as far 2 r Roman |G Talk away as the second group could get from the original. And of course Chicago wished to keep the Rotary strictly within their own code and area. As the club grew in member- ship and importance it was finally exported to England, whose new i members were considerably more | staid than their new world counter- parts. The difference in club person- alities was so great, that the first international convention in Paris caused no small hubbub because of the exuberant style of the visit- ors from America. This lead to a slight aloofness on the part of the quieter English groups, and caused the press to pan severely the idea of Rotary. Some of the wittiest and biting satirical writers of the day attack- at this time because of the rumor of smugness and com- placency which pervaded the club. K. Chesterton hinted that the club was simply a "mutual admir- ation society of snobs," and that the original idea of communit; service was forgotten in the on 4 to gain personal ends through the contacts made possible within the confines of the club. Mr. Morrison told members that although much had been done to correct this mistaken idea there was some ill feeling concern- ing it. Also during the early period of Rotary there were great social reforms going on. Rotary was criticized by people 'who said Rot- ary was helping individual prefer- red cases rather than getting at the root of the situation. STUDY NEEDY CASES Then Mr. Morrison told members he | that this individual assistance idea was maintained because Rotary felt that due to the diversity of its many members, it could not stand to take sides with one view of the issues at stake. They studied the needy cases, and pursued their active work of assistance and kept the idea of friendship and brother- hood alive in the club. Mr. Morrison's address was one of a series of 12 which will be delivered by club members through the year, in the hope that every member of Rotary, both new and old will have a firmer foundation of club fact on which to build a fine long term Rotary association. There were three visiting Rotar- ians present at the meeting, Mr. Tom Dobbie, and Mr. Lou McConk- ey of Oshawa, and Mr. Hub Hoop- er of Brantford and formerly of Bowmanville. Holstein Is Gold Seal Producer Joining the select class of Hol- stein cows that have qualified for | a Red Seal Certificate of Long-| time Production by producing in| excess of 175,000 lbs. milk in their lifetime is Pauline Jemima Her- mes, owned by W. Teefy and Sons, Pickering. In twelve lactations, all on twice-a-day milking, she has given a total of 184,562 lbs, milk containing 6427 lbs. fat, average tes: 3.48 per cent butterfat. Pauline was started on test as a senior yearling, began her twelfth record as a fourteen year old, producing 493 lbs. fat from 14,966 lbs. milk. In four of her la' 'at'ons she qualified for the 305 «day division. Her largest individual was made as a nine-year-old when she gave 20,261 lbs. milk eontain- 'tion, record | to answer the recreational | Supervisors For Parks Appointed Recreation director Wendell | Brewster last night announced the | parks to which the 18 summer | supervisors have been assigned: Storie - Joyce Huxtable, Lake- | view - Albert Dodds; Harman - Mary Bilous; S.S Ne. 6 - Ed House; Victory - Gladys Porter; Area supervisor - Marilyn Black. Rundle - Shirley Varga; Radio - Lily Hrytzey; Fernhill - Glenna Clarke; Valleyview - Dorothy Red- path; Thornton's Corners - Darlene Danks; Area supervisor - Joseph- ine Beard. Bathe - Diane Thomas; East- view - Maria Clarke; Sunnyside - Janet Bull; Harmony - Dawn Me- Leod; Area supervisor - Beverley Bull. Connaught - Judy Brewster; Al- exandra - Doreen Danks; North Oshawa - Mary Fudger; Woodview - Sylvia Joyce; Area supervisor - Ann Sabo. Sports supervisors will be John Murray and Jim Brady. The parks will officially begin their summer program on Monday, July 6. The hours of supervision will be from 9 am. to 11.45 a.m. and from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday. Rotary Park swimming pool, to which extensive repairs have been made, and which is being graced with a splendid new change room, with shower and toilet facilities, will not be ready for use for anoth- er two or three weeks, in all prob- ability. Ritson Road pool is not being opened at all this summer. The opening of the Rotary Pool will be duly announced in The Times-G azette. Supervisors in charge of the comprehensive aqua- tic program will be Norma Smith, Disna Robertson and George Wis- in. OMC Grads Are Entering Professions QUEENIE FLETCHER Correspondent HARMONY -- The graduates of the Oshawa Missionary College, some of whom have already left, are entering various professions as follows: PRE-NURSING The following plan to enter Hins- dale Sanitarium and Hospital: Pat- ricia Miller, Arlene Remers, Ail- een Brock, Barbara Grey, Jeanne Embleton, Elsie Bell, Lelah Smith. ~ To Washington School of Nurs- ing: Lorene Symons. 0 Oshawa General Hospital: Barbara Turpin. To Melrose Sanitarium and Hos- pital: Laureen McLeod. y TEACHING Phyllis O'Lennick, Chilliwack, B.C.; Leora Pangburn, Hamilton; Jeannette Mathews, Halifax; Walt- er Grysbowski, Maritimes; Arthur Morgan, Texas, U.S.A. To continue schooling at Ameri- can Union College, Lancaster, Mass., Blair Perret, Fred Bell. SECRETARIAL Sue Ellis, Marion Baker, Marion Baker, Connie Lebadoff, Washing- ton Missionary College. Ir. and Mrs. Fred Johnson, Union Springs, N.Y., their two chil- dren and Mrs. Arthur Scott, have been visiting Mr. and. Mrs. Har- vey Johnson, OMC. PLAYGROUND NEWS CRA playground supervisor for the coming summer season at Harmony will be Miss Dawn Marie McLeod. Her duties commence this coming Monday, July 6. Play- ground hours under supervision will be from 9-11.45 a.m. and 1-5 p.m. Crafts, quiet games, and all playground activities will round out the week's program. The co-oper- ation of the parent's whose chil- dren will benefit from this summer program, is asked to help make it one of the most successful yet. Children of all ages will be made welcome at the playground. Furth- '| the functions and problems of hos- Objectives Of Hospital Area Council The general aims and objects of a new organization recently form- ed in this district, the Regional Hospital Council No. 8,0f which William A. Holland is chairman, may be stated as follows: (1) To assist the Ontario Hos- pital Association in its various ac- tivities. (2) To maintain a high standard of public service by permitting greater cooperation between the various public hospitals of the dis- trict, particularly with respect to the problems of administration and organization, so that they may ren- der the most efficient and econom- ical care to the patient. . (2) To cooperate with all agen- cies interested in community health and social needs. (4) To assist in establishing the best possible relationships with municipal authorities in order to effect a better understanding of hospital and patient problems. (5) To interpret to the public pitals and their place in the com- munity. Included in the-local district is: Oshawa, Bowmanville, Port Hope, Cobourg, Peterborough, Port Perry and Lindsay. Voting representation is one member of the Board of Trustees and the Administrator of the hospital. Resolutions affecting the general policy of hospitals shall not be act- ed upon until referred to the par- ent body, the Ontario Hospital As- sociation for consideration and di- rection. Citadel Band Concert At Lakeview Pk. For many years the Citadel Band of The Salvation Army has played Sunday afternoons in Lakeview Park. This. Sunday will be the first of the 1953 summer series, when the Band, under the leader- ship of William James, will play a program of interest to all music lovers. The music played by all Salva- tion Army bands passes through the hands of an editing board, the members of which are outstanding composers in their own right. The featured music of the afternoon will be from the writings of these men. Opening with the March "Defenders of the Faith", written by Colonel Bramwell Coles, the "March King" of the Army, now a resident in Toronto. This march is melodic, rythmic and altogether delightful. The second writer to be featured will be Ray Bowes, one of the younger generation. A recent gra- duate of the Oxford University School of Music, he brings a com- position written in the best tradi- tions, yet with a definite slant to- wards the modern trend of harm- onization. Charles Skinner is the next composer to be played. His forte is actually choral music, but the band will play a band arrangement of one of his choral anthems. This will bring out the beautiful chordal effects he is so fond of. Michael Kenyon, another very young but brilliant arranger, will be featured in a Hymn Tune Arrangement. And the final com- poser to be played will be the veteran, Wilfred Kitching. He has lived for many years in Sweden, and this is very apparent in his mode of musical expression. Associated with the Band will be Songster Maureen Clark, sop- rano soloist, who will sing 'The Stranger of Galilee'. The program will be as follows: March, "Defenders of the Faith", (Coles). Hymn Tune, "Onward Christian Soldiers' (Sullivan) . March, "Valiant Warriors", (Bowes). Soprano Solo, "The Stranger of Galilee". Songster Maureen Clark. | Transcription, *'I Heard the Voice | of Jesus', (Skinner). Hymn Tune Arrangement, "'A- bridge", (Kenyon). Instrumental Quartette, "Free "The Great Review", and Easy'. March, (Kitching). ST. THOMAS (CP)--A car driven by Elbert Gardner of Detroit and a wandering steer met on No. 3 Highway near here Friday. The tsteer ambled off, apparently un- injured. Gardner's car landed in a ditch. Damage, er announcements of activites will appear in this column. HELP WANTED : : It will be greatly appreciated if Harmony residents will phone in their news, or contact us in some way regarding their holidays and summer visitors. It is only with the hel our readers that we are able to make the Harmony news column interesting. Our thanks in advance. Visiting with her father, Mr. Alex Foote, is Mrs. Fred Huffman, Napanee, and her two daughters, Ann and Pamela. Ann is studying ballet in Toronto while she is in Oshawa. Many will remember Ann for her work with the CRA sum- mer . theatre, and will wish her much success in her dancing. BIRTHDAYS Congratulations are extend- ed to the following readers of The Times-Gazette who are celebrating their birthdays to- ay: & Mrs. J. B. Hutcheson 203 Eulalie Avenue, who is 86. Mrs. J. D. Remmer, Picker- ing; Mrs. Dorothy Haley, 3% Simcoe Street South; Brian Nicholls, 608 Somerville Ave- nue; Roy Todgham, 191 Wilson Road South. Congratulations are also ex- tended to Mrs. A. Leighton, R.R. No. 2, Nestleton, who is celebrating her birthday tomor- row. FARMER'S FALL FATAL LONDON, Ont. (CP)--Wilfred W. Wonnacott, well-known farmer in both Delaware and Belmont com- | munities, died Friday sight a few {hours after falling from a load of | hay. He was 57. ing 678 lbs. fat in 365 days. 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PARKINSON Correspondent PORT PERRY -- Following are the results of the promotions at the Port Perry Public Schools. It is expected that the results of the high school promotions. will be available within the next day or $0. With a record attendance this year, the annual promotion report issued by Principal Roy Cornish for the Port Perry Public School shows a record number of promo- tions. With the new public school opening in September, Mr. Corn- ish expects the attendance will soar to 290 for the year 1953-54. Grade 8 to Grade 9 High School entrance): Glenda Bartley, Jean Bell, Charlotte Buller, Carol Coop- er, Mary Garvey, Gloria Hastings, Marie Keeler, Gladys Lane, Beryl Palmer, Esther Pickard, Mary Louise Pickard, Miriam Pickard, Ann Ptolmey, Donna Samells, Rena Scriver, Muriel Wallace, Marlene Warren, Helen Watson, Robert Bryden, Robert Carnegie, Gary er, James Kight, Malcolm Mac- Millan, John Pearce, Grant Raines, Dale Warriner, Garnet Warriner, Harvey Webster. (Class of Princi- pal Roy Cornish). Grade 7 to Grade 8: Patricia Hadden, Barbara Heyes, Jean Ir- vine, Mary Lea McEachern, Maur- een McLaughlin, Irene Ptolmey, Joan Warren, Grant Cawker, Rog- er Crane, Donald Elford, Peter Lawrence, Ronald Owen, Donald Popert. (Class of S. A. Cawker.) Grade 6 to Grade 7: Marlene Badour, Marilyn Bray, Shirley Bry- den, Barbara Coyle, Karel Espie, Miriam Harris, Kaye Hastings, Sharon Haugen, Ruby Hutchinson, Louise Jeffery, Diane McNeil, Car- ol Oliver, Alice Read, Marilyn Reesor, Geraldine Speers, Diane Tease, Betty Wallis, Louise War- wick, Alice Williams, Ian Beare, Robert Bell, Jack Chapman, Phil- lip Clarke, Reg. Harvey, Wayne Oake, Neil. Palmer, Norman Ray, Daany Reesor, David Williamson; conditionally, Patsy Warriner, Don- ald Cook. (S. A. Cawker, teacher.) Grade 5 to Grade 6: Marlene Boundey, Joanne Buller, Carol Carnegie, Jacqueline Edwards, Jennifer Edwards, Patri¢ia Farm- er, Barbara Fieldings, Margaret Hewitt, Winnified Irvine, Marilyn Luke, Patricia Midgley, Carol Reed, Gwendolene Saunders, Grace Scriver, Noreen Tease, Pauline Tease, Phyllis Warren, Jeanne Wil- liams, Margaret Wright, James Burnett, Richard Carnegie, Ralph Cawker, William Chapman, Ken- neth Dowson, Merill Elford, Pat- rick Farmer, Jan Franssen, Arthur Jefford, Eric Lane, Ivan Luke, Wil- liam McLeod, Dennis Munch, Ger- ald Reader, Lorne Smith, Jack Walle. (Teacher, Aleta McFar- ane. List Promotions At Port Perry Gibson, Gerald Hooey, Jamie Hunt-' Grade 4 to Grade 5: Carol Bar- ron, Juanita Fraser, Gloria Har- 'rison, Donna Hewyn, Carol Hope, Doris Ropert, Joanne Pugh, Gloria Robertson, Bonnie Snooks, Kather- ine Swabey, Beverly Sweetman, Dorothy Tripp, Shirley Warriner, Albert Armour, Kenneth Boyd | James Carnegie, Alan Cobb, Arthur Dowson, John Franssen, James |Hale, Herbert Irvine, Brian Jaco- | bsen, David Jefford, Daniel Mc- lard, Garnet Porter, James Read, | Glenn Starkey, Richard Stata, Rob- 'ert Vernon, John Warren; condi- tionally, William Ptolmey. (Teach- |er, Verna Moase.) Grade 3 to urade 4: Elaine But- son, Jane Carnegie, Joyce Druean, Joan Elford, Joanne Harper, Bon- nie Wallace, Larry Lee, Ronald Manns, John MacMillan, Murray Spears. (Teacher, Verna Moase.) Grade 8 to Grade 4: Susan Ad- derley, Cynthia Hadden, James Carnochan, Donald Gibson, David 'Godley, Charles Hastings, William McLaughlin, Carol Harvey, Arlene Wallace, Robert McNeil, Alan Raines, Alfred Webster, Fae Web- ster; conditionally, Bruce Haugen, James Gibson, Bruce Jacobsen, Arthur Nichols. (Teacher, Gladys Joblin.) Grade 2 to Grade 3 Sr.: Lawrence Clark, Diane Davey, Margaret De- remo, Nancy Prentice, Audrey | Reader, Lynda Webster, Gail Wil- son, Terrance Boyd, Gordon Carn- egie, George Carnochan, Jack ! Cook, Douglas Crane, Allan' Fras- rer, John Harper, Ronald Ken- nedy, Ross Lane, George Tripp, Grant Tummonds, John Williams. (Teacher, Gladys Jobolin.) Grade 2 to Grade 3 jr.: Bever- ley McNeil, Rosanne Michell, Ed- ward Buller, Russell Buller, David Irvine, James Raines. (Teacher, Gladys Joblin.) Grade 1 to Grade 2: Mary Shar- on Baker, Lois Bartley, Linda Bell, Georgeen Burnett, Pamela Clark, Carolyn Cook, Mary Lou Crawford, Beverly Dymond, Carol Fitsell, Linda Harris, Bonnie Har- rison, Sheila Levinson, Judith Manns, Nancy McDonald, Beatrice Mitchell, Carol Ann Morrow, San- dra Nichols, Shirley Pavlik, Ann | Marie Petronella, Joanne Quan; conditionally, Sharon Stata, Thom- as Adderley, Bryan Boundey, Joel Cawker, Dennis Dowson, Douglas Edenborough, Edgar Farmer, Glenn Fraser, James Gray; con- Dennis Dowson, Douglas Edinbor- ough, Edgar Farmer, Glenn Fras- er, James Gray, conditionally Paul Heayn. (Teacher, Anne Lavender). Grade 1 to Grade 2: John Holt, John Irwin, Allan Mairs, Brian Mark, Dale McNenley, Barry Oke, Richard Prentice, Ronald Raines, Bryan Reader, Richard Snooks, | Rodger Stephens, Frank Tease, Paul Wheeler. (Teacher, Anne i Lavender.) PETERBOROUGH national { (CP) A music festival was | brought a step nearer this week by | the Federation of Canadian Music Festivals meeting in annual con- vention here. \ The more than 30 delegates from every province execpt Quebec de- cided to have the director from each province submit a list of ideas to the 1954 convention on the possibility of such a festival. Music Festival Is Possibility The question was first raised by the federation last year and at that time a committee was formed to consider the question. Wanda Dick of Winnipeg won the tankard for the best perfor- mance of a Bach prelude and fugue. Honorable mention went to Lloyd Zurbrigg of Stratford, Elsie Wiebe and Sheelagh Gilmour of Winnipeg and Claire Snoulton of Toronto. LONDON (AP) -- Phillip Dale, leading actor in the play 'Talk of the Night," snapped on a pair of hand-cuffs for a comedy mono- logue in act one Thursday night and--you guessed it. As soon as the first act curtain fell, handcuffed, keyless Dale hur- ried to a nearby fire station to get the things filed off. A suspicious fireman hustled him to the Bow street police station, Handcuffed Actor Grilled By Police several blocks away. The police finally satisfied them: selves he wasn't a criminal and cut the cuffs loose. He sped back to the Irvine the- Thousand To Super cus Surpasses All Expectations & s Thrill Artistry The circus came to Oshawa yesterday and to put it mildly the Ringling Brothers, Barpum and Bailey saw- dust extravaganza lived up to its slogan: Thousands of children and adults, who Show on Earth." "The Greatest renewed their youth for a day, were in attendance at the two performances and revelled in the wealth of thrills and good, clean entertainment provided for their enjoy- { ment. - Indeed, one could easily exhaust one's vocabulary | Donald, Dennis Oliver, John Pick- | of superlatives and still be far short of the excellence set by the performers. Other circuses have visited Osh- awa down through the years, but the 1953 edition of the famous | international show was one of the | {most colorful and artistic produc- | tions of its kind to show on a| local circus lot. Oshawa residents, who are accustomed to precision of time in their industrial activ- ities, were treated to a display unsurpassed in timing. From the time the first train pulled into the siding at Whitby until the last train moved. out in the early hours of this morning split second timing was to be seen on every hand. Indeed, it was difficult to realise as one watched the performers streaming to their Pullmans, at the Oshawa CNR station, that they had returned to the status of human beings. For a few short hours | they had assumed the status of | gods in the minds of their apprec- | iative audiences. It was there one | was given an insight into the fel- | lowship which played no small} part in putting the show over with | a bang. Residents of the district seemed loath to let the show depart for its next engagement. Hundreds lined Dundas Street East in Whitby long after midnight to watch the loading operations and marvel at the efficiency of the tractor oper- ators and crew members as they jockeyed the huge vans into posi- tion on the flatcars. LAVISH SCALE From the time the pantomim- ic clown prince, Otto Griebling, self-appointed escort to unsuspect- ing ladies makes his entrance to the crashing colorful 'Canadian' finale, the circus unfolds in a breath-taking sequence that had nonagenarians bridging chasms of memory for eomparison. It was the same circus you saw ers, the proud horses, the vivid colorings of these pageants trans- cended all production efforts ever achieved by any circus to visit Oshawa. There were dazzling parades of beauty, music, strikingly beautiful apparel, lovely girls in symmetry of motion that only the "Big Top" can produce. "Mr. Mistin", the child musical prodigy star of the show, who weighs 36 pounds and stands three feet' in height, gave a su- perb performance. The pint-siz- ed wonder, who still has his "baby teeth" nearly "crashed the canvas' with a brilliant rendition of the famous "Poet and Peasant | Overture". He encored with "Harv- | est Moon' and "Let Me Call You Sweetheart", and drew rounds of applause with his child - like requests for community singing. His 'You Sing With Me" and "I Don't Hear Something' evoked rounds of merriment. "Mr. Mis- tin", for the record, made his de- but with a Belgian circus in Brus. sels at the unbelievable age of two. WEALTH OF CLOWNS The circus without clowns would be like the family salt-shaker min- us pal per. And headed by the inimitable Emmett Kelly, mas- ter of pathos and Otto Griebling, a past-master of pantomime, was a troupe of funny men grotesquely garbed and '"made-up" in riotous individual and collective comedy acts. Their "army" skit when a midget clown is "shot" out of a cannon, was hilarious. Kelly Griebling had the "tent in stitches" with their hilarious antics. Konyot's lions gave a splendid rformance as trained Numas. he trainer's mastery over 'his animals which exhibited plenty of jungle savagery was uncanny, with fifty years ago, but on a more |the act climaxed with a parade lavish, more tremendous scale. |Of leaping tawny bodies hurtling Perhaps one of the outstanding | impressions gained by veteran and 'present day circus patrons | was the air 'of cleanliness that was apparent in all phases of the "Big Top". There were no of- fensive odors. The tanbark and sawdust was spotless. The ani- | mals were groomed to perfec- tion. The costumes were dazz- ling and looked as though they had just emerged from the tail- or or dressmaking establishment. Individual artistry, featured by the fabulous five-year old boy wopder, "Mr. Mistin", who as- tounded and amazed his audience with his marvellous ability with the xylophone, was pleasantly ap- parent. Brought from all parts of the world, the various artists and | their companies thrilled, excited and thrilled again the afternoon | and evening audiences with sheer | daredeviltry; ability aad a beauty | of presentation that was the acme | of entertainment. But to circus-hungry observers, who bemoaned the lack of two extra pairs of eyes, the features that brought out gasps of wonder, amazement and sheer enjoyment, were the four magnificent extra- vaganzas that for sheer color, beauty and pageantry outshone anything of its kind ever presented ere. DAZZLING DISPLAYS i They were the super-spectacle, "Candy Land"; the dazz ing aer- ial ballet, "Derby Day Honey- moon", the colorful Indian mu- sical spectacle 'Minnehaha', and ihe Smashing finale, "Canadiana, The costuming, trappings, the beauty of the young girl pon Ti through the air in a flash of color. Superb horseflesh was seen in the Liberty dobbins, and in the familiar bareback riding acts. Rob- erto de Vasconcelles, a master of dressage riding, gave a finished "Erix" the only horse "that cam | canter backwards." AUDIENCE HELD SPELLBOUND Beautiful Pinito del Oro, Span- ish star of the swinging trapeze, gave & finished performance high above "where angels fear to tread." The dainty star held her audience speelbound with the head- balancing trick. Another outstand- ing feature was the juggling act of slack-wire artist, Dieter Tasso, who balanced from a foot to his head, topped the whole with a teapot and tossed in a spoon for good meas- ure. Space will not permit a detail ed description of all the acts. Suf- fice is to say the audiences were held practically enthralled from ® the start of the show to the finish. The smashing musical climax, "Canadiana, U.S.A.", is a brilliant climax to a colorful show. The cir- cus' band, gorgeously apparelled, heads a parade that for sheer beauty and color has never been equalled here. The '"'climax" comes when beautiful girls are raised on a platform as the Canadian Ensign slowly unfolds to the music of '"The Maple Leaf". By no means least is the splendid circus band under the baton of Merle Evans, one of America's outstanding bandmasters. Their rhythm and timing marks the mus- icians as artists of outstanding abil- ity and their performance was but another feature of a feature-packed CIRCUS (Continued on Page 9) atre but too late. The m t had cancelled the performance and given the audience tickets for an- other night. 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