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6A THE OSHAWA TIMES, Soturdey, Mey 7, 1966 AT McLAUGHLIN COLLEGIATE. . .. TREMENDOUS PROGRESS' _ Student Sasdanen To Stage Consus McLaughlin Collegiate's prize- winning junior school band will be among performers at the. school's annual music 'night to 'be held in two sessions May 11 and 14, d Also playing at the concert will be the McLaughlin - Colleg- fate senior and Grade 9 bands, and choirs from Kingsway Col- lege and Sunset Heights Public School, In its very first perform- ance the 72-piece junior band, made up of Grade 9 and 10 students, placed first -- out of 10 'Ontario school bande at the To- ronto Kiwanis festival, Michael Crosbie, school music director, said 50 of the band had Ped til last September, 'They've made tremendous progress,"' he sald, KIWANIS FESTIVAL At the Peterbérough Kiwanis festival Jast month junior band member Scott Painter won first prize for solo clarinet-and Bob Fitches came second on the tuba. . McLaughlin Collegiate's 55- piece senior band, who placed third at the Peterborough Ki- _ wanis festival and fourth at the Toronto Kiwanis festival, will 'be playing on Saturday May 14, McLaughlin Collegiate bands _ are hoping the music nights will be well attendel, people to come and hear us play to help us pay off the $800 we owe on the new uniforms," musig director Crosble said. The colors of the new uni- forms being worn by the senior band only are royai blue (the school color) with gold piping. The Grade 9 and junior bands will wear white shirts or blouses and ties, MOZART, FAIR LADY The senior band's 'repertoire includes the overture from Mo- zvart"s Marriage of Figaro, Bach's Prelude and Fugue and selections from My Fair Lady. lections from My Fair Lady. The junior band will play their prize- winning number, Polyphon- _ inc Suite by. C arter, Kentucky 1800, excerpts from the Alamo and Green Leaves of Summer, both of Tiomkin Highlights of the Grade 9 band's. selections inciude fian- del's Aria and fugue, and fan- tasies on the theme of This Old Man and I'm Henry the Eighth. Also included on the concert agenda is a clarinet solo by Grade 10 student Scott Painter, Romance and Bolerc by Thiere, and a trumpet solo by Grade 9 student Raymond Reid playing Holy City. Don Woods, Grade 12, will play I'vel Grown Accustomed to Your Face as a trumpet solo and Janice Grewer will sing se- never touc hed an instrument un- "we hope we'll get enough -- ____-lections from May Fair Lady. San. Fun In 'Caribbean. cee Attract More From North By CY FOX PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CP) -- Increasing numbers of | North Americans are looking to the Caribbean for sun and fun, lands with publicity drives of an intensity befitting the industry that is seen as a key to the | | struments fas ig . ao "is | West Indian economy--tourism. | co tions of oil drums--join with Most of the northerners come | jn'search of the sun, They leave their jets or ships af the big Island centres and are whisked to luxuriously-appointed hotels and sun-scorched beaches, Many, so the local people say, show no interest in anything be- tween point of disembarkation and the ocean's edge, Such West Indian phenomena as the long-haired Rastafarians of Jamaica -- members of a "*back-to-Africa" cult -- escape the tourist's eye, | Port of Spain in constant, days, they are| the blindingly | For several galvanized by colorful spectacle of thousands | of Trinidadians tn frantic, high-| spirited: parade, sporting fan- And West Indians are trying | tastic costumes bought or often | to lure them to these lush is-( made by themselves. LEAVE MONEY IN TILL "Steel bands"---using for in- | expertly converted blaring brass ensembles to keep | rhyth- | mic, though non-y jolent, uproar, | | traction, | island of Tobago 'and more sustained trade with But some of the visitors come | south for special events, such as the annual, nival in Port of Spain, the capital of the dual-island nation of Trinidad and - obago Wally Roybum Engages In Bit Of Political Prophecy In Novel By HAROLD MORRISON LONDON (CP)--Waiiace Rey- cers new novel, oy, is essentially an adventure story but the 52-year-old author Couldn't resist the temptation to @ngage in political prophecy. Set in the 1970s, it involves the kidnapping of a 'prime min- ister's son, Reyburn injects the Olitical note by having the rime minister a Conservative, ack in power "after years of ncompetence under the previ- Ous socialist regime." '"Griginally I wanted to plot the story around the kidnapping of Prince Charles from Gordon- Btoun school in Scotland but the ublisher wouldn't go for that, o I had to spin it around the rime minister's son and I brink that weakened the story little," Reyburn, a former war cor- respondent who worked in Can- fda for seveal years before nd after the Second World iWar, has written the novel un- er the pen-name of William ott. It's published in Britain y Elek and in Canada by Ry- erson. It's the eighth novel by the New Zealand-born author who Iso wrote a book about the leppe raid of 1942 based on hews dispatches he wrote as @orrespondent for the old weekly Montreal Standard, With the latest work of fiction out of the way, Reyburn has gwitched his interest to a dit- age field, He's preparing a ig glossy reference book to be lied The World of Rugby and all for about $15, "I've received an advance parent tramp ithe publisher, and begun t massive, jo pre-Lenten car- | ally, ! over Getting the | tackle another novel, The carnival is the island of | Trinidad's biggest tourist at- though the compatriot | does a brisk/| its bigger quantity of beaches, Off to the nortneast, in Bar- bados, tourism currently is edg- ing up on sugar as-the coun- try's biggest money-maker, In Trinidad and Tobago, at last count, tourism meant an annual $12,000,000 In incontT® Barbados authorities say tour- ism there now brings in a total | of more than $16,000,000 annu- | collecting Information from all er that PH perhaps th the world, Att one a year, COVERED SPORTS This isn't Reyburn's first ex- perience writing about sport, When he came to London from Auckland in the 19308, he cov- ered cricket for Reuters news agency, : He moved to Canada In 1997, 'settling in Toronto. But. when war broke out and he couldn't get a job a8 war correspondent, he simply crossed the Atlantic on his own and was hired by The Standard, forerunner to Weekend. He received th' OBE for his war reporting. Back in Canada after the war, he became editor of New Lib- erty magazine in 1947, Three years later he returned to Lon- don where, for a time, he wrote a London columa for the Tor- onto Telegram, Recently he was deputy edi- tor of the big, slick British fortnightly, Queen, but departed. with the "golden handshake"-- a British system of paying an employee off with a lump sum which Reyburn figures will keep him going for a year. Journalism runs in the Rey- burn family, His wifs Betty (a sister of publisher Ross Munro of The Canadian) {s deputy edi- tor of a monthly pocketbook magazine called Argosy. Their eldest son, Mac, 20, is a trainee reporter on a London suburban week They have two other boys, 18, and Scott, 9. "I think the whole family will be working on the rugby book," bin, In Jamaica, the Common- wealth West Indies' biggest is- land in area as well as-in population, tourism yielded about $69,000,000 in 1965 revenue for all interests involved, All the islands reported that their visitors have been more numerous in the 1960s than in the 1950s, Everywhere construction of hotels and tourist. amenities seems to have a high place on economic development pro- | grams, | PLAN MORE EXPANSION Local authoities quote econ- omists as saying tourism is one of the industries providing a@ high level of employment, This is a vital factor in an area where unemployment is at an alarmingly high level. Commercial sources ig. Ja- maica say tourism there, "with vast stretches of north + coast | beaches still to be developed, is 'only scratching the ssrface. The country's tourist officials have been calling for more air | services between the island and | outside areas, improvements in inland transportation, stehped- up staff training and more tour- ist amenities such as night clubs and yachting facilities. In Barbados, the talk also is of expansion. More and ex- tended hotels seem to be the order of the day, But brassiness of the "Miami" order, as locals like to term it, is spurned, Bar- bados now has the air of a quiet place admirable for those who want to rest. Older guests are much in evidence at hotels there, : The Barbados tourist board recently disclosed that the num- ber of visitors from Canada during 1965 was 14,209, a 30-per- cent increase over the 1964 fig- ure, A big effort 1s being made b Barbados to attract more visi- tors during the summer--tradi- tionally a slack period for tourists from the north, In Trinidad and Tobago, the island of Trinidad apparently is in for large-scale beach devel- opment at Scotland Bay in the northwest and Maracas Bay on the north coast, By GENE HANDSAKER HOLLYWOOD (AP) -- One| chilly evening last spring, four | of us stood in a lengthening line | to get into a San Diego night spot described as '"'the west coast's No, 1 speakeasy."' Was. it, we -wondered while shivering, worth the waiting? It was, Onstage, six jazz stars Boe ge hay re ey Px 4 E94, va cal we ROY'S BACK! Road Service Licensed Mechanie Complete line * of Atlas Products Free Pick-Up and Delivery Your Impertal E850 dean' ROY ALLAN'S ' ESSO SERVICE dae Bloor. W.... . . . 728,9308] in costume recreated the gay | 90s -- roaring '20s atmosphere splendidly on piano, banjo, trombone, trumpet, tuba and drums, The capacity crowd of 425, jammed at Jong, checkered tables, clapped nands and joined in thunderous song. The beer--more than 300 gallons are served each evening, a record for any California spot, we were told later--was served in pitch- 'West Coast's No. 1 Speakeasy' \ Resounding Success For Finn's , ers, With it goes a ton a month of in-the-shell peanuts. Between ear - splitting sete | there were silent movies, Merriment everywhere, which NBC now is bringing. to U.S, television for 22 weeks. The network built a $50,000 repro- duction of the night spot's ine terior and has been taping the half-hour shows, importing the San Diego cast. , Mickie Finn's is a resounding success for a handsome young couple who went $70,000 into debt to open it and are nearly: one-third of their way to a mil- lion dollars. PLAYS: PIANO Fred Finn, 28, proprietor-pi- anist, sits on an aluminum beer keg and assaults the piano, a frontless upright with klaxon and fire-bell accessories, Held Over 2nd Week! The Sebiiinus: exciting DESIREE AND STARRING THE ANDY AFTON TRIO Entertainment Nightly and Saturday Afternoon Matinees VISIT THE CADILLAC HOTEL FOR A DELIGHTFUL DINNER Take Out And Free eoirory Service 728-1 676 RICKSHA CHOP SUEY HOUSE The Cadillac Hotel