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The Pearl Cul- ry association con- the skirt rises so neckline, ard the ed garment doesn't klaces as bare flesh WA TIMES CTURE PRINTS jailable At AY PHOTO ERVICE p St. E., Oshawe -- 1.50 each -- 1.25 each iscount o mn Orders + Mere Pictures tire Ahout MARKS FAMILY NATIONALLY KNOWN The following story is re- printed from The Oshawa Daily Times-Gazette of Feb. 16, 1952. It is of special Cen- tennial year interest because of its subject -- the fantastic gas-light era theatrical career Ome of them was the late Ernest Marks, Sr., a former mayor of Oshawa and father of the City's incumbent chief magistrate, Ernest Marks, Jr. The legitimate theatre in these days is sometimes pity- ingly called The Fabulous In- valid. But there was a day when the invalid was a lusty young giant who wore seven-league boots. Around the turn of the century show business was big business, and one of the tower- ing figures in Canadian show business was Oshawa's promi- nent citizen, Ernie Marks, Sr. He retired a few years ago, after more than fifty years in the game. One of seven theatrical broth- ers, who took their road shows and theatrical troupes all across Canada from the Maritimes to of the seven Marks Brothers, | IN CANADA'S GAS - LIGHT ERA | Brothers Made Theatrical History MAYOR MARKS IN STRATFORD FOR AVON THEATRE EVENT his sister, participated the Rockies, and even down into the States, Ernie Marks had had| the theatre in his blood from an| early age. | The seven Marks _brothers| came from Christie Lake, near Perth in Eastern Ontario. All of them were in the show business| at one tine or another, but to! five of them it was their life work. Robert Marks, the eldest, and Joe, Tom, Ernie and Alex were the five who toured the country for years -- often each with his own company. In the home neighborhood the whole family was known for its laugh- ter and song, long before the boys went trouping. Ireland was the "'auld sod" to the Marks family. Father was Thomas, who with his wife Mar- garet Farrell (a cousin of Lord Mount Stephen, first president of the CPR) settled near Chris- THE LATE ERNEST MARKS, SR. . « His Theatrical Roots Were Deep giant, standing 6 feet 1 inch in his stocking feet. He was the strongest man in that district; his son, Ernie of Oshawa is in the same fine upstanding mold. The winds of the years have bowed him no whit petuated as a symbol of public entertainment in Oshawa's Marks Theatre, of which ex- Mayor Marks was the former proprietor. He decided to settle down in Oshawa in February 1922, after having visited it many times with his theatrical companies. They usually played at the Martin Theatre, which was renamed the New Martin when it came under the man- agement of Mr. Marks in 1922. BOUGHT OSHAWA THEATRE The Martin Theatre had been through a couple of bad years, the post-war business recession then being at its height. But in his travels, Mr. Marks had re- ceived a private tip that a large new industry was moving into Oshawa. He took this as an omen of better days for the city, and realizing that "'the road" was nearly a goner, decided to could produce plays and vaude- ville, and play the increasingly! : popular "'photoplays." And he! chose Oshawa for the venture.| An advertisement in the issue _ superscription : Theatre, Ernie Marks, Man- ager," set between the opening bars of Dvorak's "Humoresque presenting Marie Prevost play). The ad continues: fined, up-to-the-minute and var-| ied . . . for the first half of the! week," and plugs comics by the) name of Rube Reno, Fitz-) gerald and Johnston and a! "whistling comedian." All thi for the magnificent price of 2 cents and 10 cents. | Not content with that, the) __ theatre ran Special Candy Mati- _ nees on Saturday -- 'A, bag of candy given to every child on entering the theatre." THEATRE COMPETITION 5| THE LATE KITTY MARKS OF OSHAW . . . She Was Star Of Husband's Troupe days. The Grand, an_ upstairs|G tie Lake. Tom Senior was a} Today the name Marks is per-|/0re flaring gas foot-lights. Now, the family stamping ground. in| agement of the New Martin}; "Parisan Scandals," (a photo-\Theatre in Oshawa, which was|f, "Theliater re-named the Marks Vaudeville Bill is high-class, re-| Theatre. came to supercede plays an That was the heyday of Charlie |Picktord and Douglas banks, to name but a few. The cowboy stars were Tom Mix, Jack Holt and i {When a Hoot Gibson picture jwas booked, the jovial manager remembers, line up for blocks, Merchants There was competition from/and factory owners, he avers, two other theatres in those|used to plead: 'Don't gentle auditorium, over the present| the industrial wheels of the « city MAYOR ERNEST MARKS - + » History Recalled Mayor Ernest Marks and Mrs. Betty Kelly of Oshawa, yes- terday in the opening cere- monies of the newly-re- furbished Avon Theatre at Stratford, Ont. in a ceremony that had much significance for those who remember their famous parents -- the late Ernest Marks, Sr. and his late wife Kitty. The honored guests included several persons directly or in- directly associated with old troupes that once played Stratford. The famous Marks Bros. (which troupe included the late Ernest Marks, Sr. and his wife) were the greatest impresario-performers of Can- ada's small-town stage in the era before the nickleodeon Their breathless world of stage Villainy and Virtue "churned the emotions" of 8,000,000 Canadians in the gas- light era. Mayor Marks, who was also accompanied by Mrs. Marks, was also one of the guests at a special luncheon held by Tom Patterson, founder of the Stratford Festival and now director of public relations for that organization. Grand Cafe, ran both vaudeville and pictures, The Regent, then as now, a Famous Players house, concentrated on movies but boasted its own theatre or- chestra. PREFERRED SHOW BUSI-! NESS | The movies are all well and |good in their place, says Mr. Marks, (and he would be the last one to deny that they have been good to him financially), but he likes to harken back to the great days of show business. When, in 1901, he married Miss Kitty, his leading lady, with whom he last year celebrated their golden anniversary, they had already spent several sea- {sons on the road, travelling by jtrain and stage, and playing be- as their family came along, they carried their boys Ernie and Ted along with them, until it was time for them to go to school, when they were sent to the care of their grandmother, rs. Charles Reynolds at Brockville. LARGE REPERTOIRE Sone seasons it was a difficult play each night, with the play bill reading: "Within the Taw," "The intry Kid," Lappy Hooligan," "The Black Flag," and "Uncle Tom's Cabin" or as Mr. Marks jestingly put it, "Uncle Thomas' Log Resi- dence."' He recalls his company his hobbies few. He likes an occasional flutter on the stock jlive, which daily rings with the nearly ground to a stop, when that cowboy hero came to town. IN CIVIC AFFAIRS But Mr. Marks also found time to interest himself in civic welfare. He spent three years as alderman and was elected mayor in 1931, in what he termed "the worst year of the depression."" Mayor Marks spent many an afternoon meeting and talking with the unemployed in the Memorial Park, and doing what little he could to alleviate their distress. Several years later he ran unsuccessfully for the provincial parliament, Op- posing the late W. KE, N. Sinclair. FINDS LIFE RICHER Those were the days of politi- cal turmoil. Ernie Marks is slowing down a bit now, he Says, and finding life much richer. His health is pretty good, market. He drew the plans and supervised the building of the big house at 398 Simcoe Street North, where he and his wife ¥ SEVEN DAZZLING MARKS BROTHERS BELONGED TO CANADA'S GAS-LIGHT ERA CENTENNIAL CALENDAR SATURDAY, July 8 Venturers canoe for Expo from Scugog Whitby Marina no strangers t SUNDAY, July 9 July 27-28-29. |these parts - Slim had a Count- Vancouver ir. Band 'The pRIDAY, July 28 ty and Western show calle Beefeaters""--Memorial Park |Blair Park Street Dance-- porthgeiteh f aa in Oshawa WEDNESDAY, July 12 | Whitby | ' : Oshawa Film Council -- pattering feet and laughter of, visiting grandchildren. His oldest son, Jack, who for a time ran the Marks Theatre, now manages a tourist camp at Christie Lake. Ted, the next son, playing in St. Catharines a pro- Lillian Russell. Diamond Jim Brady, a "friend" of Miss Rus- sell's, threatened to sue, that didn't faze the Marks | buy his own theatre where he|troupe. They went on with the| Garry | has four show. Jill, only daughter, Mrs. Betty Mc- (Colborne children, After quitting the road in 1922,/'Happy," Georgia and Rickie, Ernie Marks, 'vi f the famous are bound to be up for a visit F 11, 1922, has only survivors | polis "Ma ys i Bei ped the two brothers more or less settled down, Joe to live at hristie Lake, Ernie to the man- with his older/and one or two of them, alon about every day in the week, | WEDNESDAY, Sut "What is your philosophy wf, en) Sa ee life" The Times-Gazette asked|OShawa Film Council -- Film) his grand old trouper and city Z Presentation--Memorial Park ather. | "Take it as it comes -- and! laugh! Live by the day," ad-| And gradually silent pictures |yised Ernie Marks. | vaudeville in the public favor. {Chaplin, Gloria Swanson, Ben Mary Fair- 'urpin, Mabel Normand, Hoot citizens used ibson any more!" MORE AND MORE OF OSHAWA'S FINEST PEOPLE HAVE DISCOVERED; AND ARE LIVING IN Rosslynn Arms Apartments 745 STEVENSON ROAD NORTH Cleaners and Shirt Launderers 728-5133 434 SIMCOE SOUTH PHONE 728-9724 OR 723-1009 f } -- FUTURE OF OSHAWA Gibson. to "What future do you see for} Oshawa?" was the final ques-| tion. Oshawa was declared a city shortly after, in Mayor W. J. Trick's administration, Look at it now, past 40,000 and still going strong. Oshawa is on the move! Next thing we know, we'll be annexing Toronto," and that was the final quip which showed t Presentation--Memorial Park} manville -- July' 28-29-30 THURSDAY, July 13 Regimental Band Concert -- Canadian Tire Bandshell SATURDAY, July 15 UAW Picnic--Lakeview Park in the RCAF, was killed over-| W"DNESDAY, July 19 Oshawa Film seas in World War Il. His third] Presentation--Memorial duction of 'Wildfire,' at one|#0n, Ernie, Jr., a lawyer, lives|East Whitby Evening Aquatic time a vehicle for the fabulous|with his wife and five children,| Display--Camp Samac Marsha, Teddie, Joe and THURSDAY, July 20 | bat Melinda at 98 Wood Street. His|Regimental Band Concert Bandshell Street)/ FRIDAY, July 21 i i Virginia,|Legion Carnival --Bowmanville|Patade -- Ont. Regiment--Whit- --July 21-22 8|/ TUESDAY, July 25 bor--July 25-26 | Cadillac Hotel will have a top- notch Country and Western act/}drive. by Oshawa Choral Society appear-|8 its headline for two weeks (THURSDAY, July 27 leave . ing at Expo July 27-28 |Starting Monday night. Oshawa Fair--Alexandra Park) Jewels are | The troupe has been Film|Centennial Caravan -- Bow-| \ry Hoedown, He is a recor \ing star in his own right ( Can't Lose Those Blues" is o! SUNDAY, July 30 Centennial Tour--Antique Cars TUESDAY, AUG 1 andra Park -- Aug. 1 Council--Filn./ wEDNESDAY, AUG. 2 -- Alex. - ill --Newcastle THURSDAY, AUG. 3 » YENTRAL HOTEL __/County Town Carnival -- Whit-/ & by Aug. 3, 4, 5. SATURDAY, AUG. 5 at the Gold Rush Lounge | by Civie Dinner at Centennial | Centre -- Whitby to perform for the patrons. 4 The Belmonte duo presents |brother Joe KE. C. Marks, the with the children of Ernie, Jr.,| Destroyer. HMCS "'Nipigon",| FRIDAY, AUG. 11 leeady youtiias ehh ae Whitby Harbor -- July 25-27 --s Pe sigs gg Bowman-| music. They also feature accor- with the grandparents _just|#M{CS "Kootney", Oshawa Har-) vill -- Aug. 11-12, dian, drums and a miniature piano to put their song num bers across. STAGE DOOR LOUNGE |SATURDAY, AUG. 12 | |East Whitby Gala Night -- Cen-| tennial Caravan -- Whitby Aug. 12 - 17 at the Stage Door Lounge | Whitby Hotel next week. SPRUCE VILLA HOTEL Slim Gordon and the Country seen| vision, on such shows as Count- big hits) and has appear- Rd ig bits) and. wii Hank' Snow in Nashville, 'Tenn. Claud- ette Leferve is the feminine] feature the Wells Brothers from jmember of the group. There/Fort William, Ont., Herb, Fred is also seg aga ane Rog and "Buck". %, ; Trumaine. e@ group has been Pava|Centennial Caravan and Parade widely acclaimed around On- tario's cocktail lounge circuit. He is Liverpool-born Geoffrey ion Shurlock, 72, who administers the production code for the Mo- Picture Association. Be- the grand old trouper still re- tained his crisp and quick wit which made him a favorite many years ago. stage tween 90 and 95 per cent of the movies seen in U.S. theatres pass through his office. There they are measured for compli- _______jance to the industry's self-cen- ! PICKWICK Buying or Selling! GUIDE REALTY LTD. @ LLOYD CORSON, President @ DICK YOUNG, Vice-Pres. | sorship code, | Shurlock's power is undeni- jable. Rarely are his decisions |disputed or appealed. | With films turning more and |more to realism in }: stemmed from scandals in the 1920s, when 'moralists threat- ened to create censor boards in every state and city. A strict code of morality was created and enforced. Shurlock has advocated a classification system for age groups, as is done in most other countries. In the last year 14 movies have been passed hy the code administration with label, audiences."" Before shooting begins, pro-| ducers submit two copies of! their scripts to Shurlock. They| jare read by two of his six-man| staff. Letters are sent to the pro- ducer with possible suggestions that there might be too much and treatment of sex, Shurlock finds his office under continu- @ LUCAS PEACOCK, Sec. Treas 16 SIMCOE $T. $., OSHAWA PHONE 723-5281 | NELLIS |' HOME IMPROVEMENTS | GENERAL REPAIRS | ti | Hf } H @ Painting @ Papering @ Remodel- ling "All Work Guaranteed" For Free Estimates Call... 728-2061 'inal judges." |'CENSOR OVERLOAD Hollywood's self - censorship/ films. e ing fire from industry and pub-| lie critics. i "I think we are doing a good|the completed picture." job of reflecting the taste of the --|Anerican public," he says.|ably continue to be attacked by "After all, the people are the|the moralists. But he feels that Up And Down The Staircase U.S. Entry In Russ Festival HOLLYWOOD -- "Up the;Award winner for her perfor- Down Staircase," Warner Bros.'|}mance picture production of the seller by Bel K best-|Virginia Woolf?" stars as an tha tlid sex or brutality in certain scenes. Each letier carries the! notice: "You understand our fi-| Shurlock says he will prob- i jthe U.S. is breaking out of the |Puritan tradition and is taking a more mature attitude toward in "Who's Afraid of tie young t hy al Film Festival running from July 5 to July 20. Sandy Dennis, Academy'Alan J. Pakula, the producer. looks compassionately inside ajthe realities of her first class- big city high school, has been|room assignment. She is ex- selected as the official United|pected to accompany the U.S. States entry in the Internation-| delegation in' Moscow,)which will include Robert Mul- x facing to the Festival, ligan, the firm's director and revue have been drawing big Villa Hotel in Whitby. Miss Lanier is unquestion- ably one of the finest perform- ers to appear at the Spruce in several months. She is a talented dancer and sings, not only Rock N' Roll Rhythm and the Blues, but also standards and Pop tunes. She has a definite respect for the "ON THE TOWN THE CORONET ROOM of ines and can sock a ee home with plenty of style an Miss Lanier recently appear. ed at the Cambridge and Bever- ley Hills Motor Hotels in Tor- onto and is about to release another long -playing record dlin early Fall. The revue also includes the 0 d- "a be back next week. HOTEL LANCASTER Blue Horse Lounge of caster next week of} GEORGIAN MOTOR HOTEL Bobby Van is holding forth in the posh Vintage Room of the Georgian Motor Hotel. .| Bobby, who has appeared on such big - time television shows as the John Carson and Merv Griffin shows sings bal- The Jimmy Allen Quartet -|lads and Folk songs in his own ----) with their colorful Western Mus- One Man Rules Largely On U.S. Movie Censorship "When I first came here in) HOLLYWOOD (AP) -- With 1922, the population was 7,500.|state censorship virtually wiped lout by court rulings, respon- sibility for determining the taste of movie entertainment in the United States rests largely in one man. inimitable style which fits in \ic + will be the key attraction| well with the Vintage Room at- ,| mosphere, | CIVIC AUDITORIUM Oshawa's Old Country Club Kitty Lanier and her musical has lined up a super - attrac- | tion for next Oct. 19 at the | crowds to Ralph Snow's Spruce|Oshawa Civic Auditorium. | Two of the better known pop- jular singers from the British Isles will head the special show- Ruby Murray and David Wit- | field. The Civic Auditorium will be busy all summer with such at- tractions as roller skating and lacrosse, but there will be ne big shows until September. meena or"tae! Indian Film Maker Has Tough Assignment Now HOLLYWOOD (AP) --Can a;been working with non-actors," masterful film maker translate|he remarked. "'Now I want: to his genius to a language that is|see what it is like to work with not his own? The feat was with spectacular success by nal opinion must be based on/Italy's Michelangelo Antonioni} in his first English - language film, Blow-up. Less successful has been France's Francois Truffraut, whose Fahrenheit 451 failed to move the critics. Nor have the English-made films of Roman Polandski drawn the | plaudits of those he made in Po- land. Other foreign directors such as Sweden's Ingmar Bergman and Italy's Federico Fellini have so far resisted the offers to aim at the bigger, English- speaking market. But Satyajit Ray, most fa- mous film maker of India, plans to accept the challenge. Ray has been visiting Holly- wood to lay plans for The Alien, which he will make for Colum- bia Pictures. Until now, all of accomplished | virtuoso performers." Ray and producer Michael Wilson figure they have their virtuoso in Peter Sellers, who has agreed to appear in The Alien on the basis of Ray's reputation; the actor didn't jeven need to see the script. |Now Ray and Wilson are seek- jing an American actor for the jother major role. They would |like Steve McQueen or Marlon |Brando, but then, what film maker wouldn't? Ray, 46, speaks flawless Eng- lish. He was a founder of the Calcutta Film Society and moonlighted from an advertis- |ing job to film Pather Panchali, part of a trilogy which won in- ternational awards. Ray continues to work in Cal- cutta, which he describes as 'the centre for modest films, usually based on novels and short stories and rooted in the environment of India." his movies have been filmed in the Bengali language primarily for the Indian audience. | ACCEPTS CHALLENGE "In most of my films I havel The world of Satyajit Ray re- flects on the soul and heart of India, and that accounts for the fact that he is the only Indian film maker to be recognized outside the country's borders. Eddy Wood Duo, a rhythm mus- three weeks. The popular exotie dancer, the Black Panther, will They're a real swingy Count- Ty and Western Music troupe with a style all their own, all jof which means that the Blue The Ray Belmonte Duo will| Horse patrons are in for a real be held over for a second week| 'reat. This is their first visit to Osh- the Central Hotel on King st.|awa and the management ig w. starting on Monday night./hopeful that the Brothers will Doug Romaine will also be back | prove to be a super attraction,