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RADIO STAR CANCER SHOCK 3AW HOST REVEALS ‘MYSTERY ILLNESS’
■ Bruce Mansfield, co-host of Nightline and Remember When, has revealed that he has prostate cancer. The 71-year-old radio veteran told listeners on Monday night that he was hospitalised in Stockholm whilst hosting a celebrity cruise last month through the Baltic. Mansfield told colleagues Philip Brady and Simon Owens that he underwent extensive tests over a week in Sweden.
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He said that doctors warned him against travelling by air, and his condition was first publicised as ‘deep vein thrombosis’. Mansfield and wife Jill returned to Australia, reportedly against medical advice, and was immediately admitted to Warringal Private Hospital, Heidelberg, for further tests. He said the swelling, first in his ankles, and then his legs, was hard to contain. Doctors cautioned that DVT carried the risk of a blood clot making its way to his lungs or brain. Mansfield explained that he was “very weak, very much behind the eight-ball”. He said he was undergoing extensive treatment by medication. He said that he was told by doctors that the condition is “treatable”. Mansfield said he would be “out of action” for a while, but hoped to phone in each evening to the Nightline program on 3AW.
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■ Bruce Mansfield is about to undergo treatment for prostate cancer. As part of the team that has hosted the nighttime 3AW program for the past 25 years, Mansfield will be off air for some time whilst he is treated. Mansfield told listeners on Monday night that the medical tests were clear about his condition. He told colleagues Philip Brady and Simon Owens that he missed appearing on the nightly radio show. The cancer diagnosis came after Mansfield underwent extensive blood tests in Sweden, after falling ill on a cruise.
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■ The Red Ball cemented its place as one of the best charity galas on the Melbourne social scene with a high-powered, celebritystudded celebration at the Grand Hyatt on Saturday evening. The Red Ball raises funds for the Fight Cancer Foundation and with the Foundation’s patrons, Deborra-lee Furness and Hugh Jackman, in attendance, it was guaranteed to be a night to remember. Jackman shared with guests that the evening marked the 20th anniversary of his marriage proposal to Furness. “Twenty years ago today I proposed to Deb here in the Botanical Gardens in Melbourne,’’ Jackman said. “You said yes. I am quite traditional so I went to ask for a blessing from Fay Duncan (Deb’s mother).” Turn To Page 8
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Red Ball Magic From Page One
● Ditch and Sophia Davey
● Gamble Breaux
● Hugh Jackman and Deborra-lee Furness
● Lydia Schiavello
“I said ... I have just asked your daughter’s hand in marriage, but I would like your blessing, expecting a massive hug or something like that. “Instead she said: ‘Sit down.’ “She was behind her desk; I sat opposite her desk. “She said:’You need to promise me three things. You need to promise me that you will love my daughter with all your heart for your entire life.’ “I said, ‘Done.’ “She said: ‘You also need to make sure that you never ever go to bed on an angry word, promise me.’ “I said, ‘Promise.’ “And three, you will become a patron of the Fight Cancer Foundation.’ “So it is my 20th anniversary as a very proud patron tonight.’’ Highlights of the night included a dinner for 12 with Furness, Jackman and Paula and Lindsay Fox at the Fox homestead selling at auction for $50,000, and Jackman singing One Night Only with the cast of Dreamgirls. Guests at the gala, which was orchestrated by Trumpet Events, included Eric and Rebecca Bana, Sigrid Thornton, Kerri-Anne Kennerley, Magda Szubanski, Stefan Dennis, Gina Riley, Jane Turner, Gina Liano, Gamble Breaux, Archie Thompson, and Alyce Platt. - Fiona Byrne
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Lawyer’s claim of bias Observer rejected by Tribunal In This 140-Page Edition
Pictorial: Red Ball fun ........................ Page 8 People: Real sense of ‘Betrayal’ ........... Page 10 News: Annie Jr stars at 3AW ............. Page 11 Yvonne Lawrence: Column returns ....... Page 12 Di Rolle: This time I went to lunch ....... Page 13 Letters: Fans rally for 3AW’s Bruce ..... Page 14 Melb. Confidential: $160,000 grants ... Page 15 Long Shots: Charles Sligo tribute ........ Page 16 Showbiz Extra: Latest theatre news ...... Page 17 Gavin Wood: West Hollywood gossip ..... Page 19 Nick Le Souef: The Outback Legend ..... Page 20 Fr Gerard’s record Top 10 DVD lists Local theatre galore Country music
Fun with Peter Combe
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● Peter Combe surrounded (from left) by Samuel Harford, 10,, Zophia Harford, 7, Lalla Wilhelms, 9. and Django Wilhelms, 7. ■ Any parent of a 30-year-old offspring who Also on the Darebin school holiday menu was once a music-loving toddler should in- of fun is an inter-galactic adventure with Polystantly recognize the name of entertainer Pe- glot Theatre and a chance to help create a ter Combe. totally random musical. If that name doesn't immediately ring a Polyglot Theatre's Separation Street will bell, how about the songs Juicy Juicy Green make its premiere on Saturday September Grass, Newspaper Mama and Spaghetti 19 to Sunday October 4 at Northcote Town Bolognaise? Hall. The phrase once heard never forgotten can Set in the unknown reaches of outer space, apply to legendary children's entertainer Pe- Separation Street is a walking theatrical adter Combe, who introduced the pre-Wiggles venture with a twist: kids are separated from generation to catchy songs and actions, and in their accompanying adults at the box office doing so generated a large parent fan base and are taken on their own journey into a tanwho enjoyed many a quiet hour when a child gible, interactive and walk-through world was either listening to a Peter Combe CD or Random Musical is a 'one of a kind' perforwatching his video shows. mance especially for families from the awardThis correspondent was one of those par- winning creators of Spontaneous Broadway. ents who blessed the name Peter Combe for It will take over the Darebin Arts Centre some peace and quiet in a noisy household on Tuesday-Wednesday, September 29-30. full of boys. Kids and families will help create the script Jump forward 25 years and Peter Combe for Random Musical that will be performed is still working his magic on today's kids and on-the-spot by talented comedians Scott their parents, and he is coming to Darebin Brennan, Rik Brown and Gillian Cosgriff. Arts Centre this September school holidays. For tickets and more information visit Fans can relive the magic or share the Pe- darebinarts.com.au or melbournefringe. ter Combe magic with their own kids on Sun- com.au day September 20 andMonday September 21. - Julie Houghton
Adjustment ■ There was no issue of the Melbourne Observer on September 2 due to production issues. Adjustments will be made to the schedules for advertisers and subscribers. - Ash Long, Editor Melbourne Observer
Homeless man spits chips ■ Homeless man Christopher Steel, 29, who punched two young Geelong cinema staff in the face after he was told he could not bring his hot chips into the theatre, will remain in jail on a four month sentence, reports the Geelong Advertiser.
Sunraysia cheaters caught ■ A toyal of 37 people across the Mildura region have had their data leaked as part of the mass security hack of dating website Ashley Madison, reports the Sunraysia Daily newspaper.
■ Legal practitioner of 34 years standing, David Forster, has lost his bid to have a Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal case against him aborted on the basis of bias. Forster’s counsel said the Tribunal had used sarcasm and irony in criticisng Forster, casting “unwarranted aspersions” on his conduct. VCAT Vice-President Judge Jenkins was told that Forster submitted that a fair-minded lay observer might reasonably apprehend that the Tribunal, as properly constituted, might not bring an impartial and unprejudiced mind to the resolution of matters to be determined. Michael McGarvie, Legal Services Commissioner, opposed Forster’s application, saying that no inappropriate language had been used. Forster’s counsel said the Tribunal appeared to make up its mind regarding Forster’s character and competence with an absence of regard to his emotional distress and the history of acrimony between the parties in the case under review. Judge Jenkins reviewed various transcripts from the original vase. “In my view, the transcript speaks for itself and jsutifies the comment that (Forster) was in fact persistently and consistently wasting time. Tne Judge said that whilst language was fortright or robust, in context, it cannot be accurately described as inappropriate or extreme. “The case law permits storng and forthright judicial comments.. “To acquiesce to the sanitised approach suggested by (Forster’s) counsel, in the Tribunal’s opinion would be to ‘needlessly mollycoddle judicial speec; between the Bench and very experienced Counsel in a way that His Honour Justice Kirby expressly wished to avoid.” Judge Jenkins said that one of Forster’s submissions was “misconceived”. She said that there was no basis in any of the matters raised by Forster’s Counsel.
Latest News Flashes Around Victoria
Finals confirmed ■ This week’s AFLfinals matches have been confirmed: ■ Friday., Sept. 11. West Coast vs Hawthorn, Domain Stadium, 8:20pm Vic. time. ■ Sat., Sept. 12. Fremantle vs Sydney, Domain Stadium. 3:20pm Vic. time. ■ Sat., Sept 12. Western Bulldogs vs Adelaide, MCG, 7:20pm ■ Sun., Sun. 13. Richmond vs North Melbourne, MCG, 3:20pm
Breach admitted ■ Warrnambool man Leigh Lavithis who breached an intervention order and bail conditions on multiple occasions has appealed his 21-day jail term, reports The Standard.
Gastro outbreak
■ The doors are once again open to visitors at Bupa Traralgon's aged care facility after a gastroenteritis outbreak was contained, reports the Latrobe Valley Express.
Arsenal seized
■ More than 140 firearms, ammunition and weapons have been seized after Police executed an evidence warrant at a Giffard West property, reports the Gippsland Times at Sale. A 60year-old Giffard West man was arrested by Police.
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She’s Different
● Cecilia Low ■ They Say She’s Different, the unknown story of the original 70s punk-rock diva Betty Davis, is being presented in the 2015 Melbourne Fringe Festival They Say She’s Different is immersive theatre, that recreates the life of the one and only 70s funk-diva ‘nasty gal’ Betty Davis. Celebrating and empowering women to express themselves way before Madonna suggested it, this show packs a punch, a kick, and a scream just for the ladies. Part music concert, part theatre, part film, TSSD is a 60-minute immersive cinematic experience. Featuring Tony Kopa as Musical Director, and cinematic sequences by Cameron Zayec, audiences will be transported back to the 70s where the woman’s liberation movement was in full swing. Betty Davis was at the forefront of this purely because her raw spirit lived by it. Her liberated opinions, stunning looks, outrageous style, and powerful voice made sure she was heard in the underground music scene. TSSD follows the story of the rise of singer/songwriter Betty Mabry Davis and the times she lived. Briefly married to jazz legend Miles Davis she influenced his musical evolution from cool 50s to the psychedelic 60s and 70s, namely his cult creations Bitches Brew, and Filles de Kilimanjaro (of which Betty graces the cover). Also good friends with Jimi Hendrix, the Sly Stone family, and The Pointer Sisters, and dating Eric Clapton, she influenced fashion, music, and attitudes. Starring Cecilia Low (Chicago, Rent, Lion King) as the diva herself, TSSD centres around Betty’s early music career, giving us a glimpse into the heady world of music, women’s liberation and a changing society as we re-imagine what a Betty Davis gig might have been like. Venue: Fringe Hub – Boardwalk Republic - The Big House – Gasworks, 21 Graham Street, Albert Park Dates: September 22-26 Times: 7:45pm, Doors open 7:30pm (60 mins) Tickets: $35/$28 Cheap Tuesdays $25 Bookings: www. melbournefringe.com.au or call 9660 9666 - Cheryl Threadgold
At Tribunal
■ Robert Duncan Smith and James Lawrence Winton have been ordered to pay $649 to Shaun Baisley and Amanda Seymour in a case heard by the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal. Action were taken against officers of a travel company when travel arrangements were not as represented, Smith and Winton were also ordered to pay $1092 to Guy Kenneth Russell, Angela Catherine Russell and Declan Jon Russell. A sum of $330 has to be paid to Boris Teodorowych and Sharon Maiuto.
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Real sense of Betrayal
● Nathan O’Keefe and Alison Bell in Betrayal ■ Love triangles are always As memory travels backfruitful ground for playwrights wards towards when the affair to mine, and Britain's Harold started, the lies become a web ■ Vessels, an exhibition by Pinter is the master at explor- of deception and betrayal. Jonathan Dudley, will be ing this in the Melbourne TheCompleting the cast of four staged at the Cambridge atre Company's latest produc- with Alison Bell are John Studio Gallery, Collingtion, Betrayal. Maurice, Nathan O'Keefe and wood, from October 7-24. Starring Alison Bell as the Mark Saturno, with director Opening drinks will be held protagonist at the centre of a Geordie Brookman, who is arfrom 2pm-4pm on Saturday, love triangle, Betrayal was in- tistic director of the State TheOctober 10. spired by playwright Pinter's atre Company of South Aus■ US comedian Ronny real-life affair with a British tralia, which created this proChieng has cancelled AusTV presenter and her spouse's duction. tralian shows after winning reaction. Brookman is delighted to a correspondent’s job on The The plot travels backwards, Daily Show with Trevor with Emma and Jerry meeting have found four actors who he Noah. for the first time since the end feels can bring Pinter's yearning and dark humour to life. ■ Richard Tognetti will of their affair. "Betrayal is a play of great celebrate his 25th anniverThe magic is long gone, but sary at the helm of the AusEmma reveals she is leaving economy and power. It's full of her husband Robert, who had blood, damage and the heavy tralian Chamber Orchesconsequence of in the moment been Jerry's best friend. tra with concerts at The Later that day, Jerry decides choices," he explained. Arts Centre Melbourne at Betrayal is playing at the to come clean to Robert about 2.30pm on Sunday Octthe affair, and then finds that Sumner Theatre until October ober 4, and 8pm on TuesRobert found out what was go- 3. day, October 6. ing on years ago but decided to www.mtc.com.au ■ Club Mandalay, a new say nothing. - Cheryl Threadgold par 72 golf course at Beveridge, north of Melbourne, has opened. It was designed by Peter Th■ The Last Great Hunt presents, as a part of the 2015 ompson. Melbourne Fringe Festival, Minnie and Mona Play Deadfrom ■ Racing Victoria and the September 18 to October 3 at the North Melbourne Town Victoria Racing Club have Hall Rehearsal Room. confirmed that a public meThe show tells of an independent theatre company’s struggle morial service will be held to stage the final work an award-winning playwright penned for the late Bart Cummings before his unexpected death. Can his final play be staged at Flemington Racecourse tactfully and tastefully? Is dousing an actor in petrol too much? on Saturday (Sept. 12). Written by Jeffrey Jay Fowler and directed by Kathryn Osborne, the play within a play, Minnie and Mona Play Dead, tells the story of two friends; one wants to make believe they’re cheeky unicorns, and the other wants to die. Through a sly combination of autobiography, slapstick and satire, Minnie and Mona Play Dead delves into the rough ground unearthed when everyone around you wants to leave. Forever. Performance Season: September 18 – October 3. Tues. – Sat. 10.15pm, Sun 9.15pm (55 min runtime) Venue: North Melbourne Town Hall (Rehearsal Room),521 Queensberry St, North Melbourne ● Arielle Gray in Minnie Tickets: $25 Full, $20 Concession, $15 Cheap Tuesday and Mona Play Dead. See Bookings: 9660 9600 or online via www.thelast at right. greathunt.com Photo: Jamie Breen
RocKwiz
■ The RocKwiz show at the Palais Theatre, St Kilda, on Friday, October 9, is a sell-out. Tickets have been released for another show on Thrsday, October 8. The Geelong show on Saturday, October 10 is sold out, but a new show has just been announced for the Regent Theatre, Ballat, on Sunday, October 11. The show features Julia Zemiro, Brian Nankervis, and the RocKwiz Orkestra - James Black, Peter Luscombe and Mark Ferriejoined by Vika and Linda Bull.
Phoenix rising
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● Paul Phoenix ■ Having the chance to work with someone who belonged to the top small vocal group in the world is a something that most Australian singers just dream of if they can't afford that big overseas study trip. But when that person can come to you, that is an exciting prospect, so Australian choral singers have been eagerly awaiting the arrival of former King's Singer, Paul Phoenix, on his trip to Australia to share his considerable knowledge and experience with singers in the eastern states. Arriving in Australia this month, Paul started his Australian tour in Brisbane, where he is working with well-known ensembles The Voices of Birralee and The Birralee Blokes in public masterclasses. Next stop was Melbourne where he appeared with the Ormond College SingersatMelbourne University's Ormond College on September 6 , after which he conducted various private one-on-one consultations for singers and groups. His final appearance in Australia is as Guest Workshop Presenter, Adjudicator and Masterclass leader at the Vocal Australia Get Vocal Festival and national a capella finals. Paul sang nearly 2000 concerts over 17 years with the famed King's Singers, during which he realised there was a real need across the world to help singers of all abilities. That was the beginning of Paul establishing his company Purple Vocals in 2014 to provide advice and coaching for both ensembles and individuals, based on his real-life experiences. Beginning his own musical life as a boy chorister at St Paul's Cathedral in London, he was a successful recording artist as a boy, and went on to a music degree at the Royal Northern College of Music, before joining the King's Singers and touring all over the world, including Australia and New Zealand, SouthAfrica, South America, the Middle East, the USA, Europe, and the most of the rest of the globe. So it is no wonder that Australian a capella singers have been keenly anticipating Paul's arrival to hear them and take them to the next level. getvocalfestival.com - Julie Houghton
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Annie Jr stars at 3AW Shoot From The Hip
● Cassie Vagliviello ■ In this Fringe Festival, the streets of North Melbourne will witness Shoot From The Hip, a live-action homage to the aesthetics and style of 1940s paperback crime, at the Court House Hotel from September 16. Shoot From The Hip is a thrilling detective story, featuring a femme fatale and a private detective, classic 1940s fashions, a jazz-inspired original soundtrack, all in the licentious speakeasy atmosphere of the appropriately named Jury Room. Inspired by images of violence, lust and crime from one of Australia’s largest private collections of paperback covers, Shoot from the Hip will excite lovers of film noir, hard-boiled fiction and retro design. The Sam Spadelike narration and machine-gun-paced dialogue comes straight from the front and back covers of famous, forgotten and some forgettable detective fiction titles, authors and advertising copy: Director Jeremy Rice has been reading and collecting vintage crime paperbacks for twenty years. In 2003, his short film, Shooting From The Hip, featuring covers from his collection, won the People’s Choice Award at the Darwin Fistful of Films Festival. Performances: September 16 – 25 Times: Tues.-Sat. at 6pm, Sun. at 5pm Venue: The Courthouse Hotel, 86-90 Errol St, North Melbourne Tickets: $20 full, $18 conc, $15 cheap Tuesday, $15 group (6+) Bookings: www. melbournefringe.com.au or 9660 9600 Website: www.. courthouseonerrol.com.au - Cheryl Threadgold
■ Richard Thomas with daughters Chloe and Charlie, and Catia Palermo from Catchment Players’ production of Annie Jr delighted radio listeners last week with their rendition of Tomorrow, when joining Philip Brady and Simon Owens in the 3AW studios. Annie Jr. is being presented by Catchment Players from October 1 3 at 8pm and October 4 at 1pm at the Banyule Theatre, 10 Buckingham Drive, Heidelberg. The popular comic star heroine takes centrestage in one of the world’s best loved musicals. Set in New York City during the Great Depression, Annie Jr is the story of a young orphan who dreams of reuniting with her parents. After a failed escape from the orphanage, Annie is given a chance to find her family when invited to stay at the illustrious mansion of billionaire Oliver Warbucks. Catchment Player’s Annie Jr is directed by
Pressure on neighbours
● Simon Owens (top left), with Richard Thomas (top right), and Annie Jr. stars Chloe Thomas, Catia Palermo (middle row), Charlie Thomas, and Philip Brady in the 3AW’s studios last week. Carla Gianinotti, with phy by Adriana Dall’Est. Bookings: www.try musical direction by Kelly Tickets: $32 (plus booking.com/137569 Trenery and choreogra- booking fee) - Cheryl Threadgold
Gemma is excited ■ Chamber choir The Consort of Melbourne has long been known as a fine group of singers, but their next concert is quite a new venture. The Consort is joining with the New Palm Court Orchestra tomorrow (Thurs., Sept. 10) at Deakin Edge at 7.30 pm to present a concert of chamber music from the renaissance to the present day. The concert will have more than 17 musicians joining the singers, and the program will include original compositions by NPCOArtistic Director Gemma Turvey, contemporary Latvian composer Eriks Esenvalds, the Welsh folk anthem Myfanwy and a special arrangement of the well-loved music by Morricone from the film The Mission. Gemma is especially excited about this unusual collaboration. "Our Bridging Traditions series is about creating a beautiful, memo-
● Gemma Turvey rable audience experience with mu- and improvising musicians, led by sic from a variety of different tradi- Gemma at the piano. tions and genres, all with improviConcerts in the Bridging Tradisation as the common thread. tions series combines influences “We're really looking forward to from classical to Celtic, Hebraic, this collaboration with the Consort Latin and jazz traditions, with origiof Melbourne - it's going to be huge.' nal Australian compositions. The NPCO has a core of nine Book through www.npco.com.au players comprising classical, jazz - Julie Houghton
Melbourne Observations
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● Ngaire Dawn Fair in Detroit at Red Stitch Actors Theatre. Photo: Jodie Hutchinson ■ It’s an ordinary suburban back yard with a barbecue and neighbours over the fence. It could be anyone’s back yard but it just so happens to belong to Ben (Brett Cousins) and Mary (Sarah Sutherland). The economic strain of being laid off, (and what better place for that to happen than in the former car capital of the world, Detroit), has led to the anodynes of alcohol and escapist sites on the internet. New neighbours, Sharon (Ngaire Dawn Fail) and Kenny (Paul Ashcroft), are former drug addicts who met in rehabilitation. Both couples dream of a better future but how realistic are such hopes and aspirations when economic uncertainty prevails and we fail to fulfil those secret desires that are our true dreams? Realistic and entertaining, Lisa D’Amour’s Detroit is a chance to explore our own hopes and aspirations. The characters are superbly played as flawed, comic and imperfect which makes them just like us. The situations they find themselves in are ordinary but highlight the trials and tribulations that everyone faces in an attempt to ‘live the dream’. The play, itself, questions the attainability and reality of such a dream. The delivery of lines is tight and taut, the character portrayals realistic and the situations and circumstances ridiculously believable. Director Tanya Dickson has had her work cut out for her moving the cast about on Red Stitch’s small stage – two backyards were required virtually cutting the performance area in half. The cast coped with the physical constraints well without making it seem claustrophobic. The scene changes were cleverly added to with projected scenes of suburban housing as if we were driving by. The final climax, though unexpected, was plausible with Frank (Chris Wallace) placing into perspective who Ben and Mary’s neighbours really were. This is a play about our pretentions, our hopes, our failings and the failure of society to recognise the needs of others. It documents how changing social and economic circumstances are impacting on our lives and how the ordinary citizen attempts to cope. Performance season: Until September 26 Times: Wed – Sat at 8pm, Sun 6.30pm, Sat 3pm Venue: Red Stitch Actors Theatre, Rear 2 Chapel St, Prahran Tickets: $15 - $45. Bookings: 9533 8083 www.redstitch.net - Review by David McLean
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My fall, Peter’s accident, and saying our farewells to Moosh
Yvonne’s Column
■ After all the freezing days and nights, it’s a joy to be out and about when the sun is at last showing a bit of courage. Not only that, but we have at last said goodbye to winter, and hello to spring. Our cherry tree is groaning to the ground heavy with blossom. And the Clivia beds are looking absolutely wonderful with dozens and dozens of glorious orange flowers. So what better day to take up my weekly column where I left it almost 12 months ago. But there was a major reason, let me tell you.
The 2am accident
■ I accidentally tumbled out of bed as I went to grab a dictionary that I keep on my bedside table, just in case I come across a strange word in the book I happen to be reading. As usual, I wasn’t paying attention to what I was doing and I slid on the rug beside the bed and ended up with my legs every which-a-way. I couldn’t move. My husband couldn’t move me. Moosh was concerned, but he could only sit at my feet. The paramedics arrived and with all their skill got me onto the bed, and decided that a trip to hospital was necessary. I’d done something to my hip and the rest is history. Peter became my carer. And a fine job he did. Then he slipped in the garden and broke his foot. He came home from hospital wearing a big boot. He’d been complaining that every now and then feeling giddy, The doctors were trying to find the problem, but he checked out okay. Then came the fateful 2am accident.
Paramedics called
■ I was lying in bed reading. Peter got up to make us a cup of tea and as he got to the door, I heard him say, “ I’m going.” And next moment he’s lying in an unconscious tangle on the floor. I have never moved so quickly, and somehow that incredible strength one gets in an emergency kicked in and I somehow managed to drag him onto the bed. One look at his foot, which was turned back the front, told me that he had done some major damage. So the ambulance was again called. I can’t begin to say how wonderful those paramedics were. And they showed concern for me too. He was hospitalised of course, and operated on for a badly broken ankle. So, the Cared for become the Carer.
Warts and all
■ It was during the time he was in hospital and more so in intensive care that I realised how important it is to have at least one really good
Stumped
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yvonne.lawrence@bigpond.com riend. A friend who accepts you warts and all, and who is ready to go that extra mile for you. A really good friend you don’t have to see every day or even every week. But one you know will be there for you in an emergency, or if you just feel the need to talk We were fortunate because we have such a friend. And I called him. Ross Brimblecombe has been one of those special friends for over 20 years. He looked after the house when we went away and he knew where everything was. Besides, Moosh loved him. In fact, all our animals loved him. Moosh was always waiting in the driveway when Ross drove in. And when I opened the door, Moosh would be draped around his neck like a large very exotic fur collar, blue eyes crossed and purring rapturously.
A friend indeed ■ Ross took me to the hospital to visit Peter who had been placed in intensive care, and knowing that I shouldn’t be alone at that point, took me out for dinner, where we talked and shared a bottle of wine. He brought me home, and went through Peter’s chest of drawers to find more T-shirts, pajamas and other things needed for his long stay because he’d arrived at the hospital with nothing. He’d take me shopping in a wheelchair. Whizzing up and down the aisles I’d point at the items I wanted, he grabbed and I paid. Then home, where he would bring in the shopping, unpack and put everything away. What a godsend to have a friend like Ross. And Rob Richardson, another good friend, and my co-compere on radio rang me constantly to ask if I needed anything, and how I was coping. It was such a worrying time. We’d been lucky in that we’d been as healthy as crickets. But it seemed as if we were getting all our health problems in spades.
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■ Shane Warne is never far from the headlines. This time it's a TV ad he did for Marshall Batteries. Warne is caught in a compromising situation with the bikini-clad wife of his neighbour. Warne runs off, attempts to flee with in his car - flat battery - Marshall John Batteries to the rescue. The ad drew complaints for beO’Keefe ing “close to porn”. The Advertising Standards Bureau reviewed the He did try out recently as a news ad and declared is too “farcical” to commentator on international CNN be taken seriously. broadcasting wiho claim an audience Warnie, what on earth were you of 200 million.. thinking ? Critics said he was 'stiff' and overall his report card was average. Kev has an obsession with cameras - any camera. Remember his ■ Memo Kevin Rudd - don't give entertaining double act with Joe up your day job. Oh, on reflection he Hockey on Sunrise (Ch. 7) long behas quit his last job. fore both reached lofty heights ?
Kevin Oh, No?
I was permitted to talk to my little shadow through the large animal cage, but I could see that he was not his usual purring self. Most people reading this will have experienced the awful moment when you are told your faithful little animal family was ill and suffering pain. I listened to what Doctor Andrew told me and the prognosis was not good. I wished that Peter was with me, but a decision had to be made. We could not let him suffer, and I nodded to Dr Andrew. He agreed and with tears streaming down our faces, we said our goodbye. Would you believe that when I took him in my arms he managed a purr?
Never left his side ■ When Peter finally came home he was ensconced in bed with strict instructions not to even attempt to put his foot to the floor. Moosh, of course, never left his side. And I thought that I had no more troubles. Walking with a stick was okay. I didn’t expect to ever need one, but one never knows what is around the corner. It was either a walking stick or not walking. I felt like the Dowager Duchess for a while, but after trying out a few, I have a favourite stick which is easy to manoeuvere and always at the ready. If you’re listening Ash, Peter said to tell you that he finds the elbow stick much more comfortable, and besides people hardly notice it. And that’s from an expert. Moosh was so pleased to have Peter home. He never left his side except to eat. We seemed to be returning back to normal. However, I noticed that Moosh seemed to have lost a bit of weight. He was eating like a horse so I assumed that he had fretted for Peter whilst he was in hospital. But then I saw him looking at the hall curtain as if he was about to pee. I rang Ross, rang the vet and that evening Moosh was in surgery.
Grim news ■ Doctor Andrew rang me next day, and Ross and I went back to collect him. I’ve talked about the Blackburn Veterinary Clinic before because that’s my choice of clinic. I like the staff, and the general atmosphere. Sometimes I’ve been fortunate to be in the clinic for ‘puppy training’and it’s always been so much fun. Moosh had been once before for surgery, and he was purring loudly as usual, so I thought I would bring him home. Doctor Andrew showed me the X-rays and explained in detail what he had found.
Shock Jock
■ Week 2 and the battle royal continues between 2GB's Ray Hadley and UBD Street Directories over their ad telling dads to “get routed”. Hadley lashed out on-air and called the female marketing director of the directory company a “half wit”, “wet behind the ears” and an “imbecile” and on he went. The publishers of the street directories had the last word cancelling all future advertising on 2GB.
Rev heads axe ■ Bauer Australia has announced closure of their motoring magazine Top Gear Australia , plus pulling the pin on their local website. The BBC international website will still be published. The Australian edition had sales
Last goodbyes
■ From that moment of making the decision, I felt sorry for Dr Andrew because he felt helpless, and it must be hard to see sadness so often. But he just has a way with him that makes it almost bearable. Moosh had developed cancer and it was time for my friend to not have any more pain. Ross and I went into a quiet room and Moosh was placed on a sheepskin rug and we said our last goodbyes I held his little paw and talked to him as he left this world with the calm and grace of a wise old soul. It was hard to tell Peter, and it was a sad night. We brought him home and next day Ross buried him under an Azalea bush in the front garden, directly opposite to where Hamish is buried. Peter has given me a silver frame to hold a photograph of Moosh which Ross took. It sits on my bedside table.
Memo: Telstra
■ And before Iwind down the computer for today, I want to thank those friends who were concerned when they couldn’t raise us on the telephone. Telstra had made a booboo. It was decided to change the user name and my password without asking my permission. It took eight technicians to try and find the problem. And so since June 2 we have been incommunicado. We are back on line now, but it shouldn’t have happened. Memo Telstra: I’m beginning to feel like Alice felt when she went through the looking glass. Do any of your departments speak to one another on a daily basis, or only gossip around the fax machine? We seem to be having a paper war (27 pages last e-mail) and not one sentence tells the story how it is or was, so how could anything be fixed. I’ve been a loyal customer for over 40 years and surely it’s not too much to expect a little service in return. Or even sympathy. That would be nice. - Yvonne Lawrence
of 40,000 and will close as of Octo- alleged fracas with a member of the ber issue. Popularity of the Top Gear paparazzi. brand has suffered following the sacking of Jeremy Clarkson for his biffo with a program producer. ■ Tennis brat Nick Kyrgious and gentleman Test opener Arthur Morris are poles apart when it comes to ■ Last issuewe reported party boy clearing their minds before, or after Corey Worthington was centrestage a major game. for his return to the screen. Kyrgious enters the stadium wea Now another Worthington is ring pink headphones listening to about to do the same - this time it's headbanging music, while the late Lara Worthington - you may be more Arthur Morris liked nothing better familiar with her as Lara Bingle. than to listen on his own to songs Lara and TV reality guru Kelly from the stage show Annie Get Your Osbourne are to appear on 1200 Gun. screens dotted around Westfield cenHe also enjoyed a fag prior to tres. going out to bat. Both will be pushing Westfield as Morris - the boy from Bondi the No 1 fashion destination. passed away, aged 93 - another wonLara and her husband are currently derful innings. embroiled in the US courts over an - John O’Keefe
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Stephen Fry returns
● Stephen Fry ■ Imagine my thrill when the media release landed on my desk to announce that Stephen Fry is returning to Australia. So enamoured was I with Stephen Fry when I worked with him in November 2011 when he was here for the stage shows for QI, I wrote about him endlessly in my column until I was told by my editor Ash Long: “Will you stop that incessant writing about Stephen Fry?” It makes me laugh to this day. So here I go again talking about Stephen Fry. Stephen will tour Australia with his show, Telling Tales, this November. The brilliant thing about Stephen Fry is that he is so articulate and so clever that all I want to do is write about him. In his show Fry will tell some of the most marvellous stories ever heard in an evening of fun, frolic and uniquely Fryish delightful delivery. An English actor, screenwriter, author, playwright, journalist, poet, comedian, television presenter, film director and all round national treasure in the UK, Fry will present two shows in Melbourne. His first show sold out in minutes! Whilst at university, Fry became involved with the Cambridge Footlights, where he met his long-time collaborator and friend Hugh Laurie. As half of the comic double act Fry and Laurie, he co-wrote and co-starred in A Bit of Fry and Laurie, and took the role of Jeeves (with Laurie playing Wooster) in Jeeves and Wooster. His acting roles include the lead in the brilliant film Wilde nominated for Golden Globe, based on the life of Oscar Wilde; Melchett in the BBC television series Blackadder; the titular character in the television series Kingdom; a recurring guest role in the crime series Bones and many more. More recently seen as The Master of Laketown in Peter Jackson’s wonderful Hobbit trilogy he has also written and presented several documentaries series including the Emmy Award-winning Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive and he continues to be long time host of the BBC television quiz show (a must in my house) QI. As a proudly out gay man, he starred in the awarding winning Out There, documenting the lives of lesbian, bisexual gay and transgender people around the world people around the world is part of his 30-year advocacy of the rights of the LGBT community. He married his partner Elliot in January. Fry will perform at Melbourne Hamer Hall Monday-Tuesday, November 9-10. Book at Arts Centre Box Office 1300 182 183 or www.artscentremelbourne.com.au or Ticketmaster 136 100 www.ticketmaster. com.au I am so looking forward to seeing Stephen Fry, Stephen Fry, Stephen Fry, and Stephen Fry!
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I love my job! with leading Melbourne publicist DI ROLLE
Top reason to go out for lunch ■ I am not a great one for going out for lunch during work time. It’s part of a work ethic that I inherited from my father, which was impeccable. He would take a normal hour for lunch and then straight back to the desk. He was always on time and work was very important to him. I learned that from him and have followed it diligently throughout my life, running my own business. I am in fact my own boss, however that old fashioned work ethic kicks in every day of having to answer to someone and has stayed with me always. I always like to be on hand and available for my clients. So it is a special occasion that gets me out of the office to go to lunch. Jeff Joseph has been inviting me to lunch for two years to go along to The Marquee Entertainment Luncheon Club as a special guest and I have always kept to that strict rule of no longer than an hour for lunch, however I finally reneged and went along. I had the best time being interviewed and asked questions about my brilliant career by legendary radio personality Gary Mac. It was so good to catch up with people I had not seen for a long time: Ross D Wyle, Keith Miller, Dennis Smith and Fran Mitchell. Mates Kate Halliday, Kerry Freer, Marie Piccolo and Rob Mascara, joined Alan Finney my mate and mentor just back from Europe, Deb Withers and Prue Bassett hear me answer questions about my working life and have a great catch up.
The luncheon has been running since the start of 2013 and is exclusive to industry personnel only. I really liked it and I got back late to my office. It was worth it.
● Fran Mitchell and Alan Finney at the Marquee
Adoring the legend of Bowie ■ I have visited the Bowie exhibition at ACMI twice and I adore it. It really is a magical experience. I found myself smiling through the entire tour. A friend of mine described it as a religious experience, I will see it again. The main thing that shines through in the exhibition is how incredibly talented David Bowie was and is, and he was so before his time. Creative and brilliant and he takes you back to all the unique material he wrote and how his music is adored by millions all over the world. His music appeals to so many age groups still. I was struck by the young kids with their parents dancing and the school kids captivated by him. I say this because it is true talent that shines through and survives like that. It’s a special quality that Bowie has. Elton John has it to. The Rolling Stones have, and on our own shores Cold Chisel has.
Cold Chisel’s new album will be called The Perfect Crime and will hit stores on Friday October 2 coinciding with the first gig on their One Night Stand tour at the Deni Ute Muster. The show at Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena on Thursday November 19 comes as Cold Chisel’s headline show at Hanging Rock, is about to sell out. 2015 is shaping to be one of the ● David Bowie biggest and best in Cold Chisel’s Like Bowie fans, Dylan fans, Elton John fans, unparalleled four-decade career. They are a great band and their I know for myself I stay with the artist and study their entire backlog and their albums and know longevity proves it. Their talent their thorough career and when creatively they proves it. Long-time musicians who know changed and grew. Cold Chisel fans are like that: their fans have their craft. Full event, ticketing and corporate information is available followed them for years. The iconic rock band have revealed the title from the official Cold Chisel website and release date of a brand new studio album, www.coldchisel.com Tickets for Melbourne show and unveiled a handful of extras shows on their with special guests Grinspoon are highly-anticipated One Night Stand tour. On top of all that they are announcing that on sale , from www.ticketek.com.au they have coaxed Grinspoon out of an indefi- or phone 13 28 49 - I highly recomnite hiatus to be their special guests on seven mend going to see them and getting their album. shows.
● Gamble Breaux ■ I get invited to so many functions and events. If I went to everything I would never be home. Dynamic PR gal and very proactive event manager Helen Reizer from HRPR invites me to some wonderful events and the one that everyone was talking about was the FashionAid Le Cirque Nocturne annual outof-this-world event held at Crown Palladium to celebrate eight years of spectacular fashion. It was all while raising money for a great cause. I think all the beautiful people in Melbourne were there and the guest list was extraordinary. Gracing the stage to host this year’s event was Australia’s favourite funny man Russell Gilbert. The entertainment was fantastic with performances from the soaring and soulful voice of Nathaniel (former X Factor contestant) to local DJ superstar Andy Murphy on the decks. Through their night of nights of fashion and entertainment each year Fashion Aid selects one beneficiary to help support, create awareness, and provide vital funds to continue their amazing work, research and programs they provide to their community. In the past eight years, Fashion Aid has supported some of Australia’s most important charities and causes. This year, Fashion Aid was proud to be supporting the Leukaemia Foundation and their Building of Hope. A great night, a great effort and congratulations to all involved. It proved to be a serious fashion affair and the talk of the town the following day, which is what it is all about.
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Victoria Pictorial Fans rally
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for Bruce ■ Fans of Melbourne radio man Bruce Mansfield were quick to flood social media after he revealed that he is to undergo treatment for prostate cancer. Jacqueline Healy said: “Please let Bruce know we are all praying for a successful outcome and for his speedy recovery and return to Nightline. Rita Qu said: “Hugs and prayers to Bruce!” Nancy Elaine Wain said: “Love and strength to Bruce and his lovely family, xoxo.” Joan Verhagen said: “Our prayers are with Bruce and his family as they prepare for treatment. Loving thoughts are coming your way from all your devoted fans.” Carol Soler said: “Prayers and well wishes and may God provide you and your family the strength and love to ride this tough patch. Keep positive and take strength from all the loving thoughts and prayers coming your way from your many many fans.” Sarah Bishop said: “Oooh no Bruce you will be missed. Hope he gets better soon and has a speedy recovery and returns soon.” Felicity Gay Moore said: “We wish you well Bruce. May God bless you with His healing Peace. Get well soon!” Julie Peschel said: “Our love and best wishes for a speedy recovery Bruce.” Joanne Neville said: “Look after yourself Bruce, we will all be waiting for you when you get back. My drive home from work won't be the same until you are back on air.” Marg Sonnreich said: “Sending love and wishes for a speedy recovery Bruce.” Sandra Salamone said: “Get well soon and be positive! When Dad got got diagnosed I told him he would be a survivor and not to listen to anything negative. Looking forward to your return on air xx” Helen Carter said: “Our prayers for a speedy recovery and thoughts with you as you go through your treament, take care and you have all our support. xxx” Dianne Rees said: “Get well Bruce, keep strong and positive.” Lisa White-Gilmour said: “Please send Bruce my love and hope he has a speedy recovery. Take care xx” Rosalie Gathercole said: “Good wishes to you Bruce, hope it all goes OK and your back with the boys on air soon.” Margaret Lewis said: “Sending prayers to Bruce and his family and friends hope treatment goes well xx” Bill Courtney said: “Jeepers So is this connected to the DVT?” Toni Board said: “I w2ish you well Bruce.” Lucia Llanza said: “Best wishes Bruce x/” Ross Watson said: “Get well soon Bruce!” Marcia Brady: Best wishes Bruce take care love/hugs x.”
● Bruce Mansfield Jenni Powell said: “Awful news. Sending our best too.” Liddy Sheather said: “Wishing Bruce a speedy recovery.” Lisa Duncan: “Wishing you well Bruce.” Shane Sheldon Crawford: Best wishes Bruce.” Suzanne Rouvray: “Oh my God! I'm so shocked - sending all my love and prayers xxxx.” Ian McNamara: “All the very best Bruce. May you have a speedy and successful recovery.” Hank Lunenburg: “Sending him all our best wishes” Suzanne Ryan: “Hope it was caught early, wishing you a speedy recovery x” Vivian Damon Isaacs: “Wishing you well, Bruce.” Carla Martinov: “I hope Bruce will be alright..Miss him on the radio!” Roslyn Gent: “Best wishers Bruce . Hope you are back and in good health real soon . Thoughts and prayers with you and your family.” Joy Fountain: “Not good to hear that.. Get well quick.. X” Joan Farr: “Good wishes Bruce.” Betty Mason: “If love and best wishes can help Bruce you will be better soon. I will talk to the fellow upstairs Bruce, we need you back. Xx Rosemari Ischia-Dove: “So sorry to hear that news, best wishes to Bruce and his family at this tough time. Sending prayers Noelene Nolan: “Thinking of you and your family Bruce. Love to you all.’ Margaret O'Rourke: “Praying for you Bruce. Get well soon x.” Sass Milne: “Very best wishes for speedy recovery Bruce.” Phillip Mance: “My best wishes for a quick recovery Missing listening to you” Debbie Cooke Delahunty: “Wish Bruce a speedy recovery xx” Carmel Fitzgerald: “Best of luck Bruce. Will be thinking of you and your family.” Julie Webb: “Best wishes Bruce.” Geoff Beveridge: “Sad news, they can do great things these days, Good luck Bruce and get well soon !”
● Yarraville Primary School.
● Private residences. Yarraville. 1930s.
● Yarraville Post Office. Circa 1920.
● Old jetty, Yarraville.
● Yarraville. Grade 1E. 1950.
● Yarraville. Aerial view. 1950.
● Yarraville Station. 1909.
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Confidential Talk is cheap, gossip is priceless
Matthew heads to US for Billy Connolly
● Musician Matthew Fagan ■ Matthew Fagan soon heads for the USA, with his main project this time being to complete the recording of the benefit album A Song For Billy. After seeing Billy Connolly on his last tour to Australia, awareness of Billy's decline in health with Parkinson's and prostate cancer, and the fact that Billy can no longer play the banjo, Matthew has been inspired to fufill a promise to himself and Billy to record a Celtic album with the Liberty Banjo that Billy gifted Matthew at the end of the 53-night tour Matthew performed in between 1999 and 2000. Proceeds from the CD sales will be donated to Parkinsons Australia for Parkinson's Disease research and awareness. Matthew will also be recording a Spanish guitar album and will be attending La Guitarra Festival in California. It is the leading Spanish guitar festival in America featuring performers such as the Romeros Family. Matthew will also be competing at the WinfieldWalnut Valley Bluegrass Festival, fingerstyle guitar competition, the leading competition of its kind in the world. Matthew's Melbourne send-off concert on Saturday (Sept. 12) and will feature highlights from the CD virtuoso, Spanish, Flamenco and Celtic guitar music. The send-off concert is being held at St Carthages, Parkville, 123 Royal Pde, Parkville. Bookings: 0438 881 985 - Cheryl Threadgold
Permanent ban on commission rep ■ The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has permanently banned former authorised representative Nicholas Hunter from the financial services industry. The ban follows an investigation regarding Hunter's conduct in advising self-managed superannuation fund clients. ASIC found he had contravened financial services laws and is bankrupt. Hunter has been an authorised representative of various financial services licensees dating back to 2002, his most recent appointment with Spring Financial Group Pty Ltd between 2011 and 2012. ASIC's investigation alleged that Hunter advised a number of SMSF clients to directly invest their funds in property during 2012. In doing so, he failed to make adequate inquiries into the clients' existing financial circumstances, including their existing SMSF portfolio and investment strategy, and did not give advice appropriate to the clients. Hunter was selling the properties on behalf of a Queensland property development company, MOGS Pty Ltd (in liquidation), and collecting commission of between $10,000 and $25,000 per sale. It is alleged he falsified Westpac finance letters to MOGS to facilitate payment of his commissions.
Melb. actor to portray both brother and sister
■ Acclaimed Melbourne performer Michael Dalton is set to reveal a completely new side of his talents as he portrays both brother (Leslie) and sister (Maureen) in the unique family drama. A Different Way Home will have its Australian premiere at Chapel off Chapel from October 6. A Different Way Home is a touching play written by UK. playwright Jimmie Chinn, which conveys the need for families to communicate and how, in an ideal world, love and affection would transcend prejudice. Through their dysfunctional relationship the siblings teach how love, laughter and loss are what bind us together as family. This unusual and poignant black comedy starts act one with the character Leslie telling why there is little love lost between he and his seemingly uncaring sister Maureen. In act two Maureen gives us a glimpse into why she made the decision to break away from a family of which she found hard to be a part. The play, although poignant and touching, also offersa great deal of laughter.
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● John Blackman ■ Whispers understands that if you want an Uber car instead of a taxi, you might have a chance of the driver being Magic 1278 breakfast co-host John Blackman. ● Michael Dalton plays three roles in A Different Way Home. I am geared to portray these two First time that actor and very diverse people under the attenhas portrayed tive direction of Zoe Warwick." Performance Dates: October 6 both characters 11 The play also asks, how do we Times: Tues. – Sat.7:30pm, Wed, cope with losing a loved one? Sat, Sun matinees 2:00pm Michael Dalton says "It has been Tickets: $32.50 - $36.50 a few years since I tackled someVenue: Chapel off Chapel, 12 thing quite so in depth and challeng- Little Chapel St, Prahran ing. Tickets: www.chapeloff “It's an exciting time and I intend chapel.com.au or 8290 7000 to grab it with both hands. Website: www.facebook.com/ “This will be the first time one ADifferentWayHome actor has portrayed both characters - Cheryl Threadgold
Fellows win $160,000 grants ■ The Sidney Myer Creative Fellowships, which recognise talent and exceptional courage in mid-career artists,have been awarded to 10 talented artists from across Australia in dance, performance, visual arts, writing, theatre and music. . Each Fellow is awarded an unrestricted grant of $160,000 over a two-year period. The 2015 Sidney Myer Creative Fellowships have been awarded to: Martin del Amo, dance ; Marieke Hardy, live art, written word ; Harry Angus, music; Lawrence English, music ; Alexis Wright, writing ; Tony Murphy, playwright; Timothy Watts, Theatre; Gabrielle de Vietri, visual arts Emily Floyd, visual arts; and Courtney Collins, writing . Established in 2011, the Sidney Myer Creative Fellowships have to date awarded $7.5 million directly to 47 mid-career artists. This uniquely places the Fellows and their artistic endeavours at the centre of the Fellowships. “I strongly believe that a society can only flourish when all members are valued.” says Carrillo Gantner, Chairman of the Sidney Myer Fund. “For me, the arts are pivotal in creating this environment. We need to support and nurture artists, so we as a society can prosper. “Artists ask difficult questions, they celebrate and embrace, they prod and poke and hold a mirror up to society – we need this so that many viewpoints are presented in the public arena. “We proudly support artists, and I am delighted that the Fellowships directly support artists, each creating works of excellence across their fields.” The national Peer Review Panel for the 2015 Fellows comprised Jemma Birrell, Fran Clark, Fraser Corfield, Ann McLean, Rosemary Miller, John Sheedy and Emma Webb. To be nominated for a Fellowship, artists and thought leaders must be within seven and 15 years into their creative practice and meet criteria of outstanding talent and exceptional professional courage.
Guilty ■ Hui Xiao, also known as Steven Xiao and Jiayi Xiao, the former Hanlong Mining Investment Pty Ltd Managing Director, has pleaded guilty to insider trading.
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Deeks is AW favourite ■ If 3AW Nightline/Remember When co-host Bruce Mansfield is unable to resume his radio role in the short-term (see front-page), Channel 7 voice-over man John Deeks is rumoured to be one of the media people favoured by an important link in the program. Sources say that producer Simon Owens is unlikely to be a full-time replacement.
● Luke Dennehy ■ What is it about the United States for the Confidential columnists at the Herald Sun? Popular scribe Jackie Epstein has just been holidaying there with Mitch Catlin .... and now Luke Dennehy has left this week, bound for New York.
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● John Deeks
Vale Frank Wilkes ■ There was little publicity given to the passing of Frank Wilkes, a former Labor opposition leader in Victoria, who died last month at the age of 93.
New radio manager ■ Warwick Tiernan has taken over as Manager of 774 ABC Melbourne. He has been acrting in that role since earlier this year.
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● Cindy Pritchard ■ Mornington Peninsula actress Cindy Pritchard in the past has asked the Observer for free publicity for her shows ... and received it. She has ‘liked’ a Facebook post calling Observer editor Ash Long as a ‘low life’. Good luck with future publiciyu, Cin.
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■ Vic Roads is making a fuss about an expensive trail of road systems and technologies which will help truck drivers find rest spots. Old people had one of these systems long before GPS and Tom Toms. It was called a map. ■ Old Tarax Show end-of-year concerts may be released on DVD by Paul Howson, son of Denzil. ■ Retired Melbourne TV news anchor Mal Walden and wife Pauline are holidaying in Scotland.
A Star Is Bored
Stick to it ■ Long Shots has become a member of the Walking Stick club. It was not easy finding a store that sells a simple wooden stick, with a curved handle. At this column we love irony. The closest store we could locate is located on a busy road where the stick-needing pedestrian has to walk at their fastest to avoid being mown down by semi-trailers.
Fresh in ■ Why is it that showbiz publicists believe they will sell more tickets if they boast that their artist is fresh in from a concert tour from elsewhere? In her bid to gain free space for her client, ne PR gal told us this week that tickets for the first show had sold in 10 minutes. She wanted free space to promote the second show. She seemed stuck for an answer when Long Shots why the second show wouldn’t also sell in 10 minutes.
● Rama Nicholas presents Mary Weather’s Monsters from September 18. Full details of the show are in the Observer Showbiz section in this week’s issue.
Observer Treasury Thought For The Week ■ “If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember it is also true with trouble.”
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● Nick Eynaud in A Star is Bored. ■ RL Productions present A Star is Bored by award-winning musical theatre artist Nick Eynaud at The Butterfly Club from September 23 to 27 during the Melbourne Fringe Festival AStar is Bored takes a look at the pursuit of fame and the depraved things people are willing to do to get there. This cabaret follows Nick: Nick has it all. A set of legs to make any showgirl jealous, a fabulous headshot and a brand new BA in Music Theatre. Having shifted to Perth to pursue his glamorous dream, graduation and poverty force Nick back to the family home, where life becomes an endless cycle of dwindling career prospects, Centrelink appointments and Facebook stalking. Destiny calls when he finds a new source of artistic nourishment for budding celebs on a tight budget - Reality TV. Nick is going to be a star…but making it in ‘reality’is not easy. A Star is Bored shows the dark and depraved steps needed to become a practically famous d-list star. Featuring original music and infectious parodies, AStar is Bored lampoons even the most recent pop culture events; with tongue planted firmly in cheek, Nick strives for fame on any reality show, even if it involves marrying a stranger, dressing up as a toddler or burning a brioche. Whatever it is, Nick will do it. TLC is casting for Curvy Brides right now…he may have found his calling. Venue: The Butterfly Club, 5 Carson Place (off Little Collins St.) Dates: September 23 - 27 Tickets: Full $32, Concession $28, Group (8+) $25. Bookings: thebutterflyclub.com, Tel 9663 8107) - Cheryl Threadgold
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Showbiz Extra
Merrily We Roll Along
Candy Topps at Butterfly Club Circus Oz presents ‘Curiosity b y Disloca ent Dislocatt e’ aatt Spiegelt Spiegeltent
● Geoff Dunsdtan, Kate Fryer and DJ Garner in Circus Oz’s Curiosity at the Melba Spiegeltent from October 17. Photo: Rob Blackburn ■ Circus Oz presents Curiosity by anything is possible: “The world of CuDislocate – the more you look, the more riosity is strange and the characters are you see – a circus for young people surreal … to an adult. and families, at the Melba Spiegeltent “Young audiences just accept this from October 17 – 24. world. Of course characters can have Circus Oz Programming Director two heads or fall from great heights. Matt Hughes said that the glass-pan- Why wouldn't they? Children don't want elled doors of the Melba Spiegeltent to know how we do our circus acts and will be opened during the day: “It is a tricks – they watch the characters and great opportunity to transform and ex- the stunts happen before their eyes, so pand circus experiences for families they must be real. No questions asked.” by performing in this venue, reaching Founded by Kate Fryer and Geoff out and sharing the thrill of circus with Dunstan (a past Circus Oz performer younger audiences.” and rigger), Dislocate is one of An energetic family-friendly-adven- Australia’s leading independent theture show with original song and dance, atre ensembles creating risk-taking Curiosity is a theatrical collision be- physical performances and breaking tween Dr Seuss, Circus Oz and Alice boundaries by combining highly skilled in Wonderland. circus feats with contemporary narraCuriosity is inventive and imagina- tives. tive physical theatre that uses circus to Dislocate has held audiences spellcreate young Alex’s adventure in the bound on the street, in theatres, in the land of Curiosity – a magical place air, and will now transform the Melba that can be reached only through a tun- Spiegeltent to the imaginative land of nel in the bottom of her toy box. Curiosity through theatre, circus and a Through aerial and acrobatic feats little bit of magic. including tissu, chair balancing, stilts, Production Season: October 17 knock about acrobatics and ladder rou- 24 tines, reality shifts as Alex explores her Times: Tues.-Sat. 10.30am and new world where she meets some very 12.30pm strange characters reminiscent of Duration: 50 minutes Dorothy’s companions in The Wizard Venue: Melba Spiegeltent, 70 of Oz. Johnston St, Collingwood Dislocate Artistic Director Kate Tickets: $18 Fryer explained that she loves taking Bookings: eventbrite.com.au children on a journey into a world where - Cheryl Threadgold
● From left, Candy Topps Emma Clair Ford (Kitty Fox), Jennifer Robinson (Fifi Fatale) and Elenor Smith Adams (Stella Divine) open on September 29 at The Butterfly Club. ■ The Femme Fatale ladies Stella, Kitty and Fifi return to The Butterfly Club stage with a brand new cabaret offering for the 2015 Melbourne Fringe Festival. Conceptualised, directed and produced by Alister Smith, The Candy Topps pay homage to the sounds of a time gone by In this new noir inspired cabaret, using an eclectic catalogue of music from some of today’s most celebrated pop vamps. Following their début in the highly acclaimed 2009 Petticoat Soiree, (the original resident show of the Melbourne Cabaret Festival), The Candy Topps busted out in their very own spectacular and have since been entertaining Melbourne audiences with their unique act. The Candy Topps are a part of the Redroom Theatre Company which has a history of creating exciting, challenging, spectacular new theatre, and The Candy Topps and are no exception. Performance Season: September 29 – October 4 at 8.30pm Venue: The Butterfly Club, 5 Carson Place, Melbourne Tickets: Full $32, Conc $28, Group 6+ $26 Cheap Tuesday $25 (opening night) Bookings: www.thebutterflyclub.com or www.melbournefringe.com.au - Cheryl Threadgold
Showbiz Briefs
■ Opening night of Lord of the Dance will be staged at The Arts Centre, Melbourne, on Wednesday, September 30, advises publicist Julie Cavanagh. ■ A media call for the Victorian State Schools Spectacular will be held tomorrow (Thurs.) morning at Hisense Arena. More than 3000 students will be involved in two shows on Saturday (Sept. 12). It will be the 20th anniversary show. ■ Rick Lenarcic becomes Executive Director for Regional Operations of Southern Cross Austereo radio. Rod Winner will manage the Victorian and South Australian operations. ■ The 52-Storey Treehouse will be staged at The Arts Centre, Melbourne, from April 1-17 next year. ■ Tina Arena, Melbourne-born entertainer, has returned to Smooth 91.5 FM to guest host her own show from 4pm Saturdays.
● Jonathan Goldberg (Charley Kringas), Patrick Hill (Franklin Shepard) and Stephanie John (Mary Flynn) in Merrily We Roll Along, in Elwood. Photo: Gary Cohen ■ Merrily We Roll Along is not one of Stephen Sondheim's towering successes -- its opening run on Broadway in 1981 only lasted 16 performances. Still, the JYM Theatre Company's impressively polished production reveals a story and score that deserves another listen. Merrily recounts the life of Franklin Shepard (Patrick Hill), a talented Broadway composer who abandons his best friends, lyricist and musical partner Charlie Kringas (Johnathan Goldberg) and talented novelist Mary (Stephanie John), for the glamour and glitz of Hollywood. The story is played out in reverse, beginning in 1976 when Franklin is a successful Hollywood producer. So why do his friends hate him? The episodic rewind back to 1957 shows moments in his life that explain how he came to be where he is - a theme that is played out in the lyrics of the title song, Merrily We Roll Along - “how did you get here Mr Shepard?”. It’s a curious process to watch the ambitious Shepard regress from the philandering successful Hollywood producer, to the starry-eyed young composer who in 1957 wanted to “change the world”. Patrick Hill's exceptional vocals and compelling charm give his Franklin Shepard commanding assurance. Goldberg and Johns are equally impressive and the three performed a number of delightful melodies and complex harmonies. Jen Bush as Franklin’s first wife Beth is sweet and naïve. In contrast Liana Brener as the seductive and manipulative Broadway star plays Gussie in her hey-day with beguiling cunning. Sondheim’s score provides plenty of variety from the sentimental Not a Day Goes By and Now You Know, to the fun and uplifting Bobby and Jackie and Jack and Opening Doors. The chorus is strong and confidently performs Brendy Ford’s well-crafted choreography. Philip Setton as Musical Director and Conductor keeps the music on pace. Director Pip Mushin has gathered a talented and vibrant cast that gives it their all and brings a slice of Broadway to Elwood. - Review by Beth Klein
Muppets take ACMI ■ To commemorate the 25th year since Jim Henson’s passing, the Muppets are taking over the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbournem during September and October with a rich program of films, workshops, talks and live events exploring the unique and enchanting world of one of the greatest puppeteers of all time, Jim Henson.
Torte e Mort: Songs of Cake and Death
■ Adelaide-born, Melbourne obsessed cabaret songstress Anya Anastasia presents the black humoured, visually opulent and satiric Torte e Mort : Songs of Cake and Death at the Melba Spiegeltent, Collingwood, from September 16 – 20 as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival 2015. Anya Anastasia will be accompanied by Bec Matthews on percussion , and the audience will witness Anya’s transformation through exaggerated iconic archetypes in the feminine form, deftly evolving through characters from Marie Antoinette to a feisty she-devil. The show explores decadence, pleasure, hedonism and sardonically unfolding reflections upon potential earthly consequences. Anya Anastasia has performed her original
● Anya Anastasia in Torte e Mort: Songs of Cake and Death from Sept. 16.
shows in Prague, Berlin, and around Australia and New Zealand to rave reviews, and inspires a cult-like following. Anya’s latest show has been directed by two iconic mainstays of the Melbourne cultural scene, Helpmann and multi- Green Room award-winning performer Sarah Ward (Yana Alana), and devisor of circus and physical theatre, Sue Broadway. Dates: September 16-20. Times: Wed 7.45pm, Thurs – Sun at 8.30pm.. Venue: 35 Johnston St, Collingwood. Tickets: $25 *Preview Performance: $15. *Wednesday, September 16 , 7:45pm performance only. Parental guidance recommended (PG). Bookings: melbournefringe.com.au or 9660 9666 - Cheryl Threadgold
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PROMOTIONAL FEATURE
New podiatry chair for Macedon Health Ballarat lodges combine to support Young Mums
■ The Freemasons Foundation has just enabled Macedon Ranges Health to purchase a podiatry chair, thanks to a $5245 donation presented last month. Company Secretary of the Freemasons Foundation, Roy Alderton, who travelled to Gisborne with his wife (a trained nurse), said he was given the opportunity to have a look at the facilities with Macedon Ranges Health CEO Don Tilbury. ● From left: Bob Kimmins and Graeme Millar. At front, from left: "We inspected the facilities in the Roy Alderton, Company Secretary, Freemasons Foundation; Don ● Cheque Presentation, from left: Ron Fleming, Sturt Buninyong United Lodge; Brian Coffey, Sturt Buninyong United and Chairman company of Dr. Brian Austen, Bob Tilbury, CEO Macedon Ranges Health; and Dr Brian Austen. of the Lodges Committee; David Stutchbury, Principal Ballarat Sec- Kimmins and Graeme Millar, who are well as an electric actuator to contro Gisborne," Roy said. ondary College; Peter Innes, Coordinator Link-Up Young Mums all members of Gisborne Lodge.” The funds covered the cost of a height adjustments. "Having seen some of your faciliProgram; Sam Jobe, Guiding Star Lodge; and Nathanial Buchanan, Following the presentation the ties and particularly the Podiatry Room new podiatry chair. The chair will asBallarat Yarrowee Lodge. Inset: Debs and their partners. group was entertained with afternoon sist the podiatrist to examine and adwe were very pleased to present a ■ Ballarat lodges have combined to support young mums in the area, with a cheque for $5245 on behalf of The minister treatments to patients from tea by the CEO and met several staff donation of $900 towards the Link-Up Young Parents Program. members who were happy to talk to Not only that, members of the Combined Lodges Committee helped host a Freemasons Public Charitable Foun- an easy to reach height. The chair offers adjustable foot them about health care in the Gisborne Deb Ball for these young parents, that included transport to and from the event dation knowing the funds will be well used for the benefit of the people of s rests through gas strut operation a area. as well as dance lessons and photography. The Deb Ball, held on Friday, uly 24, had 140 in attendance. Four Ballarat Lodges made a financial donation on the night: Ballarat Yarrowee No. 10, Guiding Star No. 922, Sturt Buninyong United No. 23 and St Johns No. 36. The Link-Up Young Parents Program, operating out of Ballarat Secondary College, was established nine years ago and is a support and mentoring service that takes girls out of the normal classroom situation to a separate ■ Freemasons Victoria has set itself campus, the Delacombe Learning and Education Centre. a challenge this year to top the donaThe Program offers numeracy and literacy, general adult education and tion tally from last year for the Think business management. A week later, Combined Lodges Co-Ordinator, Brian Coffee of Sturt Pink Breast Cancer Awareness ApBuninyong United Lodge ,visited the Delacombe Learning Centre to speak to peal. Ashlina, one of the girls, and to Renee, one of the teachers involved in the Last year, Freemasons Victoria Program. raised a whopping $80,000 towards this "When you meet these young women and see what a life changing experience the Link-Up Young Mums Program offers there can be no doubt that our worthy cause, hosting cocktail parties, barbecues, breakfasts and trivia nights financial support is well spent," he said. as well pooling the proceeds from funruns and bicycle rides. This year, there is no question that members across the state won't be doing the same thing, but this year there is a cute little additional incentive. Lodges are encouraged to purchase a box of Think Pink Bears then onsell them to friends and family, with all proceeds going back to the Appeal. Each bear is only $10 and if each Lodge sells just one box each, Freemasons Victoria will smash its record! How could you resist this cute little guy - he'll certainly be a hit with the ● From left: Gary Edwards, Alan Sewell and Merv Dyer of the grand kids. Freemasons Taskforce at the entrance to the refurbished Nhill Proceeds from the bears will go to Swamp Board Walk. the Think Pink Living Centre in Oc■ In June 2013, the Lowan Lodge No. 107 in Nhill responded to a request tober (Breast Cancer Awareness from the Rotary Club of Nhill for assistance with funding to save the Nhill month). Swamp Boardwalk. The Living Centre is a state-of-theA combined total of more than $60,000 was raised with assistance from art facility dedicated to providing emoFreemasons Victoria's Board of Benevolence and with further assistance from the Victorian Government and the Minister for Environment and Climate tional, practical and physical support to women and men diagnosed with Change, Ryan Smith. The culmination of the project came with the celebrations at the opening breast cancer, their families and carceremony held on Sunday, August 16. ers. This great event was attended by Emma Kealy, Member for Lowan, along Funds raised for the Think Pink with representatives of Freemasons Victoria led by Taskforce Chairman, Merv Breast CancerAwareness Appeal outDyer, Rotary representation headed by District leader, Ken McInerney, Hindmarsh Shire, Parks Victoria, Rotary and Lodge members and a number side of proceeds raised from the bears, will go towards the Epworth of community supporters and users of the Boardwalk. Bill Howarth, Master of the Lowan Lodge of Freemasons commented on Hospital's Oncology Ward. the day that "the outcome of the project has created a resurgence of interest in If you would like to contribute toFreemasonry in the Nhill district, and all done by good spirit and goodwill for wards Freemasons Victoria's Think the Nhill community". Pink Breast CancerAwarenessAppeal Rotary Club of Nhill President Laurie Robins said the refurbishment by buying a bear, contact your nearest would benefit Nhill's economy. "It's a fantastic result," he said. "It will mean another popular tourist attrac- Lodge representative, or call Freemasons Victoria on 9411 0100. ● Pink Bears are able to be purchased. tion will open again in the township of Nhill."
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Nhill Boardwalk opens
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West Hollywood
Roos legend plays game in LA
■ From my suite at the Ramada Plaza Hotel and Suites comes this week's news.
Honorary Academy Awards
Corey puts on the boots
■ The LA Dragons is an AFL team playing here in the American/Australian Football League. Last weekend in Santa Monica, the winner of the Rising Star Award, North Melbourne's duaql premiership ruckman Corey McKernan ran out for the LA Dragons. Corey has to qualify to play in the National Championship here in Austin, Texas by playing in three matches. I asked Corey the big question, “Why?” His reply was, " I want to help the expansion of the AFL in America and do something a little different." I can see a huge opportunity for the AFL to have Corey McKernan as their national spokesman and mentor to get the league up and together here in the States.
Abbey Stone cuts deal ■ On a visit to America, Abbey Stone's manager Alan EversBuckland, was talking to serious players in the music business and he secured a deal with my multi-media company Countdown Motion Pictures to explore all possibilities for Abbey Stone here in Hollywood, New York and Nashville. Abbey Stone now has great momentum doing theatre shows and will be the support act for the upcoming 10CC tour of Australia. Abbey will be back in the New Year to record with acclaimed Aussie record producer Mark Moffatt in Nashville and she will be doing showcase shows in Nashville, New York and Los Angeles. Alan Evers Buckland and Abbey Stone have a great partnership/management structure like John Farnham and Glenn Wheatley. Watch out world here comes Abbey Stone.
● Alan Johnson showing North Melbourne's Corey McKernan his 1996 Most Valuable Player Award for starring in the winning AFL Grand Final. The award is proudly displayed in the Ramada Trophy Case in West Hollywood.
Carol's SAG-AFTRA award
■ Comedic trailblazer, actor, singer, dancer, producer and author Carol Burnett has been named the 52nd recipient of SAGAFTRA's highest tribute, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award which is for career achievement and humanitarian accomplishment. Burnett will be presented the award at the 22nd annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, which will televised on Saturday January 30, 2016. AFTRA President Ken Howard said, "From her heartbreakingly hilarious Starlet O'Hara to the adorably inept Eunice and alarmingly funny Miss Hannigan, Carol has delighted and inspired millions of viewers and thousands of comedic actors." An inductee into the Television Hall of Fame and the California Museum's Hall of Fame, Burnett's accolades also include a Peabody Award, a Television Critics Association's Career Achievement Award and five Golden Globe Awards and a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame. In 2013, the City of Los Angeles dedicated the intersection of Highland and Selma Avenues as Carol Burnett Square adjacent to her alma mater, Hollywood High School.
Carrie in a happy place
■ The country superstar remembers when she first performed to thousands of fans at the coveted Country Music Association's Music Festival in Nashville, Tennessee. It was June 2005. Fresh off an American Idol win. Underwood said her first big Nashville stage show was a madhouse. "It was chaotic, with cameras flashing and a gazillion fans," Underwood said. Now a decade later, Underwood has seven Grammy Awards and a handful of number one singles on the country charts under her belt. She's a wife, a new mum and a bona fide superstar. Carrie, who gave birth to her son, Isaiah, in February, said he pregnancy allowed her to slow down and focus on new music instead of touring. "I spent a lot of time writing and listening to new songs," she said. "I feel like now we're on the right track and in a really good place." What's next? Underwood said for this next chapter in her life, anything is possible. "I will go where the road takes me," she said.
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‘Inside Out’ crosses $700m ■ Inside Out has crossed the $700 million mark at the global box office, making it the fifth Pixar Animation movie to reach this threshold and Disney's seventh. With $343 million domestically, Inside Out is the highestgrossing animated film of the year and the second-highest grossing Pixar film ever on original release, behind only Toy Story 3. The film debuted in the US and Canada on the June 19 weekend with $90.4 million. It was second behind Jurassic World, ending Pixar's string of No. 1 debuts, but it was the biggest opening ever for an original property. Internationally, Inside Out has earned $358 million. Currently open in about 81 per cent of the marketplace, the film debuts in Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Singapore this weekend. Major markets still to come include Germany, Italy and China. Directed and co-written by Pete Docter, the film is set in the mind of a young girl, Riley Andersen (Kaitlyn Dias), where five personified emotions -Joy (Amy Poehler), Sadness (Phyllis Smith), Fear (Bill Hader), Anger (Lewis Black) and Disgust (Mindy Kaling) - try to lead her through life as she moves with her parents (Diane Lane and Kyle MacLachlan) to a new city. The film was co-directed and co-written by Ronnie del Carmen and produced by Jonas Rivera, with music composed by Michael Giacchino.
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● Debbie Reynolds ■ Spike Lee and Gena Rowlands have been chosen to receive Honorary Oscars, while Debbie Reynolds will receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts. "The Board is proud to recognize our honourees' remarkable contributions at this year's Governors Awards," said Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs. "We'll be celebrating their achievements with the knowledge that the work they have accomplished - with passion, dedication and a desire to make a positive difference - will also enrich future generations." Lee, a champion of independent film, made an auspicious debut with his NYU thesis film, Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads, which won a Student Academy Award in 1983. He proceeded to blaze a distinctive trail with such features as She's Gotta Have It, School Daze and Do The Right Thing, which earned him a 1989 Oscar nomination for Original Screenplay. His work as a director ranges from the Oscar-nominated documentary feature 4 Little Girls to such mainstream successes as Malcolm X and Inside Man. Rowlands, an original talent whose devotion to her craft has earned her worldwide recognition as an independent film icon, received Academy Award nominations for her lead performances in A Woman under the Influence (1974) and Gloria (1980), both directed by her husband and frequent collaborator, John Cassavetes. She got her start on the New York stage and in live television in the 1950s and has appeared in 40 feature films to date, from The High Cost of Loving in 1958 to Six Dance Lessons In Six Weeks, which she starred in earlier this year. Reynolds, a Hollywood icon since she won hearts with her buoyant performance in Singin' in the Rain, embarked on the role of a lifetime as a founding member of the Thalians, a charitable organisation sustained by entertainers to promote awareness and treatment of mental health issues. She served as the group's president almost continuously from 1957 to 2011, adding numerous terms as board chair and frequently presiding over its annual fundraising gala. Her efforts have enabled the Thalians to contribute millions to the Mental Health Centre at Cedars-Sinai and to UCLA's Operation Mend, which helps military veterans recover from the physical and psychological wounds of war. Reynolds has appeared in more than 40 feature films, including The Tender Trap, A Catered Affair and Mother, and received a 1964 Oscar nomination for her lead performance in The Unsinkable Molly Brown.
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■ If you are considering a move to Los Angeles or just coming over for a holiday to go where the road takes you then I have got a special deal for you. We would love to see you at the Ramada Plaza Hotel and Suites, 8585 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood. I have secured a terrific holiday deal for readers of the Melbourne Observer. Please mention 'Melbourne Observer' when you book and you will receive the 'Special Rate of the Day'. Please contact: Joanna at info@ramadaweho.com Happy Holidays, Gavin Wood
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■ I had the great pleasure of meeting Michael Caine in a Melbourne bookshop in 1992 when he signed my copy of his autobiography What's It All About? I agonised over what I would say to him and of all things we talked about the weather. Michael was absolutely charming and as he was driven away he wound down the car window to say to the fans standing on the footpath "Thanks for coming everyone." I first noticed Michael Caine in films when he made Zulu in 1964, but his career began long before that. Maurice Joseph Micklewhite was born in Rotherhithe, Bermondsey, London, in 1933. He came from a poor family and had a younger brother, Stanley. Michael began acting in local stage productions when he was 20. He was known as Michael Scott but when his agent told him there already was an actor called ‘Michael Scott’ he decided to change his name to Michael Caine after he saw the film The Caine Mutiny. After 14 years of playing bit parts he was considered for the role of the cockney character in the film Zulu but lost out to James Booth. At the last minute the director Cy Endfield asked him if he could do an "upper crust" English accent. Michael responded that after performing in plays for many years he could do any accent. He was given a screen test for the role of
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Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead but "blew it" due to nerves and still got the part. Michael was astounded and asked Cy why he had been cast after doing such a bad audition. "I don't know Michael but I have a feeling that there is something there." Michael was sensational in Zulu and this led to some great roles in films. Some of his best films included The Ipcress File, Alfie, The Man Who Would Be King, Get Carter, California Suite, The Quiet American and Sleuth. Michael was nominated for an Academy Award six times and won Best Supporting Actor for Hanna and Her Sisters and The Cider House
severe epilepsy. He had been kept in Cane Hill Mental Hospital his entire life. Although their mother regularly visited her first son in the hospital every Monday, even her husband did not know the boy existed. David died in 1992. Michael Caine has published two volumes of memoirs, What's It All About? in 1992 and The Elephant To Hollywood in 2010. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1992 and was knighted as Sir Maurice Micklewhite in 2000. Michael is 82 these days and has two films due for release next year. He has a distinctive voice and if you have seen the film The Trip you may remember the famous scene where Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan compete for the best ‘Michael Caine’ impression. Michael lives in the UK and says he keeps working so he can pay his taxes. ● Michael Caine We may never have known him if the direcRules. During his career he has made more than tor of Zulu hadn't asked him not to use a cock100 films and Educating Rita is his favourite. ney accent. Kevin Trask Michael also enjoyed playing Ebenezer The Time Tunnel - with Bruce and Phil Scrooge in The Muppet Christmas Carol. Sundays at 9.20pm on 3AW He has been married twice and has two chilThat's Entertainment - 96.5FM dren. Sundays at 12Noon Some time after his mother died Michael and 96.5FM is streaming on the internet. his younger brother learned they had an elder To listen, go to www.innerfm.org.au and half-brother named David. follow the prompts. David was born in 1924 and suffered from
Make your fortune farming crocodiles ■ There is an impending business opportunity in the Top End - croc farming. Currently it's worth about $25,000,000 with eight such farms in operation. But there is increasing Government support for the industry, and it's expected that this number will shortly double.
My mate Graham Webb, who owns Crocodylus Park, explained that the whole industry began with the ban on culling and shooting in the seventies, and it's been developing since then. "Everything we have now we've had to learn from scratch," he said I have only once owned a saltie, which was about 3 ft. long.
I bought it for $500 from the Trading Post years ago, and took it up to Lightning Ridge where I opened a tourist park. Whilst most reptiles are reasonably simple to tame, I didn't get far with this one. He was snappy when I got him, and that demeanour remained all the time I had him. He was easy to keep though - I would gather up roadkill birds and rabbits and cats, and he loved them. ■ Still on reptiles, my mate Rex Niendorf, at the Alice Springs Reptile Centre, has many such beasts on display to excite and entertain visitors from the south, and overseas. Especially Thorny Devils, which, although not rare or endangered, are not often encountered by visitors in the wild. I occasionally spotted them, mainly on the Lasseter's Highway on my way out to the Rock. They are small and spiky, clad in earthy desert colours even though their name is Moloch Horridus, they are in fact quite cute to look at. And completely harmless, because they don't actually have a mouth, so they can't bite - they poke their sticky tongue out to ensnare passing ants. But Rex has also got an import from the Top End - Terry the Saltie. And he's just had his first meal of the season. I always mentioned that winter in Alice Springs lasts about six weeks, and that's over now, so Terry gobbled down a big old rooster for his first summer meal last week. Rex dangles these morsels above his pool, and he lunges out to grab them with a resounding snap. He'll have another one in a few weeks, but interestingly enough, according to Rex, salties get most of their energy from the sun. That's why you see them basking in the mud all the time up north. There they quietly await a passing hapless wallaby or, hopefully not, a straying tourist.
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And just last week a couple of paramedics were driving along the Stuart Highway, when they spotted a gentleman sitting on the road - they stopped to offer some assistance, but were immediately set upon with flying rocks. Then, later, in another incident, a couple of police officers were set upon in a town camp in Alice Springs after having attempted to arrest one gentleman. A 16-year-old girl attacked them, trying to free her friend, and a couple more also joined in, armed with a broomstick and a frying pan - with an accompanying volley of rocks. Trying to assist one's fellow man, and attempting to keep the peace in ■ Every so often down here we hear Alice Springs can be often be a perilof paramedics facing dangerous situ- ous pursuit. ations as they attempt to ply their healing process. ■ I have previously mentioned Bush And the same thing happens up in Tucker, but now it's beginning to grow the Centre. into a substantial industry. Every year there are several inThere was an Australian Women's stances of inebriated individuals de- Agricultural Conference in town reciding to fall asleep at night in the cently, with 22 local, national and inmiddle of the road - this is usually a ternational participants, delivering fatal decision. their wisdom to over 100 eager listen
ers. Rayleen Brown was one of them. She runs a business called Kangkas Can Cook, and is on the board of Australian Native Foods Industries Ltd. She says that the last 10 years has seen a great growth in the industry. Whilst many of bush tomatoes, the primary products, are still picked in the wild, there is an increasing number of farms springing up from TiTree and Utopia, down to the APY Lands in South Australia. Native Wattle seeds are also beginning to be harvested. I don't see any bush tomatoes in Woollies in Rye, but it seems that they are being used extensively in sauces and chutneys, and even spicing up some sausages. The industry is currently crawling before it can walk, but I've no doubt it will develop apace.
■ I'm not too up with technology, and this one is a mystery to me, but I'll be happy to use it when I'm on the road. The Centre forAppropriate Technology - Alice Springs has invented a new device. It's called a CAT Mobile Phone Hot Spot. Basically it's an amplifier, which doubles existing mobile service distances by up to 30 kms. Which, if you are just driving out of a town, and frustrated that your phone has quickly dropped out, is great. As has often happened to me, and I've had to do a quick Uie to get back in range. Eight of these devices will be set up along the Stuart Highway. I have watched as the mobile range has gradually increased over the years, and the difference it's made to the travelling motorist. Once it was only a phone box at petrol stops along the Highway, and then I wouldn't have enough coins, and had to use reverse charge. And then there was only coverage from Port Augusta, and then a short window at Pimba - I suppose to support the military installation there. Then gradually it's extended to all the way up to Pimba, then to Glendambo. And now it's gradually stretching out all the way to Coober Pedy. Which all makes Outback travel much easier, more convenient, and a whole heap safer. Great stuff, technology, even though it's a mystery to me. I can't even work an i-phone. - Nick Le Souef ‘The Outback Legend’
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Continued From Last Week ‘This was the Hall where those old paupers, male and female, whom I had just seen, met for the Church service, was it?’ — ‘Yes.’ — ‘Did they sing the Psalms to any instrument?’ — ‘They would like to, very much; they would have an extraordinary interest in doing so.’ — ‘And could none be got?’ — ‘Well, a piano could even have been got for nothing, but these unfortunate dissensions — ‘ Ah! better, far better, my Christian friend in the beautiful garment, to have let the singing boys alone, and left the multitude to sing for themselves! You should know better than I, but I think I have read that they did so, once upon a time, and that ‘when they had sung an hymn,’ Some one (not in a beautiful garment) went up into the Mount of Olives. It made my heart ache to think of this miserable trifling, in the streets of a city where every stone seemed to call to me, as I walked along, ‘Turn this way, man, and see what waits to be done!’ So I decoyed myself into another train of thought to ease my heart. But, I don’t know that I did it, for I was so full of paupers, that it was, after all, only a change to a single pauper, who took possession of my remembrance instead of a thousand. ‘I beg your pardon, sir,’ he had said, in a confidential manner, on another occasion, taking me aside; ‘but I have seen better days.’ ‘I am very sorry to hear it.’ ‘Sir, I have a complaint to make against the master.’ ‘I have no power here, I assure you. And if I had —’ ‘But, allow me, sir, to mention it, as between yourself and a man who has seen better days, sir. The master and myself are both masons, sir, and I make him the sign continually; but, because I am in this unfortunate position, sir, he won’t give me the counter-sign!’
Chapter 4 TWO VIEWS OFACHEAPTHEATRE As I shut the door of my lodging behind me, and came out into the streets at six on a drizzling Saturday evening in the last past month of January, all that neighbourhood of Covent-garden looked very desolate. It is so essentially a neighbourhood which has seen better days, that bad weather affects it sooner than another place which has not come down in the World. In its present reduced condition it bears a thaw almost worse than any place I know. It gets so dreadfully low-spirited when damp breaks forth. Those wonderful houses about Drury-lane Theatre, which in the palmy days of theatres were prosperous and long-settled places of business, and which now change hands every week, but never change their character of being divided and sub-divided on the ground floor into mouldy dens of shops where an orange and half-a-dozen nuts, or a pomatum-pot, one cake of fancy soap, and a cigar box, are offered for sale and never sold, were most ruefully contemplated that evening, by the statue of Shakespeare, with the rain-drops coursing one another down its innocent nose. Those inscrutable pigeon-hole offices, with nothing in them (not so much as an inkstand) but a model of a theatre before the curtain, where, in the Italian Opera season, tickets at reduced prices are kept on sale by nomadic gentlemen in smeary hats too tall for them, whom one occasionally seems to have seen on race-courses, not wholly unconnected with strips of cloth of various colours and a rolling ball — those Bedouin establishments, deserted by the tribe, and tenantless, except when sheltering in one corner an irregular row of ginger-beer bottles, which would have made one shudder on such a night, but for its being plain that they had nothing in them, shrunk from the shrill cries of the news-boys at their Exchange in the kennel of Catherine-street, like guilty things upon a fearful summons. At the pipe-shop in Great Russellstreet, the Death’s-head pipes were like theatrical memento mori, admonishing beholders of the decline of the playhouse as an Institution. I walked up Bow-street, disposed to be angry with the shops there, that were letting out theatrical secrets by exhibiting to work-a-day humanity the stuff of which diadems and robes of kings are made. I noticed that some shops which had
Charles Dickens once been in the dramatic line, and had struggled out of it, were not getting on prosperously — like some actors I have known, who took to business and failed to make it answer. In a word, those streets looked so dull, and, considered as theatrical streets, so broken and bankrupt, that the FOUND DEAD on the black board at the police station might have announced the decease of the Drama, and the pools of water outside the fire-engine maker’s at the corner of Long-acre might have been occasioned by his having brought out the whole of his stock to play upon its last smouldering ashes. And yet, on such a night in so degenerate a time, the object of my journey was theatrical. And yet within half an hour I was in an immense theatre, capable of holding nearly five thousand people. What Theatre? Her Majesty’s? Far better. Royal Italian Opera? Far better. Infinitely superior to the latter for hearing in; infinitely superior to both, for seeing in. To every part of this Theatre, spacious fire-proof ways of ingress and egress. For every part of it, convenient places of refreshment and retiring rooms. Everything to eat and drink carefully supervised as to quality, and sold at an appointed price; respectable female attendants ready for the commonest women in the audience; a general air of consideration, decorum, and supervision, most commendable; an unquestionably humanising influence in all the social arrangements of the place. Surely a dear Theatre, then? Because there were in London (not very long ago) Theatres with entrance-prices up to half-a-guinea a head, whose arrangements were not half so civilised. Surely, therefore, a dear Theatre? Not very dear. A gallery at three-pence, another gallery at
fourpence, a pit at sixpence, boxes and pit-stalls at a shilling, and a few private boxes at half-acrown. My uncommercial curiosity induced me to go into every nook of this great place, and among every class of the audience assembled in it — amounting that evening, as I calculated, to about two thousand and odd hundreds. Magnificently lighted by a firmament of sparkling chandeliers, the building was ventilated to perfection. My sense of smell, without being particularly delicate, has been so offended in some of the commoner places of public resort, that I have often been obliged to leave them when I have made an uncommercial journey expressly to look on. The air of this Theatre was fresh, cool, and wholesome. To help towards this end, very sensible precautions had been used, ingeniously combining the experience of hospitals and railway stations. Asphalt pavements substituted for wooden floors, honest bare walls of glazed brick and tile — even at the back of the boxes — for plaster and paper, no benches stuffed, and no carpeting or baize used; a cool material with a light glazed surface, being the covering of the seats. These various contrivances are as well considered in the place in question as if it were a Fever Hospital; the result is, that it is sweet and healthful. It has been constructed from the ground to the roof, with a careful reference to sight and sound in every corner; the result is, that its form is beautiful, and that the appearance of the audience, as seen from the proscenium — with every face in it commanding the stage, and the whole so admirably raked and turned to that centre, that a hand can scarcely move in the great assemblage without the movement being
seen from thence — is highly remarkable in its union of vastness with compactness. The stage itself, and all its appurtenances of machinery, cellarage, height and breadth, are on a scale more like the Scala at Milan, or the San Carlo at Naples, or the Grand Opera at Paris, than any notion a stranger would be likely to form of the Britannia Theatre at Hoxton, a mile north of St. Luke’s Hospital in the Old-street-road, London. The Forty Thieves might be played here, and every thief ride his real horse, and the disguised captain bring in his oil jars on a train of real camels, and nobody be put out of the way. This really extraordinary place is the achievement of one man’s enterprise, and was erected on the ruins of an inconvenient old building in less than five months, at a round cost of five-and-twenty thousand pounds. To dismiss this part of my subject, and still to render to the proprietor the credit that is strictly his due, I must add that his sense of the responsibility upon him to make the best of his audience, and to do his best for them, is a highly agreeable sign of these times. As the spectators at this theatre, for a reason I will presently show, were the object of my journey, I entered on the play of the night as one of the two thousand and odd hundreds, by looking about me at my neighbours. We were a motley assemblage of people, and we had a good many boys and young men among us; we had also many girls and young women. To represent, however, that we did not include a very great number, and a very fair proportion of family groups, would be to make a gross mis-statement. Such groups were to be seen in all parts of the house; in the boxes and stalls particularly, they were composed of persons of very decent appearance, who had many children with them. Among our dresses there were most kinds of shabby and greasy wear, and much fustian and corduroy that was neither sound nor fragrant. The caps of our young men were mostly of a limp character, and we who wore them, slouched, high-shouldered, into our places with our hands in our pockets, and occasionally twisted our cravats about our necks like eels, and occasionally tied them down our breasts like links of sausages, and occasionally had a screw in our hair over each cheek-bone with a slight Thief-flavour in it. Besides prowlers and idlers, we were mechanics, dock-labourers, costermongers, petty tradesmen, small clerks, milliners, stay-makers, shoe-binders, slop-workers, poor workers in a hundred highways and byways. Many of us — on the whole, the majority — were not at all clean, and not at all choice in our lives or conversation. But we had all come together in a place where our convenience was well consulted, and where we were well looked after, to enjoy an evening’s entertainment in common. We were not going to lose any part of what we had paid for through anybody’s caprice, and as a community we had a character to lose. So, we were closely attentive, and kept excellent order; and let the man or boy who did otherwise instantly get out from this place, or we would put him out with the greatest expedition. We began at half-past six with a pantomime — with a pantomime so long, that before it was over I felt as if I had been travelling for six weeks — going to India, say, by the Overland Mail. The Spirit of Liberty was the principal personage in the Introduction, and the Four Quarters of the World came out of the globe, glittering, and discoursed with the Spirit, who sang charmingly. We were delighted to understand that there was no liberty anywhere but among ourselves, and we highly applauded the agreeable fact. In an allegorical way, which did as well as any other way, we and the Spirit of Liberty got into a kingdom of Needles and Pins, and found them at war with a potentate who called in to his aid their old arch enemy Rust, and who would have got the better of them if the Spirit of Liberty had not in the nick of time transformed the leaders into Clown, Pantaloon, Harlequin, Columbine, Harlequina, and a whole family of Sprites, consisting of a remarkably stout father and three spineless sons. We all knew what was coming when the Spirit of Liberty addressed the king with a big face, and His Majesty backed to the side-scenes and began untying himself behind,
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From Page 21 with his big face all on one side. Our excitement at that crisis was great, and our delight unbounded. After this era in our existence, we went through all the incidents of a pantomime; it was not by any means a savage pantomime, in the way of burning or boiling people, or throwing them out of window, or cutting them up; was often very droll; was always liberally got up, and cleverly presented. I noticed that the people who kept the shops, and who represented the passengers in the thoroughfares, and so forth, had no conventionality in them, but were unusually like the real thing — from which I infer that you may take that audience in (if you wish to) concerning Knights and Ladies, Fairies, Angels, or such like, but they are not to be done as to anything in the streets. I noticed, also, that when two young men, dressed in exact imitation of the eel-and-sausage-cravated portion of the audience, were chased by policemen, and, finding themselves in danger of being caught, dropped so suddenly as to oblige the policemen to tumble over them, there was great rejoicing among the caps — as though it were a delicate reference to something they had heard of before. The Pantomime was succeeded by a MeloDrama. Throughout the evening I was pleased to observe Virtue quite as triumphant as she usually is out of doors, and indeed I thought rather more so. We all agreed (for the time) that honesty was the best policy, and we were as hard as iron upon Vice, and we wouldn’t hear of Villainy getting on in the world — no, not on any consideration whatever. Between the pieces, we almost all of us went out and refreshed. Many of us went the length of drinking beer at the bar of the neighbouring public-house, some of us drank spirits, crowds of us had sandwiches and ginger-beer at the refreshment-bars established for us in the Theatre. The sandwich — as substantial as was consistent with portability, and as cheap as possible — we hailed as one of our greatest institutions. It forced its way among us at all stages of the entertainment, and we were always delighted to see it; its adaptability to the varying moods of our nature was surprising; we could never weep so comfortably as when our tears fell on our sandwich; we could never laugh so heartily as when we choked with sandwich; Virtue never looked so beautiful or Vice so deformed as when we paused, sandwich in hand, to consider what would come of that resolution of Wickedness in boots, to sever Innocence in flowered chintz from Honest Industry in striped stockings. When the curtain fell for the night, we still fell back upon sandwich, to help us through the rain and mire, and home to bed. This, as I have mentioned, was Saturday night. Being Saturday night, I had accomplished but the half of my uncommercial journey; for, its object was to compare the play on Saturday evening with the preaching in the same Theatre on Sunday evening. Therefore, at the same hour of half-past six on the similarly damp and muddy Sunday evening, I returned to this Theatre. I drove up to the entrance (fearful of being late, or I should have come on foot), and found myself in a large crowd of people who, I am happy to state, were put into excellent spirits by my arrival. Having nothing to look at but the mud and the closed doors, they looked at me, and highly enjoyed the comic spectacle. My modesty inducing me to draw off, some hundreds of yards, into a dark corner, they at once forgot me, and applied themselves to their former occupation of looking at the mud and looking in at the closed doors: which, being of grated ironwork, allowed the lighted passage within to be seen. They were chiefly people of respectable appearance, odd and impulsive as most crowds are, and making a joke of being there as most crowds do. In the dark corner I might have sat a long while, but that a very obliging passer-by informed me that the Theatre was already full, and that the people whom I saw in the street were all shut out for want of room. After that, I lost no time in worming myself into the building, and creeping to a place in a Proscenium box that had been kept for me. There must have been full four thousand people present. Carefully estimating the pit alone, I could bring it out as holding little less than fourteen hundred. Every part of the house was well filled, and I had not found it easy to make my way along the back of the boxes to where I sat. The chandeliers in the ceiling were lighted; there was no light on the stage; the orchestra was empty.
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ject, and many a time had he failed to convince that intelligent man. But he fell ill, and died, and before he died he recorded his conversion — in words which the preacher had taken down, my fellow-sinners, and would read to you from this piece of paper. I must confess that to me, as one of an uninstructed audience, they did not appear particularly edifying. I thought their tone extremely selfish, and I thought they had a spiritual vanity in them which was of the beforementioned refractory pauper’s family. All slangs and twangs are objectionable everywhere, but the slang and twang of the conventicle — as bad in its way as that of the House of Commons, and nothing worse can be said of it — should be studiously avoided under such circumstances as I describe. The avoidance was not complete on this occasion. Nor was it quite agreeable to see the preacher addressing his pet ‘points’ to his backers on the stage, as if appealing to those disciples to show him up, and testify to the multitude that each of those points was a clincher. But, in respect of the large Christianity of his general tone; of his renunciation of all priestly authority; of his earnest and reiterated assurance to the people that the commonest among them could work out their own salvation if they would, by simply, lovingly, and dutifully following Our Saviour, and that they needed the mediation of no erring man; in these particulars, this gentleman deserved all praise. Nothing could be better than the spirit, or the plain emphatic words of his discourse in these respects. And it was a most significant and encouraging circumstance that whenever he struck that chord, or whenever he described anything which Christ himself had done, the array of faces before him was very much more earnest, and very much more expressive of emotion, than at any other time. And now, I am brought to the fact, that the lowest part of the audience of the previous night, WAS NOT THERE. There is no doubt about it. There was no such thing in that building, that Sunday evening. I have been told since, that the lowest part of the audience of the Victoria Theatre has been attracted to its Sunday services. I have been very glad to hear it, but on this occasion of which I write, the lowest part of the usual audience of the Britannia Theatre, decidedly and unquestionably stayed away. When I first took my seat and looked at the house, my surprise at the change in its occupants was as great as my disappointment. To the most respectable class of the previous evening, was added a great number of respectable strangers attracted by curiosity, and drafts from the regular congregations of various chapels. It was impossible to fail in identifying the character of these last, and they were very numerous. I came out in a strong, slow tide of them setting from the boxes. Indeed, while the discourse was in progress, the respectable character of the auditory was so manifest in their appearance, that when the minister addressed a supposititious ‘outcast,’ one really felt a little impatient of it, as a figure of speech not justified by anything the eye could discover. The time appointed for the conclusion of the proceedings was eight o’clock. The address having lasted until full that time, and it being the custom to conclude with a hymn, the preacher intimated in a few sensible words that the clock had struck the hour, and that those who desired to go before the hymn was sung, could go now, without giving offence. No one stirred. The hymn was then sung, in good time and tune and unison, and its effect was very striking. A comprehensive benevolent prayer dismissed the throng, and in seven or eight minutes there was nothing left in the Theatre but a light cloud of dust. That these Sunday meetings in Theatres are good things, I do not doubt. Nor do I doubt that they will work lower and lower down in the social scale, if those who preside over them will be very careful on two heads: firstly, not to disparage the places in which they speak, or the intelligence of their hearers; secondly, not to set themselves in antagonism to the natural inborn desire of the mass of mankind to recreate themselves and to be amused. There is a third head, taking precedence of all others, to which my remarks on the discourse I heard, have tended. In the New Testament there is the most beautiful and affecting history conceivable by man, and there are the terse models for all prayer and for all preaching. As to the models, imitate them, Sunday preachers — else why are they there, consider? As to the history,
tell it. Some people cannot read, some people will not read, many people (this especially holds among the young and ignorant) find it hard to pursue the verse-form in which the book is presented to them, and imagine that those breaks imply gaps and want of continuity. Help them over that first stumbling-block, by setting forth the history in narrative, with no fear of exhausting it. You will never preach so well, you will never move them so profoundly, you will never send them away with half so much to think of. Which is the better interest: Christ’s choice of twelve poor men to help in those merciful wonders among the poor and rejected; or the pious bullying of a whole Union-full of paupers? What is your changed philosopher to wretched me, peeping in at the door out of the mud of the streets and of my life, when you have the widow’s son to tell me about, the ruler’s daughter, the other figure at the door when the brother of the two sisters was dead, and one of the two ran to the mourner, crying, ‘The Master is come and calleth for thee’? — Let the preacher who will thoroughly forget himself and remember no individuality but one, and no eloquence but one, stand up before four thousand men and women at the Britannia Theatre any Sunday night, recounting that narrative to them as fellow creatures, and he shall see a sight! Chapter 5 POOR MERCANTILE JACK Is the sweet little cherub who sits smiling aloft and keeps watch on life of poor Jack, commissioned to take charge of Mercantile Jack, as well as Jack of the national navy? If not, who is? What is the cherub about, and what are we all about, when poor Mercantile Jack is having his brains slowly knocked out by penny-weights, aboard the brig Beelzebub, or the barque Bowie-knife — when he looks his last at that infernal craft, with the first officer’s iron boot-heel in his remaining eye, or with his dying body towed overboard in the ship’s wake, while the cruel wounds in it do ‘the multitudinous seas incarnadine’? Is it unreasonable to entertain a belief that if, aboard the brig Beelzebub or the barque Bowieknife, the first officer did half the damage to cotton that he does to men, there would presently arise from both sides of the Atlantic so vociferous an invocation of the sweet little cherub who sits calculating aloft, keeping watch on the markets that pay, that such vigilant cherub would, with a winged sword, have that gallant officer’s organ of destructiveness out of his head in the space of a flash of lightning? If it be unreasonable, then am I the most unreasonable of men, for I believe it with all my soul. This was my thought as I walked the dock-quays at Liverpool, keeping watch on poor Mercantile Jack. Alas for me! I have long outgrown the state of sweet little cherub; but there I was, and there Mercantile Jack was, and very busy he was, and very cold he was: the snow yet lying in the frozen furrows of the land, and the northeast winds snipping off the tops of the little waves in the Mersey, and rolling them into hailstones to pelt him with. Mercantile Jack was hard at it, in the hard weather: as he mostly is in all weathers, poor Jack. He was girded to ships’ masts and funnels of steamers, like a forester to a great oak, scraping and painting; he was lying out on yards, furling sails that tried to beat him off; he was dimly discernible up in a world of giant cobwebs, reefing and splicing; he was faintly audible down in holds, stowing and unshipping cargo; he was winding round and round at capstans melodious, monotonous, and drunk; he was of a diabolical aspect, with coaling for the Antipodes; he was washing decks barefoot, with the breast of his red shirt open to the blast, though it was sharper than the knife in his leathern girdle; he was looking over bulwarks, all eyes and hair; he was standing by at the shoot of the Cunard steamer, off to-morrow, as the stocks in trade of several butchers, poulterers, and fishmongers, poured down into the ice-house; he was coming aboard of other vessels, with his kit in a tarpaulin bag, attended by plunderers to the very last moment of his shore-going existence. As though his senses, when released from the uproar of the elements, were under obligation to be confused by other turmoil, there was a rattling of wheels, a clattering of hoofs, a clashing of iron, a jolting of cotton and hides and casks and timber, an incessant deafening disturbance on the quays, that was the very madness of sound. And as, in the midst of it, he stood sway-
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Yankee town that fooled the British
■ It is more than 200 years since the locals of little St Michaels in Maryland employed a wily scheme to save their town from attack by the British Navy during the relatively little-known War of 1812, and which led to St Michaels to this day being known as “the town that fooled the British.” Founded in the mid-1600s as a trading post for pioneering tobacco farmers and trappers, St Michaels later went on to become an important shipbuilding town on America’s north-east coast, with a half-dozen yards of significant size by the 1800s. And when America declared war on Great Britain in June of 1812 in its first-ever such aggression on another nation, the British saw the importance of putting a stop to the output from those St Michaels shipyards. (The reasons for the War of 1812 were many and convoluted, to the forefront being America’s anger at Britain’s meddling in its fledgling international trade, the capture of American merchant ships and the impressment of their crews into Britain’s Royal Navy, and Britain’s support for Indian tribes opposed to white American expansionism.) So pre-dawn on August 10th 1813 the British moved a small fleet carrying 300 red-coated marines into Chesapeake Bay on which the St Michaels shipyards were located, and in darkness sent these men ashore.
● St Michaels today has just a handful over a thousand residents, but tourists flock there by their tens of thousands annually.
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Just the drop with Weiner Schnitzel ■ Eden Valley in the Barossa may be one of our smaller winemaking regions, but even so is home to some exceptional makers, and at the same time some equally exceptional histories to many of their properties. Amongst them is Eden Hall that dates back to the 1840s, was planted to wine grapes in the early 1900s, saw these ripped out 70 years later in favour of sheep grazing, and went back to winemaking again in the 1990s (while still keeping some sheep.) And now it’s released what’s believed to be the Valley’s first-ever Gruner Veltliner, a wine whose homeland is Austria, is made to a lesser degree in Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and is fast becoming popular in the USA and here in Australia. And Eden Hall had a trump card up their sleeve when it came to making their pioneering drop: one of their winemakers, Christa Deans spent time in Austria working in wineries there and getting to learn all she could about Gruner Veltliner. Hers is a ripper drop with a rich palate of nectarine and white peach fruit flavours and back notes of citrus and grapefruit and a mineral finish. A naturally food-friendly wine with anything from chicken dishes to seafoods, vegetarian and even light red meats, it’s a perfect match with Weiner Schnitzel… which after all is the national dish of Austria from which this variety originated. Eden Hall’s Gruner Veltliner is $35 a bottle online with discounts for six or more: check out www.edenhall.com.au
One to note ■ The Hunter Valley’s Briar Ridge Wines has released a 2015 Fiano, a Southern Italian varietal that in Australia has been mostly made until now in warmer regions such as McLaren Vale, Riverland, the Clare Valley and the Adelaide Hills. Winemaker Gwyn Olsen brought in fruit from the Hunter’s Howards Vineyard for this new-direction wine, a drop with an interestingly lively palate of ginger spice, cumquat and hazelnut to the fore and a quite lovely zestiness. And while an enjoyable buy-now, drink-now wine, Gwyn says it’s showing all signs of developing further complexity over the next five years; pay $28 and enjoy with pasta dishes or seafoods.
Pictured ■ One to match up with a Weiner Schnitzel, the national dish of its homeland Austria. ■ Pasta dishes and seafoods will partner nicely with this Hunter Valley Fiano.
Long anticipating such an attack on their yards, the residents of St Michaels got a few rounds away from some cannons they had along their harbour-front, but knowing they were greatly out-numbered, fled back into the darkness. Delighted, British Admiral Sir George Cockburn recalled his men to their ships, declaring he’d wipe little St Michaels off the map with cannon fire from those vessels. And it would be with the assistance of the townspeople themselves – whom he noted to fellow-officers, had foolishly left so many lights on overnight in homes and shipyard buildings that they made for perfect targets. After firing off some hundreds of cannonballs and seeing the number of those lights diminish with each salvo, Admiral Cockburn declared his job well done and sailed off into the sunrise without even bothering to check the extent of damage he’d caused. Had he done so, he would doubtless have been mortified to find that for all his effort, he had in fact hit just one building. And that was a private house through whose roof a cannonball had crashed into the attic below, and from there bounced down the stairway to land at the feet of a very shocked Mrs William Merchant and her baby daughter who’d been awakened by the bombardment…. And the reason for so little damage to St Michaels township was simple: the canny locals had actually turned off every light in town, and the myriad “town lights” Admiral Cockburn had seen were in fact hundreds of lanterns those townspeople had lit and strung amid trees on a hillside behind their blacked-out township. So Admiral Cockburn had simply sent his cannonballs sailing harmlessly over the darkened settlement into that forest behind St Michaels, earning it the title “the town that fooled the British…” Two hundred and two years on, Mrs Merchant’s house is still a private residence, although officially listed as the Cannonball House on America’s National Register of Historic Places. Shipbuilding in St Michaels waned in the later part of the 1800s to be replaced with oyster harvesting and crab catching, and today tourism is the major industry in this little town of a mere thousand or so leisurely living folk. Once listed Number 8 in the Top Ten of Romantic Escapes in the USA, St Michaels has also been described as “a treasure on Maryland’s Eastern Shore” with colourfully picturesque Colonial, Federal and Victorian era homes, churches and public buildings, and prides itself on its rich maritime heritage. Visitors can also take to the local waters for daily sightseeing tours on an historic 1886 oyster dredging sailboat, the Rebecca T Ruark that’s a skipjack for which St Michaels was once famed for churning out from its shipyards, or join organised day fishing trips on others. For foodies, local restaurants put great emphasis on the local crabs and oysters still harvested and caught today, there are numerous boutiques, and for the curious a fascinating maritime museum and excellent antique shops. See www.stmichaelsmd.org - David Ellis
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Healthy Living Has Humanity Lost its Compassion? Charles Cannon describes meditation as the key to counter humanity's malaise and restore human decency. Recently, Cannon, creator of the Synchronicity Foundation for Modern Spiritualit y and adviser to corporations in Silicon Valley, talked about the hightech meditation technology that he designed and pioneered in an extensive, live studio interview on LinkedIn. He also talked about how meditation and a holistic lifestyle enabled him and his group to get through the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack during which his close friend and his thirteen year old daughter were killed and four others injured. Speaking about the most challenging time in his life to the media and US senators, Charles Cannon said he forgave the terrorists and we need to be compassionate 'for they know not what they do'. Forgiving the Unforgivable: The Power of Holistic Living: The True Story of How Survivors of the Mumbai Terrorist Attack Answered Hatred with Compassion Known to his associates as Master Charles, Cannon will give two public programs in Melbourne in September and will talk about harnessing meditation technology to create a balanced and fulfilling life. He will also launch the Australian edition of his acclaimed book, Forgiving the Unforgivable: The Power of Holistic Living. Praised by Hilary Clinton, the book tells the true story of how his associates, five of whom were from Australasia, lived through the horrific ordeal and answered the violence and hatred of the terrorists with love, forgiveness and compassion. Sometime afterwards, they created One Life Alliance, a charitable, educational, non-profit organization dedicated to honouring the sacredness of life. The focus of Charles Cannon on modern spirituality and meditation for the digital age has received much coverage from international media. He has presented programs at the World Health Organization, the National Institutes of Health in the US; Columbia, Oxford, Bombay and Tel Aviv univ ersities; Westminster Abbey, the United Nations and the Vatican.
Meditate the Modern Way: Meditate with Digital Technology Synchronicity High-Tech Meditation was created by Charles Cannon some thirty years ago and is practised by meditators worldwide. It provides a novel way to achieve mental, physical and emotional balance in a world where the speed of information processing is fast and furious and demands that we be plugged in 24/7. Designed to be pr actised on a daily basis, High-Tech Meditation utilizes Synchronicity technology (Holodynamics) to give individuals the opportunity to enjoy a precise meditation experience every time they meditate. In a comparison study of S ynchronicit y High-Tech meditators with Zen monk meditators, it was found that the brain-wave patterns of Synchronicity users who live everyday family lives are comparable to those of monks using traditional meditation systems living a contemplative lifestyle. Synchronicity sonic technology utilizes comprehensive brain-wave entrainment technology combined with the energy frequencies of sacred geometry. It is at the leading-edge of entrainment technologies designed to enhance the evolution of human consciousness. The technology, available through Alpha, Theta and Delta CDs (and downloads) helps you meditate. The CDs/downloads: buffer out intruding, distracting sounds balance the two sides of your brain entrain a meditative brain-wave pattern provide an environment that enables a precision meditation experience every time.
If you want to learn how to create a balanced and fulfilling life Don't miss this opportunity to learn from a master of meditation Come and experience Synchronicity High- Tech Meditation at the Melbourne programs.
Melbourne Programs Living in the Digital Age: Harnessing Technology for the Evolution of Human Consciousness An Evening with Master Charles Cannon Wednesday 23 September, 7.30 pm - 10.00 pm Lincoln of Toorak, 445 Toorak Rd, Toorak, Vic 3142 A One-Day Seminar with Master Charles Cannon Sunday 27 September, 9.00 am - 5.00 pm Lincoln of Toorak, 445 Toorak Rd, Toorak, Vic 3142 Further information: www.synchronicity.org Enquiries: miriambroder@yahoo.com.au or 03 9527 9198 Tickets: www.trybooking.com/ICPM
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BUNDOORA, 3083. Bundoora Centre Newsagency. Shop 3, 39 Plenty Rd, Bundoora. (03) 9467 1351. BUNDOORA, 3083. Bundoora Newsagency. 1268 Plenty Rd, Bundoora. (03) 9467 2138. BUNYIP, 3815. Bunyip Newsagency. (03) 5629 6111. BURNLEY, 3121. Burnley Newsagency. 375 Burnley St, Burnley. (03) 9428 1669. BURWOOD EAST, 3151. East Burwood Newsagency. 16 Burwood Hwy, Burwood East. (03) 9808 7284. CAMBERWELL, 3124. Burke Road Newsagency. (03) 9882 3671. CAMBERWELL, 3124. Burwood Newsagency. 1394 Toorak Rd, Camberwell. (03) 9889 4155. CAMBERWELL, 3124. Camberwell Centre Newsagency. 628 Burke Rd, Camberwell. (03) 9882 4083. CAMBERWELL, 3124. Camberwell Market Newsagency. 513 Riversdale Rd, Camberwell. (03) 9813 3799. CAMBERWELL, 3124. Zantuck Newsagency. 732 Riversdale Rd, Camberwell. (03) 9836 4953. CAMBERWELL EAST, 3124. East Camberwell Newsagency. 188 Through Rd, Camberwell. (03) 9836 2495. CANTERBURY, 3126. Canterbury Newsagency. 104 Maling Rd. (03) 9836 2130. CARISBROOK, 3464. Carisbrook Newsagency. (03) 5464 2293. CARLTON, 3053. Lygon Authorised Newsagency. 260 Lygon St, Carlton. (03) 9663 6193. CARLTON NORTH, 3054. Princes Hill Newsagency. 607 Lygon St, Carlton North. (03) 9380 1419. CARLTON NORTH, 3054. Rathdowne Newsagency. 410 Rathdowne St, Carlton North. (03) 9347 2630. CARNEGIE, 3163. Carnegie Newsagency. 58 Koornang Rd, Carnegie. (03) 9568 5256. CARNEGIE, 3163. Patterson Newsagency. (03) 9557 5794. CARNEGIE, 3163. Southern Distribution & Delivery Service. 669 North Rd, Carnegie. (03) 9576 7044. CARRUM, 3197. Carrum Newsagency. 514 Station St, Carrum. (03) 9772 7696. CARRUM DOWNS, 3198. Bayside Distribution. (03) 9782 6333. CAULFIELD EAST, 3145. Caulfield Newsagency. 14 Derby Rd, Caulfield East. (03) 9571 6194. CAULFIELD NORTH, 3161. Junction Newsagency. 69-71 Hawthorn Rd, Caulfield North. (03) 9523 8546. CAULFIELD SOUTH, 3162. Booran Road Newsagency. 177 Booran Rd, Caulfield South. (03) 9578 3195. CAULFIELD SOUTH, 3162. South Caulfield Newsagency. 792 Glenhuntly Rd, Caulfield South. (03) 9523 8701. CHADSTONE, 3148. Supanews. Shops A42 and A49, Chadstone. (03) 9569 5858. CHADSTONE, 3148. Holmesglen Newsagency. 637 Warrigal Rd, Chadstone. (03) 9569 7365. CHARLTON, 3525. Charltopn Newsagency. (03) 5491 1680. CHELSEA, 3196. Chelsea Newsagency. 403 Nepean Hwy, Chelsea. (03) 9772 2621. CHELTENHAM, 3192. Cheltenham Newsagency. 332 Charman Rd, Cheltenham. (03) 9583 3276. CHELTENHAM, 3192. Southland Newsagency. Westfield Shoppingtown, Cheltenham. (03) 9584 9433. CLAYTON, 3168. Clayton Authorised Newsagency. 345 Clayton Rd, Clayton. (03) 9544 1153. CLIFTON HILL, 3068. Clifton Hill Newsagency. 316 Queens Pde, Clifton Hill. (03) 9489 8725. COBURG, 3058. Coburg Newsagency, 481-483 Sydney Rd, Coburg. (03) 9354 7525. COLAC, 3250. Blaines Newsagency, Colac. (03) 5231 4602. COLDSTREAM, 3770. Coldstream Newsagency. 670 Maroondah Hwy, Coldstream. (03) 9739 1409. CORIO, 3214. Corio Village Newsagency. Shop 27, Corio Village, Corio. (03) 5275 1666. COWES, 3922. Cowes Newsagency. 44 Thompson Ave, Cowes. (03) 5952 2046. CRAIGIEBURN, 3064. Craigieburn Newsagency. Shop 9 Mall, Craigieburn. (03) 9308 2132. CRANBOURNE, 3977. Cranbourne Newsagency. 105 High St,Cranbourne. (03) 5996 8866. CRANBOURNE NORTH, 3977. Thompson Parkway Newsagency. Cnr South Gippsland Hwy, Cranbourne North. (03) 5996 0055. CROYDON, 3136. Burnt Bridge Newsagency. 434 Maroondah Hwy, Croydon. (03) 9870 6140. CROYDON, 3136. Croydon Newsagency. 158 Main St, Croydon. (03) 9723 2001. CROYDON NORTH, 3136. Croydon North Newsagency. 5 Exeter Rd, Croydon North. (03) 9726 6030. DANDENONG, 3175. Lonsdale Newsagency. 250 Lonsdale St, Dandenong. (03) 9792 1897. DANDENONG, 3175. Lucky Winners Lotto. 118 Hemmings St, Dandenong. (03) 9792 4628. DANDENONG, 3175. Doveton News & Lotto. (03) 9792 4937. DEER PARK, 3023. Deer Park Newsagency. 823 Ballarat Rd, Deer Park.(03) 9363 1175. DENILIQUIN, 2710. Deniliquin Newsagency and Bookstore. (02) 5881 2080. DIAMOND CREEK, 3089. Diamond Creek Newsagency. 62A Hurstbridge Rd. (03) 9438 1470. DINGLEY VILLAGE, 3172. Dingley Newsagency. 79 Centre Dandenong Rd, Dingley Village. (03) 9551 1184. DONCASTER, 3108. Shoppingtown Newsagency. Shop 34, 619 Doncaster Rd, Doncaster. (03) 9848 3912. DONCASTER EAST, 3109. East Doncaster Newsagency. 74 Jackson Ct, Doncaster East. (03) 9848 3174. DONCASTER EAST, 3109. Tunstall Square Newsagency. Shop 4, Tunstall Square, Doncaster East. (03) 9842 2485. DONCASTER EAST, 3109. The Pines Newsagency. Shop 35, 181 Reynolds Rd, Doncaster East. (03) 9842 7944. DROMANA, 3936. Dromana Newsagency. 177 Nepean Hwy, Dromana. (03) 5987 2338. DROUIN, 3818. Burrows Newsagency, Drouin. (03) 5625 1614. DRYSDALE, 3222. Drysdale Newsagency. High St, Drysdale. (03) 5251 2776.
EAGLEMONT, 3084. Eaglemont Lucky Lotto, News & Post. 68 Silverdale Rd. (03) 9499 2589. EDITHVALE, 3196. Edithvale Newsagency. 253 Nepean Hwy. (03) 9772 1072. ELSTERNWICK, 3185. Elsternwick Newsagency. 348 Glenhuntly Rd, Elsternwick. (03) 9523 8335. ELSTERNWICK, 3185. Elsternwick Office Supplies. 433 Glenhuntly Rd, Elsternwick. (03) 9523 6495. ELSTERNWICK, 3185. Ripponlea Newsagency. 78 Glen Eira Rd, Elsternwick. (03) 9523 5649. ELTHAM, 3095. Eltham Newsagency & Toyworld. 958 Main Rd. (03) 9439 9162. ELWOOD, 3184. Elwood Newsagency. 103 Ormond Rd, Elwood. (03) 9531 4223. EMERALD, 3782. Emerald Newsagency. Main St, Emerald. (03) 5968 5152. EPPING, 3076. Dalton Village Newsagency. (03) 9408 8877. ESSENDON, 3040. Essendon Newsagency. 15A Rose St, Essendon. (03) 9337 5908. ESSENDON, 3040. Roundabout Newsagency. 94 Fletcher St, Essendon. (03) 9370 5305. ESSENDON NORTH, 3041. North Essendon Newsagency. 1085 Mt Alexander Rd, North Essendon. (03) 9379 2243. FAIRFIELD, 3078. Fairfield Newsagency. 99 Station St, Fairfield. (03) 9481 3240. FAWKNER, 3060. Fawkner Newsagency. 54 Bonwick St, Fawkner. (03) 9359 2046. FAWKNER, 3060. Moomba Park Newsagency. 89 Anderson Rd, Fawkner. (03) 9359 1595. FERNTREE GULLY, 3156. Ferntree Gully Newsagency. Shop 2, 69 Station St, Ferntree Gully. (03) 9758 1343. FERNTREE GULLY, 3156. Mountain Gate Newsagency. Shop 9B, Ferntree Gully. (03) 9758 4427. FERNTREE GULLY UPPER, 3156. Upper Ferntree Gully Newsagency. Shop 3 Ferntree Plaza. (03) 9756 0171. FITZROY, 3065. Fitzroy Newsagency. 337 Brunswick St, Fitzroy. (03) 9417 3017. FITZROY NORTH, 3068. North Fitzroy Newsagency. 224 St Georges Rd, Fitzroy North. (03) 9489 8614. FOOTSCRAY WEST, 3012. Kingsville Newsagency. 339 Somerville Rd, Footscray West. (03) 9314 5004. FOREST HILL, 3131. Brentford Square Newsagency. 29-31 Brentford Sq., Forest Hill. (03) 9878 1882. FOREST HILL, 3131. NewsXPress Forest Hill. Shop 215, Western Entrance, Forest Hill. (03) 9878 2515. FOUNTAIN GATE, 3805. Fountain Gate Newsagency. Shop 1157 (Level 1), Fountain Gate. (03) 9704 6408. FRANKSTON, 3199. Beach Street Newsagency. 239 Beach St, Frankston. (03) 9789 9736. FRANKSTON, 3199. Foote Street Newsagency. c/ - Bayside Distribution Services. (03) 9783 4720. FRANKSTON, 3199. Frankston Newsagency. 5 Keys St, Frankston. (03) 9783 3253. FRANKSTON, 3199. Karingal Hub Newsagency. c/ - Bayside Distribution Services. (03) 9776 7744. FRANKSTON, 3199. Young Street Newsagency. 78 Young St, Frankston. (03) 9783 2467. GARDENVALE, 3186. See Brighton. GARFIELD, 3814. Garfield Newsagency Pty Ltd. 77 Main St, Garfield. (03) 5629 2533. GEELONG, 3220. Geelong Newsagency & Lotto. 139 Moorabool St, Geelong. (03) 5222 1911. GEELONG EAST, 3219. East Geelong Newsagency. 78A Garden St. (03) 5229 5109. GEELONG WEST, 3218. Manifold Newsagency. Shop 2, 132 Shannon Ave, Geelong West. (03) 5229 5897. GEELONG WEST, 3218. Murphy's Newsagency. PO Box 7133, Geelong West. (03) 5229 1973. GISBORNE, 3437. Gisborne Newsagency. Shop 20, Village Shopping Centre. (03) 5428 2632. GLADSTONE PARK, 3043. Gladstone Park Newsagency. Shop 164. (03) 9338 3921. GLEN HUNTLY, 3163. Glenhuntly Newsagency. 1164 Glenhuntly Rd, Glenhuntly. (03) 9571 2551. GLEN WAVERLEY, 3150. Glen Waverley News. Shop L2, 65 Glen S/C, Springvale Rd, Glen Waverley. (03) 9802 8503. GLEN WAVERLEY, 3150. Kingsway Newsagency. 65 Kingsway, Glen Waverley. (03) 9560 9987. GLEN WAVERLEY, 3150. Syndal Newsagency. 238 Blackburn Rd, Glen Waverley. (03) 9802 8446. GLENFERRIE, 3122. See Hawthorn. GLENROY, 3046. Glenroy Newsagency. 773 Pascoe Vale Rd, Glenroy. (03) 9306 9530. GRANTVILLE, 3984. Grantville Newsagency. Shop 4, 1509 Bass Hwy, Grantville. (03) 5678 8808. GREENSBOROUGH, 3088. Greensborough Newsagency. Shop 4-5 Greensborough. (03) 9435 1024. GREENVALE, 3059. Greenvale Newsagency. Shop 4 & 5, Cnr Mickleham & Greenvale Rds, Greenvale. (03) 9333 3154. GROVEDALE, 3216. Grovedale Newsagency. 19 Peter St. (03) 5243 1480. HADFIELD, 3046. Hadfield Newsagency. 120 West St, Hadfield. (03) 9306 5007. HAMPTON, 3188. Hampton Newsagency. 345-347 Hampton St, Hampton. (03) 9598 1239. HAMPTON EAST, 3188. Hampton East Newsagency. 412 Bluff Rd, Hampton East.(03) 9555 2821. HAMPTON PARK, 3976. Hampton Park Newsagency. Shop 3, Park Square, Hampton Park. (03) 9799 1609. HASTINGS, 3915. Hastings Newsagency. 56 High St. (03) 5979 1321. HAWTHORN, 3122. Glenferrie Newsagency.669 Burwood Rd, Hawthorn. (03) 9818 2621. HAWTHORN EAST, 3123. Auburn Newsagency. 119 Auburn Rd, Hawthorn East. (03) 9813 4838. HAWTHORN EAST, 3123. Auburn South Newsagency. 289 Auburn Rd, Hawthorn East. (03) 9882 2009.
HAWTHORN WEST, 3122. Hawthorn West Newsagency. 44 Church St, Hawthorn. (03) 9853 6098. HEALESVILLE, 3777. Healesville Newsagency. (03) 5962 4161. HEIDELBERG, 3084. Heidelberg Newsagency. 128 Burgundy St, Heidelberg. (03) 9457 1098. HEIDELBERG WEST, 3081. Heidelberg Heights Newsagency. 35 Southern Rd, Heidelberg West. (03) 9457 2063. HEIDELBERG WEST, 3081. The Mall Newsagency. Shop 18, Heidelberg West. (03) 9457 4244. HIGHETT, 3190. Highett Newsagency. 2 Railway Pde, Highett. (03) 9555 1010. HIGHTON, 3216. Highton Newsagency. 7 Bellevue Ave. (03) 5243 4824, HOPPERS CROSSING, 3030. Hoppers Crossing Newsagency. 31 Old Geelong Rd, Hoppers Crossing. (03) 9749 2652, HUNTINGDALE, 3166. Huntingdale Newsagency. 291 Huntingdale Rd, Huntingdale. (03) 9544 1175. HURSTBRIDGE, 3099. Hurstbridge Newsagency. 800 Main Rd. (03) 9718 2045. IVANHOE, 3079. NewsXPress. 194-196 Upper Heidelberg Rd, Ivanhoe. (03) 9499 1231. IVANHOE EAST, 3079. East Ivanhoe Newsagency. 262 Lower Heidelberg Rd, Ivanhoe East. (03) 9499 1720. KEILOR, 3036. Centreway Newsagency. 59 Wyong St, Keilor East, 3033. (03) 9336 2451. KEILOR, 3036. Keilor Newsagency. 700 Calder Hwy, Keilor. (03) 9336 7930. KEILOR DOWNS, 3038. Keilor Downs Newsagency. Shop 3, Keilor Downs Plaza, Keilor Downs. (03) 9310 9955. KEW, 3101. Cotham Newsagency. 97 Cotham Rd, Kew. (03) 9817 3840. KEW, 3101. Kew Newsagency. 175 High St, Kew. (03) 9853 8238. KEW NORTH, 3101. North Kew Newsagency. 93 Willsemere Rd, Kew. (03) 9853 9383. KEYSBOROUGH, 3173. Parkmore Newsagency. Parkmore Shopping Centre, Kensington. (03) 9798 4311. KILMORE, 3764. Kilmore Newsagency. 41 Sydney St. (03) 5782 1465. KILSYTH, 3137. Kilsyth Newsagency. 520 Mt Dandenong Rd. (03) 9725 6218. KINGSVILLE, 3012. See Footscray West. KNOX CITY. See Wantirna South KNOXFIELD, 3180. Knoxfield Newsagency. (03) 9764 8260. KOO-WEE-RUP, 3981. Koo Wee Rup Newsagency. 44-48 Station St, Koo Wee Rup. (03) 5997 1456. LALOR, 3075. Lalor Newsagency. 364 Station St, Lalor. (03) 9465 2698. LARA, 3212. Lara Newsagency. 44 The Centreway, Lara. (03) 5282 1419. LAVERTON, 3028. Laverton Newsagency. 12 Aviation Rd, Laverton. (03) 9369 1426. LEOPOLD, 3028. Leopold Newsagency. 45 Ash Rd, Leopold. (03) 5250 1687. LILYDALE, 3140. Lilydale Newsagency. 237 Main St. (03) 9735 1705. LOWER PLENTY, 3093. Lower Plenty Newsagency. 95 Main Rd. (03) 9435 6423. LOWER TEMPLESTOWE, 3107. See Templestowe Lower. MALVERN, 3144. Malvern Newsagency. 114 Glenferrie Rd, Malvern. (03) 9509 8381. MALVERN, 3144. Malvern Village Newsagency. 1352 Malvern Rd, Malvern. (03) 9822 3761. MALVERN, 3144. Winterglen Newsagency Malvern Lotto. 167 Glenferrie Rd, Malvern. (03) 9509 9068. MALVERN EAST, 3145. Central Park Newsagency. 393 Wattletree Rd, Malvern East. (03) 9509 9842. McCRAE, 3938. McCrae Newsagency, 675 Point Nepean Rd. (03) 5986 8499. McKINNON, 3204. McKinnon Newsagency. 148 McKinnon Rd, McKinnon. (03) 9578 4478. MELBOURNE, 3000. Mitty's Newsagency. 53 Bourke St, Melbourne. (03) 9654 5950. MELTON, 3337. Melton Authorised Newsagency. 383-385 High St, Melton. (03) 9743 5451. MELTON, 3337. NewsXPress. (03) 9743 5451. MENTONE, 3194. Mentone Newsagency. 24 Como Pde, Mentone. (03) 9585 3494. MERLYNSTON, 3058. Merlynston Newsagency. (03) 9354 1532. MIDDLE BRIGHTON, 3186. Middle Brighton Newsagency. 75-77 Church St, Middle Brighton. (03) 9592 1000. MIDDLE PARK, 3206. Middle Park Newsagency. 16 Armstrong St, Middle Park. MILDURA, 3500. Klemm's Mildura Newsagency. (03) 5302 1004. MILL PARK, 3082. Mill Park Authorised Newsagency. Stables Shopping Centre, Cnr Childs Rd & Redleap Ave, Mill Park. (03) 9436 4400. MITCHAM, 3132. Mitcham Newsagency. 503 Whitehorse Rd, Mitcham. (03) 9873 1108. MOE, 3825. Yeatman's Newsagency. 3A Moore St, Moe. (03) 5127 1002. MONT ALBERT., 3127. Mont Albert Newsagency. 42 Hamilton St, Mont Albert. (03) 9890 1140. MONTMORENCY, 3094. Montmorency Newsagency. 41-43 Were St. (03) 9435 8893. MONTROSE, 3765. Montrose Newsagency. 912 Mt Dandenong Rd. (03) 9728 2057. MOONEE PONDS, 3039. Puckle Street Newsagency. 45 Puckle St, Moonee Ponds. (03) 9375 2264. MORDIALLOC, 3195. Mordialloc Newsagency. 574A Main St, Mordialloc. (03) 9580 5141. MORDIALLOC, 3195. Warren Village Newsagency. 87 Warren Rd. (03) 9580 3880. MORELAND, 3056. See Brunswick. MORNINGTON, 3931. Mornington Newsagency. 97 Main St, Mornington. (03) 5975 2099. MORNINGTON, 3931. Scribes Newsagency. Shop 1/10, Mornington Village, Mornington. (03) 5975 5849.
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Observer Classic Books From Page 22 ing about, with his hair blown all manner of wild ways, rather crazedly taking leave of his plunderers, all the rigging in the docks was shrill in the wind, and every little steamer coming and going across the Mersey was sharp in its blowing off, and every buoy in the river bobbed spitefully up and down, as if there were a general taunting chorus of ‘Come along, Mercantile Jack! Ill-lodged, ill-fed, ill-used, hocussed, entrapped, anticipated, cleaned out. Come along, Poor Mercantile Jack, and be tempest-tossed till you are drowned!’ The uncommercial transaction which had brought me and Jack together, was this:— I had entered the Liverpool police force, that I might have a look at the various unlawful traps which are every night set for Jack. As my term of service in that distinguished corps was short, and as my personal bias in the capacity of one of its members has ceased, no suspicion will attach to my evidence that it is an admirable force. Besides that it is composed, without favour, of the best men that can be picked, it is directed by an unusual intelligence. Its organisation against Fires, I take to be much better than the metropolitan system, and in all respects it tempers its remarkable vigilance with a still more remarkable discretion. Jack had knocked off work in the docks some hours, and I had taken, for purposes of identification, a photograph-likeness of a thief, in the portrait-room at our head police office (on the whole, he seemed rather complimented by the proceeding), and I had been on police parade, and the small hand of the clock was moving on to ten, when I took up my lantern to follow Mr. Superintendent to the traps that were set for Jack. In Mr. Superintendent I saw, as anybody might, a tall, well-looking, well-set-up man of a soldierly bearing, with a cavalry air, a good chest, and a resolute but not by any means ungentle face. He carried in his hand a plain black walking-stick of hard wood; and whenever and wherever, at any after-time of the night, he struck it on the pavement with a ringing sound, it instantly produced a whistle out of the darkness, and a policeman. To this remarkable stick, I refer an air of mystery and magic which pervaded the whole of my perquisition among the traps that were set for Jack. We began by diving into the obscurest streets and lanes of the port. Suddenly pausing in a flow of cheerful discourse, before a dead wall, apparently some ten miles long, Mr. Superintendent struck upon the ground, and the wall opened and shot out, with military salute of hand to temple, two policemen — not in the least surprised themselves, not in the least surprising Mr. Superintendent. ‘All right, Sharpeye?’ ‘All right, sir.’ ‘All right, Trampfoot?’ ‘All right, sir.’ ‘Is Quickear there?’ ‘Here am I, sir.’ ‘Come with us.’ ‘Yes, sir.’ So, Sharpeye went before, and Mr. Superintendent and I went next, and Trampfoot and Quickear marched as rear-guard. Sharp-eye, I soon had occasion to remark, had a skilful and quite professional way of opening doors — touched latches delicately, as if they were keys of musical instruments — opened every door he touched, as if he were perfectly confident that there was stolen property behind it — instantly insinuated himself, to prevent its being shut. Sharpeye opened several doors of traps that were set for Jack, but Jack did not happen to be in any of them. They were all such miserable places that really, Jack, if I were you, I would give them a wider berth. In every trap, somebody was sitting over a fire, waiting for Jack. Now, it was a crouching old woman, like the picture of the Norwood Gipsy in the old sixpenny dream-books; now, it was a crimp of the male sex, in a checked shirt and without a coat, reading a newspaper; now, it was a man crimp and a woman crimp, who always introduced themselves as united in holy matrimony; now, it was Jack’s delight, his (un)lovely Nan; but they were all waiting for Jack, and were all frightfully disappointed to see us. ‘Who have you got up-stairs here?’ says Sharpeye, generally. (In the Move-on tone.) ‘Nobody, surr; sure not a blessed sowl!’ (Irish feminine reply.) ‘What do you mean by nobody? Didn’t I hear a woman’s step go up-stairs when my hand was
on the latch?’ ‘Ah! sure thin you’re right, surr, I forgot her! ’Tis on’y Betsy White, surr. Ah! you know Betsy, surr. Come down, Betsy darlin’, and say the gintlemin.’ Generally, Betsy looks over the banisters (the steep staircase is in the room) with a forcible expression in her protesting face, of an intention to compensate herself for the present trial by grinding Jack finer than usual when he does come. Generally, Sharpeye turns to Mr. Superintendent, and says, as if the subjects of his remarks were wax-work: ‘One of the worst, sir, this house is. This woman has been indicted three times. This man’s a regular bad one likewise. His real name is Pegg. Gives himself out as Waterhouse.’ ‘Never had sitch a name as Pegg near me back, thin, since I was in this house, bee the good Lard!’ says the woman. Generally, the man says nothing at all, but becomes exceedingly round-shouldered, and pretends to read his paper with rapt attention. Generally, Sharpeye directs our observation with a look, to the prints and pictures that are invariably numerous on the walls. Always, Trampfoot and Quickear are taking notice on the doorstep. In default of Sharpeye being acquainted with the exact individuality of any gentleman encountered, one of these two is sure to proclaim from the outer air, like a gruff spectre, that Jackson is not Jackson, but knows himself to be Fogle; or that Canlon is Walker’s brother, against whom there was not sufficient evidence; or that the man who says he never was at sea since he was a boy, came ashore from a voyage last Thursday, or sails tomorrow morning. ‘And that is a bad class of man, you see,’ says Mr. Superintendent, when he got out into the dark again, ‘and very difficult to deal with, who, when he has made this place too hot to hold him, enters himself for a voyage as steward or cook, and is out of knowledge for months, and then turns up again worse than ever.’ When we had gone into many such houses, and had come out (always leaving everybody relapsing into waiting for Jack), we started off to a singing-house where Jack was expected to muster strong. The vocalisation was taking place in a long low room up-stairs; at one end, an orchestra of two performers, and a small platform; across the room, a series of open pews for Jack, with an aisle down the middle; at the other end a larger pew than the rest, entitled SNUG, and reserved for mates and similar good company. About the room, some amazing coffee-coloured pictures varnished an inch deep, and some stuffed creatures in cases; dotted among the audience, in Sung and out of Snug, the ‘Professionals;’ among them, the celebrated comic favourite Mr. Banjo Bones, looking very hideous with his blackened face and limp sugar-loaf hat; beside him, sipping rum-and-water, Mrs. Banjo Bones, in her natural colours — a little heightened. It was a Friday night, and Friday night was considered not a good night for Jack. At any rate, Jack did not show in very great force even here, though the house was one to which he much resorts, and where a good deal of money is taken. There was British Jack, a little maudlin and sleepy, lolling over his empty glass, as if he were trying to read his fortune at the bottom; there was Loafing Jack of the Stars and Stripes, rather an unpromising customer, with his long nose, lank cheek, high cheek-bones, and nothing soft about him but his cabbage-leaf hat; there was Spanish Jack, with curls of black hair, rings in his ears, and a knife not far from his hand, if you got into trouble with him; there were Maltese Jack, and Jack of Sweden, and Jack the Finn, looming through the smoke of their pipes, and turning faces that looked as if they were carved out of dark wood, towards the young lady dancing the hornpipe: who found the platform so exceedingly small for it, that I had a nervous expectation of seeing her, in the backward steps, disappear through the window. Still, if all hands had been got together, they would not have more than half-filled the room. Observe, however, said Mr. Licensed Victualler, the host, that it was Friday night, and, besides, it was getting on for twelve, and Jack had gone aboard. A sharp and watchful man, Mr. Licensed Victualler, the host, with tight lips and a complete edition of Cocker’s arithmetic in each eye. Attended to his business himself, he said. Always on the spot. When he heard of talent, trusted nobody’s account of it, but went off by rail to see it. If true talent, engaged it. Pounds a week for talent — four pound
— five pound. Banjo Bones was undoubted talent. Hear this instrument that was going to play — it was real talent! In truth it was very good; a kind of piano-accordion, played by a young girl of a delicate prettiness of face, figure, and dress, that made the audience look coarser. She sang to the instrument, too; first, a song about village bells, and how they chimed; then a song about how I went to sea; winding up with an imitation of the bagpipes, which Mercantile Jack seemed to understand much the best. A good girl, said Mr. Licensed Victualler. Kept herself select. Sat in Snug, not listening to the blandishments of Mates. Lived with mother. Father dead. Once a merchant well to do, but over-speculated himself. On delicate inquiry as to salary paid for item of talent under consideration, Mr. Victualler’s pounds dropped suddenly to shillings — still it was a very comfortable thing for a young person like that, you know; she only went on six times a night, and was only required to be there from six at night to twelve. What was more conclusive was, Mr. Victualler’s assurance that he ‘never allowed any language, and never suffered any disturbance.’ Sharpeye confirmed the statement, and the order that prevailed was the best proof of it that could have been cited. So, I came to the conclusion that poor Mercantile Jack might do (as I am afraid he does) much worse than trust himself to Mr. Victualler, and pass his evenings here. But we had not yet looked, Mr. Superintendent — said Trampfoot, receiving us in the street again with military salute — for Dark Jack. True, Trampfoot. Ring the wonderful stick, rub the wonderful lantern, and cause the spirits of the stick and lantern to convey us to the Darkies. There was no disappointment in the matter of Dark Jack; HE was producible. The Genii set us down in the little first floor of a little publichouse, and there, in a stiflingly close atmosphere, were Dark Jack, and Dark Jack’s delight, his WHITE unlovely Nan, sitting against the wall all round the room. More than that: Dark Jack’s delight was the least unlovely Nan, both morally and physically, that I saw that night. As a fiddle and tambourine band were sitting among the company, Quickear suggested why not strike up? ‘Ah, la’ads!’ said a negro sitting by the door, ‘gib the jebblem a darnse. Tak’ yah pardlers, jebblem, for ’um QUAD-rill.’ This was the landlord, in a Greek cap, and a dress half Greek and half English. As master of the ceremonies, he called all the figures, and occasionally addressed himself parenthetically — after this manner. When he was very loud, I use capitals. ‘Now den! Hoy! ONE. Right and left. (Put a steam on, gib ’um powder.) LA-dies’ chail. BALloon say. Lemonade! TWO. AD-warnse and go back (gib ’ell a breakdown, shake it out o’ yerselbs, keep a movil). SWING-corners, BALloon say, and Lemonade! (Hoy!) THREE. GENT come for’ard with a lady and go back, hoppersite come for’ard and do what yer can. (Aeiohoy!) BAL-loon say, and leetle lemonade. (Dat hair nigger by ’um fireplace ‘hind a’ time, shake it out o’ yerselbs, gib ’ell a breakdown.) Now den! Hoy! FOUR! Lemonade. BAL-loon say, and swing. FOUR ladies meet in ’um middle, FOUR gents goes round ’um ladies, FOUR gents passes out under ’um ladies’ arms, SWING— and Lemonade till ’a moosic can’t play no more! (Hoy, Hoy!)’ The male dancers were all blacks, and one was an unusually powerful man of six feet three or four. The sound of their flat feet on the floor was as unlike the sound of white feet as their faces were unlike white faces. They toed and heeled, shuffled, double-shuffled, double-doubleshuffled, covered the buckle, and beat the time out, rarely, dancing with a great show of teeth, and with a childish good-humoured enjoyment that was very prepossessing. They generally kept together, these poor fellows, said Mr. Superintendent, because they were at a disadvantage singly, and liable to slights in the neighbouring streets. But, if I were Light Jack, I should be very slow to interfere oppressively with Dark Jack, for, whenever I have had to do with him I have found him a simple and a gentle fellow. Bearing this in mind, I asked his friendly permission to leave him restoration of beer, in wishing him good night, and thus it fell out that the last words I heard him say as I blundered down the worn stairs, were, ‘Jebblem’s elth! Ladies drinks fust!’ The night was now well on into the morning, but, for miles and hours we explored a strange world, where nobody ever goes to bed, but ev-
erybody is eternally sitting up, waiting for Jack. This exploration was among a labyrinth of dismal courts and blind alleys, called Entries, kept in wonderful order by the police, and in much better order than by the corporation: the want of gaslight in the most dangerous and infamous of these places being quite unworthy of so spirited a town. I need describe but two or three of the houses in which Jack was waited for as specimens of the rest. Many we attained by noisome passages so profoundly dark that we felt our way with our hands. Not one of the whole number we visited, was without its show of prints and ornamental crockery; the quantity of the latter set forth on little shelves and in little cases, in otherwise wretched rooms, indicating that Mercantile Jack must have an extraordinary fondness for crockery, to necessitate so much of that bait in his traps. Among such garniture, in one front parlour in the dead of the night, four women were sitting by a fire. One of them had a male child in her arms. On a stool among them was a swarthy youth with a guitar, who had evidently stopped playing when our footsteps were heard. ‘Well I how do YOU do?’ says Mr. Superintendent, looking about him. ‘Pretty well, sir, and hope you gentlemen are going to treat us ladies, now you have come to see us.’ ‘Order there!’ says Sharpeye. ‘None of that!’ says Quickear. Trampfoot, outside, is heard to confide to himself, ‘Meggisson’s lot this is. And a bad ’un!’ ‘Well!’ says Mr. Superintendent, laying his hand on the shoulder of the swarthy youth, ‘and who’s this?’ ‘Antonio, sir.’ ‘And what does HE do here?’ ‘Come to give us a bit of music. No harm in that, I suppose?’ ‘A young foreign sailor?’ ‘Yes. He’s a Spaniard. You’re a Spaniard, ain’t you, Antonio?’ ‘Me Spanish.’ ‘And he don’t know a word you say, not he; not if you was to talk to him till doomsday.’ (Triumphantly, as if it redounded to the credit of the house.) ‘Will he play something?’ ‘Oh, yes, if you like. Play something, Antonio. YOU ain’t ashamed to play something; are you?’ The cracked guitar raises the feeblest ghost of a tune, and three of the women keep time to it with their heads, and the fourth with the child. If Antonio has brought any money in with him, I am afraid he will never take it out, and it even strikes me that his jacket and guitar may be in a bad way. But, the look of the young man and the tinkling of the instrument so change the place in a moment to a leaf out of Don Quixote, that I wonder where his mule is stabled, until he leaves off. I am bound to acknowledge (as it tends rather to my uncommercial confusion), that I occasioned a difficulty in this establishment, by having taken the child in my arms. For, on my offering to restore it to a ferocious joker not unstimulated by rum, who claimed to be its mother, that unnatural parent put her hands behind her, and declined to accept it; backing into the fireplace, and very shrilly declaring, regardless of remonstrance from her friends, that she knowed it to be Law, that whoever took a child from its mother of his own will, was bound to stick to it. The uncommercial sense of being in a rather ridiculous position with the poor little child beginning to be frightened, was relieved by my worthy friend and fellow-constable, Trampfoot; who, laying hands on the article as if it were a Bottle, passed it on to the nearest woman, and bade her ‘take hold of that.’ As we came out the Bottle was passed to the ferocious joker, and they all sat down as before, including Antonio and the guitar. It was clear that there was no such thing as a nightcap to this baby’s head, and that even he never went to bed, but was always kept up — and would grow up, kept up — waiting for Jack. Later still in the night, we came (by the court ‘where the man was murdered,’ and by the other court across the street, into which his body was dragged) to another parlour in another Entry, where several people were sitting round a fire in just the same way. It was a dirty and offensive place, with some ragged clothes drying in it; but there was a high shelf over the entrancedoor (to be out of the reach of marauding hands, possibly) with two large white loaves on it, and
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Observer Classic Books From Page 39 a great piece of Cheshire cheese. ‘Well!’ says Mr. Superintendent, with a comprehensive look all round. ‘How do YOU do?’ ‘Not much to boast of, sir.’ From the curtseying woman of the house. ‘This is my good man, sir.’ ‘You are not registered as a common Lodging House?’ ‘No, sir.’ Sharpeye (in the Move-on tone) puts in the pertinent inquiry, ‘Then why ain’t you?’ ‘Ain’t got no one here, Mr. Sharpeye,’ rejoin the woman and my good man together, ‘but our own family.’ ‘How many are you in family?’ The woman takes time to count, under pretence of coughing, and adds, as one scant of breath, ‘Seven, sir.’ But she has missed one, so Sharpeye, who knows all about it, says: ‘Here’s a young man here makes eight, who ain’t of your family?’ ‘No, Mr. Sharpeye, he’s a weekly lodger.’ ‘What does he do for a living?’ The young man here, takes the reply upon himself, and shortly answers, ‘Ain’t got nothing to do.’ The young man here, is modestly brooding behind a damp apron pendent from a clothes-line. As I glance at him I become — but I don’t know why — vaguely reminded of Woolwich, Chatham, Portsmouth, and Dover. When we get out, my respected fellow-constable Sharpeye, addressing Mr. Superintendent, says: ‘You noticed that young man, sir, in at Darby’s?’ ‘Yes. What is he?’ ‘Deserter, sir.’ Mr. Sharpeye further intimates that when we have done with his services, he will step back and take that young man. Which in course of time he does: feeling at perfect ease about finding him, and knowing for a moral certainty that nobody in that region will be gone to bed. Later still in the night, we came to another parlour up a step or two from the street, which was very cleanly, neatly, even tastefully, kept, and in which, set forth on a draped chest of drawers masking the staircase, was such a profusion of ornamental crockery, that it would have furnished forth a handsome sale-booth at a fair. It backed up a stout old lady — HOGARTH drew
her exact likeness more than once — and a boy who was carefully writing a copy in a copybook. ‘Well, ma’am, how do YOU do?’ Sweetly, she can assure the dear gentlemen, sweetly. Charmingly, charmingly. And overjoyed to see us! ‘Why, this is a strange time for this boy to be writing his copy. In the middle of the night!’ ‘So it is, dear gentlemen, Heaven bless your welcome faces and send ye prosperous, but he has been to the Play with a young friend for his diversion, and he combinates his improvement with entertainment, by doing his school-writing The copy admonished human nature to subjugate the fire of every fierce desire. One might have thought it recommended stirring the fire, the old lady so approved it. There she sat, rosily beaming at the copy-book and the boy, and invoking showers of blessings on our heads, when we left her in the middle of the night, waiting for Jack. Later still in the night, we came to a nauseous room with an earth floor, into which the refuse scum of an alley trickled. The stench of this habitation was abominable; the seeming poverty of it, diseased and dire. Yet, here again, was visitor or lodger — a man sitting before the fire, like the rest of them elsewhere, and apparently not distasteful to the mistress’s niece, who was also before the fire. The mistress herself had the misfortune of being in jail. Three weird old women of transcendent ghastliness, were at needlework at a table in this room. Says Trampfoot to First Witch, ‘What are you making?’ Says she, ‘Money-bags.’ ‘WHAT are you making?’ retorts Trampfoot, a little off his balance. ‘Bags to hold your money,’ says the witch, shaking her head, and setting her teeth; ‘you as has got it.’ She holds up a common cash-bag, and on the table is a heap of such bags. Witch Two laughs at us. Witch Three scowls at us. Witch sisterhood all, stitch, stitch. First Witch has a circle round each eye. I fancy it like the beginning of the development of a perverted diabolical halo, and that when it spreads all round her head, she will die in the odour of devilry. Trampfoot wishes to be informed what First Witch has got behind the table, down by the side
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of her, there? Witches Two and Three croak angrily, ‘Show him the child!’ She drags out a skinny little arm from a brown dustheap on the ground. Adjured not to disturb the child, she lets it drop again. Thus we find at last that there is one child in the world of Entries who goes to bed — if this be bed. Mr. Superintendent asks how long are they going to work at those bags? How long? First Witch repeats. Going to have supper presently. See the cups and saucers, and the plates. ‘Late? Ay! But we has to ’arn our supper afore we eats it!’ Both the other witches repeat this after First Witch, and take the Uncommercial measurement with their eyes, as for a charmed winding-sheet. Some grim discourse ensues, referring to the mistress of the cave, who will be released from jail to-morrow. Witches pronounce Trampfoot ‘right there,’ when he deems it a trying distance for the old lady to walk; she shall be fetched by niece in a spring-cart. As I took a parting look at First Witch in turning away, the red marks round her eyes seemed to have already grown larger, and she hungrily and thirstily looked out beyond me into the dark doorway, to see if Jack was there. For, Jack came even here, and the mistress had got into jail through deluding Jack. When I at last ended this night of travel and got to bed, I failed to keep my mind on comfortable thoughts of Seaman’s Homes (not overdone with strictness), and improved dock regulations giving Jack greater benefit of fire and candle aboard ship, through my mind’s wandering among the vermin I had seen. Afterwards the same vermin ran all over my sleep. Evermore, when on a breezy day I see Poor Mercantile Jack running into port with a fair wind under all sail, I shall think of the unsleeping host of devourers who never go to bed, and are always in their set traps waiting for him. Chapter 6 REFRESHMENTS FOR TRAVELLERS In the late high winds I was blown to a great many places — and indeed, wind or no wind, I generally have extensive transactions on hand in the article of Air — but I have not been blown to any English place lately, and I very seldom have blown to any English place in my life, where
I could get anything good to eat and drink in five minutes, or where, if I sought it, I was received with a welcome. This is a curious thing to consider. But before (stimulated by my own experiences and the representations of many fellow-travellers of every uncommercial and commercial degree) I consider it further, I must utter a passing word of wonder concerning high winds. I wonder why metropolitan gales always blow so hard at Walworth. I cannot imagine what Walworth has done, to bring such windy punishment upon itself, as I never fail to find recorded in the newspapers when the wind has blown at all hard. Brixton seems to have something on its conscience; Peckham suffers more than a virtuous Peckham might be supposed to deserve; the howling neighbourhood of Deptford figures largely in the accounts of the ingenious gentlemen who are out in every wind that blows, and to whom it is an ill high wind that blows no good; but, there can hardly be any Walworth left by this time. It must surely be blown away. I have read of more chimney-stacks and house-copings coming down with terrific smashes at Walworth, and of more sacred edifices being nearly (not quite) blown out to sea from the same accursed locality, than I have read of practised thieves with the appearance and manners of gentlemen — a popular phenomenon which never existed on earth out of fiction and a police report. Again: I wonder why people are always blown into the Surrey Canal, and into no other piece of water! Why do people get up early and go out in groups, to be blown into the Surrey Canal? Do they say to one another, ‘Welcome death, so that we get into the newspapers’? Even that would be an insufficient explanation, because even then they might sometimes put themselves in the way of being blown into the Regent’s Canal, instead of always saddling Surrey for the field. Some nameless policeman, too, is constantly, on the slightest provocation, getting himself blown into this same Surrey Canal. Will SIR RICHARD MAYNE see to it, and restrain that weakminded and feeble-bodied constable? To Be Continued Next Issue
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● Lamine Sonko. Photo: Leah Healy. ■ Each year a massive logistical and musical challenge is thrown at an artistic director and a choir leader: bring together 300 passionate singers from across Victoria, plus world musicians and dancers, and put on a one-off, roof lifting concert at Hamer Hall that celebrates peace, love and understanding. This year the project was One Africa, a celebration of African music from ancient songs to contemporary fusion, under the direction of Senegal-born Lamine Sonko and choir director Andrea Khoza. Australia has a culturally strong African community and its credentials were on display at this performance. Beginning with a lament for the men and women who have called for unity among Africans and paid with their lives, Mama Africa written by Sonko, set the scene for the afternoon: percussive guitar and subtle drumming that slowly built to the majesty of the massed choir. Traditional and contemporary works followed. The spirit of Feta Kuti, Hugh Masakala, Mano Dibango and all the South African jazz musicians who got the special attention of the security forces through the apartheid years, filled the hall. Apoem read by Zimbabwe-born Tariro Mavondo called Shelter, dealing with the contemporary crisis of people misplaced by war and poverty, showcased the breadth and depth of talent on the stage. A slow-burning fuse lit by guitarist Kumar Shome, bassist Zvi Bellibg, keyboard player Romy Hernandez Carbo and percussionist Julius Sackey, passed to the choir, who took over the work with confidence and great expectations. Shelter was written by Sonko and partner Olive Moynihan. Sonko and Mavonda now call Australia home, as do the Burundi Drummers, theAsanti Dance Theatre, singer King Bell, Amanda Suso (kora), Mouad Benjoad (guitar), Yacou Mbaye (djembe and tama) and Kofi Kunkpe (percussion). These players are in demand on the Australian music festival circuit. This was a joyful afternoon. The voices of 300 Australians raised harmoniously against the ancient rhythms of the cradle of mankind. And as British singer-songwriter Nick Lowe asked in his much-covered 1974 song: “What’s so funny about peace, love and understanding?”! - Review by Martin Curtis
By CHERYL THREADGOLD
● Young Australian Broadway Chorus performers 16year-old Jasmine Arthur (Jasmine); Lachlan Wolters, 17, (Prince Eric), and Rishab Shrivastav, 15, as Sebastian Crab in Disney’s The Little Mermaid Jr. The Young Australian Broadway Chorus is presenting Disney’s The Little Mermaid Jr live on stage from September 30 to October 3 at Union House, Melbourne University. ■ Fresh off the back of a their sell-out season of Disney Aladdin Jr, the Young Australian Broadway Chorus invites you to journey "under the sea" with Ariel and her aquatic friends. More than 80 talented young performers will bring the tale of Disney’s animated film The Little Mermaid to life in a glamorous stage production to appeal to all ages. Set in an underwater kingdom, the beautiful young mermaid Ariel longs to leave her ocean home and her fins behind to explore the world above. But first she needs to defy her father, King Triton, make a deal with the evil sea witch Ursula and convince the handsome Prince Eric that she’s the girl whose enchanting voice he had been seeking. Flowing between land and seas, the Young Australian Broadway Chorus production brings these glittering locations to life for young audiences and families. The Young Australian Broadway Chorus Artistic Director Robert Coates says: “We can’t wait to get back into the Union Theatre to present Disney’s The Little Mermaid Jr.” “This show contains all of the ingredients of a classic Broadway musical – great songs, spectacular production numbers, plucky heroine, wacky sidekick, evil villain – all wrapped up in a one-hour family-friendly production.” The cast includes talented singers, dancers and actors aged from 10-17, including some entertainment industry professionals who have appeared in feature films and television shows. The chorus have previously performed in sell-out seasons of Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz, as well as performing in iconic venues including Disneyland, Universal Studios, New York’s Lincoln Centre and more. Performances: Wed. Sept. 30 at 11 am and 2pm; Thurs. Oct. 1 at 2pm and 7:30pm; Fri. Oct. 2 at 2pm and 7:30pm; Sat. Oct 3 at 2pm and 5pm Venue: Union House Theatre ,University of Melbourne, Parkville Bookings: thelittlemermaid.com.au
Malthouse launch
● Malthouse Theatre Artistic Director Matthew Lutton. Photo: Andrew Gough ■ There was a buzz at the Malthouse for the 2016 season launch - and the buzz was about “provocation”. Think Again, the season’s mantra, sets the scene for a year of provocative, engaging, challenging and thoughtprovoking theatre that promises to excel in artistic innovation. Artistic Director Matthew Lutton’s message was loud and clear – season 2016 will ignite discussion and “keep you thinking”. The season focuses on themes of sex, death and rites of passage, and includes 11 main stage events and seven special events. The works draw on artistic talent from across Australia and abroad with a number of exciting collaborations. Gonzo, in partnership with St Martin’s, will explore the relationship between young boys and pornography. Six teenagers will talk about what they watch, how often and why. Recommended for ages 18+, it’s sure to make you contemplate the issue from a different perspective. Teaming with the Melbourne Festival, Gob Squad’s War and Peace (around the kitchen table) will bring an innovative mix of film footage and theatre. More “provocation” is promised in season opener Little Mermaid featuring cabaret siren Meow Meow, who will perform her very “un-Disney” version of Hans Christian Andersen’s classic tale. Tom Wright’s chilling adaptation of Picnic at Hanging Rock directed by Matthew Lutton, is set to intrigue as five performers attempt to solve the mystery - and no, there won’t be a large rock on set or pan flutes. Other unmissable pieces include The Glass Menagerie starring Pamela Rabe, Jonny Donahoe’s tale Every Brilliant Thing, and The Events, a play by David Greig written in response to the 2011 Norwegian massacre. This harrowing story set in the aftermath of a massacre during choir rehearsals features Catherine McClements as the priest distraught with grief and anger in search of why this horrific event took place. For a complete run down of what’s on offer visit malthousetheatre.com.au - Beth Klein
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Country Crossroads info@country crossroads.com.au Rob Foenander
New CD from Gary ■ Together With Pleasure is the new album from Narre Warren singer and music veteran Gary Ellis. The country-flavoured album just oozes with great songs and includes duets with singing sensation Jennifer Anderson. Jen's inclusion brings a new dimension to Gary's work with them combining beautifully in some classic timeless songs. Jen features as a solo artist on the album too and also interprets some wonderful evergreen songs. For more info, contact Gary, 9705 7555.
Kevin in Melbourne ■ Australia's award-winning and internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter Kevin Johnson will appear at the Palms at Crown on Saturday (Sept. 12). Along with his band, Kevin will be performing songs from his Ultimate Collection CD including Rock And Roll I Gave You, Bonnie Please Don't Go, Man of the 20th Century, Shaney Boy and other timeless hits. Joining Kevin on the show will be his son Scott Johnson who is an actor and played the role of Tommy De Vito in the Australian production of The Jersey Boys. Also appearing will be Verity Hunt-Ballard who worked in Sweet Charity and Mary Poppins. Tickets at Ticketmaster orCrown.
Debut for Helen ■ Local artist Helen Ryder will release her debut album Someday Love with the launch taking place at The Toff in Town, 2/252 Curtin Place, Melbourne, on Sunday (Sept. 13) at 7.30 pm. Pre-sale tix $15.00 Proving that she's equally at home interpreting pop, country, soul, blues, gospel and jazz, she's chosen 11 of her favourite tracks for Someday Love. More info at www.helenryder.com - Rob Foenander ■ Some 4458 listeners are tuning in weekly to Melbourne community station, Golden Days Radio. Average listening time is 166 minutes. Of international listeners, the most come from the United States, UK and China, says Station Manager Alex Hehr.
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Wednesday Thursday Sept. 10 Sept. 9
■ Colonel Harland Sanders of KFC fame was born in 1890. He died aged 90 in 1980. Former Australian Prime Minister John Gorton was born in Melbourne in 1911. He died aged 90 in 2002. Actor High Grant was born in London in 1960 (55). He dated Liz Hurley until 2000.
■ Australian musician Peter Robinson was born in Brunswick in 1942 (73). Actress Lynda Stoner was born in Adelaide in 1953 (62). English director Guy Ritchie is 47. He was married to Madonna. UK singer Siobhan Fahey is 56 (1959).
● Fr Gerard Dowling ■ Radio Sport National (formerly 3UZ) broadcaster Fr Gerard Dowling this week notched up a station record. His Family Counsellor program on Sunday (Sept. 6) became the longest-running program on the station, breaking the 43-year record previously held by John McMahon with Radio Auditions.
Award nominations
■ Eddie McGuire and his Hot Breakfast team at Triple M Melbourne are amongst those named for the best Metro FM team to be announced at the Commercial Radio Awards on October 10. Other FM teams nominated include Kate, Tim and Marty on Nova; and Fifi and Dave on Hit Fox 101.9 Melbourne. In the Metro AM arena, 3AW breakfast team Ross Stevenson and John Burns will compete against four other teams including 3AW Nightline and Remember When with Bruce Mansfield and Philip Brady. Neil Mitchell and Tom Elliott are nominated for Best Talk Presenter, as is Mitchell’s former producer, Justin Smith, now at Sydney station 2UE. Mitchell and Elliott will also compete for the Best Current Affairs presenter gong. Shane McInnes and Tim Lane are nominated as Best Sports Presenter.
Income up
LOCAL THEATRE
■ Pacific Star Network, operators of SEN and 3MP, has increased its revenue from $15 million to $20.8 million. Some $14.3 million income comes from radio activities, with $6.2 million from publishing. An underlying earnings figure of $2./7 million, but there was a $1.3 million significant asset acquisition of Morrison Media magazines. Publishing interests include Frankie, Smith Journal, Surfing Life, White Horses, Slow and Inside Football. The company organised a $7 million loan with the Commonwealth Bank.
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In Brief
■ The Gippsland Christian Broadcasters Board is seeking someone "with a call from God and a vision for Christian radio", to fill the position of a General Manager to continue Life Changing Radio at Life FM. The station also wishes to appoint a Sales Contractor. ■ The River at Albury, part of Southern Cross Austereo, is looking to appoint an Announcer/Content Director. ■ 3MBS-FM, Melbourne’s fine music station, will soon announce its 2016 marathon. ■ 3AW/Magic 1278’s Mike Brady is about to embark on his busy September calendar of performing Up There Cazaly at many football events.
Radio film
■ Marxist Cowboys, a film about the Labor College's Labor Review, a communist magazine, will be screened at 3CR’s meeting room, 21 Smith St, Fitzroy, at 7pm on Monday, October 5. The magazine was, sponsored by big business.
● Andi Snelling ■ Andi Snelling takes to the Melbourne Fringe Festival stage this September in her self-penned solo debut, #DearDiary. Unwittingly written over more than 20 years, this cabaretinfused romp is full of honesty and self-quoting satire. In a forgotten suitcase sits a lifetime of secret observations obsessively documented. 5000 pages never before read. Dating from 1992, this soul-baring catalogue exposes our endless search for identity. Audiences will travel on this existential joyride, plucked directly from the diaries of a child, a teenager and an adult with one thing in common… Andi Snelling is an accomplished actor and improviser with a diverse, international career. She has been on stage her entire life, having grown up as a dancer competing at national level. She trained at London’s prestigious Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts and performed in Europe for seven years, including in London’s West End, and for the BBC. Now back to her Melbourne roots, Andi is ready to unpack her suitcase and sing her heart out on The Butterfly Club stage. For more on Andi visit www.andisnelling.com Andi will also be running a Lost Diary treasure hunt in The Butterfly Club and surrounding streets. There will be 24 hand-crafted diaries representing the 24 years she has been keeping a diary. Finders keepers. Keep your eyes peeled in the CBD during the week leading up to the show opening. Performances: September 22-27 Times: 5pm Tues, Wed-Sun at 7pm (50 minutes duration) Venue: The Butterfly Club Upstairs, Carson Place, off Lt Collins St. Tickets: $28 full, $20 preview, $25 concession and groups (6+) Bookings: www.thebutterflyclub.com and 9663 8107 - Cheryl Threadgold Melbourne
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Saturday Sept. 12
■ English singer and actress Julie Covington was born in London in 1947 (68). US singer and actor Harry Connick Jnr was born in 1967 (48). Footballer Bruce Doull was born in 1950 (65). US actress Amy Madigan was born in 1951 (64).
■ S i n g e r- s o n g w r i t e r Barry White was born in 1944. He died aged 58 in 2003. English actress Rachel Ward was born in Oxfordshire, England in 1957 (58). French singer/actor Maurice Chevalier was born in Paris in 1888. He died aged 83 in 1972.
Sunday Sept. 13 ■ US jazz singer Mel Torme was born in Illinois in 1925. He died aged 73 in 1999. English-born USresident-actress Jacqueline Bisset was born in 1944 (71). TV newsreader Marie-Louise Thiele was born in 1965 US sprinter Michael Johnson is 48 (1967).
Monday Sept. 14
■ New Zealand actor Sam Neill was born in Northern Ireland in 1947 (68). US actress Mary Crosby, daughter of Bing, was born in 1959 (56). Australian singer Wes Carr is 33 (1982) The late Amy Winehouse was born in 1983. She died in 2011 at the age of 27.
Tuesday Sept. 15 ■ Dame Agatha Christie, author, was born in Torquay, England, in 1890. She died aged 85 in 1976. US actor Jackie Cooper was born in Los Angeles in 1922. He died aged 88 in 2011. Rev. Fred Nile is 81. Prince Harry (Henry Charles Albert David Windsor) is 31.
Thanks to GREG NEWMAN of Jocks Journal for assistance with birthday and anniversary dates. Jocks Journal is Australia’s longest running radio industry publication. Find out more at www.jocksjournal.com
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Gender issues
● Timothy Ryan wears a tutu in F*#king with Gender. ■ Timothy Christopher Ryan has created “immersive vaudevillian theatre fuelled by humans” in F*#king with Gender at the Melbourne Fringe Festival from September 16-26, to be presented at the Scratch Warehouse, North Melbourne. Performed by David James, Eidann Glover and Timothy Christopher Ryan, F*#king with Gender approaches the highly popular and important topic of gender diversity within Australian society. This show’s aim is not to force an agenda on those who are unaware of the topic, but instead to play with gender and its ridiculous confines. The performance tackles these issues with comedy, performance art, song, dance and fun. The audience meets the characters intimately and learn the basic humanity within each, they work with the characters to alter aspects of the show and leave their mark before being treated to a sharp and wild vaudeville spectacle. The theatre world has always been a comfortable place for people within a culture to experiment with gender and sexual diversity, and F*#king With Gender has been created to give audiences an opportunity to go backstage at the theatre. Audiences will be invited to create the scenery, do the drag queen’s make up and become professional dancers. It’s this interaction that the show starts with and allows the audience to feel at home straight away by personally meeting one of the unique characters. Performed by Federation University acting and musical theatre graduates, David James and Eidann Glover, and created and performed by acting and honours graduate Timothy Christopher Ryan, this performance aims to represent the large diversity that exists within our gender diverse culture. With a female playing a male dressed as a drag queen, a butch stage manager discovering an inner gay desire and a bearded, hairy chested, glitter loving man in a skirt, they have all bases covered. Performance Season: September 16-17, September 21-24 at 7.40pm, September 18-19, September 25-26 at 10pm Venue: Scratch Warehouse, 271-273 Macaulay Rd, North Melbourne Bookings: www.melbournefringe.com.au - Cheryl Threadgold
Showbiz Briefs
■ Australians are watching more than six hours less television than they were a year ago. ■ Troubled former radio announcer Dene Broadbelt, 22, says he intends to relocate overseas, following his bankruptcy and the admission of “ripping off” various companies. ■ Australian expat film man Rod hardy has been working on the movie set for The Librarians in Portland, Ohio, USA. ■ Melbourne actress Christie Whelan-Browne was eating a meal at a Shepparton restaurant at the weekend, and a homeless man pulled up a chair and started eating some food from her plate. ■ Streaming services such as Netflix and Stan mean video piracy is decreasing, sources say.
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It’s all in Limbo
● Elyas Khan (back left), Mikael Bres, Evelyne Allard, Danik Abishev, Hilton Denis and Eamon McNelis. Heather Holliday (front, seated), Tigris (on floor) and Mick Stuart in Limbo. ■ Strut and Fret in association with man contortionist Tigris, Canadian acMelbourne Festival presents Limbo, the robat Evelyne Allard, alongside record-breaking, award-winning show Australia’s tap-dancing sensation Hilton making its local debut, performing in a Denis and hand balancer Danik Abishev. 1920s themed Spiegeltent alongside the Performances: October 9 – NovemFoxtel Festival Hub. ber 1 (no shows Monday) This dirty and dangerous circus-cabaTimes: Tues.-Sat. at 8pm, Sat. also at ret directed by Scott Maidment has se- 3pm, Sun. at 7pm. duced audiences worldwide. Duration: 1 hr 15 minutes, no interWith a stellar Australian and interna- val. tional cast, Limbo whisks audiences into Venue: Spiegeltent, adjacent to the a sinister netherworld of jaw-dropping Foxtel Festival Hub contortion, aerial acrobatics, stunts and Tickets: Premium $69 AReserve $59, illusions. $52 Standing $35 Transaction fees may See Coney Island’s fire-breathing, apply sword-swallowing Heather Holliday, Bookings: www.festival.melbourne Europe’s gravity-defying Chinese pole Ticketmaster 136 100 master and beat boxer Mikael Bres, Ger- Cheryl Threadgold
Dark and hilarious ■ For those who remember the joy of repeatedly watching Labyrinth on VHS, or the mix of fear and love sparked by Dark Crystal, or stifling shrieks of excitement when watching trailers for the latest Muppets movie, this Melbourne Fringe show aims to connect with your inner child with the all original puppet musical, The Point Of Light. When the eternally cynical town of Jonham is cursed, Gerda, our bright and spirited heroine, must go on a fantastical journey to save the life of her husband. The mystical world unfolds to reveal quirky and bizarre characters, friends, foes, unconventional puppets, obstacles and stunning original music, all created by Impromptunes member and Victorian College of theArtsgraduate,Amberly Cull. Using cunning resourcefulness and an infectious imagination, Cull has crafted a wide range of one-of-a-kind puppets. Using these puppets, Cull invites her audience to explore a world filled with mythology with a wit that will keep everyone laughing through their journeys. Cull is joined on stage by fellow Impromptunes member Greg Lavell on piano. The score is reminiscent of the best ofDisney, with a peppering of Pan’sLabyrinth and a hint of the Ocarina of Time. The Point of Light is a magical, rich, dark hour which will transport audiences to a place that is nostalgic and familiar, while inviting lots of imagination. Situated perfectly in the intimate surroundings of The Butterfly Club, seats are limited.
Review: The Birds
● Elnaz Sheshgelani in The Birds Conference. ■ Elnaz Sheshgelani has been involved with La Mama Theatre since 2008, performing many critically acclaimed plays under the direction of Lloyd Jones. In The Birds’ Conference, the Tehran-born puppeteer, puppet maker, set designer, script writer and illustrator uses her knowledge of the ancient Persian story-telling form, Naghali, to bring this ancient piece of Persian wisdom to life through song, movement and mime. In the 12th century poem of the same name by Farid Ud-Din Attar, the birds of the world gather to decide who is to be their king. The hoopoe, the wisest of them all, suggests that they should find the legendary Simorgh, a mythical Persian bird roughly equivalent to the western phoenix. A demanding and dramatic journey follows in which many of the birds fall. Llike humans they have faults which prevent them from reaching enlightenment. When the group of thirty birds finally reaches the dwelling place of the Simorgh, all they find is a lake in which they see their own reflection. Performed in Farsi, the performance is ably assisted by experimental music maker Clinton Green and visual artist Simon Fisher. Sheshgelani’s energetic performance transcends the language barrier, taking the audience into an ancient and privileged place in Persian culture. The work was first introduced to modern-day audiences when it was taken up by prominent British theatre maker Peter Brook in 1971. Sheshgelani’s version is booked into the Melaka art and performance festival in Malaysia in November. Performance Season: Until September 13 Venue: La Mama Theatre, 205 Faraday St, Carlton Tickets: www/lamama.com.au - Review by Martin Curtis
Media Flashes
● Writer-performer Amberly Cull Performance Dates: September 30 – October 4 Time: 8.30pm Cost: $22-$28 Venue: The Butterfly Club, 5 Carson Place, Melbourne Bookings: www.melbournefringe. com.au - Cheryl Threadgold
■ ABC Managing Director Mark Scott will take some time off work to support his wife, Briony, who has been diagnosed with lung cancer. ■ Steve Blanda, sometimes heard on Smooth 91.5 FM news bulletins, has just celebrated a 40 year career on Sydney radio. ■ Foxtel says it has has broken its sales record after lower prices and upgraded packaging have enticed new subscribers. ■ Ruce Mansfield, 3AW Nightline and Remember When co-host, was released from a suburban private hospital last week after reportedly suffering from deep vein thrombosis in Europe. ■ Telstra has delayed the launch of its television streaming service until next month. ■ The Weekend Australian has generally come out unscathed after a complaint was lodged with the Press Council by Ms Dale Gietzelt about a report oif her father, the late Senator Arthur Gietzelt being labelled as a swuspected communist. She said her father was never at any time a member of, or had close associations with, the Communist Party.
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● Fast & Furious 7 cast Paul Walker, Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson take you on a wild and crazy ride, to say the least. FILM: FAST & FURIOUS 7: Genre: Action/Crime/Thriller. Cast: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Jason Statham, Dwayne Johnson, Kurt Russell. Year: 2015. Rating: M . Length: 140 Minutes. Stars: ***½ Verdict: Fast & Furious 7 follows Dominic (Diesel), Brian O'Conner (Walker) and the rest of the team, who have returned to the United States to live normal lives after securing amnesty for their past crimes in "Fast & Furious 6" (2013), that is until Deckard Shaw (Statham), a rogue special forces assassin who is seeking to avenge his younger brother, puts them in danger once again. That's as far as a plot is concerned in this wildly entertaining and outrageously over the top action romp that starts at full throttle and just goes completely off the planet from there. Nothing is safe or sacred, the dynamic action sequences are simply jawdropping and get more and more ferocious as the film goes along, as L.A. and other parts of the world become a demolition derby. The entire cast take it seriously, with a few sprinkles of humour, and screen veteran Kurt Russell is a most welcome addition to the team. Don't look for any logic, because you won't find it, just sit down, buckle up and enjoy the ride. Concludes with a very respectful and heartfelt tribute to series star Paul Walker who died during production. FILM: AGAINST THE SUN: Genre: War/Adventure. Cast: Tom Felton, Jake Abel, Garret Dillahunt. Year: 2014. Rating: PG. Length: 100 Minutes. Stars: **Ñ Verdict: A WWII adventure inspired by a true story of a pilot, a bombardier and a radioman who find themselves adrift on a lifeboat without food or water after being forced to ditch their plane off course during a mission, and the difficulties the endure against all odds as they try to sail to safety. Generally effective small budget survival story following the similarly themed All is Lost with Robert Redford and Angelina Jolie's Unbroken over the past year keeps you compelled throughout, but only just. The performances are solid, however, the direction by first time feature director and co-screenwriter Brian Falk, along with first time screenwriter Mark Davis Keegan, severely lacks emotional grip, stark realism and dramatic tension. Unlike All is Lost, the Oscar winning Life of Pi, Alfred Hitchcock's 1944 Oscar nominated Lifeboat and Noel Coward and David Lean's 1942 Oscar nominated In Which We Serve before it, true of false, the basic principles are all the same, and Against The Sun remains emotionally adrift no matter what the outcome. FILM: THE SEARCH. Genre: Drama/War. Cast: Montgomery Clift, Ivan Jandl, Wendell Corey. Year: 1948. Rating: G. Length: 104 Minutes. Stars: **** Verdict: Moving and engrossing drama set in the post-World-War-Two Berlin of an American G.I. helps a lost "silent" boy, a survivor of Auschwitz, to find his mother in the chaos and confusion of the Berlin clean up. Beautifully handled with great care by director Fred Zinnemann (The Day of The Jackal) with a stand-out performance by Montgomery Clift in his big screen debut, and most notably, Ivan Jandl as the boy. This poignant and touching tale of a boy and innocence lost is excelled even more by the authentic location filming in the city itself and the shattering and haunting images of the ruins of Berlin, and once seen, never forgotten.
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Wes Craven August 2, 1939 - August 30, 2015
■ Famous horror auteur Wes Craven, who created such iconic films as The Last House On The Left and A Nightmare On Elm Street, sadly passed away on August 30 from brain cancer, aged 76. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, on August 2, 1939, Mr Craven would ironically be denied the simple act of going to the movies by his strict, overlyreligious mother, and it wasn't until he moved out of home that he finally experienced the joy of cinema. A major influence was Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, lighting the creative spark within Mr Craven, and his 1960 film The Virgin Spring would serve as a foundation for Craven's 1972 feature film debut, The Last House On The Left. Incredibly controversial in its depiction of on-screen violence, this was a brutal beginning to a body of work that would span over 40 years. Mr Craven's final film as director was the unnecessary Scream 4 (2011), but his last job was as an actor in the crime/comedy TV series Castle (2013 - Episode : Scared To Death), where he played himself. Mr Craven was part of an elite group of film-makers which includes John Carpenter, David Cronenberg, George A. Romero, Tobe Hooper, Joe Dante and Brian DePalma, and his passing is a shock to not only the film world but to film fans as well. Mr Craven has, however, left an indelible mark on cinema, with a plentiful amount of frightening images to keep millions of people from getting a good night's sleep. With modern horror proving extremely hit-and-miss, Mr Craven's imaginative, intelligent mind and filmmaking prowess will be sorely missed. Recommendations. The Last House On The Left (R)(1972). ****½. Made on a noticeably miniscule budget, this angry, violent film packs a punch, and its rough-around-theedges look makes its distressing tale seem all the more believable. Banned in Australia for many years (I first saw this on bootleg VHS in the mid-90s), this was finally released on DVD in 2003. The 2009 remake (co-produced by Craven) is one of the few decent reduxes, only spoilt by a completely wrongheaded final scene. The original, despite being 43 years old, is still not for the squeamish. The Hills Have Eyes (R)(1977). ****½. Unsettling nuclear-family-vsnuclear-family-mutants story is a highly effective horror outing, with Craven using the harsh, open landscape to maximum effect.
Was first released on Australian video in a ludicrously butchered version, but is now available uncut. The 2006 remake wasn't bad, but was too over-the-top to really hit the target. Deadly Blessing (M)(1981). ***. Though not a complete success, this is still atmospheric viewing, with a couple of memorable moments. A Nightmare On Elm Street (MA)(1984). ****½. The first Wes Craven film I saw on the big screen (Cinema 7 at Hoyts Midcity), this is truly classic horror, with a genuinely scary villain (Freddy Krueger) that is now a movie legend. The Serpent And The Rainbow (M)(1988). ***½. Vivid voodoo chiller, with a good use of locales and subject matter. Features a good cast (Bill Pullman, Cathy Tyson, Paul Winfield), and it's all stylishly presented by Craven. The People Under The Stairs (M)(1991). ***½. A sometimes jarring blend of humour and horror, this is generally intense viewing, with Craven in good form, handling the nasty story with a deft hand. New Nightmare(MA)(1994). ****. Craven breathed new life into the seriously faultering Elm Street series, cleverly incorporating the franchise with an incisive look at how horror movies affect us. As well as their worth as a necessary safety valve, Craven views the horror genre as the modern equivalent of a bedtime Grimms Tale. Scream (MA)(1996). ****½. After New Nightmare, Craven was the perfect choice to direct this wonderful love letter to the horror genre. Kevin Williamson's smart, postmodern script is brought to exciting, hilarious life by Craven, and this huge hit would influence horror and Hollywood for years to come. The director also has a funny cameo. Other films by Wes Craven: Stranger In Our House (1978); Swamp Thing (1982); Invitation To Hell (1984); The Hills Have Eyes Part 2 (1984); Chiller (1985); Deadly Friend (1986); Shocker (1989); Night Visions (1990); Vampire In Brooklyn (1995); Scream 2 (1997); Music Of The Heart (1999); Scream 3 (2000); Cursed (2005); Red Eye (2005); Paris, je t'aime (2006); My Soul To Take (2010); Scream 4 (2011). - Aaron Rourke DVDs and Blu-Rays kindly supplied by Video Vision, 177-179 Carlisle Street, Balaclava. Most of Wes Craven's films are available on DVD. For information or bookings on these titles please call 9531 2544, or check online at videovisiondvd.com.au
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‘Charing Cross Road’ at Mordy Rehab
● Nadine Sparks presents Rehab. ■ Following her sell-out season of Rehab at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Nadine Sparks is back with her crew of crazy characters whose unmanageable lives have landed them in a rehab where the workers are madder than the clients. With a blend of storytelling and character comedy, Rehab is a one-woman comedy show with something for everyone. Recently returned from eight weeks in Chicago studying at the IO and The Annoyance Theatres, Sparks is a seasoned performer and member of The Improv Conspiracy. She performs weekly in a Harold team and in The Remix. She is a member of the successful, bold and sassy MICF 2015 show Play Like A Girl , the star of 2014 multi-festival sell out hit Dirty Thirties and host of lady showcase Here Come The Girls. Performance season: September 26 -October 3 (no Monday) at 8pm (7pm Sundays) Venue: The Improv Conspiracy HQ – Office Space, Level 1, 19 Meyers Place, Melbourne. Tickets: $20/$15 Contact: Nadine Clarke, 0412 513 440, e-mail nadineclarke@optusnet.com.au
#PRINCESS
SHOWS ■ Mordialloc Theatre Company: 84 Charing Cross Road (adapted by James Roose Evans) Until September 12, Sunday matinees August 30 and September 6 at the Shirley Burke Theatre, 64 Parkers Rd., Parkdale. Director: Peter Newling. Tickets: $25/$22. Bookings: 9587 5141 or www.mordialloctheatre.com ■ Off the Leash Theatre: Summer of the Aliens (by Louis Nowra) September 12 at the West Gippsland Arts Centre. Director: Amy Moss. Booking details: www.offtheleashtheatre.com.au ■ Eltham Little Theatre: Lost in Yonkers (by Neil Simon) Until September 12 at the Eltham Performing Arts Centre, 1603 Main Rd., Research. Director: Terese Maurici-Ryan. Bookings: www.elthamlittletheatre.org.au ■ Old Carey Performing Arts Club (OCPAC): Footloose September 13 - 20 at Carey Baptist Grammar School, Kew. Bookings: https://chook.as/ocpac/footloose ■ Melbourne Fringe Festival 2015: September 16 - October 4. For full details of performances and venues, visit www.melbournefringe.com.au ■ Heidelberg Theatre Company: Quartet (by Ronald Harwood) September 11 - 26 (2pm matinees September 13, 20, 26). Director: Brett Turner. Tickets: $27/$24. Bookings: 9457 4117 htc.org.au ■ The Mount Players: An Inspector Calls (by J.B. Priestley) Until September 19 at 56 Smith St., Mt Macedon. Director: Julie Wade. Bookings: www.themountplayers.com ■ Williamstown Little Theatre: Buffalo Gal (by A.R. Gurney) September 10 - 26 at 2 Albert St., Williamstown.. Tickets: $25/ $22. Bookings: 9885 9678. ■ Geelong Repertory Theatre Company: An Inspector Calls (by J. B. Priestley) September 11 - 26 at The Woodbin Theatre, 15 Coronation St., Geelong. Tickets: $26/$24. Bookings: 5225 1200. ■ Essendon Theatre Company: Aladdin (by Michael Bentley) September 18 - 27 at the Bradshaw St Community Theatre, Bradshaw St., West Essendon. Director: Michele Haywood. Tickets: $15. Bookings: 0422 029 483. ■ ARK Theatre: Hotel Sorrento September 25-October 4 at Lilydale Heights College, Performing Arts Centre, 17 Nelson Rd. Gate 2, Lilydale. Tickets: $20. Bookings: ark_theatre@yahoo.com.au
OUTSIDERS
THE MINISTRY ■ Monash Uni Student Theatre in conjunction with Kin Collaborative Inc. present The Ministry from September 17 -25 at Monash University, Clayton. This is an immersive, multi-disciplinary experience inspired by George Orwell’s 1984. Audiences will enter a world in which deed, word and even thought are under constant surveillance. Visitors will be taken on a sensory journey through clandestine headquarters, where what is known will become unknown and what is sane will become insane. Monash University will be reimagined as Oceania. Audiences will walk through its streets and corridors while witnessing, eavesdrop and participate in the action. Creator/Director Anna Nalpantidis explains: “We are not so much striving to adapt 1984 – rather we are inviting the audience on a journey where they will collect fragments of information and navigate connections between Orwell’s world and ours.” A fusion of site-specific installation and performance, The Ministry will take the audience on an experience of twists and turns, promenading and intermingling with spectators and actors alike, watching and being watched. Performance Season: September 17 – 26 Times: Mon. – Thurs. 8pm; Fri., Sat. 7pm and 9pm Duration: 1 hr 30 min, no interval Meeting Point: The MUST Space, Grnd Flr West, Campus Centre, 21 Chancellors Walk, Monash University, Wellington Rd, Clayton Bookings: www.melbournefringe.com or call 9660 9666 Tickets: Full: $20 / Concession: $18 Web: www.theministry.org.au Please note: This is a promenade production. Due to the intimate nature of this event, there will be limited capacity. Latecomers cannot be admitted.
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● Chelsea Zeller in #Princess. ■ Up-and-coming theatre ensemble Fear+Love brings forth their original new romp #Princess, inspired by the true events of fairy tales, Australian politics and the humans of social media everywhere. Meet Evelyn. She's the Minister for Waste Disposal in The Kingdom and also the Princess. Her father is unwell, and his right hand man, the Chancellor, is all too happy to take over the reigns. But in another realm, creatures lurk. They Tweet, Vlog and they Insti. And Evelyn is hooked. As The Kingdom buckles under The Chancellor’s grip, Evelyn must confront how far she will go to protect the future of the people. But how do you lead a revolution when you have "0 friends"... Fear+Love comprises Victorian College of the Arts acting alumni Chelsea Zeller, Michael Gosden, Alistair Frearson, Emil Freund and Tristan Barr, who launched the company in 2013 with the resolve to create highly interactive physical theatre. The result was the successful debut season of Fear+Love+Clowns at the 2013 Adelaide Fringe Festival. The show went on to a sell-out season at the Malthouse Tower Theatre in 2013, and in 2014 toured regionally throughout Victoria in association with Regional Arts Victoria and Victorian College Arts. Now, in their anticipated second work directed by Tristan Barr, Fear+Love step out of their clown shoes into a world where Restoration comedy meets the stars of YouTube. A madcap, hard-hitting comedy that delves into what it means to be a leader. Performance Dates: September 26-27, September 29 – October 3 Times: 6.45pm, Sun 5.45pm (55 minutes) Venue: Fringe Hub – The Ballroom – Lithuanian Club, 44 Errol St, North Melbourne Bookings: melbournefringe.com.au or call (03) 9660 9666 Tickets: $22.50 / Concession: $20 / Cheap Tuesday: $15
DESTROY SOLZHENITSYN
● Melbourne comedians Michael Shafar and David Rose. ■ After playing to sell-out audiences and rave reviews at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, David Rose and Michael Shafar have combined forces for their debut at the Melbourne Fringe Festival with Outsiders. Tackling the big dinner conversation don’ts, like race, religion, and disability, this is a show about fitting-in, standing-out, and what it means to be men. Specifically, partially deaf, practically legally qualified, and predominantly Jewish men. Named David and Michael. Full of fresh new perspectives, Outsiders is good ‘equal opportunity’ stand-up: all funny people welcome. Dates: September 26 – October 3 (6.45pm, Sun 5.45pm). Venue: The Improv Conspiracy, Level 1, 19 Meyers Place, Melbourne. Tickets: Full $15, Conc. $12. Bookings: www.melbournefringe.com.au
■ Nice Productions present Destroy Solzhenitsyn for the Melbourne Fringe Festival 2015 from September 22 – October 3 at Gasworks Arts Park. Written by John Joofor Lee and directed by founder of Nice Productions, Vlady T, Destroy Solzhenitsyn is a homage to one of the greatest novelists of the last century. Afictional, yet honest, account of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's struggles, challenges and life and death battles against Nazism, communism and capitalism. Nice Productions is a theatre group, based in Melbourne, with a focus on bringing exciting original material to the stage and to spice things up on the Melbourne cultural scene. The company does not believe in following conventions and do not shy away from controversy, strong themes or offensive language. Venue: The Clover Club, Gasworks Arts Park, 21 Graham St, Albert Park (Cnr Pickles St) Dates: September 22-26 Sep and September 29 – October 3 (Tue to Sat) Time: 8:30pm Tickets: $27/$23., Group (6+) $14 Bookings: Visit www.melbournefringe.com.au or call 9660 9666
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● Mary Bryant (rear left), Graeme Marriott, Melinda Ash, Rhonda Yates and Judy Sullivan (front) will perform in Musical Notes @ Wesley in Warragul on September 20. ■ Musical Notes @ Wesley will be presented at Wesley of Warragul, Victoria St, Warragul, on Sunday, September 20 at 2pm. This is the main annual fundraiser for Vision Australia Gippsland, which provides essential services to people in the Gippsland region who are blind or have low vision. The concert will include music from much loved musicals, light operetta and some amusing moments. Vision Australia is fortunate that well known organist, David Johnston, has donated his talents playing the magnificent Wurlitzer organ. Also appearing will be regular guests , delighting audiences with their magnificent voices. Melinda and Rhonda will be joined by local resident, Graeme Marriott, performing songs from musical comedy and duos and trios. Comedienne Mary Bryant will be providing comic relief with her Fractured Fairy Tales . Pianist Judy Sullivan will be at the grand piano, accompanying the artists with her skillful playing, and performing a piano and organ duet with David. Warragul is an easy one-hour drive from Melbourne. Bookings can be made by phoning Vision Australia on 5623 0100. Tickets are $20 and $15 concession. Afternoon tea is provided for a gold coin donation.
LOST IN YONKERS
● Elizabeth Van Spronsen (Bella) in Lost in Yonkers. Photo: Jazzy Swedosh ■ Eltham Little Theatre presents Lost in Yonkers until September 12 at the Eltham Performing Arts Centre. Written by Neil Simon and directed by Terese MauriciRyan, Lost in Yonkers is set during World War II. The story follows 16-year-old Jay and his younger brother who are sent to live with their formidable German Jewish immigrant grandmother while their father, a travelling salesman, is traipsing the countryside to earn a living. Jay is trying to help raise his younger brother Arty but his highly dysfunctional family, including the sweet but mentally challenged Aunt Bella, and a small-time hoodlum Uncle Louie who spends most of his time dodging gangsters, provide little support for Jay. In fact they all call upon Jay to help them with their own problems and insecurities. Jay, however forges a bond with his strong-willed grandmother and learns to be strong for everyone else. Performance Season: Until September 12 Venue: Eltham Performing Arts Centre, 1603 Main Rd., Research Bookings: www.elthamlittletheatre.org.au
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Chipolatas: Gentlemen of the Road FRINGE FESTIVAL
Little Mountain Goblin
● Meet The Chipolatas: Tristan Glover (accordion), Luke Taylor (banjo) and Sam Thomas. ■ The Chipolatas are announcing a season of their unique and universally acclaimed show Gentlemen of the Road at the Melba Spiegeltent as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival. Featuring new member Luke Taylor (Circus Oz), the company combines mindful circus artistry with dynamic roots music, mixing both traditional and contemporary influences. Finding inspiration in timeless tradition this long- standing troupe use rhythmic squeezebox, breakbeats and ballads together with spoken word and samples to produce moments of theatrical stillness, physicality and dynamism. The Chipolatas transcend trends, capture hearts and cross boundaries with every performance. They have performed in 45 countries since 1992, establishing themselves as a trusted brand and mainstay of festivals around the world. Gentlemen of the Road is a celebratory performance where circus meets theatre. A show for all ages. Performance dates: September 17-20 and 22 Times: 4.45pm with a 2pm matinee on September 19, 20. Tickets: $22/$18 Child $14, $55 Family (2 adults, 2 children) (plus booking fee) Bookings: melbournefringe.com.au or 9660 9666
● Brianna Williams in Little Mountain Goblin. ■ Little Mountain Goblin, written by and featuring Brianna Williams, runs from September 15 -20 at Melbourne’s home of cabaret, The Butterfly Club. Little Mountain Goblin is a show about embarrassment. It has followed Brianna around like a lost puppy for years now, demanding attention while she’s just trying to interact with other humans. But like some kind of emotional alchemist, she’s turning those feelings into her solo sketch debut. The show is about the lighter side of mortifying indignity. Through storytelling, songs, improvisation and characters, Williams will make you feel better about those awful memories that keep haunting you. She has a lot to say on the subject, being somewhat of an expert, but now she’s negotiated with her inner goblins and created a show that aims to harpoon humiliation and decimate dishonor. Williams is an improviser, music theatre performer, actor, sketch writer, animal enthusiast and recipient of the 1993 Silver Composite at Debbie’s Ballroom Dance School. She’s part of The Big Hoo-Haa Melbourne ensemble, represented WA in the 2012 Theatresports Championships and has improvised everywhere from New York City to Rottnest Island. She also appeared in the ABC's Fresh Blood series The Write Stuff, or as part of the sketch troupe Good Show in Love, Death and Our Robot Overlords at the 2015 Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Performance Season: September 15, 16, 17, 19, 20 at 10pm all shows Venue:The Butterfly Club, 5 Carson Place, Melbourne Tickets: $28/$25 Bookings: melbournefringe.com.au or call 9660 9666
AT FORTYFIVEDOWNSTAIRS ■ A stunning combination of art and music inspired by the revolutionary Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi, Canzone – Music as Storytelling is a visual and musical dream presented by fortyfivedownstairs as part of the Melbourne Festival from September 29 to October 24. Multi-award winning artist Angela Cavalieri returns to Australia from a residency at Venice’s La Scuola Grafica Internationale with monumental linocut prints including work based on Monteverdi’s final opera – The Return of Ulysses. The exhibition is a culmination of Cavalieri’s four-year exploration of Monteverdi’s madrigals, developed during a State Library Victoria Creative Fellowship and a commission from Arts Centre Melbourne. During the Melbourne Festival Cavalieri’s spectacular installation in the fortyfivedownstairs gallery is illuminated through sound by two music programs: Variations and Cantations. Variations performed by virtuoso contemporary ensemble Press, Play takes the sensuous splendour of Monteverdi’s music as a departure point to weave a musical tapestry spanning four centuries, where past and present merge into seamless continuity; while Cantations is an exquisite historically accurate performance of music by Monteverdi and his contemporaries featuring renowned harpsichordist John O’Donnell and singers from Accademia Arcadia. Variations featuring Press, Play: Sonya Lifschitz (piano), Lina Andonovska (flute), Callum Moncrief (percussion), Alexandra Sherman (mezzo soprano) and Tabatha McFadyen (soprano). Cantations featuring John O’Donnell (harpsichordist) and singers from Accademia Arcadia: Michelle Clark (soprano), Christopher Roache (alto and tenor), Dan Walker (tenor) and Jerzy Kozlowski (bass). Venue: fortyfivedownstairs. Address: 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne. Exhibition: September 29 – October 24. Gallery times: Tues. to Fri. 11am-5pm; Sat 12 Noon-4pm. Music program: October 13 – 22 (Tue to Thu at various times). Single tickets: $30 Full, $25 Pensioners/MEAA, $20 Students. Program package: $50 to both Cantations and Variations (including a free coffee). Bookings 9662 9966 or fortyfivedownstairs.com
SHOWS ■ Ballarat National Theatre Inc: The Perfectionist (by David Williamson) September 26 - October 3 at The Courthouse Theatre, Lydiard St., South Ballarat. Director: Peter Nethercote. Tickets: $25/$20. Bookings: 5333 5888.
QUARTET
● Margaret Rawlinson (Jean,) Dianne Mileo (Cecily), Roderick Chappel (Wilfred) and Trevor Hanna (Reginald) rehearse Heidelberg Theatre Company’s Quartet. Photo: David Belton ■ Heidelberg Theatre Company presents Quartet by Ronald Harwood from September 11-26 at 36 Turnham Rd, Rosanna. Under the direction of Brett Turner, Quartet is a charming, much loved play that takes place in a home for retired opera singers and musicians. Reginald, Cissy and Wilfred are preparing the annual concert to celebrate Giuseppe Verdi’s birth Into the mix arrives Jean, Reginald’s ex-wife and opera diva. Over the course of the play secrets are revealed, wounds are reopened, but through it all, ‘The show must go on’. Performance Season: September 11 – 28 (2pm matinees September 13, 20, 26) Venue: Heidelberg Theatre, 36 Turnham Rd., Rosanna. Tickets: $27/$24 Bookings: 9457 4117 htc.org.au
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‘Top Spot’ opens at Ruby’s Room How Humans Can Fly
● Dance artist Suze Smith ■ A double bill of dance and film, Dear Fred, How Can I Fly will be presented at Dancehouse, Carlton from September 23 - 26. Perth-basedTaffyworks Productions and Melbourne company Backyard Theatre come together to open the field of play between dream and reality, psyche and soma in this exploration of the nuance of human interaction and consciousness through dance and film. How Humans Can Fly is movement theatre performance, co-written and devised by dance artist Suze Smith and video designer Michael Carmody from Backyard Theatre. Directed by American artist Kathleen Szalay, How Humans Can Fly explores memory, mind and consciousness. This solo performance combines dance, video, story, song and a push bike, to tell a tall tale of the human psyche. In a landscape both suburban and infinite, a lone woman knocks on the door of consciousness. Digging through layers of memory, she is flying and falling, dancing with shadows in a world of silence. How Humans Can Fly is a story about reaching out. How do we go beyond what we know to a way of being that we don’t yet know? The airbrushing and editing of romance will be stripped away, and beautiful original film shot on location in America, Ireland, and Perth; relatable characters, and flowing choreography. Performance Dates: September 23-26. Times: 6.30pm (90 minutes). Venue: Dancehouse, Sylvia Staehli Theatre, 150 Princes St, North Carlton. Tickets: Full $25, Concession $20 Bookings: melbournefringe.com.au or call (9660 9666
BIG ENOUGH AND UGLY ENOUGH
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● Elizabeth Dawson Smith and Stephanie Marion Wood in Top Spot, opening September 17 at Ruby’s Music Room. ■ Creative duo Elizabeth Dawson Smith (Miss Friby) and New Zealander Stephanie Marion Wood create high end, opulent, original shows from a little garden shed in Footscray. Their next show, Top Spot, is being presented September 17 – October 4 at Ruby's Music Room, Melbourne CBD, after its success earlier this year at Adelaide Fringe. After realising that their ‘one woman show’ is now a double bill, the divas are on a mission to prove there is only one lead role. Cue decadent costumes, hilarious banter, old world song and dance and an ‘oh so terrible’ magic show. This year the girls are expanding their target audience, with an adults only cabaret playing during the week, and a family friendly Sunday matinee, with no naughty bits. Venue: Ruby’s Music Room, 132 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne Dates: September 17-22, 24-29 and October 1-4. Times: 7.30pm (60 mins), 2pm Sundays (50 mins) Bookings: melbournefringe.com.au or call 9660 9666
YANA ALANA
MARY WEATHER’S MONSTERS ■ Rama Nicholas returns to Melbourne Fringe to premiere her latest action-adventure comedy Mary Weather’s Monsters from September 18 to October 3 at the North Melbourne Town Hall. Performing recently to sold out audiences in two other shows, Rama returns to wow audiences with her latest solo show Mary Weather’s Monsters. With original story and script by Rama Nicholas and direction from Adam McKenzie (Watson: Who’sAfraid of the Dark), Nicholas will continue her unique blend of storytelling and character comedy as she switches between multiple characters, weaving a story inspired by gothic literature. Mary Weather’s Monsters takes audiences on a wickedly hilarious journey to 1890s London, at the height of the gothic era. It’s a time where Monsters are out to threaten the human world… and only one woman can stop them. And that woman is Mary Weather — London’s greatest monster hunter. But when Mary is unexpectedly thrown into the Monsters’ world, she finds things are not as they seem and she is forced to face some internal demons of her own. Venue: Fringe Hub - Meeting Room, North Melbourne Town Hall, 521 Queensberry St, North Melbourne. Dates: September 18-October 3 (no Mondays). Tickets: Full: $25, Conc: $22, Cheap Tuesdays: $18. Times: 8pm (7pm Sunday). Bookings: www.melbournefringe.com.au. Enquiries:0431 170 210,
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● Yana Alana. Photo: Peter Leslie ■ For the past two years audiences have seen Yana Alana nude, rude and lewd in Australia and New Zealand’s premiere arts and cabaret festivals, picking up a swag of awards, singing other peoples songs. Yana Alana Covered is a cabaret show for all those audience members who want to experience this multi-award winning cabaret performer bear her soul covered up. Singing songs made famous by Nina Simone, Nirvana, Shirley Bassey and the Scissor Sisters, Yana will be joined on stage by her band The Paranas featuring Bec Matthews drummer and percussionist (past Circus Oz) and Louise Goh, her faithful pianist from Between The Cracks. Yana and Tha Paranas will perform original arrangements and interpretations of classic epic and kooky pop, rock and soul songs. Performance Season: September 29 – October 3 Times: 8.30pm Tues. – Sat. Duration: 60 minutes Location: Fringe Hub, Main Theatre, Lithuanian Club, 44 Errol St, North Melbourne Tickets: $35 Full, $25 Concession, $15 Tuesday Preview Booking: 9660 9666 or melbournefringe.com.au
● James McLean presents Big Enough and Ugly Enough from September 8 at The Butterfly Club. ■ When James McLean’s grandmother passed away she left something precious behind for him - a box “full of crap”. The box held various practical tools to help him navigate a life away from his home in Adelaide Hills, and was accompanied by a letter full of detailed instructions to help him navigate his new life in Melbourne. In this funny, personal coming-of-age cabaret, James realises this “box of crap” is actually his roadmap to adulthood. Big Enough and Ugly Enough is a fresh, endearing and completely entertaining comedy-cabaret for all ages. Whether audiences are about to leave home themselves, are parents watching their kids leave the nest, or are grandparents considering their own legacy, this show is said to have them wiping away tears of laughter and nostalgia. After premiering in Adelaide Fringe 2015 with a sold-out season and rave reviews, James McLean has been reimagining the production under the tutorship of award-winning comedy and cabaret powerhouse, Wes Snelling. Performance Season: September 8 – 13 at 8.30pm Cost: $25-$32 Venue: The Butterfly Club, 5 Carson Place, Melbourne Tickets: thebutterflyclub.com/
AUSSIE MIXTAPE ■ Aussie Mixtape, a retrospective road trip of Australia’s favourite songs from the last four decades is playing as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival at the Courthouse Hotel, Jury Room from September 16. Featuring Amanda Knights and Kat Rich, Australian music drives the story of two friends from opposite sides of the music spectrum on a road trip to a beloved music festival. The show explores the power, passion, pleasure and pain of Australian music. Amanda and Kat bring back the song that was playing during your first kiss, the first gig you ever went to, and maybe even Farnsy for one last tour … no really this time. Featuring live music, dance, laughter and tears, with Aussie music the star of the show. Whether you’re an Oils, AC/DC, Southern Sons, Chrissy, Nick or Kylie fan, Amanda and Kate won’t discriminate, they just want to remember, celebrate and share commiseration. Do you know how many Aussie songs are on your iPod? It might surprise you who actually is Australian and who we have conveniently adopted like the good old pavlova …or Rusty! Amanda Knights and Kat Rich have been performing together for the past five years. Most recently they performed on opposing sides in the Star Wars spoof, Episode 6.5 (Melbourne Fringe Festival, 2014) and in the sell-out season of Hashtag (Adelaide Fringe, 2014). Performance Season: September 16 – 25 (no Mondays) Time: 9.30pm, Sun.8.30pm (50 minutes duration) Tickets: $21 full, Concession $16, Groups 6+$16. Bookings: www.melbournefringe.com.au/program/event/ view/de20a032-a6f0-4ea6-b4a8-59be48ea429d or 9660 9666 - Cheryl Threadgold
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Trainer suspended after incident ■ Former trotting trainer/driver Paul Andrews has had his greyhound trainers' licence suspended indefinitely following an incident at his Rosedale property on August 11. Police and greyhound racing authorities are investigating the circumstances which led to a gun allegedly being fired and the reported attempted assault of two Greyhound Racing Victoria officials during a routine property inspection. Andrews trained trotters at Traralgon for several years, and switched to greyhound racing after trotting ceased at Traralgon in 1995. Initially, greyhounds in Andrews' name were still allowed to compete after the incident, however at an inital hearing onAugust 17, stewards moved to suspend his licence pending the outcome of a full enquiry into the incident.
Positive swabs ■ Trainer Jenny Hunt has received two concurrent four-year disqualifications from Greyhound Racing Victoria stewards. The bans stem from two positive post-race swabs obtained from greyhounds Cadence Bale and Enrica Bale after race meetings conducted at The Meadows earlier this year. Both samples tested positive for amphetamine. Hunt is already serving an 18month ban, handed down in May this year, for a similar offence. The independent Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board had declared that the new disqualification will commence at the conclusion of the cur-
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with Kyle Galley rent penalty, meaning Hunt will be unable to participate in greyhound racing until the end of 2020. While Hunt has the right of appeal through the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal, GRV Chairman Bernie Carolan said in a media statement: “It needs to be understood that it doesn’t matter who you are if you wish to use prohibited substances you will be caught. Our capabilities are continually evolving to remain contemporary in order to provide a level playing field for all.”
Waterloo Cup ■ Yarram trainer Graham Whitford won his second Waterloo Cup as the coursing season came to a close. Whitford collected the Cup in 2013 with Zambora Blueboy, and backed up to win the 2015 edition with Rylee's Marshall at Longwood. He becomes the third trainer in the past 30 years to win multiple Waterloo Cups. Rylee's Marshall is raced by
Whitford's long time friend Gerald Lanigan, Gerald's son Matt,Adelaide Crows footballer brothers Brad and Matt Crouch and Essendon footballer Nick O'Brien. Despite the long road trip, and two days of knockout compeition racing, Rylee's Marshall proved well and truly up to the challenge to win the Cup. “It takes a special dog to win a Waterloo Cup and you certainly need luck along the way including a reasonable draw and you need to avoid any injuries,” Whitford said. "Every coursing trainer aspires to win it and, to put it into perspective, I imagine it’s like winning an AFL Grand Final. Not that I’ve ever won an AFL Grand Final, but it’s similar in that it is the ultimate prize in that particular sport,” As much as 8/1 was bet about Rylee's Marshall at the start of the Waterloo Cup series.
Clean sweep
■ Victorian dogs claimed a clean sweep of the recent National Championships run at Sydney's Wentworth Park. Fernando Bale captured the National Sprint Championship Final, and Sweet It Is the National Distance Championship Final. It is the first time since 2002 that Victoria has won both events in the same year. Sweet It Is became the first dog since Boronia Blossom almost 20 years ago to win consecutive NDC Finals. Fernando Bale has now won 10 straight races at Wentworth Park, four
● Matt Lanigan, Graham Whitford and Gerald Lanigan
of those Group One classic events. It will be interesting to see if connections look at the Traralgon Cup series during September - that would be a great promotional opportunity for the Traralgon Greyhound Racing Club.
Great Chase
■ Changes are afoot for the Great Chase series, which links greyhound racing with Victoria's disability sector each year. An overhaul of the series will see an increase in prizemoney being awarded to the charity linked with the greyhound that wins the rich Great Chase Final. Each greyhound club in Victoria will stage a Community Day, with local disability groups invited along to enjoy the racing program as guests and to be matched with dogs in an effort to earn prizemoney. From those that attend a country meeting, and the Great Chase Final at The Meadows, eight groups will be matched with the eight finalists in the Great Chase event. The winning greyhound will earn
its matched community organisation $10,000 (double the amount in previous years), while the runner-up earns $3500 and third place $3000. Unplaced finalists will earn their group $2000. Community Day events are currently being staged around Victoria, with the Great Chase Final to be run on October 28.
Upcoming race meetings
■ Wednesday: The Meadows (Day), Bendigo (Twilight), Cranbourne (Night), Ballarat (N); Thursday: Warragul (D), Shepparton (T), Sandown Park (N), Warrnambool (N); Friday: Healesville (D), Bendigo (T), Geelong (N), Saturday: Traralgon (T), The Meadows (N); Sunday: Sandown Park (D), Healesville (D), Sale (T); Monday: Ballarat (D), Traralgon (T), Shepparton (N); Tuesday: Horsham (T), Geelong (T), Warragul (N). - Kyle Galley
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In memory of Bart Cummings ■ Around about 12 months ago, I wrote in my column that Bart Cummings should be knighted for his services to horse racing. The pennies never dropped. The next step was to see if the law allowed for him to be knighted after his untimely death. Firstly, Patrick from the Law Institute was kind enough to check for me if this could happen. He did a lot of checking and got in touch with the Governor General's office, who said that Bart wasn't eligible to be knighted, unless someone nominated him before his death. Let's hope and pray someone did so, and he will be duly knighted and well deserved. We hope to keep you posted.
Salute
■ Top mare Royal Descent won her first race in more than two years after storming home to win the Warwick Stakes first up at Randwick, proving she has still got the goodies. A member of the all- conquering Chris Waller team, won in great style, after a long time out of the winner's circle. Royal Descent was a graduate of the 2011 Gold Coast Yearling Sales. She returned to Baramul Stud after failing to make her reserve of $350,000 in a stroke of luck for breeder Gerry Harvey, she races in his colours the predominate blue with white crossed sashes. As a three year-old she won the Australian Oaks strolling away from another top filly of the time, Dear Demi. While she hadn't won since, she had been a placegetter numerous times at Group One level - in the George Main Stakes twice, Doncaster Handicap on two occasions and the Epsom Handicap and the Queen Elizabeth Stakes. She also finished a gallant fifth just 1.8 lengths behind Fawkner in the Caulfield Cup. As it stands she boasts a record of five
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wins, and 12 placings from 26 starts with earnings of $2.4 million. Trainer Chris Waller is eyeing off the Epsom as her next main mission. At the time of going to press she had competed in the Chelmsford Stakes in Sydney, second up.
On top
■ One of Victoria's top money men, Bruce Mathieson, was all smiles after the Group Three Toy Show Handicap at Randwick. The one-eyed Carlton man, who pours plenty into the Blues pockets, was spot on when he declared that his One Thousand Guineas winner would get the chocolates. Amicus beat Echo Gal in a tight finish to make it a quinella for the Magic Millions camp. By champion sire, Fastnet Rock, Amicus is a half- sister to the stakes performer, Il Cavallo. They are both from Gold Anthem - a
stakes performed El Moxie half- sister to Australia, European, British and Irish champion, Star Spangledbanner. Amicus was purchased by Chris Waller for $500,000 at the Gold Coast Yearling Sale having been one of the most admired fillies at the 2013 auction. Bred by Tony Santic's Makybe Racing and breeding outfit in Victoria,Amicus was sold through the draft of Tyreel Stud. At the time of going to press it was envisaged that she may run in the Let's Elope Stakes in Melbourne.
Heroes
■ Each time we have race meetings around the world there are groups of men who put their lives on line for the betterment of racing. I am referring to our barrier attendants, who have the responsibility of getting the horses into their respective barriers and hopefully on time. Unlike the Asian
[Drama/Paul Scofield, Orson Welles, Robert Shaw]. CINEMA CULT: THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH [Horro/Vincent Price]. CINEMA CULT: THE LAST MAN ON EARTH [Horror/Vincent Price]. CINEMA CULT: THE INCIDENT [Drama/Beau Bridges, Victor Arnold]. CINEMA CULT: THE HONEYMOON KILLERS [Drama/Tony Lo Bianco, Shirley Stoler]. THE RITA HAYWORTH COLLECTION: The Lady from Shanghai, Cover Girl, Salome, Gilda, Down to Earth, The Loves of Carmen. NEW RELEASE TELEVISION, DOCUMENTARY AND MUSIC DVD HIGHLIGHTS: BETTER CALL SAUL: Season 1. MR. SELFRIDGE: Season 3. BROOKLYN NINE-NINE: Season 2. THE NIGHT SHIFT: Season 1. PARENTHOOD: Season 6. THE VIRGINIAN: Season 5. BRITISH GANGSTERS: Faces of the Underworld - Series 1. FOREVER KNIGHT: Season 2. FARSCAPE: Season 4. TOUR DE FRANCE 2015: The Complete Highlights. CHAMPS. ITALIAN AMERICANS. MODERN FAMILY: Season 6. THE WALKING DEAD: Season 5. WHEN THE BOAT COMES IN: Series 1. WHEN THE BOAT COMES IN: Series 2. WHEN THE BOAT COMES IN: Series 3. WHEN THE BOAT COMES IN: Series 4. TIME TEAM: Collection 3. TIME TEAM: Collection 4. - James Sherlock
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side of racing, they have an attendant for each runner, here in Australia there is about half a dozen to look after approximately 16 to 18 horses on a regular basis and in Melbourne Cup Day twenty-four. Most of them are pretty solid blokes, but there others who are smaller and d slightly built, but all with the skills of top horsemen. A number of them have copped plenty of whacks, especially if they caught up in the steel framework of the stalls with a horse weighing around 450 to 500 kilos, thrashing about. Over the years these great horseman have been taken for granted, so it was great to hear top jockey,
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● Hugh Bowman Photo by SLICKPIX, phone 9354 5754 Hugh Bowman on receiving the leading rider in New South ■ Members of the Wales from the season Victorian Racing Mejust ending, paying trib- dia gathered at the ute to them Emerald Hotel in Most of the atten- South Melbourne for dants carry injuries our Annual General from whacks at the Meeting under Chairbarrier, so next time man, race caller, Greg have a good look at the Miles. way they go about Former Chairman their job as they atand also former Hertempt to get a burly horse into their respec- ald Sun Racing Editor, Keith Hillier, was tive barrier. Whilst on it, our made a Life Member, starters such as Corey and deservedly so. Since its inception Mallyon, Paul Didham and Mick the Association has Hurry, deserve a lot of awarded seven Life Memberships to praise too. They carry large members. responsibilities as They are former there is the punters’ Herald Sun journalist, dollars riding on the RoyAspinall, unfortuhorse getting away. nately not very well at present, and the late Vic Beitzel, ‘Peeping Pete’ with the late Bert ■ My racing shows Bryanton 3UZ. are drawing nearer The former Racing with the first of these Editor of The Age, on the Thursday be- Tony Bourke, wears fore the Caulfield Cup at the Taylors Lakes the title proudly along Hotel from 6pm until with another from the 8pm, giveaways, Herald Sun and a phantom call, and tips. former Racing Editor, The next night I Bernie O'Brien. Yet again another will be at the revamped sports bar at former Racing Editor the Newmarket Tav- of the Herald Sun, ern, now open from Brian Meldrum. 10am through till 3am. It is headed by race With new big caller, Greg Miles, screens and all the Winning Post editor, luxuries for all pa- Tony Kneebone and trons, with not only Bruce Clark, former racing, but all sports TVN compere. around the world. - Ted Ryan
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■ Daylesford's Bob and Anne-Maree Conroy were successful with 6-Y-0 Bacardi Lindy/ Direct Salute gelding Lochaber at Bendigo, taking the Simon Rosa Landscaping Trotters Mobile for T0 & T1 class over 2150 metres. Settling four back the markers from inside the second line, Lochaber was extricated to be three wide on the final bend and ran home best to defeat Alistor which trailed the front runner and third placegetter Royal Dream. The rate 2-05.3. ■ Lance Justice snared a stable double at Kilmore on Friday September 4 - Angrist (Badlands Hanover/Anguriel) taking the Jet Roofing Pace for C1 class over 2180 metres with Matt Newberry using a concession and Love Ina Chevy (Brian Gath) the Life After Racing Pace for C2 class over 1690 metres. ■ Craig Demmler combined with Gavin Lang to land the Become A Member @ Kilmore Pace for C0 class over 1690 metres with 4-Y-0 Santana Blue Chip/ Lauretta Bromac gelding Blacknbrown, running home nicely off a one/one trip from the bell to defeat That Chill Devine and Maken Art Magic in 1-59.4. ■ Terang's Marg Lee and nephew Glen Craven were victorious at Yarra Valley on Monday August 31 with 4-Y-0 Courage Under Fire/Dantoinette gelding Crackaofcourage, taking out the Yarra Valley Cup Day Vicbred Pace for C0 class over 1650 metres. First up since August 2013, Crackaofcourage led all of the way from gate two, impressively accounting for the roughies Premier Rose (four back the markers) and Warpie which was always handy in a mile rate of 1-58.4. ■ Kilmore trainer Julie Mifsud combined with son-in-law Phillip Walters to register a gigantic victory with 10-Y-0 Wagon Apollo/ Illawong Leonie gelding Hassan Bolt at Shepparton on Wednesday September 2, taking out the Neatline Homes Trotters Handicap for T1 or better class over 2190 metres, his second in 59 outings, the other being at the same track in July 2013 when in a different stable. Beginning brilliantly to lead from barrier six, Hassan Bolt ran his rivals ragged in defeating Opia by 8.5 metres to give Kilmore the quinella, with Michaels Mename (one/ two at the bell) third. The mile rate 2-05.4.
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‘100 miles an hour’ ■ Bullengarook's Graham Lee snared the Zonzo Estate Trotters Handicap for T0 & T1 class over 2150 metres with Speedy Rambo, a 5-Y-0 gelded son of Armbro Invasion and Speedy Jolter. Bred, raced, trained and driven by Graham, Speedy Rambo began at 100 miles an hour from the 10 metre mark to lead at the post on the first occasion and was never headed, scoring by 6.9 metres from Conchs Critter which trailed and Alabamas Invasion which moved outside the winner from midfield approaching the home turn.
Raced on outside ■ Team Molander were again winners at Bendigo on Thursday, when 5-Y-0 Mach Three/Queens Reach gelding Will Mach My Word first up since November last year, led throughout from the pole to easily account for Mach Denario which raced outside him from the bell and Our Walden Bury (three wide last lap from last) in a mile rate of 1-54.6.
Had prime spot ■ Ardmona trainer/driver Doc Wilson was successful at Shepparton with 6-Y-0 On The Attack/Golden Antigone mare Antilogy, chalking up her first victory in 30 outings. Settling three back in the moving line from gate four, Antilogy moved to occupy the prime one/one spot at the bell after Hana Lindy dropped to trail the leader Jordanzjulez. When Sunday Service which had faced the breeze gained the upper hand in the straight, Antilogy finished with a wet sail no nail her by a head right on the wire, with Jordanzjulez holding down third 5.1 metres away. Bred and raced by Greg Corbett, Antilogy returned a mile rate of 2-02.2.
Led in early stages ■ Serpentine breeder/owner/trainer/driver Robert Rothacker landed the Kieran Byrne Builder Pace for C0 class at his home track Bendigo on Thursday with 4-Y-0 Modern Art/Aniteattheopera gelding Repeat After Me who made it two wins from two race appearances. Starting from gate four on the second row, Repeat After Me trailed Ace Duigan forward in the early stages and with plenty of steam up, strode clear. Travelling beautifully, Repeat After Me had 2.4 metres up his sleeve at the finish, defeating Ace Duigan which battled on gamely and Part Time Paradise from last in a rate of 1-58.
In the death-seat
■ Junortoun trainer Julie Brimacombe and stable reinsman Scott Rains snared the Strath Hill Butchers Pace for C1 class over 1650 metres with speedy 6-Y-0 Sealed N Delivered/Lady Bullville gelding Ynobe Coby in a mile rate of 1-59.8, leading all of the way from gate four to account for Realy Under Fire which trailed and a death-seating Wingofwaves.
Settled in the back
■ Moama owners Norm and Joan Visca who are shortly to cross the border to take up residence in Echuca, would have been excited when their beautifully bred Somebeachsomwhere/Star Chaser gelding Lewis Lane scored in the Vicbred Home Grown Classic (Heat Two) for 3-Y-0 Colts & Geldings over 1690 metres at Kilmore on Friday. Trained and driven by veteran Bendigonian Brian Gath, Lewis Lane after an unsuccessful dip for the lead from gate four, settled on the back of the pacemaker The Russian before using the sprint lane to register a neck victory over The Russian and Madeeba in a rate of 1-58.2.
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■ Len Baker departs for overseas today (Wed.). His column resumes overseas in the issue of Wednesday, October 7.
Bartley treble at Shepparton ■ The DPR Insurance Brokers Pace for C2 & C3 class over 2190 metres at Shepparton on Wednesday September 2 saw the three Bartley sisters, Bec, Ellen and Lisa competing against one another, with Lisa having her first drive the victor after piloting Amanda Turnbull's reliable 6-Y-0 Courage Under Fire/Smoothie Road gelding Als Courage to greet the judge in first place. Starting from gate five, Als Courage was sent forward three wide to take over from Modern Lebron (gate two), before surrendering to Watch This Spot which had been sent forward from gate four on the second line. When Amanda Turnbull driving Star Black took care of the leader approaching the home turn after racing in the open for the final circuit, he looked all over a winner until Als Courage using the sprint lane, charged home to register a half neck victory, with Forbidden Forest third after trailing the runner-up home. The mile rate 158.4.
First win ■ Six year old Earl/Miss Universe mare Miss Cosmos broke through for her first victory, when successful in the Brown Hill Laundromat Trotters Mobile for T0 class over 2200 metres at Bray Raceway Ballarat on Tuesday September 1. Bred and raced by Daylesford's Pat Conroy, trained by octogenarian husband Bob and driven by daughter Anne-Maree, Miss Cosmos starting from gate three, led all of the way to register a 6 metre margin on the wire from the roughie Anjana Rose which trailed from the pole, with It Is Alexsjasi a stablemate of the winner coming from last to finish third 3.9 metres away. The mile rate 2-05.4.
Top rate ■ Point Cook trainer Bruce Comben has a great strike rate with his small team and brought up two wins in succession with honest 9-Y-0 Grinfromeartoear/Bellora Reign gelding Grins Rendition by taking the Flying Horse Bistro Pace Final for C1 class over 2200 metres which qualified in the heats held at Geelong on August 23. Taking a concession by Bendigo's Hayden Gray, Grins Rendition starting from gate two on the second line settled three back in the moving line, with Top Trio going for a hat-
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trick burning away from gate six to lead. Not happy with the tempo, Gray sent Grins Rendition forward three wide mid-race to assume control with around 1600 metres to travel. Travelling easily, Grins Rendition bounded away on straightening to score by 8.8 metres in a rate of 1-59.1 over Top Trio which tried hard but was no match in the run to the wire. Rowdy Rocket was 1.7 metres away in third place after following the pair.
Refusal ■ The Nova Pharmacy Pace for C5 & C5 class over 1710 metres at Ballarat went the way of 7-Y-O Real Desire Painted Black mare Desiring Kate (Greg Sugars) for Ballarat Trotting Club CEO Paul Rowse and partners.. In a performance that had to be seen to be believed, Desiring Kate was never better than three wide for the entire journey after starting from gate five, with speedy mare Reeds May leading from gate two for veteran Dick Lee. When Balance Point joined the pacemaker on the final bend from a one/ one position, he looked all over a winner, however Desiring Kate refused to lay down, coming again to blouse him by a head on the wire in a brilliant rate of 1-54.9. Reeds May battled on gamely to be 5.2 metres away in third place.
2 from 2 ■ Long Forest husband and wife Andy and Kate Gath went home winners from Ballarat, when 5-Y0 Artsplace/Starry Rainbow gelding Arts Stride made it two from two after 12 months off, to capture the Diamond Rewards Join Now Pace for C1 class over 2200 metres. Scorching away from outside the front line to lead, Arts Stride ran his ri-
vals ragged to register a 9.9 metre victory in 1-58.5 over Nobetterthanthis which trailed, with Metroincharge 4.7 metres away after following the pair.
On high ■ Riddell co-trainers Nicole and Dean Molander still on a high after winning the Three Year Old Fillies Australian Breeders Crown Final for Trotters at Tabcorp Park the previous Sunday with Reina Danzante, were successful at Shepparton on Wednesday with smart 5-Y-0 Mach Three/Village Guest gelding Vox Populi in the Shepparton Mixed Sale Pace for C4 to C6 class over 2190 metres. With Chris Alford in the sulky, Vox Populi led throughout from gate two, easily accounting for a death-seating Indi Bapu and Sullenberger (three wide last lap) in a rate of 2-00.1.
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■ Astute Romsey trainer Leigh Miles produced a nice type in Grinfromeartoear/Miss Philpotts filly Our Magic Molly to land the Box Hill RSL 2-Y-0 Vicbred Pace over 1650 metres at Yarra Valley on Monday when making her race debut. With stable reinsman Greg Sugars in the sulky, Our Magical Molly educated to perfection, led throughout from the pole to record a .8 metre victory over another first starter Getinthequeue which trailed using the sprint lane to no avail. Modern Jack also making his first race appearance finished third after racing in the open. The mile rate 2-01.2.
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10th win achieved ■ Longlea trainer Glenn Sharp caused a major upset in the Bendigo Bank Monte at Kilmore when 7-Y-0 Noopy Kiosk/Disco Dance gelding Gidah ridden by Warren Cochrane, showed his rivals a clean pair of heels from start to finish in defeating Illawong Moonshine and Cold Sister in a rate of 2-05. In winning, Gidah raced by Glenn and wife Christine chalked up his 10th victory in 59 outings.
Away in the straight ■ Thursday's Shepparton fixture was a good one for the Melton area, providing three winners on the eight race card. Jaime Madruga's speedy 5-Y-0 Courage Under Fire/Beach Rendezvous gelding Courageous Eagle (Michael Bellman), led throughout from gate two in the Great Success Service Auction Pace for C1 class over 1690 metres to nose out Calcavado, Fifty Shades and Die Tryin in a blanket finish. The mile rate 1-59.2. Andy and Kate Gath snared a double with 4-Y-0 Somebeachsomwhere/Twice As Hot gelding Mister Whittaker taking the Aldebaran Reactor Service Auction Pace for C0 class over 1690 metres in a rate of 1-59.9. Despite racing in the open from outside the front line, Mister Whittaker kicked away in the straight to record a 9.8 metre margin in advance of Somebeach which led from the bell and Maso Faith the early leader. Kiwi import Ctheballerina made a one act affair of the Peak Service Auction Pace for C0 class over 1690 metres when making her Australian debut. A 4-Y-0 daughter of Bettors Delight and Cheyenne Girl, Ctheballerina scorched away from outside the front line to lead, before running her rivals ragged to register a 5.5 metre margin over Diamond Castle from near last, with Grinear Girl third after moving to face the breeze approaching the home turn. The mile rate 1-58.1.
Outside pacemaker ■ At Yarra Valley on Monday, Parwan's Jodi Quinlan scored a terrific victory with Art Major/ Amarillen gelding His Makers Mark in the Lilydale Instant Lawn 2-Y-0 Vicbred Pace over 1650 metres. Restrained from outside the front line, His Makers Mark was trapped three wide before going forward to park outside the pacemaker Big Boy Bobby which flew away from gate five. Still very green, His Markers Mark after a couple of cracks with the whip on turning, knuckled down in fine style to register a 3.6 metre victory over Big Boy Bobby and Majordan in a mile rate of 1-58.3.
Hard to believe ■ Lance Justice has an unbelievable record with former New Zealanders and another by the name of Sniggihdis first up since crossing the Tasman scored in the De Bortoli Pace for C1 class over 1650 metres at Yarra Valley. Beaten for speed from the pole, driver Jason Hackett was quickly away from the inside to settle three back in the running line. Going forward to park outside the pacemaker Whatahottie approaching the bell, Sniggihdis ran to the wire strongly 1.1 metres in advance of the leader, with Trison (one/ one - three wide home turn) third. The mile rate a slick 1-55.9. - Len Baker
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