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■ Australia’s hottest classical treasure, Mark Vincent will showcase the songs and arias that made Mario Lanza world famous in a new Australian tour.. Mark will pay tribute to the great Hollywood legend with a 20-piece orchestra conducted by one of Australia’s most versatile conductors and musical entertainers, Guy Noble. Mark Vincent - the highest selling and charting Classical Crossover Artist in ARIA Chart History - will perform Because You’re Mine, Arriverderci Roma, Be Mine Tonight, the iconic arias Nessun Dorma and many more. He will perform at 5pm on Sunday, November 12 at Hamer Hall.

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Dolly Diamond’s Bl*nkety Bl*nks Observer

■ Cabaret artist Dolly Diamond is back at the helm with a new season of Bl*nkety Bl*nks at TheAlex Theatre, St Kilda, from December 7 16 in a special Christmas edition of the Australian TV classic.

With her sharp-tongued wit and comedic talents, UK born Dolly is totally in her element.

Each night features six well known faces, usually celebrities, who throw caution to the wind and attempt to assist bewildered audience contestants to win fabulous prizes.

Dolly remarked "For those of you who haven't experienced one of my shows you're in for a real treat. And if you have, I expect you're still smiling", Dolly says.

"I love to work with an audience, not against them. That way, we all laugh together. I couldn't be happier returning for with this crazy game show/cabaret extravaganza."

Some of the many celebrities who appeared in the January edition of Dolly Di*mond’s Bl*nkety Bl*nks include Joel Creasey, Rhonda Burchmore, Anthony Callea, Virginia Trioli, Michael Rowland, Ally Fowler, Tim Campbell, Tottie Goldsmith and Toby Francis.

Boob Juice

In This Edition

Melbourne Arts - Peter Kemp .......... Page 10 Circus Oz boss stepos down ........... Page 11 West Hollywood - Gavin Wood ......... Page 12 Day At The Races - Alexandra ......... Page 13 Travel, Wine - David Ellis ................ Page 14 Whatever Happened - Kevin Trask .. Page 16 Classic Books - continued .............. Page 17 Sulky Snippets - Len Baker ............. Page 36 Country Crossroads ........................ Page 38 Jim Sherlock, Aaron Rourke ............ Page 40 Observer Racing - Ted Ryan ............ Page 44 Country Music Local Theatre Movies, DVDs Top 10 Lists

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Latest News ● Dolly Diamond Over the coming weeks there will be announcements as to which celebrities will be appearing on the panel for The Christmas Edition.

It’s variety, comedy and live entertainment as Dolly Diamond presents a night of entertainment with more than a passing nod to a television classic.

Dolly says she is thrilled to be at The Alex Theatre St Kilda for the very first time with Dolly Di*mond’s Bl*nkety Bl*nks the Christmas Edition which is playing a strictly–limited, six performance run.

Performance Dates: December 7 – 16 at 8pm (Thur, Fri, Sat) Venue: Alex Theatre, Level 1, 135 Fitzroy St., St Kilda Tickets: $55/$39 Bookings: ticketek.com.au 132 849 - Cheryl Threadgold

Artists’ Society

■ Victorian Artists' Society will stage Life Cycle - Yang Gang and Zhang Zhe Chinese Exhibition from today (Wed., Nov. 1) until Monday, November 6. Opening is at 6,.30pm tonight (Wed.).

Mike Brady show ■ Mike Brady will perform a new show at the Marquee, Toorak, on Friday, November 17. Adrian Scott will support.

Blush Gala Ball

■ The Veneto Club, Bulleen, will host the Blush Gala Ball on Friday, November 10.

Fubndraising will be for Doncare and Joel’s Journey. Book on 9850 7111.

AroundVictoria

Abbotsford death

■ Homicide Squad detectives are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a man in Abbotsford. Emergency services were called to Victoria St about 9.20pm on Monday night after reports of a stabbing. It is believed a man and a woman were involved in an altercation with the man being assaulted with an edged weapon. He was taken to hospital with life threatening injuries and later died.

Illness alert

■ Victorians are being warned against a state wide increase in a deadly disease that has already claimed five lives in 2017.

With six meningococcal cases diagnosed in the Geelong region in the past 12 months — double those reported in 2016 — the State Government has urged teens to take advantage of free vaccinations, says the GeelongAdvertiser.

MG takeover

■ Milk co-operative Murray Goulburn looks set to be sold to Canadian conglomerate Saputo for $1.3 billion. Should the binding agreement be approved by shareholders at an extraordinary meeting, it is expected Saputo will take on all of Murray Goulburn's operating assets and liabilities, says the Wangaratta Chronicle.

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Today (Wed.). Cloudy. 12°-18° Thurs. Mostly cloudy. 8°-16° Fri. Scattered showers. 7°1-6° Sat. Mostly cloudy. 8°-16° Sun. Mostly sunny. 8°-18°

Mike McColl Jones ● Chloe Hild in Boob Juice ■ Boob Juice is being presented at The But- personal experience of postnatal depression terfly Club from November 8 – 12. and shares her intimate thoughts and feelings This comedy tells of a first time mum with about motherhood, taking a closer look at what postnatal depression and all the trials of moth- impacted her depression and how she transerhood; poonamis, awkward mothers’ group formed her lifestyle to become the mother meetings, the perfectly presented mothers of she wanted to be.

Instagram, and the sudden transformation from The Butterfly Club beckons all mothers to career dominator to domestic chaos. grab a friend, leave the kids with a babysitter, Daisy is a first-time Mum who is in for the and enjoy a cheeky cocktail or two. shock of her life, as she quickly realises mothBoob Juice runs for five nights. Bookings erhood is not all lattes and active wear Recommended.? playdates.

Show Details: November 8-12 at 7pm Daisy has become a sleep-deprived milkCost: $25-32 ing cow, who can’t string a sentence together, Venue: The Butterfly Club, 5 Carson Place, let alone lose post-birth body weight in six Melbourne Tickets: thebutterflyclub.com weeks!

Bookings: thebutterflyclub.com As ‘Daisy’, actor Chloe Hild explores her - Cheryl Threadgold

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3. "Orchestra is great, but they never stop playing.

I reckon they'd perform under water.”

2. "It probably won't matter, but I don't think we've got enough lifeboats".

1. "Looking forward to dinner and Caesar salad, my favourite lettuce too - iceberg!"

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Selected Works - Tony Ameneiro This exhibition draws from the broad oeuvre of Tony Ameneiro's established printing practice.

The exhibition features a selection of works from his Flowering Heads, Skulls and Lilies series, together with his recent Head over Head series, which culminated in a successful touring exhibition throughout 2017.

Ameneiro's recent works are based on a research project, whereby the artist studied the scientific and medical collections of human anatomy at Sydney University's teaching museums: Shellshear and JT Wilson Museum.

With an enduring inquiry into depicting human and botanical forms, the artist explores themes of morality, renewal and regeneration.

Since 1981, Tony Ameneiro has exhibited regularly around Australia and internationally, cementing his place in the Australian arts scene.

The exhibition opens November 16 and runs until December 7.

Artist talk: Saturday November 18 at 2pm.

PG Printmaker Gallery 227 Brunswick St, Fitzroy.

- Peter Kemp

Brighton Art Society

■ The Brighton Art Societywas formed in 1978 by a small group of local artists with three main objectives.

■ To nurture an interest in art in the Brighton community.

■ To provide facilities for local artists to meet and work together.

■ To establish classes and provider teachers for people interested in learning, drawing and painting techniques.

Today the Society is a well established, nonprofit organisation catering for all ages from twenties to retirees.

It provides an enthusiastic and sharing environment to explore your creativity.

Day and evening classes are held in the Society's first floor studios at the Bayside Arts and Cultural Centre.

The Society's annual exhibition opens Thursday, November 9, from 6.30pm and will continue until Sunday, November 12.

The doors will be open from 10am till 7pm.The studio is located on the 1st floor of the Brighton Arts and Cultural Centre.

About 100 of the Society's approximate 220 members will be exhibiting and there will be just under 300 works on display in a diverse range of styles and mediums.

BaysideArts and Cultural Centre (Old Brighton Town Hall) Cnr Carpenter and Wilson Sts, Brighton.

- Peter Kemp

Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Victoria The Pirates of Penzance.

Director: Nicolas Renfree-Marks.

Musical Director: Trevor Henley.

DarebinArts and Entertainment Centre was the venue for GSOV's production of The Pirates of Penzance.

A rather different production to the usual and quoting the director Nicholas Renfree-Marks who said: “In my research on ass-kicking women, two themes emerged, women at work in WWI and the history of female pirates.

“Perfect. With some small but fundamental changes we were able to drag the show into the start of the next century setting it in an alternate steam-punk inspired timeline of WWI. “Pour wards in chancery became the daughters of the aristocracy, sent to the coast to avoid the London bombings. The bumbling bobbies became rifle shooting soldiers (MP's).

“We've swapped a wooden pirate ship for a brass landing craft and the Pirate King becomes a Pirate Queen."

GSOV set the mood of the evening with the entry into the centre surrounded by barb wire entanglements and in the foyer members of the society were dressed in the costumes of the period. Each side of the stage were more barb wire entanglements.

Your Stars with Kerry Kulkens Aries: March 21-April 20.

Colour green Lucky day Thursday Racing numbers 2.3.6.5.

Lotto numbers 1.12.16.26.36.30.

For most a sentimental mood prevails and you could be a sucker for a sad story. More work, more responsibility and for some more money and more travel. A romantic suggestion could surprise.

Taurus: April 21- May 20.

Colour mauve Lucky day. Tuesday Racing numbers 1.2.5.4.

Lotto numbers 1.20.28.26.35.30.

Most will be travelling to unusual places or spending time away from home. Be careful with what you spend or lose, more social activities; watch you do not set out to upset your digestive system.

● Peter Kemp During entry into the theatre, interval and at the end of the evening music of the period was played. All the above certainly set the mood for the such a production.

The opening scene was a landing craft entering from audience left dropping the front and then the pirates poured out. Each dressed individually and were celebrating Frederic's coming of age and completing his indentures..

Frederic was given a great performance by Nathan Michael Wright. Good stage presentation with a high quality voice, clear and not strained.

His love to be, Mabel, was played by Laura Slavin. Slavin had the correct innocence as envisaged, giving a great interpretation of the role matched by her lovely voice.

Frederic's nemesis, Ruth, as one may call her, his old nurse who told him she was very attractive but then he saw General Stanley's daughters.

Ruth was given a good performance by Katrina Katz who captured the essence of such a character.

Major General Stanley was played by Andrew McGrail. McGrail has a great sense of the comique giving an outstanding portrayal of the bumbling major general who told the pirates a little white lie which pricked his conscience for the balance of the sho.

Carol Whitfield was the Pirate Queen, good stage presence, with voice to ma tch with some good sword fighting sequences showing at that time women could stand up for their rights.

A well done production with good sets setting the period and the correct wording as necessary.

- Peter Kemp

Possum Gully Landscape forever drives my imagination Robyn P. Clarke.

"I see my landscapes in terms of texture and moods. And their most elemental aspect is time.

“Landscape gives scope and allows the flight of memory and emotions when one looks on the everchanging weather-face of nature.

“The textures of earth, sky, sun, sleet and rain are like painterly surfaces upon slow-moving forms.

“My landscapes are not realistic. But the truths within them, expressed through my acrylics, oil sticks andd other materials areas realistic as the country that surrounds us," says Robyn P. Clarke.

Also at this year's Spring Exhibition will be music by the Maryborough Big Band and sculpture in different forms will also be exhibited in the garde.

The exhibition opens on Saturday (November 4) at 11am and will remain open during Melbourne Cup Week until Tuesday November 7 and each weekend from 11am - 5pm until December 3.

Possum Gully Gallery 428 Possum Gully Rd. Adelaide Lead.

Directions: Travel 4km from Maryborough towards Avoca on the Pyrenees Hwy, turn left at Possum Gully Gallery sign and follow bitumen for 4.5km.

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Gemini. May 21- June 21.

Colour red Lucky day Friday Racing numbers 2.3.6.5.

Lotto numbers 3.6.12.28.3033.

Watch where your money goes. Many will receive an invitation to a major event. An idea of yours could be well received. Many will be lucky in a work related venture.

Cancer: June 22- July 22.

Colour white Lucky day. Thursday Racing numbers 1.5.9.3.

Lotto numbers 1.21.25.24.45.44.

Secrets have a way of coming to the surface, so keep your confidences to yourself. Someone close could need your help or advice. A lot of young things (kids, pups, kittens etc) could be moving in.

Leo: July 23-August 22.

Colour white Lucky day Sunday Racing numbers 1.3.5.9.

Lotto numbers 1.15.26.36.6.33.

Very busy period and the keen worker could be on for quite a boost, promotion or a rise. Someone from our past could be taking up a lot of your time.

Virgo.August 23- September 23.

Colour green Lucky day Monday Racing numbers 1.6.9.7.

Lotto numbers 1.15.29.36.39.22.

Many will be in for promotions. Sheer luck through being in the right place at the right time. Fanning up old flames or meeting the one and only love of your life.

Libra: September 24- October 23.

Colour green Lucky day Saturday Racing numbers 1.5.4.5.

Lotto numbers .1.14.45.20.22.33.

Contacts with people you have not seen for some time, a good period for communications on all levels. People in positions of authority who can further your career is more willing to co-operate. Romance is indicated.

Scorpio: October 24- November 22.

Colour cream Lucky dayWednesday Racing 1.3.9.6.

Lotto numbers 1.15.26.36.33.10.

Now is the time to get rid of the dead wood in your life.

Break with bad habits and improve your dietary routine.

Many will be planning to travel and happy times in the company of loved ones are indicated.

Sagittarius: November 23- December 20 Lucky colour orange Lucky day. Friday Racing numbers 2.5.4.1.

Lotto numbers 1.15.40.45.23.36.

Be more attentive to loved ones for happier results. This could turn out to be s very busy period and most will be making more money or being able to see it coming in the near future.

Capricorn: December 21- January 19.

Colour blue Lucky day Tuesday Racing 2.6.9.5.

Lotto numbers 1.15.26.36.38.7.

Conditions during this period could bring luck on many levels. Many will be buying or selling property or redecorating, and some may discover that there is no place like home.

Aquarius: January 20- February 19.

Lucky colour yellow Lucky dayWednesday Racing numbers 1.5.2.6.

Lotto numbers 2.36.31.10.22.5.

Push ahead with career ventures, success is indicated.

Chances you let go by in the past will come back again.

The unexpected could change your present lifestyle.

Pisces: February 20- March 20.

Colour purple.

Lucky day. Sunday Racing 1.6.9.8.

Lotto numbers 1.15.19.36.30.22.

Career opportunities are indicated. More material gain.

Love could bring the unusual or exotic. Now is the right time to go after things that you really want.

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Melbourne Arts John Barrowman

■ West End leading man John Barrowman will perform at the Arts Centre Melbourne, on Tuesday January 16.

John will make his Australian debut with an intimate performance of songs and stories at Hamer Hall.

In his first Australian concert, John Barrowman, accompanied by a live band, will perform a repertoire that ranges from Sting to Sondheim, Cole Porter to Barry Manilow and Big Band to Motown, with a few surprises in between.

John will also share stories and anecdotes from his life and career that are both humorous and heart-warming.

John Barrowman’s first performance was at his parents’ parties in Scotland when he was a wee boy.

He has been entertaining audiences on stage and screen ever since. Famous for his portrayal as the charming Captain Jack Harkness in BBC’s Doctor Who, John’s character was so popular he was given his own hugely successful spin-off series, Torchwood.

John also starred as Malcolm Merlyn in five seasons of Arrow.

John Barrowman says of his upcoming performance: “I am truly thrilled to be coming to Melbourne to sing and entertain my fan family down under.

“You will recognise my songs as I blend them with stories from moments and events through my life and career. If you don’t know John Barrowman, come along and I promise you a great night of entertainment.”

Arts Centre Melbourne, Hamer Hall Tuesday January 16 2018 7:30pm artscentremelbourne.com.au or 1300 182 183 For more information about Arts Centre Melbourne visit artscentremelbourne. com.au or phone 1300 182 183.

Short Shots

■ The Owl and Cat Theatre, Richomd, is closing. “In the coming year we will continue our production partnership with our Alaskan family at The Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Alaska,” says Gabrielle Savrone.

■ Iconic band Dragon will perform at The Palms at Crown in Melbourne on Saturday, December 9.

■ Two features and five short films will screen at the Palestinian Film Festival in Melbourne from November 2-5.

■ Australia's first Marvel Avengers S.T.A.T.I.O.N experience is to be located in Federation Square, opening in March. The world-class immersive experience brings participants into the Marvel universe, integrating science and modern technology with movie-based props to bring guests into the Avengers' world as a training Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D ■ Point Leo Estate on the Mornington Peninsula is now home to a large collection of works by Australian and international leading sculptors, including Melbourne local, Andrew Rogers. Rogers was commissioned to make three major sculptural works for the park.

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Australian Chamber Choir

■ The Australian Chamber Choircelebrates its 10th birthday with a concert tour, Venice, which will feature some of Australia’s finest musicians playing renaissance instruments accompanying the beautiful voices.

Directed by Douglas Lawrence, Venice is performing at two more venues and features music for multiple choirs of voices and instruments.

There will also be an array of early instruments including the renaissance instrument the leather horn-shaped cornetto, a brass section comprising two sackbuts (the ancestor of the modern trombone), a great bass racket, two curtals and a string section made up of a violin and two viola da gambas..

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s contra bassoonist Brock Imison is amongst the musicians performing with the Choir in this program.

He will play the great bass racket.

The ensemble also includes Australian Brandenburg Orchestra principal oboist Kirsten Barry, who plays the curtal and Sydney Conservatorium of Music teacher and Australian Brandenburg Orchestra principal artist Matthew Manchester, who plays the cornetto.

The rich sounds of Renaissance instruments complementing the pure voices of Australian Chamber Choir will ensure Venice is an uplifting finale to the 2017 concert series.

Brighton: Saturday, November 11, 3pm St Andrew’s Corner of New and Church Sts, Brighton

● Elizabeth Lieschke (left), Elspeth Bawden, Alastair Cooper-Golec will perform in The Australian Chamber Choir’s Venice.

Photo:Emma Phillips Middle Park: Sunday, November 12, 3pm Our Lady of Mount Carmel, 210 Richardson St, Middle Park.

- Cheryl Threadgold

Circus Oz boss steps down ■ Wendy McCarthy has announced that she would retire as Circus Oz Chair after nine years in the role.

Circus Oz General Manager Lou Oppenheim paid tribute: “Wendy has stewarded a period of significant transition for Circus Oz. On the strength of her passionate and committed leadership we are poised for an exciting and creative future.”

As Ms McCarthy prepared to leave Circus Oz, she announced that Nick Yates, a current Director of the Board, will take over the role of Chair for the next two years.

Mr Yates has extensive board and executive leadership experience ranging from ASX listed entities to not-for-profit organisations in the arts and education sectors including six years as Chair of the children’s cancer charity, RedKite.

With a successful career in the construction, property and facilities management industries, Mr Yates is currently Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of BSA Limited, a communications, construction and technical services business.

“Nick has made a significant contribution to Circus Oz since joining the Board six years ago, particularly in assisting with the design and commissioning of our new custom-built circus home in Collingwood, generously funded by the Victorian State Government,” Ms McCarthy said.

In addition, Ms McCarthy announced that Tanya Hosch will join the Circus Oz Board.

Ms Hosch is currently the General Manager, Inclusion and Social Policy with the Australian

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ATorres Strait Islander woman, Ms Hosch recently served as Joint Campaign Director and the public face of the RECOGNISE campaign and is a former board member of several organisations, including the Bangarra Dance Theatre.

“I am delighted that Circus Oz will once again have a person who identifies as First Nations at the board level, and that someone of Tanya’s corporate and board experience has decided to join us,” Ms McCarthy said.

“I will miss the energy and creativity of the company but feel confident that it will continue to grow and do great things under its new leadership. I wish Circus Oz the best of luck,” Ms McCarthy said.

- Cheryl Threadgold

Searchlight Dinner

■ Suicide is responsible for 500 deaths a year in Victoria, double the road toll is hidden in urban communities according to John Patterson, a guest speaker at the Eastern Health Searchlight Dinner to raise funds for mental health research in Melbourne next week.

A farmer and member of the Bellarine Otway District Freemasons, John Patterson has spent the last two years travelling and speaking to Lodges and community groups about suicide prevention. He lost his brother Charles, a sheep farmer, to suicide 23 years ago.

John Patterson said "within a country community a suicide is quickly known because of the traditional close knit country communities with people all knowing each other. In the city urban insolation and disconnection between people who can even live in the same street means suicide remains a 'silent killer' in urban environments.

"The Eastern Health Searchlight Dinner last night (Tues.) to raise funds for research into the causes of suicide is a major opportunity to start an urgently needed program to look more comprehensively into this devastating problem.

Local Theatre Shows

■ Nova Music Theatre: Les Miserables Until November 10 at The Whitehorse Centre,397 Whitehorse Rd., Nunawading. Director: Noel Browne; Musical Director: Phil Osborne; Choreographer: Wayne Robinson. www.novamusictheatre.com.au ■ PEP Productions: Reefer Madness Until November 4 at the Doncaster Playhouse, 679 Doncaster Rd., Doncaster. Tickets: $32/$27.

Bookings: https://www.trybooking.com/book/ event?eid=310518 ■ Brighton Theatre Company: The Return November 9 - 25 at Brighton Theatre, Arts and Cultural Centre, Carpenter St., Brighton.

Director: Deborah Fabbro. Bookings: 1300 752 126 www.brightontheatreco.com ■ The Basin Theatre: Australia Day (by Jonathan Biggins) November 10 - December 2 at The Basin Theatre, Doongalla Rd., The Basin. Director: Angela Ellis. Bookings:1300 784 868 www.tebasintheatre.com.au ■ Mordialloc Theatre Company: Leading Ladies (by Ken Ludwig) November 10 - 25 at the Shirley Burke Theatre, 64 Parkers Rd., Parkdale. Director: Tim Long. Bookings: www.mordialloctheatre.com ■ Heidelberg Theatre Company: Blood Brothers (by Willie Russell) November 17 December 2 at Heidelberg Theatre, 36 Turnham Ave., Rosanna. Director: Bruce Akers. Bookings: 9457 4117 or email htc@htc.org.au ■ Strathmore Theatrical Arts Group (STAG): Face to Face and Charitable Intent (by David Williamson) November 9 - 19 at the Strathmore Community Theatre, Corner Loeman and Napier Sts., Strathmore. Tickets" $20/$15. Bookings: 9382 6284 www.stagtheatre.org/reservations ■ Peridot Theatre: Bloody Murder (by Ed Sala) November 17 - December 2 at the Unicorn Theatre, Lechte Rd., Mt Waverley. Director: Dexter Bourke. Bookings: 9808 0770 or email tickets@peridot.com.au ■ Frankston Theatre Group: Caught in the Net November 17 - December 8 at the Mount Eliza Community Centre, Canadian Bay Rd., Mount Eliza. Director: Roy Thompson. Cabaret seating, BYO refreshments. Bookings: 1300 665 377.

■ Williamstown Musical Theatre Company: Rent November 10 - 25 at the Williamstown Mechanics Institute, Cnr Electra and Melbourne Rds., Williamstown.

Director: Stuart Dodge; Musical Director: Stacey-Louise Camilleri; Choreographer: Ashley Tynan. Bookings: www.wmtc.org.au ■ Brighton Theatre Company: Friday Magic (Inaugural Youth Production) December 14 - 17 at Brighton Theatre, Arts and Cultural Centre, Carpenter St., Brighton. Director: Pedro Ramos. Tickets: $10. Bookings: 1300 752 120 or www.brightontheatreco.com

Auditions

■ Eltham Little Theatre: The Importance of Being Earnest November 4 and 5 at 2.00pm and November 10 at 7.30pm in the Rehearsal Room, Eltham Performing Arts Centre, Main Rd., Research. Director: Brad Buckingham. Enquiries: 0421 054 138 ■ The Basin Theatre Group: Australia Day (by Jonathan Biggins) November 10 - December 2 at The Basin Theatre, Doongalla Rd., The Basin. Director: Angela Ellis. Bookings: 1300 784 668 or www.thebasin theatre.org.au ■ Beaumaris Theatre: Chicago November 11 - 14 at Beaumaris Theatre, 82 Wells Rd., Beaumaris. Director: Debbie Keyt; Musical Director: Rhonda Vaughan; Choreographer: Camilla Klesman. Further details: www. beaumaristheatre.com.au - Cheryl Threadgold

Victoria Chorale

■ Celebrate Christmas with Victoria Chorale. Capture the spirit of Christmas as Victoria Chorale sings Saint-Saens powerful Christmas Oratorio, Vaughan Williams quintessentially British Fantasia on Christmas Carols, Lauridsen’s soaring O Magnum Mysterium and some of the most beautiful Christmas Carols. Mario Dobernig conducts the choir. 7.30 pm Sat .December 9, St Peter’s, Eastern Hill .

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Stateside with Gavin Wood in West Hollywood

Trick or treat on Santa Monica Blvd ■ Hi everyone, from my suite at the Ramada Plaza Hotel and Suites comes this week's news.

Out and About

Biggest Halloween party ■ Last night (Tues., LAtime) West Hollywood held its annual Halloween Carnival along Santa Monica Boulevard between Doheny Drive and La Cienega Boulevard.

Just 30 days after the mass shooting in Las Vegas that tragically took the lives of 58 outdoor concertgoers and injured more than 500 more, West Hollywood annual Halloween Carnival brought hundreds of thousands of people from near and far to the world's largest Halloween celebration.

"The annual Halloween Carnival is always such an exciting event," said West Hollywood Mayor John Heilman, "I'm amazed each year by the imagination and talent that go into creating elaborate and inventive costumes.

“The joy of the crowd is palpable and the celebration is a wonderful testament to the City of West Hollywood's creativity."

Tied the knot?

■ Margot Robbie has secretly been married to longtime boyfriend Tom Ackerley for three years despite reports they wed in December.

It has been widely reported that Robbie and British film director Ackerley exchanged vows in a secret ceremony on the Gold Coast in Australia last year.

But the Goodbye Christopher Robin star was overheard at the Hamptons International Film Festival revealing they've in fact been married for a lot longer.

● Pictured out front of the Ramada Plaza Hotel and Suites at "Halloween Central" Is Ramada Booking Manager, Joanna Ciocan with Managing Director of the Ramada, Alan Johnson, and Guest Services Manager, Christina Cazan.

RIP Tom Petty ■ Tom Petty was laid to rest at the Self-Realisation Fellowship Lake Shrine in Pacific Palisades, California.

The late musician's family and friends paid tribute to him at the temple, shrine, and meditation garden, where George Harrison's funeral was also held in 2001.

Petty's daughter Anna Kim Violette Petty shared photos of the ceremony to her Instagram account.

Elton says goodbye ■ Elton John will be pushing back from his piano at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas for the last time next year.

John's last performance of his show The Million Dollar Piano will be on May 19, 2018, after more than 200 shows.

English most popular ■ In California with a July 2016 population of 39,250,017 is the nation's most populous state 44.6 percent of the people five years of age and older do not speak English at home, according to data released this week by the Census Bureau.

At the same time, according to the Census Bureau, 18.6 percent of California residents, aged five and older, do not speak English "very well."

That ranks California No.1 among the states for the percentage of people in both of these categories. Nationwide, 21.6 percent speak a language other than English at home and 8.6 percent speak English less than very well.

Texas ranked second for the percentage of residents five and older who do not speak English at home (35.6 percent). New Mexico ranked third (34.5 percent); New Jersey ranked fourth (31.7 percent) and New York ranked fifth (31.0 percent).

■ The authors of "Joan Rivers Confidential" her daughter, Melissa Rivers, and Joan's longtime pal Scott Currie got some stellar help. They were given permission to publish letters to Joan from the likes of Tom Hanks, David Letterman, Bo Derek and Meryl Streep. Streep wrote, "Stephen Hawking and I could do a show about black holes, and then, I could disappear into one, a star collapsing in upon itself until it becomes at once invisible and incomparably dense." One letter Joan penned herself and sent to Kathy Bates, who was upset when Rivers joked that the movie version of the Titanic wouldn't have sunk if Bates playing the Unsinkable Molly Brown hadn't been onboard.

■ Faye Dunaway caused a big drama at celebrity favorite Marie Robinson Salon in Manhattan after racking up a $3,000 bill for extensions to her tousled locks complaining about the price and storming off in a huff. "She claimed she didn't know it was that expensive and then said, 'I'm not paying that. I can't believe how expensive this is. I'm only paying half!'" a source said. Finally, "they took her half, but staff explained, 'You're going to have to pay the rest.' And Faye stormed out screeching, 'This is ridiculous!' Everyone in the salon was aghast "Her hair looked great so she should pay!"

■ John Stamos had a big weekend at Disneyland. The "Full House" alum popped the question to his longtime girlfriend Caitlin McHugh at the magical theme park. "I asked, she said yes! and we lived happily ever after," Stamos, 54, captioned a drawing of him and McHugh, 31, standing before the Magic Kingdom. The couple has been dating for a year and a half.

■ Adele is poised to become Las Vegas' highest-paid resident, after it emerged one of the strip's finest hotels is preparing to offer her $500,000 a show. Bosses at the posh Wynn Hotel want to sign the London-born diva for a 12-month residency. And if she agrees to the money-spinning deal just one performance a week in front of a Vegas audience would net her over $26 million.

■ Billy Joel and wife Alexis Roderick have a lot to celebrate.

The 68-year-old "Piano Man" and his wife welcomed their third daughter, Remy Anne Alexis, 35, gave birth to little Remy at 7:50 p.m. at New York University Hospital. She came in weighing 7 pounds, 3 ounces.

Airlines ready

GavinWood

From my Suite at the Ramada Plaza Complex on Santa Monica Blvd

■ New security measures including stricter passenger screening take effect on Thursday on all U.S. bound flights to comply with government requirements designed to avoid an incabin ban on laptops, airlines said. Airlines contacted by Reuters said the new measures could include short security interviews with passengers at check-in or the boarding gate, sparking concerns over flight delays and extended processing time. They will affect 325,000 airline passengers on about 2,000 commercial flights arriving daily in the United States, on 180 airlines from 280 airports in 105 countries. The United States announced the new rules in June to end its restrictions on carry-on electronic devices on planes coming from 10 airports in eight countries in the Middle East and North Africa in response to unspecified security threats.

Ain’t That A Shame

● Elton John

‘Mom’ star single

We’d love to see you

■ As rumors continued to mount about an alleged affair between Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence, Mom star Anna Faris recalled feeling self-conscious amid speculation about her eightyear union with the Passengers leading man.

"Even before they met in person, my publicist, out of the blue, pulled me aside and said, 'Anna, listen, there are going to be paparazzi all over them,'" Faris penned in her newly released memoir, Unqualified, via the Daily Mail.

"There are going to be shots of them laughing together on their way to the set. There are going to be stories circulating, and you have to brace yourself for this."

■ If you are considering a move to Los Angeles or just coming over for a holiday 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 and The Local Paper.

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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■ Rock 'n' Roll and R&B pioneer Fats Domino has died at 89 years old. The iconic New Orleans boogie-woogie pianist known for songs like "Blueberry Hill," "Ain't That a Shame," and "Blue Monday" passed away peacefully surrounded by friends and family. President Bill Clinton recognized Domino with awards throughout his career, including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1987 and the National Medal of Arts.

Dylan’s guitar auctioned ■ A guitar played by Bob Dylan at notable concerts in 1970s is expected to sell for more than $300,000 when it goes up for auction next month. Heritage Auctions said the 1963 Martin D-28 acoustic guitar that once belonged to the singer-songwriter will be offered up Nov. 11 in Dallas. Heritage says Dylan played the guitar through his set at George Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh in New York City in 1971 and during his Rolling Thunder Revue tour from October 1975 to May 1976.

- Gavin Wood

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‘A Day At The Races’, Alexandra

● Lindy Cowles, Kim Walsh, Rochelle Lindsell and Tracy Tennick

● Jeff and Maureen Edwards of Yea

● Ken Smedley on the Lions Club grill at the Alexandra Races

● Gary Solomon and Tallulah Lacey performed.

● Christine Murray and Anne-Maree Keath of St Mary’s Primary School

● Deb Robinson and Ray Mathieson of the Lions Club of Alexandra

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By David Ellis

Not-so-lucky at Chinese airport

■ An elderly Chinese passenger who threw a handful of coins towards the engine of a jet she was about to board in China in the belief it would bring her flight good luck, has instead brought bad luck to her dozens of fellow passengers, as well as the airline that owned the plane – and herself.

Because after other passengers told crew they saw the 76 year old toss the coins towards the engine as she walked across the tarmac at Anqing in eastern China one evening a few weeks ago, the plane’s operators grounded the flight.

Passengers were taken off and put into hotels for the night, and a team of engineers and mechanics spent several hours searching the engine to recover a single coin, and to find others scattered over a wide area on the ground below it.

The delayed passengers were finally flown to their destination of Kunming in south-western China the next morning.

And the name of the airline involved? Would you believe it was Lucky Air… Bizarrely it was the second time this year that a flight in China had been delayed because of coins being thrown into an aircraft’s engine.

In June an 80-year-old Chinese woman tossed nine small coins into an engine of a China Southern Airlines plane at Shanghai’s Pudong In-

ternational Airport. The coins totalled the equivalent of just AU$0.32cents, but to move passengers to other flights, re-schedule services and crews, and search the affected aircraft’s engine cost China Southern 1-million Chinese Yuan, or around the equivalent of AU$193,000.

The coin-tossers involved in both events have been questioned by police, but no action has been taken against either of them because of their ages, and their deep religious beliefs that they were bringing luck to their journeys.

He left how much?

● NOT so lucky when a passenger tossed a handful of coins towards the engine of one of this airline’s planes in eastern China.

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with David Ellis

Real men DO drink Rosé

● Above: In France last year makers in Provence (pictured,) sold a mind-blowing 176,000,000 bottles of rosés on local and international markets.

● From Calabria Bros Wines in Griffith NSW an exceptional 2016 Barossa Valley Sophie Rosé, that at $18 is ideal with Italian antipasti tapas, or a coconut prawn curry.

■ There’s something of a revolution underway in the world of wine, with markets from Australia to Europe, Africa to the USA, and just about everywhere in-between, recording phenomenal growth in the sales of pink rosé.

Leading liquor retailers in Australia say they’ve seen sales of rosés leap more than 20 per cent over the past year, in the US the figure is nearly double that at 41 per cent for the year, while UK rosé sales doubled last summer over those of 2016… and in France last year makers in Provence alone sold a staggering 176,000,000 bottles of the wine on local and international markets.

And so popular is the pink drink becoming in Australia, especially offered chilled for outdoors partying and dining enjoyment in our warmer Spring and Summer months, that some experts are predicting rosé will actually outsell white wines in this country within the next ten years Proving ideal on hot summer’s days for being crisp, cool, tart (and even sometimes fruity,) rosé is a wine that can be enjoyed on its own as a refresher, or as “Frosé” – a concoction that’s grabbed attention world-wide, and is made by freezing rosé with lemon juice and sugar, creating as some say, a kind of grown-ups’ Slush Puppie.

And the most interesting thing in all of this, is that makers and sellers alike say that it is men who are now leading the charge in rosé sales, happily ordering it by the glass at the bar, by the carafe to share as a group, and particularly in America, in magnum

size bottles in restaurants and hotels.

And they no longer have any concern about being seen tossing down this one-time “girlie” pink drink, readily letting the world know that these days Real Men Do Drink Rosé As a food companion, rosé is ideal with everything from antipasto to party finger foods, pate, salami, calamari, and for something more substantial, a prawn curry.

One to note ■ Griifith-based Calabria Bros Wines have an almost magical rosé in their Barossa Valley Sophie Rosé 2016 that maestro Bill Calabria crafted from Barossa Shiraz, Grenache, Mourvedre and a touch of Pinot Grigio.

With flavours suggesting freshcut apples and succulent red forest berries, this wine named after Bill’s first granddaughter Sophie, has a nicely savoury and dry finish to enjoy slightly chilled with a coconut prawn curry, or with Italian antipasti tapas. And at $18 it’s nicely priced for family enjoyment.

■ WINESPEAK: When a winemaker speaks of their wine having suggestions of being ‘biscuity,’ they’re referring to it having flavours and aromas that remind you of yeast or bread dough.

- David Ellis

■ An Australian traveller who left close to AU$40,000 in Australian and Thai currency in a hotel room in Bangkok when he checked out, certainly chose the right hotel to do it in.

Because a maid who found the money, instead of slipping it into a brown paper bag, resigning and walking out of the hotel to disappear somewhere up-country with what was the equivalent of around 15 years of what she would earn cleaning guests’ rooms and scrubbing their toilets, handed it in to management who in turn told local police, who then tracked down the forgetful owner.

The maid, a Ms Noina Durana has had praise heaped upon her by local Thai tourism authorities, while the 40room Armoni Hotel By Andacura in the Sukhumvit 11 area of Bangkok where she works, has reaped international kudos from her honesty.

And while the appreciative owner of the forgotten money said he would share his experience of Ms Durana’s honesty with everyone he knew on his return to Australia, he made no mention of a few Thai baht (the local currency) perhaps going her way.

Time flies

■ IT WAS some 84 years ago in 1933 that America’s Boeing Aircraft Company launched a revolutionary new passenger plane it called the Boeing 247, an extraordinary machine of all-metal construction rather than the traditional canvas stretched over wood, twin-engined compared with regular single-engined, and landing gear that could be wound back into the aircraft’s body to give it greater speed in flight.

And, struth, it would be able to fly between New York and Los Angeles in just twenty-hours with seven stops along the way, saving over seven hours on-then flying times.

So revolutionary was it, in fact, that a Boeing executive proudly proclaimed to the press after its first flight: “And it did so carrying ten passengers – there will never be a bigger plane built.”

We wonder what that exec would say if confronted today by a gargantuan Airbus A380 of someone like Emirates Airlines that can carry 500 or more passengers for up to 15,000 kilometres – or Auckland to Abu Dhabi – in just over 17-hours… and non-stop?

Emirates is the world’s biggest operator of the A380, with some 97 currently in service and orders for a further 40 more at US$437m each (AU$555m.)

And according to the maker, somewhere around 190,000,000 people have flown in an A380 since its first flight in April 2005.

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■ I think my first memory of hearing a Fats Domino song was Ain't That A Shame back in 1956.

I loved the deep resonance of his voice and the strong beat behind the song.

Rock and Roll was new to us pimply-faced teenagers and we couldn't get enough of the American rock songs which became part of the soundtrack of our lives.

Antoine Dominique ‘Fats’ Domino, Jr was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1928.

Antoine studied piano at the age of nine. He left school to work in a factory so that he could play piano in the bars at night.

Antoine mastered the Boogie Woogie techniques and the classic Rhythm and Blues piano style.

He married his childhood sweetheart, Rosemary. He became a father and almost lost his hand in a factory accident.

Antoine was given the nick-name of ‘Fats’ and it stuck.

He joined trumpeter Dave Bartholomew's band. Dave recognised the special talent of Fats and arranged a contract for him with Imperial Records.

In 1949 Fats Domino had his first million selling hit song The Fat Man and Dave became his manager.

Dave Bartholomew and Fats Domino cowrote many of the hit songs which included Ain't That A Shame, I'm In Love Again, Blueberry

Whatever Happened To ...

Fats Domino

By Kevin Trask of 3AW and 96.5 Inner FM

Hill, I'm Walkin', Blue Monday, I'm Walkin' to New Orleans and The Big Beat.

He appeared in two films Shake Rattle and Rock and The Girl Can't Help It. In 1963 Fats left Imperial Records and recorded with several other record labels.

In 1975 Fats Domino performed one show at Festival Hall in Melbourne as part of a national tour. He was accompanied by his 10-piece band.

The show ran for about two hours. Fats brought a lot of expensive jewellery with him and it had to be guarded - his star shaped watch alone had 352 diamonds on it. The tour also included New Zealand.

My friend Vince Spiteri is a huge fan of Fats Domino and has visited his home in New Or-

● Fats Domino leans several times. Domino was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1987.

In 1998, President Clinton awarded him the National Medal of Arts.

When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005 Fats and his family were rescued from their home by boat, but they lost many possessions in the storm.

In 2007 Fats Domino returned to the stage at the New Orleans Venue Tipitina's to sing 11 songs in 30 minutes.

It was a sold out house of 500 enthusiastic fans.As Fats was leaving the stage the compere suggested, "How about Blue Monday?" and Fats returned for an encore.

He made one more stage appearance in 2009 to raise funds to help victims of Hurricane Katrina. Apparently, Fats was a very shy person and had no desire to tour anymore.

Antoine and Rosemary raised eight children in the same ramshackle neighbourhood where he grew up, but they did it in style - in a white mansion, trimmed in pink, yellow and lavender He loved the people and the food in his hometown. He lived a quiet life and everybody in the working class area loved him.

Sadly, Fats Domino passed away from natural causes last week at the age of 89. The media throughout the world paid great tribute to one of the legends of rock and roll - Fats Domino.

Harry Connick Jnr tweeted RIP fats domino ... you helped pave the way for New Orleans piano players... see you on top o that blueberry hill in the sky Kevin Trask Kevin can be heard on 3AW Mike Till Midnight Saturday at 8.10pm The Time Tunnel - on Remember When - Sundays at 9.10pm And on 96.5 FM That's Entertainment Sundays, 12 Noon

Hyper Real Nights at National Gallery Hyper Real Nights The National Gallery of Australia takes the weird and wonderful Hyper Real experience to the next level with Hyper Real Nights, three unforgettable evenings of cutting-edge cocktails, astonishing sculptures and live performances.

Featuring the Australian Dance Party, spoken word by Omar Musa and electric violinist Mr Michael, Hyper Real Nights (November 10, 17, 24.) invites visitors to embrace the uncanny and experience the familiar in extraordinary ways.

Drawing inspiration from the jawdropping artworks in Hyper Real, contemporary dancers from the Australian Dance Party harness the power and playfulness of the moving body as hey travel through the exhibition.

Lingering in Patricia Piccini's extraordinary video installation, The Breathing Room 2000, the dancers interact with their audience to create a dynamic response to the artist's fascination with evolution and ethics.

Fast, fresh and often funny, writer, rapper and slam poet Omar Musa leads his listeners on a journey through the gallery space, performing a thought-provoking and downright provocative original piece inspired by hyperrealism.

Classically trained violinist Mr Michael uses his instrument to break the boundaries of musical genres, fusing rock, classical, hip hop. house, jazz, funk and soul.

With Hyper Real featuring artists that extend the traditional parameters of the hyperreal genre through kinetic sculpture, video and bio art and virtual reality, Mr Michael provides the perfect musical accompaniment to the NGA's after hours adventure.

National Gallery of Australia.

Parkes Place, Parkes, ACT.

The Arts

with Peter Kemp is made with the finest craftsmanship.

There will only be two carpets available as part of this exhibition - one will be raffled and one will be for sale.

Exhibition opens December 1 and runs until December 17.

St Kilda's Alright: The Fred Negro Experience - Exhibition Highlights.

Bright Space, 8 Martin St, St Kilda.

MUMA

Australian Art Orchestra: ELECTRO acoustic.

From trumpets and tape loops to percussion and pedals, explore the spaces where traditional approaches meet experimental electronic sound creation with Australian art Orchestra artistic director Peter Knight.

Performed in sonic partnership with extraordinary next generation cross-disciplinary musicians Reuben Leeis and Nat Grant.

Sunday November 5 at 3pm - 5pm.

Monash University of Museum of Art. Caulfield Campus Ground Floor Building F ■ This is a limited-edition carpet de- 900 Dandenong Rd. Caulfield East. signed by James Lomas, featuring the artwork of Fed Negro.

This 3 x 4 metre carpet is a one-ofnot Handstanding: a-kind creation - designed and made Grandstanding Larissa McFarlane is a printmaker, just for this exhibition. street artist and disability with The carpet is hand woven in hand a penchant for making activist, milestones, knitted NZ wool and bamboo silk and

St Kilda’s Alright

At Footscray

stands. These skills and quirks exist as a result of the artist's 18-year-ond brain injury.

As Larissa honours her secondtime entry into adulthood, she will unite her various identities and practice some pride.

During her residency, Larissa explores identity, especially that of disability, does lots of handstands and draws maps of safe places.

Exhibition runs until December 9.

Venue: FCAC Gallery.

HowAbout a Rainbow?

Colour your mind at FCAC's annual Art Life exhibition. Building on walking tours and local art residencies though out the year, artists have experienced artists have explored new colour combinations and developed responses to experiences through food, imagery, marks and impressions.

Exhibition runs until December 9.

Footscray Community Arts Centre 45 Moreland St, Footscray.

National Gallery Mel O'Callaghan: Ensemble.

The human body is pushed to its limits in Australian artist Mel O'Callaghan's powerful sevenminute video work, Ensemble.

Exploring the idea of resilience in the face of violence, Ensemble features one man pitted against the visceral force of a jet of water.

Born in Sydney and currently residing in Paris, O'Callaghan's diverse and dynamic practice spans painting, film, installation and performance.

Prior to its Australian premiere at NGV Australia, this large-scale, silent video installation was shown at the Centre Pompidou, in both Paris and Managa in 2016, and at the Institut d'Art Contemporain Villebanne/ RhôneAlpes in Lyon, France in 2018.

Mel O'Callaghan: Ensemble is one of five solo exhibitions be leading Australian artists fir the NGVAustralia's 2017-2018 summer program.

Ensemble will be on display at the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australiaat Federation Square, Swanston St. Melbourne from November 17 to March 12.

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OK. With John O’Keefe

● Chris Hemsworth

Chris Hemsworth, Mighty Thor

■ Is there anything Chris Hemsworth can't do ? His latest gig is to narrate a commercial to launch a new Aussie wine, Double Barrel by Jacobs Creek.

Chris is hot property when it comes to commercials as his series of spots for the AFLFinals were spot on

Mike Munro and Bushrangers

■ There's no stopping veteran current affairs reporter Mike Munro. He's the complete package as this foot-in-the-door reporter signed on for a four part series Lawless - The Real Bushrangers to be seen over the next year on the History Channel on Foxtel.

Mike is one of the most experienced reporters serving his time on newspapers and then to far flung places for 60 Minutes.

Life and times of Cher

■ The highs and lows of Cher are to be made into a musical. The stage production was first drafted in 2012. Now it's getting serious with the launch planned for June 2019 in Chicago.

Charlie returns

■ Another blast from the past is a remake of the seventies TV series Charlie's Angels. This time it will be a movie for release 2019.

Way back when the original cast starred in feature movies, the Charlie's films grossed $ 250 million worldwide and Sony are hoping the new version will better previous records.

Money please

■ Interesting to see the Ten network advertising on air for people to attend their Intensity Conference with a view to promoting on Ten. It seems that not so long ago that Ten, and other stations were displaying the 'House Full' sign and had a waiting list of companies wanting to advertise. How times change.

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn And t’other we stuck in the band of Uncle Silas’s hat, which was on the bureau, because we heard the children say their pa and ma was going to the runaway nigger’s house this morning, and then went to breakfast, and Tom dropped the pewter spoon in Uncle Silas’s coat-pocket, and Aunt Sally wasn’t come yet, so we had to wait a little while.

And when she come she was hot and red and cross, and couldn’t hardly wait for the blessing; and then she went to sluicing out coffee with one hand and cracking the handiest child’s head with her thimble with the other, and says: “I’ve hunted high and I’ve hunted low, and it does beat all what HAS become of your other shirt.”

My heart fell down amongst my lungs and livers and things, and a hard piece of corn-crust started down my throat after it and got met on the road with a cough, and was shot across the table, and took one of the children in the eye and curled him up like a fishing-worm, and let a cry out of him the size of a warwhoop, and Tom he turned kinder blue around the gills, and it all amounted to a considerable state of things for about a quarter of a minute or as much as that, and I would a sold out for half price if there was a bidder. But after that we was all right again — it was the sudden surprise of it that knocked us so kind of cold. Uncle Silas he says: “It’s most uncommon curious, I can’t understand it. I know perfectly well I took it OFF, because —” “Because you hain’t got but one ON. Just LISTEN at the man! I know you took it off, and know it by a better way than your wool-gethering memory, too, because it was on the clo’s-line yesterday — I see it there myself. But it’s gone, that’s the long and the short of it, and you’ll just have to change to a red flann’l one till I can get time to make a new one. And it ’ll be the third I’ve made in two years. It just keeps a body on the jump to keep you in shirts; and whatever you do manage to DO with ’m all is more’n I can make out. A body ’d think you WOULD learn to take some sort of care of ’em at your time of life.”

“I know it, Sally, and I do try all I can. But it oughtn’t to be altogether my fault, because, you know, I don’t see them nor have nothing to do with them except when they’re on me; and I don’t believe I’ve ever lost one of them OFF of me.”

“Well, it ain’t YOUR fault if you haven’t, Silas; you’d a done it if you could, I reckon. And the shirt ain’t all that’s gone, nuther. Ther’s a spoon gone; and THAT ain’t all. There was ten, and now ther’s only nine. The calf got the shirt, I reckon, but the calf never took the spoon, THAT’S certain.”

“Why, what else is gone, Sally?”

“Ther’s six CANDLES gone — that’s what. The rats could a got the candles, and I reckon they did; I wonder they don’t walk off with the whole place, the way you’re always going to stop their holes and don’t do it; and if they warn’t fools they’d sleep in your hair, Silas — YOU’D never find it out; but you can’t lay the SPOON on the rats, and that I know.”

“Well, Sally, I’m in fault, and I acknowledge it; I’ve been remiss; but I won’t let to-morrow go by without stopping up them holes.”

“Oh, I wouldn’t hurry; next year ’ll do. Matilda Angelina Araminta PHELPS!” Whack comes the thimble, and the child snatches her claws out of the sugar-bowl without fooling around any. Just then the nigger woman steps on to the passage, and says: “Missus, dey’s a sheet gone.”

“A SHEET gone! Well, for the land’s sake!”

“I’ll stop up them holes to-day,” says Uncle Silas, looking sorrowful.

“Oh, DO shet up! — s’pose the rats took the SHEET? WHERE’S it gone, Lize?”

“Clah to goodness I hain’t no notion, Miss’ Sally.

She wuz on de clo’sline yistiddy, but she done gone: she ain’ dah no mo’ now.”

“I reckon the world IS coming to an end. I NEVER see the beat of it in all my born days. A shirt, and a sheet, and a spoon, and six can —” “Missus,” comes a young yaller wench, “dey’s a brass cannelstick miss’n.”

“Cler out from here, you hussy, er I’ll take a

Mark Twain skillet to ye!”

Well, she was just a-biling. I begun to lay for a chance; I reckoned I would sneak out and go for the woods till the weather moderated. She kept a-raging right along, running her insurrection all by herself, and everybody else mighty meek and quiet; and at last Uncle Silas, looking kind of foolish, fishes up that spoon out of his pocket. She stopped, with her mouth open and her hands up; and as for me, I wished I was in Jeruslem or somewheres. But not long, because she says: “It’s JUST as I expected. So you had it in your pocket all the time; and like as not you’ve got the other things there, too. How’d it get there?”

“I reely don’t know, Sally,” he says, kind of apologizing, “or you know I would tell. I was astudying over my text in Acts Seventeen before breakfast, and I reckon I put it in there, not noticing, meaning to put my Testament in, and it must be so, because my Testament ain’t in; but I’ll go and see; and if the Testament is where I had it, I’ll know I didn’t put it in, and that will show that I laid the Testament down and took up the spoon, and —” “Oh, for the land’s sake! Give a body a rest! Go ’long now, the whole kit and biling of ye; and don’t come nigh me again till I’ve got back my peace of mind.”

I’d a heard her if she’d a said it to herself, let alone speaking it out; and I’d a got up and obeyed her if I’d a been dead. As we was passing through the setting-room the old man he took up his hat, and the shingle-nail fell out on the floor, and he just merely picked it up and laid it on the mantel-shelf, and never said nothing, and went out. Tom see him do it, and remembered about the spoon, and says: “Well, it ain’t no use to send things by HIM no

more, he ain’t reliable.” Then he says: “But he done us a good turn with the spoon, anyway, without knowing it, and so we’ll go and do him one without HIM knowing it — stop up his ratholes.”

There was a noble good lot of them down cellar, and it took us a whole hour, but we done the job tight and good and shipshape. Then we heard steps on the stairs, and blowed out our light and hid; and here comes the old man, with a candle in one hand and a bundle of stuff in t’other, looking as absent-minded as year before last. He went a mooning around, first to one rat-hole and then another, till he’d been to them all. Then he stood about five minutes, picking tallow-drip off of his candle and thinking. Then he turns off slow and dreamy towards the stairs, saying: “Well, for the life of me I can’t remember when I done it. I could show her now that I warn’t to blame on account of the rats. But never mind — let it go. I reckon it wouldn’t do no good.”

And so he went on a-mumbling up stairs, and then we left. He was a mighty nice old man.

And always is.

Tom was a good deal bothered about what to do for a spoon, but he said we’d got to have it; so he took a think. When he had ciphered it out he told me how we was to do; then we went and waited around the spoon-basket till we see Aunt Sally coming, and then Tom went to counting the spoons and laying them out to one side, and I slid one of them up my sleeve, and Tom says: “Why, Aunt Sally, there ain’t but nine spoons YET.” She says: “Go ’long to your play, and don’t bother me. I know better, I counted ’m myself.”

“Well, I’ve counted them twice, Aunty, and I can’t make but nine.”

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She looked out of all patience, but of course she come to count — anybody would.

“I declare to gracious ther’ AIN’T but nine!” she says. “Why, what in the world — plague TAKE the things, I’ll count ’m again.”

So I slipped back the one I had, and when she got done counting, she says: “Hang the troublesome rubbage, ther’s TEN now!” and she looked huffy and bothered both.

But Tom says: “Why, Aunty, I don’t think there’s ten.”

“You numskull, didn’t you see me COUNT ’m?”

“I know, but —” “Well, I’ll count ’m AGAIN.” So I smouched one, and they come out nine, same as the other time. Well, she WAS in a tearing way — just a-trembling all over, she was so mad. But she counted and counted till she got that addled she’d start to count in the basket for a spoon sometimes; and so, three times they come out right, and three times they come out wrong. Then she grabbed up the basket and slammed it across the house and knocked the cat galley-west; and she said cle’r out and let her have some peace, and if we come bothering around her again betwixt that and dinner she’d skin us. So we had the odd spoon, and dropped it in her apron-pocket whilst she was a-giving us our sailing orders, and Jim got it all right, along with her shingle nail, before noon. We was very well satisfied with this business, and Tom allowed it was worth twice the trouble it took, because he said NOW she couldn’t ever count them spoons twice alike again to save her life; and wouldn’t believe she’d counted them right if she DID; and said that after she’d about counted her head off for the next three days he judged she’d give it up and offer to kill anybody that wanted her to ever count them any more.

So we put the sheet back on the line that night, and stole one out of her closet; and kept on putting it back and stealing it again for a couple of days till she didn’t know how many sheets she had any more, and she didn’t CARE, and warn’t a-going to bullyrag the rest of her soul out about it, and wouldn’t count them again not to save her life; she druther die first.

So we was all right now, as to the shirt and the sheet and the spoon and the candles, by the help of the calf and the rats and the mixed-up counting; and as to the candlestick, it warn’t no consequence, it would blow over by and by.

But that pie was a job; we had no end of trouble with that pie. We fixed it up away down in the woods, and cooked it there; and we got it done at last, and very satisfactory, too; but not all in one day; and we had to use up three wash-pans full of flour before we got through, and we got burnt pretty much all over, in places, and eyes put out with the smoke; because, you see, we didn’t want nothing but a crust, and we couldn’t prop it up right, and she would always cave in.

But of course we thought of the right way at last — which was to cook the ladder, too, in the pie.

So then we laid in with Jim the second night, and tore up the sheet all in little strings and twisted them together, and long before daylight we had a lovely rope that you could a hung a person with. We let on it took nine months to make it.

And in the forenoon we took it down to the woods, but it wouldn’t go into the pie. Being made of a whole sheet, that way, there was rope enough for forty pies if we’d a wanted them, and plenty left over for soup, or sausage, or anything you choose. We could a had a whole dinner.

But we didn’t need it. All we needed was just enough for the pie, and so we throwed the rest away. We didn’t cook none of the pies in the wash-pan — afraid the solder would melt; but Uncle Silas he had a noble brass warming-pan which he thought considerable of, because it belonged to one of his ancesters with a long wooden handle that come over from England with William the Conqueror in the Mayflower or one of them early ships and was hid away up garret with a lot of other old pots and things that was valuable, not on account of being any account, because they warn’t, but on account of them being relicts, you know, and we snaked her out, private, and took her down there, but she failed on the first pies, because we didn’t know how, but she come up smiling on the last one.

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Observer Classic Books From Page 17 We took and lined her with dough, and set her in the coals, and loaded her up with rag rope, and put on a dough roof, and shut down the lid, and put hot embers on top, and stood off five foot, with the long handle, cool and comfortable, and in fifteen minutes she turned out a pie that was a satisfaction to look at. But the person that et it would want to fetch a couple of kags of toothpicks along, for if that rope ladder wouldn’t cramp him down to business I don’t know nothing what I’m talking about, and lay him in enough stomach-ache to last him till next time, too.

Nat didn’t look when we put the witch pie in Jim’s pan; and we put the three tin plates in the bottom of the pan under the vittles; and so Jim got everything all right, and as soon as he was by himself he busted into the pie and hid the rope ladder inside of his straw tick, and scratched some marks on a tin plate and throwed it out of the window-hole.

Chapter XXXVIII. MAKING them pens was a distressid tough job, and so was the saw; and Jim allowed the inscription was going to be the toughest of all.

That’s the one which the prisoner has to scrabble on the wall. But he had to have it; Tom said he’d GOT to; there warn’t no case of a state prisoner not scrabbling his inscription to leave behind, and his coat of arms.

“Look at Lady Jane Grey,” he says; “look at Gilford Dudley; look at old Northumberland!

Why, Huck, s’pose it IS considerble trouble? — what you going to do? — how you going to get around it? Jim’s GOT to do his inscription and coat of arms. They all do.”

Jim says: “Why, Mars Tom, I hain’t got no coat o’ arm; I hain’t got nuffn but dish yer ole shirt, en you knows I got to keep de journal on dat.”

“Oh, you don’t understand, Jim; a coat of arms is very different.”

“Well,” I says, “Jim’s right, anyway, when he says he ain’t got no coat of arms, because he hain’t.”

“I reckon I knowed that,” Tom says, “but you bet he’ll have one before he goes out of this — because he’s going out RIGHT, and there ain’t going to be no flaws in his record.”

So whilst me and Jim filed away at the pens on a brickbat apiece, Jim a-making his’n out of the brass and I making mine out of the spoon, Tom set to work to think out the coat of arms. By and by he said he’d struck so many good ones he didn’t hardly know which to take, but there was one which he reckoned he’d decide on. He says: “On the scutcheon we’ll have a bend OR in the dexter base, a saltire MURREY in the fess, with a dog, couchant, for common charge, and under his foot a chain embattled, for slavery, with a chevron VERT in a chief engrailed, and three invected lines on a field AZURE, with the nombril points rampant on a dancette indented; crest, a runaway nigger, SABLE, with his bundle over his shoulder on a bar sinister; and a couple of gules for supporters, which is you and me; motto, MAGGIORE FRETTA, MINORE OTTO. Got it out of a book — means the more haste the less speed.”

“Geewhillikins,” I says, “but what does the rest of it mean?”

“We ain’t got no time to bother over that,” he says; “we got to dig in like all git-out.”

“Well, anyway,” I says, “what’s SOME of it?

What’s a fess?”

“A fess — a fess is — YOU don’t need to know what a fess is. I’ll show him how to make it when he gets to it.”

“Shucks, Tom,” I says, “I think you might tell a person. What’s a bar sinister?”

“Oh, I don’t know. But he’s got to have it. All the nobility does.”

That was just his way. If it didn’t suit him to explain a thing to you, he wouldn’t do it. You might pump at him a week, it wouldn’t make no difference.

He’d got all that coat of arms business fixed, so now he started in to finish up the rest of that part of the work, which was to plan out a mournful inscription — said Jim got to have one, like they all done. He made up a lot, and wrote them out on a paper, and read them off, so: 1. Here a captive heart busted. 2. Here a poor prisoner, forsook by the world and friends, fretted his sorrowful life. 3. Here a lonely heart broke, and a worn spirit went to its rest, after thirty-seven years of solitary captivity. 4. Here, homeless and friendless, after thirty-seven years of bitter captivity, perished a noble stranger, natural son of Louis XIV.

Tom’s voice trembled whilst he was reading them, and he most broke down. When he got done he couldn’t no way make up his mind which one for Jim to scrabble on to the wall, they was all so good; but at last he allowed he would let him scrabble them all on. Jim said it would take him a year to scrabble such a lot of truck on to the logs with a nail, and he didn’t know how to make letters, besides; but Tom said he would block them out for him, and then he wouldn’t have nothing to do but just follow the lines. Then pretty soon he says: “Come to think, the logs ain’t a-going to do; they don’t have log walls in a dungeon: we got to dig the inscriptions into a rock. We’ll fetch a rock.”

Jim said the rock was worse than the logs; he said it would take him such a pison long time to dig them into a rock he wouldn’t ever get out.

But Tom said he would let me help him do it.

Then he took a look to see how me and Jim was getting along with the pens. It was most pesky tedious hard work and slow, and didn’t give my hands no show to get well of the sores, and we didn’t seem to make no headway, hardly; so Tom says: “I know how to fix it. We got to have a rock for the coat of arms and mournful inscriptions, and we can kill two birds with that same rock.

There’s a gaudy big grindstone down at the mill, and we’ll smouch it, and carve the things on it, and file out the pens and the saw on it, too.”

It warn’t no slouch of an idea; and it warn’t no slouch of a grindstone nuther; but we allowed we’d tackle it. It warn’t quite midnight yet, so we cleared out for the mill, leaving Jim at work.

We smouched the grindstone, and set out to roll her home, but it was a most nation tough job.

Sometimes, do what we could, we couldn’t keep her from falling over, and she come mighty near mashing us every time. Tom said she was going to get one of us, sure, before we got through. We got her half way; and then we was plumb played out, and most drownded with sweat. We see it warn’t no use; we got to go and fetch Jim So he raised up his bed and slid the chain off of the bed-leg, and wrapt it round and round his neck, and we crawled out through our hole and down there, and Jim and me laid into that grindstone and walked her along like nothing; and Tom superintended. He could out-superintend any boy I ever see. He knowed how to do everything.

Our hole was pretty big, but it warn’t big enough to get the grindstone through; but Jim he took the pick and soon made it big enough. Then Tom marked out them things on it with the nail, and set Jim to work on them, with the nail for a chisel and an iron bolt from the rubbage in the lean-to for a hammer, and told him to work till the rest of his candle quit on him, and then he could go to bed, and hide the grindstone under his straw tick and sleep on it. Then we helped him fix his chain back on the bed-leg, and was ready for bed ourselves. But Tom thought of something, and says: “You got any spiders in here, Jim?” “No, sah, thanks to goodness I hain’t, Mars Tom.” “All right, we’ll get you some.”

“But bless you, honey, I doan’WANT none. I’s afeard un um. I jis’ ’s soon have rattlesnakes aroun’.”

Tom thought a minute or two, and says: “It’s a good idea. And I reckon it’s been done. It MUST a been done; it stands to reason. Yes, it’s a prime good idea. Where could you keep it?”

“Keep what, Mars Tom?” “Why, a rattlesnake.”

“De goodness gracious alive, Mars Tom! Why, if dey was a rattlesnake to come in heah I’d take en bust right out thoo dat log wall, I would, wid my head.”

Why, Jim, you wouldn’t be afraid of it after a little. You could tame it.”

“TAME it!”

“Yes — easy enough. Every animal is grateful for kindness and petting, and they wouldn’t THINK of hurting a person that pets them. Any book will tell you that. You try — that’s all I ask; just try for two or three days. Why, you can get him so in a little while that he’ll love you; and sleep with you; and won’t stay away from you a minute; and will let you wrap him round your neck and put his head in your mouth.”

“PLEASE, Mars Tom — DOAN’talk so! I can’t STAN’ it! He’d LET me shove his head in my mouf — fer a favor, hain’t it? I lay he’d wait a pow’ful long time ’fo’ I AST him. En mo’ en dat, I doan’ WANT him to sleep wid me.”

“Jim, don’t act so foolish. A prisoner’s GOT to have some kind of a dumb pet, and if a rattle

snake hain’t ever been tried, why, there’s more glory to be gained in your being the first to ever try it than any other way you could ever think of to save your life.”

“Why, Mars Tom, I doan’WANT no sich glory.

Snake take ’n bite Jim’s chin off, den WHAH is de glory? No, sah, I doan’ want no sich doin’s.”

“Blame it, can’t you TRY? I only WANT you to try — you needn’t keep it up if it don’t work.”

“But de trouble all DONE ef de snake bite me while I’s a tryin’ him. Mars Tom, I’s willin’ to tackle mos’ anything ’at ain’t onreasonable, but ef you en Huck fetches a rattlesnake in heah for me to tame, I’s gwyne to LEAVE, dat’s SHORE.” “Well, then, let it go, let it go, if you’re so bullheaded about it. We can get you some gartersnakes, and you can tie some buttons on their tails, and let on they’re rattlesnakes, and I reckon that ’ll have to do.”

“I k’n stan’ DEM, Mars Tom, but blame’ ’f I couldn’ get along widout um, I tell you dat. I never knowed b’fo’ ’t was so much bother and trouble to be a prisoner.”

“Well, it ALWAYS is when it’s done right. You got any rats around here?”

“No, sah, I hain’t seed none.”

“Well, we’ll get you some rats.”

“Why, Mars Tom, I doan’WANT no rats. Dey’s de dadblamedest creturs to ’sturb a body, en rustle roun’ over ’im, en bite his feet, when he’s tryin’ to sleep, I ever see. No, sah, gimme g’yartersnakes, ’f I’s got to have ’m, but doan’ gimme no rats; I hain’ got no use f’r um, skasely.”

“But, Jim, you GOT to have ’em — they all do.

So don’t make no more fuss about it. Prisoners ain’t ever without rats. There ain’t no instance of it. And they train them, and pet them, and learn them tricks, and they get to be as sociable as flies. But you got to play music to them. You got anything to play music on?”

“I ain’ got nuffn but a coase comb en a piece o’ paper, en a juice-harp; but I reck’n dey wouldn’ take no stock in a juice-harp.”

“Yes they would. THEY don’t care what kind of music ’tis. A jews-harp’s plenty good enough for a rat. All animals like music — in a prison they dote on it. Specially, painful music; and you can’t get no other kind out of a jews-harp. It always interests them; they come out to see what’s the matter with you. Yes, you’re all right; you’re fixed very well. You want to set on your bed nights before you go to sleep, and early in the mornings, and play your jews-harp; play ’The Last Link is Broken’— that’s the thing that ’ll scoop a rat quicker ’n anything else; and when you’ve played about two minutes you’ll see all the rats, and the snakes, and spiders, and things begin to feel worried about you, and come. And they’ll just fairly swarm over you, and have a noble good time.”

“Yes, DEY will, I reck’n, Mars Tom, but what kine er time is JIM havin’? Blest if I kin see de pint. But I’ll do it ef I got to. I reck’n I better keep de animals satisfied, en not have no trouble in de house.”

Tom waited to think it over, and see if there wasn’t nothing else; and pretty soon he says: “Oh, there’s one thing I forgot. Could you raise a flower here, do you reckon?”

“I doan know but maybe I could, Mars Tom; but it’s tolable dark in heah, en I ain’got no use f’r no flower, nohow, en she’d be a pow’ful sight o’ trouble.”

“Well, you try it, anyway. Some other prisoners has done it.”

“One er dem big cat-tail-lookin’ mullen-stalks would grow in heah, Mars Tom, I reck’n, but she wouldn’t be wuth half de trouble she’d coss.”

“Don’t you believe it. We’ll fetch you a little one and you plant it in the corner over there, and raise it. And don’t call it mullen, call it Pitchiola — that’s its right name when it’s in a prison. And you want to water it with your tears.”

“Why, I got plenty spring water, Mars Tom.” “You don’t WANT spring water; you want to water it with your tears. It’s the way they always do.”

“Why, Mars Tom, I lay I kin raise one er dem mullen-stalks twyste wid spring water whiles another man’s a START’N one wid tears.”

“That ain’t the idea. You GOT to do it with tears.”

“She’ll die on my han’s, Mars Tom, she sholy will; kase I doan’ skasely ever cry.”

So Tom was stumped. But he studied it over, and then said Jim would have to worry along the best he could with an onion. He promised he would go to the nigger cabins and drop one, private, in Jim’s coffee-pot, in the morning. Jim

said he would “jis’ ’s soon have tobacker in his coffee;” and found so much fault with it, and with the work and bother of raising the mullen, and jews-harping the rats, and petting and flattering up the snakes and spiders and things, on top of all the other work he had to do on pens, and inscriptions, and journals, and things, which made it more trouble and worry and responsibility to be a prisoner than anything he ever undertook, that Tom most lost all patience with him; and said he was just loadened down with more gaudier chances than a prisoner ever had in the world to make a name for himself, and yet he didn’t know enough to appreciate them, and they was just about wasted on him. So Jim he was sorry, and said he wouldn’t behave so no more, and then me and Tom shoved for bed.

Chapter XXXIX. IN the morning we went up to the village and bought a wire rat-trap and fetched it down, and unstopped the best rat-hole, and in about an hour we had fifteen of the bulliest kind of ones; and then we took it and put it in a safe place under Aunt Sally’s bed. But while we was gone for spiders little Thomas Franklin Benjamin Jefferson Elexander Phelps found it there, and opened the door of it to see if the rats would come out, and they did; and Aunt Sally she come in, and when we got back she was a-standing on top of the bed raising Cain, and the rats was doing what they could to keep off the dull times for her. So she took and dusted us both with the hickry, and we was as much as two hours catching another fifteen or sixteen, drat that meddlesome cub, and they warn’t the likeliest, nuther, because the first haul was the pick of the flock.

I never see a likelier lot of rats than what that first haul was.

We got a splendid stock of sorted spiders, and bugs, and frogs, and caterpillars, and one thing or another; and we like to got a hornet’s nest, but we didn’t. The family was at home. We didn’t give it right up, but stayed with them as long as we could; because we allowed we’d tire them out or they’d got to tire us out, and they done it.

Then we got allycumpain and rubbed on the places, and was pretty near all right again, but couldn’t set down convenient. And so we went for the snakes, and grabbed a couple of dozen garters and house-snakes, and put them in a bag, and put it in our room, and by that time it was supper-time, and a rattling good honest day’s work: and hungry? — oh, no, I reckon not! And there warn’t a blessed snake up there when we went back — we didn’t half tie the sack, and they worked out somehow, and left. But it didn’t matter much, because they was still on the premises somewheres. So we judged we could get some of them again. No, there warn’t no real scarcity of snakes about the house for a considerable spell. You’d see them dripping from the rafters and places every now and then; and they generly landed in your plate, or down the back of your neck, and most of the time where you didn’t want them. Well, they was handsome and striped, and there warn’t no harm in a million of them; but that never made no difference to Aunt Sally; she despised snakes, be the breed what they might, and she couldn’t stand them no way you could fix it; and every time one of them flopped down on her, it didn’t make no difference what she was doing, she would just lay that work down and light out. I never see such a woman. And you could hear her whoop to Jericho. You couldn’t get her to take a-holt of one of them with the tongs. And if she turned over and found one in bed she would scramble out and lift a howl that you would think the house was afire. She disturbed the old man so that he said he could most wish there hadn’t ever been no snakes created. Why, after every last snake had been gone clear out of the house for as much as a week Aunt Sally warn’t over it yet; she warn’t near over it; when she was setting thinking about something you could touch her on the back of her neck with a feather and she would jump right out of her stockings. It was very curious.

But Tom said all women was just so. He said they was made that way for some reason or other.

We got a licking every time one of our snakes come in her way, and she allowed these lickings warn’t nothing to what she would do if we ever loaded up the place again with them. I didn’t mind the lickings, because they didn’t amount to nothing; but I minded the trouble we had to lay in another lot. But we got them laid in, and all the other things; and you never see a cabin as blithesome as Jim’s was when they’d all swarm out for music and go for him.

To Be Continued Next Issue

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Grassroots racing at Wayville S’grounds Comment

■ Pie In The Sky ! Sky Channel must despise the Victorian trots as time and time again they program (and they are responsible for it) our product almost immediately following a provincial galloping race, which nine times out of 10 runs late.

When this occurs, the Victorian trots are usually (through no fault of ours), shafted to Sky 2 which can only be received by paying a monthly fee. Sky viewers are fed-up with this, but despite numerous complaints, nothing has ever been done to rectify the problem.

Most viewers would be well aware that most if not all Sky Racing is NSW orientated and very heavily biased towards that state come on Sky, lift your game.

Hot from outset

■ Highly promising 5Y0 Rock N Roll Heaven-Flourescent Lombo mare Pink Or Purple was a most impressive winner of The Kilmore Show Sat 2 December 2017 Trotters Mobile for T1 class over 2180 metres.

Driven by Chris Alford for brothers Leigh (owner) and Ross (trainer) Graham, Pink Or Purple starting from gate two on the second line settled a long way off the poleline leader Continental Lady, with the speed hot from the outset. Gradually making ground to settle midfield, Alford urged the mare forward with a rush racing for the bell to join Continental Lady for the final circuit.

With the pair drawing right away in a two horse war, Continental Lady went off stride under pressure on the final bend allowing Pink Or Purple to score an easy 18.3 metre margin in advance of All The Way Mae from midfield, with Continental Lady getting going again in the straight to finish third 4.6 metres away. The mile rate 2-04.1.

■ A huge and successful night was held at in South Australia on Friday when the "grass roots" of harness racing in that State returned to the former home of trotting - Wayville Showgrounds right on the edge of the city which has a circumference of only 510 metres.

It had been 44 years since a meeting was held at the track andAdelaide and country South Australia turned out in droves to support the meeting, as well as numerous visitors from interstate, myself being one.

It was also an invitational drivers meeting featuring the home state's Scott Ewen, Dani Hill, Ken Rogers, Wayne Hill, Ryan Hyrhorec, Anthony Robinson and Josh Holberton along with former South Australians Geoff Webster, Lance Justice, Kate Gath, John Justice and Greg Sugars all now based in Victoria.

The two feature races on the program were the Wayville Trotters Cup for T2 or better class over 2653 metres and the Wayville Pacers Cup for C5 or better class pacers over 2380 metres, both valued at $12,000 penalty free.

The Victorians stole the night with Kate Gath capturing the Trotters Cup aboard the Toby Ryan trained 7Y0 gelding Waikare Aviator and Greg Sugars the Pacers Cup aboard 9Y0 gelding Heza Presidente.

At Tabcorp Park Melton on Friday, Lara trainer Dean Braun's very smart Courage Under Fire-Pixel Perfect 4Y0 mare Carles Pixel went one better than last week when successful in the Prydes Easifeed Pace for M1 class over 1720 metres. Driven as usual by Shepparton's Mark Pitt, Carlas Pixel led throughout from gate four to defeat Whirily School which trailed, with Trison third.

Happiest person

■ The Vale Allan Knight 3Y0 & Older Trotters Mobile over 2180 metres resulted in a quinella to Bolinda's Brent Lilley with first starter Flash Kyvalley (Chris Alford) defeating Flash Kyvalley in a rate of 2-06.9.

Trotting faultlessly, Flash Kyvalley a gelded son of Skyvalley and Cashel Dagha led throughout to score by 18.2 metres. Sizzlin was 12.5 metres back in third place after an early break.

Quinella result

■ Tabcorp Park Melton was the venue for Monday harness racing on October 23 and the happiest person on course was Cranbourne partowner/trainer Terry Howard following the victory of 4Y0 Bacardi Lindy-Cruzinthepacific mare Rosanna Lindy in the Yabby Dam Racing Trotters Mobile for TR0 class over 2240 metres.

Driven by Gavin Lang, Rosanna Lindy starting from the extreme draw settled at the tail of the field as Lilirene led from gate two.

Commencing a forward move three wide hitting the back straight on the final lap, Rosanna Lindy was able to gain a three wide trail on the back of Red Rustler ahead orf her approaching the final bend and when taken wide on turning, ran home stylishly to record her first success in 12 outings, accounting for Red Rustler by 1.3 metres in a mile rate of 2-04.4.

Invariably was third 10.9 metres away after racing exposed.

On back of leader

Long-time friends

■ Mernda trainer Ian Dornauf combined with Josh Aiken to land a stable double at Shepparton on Thursday - 9Y0 Blissful HallShimoda entire Royal Witness taking the DPR Insurance Pace for C4 & C5 class over 1690 metres and 6Y0 Sportswriter-Paksa Apunch gelding Royal Knockout the Saddleworld Shepparton Pace for C1 class over the same journey.

Royal Witness used the sprint lane off the back of the leader Lettucefirestar to prevail by a half head in a tricky finish over Metro Mouse out wide from well back off a three wide trail and Scout Hall Road in 1-55.9, while Royal Knockout led throughout from the pole to defeat Machli by a nose in 1-59.3. Joelissa was third after a cosy trip three back the markers.

■ Very honest 6Y0 Grinfromeartoear-Telern Hilda gelding Virgin Hilts returned to the winners list by taking the 1720 metre R2 to R4 class Melton Saddlery Pace in a mile rate of 1-56.3.

Trained at Bolinda by Lisa Miles for a syndicate of long time friends - Tony Eley, Terry Wait (breeder), Jim Grant, Frank Nolan, Chris Canny and Bob Adamson, plus Monegeetta residents Ollie and Jan Matthews, Virgin Hilts was taken back to the rear from outside the front line, before latching to the back of River Patrol in the final circuit for a great ride home.

Asked for a supreme effort in the straight, Virgil Hilts finished on determinedly to gain the day by 1.3 metres over River Patrol and Me Mate Les.

Half-neck victor

■ Veteran Mt Cottrell based part-owner/trainer/ driver Bill Spiteri's reliable 8Y0 Grinfromeartoear-My Minnis Folly gelding Surmo Grin chalked up his 5th success in 78 outings when leading throughout to snare the DNR Logistics Trotters Mobile over 1720 metres at Melton.

Aided by both favourites Breezin Around and Lilymaystorm galloping at the start, Surmo Grin trotted boldly and never looked like being run

■ Airborne Modern Art-Our Beach Baby gelding Modern Lebron was a half neck victor of the Book Your Xmas Function At The Trots Pace for C2 & C3 class over 2190 metres at Shepparton in a mile rate of 1-58.6 proving age is no bar as he is ten years old. Trained

by Mark Pitt and driven by Lisa Bartley, Modern Lebron began brilliantly from gate six to lead.

Fifth success

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with Len Baker down, scoring by 7.6 metres in advance of Tella Tall Tale which trailed, with From The West third 25 metres away after racing in the open.

The mile rate 1-59.5.

Still in luck

■ Terry Howard's luck was still running at Cranbourne on Tuesday, with 4Y0 Village Jasper-Furnished mare Rosanna Raider (Mick Bellman) leading throughout from gate three to land the Seelite Windows & Doors Pace for C0 class over 1609 metres in a rate of 1-58.1.

Always in control, Rosanna Raider coasted to the wire 8.4 metres ahead of Clickncullect which raced outsider her, with Majortiano 11.6 metres back in third place after following the winner.

Used sprint lane

■ Tim Butt's very good 4Y0 Rock N Roll Heaven-Love A Gamble gelding Let It Ride made it three from three in Victoria this campaign with a dominant victory in the Decron Pace for C3 to C4 class over 1609 metres at Cranbourne. Settling at the tail of the field from a solo second line draw, driver Anthony Butt sent Let It Ride forward racing for the and he quickly joined the in-form pacemaker Mustang Bart for the run home. Striding clear on turning, Let It Ride was unextended to prevail by 5.3 metres in a sizzling 1-54.1 from Mustang Bart who wouldn't relent, with roughie Feel The Buzz 13.7 metres away in third place after using the sprint lane from three back the markers.

Kilmore held a neat seven event program on Wednesday, with the last four races (all trots) being beamed into France.

Action affair

■ The 2180 metre Hiscock & Sons Trotters Mobile for T2 to T4 class was an action affair with victory going to Bunbartha (Shepparton) partowner/trainer/driver John Newberry's 6Y0 Monarchy/Shine On Aisha gelding The Majestic in a mile rate of 2-03.5.

Starting from the extreme draw, The Majestic was set alight early in the race to challenge stablemate and half brother Just Call Me Earl (gate three) for the lead which had crossed Conchs Critter inside him.

Rated to perfection, The Majestic defied all challengers to defeat Argyle Melody which ran the race of her life outside the winner to go down fighting by a neck, with Just Call Me earl a half neck away in third place after using the sprint lane to no avail. It was The Majestic's eleventh success in 97 outings.

Made amends

■ Kialla trainer/driver Laura Crossland's Kiwi bred 4Y0 Muscle Mass-Ashley Sunset gelding The Male Model made amends for a most unlucky second at his previous outing by taking the Kilmore McDonalds Trotters Mobile for T0 class over 1690 metres. Not wasting any time as the start was effected, The Male Model was immediately sent forward from the extreme draw as the start was effected to assume control after a couple of hundred metres and was never headed, coasting to the wire 2.7 metres untouched.

■ Ronzel Grinner, River Patrol, Metro Mouse, Argyle Melody, Mustang Bart, Bongiorno Boys, Tuscan Dawn, Red Rustler.

Driving double

■ Bendigo's Todd Matthews was responsible for a driving double at Shepparton, piloting Rochester trainer Mark Thompson's Jet Laag-Orta Be Ruthless filly Weeks End to an easy 11.6 metre 1-59 victory in the 1690 metre DNR Logistics Pace and Bendigo trainer Bruce Morgan's 5Y0 American Ideal-The Warp Legacy gelding Ideal Moment to an all the way victory in the Inspired Architectural Windows & Doors Pace for C0 class over 2190 metres in a rate of 2-01.8.

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Struth Whine price ■ We just hope one of these doesn’t get tossed into the casserole by mistake, after all it’s not every day you pay a-near $2500 a bottle for a good drop of red… and for not just one, but for a whole dozen at that near$2500 each.

But a keen wine collector in the UK has just parted with a whopping 17,625 English pounds, or the equivalent of around AU$29,750, at an auction in London for a 12-bottle case of French 1999 Chambertin Clos de Beze Grand Cru from Burgundy’s Domaine Armand Rousseau.

The Domaine, that is recognised as one of Burgundy’s greatest, was created by the Rousseau family at the beginning of the 20th century, and is still owned by the family today.

Prestige auction house Bonhams conducted the auction that also saw a dozen bottles of 1992 Petrus Pomerol go under the hammer for 16,450 pounds (AU$27,771) and a case of Chateau Mouton Rothschild 1982 Pauillac Grand Cru for 12,925 pounds (AU$21,820.)

And there were plenty of others from Burgundy sold for up to 11,000 pounds per dozen bottle case, fetching their German former owner a very healthy 110,000 pounds (around AU$186,000) – and which makes us beg the question, has anyone ever been tempted to pull the cork on just one bottle from just such a purchase?

Bullet trains

■ China is about to crank up the top speed of its bullet trains between Beijing and Shanghai to 400 kilometres per hour, with that and an average speed for the 1,318km journey of 350kmh, making them the fastest trains in the world.

The high speed line was opened ten years ago with trains having a maximum speed of 350kmh, but in 2011 two of the trains collided on a viaduct while travelling at a relatively slow 99kmh each, killing 43 passengers and injuring scores of others.

The accident was blamed on a signalling system fault, not the trains or their crews, but the Chinese government nevertheless ordered that trains no longer travel at more than 300kmh.

- David Ellis

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REEFER MADNESS Music Vault opens

● The Divinyls performing at Subiaco Oval on the Australian Made tour 1987. Photo: Bob King ■ The Australian Music Vault, a new free exhibition space dedicated to sharing the story of Australian contemporary music and exploring its future, will open to the public at Arts Centre Melbourne on Tuesday December 19..

Created in collaboration with the music industry and funded by the Victorian Government, the ground-breaking new Australian music experience will include a free exhibition, education programs and a fully integrated digital program and will showcase items from the iconic people, events and places that define Australian music.

Founding patrons include Kylie Minogue,Archie Roach, Ian ‘Molly’ Meldrum and Michael Gudinski.

The Australian Music Vault will feature items from artists that include: Kylie Minogue, Archie Roach, Molly Meldrum, AC/DC, Men at Work, Split Enz, Midnight Oil, The Seekers, Tina Arena, Olivia Newton-John, Johnny O’Keefe, Margaret RoadKnight, Skyhooks, Daddy Cool, Divinyls, Paul Kelly, Jessica Mauboy, Dami Im, Cold Chisel, Missy Higgins, Silverchair, Bliss n Eso, John Farnham, Yothu Yindi,The Saints, Nick Cave, Radio Birdman, Spiderbait, Urthboy, The Go-Betweens, Ngaiire, Ecca Vandal and Courtney Barnett.

TheAustralian Music Vault will not be approached chronologically or by genre and will feature rotating content to profile the contributions of as many performers as possible.

Themes will be broad in scope with interlinking content encouraging visitors to create and discover unexpected connections across time periods and styles.

One of the featured themes, The Real Thing, will explore whether or not there really is an “Australian Voice” by looking at musical influences, lyric composition and the impact of performance venues on the Australian ‘sound’.

It will celebrate the contribution of hit makers and heroes and will also highlight the contributions of lesser known but equally influential performers and industry personnel.

Also featured in the exhibition will be a series of displays that will highlight the power of music to bring people together across socio-economic, political, gender and geographical boundaries and the notion of ‘musical tribes’.

One of the first to be explored will be Punk/New Wave, timed to coincide with the 40th anniversary of punk. Looking at identity & belonging, this area will explore the pivotal moment in Australian music between 1977- 1985 with a focus on performers, venues and do it yourself recording, distribution and publishing.

Arts Centre Melbourne is a fitting home for the Australian Music Vault. In addition to being the busiest performing arts centre in the country, it is also home to an extensive Australian music collection and best-practice curatorial, collection management and programming experience.

The music collection is part of Arts Centre Melbourne Australian Performing Arts Collection, the nation’s leading specialist collection documenting Australia’s circus, dance, music, opera and theatre heritage.

Blood Brothers

● Angie Bedford (Mary Lane) and Mitchell Sanfilippo (Jimmy) in Reefer Madness at the Doncaster Playhouse. Photo: Ben Fon ■ PEP Productions presents Reefer Madness until November 4 at the Doncaster Playhouse.

Reefer Madness is a satire based on the old instructional film seen in school warning of the dangers of marijuana.

The over-the-top, campy story begins with a Lecturer informing the audience of the new drug menace, Marijuana. He tells of the Harper Affair, a story of a young high school student whose life is turned upside down by the “demon weed”.

Please note that Reefer Madness contains coarse language, sexual references and adult themes and may not be suitable for all audiences.

Performance Season: Until November 4.

Venue: The Doncaster Playhouse, 679 Doncaster Rd., Doncaster Tickets: $27, $32 Bookings: https://www.trybooking.com/book/ event?eid=310518 - Cheryl Threadgold

Your Diva Needs You ■ Do you remember the Cabaret acts of the 1990s? Were you at their concerts, front row of the celebrity performers? Well, go no further, there all back (aka Stephen Valeri), all the favourites in Your Diva Needs You. In a very personal reflection of famous Divas that moulded Stephen’s life since the age four, he engaged the audience totally as he revealed these in a game show format modelled on that of game show icon John Burgess.

In opening the show as a nun to a mighty rendition of the “Hills are alive with music”, his most favourite musical of all time he confessed to three choices in life, to be Real Estate Agent, a morning TV Host or a Game Show Host.

A board of number frames 1 to 15 stood to one side while to the other an indulgent large photo of himself, offering to sell it at the end of the season.

Across the back wall a curtain of glitter strips that changed colour as the mood required.

The audience were asked to identify each of the Divas with Stephen giving clues such as, place and date of birth, their performance breakthrough and once identified their number board was reversed to reveal their image.

But it didn’t stop there as Stephen then presented us with memorabilia, such as programs, mementos and even his teenage scrapbooks of the celebrity.

Starting at no 1 with Barbra Streisand he worked through some 13 more that included celebrities such as Celine Dion, Spice Girls, Kylie Minogue, John Farnham, Human Nature and more until we reached no 15, who was none other than Stephen Valeri.

Backing him was a four piece band that included powerful vocalist Jaclyn De Vincentis who joined with Stephen during the many renditions of hits by the various Divas.

A well-crafted piece of theatre with many revealing and very intimate moments of Stephen’s 28 years.

- Review by Graeme McCoubrie

● Wayne Gleeson (Mickey), Aimee Sanderson (Linda), Grace Cairnduff (school mate), Michael Whitmore (Perkins), Xavier Ryan (Teacher ) rehearse for Heidelberg Theatre Company’s Blood Brothers.

Photo: David Belton ■ Heidelberg Theatre Company’s final offering for the year is Blood Brothers, the play by Willy Russell, directed

by Bruce Akers.

First presented in 1981, the play successfully toured regional UK and it was quickly followed up by a musical version premiering at the Liverpool Playhouse in January 1983.

This subsequently transferred to the Lyric Theatre London and revived on the West End in 1988 at the Albery Theatre.

It played there for three years before transferring to the Phoenix Theatre in 1991.

The revival ran for more than 24 years in the West End and 10,000 performances, becoming the third longest- running musical show in West End history.

Regarded as a folk story, the narrative is a fast-moving and entertaining tale, ultimately tragic.

It tells of fraternal twin brothers who are born into a large working-class family and what happens when their mother, unable to support her large family decides to have one of them adopted into a well-off family.

They grow up on opposite sides of the social track without realising their fraternity.

Performance Dates: November 17 – December 2 Venue: Heidelberg Theatre, 36 Turnham Ave., Rosanna.

Bookings: 9457 4117 email htc@htc.org.au - Cheryl Threadgold

● Stephen Valeri (review, at left)

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Chris at the Memo

■ Renowned Australian musician Chris Wilson will perform Live at the Memo Music Hall, St Kilda at 2pm on Sunday (November 5).

The legendary blues and rock performer, who plays a number of instrument,s has shared both the studio and stage with a host of Australia's leading artists.

He has also toured extensively abroad winning the respect from the biggest names in music.

Joining Chris at the Memo will be Shannon Bourne and Fenn Wilson. Tickets at the Memo.ood Friday Appeal.

Amber’s Christmas ■ Aussie Country music star Amber Lawrence will release a brand new kids Christmas album on November 17.

Aussie Aussie Christmas features all new written songs by the multi-award winner.

More info: www.amberlawrence.com.au

Tamworth 2018 ■ The annual Tamworth Festival is gaining momentum with a number of local artists scheduled to perform shows.

Jetty Road and Paul Costa are just a few from the Victorian contingent that make the long journey to northern NSW for the iconic event.

Fans and country music lovers from all over Australia and overseas gather for the ten day festival that concludes with the prestigious Golden Guitar awards.

- Rob Foenander

Arts talks at Heide Art Talk With Jenny Watson.

Join curator Anna Davis (MCA) and artist Jenny Watson for a conversation about The Fabric of Fantasy.

Jenny Watson is a leading Australian artist whose conceptual painting spans more than four decdes.

Curated by MCA Curator Anne Davis this survey exhibition features works from the 1970s to the present, including Watson's early realist paintings and drawings and a number of key series of works on fabric.

Inspired by both punk and feminism, Watson's work uses distilled imagery and abbreviated text to create an intimate interior world.

She has travelled widely since the 1970s and employs textiles collected on her travels as the surface for many of her paintings, which also often include collaged materials such as images fro magazines, horse's hair, ribbons, bows and sequins.

Many of Watson's works feature self-portraits and alter egos, a cast of longhaired women, horses, ballerinas, rock guitarists and cats, who enact life's ongoing psychodramas.

Intertwining autobiography and fiction, her work incorporates a diary-like voice that is delivered with deadpan wit and seems to relay the everyday experiences, dreams and desires of a self-proclaimed suburban girl.

The relationship between text and image is central to her work, which frequently includes a small panel of hand painted text that sits alongside a larger image, undercutting or changing its meaning.

Saturday, November 4 at 2pm. ★ Urban Territories Join art historian, writer and curator Dr Chris McAuliffe as he explores suburban motifs and urban territories in Jenny Watson's work.

Saturday, November 18. ★ Garden Talk - Sunday's Roses Join Heide head gardener Dugald Noyes for a tour of the historic gardens at Heide highlighting the roses planted by Sunday Reed.

Dugald will also discuss the distinguishing features of old and modern roses and how you can identify species in your own garden.

Free (BYO sunscreen and water) Thursday, November 9, at 11am ★ Tai Chi at Heide Join senior instructor Bruce Ellis in the picturesque surrounds of Heide sculpture park for an hour of Tai Chi followed by a cup of Chinese tea in The Rose Walk Pavilion.

For all ages. Please wear comfortable clothes. Cost Adults $15, Concession,Member $12 (includes class and tea) Thursday, November 16, at 9.30am.

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Wednesday Thursday November 1 November 2

■ Gary Player, the South African golfer, who won the Grand Slam (US Open, US Masters, US PGA, was born in 1935.

John Bell, the Australian stage actor, was born in 1940.

Australian country music singer John Williamson was born in 1945 (72).

■ Ian Maurice, formerly of Brisbane radio station 4BC, celebrates today.

Racing driver Alan Jones was born in Melbourne in 1946 (71).

Singer K D (Kathryn Dawn) Lang was born in Canada in 1961 (56).

She is a frequent visitor to Australia

Melbourne Arts Heide Museum of Modern Art 7 Templestowe Rd, Bulleen - Peter Kemp

National Gallery ■ Travel bible Lonely Planet has named Canberra number three in the world's Top 10 Cities for Lonely Planet's Best in Travel 2018.

Lonely Planet hailed the national capital for its superb plethora of cultural attractions, amongst its many attributes.

Lonely Planet has been the go-to-guide for world travellers for more than 40 years.

Its Top Ten lists are highly anticipated, having an increased impact on tourism to the cultural destinations it names.

Best in Travel 2018 is the 13th annual collection of the world's hottest destinations for the year ahead, Whilst Australia has featured strongly in the past with Fremantle place seventh in 2016 and Hobart also coming at seven in 2013, Canberra is the highest--ranking city thus far making the coveted top three slot.

The NGA is one of Canberra's iconic attractions, with an exceptional permanent collection of more than 150,000 artworks including destination works such as Jackson Pollock's Blue Poles (1952), James Tyrrrell's Within Without (2010), and the largest indigenous collection in the world.

In addition to he dynamic and ever -evolving collection, the NGA's blockbuster exhibitions have continued to draw visitors with an overwhelmingly positive perception of the city to the current contemporary hit, Hyper Real, the NGA is constantly providing new, exceptional cultural experiences.

In 2018, the NGA brings an ambitious major exhibition program to Canberra. Cartier: The Exhibition turns the gallery into a glittering wonderland of precious jewels worn by many of the world's most famous celebrities and royalty.

American Masters will bring together the best of mid-century innovators of modern art from Jackson Pollock to Andy Warhol .

At the end of the year, the gallery will be dedicated to Love and Desire with the PreRaphaelites from the Tate.

National Gallery of Australia Parkes Place, Parkes, Australian Capital Territory - Peter Kemp

Waiting For Godot ■ Wits’ End presents Waiting for Godot from November 23 – December 16 at the Eleventh HourTheatre, Fitzroy.

With direction and dramaturgy by William Henderson, and co-direction and choreography by Shona Innes, Waiting for Godot was written by Samuel Beckett in 1947 and evolved to become one of the most radical plays of the 20th century.

In this “play in which nothing happens twice”, two mysterious figures wait in a featureless landscape for another equally mysterious personage who never arrives, yet continues to send messages.

Two men simply waiting, who while waiting, create an extraordinarily funny series of activities and routines to keep themselves, and us, amused. In Beckett’s own words, the play is a tragicomedy, equal parts pain and laughter.

Now, 70 years after Beckett first put pen to paper, William Henderson and John Jacobs are reprising these roles in a new production performed in the intimate and flexible Eleventh Hour Theatre, situated barely a kilometre from the former Pram Factory.

Alongside Jacobs and Henderson, the production features Melbourne performers, Richard Bligh and Tom Considine, and a bold new design by Julie Renton.

Waiting For Godot is the premiere production in Australia for Wits’ End, a new incarnation of the award winning, independent company, The Eleventh Hour.

This company, co-directed by William Henderson and Anne Thompson ran from 2001 until 2013, winning numerous Green Room Awards and performing in major festivals in Melbourne, Adelaide and Northern Ireland.

Performed by: John Jacobs, Richard Bligh, Tom Considine and William Henderson Design: Julie Renton Lighting: Nik Pajanti Performance Season: November 23 – December 16 Bookings: https://www.trybooking.com/ SRCN - Cheryl Threadgold

Media Flashes

■ Sky News Live this week aired the first episode of Speers, a political news show hosted by Political Editor, David Speers.

■ Sky News Business has shifted addresses and joined News CorpAustralia at their headquarters on Holt St in Surry Hills, Sydney.

■ Rebecca Urban has been appointed National Education Correspondent at The Australian.

■ Delima Shanti has been appointed Growth Editor at Time Out Melbourne.

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Friday Saturday November 3 November 4 ■ Shannon Reid, exradio producer, enjoys her birthday today.

Actor Charles Bronson was born in 1921. He died aged 81 Singer Lulu (Marie Lawrie) was born in Glasgow in 1948 (69).

Actress Rebecca Gilling was born in Sydney in 1953.

■ Entertainer Barry Crocker is 82 today.

He was born in Geelong in 1935.

Newsman Walter Cronkite was born in 1916. He died in 2009, aged 92.

Actor Art Carney was born in 1918. He died aged 85 in 2003.

MASH’s Loretta Swit is 80 (1937).

Sunday Monday November 5 November 6

Tuesday November 7

■ Beverley Gilchrist Strong, well known in Melbourne Entertainers’ Club, celebrates her birthday today.

Roy Rogers (Leonard Slye) was born in 1912. He died in 1998 Actress Vivien Leigh was born in 1913. She died aged 57 in 1967.

Singer Art Garfunkel was born in 1941

■ US singerPatti Page was born as Clara Fowler in 1927.

Adventurer Hans Tholstrup was born in Holland in 1944 (73).

Singer Minnie Ripperton was born in Chicago in 1948. She died aged 31 in 1979.

American singer Leif Garrett was born in 1961 (56).

■ Actor Denise Roberts was born in Scotland on this day.

Evangelist Billy Graham was born in 1918.

Australian soprano Dame Joan Sutherland was born in 1926.

She died in 2010 (83).

Model Jean Shrimpton was born in England in 1942 (75).

Thanks to GREG NEWMAN of Jocks Journal for assistance with birthday and anniversary dates.

Jocks Journal is Australia’s longest running radio industry publication.

■ Melbourne Find out more at www.jocksjournal.com

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● Olivia Porter (left) and Jarred Dewey in Party Ghost presented by Poached Eggs and Asparagus.

Photo: Rob Blackburn ■ In the ongoing pursuit to challenge, push and develop contemporary circus artists and the art form, Circus Oz presents the inaugural Sidesault at The Melba Festival in Collingwood over two weeks from November 8 – 18.

Sidesault at The Melba will feature five emerging and established circus companies presenting new works ranging from physical stunts to circus poetry, with styles and approaches that span political satire, to feminism and the roles of women across life stages, to provocative sideshow.

Sidesault at The Melba provides circus artists with an amazing, intimate and beautiful space to share their new ideas and explorations to a wider audience.

Circus Oz Senior Artistic Associate, Antonella Casella, has co-curated Sidesault at The Melba with Melba Spiegeltent Producer, Halley-Jean Buckram, and explained that circus is an art form that is continually reinvented by new generations and different artistic collaborations.

“In many different ways all the shows in this festival are focused on the ‘circus body’ and placing it in a new context – whether that be the female body across a lifetime, the body as a site of destruction and pain, the body as something ridiculous or the body as a site of explosive power and human celebration,” said Casella.

Nov. 8-18. Circus Oz Sidesault at The Melba Nov. 8-18. at 6.30pm Casting Off – AGood Catch Nov. 8-18.v at 8.15pm Unsuitable – Tumble Circus Nov. 15-18 at 6.30pm Nonstop – Time in Space Nov. 15-18 at 8.15pm Party Ghost – Poached Eggs and Asparagus Nov. 15-18 at 9.45pm Relax: Everything’s F****d – The Syndicate Group Venue: The Melba Spiegeltent Location: 35 Johnston St, Collingwood Tickets: $27 – $23 + booking fee (Festival passes available) Bookings: trybooking.com - Cheryl Threadgold

Media Flashes

■ Tim Dodd has now started as Higher Education Editor at national broadsheet, The Australian.

■ The Hit Network has announced changes to its its 2018 weekday national lineup: · 5am - 6am: Lise Carlaw and Sarah Wills, · 3pm - 4:30pm: Carrie and Tommy · 4.30pm - 6.30pm: Hughesy and Kate · 6:30pm - 10pm: Ash London · 10pm - midnight: The Late Night show Collective Noun · Midnight - 5am: Danny Lankey

We Revolt at Dawn

■ UK feminist luminary Beatrix (Bea) Campbell will debate patriarchy and prospects for gender equality with Santilla Chingaipe, award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker, and Karen Pickering, feminist organiser and writer, on Thursday, November 9, under the title, We revolt at dawn, at the Golden Gate Hotel.

The Victorian Women’s Trust has joined forces with the SEARCH Foundation to host the session, Upstairs at the Athenaeum in Melbourne.

The UK author, playwright, filmmaker, journalist, political commentator and broadcaster, will speak in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Newcastle, and Sydney in November as part of a national tour organised by the SEARCH Foundation to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution.

Campbell argues that in 1975 the world’s institutions signed up to gender equality but by the end of the decade, the conditions and contexts that might have made that pledge meaningful were extinguished.

“The global hegemony of neo-liberalism marked the end. I explore the impact on three flanks: pay, the sexual division of labour and violence.

“Since 1980, year on year, global inequalities have increased, and gender equality has stuttered and stalled. Equal pay gaps throughout the world are stubborn and stable,” she said.

“In China and India, and Asia generally – home to half the world – gender pay gaps are accelerating.

“The relation between paid and unpaid work in ‘developed economies’ remain stable – men’s participation in child care and domestic work over the past 30 years has increased, but only at a rate of less than one minute per day per year.

“In two of the most advanced economies in the world, South Korea and Japan, men do virtually no domestic labour, the welfare state is thin, the labours of love fall to women, the gender settlement is unsustainable, and the capacity of these societies to reproduce themselves is in jeopardy.”

According to Campbell, the proliferation of ‘new wars’ and the resort to violence is associated with renewed polarisation between men and women.

“Making war – whether it is in the favelas, the killing fields of the Middle East, the resource wars of Africa, or gang warfare on the streets of London or Manchester – means the making and maintaining of violent masculinities. In this new ● From Page 37 Established in 1975 and now formally recognised as a State collection, it consists of over 600,000 items including costumes, designs, programs, photographs, posters, personal memorabilia and archival material.

The Victorian Government has invested $8.3 million in the creation of the Australian Music Vault at Arts Centre Melbourne as part of its commitment to strengthening the State’s music industry and culture.

Victoria’s Minister for Creative Industries, Martin Foley, said: “Australia has a proud contemporary music history and a proud live music culture, especially here in Victoria. This is an important part of who we are and it’s something to celebrate.”

“Whether it’s Paul Kelly or Kylie Minogue, The Seekers or Rowland S Howard,musicians are our storytellers and provide the narrative and soundtrack to our lives and collective experience.”

● Beatrix (Bea) Campbell context, women – not other men – are the primary casualties,” she said.

Campbell was a teenager when she joined the Communist Party of Great Britain and, after leaving school, she worked as journalist for its newspaper, the Morning Star.

She recalls being “intoxicated” by the women's liberation movement and, in 1972, cofounded the influential Red Rag: A Magazine of Women’s Liberation and Marxism.

Campbell is the author of nine books including Diana, Princess of Wales: How Sexual Politics Shook the Monarchy and Iron Ladies: Why Do Women Vote Tory?

Her latest is End of Equality, “a book that joins the dots between neoliberalism and sexism, between equal pay, war zones, the veil, The Wire, the web and welfare states … a new way of thinking about where we’re at”.

She stood twice as a Green Party candidate in local elections in the London Borough of Camden and for Hampstead and Kilburn in the 2010 parliamentary elections.

We Revolt at Dawn will beAuslan interpreted.

Tickets: https://bit.ly/WeRevoltAtDawn Dinner at 7pm, Saturday, November 11, at the: Golden Gate Hotel: https://bea-campbelldinner.eventbrite.com.au - Carmel Shute, with Cheryl Threadgold

Radio changes ■ MWCD Media Melbourne is looking for a Business Development Manager.

■ SEN 1116 is recuiting a Content Producer - Video, Online and Social.

■ Croc Media Melobourne wants to employ a Broadcast Distribution Manager.

■ A new national overnight show will air on the Hit Network in 2018. It will be hosted

by Danny Lakey, who currently co-hosts the Hit breakfast in Central Queensland.

■ Greg Newman of Jocks Journal reports that Triple J was plunged into silence, with the radio station suffering major technical difficulties around Australia. The outage started lasted more than an hour.

Que Reste T’il ■ In November, Robyn Archer returns to Melbourne with Que Reste T’il (translated as What Remains?), a passionate journey through the origins of cabaret through song, storytelling and a hint of satire for two performances only at Arts Centre Melbourne, Playhouse Theatre on Friday, November 10 and 11 at 7.30pm.

Que Reste T’il, Charles Trenet’s chanson is the title of this cabaret by Archer. Accompanied by Michael Morley (piano) andGeorge Butrumlis (accordion), Archer takes the audience on an emotional and satirical journey through a century of French song, from rarely performed material from Paris in the 1880s, through each decade to the 1970s.

Harking back to the intimate Parisian nightclubs and smoke-filled cafes of the 1880s, Archer will return to the origins of cabaret, capturing the mood and events of those eras and performing rare works by Aristide Bruant, Edith Piaf, Charles Trenet and Jacques Brel.

Songs will be performed both in French and in English.

Robyn Archer is often referred to as a national treasure. She is known to many for her one woman shows in the 1970s and 1980s, by others for her original songs and recordings, and now by thousands more for her memorable arts festivals in Canberra, Melbourne, Adelaide and Tasmania.

Archer has recorded 12 albums and her writing includes essays, songs, works for the theatre and children’s books.

She is an ABR Laureate, an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy for the Humanities, an Officer of the Order of Australia, Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France) and Officer of the Crown (Belgium) and also holds honorary doctorates from Flinders University (South Australia), Griffith University (Queensland), and the Universities of Sydney, Canberra and Adelaide.

Archer now combines artistic direction with concert performances, strategic advice, mentoring younger artists and artistic directors and speaking and writing about the arts across Australia and the world.

Michael Morley (piano, vocals) is currently Emeritus Professor of Drama at Flinders University.

George Butrumlis (accordion, vocals) has played the piano accordion since the age of six.

Performance Dates: November 10, 11 at 7.30pm Venue: Arts Centre Melbourne Bookings: artscentremelbourne.com.au or phone 1300 182 183.

Some listeners heard nothing while others heard a recorded announcement about the “reception difficulties”.

Triple J didn’t address the issue on social media for more than 30 minutes before finally explaining what was going on.

■ The ABC has announced that 19 regional radio stations will be streamed live via mobile and online by March, through an additional $1 million investment in local communities.

■ Margaret Throsby has hosted her final ABC Classic FM program. With more than 50 years’ experience with the ABC, she’ll be moving to a new role within the ABC that “will see her educate and inspire the next generation of broadcasters”.

● Robyn Archer.

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Movies, DVDs with Jim Sherlock, Aaron Rourke What’s Hot and What’s Not in Blu-Rays and DVDs FILM: BABY DRIVER: Genre: Action/Thriller.

Cast: Ansel Elgort, Jamie Foxx, Jon Hamm, Kevin Spacey, Lily James.

Year: 1977.

Rating: MA15+.

Stars: **½ Summary: Baby is a talented, young getaway driver relies on the beat of his personal soundtrack to be the best in the game, and when he meets the girl of his dreams Baby sees a chance to ditch his criminal life and make a clean getaway, but after being coerced into working for a crime boss he must face the music when a doomed heist threatens his life, love and freedom.

Entertaining enough but heavily flawed metal-to-the-pedal romp inspired by a many others in the action-heist-shoot-'em-up-car-chasethriller genre, most notably Walter Hills's tight fisted and unrelenting 1978 cult classic "The Driver" starring Ryan O'Neal.

It's all there, well mostly, there's plenty of adrenaline pumping action and ear-piercing wall-to-wall music to ride along to, but where the film falls apart and into over-riding cliché is all or any character development, emotion and originality is thrown out the window, and you just don't give a damn.

From Kevin Spacey as the clichéd crime-boss, Jamie Foxx and Jon Hamm as two clichéd villains who just don't get along, another clichéd villain who obviously has never-say-die tattooed on his body somewhere, one after the other, the cliché's run thick and fast, the only redemption belonging to Ansel Elgort as Baby and cinematography by Bill Pope.

When all is said and done, this is a shallow and all too predictable effort that runs out of fuel by film's end, a film in which it's not the bank heists that the crime, but the heisting of material from other far superior films.

In addition, it's not so much a movie as one long music video, and with the poor choice of music, not a good one at that.

FILM: A QUIET PASSION: Genre: Biography/Drama.

Cast: Cynthia Nixon, Jennifer Ehle, Keith Carradine, Duncan Duff.

Year: 2016.

Rating: M. Length: 125 Minutes.

Stars: ***½ Verdict: The story of American poet Emily Dickinson from her early days as a young individualistically rebellious schoolgirl to her later years as a reclusive, unrecognized artist, modernist and literary icon.

Poetic and complex character driven melancholy period drama and portrait, like its subject, is driven by the power and meaning of the written word, those words that have become synonymous with the writings and sensibilities of Emily Dickinson throughout time.

Effectively compelling and sensitive, Cynthia Nixon gives a superbly controlled performance as the legendary conflicted and tormented poet, as do Jennifer Ehle as her sister, along with screen veteran Keith Carradine as the father.

Uniquely in contrast to all else on screens today, and beautifully filmed, like a moving and richly textured portrait of the period.

Respectfully, "A Quiet Passion" makes the Stanley Kubrick 1975 period drama "Barry Lyndon" look like the action-thriller "Die Hard," or a "snail race" look like the "Indianapolis 500," by comparison.

Absorbing, witty, haunting and thought provoking, this is not a movie for everyone, as writer-director Terence Davies has created a 19th century literary page turner onto the screen in cinematic form as close as you can get.

FILM: THE WALL: Genre: Thriller/War/Drama.

Cast: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, John Cena, Laith Nakli.

Year: 2017.

Rating: MA15+ Length: 88 Minutes.

Stars: **½ Verdict: Two American Soldiers are trapped by a lethal and unseen supposedly legendary Iraqi sniper, with only a crumbling wall between them.

Heat, sweat and dust dominate this well made Iraqi cat & mouse war-thriller, however, it falls short on genuine suspense that dominated the similarly themed "Phone Booth" (2002) with Colin Farrell, Forest Whitaker and directed more effectively by Joel Schumacher, as well as the chilling, nail-biting and unforgettable Vietnam sniper sequence in Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket" (1987).

Original Matt Damon "The Bourne Identity," "Mr. and Mrs. Smith," and "Edge of Tomorrow" director Doug Liman this time manages to hold interest but struggles to make the stranded soldier lying beyond the wall exciting as a whole, though there are moments of tension throughout.

Dirt covered, sand gritted, wounded and grunting star Aaron TaylorJohnson does well under the circumstances in this almost one-setpiece, but as the wall crumbles around him, so does the intended impact.

- James Sherlock

Rourke’s Reviews: 1922, Geostorm ■ 1922 (MA). 101 minutes. Now showing on Netflix.

The Stephen King adaptations continue with 1922, based on the 2010 novella by the indefatigable author (who was obviously inspired

by Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart), and like the recent Gerald's Game (also produced by Netflix), is a cut above the King crowd.

Set during the title year, the story centres on Nebraska farmer Wilfred James (Thomas Jane), who loves the life he and those before him have lead.

His 80 acres became 180 when he married Arlette (Molly Parker), and the two have a teenage son, Henry (Dylan Schmid).

Over time Arlette has made it obvious that she hates the farming life, and with their fortunes dwindling each year, wants the family to move to the city and open a dress shop.

Horrified at the thought, Wilfred reacts strongly to the suggestion, and makes him realise how much he hates his wife.

When Arlette threatens to sell her part of the farm and move anyway, Wilfred talks his son into helping him carry out the solution to their problems.

1922 dares to take its time, and Australian director Zak Hilditch (who also provides the screenplay) deserves credit for his measured, atmospheric approach to the material, allowing the characters' dark thoughts to gain weight and purpose.

This in turn gives the cast room to move, and nobody disappoints.

Jane (Boogie Nights, Thursday, 61*, Stander, The Mist) gives his best performance in quite some time, truly bringing the brooding Wilfred to life, and makes a detestable person utterly compelling.

Schmid is convincing as Henry, while Neal Mcdonough (Minority Report) and Kaitlyn Bernard offer solid support.

As terrific an actor as she is, Molly Parker (Kissed, Wonderland, The Centre Of The World, Deadwood) gets the least developed character.

The theme of male dominance is well introduced, but I just wish there was more time allocated to the changing dynamic between Arlette and Wilfred, and the way she feels suffocated by the men around her.

It would also have made Wilfred's decision more convincing.

Overt horror does make its way late into proceedings, jarring a little with the psychological thriller that has preceded it.

At least it doesn't have the kind of inherent problems that caused Mike Flanagan's Gerald's Game to falter in the second half.

Impressively photographed by Ben Richardson (Beasts Of The Southern Wild, Wind River), 1922 is an effectively moody tale anchored by a memorable central performance, and will hopefully see Hilditch move up the Hollywood ladder.

RATING - ***½ - Aaron Rourke

■ Geostorm (M). 109 minutes.

Now showing in selected cinemas.

Like a piece falling debris, the long-delayed Geostorm finally crash-lands, and like the arrival of Skylab all those years ago, its after-effects won't trouble too many people. With an opening that feels like a mash-up between Snowpiercer and Pacific Rim, we are told that in 2019 climate change will kill millions, caused by natural disasters right around the globe. To counteract this, Jake Lawson (Gerard Butler) and a large team design a system that, once installed into nearly 1200 satellites, will be able to 'cure' climate change, and return the world's weather patterns to some kind of normalcy. Jake, a maverick who doesn't do things by the book, falls foul of the US government, who fire him and put his younger brother Max (Jim Sturgess) in charge. Three years later, and Jake is working as a mechanic in Florida; divorced, but allowed to see his 13-year-old daughter Hannah (Talitha Bateman).

Max turns up on his doorstep saying that one satellite has malfunctioned, and before you know it, Jake is on the international space station figuring out what is wrong, while his brother, with the help of lover/ secret service agent Sarah Wilson (Abbie Cornish) and low-level tech employee Dana (Zazie Beetz), also attempt to uncover the truth behind the tragic mishaps. Originally set for release over a year and-a-half ago, Geostorm went through extensive rewrites and reshoots (apparently overseen by Brit Danny Cannon, a film-maker who showed promise more than two decades ago with The Young Americans (1993) and Judge Dredd (1995), the latter of which also suffered from reshoots and star egos), and boy, does it show. Nothing makes sense, many characters appear and disappear with irritating regularity (if you blink, you'll miss talented character actor Mare Winningham), and incidents hurtle along without rhyme or reason. Even with all this narrative and production chaos, the villain responsible for all the mass destruction is painfully obvious. Cowriter/director Dean Devlin, who should be able to churn out this kind of fluff in his sleep, having worked alongside Roland Emmerich on hits such as Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow, spectacularly drops the ball with his directorial debut. Like XXX : The Return Of Xander Cage, Geostorm is shamelessly aimed at specific markets, with its scenario involving the world's two biggest box-office giants, the US and China. Numerous other films come to mind; Armageddon, Spies Like Us, Gravity, Outland, Space Cowboys, Aliens, Our Man Flint, The Avengers, even Moon 44. Why does Geostorm manage to get one star?

Well, it's still better than the bloated, moronic garbage that Michael Bay inflicts upon us. In fact, watch a Bay film beforehand, and Geostorm may suddenly seem like a long lost classic.

RATING - * - Aaron Rourke

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8. HOUNDS OF LOVE [Crime/Drama/ Stephen Curry, Emma Booth, Ashleigh Cummings].

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NEW RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS ON DVD THIS WEEK: BABY DRIVER [Action/Crime/Comedy/ Drama/Ansel Elgort, Kevin Spacey, Jamie Foxx].

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TERMINATOR 2: Judgment Day 3D Blu-Ray + Blu-Ray [Arnold Schwarzenegger].

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● Alison McDonald with Noela Rush and her winning quilt at Flowerdale

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● Maree Oddy sells Yea Hospital Auxiliary raffle tickets, with the prize provided by Yea artist Meg Heres.

● Pam Jones and Bryan Jones at the Alexandra On Perkins Market

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● Keith Elderidge, Andrew Embling and Ivan Pyke

● Matt Dean, Tori Fuerst and Steuart Maddison at the Landmark Embling Open Day at Alexandra

● Debbie Makin, Rhonda Makin and Brian Makin (Capt.) of Flowerdale CFA

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Observer Victorian Sport Melbourne

Sydney raider, big chance ■ Sydney colt Ace High could be the one to beat in this Saturday's Victoria Derby.

Ace High is a promising colt, who won the Champion Stakes in Sydney in good style over 2000 metres beating another promising colt in Tangled who ran second to Cliff's Edge at Caulfield.

Prepared by leading Sydney trainer David Payne, the stable is confident of a big show in the Victorian Derby.

Main Stage was most impressive winning at Flemington coming from last, but was found to be wanting behind Cliff's Edge at Caulfield.

A few of the Richmond footballers have a share in Main Stage, namely Dustin Martin and Alex Rance.

Although appearing to have had every chance in the Ladbroke's Stakes, he will be better suited at Flemington, where he races well.

Royal Symphony, one of my favourites, is an interesting runner after an unlucky run in the Caulfield Guineas. He was also nominated for the Cox Plate.

Last but not least is the Chris Waller-trained colt, Tangled, who ran a good second to Ace High in the Champion Stakes and then second to Cliff's Edge in the Ladbroke's over 2000 metres, could be an improver.

I like the look of Ace High and Main Stage, a few days out from the Derby.

Melb. Cup open

■ Like the Caulfield Cup proved, the Melbourne Cup is no different with a few chances.

The Caulfield Cup turned into a farce with Sir Isaac Newton bolting away to something like 15 lengths at one stage.

When queried by the Stewards, Sir Isaac Newton's rider, Kate Mallyon, said she was instructed to lead on him, but he was hard to restrain, and the more she tried to rein him in, he just wanted to run.

The tragic part of it all was it upset most of the runners who didn't want to go early, hence an outsider, Boom Time, getting the run of the race.

The top mare, Bonneval, once again was found to have injured herself, pulling up lame in the off fore leg.

I have always thought once a horse has had an injury prior to a main race, they find it hard in the run with the pressure in a race, especially a race like the Caulfield Cup where the pressure is on for the entire 2400 metres.

While I felt the favourite, Johannes Veermer, should have won as he lost his position, but got within a length of Boom Time, on the line in third spot.

Johannes Vermeer is on the third line of favourtism in the Melbourne Cup, but hasn't raced further than 2400 metres, but does settle well, and providing something doesn't go mad out front in the Melbourne Cup he is in with a chance.

I am warming to Almandin having a chance to win again.

Forget about his last run when unplaced, the stable wasn't perturbed, and they are confident that the eight year-old can win again.

He carried 52 kilos last year and has gone up 4.5 kilos, and has got be right in it; after all he is Australia's best stayer especially over the 3200 metres.

One of Australia's best riders, Damien Oliver, will pilot Almandin, and having won three Melbourne Cups on Doreimus, Media Puzzle, and Fiorente, he certainly knows what it is all about.

The equal favourite, Marmelo, an international galloper with good form, will be piloted by top rider, Hugh Bowman, who rode him a kilo over in the Caulfield Cup, for an unlucky sixth.

Marmelo is the first Scottish galloper to contest the Melbourne Cup and back in August won the Group Two Kergorlay over 3000 metres at Deauville.

He is treading the same path of Melbourne Cup winners, Americain who won in 2010 and

● Almandin in last year’s Melbourne Cup. Racing Photos Another I do like is the original favourite for Protectionist who saluted in 2014. He impressed me with his big run in the Caulfield Cup, where the Melbourne Cup, Red Cardinal, who is prepared by the German trainer, Andreas Wohler, he finished equal sixth with Abbey Marie. who won the 2014 Melbourne Cup with Protectionist.

He has won over the 3200 metres having taken out the rich Group 3 Belmont Gold Cup over the Cup distance in New York.

He is a high class stayer who has won from 2300 metres to and including the Melbourne Cup distance of 3200 metres.

Of the others Humidor could be a rough chance, as to why he hung in all the way in the Caulfield Cup, it is a mystery, but I can guarantee if he starts in the big two miler, Darren Weir, his trainer will have an answer.

Ted Ryan

Tigers day out

■ The Richmond players continued with their festivities after their great win in the AFL Grand Final enjoying a great days racing at Bendigo, the Beach Wear Day on Caulfield Cup Day. I was having a chat with their driver who took most of the premiership players to the track from Melbourne and picked them an hour after the last at Bendigo.

The racegoers appreciated the chance to meet and mix with the players, who had a ball likewise race patrons.

After the last, my job on the mic. was to clear the way for patrons leaving, likewise the players.

The driver explained the day hadn't ended for the players they were on their way back to Melbourne via Kyneton where they had booked in for dinner.

Jack Riewoldt spotted me on the mic. and knowing I was a Tiger man decided to jump off the bus and sing the Club's theme song, with the rest of the players.

I don't know what time the bus driver got home, but I will bet you it was late.

● Main Stage scores in great style at Flemington. Racing Photos

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Wine Column Preservative-free

■ JOHN ROZENTALS salutes a brave effort in producing a preservative-free wine.

Back in the dim, dark days when I was studying wine science - long ago enough for the institution to be known as Riverina College of Advanced Education rather than Charles Sturt University - it was virtually blasphemous to talk about making preservative-free wine.

Sulphur dioxide - both as anti-microbial agent and as an anti-oxidant - was regarded as an essential additive in good winemaking, though advances in technology meant that it could be used in smaller doses than previously.

Sure, there had been some attempts at making preservative-free wines, but the assessment of these beverages was far from flattering.

You would have had to be seriously allergic to sulphur dioxide to consider consuming them.

Fast forward some 40 years - and a few bounds in technology - and the notion of making wines without sulphur dioxide is a definite possibility.

Mudgee winemaker David Lowe has had more experience in this field than most have, and the Lowe 2017 PF500 Shiraz is his ninth vintage of preservative-free wine.

It's a courageous and praiseworthy effort - deep red in colour and packed with juicy flavour and showing no sign of the oxidative character that so often dogs such attempts - and, as well as being preservative-free it's also unfiltered and unfined.

It's about as natural as wine can get, and for good measure it's made from a biodynamic vineyard. And that in itself brings an important distinction to the fore.

Quite a few growers practice organic and/ or biodynamic viticulture but most of them don't go on to eschew the addition of sulphur dioxide, which is very much a winemaking step.

So, why the name PF500?

David explains: "The name came about simply through the recurrence of the number 500.

The vineyard sits at an elevation of 500 metres, 500 is the name of the horn clay preparation used in biodynamic wine growing, and we've bottle a proportion of the wine in 500ml bottles."

And why the latter choice?

"Preservative-free wines tend not to last overnight once opened, so we're experimenting with 500ml bottles. It can be enjoyed in moderation with the wine is best shape," David said.

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WINE REVIEWS Tim Adams 2014 Cabernet Malbec ($25): blending cabernet sauvignon with malbec has historically been a Clare Valley specialty made famous in the 1950s and 1960s by the huge success of the Leasingham Bin 56 Cabernet Malbec.

It's a lovely red, with the fullness of the malbec filling out the traditional mid-palate 'hole'.

Tyrrells 2016 Beyond Broke Road Orange Sauvignon Blanc ($19): Tyrrells winery is located on Broke Road, in the Hunter Valley, but it has long used grapes from other Australian areas as well.

This new (for this scribe, anyway) label handily brings a group of those wines together.

This shows plenty of the variety's noted herbaceous character and some good palate weight.

WINE OF THE WEEK Lowe 2017 PF500 Shiraz ($22 for 500ml): A remarkably brave and successful effort at producing a preservative-free red.

It's vibrant and juicy and shows absolutely not a skerrick of the aldehydic oxidisedapple character usually seen in wines made without sulphur dioxide.

- John Rozentals

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From just $5 per week PROMOTE your business to local people in the Melbourne Observer newspaper. Your ad will appear in the weekly print issue. Your ad will also be seen - at no extra charge - in our online edition at www.MelbourneObserver.com.au This can improve your Google ranking at no extra charge.

Trades & Services

COMPARE OUR ECONOMICAL PRICES (includes GST): $12.50 per insertion for casual clients (4-issue minimum).

SAVE! $10 per insertion for 13-issues. ($130 package) SAVE! $7.50 per insertion for 26-issues. ($195 package).

SAVE! $5 per insertion for 44-issues. ($220 package). ● All Observer advertising packages are pre-paid.

We accept payment by Visa, Mastercard and American Express, with no surcharge. Or Direct Debit 033091 260131.

● All Trades & Services Directory ads are in full-colour, at no extra charge. ● No cancellations or refunds are available for discounted pre-paid advertising packages. ● No proofs or previews on discounted package ads. ● Free copy changes are welcome at any time during the run of your ad, at no extra charge. Phone 1800 231 311 before 5pm Fridays.

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Classic • Decks Carports Pergolas •• Pergolas • Verandahs Plans and Permits Specialising in Timber and Colorbond® Free Quote call Eddie:

0413 128 242

BUILDING & RENOVATION GENERAL

Our goal is to recover YOUR money, owed to you as fast as possible; cost-effective for your business without damaging your relationship with the clients

Fast Action Debt Recovery P/L Speak with Michael Conway OAM, Director. Phone: 0402 142 866 www.fastaction.net.au

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CLEANING SERVICES

0439 046 716 HEATING AND FIREPLACES LIC. 51016

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■ Ducted Heating ■ Split Systems ■ Wall Furnace/Space Heater ■ Carbon Mononxide Testing Keeping Your Family Safe Installtion, Ser vice & Repairs Licensed Plumber & Gas Fitter

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CONCRETING

ALL RENDERING AND PLASTERING • Internal and External • Traditional and Modern Mike 0412 353 007 PLUMBING

CRAIG’S GAS & PLUMBING Specialist in Gas Appliance Service & Installation

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0499 773 569

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• Service to Ducted Heaters, Wall Furnaces, Space Heaters, Stoves & Ovens • Supply & Installation of Gas Appliances • Carbon Monoxide testing on Heaters • Replacement hot water units • Pensioner discounts

Phone: 9379 1733 www.craigsgas.com.au LIC 33201

Promote your business Melbournewide If you are serious about winning customers across Melbourne, place a listing in the Melbourne Observer Trades and Services Directory.

From as little as $5-a-week for a colour business-card-size ad, your listing will be seen across the metropolitan area in print and online.

And if you specialise in just a certain section of Melbourne (north, south, east or west), say so in your ad, then you can attract customers in your local area.

To arrange for your business to be listed, call one of our friendly ad-visors at the Melbourne Observer Advertising Department .

Melbourne

Observer

Phone 1800 231 311

www.MelbourneObserver.com.au

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