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■ Almost half of the rental properties in the Latrobe Valley and surrounding areas are out of reach for people who rely on welfare, according to a study into rental affordability across Victoria quoted by the Latrobe Valley Express. ● Teddy Tahu Rhodes with members of the Melbourne Welsh Male Choir.

■ The Melbourne Welsh Male Choir is mark“Kate Amos, who has extensive performance Naturally, the choir will sing some Welsh ing winter with two major concerts - 2pm Satur- favourites. Also on the program are They Call experience in opera, operetta and musical theday June 23 at the Melbourne Recital Centre; the Wind Maria from Paint Your Wagon and a atre, is a great addition to the concerts. Kate’s and 2pm Sunday June 24 at Ulumbarra The- new arrangement of the gospel song, I Believe. vocal versatility is a delight. The concerts are atre, Bendigo.

Another addition to the repertoire is the Rugby the perfect way to beat those wintertime blues.”

The 50-strong choir will be joined by New anthem, The World in Union.

Alwyn Humphreys, Conductor Emeritus of Zealand born bass-baritone, Teddy Tahu David Ashton-Smith, who became the the Morriston Orpheus Choir and Principal Rhodes, and Melbourne soprano, Kate Amos. choir’s director in early 2016, is thrilled with the Guest Conductor of the Chamber Orchestra of It is Tahu Rhodes’ third time with the choir.

Wales, has described the choir as the best Welsh He will perform solos plus a selection of the line-up and program. male choir outside Wales and Ashton-Smith con“Teddy Tahu Rhodes performed to great ac- curs. best known and loved songs from stage and screen, including Les Misérables, with the choir. claim with the choir in 2015 and we were chuffed The Melbourne Welsh Male Choir has perAmos, who won the choir’s Singer of the Year when he approached the choir seeking another formed all over the world, from Wales and LonCompetition in 2016, will perform Adele's chance to sing with us,” Ashton-Smith said. don to Salzburg, Vienna,Atlanta Georgia and “This time round, the people of Bendigo also Johannesburg. It was accorded standing ovaLaughing Song from Die Fledermaus and join Tahu Rhodes for duets including Là ci darem la get an opportunity to enjoy his glorious voice tions at the 2017 Cornwall International Male mano from Don Giovanni.rebellion. and striking stage presence.

Voice Choir Festival.

“But whether it’s at Albert Hall, Hamer Hall or the Sydney Opera House, what defines the Melbourne Welsh Male Choir is the richness and harmonies of the combined voices. The choir embodies the great strength of the Welsh choral tradition,” Ashton-Smith said.

Performance Dates: ■ 2pm, Saturday, June 23. Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre. Tickets: $45$70 plus pensioner and group concessions www.melbournerecital.com.au or 9699 3333 ■ 2pm, Sunday, June 24. Ulumbarra Theatre, Bendigo. Tickets: $25-$45; gotix.com.au or 5434 6100.

- Cheryl Threadgold

Astronaut meets Philip

Time to pay

■ Calls are mounting to make the Great Ocean Road’s six million annual visitors pay for the privilege through entry fees, tolls and parking fees, reports the Warrnambool Standard.

Charity theft

■ Police are seeking witnesses, after a brazen theft from charity in Maffra. Two male youths, described as about 11 or 12 years of age, on scooters, approached women collecting for the Maffra HospitalAuxiliary. In an attempt to appear intimidating, one of the youths held up his fist at the women, before snatching $10 from the charity collection till, reports the Gippsland Times.

Compo paid

■ Former police detective Denis Ryan has been officially compensated by the Victorian Government after nearly 50 years, reports the Sunraysia Daily.

Forecast ■ ■ ■ ■

Today (Wed.). Mostly sunny. 9°-19° Thurs. Showers. 6°-12° Fri. Rain. 7°-11° Sat. Showers. 9°-14°

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● Gerry Griffin, Philip Brady, Charlie Duke and Kevin Trask ■ Twelve people have walked on the sur- attendance at this presentation by Live On face of the moon. It was great experience to Stage Australia. meet one of them during the week and shake Charlie Duke, Apollo 16 astronaut and his hand.

Moonwalker and Gerry Griffin who was I accompanied 3AW’s Philip Brady to the Apollo Mission Control Flight Director told Astor Theatre in St Kilda to attend a screen- their stories and answered questions from the ing of the film Mission Control: The Unsung audience after the screening of the film.

Heroes of Apollo which is a documentary on Charlie was the Lunar Module Pilot for the the NASA team who worked behind the scenes Apollo 16 mission and at the time was the at Mission Control in Houston. youngest man to walk on the moon.

Two of the men who were a part of the It was a special night for Philip Brady. incredible period of the Apollo years were in Turn To Page 11

THE TTOP OP 5 AL TERNA TIVE VENUES FOR ALTERNA TERNATIVE HOSTING THE SUMMIT BETWEEN DONALD TRUMP AND KIM JONG UN.

5. The Myer Mural Hall.

4. Molly Meldrum's pool-side.

3. Festival Hall.

2. Captain Cook's Cottage.

1. A sauna

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■ The Hall & Wilcox art prize and exhibition program was started in 2014 to support emerging Australian artists.

The first show for 2018 focuses on diversity and showcases six artists with a range of backgrounds and styles. The artworks will hang in Hall & Wilcox's reception and client spaces.

The opening of the exhibition will be held on Thursday May 24 from 6pm - 8pm. The exhibition will run for four weeks. RSVP to selena.bedelis@halandwlcox.com.au or phone 9603 3612.

The artists are: ■ Peter Lambropoulos who won the inaugural M Collection Award for an unrepresented Australian artist in 2014.

■ Lena Sheridan is a German-Australian artist, teacher and musician. Lena has synaesthesia, a neurological trait resulting in a merging of senses that aren't normally connected. Lena's resulting work has a sense of stillness, introspection and mystery.

■ Kirpy has been cutting stencils and painting on and of the streets for over 12 years layer after layer his work assembles like building blocks with iconic landmarks cities from around the globe.

■ Sean McDowell is a multi-disciplinary artist who encompasses a broad range of mediums including sculpture and spatial practice, installation and painting. For Sean, artworks often emerge throughout the process of experimentation.

■ Mo is a Melbourne based artist who works in the medium of collage, building her images through painstaking layering of pieces of vinyl.

■ Sharon Monagle is a doctor ad self-taught artist working in acrylic, oils and mixed media.

In 2018 she is working on new styles and themes based around people's connectedness and separateness.

Exhibition opens Thursday May 24 at 8pm and runs for four weeks.

Hall & Wilcox, Level 11. Rialto South Tower 525 Collins St., Melbourne - Peter Kemp

are pulled apart and reinterpreted using a wild array of materials and mediums. Contos suggests her installation has a 1980s nostalgic flavour and a 1920s fervour. The vibe is an overfilled raspberry coke slushy … a pillow fight in heels … an exquisite corpse.'

Exhibition: May 4 - September 24. ★ Balnaves Contemporary Intervention: Jess Johnson and Simon Ward.

Login to Jess Johnson and Simon Ward's Terminus - an immersive 'world within a world' where dimensional realities exist in both physical and virtual space.

In Terminus, Ward collaborates with Johnson to reimagine her densely layered 2D artworks as hypnotic animated video and unique virtual reality experiences. Positioned within an elaborate floor map, five virtual reality stations act as portals into five different realms.

Exhibition: May 4 - August 26. ★ The National Picture: The art of Tasmania's Black War. Focusing on colonial representations of Tasmanian Aboriginal people this exhibition sheds new light on several under-examined figures in this difficult and tragic narrative: colonial artist Benjamin Duterrau, the controversial 'Conciliator', George Augusts Robinson and he Tasmanian Aboriginal people upon whose land the British had settled.

Drawing on key loans from national and international collections, the exhibition spans the long and bloody 'Black War', which led to the declaration of martial law in Van Diemen's Land in 1829, the beginnings of Robinson's ill-fated 'Friendly Mission', and Duterrau's death in 1851.

Works from the 20th and 21st centuries reference ad respond to the confronting issues that continue to arise from Tasmania's colonial past.

Exhibition: May 12 - July 29.

The National Gallery of Australia Parkes, ACT. - Peter Kemp

Geelong Gallery

Opera Australia

Jörg Schmeisser - Looking Back: prints from the collection of Laurence O'Keefe and Christopher James.

Jörg Schmeisser (1942-2012) was an internationally trained and critically acclaimed master printmaker whose etchings set a benchmark for technical brilliance and conceptual richness.

He was the Head of Printmaking at the Australian National University School of Art in Canberra between 1978 0 96 where he was a highly influential teacher and mentor.

This collection of 34 works dating from 19682011, assembled over 40 years by Laurence O'Keefe and Christopher James, is a promised bequest to the Geelong Gallery.

The collection is a fine representation of the depth and breadth of Schmeisser's graphic investigations and his beguiling technical mastery of drawing and the etching process.

Exhibition closes May 27. ★ Brook Andrew - rethinking Antipodes.

In 2016 Brook Andrew undertook a comprehensive study of the collections of the Cambridge Museums, and the extensive print collection of the British Museum, London as part of the Australian Print Workshop's Antipodes Project.

In the resulting suite of eight photolithographs - acquired by Geelong Gallery in 2017 - he uses reproductions of 18th century satirical prints by British artist James Gillray as his primary source material, specifically a number of prints in which Gillray addressed British Imperialism, the political climate of the late 18th century and various conflicts (between Britain and France, and Britain and the colonised).

Exhibition closes September 2.

- Peter Kemp

Opera Australia's second production for the Melbourne Autumn season was Puccini's Tosca: a story of the artist Mario Cavaradossi and his lover Fiona Tosca, her brother Cesare Angelotti who has just escaped from prison and asks his friend the artist Mario to help him.

Puccini set the opera in the 190ty century, but director John Bell has brought it into the time of Fascist Italy under the occupation of the Germans in WWII. This did not mar the context of the story in fact brought it more to the understanding of present day audiences. .

Tosca was sung and performed by leading soprano Latonia Moore. An amazing and magnificent performance with a lovely duet between Moore and Diego Torre. Adding to her remarkable voice was her aria in act twowhich held the audience spellbound.

Her lover, the artist Mario Cavaradossi was performed by Diego Torres. Another first-class performance with a great rapport between the leading couple and the superb tenor of Torres.

The Nazi in charge of the town, Baron Scarpia, was performed by Marco Vratogna. A good stern performance expected of such a role and his baritone is given full voice in his interpretation of the Cantabile di Scarpia.

The escaped prisoner Cesare Angelotti was performed by Gennadi Dubinsky also giving a great performance aided by a wonderful voice.

The sets were outstanding; the opening and first act scene was in the Sant' Andrea della Valle church The second act was the Palazzo Farnese and Act 3 was the Castel Sant' Angelo over the river Tiber.

Set one was a complete replica of the interior of Sant' della Valle. Set 2 a replica pf the Palazzo Farnese and Set 3 the interior of an Italian prison. Some outstanding scenes were the Te Deum by the Opera Australia Chorus and the Children's Chorus.

A very pleasant evening of opera with a welcome addition to the Melbourne arts scene.

Opera Australia Arts Centre, St. Kilda Rd. Melbourne - Peter Kemp

National Gallery Balnaves Contemporary Intervention: Sarah Contos Sarah Contos transforms the NGA foyer into a cinematic universe in which film references

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Melbourne Arts Jazz Bell Awards

■ Bird’s Basement will host the 16th annual Australian Jazz Bell Awards Ceremony and Gala dinner on Monday (May 14).

This event celebrates excellence in the performance, creativity, recording and presentation of Jazz in Australia.

Attendees at the awards this year include Barney McAll, Kristin Berardi, Daniel Sunsjar, Andrea Keller, and young and aspiring musicians Evan Harris, Jack Earle, and others. Award winners usually join the house band to perform on stage at the Gala night.

There are seven award categories and the shortlist of nominees were determined by the members of the Australian Jazz Award Academy.

Winners are selected by the panel of judges which include key industry figures: Albert Dadon (founder and Chairman of the Australian Jazz Bell Awards and owner of Bird’s Basement), Adrian Jackson (Artistic Director of the Wangaratta Jazz festival) , Gerry Koster (radio presenter), Martin Jackson (Founder of the Melbourne Jazz Co-operative), Jessica Nicholas (journalist and radio presenter) and John Shand (author, journalist, drummer and critic).

This is an industry night, but a limited number of tickets are available for the public.

Booking is essential. Tickets are $149 per person and include a three-course dinner by head chef David Murphy (ex Bistro Thierry and ex Bar Nonno). The Ceremony will start at 6pm.

Bird’s Basement is located at 11 Singers Lane, Melbourne. Bookings: www.birds basement.com - Cheryl Threadgold From Page 9

Astronaut meeting

■ Philip was in Houston in 1972 and witnessed the launch of Apollo 16.

We had a lovely time chatting to Charlie and Gerry about their experiences and it was a night we will never forget. Philip took the night off from 3AW to attend the event and that is a rare occurrence.

- Kevin Trask

Mao’s Last Dancer Mao's Last Dancer the Exhibition.

A Portrait of Li Cunxin.

Exploring the incredible life of the internationally renowned ballet icon, Li Cunxin, this exhibition promises to take viewers on an inspiring journey.

Visitors will gain insight into Li Cunxin's poverty-stricken childhood in rural China, his extraordinary journey to become an internationally renowned dancer, and his current life in Brisbane where he is artistic Director for the prestigious Queensland Ballet.

Li is truly a global citizen. His moniker Mao's Last Dancer is recognised globally, thanks to his autobiography.

The exhibition opens June 16.

The Immigration Museum, 400 Flinders St, Melbourne - Peter Kemp

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Three deaths of Ebony

● Nick Pages-Oliver and Amberly Cull in The Three Deaths of Ebony Black.

Photography: Minh Phat The dark subject matter is playfully subverted ■ Following a successful premiere season at Perth’s Fringeworld earlier this year, award win- with a sprinkling of absurdity.

“Think Death at a Funeral meets The ning writer/composers Amberly Cull and Robert Woods are presenting the three-act play The Muppets and you’re not too far off,” says writer Three Deaths of Ebony Black from May 14 – 19 and performer, Amberly Cull.

A two hander between Cull and Nick Pagesat The Butterfly Club.

Oliver, the show brings to life 10 hand-crafted The Three Deaths of Ebony Black follows the life and death of a sweet old lady with a not puppets by Danny Miller (King Kong, Walking Dinosaurs), and features an all original so extraordinary life and is based on the quote with score

by Cull and Woods. by neuroscientist David Eagleman: Performance Dates: May 14-19 (No Tues“There are three deaths. The first is when day Performance) the body ceases to function. The second is when Time: 7pm the body is consigned to the grave. The third is Cost: $27-34 that moment, sometime in the future, when your Venue: The Butterfly Club, 5 Carson Place, name is spoken for the last time.”

Melbourne Each death is brought to life in it its own genre Tickets: thebutterflyclub.com 9663 8107 and with its own style of puppetry.

- Cheryl Threadgold

Funds for Art Trams ■ Applications are now open for the 2018 Melbourne Art Trams, which will see eight Melbourne trams transformed by Victorian artists into dynamic public artworks as part of Melbourne Festival’s visual arts program.

The sixth year of this hugely successful public art project invites artists to propose a work that is specific to Melbourne’s trams as a site for collective engagement throughout the city, and to respond to Melbourne as a site of change.

Melbourne Art Trams is a revival and reimagining of the much-loved Transporting Art program which ran from 1978 to 1993 and resulted in 36 painted trams being rolled out across the Melbourne network.

In 2018, one of the eight trams will recreate an original Transporting Art work, by late expressionist painter David Larwill.

Larwill’s work was commissioned in 1986 as part of the United Nations International Year of Peace; for 2018, his W-Class tram will be photographed and adjusted to fit a modern tram

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design, then printed on adhesive vinyl and applied to the tram.

Minister for Creative Industries, Martin Foley said: “Victoria is the creative state and what greater expression of this is there than when our iconic trams are reimagined as giant public artworks.

“This year won’t just celebrate the most exciting Victorian artists of today, by reviving David Larwill’s tram artwork, the project will pay tribute to a groundbreaking artist whose talents live on after him.”

Melbourne Festival Artistic Director, Jonathan Holloway said: “Melbourne is a city constantly evolving, with a cultural scene that changes in the most surprising and thrilling ways.

“In this time of transformation, there are some things that maintain their place at the centre of Melbourne: like the tram network and our annual international arts festival.”

Melbourne Art Trams 2018 expressions of interest are now open for Victorian professional artists, with one tram design reserved for an emerging artist in the early years of their career as an artist, or who identifies as such regardless of age.

One tram is reserved for an artist who specifically responds to their interpretation of ‘community’.

The Melbourne Arts Trams project is a partnership between Melbourne Festival, Creative Victoria, Public Transport Victoria and Yarra Trams.

Expressions of interest for the Melbourne Art Trams close on Tuesday, June 12, with selected artists announced in July.

For more information including Expression of Interest details visit: www.festival.melbourne/ trams ● A group exhibition running until May 25 at Collins Place Gallery, Shop 19, 45 Collins St, Melbourne, includes Eolo Paul Bottaro’s painting of Only Human: a young couple in a waterhole in outback Australia. - Peter Kemp

Local People Meet May Hu

● May Hu ■ May Hu’s Medal of the Order of Australia award (OAM) presented in last year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours List, was for “Service to the broadcast media, to women, and to the multicultural community of Victoria”.

Behind May’s success of achieving this award is a story involving many years of hard work.

May travelled to Australia from Shanghai with her family in 1988 to study English, but the following year after the uprising in Tiananmen Square, she accepted the offer extended from then Prime Minister, Bob Hawke, of permanent residency for Chinese students.

Although qualified as an English and Chemistry teacher in China, May could find little work in Australia, and realised Australian qualifications would be necessary to carve out a professional career.

At Deakin University she was awarded a Graduate Diploma in 1992 after studying Interpreting and Translation, then took up the position of Head of Group Mandarin at SBS Radio, where she continues to work as a producer.

The many documentaries, series and radio dramas produced by May in Mandarin have helped Chinese migrants understand Australia’s history, culture, values and democratic system.

In 2002, her program Love Across Borders won the Old People Speak Out National Award in 2002, and May became the first Chinese-Australian to win a mainstream media award.

Other awards received by May include the Victorian Multicultural Commission's Award for Excellence in MulticulturalAffairs (Arts/Media) in 2006, and being inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Womenin 2010.

Inspired by her teachers and classmates at Deakin, May joined the Australian Institute of Interpreters and Translators in 1992 and has served this organisation for many years, as well as using her translator and interpreter skills in her work at SBS as a producer, in Victorian Government departments, telephone interpreting and more recently, court, police and conference interpreting.

Throughout her busy career May has continued to study, graduating from Monash University in 2008 as a Master of Communication and Media Studies.

She then went on to mentor students on RMIT University's Master of Translating and Interpreting program.

May’s many community and cultural organisations include the National Australian Chinese Women Association, which she founded in 2012, and the National Council of Women in Australia.

When May was interviewed on SBS World News after announcement of her Honours Award, she not only expressed gratitude for the opportunity to help Chinese migrants better understand Australia and integrate, but said: “The country treats us well.

We need to work hard. It doesn’t matter where you come from, as long as you recognise the value of Australia and you settle down and integrate into this society, and work and serve for these communities – not only the Chinese community but also the whole multicultural Australia.”

- Cheryl Threadgold

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Christmas In Melbourne Historic Photo Collection

● Powerhouse Club members entertain children of personell serving overseas. Christmas Day 1943.

● Father Christmas in a chariot pulled by RAAF personnel at a sports carnival held at Flemington racecourse. 1942

● Major D. V. Rogers distributing Returned Services League and Melbourne Sun newspaper Christmas parcels to Private W. A. J. Underwood. 1954.

● Voluntary workers preparing Christmas dinner at the Independent Hall, Melbourne. 1944.

● Serviceman’s wife gets help from women postal staff in sending parcels in Melbourne. December, 1943

● Christmas dinner. Melbourne home. 1958.

● Mr W Gordon, ventriloquist, providing laughter at Christmas celebrations held at Albert Park. 1944.

● Sisters at ‘Heidelberg Military Hospital’ serving cool drinks on the wards during Christmas Day celebrations, 1944.

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Stateside with Gavin Wood in West Hollywood

Max Merritt rocks on to 77 ■ Hi everyone, from my suite at the Ramada Plaza Hotel and Suites comes this week's news.

Pets banned on planes ■ United Airlines will no longer allow certain breeds of pets to travel in the cargo hold on its flights.

Starting June 18, the airline will ban certain breeds including Boston Terriers, boxers, pugs and Pekingese dogs "out of concern for higher adverse health risks," the airline said.

Studies have shown dogs with short noses are "more likely to have health problems while being transported on planes."

Persian and Himalayan cats will also be banned from the cargo hold.

The airline said small pets would still be allowed in the cabin as long as its carrier fits under the seat.

In addition, United will not transport pets to Las Vegas, Palm Springs, Phoenix and Tucson in the summer months "because of the extreme heat in those destinations during summer months."

This comes after a 10-month French bulldog died on a United Airlines flight after a flight attendant ordered the pet's owner to put the dog in the overhead-luggage compartment

Debs celebrate birthday ■ Rocker Max Merritt, born in Christchurch, New Zealand, has been in the entertainment industry in New Zealand, Australia and America for more than 50 years.

His career started as a young hopeful rocker back in New Zealand in 1956 and he hasn't looked back.

Known for his huge hit Slippin' Away, Max is acknowledged as one of the best live performers during the 1960s and 1970s with his soul and R&B sound.

Max Merritt and the Meteors were on every pop television program and radio show across Australia.

You could call Max a real pioneer of rock in Australia. Back in July 2008 he was inducted into the ARIA (the Australian Recording Industry Association) Hall of Fame.

It was indeed a huge honour to celebrate with all the Australian Debonaires living in LA. The great man's 77th birthday.

Big stars expelled

Stars - out and about

■ The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences is moving to expel Bill Cosby and Roman Polanski from the organisation.

"The Board continues to encourage ethical standards that require members to uphold the Academy's values of respect for human dignity," it said in a statement.

Last week, Cosby was convicted of three counts of aggravated indecent assault for drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand. Polanski fled the US after being convicted of raping a 13-year-old girl in 1978.

Me Too Movement ■ Nearly 30 more women have emerged to say Charlie Rose sexually harassed them, and three CBS News managers were warned about his conduct over a period of 30 years, according to a new Washington Post investigation.

Some 27 women, 14 CBS News employees and 13 who worked with him elsewhere have said they were sexually harassed by the former This Morning host, in addition to the eight women who complained about his behaviour in the original report, which led to his firing.

The new allegations against Rose date back to 1976, when, according to a former research assistant, he exposed his penis and touched her breasts in the NBC News Washington bureau.

Concerns about Rose's behaviour were flagged to managers at the network as early as 1986 and as recently as April 2017, according to multiple people cited in the report.

Rose responded to the new allegations by saying in an email: "Your story is unfair and inaccurate."

● Rod Hardy and Max Merritt

Kanye needs to think ■ Detroit hip-hop radio station 105.1 The Bounce announced last week that it will stop playing Kanye West songs, according to the Detroit Metro Times. "We feel like Kanye has gone too far with his latest statement declaring that slavery was a choice. We are over it, we don't want to hear Kanye's music, we don't want to play Kanye on our show and we don't want to talk about Kanye anymore. So, we are taking a stand and we aren't playing his music anymore; we just are refusing to give him a platform."

This comes after West went on TMZ Live late last week saying, "You hear about slavery for 400 years. For 400 years? That sound like a choice." TMZ reporter Van Lathan then called out West, telling him his "voice is too big" to be irresponsible.

Shay Shay, a host at 105.1, echoed Lathan's sentiments, calling West's comments "reckless." "I think when you have such a huge platform like that, to use it in a reckless way, I mean, you're basically saying history is irrelevant," she said.

Dr Jan Adams, who performed Kanye West's late mother's final surgery, has written an open letter to the rapper in hopes of clearing his name in her death.

In the letter published by The Blast, Adams asked that the 40year-old rapper "cease and desist" from using his photo on the cover of Kanye's upcoming album something the rapper recently tweeted about doing. "I don't want to seem ungrateful I just think that if in fact this conversion to love is genuine on your part then it's inappropriate to drag the negativity of the past with it," Adams wrote. Kanye's mother, Donda, died in November 2007 from complications after undergoing plastic surgery performed by Adams. She was 58.

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■ Katie Couric thinks some of the reports about her former colleague Matt Lauer aren't entirely true, but also that the scope of the sexual harassment allegations against him may extend beyond what the public currently knows. "It's been a very painful time for a lot of people who worked with Matt, knew him, really care about him, and who never witnessed or experienced any of this behavior that is now obviously being talked about," Couric, 61, said "I don't know the full extent of all these things that happened. I can only talk about my personal experience and I was always treated respectfully and appropriately."

■ Shannen Doherty, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015, will soon undergo surgery. "My doctor had me bank some blood for my upcoming surgery," the actress, 47, captioned a photo on Instagram. "To say I'm moved by the generosity of people is an understatement," she wrote. "I'm vowing that as long as I'm cleared in the future, I will start donating blood. Thank you to those selfless humans that donate." We all need to give more blood. Contact your local Blood Bank.

You will feel refreshed after you make your donation and you are helping so many needy people.

■ Tonya Harding has a supportive onscreen mom in Allison Janney. Janney, 58, who won an Oscar for her turn as Harding's mother, LaVona, in I, Tonya, was on hand to cheer for the once-disgraced former figure skater at the premiere of Dancing with the Stars last week. Janney joined McKenna Grace, who starred as young Harding in the film, as well as screenwriter Steven Rogers, in the audience, blowing her kisses from the crowd ■ Leonardo DiCaprio has snapped up Moby's fully renovated mansion in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles for $4.91 million. A trust belonging to DiCaprio closed on the home in March, according to the deed recently filed with the county and accessed through Property Shark. It's the latest investment in DiCaprio's stacked portfolio of Los Angelesarea properties.

Tony Award nominations ■ The 2018 Tony Award nominations have been announced, with Mean Girls and Sponge Bob Square pants: The Musical leading the field with 12 nominations each.

Angels in America earned 11 nominations and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child received 10.

Actors Andrew Garfield, Denzel Washington and Tom Hollander are up for Best Leading Performance by an Actor in a Play for performances in Angels in America, Travesties, and The Iceman Cometh, respectively.

All three plays are also up for Best Revival of a Play, along with Lobby Hero and Three Tall Women. Amy Schumer's performance in Meteor Shower is also up for Best Leading Performance by an Actress, putting her head-to-head with Glenda Jackson for Three Tall Women.

Cursed Child's Jamie Parker is up for Best Leading Performance by an Actor in a Play and Taylor Louderman of Mean Girls up for Best Leading Performance by an Actress in a Musical.

Mean Girls is also up for Best Musical, along with Frozen, Sponge Bob Square pants, and The Band's Visit.

- Gavin Wood

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Victorian History

Frederick Hurst, pioneer of Hurstbridge ■ “A link with early day history of the Hurstbridge district was severed yesterday, when Mr. Frederick George Hurst passed peacefully away at midday,” reported The Advertiser on June 10, 1927.

The report continued: The deceased had been ailing for some time and the end was not altogether unexpected, especially in view of the fact that he had reached the age of 86 years.

He leaves a widow and two daughters to mourn their loss.

Frederick George Hurst was born in Dorsetshire, England, in August 1840, being the son of Robert and Frances Facey Hurst.

In 1855 he landed in Sydney from the sailing ship John and Lucy, after a voyage occupying six months.

There he was engaged in picking and marketing oranges for Captain Masters.

Twelve months later he joined his parents and family, who were farming at Lancefield. Victoria.

In 1859 they came to "Allwood" cattle station, now Hurstbridge, on the Diamond Creek.

This property, 20 miles in extent, had been taken up in 1838 by Mr. C. Haley under lease from the New South Wales Government, and the homestead portion has only recently been brought under the operation of the Transfer of Land Act under Victorian administration.

The district at the time of Hurst's arrival was heavily timbered and very wild, bullocks, riding and driving being the chief means of transport.

Aborigines were numerous and used to hold. corrobories on the ground where Hurstbridge railway station now stands.

Wild horses, wild cattle and kanga roos wandered in herds among the forest on the hills and valleys.

Deceased and other members of the family were engaged in mustering cattle for Mr. Haley, who paid 7/ per head to get the cattle in, brand and deliver to Lancefield.

After three years' work they mustered over 3000 head, then purchased

Burke The Bushranger From The Argus, June 11, 1924

● Frederick George Hurst Photo: Eltham District Historical Society the run and started sheep and dairy was shot at the homestead by farming, under great difficulty, ow- Bourke, the bush ranger. ing to the ravages of wild dogs.

Bourke called and had breakfast, As the pests were numerous and then - he demanded the best saddlecaused great loss it was found nec- horse on the station. essary to build yards on several parts Henry refused.to comply and was of the run and keep shepherds to yard immediately covered by Bourke's the stock every night. six chambered revolver.

George Hurst and his brother A struggle followed, Henry reHenry did a good deal of "packing", ceiving .three shots in his body, which provisions to the diggings for the min- caused his death a few hours later. ers in the early days.

A burying ground (on the banks of They had great difficulty in cut- the creek between the present bridge ting tracks through the mountains, in and the railway station) was granted one instance being able to proceed .to the Hurst family. The public subonly one mile working all day through scribed and erected a headstone to the dense undergrowth.

Henry Hurst's memory, as well as In October, 1866, Henry Hurst fencing the burial grourid.

● The cairn at Hurstbridge names a number of members of the Hurst family.

■ Eighty-three years ago, in a tiny Dorset village, Frederick George Hurst, an early settler of Victoria, was born.

He came to Victoria as a boy, and his people were among the earliest settlers in the district which embraces the town now known as Hurstbridge.

Twelve years ago it was decided that the new station which had been built with the coming of the railway to portion ofDiamond Creek (Victoria) should be called Hurstbridge, in honour of Mr Hurst whose property adjoined the old bridge there.

Interesting reminiscences were given by Mr. Hurst in an interview yesterday. He was aged 14 years, he said, when, with his parents and seven of his sisters and brothers, he arrived at Sydney in in 1855 in a sailing ship called John and Lucy.

His father, Robert Hurst, a botanist, with his family subsequently removed to Melbourne, where they occupied one of the few houses then erected on what was then called Collingwood Flat.

In 1856 Mr. Robert Hurst accepted an invita tion from his eldest son, Henry (who had come to Australia in 1852, to add to his knowledge of land surveying) to join him at Lancefield.

There Henry was employed by Mr. Cornelius Haley, owner of a cattle station known as Alwood Nursery. On this property, which extended from Hurst bridge (or Diamond Creek, as it was then known) to the Dividing Range, several thousand head of cattle had become wild.

Henry Hurst undertook to muster them at 10/- a head. "The journey from Collingwood to Lancefield, " said Mr. Hurst, "was made in bullock drays and took three days."

So difficult proved the task of mustering that it was seven years before the last of Haley's cattle had been im pounded.

On the morning of October 4, 1866, bebetween 9 o'clock and 10 o'clock, Miss Ellen Hurst, a sister of Mr. Hurst , was preparing a meal in the kitchen of the Alwood homestead, when a well-dressed man walked in, and curtly demanded breakfast.

Although he was a stranger to the young woman, he was told that he could have a meal if he chose to wait for it. He sat down. Chancing to pass at the back of the seated man Miss Hurst saw two revolvers protruding from his belt.

Becoming aprehensive that he was a bush ranger, she quietly left the room without arousing his suspicions. Her brother, Henry, whom she met outside the door refused to beleive that the stranger was a bushranger, maintaining that he was a trooper who had a warrant for the arrest of three runaway sailors who were working on the station.

To allay his sister's fears he took his double-barrelled gun under his arm as he entered the room. When inside the room he placed the gun in a corner. Resenting questions, the stranger drew a revolver on Henry declaring himself to be Burke the bushranger.

Henry seized his gun, but in a hand to hand struggle was mortally wounded. Burke, was, however, captured, and subsequently executed for the murder of Henry Hurst.

"We buried my brother on Government land," continued Mr. Hurst.

"The neighbouring farmers and prospectors collected £50, with which they purchased six acres of land at Hurstbridge—land there was then £1 an acre—and also bought a headstone for the grave. My father fenced the land with a four rail fence and planted it with pine trees. It has been the burying ground for our family—my mother, father, brothers, and sisters lie there—I am the only one left."

Mr. Hurst said that his brother Henry had found gold on the station a fortnight before he died. The wheel of his bullock dray turned over some yellow stones which contained a rich percentage of the pre cious metal.

Convinced that he had disc overed the cap of a rich reef, he covered up the ground. On arriving at the home stead he showed his people a hatful of nuggets. He did not say on what part of the station his discovery had been made.

When he was killed all knowledge of the gold was buried with him, and it has never been found. Mr Hurst purchased the station about 50 years ago.

In the course of his long life Mr. Hurst has followed among other occupations those of butcher, hotel licensee, storekeeper, farmer, and prospector. He was more than 70 years of age when he built the house in which he and his wife are now living at Carrum.

Sixty-four years ago he carted fruit from Diamond Creek to Melbourne with a team of two bullocks and a horse. The journey took all day. Mr Hurst was not very succesful in his gold ventures, except when, for a few days, he washed off 1½ ounces of gold daily.

That was in the Dividing Ranges, near Kinglake, where at the same time, a man named Grimshaw one day washed off 3oz. of gold from one dish of dirt. In the course of one of his gold ventures Mr. Hurst said that he lived with seven other men in the hollow of a huge gumtree in the ranges. Four feet from the ground this tree had an inner diameter of 15ft.

When the war broke out Mr. and Mrs. Hurst were in England on a holiday tour. Three days before the declaration of war they had been in Ostend and nine days previously in France.

While in England they visited Mr. Hurst's birthplace, where during his long absence "not a fowlhouse had been built."

Mr. Hurst has been married for nearly 52 years and had a family of three daughters, of whom two are still living. Mr. Hurst was present when Hurstbridge was recently declared a town.

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■ James Thurston Nabors was born in Alabama in 1930. He first began singing in his local church choir and always had a desire to be an actor.

Jim graduated from the University of Alabama. In his early twenties he moved to Los Angeles because of his asthma and began working at various jobs.

Jim was working in a cabaret act when he was invited to audition for a television comedy spot on The Steve Allen Show.

He got the job and his appearances launched his career as an actor, singer and comedian.

I had the great pleasure of doing a telephone interview with Jim Nabors several years ago.

Jim worked in many television shows before landing the role of Gomer Pyle, the local Mayberry mechanic, in The Andy Griffith Show.

The character was so popular that it led to his own series Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C.in 1964. Gomer Pyle was a good hearted character but very naïve.

The comedy series about Gomer's adventures in the United States Marine Corps was a huge international hit.

I always thought there was a marvellous comedy duo at work in that show, with Frank Sutton as ‘Sgt Carter’ and Jim as the innocent country boy ‘Gomer Pyle’.

Jim invented the expressions ‘Shazam’, ‘Well, Gollee’ and ‘Surprise Surprise, Surprise’ during rehearsals and the producers said "Great,

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leave them in." Jim played Gomer Pyle for five seasons. He always said it was difficult to watch the opening of the show because many of the men he was marching with were later killed in Vietnam.

Jim appeared on various television variety shows such as The Carol Burnett Show and his own show The Jim Nabors Hour.

People started to realise that Jim was a good singer. In his career he released 45 albums and was awarded one platinum and five gold records.

He had sold out shows in Las Vegas.

He came to Australia several times. Jim made his stage debut as Harold Hill in The Music Man opposite Florence Henderson from The Brady Bunch.

He was only supposed to be in one scene, but he made such an impression as the deputy sheriff, that they kept writing more scenes for him.

Jim laughed about it because his character was never in the original stage musical.

In 1994 suffered liver failure and was given two months to live unless a donor could be found.

Thank God he did receive a donor organ.

Jim lived in Hawaii for many years and used to have a Macadamia Nut farm. In his later years he still did several singing engagements.

Every year for 42 years he sang Back Home Again in Indiana at the opening of the Indianapolis 500 car race.

Jim Nabors died at his Honolulu home on November 30 last year at the age of 87. He was a lovely man and raised a lot of money for various charities during his lifetime.

Jim married his longtime partner Stanley Cadwallader in 2013. You can find out more about Jim Nabors at his official website www.jimnabors.com I will replay my interview with Jim Nabors on Sunday, May 20, during That's Entertainment on 96.5 Inner FM. Kevin Trask Kevin can be heard on 3AW The Time Tunnel - on Remember When Sundays at 9.10pm And on 96.5 FM ● Jim Nabors That's Entertainment - Sundays In 1982, his old pal Burt Reynolds cast Jim at 12 Noon in the film The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.

Guest leftovers in English hotel rooms ■ In his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in this world, David Ellis says a recent meeting of hoteliers in England decided they’d need a book the size of a metropolitan telephone directory to list the bizarre range of items guests had left in their hotel’s rooms.

For in just 12 months they included an urn with the ashes of one man’s mother-in-law, a blow-up, anatomically well-endowed sheep, a live 2metre snake in a parrot cage, and such bodily accessories as staring glass eyes, false arms and legs, hearing aids, and countless sets of false teeth soaking in everything from glasses of wine to, in one case, the hotel’s toilet disinfectant.

A live rabbit with a leather collar and walking-lead around its neck was found cowering in one room, a pet tarantula spider in a round glass fish tank in another, and in one hotel’s garage an overlooked thoroughbred racehorse was found tied up after a local race meeting that had been held three days before.

And after a week one sheepish guest returned to a country town’s budget hotel that was popular with prostitutes, to claim his forgotten car keys – for a $325,000 Porsche.

Staff also found a two-metre working model of a helicopter left in one pub room, a police car siren connected to a 12V battery in another… and a life-size dummy of comedian, actor and TV presenter, Sir Lenny Henry in yet another.

Hoteliers said they couldn’t even begin to estimate the number of sex toys left after one-night stands, and all agreed that the most-often left items were phone chargers … last year in just one major chain alone 42,000 were left plugged into power points by forgetful guests.

Struth

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Hollywood

wide and 13 metres tall, and stretching a-near 140 metres across the hillside.

At night they blinked “Holly,” followed by “wood” and finally “land,” with the “land” eventually removed in 1945, and bizarrely a full-time caretaker was needed to everyday clamber over each letter to replace scores of globes that had blown overnight.

Interestingly the first movie company to call Hollywood home was a small Chicago-based maker that moved there in 1907, frustrated at being unable to complete a shoot because of its home-city’s erratic weather; within just five years some 15 others had followed, realising how ideal Hollywood was for film-making.

The rest, as they say, is history – including 90-odd years’ resistance by local residents to successfully thwart developers wanting to build roads up to the sign, and to surround it with restaurants, cafés and observation platforms… so that today it can still only be viewed from a distance.

■ One of the most-photographed signs in the world – HOLLYWOOD on the side of Mt Lee outside Los Angeles – was put up 92 years ago… as a temporary 18 months promotion for a new housing estate.

And it originally spelt-out HOLLYWOODLANDwhen put up in 1923, with 4,000 20-watt lights set into its 13 letters, that were each 9 metres

■ When gold was found in Canada’s Yukon Territory in 1896, thousands of hopefuls swarmed to the area with just one thing in mind – get in, get rich and get out.

But with initially few trading stores around, the government soon found itself bailing out those who’d run out

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of food and other supplies while on their quest for riches. So it decreed that every miner entering Canada had to have enough food, clothing and tools to last them an entire year.

And while they could get those supplies to the Alaskan port of Dyea relatively easily, they then had to backpack them 50km to Canada’s mountainous Bennett Lake, and from there by row-boat to the site of the Gold Rush – some making over a dozen of those 100km round-trips before even starting digging.

To help, the Northern Pacific Railroad published a recommended survival list for a year in the Yukon. It included 30 tools for mining and construction, tents, mosquito nets, axes, ropes, enough fleecy clothing, Long Johns and oilskins to counter the harshest winters, rifles for hunting and rods for fishing, candles, and cooking and eating utensils.

Food-wise it suggested 800kg of staples from flour, rice, yeast cakes and bacon, to dried fruits and vegetables, salt, sugar, condensed milk, tea and coffee.

And for good measure, recommended lugging-in a wood-fired steel stove to cook it all on.

Seadream

■ Seadream Yacht Club is offering not just an extended sailing of nine days from Rome’s port of Civitavecchia to four of the major centres of the French Riviera in May of 2019, but for motor-racing buffs the chance to experience the excitement of the Monaco Grand Prix Final.

And on her way to Cannes, SaintTropez, Villefranche-sur-Mer and Nice on the Riviera, SeaDream I will also have full days and mostly late evening departures in Porto Cervo Marina in Sardinia, Bonifacio and Calvi on Corsica Island, Portovenere on Italy’s medieval Ligurian coast, and Portofino also in Italy.

SeaDream I sails from Civitavecchia on May 18 next year and prices start at US$6348 per person double occupancy which includes SeaDream’s award-winning cuisine, drinks with meals and from the bars, power and sail water-sports, use of SeaDream I’s onboard golf simulator and fitness centre, port charges and taxes, and even crew gratuities.

Lucky winners

■ Winners’ names have been drawn for free double passes to the Wizard Of Oz which opens this month at the Regent Theatre: ■ Rosie Moffat, Murphy Cr, Preston ■ Brooke Vanderbilt, Elvin Dr, Kinglake ■ D. Milliken, PO Box, Yea ■ Roslyn Haslam, Fieldon Cl, Mooroolbark ■ Lois O’Hara, PO Box, Research ■ Mathew Richardson, Waycott Way, Mount Evelyn.

At Recital Centre

■ Free double passes to Tales of The Silk Road have been won by Shereen Kiddle, Aileen McLeish and Mark Vincent.

OK. With John O’Keefe Going, going, gone

■ Some people are fanatical about memorabilia. A glove used by an artist called Prince in 1984 sold in America for $26,121.

Admittedly Prince was a known fashionista and the glove was of white lace and adorned with rhinestones, it still seems an excessive amount .

Footy team family

■ Singer-songwriter-musician Chris Montez is currently touring Australia. In an interview with Phil and Simon on 3AW Nightline, Montez explained he was born into a family of 18 – enough to field their own team of Aussie Rules players.

Montez also related how his double act with Tommy Roe in London, 1963 , was supported by a group called the Beatles. Montez was overheard to say ‘Who are these guys ? ’

Rumour confirmed

■ You are hearing it first - Country and Western singer , songwriter Jimmy Webb is confirmed to tour Australia in August, performing in Melbourne, Hamer Hall,August 9.

SupportingWebb will be Jimmy Barnes, Kate Ceberano, David Campbell – it should be a blast.

By the time I get to Pheonix is sure to be on Webb’s playlist .

Rupert Murdoch stageplay

■ Ink is the name of a stage play about the life, loves and empire building of Rupert Murdoch set in London in 1969.

After a season in London, the show is to make it to Broadway.

One theatre critic described Ink as “both an entertaining epitaph for a lost age and a chilling prophecy of days to come”.

One of the financial backers of Ink is former monk Ray Cockburn who stumped up cash he won in a Powerball jackpot.

Shark Tank returns

■ They’re back. The same team returns for season four of Shark Tank, on Ten from May 15. We’re told Steve Baxter loses his cool in the first ep over a bidding war with another panel member.

- John O’Keefe

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Hard Times - by Charles Dickens ‘I say, Loo! I thought I’d come, and just hint to you what was going on: though I supposed you’d most likely guess, even if you didn’t know. I can’t stay, because I’m engaged to some fellows to-night. You won’t forget how fond you are of me?’

‘No, dear Tom, I won’t forget.’

‘That’s a capital girl,’ said Tom. ‘Good-bye, Loo.’ She gave him an affectionate good-night, and went out with him to the door, whence the fires of Coketown could be seen, making the distance lurid. She stood there, looking steadfastly towards them, and listening to his departing steps.

They retreated quickly, as glad to get away from Stone Lodge; and she stood there yet, when he was gone and all was quiet. It seemed as if, first in her own fire within the house, and then in the fiery haze without, she tried to discover what kind of woof Old Time, that greatest and longest-established Spinner of all, would weave from the threads he had already spun into a woman.

But his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his Hands are mutes.

Chapter XV— Father and Daughter ALTHOUGH Mr. Gradgrind did not take after Blue Beard, his room was quite a blue chamber in its abundance of blue books. Whatever they could prove (which is usually anything you like), they proved there, in an army constantly strengthening by the arrival of new recruits. In that charmed apartment, the most complicated social questions were cast up, got into exact totals, and finally settled — if those concerned could only have been brought to know it. As if an astronomical observatory should be made without any windows, and the astronomer within should arrange the starry universe solely by pen, ink, and paper, so Mr. Gradgrind, in his Observatory (and there are many like it), had no need to cast an eye upon the teeming myriads of human beings around him, but could settle all their destinies on a slate, and wipe out all their tears with one dirty little bit of sponge.

To this Observatory, then: a stern room, with a deadly statistical clock in it, which measured every second with a beat like a rap upon a coffin-lid; Louisa repaired on the appointed morning. A window looked towards Coketown; and when she sat down near her father’s table, she saw the high chimneys and the long tracts of smoke looming in the heavy distance gloomily.

‘My dear Louisa,’ said her father, ‘I prepared you last night to give me your serious attention in the conversation we are now going to have together. You have been so well trained, and you do, I am happy to say, so much justice to the education you have received, that I have perfect confidence in your good sense. You are not impulsive, you are not romantic, you are accustomed to view everything from the strong dispassionate ground of reason and calculation.

From that ground alone, I know you will view and consider what I am going to communicate.’

He waited, as if he would have been glad that she said something. But she said never a word.

‘Louisa, my dear, you are the subject of a proposal of marriage that has been made to me.’

Again he waited, and again she answered not one word. This so far surprised him, as to induce him gently to repeat, ‘a proposal of marriage, my dear.’To which she returned, without any visible emotion whatever: ‘I hear you, father. I am attending, I assure you.’

‘Well!’ said Mr. Gradgrind, breaking into a smile, after being for the moment at a loss, ‘you are even more dispassionate than I expected, Louisa. Or, perhaps, you are not unprepared for the announcement I have it in charge to make?’

‘I cannot say that, father, until I hear it. Prepared or unprepared, I wish to hear it all from you. I wish to hear you state it to me, father.’

Strange to relate, Mr. Gradgrind was not so collected at this moment as his daughter was. He took a paper-knife in his hand, turned it over, laid it down, took it up again, and even then had to look along the blade of it, considering how to go on.

‘What you say, my dear Louisa, is perfectly reasonable. I have undertaken then to let you know that — in short, that Mr. Bounderby has informed me that he has long watched your progress with particular interest and pleasure, and has long

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be disparity, and (virtually) all but disappears.’

‘What do you recommend, father,’ asked Louisa, her reserved composure not in the least affected by these gratifying results, ‘that I should substitute for the term I used just now? For the misplaced expression?’

‘Louisa,’ returned her father, ‘it appears to me that nothing can be plainer. Confining yourself rigidly to Fact, the question of Fact you state to yourself is: Does Mr. Bounderby ask me to marry him? Yes, he does. The sole remaining question then is: Shall I marry him? I think nothing can be plainer than that?’

‘Shall I marry him?’ repeated Louisa, with great deliberation.

‘Precisely. And it is satisfactory to me, as your father, my dear Louisa, to know that you do not come to the consideration of that question with the previous habits of mind, and habits of life, that belong to many young women.’

‘No, father,’ she returned, ‘I do not.’

‘I now leave you to judge for yourself,’ said Mr. Gradgrind. ‘I have stated the case, as such cases are usually stated among practical minds; I have stated it, as the case of your mother and myself was stated in its time. The rest, my dear Louisa, is for you to decide.’

From the beginning, she had sat looking at him fixedly. As he now leaned back in his chair, and bent his deep-set eyes upon her in his turn, perhaps he might have seen one wavering moment in her, when she was impelled to throw herself upon his breast, and give him the pent-up confidences of her heart. But, to see it, he must have overleaped at a bound the artificial barriers he had for many years been erecting, between himself and all those subtle essences of humanity which will elude the utmost cunning of algebra until the last trumpet ever to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck. The barriers were too many and too high for such a leap. With his unbending, utilitarian, matter-of-fact face, he hardened her again; and the moment shot away into the plumbless depths of the past, to mingle with all the lost opportunities that are drowned there.

Removing her eyes from him, she sat so long looking silently towards the town, that he said, at length: ‘Are you consulting the chimneys of the Coketown works, Louisa?’

‘There seems to be nothing there but languid and monotonous smoke. Yet when the night comes, Fire bursts out, father!’ she answered, Charles Dickens turning quickly. hoped that the time might ultimately arrive when any such ground. Therefore, perhaps the ex- ‘Of course I know that, Louisa. I do not see the he should offer you his hand in marriage. That pression itself — I merely suggest this to you, application of the remark.’To do him justice he time, to which he has so long, and certainly my dear — may be a little misplaced.’ did not, at all. with great constancy, looked forward, is now ‘What would you advise me to use in its stead, She passed it away with a slight motion of her come. Mr. Bounderby has made his proposal of father?’ hand, and concentrating her attention upon him marriage to me, and has entreated me to make ‘Why, my dear Louisa,’ said Mr. Gradgrind, again, said, ‘Father, I have often thought that it known to you, and to express his hope that completely recovered by this time, ‘I would ad- life is very short.’ — This was so distinctly one you will take it into your favourable consider- vise you (since you ask me) to consider this of his subjects that he interposed. ation.’ question, as you have been accustomed to con- ‘It is short, no doubt, my dear. Still, the average Silence between them. The deadly statistical sider every other question, simply as one of tan- duration of human life is proved to have inclock very hollow. The distant smoke very black gible Fact. The ignorant and the giddy may creased of late years. The calculations of variand heavy. embarrass such subjects with irrelevant fancies, ous life assurance and annuity offices, among ‘Father,’ said Louisa, ‘do you think I love Mr. and other absurdities that have no existence, other figures which cannot go wrong, have esBounderby?’ properly viewed — really no existence — but it tablished the fact.’

Mr. Gradgrind was extremely discomfited by is no compliment to you to say, that you know ‘I speak of my own life, father.’ this unexpected question. ‘Well, my child,’ he better. Now, what are the Facts of this case? ‘O indeed? Still,’ said Mr. Gradgrind, ‘I need returned, ‘I— really — cannot take upon my- You are, we will say in round numbers, twenty not point out to you, Louisa, that it is governed self to say.’ years of age; Mr. Bounderby is, we will say in by the laws which govern lives in the aggre‘Father,’ pursued Louisa in exactly the same round numbers, fifty. There is some disparity in gate.’ voice as before, ‘do you ask me to love Mr. your respective years, but in your means and ‘While it lasts, I would wish to do the little I can, Bounderby?’ positions there is none; on the contrary, there is and the little I am fit for. What does it matter?’

‘My dear Louisa, no. No. I ask nothing.’ a great suitability. Then the question arises, Is Mr. Gradgrind seemed rather at a loss to under‘Father,’ she still pursued, ‘does Mr. Bounderby this one disparity sufficient to operate as a bar to stand the last four words; replying, ‘How, matask me to love him?’ such a marriage? In considering this question, it ter? What matter, my dear?’

‘Really, my dear,’said Mr. Gradgrind, ‘it is dif- is not unimportant to take into account the statis- ‘Mr. Bounderby,’ she went on in a steady, straight ficult to answer your question — ’ tics of marriage, so far as they have yet been way, without regarding this, ‘asks me to marry ‘Difficult to answer it, Yes or No, father? obtained, in England and Wales. I find, on refer- him. The question I have to ask myself is, shall ‘Certainly, my dear. Because;’ here was some- ence to the figures, that a large proportion of I marry him? That is so, father, is it not? You thing to demonstrate, and it set him up again; these marriages are contracted between parties have told me so, father. Have you not?’ ‘because the reply depends so materially, of very unequal ages, and that the elder of these ‘Certainly, my dear.’

Louisa, on the sense in which we use the ex- contracting parties is, in rather more than three- ‘Let it be so. Since Mr. Bounderby likes to take pression. Now, Mr. Bounderby does not do you fourths of these instances, the bridegroom. It is me thus, I am satisfied to accept his proposal. the injustice, and does not do himself the injus- remarkable as showing the wide prevalence of Tell him, father, as soon as you please, that this tice, of pretending to anything fanciful, fantas- this law, that among the natives of the British was my answer. Repeat it, word for word, if you tic, or (I am using synonymous terms) senti- possessions in India, also in a considerable part can, because I should wish him to know what I mental. Mr. Bounderby would have seen you of China, and among the Calmucks of Tartary, said.’ grow up under his eyes, to very little purpose, if the best means of computation yet furnished us ‘It is quite right, my dear,’ retorted her father he could so far forget what is due to your good by travellers, yield similar results. The disparity approvingly, ‘to be exact. I will observe your sense, not to say to his, as to address you from I have mentioned, therefore, almost ceases to Continued on Page 28

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From Page 27 very proper request. Have you any wish in reference to the period of your marriage, my child?’

‘None, father. What does it matter!’

Mr. Gradgrind had drawn his chair a little nearer to her, and taken her hand. But, her repetition of these words seemed to strike with some little discord on his ear. He paused to look at her, and, still holding her hand, said: ‘Louisa, I have not considered it essential to ask you one question, because the possibility implied in it appeared to me to be too remote. But perhaps I ought to do so. You have never entertained in secret any other proposal?’

‘Father,’she returned, almost scornfully, ‘what other proposal can have been made to me?

Whom have I seen? Where have I been? What are my heart’s experiences?’

‘My dear Louisa,’ returned Mr. Gradgrind, reassured and satisfied. ‘You correct me justly. I merely wished to discharge my duty.’

‘What do I know, father,’said Louisa in her quiet manner, ‘of tastes and fancies; of aspirations and affections; of all that part of my nature in which such light things might have been nourished? What escape have I had from problems that could be demonstrated, and realities that could be grasped?’ As she said it, she unconsciously closed her hand, as if upon a solid object, and slowly opened it as though she were releasing dust or ash.

‘My dear,’ assented her eminently practical parent, ‘quite true, quite true.’

‘Why, father,’she pursued, ‘what a strange question to ask me! The baby-preference that even I have heard of as common among children, has never had its innocent resting-place in my breast.

You have been so careful of me, that I never had a child’s heart. You have trained me so well, that I never dreamed a child’s dream. You have dealt so wisely with me, father, from my cradle to this hour, that I never had a child’s belief or a child’s fear.’

Mr. Gradgrind was quite moved by his success, and by this testimony to it. ‘My dear Louisa,’ said he, ‘you abundantly repay my care. Kiss me, my dear girl.’

So, his daughter kissed him. Detaining her in his embrace, he said, ‘I may assure you now, my favourite child, that I am made happy by the sound decision at which you have arrived. Mr. Bounderby is a very remarkable man; and what little disparity can be said to exist between you — if any — is more than counterbalanced by the tone your mind has acquired. It has always been my object so to educate you, as that you might, while still in your early youth, be (if I may so express myself) almost any age. Kiss me once more, Louisa. Now, let us go and find your mother.’

Accordingly, they went down to the drawingroom, where the esteemed lady with no nonsense about her, was recumbent as usual, while Sissy worked beside her. She gave some feeble signs of returning animation when they entered, and presently the faint transparency was presented in a sitting attitude.

‘Mrs. Gradgrind,’ said her husband, who had waited for the achievement of this feat with some impatience, ‘allow me to present to you Mrs. Bounderby.’

‘Oh!’ said Mrs. Gradgrind, ‘so you have settled it! Well, I’m sure I hope your health may be good, Louisa; for if your head begins to split as soon as you are married, which was the case with mine, I cannot consider that you are to be envied, though I have no doubt you think you are, as all girls do. However, I give you joy, my dear — and I hope you may now turn all your ological studies to good account, I am sure I do!

I must give you a kiss of congratulation, Louisa; but don’t touch my right shoulder, for there’s something running down it all day long. And now you see,’ whimpered Mrs. Gradgrind, adjusting her shawls after the affectionate ceremony, ‘I shall be worrying myself, morning, noon, and night, to know what I am to call him!’

‘Mrs. Gradgrind,’ said her husband, solemnly, ‘what do you mean?’

‘Whatever I am to call him, Mr. Gradgrind, when he is married to Louisa! I must call him something. It’s impossible,’ said Mrs. Gradgrind, with a mingled sense of politeness and injury, ‘to be constantly addressing him and never giving him a name. I cannot call him Josiah, for the name is insupportable to me. You yourself wouldn’t hear of Joe, you very well know. Am I to call my own son-in-law, Mister! Not, I believe, unless the time has arrived when, as an invalid, I am to

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Nobody present having any suggestion to offer in the remarkable emergency, Mrs. Gradgrind departed this life for the time being, after delivering the following codicil to her remarks already executed: ‘As to the wedding, all I ask, Louisa, is, — and I ask it with a fluttering in my chest, which actually extends to the soles of my feet, — that it may take place soon. Otherwise, I know it is one of those subjects I shall never hear the last of.’

When Mr. Gradgrind had presented Mrs. Bounderby, Sissy had suddenly turned her head, and looked, in wonder, in pity, in sorrow, in doubt, in a multitude of emotions, towards Louisa.

Louisa had known it, and seen it, without looking at her. From that moment she was impassive, proud and cold — held Sissy at a distance — changed to her altogether.

Chapter XVI— Husband and Wife Mr. Bounderby’s first disquietude on hearing of his happiness, was occasioned by the necessity of imparting it to Mrs. Sparsit. He could not make up his mind how to do that, or what the consequences of the step might be. Whether she would instantly depart, bag and baggage, to Lady Scadgers, or would positively refuse to budge from the premises; whether she would be plaintive or abusive, tearful or tearing; whether she would break her heart, or break the looking-glass; Mr. Bounderby could not all foresee. However, as it must be done, he had no choice but to do it; so, after attempting several letters, and failing in them all, he resolved to do it by word of mouth.

On his way home, on the evening he set aside for this momentous purpose, he took the precaution of stepping into a chemist’s shop and buying a bottle of the very strongest smellingsalts. ‘By George!’ said Mr. Bounderby, ‘if she takes it in the fainting way, I’ll have the skin off her nose, at all events!’ But, in spite of being thus forearmed, he entered his own house with anything but a courageous air; and appeared before the object of his misgivings, like a dog who was conscious of coming direct from the pantry.

‘Good evening, Mr. Bounderby!’

‘Good evening, ma’am, good evening.’ He drew up his chair, and Mrs. Sparsit drew back hers, as who should say, ‘Your fireside, sir. I freely admit it. It is for you to occupy it all, if you think proper.’

‘Don’t go to the North Pole, ma’am!’ said Mr. Bounderby.

‘Thank you, sir,’ said Mrs. Sparsit, and returned, though short of her former position.

Mr. Bounderby sat looking at her, as, with the points of a stiff, sharp pair of scissors, she picked out holes for some inscrutable ornamental purpose, in a piece of cambric.An operation which, taken in connexion with the bushy eyebrows and the Roman nose, suggested with some liveliness the idea of a hawk engaged upon the eyes of a tough little bird. She was so steadfastly occupied, that many minutes elapsed before she looked up from her work; when she did so Mr. Bounderby bespoke her attention with a hitch of his head.

‘Mrs. Sparsit, ma’am,’ said Mr. Bounderby, putting his hands in his pockets, and assuring himself with his right hand that the cork of the little bottle was ready for use, ‘I have no occasion to say to you, that you are not only a lady born and bred, but a devilish sensible woman.’

‘Sir,’ returned the lady, ‘this is indeed not the first time that you have honoured me with similar expressions of your good opinion.’

‘Mrs. Sparsit, ma’am,’ said Mr. Bounderby, ‘I am going to astonish you.’

‘Yes, sir?’ returned Mrs. Sparsit, interrogatively, and in the most tranquil manner possible. She generally wore mittens, and she now laid down her work, and smoothed those mittens.

‘I am going, ma’am,’ said Bounderby, ‘to marry Tom Gradgrind’s daughter.’

‘Yes, sir,’returned Mrs. Sparsit. ‘I hope you may be happy, Mr. Bounderby. Oh, indeed I hope you may be happy, sir!’ And she said it with such great condescension as well as with such great compassion for him, that Bounderby, — far more disconcerted than if she had thrown her workbox at the mirror, or swooned on the hearthrug, — corked up the smelling-salts tight in his pocket, and thought, ‘Now confound this woman, who could have even guessed that she would take it in this way!’

‘I wish with all my heart, sir,’ said Mrs. Sparsit, in a highly superior manner; somehow she

chitecture — Josiah Bounderby Esquire of Coketown, to Louisa eldest daughter of Thomas Gradgrind Esquire of Stone Lodge, M.P. for that borough. And when they were united in holy matrimony, they went home to breakfast at Stone Lodge aforesaid.

There was an improving party assembled on the auspicious occasion, who knew what everything they had to eat and drink was made of, and how it was imported or exported, and in what quantities, and in what bottoms, whether native or foreign, and all about it. The bridesmaids, down to little Jane Gradgrind, were, in an intellectual point of view, fit helpmates for the calculating boy; and there was no nonsense about any of the company.

After breakfast, the bridegroom addressed them in the following terms: ‘Ladies and gentlemen, I am Josiah Bounderby of Coketown. Since you have done my wife and myself the honour of drinking our healths and happiness, I suppose I must acknowledge the same; though, as you all know me, and know what I am, and what my extraction was, you won’t expect a speech from a man who, when he sees a Post, says “that’s a Post,” and when he sees a Pump, says “that’s a Pump,” and is not to be got to call a Post a Pump, or a Pump a Post, or either of them a Toothpick. If you want a speech this morning, my friend and father-inlaw, Tom Gradgrind, is a Member of Parliament, and you know where to get it. I am not your man. However, if I feel a little independent when I look around this table to-day, and reflect how little I thought of marrying Tom Gradgrind’s daughter when I was a ragged street-boy, who never washed his face unless it was at a pump, and that not oftener than once a fortnight, I hope I may be excused. So, I hope you like my feeling independent; if you don’t, I can’t help it. I do feel independent. Now I have mentioned, and you have mentioned, that I am this day married to Tom Gradgrind’s daughter. I am very glad to be so. It has long been my wish to be so. I have watched her bringing-up, and I believe she is worthy of me. At the same time — not to deceive you — I believe I am worthy of her. So, I thank you, on both our parts, for the good-will you have shown towards us; and the best wish I can give the unmarried part of the present company, is this: I hope every bachelor may find as good a wife as I have found. And I hope every spinster may find as good a husband as my wife has found.’

Shortly after which oration, as they were going on a nuptial trip to Lyons, in order that Mr. Bounderby might take the opportunity of seeing how the Hands got on in those parts, and whether they, too, required to be fed with gold spoons; the happy pair departed for the railroad. The bride, in passing down-stairs, dressed for her journey, found Tom waiting for her — flushed, either with his feelings, or the vinous part of the breakfast. all you desire, and deserve!’

Nothing moved Mrs. Sparsit from that position ‘What a game girl you are, to be such a firstany more. It was in vain for Bounderby to blus- rate sister, Loo!’ whispered Tom. ter or to assert himself in any of his explosive She clung to him as she should have clung to ways; Mrs. Sparsit was resolved to have com- some far better nature that day, and was a little passion on him, as a Victim. She was polite, shaken in her reserved composure for the first obliging, cheerful, hopeful; but, the more polite, time. the more obliging, the more cheerful, the more ‘Old Bounderby’s quite ready,’ said Tom. hopeful, the more exemplary altogether, she; ‘Time’s up. Good-bye! I shall be on the look-out the forlorner Sacrifice and Victim, he. She had for you, when you come back. I say, my dear that tenderness for his melancholy fate, that his Loo! AN’T it uncommonly jolly now!’

End of the First Book great red countenance used to break out into Book the Second — Reaping cold perspirations when she looked at him.

Chapter I— Effects in the Bank Meanwhile the marriage was appointed to be solemnized in eight weeks’ time, and Mr. A SUNNY midsummer day. There was such a Bounderby went every evening to Stone Lodge thing sometimes, even in Coketown. as an accepted wooer. Love was made on these Seen from a distance in such weather, Coketown occasions in the form of bracelets; and, on all lay shrouded in a haze of its own, which apoccasions during the period of betrothal, took a peared impervious to the sun’s rays. You only manufacturing aspect. Dresses were made, knew the town was there, because you knew jewellery was made, cakes and gloves were there could have been no such sulky blotch upon made, settlements were made, and an exten- the prospect without a town. A blur of soot and sive assortment of Facts did appropriate honour smoke, now confusedly tending this way, now to the contract. The business was all Fact, from that way, now aspiring to the vault of Heaven, first to last. The Hours did not go through any of now murkily creeping along the earth, as the those rosy performances, which foolish poets wind rose and fell, or changed its quarter: a dense have ascribed to them at such times; neither did formless jumble, with sheets of cross light in it, the clocks go any faster, or any slower, than at that showed nothing but masses of darkness:— other seasons. The deadly statistical recorder in Coketown in the distance was suggestive of itthe Gradgrind observatory knocked every sec- self, though not a brick of it could be seen. ond on the head as it was born, and buried it with The wonder was, it was there at all. It had been ruined so often, that it was amazing how it had his accustomed regularity.

So the day came, as all other days come to borne so many shocks. Surely there never was people who will only stick to reason; and when such fragile china-ware as that of which the it came, there were married in the church of the millers of Coketown were made. florid wooden legs — that popular order of arTo Be Continued Next Issue seemed, in a moment, to have established a right to pity him ever afterwards; ‘that you may be in all respects very happy.’

‘Well, ma’am,’ returned Bounderby, with some resentment in his tone: which was clearly lowered, though in spite of himself, ‘I am obliged to you. I hope I shall be.’

‘Do you, sir!’ said Mrs. Sparsit, with great affability. ‘But naturally you do; of course you do.’

A very awkward pause on Mr. Bounderby’s part, succeeded. Mrs. Sparsit sedately resumed her work and occasionally gave a small cough, which sounded like the cough of conscious strength and forbearance.

‘Well, ma’am,’ resumed Bounderby, ‘under these circumstances, I imagine it would not be agreeable to a character like yours to remain here, though you would be very welcome here.’

‘Oh, dear no, sir, I could on no account think of that!’ Mrs. Sparsit shook her head, still in her highly superior manner, and a little changed the small cough — coughing now, as if the spirit of prophecy rose within her, but had better be coughed down.

‘However, ma’am,’said Bounderby, ‘there are apartments at the Bank, where a born and bred lady, as keeper of the place, would be rather a catch than otherwise; and if the same terms — ’ ‘I beg your pardon, sir. You were so good as to promise that you would always substitute the phrase, annual compliment.’

‘Well, ma’am, annual compliment. If the same annual compliment would be acceptable there, why, I see nothing to part us, unless you do.’

‘Sir,’ returned Mrs. Sparsit. ‘The proposal is like yourself, and if the position I shall assume at the Bank is one that I could occupy without descending lower in the social scale — ’ ‘Why, of course it is,’ said Bounderby. ‘If it was not, ma’am, you don’t suppose that I should offer it to a lady who has moved in the society you have moved in. Not that I care for such society, you know! But you do.’

‘Mr. Bounderby, you are very considerate.’

‘You’ll have your own private apartments, and you’ll have your coals and your candles, and all the rest of it, and you’ll have your maid to attend upon you, and you’ll have your light porter to protect you, and you’ll be what I take the liberty of considering precious comfortable,’ said Bounderby.

‘Sir,’ rejoined Mrs. Sparsit, ‘say no more. In yielding up my trust here, I shall not be freed from the necessity of eating the bread of dependence:’ she might have said the sweetbread, for that delicate article in a savoury brown sauce was her favourite supper: ‘and I would rather receive it from your hand, than from any other.

Therefore, sir, I accept your offer gratefully, and with many sincere acknowledgments for past favours. And I hope, sir,’ said Mrs. Sparsit, concluding in an impressively compassionate manner, ‘I fondly hope that Miss Gradgrind may be

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Aiken in Shepp. Gold Cup quinella ■ Avenel trainer David Aiken snared the quinella in the $50,000 Neatline Homes Shepparton Gold Cup for M0 or better class over 2690 metres at Kialla Raceway Shepparton on Saturday April 28, but not the way punters were hoping.

Aiken's outstanding pacer Lennytheshark was the well supported $1.80 favourite, while his other representative Im The Boss (the winner of the Cobram and Mildura Cups) this season was third elect at $5.90.

As the start was effected, well supported second favourite Cruzin Bromac flew away from outside the front line to lead, with Im The Boss (gate 4) trailing, while Lennytheshark got a great run through the field to settle mid-field in the moving line.

Once the tempo slowed, David Aiken seized the opportunity to go forward and park outside the pacemaker, dictating terms to suit the multi million dollar earner.

Pouring on the pressure in the final circuit, Lennytheshark got the better of Cruz Bromac approaching the final bend to lead narrowly, but travelling much the better.

At this stage Kima Frenning had extricated Im The Boss away from the markers even though he seemed under pressure to keep in touch.

In a thrilling finish, Im The Boss gained the upper hand in the shadows of the post to register a 1.5 metre margin over Lennytheshark who's second place had him breaking a magical three million dollars in stake earnings, with Brallos Pass (one/one) for most of the trip third a half head away. In quarters of 29.2, 29, 27.1 and 30.8, Im The Boss returned a mile rate of 156.1.

Left exposed

■ Budding young Bendigo based owner/trainer Shaun McNaulty scored a terrific victory with Kiwi bred 5Y0 Monarchy-Solar Fire gelding Fratellino in the Aldebaran Park Trotters Handicap for T2 or better class over 2190 metres at Maryborough on Monday April 30.

Taking a concession by partner Michelle Phillips who drove her first winner the night before at Ballarat, Fratellino stepped safely from 20 metres to settle three back in the moving line following the well backed equal 20 metre marker Armchair Drive ahead of him as the roughie Shiftywall led from barrier two.

When Armchair Drive commenced a forward move to take over in the last lap, Fratellino was momentarily left exposed before joining Armchair Drive at the straight entrance.

In a two horse war up the running, Fratellino was too strong at the finish, nosing out Armchair Drive in a thrilling finish, with Kowhai Monarch the 30 metre backmarker 15.9 metres away in third place after trying to follow thw winner home.

The mile rate 2-01. Shaun McNaulty spent time in New Zealand with top trainer Mark Purdon and was trusted looking after 2016 Perth Inter-Dominion winner Smolda for the series.

Shaun and Michelle were successful at Cobram on Thursday when Sportswriter-In The White House colt Its All Business led throughout to land the Ken & Marjory Wadeson Memorial 2Y0 Pace over1670 metres, accounting for The Spin Professor which trailed by 3.8 metres in a rate of 1-58.9. National Draft (one/one) was third 3.8 metres away.

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■ Maryborough (Havelock) trainer/driver Tina Ridis is doing a great job with her 8Y0 Bettors Delight-Sexy Lexy Whitby gelding Itsallaboutex who chalked up his 16th success (4 this season) by taking the 1690 metre New Age Tribe Pace for C5 & C6 class at Maryborough. Having his second run in four days, Itsallaboutex was given a sweet passage from the pole trailing the favourite Our Celebrity which led from gate three. Using the sprint lane, Itsallaboutex dashed home to gain the day by a runaway 2.6 metres over the pacemaker, returning a mile rate of 156.6. Rockabella Starz (one/one) was third a neck away after racing wide in the final circuit.

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■ Musk Vale part-owner/trainer/driver Glenn Conroy has much improved 5Y0 Skyvalley-Aldebaran Maori mare Fear Not racing at her peak at present and was responsible for a tough staying performance to land the VSTA Trotters Mobile for T1 & T2 class over 2190 metres at Maryborough. Beginning swiftly from gate five, Fear Not was crossed by local Pretty Little Lucy which flew away from outside the front line, leaving her exposed.

Joining the pacemaker on the final bend, Fear Not showed fight personified to wear down the leader and record a 3.1 metre victory over her, with another local A Nip Will Do a nose away third after a soft trip three back the markers.

The mile rate 2-03.1.

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■ Tabcorp Park Melton raced on Wednesday afternoon and one winner worth a mention was Mattie Craven's Kiwi import My Harmony Blue who registered her first victory on Australian soil.

The race was the Mediatech 3Y0 Pace over 2240 metres and the daughter of Betterthan-cheddar and Gotta Go Harmony at her third start in the land of OZ led throughout from gate two, easily accounting for another ex-Kiwi Hughies Sister first up since crossing the Tasman which raced parked before dropping to the back of the ■ Terang on the first night of the Warrnambool leader approaching the home turn by 7.1 metres, galloping carnival (Tuesday) is always a well with Rocknroll Pearl (one/three) running on late attended meeting and a highlight of the night's for third 5.1 metres back. The mile rate 2-00.6. racing was the victory of very smart Mach Three-Keayang Princess 4Y0 gelding Keayang Da Vinci in the $8,000 South West Conveyanc- ■ Popular Parwan trainer/driver Jodi Quinlan ing Autumn Pace for C3 to C5 class over 2180 snared a stable double at Melton with 6Y0 Mametres.

Son-Lunar Landing gelding Illawong Trained locally by Marg Lee and driven by jestic Armstrong in the T1 or better class Yabby Dam son Jason, Keayang Da Vinci virtually led Racing Trotters Handicap over 2240 metres and throughout from gate two, careering away on the 1720 metre TAB Multiplier Trotters Mobile straightening to record a 12.4 metre margin in for T0 class with 4Y0 Mass-Illawong advance of Mustang Bart which stuck to his guns Blush gelding IllawongMuscle Byron both horses bred well after racing exposed from the bell, with and raced by fanatical trotting supporters Martin Christmas Jolt (one/one) third 3.2 metres back. and Kaye Hartnett.

The mile rate 1-57.6.

Illawong Armstrong coming from 30 metres possied four back along the markers, before moving to race in the open approaching the bell.

Sprinting to the front in the last lap, Illawong ■ Mount Gambier father and son - Barry & Armstrong had much too much quality for her Jayson Finnis scored a tough victory with mul- rivals, scoring by 8.3 metres in advance of tiple winning BGS Folly-Towelling Beach 4Y0 Robbie Zuve which had to be broken shortly afgelding Bee Gees Bandit at Terang, taking the ter the start when pacing, Sun Of Sonoko a Murfett & Whiting Electrical Contractors Pace metre back in third placewith after also breaking for C2 class over 1690 metres. shortly after the start. The mile rate 2-05.2.

Despite racing in the open from gate two shadIllawong Byron led all of the way from gate owing the poleline pacemaker Sheluvsme, Bee five to record a 5.1 metre margin over Myrniong Gees Bandit a winner of 14 from 32 going into Rainbow which trailed and Myrtle Vale (one/ the race, dashed past the leader on the home one). The mile rate 2-00.6. turn to greet the judge 1.6 metres ahead of Regardless from last, returning a mile rate of 157.4. Polar Opposite was 5.2 metres away in third place after following the winner all of the ■ Much travelled Art Major-Trammell 4Y0 way. gelding Misterfreeze having his first start for Merbein's Luke Watson was successful in the 2190 metre Pat Walsh Memorial Robinvale Cup (2nd division) at Mildura on Wednesday. Given ■ Hopetoun Park trainer Jeremy Quinlan a charmed passage from the pole trailing brought up two wins in succession with promis- Waterboy (gate three), Luke was able to angle ing Bacardi Lindy-Kano Idol 4Y0 mare Kano Misterfreeze into the clear halfway up the runImogen by leading throughout to capture the ning to record a 1.4 metre victory over 2180 metre Lew & Olive Welsh Memorial Trot- Amightyfinehorse which raced outside the paceters Handicap for T0 or better class at Terang. maker for the last half of the race, with Waterboy Raced by Graeme & Marcus Rayner's failing to see out the journey a nose away third.

Hopetoun Park Stud, Kano Imogen with Chris The mile rate 2-02.7.

Alford in the sulky was rated to perfection and was never going to lose, scoring by 10.6 metres from Als Law and Columbias Deejay in a rate ■ At Bray Raceway Ballarat on Thursday, fully of 2-05.3.

American bred Here Comes Herbie-

Stuck to his guns

Led all the way

Tough victory

Charmed wun

Rated to perfection

Won by 8.4 metres

Sulky Snippets This Week

■ Wednesday - Ballarat, Thursday Maryborough/Echuca, Friday - Melton, Saturday - Cranbourne, Sunday - Mildura, Monday - Stawell, Tuesday - Kilmore.

Horses to follow

■ Hughies Sister, Quick Witted, Rockabella Starz, Nifty Jolt, Regardless, Platinum Power, Be Not Afraid, Surbiton Armistice, Hellovaway.

Msnaughtybynature 5Y0 mare Naughty raced

by Hugh and Lorraine Cathels led throughout to capture the Ballarat Bargain Browser Trotters Mobile for T0 & T1 class over 2200 metres.

Trained at Cranbourne by Hugh, Naughty (gate four) was having her first start since December 2016 and driven by Lisa Miles, travelled beautifully, winning by 8.4 metres from Surbiton Armistice which faced the open from the bell and Armbro Hugh which followed the winner. The mile rate 2-04.2.

Held at Kilmore

■ Two feature races were held at Kilmore on Friday - the $25,000 (Listed) Reg Withers 3Y0 Classic over 2180 metres and the $10,000 7Eleven Cup for C6 or better class over 1690 metres.

Leading trainer Emma Stewart snared a thrilling Reg Withers Classic withArt Major-Magic Z Tam colt Tam Major, one of four stable runners in the race. Crossing stablemate Liftntorque on the first turn to take over, driver Rod Petroff restrained the colt to take a trail on red hot favourite Major Times but after being driven desperately by Chris Alford, Major Times was reluctant to do so, breaking gear shortly after to be pulled out of the race. This allowed David Aiken's in-form Higherthananeagle to assume control, with Petroff happy to take a sit on him.

Using the sprint lane on straightening, Tam Major finished best to defeat stablemate Big Bad Bruce (four wide home turn from last on the markers) by a head, with Tin Roof Raider (one/one) a half head away in third place after looking the winner approaching the post. The mile rate 1-58.1. Heavily backed 5Y0 Tell AllOnedins Pocketgirl gelding Sams The Master was the victor of the 7-Eleven Cup for Myrniong duo Jess Tubbs and Greg Sugars.\ in a rate of 155.1.

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Wine Column Logan explores differences

● Peter Logan: two very different reds ■ John Rozentals enjoys tasting very different reds from the same vintage in Orange and Mudgee.

As the crow flies, Orange and Mudgee are only some 70-to-80 kilometres apart, but climatically and geologically they might as well be on opposite sides of the universe.

That's probably not quite true but you get my drift. They're very different beasts for wine production.

These differences have long fascinated winemaker Peter Logan, who has been working with fruit from the two areas for most of his winemaking life.

His Orange grapes are grown at nearly 1000 metres on ancient volcanic soil and typically experiences cool-to-mild days and cold nights, whereas the Mudgee vineyard, while still at about 560 metres, has generally warm days and cold nights, and sits on ironstone and quartz gravelly loam.

With his Ridge of Tears wines Peter has the opportunity to really explore those differences - both shiraz from the same vintage, both made by the same team in much the same way.

But the styles of red are quite different.

The Orange shiraz is softer and quite loaded with spice and red berries. The Mudgee shiraz is more tannic and exhibits more earthy flavours - and darker fruits and dark chocolate.

Tasting both is a fascinating exercise, but I must confess that I prefer the bigger Mudgee shiraz, I guess simply because that's the style of red I naturally lean towards.

Visit www.loganwines.com.au TASTING NOTES Logan 2016 Ridge of Tears Orange Shiraz ($45): This is described by Peter Logan as the 'prettier' of the two reds.

He focused on building structure and complexity by working with two quite distinct parcels, one that finished ferment in barrel, other left to soak on skins for six months after ferment.

Isabel Estate 2017 Marlborough Pinot Gris ($29): I'm not normally a huge fan on pinot gris/grigio but I do like the way that structure and complexity have been build into this dry white. It's multi-layered with a bevy of different fruit flavours - pears, nectarines and baked apples come immediately to mind - plus a dose of ginger. Very well suited to spicier Thai dishes.

WINE OF THE WEEK Logan 2016 Ridge of Tears Mudgee Shiraz ($45): A red with a great deal of substance. It's bright, it's juicy and it's delicious.

Peter concentrated on taming the dominant local tannins which can easily get out of hand. A rich, but not over-the-top red which I simply love to drink.

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Doomben 10,000 Classic ■ The world's best sprinter, Redzel, has been installed as an odds-on favorite for the Doomben 10,000 coming up this Saturday in Queensland.

A winner of more than $ 7 million in stakemoney, the Sydney galloper, a model of consistency, has met and beaten some of the best that Australia could throw at him, but he will be tried over the 1350 metres of the classic against a good field.

He recently had his colours lowered when second to another good sprinter in Trapeze Artist in the T.J.Smith at Randwick.

Redzel won the inaugural, Everest sprint back in October picking up over $5 million for the first prize, then went on to win the Darley Classic at Flemington.

He was narrowly beaten by the straight six specialist, Redkirk Warrior, in the Lightning Stakes right on the line.

The only query, despite his class is the final 150 metres of the Doomben 10,000.

Second favourite is the good race mare, In Her Time, prepared by Ben Smith, who has her ticking away beautifully at the moment, having won the Group One Galaxy in Sydney, and has been placed in other Group races.

She is all class and the definite danger.

Another good sprinter is the Godolphin owned, James Cummings trained, Impending, who was a most impressive winner of the recent Victory Stakes at Doomben over 1200 metres.

The son of Lohnro is putting together a sound record, having had 15 starts for four wins and seven minor placings with stakemoney of nearly $2 million.

Depending on the draw he is going to be right in the firing line over this trip.

Former New South Wales sprinter Spieth, named after the champion American golfer, has had a change of stable now with the HayesDabernig combination after being with New South Wales trainer, Bryce Heys.

On his day he is smart, but his form tapered off after some mediocre runs up the straight at Flemington, where previously he was outstanding in the early part of his career.

He is the surprise package here.

On the next line is the good sprinting filly, Houtzen, a winner of the Magic Millions Two Year-old Classic, and a big winner at Moonee Valley.

After a big win in the Bell Stakes in Sydney she failed to flatter when unplaced behind Catchy in the Arrowfield Sprint over 1200 metres at Randwick.

She is the astute camp of Toby Edmonds, so look for improvement, although like Redzel is moving up to the 1350 metre trip.

However on her day she can beat just about everyone as proven by he come from near last to win at Moonee Valley.

An interesting nomination is that of Care To Think, a four year-old with Matthew Dunn at Murwillumbah.

The four year-old gelding has only had 12 starts for six wins and four minor placings, all in good company.

At his last start he ran a good second behind the New Zealander, Crack Me Up, in the Liverpool City Cup over 1300 metres, so the journey won't worry him.

The Kris Lees trained sprinter, Clearly Innocent, missed a start in the All Aged Stakes, but his trainer is confident that the six year-old will be right to contest the Doomben 10,000 this Saturday.

From his 22 starts he has won nine with three minor placings although naturally outclassed when last behind the Queen of Racing, Winx, last start.

On his day he is pretty smart, as his record indicates.

Another that will create plenty of attention if he goes around; is the winner of last year's 10,000, Music Magnate, in the care of top mentor, Bjorn Baker, and has the impressive record of 20 starts for nine wins and five minor placings, but may need the run.

If the track happens to be heavy you can't leave out the best wet tracker in Australia, in

● Redzerl holds out Terra Vista to win the Darley Classic at Flemington.

Racing Photos All up, Redzel, Impending, and In Her Time, appear to be the main chances.

Ted Ryan

Vale Jack Franklin

■ I was saddened to learn of the death of man I had become very friendly with over my many years in television.

When I hadn't long started with Channel 9, I had the pleasure of meeting, Jack Franklin, who was the Track Supervisor at Flemington Racecourse.

Jack and his offsider, Henry, would run the operations of horses working at Flemington early in the morning and later.

They would open the gates on to the course, near the 800 metre mark at Flemington, where trainers would stable their horses before moving across on the Riverside and later through the tunnel off Smithfield Road.

Jack taught me plenty, always obliging, and warning me of the many dangers attached to the many horses working at Flemington.

At Cup time something like 700 worked there.

Jack and Henry were a great help, and I will always be grateful to Jack for his great help in my early years.

He retired from his duties in 2015, after 65 years and Life Membership with the VRC. God Bless and thanks Jack for showing me the way in the racing world.

Bad luck

Jungle Edge, although last in his last outing he loves the wet and gets the giggles when it rains.

The mare, Global Glamour, a winner of the One Thousand Guineas and other top races is racing inconsistently, and could be a light of other days, but she is with the cagey one, Gai Waterhouse, so you can't right her off.

Of the others, the Victorian sprinter, Supido, in the care of Mick Kent, ran a reasonable sixth to Impending in the Victory Stakes, but the 1350 metre trip of the 10,000, may be against him.

■ Former top Chief Clerk of the Course ,Graham Salisbury, unfortunately has fallen on hard times.

One of the best people in racing, Graham has come down with cancer in his shoulder, while on top this, his young daughter, Nicole, has been stricken with paralysis in her leg.

Racing people have quickly got behind them to support them financially from all parts of the globe.

A "Go Fund Me Page" has been organised and the money is flowing in, thankfully.

For many years Graham has taken care of the 1992 Melbourne Cup winner, Subzero, teaching him tricks and educating children around the ctate and interstate his skills.

Good luck Graham and Nicole, we are right behind you.

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MURDER MYSTERY My Sister Feather

● Emily Tomlins and Belinda McClory in My Sister Feather. Photo: Sarah Walker ■ La Mama Theatre presents a VIMH production, My Sister Feather, written and directed by Olivia Satchell, from May 31 – June 10.

The second play in a trilogy of work by Olivia Satchell about the relationship between grief, memory, and the female body, My Sister Feather shifts between a stark prison centre and the shared childhood of two women to investigate trauma and sisterhood.

Shortlisted for both the 2017 Rodney Seaborn Playwrights’ Award and the 2018 Max Afford Playwrights’ Award this tale of survival, love, and loss by one of Melbourne’s most exciting new playwrights is not to be misse.

Headed by Olivia Satchell, the voice in my hands (VIMH) is a Melbourne-based independent theatre company producing bold original new work that risks failure in order to raise the creative and socio-political horizon of expectation.

VIMH say they are committed to the Melbourne theatre community by providing ongoing development opportunities for new writing and performance.

Performance Season: May 31 – June 10 Times: Wed 6.30pm. Thurs – Sat 7.30pm, Sun 4pm.

Venue: La Mama Courthouse, 349 Drummond St, Carlton Tickets: $30 Full, $20 Concession and Preview Bookings: www.lamama.com.au or 9347 6142 - Cheryl Threadgold

Tap Pack Players

● The Tap Pack - Jordan Pollard, Sam Marks, Glenn Hill and Jan Di Pietro - is touring Victoria this month. More details from Cheryl Threagold on Page 53.

● The cast of Checked Out: The Body in the Library Back row, from left: Julia Reichstein (Dee Scruntled, disgruntled Librarian), Judy Sullivan (Building Inspector), Tony Brooker (Miss Marple), Cr Tamsin Bearsley of City of Kingston’s South Ward (Council Candidate), Paul Karp (Detective Happy); Front row, from left: Anna Bearsley (Anna Bent, daughter of the late Tommy Bent, notorious bookie) and Justine Gorny (Miss Looney Lavender La Livres). Photo: Andrew Bearsley ■ The audience was judge and jury at the Mentone Public Library’s interactive production of Checked Out: The Body in the Library, where this intriguing, successful murder mystery event was enjoyed by all in attendance.

The time was the 1930s, and the usually active Mentone underworld figure Tommy Bent was now merely a chalk outline on the floor. Miss Marple had one question for everyone: ‘What did YOU do this weekend?’

The cast of suspects each had a motive for the murder. From the disgruntled librarian to the Council candidate (played by real life Kingston Councillor Tamsin Bearsley), each character presented their alibis convincingly, then it was up to the audience to choose the guilty party.

We decided by vote that the Librarian Dee Scruntled was guilty of the murder, but the play’s clever concept means that next time another guilty party might be chosen, and each character has their own explanation prepared.

The delightfully intimate Mentone Public Library was established in 1925 and is situated at 36 Florence Str, Mentone (rear of the Community Assistance and Information Bureau).

Staffed by volunteers, the library runs as a non-profit subscription library service, and seeks to engage residents with local writers and their works, as well as promoting the area’s ● Marti Ibrahim (Dr Martha Livingstone) at left, published history.

Veronica Hannebery (Mother Miriam Ruth) and The library also continues to acknowledge its own history by Gemma Francis (Sister Agnes) in Agnes of God. maintaining its yesteryear practice of using a card-catalogue Photo:Stephen Andrews. borrowing system amid historic furnishings.

■ The Powderkeg Players (formerly Sunshine CommuCo-ordinator and librarian Julia Reichstein and the Commitnity Theatre) have paid homage to the theatre’s history by tee have ensured the library lives up to its manifesto ‘Where returning to the original name of the company, The Print Becomes Personable’ by introducing regular programs of Powderkeg Players, which began in 1971 in the old Albion local literary interest.

Explosive Factory.

Series Eight of An Author for All Seasons resumes on SaturThe company’s first production under their new name is day, May 26 at 11am, featuring author Liliane Grace, and conthe mystery drama Agnes of God. which is playing at the tinues on a monthly basis. Gold coin donation.

Dempster Park Hall in Sunshine until May 12.

During the week, Page Turners, the monthly writing workWritten by John Pielmeier and directed by Drew Mashop circle has returned by popular demand, facilitated by auson, the story tells of court-appointed psychiatrist, Dr thors Elsie Johnstone and Paul Karp, on the third Wednesday of Martha Livingstone, being summoned to a convent and each month at 10.30am. charged with assessing the sanity of a novice accused of The next Page Turners is on Wednesday, May 16 and bookmurdering her newborn baby. The Mother Superior, Miriam ings are required as places are limited. Please call 9583 8494 or Ruth, determinedly keeps young Agnes from the doctor, email mentonepubliclibrary@gmail.com Gold coin donation is which further arouses Livingstone’s questions, and force welcome. all three women to re-examine the meaning of faith.

Congratulations to Julia Reichstein, her committee, and the Performance Season: Until May 12. Venue: Dempster cast of The Body in the Library. An innovative concept in an Park Hall, 82 Phoenix St., North Sunshine atmospheric venue that worked exceptionally well.

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Dylanesque ■ Jeff Jenkins will bring his Bob Dylan story Dylanesque to the Bunjil Place Studio, Narre Warren, on May24 commencing 7.30pm. The show also coincides with Dylan's birthday. Aussie music historian Glenn A. Baker says Dylanesque was one of the most enjoyable couple of hours he spent in ages. Call Jeff on 0488 046 993 or email info@dylanesque.com.aueal.

Charlie’s Vic. dates ■ International singer-songwriter Charlie Landsborough will tour Australia for the last time this year.

His Victorian dates are: Sat. May19 : Kyabram Bocce Club, 8pm . Sun. May 20.

Victoria Bowls Club, Ballarat, 2 pm Tix: 0419 326 709. Wed., May 23. Sphinx Hotel Geelong 8pm Tix 5278 2911. Tues., May 29. Warrnambool Memorial Bowling Club.

8pm. Tix 55614155. Sat., June 3. Morwell Club. 2pm. Tix 0408 392 278

Remembering Hank ■ Songs from the Lost Highway - The Poetry & Western of the late Hank Williams will be remembered when Melbourne artist Andy Baylor hits the stage for some upcoming shows.

Andy, along with his Country Ramblers and special guests, will play the Spotted Mallard, Brunswick, on June 29, and the Caravan Club, Oakleigh, on June 30.

- Rob Foenander

At Monash Gallery Where sculpture meets photography artist talk.

Penelope Davis is a Melbourne-based artist whose practice often combines sculpture with cameraless photographic techniques in creating the works on display.

Davis began by creating silicone moulds of books and a camera which she then used to create resin casts before placing these newly created sculptures in direct contact with lightsensitive paper in the darkroom.

Sunday May 13. 2pm-3pm. ★ Cyanotype sculptures with Carolyn Lewens Join artist Carolyn Lewens who has worked extensively with cyanotypes, one of the earliest photographic processes.

You'll create your own small sculpture that incorporates cyanotypes made during the course of this workshop.

Booking essential mga.org.au/event Sunday May 20.. 2pm-3pm.

Monash Gallery ofArt 860 Ferntree Gully Rd, Wheelers Hill - Peter Kemp

Don Quichotte ■ Opera Australia's Melbourne Autumn season closed with the production of Jules Massenet's Don Quichotte.

Opening was a village square in Spain in front of Dulcinea's house where a festival is in full force.

A great chorus and adding to the enjoyment of the festival were a group of Spanish dancers. A terrific and genuine performance.

Dulcinea was performed by Sian Pendry.

Pendry caught the character of La Belle Dulcinea with aplomb adding to her wonderful voice the art of a great actor bringing sensitivity to her scenes with Don Quichotte and her treatment of her lovers. A great performance.

Don Quichotte was performed by bass singer and actor Ferruccio Furlanetto. A great interpretation of the character with some wonderful scenes such as the scene where he was taken by the bandits, upon return to Dulcinea and the final moment. Furlanetto, beside having the voice for the role, is a well experienced actor which assists to the high standard of his performance.

Don Quichotte's squire Sancho Panza was excellently performed by Warwick Fyfe. Adominating performance of a squire who was more than just a servant.

Some very poignant moments between the two and some humorous spots. Fyfe added to the high standard of the production with a magnificent voice and remarkable acting ability.

Some outstanding scenes were the opening fiesta, the bandit's capture of Don Quichotte,

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Wednesday Thursday May 10 May 9

■ Sir Sidney Kidman, pastoralist, was born in South Australia in 1857. He died aged 78 in 1935.

Scottish author J M Barrie was born in 1860. He died aged 77 in 1937.

British actress Joan Sims was born in Essex, England in 1930. She died aged 71 in 2001.

■ American actor and dancer Fred Astaire was born Frederick Austerlitz in 1899. He died aged 88 in 1987. He starred in On The Beach.

S i n g e r- s o n g w r i t e r Donovan (Leitch) was born in Scotland in 1946.

Bono (Paul Hewson) was born in Dublin (57).

Melbourne Arts the aria by Sian Pendry with a soleras by Spanish dancer Ana Interiano, and the final scene with Don Quichotte and Sancho Panza..

Opera Australia's sets were outstanding really giving the feel of being in Spain.

A good evening of opera to conclude the Melbourne Autumn season.

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Geelong Gallery An Exchange of Treasures Roberts and McCubbin from the Art Gallery of Ballarat, These two exceptional works by Tom Roberts and Frederick McCubbin are on loan from the Art Gallery of Ballarat, offered in recognition of Geelong Gallery's loan to Ballarat - until the end of May this year - of three treasured paintings by Eugene von Guérard.

The Geelong Gallery's three works Aborigines met on the road to the digging 1854, View of Geelong 1856, View from Fritz Wilhelmberg, Herne Hill, Geelong 1860, - (formerly Mr Levien's hut on the Barwon, but recently retitled due to new research - are central to Eugene von Guérard: artist -traveller, a major exhibition that looks at von Guérard's numerous trips into the Western District, his sketches, and the important paintings he then worked up in his studio. Geelong Gallery's pictures are essential inclusions in this new examination of von Guérard's remarkable and intrepid journey's through our region's landscape, and the exhibition presents an opportunity for these works to be seen in the context of the artist's broader practice.

Similarly, this exchange of works by Roberts and McCubbin from the Art Gallery of Ballarat creates a dialogue between the two paintings and with works by the two artists in our collection; Roberts's Portrait of Charles James Howard 1890 on the adjacent wall, and McCubbin's A Bush Burial 1890 and Hillside, Macedon 1904.

Unlike their grand national landscape subjects for which they received significant acclaim, both the Roberts and the McCubbin paintings from the Art Gallery of Ballarat are charming, yet no less important, examples of domestic subjects imbued with an emotional register. Exhibition closes May 27.

Geelong Gallery 55 Little Malop St, Geelong - Peter Kemp

Return of The Nude ■ Internationally renowned contemporary artist, Spencer Tunick, is returning to Melbourne this July to create two days of dramatic nude installations as the headline artist of Chapel Street's Provocare Festival of theArts.

Tunick is inviting brave Australians to register now to be part of his provocative new works at provocare.com.au/tunick Participants will feature in two days of major installations and will receive a limitededition print of the artwork in which they are part.

The project will be a welcome return for Tunick, who last stunned Melburnians in 2001 with his first Australian installation, called The Unfamiliar.

The success of this installation then gave rise to his second Australian visit, 2010's equally memorable The Base on the steps of The Sydney Opera House.

"Chapel Street reminds me of the East Village of New York, Sunset Strip in LA, and San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, but all combined into one juggernaut," said Tunick on the opportunity to work with the unique precinct of Melbourne. " I think people from Melbourne are a little braver because of their willingness to pose no matter the weather I get a sense of resilience and risk taking."

As the headline artist of Provocare Festival of the Arts, Chapel Street Precinct will be transformed into a provocative world of captivating art, music and theatre during the winter month of July SpencerTunick's 2018 Melbourne installation will be called Return of the Nude , and Tunick emphasises that everyone is welcome to participate, regardless of age, race, gender, ability, or body shape.

This, in part, is why Spencer has decided to name his latest creation the Return of the Nude.

“While it's me bringing my art back to a city full of fond memories, it's also the return of the body as a pure sculptural entity."

The artist hopes to remove the idea of the body depicted as a glorified celebrity, where social media has perverted the nude form.

"The art event will go ahead no matter what the weather is like on the day. If you're worried about the cold don't be, because participants will not be naked for long periods of time. You must be 18 years or over to participate," commented Chapel Street's events and Marketing Director Chrissie Maus.

Register to pose for Spencer Tunick's Return of the Nude at provocare.com.au/ tunick - Peter Kemp Melbourne

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Friday May 11

Saturday May 12

■ US songwriter Irving Berlin (Israel Baline) was born in Russia in 1885. He died aged 101 in 1989.

Actor Frank Thring was born in Melbourne in 1926. He died aged 68 in 1994.

US Phil Silvers was born in 1911. He died aged 74 in 1985.

HBTY Glenn Bear.

■ Nurse Florence Nightingale was born in Florence, Italy, in 1820.

She died aged 90 in 1910. “The Lady With The Lamp’.

English comedian Tony Hancock was born in Birmingham, England in 1924. He died aged 44 in 1968.

Songwriter Burt Bacharach celebrates.

Sunday May 13 ■ US actress Beatrice Arthur (Bernice Frankel) was born in New York in 1923. She died aged 86 in 2009.

Blind American singer Stevie Wonder was born in 1950 (68).

Newsreader Chris Bath was born in Auburn, NSW, in 1967 (51). She was host of Sunday Night.

Monday May 14

■ American singer and actor Bobby Darin was born in New York in 1936. He died aged 37 in 1973.

Australian TV presenter David Reyne was born in Africa in 1959.

Actress Cate Blanchett was born in Clayton, Vic. in 1969 (49).

Actress Ada Nicodemou is 41 today.

Tuesday May 15 ■ The late TV presenter Bill Peach was born in 1935.

US singer Trini Lopez was born in Texas in 1937.

Actor/director John Orcsik was born in 1945.

Singer-dancer Rhonda Burchmore was born in Sydney in 1960 (58).

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

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Local Theatre with Cheryl Threadgold and team TAP PACK PLAYERS ■ Picking up where The Rat Pack left off …The Tap Pack conjures up a modern twist to the crooners and artists from the 50s through to the noughties, featuring songs from Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jnr to Sheeran, Bublé and Beyonce, in a mix of humour and high energy tap dancing.

The show is created by Jesse Rasmussen, Jordan Pollard and Thomas J Egan, directed and co-created by Nigel Turner Carroll, and stars four Australian dancers and singers: Jordan Pollard (Westside Story, Anything Goes, Singin’ in the Rain), Sam Marks (Cats, Wicked, King Kong Live on Stage), Glenn Hill(We Will Rock You, Mamma Mia, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels), and Jan Di Pietro (Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Pirates of Penzance).

The Tap Pack brings a new, invigorating energy to a timeless style of family entertainment.

Victorian tour dates: ■ May 12. 7.30pm. Karralyka Centre, Ringwood.

■ May 13. 6pm. Frankston Arts Centre ■ May 19. 7.30pm. Darebin Arts Centre, Preston ■ May 20. 6pm. Latrobe Performing Arts Centre, Latrobe.

- Cheryl Threadgold

CARMILLA ■ Kle Zehn Theatre Production’s Carmilla, directed by Karen Wakeham, returns to La Mama.

A ghost story, described as an opera without the singing, this is a melodramatic adaptation of J Sheridan le Fanu’s controversial 1872 novella of that name and widely acknowledged as the first literary vampire story and inspiration for Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

It is the story of teenage Laura (Georgia Brooks) who lives a happy but solitary life with her father (Josh Porter) in their castle in Austro-Hungarian town, Styria.

Carmilla (Teresa Duddy) inveigles her way into their lives and takes up residence.

Innocent Laura, fascinated by Carmilla, sees her as a panacea for her loneliness.

Concerned by his daughter’s disturbing dreams and waning health, her father heeds warning from General Spielsdorf, (John Cheshire). The two hunt down Carmilla to act out revenge.

The alchemy apparent in Teresa Duddy’s and Georgia Brook’s performances stands out.

Teresa portrays a chilling huntress pursuing the naïve Laura to steer her to cross boundaries from friendship into a transgressive, sexual relationship insinuating vampiric lesbianism.

On a sparse set, period costuming, ingenious music, lighting and smoke effects transport the audience into a place of unease.

Adam Yee’s artful chamber orchestra composition is a masterstroke.

The musicians, Liz Barcan (flute), Pri Victor (tenor saxophone), Lyndon Chester (violin), Roseanne Hunt (cello), Eidit Golder (piano) and Adam Yee (harmonium and glockenspiel) amplify the atmosphere of this gothic drama.

Whether in ensemble or solo, each instrument plays a part in introducing characters, accentuating mood and highlighting tension of this tale: saxophone announces peril, the flute marks Carmilla’s conniving intentions while strings to jolt us into her unsettling actions.

Performance dates: Until May 13 Times:Wed 6.30pm Thur and Sat 7.30pm Sun 2pm and 6.30pm Venue: La Mama Courthouse, 349 Drummond St, Carlton Tickets: $30Full/$20 Concession.

Running time: Approx. 1 hour Bookings: www.lamama.com.au or 9347 6948 - Review by Sherryn Danaher

Latest shows, auditions SHOWS

SHOWS

■ Powderkeg Players (formerly Sunshine Community Theatre): Agnes of God (by John Pielmeier) Until May 12 at the Dempster Park Hall, 82 Phoenix St., North Sunshine. Director: Drew Mason. Bookings: trybooking.com or powderkegplayers.com ■ Eltham Little theatre: The One Act Plays Season Until May 12 at the Eltham Performing Arts Centre, 1603 Main rd., Research. Bookings: elthamlittletheatre@gmail.com. Tickets: $25 full, $20 concession.

■ Croydon Parish Players: Witness for the Prosecution (by Agatha Christie) until May 12 at Melba College theatre, 20 Brentnall rd., Croydon. Director: Gill Collard. Bookings: 0447 014 584 (between 7-9pm).

■ Heidelberg Theatre Company: The House of Bernarda Alba (by Federico Garcia Lorca) Until May 12 at 36 Turnham Ave., Rosanna.

Director: Joan Moriarty. Bookings: www.htc.org.au ■ Theatre of the Winged Unicorn: The Doll's House (by Henrik Ibsen) Until May 19 at the Ceres Hall, McCann St., Ceres. Director: Elaine Mitchell. Tickets: $32/$30/$28, Refreshments $5 per person. Bookings: www.trybooking.com/ TOZG. Enquiries: 5249 1350.

■ Phoenix Theatre Company: Ghosts May 11 - 19 at the Doncaster Playhouse. Director: Renee Maloney; Musical Director; Ben Heels. Tickets: $30. Bookings: 9012 5897.

■ Brighton Theatre Company: Forget Me Not (by Tom Holloway) May 17 - June 2 at the Brighton Arts and Cultural Centre, Cnr Wilson and Carpenter Sts., Brighton. Director: Annie Blood. Bookings: 1300 752 126.

■ Wyndham Theatre Company: Calendar Girls (by Tim Firth) May 11 - 26 at the CrossRoads Theatre, Cnr Synnot St. and Duncan's Rd., Werribee. Director: George Benca.

Bookings: www.wyndhamtheatrecompany.org.au ■ Skin of Our Teeth Productions: Jane Eyre (by Charlotte Bronte, adapted by Christine Davey) May 11 - 26 at Shenton Theatre, Cnr Ryrie and Garden Sts., Geelong. Director; Christine Davey. Bookings: 0409 389 461.

■ The Mount Players: Love Letters (by A. R. Gurney) May 11 - 27 at the Mountview Theatre, 56 Smith St., Macedon. Director: Frank Harvey.

Bookings: www.themountplayers.com ■ CLOC Musical Theatre: Strictly Ballroom May 11 - 26 at the National Theatre, St Kilda.

Director: Richard Perdriau; Musical Director: Daniel Heskett; Choreographer: David Harford.

Bookings: www.cloc.org.au 1300 362 547 ■ Nova Music Theatre: Guys and Dolls May 12 - 26 at The Whitehorse Centre, Whitehorse Road, Nunawading. Co-Directors: Noel Browne and Wayne Robinson; Musical Director: John Clancy; Choreographer: Dean Robinson. Bookings: 1300 304 433.

■ Williamstown Musical Theatre Company: Hot Mikado May 18 - 26 at the new location Centenary Theatre, 71 Railway Place, Williamstown. Bookings: www.wmtc.org.au or 1300 881 545.

■ Strathmore Theatrical Arts Group (STAG): Play It Again Sam (by Woody Allen) May 24 June 3 at the Strathmore Community Theatre, Loeman St., Strathmore. Director: Lee Cook.

Tickets: $20/$15. Bookings: 9382 6284 or www.stagtheatre.org ■ MLOC Productions: Spring Awakening May 25 - June 2 at Shirley Burke Theatre, 64 Parkers Rd., Parkdale. Director/Choreographer: Angela

Phillips; Musical Director; Malcom Huddle.

Bookings; www.mloc.org.au.

■ Beaumaris Theatre: The Mystery of Irma Vep May 25, 26, June 1,2,7,8, 9 at 8..00pm, June 3 at 5.00pm at 82 Wells Rd., Beaumaris. Director: Div Collins. Bookings: www.beaumaris theatre.com.au

Our team

■ The Melbourne Observer’s team of honorary theatre reviewers, co-ordinated by Cheryl Threadgold, comprises: Juliet Charles, Martin Curtis, Sherryn Danaher, Greg Every, Lyn Hurst, Kathryn Keeble, Beth Klein, Deborah Marinaro, Graeme McCoubrie, David McLean, Maggie Morrison, Jill Page and Elizabeth Semmel.

BURRINJA GALLERY Bleeding Hearts -Human rights and Cognitive Dissonance in "the lucky country".

In the exhibition Bleeding Hearts, Dandenong Ranges resident Eliza Phillips investigates the disparity in Australia between the mythologised nationalist illusion of a 'fair go' and the systematic vilification of minority groups and social justice advocates.

Eliza Phillips is a Burrinja studio artist who works across different mediums, utilising text and recycled material to explore themes of social justice. Exhibition: May 12 June 10. ★ Walls as Witness Created in a non-objective style, Stephen Glover's work daws intuitively upon influences from the natural and constructed world, employing an interplay between the expressive potential of both brush and palette knife.

Exhibition: May 12 - June 10. ★ WAM (Where artists meet) Offered as a bi-monthly events throughout the year, these regular gatherings propose space for connecting and developing conversations between local creatives.

WAM provides fun and friendly environment to talk shop with other artists, share tips, discuss creative practice, projects and local arts and culture.

With the Dandenong Ranges rich and abundant cultural landscape Burrinja's WAM events are a great opportunity to develop new creative networks, find out about potential. opportunities and connect with your local arts community.

Friday, May 25 at 8pm - 10pm.

Burrinja Gallery 351 Glenfern Rd., Upwey - Peter Kemp

AUDITIONS ■ Lilydale Athenaeum Theatre Company: Moonlight and Magnolias (by Ron Hutchinson) May 13, 15 at 7.30pm at the Lilydale Athenaeum Theatre, Castella st., Lilydale. Director: Alan Burrows. Enquiries: 0412 077 761 ■ Brighton Theatre Company: Other Desert Cities (by Jon Robin Baitz) May 20, 21 at 7pm at Bayside Cultural Centre, Cnr Carpenter and Wilson Sts., Brighton. Director: George Werther.

Enquiries: 0402 222 090.

■ Strathmore Theatrical Arts Group (STAG): 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Something Unspoken (two plays by Tennessee Williams) May 26 at 2.00pm and May 29 at 7.30pm at the Strathmore Community Theatre, Loeman St., Strathmore. Director: Marti Ibrahim. Audition enquiries: 0423 758022 or email marthaibrahim3@gmail.com ■ Heidelberg Theatre Company: Blue Stockings (by Jessica Swale) May 27, 28 at 7pm at 36 Turnham Ave., Rosanna. Director; Natasha Boyd. Enquiries: info@bookbonding.com.au ■ MLOC Productions: The Boy From Oz June 12, 14, 15 (singing and acting), June 17 (dancing). Mentone and Mordialloc area. Director/ Choreographer: Rhylee Nowell; Musical Director: Matthew Hadgraft. For audition bookings visit www.mloc.org.au

WIN A DOUBLE PASS TO THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW The Rocky Horror Show returns to Melbourne’s Her Majesty’s Theatre from July 13. Australia’s favourite multi- award winning triple threat Todd McKenney will star as Frank n’Furter, a role he has wanted to perform since commencing his career. Shane Jacobsen will perform the role of the narrator, a Rocky Horror Show role traditionally performed by major stars across the globe.

The Rocky Horror Show is a true classic and one of theatre’s most endearing and outrageously fun shows. It opened at London’s Royal Court Theatre on June 19, 1973, quickly developing a cult following, and was adapted into the 1975 film The Rocky Horror Picture Show, which has the longest- running release in film history. This iconic brand holds a unique place in theatre history, a show which has defied the decades and continued to grow in popularity.

We have six double passes (great Dress Circle tickets) to give away to readers for the ‘Rocky Horror Show’ at the Her Majesty’s Theatre, at 7.30pm on Thursday, July 11, 2018.

To enter, complete the details on this entry form, and mail it to ‘Rocky Horror Comp.’, PO Box 1278, Research, Vic 3095, to reach us by first mail on Monday, May 28.

Only enter if you can attend.

These are great tickets.

Winners will receive their tickets by mail.

To enter, post to: Rocky Horror Comp PO Box 1278, Research, Vic 3095

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Movies, DVDs with Jim Sherlock, Aaron Rourke What’s Hot and What’s Not in Blu-Rays and DVDs

Rourke’s Reviews

FILM: ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD: Genre: Biography/Crime/Drama.

Cast: Michelle Williams, Christopher Plummer, Mark Wahlberg, Charlie Plummer.

Year: 2017.

Rating: MA15+ Length: 132 Minutes.

Stars: ***½ Verdict: The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III in Rome of 1973 and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire oil magnate grandfather J. Paul Getty, the richest man in the world, to pay the ransom.

Gripping, taut, tight, stylish and entertaining thriller based on the true story from director Ridley Scott excels due to the compelling performance of Christopher Plummer as the cold-hearted, eccentric, manipulative and deceptive billionaire, J. Paul Getty.

Michelle Williams is also a stand-out as the devoted mother stressed to the limits throughout the months long ordeal that becomes a race against time in dealing with the grief, tension and arrogance of the highest level between authorities, the kidnappers and the miserly Getty in the true and lasting value of love over money, as she tries desperately to free her son.

Mark Wahlberg pulls in an effective performance as Getty's security man and go-between, who becomes her ally, and along with early 1970s period detail and production design and breathtaking Rome, Italian and United Kingdom locations cinematography by Dariusz Wolski (The Martian, Prometheus), they all combine to create a fascinating and compelling historical thriller.

FILM: DARKEST HOUR: Genre: Biography/Drama/History/War. Cast: Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lily James and Ben Mendelsohn.

Year: 2017.

Rating: M. Length: 125 Minutes.

Stars: **** Verdict: During the early days of World War II, primarily in May of 1940, the fate of Western Europe hangs on the newly-appointed British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Hitler, as the seemingly unstoppable Nazi forces advance, and with the Allied army cornered on the beaches of Dunkirk, or fight on against incredible odds, against opposition in the ranks.

Gary Oldman gives startling tour-de-force performance as British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who captures his unique and colourfully outrageous "bulldog" and beleaguered humour, spirit and energy, superbly, ranking him along side such other WWII historical figures on the screen as George C. Scott in "Patton" (1970), Bruno Ganz as Adolf Hitler in "Downfall" (2004) and Ken Watanabe as General Kuribayashi in Clint Eastwood's "Letters From Iwo Jima" (2006), to name a few.

The scene-stealing Oldman is matched by a wonderful supporting cast including Kristin Scott Thomas as Clementine, Lily James as his Secretary, Elizabeth, and Ben Mendelsohn as King George VI, however, behind-the-scenes, set design (the war rooms), costume design, period detail, art direction, editing, cinematography by Bruno Delbonnel (Amelie, Inside Llewyn Davis) and music score by Oscar winner Dario Marianelli, excel beyond all expectation.

Written for the screen by Oscar nominated writer-producer, Anthony McCarten (The Theory of Everything-2014), award-winning director Joe Wright (Pride & Prejudice-2005) has created a gripping, intelligent, old fashioned, passionate and unforgettable film on one of the most defining moments in human history. (Superb precursor to Christopher Nolan's "Dunkirk").

FILM: DOWNSIZING: Genre: Comedy/Sci-Fi/Drama.

Cast: Matt Damon, Kristen Wiig, Christoph Waltz, Hong Chau, Udo Kier, Jason Sudeikis.

Year: 2017.

Rating: TBC. Length: 135 Minutes.

Stars: **** Verdict: When scientists discover how to shrink humans to four inches tall as a solution to over-population, an occupational therapist and his wife decide to abandon their stressed lives in order to get small and move to a new downsized community, but there's one catch, it's irreversible, and becomes a choice that triggers lifechanging adventures.

"Fantastic Voyage" meets "Gulliver's Travels" meets "The Borrowers" in this captivating, humorous and poignant social apocalyptic sci-fi satire set in the not so distant future is a wonderfully audacious effort brimming with startling conviction and endlessly surprising indirection, another bravura effort from dual Oscar winning writerdirector Alexander Payne, whose previous efforts include the Oscar winning Sideways (2004) and The Descendants (2011), and the Oscar nominated Nebraska (2013).

The screenplay by Alexander Payne, along with Oscar winner Jim Taylor, is intelligent, funny, humane and respectful, and the set design, production design, CGI and cinematography are all flawless, exemplary in every way.

The performances by the stellar cast are all the perfect match: Matt Damon as Paul, the shrunken man whose problems grow bigger as he gets smaller, Oscar winner Christoph Waltz as Dusan, his party neighbour and veteran Udo Kier as Joris, the aging party-boy and his partner, and Kristen Wiig as his wife, Audrey.

However, along his stimulating but confusing new path in life Paul meets Ngoc Lan (Hong Chau), a Vietnamese activist and prison escapee shrunk against her will by the government, and through her uniquely and seemingly innocent surface, at first, soon moulds into a richly complex, highly original and compelling presence, dominating and stealing every frame she is in.

Hong Chau represents something unique that only cinema can offer, she gives a mesmerizing, heartfelt, funny and poignant scenestealing, career defining performance, simply startling, and through her, making Downsizing an unforgettable fantasy and fantastic journey for adults.

- James Sherlock

● Maria (Alexandra Borbely) tries to figure out what her dreams are trying to say in the haunting drama On Body And Soul, which opens in selected cinemas May 10.

1988 movie should be seen as the blueprint to reference when making this kind of entertainment.

Robert De Niro stars as Jack ■ (R). 116 minutes. Opens in se- Walsh, a former Chicago police lected cinemas May 10. officer who now makes a living as Winner of the Golden Bear, a bounty hunter.

Berlinale's top award, in 2017, and Divorced, and on the outer with a nominee for Best Foreign Film at fellow colleagues, Jack gets the this year's Oscars, this haunting and case of a lifetime when he is asked unusual romantic drama from to track down ex-mob accountant Hungary makes for hypnotic view- Jonathan Mardukas (Charles ing.

Grodin), who embezzled a large Set at an urban abattoir (and a amount of money from his boss, warning to sensitive viewers, there Jimmy Serrano (Dennis Farina), is graphic footage of animals go- when he found out he was working ing through the slaughtering pro- for a criminal. cess), the story centres on Endre Now in hiding, Mardukas hasn't (Geza Morcsanyi), the plant's finan- been seen since. Finding the fugicial director, and Maria (Alexandra tive isn't the problem for Jack, it's Borbely), who has been newly getting him to the assigned destinaemployed as a quality inspector, a tion so he can collect his sizeable position she carries out to a stag- paycheck, with Serrano's men, the geringly meticulous degree.

FBI, headed by Agent Alonzo Endre, an awkward loner with Mosely (Yaphet Kotto), and rival one inoperative arm, and Maria, bounty hunter Marvin Dorfler who is paralysed with shyness out- (John Ashton), all close on his tail. side of her job description, slowly Brilliantly scripted by George discover they are having the same Gallo, whose follow-up work dream at night; that of a male and (Trapped In Paradise, See Spot female deer quietly enjoying a Run, The Whole Ten Yards) never gentle connection in a wintery for- came close to equalling the mateest. rial on display here, this is chockConfused at first, the two tenta- full of hilariously profane dialogue, tively try to bond in the waking and creates a number of characworld, but find this task a little more ters that are properly, affectingly difficult in real life. developed.

Writer/director Ildiko Enyedi, Martin Brest (Scent Of A whose career now spans nearly 40 Woman, Meet Joe Black, and hasn't years, makes a very welcome re- helmed a feature since the disasturn to feature films after an 18- trous misfire Gigli in 2003) imyear break (her last film was Simon proves on his 1984 hit Beverly Hills The Magician, back in 1999), and Cop, and along with the superb this effort is up there with her 1989 Going In Style (1979), is his best Cannes-winning film, My Twenti- work as a film-maker. eth Century.

Capping everything off is a galLike a lot of Eastern European lery of first-rate performances from cinema, On Body And Soul is alle- a perfectly chosen cast, and it is a gorical and interpretive, but it is an nice reminder of how great De Niro intelligent, beautifully crafted world used to be. that is worth diving into, grounded Accompanied by a terrific score by two excellent performances by Danny Elfman, Midnight Run from its lead actors. never fails to entertain, no matter RATING - **** how many times you have seen it.

But if you haven't, I highly recommend that you access it as soon as possible, as you are missing out ■ (M). 122 minutes. Now avail- on one of the most joyous viewing able on Blu-Ray and DVD. experiences imaginable.

One of the greatest action/comRATING - ***** edies ever made, this outstanding - Aaron Rourke

On Body and Soul

Midnight

Top 10 Lists MAY 6-12 THE AUSTRALIAN BOX OFFICE TOP TEN: 1. AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR. 2. I FEEL PRETTY. 3. PETER RABBIT. 4. A QUIET PLACE. 5. THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY. 6. SHERLOCK GNOMES. 7. RAMPAGE. 8. ISLE OF DOGS. 9. READY PLAYER ONE. 10. BLOCKERS. NEW RELEASES AND COMING SOON TO CINEMAS AROUND AUSTRALIA: MAY 3: BREATH, BROKEN. MAY 10: CHAPPAQUIDDICK, CROOKED HOUSE, LIFE OF THE PARTY, MIDNIGHT OIL, 1984, TULLY. THE DVD AND BLU-RAY TOP RENTALS & SALES: 1. THE GREATEST SHOWMAN [Music/Biography/Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams, Zac Efron].

2. I, TONYA [Drama/Margot Robbie, Allison Janney, Sebastian Stan, Julianne Nicholson].

3. DEN OF THIEVES [Action/Crime/Drama/ Gerard Butler, Pablo Schreiber].

4. MAZE RUNNER: The Death Cure [Dylan O'Brien, Rosa Salazar, Ki Hong Lee].

5. FATHER FIGURES [Comedy/Owen Wilson, Ed Helms, J.K. Simmons].

6. ENGLAND IS MINE [Biography/Music/ Drama/Jack Lowden].

7. THE POST [Biography/History/Drama/ Merly Streep, Tom Hanks, Bob Odenkirk].

8. DARKEST HOUR [War/Drama/Gary Oldman, Lily James, Kristin Scott Thomas].

9. ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD [Drama/ Christopher Plummer, Michelle Williams].

Also: COCO, CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, JUMANJI: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE, SWINGING SAFARI, THE FLORIDA PROJECT, PADDINGTON 2, DOWNSIZING, STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI, THE SECRET SCRIPTURE, NUT JOB 2: Nutty By Nature.

NEW HOME ENTERTAINMENT RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK: THE SHAPE OF WATER [Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Adventure/Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon].

THE COMMUTER [Action/Thiller/Liam Neeson, Patrick Wilson].

FIFTY SHADES FREED [Drama/Romance/ Dakota John son, Jamie Dornan].

INSIDIOUS: The Last Key [Horror/Mystery/ Thriller].

PHANTOM THREAD [Drama/Romance/ Daniel Day-Lewis, Lesley Manville].

BREATHE [Biography/Drama/Romance/ Claire Foy, Andrew Garfield].

THAT'S NOT MY DOG [Comedy/Shane Jacobson].

THE HERO [Romance/Drama/Sam Elliott, Katharine Ross].

DVD AND/OR BLU-RAY NEW & RE-RELEASE CLASSIC MOVIES HIGHLIGHTS: RAISING CAIN [Drama/Thriller/John Lithgow].

DEATH WISH II/DEATH WISH 3 [Action/ Charles Bronson].

DEATH WISH 4: THE CRACKDOWN/DEATH WISH 5: THE FACE OF DEATH. DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID [Crime/Drama/ Jeanne Moreau].

NEW RELEASE TELEVISION, DOCUMENTARY AND MUSIC HIGHLIGHTS: FLIP FLAPPERS: Complete Series.

IMPOSTERS: Season 1.

SAILOR MOON S: Season 3.

SHETLAND: Series 3.

INSPECTOR MONTALBANO: Volume 9.

AND YOU THOUGHT THERE IS NEVER A GIRL ONLINE? - Complete Series.

MR. ROBOR: Season 3.0.

- James Sherlock

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1. Most private (thoughts) 6. Eyeball membrane 11. Pond plants 15. Made anew (2-7) 20. Impact sound 21. Genuine thing, the real ...

22. Hawaiian island 23. Paralysis disease 25. Woman's betrothed 26. ... & dime 27. Nodules 29. Artlessness 32. Easiest choice, ... option 34. Chess castle 36. Sparkled 39. From Emerald Isle 41. Call in on 43. Male duck 46. Provide (food) (3,2) 48. Dinners or lunches 49. Manufactured 51. Concept 52. Endlessly 55. Space flight organisation 56. Bucket 59. Humble (oneself) 61. Set of rules 62. Be introduced to 63. Animal welfare group (1,1,1,1,1) 64. Doctor's ... manner 67. Award ribbon 68. Ghastly 70. Encrusted 71. Black Sea port 72. Not as much 73. Sharpshooter, Annie ...

74. From Lone Star state 75. Line touching curve 77. Onward 78. Putrid 79. Revolve on axis 82. Crudely hearty 86. In flight 87. Acceptable 89. Car distance gauges 92. Immense time spans 94. Sauteed 96. Pollution haze 98. Tailless feline, ... cat 100. Hang unlawfully 101. Female sheep 103. Identify 105. Cathedral, ... Dame 106. ... & twos 108. Yoga master 111. Classic painting, ... Lisa 112. Survives longer than 114. Leaving workforce 116. Chilled 119. Japan & Korea are there 120. Cake level 121. Career sportsperson 123. Model, ... Macpherson 124. Acorn trees 125. Consequently 126. Capacity to remember 127. News 130. Maiden name indicator 131. Sinking in middle 135. Bequeath 138. Cocktail, ... colada 139. Capricorn zodiac symbol 141. Parmesan & basil sauce 144. Chasm 146. Golfing body (1,1,1) 147. Biblical first man 148. Meadow (poetic) 149. Intelligence 150. High spirits 151. Unseen observer, fly on the ...

152. Deep ditch 153. Baby bird shelter 155. The N of NB 157. Peacock's mate 158. Siamese 160. Information services 161. Power pole 162. Intoxicated 163. The M of YMCA (3'1) 165. Poisonous tree-snake 166. Liqueur, ... Maria 167. Uncertainties 168. Smooths 169. Dissolve 171. Steak cut (1-4)

172. Heavy horned animal 175. Jogs 176. Boys 179. X, Y or Z 180. Be defeated 182. Upon 184. Abrupt 185. Destitute 186. In the manner of (1,2) 188. Jazz legend, ... Fitzgerald 189. Rabble 190. Sacred 191. The self 193. Olden days, days of ...

194. Narrow roads 196. Type of lily 197. Defendant's bond money 198. Collier 200. Hawkers 205. Unwell 207. Moneylenders 210. Machinery serviceman 211. Captivated 212. Arabian sultanate 213. ... & papa 214. Vapour 216. Irish sweater style 218. Lots of 219. Imminent 220. Drawing up roughly 224. Comfortable chair 227. Jump 229. Mad Roman emperor 230. Adolescent 231. Honourable 232. Amateur radio enthusiasts 233. Church celebration 235. Fume-filled 237. Stagger 239. Actress, ... Russo 241. South American dance 244. Different 246. Embroils 249. Former Soviet region (1,1,1,1) 252. Complained 254. Gloss 256. Beatle, John ...

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107. Fool 109. Fish lungs 110. ... spumante 111. Timbuktu is there 113. Deceive (lover)(3-4) 115. Competitor 117. Ding ... dell 118. Remove peel from 121. Fine 122. Pizza herb 127. Taut 128. River-mouth triangle 129. Parent's mother 132. Embassy bosses 133. Absurd 134. Desexes 135. Fleeting 136. Spotted dog 137. Closets 138. Long thin cigar 140. Mushroom relative 141. Alias 142. Groups' representatives 143. Tyrant

Down 145. Squander, ... away 151. FA Cup stadium 154. Wooden beams 156. Eye-watering vegetable 159. Fuss, ... & cry 164. Bushranger, ... Kelly 169. Complete task (3,2) 170. Architect, Frank ... Wright 173. Turning up (skirt) 174. Incapacitates (racehorse) 177. Positive electrode 178. Casseroles 181. Male rowers 183. Scottish emblem 187. Retriever dogs 192. French policemen 195. Atone for 199. Infuriate 201. TV award 202. Actress, ... Redgrave 203. Frighten 204. Ski-track 206. Singer, ... Abdul 207. Russian mountains 208. Sloped walkway 209. RisquĂŠ 213. Numerous 215. Pink-eyed rabbits 217. Loch ... Monster 221. Chops down 222. Bury 223. Biting fly 224. Authentic 225. Pursue 226. Pakistan's ... Khan 228. Legal trade bans 234. Compliance 236. Most avid 238. Conger 240. Convent sister 242. Diminishing 243. Early foetuses 245. Disillusions (4,4) 247. Uranus & Pluto's neighbour 248. Paris boulevard, Champs ...

250. Students 251. Wild ponies 253. Sunset 255. Utilised 257. Oil cartel 258. Moon about 261. Kremlin country 262. Responsible 265. Rounded stone 266. Drift (into coma) 268. Corrosive fluids 269. The D of AD 275. Take part in ballot 276. Frolic 278. Boosts morale 280. Ringing (of bell) 282. Famous English college 283. 21st birthday symbols 285. Cosmonaut, ... Gagarin 287. Summer shoe 289. Lucky amulets 290. Covered shopway 291. Mental pictures 292. Looked intently 293. Delight 296. Pig's grunts 297. Reimburse 299. Record's secondary track (1-4) 302. Introduce gradually, ... in 304. Abundant 305. Indistinct 306. Skin eruption 307. Hindu garment 308. London's ... Park 310. Polishes 312. Repeat 313. Soft knocks

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Deck-Doc

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For many years Deck-Doc has been supplying retailers throughout Australia with their premium range of timber and decking oils.

For the past three years, Deck-Doc has been predominantly selling their products online to service the whole of Australia as well as international customers.

Deck-Doc was recently chosen over other companies to supply their oils to an international company and is in the process of sealing an agency agreement for exclusive distribution and selling rights in Sri Lanka and the Maldives.

Deck-Doc timber oil is environmentally friendly and the business has been manufacturing unique, lanolin-based timber oil in Geelong for 15 years.

The formula was developed by Robert Hylands to preserve the natural oils and tannins in the timber.

The timbers oils and tannins determine the colour of the timber.

If the tannins dry out, the timber will lose its own natural colour.

The formula is made up of many different plant oils, waxes and lanolin and designed to stay soft and pliable when absorbed into the surface layers of the timber, therefore will not solidify and form a hard membrane of the surface.

It will move with the timber during all weather conditions preventing water absorption and drying out of the tannins.

Mr Hylands first developed the timber oil when he noticed there was nothing on the market that preserved the timber and protected the timber’s natural colour.

Before his time at Deck-Doc, he gained experience when he owned a factory making hand carved, handpainted wooden decoy ducks for duck hunters.

The timber used for the ducks had to maintain its natural colour and stay on the water without absorbing moisture.

After extensive research, he found lanolin (wool grease) gave excellent water repellency as well as UV protection.

Mr Hylands developed lanolin-based timber protection oil and found the water-repellent protection and preservative way far superior and says lanolin is “Nature’s natural UV protection”.

Lanolin comes from the wool of sheep and is extracted from the fleece.

It is a substance that waterproofs, insulates, and protects sheep from the cold, wind, rain and harmful CV sun rays.

Deck-Doc uses the best merino wool to extract lanolin.

Throughout history ancient mariners such as the Vikings used lanolin to protect, waterproof and preserve the wooden boards on their ships.

Many of the ships were away from their home bases for many years and their ships were subjected to wild storms at sea.

They survived thanks to the protection of Lanolin.

Deck-Doc invites all to visit their showroom in Moolap for free advice in a number of important issues concerning timber care.

There is a large selection of timber types that have been exposed to severe weather conditions, enabling people to understand the importance of choosing a suitable timber type. for the right application.

Also know what happens to the different types of decking stains and coatings, how they weather, and the maintenance required.

The friendly staff have useful hints for anyone preparing to build a new deck.

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