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■ Theatre Works and OpticNerve present Polygraph from July 17-29 at Theatre Works, Acland St, St Kilda.

Written by Robert Lepage and Marie Brassard, Polygraph is directed by Tanya Gerstle.

Following the brutal murder of a young woman, the story tells of police suspicion resting on one of her close friends: Francois, a student of political science.

Six years later, during the making of a film about the incident, Francois meets Lucie, an actress, and David, a criminologist in charge of polygraph examinations.

Together, they uncover a series of unanswered questions with dire implications for everyone involved.

The cast features Grant Cartwright, Lachlan Woods and Emily Thomas.

Director Tanya Gerstle’s impressive contribution to the theatrical performing arts sector started with a childhood interest in drama, dancing and singing and taking classes, but she says things were different then.

“In those days only the school play was available, you couldn’t study it as a high school subject.” She would later study Theatre and Film Studies at university.

Tanya says she learned how to be an actor “by doing it, watching and observing”.

After working professionally full-time as an actor for about seven years during the 1980s, she sought teachings in Amsterdam and London and focused on making and directing original work.

“I had always wanted to direct, but I knew it was necessary for me to immerse myself in the craft of acting to understand how to work with actors.”

● Director Tanya Gerstle.

Sleeping Beauty

Tanya has a Masters Degree in Dramatic Art – Direction (by Research) which she says gave a structure within which she could document the practical research she had been doing as a professional artist since 1989.

“It afforded me the opportunity to articulate and communicate, in a formalized way, the ideas and concept I had already been practising for many years.”

Students have benefited from Tanya’s teachings in England, France and America as well as in Melbourne.

Since 1999 in the Theatre School VCA, at the University of Melbourne, Tanya has held various senior roles as Lecturer, received an award for ‘Teaching Excellence,’ and is currently a Senior Fellow at Melbourne University.

In 2008, Tanya formed her own performance company, OpticNerve, which uses the staging approach using Pulse.

“Pulse originated as a technique for actors to create ensemble performance improvisation, where every moment of the improvisation is aesthetically and formalistically resonant,” says Tanya.

Tanya was particularly attracted to her latest play, Polygraph, because a major symbol is the Berlin Wall and its collapse.

“We have entered a period of social and political upheaval where leaders of powerful countries are suggesting that walls again be erected to corral people and to inhibit freedom of movement, so it felt timely to work on a play that shows the psycho-physical damage that past walls have inflicted,” says Tanya.

“The objectification of the female form in filmic art practice and police manipulation victimizing potentially innocent people are also explored in the narrative.”

When asked about advice for young aspiring performers, Tanya suggests “Just keep pursuing what you love - in terms of the aesthetic and content that resonates with you.

“If you intend to undertake workshops and training, do the research and actively search for the teachers you need.

“Be an apprentice as well as engaging with a group of people who are wanting to explore similar performance ideas.

“If you want to pursue this field you must have a hunger for and a devotion to the art form; it is more of a calling than a vocation.

“It is a hard road but what it guarantees is intrinsic satisfaction and the development of personal resilience, if you are prepared to commit to its capricious demands.”

Performance Season: July 17 – 29 Times: Wed – Sat at 7.30pm, Sun at 5.00pm, Sat July 21 and 28 at 2pm Previews: July 17 and 18; Opening Night July 19 Venue: Theatre Works, 14 Acland St, St Kilda.

Tickets: $45/$37/$33 Bookings: www.theatreworks.org.au 9534 3388 - Cheryl Threadgold

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Charges laid

■ Major Collision Investigation Unit detectives have charged a woman following the death of a cyclist at Mandurang near Bendigo. The 20-year-old Kangaroo Flat woman has been charged with dangerous driving causing death, careless driving and using a hand held mobile phone while driving. She has been bailed to appear at Bendigo Magistrates' Court on August 22.

PA test in CBD

■ A test of the Melbourne CBD public address system, which would be one option available to Victoria Police to alert the community in the event of a major incident such as terrorism, was scheduled to be held yesterday (Tues.).

NAIDOC Week

■ This week is NAIDOC Week, held nationally every July.

Originally standing for ‘National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee’, the NAIDOC acronym has now shifted to become the name of the week itself, symbolising a week of ‘National Aborigines and Islanders Day of Celebration’, repoirts the Gippsland Times newspaper.

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Mike McColl Jones ● Embla Bishop (Sleeping Beauty) and Daniel Milne (Prince Valient) in Sleeping Beauty: A Knight Avenger’s Tale ■ Introduced by director Bonnie Lythgoe, changes including a kilt and revealed an unopening night at the Comedy Theatre was expected history with Carabosse. pure panto pleasure.

Prince Valient was played by Daniel Milne The meaning of magic - when the wishes whose willowy elegance was a perfect match behind faces of expectation are realised on for the Beauty. Kev Orkian’s portrayal of the stage.

Beauty’s friend Silly Billy stole the show with Bonnie Lythgoe Productions’ Sleeping his impeccable comedic timing and hi jinx.

Beauty fulfilled every child’s entertainment The show employed every musical theatre dream and enchanted the entire audience. trick known, a myriad of modern songs, a Rhonda Burchmore, as the wicked Fairy Chinese whisper tongue twister to die laughGodmother Carrabosse, not only placed a 100- ing for, the most hilarious rendition of theTwelve year spell on Sleeping Beauty, played by Days of . . . you’ll ever see, topical humour Embla Bishop, but bewitched us with her tow- and, of course, pantomime boos, cheers and ering presence, song and moments of trapeze audience participation. Excellent costuming, suspension over the audience. sets, lighting and sound combined to create Melissa Thautz, playing the ‘Good Fairy’, this mystical show. counters the evil Carabosse while Katrina Good old-fashioned entertainment and fun.

Retallick played a lovable Nanny Tickle. A lesson in how to captivate us all for 2½Frazer Hines’ (Doctor Who fame), role as hours without one screen in sight.

King Louis entitles him several costume - Review by Sherryn Danaher

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■ Playwright Allee Richard’s Survival is her second play inspired by the frustration of trying to maintain relationships with mentally unwell people.

Having experienced living with mentally unwell people and understanding that such an illness is different to a bad mood she has often thought “Can’t you just cheer up?”

With only a setting of a hospital bed on a bare stage, daughter Nadia played by Tatiana Kotsimbos is laying prone and motionless in the bed recovering from a suicide attempt.

Her hospitalisation has brought two ex-lovers together for the first time in 10 years Allison and Heidi (names of actors roles played not listed in programme which consisted of 80 per cent bios and acknowledgements) are in the same room together both wanting in their own way to help their daughter while reflecting on the good and bad times of the past.

However we do find that both Allison and Heidi have their own demons and this becomes part of the interplay between them, endeavouring to understand why their daughter Nadia is where she is and that she may not live.

We experience personal references to people with clinical depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorder and all manner of mental illness even though the diagnosis of such illnesses can be controversial and difficult to determine.

The theme of making awareness in the community and removing the stigma of those suffering from mental illness was apparent in the dialogue betweenAllison and Heidi.

Nadia’s off and on boyfriend Scott played by John Marc Desengano arrives at the hospital and is wanting to lay the blame for Nadia’s situation on Allison while Heidi wants to blame Scott.

At times the script moved from Nadia’s plight to unrelated issues involving the use of iPhones and social media.

Some low volume dialogue was lost to an intent audience while the ending saw a reconciliation between the ex-lovers and a rising of Nadia from her sleep – was she alive or was she dead?

There were a few loose ends that need tightening.

- Review by Graeme McCoubrie

Good Manners Gone Bad

■ James McLean presents his third solo show Good Manners Gone Bad from July 16-21 at The Butterfly Club.

What happens when ‘nice manners’ goes head to head with a gangster? A one-man theatre company, James fuses theatre, comedy and cabaret, to tell the story of Peter Hart, a man too polite for his own good.

Good Manners Gone Bad is a fresh comedy/ cabaret about the darker side of always being polite and well-mannered.

James has enjoyed successful seasons with previous shows at Adelaide Fringe, Melbourne Fringe and Perth FringeWorld.

James’s unique style of story-telling is described as ‘quirky’, and a clean (no F-words) brand of humour, as he switches between different characters.

Songs from the Ratpack era are included in this show, which James describes as bringing ‘a smile to your dial and a good workout to your belly’.

Performance Season: July 16 – 21 (not July 17) at 7pm Venue: The Butterfly Club, 5 Carson Place, Melbourne Bookings: thebutterflyclub.com - Cheryl Threadgold

Puffs extended

■ Puffs or: Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic & Magic has just announced another extension to its season at the Alex Theatre, St Kilda.

It will now play an additional three weeks through Sunday, July 29.

Audience response has continued to grow since the show received a set of rave reviews after opening on May 31, and tickets for the extended season are on sale now via Ticketek.

Puffs recently broke two box office records.

Melbourne Arts It now holds the title of the longest running production in the history of the Alex Theatre St Kilda and is also the highest grossing show for the venue.

For seven years a certain boy wizard went to a certain Wizard School and conquered evil.

This, however, is not his story. This is the story of The Puffs ... who just happened to be there too. A tale for anyone who has never been destined to save the world.

Puffs is a wizard inspired comedy play which gives you a new look at a familiar adventure from the perspective of three new heroes just trying to make it through magic school.

The Puffs cast features Keith Brockett, Zenya Carmellotti, Olivia Charalambous, Daniel Cosgrove, Ryan Hawke, Gareth Isaac, Lauren McKenna, Eva Seymour, David Todman, Annabelle Tudor, Tammy Weller, Matthew Whitty and Rob Mills.

Puffs is written by Matt Cox and directed by Kristin McCarthy Parker. It features set, costume, and prop design by Madeleine Bundy, original lighting design by Herrick Goldman, sound design by Matt Cox and original music

by Brian Hoes.

Puffs is produced by TEG Live in association with Tilted Windmills Theatricals, John Arthur Pinckard and Until July David Carpenter.

Performance Schedule: Until July 29, Tuesday to Saturday at 7:30pm and Sunday at 5:30pm. Family friendly matinee: Sat 2:00pm and Sun 1:00pm Location: Alex Theatre, 135 Fitzroy Street, St Kilda Website: puffstheplay.com Ticket Info and bookings: ticketek.com.au Ticket Prices: from $49.90.

- Cheryl Threadgold

Morning Melodies

■ If Bernadette Robinson needed an alias it would fitting to name her Miss Versatility. In Morning Melodies at Hamer Hall she glided through song and persona of many popular divas of the 20th century performing their hits accompanied by Paul Noonan (piano, alternating bass and backing vocals) and Mark Jones (piano and backing vocals).

Her repertoire included Edith Piaf, Billie Holiday, Patsy Cline, Maria Callas and Shirley Bassey. Bernadette courageously tackles this vast vocal range and she ably managed most voices.

Bernadette delivered this performance with humour and just the right amount of anecdote without dwelling on the tragic, often told, life stories of stars such as Garland and Holiday.

Her skilful acting supported an array of imagined renditions of several stars portraying Eliza Doolittle’s I Could Have Danced All Night as well as a comical, priggish depiction of Julie Andrews skirting around her yearning more ‘spice’ in her life.

She related her own tale of her first live performance of the song in front of Audrey Hepburn, acclaimed for playing Eliza in the film version of My Fair Lady.

We were given only one chance to hear Bernadette’s own voice when she sang a song she had written when a student at VCA under the tutelage of Dame Joan Hammond.

She wrote it in a quest to discover her voice after having spent her formative years emulating other great singers.

We can only hope she can use her immense abilities to develop her personal song-writing and singing style further.

Each month Morning Melodies stages different performers. The shows are on Mondays and are one hour in length. Each ticket includes a complimentary cuppa and biscuit after the show.

- Review by Sherryn Danaher

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Melbourne Arts National Gallery Cartier the Exhibition until July 22.

This is a breathtaking display of dome of the world's most exquisite jewels featuring loans from royal families. Celebrities and the astonishing Cartier collection. See over 300 spectacular items up close.

The National Picture: The Art of Tasmania's Black War until July 29.

Focusing on colonial representations of Tasmanian Aboriginal people, this exhibition sheds new light on several un-examined figures in this difficult and tragic narrative: colonial artist Benjamin Duterrau, the controversial 'Conciliator', George Augustus Robinson and the Tasmanian aboriginal people upon whose land the British had settles. 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 Dieman's Land in 1828, the beginnings of Robinson's ill-fated 'Friendly Mission' and Duterrau's death in 1851.

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

CONTEMPORARYART Balnaves Contemporary Intervention Series: Open now. Embrace the unexpected as exciting contemporary art disrupts and transforms spaces throughout the NGA. In partnership with the Balnaves Foundation, Sarah Contos, Jess Johnson and Simon Ward present daring. large-scale experiences that re-imagine the concept of an art gallery.

Balnaves Contemporary Intervention: Sarah Contos Until September 24.

Sarah Contos transforms the NGA foyer into a cinematic universe in which film references are pulled apart and reinterpreted using a wild array of materials and mediums. Contos suggests her installation 'has an 1930s nostalgic flavour and a 1920s fervour. The vibe is an overfilled raspberry coke slushy… a pillow fight in heels…an exquisite corpse'.

Balnaves Contemporary Intervention: Jess Johnson & Simon Ward until August 26.

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 re-imagine 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 National Gallery of Australia Parkes Place, Parkes.ACT - Peter Kemp

Andrew O’Keefe

■ Andrew O’Keefe Shouts Johnny O’Keefe will be presented at The Palms At Crown on Friday-Saturday, October 19-20.

Johnny’s real-life nephew intertwines his own experiences with legendary stories of The Wild One, through JOK's 25- year career.

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● Ash Flanders in Blackie Blackie Brown. Photo: Phoebe Powell ■ In an electrifying fusion of technology, the- where this debate is concerned. But it is the exatre, performance, anime cartoon and cliché, pression associated with cartoons that allows old Blackie Blackie Brown challenges our outlook tropes of appropriateness to be tossed aside and for extremes to be explored so the extent of the on all things indigenous.

The premise of Nakkiah Lui’s play is the injustice can be appreciated and for a rational discovery of a skull at an archaeological dig turn- path forward to be identified.

Discussion needs to be continually renewed ing Jaqueline Black (Dalara Williams), an aboriginal woman, into a vengeful superhero ex- in mediums that resonate with all generations.

The one drawback on the opening night was acting a price for all the wrongs of European settlement by dispatching the generational off- a technical glitch which brought the show to a halt. This is the danger of working with technolspring of those who killed her ancestors.

Ash Flanders, the only other actor in the ogy.

The scope of the technology also means I show, plays a multitude of roles – evil scientist, haven’t sufficient words to include the names of developer, corrupt policeman and lackey.

The supporting cast is the technology; musi- all the artists, animators and technicians which cal sound track, graphics, animation and voice made this show possible.

Malthouse Theatre. Until July 29 at 8pm overs.

- Review by David McLean This comic book approach affords the actors scope to indulge in what is the joyous play acting associated with childhood innocence.

The exaggerated form of the cartoon also allows issues to be exploded and extremes to be explored.

Political correctness is overturned as this is not a play about reconciliation but revenge.

Curiously, the countervailing message of understanding and awareness is also delivered.

The comic book hype allows the audience to question what is just. It makes the core story of an ancestral massacre more deeply felt. It highlights the need for the truth to be told as a means of sharing the past and shaping the future.

The range of issues involved is immense; corruption, injustice, bigotry, political correctness.

All these are part of contemporary discourse ■ Darebin Arts present Mish Grigor (pic-

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with Matt Bissett-Johnson

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The Talk

tured) in The Talk , from July 4 – 14 at the Northcote town Hall.

Written and performed by Mish Grigor, her show is about what happens when you interview your family about their sex lives.

It’s about family and about sex. It is promoted as ‘awkward’ and ‘hilarious’.

The taboos of sex, relationships and family dynamics are laid bare. The show is said to be explicit and unapologetic, yet also tender and personal in its investigation into uncharted territory.

Based on real conversations with Grigor’s own family, The Talk is an awkwardly intimate and hilarious conversation with the artist about sex, sexuality and love. The duration is 70 minutes.

Dates: Until July 11 Location: Studio 1, Northcote town Hall Bookings: http://www.darebinarts. com.au/whats-on/the-talk-by-mish-grigor

What’s On Contest

■ Darebin Arts speakeasy presents Contest from July 26 – August 4 at the Northcote Town Hall Arts Centre, Main Hall.

Written by award winning playwright Emilie Collyer, Contest is set around Australia’s iconic female sport, netball.

Directed by Prue Clark with movement direction by Nat Cursio and Alice Dixon, Contest is described by Collyer as a ‘netball dreamscape … a sweaty play about the petty and the profound, the mundane and the mythic.’

Drawing on the myth of Cassandra, the play is set at a suburban netball court where a new player has joined the team.

Cass is an outsider with the gift of prophecy that others cannot or will not hear. The other women try to manipulate, coerce and bully her into conforming and still she refuses.

The production begs the question, how might we interact with each other if competition is not part of the game.

Emily Tomlims plays Cassandra . Emily was nominated for a Green Room Award for her performance in Collyer’s 2015 production, Dream Home.

Emily is also the co-founder and Co-Artistic Director of award-winning independent theatre company, Elbow Room.

Her stage credits include Niche, We Get It (Elbow Room/MTC Neon), You and Me and the Space Between (Terapin Puppet Theatre/ Darwin Festival), Cyrano de Bergerac (Sydney Theatre Company) and Edward Gant’s Amazing Feats of Loneliness (Sydney Theatre Company/La Boite).

Emily is joined on stage by Alice Ansara (Sydney Theatre Company, Griffin Theatre Company and Bell Shakespeareand TV credits Bogan Pride and Legally Brown); Green Room Awardrecipient and Helpmann Award nominee Natasha Herbert (STC/MTC’s The Father as well as Away, Anti-Hamlet, National Theatre’sWarhouse, The Misconception of Oedipus) and Sonya Suares, whose credits span Pinter, Puccini, Shakespeare and new Australian work across stage and film.

Rounding out the cast is actor Kate Hood, who is a wheelchair user and has experienced moving from being an able-bodied person to a person with disability, playing a character with a similar trajectory.

Kate’s 20-year career across stage and television has seen her perform in everything from classics to musicals including Prisoner, Gordon Frost Productions of Big River and MTC’S Diving for Pearls.

She became a wheelchair user a decade ago and reinvented herself as a writer, director and theatre maker with disability.

Performance Season: July 26 – August 4 Venue: Northcote Town Hall Arts Centre, Main Hall Times: Wed – Sat 8pm, Sunday 6pm plus Sat matinee 4 August at 2pm (relaxed performance) Auslan interpreted performance 8pm, Thursday, 2 August Tickets: Full $33, Conc/Student $28, Preview $25 Duration: 75 mins Bookings: http://www.darebinarts.com.au/ whats-on/contest-written-by-emilie-collyer/

The Twoks

■ Melbourne-based violin and drums duo Xani Kolac (electric violin/vocals) and Mark Leahy (drums) will take over the Kew Court House stage on Saturday, August 11 with their unique art-pop sound and energetic performance style.

Burrinja Gallery

■ Women Painting Women is a major exhibition of portraiture oil painting and features recent works by Sally Ryan (NSW) Megan Roodenrys (SA) Dagmar Cyrulla, Vicki Sullivan, Fiona Bilbrough, Raelene Sharp and Heather Ellis (all Vic.) Giving insights into the relationships between the artists and their sitters (among theses Yorta-Yorta soprano Deborah Cheetham, actress Sigrid Thornton, domestic vioplence campaigner Rosie Batty and Labor Senator Penny Wong) the works touch on a variety of contemporary themes while revealing personal stories of reward and loss.

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Stateside with Gavin Wood in West Hollywood

80’s icon arrives in WeHo ■ Hi everyone, from my suite at the Ramada Plaza Hotel and Suites comes this week's news.

Out and About

Brian rocks Route 66

■ It was a lively lunch at Kitchen 24, the restaurant connected to the Ramada Plaza Hotel and Suites, when rocker Brian Mannix came to visit.

Lots of Aussies stay at the Ramada when they are in Los Angeles and Brian Mannix certainly received a warm welcome to the West Hollywood village.

Brian was the lead singer of Uncanny Xmen and now is one of the stars with the Absolute 80's shows all around Australia.

He also was on your television screens with The Apprentice and Dancing with the Stars.

Brian and his wife Sue went on to continue their holiday in Las Vegas and New York.

Beatles USA Update ■ As of 2012, The Beatles had sold more than two billion albums.

■ The total number of Beatles albums sold on iTunes as of that time was 585,000. The total amount of their iTunes singles wAs 2.8 million.

■ John Lennon started a band in 1957 called the Quarry Men and later asked Paul McCartney to join. Paul brought in George Harrison, and later Ringo Starr would replace Peter Best as drummer. The band changed its name a few times, which included the names Johnny and the Moondogs, The Rainbows, and British Everly Brothers.

■ The Beatles have spent a record 1278 weeks on the Billboard chart.

■ The Beatles have spent 175 weeks at number one on the chart.

■ The Beatles album with the longest consecutive time spent at number one is their debut album Please Please Me at 30 weeks.

■ The band went through several name changes. No one is quite sure where the name ‘Beatles’ originated, though the most likely story is that John Lennon liked the name The Crickets after Buddy Holly's band. Early band member Stuart Sutcliff suggested ‘Beetles’, and they were for some time known as The Silver Beetles or, occasionally, Long John and the Silver Beatles before becoming the Beatles. The Beetles were also a rival gang in Marlon Brando's movie The Wild One, which may have also been an influence. John Lennon is usually credited with changing the spelling to ‘Beatles’ to reflect Beat music and the Beat generation.

■ The Beatles are the only band to twice knock itself off the top of the chart.

■ The Beatles are the only band in history to have a "double whammy" when they knocked the Rolling Stones off the top spot in both the singles and album charts on July 23, 1964.

■ The Beatles' first-ever album to debut at number one was Help!

166 minutes watching TV

● Pictured at Kitchen 24 is the Managing Director of the Ramada Plaza Hotel and Suites, Alan Johnson, with Brian Mannix.

■ Americans spent an average of 16.8 minutes a day (or 0.28 of an hour) reading on their own volition for purposes other than work or school last year, according to survey data released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

That is the least amount of time Americans have dedicated to reading since the BLS began tracking the question in 2003.

That year Americans spent an average of 21.6 minutes a day reading.

At the same time, according to the survey, Americans spent an average of 166.2 minutes (or 2.77 hours) per day watching TV in 2017.

The 166.2 minutes on average per day that Americans spent watching television in 2017 was almost 10 times as much as the 16.8 minutes they spent on average reading.

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

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Robin remembered ■ A Hollywood premiere of new HBO doc "Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind" was a bittersweet reunion for the late comic's friends at LA's famed TCL Chinese Theatre. Venerable stand-ups Billy Crystal and David Steinberg hosted the event, where guests included Rosanna Arquette, Bonnie Hunt, Kevin Nealon, Brad Garrett, Eddie Griffin, Bob Saget, Ray Romano, Pauly Shore, George Schlatter and Paula Poundstone. A guest ● Margot Riobbie told us that, at a Hollywood Roosevelt reception after, "Robin's ■ Happy Birthday to Margot Robbie, our highly successful Ausfavorite desserts were served Key lime pie and chocolate macatralian actress and film producer. In 2017, Time magazine named roons. Tables were adorned with mini toy soldiers, a Robin favorher as one of the 100 most influential people in the world and ite."

Forbes featured her in their 30 Under 30 list.

Born and raised on a farm in Dalby, Queensland, Robbie studied drama at Somerset College.

Robbie launched a production company named Lucky Chap ■ If you are considering a move to Los Angeles or just coming Entertainment in 2014. over for a holiday then I have got a special deal for you.

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● Andy Dick ■ Andy Dick, the troubled comedian who has gone to rehab more than 20 times in his struggle with drugs and alcohol, is facing charges after allegedly groping a stranger on the streets of Los Angeles.

The reported arrest is the latest in a long line of alarming and sexualised incidents for Dick, who forged a reputation as a controversial and outrageous performer, but has struggled to maintain his career following frequent and unpredictable outbursts, which date back as far as 2007, when he was dragged by his feet off the Jimmy Kimmel Live! Show for repeatedly touching Ivanka Trump and trying to kiss her.

Harvey Weinstein was hit with additional sex crime charges tied to a new, third accuser that could send him to prison for life. Manhattan District Attorney CY Vance Jr. got new indictments against the pervy producer for two counts of predatory sexual assault and one count of criminal sexual act in the first degree for a forcible sexual act against the unnamed woman in 2006. She testified before a grand jury last week.

Gavin’s Star Watch ■ As temperatures soared in New York, Lady Gaga cooled off with some ice cream. The star and her talent agent boyfriend, Christian Carino, were spotted grabbing cones at Ben & Jerry's in Montauk.

■ Veteran Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Dr. Jon Perlman wsas spotted having dinner last night at Peddler's Folk in Calabasas.

■ Keith Urban was at the Hôtel Americano in NYC. ■ Molly Ringwald took her kids to see Martha Plimpton's concert of Aimee Mann songs in the Spiegeltent at Bard College, where Plimpton dedicated each song to a US president to kick off Justin Vivian Bond's Summer Scape series.

■ The comedy and magic team of Penn and Teller announced this week that they are postponing performances until Aug.18 so that Teller (the short, silent one) can undergo back surgery. The duo had already scheduled a hiatus to take care of Teller's problem, but abruptly called off a show scheduled for Friday night because Teller was in too much pain following a Wednesday performance. Teller's back trouble represents "the lingering result of hanging from straitjackets and climbing in and out of boxes for more than 40 years."

He'll a successful surgery and is looking forward to continuing his act with Pen.

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Victorian History

Centenary of Flowerdale Hotel rebuilding ■ The centenary of the rebuilding of the current Flowerdale Hotel is fast approaching.

According to district historian Alan Thorley, the orginial ‘Glenfern Hotel’ was built on land owned by the Doherty family in Flowerdale in the late 1880s.

“Charles and Frances ‘Fanny’ Louise held the licence from 1895 until Monday, May 9, 1910, when it was transferred to George and Susan Matchett.”

George was brother of David Matchett who owned the similarly named Glenburn Hotel.

“It was a rocky start for Susan as she was in the Yea Court in November 1910, charged for having her bar door unlocked. She was fined £5.

“The hotel was totally destroyed by fire in Monday, July 26, 1915, and all that remained were the chimneys.

“The hotel at that time consisted of 19 rooms but luckily was insured and re-building commenced in September 1915 and the licence was still held by Susan Matchett until 1918 when she and George separated.”

In the 1911 Census, Flowerdale’s population was shown as 104. In 1933, it had dropped to 99. By 1961, it was 133.

The ‘Flowerdale and environs’ population in the 2011 Census was shown as 429.

It has been difficult to establish a firm date when the Glenfern Hotel started operations.

On October 8, 1891, the Yea newspaper published a letter from “G. Doherty, Glenfern Hotel, Flowerdale” to the Yea Shire Council “calling attention to the danger ous and impassable state of th e road leading to Whittlesea-road to the ford on the King Parrot Creek, near the Glenfern Hotel .

“A couple of stone crossings would make the road good. There were also a few dangerous holes on the Whittlesea-road, which a few loads of gravel would make passable. Engineer to attend to at once,” said the 1891 newspaper story.

The Glenfern Hotel became a central part of the local community’s sports effort. A cricket team named Glenfern was organised for many years.

The original cricket ground is just north of the hotel.

A Flowerdale Sports notice from 1906, at right, features many familiar district family names.

● This photo of the Glenfern Hotel, Flowerdale, was originally captioned “about to liberate trout on King Parrot Creek”.

Fined £5 for open bar door ■ “At the local Police Court on Mon day, before Mr Knight, P.M. ... Senior Constable Seddon charged Susan Matchett, licencee of the Glenfern Hotel, Flowerdale, with having her bar door unlocked on Sunday 13th inst, reported The Yea Chronicle on November 24, 1910.

“Inspector Simcox conducted the prosecution, and the defendant, who pleaded guilty to the charge, was represented by counsel.

“Senior Constable Seddon said that at 4.15 p.m. on the 13th inst, he visited the hotel.

“The bar door was unlocked and the husband was talking in the bar with two men.

“The latter stated that they had come to hotel to get change.

“There was no sign of Sunday trading.

“Defendant was fined £5.

“Charles and Henry Doherty were then charged with being illegally on the licensed premises of Susan Matchett on Sunday, November 13.

“Both the accused were found guilty, and a fine of 5s each was imposed.”

● An ad for the ‘Glenfern Hotel’ in a local travel brochure

● A clipping from The Yea Chronicle, Nov. 24, 1910

● A photo of the Flowerdale Hotel in a 1948 guide published by the Victorian Railways

● A notice for the Flowerdale Sports Day. Easter 1906.

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Local History ● From previous page The 1906 committee included Mr C. Doherty, President; Mr S. Moore, Vice-President; Mr F. Doherty, starter; Messrs. W.J. Capewell and H. Grass, handicappers; Messrs. G. Evans and J.W. Doherty, judges.

Judges for the horse events that year were R. Hatty and E. Brady.

Committee members in 1906 were Messrs. D. Hatty, S. Moore, R. Doherty, R. Bracken, A. Callander, J.J. Evans, W. Moore, W. Woods, T. Toll, J. Payne, I. Alvin, J. Roycroft and W. Cleeland.

Football, cricket and community committee meetings all met at the Glenfern Hotel to plan their events.

The opening of the Flowerdale Hall took placein early 1913.

News of the disastrous fire was printed in the Broadford Courier on August 6, 1915: “The Glenfern Hotel at Flowerdale, occupied by Mr G, Matchett, was totally destroyed by fire last

Broke hand in accident outside pub

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■ “Mr Don, the manager of the local creamery, was last week also the victim of an accident,” reported the Broadford Courier on February 10, 1893.

“It appears that during the heavy storm which blew on Thursday evening the sign-board of the Glenfern Hotel came to grief and was placed against the wall of the building.

“In the evening, Mr Don had occasion to go out side and in the dark fell over the board, breaking a bone in his hand,” The Courier reported.

Origins go back to Dec. 1884 ■ Richard Peterson was granted a licence for new premises at Flowerdale, 17 miles from Yea, on the Whittlesea road, reported the Alexandra Standard on December 19, 1884.

The application was opposed by a selector John Doherty, on the ground that the applicant was convicted for sly grog selling. “ The bench overruled the objection as Doherty was not in a position to prove such conviction, he only acted on hearsay," the paper said.

The Licensing Court also granted a grocer’s licence in the same December 1884 session to Mr E.S. Purcell who was taking over the large premises in High St, Yea, known as the Albion Hotel.

Flowerdale Hall opened in 1913 ● Report of the Glenfern Hotel fire in The Argus ● A report on the transfer of the ‘Glenfern Hotel’ licence transfer to Elizabeth Moore, as published on September 9, 1915, after the fire.

● In the week prior to the fire on July 26, 1915, the Glenfern Hotel advertised a Clearing Sale to be held at the hotel on August 3, 1915.

week. The fire originated in the parlor where some clothes were drying before a fire, and by the time that it was discovered the fire had good hold of the building,” said The Courier.

“With the exception ofa piano, some wire stretchers, and a few other articles, the whole of the contents were burnt, Mr Matchett is a heavy loser through the fire, as he also lost money to the value of about £7 also the contents and effects of the receiving post offioe.

“The building was the property of Mrs Doherty, senr, and was insured.”

The Yea Chronicle reported that amongst the effects remaining were a washstand, two cases of whiskey, a barrel of beer. Four £1 sovereigns and some silver was burnt.

The fire was first observed by a girl whilst she was walking a passage. Mr Matchett was repairing a fence at some distance from the hotel when the fire started.

After Elizabeth Moore’s proprietorship, the licence was held by identities including the Collins family.

An April 1940 press notice John Collins, on behalf of himself and William Collins, gave notice of a transfer of the licence to Airlie Rose Collins.

■ In 2016 the Flowerdale Hotel is conducted by popular publican Stebe Phelan, who has been in the business since the 1990s.

He has endured a number of setbacks including the disastrous 2009 Black Saturday fires.

■ “The new Public Hall and Library at Flowerdale was officially opened on Friday night last, the occasion being celebrated by a grand ball which was a pronounced success,” reported The Yea Chronicle on Wednesday, January 29, 1913.

“The ball, which is situated on the main Whittlesea road (close to the Glenfern Hotel) is strongly built, well ventilated, and measures 25 x 40.

“The stage is perhaps, a trifle large, and the space occupied by it could be used to better advantage in the auditorium.

“The site on which the hall stands was generously don ated by Mrs Doherty. The building was erected at a cost of £120 (a Government grant of £33 being received towards the cost).

“Portion of this grant will be used in the purchase of books for the Library. The residents have responded liberally to the appeal for financial assistance, and only £50 now remains to be paid off.

“The hall was erected by Mr Hiscock, who received much assistance from the people of the district. The building will be a boon to the people of Flowerdale, and they are justly proud of it.

“The opening festivity was largely attended, - visitors being present from Spring Valley, Kinglake West, Kilmore and Yea. The interior of the building was lavishly decorated, this work being undertaken by Mr Moore and ladies.

“The floor was an ideal one for dancing, and although the large crowd made it rather uncomfortable for dancing, every one took their little bumps in good part, and entered into the joy of the evening with zest.

“Mr Bates. jun, officiated as master of ceremonies, and in this capacity he proved himself a past master. Drury's Band from Kilmore provided the music.

“The comestables for the supper were provided by the ladies and were dainty and galore. After justice had been done to the good things, Mr George Matchett after thanking the public for their hearty support, "introduced" Cr Carver.

“That gentleman, with his usual modesty, claimed no honor, and gave all the credit of having such a fine hall to the 'fellow committeemen who, he stated had ' worked so hard and achieved so great a success.

“The building would fill a long felt want in the district, and it would now be possible to hold public and social meetings without trespassing on the privacy of anyone.

“He advised the young people to form themselves into a Club or Society and work to gether until:the whole of the debt was paid off.

“He specially mentioned what had been done for the Homewood Hall.

He also suggested the advisability of forming a Debating Society where the young men might learn to become public speakers. It gave him much pleasure in declaring the hall open “Mr O.C Hillear congratulated the commiteee on the splendid gathering and the public.on their fine hall and also gave some sound advice as to the working of the hall committee'. The speaker also made special reference.to the excellence of the loor which was prepared by Mr Bates “Mr Scott of Kinglake also spoke and said that as secretary of the Kinglake Hall he was in a position to speak of.halls and their management. with. some authority. Their hall (Kinglake) he saidwas never in debt aid.they had received £150 from. the Government at. various times, “He concluded by advising the committee to keep worrying the Government until, the hall was free from debt “The dance was kept up until the "wee small hours’. The piano was

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■ Abbott and Costello were one of the great American comedy teams in radio, film and television.

During the 1940s they were amongst the most popular and highest paid Hollywood film stars.

During the 1940s and 1950s almost every child in Australia saw them at the Saturday afternoon pictures and laughed at their comedy routines.

Louis Francis Cristillo was born in Paterson, New Jersey, in 1906.

Bud Abbott was born in 1895 in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Bud came from a show business family, his parents worked for the Barnum and Bailey Circus.

The pair first teamed together in 1937 at a burlesque theatre on Broadway.

Abbott was the perfect straight man and Costello was a clever comic. They performed their famous sketch Who's on First on radio in The Kate Smith Hour in 1938.

I remember interviewing the famous singer Alan Jones (Donkey Serenade) many years ago and Alan told me that Abbott and Costello virtually stole a film from him.

The comedy pair were signed to make their film debut with a cameo appearance in One Night in the Tropics but the director loved their work and kept asking them to film more sketches - by the time the film was released Abbott and Costello were the stars and Alan's role had been heavily reduced.

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Their next film Buck Privates, for Universal Studios in 1941, was a huge blockbuster at the box office.

The Andrews Sisters’ hit song The Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B was included in the film and Abbott and Costello became international stars.

Their 36 films over the next 20 years included: In The Navy, Hold That Ghost, Naughty Nineties, Rio Rita, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein and Jack and the Beanstalk.

They were both family men but Lou was grief stricken when his young son died in a swimming pool accident in 1942.

During 1952 they filmed a successful televi-

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sion series. Lee Gordon brought Abbott and Costello to Australia in 1955 for a national tour but it was a disaster.

Bob Horsfall recalled being summoned to the Palais Theatre in St Kilda (they were there because the West Melbourne Stadium had burnt down) to sing on the Abbott and Costello Show with the Tunetwisters.

When they got there, Bob was told that the show had been cancelled because the ticke sales were appalling.

Abbott and Costello did not see eye to eye on several issues during their partnership and in 1956 they were both almost made bankrupt over unpaid taxes. As their popularity faded they went their separate ways.

In 1959 Lou made his first film without Bud The Thirty Foot Bride of Candy Rock and he also played a dramatic role in the television series Wagon Train.

Lou Costello died of a heart attack later in 1959 whilst performing in Las Vegas and Bud Abbott passed away from prostate cancer in 1974. I really enjoyed Abbott and Costello and I have many of their films on DVD. Kevin Trask Kevin can be heard on 3AW The Time Tunnel - on Remember When Sundays at 9.10pm And on 96.5 FM That's Entertainment - Sundays at 12 Noon

Outsize plane for outsize cargo ■ French aerospace company Airbus SE that makes the world’s largest passenger aircraft – the A380 that’s flown by numerous international airlines to Australia – is building five huge new airfreighters that will move outsize aircraft parts as large as fuselage sections, and entire wings and tails from makers world-wide, to Toulouse in France and Hamburg in Germany, where Airbus has assembly centres that put specific models of its new planes together.

And so big will these monster new Airbus BelugaXL freighters be that they will be able to carry up to fiftythree tons of aircraft parts at a time from supplier plants in several European countries, the UK and even China and the USA, to those assembly centres.

Each of the new Belugas, the first of which will go into service in 2019, will be capable of flying some 30 per cent more cargo than Airbus’s existing airfreighters, and do so in single hops of up to 4000 kilometres.

Named Beluga because of the resemblance of their nose sections to the head of the Arctic’s white Beluga whales, Airbus has had a bit of fun in going even further in giving its new airfreighters painted-on “eyes” and a grinning “mouth,” as it admits the voluminous raw aeroplanes will not be the most beautiful in the sky.

$400,000 wine bottles

■ Three bottles of near-250-year-old wine have sold at auction in France for a whopping 253,000 Euros – or around a touch under A$400,000.

The Vin Jaune wines (the name means “Yellow Wine” because of the colour) were made by Anatoile Vercel in 1774 at his vineyard and winery in the Jura region near France’s border with Switzerland, and have been carefully stored since then in the Vercel family cellar in the little town of Arbois.

They were made from Savagnin grapes that were harvested 244 years ago during the reign of King Louis XVI. One of the bottles fetched E103,700 (A$162,500) at the recent auction in Eastern France, another

OK. With John O’Keefe Shane in pain

■ Shane Jacobson was having a ball in Mexico and unfortunately suffered serious leg injuries including a snappedAchilles heel, blood clots and a lot of pain.

The injury couldn't have come at a worse time as Shane was due to start a trip around Australia promoting his most recent film Brother's Nest .

Flying from state to state was too painful, so being the trouper Shane is, he organised a mobile home to drive him from appointment to appointment.

We're assured his leg is on the mend .

No more dulcet tones

■ After 34 years in business the Radio Training Institute has closed. The Institute was an iconic training ground for aspiring youngsters who often went on to become household names on Australian radio.

Veteran radio man, Gary Mac, once a Good Guy on 3AK, started the Institute in 1984 prior to selling it to the regionally-based Ace Radio Broadcasters.

Seb returns to radio, TV

■ Until recently Seb Costello was European correspondent for the Nine Network and during his overseas posting covered some horrific events.

He has decided to return home as newsreader on Triple M Hot Breakfast, based in Melbourne, commencing July 16 Plus you'll still see him every now and again as a news and sports presenter on Nine. ● Given a bit of a paint job with “eyes” and a grinning “mouth,” they will take on a whole new personality. and the United States, and amongst some fifty who participated in the auction.

In 1994 two other bottles from the same 1774 vintage Vin Jaune were opened and tasted by a panel of 24 of Europe’s most-respected wine professionals, who described the wines as “amazingly still-drinkable with nuances of walnuts, spices, curry, cinnamon, vanilla and dried fruits.”

Savagnin grapes from which this dry white wine is made are not to be confused with Sauvignon Blanc, that originally hailed from the Bordeaux region of France, and makes a totally different wine altogether.

And interestingly, the ones just sold are in 870ml bottles – 120ml larger than today’s standard 750ml size.

But what they’d taste like will most probably never be known, for now that with David Ellis they’ve hit the auction circuit, they’ll E76,250 (AU$119,490) and the third stay there going up in price every few E73,200 (AU$114,700,) the buyers decades when they’re taken out for a being avid collectors from Canada run amongst collectors and investors.

Struth

Bay City Rollers death

■ Alan Longmuire was a founding member of the legendary boy band The Bay City Rollers. He played bass but quit under the pressure of all the touring.

Who could forget the hoards of fans who screamed their lungs out while hoping to catch a glimpse of their fav Roller staying at the then Hilton, East Melbourne?

Unfortunately Alan died last month, aged 70. A tribute band to the Rollers is booked to tour Australia later this year. We doubt if Alan's death will affect the schedule.

Sports show returns

■ After an absence of many years , Ten has decided to bring back Sports Tonight, effective as of Sunday (July 15). It will then be weekly at 9.15 pm.

Presenters include Matt White, Josh Gibson on AFL, an Laurie Daley on NRL. The original program ran from 1993 to 2011.

One of the contenders to head Sports Tonight was Steve Quartermain but obviously that's not to be. Steve is currently on hols overseas and his name is being mentioned in regards to a news reading job on radio.

Cutbacks at the ABC

■ One of the slash and burn programs at the ABC is The Checkout. The seventh season will not be proceeding which is a bummer as the program was most informative with segments delivered in a most entertaining way .

- John O’Keefe

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Hard Times - by Charles Dickens Left alone with her mother, Louisa saw her lying with an awful lull upon her face, like one who was floating away upon some great water, all resistance over, content to be carried down the stream. She put the shadow of a hand to her lips again, and recalled her.

‘You were going to speak to me, mother.’

‘Eh? Yes, to be sure, my dear. You know your father is almost always away now, and therefore I must write to him about it.’

‘About what, mother? Don’t be troubled. About what?’

‘You must remember, my dear, that whenever I have said anything, on any subject, I have never heard the last of it: and consequently, that I have long left off saying anything.’

‘I can hear you, mother.’ But, it was only by dint of bending down to her ear, and at the same time attentively watching the lips as they moved, that she could link such faint and broken sounds into any chain of connexion.

‘You learnt a great deal, Louisa, and so did your brother. Ologies of all kinds from morning to night. If there is any Ology left, of any description, that has not been worn to rags in this house, all I can say is, I hope I shall never hear its name.’

‘I can hear you, mother, when you have strength to go on.’ This, to keep her from floating away.

‘But there is something — not an Ology at all — that your father has missed, or forgotten, Louisa.

I don’t know what it is. I have often sat with Sissy near me, and thought about it. I shall never get its name now. But your father may. It makes me restless. I want to write to him, to find out for God’s sake, what it is. Give me a pen, give me a pen.’

Even the power of restlessness was gone, except from the poor head, which could just turn from side to side.

She fancied, however, that her request had been complied with, and that the pen she could not have held was in her hand. It matters little what figures of wonderful no-meaning she began to trace upon her wrappers. The hand soon stopped in the midst of them; the light that had always been feeble and dim behind the weak transparency, went out; and even Mrs. Gradgrind, emerged from the shadow in which man walketh and disquieteth himself in vain, took upon her the dread solemnity of the sages and patriarchs.

Chapter X— Mrs. Sparsit’s Staircase Mrs. Sparsit’s nerves being slow to recover their tone, the worthy woman made a stay of some weeks in duration at Mr. Bounderby’s retreat, where, notwithstanding her anchorite turn of mind based upon her becoming consciousness of her altered station, she resigned herself with noble fortitude to lodging, as one may say, in clover, and feeding on the fat of the land. During the whole term of this recess from the guardianship of the Bank, Mrs. Sparsit was a pattern of consistency; continuing to take such pity on Mr. Bounderby to his face, as is rarely taken on man, and to call his portrait a Noodle to its face, with the greatest acrimony and contempt.

Mr. Bounderby, having got it into his explosive composition that Mrs. Sparsit was a highly superior woman to perceive that he had that general cross upon him in his deserts (for he had not yet settled what it was), and further that Louisa would have objected to her as a frequent visitor if it had comported with his greatness that she should object to anything he chose to do, resolved not to lose sight of Mrs. Sparsit easily. So when her nerves were strung up to the pitch of again consuming sweetbreads in solitude, he said to her at the dinner-table, on the day before her departure, ‘I tell you what, ma’am; you shall come down here of a Saturday, while the fine weather lasts, and stay till Monday.’To which Mrs. Sparsit returned, in effect, though not of the Mahomedan persuasion: ‘To hear is to obey.’

Now, Mrs. Sparsit was not a poetical woman; but she took an idea in the nature of an allegorical fancy, into her head. Much watching of Louisa, and much consequent observation of her impenetrable demeanour, which keenly whetted and sharpened Mrs. Sparsit’s edge, must have given her as it were a lift, in the way of inspiration. She erected in her mind a mighty Staircase, with a dark pit of shame and ruin at

Charles Dickens the bottom; and down those stairs, from day to day and hour to hour, she saw Louisa coming.

It became the business of Mrs. Sparsit’s life, to look up at her staircase, and to watch Louisa coming down. Sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly, sometimes several steps at one bout, sometimes stopping, never turning back. If she had once turned back, it might have been the death of Mrs. Sparsit in spleen and grief.

She had been descending steadily, to the day, and on the day, when Mr. Bounderby issued the weekly invitation recorded above. Mrs. Sparsit was in good spirits, and inclined to be conversational.

‘And pray, sir,’said she, ‘if I may venture to ask a question appertaining to any subject on which you show reserve — which is indeed hardy in me, for I well know you have a reason for everything you do — have you received intelligence respecting the robbery?’

‘Why, ma’am, no; not yet. Under the circumstances, I didn’t expect it yet. Rome wasn’t built in a day, ma’am.’

‘Very true, sir,’ said Mrs. Sparsit, shaking her head.

‘Nor yet in a week, ma’am.’

‘No, indeed, sir,’ returned Mrs. Sparsit, with a gentle melancholy upon her.

‘In a similar manner, ma’am,’ said Bounderby, ‘I can wait, you know. If Romulus and Remus could wait, Josiah Bounderby can wait. They were better off in their youth than I was, however. They had a she-wolf for a nurse; I had only a she-wolf for a grandmother. She didn’t give any milk, ma’am; she gave bruises. She was a regular Alderney at that.’

‘Ah!’ Mrs. Sparsit sighed and shuddered.

‘No, ma’am,’ continued Bounderby, ‘I have not heard anything more about it. It’s in hand,

though; and young Tom, who rather sticks to business at present — something new for him; he hadn’t the schooling I had — is helping. My injunction is, Keep it quiet, and let it seem to blow over. Do what you like under the rose, but don’t give a sign of what you’re about; or half a hundred of ’em will combine together and get this fellow who has bolted, out of reach for good.

Keep it quiet, and the thieves will grow in confidence by little and little, and we shall have ’em.’

‘Very sagacious indeed, sir,’ said Mrs. Sparsit.

‘Very interesting. The old woman you mentioned, sir — ’ ‘The old woman I mentioned, ma’am,’ said Bounderby, cutting the matter short, as it was nothing to boast about, ‘is not laid hold of; but, she may take her oath she will be, if that is any satisfaction to her villainous old mind. In the mean time, ma’am, I am of opinion, if you ask me my opinion, that the less she is talked about, the better.’

The same evening, Mrs. Sparsit, in her chamber window, resting from her packing operations, looked towards her great staircase and saw Louisa still descending.

She sat by Mr. Harthouse, in an alcove in the garden, talking very low; he stood leaning over her, as they whispered together, and his face almost touched her hair. ‘If not quite!’ said Mrs. Sparsit, straining her hawk’s eyes to the utmost.

Mrs. Sparsit was too distant to hear a word of their discourse, or even to know that they were speaking softly, otherwise than from the expression of their figures; but what they said was this: ‘You recollect the man, Mr. Harthouse?’

‘Oh, perfectly!’

‘His face, and his manner, and what he said?’

‘Perfectly. And an infinitely dreary person he appeared to me to be. Lengthy and prosy in the

extreme. It was knowing to hold forth, in the humble-virtue school of eloquence; but, I assure you I thought at the time, “My good fellow, you are over-doing this!”’

‘It has been very difficult to me to think ill of that man.’

‘My dear Louisa — as Tom says.’ Which he never did say. ‘You know no good of the fellow?’

‘No, certainly.’

‘Nor of any other such person?’

‘How can I,’ she returned, with more of her first manner on her than he had lately seen, ‘when I know nothing of them, men or women?’

‘My dear Louisa, then consent to receive the submissive representation of your devoted friend, who knows something of several varieties of his excellent fellow-creatures — for excellent they are, I am quite ready to believe, in spite of such little foibles as always helping themselves to what they can get hold of. This fellow talks. Well; every fellow talks. He professes morality. Well; all sorts of humbugs profess morality. From the House of Commons to the House of Correction, there is a general profession of morality, except among our people; it really is that exception which makes our people quite reviving. You saw and heard the case. Here was one of the fluffy classes pulled up extremely short by my esteemed friend Mr. Bounderby — who, as we know, is not possessed of that delicacy which would soften so tight a hand. The member of the fluffy classes was injured, exasperated, left the house grumbling, met somebody who proposed to him to go in for some share in this Bank business, went in, put something in his pocket which had nothing in it before, and relieved his mind extremely. Really he would have been an uncommon, instead of a common, fellow, if he had not availed himself of such an opportunity. Or he may have originated it altogether, if he had the cleverness.’

‘I almost feel as though it must be bad in me,’ returned Louisa, after sitting thoughtful awhile, ‘to be so ready to agree with you, and to be so lightened in my heart by what you say.’

‘I only say what is reasonable; nothing worse. I have talked it over with my friend Tom more than once — of course I remain on terms of perfect confidence with Tom — and he is quite of my opinion, and I am quite of his. Will you walk?’

They strolled away, among the lanes beginning to be indistinct in the twilight — she leaning on his arm — and she little thought how she was going down, down, down, Mrs. Sparsit’s staircase.

Night and day, Mrs. Sparsit kept it standing.

When Louisa had arrived at the bottom and disappeared in the gulf, it might fall in upon her if it would; but, until then, there it was to be, a Building, before Mrs. Sparsit’s eyes.And there Louisa always was, upon it.

And always gliding down, down, down!

Mrs. Sparsit saw James Harthouse come and go; she heard of him here and there; she saw the changes of the face he had studied; she, too, remarked to a nicety how and when it clouded, how and when it cleared; she kept her black eyes wide open, with no touch of pity, with no touch of compunction, all absorbed in interest.

In the interest of seeing her, ever drawing, with no hand to stay her, nearer and nearer to the bottom of this new Giant’s Staircase.

With all her deference for Mr. Bounderby as contradistinguished from his portrait, Mrs. Sparsit had not the smallest intention of interrupting the descent. Eager to see it accomplished, and yet patient, she waited for the last fall, as for the ripeness and fulness of the harvest of her hopes. Hushed in expectancy, she kept her wary gaze upon the stairs; and seldom so much as darkly shook her right mitten (with her fist in it), at the figure coming down.

Chapter XI— Lower and Lower THE figure descended the great stairs, steadily, steadily; always verging, like a weight in deep water, to the black gulf at the bottom.

Mr. Gradgrind, apprised of his wife’s decease, made an expedition from London, and buried her in a business-like manner. He then returned with promptitude to the national cinder-heap, and

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From Page 30 resumed his sifting for the odds and ends he wanted, and his throwing of the dust about into the eyes of other people who wanted other odds and ends — in fact resumed his parliamentary duties.

In the meantime, Mrs. Sparsit kept unwinking watch and ward. Separated from her staircase, all the week, by the length of iron road dividing Coketown from the country house, she yet maintained her cat-like observation of Louisa, through her husband, through her brother, through James Harthouse, through the outsides of letters and packets, through everything animate and inanimate that at any time went near the stairs. ‘Your foot on the last step, my lady,’said Mrs. Sparsit, apostrophizing the descending figure, with the aid of her threatening mitten, ‘and all your art shall never blind me.’

Art or nature though, the original stock of Louisa’s character or the graft of circumstances upon it, — her curious reserve did baffle, while it stimulated, one as sagacious as Mrs. Sparsit.

There were times when Mr. James Harthouse was not sure of her. There were times when he could not read the face he had studied so long; and when this lonely girl was a greater mystery to him, than any woman of the world with a ring of satellites to help her.

So the time went on; until it happened that Mr. Bounderby was called away from home by business which required his presence elsewhere, for three or four days. It was on a Friday that he intimated this to Mrs. Sparsit at the Bank, adding: ‘But you’ll go down to-morrow, ma’am, all the same. You’ll go down just as if I was there.

It will make no difference to you.’

‘Pray, sir,’ returned Mrs. Sparsit, reproachfully, ‘let me beg you not to say that. Your absence will make a vast difference to me, sir, as I think you very well know.’

‘Well, ma’am, then you must get on in my absence as well as you can,’ said Mr. Bounderby, not displeased.

‘Mr. Bounderby,’ retorted Mrs. Sparsit, ‘your will is to me a law, sir; otherwise, it might be my inclination to dispute your kind commands, not feeling sure that it will be quite so agreeable to Miss Gradgrind to receive me, as it ever is to your own munificent hospitality. But you shall say no more, sir. I will go, upon your invitation.’

‘Why, when I invite you to my house, ma’am,’ said Bounderby, opening his eyes, ‘I should hope you want no other invitation.’

‘No, indeed, sir,’ returned Mrs. Sparsit, ‘I should hope not. Say no more, sir. I would, sir, I could see you gay again.’

‘What do you mean, ma’am?’ blustered Bounderby.

‘Sir,’ rejoined Mrs. Sparsit, ‘there was wont to be an elasticity in you which I sadly miss. Be buoyant, sir!’

Mr. Bounderby, under the influence of this difficult adjuration, backed up by her compassionate eye, could only scratch his head in a feeble and ridiculous manner, and afterwards assert himself at a distance, by being heard to bully the small fry of business all the morning.

‘Bitzer,’ said Mrs. Sparsit that afternoon, when her patron was gone on his journey, and the Bank was closing, ‘present my compliments to young Mr. Thomas, and ask him if he would step up and partake of a lamb chop and walnut ketchup, with a glass of India ale?’ Young Mr. Thomas being usually ready for anything in that way, returned a gracious answer, and followed on its heels. ‘Mr. Thomas,’ said Mrs. Sparsit, ‘these plain viands being on table, I thought you might be tempted.’

‘Thank’ee, Mrs. Sparsit,’ said the whelp. And gloomily fell to.

‘How is Mr. Harthouse, Mr. Tom?’ asked Mrs. Sparsit.

‘Oh, he’s all right,’ said Tom. ‘Where may he be at present?’ Mrs. Sparsit asked in a light conversational manner, after mentally devoting the whelp to the Furies for being so uncommunicative.

‘He is shooting in Yorkshire,’ said Tom. ‘Sent Loo a basket half as big as a church, yesterday.’

‘The kind of gentleman, now,’said Mrs. Sparsit, sweetly, ‘whom one might wager to be a good shot!’

‘Crack,’ said Tom. He had long been a down-looking young fellow, but this characteristic had so increased of late, that he never raised his eyes to any face for three seconds together. Mrs. Sparsit consequently had ample means of watching his looks, if she were so inclined.

Observer Classic Books ‘Mr. Harthouse is a great favourite of mine,’ said Mrs. Sparsit, ‘as indeed he is of most people.

May we expect to see him again shortly, Mr. Tom?’ ‘Why, I expect to see him to-morrow,’returned the whelp.

‘Good news!’ cried Mrs. Sparsit, blandly.

‘I have got an appointment with him to meet him in the evening at the station here,’said Tom, ‘and I am going to dine with him afterwards, I believe. He is not coming down to the country house for a week or so, being due somewhere else. At least, he says so; but I shouldn’t wonder if he was to stop here over Sunday, and stray that way.’

‘Which reminds me!’ said Mrs. Sparsit. ‘Would you remember a message to your sister, Mr. Tom, if I was to charge you with one?’

‘Well? I’ll try,’ returned the reluctant whelp, ‘if it isn’t a long un.’

‘It is merely my respectful compliments,’ said Mrs. Sparsit, ‘and I fear I may not trouble her with my society this week; being still a little nervous, and better perhaps by my poor self.’

‘Oh! If that’s all,’ observed Tom, ‘it wouldn’t much matter, even if I was to forget it, for Loo’s not likely to think of you unless she sees you.’

Having paid for his entertainment with this agreeable compliment, he relapsed into a hangdog silence until there was no more India ale left, when he said, ‘Well, Mrs. Sparsit, I must be off!’ and went off.

Next day, Saturday, Mrs. Sparsit sat at her window all day long looking at the customers coming in and out, watching the postmen, keeping an eye on the general traffic of the street, revolving many things in her mind, but, above all, keeping her attention on her staircase. The evening come, she put on her bonnet and shawl, and went quietly out: having her reasons for hovering in a furtive way about the station by which a passenger would arrive from Yorkshire, and for preferring to peep into it round pillars and corners, and out of ladies’ waiting-room windows, to appearing in its precincts openly.

Tom was in attendance, and loitered about until the expected train came in. It brought no Mr. Harthouse. Tom waited until the crowd had dispersed, and the bustle was over; and then referred to a posted list of trains, and took counsel with porters. That done, he strolled away idly, stopping in the street and looking up it and down it, and lifting his hat off and putting it on again, and yawning and stretching himself, and exhibiting all the symptoms of mortal weariness to be expected in one who had still to wait until the next train should come in, an hour and forty minutes hence.

‘This is a device to keep him out of the way,’ said Mrs. Sparsit, starting from the dull office window whence she had watched him last.

‘Harthouse is with his sister now!’

It was the conception of an inspired moment, and she shot off with her utmost swiftness to work it out. The station for the country house was at the opposite end of the town, the time was short, the road not easy; but she was so quick in pouncing on a disengaged coach, so quick in darting out of it, producing her money, seizing her ticket, and diving into the train, that she was borne along the arches spanning the land of coal-pits past and present, as if she had been caught up in a cloud and whirled away.

All the journey, immovable in the air though never left behind; plain to the dark eyes of her mind, as the electric wires which ruled a colossal strip of music-paper out of the evening sky, were plain to the dark eyes of her body; Mrs. Sparsit saw her staircase, with the figure coming down. Very near the bottom now. Upon the brink of the abyss.

An overcast September evening, just at nightfall, saw beneath its drooping eyelids Mrs. Sparsit glide out of her carriage, pass down the wooden steps of the little station into a stony road, cross it into a green lane, and become hidden in a summer-growth of leaves and branches. One or two late birds sleepily chirping in their nests, and a bat heavily crossing and recrossing her, and the reek of her own tread in the thick dust that felt like velvet, were all Mrs. Sparsit heard or saw until she very softly closed a gate.

She went up to the house, keeping within the shrubbery, and went round it, peeping between the leaves at the lower windows. Most of them were open, as they usually were in such warm weather, but there were no lights yet, and all was silent. She tried the garden with no better effect. She thought of the wood, and stole to-

wards it, heedless of long grass and briers: of worms, snails, and slugs, and all the creeping things that be. With her dark eyes and her hook nose warily in advance of her, Mrs. Sparsit softly crushed her way through the thick undergrowth, so intent upon her object that she probably would have done no less, if the wood had been a wood of adders.

Hark!

The smaller birds might have tumbled out of their nests, fascinated by the glittering of Mrs. Sparsit’s eyes in the gloom, as she stopped and listened.

Low voices close at hand. His voice and hers.

The appointment was a device to keep the brother away! There they were yonder, by the felled tree.

Bending low among the dewy grass, Mrs. Sparsit advanced closer to them. She drew herself up, and stood behind a tree, like Robinson Crusoe in his ambuscade against the savages; so near to them that at a spring, and that no great one, she could have touched them both. He was there secretly, and had not shown himself at the house.

He had come on horseback, and must have passed through the neighbouring fields; for his horse was tied to the meadow side of the fence, within a few paces.

‘My dearest love,’ said he, ‘what could I do?

Knowing you were alone, was it possible that I could stay away?’

‘You may hang your head, to make yourself the more attractive; I don’t know what they see in you when you hold it up,’ thought Mrs. Sparsit; ‘but you little think, my dearest love, whose eyes are on you!’

That she hung her head, was certain. She urged him to go away, she commanded him to go away; but she neither turned her face to him, nor raised it. Yet it was remarkable that she sat as still as ever the amiable woman in ambuscade had seen her sit, at any period in her life.

Her hands rested in one another, like the hands of a statue; and even her manner of speaking was not hurried.

‘My dear child,’ said Harthouse; Mrs. Sparsit saw with delight that his arm embraced her; ‘will you not bear with my society for a little while?’

‘Not here.’

‘Where, Louisa?

‘Not here.’

‘But we have so little time to make so much of, and I have come so far, and am altogether so devoted, and distracted. There never was a slave at once so devoted and ill-used by his mistress.

To look for your sunny welcome that has warmed me into life, and to be received in your frozen manner, is heart-rending.’

‘Am I to say again, that I must be left to myself here?’

‘But we must meet, my dear Louisa. Where shall we meet?’

They both started. The listener started, guiltily, too; for she thought there was another listener among the trees. It was only rain, beginning to fall fast, in heavy drops.

‘Shall I ride up to the house a few minutes hence, innocently supposing that its master is at home and will be charmed to receive me?’

‘No!’ ‘Your cruel commands are implicitly to be obeyed; though I am the most unfortunate fellow in the world, I believe, to have been insensible to all other women, and to have fallen prostrate at last under the foot of the most beautiful, and the most engaging, and the most imperious.

My dearest Louisa, I cannot go myself, or let you go, in this hard abuse of your power.’

Mrs. Sparsit saw him detain her with his encircling arm, and heard him then and there, within her (Mrs. Sparsit’s) greedy hearing, tell her how he loved her, and how she was the stake for which he ardently desired to play away all that he had in life. The objects he had lately pursued, turned worthless beside her; such success as was almost in his grasp, he flung away from him like the dirt it was, compared with her. Its pursuit, nevertheless, if it kept him near her, or its renunciation if it took him from her, or flight if she shared it, or secrecy if she commanded it, or any fate, or every fate, all was alike to him, so that she was true to him, — the man who had seen how cast away she was, whom she had inspired at their first meeting with an admiration, an interest, of which he had thought himself incapable, whom she had received into her confidence, who was devoted to her and adored her. All this, and more, in his hurry, and in hers, in the whirl of her own gratified malice, in the

dread of being discovered, in the rapidly increasing noise of heavy rain among the leaves, and a thunderstorm rolling up — Mrs. Sparsit received into her mind, set off with such an unavoidable halo of confusion and indistinctness, that when at length he climbed the fence and led his horse away, she was not sure where they were to meet, or when, except that they had said it was to be that night.

But one of them yet remained in the darkness before her; and while she tracked that one she must be right. ‘Oh, my dearest love,’ thought Mrs. Sparsit, ‘you little think how well attended you are!’

Mrs. Sparsit saw her out of the wood, and saw her enter the house. What to do next? It rained now, in a sheet of water. Mrs. Sparsit’s white stockings were of many colours, green predominating; prickly things were in her shoes; caterpillars slung themselves, in hammocks of their own making, from various parts of her dress; rills ran from her bonnet, and her Roman nose.

In such condition, Mrs. Sparsit stood hidden in the density of the shrubbery, considering what next?

Lo, Louisa coming out of the house! Hastily cloaked and muffled, and stealing away. She elopes! She falls from the lowermost stair, and is swallowed up in the gulf.

Indifferent to the rain, and moving with a quick determined step, she struck into a side-path parallel with the ride. Mrs. Sparsit followed in the shadow of the trees, at but a short distance; for it was not easy to keep a figure in view going quickly through the umbrageous darkness.

When she stopped to close the side-gate without noise, Mrs. Sparsit stopped. When she went on, Mrs. Sparsit went on. She went by the way Mrs. Sparsit had come, emerged from the green lane, crossed the stony road, and ascended the wooden steps to the railroad. A train for Coketown would come through presently, Mrs. Sparsit knew; so she understood Coketown to be her first place of destination.

In Mrs. Sparsit’s limp and streaming state, no extensive precautions were necessary to change her usual appearance; but, she stopped under the lee of the station wall, tumbled her shawl into a new shape, and put it on over her bonnet.

So disguised she had no fear of being recognized when she followed up the railroad steps, and paid her money in the small office. Louisa sat waiting in a corner. Mrs. Sparsit sat waiting in another corner. Both listened to the thunder, which was loud, and to the rain, as it washed off the roof, and pattered on the parapets of the arches. Two or three lamps were rained out and blown out; so, both saw the lightning to advantage as it quivered and zigzagged on the iron tracks.

The seizure of the station with a fit of trembling, gradually deepening to a complaint of the heart, announced the train. Fire and steam, and smoke, and red light; a hiss, a crash, a bell, and a shriek; Louisa put into one carriage, Mrs. Sparsit put into another: the little station a desert speck in the thunderstorm.

Though her teeth chattered in her head from wet and cold, Mrs. Sparsit exulted hugely. The figure had plunged down the precipice, and she felt herself, as it were, attending on the body.

Could she, who had been so active in the getting up of the funeral triumph, do less than exult?

‘She will be at Coketown long before him,’ thought Mrs. Sparsit, ‘though his horse is never so good. Where will she wait for him? And where will they go together? Patience. We shall see.’

The tremendous rain occasioned infinite confusion, when the train stopped at its destination.

Gutters and pipes had burst, drains had overflowed, and streets were under water. In the first instant of alighting, Mrs. Sparsit turned her distracted eyes towards the waiting coaches, which were in great request. ‘She will get into one,’ she considered, ‘and will be away before I can follow in another. At all risks of being run over, I must see the number, and hear the order given to the coachman.’

But, Mrs. Sparsit was wrong in her calculation.

Louisa got into no coach, and was already gone.

The black eyes kept upon the railroad-carriage in which she had travelled, settled upon it a moment too late. The door not being opened after several minutes, Mrs. Sparsit passed it and repassed it, saw nothing, looked in, and found it empty.

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Thompson: From injury to ecstasy ■ Popular Melton based trainer Peter Thompson recovering from a nasty leg fracture a few months back, was in the winners stall at Bendigo on Tuesday July 3 following the victory of first starter Plan Ce in the DNR Logistics 2Y0 Pace over 1650 metres.

Driven by daughter Kate Gath, Plan Ce heavily supported into a $1.70 favourite led easily from the pole and after being allowed to bowl, defied all challengers to register a 2.1 metre margin in advance of a death-seating Hector Macray in a slick rate of 1-55.9.

Fiscal Fantasy (three wide last lap from the tail) was third 6.5 metres away after giving ground on straightening. A gelded son of Art Major and Saabette Plan Ce appears to have a bright future.

Scored by a head

■ Local trainer Bruce Morgan's team is "airborne" at present with 5Y0 American Ideal-The Warp Legacy gelding adding another winner to the list when victorious in the Petstock Pace for C2 class over 2150 metres.

Driven by Todd Matthews, Ideal Moment raced by Bruce's wife Val was given a sweet passage from the pole trailing the leader Timmys Reject before angling off his back on turning to score by a head in 1-58.5, with Im Lonely (three back the markers using the sprint lane for third.

Profitable stint

■ Young Tasmanian reinsman Jack Laugher presently having a profitable stint in Victoria snared the Yorkshire Park Standardbred Vicbred Pace for C1 class over 2150 metres at Bendigo aboard the Glenn Douglas (Strathfieldsaye) trained and Anderson Racing bred and raced Somebeachsomewhere-Smooth Laura 4Y0 gelding Ozzie Bogan in 1-58.6.

Starting from the pole, Ozzie Bogan taking a concession settled on the back of the leader Melpark Alexa drawn next door after being unable to hold her out as the start was effected.

Following a cosy trip, Ozzie Bogan used the sprint lane to perfection, winning easily by 3.2 metres over Shezawingate (three back the markers) which also used the sprint lane, with Melpark Alexa a disappointing third 2.3 metres away.

Jack was also successful at Tabcorp Park Melton the day before, driving 6Y0 Christian Cullen-Jaz Tanner gelding Christian Jaz to victory for father Michael in the Carbine Chemicals Pace for C1 class over 1720 metres.

Moving three wide approaching the final bend from mid-field, Christian Jaz ran home strongly to defeat Lisandros (four wide outside him from last), with Juliustigress third after racing in the open for the final circuit and dashing clear on the final bend, finishing 10.4 metres in arrears of the runner up. The mile rate 1-55.5.

Hot favourite

■ At Shepparton on Wednesday, local trainer/ driver Mark Pitt snared a stable double - new addition Shadow Chevron taking the Hunter Rural 3Y0 Pace over 1690 metres and A Courage Thang the Shepparton Mixed Stock Sale 15 July Pace for C0 class over 2190 metres.

Shadow Chevron a Shadow Play-Welcome Star formerly trained in the Riverina by grandfather Norm Diebert (Snr) was heavily supported to start a $1.90 favourite and after going forward from gate three to park in the open, received one/one cover at the bell as Royal Obsession joined the leader Travlininstyle.

Easing three wide on turning, Shadow Chevron left his rivals standing to record a 15.1 metre margin over Marchello Gold from last and The Deal also from the rear. The mile rate a sizzling 1-54.6.

Five year old Courage Under Fire-Dream A Rainbow mare A Courage Thang second up since last November led virtually throught from gate five, accounting for Andrew Jay which trailed by 7.1 metres in 1-59.8.

The hot favourite Beltane was third 1.2 metres away after racing wide in the last lap.

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■ Orrvale (GV) trainer Steve Duffy and son Ryan combined to land the Memberships Now Due Pace for C4 & C5 class over 2190 metres with most consistent 6Y0 Passmaster HanoverForever Cute gelding Winkanditsover in a rate of 1-54.9.

Given a beaut trip from inside the second line trailing polemarker Lombo Idle Belief, Winkanditsover eased off the back of the leader approaching the home turn to join the odds-on favourite Code Bailey which had joined Lombo Idle Belief after going forward three wide in the last lap.

With the pair drawing right away ion straightening, Winkanditsover did best to prevail by 1.9 metres. Yerrington Bob ran his usual honest race to finish third 17.8 metres away after always being handy.

Moved around

■ Mt Cottrell trainer Ian Caruana who won many races during both the Showgrounds and Moonee Valley era, especially on horse by the name of Fortunato, captured the Prydes Easifeed Pace for C2 & C3 class over 2240 metres at Tabcorp Park Melton on Monday July 2 with consistent 4Y0 Jet Laag-Lucky Merrywood mare Chrissy Divinyl in a mile rate of 1-58.2.

Given a perfect passage from gate two by Gordon's Darby McQuigan trailing the leader Four Starzzz Forsa (gate five), Chrissy Dininyl moved around the leader approaching the home turn to lead into the straight and kick clear, scoring by 2.1 metres from the late finishing Illawong Maestro from last, with The Kiwi Way third .

Three-wide journey ■ Warrnambool owner/trainer Robert Dowdell caused an upset victory at Terang on Wednesday when 4Y0 Mr Feelgood-RoyalAthlete gelding Royal Feeling greeted the judge in the Terang CRT Store Pace for C1 class over 1680 metres, paying Supertab odds of $22.10.

Driven by Ararat's Mick Bellman, Royal Feeling (gate six) settled on the back of the leader The Bellum which started outside him. Extricated to be three wide on the home turn, Royal Feeling finished best to blouse the $1.50 favourite Sammy Fitz in the shadows of the post to score by 1.2 metres, with The Bellum holding down third 9.7 metres back. The mile rate 158.1.

Led all the way ■ Dunnstown's David Murphy rarely misses a Terang meeting and was successful with home bred 5Y0 Shark Gesture-Me Dolli Kit mare Athlone in the Silvan Ridge Business Advisers Pace for C1 class over 2180 metres in a mile rate of 2-00.2, leading all of the way from the pole to record a 4.6 metre margin over Gnotuk which trailed and Johnny Redcoat which followed the pair from the bell.

Every chance

■ Melton based reinsman Alex Ashwood along with Bendigo duo David Van Ryn and Haydon Gray took the honours at Swan Hill trots last Thursday, each winning two races on the program - 6Y0 Pacific Fella-Spic And Spangled mare Spic And Sparkled taking the Racecourse Bare Foot Bowls Pace for C1 class over 1760 metres and 5Y0 Art Official-Holly Robyn gelding Salty Robyn the Racecourse Bowls Hub Hire Pace for C5 or better class over the same distance for Ashwood, while Cocosfella and Downtown Miss brought up the Van Ryn Gray double.

Spic And Sparkled trained at Toolern Vale by Paul Gabriel speared away from gate six to lead running into the first turn.

Allowed to amble around at his leisure, Spic And Sparkled had too much in reserve at the finish, scoring by 2.4 metres in advance of the heavily supported polemarker Whata Challenge which trailed, with Sunraysia hope Our Amazing Grace running home late from the tail to finish third.

The mile rate 2-01.8. ★ Kiwi bred Salty Robyn which was touted as something special when trained in NSW by Shane & Lauren Tritton before transferring to Andy Gath at Long Forest between Melton and Bacchus Marsh, settled at the tail of the field after starting from the extreme draw as Joe Costa's Riley James led out from the pole before being crossed by Bettor Downunder (gate five).

Still last hitting the back straight on the final occasion, Salty Robyn despite being five wide on the final bend, motored to the wire, defeating Pow Wow Bromac who was back with him before obtaining inside runs to go down by 1.2 metres in a slick rate of 1-55.7.

Another Colony flashed home late from last on the final bend to finish third a half neck away. ★ Marong trainer David Van Ryn combined with nephew Haydon Gray to land the DNR Logistics 3Y0 Pace over 2240 metres to open the day's proceedings when Artistic Fella-Coco Cullen gelding Cocosfella led most of the way from gate four after crossing Marjorie Jean shortly after the start. Always in control Cocosfella had a comfortable 7.4 metre margin over Heres A Real Go (three back the markers - three wide home turn) in a mile rate of 2-00.5. Marjorie Jean was 7 metres back in third place.

In-form 4Y0 Majestic Son-False Gem mare treated her rivals with contempt in the 2240 metre Racecourse Bowls Members Trotters Handicap for T0 or better class.

Stepping cleanly from 20 metres, Downtown Miss went forward to assume control from roughie Idolatry prior to the bell and after trotting to perfection, scored by a half neck over the 60 metre backmarker King Denny from last who got surprisingly close, with Scottish Sardius 10.8 metres away in third place after having every possible chance after dropping to the back of the winner on the home turn. The mile rate 2-04.3.

Took the reins

■ Kennington (Bendigo) first season trainer Shaun McNaulty is having a wonderful season and snared the Ash Roberts Homes Pace for C0 class over 1750 metres at Swan Hill with a smart filly by the name of Dixirosalie a daughter of Rock N Roll Heaven and Colada Belle.

With Chris Svanosio taking the reins, Dixirosalie began brilliantly from gate four to lead and was never in any danger, careering away to record a 24.9 metre margin in 1-57.9 from Manuela which used the sprint lane from three back the markers, with Shesabeegee a half neck back in third place after following the winner.

Kept pressure on

■ Little known Bannockburn trainer/driver Michael Cole has his small but select tean going great guns at present and 5Y0 Yankee SpiderNotnow Itstooearly gelding Cargerie was superb in winning the tab.com.auTrotters Handicap for

Sulky Snippets This Week

■ Wednesday - Horesham/Bendigo, Thursday - Melton, Friday - Mildura/Ballarat, Saturday - Melton, Sunday - Warragul, Monday - Maryborough, Tuesday - Shepparton.

Horses to follow

■ Midnitedelite, Fatouche, Matais Revenge, Kyvalley Tinman, Hector Macray, Me Pat Malone, Rosehill Magic, Our Sportscaster, Another Colony.

T2 or better class over 2200 metres at Bray Raceway Ballarat on Thursday. Slowly away from outside the front line, Cargerie one balance went forward to park outside the leader Zamba Deville which began at 100 miles an hour from 20 metres.

Keeping the pressure on for most of the journey, Cargerie was much too strong at the finish for 30 metre backmarker Athenry who ran on late, winning by 3.8 metres, with roughie Columbias Glory (one/one) last lap third.

The mile rate 2-03.6.

Sad losses

■ Victorian harness racing lost two of the state's strongest supporters last week with the passing of Ange Pace and Graham Frost.

Melton based Ange Pace (82) provided many winners over the years including Artlimond the winner of the inaugural Breeders Crown Series for Fillies held at Bendigo, plus handy performers Ice Sculptress and Quick Suzie amongst others.

Graham Frost (87) enjoyed success in the Melbourne Showgrounds era with a trotter by the name of Garden Star, a Bank Note gelding who made his way through the grades racing mainly at tracks such as Warragul and Geelong.

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Carrying a maximum of just 112-guests who are pampered but not fawned-over by an award-winning 95-crew, the luxury motor-yacht SeaDream I will sail from San Juan in Puerto Rico onApril 14 2019 and call at Jost van Dyke in the British Virgin Islands and Funchal on the island of Madeira, have Easter at sea, and arrive at Malaga in Spain on April 27.

Along the way, staff will encourage guests to explore and understand the very definition of Hygge, and how Hygge food and wine is not just fuel for the body, but can engage emotions and memories, and enrich dining experiences as well in an era when leisure is the new luxury.

And guests will even be encouraged to join SeaDream’s award-winning kitchen staff in creating such delights as rich chocolaty petit fours, and partake in quietly serene afternoon teas served with pastries fresh-baked and straight from the ovens… again Hygge’s concepts take food to an experience and level beyond just fuelling up the system.

To book see travel agents or visit www.seadream.com - David Ellis

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Theatre: Meet Joti Gore ............................................... Page 59 Arts: Murder books reprinted .......................................... Page 60 Film: Whitney film reviewed .................................................. Page 59 Jim and Aar on: Movies, DVDs, Top 10 lists ........................ P age 60 Aaron: Cheryl Threadgold: Local theatre shows, auditions ............ Page 61 PL US THE LLO OVATT”S MEGA CRO PLUS CROSSSWORD

MAMMA MIA OPENS SOON Moments in Time

● Magician Josh Staley ■ Melbourne magician Josh Staley presents his one-man show Moments in Time in the Secret Room, 35 Johnston St., Collingwood from July 10 -14 at 7.30pm..

Josh attended his first ‘magic’ performance at age six, and says he has been intrigued by the art of magic ever since. He invested in his first magic kit after that show and after many years of practice was awarded the Australian Junior Champion of close up magic.

Since then, Josh’s awards have included national titles, and a Guinness world record holder, as a leader of the team who broke the world record for ‘world’s longest magic show’, clocking in at 85 hours.

He has also made several television and radio appearances and has a large live performance resume.

Josh made his first debut in the Melbourne Magic Festival age 17, making him the youngest person to not only produce a show in that festival but to enjoy a sell-out season.

When Josh debuted his first formal show at the Melbourne Magic Festival he was only 17, making him the youngest person to not only produce a show in that festival but also to sell out a season.

A year after his first debut show, Josh was part of a team which produced Magic Sports, which went on to win several awards and appeared in the Melbourne Comedy Festival, 2016 to a sell out run.

Josh says magic is about creating a moment in time, where something truly impossible takes place. He aims to create special moments in time every time he performs, to create unique memories for his audiences.

In ‘real life’ Josh is a third year university student studying advertising and leaves for America in a few week.

Josh will be attending a magic convention to work with some of the best magicians in the world and will also stop at Los Angeles to visit the Academy of Magical Arts and the Magic Castle.

The Magic Castle has exclusive membership and is regarded as the capital of magic in the world, and Josh is thrilled to have just been granted membership there.

Josh’s advice to today’s six year old keen magicians is to look up the Australia Institute of Magic’s Junior Program.

“This is where I got started and now, many years later, I run it,” says Josh.

“A bunch of amazing junior magicians and I, along with some adult magician guests meet monthly at the Melbourne Arts Centre and work on routines, theory and becoming better performers.’

Performance Details: Moments in Time: July 10 – 14 at 7.30pm Venue: The Secret Room, 35 Johnston St., Collingwood Bookings: https://magicfestival-premier.eventfinda. com.au/2018/moments-in-time/melbourne/collingwood - Cheryl Threadgold

■ Mamma Mia is currently wowing audiences at Perth’s Crown Theatre before continuing on to Melbourne’s Princess Theatre from July 10.

Produced in Australia by Michael Coppel, Louise Withers and Linda Bewick, this new production of Mamma Mia is set on a Greek island paradise and remains inspired by the story-telling magic of ABBA’s timeless songs.

Writer Catherine Johnson’s heart-warming tale centres around a young bride-to-be. On the eve of her wedding, a daughter's quest to discover the identity of her father brings three men from her mother's past back to the island they last visited 20 years ago.

“The incredibly talented creative team and cast we have assembled will bring this story and these songs to life on stage night after night,” says Louise Withers.

Starring in this brand new Australian production as motherof-the-bride Donna Sheridan is Natalie O’Donnell.

Natalie began her acting career in 1998 with her professional debut in the Australian production of Les Misérables.

Since then she has sustained a remarkable career in theatre, television and film across the world.

She has starred in many musicals including most recently in Australia in Jerry’s Girls, Songs for a New World and Next to Normal.

Most poignantly Natalie starred in the original Australian production of Mamma Mia as Sophie in 2001. It will be special to see her come full circle now leading this new production in the role of Donna.

Donna’s daughter and bride-to-be Sophie, is played by emerging young Australian actor Sarah Morrison.

In early 2017 Sarah completed a sell-out national tour in the Australian musical Ladies in Black starring in the lead role of Lisa.

This was Sarah’s breakthrough role gaining critical acclaim and adoration by audiences alike proving her star is certainly on the rise. Sarah began her career as a member of the Children’s Chorus with Opera Queensland before graduating from Ballarat Arts Academy.

Starring as Donna’s vivacious and loyal friend Rosie is Alicia Gardiner who has extensive career highlights in theatre, television and film and is best known to Australian audiences for her role as nurse Kim Akerholt in the award-winning series Offspring.

In another nostalgic twist, Alicia also played alongside Natalie O’Donnell in the original Australian production of Mamma Mia Jayde Westaby joins the Dynamo trio in the role of muchmarried friend Tanya. Jayde, originally from the UK, has enjoyed a career on London’s West End appearing in The Rocky Horror Show, Chicago, Sweet Charity, Jersey Boys and Grease amongst others. Jayde was part of the world premiere season in Sydney of Dream Lover – The Bobby Darin Mu sical.

Award winning actor Ian Stenlake stars as Sam Carmichael, one of Sophie’s unsuspecting fathers.

Ian has sustained an extensive television career over the years, including starring roles in the Nine Network’s Sea Patrol for five seasons as Lieutenant Commander Mike Flynn, furthermore in Stingers, Murder Call and Dance Academy. He has also continued a vast theatre career appearing in shows such as Cabaret, Guys and Dolls, Oklahoma and most recently Around the World in 80 Days.

Josef Ber, acclaimed theatre and screen actor plays Bill Austin the third potential father in the light-hearted story. Josef has appeared in many and varied theatre, television and film productions including Ned, Rush and Redfern Now. Sophie’s adoring fiancé Sky is played by Stephen Mahy who’s career spans roles in musical theatre productions such as Miss Saigon, Jersey Boys, The Rocky Horror Show and Grease.

In addition, Monique Sallé plays the role of Ali, Jessica Di Costa as Lisa, Sam Hooper as Pepper and Alex Gibson-Giorgio plays Eddie alongside an incredible supporting cast Stephen Anderson, Jadie Bastow, Dion Bilios, Du Toit Bredenkamp, Annie Chiswell, Matt Edwards, Josh Gates, Catty Hamilton, Matt Hamilton, Emma Hawthorne, Zoë Komazec, Sarah Kate Landy, Courtney Monsma, Clay Roberts, Leigh Sleightholme, Thalia Smith, Lisa Sontag and Zachary Webster.

The Australian production is directed by HelpmannAward winner Gary Young, with the creative team also including choreographer Tom Hodgson, musical supervisor Stephen Amos, set design Linda Bewick, costume design Suzy Strout, lighting design Gavan Swift and sound design by Michael Waters.

Performance Details: Opens in Melbourne on July 10 Venue: Princess Theatre, Melbourne Tickets: www.mammamiathemusical.com.au

● Natalie O’Donnell plays mother-of-the bride Donna Sheridan in Mamma Mia.

Death of a Demi Diva

● Willow Sizer in Death of a Demi Diva ■ Willow Sizer presents Death of a Demi Diva until July 14 at The Butterfly Club.

Madame Darling, former child-star and one-hit-wonder, has decided to leave show business forever, staging a final concert to mark the end of an era. In this careerdefining evening of reckless abandon, rousing ballads and all the flamboyance of a Eurovision special, what could possibly go wrong?

Madame Darling is the alter ego of musical-comedian and chanteuse Willow Sizer, winner of the Upcoming Artist Grant, Melbourne Cabaret Fest. 2017. Death of A Demi Diva is her sophomore production, and a headliner of the 2018 Melbourne Cabaret Fringe Festival.

The show features a collection of original songs, in styles ranging from 80s soft-rock to Berlin Techno.

Performance Details: Until July 14 at 8.30pm Cost: $27-34 Venue: The Butterfly Club, 5 Carson Place, Melbourne Tickets: thebutterflyclub.com - Cheryl Threadgold

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● Mark Yeates (Christian), Aimee Sanderson (Helene). Tori McCann (Pia) and Tref Gare (Poul).

Photo: Sarah Walker ■ Festen by David Eldridge, is based on the Danish film, The Celebration, and delves into the toxic lives of a dysfunctional wealthy family.

Play Dead Theatre has cleverly used the Ballroom of the Rippon Lea Estate to stage this gripping black comedy.

The subject of child abuse is brought to the forefront using the power of theatre. Producer Michael Mack hopes that exposing this subject, rather than hiding it , can have a positive healing impact and allow for potential change.

This unique staging provides the optimum setting to enhance Jennifer Sarah Dean’s direction. Having three bedrooms depicted in the one area didn’t quite work.

The audience proximity gave a powerful yet intimate theatre experience. The dinner party food and drinks served throughout are a credit to food stylist Laura Kate Issell. Sophie Naufal composed the delightful music used in this production.

This is a poignant and challenging play with quality actors at the top of their game.

Each character was unique and as an ensemble are to be congratulated for their enthralling performances.

Some of the highlights were outstanding performances by Mark Yeates as the deeply troubled Christian; Michael Mack as overbearing, often violent Michael; Aimee Sanderson as their sister, Helene; and Adrian Mulraney as the devious family patriarch, Helge.

Drinking songs led by the brilliant Tref Gare gifted the audience a few light moments in the midst of tragedy.

The production runs for 90 minutes and due to the nature of the setting no late entries are possible.

Festen runs until July 22 in the Ballroom of the Rippon Lea Estate, and tickets can be booked at playdeadtheatre.com.au - Review by Lyn Hurst

Murder books re-printed ■ Two best-selling books by Melbourne crime-writer Vikki Petraitis have just been republished.

First is the book titled The Frankston Murders which is about the three women murdered in Frankston by Paul Denyer in 1993.

Twenty-five years on, the trauma of his seven-week killing spree still haunts the community.

In this revised edition, Jake Blair, now 25 years old, speaks for the first time about the loss of his mother Debbie Fream who was abducted and murdered when he was a new-born.

Eleven years later, Denyer made front-page news with his quest to become a woman. Now calling himself Paula, he wants gender re-assignment surgery.

The Phillip Island Murder, another of Petraitis’ sbest-selling books, has also been republished by Clan Destine Press.

Phillip Island, a popular day trip from Melbourne, is famous for its penguin parade and motorcycle Grand Prix.

For the most part, it is a charming holiday resort with a wealth of unusual attractions – all packed into the relatively small area of 10,105 hectares.

Crime on the island is usually confined to the occasional break-in of a weekend tourist’s house, the odd car accident or drink-driving case.

However, this peaceful backwater is also famous for another, rather less pleasant reason. It is the scene of murder and disappearance which – despite being officially ‘solved’ – remains a mystery to this day.

It is also a case which now has engaged international interest following a podcast in January with Melbourne author Vikki Petraitis on the Australian True Crime Podcast (https:// australiantruecrimepodcast.com/) – the podcast created by Mershel Laurie and Emily Webb.

In April, the case was featured on the Casefile podcast (http://casefilepodcast.com/case-80beth-barnard/). The podcast shot to No.1 podcast on Top Charts, generating thousands of comments worldwide.

In 1986 the discovery of the body of Beth Barnard in her Phillip Island farmhouse sparked a homicide investigation that rocked a peaceful community.

It also created an enduring mystery, for no one has ever been brought to trial for her brutal death, and the main suspect disappeared – never to be seen again.

Beth Barnard, a popular and attractive 23year-old, had been having an affair with a local married man. They both worked for the Penguin Parade and Beth also helped out on his family farm.

On the night of her brutal murder, a car belonging to Vivienne Cameron – wife of Beth’s

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Wednesday Thursday July 12 July 11 ■ The late Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam was born in Kew in 1916.

English comic actor Reg Varney was born in London in 1916. He died aged 92 in 2008.

Sydney radio man Ron Casey was born in 1929.

Comedian Mick Molloy is 52 (1966).

■ Military hero Ed-ward ‘Weary’ Dunlop was born in Wangaratta in 1907.

He died aged 85 in 1993.

American comedian Milton Berle was born in 1908. He died aged 93 in 2002.

Australian writer Phillip Adams was born in Maryborough, Vic., in 1939 (79).

● Vikki Petraitis lover – was found abandoned near the bridge that connects the famous tourist island to the mainland.

No trace of Vivienne was ever found, and her disappearance has never been adequately explained. DNA technology was not then in use so crucial blood stains were never fully scrutinised.

Nevertheless, a Coroner’s Court found that Vivienne had killed her rival then jumped to her death into the waters of Westernport Bay. The case was closed but not forgotten.

Ever since their first edition of The Phillip Island Murder in 1994, Vikki Petraitis and cowriter Paul Daley have been regularly contacted by people wanting to know more; people who, like the authors, let the case get under their skin.

- Cheryl Threadgold

HTC Artspace ARTWORK by Artists@Knox U3A The enthusiastic art members of Knox U3A are either hobbyists who have started their artistic adventures later in their lives, or experienced artists who look to improve their techniques and desire direction.

Knox U3A artists believe their artwork will provide a sense of familiarity and nostalgia, allowing you the onlooker, to perceive their works of art with connections and a smile.

Exhibition: opened July 6 and runs until July 21. Open during theatre hours. Venue: foyer of Heidelberg Theatre HTC Artspace 36 Turnham Ave, Rosanna - Peter Kemp

Marie Antoinette

● Jessica Tanner and Elisa Armstrong in Marie Antoinette.

Photo: Angel (3 Fates Media) ■ Heartstring Theatre’s latest production Marie Antoinette by American playwright David Adjmi (2013) is powerful, contemporary and entertaining, and not at all like a history lesson.

While a play about royalty, privilege and aristocracy might seem at odds with contemporary issues (hang on, wasn’t there a recent royal wedding?), the play has a candid charm that brings to life a twentieth-century version of Marie Antoinette.

OK, yes it’s still the 1700s and she’s privileged and spends excessively on clothes, accessories and hairdos - she boasts that because of the size of her hairstyle the roof of her carriages had to be raised, but it feels modern and her efforts to find out how and why she fits into her world is poignant and compelling.

Kudos to director Rachel Baring for keeping the dialogue real – an American play, set in France with an Austrian lead - accents could have gone anywhere.

Thankfully there were no accents (read distractions), which allowed more empathy for characters, certainly Marie’s.

Elisa Armstrong as MarieAntoinette was superb. She has a dynamic presence with a broad and faultless ability to deliver both dramatic and comic performance. The show belongs to her.

Jessica Tanner and Eleanor Howlett delivered well in their various roles but the male characters, Fersen (Conor Gallacher) and Louis XVI (Gabriel Partington) seemed under and over-done in that order. Heath IveyLaw as Joseph and the Revolutionary was convincing.

Cleverly crafted costumes by Eloise Kent focus on the important bits – high hairpieces as opposed to trying to recreate the ornate fashion of the time. Lighting by John Collopy, and composition by Claire Ewing and Tomas Fitzgerald is effective.

Performance dates: until July 15 Location: Northcote Town Hall Bookings: northcotetownhall.com.au - Review by Beth Klein Melbourne

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■ American actor Bob Crane, of Hogan’s heroes fame, was born in 1928. He died aged 49 in 1978.

English stage and film actor Patrick Stewart is 78. His best known work is Star Wars.

American actor Harrison Ford was born in Chicago in 1942

Saturday July 14 ■ English actor TerryThomas (Thomas Terry Hoare-Stevens) was born in London in 1911. He died aged 78 in 1990.

US folk singer Woody Guthrie was born in 1912.

He died aged 55 in 1967.

Australian actor John Wood was born in Melbourne in 1946 (72).

Sunday July 15 ■ Dutch painter Rembrandt (Haremensz Van Rijn) was born in Holland in 1606. He died aged 63 in 1669.

American singer Linda Ronstadt was born in Tucson, Arizona, in 1946 (72).

Politician Peter Reith is 69 (1949).

Actress Joy Smithers is 55.

Monday July 16

■ Actress Barbara Stanwyck (Ruby Stevens) was born in New York in 1907.

She died aged 82 in 1990.

US actress Ginger Rogers (Virginia Mcmath) was born in 1911.

She died aged 83 in 1995.

TV presenter Don Burke was born in 1947 (71).

Tuesday July 17 ■ US actor James Cagney was born in New York in 1899. He died aged 86 in 1986.

Art Linkletter (Gordon Arthur Kelly) was born in Canada in 1912. He died aged 97 in 2010.

Actress Lucie Arnaz, daughter of Lucille Ball (I Love Lucy) was born in 1951 (67).

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

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

■ Melbourne Find out more at www.jocksjournal.com

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Highness

● Melanie Jame Wolf.

Photo: Anna Agliardi ■ Arts House presents Highness from July 18 -21 at 521 Queensberry St, North Melbourne.

Melanie Jame Wolf returns to Arts House for this work she dedicates to every single queen she has ever met, including masterful women, drag superstars, actual monarchs and ageing queers.

Highness parades the regal feminine from the famous to the everyday, shape-shifting through a shining array of queen personas.

Highly performative and visually immersive, Highness richly considers the work of wearing a crown: its freedoms and limitations; its histories of colony, blood and theft; the trick of appearing born to rule; duty, devotion and spectacle.

Featuring videos made in collaboration between Wolf and UK-based artist Sam Smith, Highness is part two of the Arch Type trilogy of performance and video works exploring three archetypes of womanhood – the Whore, the Queen and the Hag – which began with Mira Fuchs (Arts House, 2016).

Highness is for people who love the moving image, people who love pop, people who love performance, people who love women, people who love drag: people who love queens.

Season: Jul. 18-21 Times: 8pm Wed – Sat Duration: 60 minutes Location: Arts House, Queensberry St, North Melbourne Tickets: $25 – $35 (plus transaction fee) Bookings: artshouse.com.au or 9322 3720 - Cheryl Threadgold

Merricks Gallery Birds in Habitat Paintings and portraits of birds

by Sarah Faulkner Interpretations

By Anne Howie & Gordon Hickmott Hickmott has been producing ceramics from his urban studio in Flemington for the past 15 years.

His work is informed by the traditional practices of Japanese and Korean ceramics. Howie is showing paintings that are created landscapes of familiar coastal regions.

Exhibition opens July 14 and closes August 5.

Merricks Gallery 3460 Frankston - Flinders Rd, Merricks - Peter Kemp

Radio Ratings

■ Mebourne commercial radio station 3AW won the fourth ratings survey announced yesterday (Tues.) with 13.8 per cent. Then followed: Gold, 10.8. Fox, 10.4. Smooth, 9.1.

ABC, 8.5. Nova, 6.6. MMM, 6.4. KIIS, 5.1.

JJJ, 3.9. ABC FM, 3.6. RN, 3.2, SEN, 3.1.

ABC News, 1.2. Macquarie Sports, 0.3.

Meet Joti Gore

■ Curious Cat presents The 3 Musketeers from August 1 to 11 at the Bluestone Church Artspace, Footscray.

Embracing the classic novel’s themes of loyalty and camaraderie, The 3 Musketeers also delves deep into the dark side of one of its ostensible heroes, to present the ultimate swashbuckling adventure ... with an edge.

Director Natasha Broadstock has cast international actor/director/producer, singer/ songwriter and dancer/choreographer Joti Gore in the role of Athos, and he kindly agreed to talk to the Melbourne Observer .

Joti’s impressive performance history includes playing Bernardo in the Broadway 50th Anniversary of West Side Story, playing include Junie and Miss Roj in A Colored Museum, Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing, Aaron in Titus Andronicus, Joseph in the Black Nativity and General in Eubie (with Neal Tate, the first black music director on Broadway).

He was an original cast member in Memphis and Robin Hood, and originated the roles of York in Sacagawea and Jonnie in My Gypsy.

Film and television credits include Milk (with Sean Penn and James Franco), Rent (with Rosario Dawson), La Mission (with Benjamin Bratt), Hunters, My Name is Khan, The Road to Happiness (with the Dalai Lama), Angry Boys (with Chris Lilley) and Woodley (with Jack Charles).

As a singer, Joti has performed with legendary greats such as Joe Hunter (Funk Brothers), Bobby Strickland (Earth, Wind & Fire), Jeanie Tracy (Weather Girls,Aretha Franklin, Bobby Womack), Horus Tolson (producer of Sylvester), Mark Pistel (Hercules and the Love Affair) and music director Victoria Theodore (Beyonce’s Formation Tour, Stevie Wonder’s World Tour, Summer: The Donna Summer Musical).

Director Broadstock (Anno Zombie, demens, Do You Fear The Dark?), has cast the play gender blind with only three actors matching the gender of their characters.

This attracted Joti to the role of Athos because he can enjoy playing the multi-dimensional character in a production that commendably casts “without the confines of the prejudices of ethnic origin and gender specificity that unfortunately still exist”.

Growing up in both the country and city in America, Joti was born in a small town south of Washington D.C. into an artistic family. His mother is a poet, cook and artist, he has uncles who are musicians, a very supportive grandma who encouraged him to play piano, sing, dance, write and play sports, and ‘a whole community of industry people who taught me’.

When one of Joti’s fellow singing mates invited him to a rehearsal of Peter Pan, it was the first theatre production he had ever seen.

He decided there and then he “wanted to make other people feel the whole range of emotions I felt that night”.

The following summer, Joti auditioned and found himself in all four shows of the summer

● Joti Gore stock season (two plays and two musicals), and was then accepted into AMDA (The American Musical and Dramatic Academy) in New York City and also went to the prestigious Steps on Broadway.

Joti was attracted to play the role of Athos from the director’s character description: “Athos is the leader of the musketeers, brooding, enigmatic, and possibly an alcoholic.”

“The original novel describes Athos as a nobleman of great beauty and intelligence. He often smiled but never laughed.”

The role is perfect for Joti who says he loves action, stage combat and “physical, strong and punctilious characters that reveal their weaknesses and expose the reasons behind their actions”.

Joti praises director Broadstock’s choice to ignore gender when casting the characters, and instead focusing on actors’ ‘unique and diverse abilities’.

In Joti’s words: “it is in the true wonderment of a Shakespearesque experience meeting the diversity of 2018, with women playing men and men playing women, but in a genuine way that isn’t just a caricature of absurdity”.

After this show, Joti is scheduled to do another international tour and work on his next recording about which he is also excited.

“I can’t quite share yet, but I look forward to telling you all about it when I am allowed to release the details.”

Performance Details: August 1 – 11 Venue: Bluestone Church Arts space, 8A Hyde St, Footscray Tickets: $25 - $36 Bookings: www.trybooking.com/VNTC

GEORGE DREYFUS CELEBRATION ■ Astralian composer, George Dreyfus, will be presenting his favourite life’s works at the Hawthorn Arts Centre on Sunday, July 22 at 2.30pm as a celebration for his 90th birthday.

This concert is a community event that invites George’s followers and lovers of music to come and participate in the music, or simply sit and enjoy George’s compositions.

The program includes: Fanfare, Grand Ridge Road, Rush, Peace, Vision from the Old Testament.

If interested to participate, a rehearsal will be held for the orchestra at the Hawthorn Arts Centre on July 22 starting at 10.30am.

The choir will join this rehearsal at 11.30am, followed by a lunch break at 1pm.

There is a familiarising rehearsal of Visions at 7:30pm on Wednesday, July 18 at St Columb’s Church.

Singers welcome. Complimentary T-shirts available to all performers.

Please bring your own stand and music parts.

Mr Dreyfus is available to help any group of instrumentalists or singers with the music anytime, any place.

For a live link to the music online, please email Stephanie MacLean (Concert Director):stef.maclean@gmail.com Phone: 0433 561 595 George Dreyfus (Conductor/ Composer) Email: gdreyfus@bigpond.net.au Phone: 9809 2671.

The event will take place in the Main Hall at Hawthorn Arts Centre.Admission is free.

- Cheryl Threadgold

Whitney ■ Produced by Simon Chinn, Jonathon Chinn and Lisa Erspamer, director Kevin Macdonald’s feature film documentary, Whitney, is an all-encompassing testament to Whitney Houston’s extraordinary talent and sadly curtailed life.

From Whitney’s childhood into her prime, the film portrays an entertainer loved the world over.

Her mother Cissy Houston’s insistence that her children attend gospel church weekly was no hardship for Whitney who simply loved to sing.

She was born into a family of singers, not the least Cissy and cousins Dione Warwick and Dee Dee Warwick.

Her aspiring parents moved the family out of the street gang neighbourhood of Newark to middle class New Jersey.

Cissy continued to groom her daughter for stardom and cunningly engineered the pivotal occasion of Whitney’s first stage break.

Through intimate interviews with family, friends and professional associates, we gain a broad picture of her world.

Her brothers, aunt and hairdresser’s memories are especially candid revealing a lovable, much loved, talented woman with a mixture of innocence and natural charm.

She inspired a generation of singers including Mariah Carey and Beyonce and moved world leaders notably Ronald Reagan and Saddam Hussein.

Never-seen-before archival footage disclosed her personal relationships such as that with bodyguard Robyn Crawford, Eddie Murphy, husband Bobby Brown and daughter Kristina.

A touching interview with her Aunt Bae describes the moment Whitney placed Kristina in Bae’s care for years while she toured.

Her two brothers openly speak of the duplicity of their fierce protection of Whitney alongside their heavy drug use.

Husband Bobby’s words were more defensive on the subject of the part drugs may have played towards her early death.

Life-changing effects of her career as a movie star in The Bodyguard are revealed.

Numerous performance clips including her unforgettable presentation of The Star Spangled Banner are thrilling to re-visit and reinforce the power of her artistry.

Opens: In cinemas, July 26 Running Time: 120 minutes - Review by Sherryn Danaher

Insanity

■ Isobel Yates presents her one-woman show Insanity on July 9, and July 11-14 at The Butterfly Club.

Part of the 2018 season of the Melbourne Cabaret Fringe Festival this original new work written, performed and directed by Isobel Yates explores the trials and tribulations of millennial feminist dating.

Dating is already a minefield of self reflection and compromise. But throw in some strong political views (and the radical notion that - shock, horror! - women are people) and suddenly Tinder is a terrifying place.

It’s one thing when you’re cool calm and collected - but who is ever that on a first date?

Isobel sings her way through this crazy world of men and anxiety (over which she has a lot less control than she would like to believe).

It’s the dating game itself.

Isobel has studied both Musical Theatre and Acting and is currently completing her Bachelor of Arts majoring in English and Theatre. Having trained in New York, London and Melbourne Isobel is excited to be putting on her first solo show on her home turf.

Dates: July 9 and July 11-14. Time: 7pm.

Cost: $25-32. Venue: The Butterfly Club, 5 Carson Place, Melbourne. Tickets: thebutterflyclub.com

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Movies, DVDs with Jim Sherlock, Aaron Rourke What’s Hot and What’s Not in Blu-Rays and DVDs FILM: FILM STARS DON'T DIE IN LIVERPOOL: Genre: Biography/Drama/Romance.

Cast: Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Annette Bening, Vanessa Redgrave.

Year: 2017.

Rating: M. Length: 106 Minutes.

Stars: **** Verdict: Biographical romantic drama based on the memoir of the same name by Peter Turner, and tells his story of his romance with aging Hollywood Oscar winning actress Gloria Grahame in 1970s Liverpool, only to face reality when she is diagnosed with cancer.

Annette Bening gives an outstanding heartfelt Oscar calibre performance as the failing Hollywood femme fatale Gloria Grahame, capturing her myriad of emotions and essence with sparkling vigour, emotional force and moving intensity as we journey through the low and high points of latter part of her career.

Jamie Bell is equally captivating as the everyday worker and budding actor from Liverpool who embraces the relationship with the troubled star with great honesty, devotion and unrelenting passion and friendship through to her final hours.

Co-stars Julie Walters and Kenneth Graham add some comic spice as the parents of Peter Turner, and along with veteran Vanessa Redgrave, capping off a perfect cast all right at the top of their game.

Intelligent, funny, poignant, unique and heartbreaking, this is a powerfully fitting, moving and unforgettable tribute to one of the screens most talented and truly great stars of the silver screen, a beguiling love story unlike anything else before or since. "Absolutely Unmissable."

Gloria Grahame's must-see classic films include: It's a Wonderful Life (1946), In a Lonely Place (1950), The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), Sudden Fear (1952), The Big Heat (1953), Human Desire (1954), The Good Die Young (1954), Oklahoma (1955), The Cobweb (1955), The Man Who Never Was (1956).

FILM: READY PLAYER ONE: Genre: Action/Adventure/Sci-Fi. Cast: Ty Sheridan, Mark Rylance, Olivia Cooke, Mckenna Grace, Ben Mendelsohn, Simon Pegg, Hannah JohnKamen.

Year: 2017.

Rating: M. Length: 140 Minutes.

Stars: **** Verdict: In the dystopian year 2045, the creator of a virtual reality world called the OASIS dies, an immersive virtual universe where most of humanity spends their time, and he releases a video in which he challenges all OASIS users to find his three part Easter Egg, which will give the finder his control and fortune.

Energetic, chaotic and dynamic rollercoaster ride from legendary filmmaker Steven Spielberg who lets his imagination run wild in this game-boy kaleidoscopic tribute to '80s pop culture and cinema history, and even though it runs too long, empty on character development and stumbles in the third act, it has so much to offer across the spectrum of pop culture and cinema it is undeniably unmissable.

Stars Ty Sheridan, Mark Rylance, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn and Simon Pegg are all fine, however, the real stars here belong to Steven Spielberg's encyclopedic cinematic imagination with endless characters over the decades and over the generations from the movies we have come relish, don't take your eyes off the screen for a second.

There so much, King Kong, George Pal's War of the Worlds, the Delorean from Back To The Future, The Iron Giant, Chucky from Child's Play, and too many more to mention, even Orson Welles' Citizen Kane get a well deserved reference, and if you are a fan of Stanley Kubrick and The Shining, there is an eye-popping bind bending moment that is worth the price of admission alone.

There's no doubt that the characters of OASIS creator James Halliday (Mark Rylance) and game-boy Wade (played by Ty Sheridan) are the combined alter egos of Steven Spielberg, among others, and through this adventure he has put his cinematic heart right on his sleeve and created a dizzying, dazzling, action packed, compelling and spellbinding CGI thrill ride, and not only a nod to the genre he played a major part in becoming so revered, but tribute back the future of those many that inspired so many on the screen before him.

FILM: EARLY MAN: Voices: Eddie Redmayne, Tom Hiddleston, Maise Williams, Timothy Spall, Miriam Margolyes, Rob Brydon.

Genre: Animated/Adventure/Comedy.

Year: 2018.

Rating: PG. Length: 89 Minutes.

Stars: *** Verdict: Set at the dawn of time, when prehistoric creatures and woolly mammoths roamed the earth, Early Man tells the story of cavemen Dug, along with sidekick Hognob as they unite his tribe against a mighty enemy Lord Nooth and his Bronze Age City in a soccer match to save their home.

Delightfully entertaining British Aardman Studios claymation stopmotion animated feature is basically an early origins football match reflective of today's European soccer rivalry, and is yet another hugely engaging family fun-fare addition that pushes all the right buttons in all the right places.

As expected, like the studios previous efforts that includes "Wallace and Gromit," "The Curse of the Were-Rabbit," and "Shaun the Sheep Movie" among others, the animation, production values, pacing and voice-overs are all exemplary, even if you don't have any interest in football.

Funny, goofy and brimming with unending sight gags and colourful characters, it may not quite reach the heights of their all-time classic "Chicken Run" (2000), but they certainly give it their best shot and the results are good natured fun ride! .... And don't walk out before the end credits are over.

Rourke’s Reviews JoJo’s Bizarre Adevnture

■ Diamond Is Unbreakable Chapter1 (MA). 119 minutes. Now available on DVD. With a body of work that includes just over one hundred movies, it was nice to see this energised film from the indefatigable Takashi Miike garner a theatrical release earlier this year.

While not up there with his best, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is still lively, colourful fun, filled with eccentric characters and strange, sometimes indescribable incidents.

Josuke (Kento Yamazaki), also known as JoJo, is a high school student with unique abilities, and is unsure of where they originated until he meets Jotaro (Yusuke Iseya), who explains not only where these special powers came from, but how they can be properly used.

Inadvertently teaming up with new student Koichi (Ryunosuke Kamiki), the understandably confused JoJo must figure out why his small town has been suddenly inundated with chaotic behaviour, and who is causing it.

Miike (Blade Of The Immortal) inventively brings all this mangaadapted madness to life, but in an attempt to cram as much of the source material into one film as possible, some of the narrative and secondary characters are overwhelmed by the frequent, elaborate craziness.

Still, there is enough vibrant entertainment here to warrant a second chapter.

RATING - ***

Die Hard

■ 30th Anniversary Collection (M). Five films. Now available on Blu-ray and DVD. It's hard to believe that Die Hard is now 30 years old, but there is no mistaking the influence it's had on both audiences and the action genre (the latest film to tip its hat to the iconic hit is the upcoming Dwayne Johnson release Skyscraper).

While the series fell away considerably in recent years, the first three still pack a punch, especially entries 1 and 3.

Now available as a box set to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the 1988 original, it is the perfect time to add these films to your collection (if you haven't already done so).

Die Hard (M) (1988). 131 minutes. ***** The original and still the best, this saw the introduction of everyman action hero John McClane (Bruce Willis), a New York cop visiting his ex-wife at the towering L.A. building where she works for a Christmas party.

But McClane gets more than he bargained for when a group of terrorists (lead by the late Alan Rickman, who is superb) arrive on the scene.

Director John McTiernan builds things nicely, before letting loose with several outstanding setpieces.

Die Hard 2 (M) (1990).

124 minutes. *** First sequel sees McClane dealing with another group of mercenaries, this time at Washington's Dulles Airport.

A brutal, ruthless nature is softened somewhat by an over-the-top, comic-book sensibility, throwing all credibility and logic to the wind.

Renny Harlin stages some impressive action scenes, but the frequent implausibility strips away a lot of McClane's everyman persona.

Die Hard : With A Vengeance (M) (1995). 128 minutes. **** Original director McTiernan returns, and the results are electrifying. McClane teams up with a local store owner (Samuel L. Jackson) to try and stop suave terrorist Simon (Jeremy Irons) and his crew from setting off bombs on the streets of New York.

Highly charged and brilliantly crafted, with eye-popping, on-location action, and great chemistry between Willis and Jackson, this is easily the best of the Die Hard sequels.

Die Hard 4.0 (M) (2007).

129 minutes. ** The series is updated to the cybercrime world, but the resultant film is unfortunately routine.

Len Wiseman (who helmed the Underworld films) goes for generic slickness, and the baddies are a dull bunch.

The third act mayhem is ludicrous, making the events in Part Two look utterly believable. A real disappointment.

A Good Day To Die Hard (M) (2013). 98 minutes. No stars.

The definite low point of the mega-successful series, this utterly incompetent and obnoxious effort is offensive to everyone who loved the first movie. McClane partners with his CIA agent son (a terrible Jai Courtney) to carry out an inordinate amount of destruction in the city of Moscow. Badly written and directed, featuring a lifeless performance from Willis, playing a character who no longer resembles the one audiences came to love in the original. The short running time is a key indication of the depressingly throwaway nature which fills the entire production. A prequel is apparently currently in the works.

Insult

■ It has been brought to my attention that Takashi Miike's Blade Of The Immortal (available locally since March 28), was released on blu-ray and DVD in a reformatted ratio. Instead of being in its correct theatrical aspect ratio of 2.35:1, it has unfortunately been reframed at 1.78:1, destroying the film-maker's original vision. I thought this outdated behaviour disappeared years ago, and it's an insult that movie fans once again have to endure this awkward, almost full-screen presentation. Those wanting to purchase Blade Of The Immortal are best to look towards the U.K, as their blu-rays are also region B (DVD though is region 2, not our region 4, so please be aware), and the film is definitely in its proper aspect ratio.

The U.K. release also has a wealth of extras.

- Aaron Rourke

Top 10 Lists JULY 8-14 THE AUSTRALIAN BOX OFFICE TOP TEN: 1. JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM. 2. INCREDIBLES 2.

3. HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 3: A MONSTER VACATION. 4. SICARIO: DAY OF THE SOLDADO. 5. OCEAN'S 8.

6. SANJU. 7. ADRIFT. 8. TAG. 9. DEADPOOL 2.

10. HEREDITARY. NEW RELEASES AND COMING SOON TO CINEMAS AROUND AUSTRALIA: JULY 5: ANT-MAN AND THE WASP, BACK TO BURGUNDY, L.O.R.D 2, MARY SHELLEY, MR. STEIN GOES ONLINE, SHOW DOGS. JULY 12: MUSE: DRONES WORLD TOUR, OOLONG COURTYAR, OVERBOARD, SKYSCRAPER, THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ANDRE, THE LEAKERS. THE DVD AND BLU-RAY TOP RENTALS & SALES: 1. READY PLAYER ONE [Sci-Fi/Action/ Adventure/Tye Sheridan, Ben Mendelsohn].

2. LOVE, SIMON [Romance/Comedy/ Drama/Josh Duhamel, Jennifer Garner, Nick Robinson].

3. FILM STARS DON'T DIE IN LIVERPOOL [Biography/Drama/Annette Bening, Jamie Bell].

4. EARLY MAN [Animated/Comedy/ Adventure/Timothy Spall, Tom Hiddleston].

5. PETER RABBIT [Comedy/Family/ Adventure/Domhnall Gleeson, Rose Byrne, James Corden].

6. A WRINKLE IN TIME [Adventure/Family/ Fantasy/Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon].

7. PACIFIC RIM: UPRISING [Action/Sci-Fi/ Adventure/John Boyega, Scott Eastwood].

8. TOMB RAIDER [Action/Adventure/ Drama/Alicia Vikander, Dominic West].

9. LADY BIRD [Comedy/Drama/Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts].

Also: THE GREATEST SHOWMAN, THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING MISSOURI, RED SPARROW, BLACK PANTHER, I KILL GIANTS, SWEET COUNTRY, 12 STRONG. LOVING VINCENT, GAME NIGHT, WINCHESTER. NEW HOME ENTERTAINMENT RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK: SHERLOCK GNOMES [Animated/Adventure/Comedy/Johnny Depp, Emily Blunt].

BLOCKERS [Comedy/John Cena, Leslie Mann, Kathryn Newton].

PAUL, APOSTLE OF CHRIST [Drama/ History/Jim Caviezel, Joanne Whalley].

DVD AND/OR BLU-RAY NEW & RE-RELEASE CLASSIC MOVIES HIGHLIGHTS: MI: MISSION IMPOSSIBLE, MI-2: MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 2, MI-3:IMISSION IMPOSSIBLE 3, MI-4: MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 4: Ghost Protocol, MI-5: MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 5: Rogue Nation 4K UHD + Blu-ray.

NEW RELEASE TELEVISION, DOCUMENTARY AND MUSIC HIGHLIGHTS: BOMBSHELL: The Hedy Lamarr Story.

TOP OF THE LAKE: China Girl.

- James Sherlock

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Local Theatre with Cheryl Threadgold and team PRIVATE LIVES

● Ian McGregor (Elyot) and Claire Benne (Amanda) rehearse Private Lives. Photo: David Belton ■ Heidelberg Theatre Company presents Noel Coward’s classic comedy Private Lives until July 21 at 36 Turnham Avenue, Rosanna.

Directed by Karen Wakeham, the plot of this jazz-age comedy tells of loving couple Elyot and Amanda having hastily divorced and both married again to different spouses.

Both new couples find themselves honeymooning in the same Deauville hotel in adjoining suites.

The original pair discover that they’re still in love after all and flee to Paris, pursued in haste by new partners, Sybil and Victor.

Coward's plays are said to have been written as vehicles for himself, and the witty language that characterises them is a reflection of his own crisp diction, vocal energy, and idiosyncratic tone.

Performance Details: Until July 21 at 8pm; 2pm matinees on July 15 and 21.

Venue: Heidelberg Theatre, 36 Turnham Ave., Rosanna Tickets: $27 concession/concession $24, Group of 10 plus $22 per ticket.

Bookings: www.htc.org.au or 9457 4117.

BELARUS ■ Malthouse Theatre has announced that the season of Belarus Free Theatre’s Generation Jeans, originally scheduled for 1 August 9-11 at the Beckett Theatre, has been extended to August 18 due to popular demand.

The production is also at Monash University, Alexander Theatre from August 6-8.

While in Melbourne, Belarus Free Theatre will also work with featuring five Australian performers - Tammy Anderson, Natasha Herbert, Niharika Senapati, Hazem Shammas, Daniel Schlusser – to create Trustees.

An explosive new work interrogating the Great Australian Silence, Trustees is cocommissioned and co-presented by Malthouse Theatre and Melbourne Festival, and will play at Malthouse from September 28 – October 21 as part of the 2018 Melbourne Festival program.

Belarus Free Theatre is the only theatre of its kind in Europe.

Founded in 2005 by husband and wife team Nicolai Khalezin and Natalia Kaliada, it consists of 25 members and nine students who use theatre as an artistic means to resist political censorship and pressure from the government.

Seeking political asylum in the UK in 2011, Belarus Free Theatre is banned in its native country–company members have served time in prison, lost their jobs, gone into hiding or been exiled.

Despite suffering every form of intimidation and harassment, the company continues to produce internationally-recognised theatre, attracting rave reviews and prestigious awards from London to New York.

Generation Jeans Monash University, Alexander Theatre, August 6-8 Malthouse Theatre, Beckett Theatre, 9— 18 August Trustees Malthouse Theatre, Beckett Theatre, September 28 – October 21.

- Cheryl Threadgold

For The Love Of It

● Dandyman (Daniel Oldaker). Photo: James Henry ■ For the Love of It – the won- expected experience filled with the absurd. Dandyman will derful and ridiculously funny moments of fun and spontane- create circus-inspired magical world of Dandyman is being ity that will fill everyone’s moments of mayhem, compresented July 11-14 at Deakin hearts. plete with goofy games, fun Edge.

“It’s all for the love it and competitions, prizes, funny During the school holidays, it’s for everyone: young and facts and very funny faces.

Varietyville Productions will old,” said Oldaker.

A five star award-winning present Dandyman (Daniel “The Alannah and physical comedian who draws Oldaker) and his circus com- Madeline Foundation cham- on 23 years of performance edy family show For the Love pion everything I believe in and, experience in over 30 countries, Of it at Federation Square. for this season of For the Love Dandyman is trained with In response to the recent of It, I will donate 50 per cent Phillippe Gaulier (Sascha personal incident while per- of ticket sales to support the Baron Cohen’s mentor), forming an outdoor pop up show foundation,” announced sought after by Cirque du Soleil at Federation Square, Oldaker. and Circus Oz and performed Dandyman is supporting the Performed in the round and at many of the most highly revision of the Alannah and with the audience creating a garded festivals and venues Madeline Foundation which huge heart-shape, For the Love around the globe. advocates for the safety and of It will feature ridiculously Tickets $20 wellbeing of children in Aus- raucous routines, fantastically Bookings: varietyville.com/ tralia. funny feats of stupidity whilst buy-tickets.html “For the Love of It is an un- going on fun filled journey of - Cheryl Threadgold

Latest shows, auditions SHOWS

SHOWS

■ Williamstown Little Theatre: Under Milk Wood (by Dylan Thomas) Untl July 14 at 2 Albert St., Williamstown. Director: Sandy Green. Bookings: www.wlt.org.au ■ Geelong Repertory Theatre Company: Barefoot in the Park (by Neil Simon) Until July 14 at the Woodbin Theatre, 15 Coronation St., Geelong West. Director; Kelly Clifford. Bookings: GPAC 5225 1200.

■ Ark Theatre Inc: The ARKadian Authentic All-Woman Old Time Music Hall the Second, Untl July 14 at the Lilydale Heights College Performing Arts Centre, 17 Nelson rd., Lilydale.

Tickets: $20. Booking enquiries: ark_theatre@ yahoo.com.au ■ Heidelberg Theatre Company: Private Lives (by Noel Coward) Until July 21 at 36 Turnham Ave., Rosanna. Director: Karen Wakeham. Enquiries: www.htc.org.au or 9457 4117.

■ Ballarat National Theatre: Mr Bailey's Minder (by Debra Oswald) Until July 14 at Her Majesty's Theatre, 17 Lydiard St., Ballarat. Director: Linda Davey. Bookings: 5333 5888.

■ Encore Theatre: The Weekend (by Michael Palin) July 13 - 28 at Clayton Community Centre, Cooke St., Clayton. Director: Dexter Bourke.

Bookings: 1300 739 099. Or www.encoretheatre.com.au ■ Diamond Valley Singers: Cinderella (Rogers and Hammerstein's Broadway Show) Until July 14 at the Warrandyte High School theatre, Alexander Rd., Warrandyte. Director: Tam Smith. Bookings: www.dvsingers.org

■ Dandenong Ranges One Act Play Festival: July 20 - 22 at The Gem Theatre, 19 Kilvington Drive, Emerald. Festival director: Sharon Maine. www.gemcoplayers.org/festivals/. Entries: Gemco Players Community Theatre Inc., PO Box 480, Emerald.

■ PLOS Musical Productions: The Phantom of the Opera July 20 - 28 at the Frankston Arts Centre.Full $55, Conc $50, U16yrs $30. 150 minutes including interval. www.plos.asn.au ■ Frankston Theatre Group: Albert Nobbs (by Gordon Steel) July 27, 28, August 3 and 4 at 8pm, August 5 at 2pm at the Frankston Mechanics' Institute, 5A Plowman Place, Frankston. Director: Rob Lister. Bookings: 1300 665 377.

AUDITIONS ■ Encore Theatre: Speaking in Tongues (by Andrew Bovel) July 15 at 2pm, July 16 at 6pm at Fleigner Hall, 31-39 Highland Ave., Oakleigh East. Director: Louise Woodward. Enquiries: 0416 777 356.

■ Queenscliffe Lighthouse Theatre Group: Dinkum Assorted (by Linda Aronson) July 19 at 7pm at the Queenscliff RSL. Director: Jennie Tonzing; Musical Director: Ron Sudden. All female cast required ages 18 - 80. Enquiries and further information: www.qltg.org.au ■ Peridot Theatre: Sylvia (by A R Gurney) July 23, 25 at 7.30pm at Unicorn Theatre, Lechte Rd., Mt Waverley. Director: Susan Rundle. Enquiries: 0416 298 136.

PRECARIOUS

● Sophia Exiner, Tania Cervantes Charnorro, Jeremy Hopkins and Dylan Singh in Circus Oz’s Precarious.Photo: Rob Blackburn ■ I can proudly say “I was there” during the early stages of Circus Oz entertainment – in fact watching someone climbing higher and higher while building chairs in City Square is etched firmly in my memory of Melbourne Arts in the mid 1970s.

Not insignificant is that here was a circus that totally banned animal exploitation , instead presenting work where the human body was closely observed in death defying physical feats , skillfully focusing fun while social messaging.

That intent of shows having underlying social messages has been a constant with the company ever since, with this production teaming with the Royal Botanical Gardens to underline an environmental theme.

Evolving always, Circus Oz now celebrates 40 successful years. Huge congratulations are due to founders, past visionaries, and all on and back stage performers and directors.

Precarious’s current co-directors Rob Tannion and Kate Fryer, mesmerise but also energise the audience with a fabulous night celebrating human skills , interdependence, and trust, while also suggesting we take care to balance human existence with the land .

As ever the non stop rhythm and music (Jeremy Hopkins and Sophia Exiner) was the backbone that the ensemble’s physicality hung on.

Choreographed ensemble gymnastics , tighter than a tango, opened the show dismantling a symbolic block of forestry and buildings with mathematical precision.

With our environment by now in a Precarious position , a seed had to be discovered and saved if the world were to survive.

The brilliant , seemingly simple, mayhem that followed highlighted clowning, juggling, rings, hoops, cyr wheel, planks, trapeze and pole , but finally the day was won , despite muddling Ministeries. The seed of hope for the future was found.

The ensemble Tara Silcock, Tania Cervantes, Dylan Singh, Jake Silvestro, Jon Bonaventura, Emily Gare, Lachlan Sukroo, with sound from Joe Ferguson , gave us a brilliantly conceived and executed performance causing us to reflect upon humanity’s “precarious” future .

But let’s never forget that the life of this sort of theatre quite literally depends on the team behind it– rigger Andrew Dyson can take a bow - while you take the family.

The Big Top (heated) Southern Cross Lawn, Royal Botanical Gardens until July 15 Tickets: circusoz.com $50-$60 ; $35 – 45; family $135 - $165 - Review by Maggie Morrison

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Lovatts Crossword No 6 Across

1. Most advantageous 6. Drearier 11. Oil-exporting cartel 13. Oar 17. Frustrates 22. Mushroom seed 23. Go to bistro (3,3) 24. Chief 25. Step 26. Scottish city 27. Cavort 29. Domesticated 32. Flair 34. Terra firma (3,4) 35. Chain-store outlet 36. Demure 38. Glide aloft 39. Thoughts 41. Pointy beard 42. Keepsakes 44. Finest 46. Mausoleum, Taj ...

48. Doze, ... off 49. Common shoreline bird 50. Lucifer 51. Direction 53. Elbowroom 56. A single entity 57. Man 58. Reached high point 59. Female fox 60. Beast 63. Agree to 65. Deity 66. Red-faced 67. Grandma 68. Squash (insect) 69. Cloth scrap 71. Manned (ship) 72. Skirt edge 74. Fencing sword 75. Canine skin disease 76. Float on breeze 77. Early Peruvians 79. Classic painting, ... Lisa 80. Adult education group (1,1,1) 82. Elliptical shapes 84. Vegetable paste 85. Tiny 87. Tennis champ, Monica ...

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Winx: here we go again

■ Champion mare Winx returns to racing next month when she contests the Winx Stakes named in her honour over 1600 metres in Sydney.

The mighty mare will attempt to beat Black Caviar's run of 25 consecutive wins, as a rising seven-year-old mare.

In my lifetime, like many racehorse lovers, I have seen four of the greatest mares of all times.

I remember the great Sunline who won two Cox Plates and unlucky in a third, then there was the champion staying mare, Makybe Diva, who won three successive Melbourne Cups back in 2003-04 and 2005.

I recall quite vividly, Makybe Diva's trainer, Lee Freedman, saying after her third great win in the Cup, that the only person on course that day who may see another get the hat-trick would be a very young child, how true.

After Makybe Diva, we saw the giant mare, Black Caviar who won 25 on end produced each week by master trainer, Peter Moody.

On many occasions Peter explained it was a battle sometimes to keep her up at her best mainly due to the size of the mare, mainly putting pressure on her ligaments and bones.

Then along came Winx, who didn't set the world on fire with her first few runs, then bang, 25 on end to equal Black Caviar's outstanding efforts.

Now she is being set to win yet another Cox Plate at Moonee Valley in October to snatch the equal record with Kingston Town of having won three all on end.

When she returns in the Winx Stakes on August 14, as mentioned she will be a year older at seven and not many mares race after five or six, so it's a great effort.

Like Peter Moody, the trainer of Winx, Chris Waller, an ex-New Zealander, he has been in the same boat at Peter Moody with constant worries in having her spot on, race days.

I know in my lifetime I won't see any better than the four great mares mentioned.

Back to the Winx Stakes, Winx has been made a $1.10 favourite to make it 26 on end, with the main dangers, if any, Kementari, a rising four-year old in the James Cummings camp, who won the Hobartville Stakes in Sydney in good style.

Coming back in distance the Doncaster winner, Happy Clapper, is all class, and will be among the placings, he always gives of his best, and has been placed behind Winx.

Chris Waller is making sure that Winx will have plenty of friendly rivals with another couple of his stablemates, D'Argento and Perata, entered for the big one, both with tons of ability.

On the next line is the untapped, Dark Dream, yet to miss a place after 10 runs.

He is very good and will turn four on August 1, take Winx out of the equation, he would be hard to beat; he is all class.

Of the others Unforgotten, the Australian Oaks winner, is very good, along with the rising four-year-old mare, Champagne Cuddles, who after a couple of hard runs was beaten in the Tatts Tiara.

One you can't leave out, not that I think he can beat Winx, is Santa Ana Lane, who has won brilliantly at his last two starts, both big races.

His trainer, Anthony Freedman, and his team have done a great job with him, and he is in a purple patch of form at present.

What can you say, Winx, Winx, and Winx again, they can't run the times that she can, wet or dry, 1200 metres or 2000 metres, it doesn't matter.

Words and pics

■ Australians love to celebrate their heroes, and there's no better way to celebrate the mighty mare, Winx, than to tell her story.

It's a tale of extraordinary horse, yes, but it's also the story of the people who made it all happen, of their hopes, their sometimes decadeslong dreams, of a whole lot of hard work and, sometimes, nerve-shedding amounts of money.

Winx, a biography of a champion, is essen-

● Kementari on his way to a start in the Caulfield Guineas. Racing Photos tial reading, not just for racing fans, but even for Magic Millions two-year old classic at Aquis the most casual observer who's been caught up Park or the $2 million Inglis two year-old Milin her amazing story. lennium at Warwick Farm. The $1 million Winx, coming from a moderate beginning to Breeder Bonus Challenge celebrates the fact match Black Caviar's 25 wins in a row; earning that The Mission is the first champion two-year ranking as the best grass-track galloper in the old to retire to stud in Queensland in over a world, and smashing all sorts of records along decade. the way.

The scheme includes bonus payments of beWith 48 pages of stunning colour photographs, tween $25,000 and $ 1 million for any two, yearand written by Trevor Marshallsea, racing afi- old winner from The Mission's first crop. cionado and best-selling co-writer of trainer, Aquis secured The Mission to stand in 2018 Peter Moody's A long way from Wyandra, at its Queensland Property at Canungra to proWinx; A Biography of a Champion. vide local breeders with a stallion that has the I must get hold of a copy sounds like great speed and commerciality that all Australian reading and viewing. breeders are looking for, but also a stallion that will complement the bloodlines that are particularly prevalent in the Queensland Broodmare ■ Leading thoroughbred outfit Aquis has un- population.

The Mission was an outstanding juvenile and veiled one the world's largest-ever breeder bo- champion two-year-old in 2016-17. nus schemes, with $1 million on offer for any An extremely precocious son of Choisir, The progeny of debut sire, The Mission.

Mission debuted in the Listed Breeder's Plate It is set aside from progeny of The Mission before rounding his two year-old season with for any of his stock that wins a two year-old victory in the Group One Champagne Stakes Group One race In Australia, the $2 million beating none other than the co-champion, two year old , and Group One Sires Produce stakes winner, Invader.

The Mission possesses some of the most prepotent bloodlines found in champion stallionshe is inbred to Danehill via his sensational champion sire sons, Danehill Dancer and Redoute's Choice.

The Mission possesses some of the most prepotent bloodlines found in champion stallions he is inbred to Danehill via his sensational champion sire Aquis is also showing its continued support and commitment to the Australian thoroughbred racing and breeding industries by donating 10 per cent of all bonus pay-outs to industry related charities.

Aquis CEO, Shane Mc Grath said "At Aquis we are grateful of a thriving industry that is in a position to give generously to those in need, where that may be improving services within our local community and supporting our farmers in times of hardship.

Rated 1 lb superior to Trapeze Artist at two and running a huge race behind him in Group One All Aged Stakes at three, The Mission hails from the family of successful sires Pompeii Court-sire of champion two year-olds, Courtza, and Pompeii Pearl and the successful American based sire Ghazi-sire of Irish champion three year-old, Port Bayou.

Aquis also wishes to show its continued support and commitment to the Australian thoroughbred racing and breeding industries by donating 10 per cent of all bonus pay-outs to industry related charities.

Aquis are to be congratulated being at the forefront in helping the breeding industry in Australia, a big step in the right direction.

- Ted Ryan

$1 million bonus

Ted Ryan

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Wine Column Project based on love

● Wendy Lawson with 'new' winemaker John Hordern.

■ John Rozentals tries some fine wines from a Hunter Valley project based on true love.

I'm sure that Wendy Lawson, of the HunterValley's CatherineValeWines, would rather forget January 2016.

Firstly, the wettest January in living memory made for one one of the most challenging vintages in the district.

Much more importantly from a personal perspective, Wendy lost Bill, her husband, to cancer.

They had created Catherine Vale very much together, starting in 1989 when they bought a property near Bulga, and looking at photos of them together, they were deeply in love.

I'm really not sure how the 2016 vintage was managed by Wendy, but with the help of friends, it was somehow managed.

Since then winemaking has been conducted by John Hordern, a very experienced hand at turning out some top wines in the HunterValley.

Catherine Vale is located in a gorgeous spot in the Wollombi Valley and it's fitting that it continues to turn out some impressive wines indeed. The winery, incidentally, takes its name from Catherine Lyndsay Haydon, Bill's very assertive aunt.

WINE REVIEWS Catherine Vale 2017 Arneis ($20): A simple wine that deserves simple, but tasty, food. Serve with a bucket of prawns and a straight-forward seafood sauce. The wine has enough flavour to handle the prawns and enough acidity to cut through the sauce.

Throw in half an avocado, some vinaigrette, a slice of sourdough toast and you have a feast. Aren't simple flavours just so fabulous? Arneis, by the way, is an Italian white variety from Piedmont and is gaining increasing traction in Australian vineyards.

Catherine Vale 2017 Winifred Barbera ($28): Barbera is another variety from Italy's Piedmont district, though in this case red and much better known to Australian consumers.

A perfect medium-bodied pizza-and-pasta dry red. Take a bottle to the local bistro - or, better still, serve it on the kitchen bench and enjoy with a bowl of spag bol. It's fresh and light-to-medium-bodied and ideal for washing down this sort of food.

WINE OF THE WEEK Windowrie 2016 Family Reerve Shiraz ($35): "Our ambition is to be one of the top shiraz winemakers in NSW," says Anthony D'Onise, winemaker at Canowindra-based Windowrie. Taking this premium shiraz as an example, he's not far off that target.

The wine certainly reflects vineyard and winery efforts to increase the depth of flavour in the Family Reserve range. It's a fresh, juicy modern style of medium-bodied shiraz ideally suited to red-meat dishes.

- John Rozentals

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Deck-Doc

Local company chosen as best in the world

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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WINTER IS HERE, ORDER YOUR TANK NOW

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Learning to Ride

Balance Bikes from Ivanhoe Cycles Balance Bikes (also called training bikes) are pedalless bikes designed to provide fun and exercise and to teach the basic skills of steering, balance and co-ordination.

They are suited to a child from 2 to 5 years of age.

The child simply sits astride the balance bike and "walks" while steering with the handlebars.

It effectively allows them to learn balance without having to learn to pedal at the same time. It cuts the learning "gradient" down. They are also called pre bikes or first bikes.

Balance bikes are becoming increasingly popular, as it is so much easier to learn to ride. Learning to ride can be achieved at their own pace. A less confident child can “walk� it around for as long as they like, then

when ready, they can gradually lift their feet and scoo along until they are ready to simply push off and jus roll along.

More confident kids will be flying around with huge smiles in no time at all.

Because they have a sturdy aluminium or steel frame and well constructed wheels they are virtually trouble free, and can be passed down from child to child.

BYK E250L PURPLE $219

GIANT PRE BIKE - RED $199

Mongoose Lilgoose WNR Girls Balance Bike 12 Inch $179

Byk E250L Purple - Girls 14inch Balance Bike

12 inch boys balance bike that is a perfect gradient for learning to ride a real bike

The low stand-over height makes it very easy to get on and off the bike,

LIL ZOOMER BALANCE BIKE - GREEN $99

BYK E200L $189

Little Zoomer Balance Bike in any colour. A fun way to teach balance and coordination! Suitable 2-4 years.

Byk E200L. Balance Bikes make it so much easier for your child to learn to ride.

MONGOOSE LILGOOSE WNR BOYS BALANCE BIKE 12 INCH $179 The Mongoose Lilgoose Balance bike is not only one of the cutest designs we've seen on a training bike.