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Showbiz News

Moral Panic

‘80 minutes, no interval’ Lentil As Anything

■ Local artist and artstherapist, Michelle Morgan is exhibiting her Mandal a Day artwork in a new exhibition at Lentil as Anything, Thornbury.

Michelle Morgan is creating a new artwork everyday for a year. The Mandal a Day exhibition is celebrating the midway point of this creative commitment.

Local artist Jac Price initiated the challenge Mandalas in May: " I found the practice offered me so much that when the month ended, I decided to continue for a year," says exhibition artist Michelle.

Making art supports mental health and wellbeing through emotional expression, especially where feelings are difficult to verbalise. Some of the mandalas represent experiences of joy, grief, rage, doubt, or sickness. Michelle is also offering a series of Creative Play Mandala workshops there is no right or wrong way to make art.

E xhibition runs until December 14.

Mandal a Day Venue: Lentil As Anything 562-564 High St, Thornbury - Peter Kemp

● Writer and director Travis Cotton

Film funding sought

■ Hot Mess Productions presents 80 Minutes No Interval from November 21 until December 2 at Theatre Works St Kilda.

Written, directed and performed by Travis Cotton, 80 Minutes No Interval stars Louis, an out-of-luck failing novelist, theatre reviewer and romantic who has worn out his girlfriend and parent's investment property.

The tongue-in-cheek performance explores comedic perseverance through life’s misfortunes and addresses the struggles of chasing perfection in the creative world.

Travis Cotton is an award-winning Australian actor and playwright. His shows have played around Australia and he was recently awarded the 2018 Lysicrates Prize for his play Starfish.

Joining Cotton in the cast are Martelle Hammer, Robin Goldsworthy, Tom O’Sullivan and Tamzen Hayes.

Dates: November 21 – December 2 Times: Tue. – Sat. 7.30pm, Sun 5pm (80 mins) Venue: Theatre Works, 14 Acland Street, St Kilda Tickets: $35.50 - $47.50 (booking fees included) Bookings: theatreworks.org.au or call 9534 3388 - Cheryl Threadgold

Radio Briefs

■ Michael Mason, ABC's head of radio is leaving the public broadcaster, but says his departure is in no way linked to recent leadership turmoil, according to The Age. ■ Justin Smith has a new Sunday night weekly round-up on the Macquarie national network. There is an ample amount of Alan Jones-Ray Hadley replays.

■ There isn speculation that Kevin Bartlett may be leaving SEN 1116 and perhaps joining Macquarie Sport 1278.

■ The occult thriller Moral Panic will be presented from November 14 – 24 at the Northcote Town Hall Arts Centre..

Written by Rachel Perks and directed by Bridget Balodis is an unsettling hallucination, a deep dive into witchcraft and a dark comedy that dares audiences to venture to strange and uncomfortable places.

“We have been working on Moral Panic for over two years now and the longer we work on it the more politically relevant it seems to become.

It is about three young witches - two women and one non-binary person, meeting in the forest to curse the patriarchs in their lives. One of them has built a digital Ouija board for contacting spirits and they get themselves into much more than they bargained for.”

“Right now, all around the world, there are women and queer folk actively practising witchcraft. It’s having a renaissance. We see witchcraft as a really exciting and deeply theatrical way of exploring gender, queerness and feminism,” said Rachel Perks.

Over the past five years Perks and Balodis have made three works which explore feminist futures and system collapse through speculative fiction and celebrate the lives of women and queer folk. Although they have differing narratives, the three works exist in the same thematic and dramaturgical world.

Moral Panic places queer and feminine experiences at its centre and looks at how existing structures are made to serve the needs of the powerful and how they might be subverted and reclaimed by the oppressed.

The Moral Panic cast includes performer and theatre-maker Kai Bradley, actor and theatre maker Chanella Marcri, actor Eva Seymour and actor/musical theatre performer Jennifer Vuletic.

Dates: November 14-24. Time: Wednesday - Saturday 8pm, Sunday 6pm, Saturday 24 November 2pm matinee. Venue: The Main Hall, Northcote Town Hall Arts Centre Duration: 60 mins. Tickets: Full $33, Conc/ Student $28, Preview $25.

- Cheryl Threadgold

Observations

with Matt Bissett-Johnson

● Joshua Charles Dawe.

■ Joshua Charles Dawe was cast as Ned crimes can ever be forgiven.

Kelly in the short film Stringybark, which was “We think this is especially poignant in the a successfully crowdfunded feature film. current gender landscape in Australia and beThis is the first film in cinema history to lieve this film will truly engage and provoke tell the story of the policeman that Ned Kelly thought and dialogue for our audience,” says murdered in cold blood at Stringybark from co-producer Erica Zulian. their perspective.

The project has been in development for Joshua is interested in stories being told nearly three years, and was created by Joshua from both sides, that showcase the reality of Dawe, who plays the lead Ethan, having just real life. portrayed notorious bushranger Ned Kelly in Loren is the story of Ethan; a man in his the upcoming Stringybark.

30s who awakes from a dream that links him “I wanted to explore the idea of trauma, to a traumatic childhood he has long since and how it affects different people,” says repressed.

Joshua.

The dream reveals itself as a link to his “In our story Ethan suffers an enormously past and begin to stir an uncontrollable need traumatic moment as a young boy; and his for destruction and violence within him. shock and subsequent response was to repress Ethan undergoes a quest to try and cure these memories deep into his subconscious.” himself and absolve himself of his sins, when “When we find the boy later on as a man, he meets Loren; the sister of one of his vic- his memories begin to take hold of him and tims. guide him on a twisted quest for absolution But where is the line between a man des- from his sins.” perately in need of help, and a monster?

“We have an amazing team of industry A short film, being shot with the intention to professionals all on-board but are relying on secure funding to be expanded into a full fea- the generosity of pledges through ture; Loren aims to challenge the concept of crowdfunding to get this film made,” says coclassical male dominance within relationships, producer Shane Palmer. and whether even the most unforgivable Turn To Page 59

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Victorian History

Victorains celebrate the Melbourne Cup ■ The Melbourne Cup has long interested readers across Victoria.

The 2018 event will be held at 3pm on Tuesday (Nov. 6). A long weekend, that extends to four days for some, precedes the Cup. The late Tom Dignam, editor of a country newspaper from 1936 to 1984, could recite the names of the winners of each of the Cups.

In 1885, the local Evelyn Observer newspaper carried an advertisement from Albert S. Manders, of Collins St, Mel-bourne, offering to send telegrams with news of the winners.

“On account of the immense amount of interest attached to the great race of the year, as well as to the many sporting events leading up to it, and in order to enable those who may for many reasons be precluded from visiting the .Melbourne or Sydney meetings, to receive the news of the issues of these events as early as possible, we have decided upon forwarding the results of any single race of any one meetting in any colony to the following parts of Australia, including costs of Telegram at following rates, viz : “Any single race with first second and third horses, and time, held in Melbourne or Sydney, to any part of Victoria - 1s 6d.”

The first Melbourne Cup was held in 1861. It was won by Archer, the product of British sire William Tell and native dam Maid of the Oaks.

Legend has it that Archer covered the 800 kilometre distance from his home stable in New South Wales, but it would seem that this story is apocryphal.

His trainer, Etienne de Mestre, regularly used steamers to transport all of the horses in his charge betwixt racing venues in Sydney and Melbourne.

At any rate, Archer managed to appear and also to win the very first Melbourne Cup quite handily. He beat the favourite, Mormon, by six lengths in front of 4000 spectators.

The following year, Archerwould beat 19 others even though the VRC had given him 64 kg to lug around the course.

In 1868, the first year of local newspapers in this area, the Alexandra Times gave details for a local sweep, with 100 members at 10 shillings each.

The first prize was £20, with £10 for second, and £5 for third, starters and non-starters.

Tickets were available from Kelson’s Junction Hotel at Jamieson.

In later years, there were prominent ads in Alexandra for the Eldorado sweep, with a 5 shillings entry, and 60 per cent prize for first, 20 per cent for the runner-up, and 10 per cent for third.

In 1872, Alexandra chimney sweep William Lawrence advertised with a testimonial from ‘G.T. Roulette’: “I am only aware of one better sweep in the district than William Lawrence, and that is the Sweep on the Melbourne Cup to be drawn at the Mount Pleasant Hotel.”

The Melbourne Cup theme was used in 1872 to promote the Mount Pleasant Hotel. It quoted ‘Fred’: “I'm just going up to Anderson's, at the ' Mount Pleasant,' for a ticket in the Alexandra Sweep on the Melbourne Cup, which I much pre-

● Peter Pan, ridden by Darby Munro, won in 1932 and 1934 fer to Miller's. Anderson has by an The Evelyn Observer said the atinfinite amount the best appointed tendance at the 1883 meeting was stable in this settlement, and only 123,000. charges Four Shillings a night for full “The day's racing concluded with livery ; he has got his bar and parlours the Yan Yean Stakes, which Olga altered and fitted up afresh, and ev- won, Chloris being second and Iron erything looks so snug and comfort- Hand third. The railway arangements able; I declare I can’t drink a glass were good, and in a very short space of anything anywhere else.” of time the large concourse of visiIn the November 1872 news col- tors who patronised the rail were conumns, the Times reported: “A few of veyed back to town,” said The Age. our townspeople intend visiting the In 1889, the Evelyn Observer carmetropolis on the occasion.” ried a report by a local man who In 1882, the Seymour Express made the trip from Kangaroo carried an advertisement for the Ground to Flemington on MelOrient’s Melbourne Cup Consulta- bourne Cup Day. tion with 10,000 “shares” at £2 each, “On approaching Heidelberg I with 800 prizes including £4000 for met several vans crowded with first horse. people, mostly young, who were Applications, by letter only, were singingand otherwise amu sing them to be addressed to W. Sinclair, East- selves. ern Arcade, Melbourne, who prom“These few vans only portended ised to send slips immediately after that ere mid-day would arrive scores the draw. of velicles would travel the road, J. Thomas, of 20 Swanston St, bearing pic-nic parties to pleasant Melbourne - under the headline of places; and so it appears that "all the ‘A Fortune for 1s’ - invited readers world and his wife" did not go to the to sell 20 tickets at one shilling each, races, but shows that there are thouand send the money by cash, Post sands that look forward to and appreOffice order or stamps for his ‘Bo- ciate this great Victorian holiday, not nanza’ draw. because it is Cup Day, but because it He offered the incentive of a free affords them an opportunity of enticket for every 20 sold: “"thus en- joying, at the most pleasant time of abling the getting of a club of 20 the year, a drive and a pic-nic in the members a chance of winning £1000 country.” without investing a single penny".

In 1892, the Yea newspaper said The Seymour Express correspon- of the Melbourne Cup that it “should dent, in 1883, noted that: “The result attract one of the most enormous of the last Melbourne Cup was gatherings ever witnessed at known in Dunnedin (sic) before the Flemington, for when the greatest winner was weighed. event of the racing year is to be de“This was undoubtedly a feat in cided anyone who is anyone must telegraphy; but it was nothing to what see how it results. can be achieved in the North-east“In Queensland, New Zealand, ern district.

Tasmania, South Australia, and “On Saturday morning a telegram even in West Australia, it is the one for the Express Office, which was intercolonial affair which, for the handed in at Mangalore at 9.45 a.m. time, overshadows all local politics, reached Seymour at 12 o'clock. all local i terests, in which even the “Of course the time occupied in clergy and the Salvation Army take transit was only two hours and a quar- the deepest, the most absorbing inter, but as the distance is only six terest, as is shown by the prominence miles, and as a paralytic Sundowner they give it in their sermons and discould have done it in half the time it courses as it draws nears. appears to me that the lightning must “Every squatter's hand, from boss have knocked around every country to rouseabout, thinks or dreams of it, in Europe before it finally called at every farmer and farm hand does Seymour.” ditto, every merchant, sea captain, The Express reported that a to- doctor, in fact every Australian, has bacconist was fined £15 for running to know what will win the Cup, eva Melbourne Cup sweep. ery man of sense who can raise the The local newspaper quoted The price of a railway icket, or a passage Australasian newspaper which rec- by sea, and that's cheap enough, does ommended that sweep investments see it, and an enormous gather ing, were safer in the hands of Mr J.J. and a rare day's racing the V.R.C. Miller and Mr J. Boland. gives its patrons then.”

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LILYDALE. Lilydale Newsagency. 237 Main St. LOWER PLENTY. Lower Plenty Newsagency. 95 Main Rd. MALVERN. Lucky Malvern Lotto. 167 Glenferrie Rd. MALVERN. Malvern Newsagency. 114 Glenferrie Rd. MALVERN. Malvern Village Newsagency.

1352 Malvern Rd. MALVERN EAST. Central Park Newsagency. 393 Wattletree Rd. MALVERN EAST NEWSAGENCY. Waverley Road Newsagency. 336 Waverley Rd. McKINNON. McKinnon Newsagency. 163 McKinnon Rd MELBOURNE. Domain Newsagency.

Shop 6, 401 St Kilda Rd. MELBOURNE. Flinders Street Newsagency. 65 Flinders St. MELTON. Newsxpress Melton.

MENTONE. Mentone Newsagency. 24 Como Pde. MERLYNSTON. Merlynston Newsagency.

17 Merlyn St. MIDDLE PARK. Middle Park Newsagency. 16 Armstrong St. MILDURA. Klemm's Mildura Newsagency.

53 Langtree Mall.

MILDURA. Mildura Newsagency and Lotto. 71 Langtree Ave. MILL PARK. Mill Park Newsagency. 4 Stables Shopping Centre.

MITCHAM. Mitcham Newsagency. 503 Whitehorse Rd. MITCHAM NORTH. Mitcham North Newsagency. 228 Mitcham Rd MOOROOPNA. Mooroopna Newsagency.

84 McLennan St. MORDIALLOC. Warren Village Newsagency. 87 Warren Rd. MORNINGTON. Mornington Newsagency. 97 Main St. MORWELL. Morwell Newsagency. 176 Commercial Rd. MOUNT ELIZA. Mount Eliza Newsagency.

102 Mount Eliza Way.

MOUNT GAMBIER. Posters Newsagency.

79 Commercial St East.

MOUNT MARTHA. Mount Martha Newsagency. 2 Lochiel Ave. MOUNT WAVERLEY. Pinewood Newsagency. Shop 59, Centreway Shopping Centre.

MOUNTAIN GATE. Mountain Gate Newsagency. Shop 9B, Mountain Gate Shopping Centre.

MULGRAVE. Northvale Newsagency. 901 Springvale Rd. MULGRAVE. Waverley Gardens Newsagency. Shop 44, Waverley Gardens.

MURRUMBEENA. Murrumbeena Newsagency. 456 Neerim Rd. NARRE WARREN. Narre Warren Newsagency. Shop 1, Narre Warren.

NEWBOROUGH. Newborough Newsagency. 30 Rutherglen St. NEWMARKET. Newmarket Newsagency.

292 Racecourse Rd NOBLE PARK. Noble Park Newsagency.

422 Douglas St. NORTHCOTE. Newsplaza Newsagency, Northcote Plaza.

NORTHCOTE. Northcote Newsagency.

335 High St. NORTH MELBOURNE. Ledermans Newsagency. 234-244 Macauley Rd. NUNAWADING. Mountainview Newsagency. 293A Springfield Rd. PARKDALE. Parkdale Newsagency. 238 Como Pde. West.

PASCOE VALE SOUTH. Coonans Hill Newsagency. 67 Coonans Rd. PASCOE VALE SOUTH. Paper N Post.

372-380 Bell St. PRESTON. Preston N’agency. 377 High St. PRESTON. Preston Town Hall Newsagency. 247-249 Murray Rd. PRINCES HILL. Princes Hill Newsagency.

607 Lygon St RESERVOIR. Broadway Newsagency.

279 Broadway.

RICHMOND. Swan St Newsagency. 108 Swan St. RICHMOND. Vernons Newsagency. 308A Bridge Rd. RINGWOOD EAST. Ringwood East Newsagency. 52 Railway Ave. RINGWOOD NORTH. North Ringwood Newsagency. 182 Warrandyte Rd. ROBINVALE. Robinvale Newsagency. 67 Perrin St. ROSANNA. Rosanna Newsagency. 135 Lower Plenty Rd. ROSEBUD. Rosebud Newsagency. 1083 Point Nepean Rd. RYE. Rye Newsagency. 2371 Pt Nepean Rd. SALE. Sale Newsagency. 310 Raymond St. SANDRINGHAM. Sandringham Newsagency. Shop 5, 18-34 Station St. SCORESBY. Scoresby Newsagency. 14 Darryl St. SEAFORD. Seaford Newsagency. 124 Nepean Hwy. SEBASTOPOL. Sebastopol Newsagency.

Shop 3, 'Safeway Complex'.

SHEPPARTON. Goulburn Valley Newsagency. 314 Wyndham St. SHEPPARTON. Lovell Newsagency. 246 Wyndham St. SOMERVILLE. Somerville Newsagency.

Shop 24, Plaza, Eramosa Rd. SOUTH MELBOURNE. Clarendon Newsagency. 9 Thistlewaite St. SPRINGVALE. Springvale Newsagency.

321 Springvale Rd. STRATHFIELDSAYE. Strathfieldsaye News and Lotto. Shop 5, 939 Wellington St. TARWIN LOWER. Tarwin Lower Newsagency. 45 River Drive.

TATURA. Tatura N’agency. 138 Hogan St. TEMPLESTOWE. Macedon News and Lotto.

THORNBURY. Normanby News and Lotto. 25 Macedon Rd TOORADIN. Tooradin Newsagency. 92 South Gippsland Hwy. TOORAK. Toorak Village Newsagency.

479 Toorak Rd. TORQUAY. Torquay Newsagency. 20 Gilbert St. TRARALGON. Seymour Street Newsagency. 83 Seymour St. TRARALGON. Traralgon News and Lotto.

51-53 Franklin St. TULLAMARINE. Tullamarine Newsagency. 2/191 Melrose Dr. VERMONT. Vermont Authorised Newsagency. 600 Canterbury Rd. VERMONT SOUTH. Vermont South Newsagency. Shop 14, 495 Burwood Hwy. WANTIRNA SOUTH. Wantirna South Newsagency. 223 Stud Rd. WARRAGUL. Warragul Newsagency. 43 Victoria St. WARRNAMBOOL. Reinheimers Newsagency. 145 Koroit St. WATSONIA. Watsonia Newsagency.

Watsonia Rd. WHEELERS HILL. Wheelers Hill Newsagency.

WODONGA. Mahon's Newsagency. 168 High St. YARRAVILLE. Yarraville Newsagency. 59 Anderson St.

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Halloween, Scariest Night of the Year ■ Hi everyone, from my suite at the Ramada Plaza Hotel and Suites comes this week's news.

Out and About

Halloween in WeHo

Out of wedlock

■ Close to 500,000 people packed Santa Monica Boulevard outside the Ramada Plaza Hotel and Suites, which was party central for the annual Halloween Parade in West Hollywood.

The scary celebration was once for kids and now consumers are spending and estimated $6.9 billion for this one night of the year.

Whether it's by taking children 'trick or treating' or donning a costume for a party, 157 million Americans celebrated Halloween this week.

■ Signaling a cultural shift, a United Nations report out this week found 40 percent of all births in the US now come from parents who are not married, compared to just 10 percent in 1970.

The United Nations Population Fund study found the number to be even higher in Europe, where 60 percent of births now occur out of wedlock. The shift suggests changing societal and religious norms as well as the millions of childbearing-age women in the workforce.

The traditional progression of Western life "has been reversed," said John Santelli, a professor of population, family health and pediatrics at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.

$500m on animal costumes ■ Look out for lizards dressed as waiters, dogs dressed as Cleopatra and cats wearing tutus this Halloween.

Pets are getting roped into Halloween madness whether they like it or not, as more consumers are shelling out everclimbing sums to costume their beloved animals.

More than 30 million people will spend an estimated $480 million treating their pets to costumes this Halloween, more than double the $220 million spend on pet Halloween costumes in 2010 when the National Retail Federation began tracking pet costumes.

● Pictured at the Halloween Parade outside the Ramada Plaza Hotel and Suites, Ioana Ciocan, Ramada Guest Relations Manager; Alan Johnson, Managing Director, Ramada Plaza; and Christina Cazan, Head of first impressions at the Ramada.

Competitive economy

■ Starbucks is restructuring its European operations after several years of slowing sales. The Seattle-based coffee chain is selling 83 company-owned stores in France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg to its longtime partner, Alsea.

Alsea will also take over operations at 177 other Starbucks locations in those countries, which are owned by franchisees.

■ The United States has the most competitive economy in the world, according to the 2018 Global Competitiveness Report published by the World Economic Forum.

"The United States is the closest economy to the frontier, the ideal state, where a country would obtain the perfect score on every component of the index," the report reads.

The United States obtained a competitiveness score of 85.6 per cent on the scale of zero to 100, which places it in the top spot among 140 countries, states the report.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the US has not reached the No. 1 spot "since 2008," when "the financial crisis stalled output and triggered a global economic slowdown."

Singapore occupies the No. 2 spot (83.5 per cent), followed by Germany in third place (82.8 per cent).

Grow a beard

Scooby Doo van BnB

Starbucks sells stores

■ A few weeks before Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the US, 11-year-old Grace Bedell sent him a letter urging him to grow a beard to win over voters.

Bedell claimed "all the ladies like whiskers" and would urge their husbands to vote for a bearded Lincoln.

Days later, Lincoln drafted a noncommittal response in which he wondered whether such a change in appearance would be well received. Within months, he was sporting his now-iconic beard.

What has America become?

■ While discussing the two violent attacks against him and the ever-escalating calls by some Democrats to physically confront and harass Republicans and conservatives, Senator Rand Paul said he fears there is "going to be an assassination," that "someone is going to be killed."

This week, former Attorney-General, Eric Holder dismissed the slogan, "when they go low, we go high," and said, "No, no.

When they go low, we kick 'em."

Also, former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said this week, "You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for."

Other liberals, including members of Congress, have called on activists to chase Trump administration officials from restaurants, to "get in their face," and protest outside their homes.

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

Beatles White Album ■ The Beatles' White Album has been blowing minds since 1968 but this weirdest of Beatle masterpieces is about to get weirder.

The new Super Deluxe Edition, which arrives on November 9, tells the epic story of the album that nearly tore them apart including a previously unheard version of the classic While My Guitar Gently Weeps.

It's an early acoustic take, as George Harrison tinkers with the ballad that would turn into one of his most powerful statements. Like so many moments on the new box set, it's the Beatles in full-blast experimental mode a revelatory listen that makes you hear new mysteries in music you thought you already knew inside out.

Climate affects beer ■ Climate change may cause the global price of beer to double and consumption to plummet, a new study involving the University of East Anglia concludes.

The study, billed as the first of its kind, published in international science journal Nature.com, warns that beer prices could "on average, double" due to climate change.

And, even under the best-case climate scenario, prices will "jump by 15 per cent."

For example, in Ireland, which boasts the highest per-capita consumption of beer, the price of beer is projected to rise by as much as 193 per cent due to climate change.

Global consumption of beer is expected to decline by at least 4 per cent, and by as much as 16 per cent (a decline in volume equivalent to the total US consumption of beer in 2011).

■ A room at the Soho Grand Hotel in New York City will set a tourist back about $400, but there is a cheaper alternative.

A California screenwriter has reportedly turned a van, parked on the street in the trendy Manhattan neighborhood, into an Airbnb listing.

The New York Post reports that the vehicle, which looks a little like the Mystery Machine from the Scooby Doo cartoons, rents for $69 a night.

There's a fold-out sofa bed, a nightstand and a pass to a nearby gym for showering.

"Van-life is for those who embrace adventure and have no problem roughing it, to have a new and memorable experience," the listing reads. Local residents told the newspaper they had no idea the distinctive van was a hotel room on wheels. "It's shocking," one said.

Come and visit us ● Abraham Lincoln

Dylan album for movies ■ Bob Dylan's albumc Blood on the Tracks is headed to the big screen, thanks to Call Me by Your Name director Luca Guadagnino.

The Oscar nominee is reteaming with RT Features on a movie inspired by Dylan's seminal 1975 album.

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■ If you are considering a move to Los Angeles or just coming over for a holiday then I have got a special deal for you.

We would love to see you at the Ramada Plaza Hotel and Suites, 8585 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood.

I have secured a terrific holiday deal for readers of the Melbourne Observer and The Local Paper.

Please mention 'Melbourne Observer' when you book and you will receive the 'Special Rate of the Day'.

Please contact: Jennifer at info@ramadaweho.com Happy Holidays, Gavin Wood

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Alexandra Race Club Cox Plate Day

● Caeley Palmer and Emily Van Lierop of St Mary’s School, Alexandra.

● Neil Webster and Mike Jennings of the Alexandra Community Band, augmented by visitors from Beechworth, Wangaratta and Cobram.

● Pauline Langham, Kylie Johnson and Sue Roberts.

● Billie Hicken of Monbulk, in fancy dress, enjoyed the horse theme

● Alex. Race Club President Chris Walsh, Mary Jackshaw, Phil Gourlay.

● Geoff Guest and Louise Buckley enjoy the picnic atmosphere.

● Gary Chandler of the Creswick RSL Light Horse Troop.

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■ American actress Mamie Van Doren was born Joan Lucille Olander in South Dakota in 1931.

In 1946 Joan began working as an usher at The Pantages Theatre in Hollywood.

Film producer Howard Hughes "discovered" the beautiful 18-year-old in a beauty contest.

She was given the screen name of ‘Mamie Van Doren’. It is said that ‘Mamie’ came from Mamie Eisenhower, the wife of President Eisenhower.

Hughes arranged bit parts for Mamie in RKO Films and this led to a contract with Universal Studios.

My first memory of seeing MamieVan Doren in films was in the 1954 comedy Francis Joins The WACS with Donald O'Connor and Francis the Talking Mule.

Mamie appeared in many films which included - Yankee Pasha, Running Wild, Born Reckless and High School Confidential.

The 1950s was the era of the ‘sexy blonde bombshells’ and Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and Mamie Van Doren were known as the big three.

In a radio interview Mamie told me that in 1957, when she was appearing at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas, Elvis Presley came backstage to ask her for her autograph and then took her on a date to see Louis Prima at the Sahara Hotel.

In 1958 Mamie made her most memorable

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film when she co-starred with Clark Gable and Doris Day in Teachers Pet. Mamie had actually known Marilyn Monroe from about the age of 12. They lived very close to each other and Mamie used to watch Marilyn (then Norma Jean) doing modelling work.

The photographers would say "Get that kid out of the picture!"

In later years they shared the same drama coach and became good friends. They met for the last time at the Russian Tea Rooms in New York, two weeks before Marilyn died.

Mamie realised that Marilyn was not well but was shocked to learn of the news of her passing.

In the 1960s Mamie organised her own tour

● Mamie van Doren of Vietnam to entertain the American troops. film appearance was in Slackers in 2003. These She became very ill and spent three months in days Mamie still makes personal appearances and has her own website.

Saigon before returning to the United States.

Kevin Trask Over the years Mamie appeared in many Kevin can be heard on 3AW stage productions including Wildcat, Gentlemen The Time Tunnel - on Nightline - ThursPrefer Blondes, Dames at Sea and Chicago. days at 10.10pm with Philip Brady and By the 1970s the era of the sex symbols was Simon Owens over, Marilyn and Jane were gone, and things And on 96.5 FM changed for Mamie Van Doren.

That's Entertainment - Sundays Mamie was married five times and her last at 12 Noon

Little wonder town changed its name OK. With John O’Keefe Goodbye to Sesame Street

● Carroll Spinney ■ After 4400 episodes the character and voiceover actor of Big Bird and Oscar is soon to quit Sesame Street. Caroll Spinney will retire and resume normality after 49 years of leading a triple life .

Be warned

■ Be warned . Justin Beiber and his wife Hailey, yes wife , are said to have filed legal documents to protect the trademark Hailey Bieber . Rumour is that Mrs Bieber wants to protect her married name against fashion designers from ripping off her label.

Television re-invented

■ It is probably little wonder the folk of the Philippines town of Sasmuan changed its named back in 1991.

Because up until then it was known somewhat bizarrely as Sexmoan, and even more weirdly that was given it not by some raunchy visiting seafarers in days of yore, but by early Spanish friars sent as missionaries to bring Christianity to the country several hundred years ago.

And who, in attempting a strictlycorrect translation of Sasmuan – which actually meant “meeting point” – somehow screwed up, and inflicted upon the locals the new name of Sexmoan.

And although they accepted the name for all those years, finally in 1991 the townspeople decided they’d been saddled with its negative sexual connotation long enough, and opted to go back to Sasmuan that it had been known as before the arrival of

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● Sexmoan in the Philippines finally changed its name back to Sasmuan in 1991. those well-meaning friars all those years before.

Today some 29,000 or so people live in Sasmuan, that’s 54km northwest of Manila, with their main industry being aquaculture based on the breeding of fish, prawns and crabs in vast natural and man-made ponds, these seafoods sold in markets in Sasmuan itself and numerous surrounding towns.

And it is also somewhat-famous for a confectionery called Polvoron that’s a Spanish-style shortbread filled with nuts – the most popular varieties being those with almonds or cashews, while they can also include peanuts, strawberries or a local purple yam, with some chefs also adding a chocolate coating as well.

■ TV stations are in a constant state of evolution with the aim of being one step ahead of the competition.

Subject to filling in the appropriate forms the Ten Network will undergo a rebrand of their digital stations – Channel One will become 10 Peach, and Eleven will take on Ten Boss as their call sign. Name changers are expected to be effective early 2019.

Riddells Creek to rescue

■ Jon Stevens is a loyal Aussie rocker with a genuine feeling how hard farmers are doing without rain. Whilst on tour in US, Jon penned a number Rain Down On Me .

Words done, the sound needed to be perfection and that task fell to just out of town Lighthill Recording Studios, Riddells Creek with Ricki Rae as Producer. A world class result. Do yourself a favour and buy a copy.

Working Dog worldwide

■ Working Dog Productions is the independent Melbourne-based team of actors and TV production whiz kids who put together the weekly Have You Been Paying Attention ? on Ten. Ten’s parent company has signed the program to world wide rights exposing the comedy show to a galaxy of new fans and further exposure .

The cast and crew have come a long way since Uni reviews.

- John O’Keefe

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Bleak House - by Charles Dickens How many people out of the suit Jarndyce and Jarndyce has stretched forth its unwholesome hand to spoil and corrupt would be a very wide question. From the master upon whose impaling files reams of dusty warrants in Jarndyce and Jarndyce have grimly writhed into many shapes, down to the copying-clerk in the Six Clerks’ Office who has copied his tens of thousands of Chancery folio-pages under that eternal heading, no man’s nature has been made better by it. In trickery, evasion, procrastination, spoliation, botheration, under false pretences of all sorts, there are influences that can never come to good. The very solicitors’ boys who have kept the wretched suitors at bay, by protesting time out of mind that Mr. Chizzle, Mizzle, or otherwise was particularly engaged and had appointments until dinner, may have got an extra moral twist and shuffle into themselves out of Jarndyce and Jarndyce. The receiver in the cause has acquired a goodly sum of money by it but has acquired too a distrust of his own mother and a contempt for his own kind. Chizzle, Mizzle, and otherwise have lapsed into a habit of vaguely promising themselves that they will look into that outstanding little matter and see what can be done for Drizzle — who was not well used — when Jarndyce and Jarndyce shall be got out of the office. Shirking and sharking in all their many varieties have been sown broadcast by the ill-fated cause; and even those who have contemplated its history from the outermost circle of such evil have been insensibly tempted into a loose way of letting bad things alone to take their own bad course, and a loose belief that if the world go wrong it was in some off-hand manner never meant to go right.

Thus, in the midst of the mud and at the heart of the fog, sits the Lord High Chancellor in his High Court of Chancery.

“Mr. Tangle,” says the Lord High Chancellor, latterly something restless under the eloquence of that learned gentleman.

“Mlud,” says Mr. Tangle. Mr. Tangle knows more of Jarndyce and Jarndyce than anybody.

He is famous for it — supposed never to have read anything else since he left school.

“Have you nearly concluded your argument?”

“Mlud, no — variety of points — feel it my duty tsubmit — ludship,” is the reply that slides out of Mr. Tangle.

“Several members of the bar are still to be heard, I believe?” says the Chancellor with a slight smile.

Eighteen of Mr. Tangle’s learned friends, each armed with a little summary of eighteen hundred sheets, bob up like eighteen hammers in a pianoforte, make eighteen bows, and drop into their eighteen places of obscurity.

“We will proceed with the hearing on Wednesday fortnight,” says the Chancellor. For the question at issue is only a question of costs, a mere bud on the forest tree of the parent suit, and really will come to a settlement one of these days.

The Chancellor rises; the bar rises; the prisoner is brought forward in a hurry; the man from Shropshire cries, “My lord!” Maces, bags, and purses indignantly proclaim silence and frown at the man from Shropshire.

“In reference,” proceeds the Chancellor, still on Jarndyce and Jarndyce, “to the young girl — ” “Begludship’s pardon — boy,” says Mr. Tangle prematurely. “In reference,” proceeds the Chancellor with extra distinctness, “to the young girl and boy, the two young people” — Mr. Tangle crushed — “whom I directed to be in attendance to-day and who are now in my private room, I will see them and satisfy myself as to the expediency of making the order for their residing with their uncle.”

Mr. Tangle on his legs again. “Begludship’s pardon — dead.”

“With their” — Chancellor looking through his double eyeglass at the papers on his desk — “grandfather.”

“Begludship’s pardon — victim of rash action — brains.”

Suddenly a very little counsel with a terrific bass voice arises, fully inflated, in the back settlements of the fog, and says, “Will your lordship allow me? I appear for him. He is a cousin,

quagmires where they pass. The shot of a rifle loses its sharpness in the moist air, and its smoke moves in a tardy little cloud towards the green rise, coppice-topped, that makes a background for the falling rain. The view from my Lady Dedlock’s own windows is alternately a leadcoloured view and a view in Indian ink. The vases on the stone terrace in the foreground catch the rain all day; and the heavy drops fall — drip, drip, drip — upon the broad flagged pavement, called from old time the Ghost’s Walk, all night.

On Sundays the little church in the park is mouldy; the oaken pulpit breaks out into a cold sweat; and there is a general smell and taste as of the ancient Dedlocks in their graves. My Lady Dedlock (who is childless), looking out in the early twilight from her boudoir at a keeper’s lodge and seeing the light of a fire upon the latticed panes, and smoke rising from the chimney, and a child, chased by a woman, running out into the rain to meet the shining figure of a wrapped-up man coming through the gate, has been put quite out of temper. My Lady Dedlock says she has been “bored to death.”

Therefore my Lady Dedlock has come away from the place in Lincolnshire and has left it to the rain, and the crows, and the rabbits, and the deer, and the partridges and pheasants. The pictures of the Dedlocks past and gone have seemed to vanish into the damp walls in mere lowness of spirits, as the housekeeper has passed along the old rooms shutting up the shutters. And when they will next come forth again, the fashionable intelligence — which, like the fiend, is omniscient of the past and present, but not the future — cannot yet undertake to say.

Sir Leicester Dedlock is only a baronet, but there is no mightier baronet than he. His family is as old as the hills, and infinitely more respectable.

He has a general opinion that the world might get on without hills but would be done up without Dedlocks. He would on the whole admit nature to be a good idea (a little low, perhaps, when not enclosed with a park-fence), but an idea dependent for its execution on your great county families. He is a gentleman of strict conscience, disdainful of all littleness and meanness and ready on the shortest notice to die any death you may please to mention rather than give occasion for the least impeachment of his integrity. He is an honourable, obstinate, truthful, high-spirited, intensely prejudiced, perfectly unreasonable man.

Charles Dickens Sir Leicester is twenty years, full measure, older several times removed. I am not at the moment thundery weather; sleeping beauties whom the than my Lady. He will never see sixty-five again, prepared to inform the court in what exact re- knight will wake one day, when all the stopped nor perhaps sixty-six, nor yet sixty-seven. He move he is a cousin, but he IS a cousin. spits in the kitchen shall begin to turn prodi- has a twist of the gout now and then and walks a Leaving this address (delivered like a sepul- giously! little stiffly. He is of a worthy presence, with his chral message) ringing in the rafters of the roof, It is not a large world. Relatively even to this light-grey hair and whiskers, his fine shirt-frill, the very little counsel drops, and the fog knows world of ours, which has its limits too (as your his pure-white waistcoat, and his blue coat with him no more. Everybody looks for him. No- Highness shall find when you have made the bright buttons always buttoned. He is ceremonibody can see him. tour of it and are come to the brink of the void ous, stately, most polite on every occasion to “I will speak with both the young people,” says beyond), it is a very little speck. There is much my Lady, and holds her personal attractions in the Chancellor anew, “and satisfy myself on good in it; there are many good and true people the highest estimation. His gallantry to my Lady, the subject of their residing with their cousin. I in it; it has its appointed place. But the evil of it is which has never changed since he courted her, will mention the matter to-morrow morning that it is a world wrapped up in too much is the one little touch of romantic fancy in him. when I take my seat.” jeweller’s cotton and fine wool, and cannot hear Indeed, he married her for love. A whisper still The Chancellor is about to bow to the bar when the rushing of the larger worlds, and cannot see goes about that she had not even family; howthe prisoner is presented. Nothing can possibly them as they circle round the sun. It is a dead- beit, Sir Leicester had so much family that percome of the prisoner’s conglomeration but his ened world, and its growth is sometimes un- haps he had enough and could dispense with being sent back to prison, which is soon done. healthy for want of air. any more. But she had beauty, pride, ambition, The man from Shropshire ventures another re- My Lady Dedlock has returned to her house in insolent resolve, and sense enough to portion monstrative “My lord!” but the Chancellor, be- town for a few days previous to her departure out a legion of fine ladies. Wealth and station, ing aware of him, has dexterously vanished. for Paris, where her ladyship intends to stay added to these, soon floated her upward, and for Everybody else quickly vanishes too. A battery some weeks, after which her movements are years now my Lady Dedlock has been at the of blue bags is loaded with heavy charges of uncertain. The fashionable intelligence says so centre of the fashionable intelligence and at the papers and carried off by clerks; the little mad for the comfort of the Parisians, and it knows all top of the fashionable tree. old woman marches off with her documents; fashionable things. To know things otherwise How Alexander wept when he had no more the empty court is locked up. If all the injustice were to be unfashionable. My Lady Dedlock worlds to conquer, everybody knows — or has it has committed and all the misery it has caused has been down at what she calls, in familiar some reason to know by this time, the matter could only be locked up with it, and the whole conversation, her “place” in Lincolnshire. The having been rather frequently mentioned. My burnt away in a great funeral pyre — why so waters are out in Lincolnshire. An arch of the Lady Dedlock, having conquered HER world, much the better for other parties than the parties bridge in the park has been sapped and sopped fell not into the melting, but rather into the freezin Jarndyce and Jarndyce! away. The adjacent low-lying ground for half a ing, mood. An exhausted composure, a wornChapter II— In Fashion mile in breadth is a stagnant river with melan- out placidity, an equanimity of fatigue not to be It is but a glimpse of the world of fashion that choly trees for islands in it and a surface punc- ruffled by interest or satisfaction, are the trowe want on this same miry afternoon. It is not tured all over, all day long, with falling rain. My phies of her victory. She is perfectly well-bred. so unlike the Court of Chancery but that we Lady Dedlock’s place has been extremely If she could be translated to heaven to-morrow, may pass from the one scene to the other, as dreary. The weather for many a day and night she might be expected to ascend without any the crow flies. Both the world of fashion and the has been so wet that the trees seem wet through, rapture.

Court of Chancery are things of precedent and and the soft loppings and prunings of the She has beauty still, and if it be not in its heyday, usage: oversleeping Rip Van Winkles who have woodman’s axe can make no crash or crackle it is not yet in its autumn. She has a fine face — played at strange games through a deal of as they fall. The deer, looking soaked, leave Continued on Page 31

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Observer Classic Books From Page 30 originally of a character that would be rather called very pretty than handsome, but improved into classicality by the acquired expression of her fashionable state. Her figure is elegant and has the effect of being tall. Not that she is so, but that “the most is made,” as the Honourable Bob Stables has frequently asserted upon oath, “of all her points.” The same authority observes that she is perfectly got up and remarks in commendation of her hair especially that she is the bestgroomed woman in the whole stud.

With all her perfections on her head, my Lady Dedlock has come up from her place in Lincolnshire (hotly pursued by the fashionable intelligence) to pass a few days at her house in town previous to her departure for Paris, where her ladyship intends to stay some weeks, after which her movements are uncertain. And at her house in town, upon this muddy, murky afternoon, presents himself an old-fashioned old gentleman, attorney-at-law and eke solicitor of the High Court of Chancery, who has the honour of acting as legal adviser of the Dedlocks and has as many cast-iron boxes in his office with that name outside as if the present baronet were the coin of the conjuror’s trick and were constantly being juggled through the whole set.

Across the hall, and up the stairs, and along the passages, and through the rooms, which are very brilliant in the season and very dismal out of it — fairy-land to visit, but a desert to live in — the old gentleman is conducted by a Mercury in powder to my Lady’s presence.

The old gentleman is rusty to look at, but is reputed to have made good thrift out of aristocratic marriage settlements and aristocratic wills, and to be very rich. He is surrounded by a mysterious halo of family confidences, of which he is known to be the silent depository. There are noble mausoleums rooted for centuries in retired glades of parks among the growing timber and the fern, which perhaps hold fewer noble secrets than walk abroad among men, shut up in the breast of Mr. Tulkinghorn. He is of what is called the old school — a phrase generally meaning any school that seems never to have been young — and wears knee-breeches tied with ribbons, and gaiters or stockings. One peculiarity of his black clothes and of his black stockings, be they silk or worsted, is that they never shine. Mute, close, irresponsive to any glancing light, his dress is like himself. He never converses when not professionaly consulted. He is found sometimes, speechless but quite at home, at corners of dinner-tables in great country houses and near doors of drawing-rooms, concerning which the fashionable intelligence is eloquent, where everybody knows him and where half the Peerage stops to say “How do you do, Mr. Tulkinghorn?” He receives these salutations with gravity and buries them along with the rest of his knowledge.

Sir Leicester Dedlock is with my Lady and is happy to see Mr. Tulkinghorn. There is an air of prescription about him which is always agreeable to Sir Leicester; he receives it as a kind of tribute. He likes Mr. Tulkinghorn’s dress; there is a kind of tribute in that too. It is eminently respectable, and likewise, in a general way, retainer-like. It expresses, as it were, the steward of the legal mysteries, the butler of the legal cellar, of the Dedlocks.

Has Mr. Tulkinghorn any idea of this himself? It may be so, or it may not, but there is this remarkable circumstance to be noted in everything associated with my Lady Dedlock as one of a class — as one of the leaders and representatives of her little world. She supposes herself to be an inscrutable Being, quite out of the reach and ken of ordinary mortals — seeing herself in her glass, where indeed she looks so. Yet every dim little star revolving about her, from her maid to the manager of the Italian Opera, knows her weaknesses, prejudices, follies, haughtinesses, and caprices and lives upon as accurate a calculation and as nice a measure of her moral nature as her dressmaker takes of her physical proportions. Is a new dress, a new custom, a new singer, a new dancer, a new form of jewellery, a new dwarf or giant, a new chapel, a new anything, to be set up? There are deferential people in a dozen callings whom my Lady Dedlock suspects of nothing but prostration before her, who can tell you how to manage her as if she were a baby, who do nothing but nurse her all their lives, who, humbly affecting to follow with profound subservience, lead her and her whole troop after them; who, in hooking one, hook all and bear them off as Lemuel Gulliver

bore away the stately fleet of the majestic Lilliput. “If you want to address our people, sir,” say Blaze and Sparkle, the jewellers — meaning by our people Lady Dedlock and the rest — “you must remember that you are not dealing with the general public; you must hit our people in their weakest place, and their weakest place is such a place.” “To make this article go down, gentlemen,” say Sheen and Gloss, the mercers, to their friends the manufacturers, “you must come to us, because we know where to have the fashionable people, and we can make it fashionable.” “If you want to get this print upon the tables of my high connexion, sir,” says Mr. Sladdery, the librarian, “or if you want to get this dwarf or giant into the houses of my high connexion, sir, or if you want to secure to this entertainment the patronage of my high connexion, sir, you must leave it, if you please, to me, for I have been accustomed to study the leaders of my high connexion, sir, and I may tell you without vanity that I can turn them round my finger” — in which Mr. Sladdery, who is an honest man, does not exaggerate at all.

Therefore, while Mr. Tulkinghorn may not know what is passing in the Dedlock mind at present, it is very possible that he may.

“My Lady’s cause has been again before the Chancellor, has it, Mr. Tulkinghorn?” says Sir Leicester, giving him his hand.

“Yes. It has been on again to-day,” Mr. Tulkinghorn replies, making one of his quiet bows to my Lady, who is on a sofa near the fire, shading her face with a hand-screen.

“It would be useless to ask,” says my Lady with the dreariness of the place in Lincolnshire still upon her, “whether anything has been done.”

“Nothing that YOU would call anything has been done to-day,” replies Mr. Tulkinghorn.

“Nor ever will be,” says my Lady.

Sir Leicester has no objection to an interminable Chancery suit. It is a slow, expensive, British, constitutional kind of thing. To be sure, he has not a vital interest in the suit in question, her part in which was the only property my Lady brought him; and he has a shadowy impression that for his name — the name of Dedlock — to be in a cause, and not in the title of that cause, is a most ridiculous accident. But he regards the Court of Chancery, even if it should involve an occasional delay of justice and a trifling amount of confusion, as a something devised in conjunction with a variety of other somethings by the perfection of human wisdom for the eternal settlement (humanly speaking) of everything.

And he is upon the whole of a fixed opinion that to give the sanction of his countenance to any complaints respecting it would be to encourage some person in the lower classes to rise up somewhere — like Wat Tyler.

“As a few fresh affidavits have been put upon the file,” says Mr. Tulkinghorn, “and as they are short, and as I proceed upon the troublesome principle of begging leave to possess my clients with any new proceedings in a cause” — cautious man Mr. Tulkinghorn, taking no more responsibility than necessary — “and further, as I see you are going to Paris, I have brought them in my pocket.”

(Sir Leicester was going to Paris too, by the by, but the delight of the fashionable intelligence was in his Lady.)

Mr. Tulkinghorn takes out his papers, asks permission to place them on a golden talisman of a table at my Lady’s elbow, puts on his spectacles, and begins to read by the light of a shaded lamp. “‘In Chancery. Between John Jarndyce — ’” My Lady interrupts, requesting him to miss as many of the formal horrors as he can.

Mr. Tulkinghorn glances over his spectacles and begins again lower down. My Lady carelessly and scornfully abstracts her attention. Sir Leicester in a great chair looks at the file and appears to have a stately liking for the legal repetitions and prolixities as ranging among the national bulwarks. It happens that the fire is hot where my Lady sits and that the hand-screen is more beautiful than useful, being priceless but small. My Lady, changing her position, sees the papers on the table — looks at them nearer — looks at them nearer still — asks impulsively, “Who copied that?”

Mr. Tulkinghorn stops short, surprised by my Lady’s animation and her unusual tone.

“Is it what you people call law-hand?” she asks, looking full at him in her careless way again and toying with her screen.

“Not quite. Probably” — Mr. Tulkinghorn examines it as he speaks — “the legal character which it has was acquired after the original hand

was formed. Why do you ask?”

“Anything to vary this detestable monotony. Oh, go on, do!”

Mr. Tulkinghorn reads again. The heat is greater; my Lady screens her face. Sir Leicester dozes, starts up suddenly, and cries, “Eh? What do you say?”

“I say I am afraid,” says Mr. Tulkinghorn, who had risen hastily, “that Lady Dedlock is ill.”

“Faint,” my Lady murmurs with white lips, “only that; but it is like the faintness of death. Don’t speak to me. Ring, and take me to my room!”

Mr. Tulkinghorn retires into another chamber; bells ring, feet shuffle and patter, silence ensues. Mercury at last begs Mr. Tulkinghorn to return.

“Better now,” quoth Sir Leicester, motioning the lawyer to sit down and read to him alone. “I have been quite alarmed. I never knew my Lady swoon before. But the weather is extremely trying, and she really has been bored to death down at our place in Lincolnshire.”

Chapter III— A Progress I have a great deal of difficulty in beginning to write my portion of these pages, for I know I am not clever. I always knew that. I can remember, when I was a very little girl indeed, I used to say to my doll when we were alone together, “Now, Dolly, I am not clever, you know very well, and you must be patient with me, like a dear!” And so she used to sit propped up in a great armchair, with her beautiful complexion and rosy lips, staring at me — or not so much at me, I think, as at nothing — while I busily stitched away and told her every one of my secrets.

My dear old doll! I was such a shy little thing that I seldom dared to open my lips, and never dared to open my heart, to anybody else. It almost makes me cry to think what a relief it used to be to me when I came home from school of a day to run upstairs to my room and say, “Oh, you dear faithful Dolly, I knew you would be expecting me!” and then to sit down on the floor, leaning on the elbow of her great chair, and tell her all I had noticed since we parted. I had always rather a noticing way — not a quick way, oh, no! — a silent way of noticing what passed before me and thinking I should like to understand it better. I have not by any means a quick understanding. When I love a person very tenderly indeed, it seems to brighten. But even that may be my vanity.

I was brought up, from my earliest remembrance — like some of the princesses in the fairy stories, only I was not charming — by my godmother. At least, I only knew her as such. She was a good, good woman! She went to church three times every Sunday, and to morning prayers on Wednesdays and Fridays, and to lectures whenever there were lectures; and never missed. She was handsome; and if she had ever smiled, would have been (I used to think) like an angel — but she never smiled. She was always grave and strict. She was so very good herself, I thought, that the badness of other people made her frown all her life. I felt so different from her, even making every allowance for the differences between a child and a woman; I felt so poor, so trifling, and so far off that I never could be unrestrained with her — no, could never even love her as I wished. It made me very sorry to consider how good she was and how unworthy of her I was, and I used ardently to hope that I might have a better heart; and I talked it over very often with the dear old doll, but I never loved my godmother as I ought to have loved her and as I felt I must have loved her if I had been a better girl.

This made me, I dare say, more timid and retiring than I naturally was and cast me upon Dolly as the only friend with whom I felt at ease. But something happened when I was still quite a little thing that helped it very much.

I had never heard my mama spoken of. I had never heard of my papa either, but I felt more interested about my mama. I had never worn a black frock, that I could recollect. I had never been shown my mama’s grave. I had never been told where it was. Yet I had never been taught to pray for any relation but my godmother. I had more than once approached this subject of my thoughts with Mrs. Rachael, our only servant, who took my light away when I was in bed (another very good woman, but austere to me), and she had only said, “Esther, good night!” and gone away and left me.

Although there were seven girls at the neighbouring school where I was a day boarder, and although they called me little Esther Summerson, I knew none of them at home. All

of them were older than I, to be sure (I was the youngest there by a good deal), but there seemed to be some other separation between us besides that, and besides their being far more clever than I was and knowing much more than I did.

One of them in the first week of my going to the school (I remember it very well) invited me home to a little party, to my great joy. But my godmother wrote a stiff letter declining for me, and I never went. I never went out at all.

It was my birthday. There were holidays at school on other birthdays — none on mine. There were rejoicings at home on other birthdays, as I knew from what I heard the girls relate to one another — there were none on mine. My birthday was the most melancholy day at home in the whole year.

I have mentioned that unless my vanity should deceive me (as I know it may, for I may be very vain without suspecting it, though indeed I don’t), my comprehension is quickened when my affection is. My disposition is very affectionate, and perhaps I might still feel such a wound if such a wound could be received more than once with the quickness of that birthday.

Dinner was over, and my godmother and I were sitting at the table before the fire. The clock ticked, the fire clicked; not another sound had been heard in the room or in the house for I don’t know how long. I happened to look timidly up from my stitching, across the table at my godmother, and I saw in her face, looking gloomily at me, “It would have been far better, little Esther, that you had had no birthday, that you had never been born!”

I broke out crying and sobbing, and I said, “Oh, dear godmother, tell me, pray do tell me, did Mama die on my birthday?”

“No,” she returned. “Ask me no more, child!”

“Oh, do pray tell me something of her. Do now, at last, dear godmother, if you please! What did I do to her? How did I lose her? Why am I so different from other children, and why is it my fault, dear godmother? No, no, no, don’t go away.

Oh, speak to me!”

I was in a kind of fright beyond my grief, and I caught hold of her dress and was kneeling to her. She had been saying all the while, “Let me go!” But now she stood still.

Her darkened face had such power over me that it stopped me in the midst of my vehemence.

I put up my trembling little hand to clasp hers or to beg her pardon with what earnestness I might, but withdrew it as she looked at me, and laid it on my fluttering heart. She raised me, sat in her chair, and standing me before her, said slowly in a cold, low voice — I see her knitted brow and pointed finger — “Your mother, Esther, is your disgrace, and you were hers. The time will come — and soon enough — when you will understand this better and will feel it too, as no one save a woman can. I have forgiven her” — but her face did not relent — “the wrong she did to me, and I say no more of it, though it was greater than you will ever know — than any one will ever know but I, the sufferer. For yourself, unfortunate girl, orphaned and degraded from the first of these evil anniversaries, pray daily that the sins of others be not visited upon your head, according to what is written. Forget your mother and leave all other people to forget her who will do her unhappy child that greatest kindness. Now, go!”

She checked me, however, as I was about to depart from her — so frozen as I was! — and added this, “Submission, self-denial, diligent work, are the preparations for a life begun with such a shadow on it. You are different from other children, Esther, because you were not born, like them, in common sinfulness and wrath. You are set apart.”

I went up to my room, and crept to bed, and laid my doll’s cheek against mine wet with tears, and holding that solitary friend upon my bosom, cried myself to sleep. Imperfect as my understanding of my sorrow was, I knew that I had brought no joy at any time to anybody’s heart and that I was to no one upon earth what Dolly was to me.

Dear, dear, to think how much time we passed alone together afterwards, and how often I repeated to the doll the story of my birthday and confided to her that I would try as hard as ever I could to repair the fault I had been born with (of which I confessedly felt guilty and yet innocent) and would strive as I grew up to be industrious, contented, and kind-hearted and to do some good to some one, and win some love to myself if I could. I hope it is not self-indulgent to shed these tears as I think of it.

To Be Continued Next Issue

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Inter hope back in business ■ Inter Dominion aspirant San Carlo who was a heat winner in Perth last year is on target for a crack again this year after winning the (Group 2) $50,000 M0 or better class Decron Cranbourne Gold Cup over 2555 metres last Saturday.

Trained at Kialla by Steve O'Donoghue and driven by the stable's number one employee Bec Bartley, San Carlo (gate six) went forward to cross polemarker Love Ina Chevy running into the first turn, whereas Shadow Sax (gate seven) who many anticipated would lead was restrained as the starter released the field.

Once the speed slackened, Chris Alford went forward to race in the open, before gaining cover from the favourite Tiger Tara which let rip from the rear to race exposed with a mile to travel.

With no moves being made, the top three fancies had the race to themselves a long way out with Tiger Tara joining San Carlo approaching the final bend.

The pair turned together with San Carlo giving plenty to stall of the Tiger Tara challenge and score by a half neck, with Shadow Sax a head back in third place after easing three wide on turning.

A lightly raced 8Y0 Mach Three-Bridge Player gelding raced by John Eichhorn, San Carlo returned a mile rate of 1-57.8 (last half 54.8 -quarter 27.8), 1.7 seconds outside Shadow Sax's 1-56.1 established last year.

Beaut passage

■ Moyreisk (Central Victoria) trainer Barry Ainsworth scored a well overdue victory in the 2195 metre Healy Family Trotters Mobile for T0 & T1 class with a mare by the name of My Darling Beware at Ararat on Tuesday October 23.

Given a beaut passage one/one from gate three by son Jason who is based at Peter Manning's Great Western stable, My Darling Beware eased three wide in the final circuit to join the pacemaker Bold Hussy on the final bend and with Jason nursing her to the wire, prevailed by a neck, with Miss Cully 19.9 metres back in third place after leading out and taking a trail.

A 6Y0 daughter of Goodboytruscott and Wonky Wagon, My Darling Beware broke her maiden status at start number 32, returning a mile rate of 2-05.4 and certainly looks to have a future.

Raced three wide

■ Ararat HRC President Tony Bond provided the complete blow out for the night when 5Y0 Changeover-Tipsy Lombo mare Miss Chianti at Supertab odds of $68.90 outstayed her rivals to land the Ararat Pony Club Pace for C0 class over 2195 metres.

Raced and trained by Tony, Miss Chianti driven by Mattie Craven, raced three wide solo from the rear for the last lap to score by 5.1 metres in advance of Cantbetold (four back the markers) and Marks Joy who was a neck back in third place after following the weakening leader Dressed To Fly. The mile rate 2-02.2.

Driving double

■ Mattie Craven chalked up a driving double when heavily backed first starter Wellsaidlucy trained by him greeted the judge in the Ararat Taxis 3Y0 Pace over 1790 metres.

Trailing the poleline leader Passionate Pursuit from gate three, Wellsaidlucy despite copping a check in the last lap when the leader galloped, Wellsaidlucy (Well Said-Virtual Hanover) raced by the Lewis family regained her momentum running into the final bend and when taken to the outside halfway up the running, finished at a great rate to record a 14.6 metre margin in 2-00.8 over Razs Veyron which led into the straight after racing exposed, with Miss McGonagall third after trailing the runner up.

Home town win

■ It was a home town victory in the 1790 metre

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with Len Baker for C2 & C3 class when Michael Bellman's very honest 9Y0 Dawn Ofa New Day-Fake Trick gelding Witzend crossed the line. Starting solo on the second line trailing the pacemaker Melpark Alexa starting from the pole, Witzend with Darby McGuigan using the sprint lane to perfection, scored by 3.5 metres from Watchoutnexttime which followed him all the way in a rate of 1-59.5. Melpark Alexa held down third a neck away. It was Witzend's 11th victory at start number 98.

Out of the water

■ At Bendigo on October 22, Melton trainer Ken Tippet and future son-in-law Josh Smyth blew punters out of the water when 8Y0 Gotta Go Cullect-Phoebe Mae gelding Barnbougle Jack ($76.50) scored in the Share Media Pace for C4 & C5 class over 2150 metres.

Settling at the tail of the field from gate two, Barnbougle Jack off a three wide double trail in the last lap, finished down the outside fence on turning to record a half head margin in a tricky finish from The Gingerbreadman along the sprint lane after following the weakening leader Erico, with Celebrindal a head away third after leading up the three wide line in the final circuit. The mile rate 1-56.5.

Held by a neck

■ Four year old Kiwi bred Art Major-Motu Packet O' Jewels mare Caitlyn Clarke was a strong victor of the 1650 metre Great Ocean Road Real Estate Pace Final for C1 class at Bendigo for Long Forest's Andy Gath.

Driven a terrific race by Alex Ashwood, Caitlyn Clarke starting inside the second line was quickly away from the markers to possie mid-field before going forward to park outside the leader Hezthebigbopper racing for the bell.

Applying plenty of pressure approaching the home turn, Caitlyn Clarke under hard driving dashed halfway up the running to hold on by a neck from Amelia Holmes along the sprint lane off the back of the pacemaker, with Hezthebigbopper 1.6 metres back in third place after working to hold the lead from gate two.

The mile rate 1-56.8.

● San Carlo

215 when successful in the Tenderprint Australia Pace for C3 to C5 class over 2190 metres at Mildura on Wednesday. Raced and bred by local Brian Kolpin, Finedropofred trained at Irymple

by Sandra O'Connor and driven by Emma Hamblin slotted three back in the moving line from gate five as the lead chopped and changed.

Weaving in-between runners approaching the home turn, Findropofred gained a split halfway up the running to score at odds of $72.20 by a head from Borntobeanartist (three back the markers) and Larisas Advice a stablemate of the winner which followed him most of the way. The mile rate 2-00.8.

For Max Thorburn

■ Swan Hill owners Des Hilton and Arthur Graham's 7Y0 Live Or Die-Sokin Wet gelding Itmademyday appreciated a drop back in class when victorious in the 2190 metre Max Thorburn Memorial Pace for C6 or better class at Mildura.

Trained by Des, Itmademyday driven by Glenn Douglas made mincemeat of his rivals after leading throughout from the pole, winning by a conservative 19.3 metres in 2-01.1 from Daylight Dan (one/one) and Somedan which trailed the winner.

Max Thorburn who passed away a week ago, was an icon in Sunraysia and has over the years held numerous positions such as being a journalist, newspaper editor and publisher, race caller and bookmakers supervisor just to name a few.

First winner

■ Former Kiwi Richard Brosnan now based at Bannockburn and training in partnership with son Emmett, snared his first winner since re-locating when Jeremes Jet-Big Bopper 7Y0 gelding Bopper Jet scored in the DNR Logistics Pace for C1 class over 1609 metres at Geelong on Thursday.

Driven by Richard, Bopper Jet enjoyed a cosy passage from the pole trailing the leader Goodtime Junior (gate four) and was always travelling sweetly. Easing three wide on straightening, Bopper Jet finished strongly to gain the day ■ Gruyere part-owner/trainer Ken Browne's by 1.1 metres over a death-seating Machs Gold 7Y0 Noopy Kiosk-Baby Button gelding Chrisken in a rate of 1-55.9. Goodtime Junior held down Kiosk was a deserved victor of the Aldebaran third 11.5 metres away.

Park Trotters Mobile for T2 to T4 class over 2150 metres at Bendigo.

Responsible for an outstanding second at the Bolinda's Brent Lilley combined with Chris same track six days earlier after galloping wildly ■ Alford land a double at Geelong with 4Y0 just after the start, Krisken Kiosk with Michael MajestictoSon-Pinevale Ellason entire Kyvalley Bellman in the sulky led throughout from the Frank taking the 2100 metre John Miles Trotters pole, accounting for Egee Money (one/one) by Mobile for TR1 & TR2 class and 4Y0 Skyvalley4.6 metres in 2-00.1. Dynamic Legacy was a Cashel Dagha gelding Flash Kyvalley the Garth head away third after racing uncovered.

Allen Vicbred Trotters Mobile over the same trip.

Kyvalley Frank led throughout from gate three to account for Fling About which trailed and Celtic ■ Twelve year old Blissful Hall-Lynrose Wonder gelding Finedropofred proved that age is no Rose which raced exposed in 2-04.4, while Flash bar by chalking up 23 victories at start number Kyvalley moved forward three wide at the bell

Deserved victor

Weakening leader

Age is no bar

Sulky Snippets This Week

■ Wednesday - Mildura, Thursday Ballarat, Friday - Shepparton, Saturday Melton, Sunday - Maryborough, Monday Terang, Tuesday - Yarra Valley, Cobram, Swan Hill.

Horses to follow

■ Straps, Celebrindal, Morvah, Tuscan Dawn, Fling About, Lisandros, Bold Hussy, Ballerina Couru, Dikerry.

ing the home turn and doing best to prevail by 11.5 metres from Melpark Magic who followed the weakening leader, with Revy Jay third after racing wide in the last lap. The mile rate 2-04.3.

Handy combination

■ At Tabcorp Park Melton on Friday, Gippsland (Iona) trainer Mick Hughes combined with Lancefield reinsman Rod Petroff to land a stable double - 6Y0 Rocknroll Hanover-Life Of Gold gelding Rocknroll Gold taking the John Williams Cardiology Pace for C2 class and 4Yo Majestic Son-Run A Tab mare Tilly Time the T0 & T1 class Melton Towing Trotters Mobile, both races over the 2240 metre trip.

Rocknroll Gold led throughout from gate five to defeat the long odds-on favourite Smart Little Shard by half a neck after racing exposed in a rate of 1-56.7, with Grinninalltheway (four back the markers) third. Tilly Time (gate five) did the same, accounting for Tuscan Dawn which flashed late from four back the markers to go down by a half head, with a death-seating The Girls Gotflair a head away in third place. The mile rate 2-02.5.

Myrniong duo Jess Tubbs and Greg Sugars' speedy 6Y0 Tell All-Onedins Pocketgirl gelding Sams The Master resumed with an all the victory in the 1720 metre Pauline Madden Group Pace for C7 or better class, recording a soft 2.4 metre margin over Motu Gatecrasher which trailed in a slick 1-52.7. Tee Cee Bee Macray was third 8.6 metres back after following the pair.

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Feminism: Her Place Women’s Museum ............ Page 58 Arts: Mapping Melbourne ................................................ Page 59 Country Music: Eagles in Melbourne ............................. Page 58 Jim and Aaron: Rourke’s Review on Halloween ............. Page 60 Cheryl Threadgold: Local Theatre shows, auditions ........... Page 61 OVATT”S MEGA CRO PL US THE LLO PLUS CROSSSWORD

COUNTDOWN TO JERSEY BOYS Snoopy Musical

● Nic Russ, Ashleigh Psaila, Allie Sutherland, Tony Burge, Candice Sweetman, Rourke Puksand and Daniel Baker in Snoopy! The Musical.

Photo: Tim Tselepis ■ Beaumaris Theatre presents Snoopy! The Musical from November 9 – 24 at 82 Wells Rd., Beaumaris.

Directed by Danny Forward, the show is based on the timeless comic strips of Charles M Schulz, and a lesser known and performed sequel to the perennial favourite, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown.

The iconic characters, Charlie and Sally Brown, Lucy and Linus Van Pelt, Peppermint Patty, Woodstock and, of course, Snoopy, take to the stage for a series of vignettes and songs inspired by the comics.

Snoopy! The Musical is a family-friendly show based on the book by Charles M Schulz, Warren Lockhart, Arthur Whitelaw, Michael L Grace, music by Larry Grossman and lyrics by Hal Hackady.

Musical direction is by Tim Verdon, with choreography

by Kristy Griffin.

Performance Dates: November 9 – 24 Venue: Beaumaris Theatre, 82 Wells Rd., Beaumaris Tickets: $30/$27 Bookings: www.beaumaristheatre.com.au - Cheryl Threadgold

Thanks Normie ■ The crowd was elated. Everyone smiling having enjoyed an hour of musical entertainment from some of Australia’s greats led by the multi-talented Normie Rowe.

As Rowe was wheeled onto the stage he assured us his ailment was not due to old age, but a white tail spider bite.

Hmm I am not so sure I thought. I was wrong, age was no barrier to a great voice, interesting story and fantastic music.

Rowe told us he is 71, yet to listen to him sing you would think much younger. Age I think was a factor though, with at least 190 years of experience on the stage at Hamer Hall it showed experience counts.

The ease in which the four musicians spoke with the audience whilst bantering amongst themselves was palpable. This concert was fun and intimate with a huge sound and large array of music.

Normie Rowe and The Playboys was personal to Melburnians , reminiscing the songs of Rowe in his ‘hey day’ and the local landmarks he spoke of.

The banter between the cast whilst obviously rehearsed appeared natural, fun, and inclusive, we were invited to sing, dance, laugh along. There were moments to participate, others to reflect.

Whether as a fan of Rowe reliving his story and greatest hits or as a novice learning about his past this story of the life of an Australian star is fascinating and warm heartening.

Along with guitarist Gil Matthews, Pianist and music director Steve Kelson and Drummer Graeme’Trotter’ Trottman a great deal was achieved in about 70 minutes.

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■ When Jersey Boys returns to Melbourne in February, 2019, the show’s Musical Director will be local maestro, Luke Hunter.

Luke’s impressive CV includes a Helpmann Nomination for musical direction of Kinky Boots, and receiving both the Helpmann and Green Room Awards for Best Musical Direction for the first season of Jersey Boys.

Other Musical Direction credits include Adelaide Cabaret Festivals’ Dedications starring John O’Hara, The Sound of Music and the Australian tour and Singapore seasons of Grease (Gordon Frost Organisation), The Addams Family, The Rocky Horror Show (Gale Edwards) Beauty and the Beast (Rob Guest Endowment and Melbourne Zoo) Shout!, Oh! What a Night, Leader of the Pack (Green Room Award – Best Musical Direction), Falsettos, 42nd Street, Eddie Perfect’s Up for the VCA, Floorplay in Atlantic City and Burn the Floor in Las Vegas.

During an interview, Luke revealed he was fascinated with music as a child and took music lessons.

“My first teacher, Bev Woodford was passionate about Music Theatre and instilled that in me,” says Luke.

At high school he wanted to be an orchestral flute player, but later considered Music Theatre a possible career path.

Luke focused on both performance and music in tertiary studies at Monash University. “I was in the first intake of the Bachelor of Performing Arts Degree, and had a music major with a drama minor.”

The Head of Drama at Monash University, Peter Fitzpatrick, encouraged Luke to perform in Musical Theatre.

At the same time Luke conducted a few shows and studied under Jean McQuarrie who conducted for the Melbourne Theatre Company.

“She taught me so much about preparation and technique”.

His first professional performance was playing Schlomo Metzenbaum in the original Australian tour of Fame the Musical.

“It was one of the most joyous experiences of my life,” says Luke.

“I couldn’t believe I got to do what I loved every night. It was also there that I met Music Director Charlie Hull, who would become a mentor to me”.

A composer and arranger, Luke has also co-created the iPhone App Warm Me Up! which provides vocal warm-ups to singers worldwide. “ When I did Jersey Boys in 2009, the music team of David Young, Vicky Jacobs, myself and programmer Lawrence Kendall came up with the idea of creating an app that would let singers get a comprehensive and varied vocal warmup,” says Luke.

On sale worldwide for seven years, this app can be used by singers before performances, in the car or on the way to auditions. “We are so proud of it”.

Luke can’t wait for Jersey Boys.

“It has the most wonderful score, packed with all those thrilling Frankie Valli vocals, great harmonies, and a rocking band that also spend a lot of time on stage and are part of the storytelling”.

Luke says it is a joy to conduct the show every night. “It’s a wild, crazy, joyous ride”.

As well as Jersey Boys, Luke is also preparing for the Melbourne premiere of the musical Come From Away.

“One of the most special pieces of theatre I’ve ever seen”.

When asked about advice for young musicians who would like to share his success, Luke says it is difficult to answer.

“There is no set pathway to being a Musical Director in this country. Everyone gets there in a slightly different way, and there is no formal training like there is elsewhere in the world”.

Luke suggests doing as much playing as possible, say “yes” to everything, and make contacts.

“Find out who the great players are that you admire and learn from them. Our industry is very supportive of developing new talent”.

Passion for his work is obvious as Luke talks about enjoying working with great creative people and musicians and seeing singers develop and shine.

“It’s an honour,” says Luke. “I still have moments where I pinch myself that I’m getting to do what I love.”

- Cheryl Threadgold

● Luke Hunter

Side Show The Musical ■ Williamstown Musical Theatre Company presents Side Show the Musical from November 9 – 17 at the Centenary Theatre, Williamstown.

Directed by Nick Kong with musical direction by Daniel Heskett and choreography by Steve Rostron, Side Show the Musical explores a very special connection between two sisters, their desire for acceptance, their search for true love and their desperate yearning for freedom.

Being joined at the hip, their devotion to each other knows no bounds.

The musical is based on the real life and spectacularly talented and charming conjoined sisters Daisy and Violet Hilton who became stars and found fame during the Depression of the 1920s.

From the grim world of the circus freak show and an abusive upbringing, they went on to become the highestpaid stars of vaudeville in the 1930s.

Director of the production Nicholas Kong said: “Audiences will be moved by the performances of the cast as they tell the story from an era gone by with heart felt sophistication and truth”.

This production will draw inspiration from the 2017 musical biopic The Greatest Showman, where human physical difference was both harnessed and celebrated.

Performance Season: November 9 – 17 Venue: The Centenary Theatre, 71 Railway Place, Williamstown Bookings: www.wmtc.org.au or by calling 1300 881 545.

- Cheryl Threadgold

Media Flashes

■ The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age have launched a new ‘Monday Media’ section.

■ Chief Audience and Content Officer, John Sintras, has resigned from SBS. ■ Stan Grant will begin a new role as the ABC's Indigenous and International Affairs Analyst

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Eagles in Melb.

■ Americas best selling band of the 70s, B, will visit Melbourne in March next year.

The super group and multi-Grammy Award winners that gave the world iconic hits such as Hotel California, One Of These Nights, Desperado etc. will perform at Rod Laver Arena on March 5 and 6.

Joining them on tour will be none other than another music legend in Vince Gill along with Glenn Frey'sson Deacon. Glenn passed away in 2016.ood FridayAppeal.

Our Kinda Country

■ Our Kinda Country celebrate their 10th birthday on Saturday (Nov. 3).

Their Morwell clubrooms will come alive with country music, plus, a sausage sizzle is also on offer with an entry fee of $3. The club have hosted countless performers over their 10 years and continue to celebrate, music fun and friendship More info: call 0412 161 419

Kyabram 2018

■ The seventh Kyabram Country Music Festival kicks off on Thursday, November 8h to Sunday, November 11 at the Kyabram Showgrounds.

Although a relative newcomer on the festival circuit, Kyabram's Country Music Festival has become a popular destination for RV and caravan enthusiasts, as well as country music fans.

More info http://www.kyrvcountry. com.au/ - Rob Foenander

Her Place Museum ■ The Her Place Women’s Museum Australia Exhibition will be presented at the Pakenham Library until November 11.

The current turmoil over women’s political representation highlights the need for exhibitions that explore – and celebrate – the role of women, says Mary Stuart, who chairs Her Place Women’s Museum Australia.

“At Federation, Australian women were the first in the world to have the right both to vote and to stand for parliament.

“Our trailblazing democracy was the envy of the world. Now, the low levels of women’s political representation drag down Australia’s ranking on the United Nations’ Human Development Index.

“More than 30 nations on the index have a higher share of female political representatives, including Argentina, Bolivia, Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda,” Stuart said.

“If we understand the role women have played – and continue to play – in shaping Australia, female politicians might be more in number and get the respect and recognition they deserve.

“Statues, place names and electorate names that celebrate women’s contribution are essential – so too are exhibitions like the Her Place exhibition at Pakenham Library until November 11. Another will follow at Ballarat.

“Women are underrepresented in all of our cultural institutions. It is not radical to think half our politicians should be women. It is radical to think the reverse and for unequal representation of women in all walks of public life to prevail. This must change” Ten women are featured: Kay Setches, former local MP, Minister in the Cain and Kirner Governments, and long-time campaigner against family violence and for affirmative action in the ALP; Pakenham activist, Shoheli Sunjida, who is behind the Cardinia Food Movement and other initiatives to improve neighbourliness and raise awareness around family violence; Aunty Bess Yarram, Aboriginal activist; Val Lang, farmer and rural women’s advocate; Pat Bigham AFSM, pioneering CFA volunteer and poultry farmer from Gruyere in the Yarra Valley; the late Joan Kirner , Victoria’s first female premier; Susan Alberti , businesswoman and football trailblazer; Peta Searle, Head Coach of the Southern Saints, St Kilda’s first women’s football team; Halima Mohamed, Somali community leader; and Deborah Lawrie (Wardley) FRAeS MAP, Australia’s first female commercial pilot.

Kay Setches, 73, who was one of the inaugural inductees onto the Victorian Honour Roll of Women in 2001, has devoted most of her life to campaigning for women’s rights and an end to family violence. Growing up in working-class Collingwood, Setches was aware of inequity

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■ Australian snooker champion Eddie Charlton was born in Merewether, NSW, in 1929. He died aged 75 in 2004.

US TV newsreader Dan Rather was born in Texas in 1931 (87).

Actor Michael Landon (Little House On The Prairie) was born in 1937.

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

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

Australian country music singer John Williamson was born in 1945 (73).

Melbourne Arts from a young age. At the Collingwood School of Domestic Arts, which did not believe girls required Matriculation, she did four classes a week of Laundry and one class of Science.

Shoheli Sunjida, 40, who migrated from Bangladesh with her husband and the first of her two sons in 2002, thinks Australia is lagging when it comes to women and leadership.

“Conservative white males don’t want to see women coming forward, whether it is in politics, schools or companies.

“Unequal pay is shocking. Lots of migrant women don’t know their rights, which means that they’re often exploited. I am determined to change all this,” she said.

Sunjida was motivated to get involved politically when her family moved to a new area in Cardinia Shire in 2012 and discovered that the walking paths, bike paths and disabled ramps around the lake at the centre of the community had been removed because they weren’t fully railed. She and a community group she started worked hard over a number of years to have the facilities restored.

“Cardinia Food Movement is encouraging community members to grow and source fresh produce locally, to create healthy food habits and also to share a vast variety of food processing and cooking techniques that a diverse community brings in.

“Most Australians don’t know, for instance, that you can eat pumpkin leaves.”

Cardinia grows onions, potatoes and asparagus, and the Cardinia Food Movement is keen to see farmers able to sell their produce at the farm gate.

“We want farmers and consumers to be able to deal direct with each other and, wherever possible, not have to go through a ‘middle-man’.

We’re also taking up a petition to get a community house set up in the fast-growing area of Officer.

“We’d like to see it have a dining area, a multicultural garden and a commercial kitchen where people could learn to cook healthy foods.”

Sunjida has also been working with local schools on a project to raise awareness about family violence. Posters by school children now adorn local buses and the walls of the Cardinia Cultural Centre and the Pakenham Library.

Exhibition dates: Until November 11, Times: Monday – Wednesday 9-8, Thursday 9-9, Friday, 9-6, Saturday, 10-4, Sunday, 14.

Loren ● From Page 9 “Loren is currently in the process of finalising its cast and is set to begin shooting in mid-December.

The team are aiming to release it early in the new year and touring the local and international film festival circuits. https://www.pozible.com/project/ethan The film follows a woman searching for the man who murdered her sister. But this man is not what you’d expect, and in her quest to make him pay for his sins, a relationship is formed.

Ethan our reluctant serial killer, awakes from a dream that links him to a traumatic childhood he has long since repressed. The dream reveals itself as a link to his past and begins to stir a volatile reaction in the face of perceived betrayal.

Ethan undergoes a quest to try and cure himself and absolve himself of his sins, when he meets Loren, the sister of one of his victims. But where is the line between a man desperately in need of help, and a monster?

Loren asks the question: who do you support? A serial killer who has finally turned a corner, or the murdering woman who brings him to justice?

The film aims to challenge the concept of classical male dominance within relationships, and whether even the most unforgivable crimes can ever be forgiven.

- Cheryl Threadgold ● From Page 57

Thanks Normie Rowe and the Playboys have talent .Close your eyes, you could be listening to a much younger band with their energy, harmonies, general musicality and entertaining know how.

Mr Rowe, thanks for your service.

Normie Rowe and The Playboys performed in Morning Melodies at Arts Centre Melbourne.

- Review by Elizabeth Semmel

Showbiz briefs

■ KIIS 1065’s Kyle and Jackie O Show has won the Best On-Air Team (Metro FM) category, at this year’s Australian Commercial Radio Awards (ACRAs).

Ray Hadley's Continuous Call Team won Best On Air team (Metro AM).

■ Best Current Affairs presenter was won by 3AW morning presenter Neil Mitchell bringing his ACRA award winning total to 21.

- RadioInfo.com.au Melbourne

Observer

Friday Saturday November 2 November 3

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

Racing driver Alan Jones was born in Melbourne in 1946 (72).

Singer K D (Kathryn Dawn) Lang was born in Canada in 1961 (57).

She is a frequent visitor to Australia

■ Shannon Reid, ex-radio producer, enjoys her birthday today.

Actor Charles Bronson was born in 1921. He died aged 81 Singer Lulu (Marie Lawrie) was born in Glasgow in 1948 (70).

Actress Rebecca Gilling was born in Sydney in 1953.

Sunday Monday November 4 November 5 ■ Entertainer Barry Crocker is 83 today.

He was born in Geelong in 1935.

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

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

MASH’s Loretta Swit is 81 (1937).

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

Roy Rogers (Leonard Slye) was born in 1912.

He died in 1998 Actress Vivien Leigh was born in 1913. She died aged 57 in 1967.

Singer Art Garfunkel was born in 1941

Tuesday November 6

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

Evangelist Billy Graham was born in 1918.

Australian soprano Dame Joan Sutherland was born in 1926.

She died in 2010 (83).

Model Jean Shrimpton was born in England in 1942 (76).

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

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

Find out more at www.jocksjournal.com

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TV, Radio, Theatre

Spiritual Gangster ■ Joana Simons presents her new one hour comedy show Spiritual Gangster from November 28 – December 1 at The Butterfly Club.

It’s almost the end of this year of the dog.

Yoga is in the mainstream, mindfulness has run rampant in the workplace and people talk about their higher selves in the same breath as their weekend.

It is a time when “No religion’ is the top pick on the recent census, but people are flocking to ashrams and silent retreats.

At such a confusing time, Joana feels the world needs a saviour, a sinner, a Spiritual Gangster to unpack it all.

Dusting off the ashes of her Saturn return, Joana Simmons (Australia’s Got Talent, Confessions of an Aerobics Instructor) is bringing her brand new hour of breakdance breakdown of spirituality with original beats, physical comedy and whimsical witticisms.

Joana sold out The Butterfly Club with her cardio-comedy cabaret Confessions of An Aerobics Instructor and has performed internationally at a range of prestigious arts festivals under her pseudonym Banana Jolie.

Previous credits include Splendour in the Grass, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, New Zealand Fringe Festival, Melbourne Fringe Festival, The Village Festival, Falls Festival and Rainbow Serpent. She was a semi-finalist with “Miss Friby (and the Fribbles)” on Australia’s Got Talent.

Spiritual Gangster opens on November 28 and runs for five performances. Tickets limited, so booking ahead is recommended.

Performance Dates: November 28 – December 1 at 7pm Venue: The Butterfly Club, 5 Carson Place, Melbourne Tickets: thebutterflyclub.com - Cheryl Threadgold

Ophelia thinks harder ■ This November, Wit incorporated continues to bring affordable, award-winning theatre to Bluestone Church Arts Space in Footscray from November 9 - 24.

Ophelia Thinks Harder is a fast paced, feminist love story, that takes the characters of Shakespeare’s Hamlet through the looking glass and back again.

The Prince is a hazard and the new King’s a puppet. Who is running Denmark?

Ophelia tries to please. Ophelia fails.

Ophelia thinks harder.

With guerilla feminists invading the castle, failed spells from a frustrated maid, endless direction from a wily Queen and various ignored ghosts, this is not the Hamlet you know.

Ophelia Thinks Harder is a heightened, confused and darkly-funny world, where Shakespeare meets feminism.

It is a ‘thoroughly revised’ version of Hamlet- only this time Ophelia gets all the best lines.

Directed by Artistic Director Belinda Campbell, Ophelia Thinks Harder explores spirituality, philosophy, myth, reality, ambition and sexuality and fights against conventions that Ophelia gets trapped in in Shakespeare’s version.

Ophelia transforms from a teenager in torment, to a complex woman with a tenacious desire for more.

Bett’s Ophelia is a survivor.

Performance dates; November 9 – 24 at 7.30pm, 3pm Sunday Venue: Bluestone Church Arts Space, 8A Hyde Street, Footscray.

Further enquiries: sarah@witinc.com.au - Cheryl Threadgold

Gruffalo pleases ■ I had the pleasure of reviewing The Gruffalo when it played at the Athenaeum Theatre, Collins Street, as part of a national Australian tour.

Based on the award-winning picture book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, the show’s action takes place in the deep dark ‘woodesque’ woods.

An articulate, expressive Mouse (Shannen Sarstedt) tells us that she is not afraid of anything, not even monsters.

By golly, her adventures through the woods to search for hazel nuts proves this to be absolutely true.

Armed with a nut map and great imagination, the fearless Mouse escapes capture by predators met along the way by recounting tales of her imaginary monster friend, The Gruffalo.

Who wouldn’t be scared at the thought of roasted fox, owl ice-cream and scrambled snake?

These nasty types include the pushy, sneaky Fox, a retired Woodland Air Force General Owl and the particularly entertaining, maraca-shaking Snake, all superbly portrayed by versatile Hayden Baum.

But what a scary surprise for Mouse when she really does encounter a Gruffalo!

Eventually, thanks to Mouse’s vivid tales, it is the pleasingly not-too-frightening Gruffalo (Kyle Kaczmarczyk, also the Narrator) who thinks he needs saving from the Mouse.

The show cleverly interacts with the young audience, has bright, toe-tapping songs, sharp, quirky choreography, and witty one-liners to

● Shannen Sarstedt (Mouse), Hayden Baum (Narrator/Predators) and Kyle Kaczmarczyk (Gruffalo) Photo:Heidrun Lohr please the grown-ups.

A terrific asset to this show are the energies and fresh new talents of Shannen Sarstedt, Kyle Kaczmarczyk and Hayden Baum, who work hard to engage their young audience for the hour, and succeed.

I asked my five year old companion what he enjoyed most about The Gruffalo, and he said ‘everything’.

If the show returns to Melbourne after its Australian tour, be sure to see it.

- Review by Cheryl Threadgold

Don’t Judge Me ■ Tom Casamento presents Don’t Judge Me! From November 14 – 17 at The Butterfly Club.

Tom says whether it’s some random person on the train, that annoying old Aunty everyone hates or the talentless kid who’s auditioning for the ‘The Voice’, everybody has something going on behind closed doors.

“Sometimes when we’re observing people for the first time or people we know well we forget this, so we make judgements and assumptions that can be harsh and unsympathetic”.

But what if we could see what was going on behind those closed doors? In Don’t Judge Me! Tom Casamento brings these people to life, making us question whether or not we should trust our first impressions.

Don’t Judge Me! is a comedy about people, not judging people, and harshly judging people.

Tom Casamento trained at The Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School and graduated from Patrick Studios Australia with a Diploma in Musical Theatre.

While studying, he wrote and starred in his own short cabaret Keeping up with the Casamentos.

In May he began writing a new cabaret which he performed as part of The Cabaret Showcases with mentoring from Melissa Langton and Mark Jones.

Performance Dates: November 14 – 17

● Tom Casamento Times: November 14, 15, 17 at 7pm; Nov 16 at 5.30pm Cost: $27-34 Venue: The Butterfly Club, 5 Carson Place, Melbourne Tickets: thebutterflyclub.com - Cheryl Threadgold

YARRA VALLEY REMEMBERS ■ ARK Theatre in conjunction with the Mount Evelyn RSL present Centenary – The Yarra Valley Remembers on Sunday, November 11 at 2pm at Lilydale High School Performing Arts Centre.

This specially presented tribute by ARKTheatre, in conjunction with the Lilydale RSL Sub-branch will pay tribute to the men and women of the Yarra Valley who served our nation during the First World War, both overseas and on the

home front. Presented through songs, poems and sketches, local stories of the times will

be shared, including those of Madam Nellie Melba, Ralph Goode, Mrs Aeneas Gunn, J D Burns and C J Dennis.

All funds from this event will go to the Seville War Memorial.

Event Details: Sunday, November 11 at 2.00pm Venue: Lilydale High School Performing Arts Centre, Melba Avenue, Lilydale Cost: $5 per person Bookings: https:// www.trybooking.com/YOEU

Mapping Melbourne ■ The 16-day curated festival features over 100 artists from across Australia, China, India, Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand in 19 events of --contemporary independent dance, theatre, live art, music, visual arts, video and cross-cultural collaborations, Saturday December 1 until Saturday December 15.

The 6th annual festival showcases the best independent contemporary artists exploring the themes of Asia and identity. This extraordinary program of events celebrates the synergies that exist between all people.

“Mapping Melbourne offers a rare insight into the contemporary art scene in Asia, bringing together collaborations and connections between Asian and Australian artists.

“Here, at this festival, we are able to witness an extraordinary showcase of bold, innovative and daring new work,” says Veronica Pardo, Chief Executive Officer, Multicultural Arts Victoria.

Mapping Melbourne will launch at the MPavilion on Friday, November 30, 6pm90pm with live performances, installations and interactions.

The full program can be seen by visiting http://multiculturalarts.com.au/event/mapping-melbourne-2018/ Highlights include: Street Connection is a live exhibition and work shop featuring Thai street artist, Mue Bon. He is a Thai artist at the forefront of the Asian street art scene with his unmistakable characters appearing on local road sides and shutters, to gallery walls and Art fairs worldwide.

Dumpling Boy Temple is a pseudo-shaman space on steroids where the kitsch-ometer set to full on. Dumpling Boy Temple is an art installation space which provides a unique, kitsch shamanistic experience. The temple space will take inspiration from shamanism cultures in contemporary Asia, with a mix of traditions and symbols combined with manufactured objects.

MURTI, ('moor-thee') is a communal participatory installation about worship and ritual in our age.A Sanskrit term, 'murti' is an embodied icon of the Divine. Reflecting on the ancient Hindu ritual of bathing stone idols in water and milk, MURTI invites people to pour vibrant paint upon a large-scale sculpture that reimagines the most revered and abstracted Hindu icon – the Lingam. All audience members will have opportunities to pour paint upon the idol throughout the opening night.

The Embodied Landscape. From a remote and ancient land steeped in both aboriginal and colonial artefacts we enhance the visibility of our first nation footprint with a remote regional initiative. Two ancient cultures meet and collaborate through dance: SampangAgung Centre for Performaing Arts (SACPA) from Pelem, East Java and Wotjobaluk dancers from the Wimmera. An exhibition of photographs, film and a performance based in a remote regional town, Rainbow. im/modesty. Shoeb Ahmad brings a swirl of dream pop and storytelling. A staple of the Canberra underground music scene, Shoeb proudly identifies as a person of Bangladeshi heritage and a transgender woman. Her music is known for exploring deeply personal experiences and vulnerabilities, in an evocative mix of acoustic and electronic indie pop.

The Sounds of Shadows; Sugar Coated This farm-to-table narrative will impart some food for thought. Juxtaposing the joy and the destruction that food can bring, this immersive concert celebrates endangered Indonesian instruments whose primary function is centered around food production. #Perempuan. In collaboration with Project 11 and curated by Santy Saptari, #Perempuan (or woman), is a group exhibition featuring works by emerging Indonesian artists that explores current issues affecting women.

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Movies, DVDs with Jim Sherlock, Aaron Rourke What’s Hot and What’s Not in Blu-Rays and DVDs FILM: ELVIS PRESLEY - THE SEARCHER: Genre: Biography/Documentary.

Voices: Elvis Presley, Priscilla Presley, Robbie Robertson, Bruce Springsteen, Sam Phillips, D.J. Fontana, and Many More!

Year: 2018.

Rating: M. Length: 197 Minutes.

Stars: **** Verdict: Following his creative journey from childhood through the final 1976 Jungle Room recording sessions.

Outstanding two-part three hour + documentary feature is the most revealing and entertaining to date, includes never-before-seen film footage and photo's, including new material taken inside Graceland, and features new primary source interviews with family, friends, session players, producers, engineers, directors and other artists who knew him or who were profoundly influenced by him.

Told in extraordinary detail is the mixed race music scene culture of Memphis in the 1950s, from the Blues to Gospel, and featuring Blues greats like B.B. King and Howlin' Wolf, among many others, and their influence on Elvis, then on to the legendary Sun Studios and Sam Phillips, and Colonel Tom Parker.

Also details is his stint in the Army, meeting and marrying Priscilla, the TV appearances, becoming the pop music phenomenon, the movies, the decline, the personal issues, the frustrations, the controlling power of Col. Tom Parker and the legendary 1968 Comeback Special, and much more, all told in voice only and no talking heads including Elvis himself, along with Priscilla Presley, Robbie Robertson, Bruce Springstein, Sam Phillips, D.J. Fontana, Red West, Col. Tom Parker, and Many More.

Everything in "Elvis Presley: The Searcher" comes together to ultimately create a intensely personal, revealing, poignant, dark, exciting, thrilling, uplifting and emotion charged odyssey of one the greatest and most influential music icons in history.

FILM: SUMMER OF 84: Genre: Drama/Thriller/Mystery.

Cast: Graham Verchere, Judah Lewis, Caleb Emery, Shauna Johannesen.

Year: 2018.

Rating: MA15+ Length: 105 Minutes.

Stars: *** Verdict: After suspecting that their police officer neighbour is a serial killer, a group of teenage friends spend their summer spying on him and gathering evidence, but as they get closer to discovering the truth, things get dangerous.

From Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear Window" to Stephen King's "Stand By Me," to the hit series "Stranger Things," and many in-between, this "my neighbour may be a killer" and "teen centric sleuth mystery," if you have the patience and you are not bothered by the all too familiar plot, this has a lot to offer, as it builds dramatically in tenacity, urgency and attentiveness as it grows.

You can be forgiven for feeling that we have seen or known these teen characters before, however, as the mystery deepens so does the drama, as they slowly unravel what they believe to be the long elusive serial killer, another formulaic character, as are the frustrated parents in the piece, and lacking much needed humour, but this all combines effectively to play well with-in its favour.

Familiar plot and characters or not, the less said about it the better, as there are genuinely gripping moments of unexpected brutality, jolts, fright and surprise, especially for a teen mystery, and it's those moments in murder mysteries that separate the boys from the men, and in this case turn the boys into men, prematurely.

FILM: 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY - 50th Anniversary 4K + Blu-Ray: Genre: Sci-Fi/Adventure.

Cast: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Douglas Rain.

Year: 1968.

Rating: PG. Length: 149 Minutes.

Stars: ***** Review: From the dawn of man to beneath the surface of the moon, humanity finds a mysterious object and, with the intelligent computer HAL 9000 on board the spacecraft Discovery, man sets off on a quest to find the answer.

Before man landed on the moon, Stanley Kubrick's monumental science fiction epic broke all traditional story-telling rules and created a whole new approach to the medium, in recreating a stale and flawed genre, it not only intellectually exploded myth, the stars and technology to unimagined heights, it changed the genre and cinema forever, and would inspire a generations of filmmakers to this day.

Few filmmakers have understood the visual medium and depth of cinema and film as much that Stanley Kubrick, and with "2001: A Space Odyssey" he challenges, stimulates, confuses, confounds, dares and divides us intellectually and visually with an odyssey of unsurpassed imagination, groundbreaking technological perfection and sheer additional brilliance and inspiration with an unrivalled integration of musical and visual composition the marriage of music and cinema.

Originally filmed and released in the single-frame 70MM Cinerama format, this is a spellbinding and dizzying fusion of adventure, belief, idealism, life, death, rebirth, man vs. machine and extrater restrial life that is a thrilling, haunting, poignant, testing, thought provoking and ultimately spellbinding experience which offers something new no matter how many times you see it.

Rourke’s Reviews Suspiria

■ (MA). 152 minutes. Opens in selected cinemas November 8.

After achieving worldwide acclaim with the Oscar winning drama Call Me By Your Name, director Luca Guadagnino takes a radical left-turn with his latest feature, a dark, allegorical reworking of Dario Argento's 1977 masterpiece Suspiria, and it's a hypnotic concoction that truly stands on its own.

Set in Berlin circa 1977, the basic premise remains the same; American student Susie Bannion (Dakota Johnson) arrives to hopefully join other young hopefuls at an elite dance academy, and after an energetic audition, manages to secure a place.

In charge is the elegant-yet-intimidating Madame Blanc (Tilda Swinton), who sees something unique in Susie, something that could benefit her and the other teachers, all of whom hold a terrifying secret.

The great thing about this new incarnation of Suspiria, is that it doesn't lazily rehash the sights and sounds of the iconic original (which is one of my all-time favourites), but instead forges a completely different path, so those wanting more of the same will be bitterly disappointed.

Guadagnino and writer David Kajganich (A Bigger Splash, The Terror TV series) dig deeper, using the framework set up by Argento and Daria Nicolodi to examine the human condition, and its frustrating propensity to be drawn to (or possessed by) the same flaws and failings, using subject matter such as WWII Nazism and the Baader-Meinhof attacks to symbolise man's attraction to oppression, power, and violence (there are clearly felt references to Salo and Cabaret).

The two intriguingly parallel all this with the chaos, anger, and division that is occurring today, but they also look at a woman's place in that world, particularly the doctrine and image they should attach themselves to.

The film looks incredible, and cinematographer Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, shooting on 35mm film, makes the production feel like it was crafted in the 1970s, and while it may not have Argento's memorable colour schemes, this new vision is definitely visually impressive.

Performances are excellent (Johnson gets more to do here than she did in the excruciating Bad Times At The El Royale), especially from the always reliable Swinton, who gets to play more than one role here. Suspiria is a film that wants to challenge its audience, and as such it will prove a wearying, even exhausting experience for some.

But for those who want more than cheap, empty thrills, then this may end up being one of your most invigorating cinematic encounters for 2018. RATING - ****

Suspiria : 40th Anniversary ■ Special Edition (R) (1977). 98

minutes. Available now on Blu-ray.

Lovingly restored in a gorgeous 4K restoration, this all-time classic can finally be viewed the way it was four decades ago (even more so if you watch the U.S. Synapse restoration, which is simply astonishing).

For those who have yet to experience this profound assault on the senses, the plot follows Suzy Bannion (a perfectly cast Jessica Harper), an innocent young American who enrols at a prestigious dance academy in Germany.

It doesn't take long after her arrival to realise that strange things are happening within these walls, and that the people in charge may actually be witches.

Argento has always been a filmmaker who favours cinematic immersion over narrative logic, and Suspiria is no exception, but the breathlessly staged, nightmarish visions he creates have to be seen to be believed (special praise must go to cinematographer Luciano Tovoli).

For those who saw this on the huge Astor screen during its packed season last year (which I was one), it was an unforgettable experience, and now thanks to Umbrella Entertainment, we can now see this beautiful restoration at home, vividly reliving what is one of the greatest horror films ever made.

RATING - *****

Halloween

■ (MA). 106 minutes. Now showing in cinemas.

Having received strong reviews and incredible box-office success in the US, this latest entry in the long-running series now reaches our shores, but unfortunately all that positive hype seems puzzling, as what we have is a rather mediocre regurgitation of the highly influential John Carpenter original.

Ignoring all the sequels that have come before it, this sees itself as an alternative Part Two, set 40 years after the events that occurred in 1978.

Michael Myers (Nick Castle)has been in a mental institution all that time, and terrified survivor Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) has turned into a Sarah Connor-type obsessive, living in a remote, fenced-off house, and surrounded by rows of high-powered weaponry, for when the unstoppable killer inevitably escapes his confines.

Her daughter Karen (Judy Greer, again miscast) is estranged due to this unstable behaviour, but granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak) sees the reclusive Laurie behind Karen's back.

When a couple of podcast reporters turn up to 'interview' Michael, then Laurie, it sets off a chain of events that will see The Shape break out, and cause the kind of bloody mayhem the town of Haddonfield have endured a number of times before.

Halloween is slick enough, and is crafted in a way that makes it look like it was produced in the early 80's, but is lacking the style, imagination, and ingenuity that made the 1978 version such a wonderful, genuine classic. What we truly want to see is a new John Carpenter film, not a second-rate facsimile.

RATING - **½

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4. HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 3: Summer Vacation [Animated/Family/Adventure/ Comedy].

5. BEIRUT [Drama/Thriller/Jon Hamm, Rosamund Pike, Larry Pine, Dean Norris].

6. EDIE [Drama/Adventure/Sheila Hancock].

7. OVERBOARD [2018/Comedy/John Hannah, Eva Longoria, Mel Rodriguez].

8. TEA WITH THE DAMES [Documentary/ Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Joan Plowright].

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BACKSTABBING FOR BEGINNERS [Drama/Ben Kingsley, Jacqueline Bisset].

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GOTTI [Crime/Biography/Drama/John Travolta, Stacy Keach].

THE WIFE [Drama/Glenn Close, Jonathan Price, Christian Slater].

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2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY - 50th Anniversary 4K + Blu-Ray].

DANCES WITH WOLVES: Collector's Edition [Western/Drama/Adventure].

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THE MINDY PROJECT: The Final Season Season 6.

THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR: Complete Collection.

ODD MOM OUT: Season 3.

MASTER OF NONE: Season 1.

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Local Theatre with Cheryl Threadgold and team J.P. SHILO

● J.P. Shilo ■ J P Shilo presents Jubjoté on the Melbourne Town Hall Grand Organ on November 8.

The City of Melbourne presents a new commissioned work for the Melbourne Town Hall Grand Organ, Jubjoté by Australian musician, J. P. Shilo on Thursday, November 8 at 7.30pm at the Melbourne Town Hall.

J. P. Shilo will entertain audiences by playing a wide range of instruments including organ, piano, guitar, violin, bass, drums percussion, piano accordion and much more.

Jubjoté, is a French term for emerging from a dream without knowing the end and trying to return to find out what happens.

J P Shilo’s trademark approach and subtle atmospherics grace records by Mick Harvey, The Blackeyed Susans, Adalita and Rowland S. Howard.

He has toured extensively with his own instrumental group Hungry Ghosts, solo and with various acts including Cut/Copy and The Triffids.

Shilo is a genuine genre-defying shapeshifter, who in the one year opened for Leonard Cohen, Daft Punk and Blondie.

Outside of the "Rock" scene, Shilo has also turned his skills towards writing film scores, providing soundscapes for many Australian productions.

His compositions are fragile in their minimalist beauty then able to suddenly burst open with stabbing intensity.

The audience will head the huge dynamic emotional capacity of the Grand Organ, the largest Grand Romantic organ in the Southern Hemisphere, with J. P. Shilo's artistic practice.

Support on the night will be from uber cool goth-rock heartthrobs Bitumen. The evening will also feature the performance of atmospheric new experimental electronic works for the Grand Organ by sound specialisation students from the Bachelor of Design program at RMIT. Date: Thursday, November 8, 7.30pm – 11.00pm Venue: Melbourne town Hall, Swanston Street Melbourne - Licensed Tickets: Free, bookings essential Bookings: www.facebook.com/events/ 686918141684392/

NEW BOOK ■ Painting War: A History of Australia's First World War Art Scheme by Margaret Hutchison, which will be published in November for the centenary.

“Sending Australian artists to create specifically Australian art in the European and Middle Eastern theatres of war was part of an impulse to differentiate the Australian experience from the rest of British Empire. That decision has affected how we remember the war and how we have commemorated Australia’s participation in all the wars that followed,” said Dr Hutchison.

Zipper script needs work

● Phil Roberts (Digger White) and Phil Zachariah (Mr Brownless) in Zipper at the Richmond Theatrette. Photo: Wolf Heidecker.

■ The travails of the elderly confined to retire- with cartoon depictions of a vicar (Karan Bhatia) ment villages provide plentiful opportunity for and Mr Brownless (Phil Zachariah) a former comedy. teacher in extremis.

Loneliness, loss of sexual function and reRefugee Halina (Rosalind Romney) provides grets could be maudlin but, playwright Bernard a quiet counterpoint but the Matron (Francesca Clancy has ensured this is the stuff of comedy. Waters) occasionally goes into overdrive.

His play, The Zipper, reveals what many go And when all the cast are on stage, the directhrough after a bypass operation – an all too tor, Wolf Heidecker, has problems managing familiar experience for many. positioning, especially with those cast with Unfortunately, the play lurches between re- the less stage experience. alistic characters and caricatures. Digger White This play is a noble effort to address the real(Phil Roberts) plays an irascible veteran with aplomb but his mail order Vietnamese wife, Lily ity of lives where we look back on the past. Some (Vixey Teh) comes across more as a stereo- serious editing would make this a more manageable piece. type.

The epilogue with a chorus line was comAging men recapturing their youth is a common story speaking of a desperate search for pletely unnecessary and more should be made the past and is perfect comedic fodder. The pa- of the intimate moments between couples where thos is delectable but Clancy hasn’t quite man- individuals come to terms with a loss of function, guilt for past mistakes and regrets for unaged to contain it.

Similar things could be said about the array fulfilled promise. of other personalities in the story.

There are laughs to be had and mature audiBilly Boy (David Macrae) is a former down to ences would identify with life’s absurdities after earth farmer who takes up with Joan (Rose- major operations. mary Johns) who spouts new age remedies beThis is a piece where the potential can be cause of the challenge of her past. found but the crafting of the script needs work.

It’s comic gold but this couple are surrounded - Review by David McLean

Latest shows, auditions SHOWS

SHOWS

■ PEP Productions: Holding the Man (by Tommy Murphy) Until November 3 at the Doncaster Playhouse, 679 Doncaster Rd., Doncaster. All tickets $25. Bookings: https:// www.trybooking.com/XYAC or Phone: 0418 549 187 ■ Mordialloc Theatre Company: Things My Mother Taught Me November 9 - 24 at Shirley Burke Theatre, 64 Parkers Rd., Parkdale. Directors: Laura Bradley and Michaela Smith.

Bookings: 9587 5141 www.mordialloctheatre.com ■ Williamstown Musical Theatre Company: Side Show - the Musical November 9 - 17 at the Centenary Theatre, 71 Railway Place, Williamstown. Bookings: www.wmtc.org.au or 1300 881 545.

■ Beaumaris Theatre: Snoopy! The Musical November 9 - 24 at Beaumaris Theatre, 82 Wells Rd., Beaumaris. Director: Danny Forward; Musical Director; Tim Verdon; Choreographer: Kristy Griffin.

Bookings: www.beaumaristheatre.com.au ■ Nova Music Theatre: Doctor Zhivago Until November 11 at The Whitehorse Centre, Whitehorse Road, Nunawading. Bookings: 1300 304 433.

■ The Basin Theatre: Bombshells (by Joanna Murray-Smith) November 9 - December 1 at The Basin Theatre, Cnr Doongalla and Simpson Rds., The Basin. Director: Sharon Maine. Bookings: 1300 784 668.

■ Malvern Theatre Company: Tarantara!

Tarantrara! (by Ian Taylor) Until November 10 at 29 Burke Rd., Malvern. Director: Andrew Ferguson. Bookings; 1300 131 552 or www.malverntheatre.com.au

■ Lilydale Athenaeum Theatre: The History Boys (by Alan Bennett) November 8 - 24 at 39 - 41 Castella St., Lilydale. Director: Helen Ellis.

Bookings: 9735 1777 or http://lilydaleatc.com/ ■ Strathmore Theatre Group (STAG): Lamb of God (John Summons) November 8 - 18 at the Strathmore Community Theatre, Loeman St., Strathmore. Director: George Benca. Bookings: https://www.trybooking.com/YQAU 9079 4410 ■ Brighton Theatre Company: Pass the Butler (by Eric Idle) November 9 - 24 at Brighton Arts and Cultural Centre, Wilson St., Brighton. Director: Gaetano Santo. Bookings: 1300 752 126 www.brightontheatre.com.au ■ Williamstown Little Theatre: Shakespeare (Abridged) November 15 - December 1 at 2 Albert St., Williamstown. Director: Peter Newling. Bookings: wlt.org.au or 0447 340 665.

■ Playhouse Players: National Playwright Competition 2018, December 6, 7, 8 at Rentoul Theatre, Livingston St., Burwood.

AUDITIONS ■ SLAMS: All Shook Up. October 31 at 7.00pm at Bayswater Senior Citizens' Centre, Mountain Highway, Bayswater. Director: Merryn Degnan; Musical Director: Benjamin Samual; Choreographer: Brooke Young. Audition time booking: / www.trybooking.com/YPGA ■ Encore Theatre: Fantastic Mr Fox (by Roald Dahl) November 4 and 5 at Fleigner Hall, Highland Ave., East Oakleigh. Director: David Collins.

Enquiries: 0423 505 980 ■ Malvern Theatre Company: Mr Bennet's Bride (by Emma Wood) November 11 and 12 at Malvern Theatre, 29 Burke Rd., Malvern. Director: Susan Rundle. Enquiries: 0416 298 136

WARRIORS

● Mary Baras-Miller (Warrior Queen Zordana) and Michael Hollis (Peter) in Warriors.

■ Dramatic Pause demonstrated their ability to tell a story that provoked thought and emotion without an elaborate set or special effects.

Warriors was a moving piece of theatre with a youth cast of five.

It was a statement on dreams, relationships and dealing with the harsh reality of life when change is inevitable and what might be deemed a tragedy can result in positivity.

It was a platform for young people to say we can make a difference too.

Whilst the script gave the characters a sense of thoughtful intelligence some of the actual dialogue seemed unrealistic and ‘adult like’.

I doubt the actors had workshopped the dialogue to make it more age specific and realistic. As a result there were some stilted moments set in present time, in a conventional setting that could have been more realistic and relatable.

The acting by all five members was good, particularly very realistic and engaging were Jazi hall as Maddie and Chloe Ferrigno as Amy, both very young performers to watch out for in the future.

The audience was small in number yet showed a genuine appreciation for the work of these young people.

This was an opportunity to be given a lesson in life on the role young people play in keeping the world turning, in the importance of dreams, making choices and being able to stand on a limb and be yourself.

Keep your eyes peeled for more work by Dramatic Pause.

Warriors was presented a Theatre Works, St Kilda.

- Review by Elizabeth Semmel

THE ARTS Factory of the Sun - Hito Steyerl The national Gallery of Victoria presents the Australian premiere of the ground-breaking video installation Factory of the Sun by German-born artist Hito Steyerl, who was named the number one artist on Artreview's 2017 Power 100 list.

Factory of the Sun, 2015, first shown at the 2015 German Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale, is a fully-immersive installation tells the dystopian story of a group of workers in a labour camp. The participants are forced to perform choreographed dance routines and their movements are transformed into a valuable commodity: artificial sunshine.

Exhibition closes March 24. 2019.

National Gallery of Victoria 150 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne ★ The NGA commemorates 30th Anniversary of the Aboriginal Memorial Thirty years after the installation of The Aboriginal Memorial. The National Gallery of Australia reflects on this powerful work of art that commemorates all indigenous people who died defending their land since 1788.

National Gallery of Australia Parkes Place, Parkes, ACT - Peter Kemp

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Observer Victorian Sport Melbourne

Internationals rule Cup scene ■ After the one of the greatest runs we have ever seen in a Herbert Power Handicap at Caulfield, the international galloper, Yucatan Ure, rules as the Melbourne Cup favourite for the big one to be run next Tuesday.

The five year-old gelding blitzed them after bolting away and could have won by at least six lengths, but his rider, James Mc Donald decided to ease him right back to win by just over a length.

Many the good judges on course agreed that he was the one to beat in the Caulfield Cup, but the connections decided against it, fearing a penalty for the Melbourne Cup. Before the Herbert Power Handicap he had only been around 12 times for two wins and six placings.

His main win, taking out the International Group 3 at the Curragh in Ireland over 2000 metres was classy.

Prior to that he shocked when he failed at Royal Ascot, but with the aid of blinkers, he improved out of sight that is what we all saw at Caulfield.

The question now is he too brilliant to last the distance of the 3200 metres of a Melbourne Cup; that we will know, come Tuesday November 6.

Well in the markets for the Cup, is yet another international English horse, Magic Circle, a seven year-old gelding who has won eight of his 21 starts with two minors.

His biggest win was over the marathon trip of 3749 metres, a lot more than the Melbourne Cup distance, winning the Chester Cup. On that performance he will stay as long as your Mother-in-Law. He is held in high regard by most of the international trainers.

The legendary Irish trainer, Aidan O'Brien, whose son Joseph won the Melbourne Cup last year with Rekindling, has the Irish Derby winner, Latrobe, entered for a crack at yet another Melbourne Cup for leading owner Lloyd Williams.

Lloyd Williams has a tally of six, would you believe only six behind the great and late trainer, Bart Cummings.

On the next line is the Caulfield Cup winner, Best Solution, who carried 57.5 kilos, topweight in the Caulfield Cup, stunning everyone with the win after drawing one from the outside in barrier 17, and five wide for a greater part of the 2400 metre trip.

His rider, Pat Cosgrave, summed up the situated the situation over the last 700 metres with the slow pace he whipped around them and caught most other riders napping.

It was a great ride and a sensational run by Best Solution, who has the reputation as one of the best 2400 metres horses in the world, having won at his last two starts overseas before arriving in Australia.

The first of the Australian gallopers, a former international, is next in betting, that is Avilius, prepared by James Cummings attempting to win his first Melbourne Cup, hoping to emulate his grandfather, Bart Cummings.

His form is outstanding being unbeaten in Australia, at his last start he won the Bart Cummings Event at Flemington to gain automatic entry into the big one.

It would be a nice tribute to Bart's family for young James to win the big one come Cup day.

Back to another of the internationals in Muntahaa, prepared by English trainer, John Gosden.

The big grey gelding comes here with a big reputation having won the coveted Ebor Handicap at York (UK), over 2800 metres.

The dominant Ebor Stakes win stamps him as a legitimate Cup chance.

Take your mind back to 2016, when the Irish Horse, Heartbreak City, won the Ebor Handicap, before being narrowly beaten by Almandin in the Melbourne Cup. He could be a smoky.

Another of the strong Aidan O'Brien runners, is Rostropovich, stablemate of Latrobe, who beat him in the Irish Derby over 2414 metres at the Curragh.

Latrobe is by the great English racehorse and

● Yucatan Ure wins the Herbert Power in great style. Racing Photos now at Stud in Frankel, and is only four, having in Northern Hemisphere time, so he could be won four of his 12 starts with four minors. right in this.

He is a very smart type, and a reminder that last The one that I have come to like very much year the Cup winner, Rekindling, was only three is the Irish galloper, The Cliffs of Moher, (pronounce More).

Since in arriving in Australia he has run two terrific races having run fourth in the Caulfield Stakes and was an unlucky third in the Caulfield Cup. I can't understand why he is such a good price to go around in the Melbourne Cup. He has won three from fifteen starts with four minor placings.

One also must remember that he ran second in the Epsom Derby last year, beating home Cracksman, and last year's Melbourne Cup winner, Rekindling.

I feel he is a great each way chance especially at the odds.

The Geelong Cup always a good guide for the Melbourne Cup having been won by Media Puzzle, Americain and Dunaden.

Before a big crowd at Geelong, the Gai Waterhouse-Andrew Bott trained Runaway, did that leading all the way to beat his stablemate, Northwest Passage.

Runaway was penalised 1.5 kilos for his win, and now moves to 52 kilos, in the Melbourne Cup with a big chance of getting a run. .

The maximum number of runners in the Cup is 24 with no emergencies.

Before the Geelong Cup he was rated 49th in entry The English stayer, Withhold, the favorite in the Geelong Cup, was in all sorts of trouble including bleeding from both nostrils, ruling him out for three months ending his Cup hopes.

He was also found have been lame in a foreleg after pulling up.

The winner of the Geelong Cup, Runaway, won the VRC St.Leger at Flemington, and ran third in the South Australian Derby in May. - Ted Ryan

Ted Ryan

● Best Solution (rails) just gets home. Racing Photos

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Wine Column Leading light

■ John Rozentals salutes the Australia's leading light with a rare, exotic white grape variety.

By the time that most Australian wine lovers had worked out the correct pronunciation of 'viognier', Yalumba's Chief Winemaker, Louisa Rose, had fashioned a firm reputation as this country's preeminent exponent with this rare, exotic white grape variety.

Viognier enjoys vinous cult status virtually worldwide because of a single vineyard, the Rhone Valley's Chateau Grillet, which occupies the entirety of its own 3.8-hectare appellation, declared in 1936 and generally regarded as France's smallest, though the variety is more widely planted in the surrounding appellation of Condrieu.

Yalumba has Australia's most significant plantings of the variety, mostly in the relatively cool climate of the Eden Valley, perched above South Australia's famous Barossa Valley, and through the efforts of Rose has established an enviable status for the company's flagship Virgilius Viognier.

As they insist in the motoring game, advances at the top will eventually filter down, and so it is proving with viognier.

I firmly believe that viognier's principal use is to make a soft, full-flavoured dry white, but that it been held back from wider acceptance by an abundant perfumed character that can make it something of an acquired taste. I suspect that much of Rose's effort has gone into taming these over-the-top propensities and she's certainly achieved that without killing viognier's personality and charm.

I really enjoyed tasting Yalumba The YSeries 2018 Viognier and matching it with some spring rolls loaded with ginger and coriander.

Yalumba's The Y-Series 2018 white-andpink range - comprising a chardonnay, a pinot gris and a sauvignon blanc plus the wines individually mentioned - is on wide release and carries a full RRP of $15 but you should be able to buy the wines for a couple of dollars less.

I managed to find a previous-vintage chardonnay a couple of months ago for less than $10.

I'll even forgive the wines for that touch of harsh bitterness that most of them seem to carry.

Drink them alongside food and that soon disappears.

WINE REVIEWS Yalumba 2018 The Y-Series Riesling ($15): Riesling … dry riesling … has a long and wonderful history in South Australia, though its reputation is fast spreading other parts of the land.

This represents a fine introduction to one of the finest grape varieties. It's floral, it's citrusy, it's dry, it's simply moreish.

Have a few glasses and I think you agree with me and other writers who have been recommending for years that we have a great wine style at our fingertips.

Yalumba 2018 The Y-Series Sangiovese Rosé ($15): This Italian red variety seems to be leading a revival - or is it indeed a firstcoming? - of dry, light-bodied Australian rosé, a wine style which so suits our climate and lifestyle.

It's fresh, crisp and demands little thought.

But it's pink! Is it a sweetish girlie drink?

Having a couple of glasses to wash down a few slices of pizza will soon answer that one.

WINE OF THE WEEK Gartelmann Wines 2017 Lisa Chardonnay ($40): Is this the best chardonnay to yet come out of Orange in Central Western NSW? I'm not willing to stick my neck out quite that far, but it's certainly right up there - full flavoured and full bodied yet quite elegant and certainly not overly dependant on oak.

It's the sort of dry white that will bring even devout members of the ABC (anything-butchardonnay) club back to perhaps the greatest of all white grape varieties.

Named in honour of proprietor Jorg Gartelmann's aunt, who, according to the back label, apparently saved his life.

- 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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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.