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Remember When: Here's a Horn that could tap dance, page 2

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I / . - ,, , s 'ision up serves itters Continued from Page 6. nale in which all performers | sang together on stage. .Then | Horn was presented with a gift roses and the entire castor- roses CU..LU. W..LV-. w**«**- sang God Save The Queen. At I one point Freddine considered a professional career, but after! a stint'in Toronto, she decided big-city life was no life for her.! 'Along with her dance stu- dios in Belleville and Stirling, Horn gave lessons in the Wharf Street Debating Club. It is unlikely the building will ever again see such finesse. Among Freddine's instruc- tors were Barbara Diment, Madeleine Meagher and Kitty Lennox. Horn's sister began teaching dance in the late 1960s, And after a 20-year hia- tus, Freddine has once again donned the dancing shoes and is giving tap dance and baton lessons in Stoco Lake Hall in Tweed, where she now resides. . She. left, although she--Would return to Toronto years later, an .older and not-so-homesick woman. When her younger sister, . Valerie, started walking, Horn began teaching herap dancing. The two of them held a recital • at -B.CI when Valerie was only four. Then in 1956 or '57 Horn travelled to Kingston with her sister to perform live on ,Ted j Kurl's (or Curl's, no one can re- • member the spelling) televi- sion show. Horn thinks they performed Tea for Two. She re- calls ' being very nervous "because TV wasn't that old, I mean it was quite a big thing." But the performance went well. . "When I came back in the af- ternoon, everyone I knew, my friends, would call and tell me how good it was." However, be- fore returning home she went to Collins Bay penitentiary where she put on her show for the inmates. "It was great. And the best audience you could perform for," she says. "They couldn't do enough for you." When former Prime Minis- ter Lester Pearson came to Belleville, Horn and a group of majorettes (she also taught ba^ ton) accompanied by a band, led the prime minister into the auditorium. Club 40 of Belleville a District WILL HOLD THEIR GET-TOGETHER Friday, Feb. 17 at 7.30 p.m. AT ' MOOSE HALL 52 Victoria Ave. BELLEVILLE ALL MEMBERS AND HANDICAPPED DISABLED PERSONS AND THOSE INTERESTED IN THIS'WORK ARE CORDIAL- LY INVITED. . GOOD PROGRAM. Miss F. Smith and her dancing school in all new numbers also Mr. CL Thome and Mr. Bruce Sills. BUFFET SUPPER SERVED AT CLOSE . AH aims concerning crafts which.will be conducted by CLUB 40 i for Handicapped Disabled .Persons and members-will be given at this time. FOR TRANSPORTATION CALL WO 2,1485 • ADMISSION FREE * An old Intelligencer ad for a Smith (Horn) performance. when •Sunday 'Dec. 20>, 1992

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