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HILLS OUTLOOK Friday April Page Entertainment Outlook Rekindling fond memories of The Silver Rail M Ufa lull will know about The Silver Rail It was the first restaurant In licensed lo serve mixed drinks and It was hit with the public from the first day It opened in April of Ibatyear Nick and Jim the present owners of The Sliver Rail have come up with an unusual way of celebrating their establish ments anniversary which will be observed from April to May 9 Both men are members or the Vari ety Club of Ontario which Is currently raising money or a muchneeded swimming pool for handicapped chil dren at variety Village So anyone Barris Beat who mike donation to Vari ety Village gets a ticket that will enti tle that person a dinner at The Sil ver Raj during the celebration at IH7 prices Theres a special menu for that period of time roast beef for example Is tillable to anyone who presents a ticket obtained from the Variety Cub Also on that special menu cocktails are about cents and beer Is cents You can in your donations to and besides the ticket for a Silver Rail dinner you get a receipt for tax purposes Edward got their liquor licences shortly thereafter But for the first couple of years Toe Sliver Rail was the most popular eat ery with drinks in Toronto Line ups especially on Satur day nights began at the door at and went along Shuter to Victoria St and then up Victoria There were no reservations but patrons were willing to endure long waits Just to try out the new din ing lounge This room was and Is In be basement a cocktail lounge was also opened on street level A life of independence Canadas Man In Motion Rick Hansen Is just one of many people who have recorded remarkable achievements despite severe spinal cord injuries A Life Of In dependence airing Friday May 1 pm on Global salutes Hansen and other disable people through amazing ethnological produced by Perspectives Media Group in association with the Global Television Network In addition to a segment on Hansen the special features a group of six quadriplegic respirator- dependent men who have chosen to leave the hospital ward and live on their own In a development called 202 These men ore among the most severely disabled men In the world to live Independent lives facing St from which patrons choose the exact lobster they wanted while ft was still alive and thus fawn vert lb ly fresh Mona Borland remembers those month after It opened Now aged still works there as a hostess two days a week I do remember those long line ups she told me Sometimes they started right at the bottom of these stairs and went all the way around to Victoria St and beyond She that customers were eager to try out the new cock tails available a Pink Lady one day a Gimlet or a Manhattan or a Tom Collins the next time Very few people drank wine then she added Partly because of Its location the Rail became a regular port of call for the City Hall crowd Mona remembers Toronto mayors Nathan Phillips Al lan Lamport and Bill SummervlUe as well as many members of council Massey Hall virtually across Shuter St also provided many distin guished visitors from Sir Ernest Miilan and Walter and Selji Ozawa when they were Toronto Sym phony conductors to Harry and Marge and Gower Champion Such other visiting entertainers as Johnnie Ray Barbara McNalr and Kenny Rogers also frequented The Sil ver Rail In thecariy laws the a policy ol offering entertainment In the dining lounge Borland recalls the Art Snider Trio playing there along with singer Betty Jean Fergu son the Halifax beauty who already bad been a Miss Canada Tbe last act to play there was The Deep River Boys In the mid19503 left the Rail because a change In working hours made it Impossible for her look af ter her two growing sons She went to work In an office hired by a Stiver Rail customer She liked her new GEORGETOWN THEATRE PRODUCTIONS INC DIRECTED BY NEVILLE JOHN ELLIOTT THEATRE and MAY Curtain- boss but she hated office work Ive always liked being a waitress be cause you meet so many people she said r you gel a real Insight Into people She also worked hard to up grade the Image of waitresses which she says was not very good in hose days Mike Georgas one of the original owners of the Rail bought out his partners after a oiling out There was a court case during which details of the Kails amazing financial suc cess raised a lot of eyebrows But by 1961 his health was poor so he sold the business to Nick and Jim who had restaurant experience In Ottawa girl who worked In the check room sometimes called In to work In her place when She needed a day off Nick noticed that knew her way around he didnt know she had worked there and rehlred her She has been there now for contin uous years And I still love the work she told me Nick Jokingly said he was going to to dress in ml clothes for ln anniversary celebration laughed and said All right but no pictures It here was ever any doubt what a fine actor Paul Soles Is it van ishes long before Ihe final curtain falls a Not the Herb Gard ner play In which Soles and Leon Bibb are starring at the Royal Alexandra Theatre In Toronto For a long time Soles was regarded as a competent host Inter viewer on a succession of television shows Take This Is The Law Can- Iceberg In recent years he has done cred itable acting work In Calgary Edmon ton Toronto and other centres In such no led plays as Tallcys Folly and The Diary Of Anne Frank But never before has he had as rich and rewarding a role as that of Ihe feisty charming indomitable -year- old Inner In this funny and emotionally touching play Leon Bibb who plays his park- bench partner also made up to be an octogenarian is also quite effective But the Paul Soles role is stronger more fully rounded and so night belongs to Soles There was an extra bonus to the Ed steered me toward a man and casually introduced him as the author of the play Having been a Herb Gardner tan for years as thrilled at meeting out of the harsh realities of lite to 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