Oakville-Trafalgar Journal, 22 Mar 1951, p. 15

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Thursday, March 22, 1951 HOLLYWG@OD UNIQUE Richard Todd, who came: to folly wood recently to co-star with futh Roman in "Lightning Steik- , Twice" has written a piece on fio film city for a British publi- Ba tion. In it, the young actor describes fc impressions of Hollywood and ho people he worked with there, Among other things, he reports: butside of actual work and bus- bess, the soclal life of Hollywood faturally . varies according to the bste of the individual, but com- fete social seclusion can not be fund. Here everyone knows flearly everyone else and there is tery sort of inducement to a fogarious existence, a kind of Byergrown village life, with all c advantages and many of the awbacks. "Certainly Hollywood, frequent ff much maligned and often over- [Bealized, has a character and an fimosphere quite unique." dr TURKEY TROT Doris Day likes the rhythm of fic Turkey Trot dance steps she earned for the currently filming "On Moonlight Bay." Blonde act- Tess plans to try out the step at some public dance spot. Now her boy friend, Marty Melcher, is learning the Turkey Trot. THAT POWELL VOICE The singing voice of Dick Pow- ell ,inhea the screen in several years, is scheduled 'to re- sound again in scenes for "The Tall Target." In one sequence of the film Powell is heard singing snatches: from old ballads. FOOLS REAL GROUP Jane Wyman fits so perfectly into her stewardess role, in "Three Guys Named Mike" that she fool- ed even the regular stewardess of American. Airlines. When she appeared in steward- ess uniform for the film, among a large group of them at Los An- geles Airport, mot ome recognized her. Guest of the Week If John Joyce, Bronte, will pre: sent himself at the box office of the Century theatre any night next week, he and another guest will be admitted free as guests of the Journal, . i. S. CONCERT SERIES FIRMLY ESTABLISHED ANNUAL EVENT MUSIC ALBUM BY IRVEN FELL Everything has to have a house- fbaning sometime and my music fivinet's time had been long over- fic. 1 got at it recently and came lBross an old programme of the Di cville Baseball Minstrels. his was in the days when the eball club, if it, was short of Boney, used to dig in during the ff season and make some money Mloay off its debts, or prepare for coming season financially. ose days seem to have vanish- his programme has no date, that ino year date, but I think it was ut 1925, because Ernie Mafrs fihducted this one. [lhe oldtimers will get a laugh fillen they see their names as fiving been soloists. Ossie Farm- sang a solo, but it doesn't give fe name of the song. Johnnie gstaffe sang, "Fm sitting om 0p of the World," and Willard og sang "Sometime." Further on in the programme, Bliarlie Dickinson sang a hot num- Br called "Ill be Happy," then Cherrington with. Gal," followed by singing "Tse ine Back to Dixie." Other sol- 5 were Albert Quinn singing member," Charlie Tuck sang d Black Joe," and Al Austin ids the final soloist with "Moon- light and Roses." Charlie Johnson [ernember was a hot tap dancer fi} those days and he was down pif the programme with a dance at fils time. He danced several tim- ia ter that too on these minstrel - and besides the ones al- mentioned as soloists, the ng were in the chorus, ray Conder, J. Johnson, W. key, Bill Mcllveen, R. Dick, nderson, R. Hillmer, J. Hash- Claude Kent and M. Felan. Ac BO )anist was Mrs. "Salty" Wil- [8h "Salty" himself wasn't on programme for some reason, flffbe he hadn't made his debut Dthat time, for he certainly le on several occasions after UE time. his may all read very funny HO cspecially to some of those Bll8 sang solos. The endmen were identified except with such es as, Opium, Halitosis, Ar- , Dandruff, Laudanum, Ton- "Ill bet "Salty" Williams in that crew, certainly Ollie Bison and Benny Languay. fnie Maire moved away the year and I took over as dir- I. For at least three years the ran these minstrel shows, used to run them two nights, each year, fints to well over $1,000 for the club. That is the way they to do things in those days, had a lot of fun doing it. I fl reminisce on these shows ome time, We used to go: to Bn and Burlington and make le more money for the ball fine may argue that this ar- has no place in a music eol- but I disagree. It was mus- Orchestra, band and choir num- ber, making up a delightful pro- gram that offered infinite variety, last Friday night featured the final concert in the winter series sponsored by the Oakville-Tra- falgar Home and School assn. in' THE' OAKVILLE-TRAFALGAR JOURNAL Page 15 JACK FRASER'S WITH FLATTERING, NATURAL STYLING Here's a style most men can wear to If you are on the stout side, the longer 6-button jacket slims you down; if you are thin and wiry, the broader natural shoulders (with a minimum of padding) flatter your build. And if you are an "aver- fine advantage! age" -- why, this suit is just made for you! In" sharkskin, gabar- 50 dine, flannel and un- . finished worsted in a wide variety of shades EXTRA PANTS Available Sizes 35 to 46 and up English Foulards 1% up Neats - Panels 1.00 and up the high school i Round after round of applause greeted the celebrated North Tor- onto Collegiate orchestra, winners of the highest marks accorded an orchestra in the 195T Kiwanis fes- tival. Particularly outstanding was the rendition of Schubert's. diffi cult Rosamunde overture; the number that drew unstinted praise from the festival adjudi- cator. Other execllent renditions were those of Ferde Grofe's fam- iliar "On The Trail," George Ger- shwin's "Summertime," and Tsch- | alkowsky's Slave." All in all, Friday night's pre- sentation was hailed as a fine finale to a highly successful ser- ies of recitals, of which the Home and School assn. may well he proud. Introduced experimentally, the series attracted widespread interest among school students and adults alike, and will be wel- comed as an annual entertain: ment feature. haunting "Marche ical talent plus, which made these shows possible, and it goes to show that a combination of sport and music used to be a method of raising funds and keeping things going. WINNER OF, THE. WEEK If R. W. HOBBS, R. R. 1, Oak- ville, will call in at Lofquist's Re- cord Bar, he will be presented with a red seal record 'with the compliments of the Journal. First in the Six-Year-0ld Circle! Gilbrea Milk--served cold and bubbly fresh--or deli- cious and hot in cocoa or chocolate--is the big. favor- ite in the juvenile tea-party circle. With cookies or bread and jam there's noth- ing half so good. Try it when little Susie says "what shall I do now?" and watch the smiles come out! L. G. SNYDER'S GILBREA DAIRY Dundas St. at Church PHONE 51 SHIRTS... 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