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ARMY VETERAN LOSES BID FOR EXTRA PENSION: PAGE 5

Cnr High St & Tooronga Rd,

Malvern, 3144

Phone: (03) 9822 9057.

Fax: (03) 9822 9821

www.mattressesgalore.com.au

[email protected]

Mattresses Galore

See Observer Trader P40

PHONE 0418 883 335

See Observer Trader P48Turn to Observer Trader P50

THE GREAT

MUSIC OF THE

‘30s TO ‘60s

Streaming

through the

Web

PHONE:

9572 1466

goldendaysradio.com

Grosvenor in Cairns

Holiday Apartments

Fully Self Contained

1 and 2 bedroom apartments

Looking to escape the cold this winter;

then head on up to Cairns - always warm!

Visit

www.grosvenorcairns.com.au or

email

[email protected] or

ring 1800 629 179

See Observer Trader P43

Turn to Observer Trader P53

www.tuckertubonline.com

Phone Rudi5784 3541

Turn To Observer Trader P35

BAYSWATER CAKE KITCHEN693 Mountain Hwy, Bayswater 3153

www.bayswatercake.com.auAll Cakes and Pastries Designed

and Cooked on the PremisesCELEBRATION & NOVETY CAKESPIES, PASTRIES & SAUSAGE ROLLSSANDWICH PLATTERSWEDDINGS & PARTIES CATERED FOR

Tel: 9729 6904Fax: 9720 3700

[email protected]

John ParsonsPROPRIETOROffice: 9720 3800

146 ARGUS ST, CHELTENHAM

VIC 3192

TEL: 9585 2822

FAX: 9585 2422

Shop 5, 401 St Kilda Road

Melbourne VIC 3004

pH: 9866 1284

[email protected]

See our ad on Observer Trader Page 34

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■■■■■ The cast has been named to join Craig McLachlan in The Rocky Horror Show to

be staged in April at The Comedy Theatre, Melbourne. Turn to Page 3 for details.

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AshThe Melbourne Observer

Editor Ash Long is heard:●●●●● 8.45am Wed., with Ron Burke, 3NRG-FM Sunbury

●●●●● 10am Wed., with Denis Scanlan, Pulse 94.7 Geelong●●●●● 9.15am Thu., with Bob and Judy Phillips, 3RPP Peninsula

James to beMC at Festa

Blitz onFrankston area

Tickets went on sale on Mon-day this week (Sept. 30).Patrizio has sold millions ofalbums worldwide with a uniqueapproach to romantic Italianand contemporary songs.

Friday (Oct. 4) that includesageing ambassafor NoelineBrown, 3AW promotions man-ager David Mann, its ownManaging Director DavidEccles, accreditation expertRoss Bushrod, Social ServicesMinister Kevin Andrews, andSeniors Shadow Minister JennyMikakos.

The function will take placeat the Melbourne ParkFunction Centre.

Philip returnsto Melbourne

Young artistscompete

■ The ABC Symphony Aus-tralia Young PerformersAwards kicks off with a brandnew ‘mini-festival’ format,which sees 12 talented finalistscompete for the title of 2013ABC Symphony AustraliaYoung Performer of theYear.

The winner receives $25,000,a CD recording, performanceopportunities and an extraordi-nary career boost. Melbourne,October 4-12 with theMelbourne Symphony Or-chestra.

Victorian finalists include:■ Sarah Kim, 23 (Cello)■ Anne-Marie Johnson, 22(Violin)■ Hoang Pham, 28 (Piano)■ Andrew Kawai, 14(Oboe)■ Stefan Cassomenos, 28(Piano).

The ABC Sir CharlesMoses Trophy is presented tothe ABC Symphony Austra-lia Young Performer of theYear in honour of Sir CharlesMoses, Managing Director ofthe ABC, 1935-1965.

Radio pairsign off at MBS■ Rod Watson and JaneO’Callaghan signed off fromtheir long-running Music ForLeisure program at 3MBS ra-dio station on Sunday night(Sept. 29).

●●●●● Jane O’Callaghan

●●●●● James Liotta

■ The “youngest Italian-Aus-tralian comedian” JamesLiotta has been appointed asofficial Master of Ceremoniesfor the Carlton Italian Festaon Sunday, October 27.

The radio announcer-actor’sCV includes appearances onUnderbelly Squizzy, Paper Gi-ants, Neighbours, Thank GodYou’re Here, Prank Patrol andQuizmania.

James is a lead performerat Witches In Britches theatrerestaurant, and conducts a radioprogram on North West FM.

Kathy Lette atideas festival

●●●●● Kathy Lette■ Kate Auty, StephanieAlexander and Kathy Lettewere speakers at the FestivalOf Ideas which opened yester-day (Tues.) at the MelbourneConvention and ExhibitionCentre.

Organised by the Univer-sity of Melbourne, more than80 renowned speakers are dis-cussing issues that determinethe health and well-being of so-ciety and the planet.

The program is under the di-rection of Professor FionaStanley.

Rob looks tonext TV series

●●●●● Rob Foenander■ The Observer’s country mu-sic columnist, Rob Foenander,says that the next series of hisCountry Crossroads TV showis two months away.

“It will be our sixth year onFoxtel,” Rob says. “Our con-firmed guest list so far includesDiana Trask, AllanCaswell, Charlie Landsbor-ough, Jasmine Rae and TheWolfe Brothers.

The series also includesSlim Dusty, Brothers 3, BenRansom, UK sensation EviTausen, plus Stuie andCamille.

Ross givesradio interview

●●●●● Observer columnist Mark Richardson, featuredevery week on Page 4, won the seafood platter at aGrand Final weekend function starring Wendy Staple-ton. Mark has just signed to present his ‘StraightFrom The Heart’ series in the Melbourne Observerthroughout 2014.

Winners are grinners

●●●●● Ross Stevenson

■ 3AW breakfast show pre-senter Ross Stevenson lastweek won his 94th consecutiveratings victory.

Ross’s interview with theRadio Info website editor Pe-ter Saxon has been releasedfrom behind its paywall.

Ross identified differencesbetween Sydney and Mel-bourne radio.

“I’ve got a theory thatMelbourne and Sydney areno longer two different cities.

“It’s two different countriesand growing less alike with ev-ery passing year. To take thateven further I think thatQueensland and New SouthWales are one country. RugbyLeague states are one countryand Australian Rules statesare a separate country,’Stevenson said.

●●●●● Geoff Shaw

■ The Frankston electorateheld by ‘independent’ politicianGeoff Shaw is being targetedby a radio advertising campaignon Christian station, LightFM.

Fairfax Media reports thatthe ads have been commis-sioned by gambling campaignerPaul Bendat who has previ-ously taken out ads in newspa-pers attacking former GamingMinister Michael O'Brien.

"Poker machines harmFrankston. Last year $62.2million was lost onFrankston's poker machinesalone, they cause not only fam-ily breakdown, but crime andsuicide," the commercial says.

"But there is an evidence-based solution, let's limit lossesto $120 an hour. This reform canbe cost-free for the Victoriangovernment."

One night onlyfor Patrizio

■ To celebrate the 50th anni-versary of the Australian Bal-let School, recording artistPatrizio Buanne is perform-ing at Hamer Hall for a once-only performance on Thursday,February 20.

■ 3AW Nightline co-hostPhilip Brady was due to flyin to Melbourne as this edi-tion went to press.

Philip was hospitalisedone week ago after sufferinga broken hip, when he felldown 25 stairs in a HongKong hotel.

He underwent surgery latelast week, and was due to flyback to Melbourne aboarda QANTAS flight, accom-panied by a nurse.

Philip is expected to beadmitted to an inner suburbanrehabilitation hospital.

Philip received manyphone calls from Australiaduring his hospitalisation in-cluding from Bert and PattiNewton, Melbourne busi-nessman Ron Walker, Ob-server columnist MikeMcColl Jones, as well asgiving regular updates to3AW colleagues BruceMansfield, John Black-man and Denis Walter.

Changes at3AW nights?

●●●●● Last week’s coverof the Observer

●●●●● Andrew McLaren■ Our Radio Confidentialpage suggests that a changemight be occurring on theAustralia Overnight programhoswted by AndrewMcLaren and Mark Pet-kovic, originating from the3AW studios in Melbourne.

Turn to the Observer Show-biz section for more details.

Rent■ The University ofMelbourne Music The-atre Association, is present-ing Rent for a seven-showseason this month,

Organiser MollieFarrell says the Associa-tion is a volunteer-based, stu-dent-run, non-profit musicaltheatre company.

The show will be pre-sented between October 8 –26 at The Open Stage, 757Swanston St, the Universityof Melbourne, Parkville.

●●●●● Patrizio Buanne

●●●●● Charles Moses

Aged careafternoon

■ Blue Cross Communityand Residential Services isholding an ‘extravaganza’ on

●●●●● Noeline Brown

Kindred SpiritFestival

■ ‘Wild Marmalade’, SriPrahalada, Dustin Thomasand Mel Dobra will appear atthe Kindred Spriti Festivalto be geld at 212A Whitehall St,Yarraville from 10am-10pmon Saturday, October 12.

Workshops will include stud-ies in music, yoga and dance.

●●●●● Mel Dobra

Yappy Hour■ Collingwood FootballClub captain, Nick Maxwell,and Olympic gold-medallistLeisel Jones have joinedforces to launch Yappy Hour(Oct 4 – Nov 2), a new initia-tive for the World Society forthe Protection of Animals.

The launch will take place atThe Olsen Hotel, SouthYarra, tomorrow (Thu.) at5.30pm.

The WSPA has worked toexpose animal cruelty and pre-vent animal suffering for morethan 30 years.

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City DeskThe hottest news about Melbourne’s A-listers

City Desk

Rocky Horror Show cast announced

It’s Gold! Where’s Huggy now?

What’s On In Melbourne★Publicists Buxton Walker say Melbourne young people will be asked

to vote for the logo that will visually represent the Melbourne YouthForce in the lead-up to and during the 2014 International AIDS Confer-ence. Voting is being conducted until Monday (Oct. 7).

★Grand Wazoo will return to The Velvet Room at Thornbur The-atre on Sunday (Oct. 6) at 7pm.

★Marcia Ferguson, Big West Festival 2013 Artistic Director willofficially launch the festival program on Thursday next week (Oct. 10)

at Addis Abeba, Nicholson St, Footscray. There will be a media callearlier in the day at the Footscray Market rooftop car park

★The Hotel Lindrum is staging a millinery collection for its Hatsand High Tea patrons on Sunday, October 20.

●●●●● Ashlea Pyke will appear as Columbia

●●●●● Gold 104.3 host Craig Huggins has made contact fromQueensland’s Gold Coast, where he is holidaying: “I watchedthe Grand Final at their big screen event at the Suns ‘MetriconStadium’ with just 25 other people; one was my son, and fiveothers of them worked there!”

Melbourne Moments

Pair escorts tour■ 3AW Weekend Break hostsGrubby (Peter Stubbs) and DeeDee (Diane Dunleavy) will lead afully escorted Mediterranean cruisefrom August 1-16 next year.

The tour is being organised byTravelrite International.

Denise Drysdale will host theCelebrity Constellation cruise ofthe Baltic and St Perrsburg fromJuly 18 to August 7.

Film man David Stratton is host-ing A Film Festival At Sea: A JourneyIn Cinema 1895 To The Present fromJuly 3-21. His tour includes England,Norway and Iceland.

Around Town■ Melbourne Theatre Companyhas announced that its NEON Festi-val of Independent Theatre has beennamed Best of Australian Arts 2013in the theatre category awarded by TheMonthly magazine.■ Melbourne people are being in-vited to nominate to appear on the coverof next year’s White Pages publishedby Sensis. www.whitepagescommunity.com.au■ Epping Plaza was yesterday(Tues.) re-named as Pacific EppingShopping Centre, part of the PacificGroup.●●●●● Dee Dee (Diane Dunleavy)

Les Mis cast naming

●●●●● Les Miserables

■ The full Australian cast of LesMiserables will be revealed at an in-vitation-only event to be held atChapter House, Flinders Lane,Melbourne, on Monday, October14.

The composer, Claude-MichelSchönberg will be a special guestat the event.

Les Miserables is being presentedby the Cameron Mackintoshorganisation.

Les Mis is due to be staged at HerMajesty’s Theatre, Melbourne, inJune 2014.

Under The Clocks

The BuzzBusy time at RPP

MAGIC MICHAEL

●●●●● Melbourne magician Michael Boyd on Australia’s Got Talent

■ Melbourne magician MichaelBoyd will appear in the first final ofAustralia’s Got Talent on Monday (Oc-tober 7) on Channel 9.

The first two acts going straightthrough to the Grand Final are:■ Brisbane dance group Swaga-mama■ Sydney aerial gymnast/para-lympian Paul ‘The Other Super-man’ Nunnari

The next seven artists confirmedthrough to the third Australia’s Got Tal-ent Final were announced on Sunday

■ Mornington Peninsula radiocouple Judy and Bob Phillips(Sugar And Spice, 9am Thursdays)say that 3RPP-FM Station Man-ager Brendon Telfer has attractedsome great new presenters, pro-duction people and news cadets, butmore needed as the summer sea-son approaches.

Nova Red Room

●●●●● Judy and Bob Phillips

●●●●● Jason Derulo

■ Multi award-winning singer andsong-writer Jason Derulo willperform at an intimate Nova RedRoom in Melbourne tonight(Wed.) from 8pm.

Nova’s national drive showMeshel, Tim and Marty willhost the Red Room at The Toffin Town, Swanston St, Mel-bourne, says Jane Elliott.

ObserverMelbourne

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at the conclusion of the second of theAGT Finals shows.

Appearing next week on the thirdfinal, at 7pm are:■ Brisbane dance crew Academyof Brothers■ Sydney girl group Girl Class■ Brisbane ballet dancer Yu Hui■ Perth acrobat/dancers The RybkaTwins■ Magician Michael Boyd■ Sydney comedian Seaton KaySmith■ Sydney singer Angel Tuirua

●●●●● A new book, The ModernMelbourne Cup: How OurGreat Race Changed For TheWorld, by Danny Power, wasreleased yesterday (Tues.)by the Slattery Media Group.

■ Joining Craig McLachlan (Frank N Furter) in the cast of The RockyHorror Show will be Christie Whelan Browne and Tim Maddren asJanet and Brad. Reprising his role as Riff Raff, Frank’s loyal handy-man, will be Kristian Lavercombe. Magenta will be played by ErikaHeynatz.

Columbia, the groupie in Frank’s entourage, will be played by AshleaPyke. Eddie and Dr Scott will be Nicholas Christo. Brendan Irvingwill appear as Rocky. The Phantoms will be played by Vincent Hooper,Luigi Lucente, Meghan O’Shea and Angela Scundi, while the Swing/Dance Captain will be James Maxfield.

Producers Howard Panter and John Frost this week named the castmembers for the tour, which opens in January in Brisbane followed byseasonsin Perth, Adelaide , then the Comedy Theatre, Melbourne inApril.

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Straight from the heart♥ E-Mail: [email protected]

Mark Richardson

Celebrities dressed for success■ When some of us receive that long-awaited call about the ideal job or busi-ness opportunity and we're required toattend an interview or meeting at our'earliest convenience', there are oftenmany wheels which have to be set inmotion.

When the call comes out of the blue,besides grappling with, 'how to getthere', 'what about the kids?', 'what towear?' and 'I had better re-read the jobdescription', it's easy to underestimatethe process it takes to get our presen-tation right; particularly for those liv-ing with varying social or financialchallenges with a lack of resources,professional guidance and moral sup-port.

This dilemma has been recognisedby Dress For Success, a not-for-profit organisation which helps womenwho find themselves in this situation.

Regardless of their experience, vo-cation or financial means, thousandsof women around the world each yearare provided with professional assis-tance to present themselves in theirbest light for such occasions.

Founded in 1996 and operational inMelbourne since 2011, Dress ForSuccess has expanded to 125 cities in15 countries, and has helped more than700,000 disadvantaged women towardfinancial independence by providingprofessional attire, a network of sup-port and career development tools tohelp them thrive in work and in life.

Covered in the world's top maga-zines, including Vanity Fair, New YorkTimes and the Wall Street Journal, theirmomentum continues with internationalcelebrities providing support including;Kim Kardasian, Black EyedPeas, Jordin Sparks, JaneSeymour, Teri Hatcher, FelicityHuffman, Lisa Kudrow and NeilDiamond (to name a few).

Spring FashionPorch

ThoughtsSet in the stunning heritage build-

ing of the Queen Victoria Women'sCentre in Melbourne, some ofAustralia's showbiz celebrities joinedforces with renowned specialistsacross the Fashion, Health andBeauty industries in support of thisyear's Spring Fashion and BeautySeries Dress For Success. The redcarpet event was hosted by ChanoyuNatural Beauty and Spa.

More than 150 guests were shownthe tricks of the trade from a range ofprofessionals including: Fashion De-signers, Beauty Therapists, Styl-ists, Health Specialists, Boutiquesand Make-up Artists, to help preparethem for job interviews, appointmentsand even court appearances.

The evening also featured a luxuryrunway show showcasing the latesttrends of emerging designer LanaVolkov and milliner MelissaRichards, with top brands such asSimone Perele and Dizingof.

Spotted on the red carpet last Thurs-day evening were Angela Kennedy(My Kitchen Rules), Bec Douros (TheBlock Sky High), Faiza Rehman(MasterChef), celebrated Australianactress and musician Alyce Platt,Australian actress and singer AllyFowler and screenwriter and pro-ducer Bobby Galinsky.

For more information and to find outways in becoming involved or to makean online donation to the Dress ForSuccess Melbourne organisationvisit www.dressforsuccess.org oremail [email protected]

●●●●● Alyce Platt and Ally Fowler

●●●●● Left: Jenni Carreno. Right: Peter Sprott (Dress For Success)and Faiza Rehman. Photos: David Lieu (on behalf of Brand By Style).

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CAR OWNER PAID $40,000FROM GUARANTEE FUND

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In This 120-Page Edition

Observer: Philip Brady returns to Melb. ........ Page 2City Desk: Rocky Horror cast named ........... Page 3Mark Richardson: Straight From The Heart ... Page 4Di Rolle: Helen Reddy, hear her roar ............ Page 6Long Shots: 20 years in harness ................. Page 8Showbiz: Around The World ......................... Page 9West Hollywood: Gavin Wood reports .......... Page 10Melb. Confidential: Myer store to close ....... Page 11Yvonne: Time for a good Spring clean ......... Page 13Melb. Extra: Kevin Trask, Nick Le Souef ..... Page 14Victoria Pictorial: Nostalgic photographs .... Page 15

It’s All About You!

Bail denied to 46-y-o■ A Norlane man charged with a vicious as-sault on a shopper at a Belmont supermarkethas been denied bail. The Geelong Advertiserreported that Geelong Magistrates' Courtwas told the shopper, 46, suffered life-threaten-ing injuries as a result of the attack by the al-leged offender, Andrew Birch.

‘Learner blows .085’■ A California Gully learner-driver, 21, cel-ebrated the purchase of a new car by drink-driv-ing in the unregistered vehicle without a super-visor, according to Police. The Bendigo Ad-vertiser says the driver blew .085.

Ice user banned■ A heavy ice user has been granted bail onbreaching intervention order charges but bannedfrom Warrnambool. Travis WayneHarradine, 29, who will now live atFramlingham, applied for bail in Warrnam-bool Magistrates Court, says The Standard.

Bail granted to man■ A Magistrate grant bailed to JonathanKemp, 47, of Whitfield, who allegedly stabbedhis friend 28 times, says The Chronicle.

Weather Forecast■ Today (Wed.). Chance of storm. 7°-16°.■ Thurs. Chance of rain. 4°-14°.■ Fri. Mostly cloudy. 10°-22°.■ Sat. Partly cloudy. 13°-24°.■ Sun. Partly cloudy. 9°-25°.

Kevin’s Grand DesignsCountry CrossroadsSpoiler: Neighbours

Local Theatre

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VERMONT ADVISER BANNEDFROM OPERATING FOR 4 YEARS

■ James Thomas Banfield, of Ver-mont South, has been prevented fromproviding financial services for four years.

The Australian Securities and In-vestments Commission found Ban-field had submitted 10-15 change of ad-viser forms to Netwealth InvestmentsLimited, when clients had not consented.

ASIC’s investigation found that be-tween August to September last year,Banfield, an authorised representativeand director of Lotus Securities Lim-ited, submitted ‘change of adviser forms,consenting to a transfer from WealthsurePty Ltd to Lotus Securities Ltd in cir-cumstances where the clients had not con-sented to the transfer.

Banfield has agreed to:■ relinquish his positions as director, re-sponsible manager and authorised repre-sentative of Lotus Securities Limited■ not to deal with, communicate with orinteract with any clients of any Austra-lian financial service licensee orauthorised representative in connectionwith the provision of financial services toclients■ not to complete, submit or lodge cli-ent documentation which involves clientauthority, client money, powers of attor-ney and application forms, and■ complete specified professional devel-opment education within 12 months.

●●●●● American actor and martial artist Chuck Norris (left) and wife Gena (at right)met Melbourne couple Helen and Lachlan Macdonald at the Max Internationalconvention being held at Salt Lake City. Helen describes herself as the ‘ChiefOptimism Officer’ of her company. Lach-land is well-known for his media work, andruns Mac’s Results.

Macs to the Max

■ Melbourne DJ MichaelChard will be paid $40,000 bythe Motor Car TradersGuarantee Fund for aVolkswagen that he sold toMelbourne Vehicle Bro-kers, but for which he wasnever given the money.

Ian Proctor, Senior Mem-ber of the Victorian CivilAdministrative Tribunal,heard that Chard had dealt withClay Young at the sale yard ofMelbourne Vehicle Bro-kers, which got into financialdifficulties and went into liqui-dation.

VCAT was told that Chardhad bought the VW from MrBo Chu on an internet websitefrom $47,000, paying $35,000 bybank cheque, and a further$12,000 in cash.

Chard says his partner wasnot happy with the purchase ofthe car as it could not fit his part-ner and their newborn child.

‘Sell it’“His partner told him to sell

it. He agreed,” Mr Proctornoted.

Clay Young attendedVCAT and said that his an-swers might incriminate him.Such evidence is not admissablein any criminal proceedings, MrProctor said.

Chard never registered thecar in his own name, althoughhe took out comprehensive in-surance.

Chard said he knew he wasgoing to lose thousands of dol-lars, and said he thought he couldrely on Young to make transferarrangements.

Mike McColl Jones

Top 5THE TOP 5 COMMENTS HEARD WHEN

PHILIP BRADY ‘CAME TO’ AFTER

HIS OPERATION IN HONG KONG5. "Did I get the cover of the Melbourne Observer?"

4. "I thought it must have been my birthday -they kept calling out 'Hip Hip’.”

3. "Check with the airline ...I'm sure they'll give me an upgrade!"2. “Can you believe it ... they wouldn't

let me smoke in the operating theatre.”1. "One nurse gave new meaning to the expression

'The Brady Bunch’!

●●●●● Joan Macrae. Photo: Pauline Reynolds

■ Joan Macrae (pictured) will open her Beaumaris gardento the public for the second time in the Family Life OpenGardens Day event on Sunday, October 13, between 11amand 5pm.

Joan and her husband built their house in 1949, and visitingthis natural bush garden is a step back in time.

Meandering pathways enfold the original cottage, with thehost's pottery sprinkled throughout the tea-tree, native and ex-otic plantings.

Entry is $25 full price, or $22 concession (children are free)to see all seven gardens open for this event.

For further information, call Family Life on 8599 5433 orvisit www.familylife.com.au

- Cheryl Threadgold

Open Day at Beaumaris■ Car owner Michael Charddeprived the ‘public purse’ oftransfer fees when he boughtand sold his VW without puttingit into his own name, VCAT Se-nior Member Ian Proctor said.

“Having become the ownerof the cdar, Mr Chard was le-gally obliged to do so, unlesshe cancelled the registration.The public purse is poorer by theamount he should have paid.”

Fees avoided

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HELEN IS WOMAN, HEAR HER ROAR

●●●●● Helen Reddy

■ I was thrilled tohear that the legendaryHelen Reddy is com-ing to Australia to per-form in concert.

The “Queen of ‘70spop” is back on tour af-ter more than a decadeoff the road.

Helen Reddy isone of the best knownrecording artists in theworld with more than adozen Top 40 hits in-cluding the iconic an-them I Am Womanwhich she wrote andwhich was added to theNational Film andSound Archive inAustralia in 2009.

Helen Reddy wasthe first Australian towin a GrammyAward, host her owntelevision show andhave three No.1 hits inthe same year in theUSA.

Additionally she hashad six Billboard top 10singles and 15 Bill-board top 40 hits.

As recently as 2001,Billboard magazinenamed Reddy the No.28 best adult contempo-rary artist of all time.

Born into a well-known Australianshow business family,Helen Reddy has hada life and a careerricher and more variedthan anything she couldever have imagined asa girl in Melbourne.

She has dined on herbirthday with thePrince of Wales,danced in the WhiteHouse with the Presi-dent of the UnitedStates, and had a tulipnamed after her in Hol-land.

I have always lovedher songs, Angie Babyand Delta Dawn, andthey will be two songsalong with I AmWoman which she willperform in her shows.

Her career coversall facets of the enter-tainment industry in-cluding film, televisionand the theatrical stage.In theatre,

Helen has starredin London’s WestEnd and on Broad-way in New York.

Her portrayal ofMrs Johnson in BloodBrothers on Broad-way was a triumphwhich she repeated inLondon’s West End.

Appearances inUSA national tours ofShirley Valentine, Any-thing Goes, Call MeMadam and The Mys-tery of Edwin Droodwere also met withcritical acclaim.

In film, her starringrole in Disney’s Pete’sDragon continues todelight the youngergeneration.

As a solo concertartist she had played atthe most prestigiousvenues in the world in-cluding CarnegieHall and LincolnCentre in New York,as well as the RoyalAlbert Hall and thePalladium in Lon-don. Helen was also thefirst western femaleperformer invited tosing in the People’sRepublic of China.

The lyrics shepenned for her feministanthem, I Am Woman,(a wonderful song forall women - and needsto be sing very loudly)

are now included inModern American His-tory high school textbooks as an example ofthe Women’s Equal-ity Movement forwhich she has beenhonoured.

August 26 has beennamed Helen ReddyDay in Hollywoodwith the US PostalService creating acommemorative enve-lope in celebration.

Helen retired fromlive performance in2002 and practised asclinical hypnotherapistand motivationalspeaker.

But after singing aduet with her sister ather sister’s 80th birth-day party Helen de-cided to come out ofretirement and turn tothe stage where, in ad-dition to some of herhits, she now treats au-diences to songs fromher vast catalogue shehad never before per-formed live.

I will be there in thefront row! Melbourneaudiences can seeHelen Reddy on Sat-urday, April 5, 2014 at8pm, Hamer Hall,The Arts CentreMelbourne

Bookings 1300 182183 or www.artscentremelbourne.com.au

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●●●●● David Helfgott■ What a beautiful city our city is; it doesn’tget much better than this.

I do love Melbourne and everything it of-fers. Sending half my life in the Arts Pre-cinct in Southbank, I realise daily what ablessed job I have, mixing with and promotingsome of the most talented people in the worldof music.

Every day is an education as I learn andappreciate more about music and the gift thatit is.

A pianist who stole my heart when I sawhim many years ago, and who has stolen allour hearts, will perform the music that cap-tured his soul in Melbourne this month, Ispeak of David Helfgott.\ The inspiration for the Oscar-winningfilm, Shine, David Helfgott is one ofAustralia’s most treasured musicians.

He has two solo performances coming upin October at the Melbourne Recital Cen-tre: Sunday October 20 at 4pm, and SundayOctober 27 at 4pm.

In these two solo Melbourne recitals hewill perform works by the greatest romanticcomposers including Beethoven and Liszt.

Shine propelled David Helfgott to world-wide fame. He was of course portrayed in thefilm by Geoffrey Rush, who won an Acad-emy Award for his astonishingly accurate per-formance.

David Helfgott is a much-loved virtuosopianist who touches the hearts of all who hearhim and brings joy to concert-goers of all ages.

A highline of these performances will beDavid’s dazzling interpretation of Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Flight Of The Bumblebee,which he performed to a huge internationalaudience at the Oscars. .

These will be David Helfgott’s onlyMelbourne recitals during his 2013 Austra-lia tour, which is proudly presented by An-drew McKinnon.

Perfect Sunday afternoon outings!Bookings: www.melbournerecital.com.au

or phone 9699 3333 Trust me, this is a mustsee.

Don’t miss the opportunity to see this truemusical legend live in concert.

I love my job!I love my job!

■ There are many marvellous Australian institutions and it great newsthat another Australian institution that is coming to see us is the returnof Marmite.

I was thrilled to hear that Marmite will be back on our shelves be-fore we know it. Aussies have been starved of Marmite after the dread-ful earthquake damage wiped out the cooling tower at Sanatorium’sChristchurch factory, rendering the Marmite building unsafe.

General Manager of Sanitarium, Pierre van Heerden, has con-firmed that the much loved yeast spread will be back on sale from Marchnext year.

I, for one, am so happy. Supermarket shelves will soon be stocked bythe Marmite elves and there will be many shoppers including me soglad to have it back.

It’s been 18 months since I lost Marmite from my supermarket shelf!It’s great news for the ears of Marmite-lovers everywhere. Some of ushad resorted to paying exorbitant prices to peddlers who saw the opportu-nity for a quick buck on online auction website Trade Me.

Some tried their luck selling a small pot of the black gold for as muchas $800 a jar – true story. I love it! Such a first world problem but hey,I love my Marmite.■ Editor notes: The original Marmite was produced in Britain. In1902 the Marmite Food Extract Company was formed in Burtonupon Trent, Staffordshire, England by the Gilmour family. An-other version was introduced in New Zealand in 1919.

John’s ‘Murder In Mississippi’

The return of Marmite

■ John Safran is one of my favourites and a bit of an institution in hisown right. He has written a marvellous book which I cannot put down.

It is called Murder In Mississippi and I highly recommend it. It is thetrue story of how John met a white supremacist, befriended his blackkiller and wrote this book.

It is John’s first work of non-fiction and the much loved Australiandocumentary maker and radio broadcaster couldn’t have chosen a moreengrossing subject.

When filming his television series Race Relations, John Safran spentan uneasy couple of days setting up a prank on Richard Barrett, one ofMississippi’s most notorious white supremacists.

A year later, he heard the man had been murdered and what wasmore the killer was Vincent McGee, a black man.

At first the murder seemed a twist on the old Deep South race crimes.But then more news rolled in. Maybe it was a dispute over money, ormost intriguingly, over sex.

Could the infamous racist actually have been secretly gay, with athing for black men? Could this be the story of his life? Seizing theTruman Capote moment, John Safran jumped on a plane to coverthe trial.

Over six months, Safran got deeper and deeper into the South, be-coming entwined in the lives of those connected with the murder - whiteseparatists, black campaigners, lawyers, investigators, neighbours, eventhe killer himself.

And the more he talked with them, the less simple the crime, and theworld, seemed. This is an amazing read. Murder In Mississippi coversmuch more than a murder trial – John looks at Mississippi’s darkhistory for clues about the events leading up to the murder and the subse-quent trial that after an initial burst of coverage, went quietly unreportedacross America.

John Safran is an interesting person. His knack for choosing theright material started back in 1997 when he submitted a low budget videofor the ABC’s Race Around The World.

He went on to make two more award-winning shows: John Safran’sMusic Jamboree (SBS, 2002) and John Safran vs God (SBS, 2004)which I adored.

His most recent documentary series, Race Relations (ABC, 2009),was nominated for two awards at the Rose d’Or Festival in Switzer-land.

Safran currently co-hosts a weekly talk show, Sunday Night Safran,on Triple J, with Father Bob Maguire which is wonderful listening.

John Safran is smart and he is good writer. I highly recommend thisbook.

Available from Penguin Australia: Hamish Hamilton an im-print of Penguin Books. Recommended retail price is $29.99 availablein all good book shops. It’s a great gift and a must read.

Visit johnsafran.com

●●●●● John Safran Photo: Germain McMicking

David Helfgott shines

I love Kevin McLeodand Ali McGregor

■ Turn to the Observer Showbiz section (Page108) for news on Kevin McLeod, and AliMcGregor, and their upcoming performancesat the Melbourne Recital Centre.

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BARRY MCVILLY PTY LTD

WATCH THIS SPACEWATCH THIS SPACE

BARRY MCVILLYIS AWAY ...HUNTING!

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A quote from Barry's ancestor,Niccolo Machiavelli:"It is much safer to be feared than lovedbecause ... love is preserved by the link ofobligation which, owing to the baseness ofmen, is broken at every opportunity fortheir advantage; but fear preserves you bya dread of punishment which never fails.”

Quotes from Barry's ancestor, NiccoloMachiavelli:

“Where the willingness is great, thedifficulties cannot be great. ”

"It is best to be both feared and loved;however, if one cannot be both it is betterto be feared than loved.”

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Contents of Court Lists are intended for information purposes only. The lists are extracted fromCourt Lists, as supplied to the public, by the Magistrates’ Court of Victoria, often one week prior topublication date; for current Court lists, please contact the Court. Further details of cases areavailable at www.magistratescourt.vic.gov.au The Melbourne Observer shall in no event acceptany liability for loss or damage suffered by any person or body due to information provided. Theinformation is provided on the basis that persons accessing it undertake responsibility for assess-ing the relevance and accuracy of its content. No inference of a party’s guilt or innocence shouldbe made by publication of their name as a defendant. Court schedules may be changed at anytime for any reason, including withdrawal of the action by the Plaintiff/Applicant. E&OE.

IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT COURT REPORTS

Thought For The Week■ “All anybody expects of an adolescent is that he actslike an adult and be satisfied to be treated like a child.”

Observer Curmudgeon■ “We owe to the middle ages the two worst inventionsof humanity - gunpowder and romantic love.”

- André Maurois

Text For The Week■ He who brings trouble on his family will inherit onlywind, and the fool will be servant to the wise

- Proverbs 11:29

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20 YEARS IN HARNESS

■ Congratulations to Mel-bourne Observer harnessracing columnist LenBaker who, with his col-leagues, is celebrating the20th anniversary of theaward-winning HarnessReview radio program.

Initiated by the Metro-politan & Country HarnessRacing Association, Har-ness Review first went toair in 1993 with hosts LenBaker and RogerMeulan.

The show started oncommunity station BullaFM at 6.30pm one Sundayin August 1993 with ChrisAlford and David Milesas special guests.

The program then trans-ferred to Melton FM(now 979FM) as a half-hour weekly show, beforeextending to its presenttwo- hour format.

Len had had numerousco-hosts over the years in-cluding Roger Meulan,Jeffrey Hurley, BobTurnbull, Dr MervynWilliamson and DeanLewis, with present co-hosts Clinton Welsh,Alexandra Hurley andBrian Dobson alternat-ing each week.

The program has con-ducted more than 8000 in-terviews with owners,trainers, drivers, membersof the media and harnessracing officialdom through-out the world since its in-ception.

The show is heard ev-ery Monday between 8pmand 10pm over 979FMfrom its Victoria Univer-sity based-studio inMelton and through theinternet at www.979fm.com.au

Harness Review fea-tures a four-state review ofthe previous week's inter-state racing with regularpresenters Tony Law-rence (SA), MattRobertson (Tas), CraigRail (Q'land) andRobbie Dewar (WA),plus an occasional NSWreport.

●●●●● Harness Review co-hosts Alexandra Hurley, Len Baker, Brian Dobson

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Seeing stars in TVLooking back at my time at Channel 7

(1961-1968) and Channel 0-10 (1968-1988)

MelbourneTV Memories

with Kenneth Mulholland

Old Stars, new stars, has-beens, up-and-comers, al-most-but-nots. Locals and overseas stars. I got to seea number of them in the flesh:

Jane Russell, the big-busted star of films withMarilyn Monroe, Robert Mitchum and ClarkGable.

The diminutive James Mason, star of 1950s filmssuch as The Desert Fox, Pandora And The FlyingDutchman' and Five Fingers.

Henry Fonda, who early on appeared inHemingway's Grapes Of Wrath and a plethora ofmovies covering comedy, drama, westerns (How TheWest Was Won) and apple-pie homilies such as OnGolden Pond.

Frank Thring, the arch, high-camp, over-the-top Australian character-actor who appeared in ElCid and The Vikings alongside the likes of CharltonHeston, Sophia Loren, Kirk Douglas and TonyCurtis.

Richard Todd, star of The Dam Busters, andDisney's Rob Roy. I actually chatted briefly withhim but was too shy to ask him much and he seemedsuch a quiet gentleman.

He and James Mason were both short of staturebut loomed large as actors of their day.

Then there was James Drury, who played thelead in The Virginian, an American television west-ern series popular in the sixties.

The Brit comedian Frankie Howerd (frommany of the English 50s outrageous romps) took thecrew from his Channel 0 Melbourne shows out todinner one night, lusting, I'm sure after a young manwho managed to escape Frank's clutches.

Then there were the singers, Dusty Springfield,Alma Cogan and the ill fated, never completed (asfar as I know) Channel 7 special starring HerbAlpert and The Tiuanna Brass.

That event stalled only a few weeks before I left7 to join ATV-0 sometime in 1968.

It happened, or in fact didn't happen, again out atthe Teletheatre.

The set was up: a lot of scaffolding for the bandmembers to appear in separate boxes. But no Herb.It appeared that he was upstairs having an almightybarney with his wife and was somewhat under theweather to such an extent that the gig was eventuallycancelled. - Kenneth Mulholland

●●●●● Jane Russell

●●●●● Herb Alpert

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Melbourne Observer - Wednesday, October 2, 2013 - Page 9

●●●●● Bill Lanyon

Melbourne Observationswith Matt Bissett-Johnson

THE BARREL‘Never pick a

fight with a manwho buys inkby the barreland paper by

the ton.’

■ The Warrandyte ’55 Plus’ Variety Group willnext month celebrate the 51st Anniversary of the musi-cal arm of the Warrandyte Senior Citizens Clubperforming annual variety shows, with their 2013 pro-duction, Around The World In Music And Song.

The show will be presented as a concert on Saturday,November 16 at 1pm for a 1.15pm start, and as a cabareton Friday, November 22 at 7.15pm for a 7.30pm start,and feature selections from a wide range of music andsongs representing more than 20 countries of the world.

Suitable for all age groups, this two hour variety showwill be full of singing, dancing, instrumental and com-edy acts, with colourful costumes reminiscent of the vari-ous countries.

Bookings opened on October 1 and are essential. Thecompany strongly advises booking early to avoid disap-pointment.

The Warrandyte ’55 Plus’ Variety Group is af-filiated with the Warrandyte Senior Citizens Club.

Concert: Saturday, November 16 at 1pm for 1.15pmstart, $14 donation, including afternoon tea served afterthe performance. Bookings: phone Allan 9877 1077.

Cabaret: Friday, November 22 at 7.15pm for 7.30pmstart, $10 donation. Tea/coffee provided. BYO everythingelse. This performance is similar, but has several addi-tional items. Bookings: phone Allan 9877 1077.

Free car-parking is available near the hall and also onan adjacent netball court.

●●●●● Heather Jacobs-Moore rehearses for AroundThe World In Music And Song, being presentedin Warrandyte on November 16 and 22.

Photo: Allan Spencer

AROUND THE WORLD

Drug intercept:man, 74, charged■ A 74-year-old man has beencharged after cannabis was al-legedly located during a vehicleintercept in Windsor.

South Melbourne Police in-tercepted the car in Bank Stabout 7.50pm.

A search of the Nissan Blue-bird resulted in a large quantityof cannabis being located in theboot of the car.

The South Melbourne driverwas arrested and charged withtraffic and possess cannabis andpossess proceeds of crime.

He has been bailed to appearat Melbourne Magistrates’ Courton December 20.

Back Your Mink, I’llKnow, Sue Me, A BushelAnd A Peck, If I Were aBell, Marry The Man To-day, I’ve Never Been inLove Before, Luck Be ALady and of course thetitle song.

Guys and Dolls runsfrom October 4-19 at theNational Theatre for12 performances, includ-ing three matinees on Oc-tober 6, 12 and 13. www.cloc.org.au or

call 1300 362 547

the show – gambler SkyMasterson and Salva-tion Army Sergeant Sis-ter Sarah Brown, anunlikely couple who findthemselves falling in loveagainst all odds.

Featuring a cavalcadeof memorable and well-known hits, Guys AndDolls is full of show stop-ping production numberssuch as Sit Down You’reRockin’ The Boat,Fugue For Tinhorns,Adelaide’s Lament, Take

■ CLOC MusicalTheatre opens on Fridaynight (Oct. 4) with its 99thproduction, Guys AndDolls, running at the Na-tional Theatre, StKilda until October 19.

Earlier this year, thecompany enjoyed one ofits biggest successes everwith its world amateurpremiere production ofThe Phantom Of The Op-era, which sold out andgarnered unprecedentedglowing reviews and au-

dience feedback. NowCLOC is switchinggears, kicking up itsheels, and taking audi-ences back to 1940s NewYork when it presentsGuys And Dolls, a clas-sic musical fable.

Seasoned performersand good friends,Footscray resident JonSebastian and KellyWindle from EastMelbourne, are lookingforward to playing two ofthe romantic lead roles in

●●●●● Jon Sebastian (SkyMasterson) and KellyWindle (Sister SarahBrown).

Photo: Richard Crompton

‘Luck Be A Lady Tonight’ at St Kilda

Pioneer

■ Sunraysia Dailypioneer Bill Lanyonhas died at age 75.

The Mildura bus-inessman, director ofElliott MediaGroup, had interestsin newspapers, radioand TV.

His family com-pany continues to oper-ate in Mildura, SwanHill, Kerang, Lodd-on Valley, Kyneton,C a s t l e m a i n e ,Latrobe Valley andGippsland.

The company’smotto, “non eget arcu”means “fight on with-out a string to yourbow”.

Obscene■ South Mel-bourne Crime In-vestigation Unit de-tectives are investigat-ing after a quick-think-ing victim photo-graphed a man whoexposed himself to herlast week in AlbertPark.

■ With weekly local newspapers closing at nearbySeymour-Nagambie (Advertiser) and Kilmore(Free Press), the Euroa Gazette was saved earlierthis year by Wangaratta Chronicle owner HarleyHiggins.

He took over the century-old title from local couplePaul and Bettina Rieusset, who were at the helmfor 34 years.

The paper is looking good with a fresh layout.Headed by Editor Jeff Zeuscher, the paper has takenon a new bright look ... even if the old website isdisplaying news stories from 2009.

Good news story at Euroa

ACCUSED FRONTS COURT■ The man charged with robbing the Westpac bankin Moe last week was allegedly carrying a silver-coloured pistol at the time, reports the Latrobe ValleyExpress.

Jason Paul Tansley briefly faced the LatrobeValley Magistrates Court where he fought backtears.

The 39-year-old Moe man is charged with robbingthe bank of $8900, possessing a firearm and possess-ing drug of dependence amphetamine.

Tansley did not apply for bail and will return tocourt on December 12 for a committal mention.

“Tansley was apprehended by Police after flee-ing the Moore Street bank,” the Express said.

“The staff and customers present during the inci-dent were uninjured.”

Sheriff acts at Melton

were clamped as part of the operation. Ten peopleidentified owed more than $10,000 in outstanding finesor warrants each, with $88, 000 the largest amountowed by one person.

The Sheriff’s Office said 29 people chose to paytheir fines on the day allowing Sheriff’s officers toclear a further 150 warrants and recover $43, 108.51.

The ANPR operation was conducted as a followup to Operation Surrender, after it was identifiedthat there were more than 17,000 people with morethan 107,000 outstanding warrants amounting to morethan $38 million living in Melton, Caroline Springsand Deer Park.

Melton Inspector Stephen Mutton said bothpolice and the Sheriff’s Office were determined tocatch anyone who continued to ignore their outstand-ing warrants in and around Melton.

“The aim of Operation Surrender was to givepeople the opportunity to take care of their outstand-ing warrants before they were caught by other means.We warned residents that we would be out conduct-ing further operations to enforce this,” he said.

“We have seen a number of people caught at theANPR road block. Instead of choosing to deal withtheir problems and do the right thing, many of thesepeople now have to deal with not only paying theirfines, but also the inconvenience of having their carclamped on the spot.”

■ A joint operation be-tween Melton Policeand the Sheriff’s Officein Melton on Wednesdayidentified 95 people with1361 outstanding warrantstotalling $451, 604.70.

Automated NumberPlate Recognition tech-nology was used at thesite set up in High St.

Some 24 vehicles

Another knockout blow

●●●●● Greg Hywood

■ You have to wonderif the bosses at Fairfaxare trying to put the printedition of The Age outof business.

This week saw theweekday cover price ofThe Age jump by 15 percent to $2.30. The com-petitor Herald Sun isabout half that price:$1.20 per copy.

CEO GregHywood has alreadypredicted that The Agemay not be in print in 3,5 or 10 years.

Victorian news-agents say the price risewill make this prophecybecome self-fulfilling.

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RAMADA AWARDED FOR EXCELLENCE

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West Hollywood

From my suite at theRamada Plaza Hotel andSuites comes this week'snews.

Awards night

to remember

www.gavinwood.us

■ Joanna Ciocan, SalesManager, and MariaIordache, Assistant GeneralManager of the RamadaPlaza Hotel and Suites, WestHollywood, both had a memo-rable night in Las Vegas at theprestigious Mandalay BayHotel for a glittering awardsnight.

The Ramada Conventionhosted some 7000 hoteliers fromRamada worldwide.

Joanna and Maria ac-cepted the Presidents Award forExcellence on behalf of the ho-tel.

It was a team effort and allof the friendly staff at theRamada Plaza Hotel andSuites celebrated the award.

Ramada opened its first ho-tel, a 60-room facility on Route66 at Flagstaff, Arizona in1954 and set up headquarters inPhoenix, Arizona.

The Ramada name is de-rived from the Spanish termrama (meaning branch) and iscommonly referred to as a"shady resting place".

Jerry Weintraub

honoured

Gavin Wood

From my Suite at the

Ramada Plaza Complex

on Santa Monica Blvd

●●●●● Joanna Clocan, Sales Manager, and Maris Iordache

Las Vegas comes of age

■ If you haven't been to LasVegas lately, forget everythingyou remember because it's adestination, which is con-stantly reinventing itself.

New hotels, attractions, ac-tivities and restaurants are con-stantly popping up.

Every year, 40 millionpeople visit Las Vegas and18,000 conventions and meet-ings take place.

Whether for business orpleasure, Las Vegas is the en-tertainment centre ofAmerica.

The city boasts more than150,000 hotel and motelrooms, most spread along thefamous Las Vegas strip.

Las Vegas is famous forits huge array of entertainmentoptions.

Broadway-style shows,comedy performances andamazing world-class musicalacts vie for the attention along-side the amazing and spec-tacular Cirque du Soleilwhich now features in no lessthan eight permanent shows inLas Vegas.

After the performance, thesurreal surroundings of the

themed casino hotels are oftenjust as entertaining.

Las Vegas's McCarranInternational Airport hasundergone a significant expan-sion, which has enabled it tohandle even more flights,which arrive daily across theglobe, and transportation withinLas Vegas is also easy withplentiful and cheap taxis, manycoach operators and the LasVegas Monorail which con-veniently links key hotels onthe strip.

There are so many optionsfor wanting to get away fromthe glitz and glamour withpopular activities includingflights to the nearby GrandCanyon and desert motoringexperiences in exotic vehicles.

The old face of ‘Vegas’ hascertainly come of age.

Footy finals

fever hits

Hollywood

■ The American Austra-lian Association (AAA)and the American Austra-lian Football League(AFL) hosted an evening toview the 2013 A.F.L.Grand Final with ex-AFLsuper stars Wayne Careyand Anthony Koutoufides.

It was complete withAussie meat pies and sau-sage rolls, a delicacy here inLos Angeles.

A brand new shop heresupplied the Aussie fare. Itis called ‘Bronzed Aussie’;it is a gourmet pie shop andespresso bar located at 714S.Los Angeles Street, LosAngeles.

Live entertainment in-cluded musical acts, come-dians and guest speakers.

Plasma screens sur-rounded the event and every-one had such a great timecatching up with all the ex-pats in the room.

Ramada Plaza Hoteland Suites Managing Direc-tor Alan Johnson is picturedwith Joanna Ciocan andZoe Carides, Ramadastaff members meeting andgreeting VIP guests at theAFL Grand Final functionin Hollywood.

●●●●● Anthony Koutoufides

●●●●● Wayne Carey

●●●●● Zoe Carides, Alan Johnson and Joanna Ciocan

■ One of the great restaurateurs of our fine City of Melbourne passed away last month.Raymond Tsindos was the warm and happy greeter at his fine restaurant called Tsindos inBourke St for many years.

He had the charm to make you feel like the most important customer in his restaurant. Raymondand his wonderful wife June were together for 43 years. I remember dining there on many occa-sions and every time was memorable. The atmosphere in the restaurant was one of the best inMelbourne. Tsindos won many culinary awards during its dominance in the Melbourne res-taurant industry. Managing Director of the Ramada Plaza Hotel and Suites, Alan Johnson re-members fondly the Friday night sessions with members of the television and hotel Industry. Raymond Tsindos will be sadly missed.

■ You may not know the namebut you will know his amazingbody of work.

Congratulations to JerryWeintraub.

The 17th annual HollywoodFilm Awards on October 21stat the Beverly Hilton will behonouring Jerry with its Hol-lywood Legend Award.

The prolific producer was be-hind the Ocean's Eleven andKarate Kid film series as wellas this years HBO film BehindThe Candelabra, which garnered15 Emmy nominations.

Jerry's career includes pro-moting Elvis Presley, FrankSinatra, Bob Dylan and LedZeppelin, and managing suchsuperstars as Neil Diamond,John Denver, The Carpen-ters and The Moody Blues.

●●●●● Jerry Weintraub

West Hollywood Book Fair

■ The 12th Annual West Hollywood Book Fair was heldlast Sunday at the brand new West Hollywood Library andPark. It was a neighbourhood event with many authors, perfor-mances and members of the arts community providing exhibitsand entertainment all day. It is wonderful when you see a commu-nity come together in such a family way. The Ramada PlazaHotel and Suites is a major sponsor of the event.

Still fab after all these years

■ Get ready for another rush of Beatlemania: 2013 marks 50years since the band's first UK chart topper, and next February isthe 50th anniversary of their US invasion.

A charming documentary called Good Ol' Freda is aboutLiverpool teen Freda Kelly, who ran the Beatles' fan club until1972. Amazingly, she never cashed in on her memorabilia, whichis still stored in her attic. You can view this doco in theatres, ondemand and on iTunes now.

Paul McCartney is about to release his new album full ofnew and original songs called appropriately New this month. Paulclosed Hollywood Boulevard outside the Jimmy Kimmel Shownear Grauman's Chinese Theatre for a live performance lastweek.

Judy’s daughters sing together

Special holiday offer

■ I have managed to secure a terrific holiday deal. For all read-ers of the Melbourne Observer this deal is for you. When youare planning you trip to California come and stay at theRamada Plaza Hotel and Suites, 8585 Santa Monica Blvd,West Hollywood. Please mention the Melbourne Observerwhen you book and you will receive the special rate of the day.Contact Joanna at [email protected]

Till Next week, Happy Holidays. Gavin Wood

●●●●● Judy Garland

■ Judy Garland's daughters, Lorna Luft and Liza Minnelliwill perform together for the first time in 20 years during two con-certs this month to raise money to fight breast cancer.

The concerts will be held October 14 and 21 at the jazz clubBirdland in New York. Some of you might remember JudyGarland performing at Festival Hall back in the sixties.

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■ Australian Army veteran Jo-seph Lonsdale Hopwood, 66, haslost his bid to be paid a special pen-sion rate.

Hopwood took his case to theAdministrative Appeals Tribu-nal of Australia in Melbourne,to be heard by Member ReginaPerton.

Hopwood already recives a 100per cent diability pension. He was anational serviceman in 1967, joiningthe regular Army in 1970, servinguntil 1987.

His service included operationalservice in Vietnam.

He suffers from multiple medi-cal conditions including post-trau-matic stress disorder, lumbar prob-lems, hearing loss, emphysema, os-teoarthritis afecting both knees,dificulties with his ankles, and tinni-tus, all of which the RepatriationCommission judged to being “war-caused”.

Hopwood lodged a claim for anincrease in pension in 2011. He wasthen a working age recipient unableto work due to accepted disabilities.

The Repatriation Commis-sion, and the Veterans’ Review

Pension

Footy boss steps down

Dissolved■ The businesspartnership betweenLester (Lee)Adrian Botting,Carmelo (Char-lie) Gargano andRaymond Vella,trading as K2KKitchen To Kit-chen Caterers andThe London Lar-der, has been dis-solved. LesterAdrian Botting iscontinuing to operatethese businesses asgoing concerns. Anotice of dissolutionappeared in the Vic-toria Govt. Gazette.

●●●●● Geoffrey Horgan■ Vuctorian legalfigure GeoffreyHorgan SC will bepermitted to a pen-sion on the sameterms and conditionsas a judge of theCounty Court, andit shall not be sus-pended while heholds any office asa Deputy Commis-sioner of the Inde-pendent Broad-based Anti-cor-ruption Commis-sion, according to anotice placed in theVictoria GovernmentGazette last week byState Attorney-Gen-eral Robert Clark.

To Court

■ The MillsOakley Lawyerspartnership hassought a Registrars’Pre-Hearing Con-ference at the Mel-bourne Magis-trates’ Court Thismorning (Wed.) at9.15am for a civilclaim allegation of“services rendered”to be heard againstMusic EventsHoldings Pty Ltd.

Businessman donateshalf of CD website sales

■ Melbourne businessman and musician DennisEarl has founded ‘The International Children'sMusic Fund’.

Publicist Michael Matthews says the fund wasformed to give underprivileged children the opportu-nity of receiving a two-year scholarship in music tu-ition.

Dennis has recorded an album titled It's My Time.“Fifty percent of the total proceeds from the sale

of the CD from the fund's website will also be do-nated to the fund,” Mr Matthews said.

Earl reflects on his early childhood living withhis parents, three brothers and two sisters in publichousing in the northern suburb of Heidelberg.

“Life was very difficult for me as a child. Myentertainment came from my own imagination. Myparents were very cold, unemotional people. A vividmemory of mine was working at the local theatre asa lolly boy at the age of 11, aiming to save enoughmoney to buy my first guitar.

“ Much to my disappointment, when I finally pur-chased the acoustic guitar, my father forbade me toplay it inside the house.””

At age 14,with no secondary school education,Dennis’s mother sent him to work at the local mallin Heidelberg.

As soon as he was earning a weekly wage as ajunior salesperson, the little amount he!was allowedto keep went toward singing lessons with classicalvocal coach LeoCollins.

One of Dennis’s fondest childhood memories wassitting around the piano, singing old songs for hourswith his grandmother at!her home in Coburg.

“I have only fond memories of my grandmother. Ibelieve she inspired and ncouraged me to pursue myinterest and love of music.”

At 17, Dennis along with his brothers was kickedout of home.

Dennis found refuge by moving in with his bestfriend Ray and!his!family.

Around this time Dennis began a job at the IvanPorter Shoe Company as a factory worker andbegan an apprenticeship in pattern cutting at Colling-wood Technical College.

It was there that students would encourage him tojump on the workbench to impersonate Billy Thorpe.

Today, Dennis heads his own property investmentcompany which he says has allowed him the finan-cial freedom to resume his passion inmusic.

:The International Children’s Music Fundwas launched (a non for profit organisation) to ben-efit underprivileged children and help them gain ac-cess to music lessons.

“The aim of this organisation is to offer under-privileged children in Australia a two-year scholar-ship, with the hope of the International Children’sMusic Fund becoming worldwide over the next 10years.

“To qualify for the scholarship, children will needto have an interest in music, meet a required criteriaand be aged between 8 – 18 years of age. They willalso need to be auditioned to have their aptitude inmusic tested.”

●●●●● Dennis Earl

Board said he was not entitled to apension at the special rate.

The Commission said thatHopwood was able to work morethan eight hours a week.

Consultant psychiatrist Dr Jef-frey Swift said that Hopwoodwould “most certainly” be unable towork more than eight hours per week.

General practitioner Dr MichaelConos stated that Hopwood wouldbe able to undertake “zero hours ofwork”.

Dr Conos said there is no pos-sible work he could think of thatHopwood could undertake.

While in the Army, Hopwoodlearned Thai and French, and spenttime working in Thai refugee campsand in Hong Kong as an office-based analyst.

Hopwood worked as an analystwith the Defence Signals Direc-torate.

He and his family lived in Mel-bourne, where his children wereeducated. He worked at Watsoniain the Safety, Rehabilitation,Redployment and Compensa-tion section of the Department ofDefence, accepting a redundancypackage in 1996.

He became a caretaker at aHawthorn office block until 1997,then conducted his own business,Brindabella Gardening Ser-vices, until 2002. He has not soughtwork since then.

“The Tribunal is not satisfiedthat Mr Hopwood’s accepted war-caused disabiloities are the sole fac-tors that have prevented him fromworking for more than eight hours perweek during the assessment period,”said Ms Perton.

“The Tribunal is satisfied thatMr Hopwood had considered him-self as retired for some years beforehe lodged the claim under consider-ation. Mr Hopwood conceded thathe has not looked for work sinceDecember 2002.”

STORE TO CLOSE■ The Myer Dandenong store will permanentlyclose its doors from the end of trade on Sunday, Octo-ber 13.

Press advertisements featuring a photo of model ofJennifer Hawkins have advised local shoppers ofthe closure.

CLUBMAN STOLE$1300 FROM TILL

■ Jeremy Bourke isstepping down this monthas CEO of the NorthernFootball League.

He will become theRegional General Man-ager of the AFL’s South-East Commission.

The NFL will soon beadvertising the CEO’s po-sition.

Bourke held the posi-tion for three years, ●●●●● Jeremy Bourke

Jail for club burglar■ Nathan Miller, 27, has been jailed for ninemonths over break-ins at sports premises includingAFL House and the Collingwood Football Club.He had stolen more than $28,000 worth of equipmentand cash.

Child care centes audit■ Child care centres in Victoria are about to beaudited by the Fair Work Ombudsman.

■ Long-time MilduraWest Cricket Clubmember Nigel John Th-ompson stole $1300 inclub funds from the till.

Thompson was en-trusted with a key, and tookthe cash from a register in-side a locked fridge. He toldPolice that the money went to a friend. None of it hasbeen recovered, Mildura Magistrates’ Court was told.

Thompson was a club member for 17 years, but hasnow been shunned.

Roo factories needed: MP■ Western Victoria MP David O’Brien has calledfor kangaroo meat processing plants to be built in re-gional areas, including Hamilton.

Mr O’Brien wants legal barriers to be removedso that wild kangaroos can be hunted “at least for petfood” in Victoria instead of buying from New SouthWales, reports the Hamilton Spectator.

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●●●●● To find out more about Freemasonry, how to become a member, or attend upcoming public events, please visit www.freemasonsvic.net.au

or ’Like’ our Facebook page, www.facebook.com/freemasonsvic for the most up to date information.

●●●●● ‘Freemasons: The Inside Story’ airs every Monday night at 8.30pm on Channel 31, with replays throughout the week on Thursdays at

12.30am, 3pm and Saturdays at 12.30pm. Or catch up online at www.c31.org.au and follow the links.

First Leaders of

Freemasonry in Victoria

"It was then suggested I approach our Free-masons Victoria Board of Benevolence, tofind out if they could assist us."

The request was presented to the board and afew days later, Brian received another call froma member of the Board asking what the totalcost of the repairs would be. Bro. Ward toldhim it amounted to $3968.

"Imagine my surprise when I received a phonecall saying that Grand Lodge would make upthe difference, and that a cheque for $2768 wason its way!" Brian said.

The school was then able to cover the full costof the repairs to the boiler, an achievement onlypossible due to the initial efforts of the childrenhaving started a 'jelly bean guessing competition'and being featured in the local newspaper.

Dr Charles Carty-Salmon

■ The Macedon Ranges Guardian newspaperrecently featured a story about the children atKyneton Primary School who were conduct-ing their own fundraising for much-needed repairof the heating system and maintenance work atthe school.

When Kyneton Zetland Lodge member,Brian Ward, read the story, he was appalled,saying that it reminded him of his schooling days,when there was no heating, and no facilities.

"That was during the Depression though andwe didn't expect anything then. But in the 21stCentury this is totally unacceptable," he said.

Upon reading the story Brian approached hisLodge for support, which was freely given, anda grant of $1200 was made.

●●●●● Kyneton Zetland Lodge member, Brian Ward (left) and fellow Freemasons and

past students of Kyneton Primary School, Barry Reaper, David Wells, Allan Willis and

Bill Allen, present a cheque to Kyneton Primary student representative council mem-

bers, Chloe Meyer and Maggie Copeland.

■ Charles Carty-Salmon was born on July27, 1860 at Amhurst, Victoria.

He was educated in Scotch College andTrinity College, University of Melbourne,from which he graduated in Medicine.

Joining overseas he served two years in theTurkish Army as a surgeon, he saw action inthe Russian and Serbian campaigns and wasdecorated several times during a number ofsieges.

Soon after his return to Victoria, CartySalmon as he was commonly known, was hon-orary surgeon for the South Yarra Relief Com-mittee and in the course of his medical work metAlfred Deakin.

The two formed a lifelong personal and politi-cal friendship. On impulse Salmon nominatedfor the rural seat of Talbot and Avoca in the Leg-islative Assembly, winning a by-election in De-cember 1893

On federation he resigned from Victoria Par-liament and secured election to the Common-wealth Parliament and was the first memberof the House of Representatives for the seatof Laanecoorie. He successfully held his seatfor the subsequent elections. His career reachedit zenith after being appointed Speaker of theHouse of Representatives.

Charles Carty-Salmon joined the TalbotLodge on December 12 ,1882, both of his broth-ers were both members of the same Lodge, infact his brother Robert was a distinguishedArmy Captain, who was killed in the Boer War,a statue can be seen today outside the Talbot PostOffice in honour of his memory.

Charles Carty-Salmon was elected to theoffice of Grand Master of Freemasons inVictoria in 1914; his tenure was very reserveddue to the immediate pre-war years.

His death while still serving as Grand Mas-ter and in Parliament came as a shock to Free-masonry and the country.* Excerpts taken from 'The Masonic Grand Masters ofAustralia' by Kent Henderson & Australian Dictionary ofBiography, Volume 9, (MUP), 1983.

can be made by contacting FreemasonsVictoria on 9411 0111, or by [email protected]

You can donate with a credit card or send acheque to PO Box 553 East Melbourne Vic 3002

Planting Your White CrossPurchasers are invited to plant their crosses

of remembrance on the planting day which willbe Wednesday, November 6, between 11am and2pm.

If you are unable to attend and opt to havethe Freemasons Victoria Task Force plantit for you, a photo will be taken of your crossand posted on the Freemasons Victoriawebsite.

A Commemorative EventIn association with the Masonic Field of

Crosses, a special event will be held on FridayNovember 8 at the Dallas Brooks Centre,which will feature a wreath laying service, aperformance of the Ceremony of the Un-known Solider and a function.

People who purchased crosses and theirfriends and families, members, RSL dignitar-ies and some very special guests will be invitedto this event.

■ Between November 6 and 13, the lawn out-side the front of the Dallas Brooks Centrewill be transformed into a field of white crosses,each one in remembrance of a serviceman orwoman who paid the ultimate sacrifice for thenation.

Freemasons, Lodges, member's familiesand friends, and RSL members will be invitedto donate towards a white cross in honour of allthose who have served or are serving.

Freemasons Victoria has a long and proudassociation with the armed forces. ThroughoutAustralia's involvement in wars and peace-keeping operations, Freemasons have alwaysbeen predominant, ready to serve and defendtheir country. That trend continues today withmany of our younger members being activeNavy, Army or Air Force personnel.

Prominent Victorian Freemasons with amilitary background include men such as SirEdward 'Weary' Dunlop AC CMG OBE,Charles Bud Tingwell AM and former Vic-torian RSL President, Bruce Ruxton AMOBE.

Donate towards the plantingof a White Cross

Donations for white crosses are welcome and

Word spreads of school’s need

Pink-tober 2013

■ Preparations for one of the biggest events inthe Freemasons Victoria calendar, 'ThinkPink', are progressing nicely, with many Lodgesacross the state participating in fundraising ini-tiatives for the National Breast CancerAwareness month of October.

On October 25, Freemasons Victoria willbe holding a Think Pink Cocktail function, theBig Pink Party to culminate months of effortraising of funds towards this important cause.

The function, a pink fancy dress occasion, willinclude auctions, raffles, prizes, games and manycheque presentations.

Last year Freemasons Victoria, lead by theGrand Master's wife Kerry Jones, and theGrand Lodge Ceremonial Team ladies (andgents), collectively raised an outstanding $80,000which was donated to the Epworth Freema-sons Hospital Oncology Department and theThink Pink Foundation.

This year the challenge has been set to sur-pass that figure and raise further funds to go tothe Epworth Freemasons Palliative CareUnit in the Oncology Department, to ThinkPink Living Centre on St Kilda Rd, and alsoto three communities that are supporting familiesdealing with breast cancer in rural Victoria.

In the lead up to the Big Pink Party, eachLodge is encouraged to hold their own activi-ties; breakfasts, raffles, dinners, trivia nights or

Remembrance Day 2013:

Freemasons Victoria commemorates with

the inaugural Masonic Field of Crosses

barbecues, to raise awareness and funds to con-tribute towards this very worthy cause.

We would be very pleased to receive your do-nations of goods or services for the auctions andraffles to help us raise funds for this worthy eventwhich culminates at our Big Pink Party on Fri-day October 25. You will receive recognition foryour donation.

A unique Freemasons Think Pink Pin hasalso been designed to help raise funds and aware-ness, funds received contributing to the overalldonations.

If you or your Lodge would like to find outmore about how Freemasons Victoria is work-ing hard to better the lives of those suffering fromBreast Cancer, or you would like to contribute insome way, please contact Donna De La Rueon 9411 0103, [email protected], visit the Think Pink page on the Freema-sons Victoria website www.freemasonsvic.net.au or check out the Think Pink with Free-masons Victoria FaceBook pagefacebook.com/thinkpinkwithfreemasonsvic ●●●●● Dr Charles Carty-Salmon

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TIME FOR A GOOD SPRING CLEAN

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with Yvonne Lawrence

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■ There is nothing better for the soul like spring-cleaning your house.

In my case I am in the throes of cleaning myoffice. I haven’t really been near my office for solong, the spiders have moved in and spun theirwebs everywhere.

But they will go as soon as I sort through pa-pers, newspapers, and rearrange filing cabinets.

Then the cleaner will come in and get rid ofthose pesky little critters that think that my studiois their new home.

Whilst I sit in my chair, Peter the WonderMan brings me a box of papers to go through,and I discard those that are out of date, and thenon to the next box, but so far, have kept very little.

Most are going out, but I’ll shred the discardedpaper and put it on the garden. It’s terrific hownewsprint seems to act like Viagra on the worms.

Am I out of the loop?■ Why, oh why, did I keep so much of every-thing.? I found a folder with e-mails from yearsback. Terrific to read, but of no use anymore. Soout they go.

I think I’m a hoarder at heart and even a scrapof a memo with a telephone number found it’sway into the mess of papers that have accumu-lated.

The walls in the studio are lined with book-shelves and it’s full, except for one section thatholds videos.

It must be heaven now that the film compa-nies and publicity people send out information ona CD.

I don’t know what to do with the all the filmsand interviews I’ve collected. I’ve offered thefilms to nursing homes but they are not interested.

I thought they would jump at the chance to havea library of classic films. It comes down to whatis someone’s treasure is another man’s trash I sup-pose.

It really is a sign that I’m out of the loop whenI won’t keep any interviews.

Recipes handed down■ It’s so amazing to find documents that I thoughtI had lost, and the amount of time I expendedwriting to have them re-issued, when all the timeI had filed them incorrectly.

I’ve found old recipe books that either belongedto my mother, or I’ve picked them up at op shops,or at book tables at charity fairs.

One of the books I found was the originalWeekly Times Cook Book. It was published 1972as a result of a Pioneer Recipe competition.

But as many of Australians were of English,Irish and Scottish descent, it is natural that a lotof the recipes handed down are traditional onesfrom those countries.

In the days before refrigeration, canned foodand all the modern cooking preparations now atour disposal, stewed and preserved fruits andsimple sweets made with milk and eggs seemedto be the order of the day.

Most of the recipes are for meat dishes. Notmany fish recipes were received.

Try stuffed goanna■ There was one recipe for stuffed goanna, Ihurriedly turned the page, but there wasn’t a go-anna in sight, it was all a clever allusion donewith boned lamb flaps, stuffed with breadcrumbs,and vegetables.

Rabbits were a popular dish and cooked in anassortment of ways. I used to enjoy baked rabbitwrapped in bacon when I was young, but afterseeing the dreadful suffering of rabbits with myx-omatosis I shudder at the thought of eating even acommercially raised rabbit now.

As a childhood lover of treacle toffee I foundthis old recipe in the book and took it down andwhile the children are still on holidays, you maylike to supervise them while they make some. Justas my mother did with me.

Treacle Toffee recipe■ Rub the inside of a saucepan generously withbutter, pour in required amount of treacle and boilgently till a little will break between the teeth af-ter being thrown into cold water.

Then immediately take pan from fire and pourtoffee over blanched nuts of any description. It isa delightfully chewy and crackly toffee.

I’ve asked Peter if he will make some; he

hasn’t promised, but neither has he said no. Sohere’s hoping.

There is not much done so far because I keepon reading the contents of everything I find.

How could I throw out the Secondhand Deal-ers Book that Peter was required to have in hisshop. It goes back to the early 70s.

Choice items stolen■ I remember being in charge of the shop in theearly days when a young man came in wantingto sell a silver vinaigrette. He told me that it hadbelonged to his granny who had just died.

Now I didn’t know much about vinaigrettesand much less about prices, but I offered him $200which I thought was fair.

The young man wasn’t too thrilled and wantedmore but I said that is all I was prepared to pay.

I couldn’t wait for Peter to return so I couldtell him about my purchase. He was quite im-pressed and told me that it was indeed a very oldand rare sterling silver vinaigrette circa 1820 andworth at least $1000.

That night our shop was broken into and choiceitems were stolen.

Break-in at the shop■ Fortunately I had entered the details of mypurchase and the police were able to arrest theyoung fellow, because he’d printed his correctaddress but a given a false name.

He had stolen the vinaigrette a couple of nightsearlier, and had broken into our shop to reclaim‘granny’s’ vinaigrette and help himself to a fewmore valuable items to add to his hoard.

Peter instructed me never to buy anything un-less he was in the shop.

I’m secretly enjoying myself although I canonly do it for a while before I have to get off mylegs, so it’s a slow process.

It will take me a fair while to complete thespring clean, but it will be worth it.

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Big bags out of fashion■ Tonight I’m going to clean out my handbags.Now that’s easy because I’m in bed and I’ll havebags to discard the rubbish.

I read where the airlines are going to restrictthe size of handbags because passengers are stuff-ing their handbag to overflowing thus escaping ex-cess baggage charges.

Somebody thought up checking handbags toolate because the fashion now is for small clutchbags, and apart from a tissue, a. lipstick and asmall change purse, nothing else will fit.

I’m sorry the big bag fashion is out of stylebecause not only do I have some great handbagsthat we bought overseas, but I’ll hate to see themgo to the op shop. My other half tells me to hangon to them because every fashion turns around,and then when it does my bags will be vintage.

Only a dealer in antiques would have a mindlike that.

My other absolute love is baskets. I have a gar-den shed with baskets hanging from the roof thatI brought back from overseas.

I dare not look at them now before I have apest controller in because I bet spiders and othernasties have gathered in each and every one ofthem.

No love letters found■ Freud said that it was a return to the wombfor women who had a fetish for baskets. I couldnever find anyone to tell me what that all means.

But who cares, I love my baskets.Would you believe I found a folder with corre-

spondence from the 60s – all business letters, butsadly not a love letter to be seen.

But I’ve loads more cleaning to do, so whoknows what I yet may find.

Ciao until next week.- Yvonne

Contact: Editor, Melbourne ObserverP.O.Box 1278, Research 3095

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Melbourne TV Memories

■ HSV-7. In the early sixties. Hisname was Lyle Hughes. He beganwork, as best I know, at ChannelHSV7 Melbourne sometime in 1960or possibly earlier.

I was the messenger/mail-room boy1961-62. I first encountered Lyle whenhe had already established himself inthe studios in audio then as a fledglingcameraman.

He was a product of his time: oneof the ‘Jazzers’ from the ‘Rockers andJazzers’ era.

Short in stature, chunky and robust,bounding with all the energy of a verti-cally challenged, ex-audio op movinginto the 'New Vibe' Camera Depart-ment where Graham Arthur (laterto become one of the two original di-rectors, along with Rod Hardy, on thelong running TV series Prisoner)Brendon McKenna, John Haddy

and Joe Warton (alleged to have beenin the British Merchant Navy andjumped ship in Australia) were thebackbone of the new crew.

Four other staging and camera crew:Jeff Spenser, Bob Henderson,Kevin Crawford and 'The Wild One,'Barry Cross had departed for En-gland, leaving places for bright, eageryoung things like John Gilby (thatsame Mail-Room bod who had nick-named me Prize Prawn) and myself onthe studio floor).

But back to Lyle. He wore suederipple-soled shoes that, he probablythought, built his height. He smokedWinston cigarettes and lit them witha navy petrol-lighter that clacked in ametallic bang when shut.

He drank macchiato, a short blackespresso coffee with a dash of milk.

He was also a duffle-coated, street-

smart, big-talker with a sharp wit andan acid retort. (I know about the coffeebecause I used to get sent across thestreet from the Fitzroy Teletheatreto 'The Grappa', a little coffee shop-cafe frequented by all the crew, and byme, 'The Gopher' until I finally sum-moned up the courage to refuse.)

Eventually I became the driver onthe crane camera and often Lyle wasin the seat up there behind camera two.

We even made the front cover of TVWeek when it was in the paper-back sizeformat of the sixties. When I say “madethe cover”, it was actually a rear shotof me, wearing the 'mandatory' red car-digan for all fashionably conscious 60syoung men and Lyle's back with thecamera platform at full height.

Maybe that was also what Lylewished and prayed for - more height.He and I had a love-hate relationship

back then, but I've had worse task-mas-ters over the years.

Came the era of The Delo and DalyShows and a dance trio, the JoeLatona Dancers, of whom JulieDawtry was the solo female.

She was, from memory, blond, pe-tite, a shapely girl and a very gooddancer. And Lyle, although he neversaid as much, fell head over heels.

The only time I can recall himspeaking about her was when the mu-sical West Side Story hit the city cin-emas. This must have been 1962-63.

Gary Conway (Crawfords andlater an independent director) loanedme his copy of the sound track.

After the show, as Lyle later told it,he and Julie hit the pavement, danc-ing down Collins St. I picture this inmy mind: Julie, cool and composed,Lyle, in those elevated ripple-soles.

Later, perhaps, he took her for cof-fee at The Treble Clef, or maybe toThe Flight Deck in South Yarra forcinnamon toast and cappuccino (ormacchiato), and the ashtrays in the arm-rests of those ex-airline seats.

When The Delo and Daly Showended its run, Julie returned to Sydneyseeking work.

Lyle was devastated, so much sothat he made up his mind to follow her.He resigned from Channel 7.

I said goodbye to Lyle. Can't re-member if we shook hands. His jour-ney was to take him north, I wasn't go-ing anywhere.

I was still coming to grips with mynewly acquired knowledge of music,new work friends, sexuality, growingup ... I was a mess of juvenile expec-tation.

- Kenneth Mulholland

by Kenneth Mulholland

More memories of the HSV7 teletheatre

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■ Howard Keel was a popular singer in theMGM film musicals of the 1950s.

He was handsome, stood tall at 6’4” and pos-sessed a beautiful basso cantante singing voice.

I loved watching him in the films and he was afavourite of mine. In his later years HowardKeel had a major role in the television seriesDallas.

Harry Clifford Keel was born in April 1919in Gillespie, Illinois. His father died whenHarry was only 11 and his mother moved toCalifornia where Harry completed his educa-tion.

In 1939 he joined the Douglas AircraftCompany as a travelling representative.

He was encouraged to take singing lessons andmade his first public performance in 1941.

He was known as Harold Keel at that time.He married his first wife in 1943 and two yearslater was singing on Broadway in musicals suchas Carousel and Oklahoma.

Harold went to England to star in the WestEnd premiere of Oklahoma at Drury Lanein 1947 and performed for Queen Elizabeth II.After his marriage ended in divorce Harold mar-ried for a second time in 1949.

When MGM Studios were looking for an ac-tor/singer to play Frank Butler in the screenadaptation of the Broadway musical Annie GetYour Gun, Harold was chosen and signed to acontract.

His name was changed to Howard Keel and

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KeelBy Kevin Trask

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●●●●● Howard KeelThe film roles became few and far between

and I was recently watching a film made in 1967titled The War Wagon and I was trying to workout who was the actor playing an Indian - it was

Howard Keel in a dramatic role.In 1970 he married for the third time to airline

stewardess Judy Magamoll who was 25 yearsyounger than Howard but the marriage was asuccess and they were together until the day hedied.

Howard Keel made many trips to Austra-lia for floor shows and television appearances.In 1973 he did a four week engagement at theWrest Point Casino in Tasmania.

He guest starred in many of the popular televi-sion series during his career.

In 1981 Howard was on the verge of givingup showbusiness and starting a new career whenhe was offered the role of Clayton Farlow inthe highly successful soap opera Dallas. He waswith Dallas for 10 years.

Howard Keel died from cancer in 2004 atthe age of 85 at his Palm Desert home.

He was father to four children and the grand-father to 10 children.

What a great legacy he left behind with hisoutstanding performances in those wonderfulMGM musicals.

- Kevin TraskThe Time Tunnel - with Bruce & Phil-

Sundays at 8.20pm on 3AWThat's Entertainment - 96.5FM

Sundays at 12 Noon96.5FM is streaming on the internet. To

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THIRSTY NIGHT IN THE TERRITORY■ I've owned a crocodile, years ago,and have seen a few gliding around inKakadu, so when an invitation arrivedto get a preview of the big salty in theMelbourne Aquarium, I jumped atthe chance.

So I wandered along last week tocheck out this monster. It was about14 feet long, with a stomach like a bar-rel - he regularly gobbles down chick-ens to maintain his gut.

But, as I wandered around, I spiedan old mate, Pang Quong, with hiswife Marie.

I've known them for years, and firstcame across Pang when I operated theRosebud Marine and ReptilePark.

He was then teaching at WoodleighSchool, but diving was his passion, andhe spent much of his time swimmingaround the deeps of Port Phillip andWesternport. And still does.

Back then he would collect the oddblue-ringed octopus for me, and nowhe's still gathering things from the briny.

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TheOutbackLegend

with Nick Le Souef

by scattering the seeds, but to no avail.It appears that they have a hard cover-ing to protect them between the inter-mittent rain falls in the Centre, so thatwhen it does rain they will burst forth.

You need to sandpaper them downso that any moisture will be able toreach their internals. Apparently theycan be grafted on to other plants, so Ireckon they'd make the best hangingbaskets ever.

■ A local Alice Springs Aborigi-nal activist, Natasha Craigie-Braun, has stirred up a hornet's nest.

She recently spied some youngpeople playing volleyball in the sandyTodd River bed, and went ballistic.

"These foreigners", she said, weredisrespecting a sacred site. The "for-eigners" concerned, local "tax paying"hospital workers, according to one ofthem, Abhisekh Rijal, from Nepal,took offence to her terminology - theothers are from India. She also com-plained that they had left empty waterbottles around the site.

And then it all started! Many resi-dents rose up in retaliation, bombard-ing the Centralian Advocate with many

"observations". Most people noted thatthe Todd River bed was indeed com-mon land for all to enjoy, not just a few- there were certainly no signs to de-pict that there was a sacred site.

■ Then there was the issue of rubbish.The whole town, including the river bed,is often littered with more than a fewempty plastic water bottles!

Usually dirty nappies, old winecasks and bottles, filthy old blankets andmattresses and clothes, often just be-side empty rubbish bins.

When asked if "her people" werealso littering the river, she said: "Abso-lutely"; but it was the Government'sfault because of the Intervention! Par-don?

So a harmless game of volleyball hasturned into WW3.

■ Last May there was an episode onTempe Downs which caused somecontroversy - a feral horse cull. B

ecause of bad weather, it was notcompleted as had been expected, andhas now resumed.

They reckon that there were about10,000 horses on the property, and thatthey shot about 3500, so they need toget about the same again.

However, because of the hue and crylast time, they've changed their tacticsa little.

They've got two shooters flying inhelicopters, and a couple of vets along-side in their own choppers to check outthe humaneness of the shooting meth-ods.

Apparently both came back with aclean bill of health.

It's always sad to see defencelessanimals shot down, often because of ourown stupidity in the first place, but it isusually unavoidable.

Feral horses, like camels, do untolddamage to the fauna and flora of theCentre, with their cloven hoofs andtheir large appetites, indiscriminatelynibbling away at all our precious nativeflora.

It's a pity that we don't find horsemeat as delicious as cows - then all theproblems would be over.

■ Now there's a new Governmentin the Territory, there will no doubtbe new methods put into place to slowthe rate of alcohol consumption.

This is a never ending problem, ba-sically caused by the lack of self-es-teem or many of the local inhabitants.

The world over, people who don't feel

too good about themselves will inebri-ate themselves to increase their feel-ings of wellbeing and self-esteem.

Many of Alice Springs local in-habitants have nothing to do all day, nojob, and are bored stiff, so just drink tofeel better.

They don't fear the law very much,because if they are incarcerated, lifein prison is better than outside - in factit's not unknown for people to deliber-ately commit crimes so that they willbe thrown back inside.

And they just hop back behind thewheel of a car - they generally don'thave a licence anyway, having lost itpreviously, so that can't be taken awayfrom them. And so they'll drive againregardless.

Last week, four drivers made thatdecision in the space of 20 minutes.The first one was at 5.19pm - he was0.170. Then, a minute later, anotherdriver was stopped just a few metresaway - he was 0.203. Then, at 5.25,the third, just 100 metres away - 0. 171.Then, at 5,47, and 22 year old woman -0.101

Busy night.- Nick Le Souef

‘The Outback Legend’

he co-starred with Betty Hutton in the hit musi-cal. The success of the film led to many otherleading roles in musicals such as Pagan LoveSong, Seven Brides For Seven Brothers, Kiss MeKate, Rose Marie, Kismit and Showboat.

I had the pleasure of interviewing his co-starin Showboat Kathryn Grayson who spokehighly of Howard.

In 1953 he was loaned out to Warner Broth-ers Studios to star opposite Doris Day in Ca-lamity Jane.

His career at MGM only lasted for five yearsand as the musical films began to diminish so toodid his film career.

But Howard was happy to be back onstageperforming in musical comedies.

He's out there every day and nowcollects specimens such as the spec-tacular leafy dragon from aroundCowes, and supplies the Aquariumwith all the tiddlers which many of theother bigger fish in the aquarium dineon.

Great job.

■ I just had an e-mail from Keith andAngie McGowan, with an accompa-nying photo of a beautiful desert flower.

The first one of these I ever saw waswhen I was driving along the then un-sealed Stuart Highway, just south ofthe Territory border, about 30 yearsago.

There was a flash of red beside theroad, and I did a quick uie to check outthe source of the colour.

A truly magnificent Sturt's DesertPea. Since then I've seen many more,but still often stop to admire them - theyare just so beautiful in the morning sun-shine.

I've tried to plant them a few times

■ The Sandringham and Dis-trict Historical Society seeks todigitise and preserve photos, diariesand letters belonging to World WarI soldiers who lived in the Baysidearea.

This includes soldiers from areassuch as Brighton, Sandringham,Hampton, Highett, Cheltenham,Black Rock and Beaumaris.

Originals can be scanned andemailed to sandringhamhistorical@ gmail.com or call 9597 0985 toarrange scanning original documentsat the Society's Resource Centrein Waltham St, Sandringham.

Sandringham and DistrictHistorical Society member RayNilssen says, "We are concerned thatvaluable images are being lost to thepublic, and are endeavouring to adddigital copies of these photos to ourcollection, before it is too late."

The Society is pleased to be in-volved with a World War I Avenueof Honour Awareness Project inconjunction with the National Trustand Monash University, instigatedby PhD student, Laura James.

Ray says the Sandringham Av-enue of Honour is one of three in-volved in the project - the others arein Bacchus Marsh and Eurack.

The World War I Avenue ofHonour Awareness Project willbe promoted at the SandringhamVillage Fair on Sunday, October 27between 9am and 4pm.

This is a good opportunity to learnmore about the project and bring fam-ily photos of World War I soldiersfrom the Bayside area to theSandringham and District His-torical Society's rooms.

- Cheryl Threadgold

●●●●● Ray Nilssen from theSandringham and District His-torical Society

SEARCH FOR WWI PHOTOSBeing Hazel

Hawke’sdaughter

■ Sue Pieters-Hawke, daughterof the late Hazel Hawke, willspeako n Alzheimer’s disease,when she visits the Rotary Clubof Ivanhoe at 7.30am on Wednes-day, October 23, at the East Ivan-hoe Bowling Club. Cost is $35.Bookings essential.

●●●●● Sue Pieters-Hawke

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Victoria Pictorial FootscrayHistoric Photo Collection

●●●●● Bunbury St Tunnel. South Kensington to West Footscray. 1927.●●●●● Staff at Footscray Railway Station. 1926.

●●●●● Footscray Motors. 71 Hopkins St. Circa 1940

●●●●● Powder magazine, Footscray. 1944. ●●●●● New buildings at Middle Footscray Station. 1927.

●●●●● Footscray Football Club. ●●●●● Rockmans Variety Store, Footscray. 1959.

●●●●● Footscray Town Hall. 1930s.

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