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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1938-03-17, Page 3• THURSDAY, MAR'C'H 17, 1938 Jean de Rimanoczy Guest Artist With Calgary Symphony The fame of radio artists spreads far -and wide, 'but it is seldomthat an individntal radio musician, in Canada is called 1,151010 miles to play a concer- to. Yet that is the 'case with 'Jean de Rimaeraczy, Hungarian violinist of the CBC in Vancouver, Mr. de Rimanoczy h:as been asked to appear at a special concert •of the Calgary Symphony OOr dhestra on Friday, .March 215; `Phe city's civic,- symphony is directedby Gregory 'Gabrolovitch. :By special request the vomiter 'Van - Dower musician who has been pres- ented on numerous CBC programmes originating at the .west coast studios, will play the complete Concerto in E by Felix Men:delssohn. It was his ap- pearance on his regular Sunday after- noon :programme t(at 6.4151 p.m. EST) that secured for hien the offer, far he playetd two movements of this'concer- to in two sueoessive Sundays. The eminent position held 'by Mr. de Rimanoczy in the musical world was also demonstrated by the fact that be ,appeared as guest soloist with the Vatfcouver .. Symphony Or- •chestra during the final •con•cert of the present season to play a 40 -minute. concerto 'cont;posed for him by !Allard tie Bidder, oon:cluctor of the orchestra, His absence in Calgary will not inter- fere with his 'appearance on any of the CBC ,programmes.. Corot Painting To 'Be Discussed iGraham McInnes will tell the his- tories of two famous paintings, owned in ,Canadian galleries, when he speaks next to national network listeners of the CHC Tuesday, March 32, 4,45• to 15,100 p.m., EST, "Seeing ,Pictures", a series devoted to the famous art treasures of the Dominion, will fea- ture a 'description of "L'Lle I3tureux", by Corot and a discussion of 'Vulcan and Aeolus as Teachers •of Mankind by the great Florentine painter, Piero di Cosimo. Corot, the strong, classical painter, and Corot, the realist are one anal the some with Corot, the lyrical painter of .fluffy willows. Bnt he is hest !mown on the North American continent ars. a lyricist. A French wit once said that Corot had painted seven hundred pic- tures and that two thousand of them were in America. "L'11e I:Icnrettx", painted in '118((4 as part of a series of panels from the house of Datibigney, now hangs in the gallery of the Mont- real Art Association. The Cosimo canvas is believed to be one of a series of four showing the legend of Vulcan, and ryas acquired recently by the 'N'ational Gallery of Canada, in 'Ottawa. It coulee from the collection of-d.ord Lothian. "Country 'Gardens" in New Arrange- • Hersenhoren, is presented from the Toronto studios in honor of the ar- rival of Spring. Opening enin With F1'etcher'.s "Batp g w Miaeque," the string ensemble also will play "Who •Can Tell," from Fritz Kreisler's lovely operetta, "Ap- ple Blossoms." (Victor Herbert's cele- brateldl '"Pulcinel@o," and, (Paul Liocke's t'Beatitiftil Spring," will, fol-' low, and during the latter ,portion of the 'half-hour broadcast listeners will hear the Gavotte from Sullivan's "Gondoliers" and, to emphasize' the theme of the new season, 'the famous "Spring Song" by Felix Mendelssohn, • Allan 'Wilson, tenor soloist, will sing three songs: "Sing 'Birds on the Wing", .by Godfrey (Nutting; Arthur Fenn's 'Little Green Winding 'Lane," and "Roses of Picardy," by Haydn Wood. Percy Aldridge 'Grainger Was born in Brighton, Australia, in '1182. (Great- ly interested in all forms of folk art, he 'has collected more ith•an 15:00 rec- ords of songs in .Australia, the South Seas, (Denmark and 'England. The popnier "Country Gardens" is also known as "H''andlcei•ehief Dance," •es it was a •custom of old-time Morris Dancers, to carry fluttering handker- chiefs as they danced. 1'be melody is made up of pheesee from a very old Morris ;Dance time to he found in the eanaous collection. 'of- Cecil Sharp in London, (Heard most frequently as a piano piece, as well as in orchestra and band 'transcription, the string ar- rangemeiit is by •Russ 'Gerow of the CBC's staff. "Carmen," Last of "SMet" Broadcasts Ringing down the curtain on the seventh annual 'series of .complete open( 'broaidtcasts from the Metropoli- tan Opera's regular season; the 'Na- tional 'Broadcasting Company will present Bizet's "C`arnlen" with Biala Castagna in the title role, on Satur- day. March 110, 'hegining at "2 p. tn, EST, over she INd3{'-CII•C ''netti•osks. The commentator will be Milton Cross, veteran opera anrnatincer and the opera will the 'heard in Canada as an international' exchange •fcatnre. The (Don ;Jose of the performsince will she 'Rene Maison, Belgian tenor. John 'Brownlee, Australian 'baritone, will have the role of the swaggering toreador, 3Escautillo. Susanne Fisher will sing 1'Ficaela. The conductor will he 'Gennaro ,Pani, The .final 'broadcast .from the regu- lar (New York season rounds out a series ori seventeen complete operas, including five of the eight novelties and revivals of the 19457-35 season, heard 'direct from the great stage. of the Metropolitan Opera House. Susanne Fisher is the only new voice in the 'Carmen" cast; it will he ment - her first attempt of the season in the +Percy, IGrainger'e famous "Country role 'uf Micaela. Miss Fisher, 501 tAnt- Gardeus" will he the featured and eriean joined theetro Metropolitan Op - closing 1 r ,selection to the offered CBC's era several seasons ago after 'having national network listeners Monday, sung with great success at the 'Paris March Al, 6.010 to 6.3101 ,p.m. EST, 'Opera and the ;Opera 1Comrque, when "Dancing Strings", a program- Buni. Castagna joined the Metro - me under the direction, of Samuel politan iu 1`936'after having sung at THE SEAFORTH NEWS PAGE THREE Milan and Buenos Aires. She also sang two seasons 'with the New York Hippodrome Opera Company. Miss Castagna is now one of the leading Metropolitan contraltos, The :cask: Carmen,B uesa Castagna, contralto. Micaela, Susanne Fisher, solprano. 11+ae'quita, Thelma Votipka, soprano, Mercedes, Helen 'Olheim, mezzo- soprano. Dion Jose, iRene Maison, tenor. 'Escantilio,'John Brownlee, baritone Dancaire, George Ce'hanovsky, bari- tone. Remendado, t i•ord , tenor. 21an.iga, Norman 'Co Morales, Wilfred - tone, Conductor, :Genstaro, CBC Book The thrills 'of ski -in and ,successes of :Nazi Hit- ler and 'the aclevn+turesl family transplanted 't Ohio. are the s•ubbtjec provide .discussion on Review," presented. by 'Macdonald. Saturday,. 7ip p.m: EST; /Professor ?Macdonald, speak from the Toronto CSC to listeners 'of the (yogic, will review 'briefly ing books: "'Escape Brian :Meredith, the who has illustrated h some remarkable photographs: D." )(Rural Tree 0)'eliv Allan Scott, in which of his •ow'at escape 'fro his experiences in an greater freedom as "'The House that Hitler Stephen H, Roberts, straightforward ntanne nal management of th since Hitler 'became; he Corporation Features an•o Paltrinierd Cordon, (basso, Engelman, bars IPapi. Itevfew ng, the failures Naziism under Hit- s of a city -bred o farm life in is which will the tCB'C "`Boot. Professor J. IF March 119, at Id, who will efiu•di:os of the to national net- work, the follow- ing Skis," •'by Canadian writer is (book with ngraphs; "R. F. cry) by Charles 'Mr, Scott tells m city work and effort to seek a farmer; ansi des- Built," Iby which tells in r of the inter- nal Nazi regime • ad moat, Day By Day (All Tines Eastern Standard) Thursday, Merch,11(7: 9 p.m, "`Bard of (Erin"—story of Sir Thomas Moore; radio script by James Muir. From Ottawa. llllil5 p.m. "Youth Intervenes"—ser- les of talks by young Canadians, Prom Montreal. Friday, March 1118; 6:115 pr1. Talk by Or. Roland Hall Sharp speaking 'frons Bogota, Col- umbia, NBC -CBG international ex- ohanye programme. From Bogota. 745 p,m. )Canadian (Portraits—bio- graphic al sketch of Peter Russell 'by Dorothy Reynolds Flaunt. Front Ot- to wa, • Sa•turday,' March 19: v. pant. Metropolitan opera company "C'arinen" with I3runa Castagna, Rene Maison, and John Bowlike. 'NBC - C13'C international easchang( programme. From New Yorlc, :51115 p.m. "Scrub Oak Hollow"—as reported by Bruce ilTutchisnn. From 'Vancouver. 8 p.m. Let's All ,Go to the Music Hall --direction George Yn•ung, with orchestra, dramatic cast, anti soloists. From Toronto. Sunday, March 20: 6 p. 01. "And It Carrie to ,Pass"— biblical drama produced 'Rupert Cap- lan, 'From Montreal. 9 :p,in. CBC ).Music .Hour—orchestra and charts under the direction of Geoffrey Waddington. ;From Toronto. DONOR OF DUNCAN C'CJ'P DS •SEA1lQRTIH 'MANUFACTURER The loss of a finger when he was working, at the age of ITIS, in the old Broadfoot and B'ax furniture factory :was fhe turning point in the life of William J. Duncan, proininenf Sea - forth shoe manufacturer. The accid- ent served to 'terminate ai abbreviat- ed career in the furniture industry, because his mother would not hear of him going hack to the •plant and run- ning the risk of losing any more of his fingers. One was quite enough. Instead, Mr. tDuncan got a job with W. H. Willis, now of \Wingham, *who manufactured leggings in the rear of his shoe store 00 Main street, .and be - 'tore many years went .by he itad branched out for himself in the leg- gings and shoe manufacturing busin- ess, says the Stratford Beacon -Herald •In addition to 'being one of Sea- fort'h'.s largest employers of labor, Mr. (Dantean has served his town in countless ways. A member of numer- ous onganizations .and public 'bodies, Seaforth properly •counts hint as one of her most public-spirited citizens. (Although he never indulged in sports himself when 'he was a youth, !prob- ably because .he left school to go to work at the age of '111), there is no better sports booster in Seaforth than Mr. ?Duncan, ,A11 in all, he is the type of man that neither Seaforth nor any other town would want to lose. It would never get a thetter one. Born in Seaforth on 'August 6, 1834, bIr. Duncan is a son of the late Mr, and Mrs„ John Duncan, and he was one of a large family of four boys and 'five girls, His father, who died when Mr, Duncan was quite young, was for many years a harness maker in. Seaforth, .and before that in Brus- sels. The late L. L. ,Mciltaul was prin- cipal when Mr. Duncan started to public school in Seaforth back in September of 11(15159. Some of the boys who were school chums of 1r. Dun- can hack in those 'happy days are still in Seaforth. 'Others are scattered throughout Canada and the United States. Bruce 'Waugh, for instance, is now a surveyor in :Ottawa and Mr. Duncan inet him for the first time in years while curling in 'Toronto a few weeks ago. Alex Waugh is station master ,at Ignace; Alex MclKsnzie is a furrier in Orillia; Syd Town is a printer hi Chicago; 'Alex 'McLennan is a plumber in Vancouver and 'Elgin •'31ic ;Tones ie a plumber in 'Orillia; 'Lorne 1fcl.ennan is a wheat broker in Vancouver; 'George Whiteside is a manufacturer in Stratford; "Sal" \4 miroe is in Los Angeles; Charlie Silts is postmaster in Seaforth and Pat Box is also in Seaforth, Alex McKenzie and I chummed 'Monday, March 211: S730 pan. Streantiine---orchestra and soloists direction Percy Faith, From Toronto dif1:30 p. nt. Sport in Canada—talk ,by Spent Spinner on fishing in Wes- tern Canada. From Vancouver, Taee3ay, March L213: 10 n.nn. 1 rant Sea to Sea-orchee- tree directed by Percy Harvey, ban- cnnver, and Marjorie Payne, Halifax, with Blue Jackets Quartet and Mod- ern Chords. Actuality broadcast from both points. 1Fron Halifax and Van couver. ountdr 0 We' Are .Sell! :it, Quality Books Books are Well Made, Carbon is Clean and Copies Readily. AB styles, Carbon Leaf and. Black Back. Prices as Low as You Can Get Anywhere. Get our Quotation on Your Next Order. Seaforth News SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, together pretty much in those days Mr. Duncan's memory went back, "and 1 can recall that neither of us thought very much of school. One year we managed to :get in nearly two weeks of fishing before news got home that we were • not at :school. Each of us got a thumping Wheh our mothers -found out, and after that. we were among the most faithful at- tendants at school for quite a while. "The . youngsters nat public school at that time were a lot 'bigger than they are 'today and I can remember that Mr, '3ldFzui had his hands full most of the time, Dead now for many years, he was a popular .and efficient school master. I recall 'he was particu- tarly strict about snowballing and he had a marvelous method of dealing with those who persisted in throwing them. He used to he on the lookout at recess and all of a sudden he would pop out 'from nowhere, With one ding of the hell, he would reach out his other hand and .put it on pop of the culprit's head. Then, with a quick twist of the wrist, he would spin the victim around half a dozen times and the boy would sit down .finally with a resounding thump. J'ltat was usually quite sufficient to stop the snowball- ing, but if caught again in the act, the culprit discovered 'chat Mr. MeFaul had other methods of dealing with the offenders," Mr, Duncan was in the junior fourth grade when he left school', at the age of eleven, to work in the old VaniEg'mond woolen mill. He fed a carding machine for $1.901 i5A1 a Week and in those days they worked a ten -hear day 'for six days a week. "I was there for ab tit seven months and f decided •I had better go back to .school and get a little more education," lir. Duncan recalled, "Ra- ther than go shack to the Seaforth school :after (being •out for so long 1 paid GS •cents a week to attend classes at the public school in ,E'gmonlville. About five months later I got a chance of a 'job in the 'old Broadfoot and 'Box furniture plant at .2,1015 a week and 1 left school for good. 1 worked in the furniture factory for nearly two and a half years until i lost a finger on my right hand when it became caught 10 a saw. That end- ed my job there; my mother would not hear 'of me going' hack," \t this time 1\'. 'H, Willis OPei^tte .t shoe store in Seaforth and at the rear of his premises he manufactured leather. canvas and cloth leggings, which sold in large quantities then. 11 r. Duncan learned his trade as a cutter and leas foreman for 31r, Wil- lis when the 'latter 'built the Willis Shoe Company plant on 1'iain street. During this time he took a special correspondence course which proved of great value to hint in later life. The factory had been in operation only a few monthe. however, when the depression came along in 119117 and forced 'it to close sh,tt't. Out of a job for the first time since he had left se.h"ul, 31r. Duncan ventered to To- ronto and landed a job as a nater with the 'Ted Shoe and Leather Com - early. Two months later the Willi - factory re -opened and 11r. Dune -in returned to •resume his hid :lob. la was a matter of only another few months, however, before the factory •closed definitely and 31r. Duncan hik- ed for Toronto a second time. "A how the first person I met in Toronto- that time lens (,'nr::, Whiteside, an old Seaforth boy tt9t0 nary lives in Stratford. I had jut landed a job and lGeorge tnld Inc"ht' would have wagered '$1:00 to one dol- lar that there wasn't a job in the whole city. Things were very bawl around that time, early in 19011 lir. Duncanworked for various fints in Toronto, 'Milton anal Hamil- ton until he returned to Seaforth in 1'009 to go into bu the , for himself. Prrt•ouitng a thousand dollars fits machinery and equipment he started manufacturing. leggings in a portion of a small store v‘ here the postoffice nate stands. With his first ,amplet msde up, lir. Duncan :closed his .shop in March and went on the road for tine initial time to drum un business. He never attempted to sell anything fierorc in his life and be confesses to being a trifle :shaky when he boarded the train. for Stratford that morning 29 years ago this month. Between trains in Stratford he made his ,first actual contact when he called upon 1. 3, Bedew, ",Mr. Radom- listened to everything T had to say :and •I recall 1 !gave ,h1111 quite a sates talk that morning," \fr. Duncan related, "I confessed it was my firs'( attempt at selling, and al- though 1 failed to get an order from him I ;gut a lot of encouragement. Mr. Badour told ole that with my ent us-. lass and the quality of the leggings I had T would be'hound to make a' go of things, incidentally, although I didn't sell Mr. Badour that morning: I sold hint for many years later oh,' My next rail was on John Ready of St. Marys and T got my first order from .hi'm. He bought a dozen and a half pairs of leggings and I got a real ;l, lil nal of hooking that first order. Mr; Duncan remained on the road LISTEN.,onhiday). sN IMPERIAL TOBACCO'S 7 INSPIRING PROGRAM FRIDAY 10 P.M., EST STATION' N OBI Y�L for a little more than two .months and when he got back to Seaforth he had enough orders on hand to keep him busy for the balance of the year. He took on a boy to help hint out, ,and by the next year, when he had four or fiveworking for hint, he had to find more room. He moved during the summer to the 'old McGinnis Block, a white frame building that stood about where the bowling ,greens are now, The following year he moved again to the old McMaster property across the tracks, and in the Spring of 1191113' he purchased his ,present plant,. which until two years before had been the old Grip House, a com- mercial hotel, Mr, Duncan 'had about eight employees working for him then, About this time Mr. Duncan be- gan manufacturing baby shoes and within a few months branched out againand began turning out a com- plete range of soft -soled shoes, For - seeing the :end of the leggings 'busin- ess with the advent of the leather top h'ig'h lace shoe, Mr. Duncan disposed. of his leggings plant to a Toronto 'limn in 1903. Today, the W. J. Duncan Shoe Factory has eleven men. and 11115 girls 'en its ,payroll and has a turnover of from 9001 to 600 pairs of shoes daily. There are four travellers on the road and the plant has 'operated steadily all through the .depression. "We have a wonderful group of employees," Mr. Duncan said. 'Some have been with me for more than twenty years. The oldest, 'actually, in point of service is Burton Muir who started work for me in '1191112 and has .been here •erer since, except for three years' service overseas." Mr, .Duncan was married 09 years ago to !lies (Anne Laverty, a daugh- ter of the late 'Mr. and hl•rs, Fergus Laverty of Stratford, the ceremony being perforated in St. ++Joseph's Church, Stratford, by the late 'Dean McGee. One son, •Basil is in charge of shipping a.ud processing in his father's factory anti a second son, Eugene is in charge of the machinery in the :plant, There are also two dau- ghters. Rita is attending Brescia Hall in •London and Mary is a student at Seaforth Collegiate Institute, Mr. Duncan is a charter member of the Seaforth Lions Cliffs and served as the club':s second president. Still a member .of the directorate, he derives a tremendous amount of 'enjoyment from his service clulb work. The Lions swimming pool in Seaforth was first suggested by Mr, 'Duncan as the curb's initial major activity and he was chairman of the special. commit- tee which had charge of •constructing the ppol, (Opened eleven years ago, additional improvements have been made to the pool sinee then, and it has offered much pleasure and fun to the youngsters of Seaforth. There are new two Duncans in the .Lions Club, as �Mr. Du ncan's eller '3olt, Basil, be- came a member two years ago. Mr. Duncan is 'a past ,president of both the Bowling Club and the .Curl- ing Club, and is vire-president of the Seaforth Athletic Association. He is also a mist president of the •old Sea - forth Hockey Club. He was a member of the Seaforth Library Board for nine years and has been on tine dir- ectorate of the Scott Memorial . Hos- pital since if was opened. He has 'heed secretary of the Separate School Board for 'just twenty years this month. Mr. Duncan is a ,member of the St. 'James' Kuoni Catholic Church and 'belongs to the Holy Nance Society anal Kilroy Council, Knights of Columbus, Mr, Duncan'sfavorite hobby is fishing and when the trout season open, on May 11 the factory will have to .get along w•ithnut him for a few day.e at least. Curling and 'bowling rank next in order among' his hobbies. 'Lacrosse was always ,his favorite sport and he regrets that it is .no longer played in this ,part 'of the prov- ince, Mr, IDhtncan takes a keen inter- est also in football, and 'hockey and it was while he was president of the old Hockey Club in 1,953, that he •origin- atecl the Duncan Cup series, Seaforth school boys still compete annually 'for the now famous Duncan Cup. Two. ,little .girls were-paaying !rouse together when the little brother of ane of then Game along and ,desired to play with them. They did not want .Hint, bit the grownups were insistent, ".Ail 'right, then," they said, 'you can be the little boy that got lost and never came aback."