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The Huron Expositor, 1952-06-27, Page 7• • ,:.4•r..- •.. Y'/ -fin/ • .��:. is e v T WA: AIX t• �89tf 'VC m6V—T'G8Y V95"-" dA'lg ,',�,.') wow 'i , Stu,, v n 1 OF ane Matme m VI h e NIMSk k L & t7 pm ittllh +`RE4EAS,d .t. \-1 CHAPTER'•x11 xa? 'Wimps!. Despite Leo'hard Borland's Min Seale that his bank account Is Ifrmlple!, 2'hollgit /the contracting • Inmaness in New York is dead, his ipasetty, operantruekwife Doric caanmea her "career,, interrupted • by her marriage at 19 and the lrirti, of two children. Borland 1Mnowa her avowed purpose, to kelp out the family outcome, is samo nage. Hugo Lorentz, her teacher, always around, irritates tgim, 'Cecil Carver, opera singer, karma Doristhrough Lorentz. She discovers Borland has a fine 'baritone voice, tells. him Hugo is hopelessly in love with Doris, that Doris tortuea every man she gets in her clutches, and that he ought to wake her up by giving 'a re- cital. "Go' get yourself a 'tri- umph," she advises. Cecil de- mands .payment for lessons—kiss- emir He pays but declares he loves Doris- Cecil on tout, wires him and he makes a hit 'singing as Logan Bennett in upstate recitals. 1She gets him an opera engage- ment. Again he makes good and Cecil, telling him she loves him, says tearfully he can now bring Doris to his feet. A movie audi- ence gives Doris the "bird." Brok- en -spirited, she says she's no Scrod. She tells Leonard she totes hint. Doris learns about Cecil at diweny Blair's cocktail party, de- cides it wasn't business- that kept flim out of the city, there is a scene and Gwenny, to smooth matters over, laughingly suggests shat Leonard sing. He does .and Voile is fariolns—he is so good, gibe driyes him• from hoWe' and drains their joint ,battlo account, He accepts an offer to sing with the Hippodrome opera company. He is at" the theatre now, prepar- ing for his role in "Rigoletto;" but it • isn't the same without Cecil. "Fine: How's yourself? "O.K. Say, is swell, how you do this scene. Alla baritones run for bedroom make little try, audi- ence aha UM° wonder why he don't get in. Look like he must be weak. Ought to light, just like you do 'em now, and then, pow1—down he go, just like this!" There Game a knock on the door, and a Little Italian in a derby hat came in and stood beside me where I was at the table and began to talk about how some of my admir- ers wanted to hear me sing, but their tickets would coat them a lot, and more stuff like that, and I didn't know what he was talking about, except it seemed to be some kind of touch. Horn was behind him. Ile nodded and held up ten fingers. I got my pocketbook, passed out $10 and the guy left• "What was that?" "The claque." "What's the claque?" "A bunch of self -elected noise- makers, that you pay to clap when you sing, and whether they do or not nobody knows." I went down, then walked over and had a look at the calls. Then Illy heart skipped a beat. On the first two calls at 'the end of the second act, we were 'all in it—me, Parma, the Glide, and the people in the small parts. Then on the next two it was just Gilda and me. And then it said: Mr. Borland (If) I walked out on the stage to get the feel of the set, and the 'tingle was clear down to my feet. I made up my mind there wasn't going to be any 'if' about it• 1 was going to get that call'or split my throat. Parma was right in the "Questa o Quetta," so Act 1 got off to a swell start, and they ripped right along with it.. I got a hand when I came 'on, but I don't . think it could have all been claque. There SEAFORTH MONUMENT WORKS OPEN DAILY —. PHONE 363-J T. PRYDE & SON ALL TYPES OF CEMETERY MEMORIALS Enquiries are invited. Exeter Phone 414 Clinton Phone 103 Your Business Directory LEGAL A. W. SILLERY Barrister, Solicitor, Etc, Phones: Office 173, . Residence.. 781 SEAFORTH : ONTARIO McCONNELL & HAYS Barristers, Solicitors, Etc. .PATRICK D. McCONNELL H. GLENN HAYS, Q.C. 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HEAD OFFICE—SEAFORTH, Ont. +OFFICERS : President - J. L, Malone, Seaforth VIce,Pres. - J• H. ,MeEwinb, Blyth Manager and Sec.-Tre-as. - M. A. Reidy Seaforth. iDIRECTORS: E. J..TreWartha, Clinton; J. L. Malone, Seaforth; S. H. Whit- more, Seaforth; Chris. Leonhardt, Bornholm; Robert Archibald, Sea - forth; John.. H. McEwing, Elyth; Frank McGregor, Clinton; Wm. 8. Alexander, Walton; Harvey Fuller, tioderlcli. AGENTS: J. E. Pepper, Brucefleld; R. b'. MoKorcher, Dublin; Win. Leiper, Jr., Londesboro; J, P. Prueter, en; Selwyn'ilts- N;}irfi'�� Jta,d been a 1'4 of 'stuff in the'l 3410Ts about me, I was singing under my' own name now, and it seemed' to strike them as a good story, that a big ,contractor should ..tern tato a singer, but anytttay it made me feel geed, And I hit it right in the sebne with the second baritone, and we got a 'line curtain. Hippodrome opera isn't 'like Metropolitan op- era, It's 99 -cent opera, and that audience acts the way it feels. The second scene of the act went even better. The loris was a pretty good comic, and I fed to him all I could, so we got away with the duet in swell shape.. The Gilds, was all right in the "Caro Nome," not like 'Cecil, but plenty good. The duets went well, and we got another good 'curtain, and were on- our way. When it name to 'the scene be- fore the courtiers, the one I had rehearsed with the choristers, I did it a little different from what I had been doing it. I got a break at the start. The soprano had one of these small, throaty baritones, and when it came to the place where I was to mock him on "Ch' hai di nuovo, buffon," I shot it back to him just the way he had given it to me, and it got a big laugh. I had them then. I chucked tone quality out the window then. The first part of the scene I. shouted, talked and whis- pered, till I got to the place where they slammed me back on my hunkers. Then I remembered "Bo- heme." I came crawling ,back, and plucked the hem of Marullo's doub- let, and gave -them ,tears, I sang it "dolce," and then some. I opened every spigot there was, and at the end of it I was flat on the ,floor, hanging on to the high F like my heart would break, and finishing off Iike I could just barely make my- self do it. There wasn't any pause then. The first "bravo" came like a pistol shot before I even got through, and then they came from all over the house, and the applause in a swell- ing roar. I lay there, the heart bowed down, for a long time. It's an enormous 'house, the Hippo- drome, and it takes them longer to quiet down than any . other place. on earth, The Gilda came running on, 'then, and we did -:the duet, and the curtain came down. Did I get that ca11? I'm telling you I did. I went to my dressing -room, walked around, and was so excited I couldn't even sit down. I wanted, to go out there and do it all over again, It -didn't seem two minutes before they called me, and I went down for the last act. Tfhe Gilda and I -did the stuff that starts it, and then went off, and Parma had it to himself for the "La Donna e Mobile." I think I've given you the idea by now that that dumb Italian is a pretty good tenor. He knocked them over with it, and by the time the 'Maddalena came on, and the Glide. and I went out again for :the quartette, we were in the home stretch of one of those performances you read about. So the- quartette started. Well, you've heard the "Rigolet-' to', quartette a thousand times, bu't don't let anybody tell you it's a pushover, The first part goes a mile a pill/lite,' 'the second. part'I slower than —, and if there's one. thing harder to sing than a fast allegro it's a slow andante, and three times out of five something! happens, -and many times as you've heard it you haven't often heard it! rigi#t I31}t Ake 71M rig `i'argla,VP*,gt like A b)re0 "and •tile, 6466,lena •AVds xlgh't. 44 top of ham, 464 e OW and Axe right en tali of her, at}d' ' vie closed; out ttte allegro With 411. R+auiC cylinders cliekipg and .the ,show iot, Egye40'. 'I?arPee. laid •dowo. wipe on the andante, and we were right with him;, and we lirough,t it home just right. We were right on the end of the stick. Well, that stopped the show too. Tiley "clan ped, and •cheered; and clapped. some more, and ,Schultz threw the stick on me to go on, and a fat chanc9Ct could. We had to give them some mare. So after about a minute, Sdhultz played the eue for the andante, and 'Parana start- ed again. He started, and. the Maddalena came in, and the Gilda came in and I came in. It seemed to me we got in there with it awful quick, but I was so, excited by that time I hardly knew where I was, and I didn't pay much attention to it. And then all of a sudden I had this awful feeling that something was wrong - I want you to get it straight now, what happened. The andante is the same old' tune, "Bella figlia dell' amore," :that you've heard all your life and could whistle in your sleep. The tenor sings it through once, then he goes up to a high B flat, holds it, comes down again, and sings it over again. The sec- ond time he sings it, the contralto comes in, then the soprano, then the baritone, add they're off into the real quartette. Well, our con- tralto, the Maddalena, was an old- time o:pei•atic hack that had sung it a thousand times, but something got into her, and . instead of wait- ing,for Parma to finish that strain once, she came in like she would on the repeat. And she pulled the Glide in. And! the Gilda pulled me in. You remember what I told you about speed? Up there you've got no -time to think. You hear your cue, and you come in, and heaven help you if you miss the boat. So there was Parma and 'there was the orchestra in one place in the score, and there were the Madda• lena, the Gilda, and me in another place in the score, and there was Schultz, trying like a wild man to straighten it out. Not a whisper from the audience, you understand. So long as you keep going and do your best they'll give you a break—so long as you do your best. They all want to laugh, but they won't—so long as you keep your headdown and sock. But I didn't know then, what was wrong: All I knew was that it was getting sourer :by the second, and I started looking around for help. That was all they needed—that one little flash of the white feather— and they let out a roar. You cat think o€ a lot of things in one beat of music. It flashed through my head and I had heard the bird at last. It flashed through my head, in some kind of a dumb way, why I had heard it. I turned around and faced them. I must have looked sore. They, roared again. That whole big theatre then was spinning around for me then like a cage with a squirrel in it, and me the squirrel. I had to know where I was at. I looked over and tried to see Parma. And then, brother, and then once more, I committed the cardinal sin of all grand opera. I forgot to watch the conductor. I didn't know that he had killed his orchestra, killed his singers, brought' -•the wholething toa stop, and was wigwagging Parma to start it over. And here I came, bellow- ing out with ,my part: "Taci, e mia saga la curs, La vendetta d'affrettar!" They howeld. They let out a NOTICE TOWN OF SEAFORTH All Bicycles in the Town of Seaforth are required to be licensed • • Licenses may now be obtained at the Clerk's Office, and must be secured by . June 30, 1952. Rubber Stamps and Stencils _.�-:--- WARW1CK'S ^'Stamorn IgjtES THi ^SCST IMPRESSION MARKING DEVICES Of All Types • Rubber Stamps are essential to any well-run business! They save you time and money. Three f)ay Service Tin Rush Orders Stamp Pads, Daters & various supplies The Huron Expositor Seaforth Telephone 41 01 ®e. 4 l,u 1 : (rale rase, 21 loo IFonee, ,to 40146 `der tlt$'adviaapill:. sty 00,0.010* a eltllr0h• Popp) .were• +};ere from Spt'ingh'i)l, Crow. arty, #uosteltiale, Farquhar and, 11eiFktO ,t an area of•er silt miles sduare„ A. site (91' the church end. graveyard was offered by Andrew Morgan, in Hibbert, and one by William Roy, in Pullarton. AS there were allure settlers at that time in Fullartilu, they felt William Roy's site would be more central, and his offer was accepted. Before: the church was completed there was another death and mar- riage in, the comm:unity, As ordain- ed mii}isters were scarce and they had long distances to ride on horse- back to ,perform their duties, there were often delays. This happened with both the burial and marriage mentioned. Some time after John Olark's death, little Jane Rhodes died. Her father was an English settler who had lost his wife after being only a short time at Thorold, Ont. After this he and his two children moved to this community. After Jane's death, arrangements were made to bury her in the same clearing in the bush where John 'Clark had been buried. No definite time could be set for the arrival of the travel- ling minister. They waited till dark the day planned for the burial, but still no minister had arrived to conduct the service. By moonlight that night they wended their way to the place of burial, where a neighbor, Richard Moore, read' the committal service. Among those pre- sent was Donald Park. This scene, he used to tell, left a deep im,pres- ion on the few who were gathered there in the moonlight in the quiet evening stillness of the forest. A like delay occurred the day of the Hamilton - Morgan wedding. When William Hamilton and Nancy Morgan 'decided to be united in the bonds of matrimony, they contacted the nearest minister, who was in London. After he promised to be pre -sent on a certain day, invita- tions were sent to friends, both near and far, and the wedding feast was prepared. When the day and hour arrived, everything was in readi- ness — .the tables were set, the guests had arrived, but no minis- ter. At last Nancy's mother, tired of waiting, said: "We maun hae something tae eat." This pleased the guests. They ate, cleared out the tables and danced till the min- ister arrived, which was early morn- ing. He then married the couple and the guests went home satisfied and happy. (Continued Next Week) shriek you could hear in Harlem. Someone yelled "Bravo!" A hun- dred yelled "Bravo!" A million yell d "Bravo!" I ran Next thing I knew I was by a stairway, holding on to the iron railing, almost twisting it out by the roots trying to keep myself from flying into a million pieces. The Gilda was beside me, yelling at me at the top of her lungs, and don't think a coloratura soprano can't put on a nice job . of plain and 'fancy cussing when she gets sore. The stagehands were stand- ing around, looking at me as though I was some leper that they didn't dare touch. Outside, Schultz was playing the introduction to the stuff between the contralto and the bass. He had had to skip five whole pages. I just stood there, twisting at those iron bars. " Somewhere off,', I heard the fire door slam, and next thing I knew, Cecil Vas there, her eyes big as saucers with horror. She grabbed hold of me. "You go out there and finish this show, or I'll—" "I can't!" "You've got to! You've simply got to• You went yellow! You went yellow out there, and you've got to go back and lick them! You've got to!„ "Let me alone!" "But what are they going to do? You can't let them down like 'that!" "I don't care what they do!" "Leonard, listen to me. They're out there. They're all out there— she, and your two kids—and you've got to finish it. You've just got to do it!" won't! I'll never go. out there—" They were playing my cue. She took hold of me, tried to pull me away frofu the stairs, tried to throw me on stage by main force. I hung on, I hung on to that iron like it was a life raft, The bass started singing my part• She looked at me and bit cher lip, I saw two tears jump out of her eyes and run down her face. She turned around and left me. I got to my dressing -room, lock- ed the door, and then I cracked. No iron bars there to • hold on to. I clenched my teeth, my fists, my toes, and it was no good. Here they came, those awful hysterical sobs I had heard coming out of Doris that day, and ,the more I fought them back, the worse they got. I knew the truth then, knew whyCecil had laughed at me that night in Rochester, why Horn had been so doubtful about me, and all the rest of it. I was no trouper, and they knew it. I bad smoke, and nothing else. But you can't lick that racket with smoke. You've got to care about it: you can't get by on a little voice and a little music. You've got to dig up the heart to take it when it's fough, and the only way .you can find the heart is to love it. I was just another Dori'. .I had everything but wh'a(, it takes. (Continued Next Week) Husband:, "Aren't you running that sewing machine a little 'fas't? Watch that corner ... Watch your fingers . Watch -.that cross - seam . . Slow down." Wife: "Say, what's the matter with you? I've been running this machine for years." Husband: "I thought it only fair to hel(Y you, since you always help to drive the car," lk. a Take a:Tip - To buyeconomically for two: 1. Purchase for 1 Fmeat a selection of % pound liver, 2 chops, 1% Ibis. sirloin steak, 1 lb. chuck for stew, % lb. breast lamb for curried, . %. lb. minced round steak for .patties, 1 chicken fryer, '4 lb. chicken livers or 13 lbs. fish fillets or steaks. 2. Purchase" 1 lb. of bacon at a time. 3. Purchase an economical roast 4 lbs„ rolled boneless, or 3 lbs. i;0 • A, 'Hit itx »qea j;'� ha -•lbeen:.?!pre9 w'hu zt may 1)e" .:941e freezer. • 0. TNT') t0" 1a/,a ore 404 tables except potatoes:;..:' 6, iBuy'a ./he, nor ;pq,Gatoee aor' X lbs. storage potatoes,, . '. Buy 2 to 4: grapefruit at"' Y, tit .., $, Bny only' tWo Minds of fr{zeh forpueint astheaf timheKleipt' btoanvan fast ripening. Place in a. warts,° dark place to ripen. 9. Allow 1 cuR soup.fcreaelt per, son. Prepare a to % cup ".of des- sent per person. Make 2/3 cup creamed food per person,,,,g:nd en- ough nough for seconds. , i4, • .n rging Extra Care ON THE WEEK -END! Holiday weekends are periods of extra hazard and added congestion on the highway. These conditions will continue to result in accidents unless offset by patience; forethought and alertness on the part of all highway users. Thousands of visiting tourists and children on vacation add to already crowded highways. The need for extra care is obvious. A traffic death is a needless death: You risk your life` when you drive too fast for conditions—fail to stay in your own traffic lane— or fail to obey signs and regulations designed for your protection—or, when on foot, you fail to take necessary precautions. Enjoy your week -end: Make it safe—one you will remember, happily. GEO. H. DOUCETT MINISTER 4%."‘ 'vv 'Vt\\V 1' \\F \\\VW\\% GF \•t\\!1 \ F. elf 3s 3t? , .. .. Hove to Protect YOUR Savkgs? 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