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| The first hint we had about the zany collection of creativity ‘that is: Don Cullen was in the

biography he sent us/ in the spring: Most of the Summer Fes-!

tival performers sent factual} \name-age-height roles sheets, but.

ithe star of the Village Revue |

“The news of Don /Cullen’s imasterful portrayal of Ebenezer Scrooge was proclaimed in sql- 'emn tones throughout the halls of Howard Public School by | from without. (dies) It launched | /Mr. Cullen on a# veritable orgy | jot imitating teachers.” | So we knew someone wonder- |ful was about to happen in Char- lottetown, as they say

Cullen made his entrance, tall, gaunt, pale, baggy-eyed and wearing a turtleneck sweater iThe sweater is a uniform, act- ually, usually,.worn tied by the arms about the neck or wrist. MAKES ROUNDS

He's probably the best knowl performer aroiind the Centre it- self. because when he come in, he wsually makes ee I lrounds ofthe staff. He talks in a variety of voices. frequently using a pseudo-British revue ac- cent. And all the time it’s ideas and more ideas colored with a

is his ability to whistle two|™Moved around the country, and notes at once.-It's incredible. He|the Chartottetown edition will in- just opens his mouth and out | elude interviews with actress comes a recorder duet He Jamies Anne . of - Green - Gables claims he’s commissioned Harry| Ray, apprentice Gracie. Finley, Somers to write ‘Concerto for and Centre guide Michelle Roy.

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Pursed Lips’ for him. |As an added attraction,. there's He was brought to the Sum: 'the voice of ‘Smiling Jack Me. joining Cullen in .the

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muine delight at ar aeren: ; rife is euitay beard.” Z i 5 | BUCKINGHAM, Que. (CP —A General Manager lcs DON CULLEN = Pager i ibe sapere Charlottetown Board of Trade ee. ee ee Set",- a CBC radio show for, zany show Tn fact after listen. nearby Masson Monday after’ its . dreadful. - | teeny hoppers and -even. olders, ing to “The. Action Set’ one Don Cullen is a man of many/that he's been dojnz the past day I went right out and bought talents, most startling of which Year. This summer the-program a radio

College one study ing philosophy: at ee University

i of Toronto. - Cullen spent ‘two newsle lyears’ on the editorial staff of

CBC's National TV News dapat: : ) F J ment, then» wrote 4 telev! : : z lealled an Six and a.radio show|2 The Guardian, Charlottetown, Wed., Aug. 24, 1966, | with the splendid tite. “ Pro- >

lgram That Dares to be Known by Bad Taste Alone. He also appeared as a writer-performer, on CBC's Quest, and as @ prin-! leipal on Playdate, Close-up, On ithe Scene, Time of Your Life, jand Across Canada

One of his most recent radio assignments: was 4 program af satire called What Went Wrong with the World In 1960 he and a friend found-

éd Toronto's Bohemian Embassy | l now the oldest coffee house in| ithe country, Don tells me that ithe night they opened it up. they were still irving to figure out) how. to make coffee, and that the club was listed for a year ‘in the Yellow Pages under Con- sulates and Other Foreign Gov- lernment_ Representatives’. ~Phat's-when-thev—cot—invited_to {all sorts of magnificent functions and were sent Christmas cards | by people like the mayor of the

air brakes failed while shunting, jured- when the diesel engine cars on a siding. Nobody was in- ended up. ‘derailed but upright

THE CHARLOTTETOWN BOARD OF TRADE

EXTENDS THANKS

“Appreciation is extended to the Char-

\ Florists and Nurserymen who assisted in creating the .Charlottetown ‘Board of Trade’s "Flower Garden City” entry that won the 1966 Gold Cup and

stitutional Float. . : Special thanks are ialsadie to: 1

leity. (Cullen pours it’ : ~~ bts le have to take their Christ [mat card lists. trom the Yellow © Keith , Bunbury Nurseries ages. Revue seems to be Don Cul: ; George " Sidmount Gardens | len's meat. !n Toronto. he wrote ye rent, |) Tae wee Chick Witliams, Williams Florists tions of The.-Village Revue and,| © Charles Beazley, Flower. Cart |as a result, was asked to. join. @ =the Broadway company of “Be. | Charles Mac » West End yi the Fringe e toured eeathe 4 North America for eight months Nurseries {with the show. AND So that's“a bit of- the score on @ Seal Axa, MacLean’ $ Funeral

Don Cullen. a clever, talented | guy on whom someone should do a major Profile vate once.

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» Don's Action Set_work is his] latest assignment in a t.v.-radio

career that began with acting jobs in, believe. it: or=-not, <'The Last of the* Mohicans *- and "Tug

Boat Annie” Before that, -he made attemptsi ‘at more average modes of liv-' ing, spending one year at Ryer- son Institute, one at the Toronto

Village. Revue in the Festival; CBC convertible It's kind of a Cabaret. Club; originally -with) : Barrie Baldaro. But Baldaro|

changed his mind at the last | : a

|minute, so Cullen was left to

run the show,. with the helo of} |Don Ewer. and other people from ithe ‘Festival Company. And

s ORIGINAL manuscript of = Stephen Leacock's Sunshine + Sketches of A -Little Town {a “Sheld by Dr.‘Ralph Curry? dir-

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Ontario, The manuscript was purchased from Mrs. Barbara Nimmo, Leacock’s niece, -for $20,000, a gift’ to’ the Leacock

ard Publishing Company, pub- {somehow the {fob got expended lishers of Weekend- Magazine |into master ceremonizing every Perspectives.’ Stephen Frank- | night ‘at the club with occasion- ‘lin, left, represented Weekend | al use of material like his fam- Magazine. The Leacock Home ous bird calls or his story about

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> The loss of Canada’s most im-| ry, director of the Stephen Lea-; ~ portant literary manuscript. to | cock Memorial Home and a lead- | | orous sketches first published in the United States-has been fore-| ing Leacock scholar, confirmed | the Saturday edition of the Mon- stalled by its purchase in Can-| that Mrs. Nimmo was thinking | treal Star between February 17 ada of one offthe largest sums | of selling the manuscript and had’ and June 22, 1912 and only later ever paid in this. country for} been approached to part with it.| published in book form. such a document. Dr. Curry, who has spent the! Jack McClelland, president of It is the original handwritten! past eight summers at the Lea-| McClelland and Stewart and manuscript of Sunshine Sketches | cock Home. and his winters as a' Dodd, Mead (Canada), Leacock's of A Little Town by_Stephen Lea-/ college. professor back home in’ publishers, said today: cock. The volume, popular to | Georgetown, Kentucky, added: ‘Sunshine Sketches is clear- this day throughout much of the} that the manuscript of ‘Sunshine | ly Canada’s most important lit- world and beloved by generations} Sketches undoubted|ly_ should-_be| erary. manuscript._It-is-the Can- of Canadians, was written by/in Stephen Leacock’s old sum- | adian classic. The. most widely- the great humorist in 1912 and| mer cottage where it could be | read admired ad ever written has been ‘described as ‘‘the most seen by summer visitors and | by a Canadian. ,» has gone Canadian book ever written.’ |available to Leacock scholars} through. more seditidan and sold The manuscript has been pur-| alike. But their modest budget | more copies than any other Caf- thased for $20.000 from Leacock's | made -its purchase impossible. | adian book and it is selling better niece, Mrs. Barbara Nimmo, of| He added however, that he| today than it was 20 years AWC: vy. Bloomfield Hills, | Michigan,| thought Barbara Nimmo, who} through a dift from the Montreal) had spent her childhood sum- Standard Publishing Company,| mers at Old Brewery Bay and publishers of Weekend Magazine | lived; with her widowed Uncle and its French language coun-; Stephen for 10 years while she terpart. Perspectives. The gift, was attending McGill University . to buy the manuscript was made/ and afterwards had been mar- to the Stephen Be een Memor- rs from the familiar porch of fal Home on Old-RBrewery Bay,| the Leacock home, would really T T designated as an -historic. site| prefer the manuscript to he there, 0 oronto “and. owned by the Town of if it were possible. Orillia A week later negotiations for Leighton Warren, head of the | IMAGINARY TOWN the gift to the Leacocx Home and Photographic Department of the} It_was the turn-of-the century! the purchase of the manuscript Royal Ontario Museum, Toron- Ontarin town on the shores of)! had been completed to, with Mrs. Warren and his two! Lake Couchiching ‘transformed Although the -annua! Leacock young daughters, have returned} into the imaginary town of Mari-| Medal for Humor, won in 1945 by ‘to. Toronto: after a visit ‘to his “posa about which-Leacock_-wrote!-Weekend Magazine—_associate Native prov ince in Sunshine Sk ketches editor Greg Clark, established an’ “Mr. Warren. was the photogra- | The manuscript, written in ink obvious bond between ‘the great pher with a group of eight which} in Leacock’s strong and flourish-| Canadian humorist and magazine! included historians, political scl |@ ine hand, will be officially turn-| publishing today, it was only entists and archeologists who ed over to the Leacock Memorial) after negotiations hac: been com- were sent recently to Iran for Home in a- simple ceremony. pleted andethe -manuscript taken three and a half months by the,

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ust 24 be brought to Orillia, that an Pronto University ‘and the Ro-| The discovery that Canada was even closer connection. w.as Ya! Ontario Museum to- photo-

in dancer of Insing forever the. learned graph and study _the Iranian

Crown Jewels This collection of jewels is the greatest in the world. An anno-

: Yellowed newspaper clippings in Mrs. Nimmo’s possession re- vealed that the late Lord Athol

original of the humorous literary masterpiece came in a -chance remark made two weeks ago at

Georgian Ray: Weekend Mag- stan, former publisher of the tated book is to be published azine writer Stephen Frankjin| Montreal Star and the Montreal which will contain the Warren was told casually that Mrs. Nim- Standard (‘the forerunner of Photographs

mo, the owner of the manuscript, | who had heen .vacationing at Orillia, was negotiating the sale of Sunshine Sketches to the Un- “iversity of Chicago where Lea- cock had d his Ph.D APPROACHF))

Mr. Warren’ war the: photogra- pher for the honk, “Art Treas ures in the Royal Ontario Mu- seum.”

Before ‘leaving Iran the Can- adians were guests of the Shah

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Pc gg in’ the’ season, Cullen the ire of the P.E.I. ee Bureau by donning pith helmet and monacle to beeome | a big snake hunter for newspaper | and radio interviews on the oc- easion of the departure of a chicken snake from a north| shore cottage. (In his hunt he! would. use a crowbar ''to separ- late the girls from the boas,"’ he | said.)

Last. week he masterminded | the ar ite eae fs eae d orial Hall. It was planned, a bit,! ‘ although not rehearsed. First, he : Issued in amounts from $500 to. $100,000 $ asked about a dozen people ff}m. ~*~ larger amounts subject to negotiation theatre and art gallery to an idea meeting, then spent the next week or so alternating be- twen great enthusiasm and a state_of desperation as H day hove in sight. What made it hard g;on him was his phobia about asking other people to do things for him. He doesn’t like to. And there were some problems like last minute out-backing. None- theless this first P.E.I. Hanven- ing was a success and Cullen's own performances (“The sermon tonight is taken from a can of Campbell's tre-am of potato |soup’’) were, of course. the highlights. He is just so good

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