r 24 THt CITIZEN WediuatKiy June 22 1966 h AiV M two Generations Pay Tribute To Ed Wynn JIOLLYWOOD AP On Sunday morning the gentle ge nius of comedy Ed W y n n reached the end of his years which were a few months short of fourscore Two generations of entertain ers will pay tribute to the per perfect ¬ fect fool Thursday at Forest ARTIST SHADB0LT QUITS JOB Artist Jack Shadbolt is quitting teaching because he likes it too much The G7-year-old man one of Canadas best -known painters says ho is going to devote his time to his art Im not quitting teaching because I dont like It but because I like It too much Tho constant discussion of Ideas while teaching Is too deflecting I Just want to lock tho door and concentrate Lawn and their homage Is well placed No American star sustained a longer career and succeeded in so many phases of show busi ness None was more unlver sally liked by his fellow per formers Everyone has his own mem orles of Ed Wynn I remember him first as radios fire chief his shrill voice spouting gems of comic nearhysterla During the war I saw him in a vaude vllle revue Dig Time and tho rareness of his comic talent was more apparent Ho plodded about the stage In huge shoes and outslzed cos tumes pausing now and then to spout an Inane invectlon as if It had just been revealed to him He weaved through all the acts and ended the show with a charming bit lie often used Wynn pedalled onstage with his own Invention a piano mounted on a bicycle The chan teuse I bollevo It was J a n o Pickens sat atop the piano and sang Tea For Two while Wynn glided the vehicle about tho stage In rhythm to tho song glMiaiS in I M H HI i i k I jni Poor Weather offers consolation to some - these High School students at Prince George Secondary for example The students are presently undergoing their year end exams which are usually written when the sun is beating down through the school windows With the ULnJL5 mmm mltted where the killer is and what might happen next to whom The story is fast paced and tangled enough to keep an escapists attention satisfac torlly Dut it is not quite slick The machinery clanks a little especially In the final scene The most influential book in Canadian scholarship has at last made its appearance in an inexpensive paper back edition Anatomy of Criticism by Northrop Frye principal of the University of Torontos Victoria College has been reprinted by Atheneum and distributed in Canada by Mc Clelland and Stewart at 320 Dr Frye Is a leader of the archetypal or mythological theory of literature and this inspiring but difficult book is regarded as a key work throughout the English-speak-ing world James Clavell author of King Rat which became a celebrated movie has written a second book Tal Pan Ath cneum distributed in Canada by McClelland and Stewart This is a massive historical novel of the foundation of Hong Kong by opium traders It is big brash and colorful obviously written with one eye on Hollywood with noth Ing In particular to recom mend it but a good read There is humor and social history in the comparison of the Europeans barbarism be side the Chinese On the other hand several characters speak an exotic mixture of Pidgin English and modern hip Mr Clavel an Engllsh ed ucated American citizen now lives in Vancouver unusually high instance of rain during the past few days the students have been able to keep their minds off the upcoming vacation season and buckle down In picture there are about 250 students writing in the fieldhouse Dave Looy photo SIAMESE TWINS IS THERE HOPE PHYLLIS GRIFFITHS As Torontos famed Hospital for Sick Children prepares for Us first division of Siamese twins elsewhere two successfully separated pairs lead near normal lives One of these pairs Karen Murlo and Klmberley Webber of Day City Toxas 18 months old give best hope that the McGee twins of Guelph also can be separated without harm Like tho McGees the Texas twins were joined from breast breastbone ¬ bone to navel and had connected livers The Webbers shared a peri pericardium ¬ cardium the membrane enclos enclosing ¬ ing their hearts and Hospital New Books Appearing This Month A Modern Poet Writing With Tennysons Style 1 Watson Kirkconnel retired president of Acadia Univers University ¬ ity Wolfvllle NS has been writing poetry for a lifetime He does not rank high among anthologists because his style is that of Tennyson and Rob ert Service rather than of T S Eliot or Robert Lowell This does not bother Prof Kirkconnel one bit He goes on writing what he wants to write and by now has pro duced perhaps thousands ol lines of original verse and 5 000 pages of translations Centennial Tales and Se lected Poems University of Toronto Press for Acadia Unl versity is the first compre henslvo anthology of his car cor It includes a number of recent poems and reproduces chosen pieces from earlier publications dating back to 1030 More than COO pages long it Includes translations from no fewer than 49 Ian guages and dialects As a Canadian poet Prof Kirkconnel has always lived in the shadow of E J Pratt Like Pratt ho Is a narrative poet but Pratts narratives are usually better because the Imagery Is more power ful In the long run however it is tho lighter verse that will probably be remembered from Prof K i r k c o n nells works They combine Kip lings rhythms and Services humor Andrew Hepburn former travel editor of Look maga magazine ¬ zine who turned to writing guidebooks for North Amerl fcan areas has produced The Toronto Guide 19CCC7 Mc Clelland and Stewart Tho indexed ICG page work is Hepburns 11th guidebook and first on a Canadian commun lty Francos Shelley Wees has written a made in Canada murder mystery that obeys most of tho conventions for this sort of work Faceless Enemy Double day Is set in Toronto and tho Muskoka Lakes resort district to the north The hero is handsome and Intellectual His wife is good beautiful and sensible though frightened The de fence lawyer is fat brilliant and heartless The inspector has piercing blue eyes a touch of agony In his concern for the principals a hatred for the killer Tho killers Identity is re vealed slowly but early In the book The tension is built on how tho crime was com for Sick Children doctors think Sherry Ann and Crystal Ann Mc McGee ¬ Gee may share a pericardium too Only surgery will tell for sure And in Italy Santin and Glu sepplna Foglla born seven years ago joined at the spine lead lively Individual lives They were part parted ¬ ed in a five hour operation at age six The Webbers separated in a four hour operation at 10 weeks provide what could bo a parallel for tho McGees Karen and Kimberley were born In a small Texas town to postal employee John Webber and his wife who already had three normal children Leon Leonard ¬ ard and Myrna McGee have one a daughter 3 12 The Webber twins like the McGees were Immediately moved to the nearest big chil childrens ¬ drens hospital at Houston There a large specialized Toxas Chil Childrens ¬ drens Hospital team like the one hero swung into action Tests showed that miracu miraculously ¬ lously vital organs were sep separate ¬ arate as they are with the Mc McGee ¬ Gee twins Methodically the Texas surgi surgical ¬ cal team of four pediatric sur surgeons ¬ geons one cardiovascular sur surgeon ¬ geon two anesthlslologlsts and their assistants plus specialized nurses prepared for the opera tion Tho operation was practised in every detail several times be fore it was actually done Most delicate was the cutting of the many tiny blood vessels In the liver and closing them off quickly so that the babies did not lose too much blood Karen tho weaker from birth had some breathing difficulty In the early post operative period and received assistance by re respirator ¬ spirator for a period Then the first three to four critical days were past and both girls were soon thriving Only time will tell whether further operations or skin grafts may be needed The two Ks went home on April 13 10G5 less than two months after the historic opera operation ¬ tion Dr Fred Matthes their Day City pediatrician says they get me same care as any weu child except for twice yearly Dont Burn The Pie Crust Verv often the bottom urust and filling of a pie take some f time to bake To prevent top crust from ovor brownlng dur ing this time cover the top crust with a tent of aluminum foil BllZZZZZZZZbllSy busy busy people find FLORISTS fast in the YELLOW PAGES Where your fingers do the walking 1 visits to Texas Childrens Hos Hospital ¬ pital for testing of heart lungs stomach muscles and other func functions ¬ tions that might possibly be af affected ¬ fected by their separation Today Karen and Klmberley are simply two of tho Webbers five children healthy happy toddlers they walked at lOmths occasionally getting into a little mischief Their attractive mother a strongly religious Roman Catho Catholic ¬ lic in her late 20s says that prayer faith and hope pulled her through the critical weeks The Webber separates are so young that they will never re remember ¬ member their joint start in life but for Santlna and Glosepplna Foglla of Italy there is a prima before They never talk about their past however and seem to want to forget it They were separated May 10 IOCS by a team of 10 specialists in a Turin clinic where they had spent six years The team was headed by Prof Lulgi Solorlo For some months after the separation the twins were under close medical supervision for physical and psychological re readjustment ¬ adjustment They had to re educate their limbs and acquire a new sense of balance Now they can walk and ride little bicycles with side balance wheels Mrs Maria Tummlnelll who runs the school where the twins are says They are extra extraordinarily ¬ ordinarily vital and lively There is no visible difference to be noticed when they play with their schoolmates They look normal Just a little frail perhaps Santlna and Gluseppina sleep in separate beds in the same room Santlna is livelier quicker of mind and more effusive Her sister Is deeper wiser and less communicative How many Siamese twins have been separated successfully The exact number is not known Probably one half a dozen If tho Hospital for Sick Children succeeds with the McGees It will be a first for Canada MILLIE WAS AS MODERN AS THE ROARING TWENTIES by MAURICE SEGAL Because the upcoming movie production Thoroughly Modern Millie is something quite spe special ¬ cial a one-of-its -kind approach to entertainment this outline is more texture than text The action is as wierdly and wonder wonderfully ¬ fully wild as the period In which It takes place tho tremulous Twenties of John Held Jr and his bead bedecked flappers of bobbed hair and bathtub gin bee stung lips and burled bosoms votes for women and Valentino Its all about Moderns First let me toll you a few things about Millie Dlllmount Julio Andrews of Sallna Kan Kansas ¬ sas Millie had real get up and go Fresh as paint Full of applesauce Classy Full 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