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Radio: Stations turn to streaming .................. Page 102Review: Oliver! staged at Pakenham .................. Page 103The Spoiler: Advance plotlines for TV soapies .......... Page 103Jim and Aaron: Top 10, best movies and DVDs ............ Page 104Cheryl Threadgold: Local theatre shows, auditions ........... Page 105

PLUS THE LOVATT”S MEGA CROSSWORD

NIGHT MAYBE

■ A line in the program, “We meet ourselves time and time againin a thousand disguises on the path of life”, gives an indication ofwhat lies ahead for the audience in this excellent thought-provok-ing, sometimes light but at times, disturbing subject.

Is this our real life or our dream life? ‘What is the difference’?Is this reality or are we standing outside looking in at our life - orlives? All this and more in a remarkable play, ‘night maybe’ byKit Brookman.

The auditorium is already filled with haze prior to the audienceentering. The terrific set by Mel Page, who also designed cos-tumes, is a park at sunset dissolving into night-time.

As the lighting comes up, the thick haze dissipates, but is clev-erly maintained throughout the action to give the effect of low hang-ing mist: the brilliant lighting and visual effects are by RichardVabre.

This, together with equally brilliant original music and soundeffects by composer James Brown, complete the eerie some-times threatening atmosphere.

The entire production team, led by director Luke Mullins,have produced the perfect environment and enhanced, if that ispossible, the actors’ performances. The cast, Sarah Ogden, TomConroy, Marcus McKenzie and Brian Lipson have doneBrookman’s play justice and it is a winner.

The play has an adult theme and some coarse language. Thereare sexual references and loud noise effects and it is suitable forage 14+.

Warning: potential allergy reaction to real grass used for thepark set. A haze machine is used. The actors briefly smoke herbalcigarettes.

Production Company Stuck Pigs Squealing, present NightMaybe as part of the 2013 Selected Works.

Performances: Until September 1, Tuesday to Saturday 8 pm,Sunday 5 pm.

Venue: Theatre Works, 14 Acland St, St Kilda.Tickets: $30 full, $25 concessions and groups of 8+. $20 on

Tuesdays. (plus booking fee)Running Time: 75 minutes. No interval.Lockout: Once the 75 minute performance has commenced,

no latecomers will be admitted into the theatre.Bookings: 9534 3388 and www.theatreworks.org.au

- Rita Crispin

By RITA CRISPIN

●●●●● Sarah Ogden in Night Maybe, at Theatre Works, StKilda until September 1. Photo: Sarah Walker

Laying The GhostNathan’s successfollows Eisteddfod

■ Strathmore Theatrical Arts Group presents a SimonWilliams play written in 2001, titled Laying The Ghost,directed by Robert Harsley.

This being a new play, and one that has not had manycompanies do it, was a delight to see.

This is a very moving and witty play set in a retirementhome for actors and the plot revolves around ex-actor MargotBuchanan (Veronica Hannebery) who does not want tobe reminded that it is her 70th birthday!

Margot’s psychic friend, Freda Duncan (MicheleHaywood), is a resident whose husband has passed awayand she sees him in the room and continually talks to himand raises her voice to pull him into line, although he is notthere.

Much conversation goes on between Freda and Margotwith lots of clever lines that certainly makes you laugh.

Enter Mrs Kidd (Debbie Rowland) the no nonsensemanager of the retirement home who delivers a message toMargot.

The next visitor is Sadie Croft (Casey Bohan) whowishes to talk to Margot as she is about to play in RomeoAnd Juliet, a role Margot played years before with Sir LeoBuchanan, a philanderer and womaniser, played on the nightby Robert Harsley who stepped in at the last minute be-cause the male lead fell ill, and Robert gave a great perfor-mance.

Sadie, you see, is the latest of Sir Leo’s girl friends, andthen who should arrive Lady Buchanan (MargaretRowlinson) who is a rather uppity lady befitting her title.The dialogue between Margot and Lady Buchanan wasvery clever with the unexpected interruptions from Freda.

Sir Leo is now confronted by all three women in his lifeand the conversation was rather hostile at times and at othertimes very funny.

As with many plays of this type there is always the unex-pected at the finish and this play does not let you down,

A night of great performances by all that were on stageand congratulations to STAG for having the opportunity topresent such a play for their audiences.

I enjoyed it very much and I hope if you get the opportu-nity to see it you enjoy it as much as I.

Laying The Ghost is at the Strathmore Theatre on thecorner of Loeman and Napier Sts, Strathmore, until Au-gust 25 .

Tickets: $20/$15.Bookings: 9382 6284 www.stagtheatre.org

- Review by Brian Amos,Radio Eastern 98/1, Croydon

●●●●● Michele Haywood (left), Debbie Rowland, PeterHatherley, Veronica Hannebery (sitting at left), CaseyBohan and Margaret Rawlinson in Laying The Ghostat Strathmore until August 25.

Photo: Peta Ripper

■ The Eisteddfod by the Bay Senior Classical Vocalsection will be held on Sunday, August 25, commencing at10.15am, and The Lieder and Aria from Grand Operasection commences at 7.15pm on Thursday, August 29, at theKingston Arts Centre, Cnr South Rd and Nepean Hwy,Moorabbin.

Melba Conservatorium Scholarship winner NathanLay was winner of the 2012 Eisteddfod by the Bay Ariafrom Grand Opera section, and in the same year was asemi-finalist in the Sydney McDonald Aria, semi-finalistand reserve-finalist in the 2012 Herald Sun Aria, runner-upin the Armstead Singing Award, runner-up in theMelbourne Welsh Male Choir’s ‘Singer of the Year’ com-petition, winner of the Kantor Encouragement Award,runner-up at the Melbourne Recital Centre’s Great Ro-mantics Competition 2012, and was runner-up and win-ner of the People’s Choice Award at the 2012 RoyalMelbourne Philharmonic Aria competition.

Last year Nathan made his debut with Melbourne Op-era, playing the role of Schaunard in Puccini’s La Bohème,followed by portraying Guglielmo in their new productionof Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte.

Nathan also made his debut with Victorian Opera as asoloist in the Richard Gill Gala Concert at Hamer Hall andas bass soloist with the Royal Melbourne PhilharmonicChoir and Orchestra in their performance of Handel’sMessiah at the Melbourne Town Hall.

This year, Nathan was a featured artist for AustralianMusic Events’ Opera In The Market, performed withVictoria Opera as a soloist in the Opera On A White NightGala Concert at Hamer Hall, played The King in Puss InBoots, and played the roles of Billy Webster and Louisthe Baker in Sunday In The Park With George.

Nathan also made his first appearance with Opera Aus-tralia this year, and will soon be playing the principal role ofBunyip Bluegum in the world premiere of The Magic Pud-ding – The Opera, for Victorian Opera.

Eisteddfod by the Bay Senior Classical Vocal sec-tion: Sunday, August 25 from 10.15am

Lieder and Aria from Grand Opera section: Thurs-day, August 29 from 7.15pm

Venue: Kingston Arts Centre, Cnr South Rd and NepeanHwy, Moorabbin.

Admission: $15 Adults, $5 Students.Enquiries: 9551 2710.

- Cheryl Threadgold

●●●●● Nathan Lay, winner of the 2012 Eisteddfod bythe Bay Aria from Grand Opera section.

Wednesday,August 21■ US jazz musician‘Count’ Basie was born in1904.

He died in 1984(79).

Princess Margaretwas born in Scotland in1930. She died aged 71in 2002.

Kenny Rogers, Ameri-can singer, was born inHouston, Texas, in 1938.He is 75 today.

Friday,August 23■ US actor Gene Kellywas born in 1912. Hedied aged 83 in 1996.

Bandleader Bob Cros-by, brother to Bing, wasborn in 1913. He diedaged 79 in 1993.

American actressBarbara Eden (I DreamOf Jeannie) is 79.

Keith Moon, drum-mer with The Who, wasborn in 1947.

Sunday,August 25■ Actor Van Johnsonwas born in Rhode Islandin 1916. He died aged92 in 2008.

US composerLeonard Bernstein wasborn in 1918. He diedaged 72 in 1990.

Scottish actor SirSean Connery was bornin 1930 (83).

US TV man RegisPhilbin is 82 (1931).

Tuesday,August 27■ US President LyndonJohnson was born in1908. He died aged 64in 1973.

Australian cricketerSir Donald Bradman wasborn in 1908. He diedaged 92 in 2001.

Voice-over man KevGolsby is 78 (1935).

US actor Pee-WeeHerman (Paul Reub-enfeld) is 61 (1952).

Thursday,August 22■ American actress

Valerie Harper, who first

starred in The Mary Tyler

Moore Show, is 73.

Cindy Williams, Ameri-

can actress, star of Ameri-

can Graffiti, is 66.

Tennis champion Mats

Wilander was born in Swe-

den in 1964 (49).

Saturday,August 24■ British comedian andplaywright Stephen Fry is56 (1957).

English dwarf actorKenny Baker is 79 (1934).

American musician Ma-son Wiliams is 75 (1938).

Austral ian singer-songwriter Mike McLellanwas born in 1945.

He is 68 today.

Monday,August 26■ Theatre entrepreneur J C(James Cassius) Williamsonwas born in Pennsylvania in1845. He died aged 67 in1913.

Australian radio person-ality Dita Cobb was born in1923. She died aged 67 in1991.

American actorMacauley Calkin is 33(1980).

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News from stations from around Victoria

LATEST RADIO RATINGSJON FAINE WINS MORNING SLOT FOR 774 ABC

Country showgig available

■ 88.3 Southern FM is seek-ing a volunteer announcer topresent an Australian countrymusic show.

The announcer will be re-quired to compile as well aspresent the show each week, soa strong interest in the genre isa must.

Full studio and presentertraining will be provided. Theshow is currently rostered forWednesdays 12pm-2pm, saysAlan Clement.

■ 774 ABC’s morning hostJon Faine convincingly de-feated 3AW’s Neil Mitchell,in the latest radio ratings an-nounced yesterday (Tues.).

Faine achieved a 15.5 percent market share in the morn-ing slot, measured 9am-12Noon, compared to NeilMitchell’s ratings of 14.2 percent.

In afternoons, 3AW’s DenisWalter slumped to single fig-ure ratings: 9.6 per cent. He wasbehind Gold FM (11.1), andjust ahead of 774 ABC (9.4).

Tom Elliott (3AW) dead-heated with for the drive shift,measured 4pm-7pm byNielsen. Each achieved a rat-ing of 11.6 per cent.

They were closely followedby Raf Epstein (774 ABC,with 10.6 per cent.

Sports Tonight and Nightline(Bruce Mansfield and PhilipBrady) continued to disappointfor 3AW, with an audience mea-suring 12.4, behind the night-time winners at 774 ABC (13.7per cent).

This was a serious win forLindy Burns in the early eve-nings, followed by TonyDelroy later at nights.

The breakfast session,5.30am-9am, saw RossStevenson and John Burns on3AW (19.4), sprint away fromRed Symons (14.8).

Weekend results saw 3AW(12.0), closely followed by 774ABC (10.9), measured 5.30am-Midnight, Saturdays and Sun-days.

The survey was the fifth of ●●●●● Alan Clement

The Mix 101.1 breakfastteam of Chrissie Swan andJane Hall suffered another rat-ings blip, with their figures stag-nating at 5.0 per cent.

They have been unable torecapture the growth that theyexperienced last year, prior toChrissie Swan’s pregnancy.

SEN lost 16 per cent of itsbreakfast audience despite thebest eforts of Tim Watson andAndy Maher (MorningGlory).

Gold 104.3 (6.4 per cent to5.3) lost 17 per cent of its audi-ence. The program conductedby ‘Lehmo’ and BrigitteDuclos, sounds heavily scriptedwith Duclos sounding like sheis reading a good proportion ofher words.

Eddie McGuire and hisHot Breakfast team droppedfrom 9.5 per cent to 8.9 per cent,after the Adam Goodes-KingKong controversy.

The ratings were measuredbetween May 19-June 22, andJuly 7-August 10.

●●●●● Chrissie Swan

Local radioplays politics■ Community radio stationsare using their leverage tofight more government fund-ing, prior to the FederalElection.

Adrian Basso, Presi-dent, Community Broad-casting Association ofAustralia and the Committo Community Radioteam, are using social mediato encourage listeners to ap-ply pressure to politicians tostate their position prior to thepoll.

The Greens have an-nounced they would work toproviding extra governmentcash to community radio andTV stations.

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Big BreakfastShow. Southern

FM 88.3.Tues. 6am-9am. Rob Foenander

Welcome Fire■ Multiple ARIA-winner Wendy Mathews has a new re-lease to add to her already successful music catalogue.

The Welcome Fire album has Wendy teaming up with ahost of writers including Australian country music’s wellknown Rod McCormack. It is the first of all original workfrom her in 12 years.

Wendy's career includes singing on albums by JimmyBarnes, Tim Finn, Richard Clapton and Icehouse.

Peter Garrett once said: "Wendy's voice is to the vocalchords what the Daintree is to the wilderness". More infowww.wendymatthews.com

Warren stands for Greens■ Indigenous country music artist Warren H Williams hasannounced he is standing as a candidate for the Greens in theNorthern Territory.

This makes two from the country music fraternity seekingSenate positions in next months Federal Election (Sept. 7).

James Blundell is standing for a Queensland Senateseat as a member of Bob Katter's Australian Party

Changes for Red Hill?■ Whispers have it that the Red Hill Country Music Fes-tival will no longer be exclusively a country music program.

The 2014 event will be a multi-genre affair by all accounts.This decision would appear to come on the back of very lowcrowd attendances over the past two years.

Full-on country■ Another local community station with dedicated countrymusic shows is 3MDR - 97.1FM.

Friday night commences with Denver Walles and Coun-try Bonanza at 7pm, followed by Big Pete Windle and FullOn Country from 9.30 pm to 12 Midnight.

Wal Adams then presents the midnight to dawn shift withIndependent Country.

- Rob Foenander

●●●●● Jon Faine

eight audience measures for theyear. The sixth survey is due tobe released on Tuesday, Sep-tember 24.

3AW winsoverall

■ Despite the slump in themorning, afternoon and eveningprograms, 3AW took thehonours for the fifth survey.

It achieved a 13.5 per cent,closely followed overall by 774ABC with 12.4 per cent.

The results for the Monday-Sunday results, measured5.30am-Midnight, were:

Fox, 8.9. Gold, 7.8. Nova,7.5. MMM, 7.0. JJJ, 6,.3.Mix, 5.7. Smooth, 5.4. Magic,4.6. SEN, 4.4. ABC FM, 2.7Radio National, 2.3.Newsradio, 1.9.

In the breakfast timeslot, fol-lowing 3AW and 774 ABCwere: MMM, 8.9. Fox, 8.4.Nova, 8.3. Gold, 5.3. Mix, 5.0.JJJ, 4.6. SEN, 4.0. Magic, 3.8.Smooth, 3.7. Newsradio, 2.5.Radio National, 2.4. ABCClassic FM, 2.1.

Magic 1278fights back

■ The latest ratings showKevin John and JaneHolmes fighting their way witha small gain to 3.8 per cent,from 3.1 per cent.

●●●●● Ross Stevenson

●●●●● Jane Holmes

●●●●● Smooth 91.5FM says it now has 519,000 listen-ers, up from 495,000 listeners in the previous survey.It has achieved 5.4 per cent of all people, aged andover, says Publicity Director Jane Elliott.

‘OLIVER’ AT PAKENHAMShowBiz!ShowBiz!

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Neighbours■ 6.30pm. Weeknights. Eleven■ Monday, August 26. Amber struggles with her guiltyfeelings for Robbo; Joshua and Hudson keep a secretfrom Brad; desperate Lucas is backed into a corner.■ Tuesday, August 27. Kyle learns that Lucas hasinformation about Robbo's accident; Toadie convinceshimself that he attacked Robbo; Jack Lassiter unex-pectedly returns to Erinsborough; Robbo's life hangsin the balance.■ Wednesday, August 28. Robbo's dying declarationgives Toadie hope; the new detective has Mason inher sights; Kate demands the truth from Mason; Jackrecognises Paul's loneliness.■ Thursday, August 29. Kate believes Mason didn'thit Robbo; Georgia struggles with Robbo's death; Imogencollapses under the stress.■ Friday, August 30. Imogen's bulimia secret is re-vealed; Chris thinks he is to blame for Hudson's lackof focus; Amber reaches out to Joshua but embracesLou instead.

Home and Away■ Monday, August 26. Sasha and Spencer confrontIndi and Chris about their relationship but are horrifiedwhen they get more than they bargained for.■ Tuesday, August 27. Maddy, still angry with Casey,finds a new boy to talk to. Is she flirting with disaster?■ Wednesday, August 28. Casey manages to getMaddy away from Josh, but are they out of danger?Winston's arrival causes headaches for some, but joyfor others. Brax chats to Sally about Pippa and hertreatment, will Sally manage to raise all the moneyshe needs?■ Thursday, August 29. Double Episode. Casey andMaddy are found after the car accident, but are theyboth going to be OK? John is upset about Winstondistracting Marilyn from work. Is it just a professionaljealousy? Kyle picks up on Tamara's residual feelingsfor Casey, but what does this mean for them? Who isSally's mysterious benefactor?

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The SpoilerFor Those Who Have Lost The Plot

Lorne Festival

●●●●● Nicola Bull (Nancy) with Josh McNiff (Dodger), Andre Karabajakian(Fagin’s Gang), Matilda Weaver (Nipper) and Ethan Wilson (Fagin’s Gang)in Oliver! at the Cardinia Cultural Centre until August 31.

Photo: Chantelle Riordan■ The family favourite Oliver! is pre-sented by the Cardinia PerformingArts Company (CPAC) inPakenham, until August 31 under theexpert direction of Lee Geraghty.

Lee, with Robert Mulholland (cho-reographer) and musical director KentRoss, have done outstanding work with 49cast members of varying ages, to createa first class community theatre production.

Clever set design by Lee and her teamresults in seamless staging of 13 scenelocations. Bravo to stage manager SteveDownie and crew - some theatre com-panies could learn from your slick scenechanges.

Eight-year-old Sören Adkin is delight-fully appealing as Oliver, sharing the rolewith Oliver Thomsen.

Richard Green gives a naturalistic,believable interpretation as Fagin, and fullmarks to Shae O’Loughlin and team forRichard’s make-up.

Twelve-year-old Josh McNiff is greatas the Artful Dodger, while Deb Welch(Widow Corney) and Tony Hosemans(Mr Bumble) deliver some good com-edy. Accomplished musical theatre per-former Nicola Bull plays Nancy, whileBill Sykes is well-portrayed by RickHowden.

★ Morning TV producer Adam Boland (TenNetwork) is allowing himself to be the

centre of publicity for the new Wake Up show.Do viewers care?

★ Was that Winners And Losers starDenise Scott helping ‘Jeff’ sell The Big

Issue on the steps of Flinders St Station inpeak hour on Monday morning. Sure was.Good on you Scotty.

★ A new Facebook page has been established for radio professionals: The

Radio Green Room. Information in a threador post is not to be used for any other siteor publication

★ Subscription TV channels TV1 and SFwill close at the end of December, re-

ports TVTonight.com.au, with MediaWeekniting that channel CEO Peter Hudson in-formed staff about a loss of a carriage dealwith Foxtel.

★ Gold 104.3 has been cross-promotingwith with The Priject (Ten Network). The

radio station ran a guest host competition.Friday (Aug. 23) will see the Victorian win-ner: Business development manager,hypnotherapist and children’s book writerHusna Pasha.

Star Bursts

■ “I have always be-lieved that dogmaticthought and claim to abso-lute truth by those whopromise human beings anideal world to live in eitherthrough their metaphysicalor secular idealism cannotultimately secure the realcare, happiness and free-dom for both the individualand collective members ofany given society,” saysdirector MammadAidani.

His play, The Two Ex-ecutioners, is a tale of dog-matic thought and meta-physical idealism that, likecharity and barbarism, be-gins at home.

In the case of Aidani'splay this dogma and ideal-ism are embodied in thematriarch of an ethnic fam-ily that make up the play-ers in The Two Execution-ers.

This is the mother, cun-ning and duplicitous, hertwo sons, one blindly de-voted to his beloved mother

●●●●● Wahibe Moussa inThe Two Executioners,playing at La Mamauntil August 25. Photo:Shahin Shafaei

the play, during which anAustralian audiencemight find the charactersmore of a farce than wouldan ethnic audience, whosefamilies often have pious,larger-than-life heads ofthe household.

Most of them have al-most certainly experienceda shrewd matriarch useguilt and melodramaticproclamations of martyr-dom to bend family mem-bers to her own will, al-ways of course for “theirown good.” It's never assinister as depicted TheTwo Executioners, but it'sjust as real.

Season: Until August25. Time: 6:30pm

Tickets: Full $25, Con-cession $15

Bookings: Online viawww.trybooking.com, orcall 9347 6142

Venue: La Mama The-atre. 205 Faraday St,Carlton.

- Review byGreg Moskovitch

and the other, a conflictedmess at odds with his lovefor his father and his cul-tural and familial alle-giance to ‘mama’, and fi-nally the ‘guilty’ father.

Having grown up in animmigrant family myself,there are tropes in The TwoExecutioners with which Iam well acquainted. Thisis a testament to Fer-nando Arrabal's finewriting and Aidani's di-recting.

There may be times in

THE 2 EXECUTIONERS

The talented cast also includesMichael Whiting (Mr Sowerberry),Debbie Dick (Mrs Sowerberry),Stephanie Abbott (Bet), Hazel Green(Mrs Bedwin), Clive Rogers (MrBrownlow) and Lachlan Williams(Noah Claypoole) and Fagin’s Gangand ensemble members.

Robert Mulholland’s (one ofVictoria’s best choreographers) danceroutines are well-rehearsed and innova-tive, while Michael Bates’s lighting de-sign and Ria Player’s costumes effec-tively compliment the script.

Minimal criticism includes some adultperformers losing accents and the well-groomed hair of Oliver and some chil-dren.

Interesting historical notes in SimoneLim’s excellent program include CharlesDickens working in a factory in 1824 tohelp support his family.

Congratulations to Lee and her teamfor presenting very enjoyable, local the-atre entertainment.

Performances: August 23, 24, 25, 29,30, 31 at 8pm, Sun. 2pm, Thurs. 7pm

Venue: Cardinia Cultural Centre,Lakeside Blvd, Pakenham

Bookings: 0407 090 354 orwww.trybooking.com

CHERYLTHREADGOLDREPORTS

■ The loveliest length of the Great Ocean Roadwill soon come alive for the 3rd Annual Lorne Fes-tival of Performing Arts, hosted by Love Lorneand celebrating culture by the sea.

Audiences can bathe in an ocean of stories, tunesand visual treats including chanteuses, bawdyburlesque,comedy as well as poetry, dance, music,workshops and something for children.

This year’s program will bring Lorne to life fromFriday, September 6-Sunday, September 8 in variousvenues.

The Lorne Festival of Performing Arts offersa chance for both local audiences and those making aspecial trip to experience talents performing againstthe backdrop of a seaside lifestyle.

The weekend of talent for this year includes caba-ret-theatre performers such as Wes Snelling in Kiosk,the witty Tina Del Twist, the genre-bending cabaretvixen that is Christa Hughes in two full length shows- Beer Drinking Woman and Neurotic Ladyland andthe return Festival favourite Mikelangelo perform-ing a tribute to Johnny Cash in Song Of The Out-law, celebrating the 10th anniversary of the death ofthe Man in Black. Artistic Director Monique Harvey says that theLorne community is not only tight-knit, friendly andpassionate about their part of the world, but also havean appreciation for artistic expression.

“As the Lorne Festival of Performing Arts es-tablishes itself more and more each year, we love tosee locals and visitors from out of town enjoying thetreasures of the Festival,” she says. This year’s music program includes sensationalrockabilly trio The Rechords, the ever-dynamicMelbourne sextet The Tiger and Me and acapellavocal quartet The Nymphs.

Spicing up the 2013 Festival program are burlesquebeauties Gypsy Wood and Melbourne’s MaudeDavey, who brings her newest show My Life In TheNude, in which she bares all for the last time.

Live comedy is represented by award-winning co-median Asher Treleaven in his brand new hour ofcomedy Bad Dandy.

Shows for the wfamily to enjoy include the fast-paced, frantic physical comedy of Dislocate In ThreeSpeed Crunch Box, the cheeky and giant kangaroos onbouncing stilts in Icarus Roo’d, The Biscuits Read-ings which will reveal your inner biscuit and TheMemorandium, an exploration of memory – the sto-ries, feeling and thought that reside within all of us.

Aiming to attract 2500 people this year, the LorneFestival of Performing Arts is increasing its sprawland will bring to life venues including Qdos Arts, theart deco Lorne Theatre, the Grand Pacific Ho-tel, Lorne Foreshore Caravan Park and will alsoinclude performances on the streets.

The Festival includes its own big top and for thefirst time and will collaborate with Melbourne’s ownCircus Oz which will be pitching their much laudedfoyer tent on the Mantra lawn for the duration of theevent.

The 300-seat venue will play host to the festivalmerriment and will provide a visual presence that willbe hard to miss.

Where: Lorne, Victoria - various venuesDates: Friday, September 6 - Sunday, September

8. Bookings: www.lovelornefestival.com.au or 1300365 901.

- Cheryl Threadgold

●●●●● Christa Hughes

Movies, DVDsWith Jim Sherlock and Aaron Rourke

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FILM: 3:10 TO YUMA:Genre: Drama/Western/Thriller.Cast: Glenn Ford, Van Heflin, Felicia Farr, Henry Jones.Year: 1957.Rating: PG.Running Time: 92 Minutes.Format: DVD and BLU-RAY.Stars: ****½Verdict: Outlaw leader Ben Wade is captured in a small town and a small-time rancher desperate for money is persuaded to take Wade to the nearesttown to put him on the 3:10 train to Yuma prison, with his gang nearby armedto free him. Magnificent psychological western suspense thriller is the closestto western noir as it gets. Screen great Glenn Ford creates the role of a lifetimewith a brilliantly balanced performance that is haunting, menacing, threaten-ing, poignant and inspiring, with Van Heflin matching him with an equallyfierce determination every step by step of the way. Superbly directed by DelmerDaves, brilliantly adapted by Halsted Welles from the short story by ElmoreLeonard and photographed like no other with an alternately stark and evoca-tive texture by Charles Lawton Jr, 3:10 To Yuma is an illuminating, chilling,moving and unforgettable experience, it's journey and final destination ce-menting it as one of the great classics of all time!

FILM: 42:Genre: Drama/Biography.Cast: Chadwick Boseman, Harrison Ford, Nicole Beharie.Year: 2013.Rating: TBC.Running Time: 128 Minutes.Format: DVD and BLU-RAY.Stars: ****Verdict: "42" tells the story of African-American baseball legend JackieRobinson and his history-making signing with the all white Brooklyn Dodgersin 1947 under the guidance of team executive Branch Rickey during theheight of racially charged period in American history of race hatred and howhe must face it from both the public and within his own ranks. Love baseballor hate it, this is also as politically charged as anything else during thoseturbulent times. Jackie Robinson's story is brought vividly to life by writer-direc-tor Brian Helgeland, screenwriter of such films as L.A. Confidential and ClintEastwood's Mystic River. Chadwick Boseman is a standout as the legendaryRobinson, but it is an almost unrecognizable Harrison Ford in his performanceas team executive Branch Rickey that may even win him an Oscar nomina-tion, if not win. This is a strong and entertaining film that not only captureswith searing reality a period of political and public unrest, but the birth of ahero to a nation, and the beginning of the long road of the breaking down ofracial barriers.

FILM: WEST OF MEMPHIS:Genre: Documentary.Cast: Peter Jackson (Producer), Lorri Davis (Producer), JohnnyDepp.Year: 2012.Rating: MA15+.Running Time: 147 Minutes.Format: DVD.Stars: ****Verdict: West of Memphis is a compelling examination of a failure of justicein the case against the West Memphis Three, three boys charged by manipu-lation with the murder of three 8 year old boys in 1993 and the near twodecade fight for a re-trial and to free them, all told by those who lived throughit. Filmmakers Amy Berg, Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh had unprecedentedaccess to the inner workings of the legal system, and allows the film to showthe investigation, research and appeals process in a way that has never beenseen before into a corrupt judicial system. This is a revealing, shocking, dis-turbing, tragic, poignant and haunting experience, as powerful and unforget-table as documentary filmmaking comes!

FILM: G.I. JOE RETALIATION:Genre: Action/Adventure/Sci-Fi.Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Jonathan Pryce, Bruce Willis.Year: 2013.Rating: M.Running Time: 110 Minutes.Format: DVD and BLU-RAY [Blu-Ray includes Extended Version].Stars: **½Verdict: The super special force of G.I. Joes are not only fighting their mortalenemy, they are forced to contend with threats from within the governmentthat jeopardize their very existence as the team is terminated by orders of thePresident. Based on the classic comic books and toys this follow up to 2009'sG.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra is a emotionless, multi-storied super-machoaction and special effects extravaganza would have fared better with one ortwo less plot lines, and less banal dialogue, but none the less it pushes all theright buttons and delivers all the action that comic book and toy fans havegrown up with for generations.

●●●●● 3:10 TO YUMA: Van Heflin (Left) is a man on a mission andscreen legend Glenn Ford (Right) in a groundbreaking perfor-mance as outlaw Ben Wade as his prisoner, will they finally makethe 3:10 To Yuma? A brilliant and captivating psychological sus-pense thriller and one of the top ten films of its kind.

MIFF WRAP 2013■ The Melbourne InternationalFilm Festival has finished for anotheryear, and while it is good to get used todaylight again, it is also disappointingthat the rush of seeing numerous filmsin cinemas over 2½-weeks, some ofwhich we may never get the chance tosee again, has come to an end.

It was a great year as far asorganisation went, and I would like tothrow out a heartfelt thanks to theMIFF volunteers, who were all help-ful, polite, and understanding.

I must also state that the MIFF pro-motional trailer this year was by far theworst, an ad that wasn't very funny tobegin with, and became an outrightchore to get through every time it playedover 17 days.

I had a good track record, with nofilm proving to be a disaster, and afriend of mine who managed to see 63films (yes, you read correct) certainlyfelt satisfied and entertained by thefestival's end.

Despite the number of high-profileomissions, there were a myriad of sell-out sessions as well as a multitude ofnear-packed screenings.

Listening to other avid movie-goerswhile waiting in long cues, glowingcomments fell on films such as Stoker(which sold out very quickly), The BestOffer, Bastards, Upstream Color(though apparantly repeat viewings willbe required), Jimmy P., Jin, The Pa-tience Stone, Northwest, The Day OfThe Crows, Harmony Lessons,Blancanieves, Call Girl, Fruitvale Sta-tion, Nothing Bad Can Happen, Omar,Death For Sale, Blackfish, Dirty Wars,Stranger By The Lake (interestinglyeveryone seems to think this will beedited for its Australian release, dueto its extensive graphic nudity andsexual nature), All Is Lost, and The ActOf Killing.

Ben Wheatley's A Field In En-gland (where the words trippy and psy-chedelic were regularly used) met witha decidedly mixed response, as didAin't Them Bodies Saints, the docu-mentary Rewind This, and most sur-prisingly, Pedro Almodovar's latestI'm So Excited.

The undisputed turkey of MIFF2013, with every person I overheardor spoke to calling it absolute torture,was the documentary The End Of Time,with what sounds like a record numberof walk-outs (another friend said heended up with sore feet due to theamount of people stepping on them in abid to get out).

The retrospective on the ItalianGiallo genre was a resounding suc-cess, with films such as DarioArgento's Deep Red (people were dis-appointed that it was the heavily cutversion) and A Quiet Place In TheCountry (with Franco Nero) sellingout.

The biggest hit in this category wasThe House Of Laughing Windows, agenuine classic directed by the veryunder-rated Pupi Avati, which willnow (hopefully) get a new dvd/Blu-Rayrelease in the near future.

It's a pity MIFF couldn't get BongJoon-ho's new film, the post-apoca-lyptic Snowpiercer (timing was just tooclose, as it only opened in South Ko-rea on August 1, to record box-officeand rave reviews), as the 126 minutefeature will be released in western ter-ritories (including Australia) at around106 minutes, thanks to producerHarvey Weinstein, who is going tobutcher the movie for its now-delayedUS release.

I thought Joon-ho (The Host /Mother) would receive better treat-ment than this, but I guess it's now acase of wait-and-see.

Finally, here are my thoughts on thefilms I got to see at the Festival.

Tokyo Family. 146 minutes. ****.Finely detailed reworking of the

1953 classic Tokyo Story, with directorYoji Yamada taking the familiar storyand making it a strong, emotionally in-volving film in its own right.

The Major. 99 minutes. ***½.Russian thriller about a hit-and-run

and the attempt to cover it up is im-pressively made and features severalstand-out set-pieces.

The East. 117 minutes. ****.The thematic follow-up to The

Sound Of My Voice is intelligent,thought-provoking entertainment, andwas a definite Festival favourite.

Like Father, Like Son. 120 min-utes. ****½.

Another success from directorHirokazu Kore'eda, this low-key butheart-rending look at babies switchedat birth is brilliantly focused film-mak-ing, and my personal favourite forMIFF 2013.

Everybody In Our Family. 107minutes. ***½.

Romanian drama builds effec-tively to a gripping finale, with a darklycomic use of symbolism giving the filmadded weight.

Padak. 78 minutes. ****.Stunningly animated South Ko-

rean film, using a Finding Nemo-typeset-up to explore a harsh story about asystemically oppressive class system.

Capturing Dad. 74 minutes. ****.Charming comedy/drama from Ja-

pan was a sold-out audience favourite,and deservedly so.

Approved For Adoption. 75 min-utes. ****.

Measured, moving blend of live-ac-tion and unique animation, based on areal-life case.

The Apostle. 82 minutes. ***.Gothic Spanish tale has wonder-

ful stop-motion animation and strong at-mospherics, but the material runs outof steam.

A Highjacking. 99 minutes. ****.Quietly harrowing Danish drama

avoids melodrama, and is completelybelievable throughout.

The Congress. 122 minutes. ****.Mind-bending adaptation of a

Stanislaw Lem story from the directorof Waltz With Bashir, moves well fromlive-action to spectacular animation.

Blue Ruin. 90 minutes. ****.Smart, original take on the revenge

movie, and a chilling indictment ofpeople's obsession with guns and vio-lence. Superbly made on a small bud-get.

Cheap Thrills. 87 minutes. ****.Wildly entertaining black comedy

about what desperate people will do formoney in a GFC-affected world.

- Aaron Rourke

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Local TheatreWith Cheryl Threadgold Observer

Melbourne

‘KID STAKES’ AT THE BASINSHOWS

REVIEW: SAVAGES

●●●●● Annabelle Mitchell (Raina Petkoffa) and Steve Saul(Captain Bluntschli) in Eltham Little TheatreCompany’s Arms And The Man, opening on August30.

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■ The Basin Theatre Group: Kid Stakes (by Ray Lawler) UntilSeptember 8 at The Basin Theatre, Doongalla Road, The Basin.Director: Christine Grant. Tickets: $25 all performances. Bookonline at www.thebasintheatre.org.au or call 1300 784 668.■ 1812 Theatre: Sleuth (by Anthony Shaffer) Until August 31at the 1812 Theatre, 3-5 Rose Street, Upper Ferntree Gully at8.00pm, matinee 4.00pm. Director: Malcolm Sussman. Tickets:$25. Bookings: 9758 3964 www.1812theatre.com.au■ Peridot Theatre Inc: The Wisdom of Eve Until August 24 at8.00pm, at the Unicorn Theatre, Lechte Road, Mount Waverley.Director: Annette deBoer. Tickets: $23/$20. Bookings: 1300 138645 or email [email protected]■ Strathmore Theatrical Arts Group (STAG): Laying theGhost Until August 25 at the Strathmore Community Theatre,Loeman Street, Strathmore. Director: Robert Harsley. Tickets:$20/$15.Bookings: 9382 6284 www.stagtheatre.org.■ Brighton Theatre Company: Echoes (by Richard Nash)Until August 31 at 8.00pm, Sunday matinees 2.15pm, at BrightonTheatre, Corner Wilson and Carpenter Streets, Brighton. Director:Ewen Crockett. Tickets: $20/$18. Bookings: 1300 752 126 orwww.brightontheatreco.com.au■ Cardinia Performing Arts Company (CPAC): OliverUntil August 31 at 8.00pm, Sun. 2.00pm, Thurs. 7.00pm at theCardinia Cultural Centre, Lakeside Boulevard, Pakenham. Direc-tor: Lee Moulton. Bookings: 0407 090 354 or www.trybooking.com■ Lilydale Athenaeum Theatre Company: Light in the Pi-azza (by Craig Lucas) August 21 - September 7 at 8.15pm, Sundaymatinees at 2.30pm at the Athenaeum Theatre, 39-41 Castella Street,Lilydale. Director: Alan Burrows. Tickets: $25/$22. Bookings: 97351777.■ PEP Productions: Bare August 22 - 31 at the DoncasterPlayhouse, 679 Doncaster Road,, Doncaster. Director: James Ness.Bookings: www.pepproductions.org.au or [email protected]■ Moreland Theatre Company: Up For Grabs (by DavidWilliamson) August 22 - 31 at the Mechanics Institute PerformingArts Centre, Corner Sydney and Glenlyon Roads, Brunswick. Di-rector: Karim Shaker. Tickets: $25/$18. Bookings: 0426 577 346.■ Malvern Theatre Company: 33 Variations (by MoisesKaufman), August 23 - September 7 at 29 Burke Road, Malvern.Director: Vicki Smith. Tickets: $20 (no concessions), $5 extra perperson on gala night August 31. Bookings: 1300 131552.www.malverntheatre.com.au■ Track Youth Theatre: Pot of Gold (by Ed Bailey) August 23- 24 at 7.30pm (Fri.) and 2.00pm and 7.30pm (Sat.) at the Renais-sance Theatre, 926 High Street, Kew. Director: Ed Bailey. Tick-ets: $15/$10. Bookings: 9818 3811 or [email protected]■ The Mount Players: Steel Magnolias (by Robert Harling)August 23 - September 14 at the Mountview Theatre, 56 SmithStreet, Macedon. Director: Natasha Boyd. Tickets: $25/$22. Book-ings: 1300 463 224 www.themountplayers.com■ Eltham Little Theatre: Arms and the Man (by George Ber-nard Shaw) August 30 - September 14 at 8.00pm, 2pm matineeSeptember 8 at the Eltham Performing Arts Centre, 1603 MainRoad, Research. Director: Roderick Chappel. Tickets: $22.50/$17.50. Bookings: www.elthamlittletheatre.org.au or 9437 1574.■ Sunshine Community Theatre Inc.: And the Big Men Fly(by Alan Hopgood) August 30 - September 7 at 82 Phoenix Street,North Sunshine. Director: Stephen Andrews. Tickets: $15/$12.Bookings: 0407 802 165.■ Essendon Theatre Company: Gary's House (by DebraOswald) September 12 - 21 at the West Essendon Community Hall,Bradshaw Street, Essendon (enter via Buckley Street). Director:Sam Chappel. Tickets: $18/$16. Bookings: 0422 029483.

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Eltham Little Theatre

■ Eltham Little Theatre presents George BernardShaw’s Arms And The Man, on August 30-31 at 8pm, Septem-ber 5-7 and 12-14 at 8pm, with a 2pm matinee on September 8,at the Eltham Performing Arts Centre, 1603 Main Rd, Re-search.

Directed by Roderick Chappel, this classic and witty playfinds Bluntschli, a Swiss mercenary soldier, escaping from abattle by stealing into the bedroom of Raina, a romantic youngBulgarian woman.

Her fiancé Sergius is a dashing cavalry officer and she iscaptivated by his foolhardy heroism, but Bluntschli’s pragma-tism wins her affections.

Tickets: Adult $22.50,Concession $17.50Bookings: www.elthamlittletheatre.org.au or 9437 1574

■ Fortyfivedownstairs presents the premiere of PatriciaCornelius’s powerful new play, Savages, until September 8,under the skilled direction of Susie Dee.

Four seemingly nice, everyday guys board a cruise liner fortheir trip of a lifetime.

However, behind the facade of gaily coloured streamers, aluxurious shipboard lifestyle and pleasant chit-chat betweenmates, a foreboding discontent simmers between these fortyishmen in mid-life crisis.

The reality is that none can escape from their individual is-sues left behind, no matter how hard they try.

In masterly style, Cornelius uses rhythmic, at times poetic,dialogue to shift the men’s behaviour from pleasantly playful topredatory, then savage, while pulsating sound effects effectivelycreate animalistic tension.

Each man recounts personal negative experiences with womenand maybe this contributes to their horrid objectivity towardsfemale passengers.

Alternatively, we are left to wonder if a pack-like mentalityis unavoidable when a group of males spends time bonding together.

The great cast includes Lyall Brooks (George), LukeElliott (Runt), James O’Connell (Rabbit) and MarkTregonning (Craze), who all beautifully capture the twistsand turns in their characters’ behaviour from upbeat and chattyto ugly and predatory.

Marg Horwell’s prominent set design comprises a large,sloping ship’s deck, providing an excellent performance spacewhich also cleverly symbolises the characters’ behavioural de-cline and feelings of emptiness in their lives.

The lighting design by Andy Turner and sound design byKelly Ryall significantly contribute to the storyline’s palpable tension.

On a critical note, I felt the song When Man Loves A Womancould be shorter, to ensure sustaining the narrative’s raw edge.

Savages offers an intense, compelling theatre experience. Con-gratulations to all concerned on this new, first-class Australiandrama.

Season: Until September 8Times: 7.30pm Tues – Fri, 5pm and 8.00pm Sat, 5.00pm

Sun.Duration: 90 minutes with no intervalVenue: fortyfivedownstairs, 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne.Tickets: $45 adults, $37.50 concession, $35 groups 6+Bookings: 9662 9966 or fortyfivedownstairs.com

AUDITIONS

■ Heidelberg Theatre Company: Steel Magnolias Septem-ber 15, 16 at 7.00pm at 36 Turnham Avenue, Rosanna. Director:Brett Turner. Audition bookings: [email protected]

●●●●● Luke Elliot, James O’Connell, Mark Tregonning andLyall Brooks in Savages

REVIEW: PROXIMITY

■ Australian Dance Theatre’s Artistic Director, GarryStewart, combines technology, science and art in this exhila-rating production. Collaborating with video Artist and engineerThomas Pachoud, Stewart has translated to the stage, hisinterest in the ‘nature of seeing and perception, the nature ofselfhood and the connection between ourselves and the worldwe perceive around us’.

A video camera on a stand in the middle of the stage is high-lighted intermittently by a single spotlight from different anglesoverhead. The music starts quietly; performers move one byone onto the stage each in turn, then at times the nine perform-ers perform intricate, physically extraordinary, breath-takingmoves whilst each performer moves the video camera to a dif-ferent position on the stage and projects the performance in realtime, onto three screens upstage.

An explosion of colour by lighting designer MarkPennington, artistic video manipulation by Pachoud and veryloud original music by Huey Benjamin and Brendan Wolthecommences, with the dancers continuously videoing and pro-jecting their performances onto the screens.

It is evident from this performance, that astonishing stridesare being achieved in contemporary dance and just what maybe expected of a dancer should you be lucky enough win a placeat the Australian Dance Theatre: love of your chosen ca-reer, extremely strong skills and pure physical strength andstamina. Strong dance training and ethics are the basis, but danceis demanding more now and Garry Stewart’s Proximity isleading the way. - Review by Rita Crispin

AUDITIONS

■ Viola Theatre: Maiden Ladies Drop in any Sunday at 8.00pmat the Campbell Library, Melville Road, Brunswick. Director: DavidKeane. Contact 9384 1277 or [email protected]■ Williamstown Little Theatre: A Funny Thing Happened onthe Way to the Forum August 24, 25. Director: Barbara Hughes;Musical Director: Janet Provan; Choreographer: Jenny Vincent-Green. Audition bookings: 9397 3054.■ Beaumaris Theatre: 25th Annual Putnum County SpellingBee August 24, 9.30am - 2.00pm, August 26 from 6.00pm atBeaumaris Theatre, 82 Wells Road, Beaumaris. Director/Chore-ographer: Leah Osburn; Musical Director: Malcom Huddle. Audi-tion enquiries: 0422 152 024.■ Sherbrooke Theatre Company: Face to Face September 8at 2.00pm and September 9 at 7.30pm at The Factory, Factory 4, 22Jesmond Road, Croydon. Director: Deborah Fabbro. Audition book-ings: 0416 141 838.■ Essendon Theatre Company: Go Back for Murder (byAgatha Christie) September 26 at 7.30pm, September 29 at 2.00pmat the West Essendon Community Hall, Bradshaw Street (enter viaBuckley Streeet). Director: Cat Dwyer. Auditions: 0405 170019.

FEATURE SHOW: HAPPY DAYS

■ Beaumaris Theatre proudly presents from August 23-September 15 at Beaumaris Theatre, 82 Wells Rd,Beaumaris.

This lively show with toe-tapping songs is based on the bookby Garry Marshall, with music and lyrics by Paul Williams.

Directed by Debbie Keyt, musical direction is by RhondaVaughan and Camilla Klesman is choreographer.

Tickets: $25 full price, $22 members, concessions, children,groups 10+.

Bookings: www.beaumaristheatre.com.auEnquiries: 9583 6896

●●●●● Josh Aiello is Arthur ‘The Fonz’ Fonzarelli inBeaumaris Theatre’s production of Happy Days – ANew Musical, opening on August 23.

Photo: Debbie Keyt

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Victoria Pictorial Historic Photo Collection

●●●●● W W Allen Grocery Store, Hawksburn. 1929-30. ●●●●● Kelly’s General Store and Post Office, Mentone. 1889.

●●●●● Wantirna General Store. 1949. ●●●●● J Phillips, ironmongers, Abbotsford. 1872.

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BART’S YOUNG GUN

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Victorian Sport Showbiz Extra

Ted Ryan■ The Master, BartCummings, has yetagain produced anotherpromising youngster inthe Northern Meteorcolt, Eurozone.

The showy coltmade it three fromthree with another bril-liant win atRandwick in a listedevent over 1200metres.

Bart's health is notthe best at the moment,and he hasn't been wellfor sometime.

He is now ably as-sisted in a training part-nership with his grand-son, James, son ofBart's son, Anthony.

Young James has ahigh opinion of the coltand they have set himfor the CaulfieldGuineas in October.

Eurozone was an$110,000 Magic Mil-lions Yearling Salepurchase for DuncanRamage's DGRThoroughbred Ser-vices from theCarramar Parkdraft, Eurozone be-comes the first stakeswinner for the trainingcombination of Bartand young JamesCummings.

Eurozone as men-tioned earlier is a sonof ill-fated sire sensa-tion, Northern Me-teor, and is from theWest AustralianGroup winner, MissVandal.

A daughter of Don'tSay Halo, Miss Van-dal has also producedthe Group Two HillStakes winner, MissMarielle, among fivewinners from six run-ners.

Eurozone is alovely type and is worthfollowing up comeGuineas time and af-ter.

It would be a greatlift for Bart and thestable as he longinglylooks to his 13th Mel-bourne Cup winner.

LivingLegends

■ News that LivingLegends is battling tomake ends meet be-cause of Eliza Parkgoing to the wall, sentshock waves throughthose who love ourracehorses young andold, still racing or fin-ished.

Recently DrClarke, the veterinar-ian at Living Leg-ends said they werehoping to get a grant of$100,000 from theEliza Park peopleonly to see them go tothe wall.

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Sulky Snippets■ Brent Lilley was a winner at Maryboroughon Thursday, when 6-Y-0 trotter Abbotshall up-staged the pacers in the Waste Not StockfeedsPacers Handicap for C0 class over 2190 metresin a rate of 2-04.2.

A gelded son of Armbro Invasion and Sec-ond Guess, Abbotshall driven by Rod Petroffbegan safely from barrier five on the secondline to possie three back in the moving line af-ter another trotter Maoris Pocket outside theleader Its A Miss went off stride in the backstraight on the first occasion.

Trailing Pacific Maddi ahead of him threewide into the final bend, Abbotshall ran homestrongly to gain the day from Kaka Point Coastwhich followed him throughout, with PacificMaddi holding down third after leading into thestraight.■ Lisa and David Miles were winners atBendigo on Thursday, when Art Major/Nellieramagelding Artarama scored in the Evolve Account-ing 2-Y-0 Pace over 2150 metres, much to thedelight of Romsey's Les Brinkhuis and partners.

Driven by David, Artarama from gate two wasgiven a sweet passage one/one and when takenthree wide on the home turn, ran home stronglyto defeat the pacemaker High Class Mate anda death-seating Just Knew in a rate of 2-01.5.

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It has now beenbought by overseas in-terests, and it is hopedthey may come to theparty.

Living Legendsrelies on the public at-tending their establish-ment and from dona-tions.

Dr.Clarke and hisstaff, do a wonderfuljob at Sunbury, whichhouses a number offormer MelbourneCup winners and othertop racehorses, whowere given to the rac-ing set-up at Sunbury,for their picturesqueproperty.

It has been men-tioned that RacingVictoria are looking atthe situation, but in myopinion there is asimple way to helpDr.Clarke and histeam.

Over the SpringCarnival atCaulfield, MooneeValley, Flemingtonand Sporting BetPark, the clubs allowvarious charities to col-lect for their setorganisations.

Why don't weorganise for the Liv-ing Legends, peoplewith the aid of volun-teers to help, I am sure

you will get plenty ofhorse lovers to help col-lect outside the variousgates on each club's bigdays.

Another idea is toplace envelopes on din-ing tables at each oftheir big meetings overthe Spring Carnival,I am sure diners wouldgive gratefully.

I know it would behard on other charities,but we must look afterour own too.

Worthycause

■ The 2013 Mel-bourne Cup Tourwith the racing person-alities and the Cup iswell underway visitingvarious parts of Aus-tralia to show off thegold cup.

After touring the na-tion, the MelbourneCup will arrive at theAvenel PrimarySchool at 11.30 am onSaturday August 31,with children's activi-ties planned, pony rides,and in the trueMel=bourne Cupspirit a 'Best Hat" com-petition.

The tour will thenproceed onto the

Nagambie Hosteland Hospital, arrivingat Mitchelton Win-ery by 4pm in time forthe 2013 EmiratesMelbourne CupCocktail Party, featur-ing a launch of photo-graphic exhibitions.

One of the features,which a few of us luckyones will remember,photos of JeanShrimpton whoshocked the VRCmembers when shewore that famous mini-skirt to the Cup whenLight Fingers won in1965.

The 2013 Emir-ates Melbourne CupTour Cocktail Partywill feature a charityauction to raise fundsfor two great localcauses;

The NagambieBreast Cancer Sup-

port group and theNagambie HistoricPresbytery Restora-tion Project.

Set in the newly re-furbished Montageroom at Mitchelton,this event will also fea-ture a display of fiveoriginal MelbourneCups, along with thecurrent 2013 Mel-bourne Cup, whichwill be on viewthroughout the evening.

The evening willfeature interviews withEmirates Mel-bourne Cup TourAmbassadors andwill be hosted by wellknown racing personal-ity, RSN'S, ShaneAnderson.

Awards■ The racing world isgearing up for the Vic-torian Thorough-bred Awards to beheld at the ScobieBreasley MedalAwards Night on Sep-tember 1.■ Victorian Race-horse of the Year.(Odds on BlackCaviar)■ Scobie BreasleyMedal (has to be GlenBoss)■ Fred HoystedMedal for Trainers.(Peter Moody. hot fa-vorite)■ T o m m yCorrigan Medal forLeading JumpsJockey. (Steve Pate-

man, another odds on.)It is always a great

night, but as you cansee the awards seem aforegone conclusionwith all those noted thestandouts.

Moe no go■ Once again theMoe Racing Clubhas met with disap-pointment as to whenthey can resume racing.

Racing Victoriahave announced thatMoe wouldn't be al-lowed to run their firstmeeting for sometimeuntil next year.

Once again missingout on their Cup meet-ing, at their home track.

The Club one of themost progressive, hashad no luck with trackconditions for some-time, and was eagerlylooking forward to theirfirst meeting on No-vember 26 and theirCup meeting in De-cember, now it's all nogo.

The RVL are takinga cautious approach toallow the recently laidnew StrathAyr trackto consolidate.

Their Cup meetingcould go to Pak-enham, but this is notofficial.

- Ted Ryan


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LOCALS PICK UP 4 OUT OF 9Baker’s Delight

This Week’s Meetings■ Wednesday - Cobram/Bendigo,■ Thursday - Horsham/Kilmore,■ Friday - Melton,■ Saturday - Ballarat,■ Sunday - Kyabram @ Shepparton,■ Monday - Warragul,■ Tuesday - Bendigo.

Horses To Follow■ Dentona, Vinnies Jet, Top Venue, Passion-ate Embrace, Cameos Moment, Girls Go First,Jack Kelly, Desert Spur, Madam Altissimo.

Breeders’ Consolation■ At Tabcorp Park Melton on Thursday, Ararattrainer/driver Michael Bellman scored a terrificvictory with honest Die Laughing/Lily Princessmare Miss Chinoise in the Breeders Crown Con-solation for 4-Y-0 mares over 2240 metres.

Taken back of the gate from barrier four to settlenear last with the heavily backed Modern Maryleading, Miss Chinoise gained a three wide threeback trail home in the three wide line, before sweep-ing to the front in the shadows of the post to scorefrom Whispering Lass which followed her homefrom three back the markers, with Alina (one/one -three wide home turn) third after leading on straight-ening. The mile rate 1-58.3.

Held on to score win■ Avenel horseman David Aiken scored a big vic-tory with American Ideal/Champagne Blues fillyBianca Tang in the Breeders Crown 2-Y-0 Fil-lies Consolation over 2240 metres at Melton onThursday.

Starting from gate two on the second line, BiancaTang ($26.70) was sent forward shortly after the startwas effected to assume control.

Allowed to bowl, Bianca Tang had a huge leadapproaching the home turn, but after using so muchpetrol early in the piece, the effort started to tell asthe winning post came into view.

Holding a narrow margin approaching the post,Bianca Tang held on the defeat Gracenator (threeback the markers) by a head only in 1-57.4, then hadto survive a protest from the runner up. Ariosa ranhome late from the rear to finish third.

Scorched away■ Avenel based Wayne Potter enjoyed a profit-able night at Bendigo on Thursday, chalking up astable double with two three year olds - AmericalIdeal/Bring Her Back filly Sophies Ideal takingthe Bush's Produce Pace for C0 class over 2150metres and Washington Vc/Falcons Goddessgelding Colby Reilly the Tarah Youngson Happy18th 3-Y-0 Pace over the same distance.

Sophies Ideal driven by Mark Pitt ran homestrongly from mid-field in the moving line after start-ing from the extreme draw to defeat Big StormWarning which led after moving around the thirdplacegetter Heres Your Chocky which scorchedaway from outside the front row. The mile rate 1-59.7.

Colby Reilly (gate four on the second line)possied mid-field in the moving line, before lettingrip in the back straight on the first occasion withDaniel Jack in the sulky to take the lead away fromstablemate Art Of Fame (Nathan Jack).

Always in control, Colby Reilly raced byKilmore stalwart Jack Knight who now residesat Avenel, cruised to the wire 6.7 metres in advanceof Im A Peregrine and Bucksaroo who both ranhome from mid-field. The mile rate 2-00.8.

- Len Baker

■ Victorian trotting washeld at Shepparton in theGoulburn Valley on Mon-day August 12, and locallytrained runners snared fourof the nine races on thecard, the most impressivebeing 4-Y-0 AllamericanTheory/Silkari Stargelding My Mums A Starin the Gino's Pizza &Pasta Pace for C2 classover 1690 metres.

Trained adjacent to thetrack by Dave Farrar, MyMums A Star taking aconcession for Echucabased Tom Gilligan andstarting from the extremedraw, was set alight imme-diately the start was ef-fected, circling the field toassume control at the bell.

Keeping up a strongtempo, My Mums A Starran his rivals ragged (firsthalf 57.2) and althoughshortening stride as the win-ning post loomed (and hewas entitled to do so), heldon to score by a head fromIndi Bapu along the sprintlane from three back themarkers, with Sword AndPistol running on late fromwell back for third. Themile rate 1-57.4.

It was My Mums AStar's ninth victory in 47outings.

Well primed■ Nathalia trainer NoelTyndall combined withShepparton reinsmanDavid Moran to land thePetstock Pace for C1 classover 1690 metres withWashington Vc/NewYork Glow 7-Y-O geldingFergus Mactavish in arate of 2-01.5.

First up since February,Fergus Mactavish waswell primed for a forwardshowing and led throughoutfrom gate three, account-ing for Chiquita Bromacalong the sprint lane fromthree back the markers andNova Arama (one/one).

Took over■ Astute Kialla trainerSteve O'Donoghue andstable reinswoman ‘Bec’Bartley were successfulwith Life Sign/CobbityCobbity gelding No To-morrow in the Saddle-world 3-Y-0 VicbredPace over 2190 metres.

Pushing through fromgate two on the second rowto take over from DieTryin after travelling acouple of hundred metres,No Tomorrow travelledkindly all of the way, win-ning by 1.8 metres over DieTryin, with ModernDancer (three wide lastlap) third. The mile rate 2-01.2.

Stable duo■ Strathfieldsaye duoGlenn and Daryl Dou-glas landed a stable doubleduring the afternoon, with

Narkoola taking the EliteHorse Transport Pacefor C1 class over 2190metres and Please DontTalk the VictorianEquine Pace for C3 &C4 class over the samejourney.

In-form 4-Y-0 It Is I/Chunky Tanner mareNarkoola taking a mare’sconcession, ran homestrongly from the rear ofthe field after starting fromthe extreme draw, provingtoo strong for JohnNewberry's SplendidChoice off a three widetrail last last lap which shefollowed home, with IrishCrest third after trailingthe weakening leaderHoppy Joe. The mile rate2-01.9.

Reliable 5-Y-0 Live OrDie/Consensus marePlease Dont Talkchalked up her eighth vic-tory in 71 outings.

Sent forward from out-side the front row to lead,Please Dont Talk kickedclear on straightening todefeat MadamAltissimo out wide afterspending most of the racethree back the markers bya 10.2 metre margin in 2-00.3. The Black Frontmotored home from laston the marker line to finishan eye catching third.

All spoils■ Rockbank owner/trainer/driver MarioAttard received all thespoils when Major InArt/Safely Susan geld-ing Eyes On The Roadgreeted the judge in theQuest Shepparton 2-Y-O Pace over 1690 metresat .

Making his second ap-pearance at the races,Eyes On The Road wasgiven a sweet passagefrom inside the second linefollowing the polelinepacemaker A SpecialDream, before using thesprint lane to score fromHigh Class Mate (one/one) and Hooper Road(one/three - three wide lastlap) in a rate of 2-01.

Invasive■ At Cranbourne on

Tuesday, 3-Y-0OArmbroInvasion/Sunny Follygelding Invasive spacedhis rivals in theCranbourne TrainersBonanza Trotters Mo-bile for T0 & T1 class over2080 metres.

Raced by a group ofprominent harness support-ers, Invasive trained anddriven by Melton's LanceJustice had nothing morethan "a stroll in the park",leading throughout to scoreby an untouched 34.4metres in advance ofSpiros The Greek whichtrailed and Who Else(one/one) in a mile rate of2-03.4.

Lovely trip■ Parwan's JodiQuinlan was also a win-ner a Cranbourne, whenmuch improved 3-Y-0 Fal-con Seelster/SerenityFranco gelding FrancoSeelster snared The RedShed Pace for C0 classover 1609 metres in a rateof 2-00.6.

Given a lovely trip fromthe pole trailing the KiwiJack Kelly first up in Ozwhich sped across the faceof the field from gate six,Franco Seelster dashedaway along the sprint laneto bring up a hat-trick ofwins, defeating JackKelly by six metres, withClassy Guy (three backthe markers) also using thesprint lane for third.\

Set alight■ The PJ'S Timber &Hardware/Primes Dis-count Store 3-Y-0 Trot-ters Mobile for T0 & T1class over 2190 metres atMaryborough on Thurs-day was taken out byTatura trainer DavidAbrahams' Dream Va-cation/Why Worry fillyI Dreamt It with NathanJack in the sulky.

Starting from gate threeon the second row, IDreamt It settled in thesecond half of the field,with the Sydney visitorDew Drop Girl leadingfrom the pole.

Giant killer at M’borough■ Shelbourne based Michelle Eastman's beau-tifully bred 4-Y-0 Armbro Operative/Insulatedwas a giant killer when successful in the B & DTatchell Plumbing Vicbred Pace for C1 class atMaryborough, returning a mile rate of 1-57.2.

Taking a concession for Terang's Jason Lee,Aleppo Tiger from gate five was never on the track,before eventually joining the pacemaker MannyTiavon in the final circuit.

Surging clear on turning, Aleppo Tiger had theaudacity to score by two metres over the stablematesCheshire Cat off a three wide trail last lap andItscottabegood which raced in the open until AleppoTiger came along.

2 wins in succession■ At Lord's Raceway Bendigo on Thursday,Longlea trainer Glenn Sharp's promising 4-Y-0Noopy Kiosk/Disco dance gelding Gidah broughtup two wins in succession by taking the Stafford-shire Park Trotters Handicap for T0 to T2 classover 2150 metres.

Driven by Tooleen reinsman Nigel Milne,Gidah jumped straight to the front from barrier threeand was never headed, accounting for Miss Eliza andEurasian Hanover in a mile rate of 2-05.1.

Nod from judges■ Marong trainer Ken Taylor would have been"over the moon" when his 5-Y-0 Presidential Ball/Maswet Georgia mare Baracks Angel led through-out from the pole to snare the Hygain Feeds Pacefor C1 class over 2150 metres at Bendigo in a rate of2-00.3.

Driven by Haydon Gray, Baracks Angel hadto fight at the start to hold the front running fromLongtan Tigerman and after doing so, was rated atreat to get the judges nod, defeating Vinnies Jet offa three wide trail last lap from last by a neck, withBlissful Hart (three wide last lap) a neck away inthird place.

Defied strong challenge■ Great Western's Peter Manning has a waywith the trotter and former Sydneysider Com-mander Jewel made it two from two since joiningthe stable when successful in the Terang CRT StoreTrotters Handicap for T0 or better class over 2180metres at Terang on Wednesday.

A winner at Tabcorp Park Melton the previousFriday, Commander Jewel driven once again byMatt Craven stepped safely from the 20 metre mark,immediately pressing forward to take over from Ac-tion Kosmos shortly after the start.

Always in control, Commander Jewel defied astrong challenge from Terry Young's Earl Of Char-ity on straightening to register a 1.7 metre victory in2-05.6, with Action Kosmos third.

An 8-Y-0 daughter of Cr Commando and In DeFence, Commander Jewel has fronted the starter44 times for 9 wins, the majority being in NSW.

Down to final circuit■ Armstrong trainer Brooke Hansen's BlissfulHall/Art For Art Sake gelding Big Gorilla has ahuge future and chalked up his third victory in nineoutings by taking the teranghrc.com 3-Y-0 Pace over1680 metres at Terang with Neil McCallum in thesulky.

Settling with most of the field ahead of him fromgate three on the second line, Big Gorilla movedforward three wide racing for the bell, gaining a trailin the final circuit on the back of Crazy Dave.

Sweeping to the front out very wide in the shadowsof the post, Big Gorilla scored by 3.1 metres in ad-vance of a game Crazy Dave and Willow Robynin a rate of 1-58.1.

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