Children’s faults, Montreal, 1911

Montreal Standard, 1 July 1911, page 14

 

Children’s Faults

 

Don’t keep on harping about a child’s faults; don’t keep on telling him how naughty  and stupid he is; it doesn’t do any real good for it will awaken resentment in his heart.  Use love and patience and never lose your belief in a child.

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Call For proposals – Sydney Newman Book

The deadline is fast approaching – I am looking for people interested in Sydney Newman – people with expertise on the CBC (1950s), National Film Board of Canada (1940s and 1970s), the BBC and British television in the 1960s.  Please forward to anyone you think might be interested in contributing.

Thank you!

 

Call for Proposals

Sydney Newman – Producing Television and Film Across Borders

Sydney Newman – Image from Doctorwhowatch.com

Probably best known as the creator of the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who, Sydney Newman played a significant role in the production of television and film both in his native Canada and in the United Kingdom.  The Museum of Broadcast Communications describes Newman as “the most significant agent in the development of British television drama.”[1]  But this is only one aspect of Sydney Newman’s (1917-1997) professional experience.  Newman enjoyed a long and interesting career in broadcasting and films.  While his ‘claim to fame’ might very well be as creator of Doctor Who and Avengers, he also worked at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as Supervising director of features, documentaries and outside broadcasts (1952-1958), the Associated British Corporation as head of Drama (1958-1962), the British Broadcasting Corporation as head of Drama (1962-1967), and the National Film Board of Canada as a film editor (1941-1949) and as Commissioner (1970-1975).  He then became a special advisor on film to the Canadian Secretary of State, and was Chief Creative Consultant for the Canadian Film Development Corporation (1978-1984).

 

His work at these institutions was critical in the development of Canadian and British broadcasting, and popular culture.  His influence was far-reaching.  But thus far, while there have been some studies which have taken into account the particular roles which he has played during his career, no study has taken his roles together, to provide a more complete picture.

 

This peer-reviewed collection seeks to understand Sydney Newman’s career in both Canada and in Britain by curating a number of studies on his various professional roles and works. This includes providing an understanding of the world of broadcast television and film, in both countries during the 50s-70s, and the visions of culture he articulated in his work.   Articles can deal with specific aspects of his career, specific institutions, specific programs he developed, his influence as a producer/filmmaker, or administrator.  Biographical articles are also welcome.  The aim is that the collection taken as a whole will provide a balanced look at his varied career in two countries during periods of significant development and change in the entertainment industry of both.

 

[Please note that Sydney Newman’s Memoirs Head of Drama: The Memoir of Sydney Newman will be released by ECW Press on 5^th September 2017.]

 

Proposals should be approximately two hundred words, and sent to gilliandoctor@gmail.com by the 30th of September 2017.  A decision will be communicated by the 30th of November, and final articles should be submitted by the 15 July 2018.

 

Gillian I Leitch, PhD

Independent Scholar

Co-Chair, Science Fiction Fantasy Area, PCA/ACA

 

 

 

 

Key Words: Canada, United Kingdom, National Film Board of Canada, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, British Broadcasting Corporation, Associated British Corporation, television, film, policy, public broadcasting

[1] http://www.museum.tv/eotv/newmansydne.htm [Accessed 2 April 2017]

 

Halloween, Montreal, 1880

Montreal Gazette 27 October 1880 page 3

New Queen’s Hall

Halloweeen!

Grand Annual Concert of the Montreal Caledonian Society

On Friday Evening Oct. 29

The Committee have much pleasure in announcing that

Louis Honore Frechette Esq

Poet-Laureat de l’Academie Francaise

And the

Rev JF Stevenson, LLB DD

Have kindly consented to deliver addresses suitable for the occasion.

The following distinguished Artists have been engaged:-

Miss Laura Schirmer, Soprano, Strakosch Operatic Company; Miss Maggie Barr (Second appearance) Sweetest of Scottish Ballad Singers; Mrs T Charles Watson, Dramatic reader; Mr HK Maitland, the famous Scottish vocalist; Mr W Mather Porteous, Baritone from Boston; Mr Wm Stuart, Violinist.  Mr E Hilton will preside at the Piano.

General admission, 50c; Reserved 75c and $1 according to location.  Tickets to be had at DeZouche’s, St James Street, who have the plans of the hall and will locate the seats.

Doors open at 7 pm.  Chair taken at 8.

 

Hebrew Graduates of McGill, 1880

Montreal Daily Star, 8 July 1880, page 2

The Hebrew Graduates of McGill

In the appointment of Mr Lewis A Hart as lecturer in McGill University upon the theory and practice of Notarial Deeds and Proceedings, the public will recognize another instance of the wisdom and liberality which has long distinguished the University in the choice of its servants.  The appointment is [illegible] pledge to the friends of civil and religious liberty that no prejudices of class or creed find place in our chief seat of learning. Mr Hart is of the Hebrew faith, and his name is but one of a  list which has already done honour to McGill.  Between thirty-five and forty years ago and at a time when the leading schools of the mother country had their doors closed to all but the faithful, in other words to all who could not or would not subscribe to the thirty-nine articles, McGill took the initiative in the enlightened and liberal course which she has since held, by appointing to a professorial chair the Rev De Sola, then as now esteemed generally as a semitic scholar and writer.  The step, as such steps must, proved to the advantage of the University. The graduates of Hebrew faith have since been neither few nor far between, and have in many different fields reflected honour upon their Alma Mater.  Only a few sessions back a graduate in the medical school, Dr Vineberg, went out from the University leaving behind him a reputation even deeper than was explicable by his having carried off the Holmes gold medal, and already he has made his mark in a distant land. A recent number of the Waimate Times, Canterbury, New Zealand, refers to him in the most honourable terms in connection with his work in hospital there, and with the details of a remarkable surgical operation there performed. Scarcely less favourably known in our midst is Dr Levi.  In England, Mr I Ascher, a graduate in law, has obtained a favourable reputation for his literary work, some of his writings having called forth the unqualified commendation of Longfellow. Both here and in Quebec, also, several graduates in arts are showing that a liberal culture may go hand in hand, and is well nigh essential to an elevated position in the commercial world.

 

Queen’s Plate, Montreal, 1843

Times and Daily Colonial Advertiser, Montreal 10 April 1843, page 2

 

The Queen’s Plate

We have authority for stating that the President of the “Montreal Turf Club” has received from the Governor General, His Excellency’s compliance with the request of the Club, that the Queen’s Plate would be run for, this year, over the Saint Pierre Course, near this city.

Cure for Corns, 1825

Cure found in Library and Archives Canada- and please, please don’t try this at home!!!!

Ick.

 

Infallible Cure for Corns

Take two ounces of gum ammonium, two ounces of yellow wax, six drachims of verigris melt them together, and spread the composition on a soft piece of cotton or linen; cut away as much of the corn as you can with a knife, before you apply the plaster, which must be received in a fortnight if the corn is not by that time gone.

Taken from the Western Almanack of 1825, this 25^th day of March Ad 1825.

College Fashion, 1922 – Etiquette

Etiquette: The Blue Book of Social Usage by Emily Post, New York and London, Funk & Wagnalls Co, 1922/37.

341

If the college should happen to be in a warm climate, naturally foulard dresses or cotton prints would take the place of the warm woolens. But a college that is, let’s say, snowbound for many months, it is important that the clothes be warm and that warm gloves, low-heeled shoes and galoshes be included. Nothing could be more unappealing to a boy than a girl in such unsuitable clothes that she can take no part in any outdoor sports.  High-heeled evening slippers in which to walk on frozen snow, and think fluffy clothes when the thermometer is zero, will not impress any boy as alluring, but will make him wish he hadn’t handicapped himself with such a nuisance.

[Hmmm – so clearly the education was not the important part of college – fashion people – fashion and getting a husband]

Borden Naval Policy, Montreal, 1912

Montreal Daily Star, 7 December 1912, page 3

 

Unveiled

Borden Naval Policy

Snobbery is not vice but virtue, Montreal, 1930

Montreal Gazette, 24 Jan 1930, page 9

Snobbery is not vice but virtue

Is laudable quality, as it denotes ambition, says Prof Du Roure

Famous Persons Cited

Gene Tunney Victim of Anti-snobs, declares lecturer at meeting of Ligue de la Jeunesse

Snobbery should be regarded not as a vice but as a virtue, for it is a sign of ambition, which is undeniably a worthy quality.  So affirmed Professor Rene Du Roure, of McGill University, in addressing a largely attended meeting of La Ligue de la Jeunesse Feminine yesterday in the rose room of the Windsor Hotel. The persons who should be regarded with contempt are not the snobs, but the anti-snobs or “snobophobes,” the lecturer declared.

Noted persons given as examples of snobbery by Prof Du Roure, who remarked, incidentally, that snobbery was more commonly found in women than men, numbered four, of whom three were men.  They were the Duc de Saint-Simon, Jean de la Bruyere, Madame de Sevigne and Marcel Proust, the last being termed by the lecturer, “the prince of snobs.” Saint-Simon’s snobbishness could be attributed to the fact that although he held a dukedom, it was of recent date he, in fact being only the second holder of the title. De la Bruyere had shown himself in the family of the Prince de Conde- because this brought him into an aristocratic environment which otherwise he could not have penetrated.  Madame de Sevigne although an aristocrat had revealed herself as a snob in one of her letters to her daughter concerning her attendance at a play given at a school at St Cyr, and attended by the King and Madame de Maintenon.  Madame de Sevigne had shown in her letter that she had paid no attention to the play but had been concerned with observing the duchesses, who were seated in the row in front of her, and recorded in detail a conversation between herself and the King.

Proust, a man of good bourgeois family, showed himself preoccupied with the idea of frequenting aristocratic society as evidenced in “A la Recherce du Temps Perdu.”

Gene Tunney was cited as a victim of anti-snobbery, when on returning to America, he had refused to see more than a couple of his former associates of the boxing ring, who would have taken him in triumph to the nearest ‘speakeasy’ said Prof Du Roure.  This recently acquired “high hat” conduct had brought him undeservedly the execrations of his acquaintances, although he should have been admired for it.

Those who follow the domestic life of Jiggs and Maggie are apt to sympathise with Jiggs are apt to sympathise with Jiggs, often frustrated in his attempts to consort with friends of days before his rise to affluence, and to disapprove of Maggie in her attempts to make him cultivate the acquaintance of counts of more or less authenticity.  But Maggie is right, the lecturer felt.

The meeting was opened by the president Miss Helene Grenier, and Prof Du Roure was introduced by Miss Madeleine Kent.  A vote of thanks was proposed by Miss Annette Dore.