PHILLIPS o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-06-04 published
Raymond
Kenneth "
Ken"
HAGEN
In loving memory of Raymond Kenneth "Ken"
HAGEN who passed away
Monday evening, May 26th, 2003 at Mindemoya Hospital at the age of 87 years.
Beloved husband of Pearl
(SEWELL)
HAGEN predeceased 1982 and Florence
(McCULLIGH)
HAGEN of Mindemoya. Loving father of Mary
BEAULIEU
(husband Guil) of Toronto, George
HAGEN (wife
Sharon.)
Bob
HAGEN
(wife Linda) both of Lively, Daniel
HAGEN (wife Suzanne) of Calgary,
Susan RICHER and infant baby Martha Jane both predeceased,
stepchildren Leila
THURESON (husband Peter,) Karen
VANZANT (husband Clyde
predeceased,) Harley
BAYER (wife
Lorraine) and Shirley
PHILLIPS predeceased.
Cherished grandfather of 24 grandchildren, 17 great grandchildren and
4 great great grandchildren. Dear son of Dan and May
HAGEN,
predeceased. Dear brother of Edna
JACKSON of Sault Ste. Marie and
Alex HAGEN predeceased. Sadly missed by many nieces and nephews.
Rested at the Jackson and Barnard Funeral Home, 233 Larch St.
Sudbury. Funeral service was held in the R. J. Barnard Chapel on
Thursday May 29, 2003 at 1p.m. Interment was held in the Lakeview
Cemetery, Meaford, Friday at 11 a.m. A memorial service was held on
Saturday, May 31 in the Mindemoya United Church.
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PHILLIPS o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-06-11 published
Arthur
Thomas
H.
BREATHAT
In loving memory of Arthur "Art"
BREATHAT, a resident of Evansville, died at the
Mindemoya Hospital on Thursday, June 5, 2003 at the age of 50 years.
He was born in Sudbury,
son of Gerald
BREATHAT and Pauline
(CRANSTON)
VANEVERY.
He worked as a machine operator at the Lafarge Quarry, Meldrum Bay for the past 9 years.
Art enjoyed hunting, fishing and a good game of cards.
Dearly loved husband of Marilyn
(DAMPIER)
BREATHAT of Evansville. Loving father
of Cheryl Lee
BREATHAT and Aaron
PHILLIPS and Arthur James
BREATHAT. Dear brother
of Robbie and Judy
BJORKLUND of Spring Bay, Bonnie and husband Dave
PATTERSON
of Hornepayne and Peggy
FARQUHAR and Jim
DAVIES of North Bay. Also survived by several
nieces and nephews.
Friends and relatives were received at the Culgin Funeral Home on
Monday, June 9. There will be no funeral service and cremation will follow.
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Theresa "
Tessie"
Elizabeth
MARTEL
In loving memory of Tessie
MARTEL, a resident of the Manitoulin
Lodge, Gore Bay and formerly of Little Current passed away at the
Lodge on Wednesday June 4, 2003 at the age of 94 years.
She was born in The Slash, daughter of the late Thomas and Fannie
McMULLEN)
BONUS.
She was a homemaker, and enjoyed knitting, cooking and crocheting. Tessie was
a hard working wife and mother, and will be fondly remembered for her pride, love
and enjoyment of her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren.
Predeceased by her beloved husband Fred
MARTEL in 1952. Loving and
loved mother of Frances
DOMICH (husband Stan,) Winnipeg, Darlene
WILSON (husband Bill,) Gore Bay, Allan
MARTEL (wife
Flora predeceased) Collingwood,
Donald MARTEL (wife Ruth), Toronto, Donna
SCHEELER, Wallaceburg, Norma
GREEN
(husband Allan,) Bruce Mines, Wayne
MARTEL (wife
Mercedes,)
Winnipeg and Terry
MARTEL
(wife Jodie), Belleville. Predeceased by two children Gerald (Sonny) and Norman (Normie).+ Dear sister of Harry BONUS and Leah
PHILLIPS both of Collingwood and predeceased by
brothers Allan, John, Herman, William and sisters Cecelia and Loretta. Dear grandmother
of 16 grandchildren, 9 great grandchildren. Also survived by many nieces and nephews.
Friends called the Culgin Funeral Home on Thursday, June 5, 2003.
The funeral service was held on Friday, June 6 from the Wm. G. Turner
Chapel of the Culgin Funeral Home with Pastor Les
CRAMP officiating.
Interment Mountainview Cemetery, Little Current.
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PHILLIPS o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-12-10 published
Sarah
Jane
(Jennie)
SPRY
In loving memory of Sarah Jane (Jennie)
SPRY,
November 14, 1912 to December 4, 2003.
Jennie SPRY, a resident of the Manitoulin Lodge for the past 5 years, and formerly of Mindemoya,
passed away at the Lodge on Thursday, December 4, 2003 at the age of 91 years.
She was born at Manitowaning, daughter of the late Thomas and Letitia
PHILLIPS.
Jennie had a variety of interests, which included gardening, cooking and quilting.
Her greatest joy and love was her family. A wonderful and loving wife, mother and grandmother,
sister and friend, she will be remembered fondly by all her family and all who knew her.
Her beloved husband Leonard (Toot)
SPRY predeceased in 1992.
Cherished mother of Jean
PEARSON (husband Norris predeceased,) Evelyn
TAILOR/TAYLOR and husband Ted,
Leonard SPRY
Jr., and his wife
Carol and Keith
SPRY and his wife Colleen. Forever
remembered by seven grandchildren, twelve great grandchildren and one great great granddaughter.
Beloved sister of Alice
SPRY (husband Lloyd predeceased), and Harry
PHILLIPS (wife Bessie predeceased).
Predeceased by grand_sons Mike, Tom and Tim and son-in-law Norris
PEARSON.
Friends called The Mindemoya United Church on Sunday, December 7, 2003.
The funeral service was conducted at the church on Monday, December 8, 2003 with Pastor Maxine
McVEY
officiating. Spring interment in Mindemoya Cemetery.
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CRASHLEY, Lt. Col. J. Douglas, C.M., C.D.
Died Thursday, March 27th, 2003 at the Doctor's Hospital in Nassau,
Bahamas. Born in Toronto May 5, 1921.
son of the late John Willard
and Doris Sanderson
CRASHLEY.
Predeceased by his beloved wife
Elizabeth INGLIS. Dear brother of Doris Crashley
PHILLIPS
(Brian)
of Kennebunk, Maine. He will also be sadly missed by his nieces
and nephews. He was a dear friend of Colleen
CARMICHAEL and family.
He served with the Governor General's Horse Guards from 1940
was on active service with them from 1941-1945 in England and
Italy. He commanded the regiment from 1952-1954. The motto of
the regiment, Nulli Secondus (second to none), aptly describes
him. He was Past Chairman of the Governor General's Horse Guards
Board of Trustees.
He served as Division Chairman for the United Appeal for four
years, Past Chairman of the City of Toronto Planning Board, Metropolitan
Toronto Planning Board and the City of Toronto Redevelopment
Advisory Council. Past President of the Board of Trade of Metropolitan
Toronto 1974-1975 and headed a delegation of 100 members on a
tour of Eastern Europe and the Baltic countries. Past President
of the Art Gallery of Ontario 1972-1974 and Chairman of the King
Tutankhamen Exhibition Committee in 1979.
He was the owner of Elgin Motors, Walker House Hotel, Ascot Hotel
and Central Precision, and a major shareholder of many other
corporations.
In 1978, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada. He was
most proud of this honour.
He was a member of the Toronto Club, The York Club, Lyford Cay
Club, Royal Canadian Military Institute and The Badminton and
Racquet Club.
He will be remembered for his foresight, meticulous attention
to detail and business acumen. He had the capacity for making
strong personal relationships with many people.
The funeral service will be held at The Cathedral Church of St.
James, 65 Church Street, Toronto, at 11: 00 a.m. on Monday, April
In lieu of flowers, a memorial donation to the Governor General's
Horse Guards Foundation, 137 Hall Street, Richmond Hill, Ontario
L4C 4N9 or to a charity of your choice would be most appreciated.
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PHILLIPS o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-05-24 published
He ran O'Keefe Centre in its prime
Former accountant was an innovator: He booked a show using surtitles
and a play about an interracial romance
By Carol COOPER
Special to The Globe and Mail Saturday, May 24,
2003 - Page F10
Late one spring night in 1963, a phone call awoke Hugh
WALKER,
the first managing director and president of Toronto's O'Keefe
Centre for the Performing Arts. A police officer wanted to know
if "we had a mad Russian called Nuri-something dancing at the
O'Keefe Centre," Mr.
WALKER wrote in his book, The O'Keefe Centre:
Thirty Years of Theatre History.
After the opening performance of Marguerite and Armand, in which
he starred with Dame Margot
FONTEYN,
Rudolph
NUREYEV had danced
up the centre of Yonge Street, attempting headstands on cars
as he went. Police intervened in the interest of Mr.
NUREYEV's
safety, but after a scuffle, the dancer landed in jail for causing
a disturbance.
Endlessly kind, courtly and patient, Mr.
WALKER notified the
Royal
Ballet with whom Mr.
NUREYEV was performing, and the dancer
was released.
Mr. WALKER, the man who smoothed the way for the stars appearing
at the O'Keefe as overseer of its operations and who had previously
supervised its construction, has died at the age of 93.
O'Keefe Centre, now named the Hummingbird Centre, opened on October
1, 1960, with the first performance of Camelot in the country's
first Broadway musical. The show starred Richard
BURTON,
Julie
ANDREWS and Robert
GOULET and played to a glittering crowd.
In The Toronto Star, Gordon
SINCLAIR wrote: "A salaam to Hugh
WALKER for bringing the O'Keefe Centre home on time after 30
months of strain on his patience, nerves and humour."
Mr. WALKER had, in fact, developed an ulcer during the centre's
construction, and the strain didn't end with its opening. Shortly
after the curtain, his wife, Shirley, smelled smoke. It turned
out to be a burning escalator motor, and after the fire was extinguished,
Mary JOLLIFFE, the centre's publicist, ran to a hotel across
the street for air freshener. The audience came out at intermission
none the wiser.
It took royalty to solve another problem. At the time, temperance
sentiment remained strong in Toronto, and teetotallers criticized
the fact the O'Keefe was funded by, and named for, a brewery.
Mr. WALKER set about to gain acceptance for the centre. Learning
that the Queen was visiting Canada in June of 1959, he convinced
her aides that she should stop briefly at the construction site
and view a model of the building.
Before an audience of arts patrons and the press, the Queen inspected
the model and showed such an interest that she overstayed her
schedule, delaying the start of the Queen's Plate, her next stop,
by half an hour.
Mr. WALKER didn't know that the Queen or the O'Keefe would be
in his future when he became executive assistant to Canadian
Breweries and Argus Corp. owner E. P.
TAILOR/TAYLOR in 1955.
It was only after his hiring that he learned that Mr.
TAILOR/TAYLOR
had responded to a challenge made by Nathan
PHILLIPS, then mayor
of Toronto, for industry to build a desperately needed performing
arts theatre in the city. For the project, Mr.
TAILOR/TAYLOR gave $12-million
and the services of his new assistant.
With the slogan "To bring the best of live entertainment to the
greatest number of people at the lowest possible prices," the
3, 211-seat multipurpose theatre, designed by modernist architect
Peter DICKINSON, quickly became a predominant Canadian venue,
predating the Place des Arts in Montreal and the National Arts
Centre in Ottawa.
Pre-Broadway shows, musicals, ballets and plays from around the
world came to the O'Keefe and it replaced Maple Leaf Gardens
as the Toronto venue for the Metropolitan Opera. International
stars such as Louis
ARMSTRONG, Paul
ANKA, Tom
JONES, Diana
ROSS
and Harry BELAFONTE performed there.
During one of Mr.
BELAFONTE's many performances at the centre,
he experimented with a wireless mike. Accidentally, he tuned
into the police frequency. "The O'Keefe audience had the unusual
experience of listening in on a lot of police messages, while
the police were able to enjoy hearing
BELAFONTE sing Ma-til-da!,"
Mr. WALKER wrote.
Another O'Keefe story concerned Carol
CHANNING.
When the performer
appeared at the centre in Hello, Dolly, she needed to make a
number of quick costume changes. Since there wasn't enough time
for Ms. CHANNING to run backstage to her dressing room, the crew
put up a roofless tent in the wings.
From the fly bridge, the stagehands looked down on Ms.
CHANNING,
remaining quiet while they watched her change. After her last
performance, she looked up at them and said, "Well, boys, hope
you've enjoyed the show. 'Bye now."
Other more critical events are associated with the O'Keefe. In
1964, while awaiting her divorce from Eddie
FISHER,
Elizabeth
TAILOR/TAYLOR stayed with Richard
BURTON while he starred in Sir John
GIELGUD's production of Hamlet at the centre. One weekend between
performances, the couple stole off to Montreal and married.
And in 1974, ballet dancer Mikhail
BARYSHNIKOV arranged his defection
from the Soviet Union at the centre.
During the early 1960s, the O'Keefe became home to the National
Ballet of Canada and the Canadian Opera Company. In his book,
Mr. WALKER credits the centre with allowing the companies' artistic
growth.
Still, not everyone spoke so kindly about the O'Keefe. Many critics
denounced its acoustics and less-than-intimate size.
For that, Mr.
WALKER had a ready answer. In 1985, Herbert
WHITTAKER,
then The Globe and Mail's drama critic, wrote: "Against the fading
chorus of these ancient complaints, I hear an echo, the rather
quiet British tones of Hugh
WALKER: 'We know it [O'Keefe Centre]
is too large for legitimate theatre, Herbert, but think of all
the things Toronto would have missed if E. P.
TAILOR/TAYLOR hadn't built
it when he did?' "
Born on March 2, 1910, in Scotland to Brigadier-General James
Workman WALKER, who fought in the Middle East during the First
World War, and Jane
STEVENSON,
Hugh
Percy
WALKER was the middle
of three children. After earning a B.A. at Cambridge University,
he became a chartered accountant.
Mr. WALKER worked with firms in London, Palestine, Quebec, Scotland
and Michigan before being employed by Mr.
TAILOR/TAYLOR.
Although a great lover of theatre, upon his appointment as the
O'Keefe's managing director, Mr.
WALKER had little experience
with its business side. This led to some innocent faux pas, such
as when he booked a photo shoot with the Camelot stars at 10
in the morning, impossibly early for actors. In response, Mr.
BURTON exclaimed: "What, in the middle of the night?" Ms.
JOLLIFFE
said.
Still, director and theatre critic Mavor
MOORE said Mr.
WALKER
dealt with difficulties well. "He was very smooth," Dr.
MOORE
said. "He was very expert at handling people and situations.
He was a calm man."
Mr. WALKER trusted his staff, Ms.
JOLLIFFE said. "He was willing
to take direction from staff people who had already been in the
business, and that was unusual."
And he was gracious and courteous. "He gave great dignity to
the performing arts profession and he treated people wonderfully,"
Ms. JOLLIFFE said. "He was a perfect model of a former era
of English gentlemen."
Known for his hospitality, Mr.
WALKER always visited the stars
in their dressing rooms before opening night and entertained
them afterward at First Nighters' parties with Mrs.
WALKER.
When the
WALKERs took Leonard
BERNSTEIN to the Rosedale Country
Club, Mr. WALKER tolerated Mr.
BERNSTEIN's sending back the wine
three times, Ms.
JOLLIFFE said.
Along with bringing in commercial performances from the United
States and Britain, Mr.
WALKER showed some daring in booking
shows. In 1961, Kwamina, the story of a romantic relationship
between a white woman and a black man, played the O'Keefe.
Acknowledging
Toronto's
Italian population, Mr.
WALKER arranged
for Rugantino, the biggest musical hit in Italian history, to
play at the O'Keefe in 1963. It was the first foreign-language
attraction in North America to use "surtitles," and although
plagued with technical difficulties, it played to 60-per-cent
capacity.
Things changed for Mr.
WALKER and O'Keefe Centre in the late
1960s. Initially, the centre had been a subsidiary of the O'Keefe
Brewing Co., owned by Canadian Breweries, and was never intended
to make a profit. The company wrote off its operating losses
and property taxes.
When Mr. TAILOR/TAYLOR retired in 1966, directors of Canadian Breweries
decided that they could not continue to pay the O'Keefe's high
taxes. To resolve the situation, Metropolitan Toronto was given
the centre in 1968.
A new and inexperienced board of directors brought a new way
of doing things, and the centre's losses began to mount.
Mr. WALKER wrote that after the disastrous 1971-72 season, "what
followed was not the happiest part of my 15 years at the O'Keefe
Centre, and I would like to forget some of the things that happened."
In his final working years, Mr.
WALKER dealt with both the centre's
internal changes and rising competition from the Royal Alexandra
Theatre, the St. Lawrence Centre and emerging alternative theatres.
After his retirement in 1975, he spent 10 years at the Guild
of All Arts in Scarborough, Ontario, as the director of Guildwood
Hall, curating former Guild Inn owner Spencer
CLARK's historical
architectural collection of artifacts, writing and illustrating
a booklet on them, curating Mr.
CLARK's art collection, making
a film and lecturing.
He and his wife lived on the Guild's grounds for four years in
the now-demolished Corycliff, where they hosted parties whose
guests included many stars from the O'Keefe days.
Along with writing the O'Keefe Centre history while in his 80s,
Mr. WALKER golfed.
Sue NIBLETT, who worked with him at the Guild, recalls seeing
Mr. WALKER nattily attired in golf clothing and Wellingtons standing
in two feet of snow driving balls into Lake Ontario.
"He had a love of life that I've never experienced or met in
anybody before," Ms.
NIBLETT said. "He didn't waste a day of
his life as far as I could see."
Mr. WALKER died on May 2 and leaves daughters Katrina
PARKER
and Zoë ALEXANDER and two grandchildren. Another daughter, Sarah
CHENIER/CHENÉ, and his wife, Shirley, predeceased him.
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Creator of Savage God
Theatre director was a Canadian nationalist, a fan of the avant
garde and a champion of playwright George Ryga. He was also seen
as a kook, a dilettante and a street fighter
By Tom HAWTHORN
Special to The Globe and Mail Saturday, October
11, 2003 - Page F9
John JULIANI was a provocateur in life as on stage. A man passionate
about the possibilities of theatre, he roused reverence in some,
antipathy in others.
His most infamous act was to challenge the Stratford Festival's
newly hired artistic director to a duel. Robin
PHILLIPS's offence
was that he is British when Mr.
JULIANI and others were certain
a land as grand as Canada was capable of producing a director
for its Shakespearean theatre.
What he called a "romantic gesture with tongue in cheek" earned
cheers from Canadian theatre directors and sneers from much of
the theatre establishment.
Mr. JULIANI, who has died at the age of 63, was an unabashed
Canadian nationalist, a dedicated fan of the avant garde, an
ardent defender of the right of actors to a decent living, a
champion of playwright George Ryga and a tireless figure so commanding
as to develop an intense loyalty among acolytes.
At the same time, he was seen as a kook, a dilettante and a street
fighter. One critic called him "the Tiger Williams of Canadian
theatre," his pugnacious approach earning him comparison to a
notorious hockey goon. In his defence, Mr.
JULIANI explained
that he was merely a "true believer" with opinions on controversial
subjects.
Mr. JULIANI's credits were long and varied, including spontaneous
Sixties street happenings such as the staging of his own wedding
as a theatrical performance and brief appearances on such 1990s
television dramas as The X-Files.
From 1982 until 1997, Mr.
JULIANI was executive producer of radio
drama for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio in Vancouver.
He helped to bring to air many celebrated productions, including
the brilliant and provocative Dim Sum Diaries by playwright Mark
LEIREN-
YOUNG.
Mr. JULIANI also possessed a head-turning beauty, with a profile
as striking as a Roman bust. Radio host Bill
RICHARDSON commented
on his handsomeness at a raucous memorial after his death, calling
him a "hunka hunka burnin' love." Some said he had the looks
and bearing of a Shakespearean king.
John Charles
JULIANI was born in Montreal on March 24, 1940.
Raised in a working-class neighbourhood, he attended Loyola College
and was an early graduate from the fledgling National Theatre
School.
He spent two seasons as an actor at Stratford before being hired
as a theatre teacher at Simon Fraser University in 1966. The
new university atop Burnaby Mountain east of Vancouver was a
hotbed of radicalism in politics and the arts. Mr.
JULIANI bristled
at an imposed curriculum and so infuriated the administration
that he was banned from the campus in 1969.
Mr. JULIANI was heavily influenced by the writing of Antonin
Artaud, a Surrealist who championed a theatre based on the imagination.
He long sought to erase the barrier between scripted text and
sensory impression, between performer and audience, to mixed
success.
After moving to the West Coast, Mr.
JULIANI launched a series
of experiments in theatre. He credited these productions to Savage
God, which was less a troupe in the traditional sense than a
title granted to any performance involving Mr.
JULIANI.
The name
came from William Butler Yeats's awestruck reaction to Alfred
Jarry's Ubu Roi: "After us, the Savage God?"
Savage God defied explanation, though many tried and even Mr.
JULIANI offered suggestions. Savage God was "an anthology of
question marks," he once said. (It was, after all, the 1960s.)
"Savage God is simply the Imagination," he told the Vancouver
Sun, "insatiable, unrelenting, fiercely energetic, wary of categorization,
fond of contradiction and inveterately iconoclastic."
In January, 1970, Mr.
JULIANI married dancer Donna
WONG, a ceremony
conducted as a Savage God performance at the Vancouver Art Gallery.
He repeated the process at the christening of his son. Ms.
WONG-
JULIANI
would be his domestic and drama partner for more than three decades.
In 1971, the streets of Vancouver were the scene of several spontaneous
and sometimes incomprehensible -- performances under the aegis
of PACET ("pilot alternative complement to existing theatre.")
The $18,000 project, funded by the federal government, incorporated
Gestalt therapy sessions in street performances.
Theatrical events took place willy-nilly across the city, including
malls, the airport, the library and Stanley Park. Admission was
not charged, nor did all spectators appreciate their role as
audience to avant-garde performance. A scene in which bicyclists
wearing gas masks pedalled along city streets left many scratching
their heads in puzzlement.
In 1974, Mr.
JULIANI moved to Toronto to set up a graduate theatre-studies
program at York University.
He called the program
PEAK ("
Performance,
Example,
Animation,
Katharsis") and perhaps should have found an acronym for
PEEK,
as the instructor and his class stripped naked to protest against
a lack of classroom space.
The challenge to the new Stratford artistic director in 1974
was written on a piece of parchment and delivered in London by
Don RUBIN, a York colleague. Alas, Mr.
RUBIN could not find a
proper gauntlet and wound up ceremoniously striking Mr.
PHILLIPS
with a red rubber glove, an absurd note to a theatrical protest.
In 1978, Mr.
JULIANI took the stage in a Toronto production of
Children of Night, portraying Janusz Korczak, a doctor and teacher
who ran an orphanage in the Warsaw ghetto. The critics were appalled.
Gina MALLET of the Toronto Star said Mr.
JULIANI's performance
sullied Dr. Korczak's memory. Jay
SCOTT of The Globe and Mail,
noting "the dreadfulness" of Mr.
JULIANI's acting, said the production
robbed the dead of their dignity.
From the stage, Mr.
JULIANI challenged the Star's critic to a
public debate on the aesthetics of theatre. He also wrote a letter
to the editor, noting that Holocaust survivors in the audience
had wholeheartedly embraced the production.
Mr. JULIANI wound up in Edmonton, where he continued to condemn
the "exorbitance, elitism and museum theatre" of the establishment.
In 1982, he directed and co-wrote Latitude 55°, a feature film
with just two characters -- a slick woman from the city and a
Polish potato farmer -- set in a snowbound cabin. "It is filled
with a passionate conviction that evaporates in pretentious pronouncements,"
The
Globe's
Carole
CORBEIL wrote, "filled with truthful moments
that evaporate in the desire to use every narcissistic trick
in the book."
In a 1983 book examining the alternative theatre movement in
Canada, author Renate
USMIANI devoted most of a chapter to Mr.
JULIANI, a decision that got her a scathing rebuke from a reviewer
who considered him worthy of little more than a footnote.
"His works are curiosities; at best, they are worthy experiments
in Artaudian theory," Boyd
NEIL wrote in a Globe review. "But
they are neither popular... nor influential."
Mr. JULIANI's years at Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio
in Vancouver were both productive and successful. Among the many
projects he directed was a three-part adaptation of Margaret
Laurence's
The
Diviners; King Lear, starring John
COLICOS; a
13-part series titled, Disaster! Acts of God or Acts of Man?"
and, famously, Ryga's The Ecstasy of Rita Joe, with Leonard
GEORGE
portraying a role once assumed on stage by his late father, Chief
Dan GEORGE.
The surprise selection of Mr.
GEORGE was typical
of Mr. JULIANI's often brilliant casting.
Mr. JULIANI directed a 1989 production of The Glass Menagerie
at the Vancouver Playhouse with Jennifer Phipps and Morris Panych.
Globe reviewer Liam
LACEY praised a production that "opens up
the play like an old treasure chest, and lets in some fresh air
without rearranging or disturbing the work's original grandeurs
and caprices."
Four years later, Mr.
JULIANI was directing a production of the
mystery thriller Sleepwalker when actor Peter
HAWORTH took sick
shortly before opening night. The director suddenly found himself
as the male lead. "Not even the most colossal egotist would want
to do this," he said.
Dim Sum Diaries, a series of monologues written by Mr.
LEIREN-
YOUNG,
received protests when aired by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Radio in 1991. One episode, entitled The Sequoia, in which the
white vendor of a luxury home launches a tirade against the Hong
Kong immigrant who cuts down two rare and spectacular trees on
the property, was accused of being racist. The playwright's well-intentioned
exploration of stereotyping was charged with fostering those
very prejudices.
After directing Dim Sum Diaries, Mr.
JULIANI urged the playwright
to tackle an issue that was dividing his church. Mr.
LEIREN-
YOUNG
remembers replying: "You're talking same-sex marriage in the
Anglican church and you want a straight Jewish guy to write this?"
The resulting play, titled Articles of Faith: The Battle of St.
Alban's, was staged at Christ Church Cathedral in downtown Vancouver
to great acclaim.
The collaborations between young playwright and veteran director
succeeded in achieving Mr.
JULIANI's goal of inspiring dialogue
through theatre.
Mr. JULIANI had a reputation as a demanding taskmaster for novice
and veteran actors alike. Rehearsals were jokingly called "Savage
God Boot Camp."
He maintained a breakneck pace, both in the theatre and in the
boardroom. He was artistic co-director of Opera Breve, a small
company dedicated to nurturing young singers; president of the
Union of British Columbia Performers (Alliance of Canadian Cinema,
Television and Radio Artists); and, a former national president
of the Directors Guild of Canada, among many boards on which
he served.
Feeling fatigued in early August, Mr.
JULIANI was diagnosed with
liver cancer. The end came swiftly. He died on August 21 at Lions
Gate Hospital in North Vancouver.
He leaves his wife of 33 years, Donna
WONG-
JULIANI, and a son,
Alessandro
JULIANI, an actor. He also leaves brothers Richard
and Norman.
(Wit was long a part of the
JULIANI mystique. The family pet,
a canine named Beau Beau, was referred to in the family's paid
obituary notice as a Savage Dog.)
For one who roused such passions, Mr.
JULIANI felt that he led
a conservative life. "I have always been a square," he once said.
A theatrical farewell to Mr.
JULIANI attracted hundreds to St.
Andrew's Wesley Church in Vancouver on Labour Day, a Monday and
traditionally a quiet date on the theatre calendar. Those in
attendance were encouraged to write remembrances on Post-It notes,
which were then stuck to the church's pillars.
The City of Vancouver has declared next March 24, which would
have been Mr.
JULIANI's 64th birthday, to be Savage God Day.
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KERNOHAN,
Kathryn▼
Margaret▼ (née
KINNEAR)
Born December 29, 1911 died December 24, 2003 in Toronto, her
birthplace. Beloved wife of the late Gordon E.
KERNOHAN.
Predeceased▼
by her parents Thomas H. and Margaret G.
KINNEAR (née
NASMITH)
and her brother T. Clark
KINNEAR.
Much▼ loved and most loving
mother of Susan
SCACE
(Arthur,)
Kathy and Patrick
KINNEAR (Ginny.)
Adored ''Gammi'' of Jennifer and Patrick, Gordon and Cayleigh,
and Sarah and Maggie. Special Grammi to Matthew, Jonathan and
Adam. Cherished Auntie Kay to Bill
KERNOHAN, the late Dodie
PHILLIPS
Tom, Bob and Bill
KINNEAR and Margo
HYDE. A heartfelt thank you
to all the caregivers at Belmont House over the last ten years.
A memorial service will be held on Monday, January 12, 2004 at
11 o'clock at Timothy Eaton Memorial Church. A reception will
follow. If desired, donations may be made to Timothy Eaton Memorial
Church, 230 St. Clair Avenue West, Toronto M4V 1R5, or to a charity
of your choice.
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KERNOHAN,
Kathryn▲
Margaret▲ (née
KINNEAR)
Born December 29, 1911 died December 24, 2003 in Toronto, her
birthplace. Beloved wife of the late Gordon E.
KERNOHAN.
Predeceased▲
by her parents Thomas H. and Margaret G.
KINNEAR (née
NASMITH)
and her brother T. Clark
KINNEAR.
Much▲ loved and most loving
mother of Susan
SCACE (Arthur), Kathy and Patrick (Ginny). Adored
''Gammie'' of Jennifer and Patrick, Gordon and Cayleigh, and
Sarah and Maggie. Special Gammie to Matthew, Jonathan and Adam.
Cherished Auntie Kay to Bill
KERNOHAN, the late Dodie
PHILLIPS
Tom, Bob and Bill
KINNEAR and Margo
HYDE. A heartfelt thank you
to all the caregivers at Belmont House over the last ten years.
A memorial service will be held on Monday, January 12, 2004 at
11 o'clock at Timothy Eaton Memorial Church. A reception will follow.
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KEELEY,
Joyce
Kathleen
Phillips (née
PHILLIPS)
Died peacefully at noon on December 30 at Sunnybrook Hospital.
''Joycie Girl'' was the beloved wife of Gerry
KEELEY, mother
of Kate and Doug, and 'gaga' of Ollie, Sam and Matti. She was
the daughter of Kathleen
NESBITT and Heber
PHILLIPS, and sister
of Bobbie and John. We will all remember Joyce as the girl who
never missed an important putt or a good party, and brought joy
and Friendship to everyone she met. She was an amazing mom and
grandmother. A memorial service will be held at Morley Bedford
Funeral Home, 159 Eglinton Ave. W. (2 stoplights West of Yonge
St.) in Toronto at 1 p.m. Monday, January 5th. A reception will
follow immediately at the Badminton and Racquet Club at 25 St Clair Ave. West.
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MURPHY,
Reverend
John
Thomas
Of Heritage United Church, Musgravetown, Newfoundland, died November
16, 2003 while visiting in Ottawa. He is survived by his children
Ryan, at Mount Alison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, and
Erin, at L.B. Pearson United World College, Victoria, British
Columbia; their mother Lori, of Lethbridge, Newfoundland and
grandmother Phyllis
PHILPOTT of Musgravetown, Newfoundland; by
his parents Isabel and Stephen
MURPHY, brother Doug (Marie
KUSTERS)
and aunt Mary
MURPHY, all of Ottawa; and by aunt and uncle Ruth
and Donald
PARR of Guelph. John is also survived by cousins,
a nephew and nieces in Ontario and Newfoundland. The funeral
will be held at Heritage United Church, Musgravetown, Newfoundland,
on Saturday, November 22 at 2: 00 p.m. with interment at the church
cemetery. A service of remembrance will be held in Rideau Park
United Church, 2203 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa, on Saturday, November
29 at 10: 30 a.m. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be
made to either the Manse Fund of Heritage United Church or to
the Anniversary Scholarship Fund, c/o Heritage United Church.
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