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Waterloo Chronicle (Waterloo, On1868), 15 Oct 1959, p. 7

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a _ Being a dabbler in oils, or â€"»i0p INCIP Drushn mould a faint likeness of their subject, case I might ever become conâ€" ceited enough to think 1 have produced a work of art. Only those who have experâ€" fenced the excitement of watâ€" what is sometimes called <a weekend painter, I never miss an opportunity to visit an art gallery. It is a form of sweet tortune I inflict on myself in EVENIEIGS OF OCTOBER 19th & 20th CARLING‘s %{% Published As A Public Service By Carling‘s Black Label Brewery Limited WATERLOO LIONS CLUB ANNUAL LIGHT â€"BULB BLITZ WESTINGHOUSE BULBS INCLUDING NEW SHAPE â€" WHITE EYE SAVING $2.00 PER BAG SUPPORT THIS WORTHY CAUSE WHEN A MEMBER OF THE LIONS CLUB KNOCKS ON YOUR DOOR. BY DOROTHY BARKER JY BULBS AT HOME FROM THE LIONS D uo when 1 saw his "Ice House", which had been loaned to the gallery for a special showing will understandâ€"the thrill 1 felt recently when yviewing the colâ€" lection of paintings by Canadâ€" ian artists in the National Art Gallery at Ottawa. To the unâ€" initiated, the mountains in a Lawren Harris landscape might look like igloos, he his such a Mr, V. L. Dykeman, City Passenger Agent, 120 King St. West, Kitchener Phone SH 5â€"5635 ASK YOUR Im Scenicâ€"Dome rail trovel _ â€" m Low cost reduced round trip rail fares ER Overseas Steamship services ® Great Lakes and Alaska cruises I Hotels and resorts across Canada N Airlines serving Canada in 5 continents AGENT ABOUT . .. B RE W E RY LI m I|T E D Tc e m ow af the Puilding. T â€" Canada‘s interpréters in oils, among them Varley, Thompson, Jackson, Kreighoff, Carr, Milâ€" ne, are ualndivldlul in their as the artists themselves. Yet belies this, for it compares fbayvot;:bly with thoc:d paiganu &lmmnl 0 and new masters, owned by the gallery. our heritage. We have been called a natio~ without culture, too young to have acquired an artistic individuality or backâ€" ground. The National Gallery‘s Canadian â€"collection â€" certainly they have captured with their paints on a flat canvas surface, the very g:lkt‘o!thia nation from the es to a French Canadian village scene. 9514 has been a great deal vll":':ldv during : the past teveral month given to the up roar over the proposed purâ€" chase of a Brueghel and a Monâ€" aco to the tune of $445,000. The story is old hat now, but it cerâ€" zen, I feel Mr. Diefenbaker was right. For one thing the peopâ€" le of Canada must pay for the new sixâ€"millionâ€"dellar gallery now under construction in downtown Ottawa. After my agree with this expenditure. The present building has a midâ€" in the capital city. Our Prime Minister, _ John _ Diefenbaker, stood his ground m the middle of the ar He maintained that it was no time to be spending that kind of the Capt. Attia Abdviia Ali, skipper of the first Tely Milk Ship, paid a visit to Elsie and her twins in Elsie‘s boudeoir at Pier 17, Toronto. Also on hand to visit Elsie and the Buy yours now, by inctolments or for coch, ot ony bronch of the "Royol" THE ROYAL BANK OF CANADA the old gallery some up a 9i | be a sensation quite as satis fying as the thrill of creating, no matter how amateur one‘s efforts may appear to the conâ€" noisseur. more sound investment to me for public funds to be used to erect . a suitable building first and collect additions to its contents later. . m i, It is undoubtedly true that it is becoming increasingly diffâ€" cult to purchage rare paintings hmflpeifltliltlmth:ir& collect es acq own ions, or by bidding at auctions Canada will have to take. '"“; After spending two hours happy contemplation of the exâ€" hibition on loan by citizens of to throw away my paints when I returned home by train that night. But no, there can never the paintings now on view. For another thing, Ottawa in its remodelling plans has a vision milk ship was Grace Tâ€"<:s, 7, who fied HMungary three years ago with her parents to make a home in Hamilton. Grace was the first outâ€"o6â€" ;;wn visitor to the Tely Milkk ip. . It + *3

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