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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Dec 02, 1967
Page
4
A capacity Canberra Theatre crowd last night saw two top Australian amateur performers headline the Holden Show Case 67 Road Show. James Pegler won top public vote as the number one performer, while Diane Selmon was judges’ choice. Pegler, a 26 year old former jackeroo, is a popular baritone from the heats.
A young contestant decides to abandon agricultural studies for singing as a career. Diane Salmon plans study travel to Rik sia for further training while studying with Nancy Salas at the NSW Conservatorium of Music and teaching part time with the NSW Education Department. A twenty day Showcase tour begins in Adelaide with stops in Albury Tamworth Ballarat Launceston Hobart and ends in Melbourne after multiple city performances.
Peter and John discuss three boys ages Ron Alan and Dick in a tangled time age riddle. The men frame a calculation where Ron is three times Alan’s past age when Dick’s age aligns with Alan’s future, yielding ages that satisfy the described year increments. The answer is promised for Monday.
A Canberra Film Centre presentation at the Canberra Theatre features Anouk Aimee as the long-suffering wife in the prize-winning French thriller L'impresu The Unexpected directed by Alberto Lat tuda Also starring Tomas Milian the film follows an ambitious tutor who convinces his wife to impersonate pregnancy or hire a young accomplice to kidnap the employer’s baby replacing it with a pneumatic doll that gruesomely bleeds Dramatizes a tense plot with European cinema pedigree and a Cuban actor in the cast.
POP CULT by Garry Raffaele features in Sound’s first edition a five page photo study by Michael Elton called The Sound of Youth. A series of choppy images suggests the motion of the modern beat, with stark light and shade in the disc jockey booth and a frilled-shirt vocalist twisting like a marionette. The piece marks the magazine’s bold venture into musical journalism amid a wave of empty reporting.
A cryptic style puzzle page with numerous clues of varied length. The editor teases terms like rise on wings, old-time music, and naval references while noting a solution comes Monday. Names, numbers, and locations appear as misdirection in a densely packed Victorian tone.
The piece argues Canberra suffers from few good musicians and limited public interest, yet notes a brighter horizon for traditional jazz with potential home bands. It highlights Greg Gibson and Graeme Coyle as rising local talents, and predicts Canberra could host a 1960s Australian Jazz Convention if a strong home group forms.
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