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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
May 22, 1973
Page
3
A scrambled page of Life Style TV Arts Entertainment with cryptic crossword clues. The text lists various wordplay prompts and scattered names, including Sadie, Becton, and Bela, amid OCR garbling about puzzles, colors, and characters.
Fragmentary newspaper card discusses a figure 4 puzzle with a boy and adults named Ted and Dad. It mentions checking figures, a square in the first half, a saluting gesture, and a question about other possible solutions. The text is incomplete and framed as a classroom or puzzle remark.
Dougald MacDonald finds The Hot Rock entertaining yet flawed. The film stars Robert Redford George Segal Ron Leibman and Paul Sand as four inept thieves in a breezy caper with offbeat humor and mild suspense.
BBC eveainment TV opera Tales of Hoffmann aired on ABC TV on May 13 Cedric Mee’s production starred Elizabeth Jaywood and Geraint Evans with Michel Maulé as Hoffmann The broadcast included spoken dialogue by Offenbach and shifted the Venetian act third for dramatic effect The piece faces production challenges but the cast and spirit received praise. the article notes missing further ABC musical programs and comments on repeat TV plays in Australia and performers like Pickering and Aran Capterra.
New York report via AP cites Variety coverage of Australia’s entertainment industry. It notes an all show biz push with Roane Pix in Stoneitch and mentions Soldiers of the Cross, a Salvation Army funded 1899 film that spurred a robust 1930s production scene, signaling Australia’s aim to regain global influence.
Initiatives by the new Labour Government and Minister for the Media Senior McClelland aim to establish an Australian film production industry. If a provision is needed it would be on Australian terms, as foreigners have pressed for partnerships, argues that Australian talent is undervalued.
A scrambled OCR fragment from a television schedule shows Channel 7 and mentions a list of programs or times with unreadable text. The readable portions are insufficient to identify dates names or events.
Fragmented readable phrases include names like Simard and Gouin along with numbers and prices. The text presents a garbled mix of likely radio listings or a market item, making it hard to identify a clear event, date, or location. No coherent summaryable narrative emerges from the readable portion.
TV Academy honors Mary Tyler Moore for her show and Jack Klugman for The Odd Couple in a 1973 Emmy night. All in the Family leads comedy series with top honors. Ted Knight and Valerie Harper win supporting for The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Julie Andrews Hour collection earns musical variety awards.
Italy and the North American Aces widened their lead after the ninth round, with Italy defeating the United States and the Aces beating Indonesia as the field tightens. Brazil and the United States trail, with key rounds remaining to decide qualifiers.
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