Supper clubs and cocktail bars—the cow town of twenty-three years ago did not offer such sophisticated night life. In the old days it would have been the Palace Theatre for beautifully dentured Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy or Maurice Chevalier; an evening paddling a canoe on the lagoons of Bowness Park, followed by a jitney dance in the pavilion with poetry-writing Mushy Callaghan, the Riverside Wild Cat, as official bouncer; now and again the Palliser Supper Dance.
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There was little or no live theatre in those earlier days. Now hardly a week goes by that one of the five dramatic groups of the city are not presenting a play at the Jubilee Auditorium. Salad Days has been presented; seats are booked up for the visit this fall of My Fair Lady. Saturday morning the boys and I let Merna and Willa sleep in while we go to see Demi-tasse, as we had made a beauty-parlor appointment for him.
More than anything else on our weekend in Calgary, it is demonstrative of Calgary's easy way with wealth. After his shampoo, Demi reclines in a drying booth to the left of a chihuahua that has come in from the southern Alberta town of Pincher Creek for a manicure; on the other side are two black cockers waiting for show clips. From beaneath him comes the spicy scent of Oriental Bouquet and he yaps a few' pleasantries with a miniature champagne poodle in Royal Dutch cut.
This one has had a hair dye job—pink. While waiting for Demi to dry, Orme and I go to the cosmetic bar at the front of the beauty salon, gleaming with bottles and jars of LusterFoam Shampoo, Beauty Treatment Shampoo. Somehow' the bottles of Dog Repellent and Worm Capsules strike a rude note. Orme is showing a trace of amusement at the corners of his mouth. He hands me a narrow cylinder of pills, rather like a widely advertised remedy for upset stomach and acid indigestion. After Orme has bought Beau a chain collar studded with false pearls and zircons and Hughic has picked out a red one.
As we leave to meet Merna and Willa at Coste House. Perhaps Pat Burns, the semi-literate meat-packing king, would have had the same bewilderment; certainly it would be interesting to read what Bob Edwards might have to say about it if his Calgary Eye Opener were still being printed. Crosby led the parade, but it is possible that the lapse in tradition will not be repeated for another ten years.
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Yet Calgary is still a genuinely horsey city, with well-attended horse shows in spring and fall, race meets in spring, summer and fall, and possibly the highest population in Canada of horses owned by people simply for the pleasure of riding them. And it has other interests besides the Stampede and horses and beef and oil and pipelines.
It is a city of well over one hundred churches, one hundred schools and colleges, more than one hundred various clubs and associations, the Institute of Technology and Art supplying advanced vocational and semi-professional training.
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There are nine golf courses. Saturday morning is children's time at Coste House, and as we enter the gabled old mansion with red tiled roof, little girls are already coming out with stringed slippers swinging.
We are too late for the dancing classes but Archie Key, the managing director, takes us downstairs to a large bare room where eighteen. The little girl is polite but she is cautious and moves aside her painting of a green-eyed Indian in cerise leggings and. She is a natural iittle mother too, showing Willa how to hold the potato block and press it firmly against the paper.
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With gouging, caressing thumbs the children work each on a lump of blue-grey clay. They are doing self-portraits. Katie Ohe. We leave after we find Orme upstairs at the Coste House piano. The Coste House Centre had no bureaucratic birth thirteen years ago when it was one of the first of its kind on the North American continent. Now it is nourished by a grant of four thousand dollars a year from the city, has ougtrown Coste House and plans to move to a new four-hundred-thousanddollar home.
Wc go to lunch at the Palliser Hotel coffee shop, then on to the Canadian Art Galleries, where the proprietor. Turner, obligingly takes the lid off each tin of tempera block paint to show Willa its color.
One is so vivid that she smells it since anything so brilliant and lovely must smell brilliant and lovely. Her face lifts from it with disappointment: no smell, just a Prussian-blue tip for her nose. She tries the softness of a brush against her cheek, which is perhaps as fine a way as any to assess the quality of paint brushes. After a brief call at the Premier Cycle Store, where Orme buys a baseball and Hughie a light for his bicycle, we go east toward St.
George's Island and the Calgary Zoo. Even before we park the car we can see the giant life-size dinosaurs rearing up from the trees and shrubbery at the south end.
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The children are racing ahead past the deer and buffalo paddocks. Cindy is soft and fawn colored. She is eighteen months old and weighs a hundred and forty pounds, an up-to-now playful lion cub. Tom Baines, the zoo's curator, tells us Cindy was orphaned three days after birth and raised in the Sluth kitchen. Orme is fascinated by her eyes, dark wells of fearful innocence, reminding Merna of a little girl who has got into her mother's mascara. Remember me? Forgot your password. Sign In.
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