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Old Home Week and Provincial Exhibition will be officially opened It 8 o'clock Monday evening, August 9th.

HARNESS HORSE RACING

Islanders love harness horse racing and Old Home Week provides thrills aplenty in this great and popular sport. Always a major attrac- tion this year's week-long program bids fair to top all previous records both from the standpoint of entries and competition offered.

There will be six nights and three, possibly four, afternoons of rac- ing. Some of the highlights will be:

MONDAY NIGHTGFREE-FOR-ALL PACE AND 2:25 PACE

one or more divisions. TUESDAY NIGHTGZ: I9 TROT THURSDAY AFTERNOON-FREE-FOR-ALL PACE FRIDAY NIGHT--FREE-FOR-ALL TROT

Outstanding horses including Free-For-Ailcrs not entered in pub- iished list will be given an opportunity to race in overnight events, weather permitting.

The track at the Charlottetown Driving Park is lightning fast and

mroi-(ls have been toppling with some of the fastest miles in the Mari- times being recorded.

Climrzxing as it does the horse racing season in these seaside prov- lnees. Charlottetown will be the mecca for racing enthusiasts from near and far Old Home Week.

DON'T MISS AN AFTERNOON OR NIGI-IT!

BRITISH CONSOLS TROPHY

Will be awarded to the leading driver in afternoon and night rac- ing---l-itinureds of dollars will be paid out to drivers and grooms in prizes.

ADMISSION RACE TRACP

S100 to afternoon and Evening Harness Racing and Vaudeville; children 50c. g

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An all steel building 225 by 150 feet is being added to the" Provincial Exhibition Plant. Dubbed "The Coliseum" the major part of the con- struction will be finished by Old Home Week, but the interior will re- quire. some additional time.

In this building will be exhibits and Judging Ring. It will be a big asset to both public and judges when viewing the popular loive Stock entries. Filling a long felt want it should prove one of the most popular

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The seating capacity will be limited this year, but nevertheless it affords those Interested good advantage points in viewing the judging of animals. Here too, one may relax and meet friends under favorable and convenient circumstances.

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VAUDEVILLE PROGRAM

Entertainment before the Grand Stand has been well looked after with the securing of sometop flight perform- ers. A variety of acts will feature the vaudeville. Includ- ed in the program will be Sonny Moore and his dog act, I-leerdink Trio of acrobatics and another high ranking per- formance from the Lynch Show.

Here are reviews of some of the other attractions:-

COUNT ERNESTO

This year's grandstand program will be enlivened by one of the greatest comedy acts ever to appear before a local audience. This is Ernie Wiswell, better known as "Count Ernesto and his Funny Ford."

In the years he has been building zany devices into what was originally an ancient Ford touring car, Ernie has come up with some fantastic gimmicks, many of which he has patented. l

According to information received from George A. Iiamid & Son, noted booking agency for outdoor attractions, Wiswell's ”Dizzy Lizzie" sprays fountains of water from its radiator cap, explodes at both ends and underneath, blows its hood into the air, emits billows of smoke and flames, rears and bucks like a bronco and finally chases its "trainer" around the track, apparently steering itself.

Twenty years of constantly testing gags for laugh- value before live audiences have produced Ernie Wiswell's masterpiece of screwball mechanics.

MIA & MATTI

Mia and Matti are a team who will bend over back- ward, and also frontward, to please an audience.

i That is to say they are an outstanding team of acro- batic contortionists and you will have an opportunity to see them during Old Home Week at the Provincial Ex- hibition.

Their act is unique in that it combines advanced acro- batic routines with both back- and front-bending contor- tion. Not infrequently contortionists are a bit lacking in muscular development, but these versatile young Finns, through their varied repertoire, have physiqucs of pleas- ing and symmetrical proportions.

Mia and Matti have now been performing together for over five years. It began when Mia was doing professional ballet work at the Revue Theatre in Helsinki and a young man named Matti Funnonen 'was doing a solo acrobatic tum there. The producer at the theatre suggested that they practise together, since he knew that Mia was al- ready a contortionist as well as a ballet dancer.

Since that time they have exhibited throughout Fin- land, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Holland and England. They have given command per- formances for King George VI and Queen Elizabeth as well as for the late King of Sweden and the King of Don- mark.

”Our most unusual performance," Matti recalls, "was given at the Steel Pier in Atlantic City during the Miss America parade of 1950. At that time we had to go through our act on top of a cage of lions, while the cage was moving along in the procession."

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Audiences in, the grandstand at the Provincial Exhibi- tion have a treat in store for them Old Home Week. One of the greatest novelty acts of all time--A. Robins, the Banana Man--has been secured.

One of the few remaining acts in show budneu thht makes extensive use of com props. the astounding Rob- ins comes on stage wearing a coat. From it he pro- ceeds to take musical instruments, rnfture, endless quanti- ties of bananas and even water melons, until the stage is loaded with objects, all drawn from the ma cal coat. Rob- ins neither speaks nor does (silent act-hs one remark, deliver-ed,in a comical falsetto, is "Wow!" as each new object produced seems to astonlsh him even more than it does the.audience. .

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AUGUST 9 TO 14

I NIGHTS --3 AFTERNOONS HARNESS HORSE RACING

. LIVESTOCK SHOW- JVUDGING COMPETITIONS - HANDICRAFT . GRAND STAND VAUDEVILLE - BILL LYNCH'S I954 MIDWAY

LIVE STOCI.

Live Stock enthusiasts will really have something to "o " and "uh" I

about in this year's exhibits. Without doubt they are representative of the finest specimens in the Province. Many new breeders are showing and judges will have a difficult time in deciding the "best of the show."

The judging always attracts keen interest and it's a sure bet this year that the Coliseum where judging takes place will be crowded to see the cream of Island Live Stock on parade.

Once again we take pride in the fact that our encouragement coupled with that of the Dominion and Provincial Governments, has brought our standard of quality so high that we are known through- out the length and breadth of the American continent as among tho best producers of special types of Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Swine and Poultry.

We want everyone to take an interest and lend encouragement to this very important side of our Old Home Week program. Our exhib- itors are in no small way contributing to the prosperity of the Gaulen of the Gulf. -'

We invite and urge the public to visit the numerous Live Stock barns which will be crowded with cattle valued at many thousands of dollars.

POULTRY

rne Exhibition will be a mecca for poultry enthusiasts. The best of the live ones will be on display in the special Poultry Building. Now a big business, interest in poultry extends from one end of the Province to the other.

Bill Lynch's 1954 Midway

Coming by special trip of Car Ferry-the greatest collection of feature shows ever offered in the Maritlmes-Specialties from leading circuscs--Latest rides including the new Super Duper-Fun for the whole family at small expense. - See the side-shows - over a dozen of them and you should see every one.

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EATS IN PLENTY .

Delicious Hamburgers, Wieners, Sandwiches, Pies, Cakes, Tea and Coffee -- available in booths and Horse Shoo Bar. Meals will be served in the Main Restaurant.

Mrs. Maurice Burgoyne will be your catering hostess in the Exhibi- tion concessions.

Les Alexander and his associates will furnish the music for all the acts at all afternoon and evening performances.

ADMISSION TO GROUNDS

Admission to the grounds through the main gate will be twenty- five cents. Children under 12 years of I e will be admitted free. On the grounds will be the midway and Cat 0 Bums. See the judgintg of the Marltimes' finest Live Stock and compare your choice with , OIO

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eyes will be opened when you see the top types of Maritime led out for review. ' .

WOMEN'S INSTITUTES

Be sure and visit the Show Buildin run by the Women's Institutes. There will be hundreds of exhibits, an cation of tho I mount-

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