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2002
JANUARY
THOSE
PRESENT: Paul Lloyd, Malcolm Elliott, John Bannon, John Paisley,
Ed Pegge, Michael Jacobs, John McGowan, Tony Colebatch, Father
Ephraim Chifley, George Belperio, Frank Staltarti, Nick Pilla, Leo
Davis.
Pegge,
George, Malcolm, John B, John P, John McG, Nick, Jacobs, Paul
(obscured) Fr. Ephraim
Paul,
Fr Ephraim, Pegge, George. (Note the ash tray.)
Around this time, Fr.
Ephraim was writing a food column in Christopher Pearson's
Adelaide Review and preaching
the Latin Mass to a
group including Pearson, Jack Snelling and various one-time DLP
folks.
The dyed hair probably
had to go. He was perhaps under orders when he turned up without it
at the next Hogarth lunch.
Frank,
George, Malcolm, John B, John P, John McG
Manager Primo Caon
came bringing two women who were interested in hiring the Hogarth
room.
The women are not in the
picture but Pegge's eyes tell you where they were.
FEBRUARY
Thursday, February 21, 2002.
HOGARTH LUNCHEON: Hogarth Room. Chesser Cellar, Chesser Street,
Adelaide.
Diners:
Paul Lloyd, Michael Jacobs, Hon. John Bannon, Ian Hamilton, John
McGowan, Fr. Ephraim Chifley, Edmund Pegge, Peter Tregilgas, Hon.
Angus Redford, Andrew Male, Leo Davis.
Short, seated, non dining, but drinking
visit:
Gail Male (neé Bartel).
Clockwise from front left:
Andrew Male, Angus Redford, John McGowan (hidden), Fr. Ephraim
Chifley, Peter Tregilgas, Ian Hamilton, John Bannon, Paul Lloyd, Ed
Pegge
Fr. Ephraim Chifley,
Gail & Andrew Male.
Ephraim had brought Andrew, an ABC journalist, to the
Church and had officiated at his recent wedding to fellow ABC
employee, Gail Bartel. Andrew has been the Regional Content Manager
at ABC 639, based in Pt Pirie, from 2001 and still was so in mid
2017.
Clockwise from front left:
Andrew Male, Angus Redford, John McGowan, Fr. Ephraim Chifley, Peter
Tregilgas, Paul Lloyd, Michael Jacobs.
MARCH
Thursday, March 21, 2002.
Hogarth room;
Chesser Cellar, Chesser Street, Adelaide.
Diners:
Michael Jacobs, Paul Lloyd, Hon. John Bannon, Tony Brooks, Angus
Redford, Fr. Ephraim Chifley, George Belperio, Frank Staltari, Nick
Pilla, Mike Norman, Paul Russell, Leo Davis.
Short, seated, non dining visit:
Richard Potter.
Clockwise from front left:
George Belperio,
Mike Norman, Hon. Angus Redford, Hon. John Bannon,
Fr. Ephraim Chifley, Paul Russell (note that he is
smoking at table), Nick Pilla, Michael Jacobs, Paul
Lloyd, Tony Brooks. Lisa Rouse is serving
coffees. We are drinking the Sevenhill Liqueur Tokay that, quite
appropriately, Fr. Ephraim brought along.
Frank Staltari, Michael Jacobs, Paul Lloyd.
Clockwise from front left:
Nick Pilla,
Frank Staltari, Michael Jacobs, Paul Lloyd,
Tony Brooks, George Belperio, Mike Norman, Hon.
Angus Redford, Hon. John Bannon (obscured), Fr.
Ephraim Chifley, Paul Russell. Lisa Rouse (at
rear) is preparing coffees.
Fr.
Ephraim Chifley
and his guest Paul Russell. (State Secretary
of The National Civic Council; he took over that role from Mark
Posa). Ephraim is giving Paul’s teenage son
private lessons in Latin.
MAY
Thursday, May
16, 2002. Hogarth Room, Chesser Cellar, Chesser Street, Adelaide.
Diners:
John Bannon, Rose Bennetts, Fr. Ephraim Chifley, Tony Colebatch,
Leo Davis, Malcolm Elliott, Michael Jacobs, Paul Lloyd, John Potter.
John Potter had a great anecdote concerning a visit to his isolated
farm house by a presence sent from a Pacific Island. He proposed a
toast to his daughter's 16th birthday, today. Which led
Ephraim, via some missed connection, to propose a toast to the
Catholics slaughtered by the French Revolutionaries. Why hold such
a grudge? Bannon said ‘Only if we can drink to the Huguenots too’
and later ‘But all the French were Catholics then. It was working
class Catholics killing upper class Catholics’.
Malcolm
Elliott, Fr. Ephraim Chifley, John Bannon, Michael Jacobs, Tony
Colebatch,
Lisa Rouse serves coffees.
A media
comment was mentioned, about the latest Star Wars movie,
along the lines that the only good thing promoters can say is that
it’s better than the last was dismissed by those who claimed to have
heard good reports. Then John Bannon reported that his step-son has
a ‘bit part’ in it. Dylan’s mother has seen the movie and claims
that the lad, despite wearing a heavy helmet, is clearly
recognisable and has a ‘speaking role’, in that he can be seen to be
speaking in the background, as an extra in a crowd scene.
Bannon (currently Master of College) enjoyed telling
us what his St Marks residents are up to. They have a yearly cycle
of ‘Dare’ activities. It’s unclear whether all or just ‘Freshers’
are involved. Stops on the cycle include some activity at the nude
statue of Hercules, a visit to a ‘Sex Shop’ including asking certain
set questions and attendance at a Western movie, or the nearest to
the genre available, and behaving so badly that one is ejected from
the theatre. Arrests occur some/most years.
Lloyd asked Bannon why his Cabinet had been so good. ‘Leadership’ he
quipped and then chuckled. ‘Team spirit. They were all there
because they wanted to be. They wanted to do things. They weren't
just there for a job and for power’. He claimed that other Labor
leaders, from other States, used to phone him or talk to him to ask
how he managed it; why were there no leaks, no out of Caucus
squabbles.
Rose Bennetts, Paul Lloyd, Tony Colebatch, John Potter, Malcolm
Elliott, Fr. Ephraim Chifley, John Bannon, Michael Jacobs. Lisa
Rouse
is serving coffees.
Bannon and Chifley discussed Mark Latham's comments about Tony
Staley. Bannon conceded that Staley had bravely overcome or battled
with his adversity but had done awful things in his job as Liberal
Party President. He agreed when Ephraim said that Latham might lead
the ALP one day. Ephraim spoke as a though he were a Labor person.
It would be a very Right Wing Labor Party that could accommodate
him. John Howard's leadership was attacked by Lloyd, as being weak
and directionless, but Bannon defended him. ‘He's the best
politician around. Why the Libs would think of getting rid of him I
don't know’.
Ephraim had lunched with a woman, in Sydney, who has
written a book on prostitution. An
extract has been published in the latest ‘Australian Penthouse’. Lots
of chuckles. ‘He
buys it for the articles!’ Of
course the table knew the writer, her mother and the trouble both
had been in, separately. The
younger woman, the author, had been expelled from a suburban High
School. Jacobs
and Bannon knew all the details. Hugh
Hudson, Minister of Education, had set up a Royal Commission, to
investigate. The
mother had been an initiator of Women's Shelters and a general
agitator.
Fr. Ephraim Chifley, Hon. John Bannon.
Bannon told of Hugh Hudson moving from a University lecturer's
salary to a backbench MP salary and saying ‘I can't live on this’.
He made up the difference as a highly successful punter. Bannon
claims he gave so many good tips to other MPs that when caucus
election came up, he was owed so many favours that he got elected to
the Ministry. Once a minister he didn't have time to study the form
so the tips dried up.
A lovely interlude in the meal was triggered by the very poor
singing of Irene, Goodnight by unknown persons in the
downstairs restaurant. This prompted an already tipsy Ephraim to
begin singing sentimental Irish ballads, in a very nice voice. He
went on a little and Jacobs and Bannon both asked along the lines
‘What the hell brought this on?’ Someone else tried to start
Australian folksongs, another tried some silly gibberish. Perhaps
in frustration, Bannon launched into, and would not be stopped,
singing The Old Black Billy. Slowly most of us joined him in
the last line each time around. He finished, and it was a fine
rendition, all felt lifted, and there was no more singing from
downstairs. ‘It's from the strike of 1891, you know’.
Ephraim complained that the new Labor Government had cut the
sponsorship to The Adelaide Review (for which he is the Food
writer) and so it was 8 pages shorter this month. Jacob’s reminded
him that ‘You need to choose your enemies more carefully than your
friends’. Ephraim then went on, with boyish enthusiasm, after
swearing us to a ‘cone’ of silence; to reveal that senor Xavier
Mole, an exceedingly rich Spanish media magnate, is to buy The
Adelaide Review and launch it as either a daily or a weekly. I
naively asked who he is. Jacobs, Bannon and Lloyd all knew that
he's already failed to set up as a challenger to The Advertiser.
Ephraim enthusiastically said ‘He's a Spanish falangist’. Someone
‘That's a nice way of saying fascist’. Someone else, ‘There's no
nice way of saying fascist’. Ephraim seemed undeterred. He
declared that ‘Defamation cases nearly ruined The Adelaide Review.
We won't have to worry about defamation because he's so rich’
missing the faulty logic as others pointed out. It's only worth
suing someone who has lots of money. Ephraim countered that Senor
had put up $3,000,000. Which all listeners agreed was not enough to
start a viable weekly let alone a daily.
JUNE
Thursday, June 20, 2002.
Hogarth Club Luncheon. Upstairs at Chesser Cellar, Chesser
Street, Adelaide.
Diners:
Paul Lloyd, John Bannon, Tony Colebatch, Malcolm Elliott, Fr
Ephraim Chifley, John Potter, Michael Jacobs, Angus Redford, John
McDonald, Tony Brooks, Peter Tregilgas, Terry Bradford, Leo Davis.
Clockwise from front left:
John McDonnell,
Tony Colebatch, Malcolm Elliott, Paul Lloyd
(concealed),
Michael Jacobs (concealed), Tony Brooks, John Potter, John
Bannon (arm only), Peter Tregilgas, Fr. Ephraim Chifley,
Angus Redford.
Terry Bradford is smoking at the window. Notice cigarettes and
lighter in front of Gus Redford.
John Potter told of his wife having a heart transplant since we last
dined together. They got very short notice and were flown, by a
speedy (550miles/hr. he said) Flying Doctor, to Sydney. Before the
transplant she could not walk to the refrigerator without becoming
breathless. Now, while still in pain, she can walk for an hour.
Tony Bradford, John Potter, Hon. John Bannon.
Discussion of John’s wife's health led to Gilbert Island (now
Tuvalu) stories. Potter says that a word for nudity had to be
invented to cover the activities of their current principal legal
officer, Robin Millhouse. He is in the habit of taking nude runs on
the beach. John explained some of the background and telling that
nobody, these days, goes nude but when they did there was no need
for a word to describe the condition because it had been the norm.
Then with missionaries, etc., no adult at all was ever nude.
Clockwise from front left:
Tony Brooks,
John Potter, John Bannon,
Peter Tregilgas, Fr. Ephraim Chifley, Angus Redford, John McDonnell,
Tony Colebatch (scalp only), Malcolm Elliott, Paul Lloyd,
Michael Jacobs.
Malcolm Elliott,
Paul Lloyd, Michael Jacobs.
Malcolm Elliott, Paul Lloyd,
Michael Jacobs, Tony Brooks.
JULY
Thursday July
18, 2002.
Hogarth Club Luncheon. Upstairs at Chesser Cellar, Chesser
Street, Adelaide.
Diners:
Paul Lloyd, Tony Colebatch, Malcolm Elliott, Fr. Ephraim Chifley,
John McDonnell, John McGowan, Terry Bradford, Tony Short, Leo Davis.
Clockwise from front left:
Paul Lloyd, Tony Colebatch, Terry Bradford, Tony Short.
Fr. Ephraim Chifley
(just in frame), John McDonnell, Paul Lloyd, Tony Colebatch.
Is that chicken we are eating?
One chap named dropped heavily. At a dinner he’d attended, in New
York, arranged by Rupert Murdoch, Malcolm Fraser, then Australian
PM, demanded, got, and was the only person allowed to drink,
Penfolds ‘Grange’.
We were told of a puritanical ‘Moral Rearmament’ person whose only
weakness of the flesh seemed to be a need for after dinner pudding.
Dining in the Adelaide Club he ordered apple pie, either ‘with’ or
‘and’ cream. I didn’t catch which, but it mattered. The waitress
brought the wrong combination and was told, loudly, that the
difference was the same as “a woman and child as opposed to a
woman with child”. He was so offensive that the whole party
was kicked out.
It was mentioned that Kim Beasley was ‘Moral Rearmament’ and that
led to a number of security based anecdotes. It was claimed that
Beasley’s ‘Moral Rearmament’ credentials mean he has the highest
security clearance of any politician; higher than the PM. “The PM
never sees above ‘Top secret’ level”. We were told that he sees
papers circulated with ‘Not for PM’s eyes’ stamped on them. One
involved efforts to send a person to Switzerland to buy back Billy
Sneddon’s wedding ring. He’d given it to a hooker and couldn’t
explain to his wife where it was. Apocryphal, surely. The power of
Nottage Hill, one of the less memorable wines today.
At some gathering, in Fraser’s office, Don Dunston’s ASIO file was
produced and our man couldn’t contain himself and called out “What’s
the big secret?” “He really can’t cook”.
Tony Short, John McGowan, Malcolm Elliott, Paul Lloyd.
Ephraim Chifley was hobbling and clearly having difficulty just
walking across the room. Asked if it had to do with his diabetes he
claimed it was blister related. Tony Short (himself diabetic) has
just arrived back from his six months in NZ to do his six months of
lecturing. He’ll go back after the Xmas Hogarth. He told of Carl
Jureidini calling on him, with videos of his ‘recent work’.
Clockwise from top left:
Terry Bradford, Tony Short, John McGowan, Malcolm Elliott, Paul
Lloyd, Tony Colebatch. (Note
cigarettes & 2 packs of tobacco and ash tray).
Terry Bradford has been working on the documentary, about the
‘Hillbilly Hoot’ at 5DDD radio, for something like three years
and is fed up. It has threatened his marriage. So he has given the
production company a September 3 deadline. A public showing is
proposed, at the Mercury Cinema, sometime after that. He sees the
whole Hoot thing as a community social experience, not a musical
thing. Monday night ‘Hooters’ include Paul (Piccolo Pete),
Tony C (Theosaurus), Terry (Terry Tex) and Leo (Laredo).
AUGUST
Thursday, August 15, 2002.
HOGARTH CLUB LUNCHEON. Upstairs at Chesser
Cellar, Chesser Street, Adelaide.
Diners:
Paul Lloyd, John Bannon, John Potter,
Michael Jacobs, John McGowan, Peter Tregilgas, George Belperio,
Frank Staltari, Nick Pilla, Leo Davis.
Arriving very late, I missed the start of an anecdote from John
Bannon about research someone had done into who sat in which
position in meetings. The chairman's toady to his left (or was it
right?), the person with the awkward questions half way down one
side; left? right? And so on. This discussion lead Tregilgas to
recall Bannon always choosing a certain spot in the Union Hall, in
student days, from which to ask questions. This allowed him to say,
‘You will all have to turn to the left to listen to me’.
Bannon was happy to talk at length about his experiences St Marks
College where he is Master. He attends evening meal in the dining
room, Monday to Thursday. A formal procession leads into the head
table and the diners cannot leave till the (Student?) President of
College rises. After which there is a stampede that leaves the head
table and two or three other diners, of about 180 starters. The
discussion arose because Bannon is looking for a new Chaplain of
College. No pay but all found accommodation for the person and
spouse.
Clockwise from front left:
Frank Staltari, John Bannon, Peter Tregilgas, Michael Jacobs, John
Potter, John McGowan, George Belperio.
Standing at rear:
Paul Lloyd, Nick Pilla.
Bannon has commented that his wife Angela notes that photos of him
at Hogarth always show him pontificating or drinking. He says that
he never spots the Hogarth camera, even though he prides himself on
being able to spot photographers trying for the opportunist
compromising shot. In the image above he HAS spotted the camera and
has taken up a glass of water and assumed a non pontificating pose.
The lads noticed and their amusement shows clearly.
Clockwise from front left:
Frank Staltari, John
Bannon, Peter Tregilgas, Michael Jacobs, John Potter, John McGowan.
Jacobs proposed a toast something along the lines
of ‘A toast to Peter Lewis for behaviour that makes Stott look
reasonable’. Bannon insisted that he'd find that very difficult and
outlined why. With a hung parliament, in 1962 I think, Independent
Stott accepted the speakership, allowing Playford to continue to
govern, on the grounds that he was ‘supporting the status quo’.
Labor won in 1965, letting Frank Walsh and then Don Dunstan lead
governments but there was a hung parliament again, in 1968. Bannon
went to Stott and said ‘Well, Tom, I presume the principle of
supporting the status quo still applies and we can have your vote?’
‘Well. No. I've thought about last time and realise I was wrong. I
should have done what my electorate wanted and so I will this
time.’ So Steele Hall was able to lead an LCL government.
Clockwise from front left:
John Bannon, Peter
Tregilgas, Lisa Rouse, Paul Lloyd, Michael Jacobs, John Potter, John
McGowan.
Peter Tregilgas (above) had a recently published document ‘Social
Enterprise’ (green publication to his right) that he has produced
and which included an interview with Peter Thompson, an Anglican
minister who has been Head at Timbertop and who went to
Oxford, as a mature aged student, along with Geoff Gallop (WA
Premier) and Tony Blair. He goes to the UK each year, for a few
months, to be Blair's spiritual guide it seems. The document has a
plan to wean people off welfare dependence.
John McGowan had brought a print out from the Web, of
the sayings of AFL commentator
Dennis Cometti.
Michael Jacobs knew of it already via a copy sent to him by Andrew
Bishop. John had practised to read the piece but Potter had it
handed to him and started reading. He did it so well that McGowan
didn't even get a try.
Some chaps sat at the far end of the table and spent close to an
hour sending each other lewd SMS messages, at a range of about 1.5
metres. We Australians are early adopters of new technology they
say. ‘I just saw a whore who charges by the inch. I can't afford her
but she should suit you down to the ground’ and worse, were read to
the table, intermittently across the hour, to some grimaces, some
chuckles.
George
Belperio, Nick Pilla, Frank Staltari
and Peter Tregilgas,
late in the day, discussing problems in controlling weight.
Lloyd left early to go off
to do an announcing stint, on 5UV. He's just done a course on radio
work.
And the tucker?? Lamb
shanks and potato mash plus the usual plate of veges that, to my
delight, not everyone makes a rush at. Boiled baby spuds in
jackets, carrot and broccoli. Lovely. And a crème caramel pudding.
And, even though I arrived late, the antipasto plate was still near
to full apart from the meaty sections. I tucked in being a pig for
the veges (grilled egg plant, artichoke, mushrooms, charred
capsicum, etc.) that others neglect.
SEPTEMBER
Thursday, September 19, 2002.
HOGARTH CLUB LUNCHEON.
Upstairs in Hogarth Room, Chesser Cellar, Chesser Street, Adelaide.
Diners:
Paul Lloyd, Tony Brooks, Tony Short, Angus
Redford, Terry “Tex” Bradford, Leo Davis.
Terry Bradford,
Tony Short, Angus Redford, Paul Lloyd, Tony
Brooks. (Note cigarettes & lighter in front of Terry;
tobacco & lighter in front of Paul.)
Lisa Rouse, Paul Lloyd, Tony
Brooks, Terry Bradford, Tony Short, Angus Redford.
Paul Lloyd, Tony Brooks,
Terry Bradford, Tony Short, Angus Redford.
Angus
was probably still an LCL Upper House member at this time; before he
ran, unsuccessfully, for a Lower House seat.
Paul Lloyd
and Tony Brooks.
OCTOBER
Thursday, October
17, 2002.
Hogarth Club Luncheon: Upstairs at Chesser Cellar, Chesser Street,
Adelaide.
Diners:
Michael Jacobs, Tony Short, Tony Brooks, Wayne Anthoney, Malcolm
Elliott, John Potter, Paul Lloyd, John McGowan, Rev. Brian Phillips,
Peter Tregilgas
(only for pudding), Leo Davis.
Fr. Ephraim Chifley
got into the habit, round this time, of awarding a ‘Red Rose’ each
month, in his Adelaide Review food column.
This month Lisa Rouse got a mention. Ephraim has
incorrectly made the Cellar plural; it’s Chesser Cellar.
Wayne Anthoney, Lisa Rouse, Peter Tregilgas.
Wayne was back for the first time since December 20
last year. He has been working for Nyangatjatjara Aboriginal
Corporation, based at Yulara for all of this year and many previous
besides.
Clockwise from front left:
Tony Short, Malcolm Elliott, John McGowan, Wayne Anthoney, Peter
Tregilgas, Lisa Rouse, Michael Jacobs, Paul Lloyd, John Potter.
Clockwise from left:
Michael Jacobs, Lisa Rouse, Paul Lloyd, John Potter, Tony Short,
John McGowan.
NOVEMBER
Thursday, November
21, 2002.
Hogarth Club Luncheon: Upstairs at Chesser Cellar, Chesser Street,
Adelaide.
Diners:
Michael Jacobs, Tony Brooks, Paul Lloyd, Peter Tregilgas, Tony
Short, Leo Davis, George Belperio, Frank Staltari, Nick Pilla
& an unknown guest of Belperio.
Tony Colebatch,
Michael Jacobs, Tony Brooks.
Tony Brooks, Lisa Rouse, Tony Short.
Clockwise from front left:
Michael Jacobs,
Peter Tregilgas, Tony Brooks, Tony Short, George Belperio
(back of),
George’s guest (name not recorded), Paul Lloyd (bit of
his head), Nick Pilla.
Clockwise from front left:
Michael Jacobs,
Tony Brooks
(his shirt),
Tony Short, George’s guest (name not recorded), Frank
Staltari, Paul Lloyd, Lisa Rouse, Tony Colebatch, Nick Pilla.
Michael Jacobs,
Peter Tregilgas, Tony Brooks.
(Note cigarette
and busy ash tray).
Front left:
Paul Lloyd, Tony
Colebatch, Michael Jacobs, Tony Brooks, Tony Short, George Belperio.
Nick Pilla,
Frank Staltari, Paul Lloyd, Tony Colebatch.
We had a T-Bone steak, with mashed potatoes;
plain fare but none complained.
DECEMBER
Thursday, December 19, 2002.
Hogarth Club Luncheon: Upstairs at Chesser Cellar, Chesser Street,
Adelaide.
Diners:
Michael Jacobs, Wayne Anthoney, Paul Lloyd, Malcolm Elliott, Peter
Tregilgas, John Potter, John Bannon, Tony Short, John McGowan,
George Belperio, Edmund Pegge, Andrew Bishop, Terry Bradford, Frank
Staltari, Mike Norman, Ian "Bones" Owens, Leo Davis, Lyndon Parnell,
Grantley Payze, Bill Monks.
Clockwise from front left:
Wayne Anthoney, Edmund Pegge, John
Potter, Tony Short, John McGowan, George Belperio, Bill Monks, Peter
Tregilgas,
unknown singer, Andrew Bishop, John Bannon, Grantley Payze,
Frank Staltari, Michael Jacobs, Mike Norman, Paul Lloyd, Ian ‘Bones’
Owens.
Note the added table, with six places, placed at the head of the
main table. Once we were seated a rather nervous young man came
upstairs, sent by Primo, whose apologies for not coming up were
passed on. The youngster then proceeded to sing us a few songs.
And very well indeed. He seemed embarrassed and ill at ease.
As
this was the 30th Anniversary of Xmas Hogarth lunch, Mike
Norman brought a 1966 Penfolds Grange Hermitage
for a celebratory toast. It was poured into 16 glasses so the serves
look bigger than expected.
Frank Staltari,
Wayne Anthoney, Edmund Pegge, John Potter, Tony Short, Lisa Rouse,
John McGowan, George Belperio, Bill Monks, Peter Tregilgas.
Edmund Pegge, Tony
Brooks, John Potter, Lisa Rouse, Tony Short, John McGowan, Bill
Monks.
Clockwise from front left:
Nick Pilla, Wayne Anthoney, Edmund Pegge
(taking charge
of conducting the carol singing), John Potter, Tony Short, John
McGowan, Bill Monks,
Peter Tregilgas,
Andrew
Bishop, Frank Staltari, Michael Jacobs, Mike Norman, Paul Lloyd, Ian
“Bones” Owens.
Clockwise from front left:
Tony Short, John
McGowan, George Belperio, Bill Monks, Peter Tregilgas,
Andrew
Bishop, John Bannon, Grantley Payze, Frank Staltari, Michael Jacobs.
Bannon
is EITHER delivering a Hitler speech OR a lewd ballad; he
performed both to great appreciation.
Tony Short, John Bannon, Edmund Pegge.
This time Bannon
clearly is singing a carol.
A reading of ‘the play’:
Paul Lloyd, John
McGowan, Tony Short, John Bannon, Ian ‘Bones’ Owens, Ed Pegge, John
Potter.
A reading of ‘the play’:
Michael Jacobs, George Belperio
(hidden), Peter Tregilgas, Mike Norman (hidden at rear),
Tony Short, Paul Lloyd, John McGowan, John Bannon, Ian ‘Bones’
Owens. Seated:
Lyndon Powell.
Standing:
Peter Tregilgas, Paul Lloyd
(with flute, at rear), somebody’s nose
(Grantley Payze?), John
McGowan, Ian ‘Bones’ Owens, John Bannon, Tony Short, Edmund Pegge,
John Potter, Tony Brooks.
Seated: Lyndon Powell, Nick Pilla
(hidden),
Wayne Anthoney. (Note pipe,
tobacco and ash tray).
A rendition of ‘The Play’ has been
completed and a round of applause follows with cries for ‘Author’,
namely Wayne Anthoney. He wrote the Review type of play with
Hogarth members playing themselves, over 10 years ago. I’ve seen it
performed at the last two Xmas Hogarth lunches. With many of the
original cast/victims not present, their lines had to be read by
others. I took the part of Don Riddell, one time Editor of The
Advertiser.
A curious but enjoyable, tradition, at Xmas Hogarth, is for jokes to
be told that everybody knows intimately, with inevitable revelations
of or corrections of, the punch line. Over and over we hear and
adore ‘The Booborowie Brass Band’, ‘The White Gorilla’ (Tony Short’s
speciality), the three legged pig. Sometimes ‘We have no fuckin’
tomatoes’ or others of George Belperio’s ‘True Stories’, and others
I cannot remember the names of. I cannot, of course, remember the
actual jokes, so they are a fresh delight to me each time.
Tregilgas has a ‘party trick’ that he attempts every year. It
involves a tea bag, minus its leaves, imagined as a rocket, that
launches at the end of a short burn. It worked beautifully 2001.
Things went wrong this year and Andrew Bishop is seen at right,
celebrating/applauding the FIRST of THREE unprecedented launch
failures. Something had changed about the tea bags; moisture
content? Structure? It failed over all recent years, only working
again around Peter’s last attendance, before moving to Port
Macquarie or similar.
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