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JANUARY

Thursday, January 18, 2007.

Hogarth Club Luncheon.  Upstairs at Chesser Cellar, Chesser Street, Adelaide.
 Diners: Michael Jacobs, Tony Colebatch, Andrew Bishop, Robert ‘Red’ Hodge, Paul Lloyd, Tony Brooks, Roger Moore, Dennis Ryan, John Bannon, Leo Davis.  Seated non dining visitor: Malcolm Elliott. 




Tony Brooks, Lisa Rouse, John Bannon, Paul Lloyd, Tony Colebatch.

Bannon told of a Premiers’ Conference at which he tried to warn the NT leader, Paul Everington (Chief Minister of NT, 1978-84), that Bob Hawke was up to no good and trying to get out of a commitment to fund a Darwin-Adelaide railway.  Everington did not take Bannon’s advice and objected to Hawke’s offer, so allowing Hawke to withdraw completely and issue the Press Release he had already prepared, explaining that he’d had to withdraw the offer because of the intransigence of Everington.

Dennis Ryan (Andrew’s guest) and Andrew Bishop.

It was still the custom of the day, in 2007, for (most) diners to wear a business tie.  In the first image you will see Brooks wearing one of his elephantine ties.

John Bannon, Lisa Rouse, Paul Lloyd, Tony Colebatch, Michael Jacobs. Robert ‘Red’ Hodge. (Note the tobacco on the table and the roll your own in Tony’s mouth).
I so regret my poor memory; especially for names. And especially so when a tantalising anecdote is told.  Lloyd suddenly began a chronicle of events in the Adelaide judicial system involving two lesbian magistrates (or would be judges or magistrates), one of whom was a from the well known ***** family   One of the women had gone to the other’s house or premises and put an axe through the door.  One or other of the women is now a candidate, with high chance of appointment, for some top legal position.  There were mumbles about the propriety of the choice system but nobody seemed to want to pursue the topic.  Why?  Because they didn’t agree with Lloyd?  Because his wife is a Magistrate so the story may be based upon bias?

Tony Colebatch, Michael Jacobs, Roger Moore.

FEBRUARY

Thursday, February 15, 2007.  

Hogarth Club Luncheon.  Upstairs at Chesser Cellar, Chesser Street, Adelaide.
 Diners: Michael Jacobs, Wayne Anthoney, Paul Lloyd, John Potter, Tony Brooks, Tony Colebatch, Wilfred Prest, Leo Davis.  Apologies: Ian Hamilton (Public Art Committee meeting), John Potter (injured).


Paul Lloyd, Tony Colebatch, Michael Jacobs, Wayne Anthoney.


Wayne spoke of being in the first production of The Season at Sarsaparilla.  He does not think it, nor any of White’s plays, is a quality work.


 Tony Brooks, Paul Lloyd, Tony Colebatch. 



Wayne Anthoney, Lisa Rouse, Prof. Wilf Prest.

Wilf Prest’s man, the subject of his study, a lawyer from 18th century, Sir William Blackstone SL KC., is more important than I thought.  Today we heard that he is the second most commonly cited source in Australian courts

 

MARCH

Thursday, March 15, 2007.  
Monthly Hogarth Club Luncheon; The Chesser Cellar.
 Diners: Wayne Anthoney, John Potter, Malcolm Elliott, Leo Davis, Robert “Red” Hodge, Tony Colebatch, Ian Hamilton, Michael Jacobs, Tony Brooks, Trevor Farrant, Wilfrid Prest, Paul Lloyd. 
Non Seated Visitors: Primo Caon.
 
Michael Jacobs reminder e-mail contained the following;

Gentlemen:
  
This is your reminder for the March Hogarth this Thursday 15 March. As Chesser is one of the first delivery-points for The Adelaide Review, you will have the opportunity, if you hang around long enough in the afternoon, to pick up a fresh copy of  the paper which is guaranteed 100 per cent Jacobs-free. Whether this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, or just a first, remains to be seen.
 
A little background, second hand, from Ian, said that Jacobs had been asked to write 600 words about lobbyists in SA and, for unclear reasons, he refused.  Ian suggested the research would take too long.  Jacobs’ dissatisfaction went so far that he told Ian he is planning to start his own magazine, published by Wakefield Press, with the implication that Ian might be involved. 

The Adelaide Review was indeed ‘Jacobs-free’ except that his name was still in the list of ‘regular writers’.



Ian Hamilton, Lisa Rouse, Michael Jacobs, Tony Brooks, Trevor Farrant, Wilf Prest, Paul Lloyd.

Ian Hamilton, Michael Jacobs, Tony Brooks, Trevor Farrant, Wilf Prest.

 The two shots above confirm my impression that we had a T-Bone steak for main course.

Tony Brooks arrived with a man so short I wondered if he was a jockey.  I knew I’d heard the name before but had no idea in what context.  I didn’t work out who he is till I ‘Googled’ him at home at night.

Michael Jacobs, Lisa Rouse, Tony Brooks, Trevor Farrant.

 

Trevor Farrant is a script writer and his career includes;

• TV; ‘Laugh In’ episode Nov 5, 1977.
• Movie; ‘The Pirate Movie’. (1982).
• TV: ‘The Gilles Report’ (1984).
• TV: ‘The Gerry Connolly Show’ (1988) 5 episodes.
• Movie; ‘Struck by Lightning’ (1990).
• TV series ‘Backburner’ (1999) unknown episodes.

I knew none of this as he told a number of very funny anecdotes.  He, in partnership with Brooks, wrote at least two variety shows for Abe Saffron., the ‘Mr Big’ of Sydney vice and crime. They toured his pubs, starting here at the Overway Hotel (out NE of Gepps Cross; may no longer exist), I think. They were thoroughly ripped off, getting only an initial retainer and no payment for the shows travelling all over Australia.  Farrant claims he went to Saffron’s office in Sydney and that Saffron goons hung him over a high Kings Cross balcony, by his ankles, to convince him not to pursue his financial claims.  He didn’t but later wrote another show for Saffron and was ripped off again.

He told stories I wish I could remember about Rick Marshall.  Seems everyone, including the TV station(s) that employed him as a children’s presenter, knew that he was a paedophile, but that nobody ever spoke up or objected.  It seems that on at least two occasions he used explosives in attempted bank robberies.  He set up a puppetry theatre, from inside Yatala Gaol, and was allowed to take his company out, with an accompanying warder, to perform for children.  Once, at the Adelaide Show, the children began to wonder why the puppets had stopped moving and talking.  The convicted criminal puppeteers had disappeared over the fence of the Wayville Showgrounds, and were heading, by train, to Melbourne.  I think they were intercepted in the Adelaide Hills.

Many stories were told about Marshall having duped and conned people.  Trevor insisted over and over that Marshall, apart from being a very unpleasant person, had no talent at all.  

There was competition between the story tellers, with Elliott interrupting Farrant, to tell his Marshall anecdotes and Farrant did not like being cut in upon or upstaged.  In one of Farrant’s best yarns he told of Marshall running two shows concurrently, at The Cottage Theatre(?)  One was ‘The Sound of Music’ and the other, because it was in the English curriculum that year, ‘Hamlet’.  It seems his rendition of Edelweiss was so well received that he used to sing it, to great approval, in ‘Hamlet’.  

Marshall is said, by consensus of tablers, to have produced his greatest performance, in recent weeks, when he avoided future court appearance, charged with molesting boys, by feigning illness by attending court in an ambulance stretcher and having his case (permanently??) adjourned.

Brooks and Farrant worked together at Channel 2 for many years and Farrant worked at which ever Channel Marshall was at, 7? 9?  He told of being sent out by management, who knew of Marshall’s ways, but were happy to make money from him as children’s presenter when they panicked when they found Marshall had arranged an appearance at a children’s swimming centre.  Farrant got there to find Marshall, in the pool, nursing little boys, very close to his body.

Wayne Adds: Rick Marshall died on November 8th last year - 2019 - having pretended to be dead for about fifteen years.

Wilf Prest, Paul Lloyd, Malcolm Elliott, Primo Caon (proprietor), Wayne Anthoney.

 

Wilfrid Prest, a History Professor at Adelaide Uni, had some good stories too.  One of his Honours students, who attended tutorials in his Australian Army Captain uniform, handed up an essay that Wilf thought was copied.  He challenged the Captain who retorted that his platoon (in fact a captain has a Company not a platoon) would be upset and that they were trained killers.  Wilfred, a little put out, phoned the captain’s Barracks, at Keswick, who had never heard of him.  He was in fact a Private in the University Regiment of the CMF.  Another of his students, at another time, was not attending lectures and tutorial so he made inquiries. Turned out she had been caught stealing from the house she worked in as a domestic.  The crime was serious enough to warrant a gaol sentence but she got off because she had such good character references pointing out, among other things, that she’d been the Rhodes Scholar nomination from the Australian National University in Canberra.  Later Wilf found out that the references had been written on letter head paper she had stolen from his office.  Years later Wilf noticed that she was being called as an expert witness to testify before parliamentary committees in Canberra.  She had established herself as an expert in Russian History.

Brooks told an apocryphal tale of a very large woman coming into The Women’s & Children’s Hospital, in North Adelaide, saying she was about to have a baby. She was lifted onto an examining table, with some difficulty because of girth and bulk, and told that not only was she not pregnant but she was a virgin. Later, in the waiting room, she was seen assaulting a very small man and yelling at him, ‘I told you that you were doing it the wrong way!’

APRIL

Thursday, April 19, 2007.

Hogarth Club Luncheon.  Upstairs at Chesser Cellar, Chesser Street, Adelaide.
 Diners: Trevor Farrant, Wayne Anthoney, John Potter, Paul Kolarovich (guest of John Potter), Leo Davis, Angus Redford, Robert ‘Red’ Hodge, Peter Tregilgas, Tony Brooks, Paul Lloyd, Edmund Pegge.   
Non dining visit: Michael Jacobs.  Apologies: Ian Hamilton (Public Art Committee meeting).


Peter Tregilgas, Lisa Rouse, Tony Brooks, Paul Lloyd, Edmund Pegge.

The usual steamed vegetables; was it a T-bone?

My incompetence with matters financial was exposed when a chap explained, and I did not understand at all, what a good deal could be had with superannuation investment. His investment had won a 255% dividend in the last year. His parents had been offered $85,000 per year for something like a fifth of their farm to be planted with Tasmanian blue gums, and this could be invested in the aforementioned super fund such that the $85,000 was tax free.
My head needed a dose of Wayne’s machine.


Paul Lloyd, Trevor Farrant, Wayne Anthoney, John Potter, Paul Kolarovich.

John Potter’s guest, Paul Kolarovich, was in the same PAC class as Robert Hannaford who, by unrelated circumstance, I’d sat beside at a symposium at the Art Gallery this morning. I had no idea who he was but was entranced watching as he drew caricatures of each speaker, till I twigged, recognising his style as cartoonist for The Advertiser. (1964-67 taking over from Oliphant). We all overlap to the extent that Potter was behind me at PAC and remembers me as a coxswain in 1958, when he was in about year 8 or 9, and Paul overlapped John in a similar way, being a student there in the mid 60s. Paul and John met through Footlights Club. Paul lasted just a few weeks, at PAC, as a boarder, in year 8 and went back to do most of his schooling in the Barossa, where his Dad was a highly regarded winemaker.  And businessman. He returned to PAC, as a Day Boy, for year 12 (and maybe 11?).

Trevor Farrant spoke about the episode of ‘The West Wing’ that he collaborated in writing.


Trevor Farrant, Wayne Anthoney, John Potter, Paul Kolarovich, Angus Redford, Ed Pegge.

Angus Redford spoke glowingly of John Quirke, who I taught physics, many, many years ago, at Elizabeth High School. John went teaching himself then became a Labor member in State Parliament, as a member of the far right faction. Angus was pleased to report that these days John is a lobbyist and that he has, through Angus’ influence, worked for my old classmate Tom Chapman, and secured approval for his latest development application.

One lad was excessively drunk, more so, and earlier too, than I’d ever seen him, and made loud and unnecessary comments about how fat another lad had become. Bad blood?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wayne Anthoney, John Potter.
Wayne, with help from Potter, performed a lovely simple sketch involving a plastic bucket, and a crank handle, that had us all crying with laughter. It was repeated for lovely Lisa’s benefit and she seemed to love it. It was later used in a BYA production.

Tony Brooks, Paul Lloyd, Ed Pegge.
 

MAY
 

Thursday, May 17, 2007.

Monthly Hogarth Luncheon; The Hogarth Room, The Chesser Cellar.
 Diners: Wayne Anthoney, John Potter, Leo Davis, Andrew Bishop, Roger Moore, Ian Hamilton, Malcolm Elliott, Richard Tonkin, Robert ‘Red’ Hodge, Paul Lloyd, Prof. Wilf Prest, Tony Brooks.
Apology: Tony Colebatch (travelling to Qld).

 

Ian Hamilton, Malcolm Elliott, Richard Tonkin, Lisa Rouse, Robert ‘Red’ Hodge.

Paul Lloyd, Wilf Prest, Tony Brooks, Wayne Anthoney.
Wayne Anthoney read a great piece characterising the difference between cats and dogs; sent to him by a friend/acquaintance, who is ‘very right wing’.

On Andrew Bishop’s prompting, Wayne then told the Booboorowie Brass Band joke.  This led Robert ‘Red’ Hodge to tell us that he was conceived in Booboorowie. ‘Red’ said he hopes to work till he is 70 (he turned 66 a month back) and says he loves his work, while Andrew Bishop looks forward to retirement next month.

Clockwise from head of table: Tony Brooks, Wayne Anthoney, John Potter, Andrew Bishop, Roger Moore, Ian Hamilton, Richard Tonkin, Paul Lloyd, Prof. Wilfred Pred.  

Moore (Pembroke) told stories about the recent rowing season and how David Bishop (SPSC) had been lucky that his stroke had fallen ever so slightly ill so that David could replace him, with minimum fuss and parental complaint, by a superior stroke from the second eight. Moore last raced, here in Adelaide, in the mid 60s, in a race in which his crew beat David Bishop’s. He later coached David, at Monash University.

Moore reported, and Ian passed on to me, that Stefano di Pieri and Donata have separated.

Paul Lloyd, Lisa Rouse, Wilfred Prest, Tony Brooks, John Potter.

 Wilf Prest spoke about of his sailing (the sport component of his Rhodes Scholarship; more often on Sydney Harbour these days) and something of days at Oxford. He told of discovering that a book of his had been published, twice, in Chinese, without his knowledge and with no payment ever being made.

John Potter told a fresh version of the ‘I feel great but everyone says I look awful’ joke with John Howard being the protagonist.

Brooks led us in the singing of a bawdy song that I’d forgotten about.

JUNE

Thursday, June 21, 2007.


Hogarth Club Luncheon. Upstairs at Chesser Cellar, Chesser Street, Adelaide.
 Diners: Wayne Anthoney, John Potter, Leo Davis, Andrew Bishop, John Bannon, Robert ‘Red’ Hodge.


On arrival at Chesser Cellar Legh Davis was noticed sitting at a table, just inside the door, with a handsome woman of our general age. During greetings he explained to the woman that we’d been at school together (classmates in ‘Argus’ Dennis’ VIA in 1957). I mentioned to Legh that Jack Hibberd had told me that he’d stayed with him recently. ‘How could you know Jack?’ was his surprised response.

Today we were literally in the Cellar; some other group must have booked the Hogarth Room. A month later Lisa Rouse told us that the group wants the room on that date every month. Lisa says she told them they will have to choose another Thursday, or day.

John Potter, who works at the RAH, raised the proposal for a new hospital to carry the name Marjorie Jackson-Nelson. He displayed understandable conservatism in being happy with his current work place and wanting the new hospital to be an addition, with the current hospital remaining untouched. He justified his stance partly on ‘heritage’ grounds. Andrew reminded us that the land on which the (ugly) eastern wing was erected, had been resumed from the Botanic Garden. John Potter told us that the renal unit from the Queen Elizabeth Hospital is being moved to the RAH.

 

John Bannon, Andrew Bishop.

Robert ‘Red’ Hodge, Michael Jacobs, John Potter, Wayne Anthoney.

 


Robert ‘Red’ Hodge, Michael Jacobs with Primo Caon (proprietor) standing.

Primo is fond of Paul Lloyd and noted, with regret, his absence from table today.



John Bannon, Andrew Bishop, Robert ‘Red’ Hodge, Michael Jacobs, John Potter, waitress Cynthia.


Robert ‘Red’ Hodge, Michael Jacobs, John Potter.

John Potter, Wayne Anthoney.

 

There were many anecdotes about politicians (especially Whitlam), lawyers, etc. Potter got Michael to repeat an anecdote about Whitlam, having just heard of Jim Cairns’ affair with Junie Morosi. Whitlam expressed surprise and said ‘He’s far too old to have discovered cunt.’

Somebody commented that Whitlam liked the word cunt; and old of a meeting of Whitlam, in Sydney, with the State Labor leaders, two of whom were Premiers; Neville Wran and Don Dunston. It must have been between 1975 and 1977, with Whitlam still in parliament, still leading Labor, but out of power and unpopular with the public. The Premiers were gathered in a high rise building in Sydney and Whitlam entered the room, strode to the window and looked out, over Hyde Park, perhaps. After some time he turned and addressed the waiting leaders. ‘So, what do you cunts want?’

Jacobs who told another story, set in the same period, of Whitlam’s unpopularity, when he went to Brisbane where a very well regarded Labor Senator, also head of the Rugby League (or Union??) arranged that Whitlam would go to a game and present some trophy. Whitlam and the Senator walked out onto the pitch and the crowd broke into a raucous booing. Whitlam turned to the Senator and said “You didn’t tell me you were that unpopular”.

Michael also told of a less repeated quip from Whitlam, on November 11. The Governor’s man (Smith?) had, because of the crowd, arrived at the steps of old Parliament House via the back door rather than his usual approach, in a Rolls Royce, driving up to the steps at the front. Whitlam said, quite off the cuff, of course, something like “The Governor’s man has crept in up the back passage of Parliament House”. Apparently this has been recorded on video and shown recently.

One chap remembered, late in the gathering, that he needed a lawyer to sign the divorce papers that his wife had sent me. Michael Jacobs said he qualified as a lawyer and signed them as a non lawyer. He pointed out the conflict of interest with the other party’s magistrate partner, Roger, acting as her witness.

Michael has been so busy this week that he had to rush his Adelaide Review ‘Passing Shots’ column and his main article. That led to, he was embarrassed to report, many typographical errors and he was sure the sub-editor will not have done his proofing job. A quick read of the ‘Passing Shots’, tonight, found eight errors (there may be more) with at least one in his main article. Michael was justifiably embarrassed, in advance, for his reputation as a writer.

Afterwards a small party walking to a car park were told, as we passed the once Reserve Bank building, that the Hells Angels had put in a bid for it, its vaults being of particular interest) when it came on the market. A chap told of a State Parliament committee that he is assisting (it sat yesterday) that is looking into loans offered with unreasonable conditions and in the course of the inquiry it has been shown that the bikie gangs are investing their money in absolutely legitimate businesses.

Tales were told of a top public servant dipping into the public purse and going on an overseas trip listing her lover as her sister. While in New York they were seen TWICE, crossing the screen, as ‘extras’ in ‘Crocodile Dundee’.

JULY
 

Thursday, July 19, 2007.

Monthly Hogarth Club Luncheon; The Chesser Cellar.
 Diners: Paul Lloyd, Malcolm Elliott, John Potter, Tony Colebatch, Leo Davis. Apology: Ian Hamilton.

 Michael Jacobs, who’d indicated intention to attend, did not show; no reason known; partner’s illness? Work?

Lloyd has been in China. He was travelling with his wife who started with a legal Conference in Hong Kong. He returned home directly while she did via Kampuchea.

 


Tony Colebatch (who only drinks beer), John Potter, Paul Lloyd, Malcolm Elliott.
 


Paul Lloyd (the only real photographer at Hogarth in those days; Milton Wordley came later)

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Tony Colebatch, Lisa Rouse, John Potter.

Lisa was asked if she is still riding a motor scooter. She is indeed and told of twice chasing drivers who’d almost driven her scooter off the road.

Somebody did not pay last month. Potter had cheque stub, which he showed. Primo has demanded that Lisa keep a list in future. An honest mistake we must assume.



Paul Lloyd, Malcolm Elliott, Tony Colebatch. (The Hogarth attendance Spreadsheet is being examined).

 

Some interest was shown in the Hogarth Excel Spreadsheet roll. (See photo above).

John Potter is still ill. He wonders if he’ll be up to Fringe Review next year; he found the last one too hard.

Elliott reminded us that bike sales are still above car sales, even though few students ride to school. He reported that bicycle clip sales have not kept up.

We had an odd discussion about the nature of 3 pin AC electrical plugs. Only China and NZ have the same plugs as Australia. So there.

Another discussion ranged over customs of requests that cannot be denied which, especially in Pacific countries, tend to redistribute wealth. Somebody admires your coat and you are bound to give it to them.

 

AUGUST

Thursday, August 16, 2007.

Monthly Hogarth Club Luncheon; Hogarth Room at The Chesser Cellar.

Diners: Michael Jacobs, Wayne Anthoney, Peter Tregilgas, Paul Lloyd, John Potter, Tony Brooks, Wilfred Prest, Herbert Neetzel, Tony Colebatch, Andrew Bishop, Leo Davis. Non Dining seated visit: Linden Owen.
Apologies: Ian Hamilton. Malcolm Elliott (South America), Robert ‘Red’ Hodge (Hernia).

I had not met Linden Owen before, or ever again. After he left somebody said that he was battling a pretty nasty cancer; pancreatic? He died somewhere around February 17, 2008.
 


Linden Owen, Michael Jacobs, Wilf Prest, Herbert Neetzel.



Paul Lloyd and Tony Colebatch, close friends and neighbours, from down Pt Adelaide way.



Tony Colebatch, Paul Lloyd, Wayne Anthoney, Tony Brooks. (the dresser is long gone, of course).



Linden Owen, Lisa Rouse, Michael Jacobs, Wilf Prest.


Tony Colebatch, Lyndon Owens (non dining but seated visitor), Tony Brooks, Wayne Anthoney, John Potter.



Tony Brooks (offering encouragement), Wayne Anthoney, John Potter.



Wilf Prest, Herbert Neetzel, Paul Lloyd, Tony Colebatch.

Paul Lloyd, Tony Colebatch, Tony Brooks, Wayne Anthoney, John Potter, Andrew Bishop, Peter Tregilgas.

 

SEPTEMBER

Thursday, September 20, 2007.

Monthly Hogarth Luncheon; Hogarth Room, Chesser Cellar.
Diners: Michael Jacobs, Paul Lloyd, Malcolm Elliott, Tony Colebatch, John Potter, Angus Redford, Tony Brooks, Tony Parkinson, Ian Hamilton, Paul Kolarovich, Leo Davis. Non Dining Non seated visit: John Bannon.

Bannon arrived, looking very gaunt, to make a short non-eating, non-seated, visit. He is in the midst of chemotherapy, after surgery for bowel cancer.
 



Michael Jacobs, Tony Brooks.



Tony Parkinson, Lisa Rouse, Ian Hamilton, Angus Redford.



Tony Parkinson, Angus Redford, Malcolm Elliott, Lisa Rouse, Paul Lloyd, Michael Jacobs.



Tony Parkinson, Ian Hamilton, Angus Redford, Malcolm Elliott, Paul Lloyd, Michael Jacobs.


Tony Parkinson, Ian Hamilton, Angus Redford.

 

OCTOBER

Thursday, October 18, 2007.

Monthly Hogarth Luncheon; Hogarth Room, Chesser Cellar.
Diners: Michael Jacobs, Paul Lloyd, Wayne Anthoney, Tony Colebatch, John Potter, Tony Brooks, Tony Parkinson, Roger Moore, Robert “Red” Hodge, John Murray, Philip Satchel, Leo Davis. Non Dining seated visit: Lisa Rouse. Apologies: John Bannon, Ian Hamilton (Artlink meeting), Andrew Bishop.

Michael’s Hogarth reminder arrived a little late (he’d recently changed his living address) and seemed unduly personal in describing the impending fatherhood for Philip Satchel.

‘Gentlemen:
This approximately 400th Hogarth due to convene at the Chesser Cellars on this Thursday 18 October is or should be a momentous occasion at which all member not known to be extinct are required to be present (with a possible exception during this trimester for Bannon depending on the phase of his cycle).

First, Lisa has escaped to greener pastures and presumably a less needy boss – but has consented to come and have a drink with us.

Second, according to Brooks, the publicly priapic septuagenarian P Satchell has been induced to resume the duties of Hogarth membership. Plainly the Alzheimer’s has gone beyond its initial attack on his short-term memory, since the Sunday Mail tells us his prospective paternity is not the result of short-term forgetfulness about his pre-conjunction promise only 10 seconds earlier to withdraw (early Alzheimer’s), but is a dire case of Planned Parenthood, which means he’s forgotten everything from about 1967 to 1995.

Third, if Lord Parkinson turns up as he should, he will now be a member, with all that that entails.

Don’t miss it. Do confirm your intentions as usual please by return email THIS DAY – or, since I am so late, first thing Wednesday morning. After 11am Wednesday, and changes, additions or whatever to go directly as usual to Chesser 8223 3791. Tajcobs 36 Bridge Street, Kensington SA 5068
 




John Potter, John Murray, Philip Satchel, Paul Lloyd.

Philip Satchel had turned 70 just 6 days ago, on October 12. He has recently just become, or is about to become, a father. His partner is, of course, being still of child bearing age, much younger than him. I think she is a musician, strings(?) and close to the ABC; ASO? Satchel had been a regular at Hogarth in early years, Today’s attendance was a rare single return.


Philip Satchel, John Murray, Paul Lloyd.

John Murray came as Robert Hodge’s guest. He is/was a high ranking police officer and once was the Commissioner (or similar) of the ACT Police.



Robert ‘Red’ Hodge, Tony Parkinson, Philip Satchel, Paul Lloyd.




Philip Satchel, Paul Lloyd, Roger Moore, Lisa Rouse, Wayne Anthoney.
The lads are bowing in tribute to Lisa.

Lisa Rouse has been our waitress for some years and has been flirted with by a few and adored by all, even the gay tablers and lusted after by all the rest. She has left Chesser Celler and taken work selling light fittings. She seems to have developed a genuine affection for the table and she joined us today, on Michael’s invitation (see Rallying email above) for a seated but non dining visit.

I was surprised once, was it a couple of years ago, to find Lisa arriving at the Laundromat in Magill Road, at the end of my street, on a scooter, to do her washing. That was long before Motor Scooters had become popular again, in the 21st century.



Michael Jacobs, Tony Parkinson, Lisa Rouse, Robert ‘Red’ Hodge, Tony Brooks.







Tony Parkinson, Philip Satchel, Paul Lloyd, Roger Moore.

 

NOVEMBER

Thursday, November 15, 2007.

Monthly Hogarth Club Luncheon; Down in the Cellar, The Chesser Cellar.

Diners: Andrew Bishop, Michael Jacobs, Wayne Anthoney, John Potter, Robert “Red” Hodge, John Bannon, Tony Brooks, Tony Colebatch, Leo Davis, Jack Neil Hume, Paul Lloyd, Ewart Shaw. Non Seated visitor: Lisa Rouse.


 

Michael Jacobs reported that the funeral, yesterday, of Sue Lawrence, who was his partner till the later stages of her battle with cancer, went well and that he was well received and treated. A story was told about Sue going to Seymour College to complain when a primary school teacher had marked a project by Sue’s daughter and suggested that Sue had done most of it; marks had been allocated to both mother and daughter! Sue found the teacher up a ladder, hanging kids’ work and shook the ladder so much the teacher feared she’s fall.

Michael asked Primo Caon to select a wine for him. Primo chose a 2004 Greenock Creek Seven Acre Shiraz, for which he was charged over $80. Paul Lloyd drank much more of it than Jacobs did.


John Bannon looked as though he was wearing a wig, today, but both ABB and Jacobs disagreed with me. In succeeding years, as treatment progressed, he did indeed not wear one.



In 1988 Paul Lloyd had taken a photo, while working as a Press Photographer, that showed John Bannon, then Premier of SA, giving a welcoming speech, to the seated, smiling/laughing Queen, with Philip just appearing in the photo. Tony Brooks passed the photo around and invited diners to suggest what Bannon had said to elicit the laugh. Bannon’s suggestion was ‘I wish you were coming in 1989 when there is an election.’. Discussion about Royal Tours led to the apocryphal story, from ABB, about somebody entering a bathroom, somewhere in Tasmania, to turn off a shower the person thought had been left on, and coming upon a royal gent 'chock a block up (a touring American-Australian pianist)’. It was probably Ewert who offered some support for the tale in that the two protagonists were indeed at the venue in Tasmania at the time.


The next six images show the photo circulating.

Paul Lloyd with John Bannon looking at the shot Paul taken.

Ewart Shaw, Tony Brooks.

Ewart Shaw was shamelessly, triumphantly, elitist about High Art; a better class of person was brought to Adelaide by Wagner’s Ring Cycle than by the V8 motor racing!!


Tony Brooks, Jack Neil Hume, Wayne Anthoney, John Potter, Andrew Bishop.
 



Wayne Anthoney, John Potter, Andrew Bishop, Michael Jacobs.


Andrew Bishop and Michael Jacobs


Robert ‘Red’ Hodge.

Somebody reported the death, in his 90s, of a man who’d taught German at SPSC. Andrew Bishop gave a funny rendition of the man’s response to boys farting in his classes and that led John Potter to tell of Mr Glancy’s response, to the same, at PAC. I remember Mr Glancy, with some affection, as the only teacher at PAC who, once or twice, used my first name. It was surname only, from all others. Mr Glancy taught me (Maths or English?) in 1954 and maybe 1955. I was surprised to learn, from Potter, that Mr Glancy was the brother-in-law of Mr Coombs who I remembered as a very rotund maths teacher, something of a figure of fun among the boys (nicknamed Rajah because he, like Mr Glancy, was Indian; or Anglo-Indian?), but John Potter remembered him with great affection and admiration as the Drama teacher who taught him, Potter, ‘method acting’. Potter said the brothers-in-law had come to Australia, as refugees, in about 1948, following the partition of India/Pakistan.


Jack Neil Hume, Wayne Anthoney, John Potter.

Jack Neil Hume was seriously ill some years back but has recovered well. He was Wayne's best man when the latter was married to Meredith in 1965.

Lisa Rouse turned up as we were all leaving. I gave her photos from last month. She told me that she has driven as far as Renmark and Berri, in her new job, selling lighting.

 

DECEMBER

 

Thursday, December 20, 2007.

Monthly Hogarth Club Christmas Luncheon; Hogarth Room, The Chesser Cellar.
Diners: Andrew Bishop, Michael Jacobs, Wayne Anthoney, John Potter, Robert ‘Red’ Hodge, John Bannon, Leo Davis, Ian Hamilton, Edmond Pegge, Peter Tregilgas, Tony Parkinson, Malcolm Elliott. Non Seated visitor: Tony O’Brien. Apologies: Paul Lloyd, Tony Short (gravely ill, perhaps near death, in a NZ hospital).


Robert ‘Red” Hodge, John Bannon, Peter Tregilgas.

Wayne Anthoney told of Tony Short’s grave condition. It seems he had collapsed, because of his diabetes, and was not found, and then in a coma, for 48 hours. His present condition is one of responding to noise with movements of his eyelids. Jesus!

There was no music, because Paul Lloyd was away. And with him the fiddler Tonkin. Well, not true, strictly. Wayne had brought along a G and a C harp and played along.

Someone commented that we sang better for the lack of Lloyd. They are a tough lot! Philip White got very dismissive treatment along the lines ‘He writes about what he can still remember.’


John Bannon, Ed Pegge.

One tabler announced, as he had on previous occasions, that he’d been buggered, by a teacher, as a 10 year old. Ian was shocked that anybody would be so open. Another, among others, was a bit sniggering.

Pegge did a re run of his reading of the Ronnie Barker spoonerisms skit. Michael Jacobs was meanly critical, saying, correctly, that we’d already heard the performance. Once Pegge got going, all laughed and enjoyed the performance.

Pegge got considerable pasting from various tablers. Mocking references were made to his recently published Text on speech. And his plumy diction was mocked.

One chap, easily annoyed today, complained about another singing the Carols too loud, too fast, too slow or conducting too ostentatiously. All valid criticisms, but why bother.

Tony Parkinson told some Irish jokes very skilfully. Parkinson is obviously used to being listened to as a joke teller. He even tried telling jokes as Xmas Carols were being sung, and certainly as others were talking.


Michael Jacobs & Tony Parkinson.

Michael performed an extraordinary feat of memory, reciting much of ‘Eskimo Nell’. All were impressed and many comments were made, including by Ian, about the literary quality of the work, written, somebody said, by a Canadian academic. ABB said a number of times that the work was not misogynistic.

In deference to Short’s dire condition (see below) Jacobs told his version of ‘The White Gorilla Joke’, and quite well.



 

Bannon recited fragments of a similarly lewd piece, by Henry Lawson.

Bannon still undergoing chemotherapy, certainly looked well. He sang us a satirical song, in good voice, and with obvious pride, composed by one or more of his St Marks student residents, lovingly and gently taking the piss about him.

 A chap spoke of discussions with two pregnant daughters, at least one whom is a doctor, about their drinking alcohol. Even the doctor doesn’t seem to understand the danger to her foetus. Extraordinary.

Anthoney and Elliott had met this morning planning for a 2008 Fringe Footlights Review. I volunteered my services for bricky’s labourer type involvement.


 

Robert ‘Red’ Hodge, John Bannon, Peter Tregilgas.


Air-conditioning in the Hogarth Room is an open window. A chap walking in Chesser Street, heard the carol singing and entered Chesser Cellars to ask the source. Primo Caon brought him (yellow shirt) upstairs.


Clockwise from front left: Michael Jacobs, Tony Parkinson, Robert ‘Red’ Hodge, John Bannon (hidden), passing street visitor, Ed Pegge (hidden), Peter Tregilgas, Wayne Anthoney’s (on harp), John Potter, Malcolm Elliott, Andrew Bishop, Ian Hamilton.



Peter Tregilgas, Ed Pegge, Wayne Anthoney, John Potter.

 

Monday, December 24, 2007.
E-mail from Wayne Anthoney to the group:

‘Dear Hogarth Gentleman,

Tony Short died late yesterday.

My apology if you are also an Old Footlighter and are receiving this bad news twice. I received the following from Kent Fuller at about 9pm last night.

Regards to all, Wayne.’

 

‘Wayne,

Tony died about 3 hours ago after a great fight. The pneumonia was just too much for his system, given his many health problems.
At one point after you called I told him his Hogarth mates were in there pulling for him. I gave him your love and he squeezed my hand to say he'd heard me.

His mates Bryce, Ted and I spent many hours sitting with him and I slept at the foot of his bed a couple of nights. We were filled with hope for a day when he rallied but it was all too much for him. We stayed until he could no longer know we were present.

The hospital staff were magnificent and did all they could for him. He was kept comfortable and out of pain. Like me, Diane loved Tony and we are both filled with a deep sadness. He was only 62.

Kent”


A group e-mail followed from Peter Tregilgas:

‘Dear all,
My regrets for his passing and joy for his wonderful life and company. If there is anything the Tregilgas’s can do please advise.

Triggers.’

The following is from a site about The Adelaide University Footlights Club Review

‘It’s a Riot’, a satirical musical; Book by Wayne Anthoney; Produced by Murray George; Music by Ian Owens. Production Manager TONY SHORT has filled this post for three successive years and has been associated with several Festival, University and other amateur productions, as behind-the-scenes administrative benevolent despot. He is known (amongst other things) as the Friendly Phantom Footlights Financier and cautious custodian of the Footlights fund and Privy purse’.