There was a two front battle against two formidable forces of
Nature being fought in a poorly built cabin on Blackstone in the early '50s. On one front, freshly replaced and fortified floor boards ,tried with only partial success, to keep out porcupines but these determined pests still threatened. For them, plywood was meant to be eaten. And so was rubber. Carefully placed tires bumpers on the side of a dock were just as carefully eaten by avoiding the nails, leaving bits and pieces of mangled rubber at the bottom of the lake. The second front was the leaky roof with another indomitable spirit. Jane filled buckets of tar adding dollops older temporary patching till she could get her local fix-it man, Henry Jennings, to do a more permanent …show more content…
Jane 's father was a graduate of U. of Toronto (B.A. 1892) and of Yale (B.D. bachelor 's in divinity, 1894) and had a highly varied career. In London Ont, he worked in newspaper offices eventually becoming the business manager, part owner and editor of the London News, a science teacher and a tea importer. He married Emily in 1896 moving his family to Regina, Saskatchewan in 1910 earning his living in real estate and contracting. Then on to building refineries in Regina from 1930-1938, becoming an alderman of Regina. In the First World …show more content…
One of her first post graduate invitations was to play the leading female role in The Great Adventure at Upper Canada College opposite the head of the college 's chemistry department, Fredrick (Freddie) Mallett (born in Wandsworth, England, MA Cambridge, WWI Veteran), the man she would marry in 1926. She later stated, “I never would have stayed married to anybody else.” Freddie claimed he married Jane “before she was born”. In this same year Jane began the Empire Theatre.
In the early 1930s Jane took on the stage name Jane Aldworth, Aldworth being a name found in one branch of her family tree from the late 1700s and that she thought would be more easily remembered than Keenleyside. A brother held the name as a middle name and she and Freddie gave it as one of the middle names for their only child John (b 1933).
She wrote and played many revues through the 1930s to the 1950s and became a well known CBC radio voice dubbed as “the girl with a thousand voices” which, in one broadcast, she portrayed five different characters. She 'd say, “I broke into radio the same year as Marconi!”. Jane became to be considered as the funniest Canadian comic talent. Then starting in the 1950s, there were films, many in which she appeared in guest
Nature being fought in a poorly built cabin on Blackstone in the early '50s. On one front, freshly replaced and fortified floor boards ,tried with only partial success, to keep out porcupines but these determined pests still threatened. For them, plywood was meant to be eaten. And so was rubber. Carefully placed tires bumpers on the side of a dock were just as carefully eaten by avoiding the nails, leaving bits and pieces of mangled rubber at the bottom of the lake. The second front was the leaky roof with another indomitable spirit. Jane filled buckets of tar adding dollops older temporary patching till she could get her local fix-it man, Henry Jennings, to do a more permanent …show more content…
Jane 's father was a graduate of U. of Toronto (B.A. 1892) and of Yale (B.D. bachelor 's in divinity, 1894) and had a highly varied career. In London Ont, he worked in newspaper offices eventually becoming the business manager, part owner and editor of the London News, a science teacher and a tea importer. He married Emily in 1896 moving his family to Regina, Saskatchewan in 1910 earning his living in real estate and contracting. Then on to building refineries in Regina from 1930-1938, becoming an alderman of Regina. In the First World …show more content…
One of her first post graduate invitations was to play the leading female role in The Great Adventure at Upper Canada College opposite the head of the college 's chemistry department, Fredrick (Freddie) Mallett (born in Wandsworth, England, MA Cambridge, WWI Veteran), the man she would marry in 1926. She later stated, “I never would have stayed married to anybody else.” Freddie claimed he married Jane “before she was born”. In this same year Jane began the Empire Theatre.
In the early 1930s Jane took on the stage name Jane Aldworth, Aldworth being a name found in one branch of her family tree from the late 1700s and that she thought would be more easily remembered than Keenleyside. A brother held the name as a middle name and she and Freddie gave it as one of the middle names for their only child John (b 1933).
She wrote and played many revues through the 1930s to the 1950s and became a well known CBC radio voice dubbed as “the girl with a thousand voices” which, in one broadcast, she portrayed five different characters. She 'd say, “I broke into radio the same year as Marconi!”. Jane became to be considered as the funniest Canadian comic talent. Then starting in the 1950s, there were films, many in which she appeared in guest