Ok Sir Gil and thanks

The photo is playing tricks with us.

Cummerbund is correct. Viola Burnham is incorrect.

Yes. Lyla Kissoon. [Note the spelling of her first name]

Congrats!!

That's all for today.

Gil, this pic tells a thousand words.  Lyla was Guyana's maharani, look how she mimicked the Queen's outfit!  Wow.  My 2 mamoos were furniture makers in her store:  A, H & L Kissoon, and they told us lots of things about her.

I like Lyla a lot. Always admired her. A great lady. I knew her daughter Ann.

Read Lyla Kissoon's story here:

http://www.kaieteurnewsonline....ial-person%E2%80%99/

http://www.guyanainc.biz/lyla-...en-everywhere-1.html

Nice piece on Lyla K.

Thanks, I'll read it tonight.  I like this, and have been upholding same motto:  "She is proof for all women and girls out there that it is quite possible to hold your own in a man’s world and still retain your grace and femininity at the same time."

Many years ago my US dentist said he and one of the sons were classmates in dentistry school.

BTW, is Freddy Kissoon related to this family?

As the saying goes: all daag nah name Pompei. There are Kissoons and there are Kissoons. Lyla is higher pedigree.

The structure above is reputedly the world's tallest wooden building.

[1] How high is this building?

[2] How old is this building?

[3] In this building there is a gift from Queen Victoria. What is it?

I shall acknowledge only 3 correct answers.

Good morning

143 ft.

216 years

A large chandelier

St. George's Cathedral

143 ft

216 years old

A large chandelier

Correct.

You get first prize.

Riya gets second prize.

Congrats to you both!!

Next one.

Indian immigrants introduced a certain fruit tree to Guyana. This tree can live for more than 100 years. Its fruit looks like a large dark ovoid berry. What is the Hindi or Urdu name of that fruit and what is its scientific name?

Jamun

Syzygium cumini

Thanks Sir Gil

That was fast. Correct.

Jamun is native to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. It's also called jambul, jambolan, jamblang, black plum and Java plum.

Congrats!!

For you and Riya, here's a bunch of jamun:

That's all for today.

Thanks Sir Gil

I love jamun (jamoon), thanks for giving it to us.

Congrats to Riya and Anjali

Jamoon taste good with salt and pepper,also make a

good wine.

This morning I learned that "The [jamun] leaves are used as food for livestock, as they have good nutritional value."

No wonda dem cow does stretch dem mouth and nyam jamoon leaf straight fram de tree. Guyana cow smart.

Like the saying goes smart fly does end up in cow ass   hehehe

I especially looked for jamoon when I visited Guyana. But I was only able to find some real "kasa" ones

Love Jamoons 

Good morning.

Today we shall have a short and simple quiz. I have an appointment late morning.

There was a Chinese Sports Club and also an East Indians Cricket Club in Guyana. After Independence both were renamed. What were the new names? I shall recognize only 2 correct answers.

Good morning

East Indian Cricket Club renamed Everest Cricket Club

Chinese Sports Club renamed Cosmos Sports Club

Correct.

Congrats!!

Have a nice day, everyone.

Congrats, Anjali

Thanks Sir Gil, have a nice day too

Thanks Riya

Good morning.

Who wants to be a movie star? Yes, you can.

Gilbakka once auditioned for the movie Anmol Bandhan. The auditioner played he was shooting G and told him to drop dead. G didn't drop the way the man wanted so he lost a role.

Anyway, let's move on to our quiz today.

Up to the 1970s Hope Estate on East Coast Demerara was a coconut plantation owned by the Sankar family. The workers in that plantation lived in logies. In the 1960s a young man from one of those logies travelled to Hollywood in the USA to pursue his dream. As it turned out, he got roles in five movies between 1969 and 1980. One of them was Adios Sapata [1970] starring Oscar winning actor Yul Brynner. What is the name of that Guyanese young man?

Good morning, Sir.

We almost had a star among us

Joseph Persaud

Joseph Persaud.

Good morning

Wow Sir you are still a star

Joseph Persaud

Correct. Joseph P. Persaud. He played the role of Gitano, a Mexican revolutionary in Adios Sapata.

Joseph Persaud was the character Juanito in the 1969 movie Burn starring Marlon Brando.

In the 1972 movie A Reason to Live, A Reason to Die starring James Coburn and Telly Savalas, JPP played the role as Apache.

In the 1980 movie Zombie Holocaust JPP acted as Cannibal Orderly.

In the movie Paths of War, he was an Indian Chief.

Here is a pic of Joseph P. Persaud as Apache:

And here he is:

Congrats, Mars!!

You get second prize.

thanks but Riya had the first correct answer and I should be third.

Riya had the correct answer before I did. The one day I see a quiz before anybody answers it and I give the correct answer. Lo and behold, dem girls are quick on the draw.

My father in law was an actor in his younger days and had a part in the 1951 Hollywood production of the classic novel Native Son.

its all good

Here's a trivia about Joseph P. Persaud. When he learnt that Adios Sapata had reached Guyana, he sent $500 to his parents at Hope Estate and instructed them to take everyone in the plantation to Gem cinema at Enmore to watch the movie.

My profound apology, Riya. I missed your post. I was eagerly making notes about JPP's career and when I saw Mars' post I pounced on it.

Now yuh know why I didn't get the Anmol Bandhan role. Me stupiddy and paglee.

Thanks for being a good sport.

That's all for today.

I just lash up me head.

Movie review for 1951 classic Native Son with Guyanese actor Leslie Straughn. His cousin is Ramjohn Holder who played Porkpie in the British TV comedy The Desmonds.

http://movies.nytimes.com/movi...5BC1A9609C946092D6CF

MOVIE REVIEW

THE SCREEN IN REVIEW; Richard Wright Plays Hero in Movie Adaptation of His Novel, 'Native Son'

Published: June 18, 1951

"Native Son," a novel stemming from passion, conviction and genius and a work that a decade ago was translated into a shattering and compelling drama, has emerged as a sincere but strangely unconvincing film. Perhaps Mr. Wright who is the ill-fated hero of this screen transcription, which began a stand at the Criterion on Saturday, is less of an actor than he is a novelist and playwright.

Obviously, his cast does not, by and large, attain the stature of his glowing words and thoughts. For their speeches merely relate this story of a sensitive Negro's revolt against social maladjustment and bigotry without depth and true feeling. And its murder melodramatics are muscular and only occasionally professional.

Since Mr. Wright fashioned mightily once, it is not odious to compare this present version of "Native Son" with those that preceded it. He is following the general blueprint laid down in the novel and the play. His Bigger Thomas is a man with dreams but these are dreams that are anchored to Chicago's "black belt," an area where one does the kind of "work that is marked out for him."

Psychologically he is a man in revolt against the brutal exploitation of the white man, but that psychological basis for his subsequent actions is never made explicit by deed or nuance. It is simply told. He attempts to engineer a stick-up and desists because he is afraid. Bigger and his cohorts let the viewer know this in a sentence and some amateurish play acting.

Although he eventually finds a tragic surcease in man-made death, his bewilderment and the motivations for his crimes are never made completely lucid. He is still a frightened youth who accidentally smothers his employer's comely daughter and then, in his panic, tries to cover up the horrible deed because "all my life I heard of black men being killed because of white girls."

The patsy he chooses in his terror is the boy friend of the deceased girl, a man who in the book was definitely leftist but now is vaguely referred to as a labor leader. But in all fairness it must be said that Mr. Wright is not confused about him. He is no bigot and a man who honestly wants to help the Negroes. As in the book, Bigger attempts to collect ransom for the supposedly missing heiress and later, when the murder is revealed by reporters—the long arm of coincidence is stretched considerably here—he flees into hiding with his singer-girl friend. And he kills her too, under the mistaken suspicion that she has led the police to his sanctuary.

Pierre Chenal, who has directed some noteworthy films in France and has worked in South America, has turned in a lackluster effort despite the fact that the offering was shot in such unusual locales as Buenos Aires and Chicago. Although the physical face of the Argentine city is not visible, the "city of the big shoulders" shows a few seamy views of itself in South Side slum areas. Mr. Chenal's direction is, with one or two exceptions, pedestrian. He has gotten some life into the climactic chase for the harried Bigger over tenement roofs, and, in the scene where Bigger's mother prays in church for her errant son, there is a glimmer of genuine anguish.

Bigger Thomas is a man freighted by fears, hates and ignorance. But Richard Wright's portrayal is a surface one. He is a frightened fugitive finally forced to fight for his life but little else. As his girl friend, Gloria Madison, a newcomer, does a song, "The Dreaming Kind," which does not make her performance memorable. But she does have a moment or two of fervent emotion in pleading with her lover against the course he has taken.

Jean Wallace is simply blonde and beautiful in the brief role of the victim; Jean Michael is perfunctory as the labor leader; Don Dean, who plays Bigger's lawyer, is never clearly revealed in court as the liberal he was in the book and play. The rest of the cast, including Nicholas Joy and Ruth Roberts, as the parents of the heiress, illustrate the opinion of one of the reporters, who in referring to the crime says, "it's the work of amateurs." The stature of "Native Son' has been reduced with this exposure of film.

NATIVE SON, screen play by Richard Wright and Pierre Chenal; dialogue by Mr. Wright; directed by Mr. Chenal; from the novel by Mr. Wright; produced by James Prades; presented by Walter Gould and released by Classic Pictures, Inc. At the Criterion. 
Bigger Thomas . . . . . Richard Wright 
Mary Dalton . . . . . Jean Wallace 
Mr. Dalton . . . . . Nicholas Joy 
Bessie Mears . . . . . Gloria Madison 
Britten . . . . . Charles Cane 
Jan Herlons . . . . . Jean Michael 
Farley . . . . . George Rigaud 
Panama . . . . . George Green 
Hannah Thomas . . . . . Willa Pearl Curtiss 
Max . . . . . Don Dean 
Mrs. Dalton . . . . . Ruth Roberts 
Buckley . . . . . Ned Campbell 
Ernie . . . . . Charles Simmonds 
Buddy Thomas . . . . . Leslie Straughn 
Vera Thomas . . . . . Lidia Alves 
Joe . . . . . George Nathanson 
Scoop . . . . . George Roos 
Stanley . . . . . Lewis MacKenzie 
Peggy . . . . . Cecile Lezard

This Joseph Persaud can sure pass as a Mexican

Good morning. TGIF.

[1] How old is the Malteenoes Sports Club in Guyana?

[2] Who was the first President of Malteenoes Sports Club?

[3] Name three indoor games that were played at Malteenoes.

I shall acknowledge only 3 correct answers.

113 years

First President Mr. Ferdinand Christopher Archer

Domino, Darts, Checkers

Correct.

Other indoor games: badminton and table tennis.

Outdoor games: Football, cricket, field hockey.

Congrats!!