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Seems the British Pro-
perties is turning into a romantic
Mount Penatubo — we will sean
see what promise to be mega-
nasty divorces, both from Mount
Propertubo couples.

Louise Aird
tree nner etn

BRIGHT LIGHTS

Normally, | don’t care what
people do behind closed doors
but these two cases are so twisted,
they intrigued me.

The first is simple. The husband,
who's president of a high-profile
B.C. corporation, got caught
swimming in the secretarial pool.
In the act. By his wife. For the
third time.

The twist is that this husband is a
bible-thumping rider of the family
values bandwagon. Anyone who's

- ever been stuck at his table has
heard his views on the importance
of hearth and home, wife and kids,
church, etc.

‘IHypocrites just can’t get away
with anything any more.

kee

The Second story is more inter-
* esting.

Several months ago, | met a
Mount Propertubo woman at a
North Shore event and she told
me, in her Cockney accent, that
she'd attended a certain English
boarding school,

Well, | went to a school near the +
one she named and | know that
the latter is a school for boys. And
there aren't a lot of Cockney-
accented graduates from those
schools,

She was lying. | figured she was
one walking wounded from the
British class system and more
power to her. No big deal.

Well, she wasn’t lying only-to
me, She was lying to her husband.
And to her wwo boyfriends. And to
her fiance. ‘

Her boyfriends and her fiance,
all North Shore bacheloss, thought
she was a temporarily poor
heiress. So they gave her money.
‘Lots and lots of money. :

To explain all this dough, plus a
huge engagement ring, and with
her mother as her accomplice, she
told her husband that her father
had died ‘and left her millions.

Then father shows up. Father
meets fiance. Fiance meets
boyfriend. Boyfriend meets
boyfriend, Husband meets the

whole gang,

Then it got reall,

Because once the doadoo hit the
fan, this woman — in front of
witnesses — atlacked the hus-
band, seratched and banged
herself up then called the West
Van poiice, alleging wife battery
(she wants the kids).

Can't say more until court pro-
ceedings begin, But stay tuned,
Methinks that Mount Propertubo
will soon be spewing.

kkk

In 1991, the Diane Farris Gallery
hosted Four Brothers Mayrs, 3
showing of the work of, obviously,
the Mayrs brothers.

This show came about after
West Van's Charlie Mayrs bought
gallery space that Farris had do- *
nated to Endeavour and stayed a
show with his siblings. .

Farris was pleasantly surprised to
discover the group and the show
of the work of Charlie, Frank, Bill
and David was a huge success.

_ The six Mayrs kids grew up in
West Van, following their 1947
move fram Winnipeg.

The brothers all became artists
~- Charlie went into graphic
design and is now president of
Dome Advertising; Bill, who
founded Westworld Magazine, is
now a publication and design
consultant living in North Van;
David is an artist and Emily Carr
College teacher also living in
North Van; and Frank is a
photographer and full-time painter
who lives on a farm outside of Ot-
tawa. (He also designed our EXPO
logo — Charlie designed the
SkyTrain graphic.)

The other night, a good crowd
gathered at the gallery for another
show, this time of Frank’s work.
The May's sisters — Margaret and
Irene ~ were there, as were all
the Mrs. Mayrs — Charlie and
David both married Marys, Frank
was with his wife Patricia, and Bill
came with Nonic, -

Patrick Reid stopped in — en
route to Hawaii — to plunk down
a tidy sum for Frank’s “irish”
painting and West Van gals Liz
Tuck and Jennifer Hobson turned
up to see their mother, Mary
Frances Tuck, who is the Van-
couver artist also currently show-
ing at the gallery.

Twe West Van gentlemen also
appeared ~~ Nebraska-born Don
Bourn and his partner, Texan Alex
Blodgett. .

Bourn and Blodgett are recent
arrivals who are partners in Pacific

Bridge Investments, which is the ~
sponsor and orchestrator of a coup
for Diane Farris ~ she will be
Opening a second, temporary
gallery, in the plush downtown
Park Place, where a steady stream
of business traffic will become a
lucrative audience for the work of
her artists. ;

1 might as well stay on the subject
of art... ‘

SS taiens.s
ARTIST MARY Frances Tuck (left) and daughter Jennifer Hobson
‘were aiso spotted at the Diane Farris Gallery.

Wednesday, February 3,

Photos Louise Alrd

THE FOUR Srothers Mayrs (from left to right): Charlie, Frank, Bill and David were at the Diane Farris
Gallery the other night for a show of artist Frank’s work.

WEST VAN’S Alex Blodgett (left) and Don Bourn (right) pose with gallery owner Diane Farris.

David Mayrs is having a show of
his work at Deep Cove’s Seymour
Gallery on Feb. 8,

And West Van gallery manager
ingunn Kembet has announced
that the Buschlen Mowatt Gallery
will be hosting “The New
Renaissance — The Changing
Faces of Chinese Art in the 20th
Century.”

This exhibition series, which will
take place Feb. 16 to April 11, is
billed as “the most significant
cross-cultural event in Vancouver
for 1993” and is meant to “foster
good will through the exchange of
ideas in rapidly changing
cultures,"

Four of China’s most sought-
afler contemporary artists will be
featured and there will be some
very interesting work shown.

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