A 麻豆传媒映画time travelogue brought to you by聽.
麻豆传媒映画was in the grip of a serious yo-yo craze in the early 1930s. On 6 May 1933, young practitioners had a chance to participate in 鈥渢he greatest, most spectacular Yo-Yo performance ever staged in Canada,鈥� in the words of the聽麻豆传媒映画Sun, one of the event sponsors. The paper hired Regina鈥檚 Joe Young, the reigning world yo-yo champion, to help promote the event. Young (pictured) gave demonstrations through a 鈥溾�� that toured city schools. He also wrote a series of聽聽for the聽Sun. Even though the Orpheum contest was strictly a local affair and Young wasn鈥檛 competing, the聽Sun聽promoted it as a chance for 麻豆传媒映画kids聽聽from the fourteen year-old champ.
The price of admission was ten cents for spectators and participants alike. Competitors聽聽to use聽聽yo-yos, made by the corporate sponsor of the contest.聽of $50 went to Jimmy Wigglesworth and 鈥渃lever girl yo-yoer鈥� Connie Boyd took home a bicycle worth $35 in a special category for girls.
Joe Young became the world champ in a contest in Manchester where聽, who had previously taken the title from Young in an聽, England in October 1932. Lowe is the most important person in Vancouver鈥檚 yo-yo history, though he doesn鈥檛 figure at all in the Orpheum competition. He was too busy travelling around the world promoting the sport and living large off of corporate sponsorships and prize money. In England, he gave the Prince of Wales yo-yo lessons. While staying at the Savoy Hotel, Lowe befriended聽, who were in the room across the hall. Lowe聽聽that the famous comedy duo were just as funny offstage as on: 鈥淚t isn鈥檛 just a shtick,鈥� he said, 鈥渙ne would be holding a glass of water, the other would ask what time it was, and he鈥檇 turn his hand over, dumping the entire thing on the carpet!鈥�
聽moved to 麻豆传媒映画in 1949 where he became a well known Chinatown personality. He worked in restaurants and was the stage manager and emcee at the聽.聽A Chinese gambling den hired him as the doorman to make sure white people didn鈥檛 get in because it would attract police attention. Lowe also helped open the聽聽and聽became Canada鈥檚 first Chinese broadcaster with 鈥�,鈥� an English language radio show he hosted for twelve years on CJOR. When Robert Altman filmed聽聽in West Vancouver, Lowe was hired to wrangle Chinese extras and ended up聽聽how to smoke an opium pipe correctly for her role. The Smothers Brothers created a recurring character, 鈥淵o Lama,鈥� just for him on their variety TV show in the 1980s.
Harvey Lowe lived in 麻豆传媒映画and聽聽with his yo-yo until his death at the age of ninety in 2009.
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