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Celebrity at city hall. Actor Tony Curtis, visiting Toronto City Hall yesterday, presents one of his paintings, Breakfast At Bel Air, to Metro Chairma(...)
Celebrity at city hall. Actor Tony Curtis, visiting Toronto City Hall yesterday, presents one of his paintings, Breakfast At Bel Air, to Metro Chairma(...)

Celebrity at city hall. Actor Tony Curtis, visiting Toronto City Hall yesterday, presents one of his paintings, Breakfast At Bel Air, to Metro Chairma(...)

Date2/27/1991
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  • Celebrity at city hall. Actor Tony Curtis, visiting Toronto City Hall yesterday, presents one of his paintings, Breakfast At Bel Air, to Metro Chairman Alan Tonks, left. Curtis is here to appear on CTV's Shirley show. His paintings will be shown at Sutton Place Hotel on the weekend.
  • Celebrity at city hall. Actor Tony Curtis, visiting Toronto City Hall yesterday, presents one of his paintings, Breakfast At Bel Air, to Metro Chairma(...)
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Original Toronto Star caption: Celebrity at city hall. Actor Tony Curtis, visiting Toronto City Hall yesterday, presents one of his paintings, Breakfast At Bel Air, to Metro Chairman Alan Tonks, left. Curtis is here to appear on CTV's Shirley show. His paintings will be shown at Sutton Place Hotel on the weekend.
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      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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      Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0041590F
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      Talking pictures: Actors Paul Michael Glazer and Tony Curtis discuss arts and crafts at party Saturday Curtis is selling paintings and Glazer's making a movie
      Talking pictures: Actors Paul Michael Glazer and Tony Curtis discuss arts and crafts at party Saturday Curtis is selling paintings and Glazer's making a movie
      Bock, Tony
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      Cool Tunes: Mississauga Symphony nmembers, from left, Thomas Henderson, James Mason and Curtis Dietz, hold a refreshing rehearsal in the city hall pool yesterday
      Calleja, Frank
      7/8/1988
      Enjoying the spring in Toronto, Tony Curtis yesterday wore a smile beneath his white hat as he posed for photographers in Yorkville. He was in town to(...)
      Enjoying the spring in Toronto, Tony Curtis yesterday wore a smile beneath his white hat as he posed for photographers in Yorkville. He was in town to(...)
      Curtis, Tony, 1925-2010
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      But is it art? Put me in front of canvas and I paint, says actor Tony Curtis, whose work will be sold at the planned World Gallery of the Stars in Yor(...)
      Curtis, Tony, 1925-2010
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      Stubbed kick: Metro chairman Dennis Flynn flubbed his kick during the Vanier Cup kickoff for diabetes at City Hall yesterday as celebrities lined up to publicize Saturday's football game
      Flynn, Dennis, 1923-2003
      11/27/1985
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      Mr. and Mrs. Gordon H. McCullough of Etobicoke admire the two Cornelius Kriefhoff paintings that cost them $17,000 at the Collectors' Choice auction at the St. Lawrence Hall last night. The auction was estimted to have raised close to $50,000 for the National Ballet School scholarship fund. The bidding was fast and furious as Metro's 400 went all out for the paintings and antiques.
      Darrell, Dick
      10/24/1968
      Ojibwa Indian Walter Currie (left), who opened the Royal Ontario Museum's 60th anniversary exhibit of British artist Paul Kane's paintings yesterday talks with his daughter, Leslie, student Philip Fischer (second from left) and Johnny Yesno, and Ojibwa and producer of CBC's Our Native Land in exhibition hall.
      Ojibwa Indian Walter Currie (left), who opened the Royal Ontario Museum's 60th anniversary exhibit of British artist Paul Kane's paintings yesterday talks with his daughter, Leslie, student Philip Fischer (second from left) and Johnny Yesno, and Ojibwa and producer of CBC's Our Native Land in exhibition hall.
      Goode, Jeff
      1/4/1972
      Visiting city hall yesterday, former prime minister John Diefenbaker talked with Toronto Mayor David Crombie in his office. He also visited the City C(...)
      Visiting city hall yesterday, former prime minister John Diefenbaker talked with Toronto Mayor David Crombie in his office. He also visited the City C(...)
      Crombie, David
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      Tony Curtis is in Toronto to play a ruthless gambler in the film Title Shot
      Curtis, Tony, 1925-2010
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      Tony Curtis is in Toronto to play a ruthless gambler in the film Title Shot
      Tony Curtis is in Toronto to play a ruthless gambler in the film Title Shot
      Curtis, Tony, 1925-2010
      2/21/1979
      Geoffrey Holder: Dancer: director: choreographer: actor: lecturer: musician: costume designer: author and gourmet cook is in town to display his paintings
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      Combs, Erin
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      A reassuring calm is one of the tools of the trade for Ted Curtis, Ontario mortgage supervisor for IAC Ltd, Curtis is the new president of the Ontario Mortgage Brokers Association, which has proposed a mechanism wherby mortgages could be bought and sold as securities in a manner similar to stock and bond trading. Payment to investors would be guaranteed under scheme, similar to one in U.S.
      Bull, Ron
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