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The Ottawa Citizen from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada • 143

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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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143
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A GIFT TO LAST 1 them, he weaves the story of one Christmas day when he was a small boy On that long-ago Christmas, Uncle Edgar, the small boy's hero, arrives on snowshoes. He is bundled in a buffalo hide coat which, when removed, reveals the splendid scarlet tunic of an army sergeant. On that Christmas Day, Clement's father gave him a pencil box on which he had worked for months. Later, Clement was required to wear a white dress for the re-enactment of the nativity scene, a role he detested. But the great gift was his uncle's army bugle Now, Clement, the grandfather, hands the bugle to his grandson.

"If you can make a noise on it, it's yours," he says. The boy makes a noise on it. A Gift To Last, a one-hour drama about a rural Ontario Christmas in the 1890s, will make its second appearance on CBC-TV on December 25. Gordon Pinsent wrote the script and, as Uncle Edgar, an army sergeant, is the star. It is the recounting of an old-time Christmas by a disgruntled grandfather who is outraged at the tinsel brassi-ness of a modern Yuletide and decides to spend the day in his room.

Guest star Melvyn Douglas is the grandfather who is drawn back into the spirit of the day by a grandson's gift, and who, in turn, gives the boy a gift he, himself, has treasured In his room, the old man opens an ancient trunk and takes from it a small, carved grenadier, a soiled white dress, a pencil box and a tarnished bugle. Around BODEO BEAR IS BACK Gordon Pinsent 4 Fell In Flavors. A second album. Honey On Toast, has appeared on the market. But Bodeo calls If Snow-flakes Fell In Flavors his spiritual home.

Sandy Offenheim sold the idea of a children's special based on her album to the CBC. Writers Susan Marcus and Chris Clarke studied the songs, chose ten of the 1 8 that would make a story, and then created the character of Bodeo Bear. Finally, they founded a fictitious camp called Ticky Tacky and set four kids down in t. A puppeteer named Nina Keogh became Bodeo Bear. The four kids are Sammy Snyders, Andre Antoine, Kim Temple and Nadine Offenheim.

Camp Ticky Tacky is make-believe. Bodeo Bear And The Snow-flake Kids return to the CBC network on December 26. Bodeo sprang full-grown and overstuffed from an album of children's songs written by Sandy Offenheim of Toronto, and made his television debut in March, 1976. Sandy Offenheim wrote the songs originally for her two children Nadine and Stephen. She picked out the tunes on an autoharp from which emerged such intriguing compositions as Did You Ever Hear An Ant Say Can't? Do Not Disturb My Olfactory Nerve, If Snowflakes Fell In Flavors, It's So Nice To Have A Cuddle and Muck.

The songs first appeared in a book illustrated by Nadine Offenheim and then in an album entitled If Snowflakes Bodeo Bear.

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