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Blossoms of Spring high tea hosted by Visakhians of NSW – By Sharmila Dilhani Jayasinghe Niriella Click here or on the photos below to view all the photos on eLanka Facebook page   Blossoms of Spring high tea hosted by Visakhians of NSW  By Sharmila Jayasinghe Niriella Visakhians of New South Wales ended the centenary year celebrations of their Alma mater in style with a spring themed high tea in Sydney recently. The event, which was held at the Lachlan’s Restaurant in the old government house in Parramatta, was well attended by Visakhians and friends from all over New South Wales. The afternoon gave a chance for the ladies to venture out in their spring attire to catch up over a sumptuous high tea while listening to soothing melodies played on the violin by  13 year old Athandri Somaratne, a past pupil of Visakha Vidyalaya, Colombo. Sajotha Karunaratne welcomed the ...

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  Book 1 featured over a hundred personalities who have, more or less made a name for themselves in what must surely be one of the most difficult “games” in the World. Most of us, in Ceylon (at the time), only treated “Showbiz” as a part-time occupation. I remember it well. Even some of the “big-bands” & top-musicians used to “hit the stage” on a part-time basis. Everyone had to have a full-time job, showbiz being the “cream on the cake, if you like.      Ishan Bahar, the compiler of “AHOS” (1) was an extremely talented & well-known showbiz personality who decided on the crazy idea of documenting the “stories” of this particular genre of “Western-style” Artistes, which he did, & very well, with the assistance of ” the man with the horn”, Dallas Achilles, Television Personality & “Englebert-style Entertainer” Derrick J,  & , making up the third “D” was ...

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