DIONNE QUINTUPLETS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23269, 11 February 1939, Page 15

DIONNE QUINTUPLETS

appearances in public GUARDIANS IMPOSE BAN f.FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT! OTTAWA, Jan. 20 The guardians of the Dionne quintuplets have not only spurned an offer for them to appear at the New York World's Fair next summer, but it is possible that their appearances before the public in Canada will end soon. Att offer of something between 500,000 and 1.000,000 dollars from the World's Fair authorities was rejected by tho guardians. / . The 44-year-old girls will stay in Canada and continue attracting numerous tourists from the United States and Canada to visit them at the Dafoe Nursery near at Callander. But a new threat appeared in "the statement of Dr. Allan Hoy Dafoo, their physician, that the famous children may be secluded from the public in the near future. He said that the continuation of their daily appearances before visitors at their home might have a detrimental effect on the children. The quintuplets' physician set no date on which the quintuplets would cease their appearances and it is believed that they will stage their daily "shows'" in the playgrounds through next summer at least. The plan then is to build a large home for the children, their parents and their seven brothers and sisters some place on their estate far from motor roads. The suggestion has been made that tourists might see tliem then at a distance through glasses.