DIONNE QUINS AT QUIET BIRTHDAY PARTY AT HOME
OTTAWA, May 28 (Rec. 6 pm).— The Dionne quintuplets, who won fame and fortune just by being oorn, celebrated their 15th. birthday quietly today. Their father, Oliva Dionne, ordered the birthday to be just a family affair for the first time in the girls’ lives. In their 15 years they have been stared at by at least a million and a-half people. Their father decided that foi today all reporters, photographers and curiosity seekers would be banned from the premises. A gay two-day party was planned on the 340-acre Dionne farm bought with part of the 1,500,000 dollars the girls have earned for posing for motion picture cameras and magazine advertisements.
The five dark-haired sisters, Emile, Cecile, Yvonne, Annette and Marie today received presents from all parts of the world and probably will give them to charitable institutions, as in previous years. The sisters, who weighed a total of lOlbs. at birth, now are strapping girls, 62 inches in height and weigh about 1301bs. each.
They are taking first-year high school classes along with handpicked classmates in a private school conduced by Catholic nuns on the Dionne farm. The quintuplets are seldom permitted to leave the farm because when they do people still (Teat them as curiosities and make them feel uncomfortable.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 30 May 1949, Page 5
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