RETIRING QUINTUPLETS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 40, 17 February 1939, Page 2

RETIRING QUINTUPLETS

LESS PUBLIC INSPECTION Guardians of the Dionne Quintuplets have not only spurned an offer that they appear at the New York World’s Fair, but it is possible their appearances before the public in Canada will end soon (states an overseas exchange). An offer of something between 500,000 dollars and 1,000,000 from World's Fair authorities was rejected by the quintuplets’ guardians. The 41-year-old girls will stay in Canada and continue attracting tourists by the hundred thousands from the United States and Canada to visit them at the Dafoe Nursery near Callander. But a new threat appeared in the statement by Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, their physician, that the famous children may be secluded from the punlie in the near future. He said that continuation of their daily appearances before visitors at their home might have a detrimental effect on the children. * The physician set no date on which they would cease their appearances and it is believed they will stage their daily “shows” in the playgrounds through next summer at least. The plain then is to build a large home for the quintuplets, their parents and their seven brothers and .sisters, some place on their estate far from automobile roads. The suggestion has been made that tourists might see them then at a distance through glasses.