FAMOUS QUINTUPLETS

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20730, 14 February 1939, Page 3

FAMOUS QUINTUPLETS

i NO PUBLIC APPEARANCES PLAN FOR SECLUSEON (•Canadian Press) •CALLANDER, January 5. Guardians of the Dionne Quintuplets have not only spurned an offer that they appear at the New York World's Fair next summer, but it is possible their appearances before the public in Canada will end soon. An offer of something between £IOO,OOO and £200,000 from the World's Fair authorities was rejected by the quintuplets’ guardians. The 4s-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 here. But a new threat appeared in the statement of Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, their physician, that the famous children may be secluded from the public in the near future. He said that continuation of their daily appearances before vjsitors 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 plan 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.