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Rickey Mann has been an integral part of the entertainment family in this city as well as the entire Vancouver lower mainland. Having performed with Dal Richards, Lorraine McAllister, Gillian Campbell, Bobby Hales, Eleanor Collins, Harry Thomas (the Squeakin’ Deacon), Evan Kemp and David Foster, just to name a few, he also did regular spots at the Kitsilano Showboat,…
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A native of Seattle, WA, Mankuma made Vancouver his home during the turbulent years of the Vietnam war and has established himself as one of Canada’s busiest actors ever since. A unique actor with an easy grace on film despite his commanding six foot, 230 lb. girth, Mankuma quickly established a following among producers and…
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April 11, 1911 – January 27, 1993  As a child, Leon Mandrake saw the great magicians of vaudeville and set out to become one himself.   He did odd jobs for magicians in return for lessons, and by the age of eleven he was on stage in his hometown of New Westminster. At fourteen, he worked the…
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Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, the stage and costume designer; designed costumes for Vancouver’ s Theatre Under the Stars, Kay Armstrong and later in Toronto for the Volkoff Canadian Ballet and the National Ballet of Canada.

Born in St. Paul Minnesota in 1940 and raised in a musical family, Diane Loomer received her BA from Gustavus Adolphus College.  After teaching high school math and English in the USA and Germany, she relocated to Vancouver in the mid-1970’s. She began her studies in music theory, piano and voice at Douglas College, transferring…
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