Show I I f I 9 r i I I New Candid Camera Shots o of f the 1 I Following Their Tenth Birthday In spite of the invasion of their realm by the five in Argentina the are still the the only identical in the world And they ARE identical outside their own immediate immediate immediate imme imme- diate family there is practically no noone noone noone one who can tell them apart Right to the day he died Dr Allan Roy Dafoe the physician who brought them into the world couldn't pick them He could recognize Marie but the other four all looked alike to him They have always dressed in different colors to make identification identification cation easier but they knew the doctor doctor doctor doc doc- tor didn't recognize them otherwise I and they loved to switch dresses and I fool him u Even though they have been living living living liv liv- ing normally with the their r family for forthe forthe forthe the past two years the still act as a unit as against everyone else They are normal in that they quarrel but these quarrels arcs arc very sel seldom om among themselves Marie has the biggest fan mail She is also the charmer when visitors visitors vis vis- vis- vis hors come Its It's unconscious with her and this annoys Cecile who thinks herself the personality kid She tries too hard Emilie is the comedienne and a great mimic The others look to her herto herto herto to give impersonations of visitors as soon as they've left and its it's uncanny uncanny uncanny un un- un- un canny to see how she picks up gestures gestures gestures tures and peculiarities for her performance per per- Cecile is very observant of visitors' visitors clothes and criticizes them with all the confidence in the world She is the one of the five that tends to be a bit catty Yvonne has most influence with the others and if there is a difference difference difference differ differ- ence of opinion they do as she says Annette is the competitive one gets upset if the others beat her She is not a good loser Marie who has always been the slowest and weakest weakest weakest weak weak- est makes up for these deficiencies by being the daredevil of the bunch Many think the Sixth Quint is best looking of the group she group she is Pauline eleven Pauline eleven months older than they but just about the same size She is in sharp contrast to their dark beauty for she is a blonde with fair hair fair skin and dark eyes Of all the family she is closest closest closest clos clos- est to them and because she is such an unusually lovely child sometimes sometimes sometimes some some- times takes the spotlight away from them They have all but adopted her into the lodge f Of their brothers and sis sisters rs only I I the three oldest show any signs of regarding the as different This is because they Ernest Rose Roseand Roseand Roseand and Therese were old enough to be affected by the early quarrels among the pressure groups that surrounded the until the last couple of years Mr and Mrs Dionne do their level best to keep the five from being being being be be- ing treated as different At the age of ten en not one of them has a cavity in a tooth Dentists say this is due to scientific diet plus the fact they have always brushed their teeth A couple of them may need orthodontic treatment treatment treatment-Ce- Ce Cecile cile rile in particular She is very conscious conscious conscious con con- that her front teeth protrude a bit and it bothers her no end The great ambition is to see New York They have already tra traveled to Toronto and to Superior Wis New York is their next goal Travel bothers them not at all they are great troupers But Mr and Mrs Dionne hate it They get upset by excitement and the crowds and meeting strangers and come back exhausted so they refuse to take the away from home unless it is for some patriotic reason like a Victory Bond rally Doctors for a time were a bit worried worried wor wor- ried vied because the five were persistently persistently persist persist- i overweight Then they decided decided decided ed this was because their bony bonyI 11 I structure is heavier than normal II ill til This the medics is the result of the heavy doses of liver cod-liver oil they were given to combat the rickets rickets rickets rick rick- ets they had at birth they birth they have taken taken taken tak tak- en liver cod-liver oil every day of their ten years Besides giving the religious teaching Bishop Leo their Chaplain is head Roman Catholic Chaplain of the Canadian armed forces His outstanding work has brought promotions until today he holds a unique rank in Canada Canada he he heis is an Admiral of the Navy a General General General Gen Gen- eral in the Army and a Marshal of the Air Force I The DO speak English and with a delightful accent They know over words Their conversational conversation conversation- al English has been retarded purely because their mother still doesn't understand tit lit and so it is spoken but seldom in the home r No the Quintuplets haven't lost their looks or charm as you often hear tell It just appears that way in photographs because they all developed developed developed de de- a self-conscious self shyness so that when photos are taken they just freeze up v I |