Greek events, Canadian venues Article , 01/05/1965, "Greek show at forum".
Source: Canadian Press
“Athenian corner”
Man refers to the performances of Harry Klyn in Montreal.
RES.: How was your life over here? ΑN.: Ordinary. RES.: Ordinary? Did you have, did you go out at all…? ΑN.: Every night as a bachelor I was eating out, every night, on weekends we were going to the Greek clubs, to the Athenian Corner which was between Mount Royal and Park Avenue. There had come… at the time there was coming… What’s the name of that comedian in Greece, the Pontic one? The… The Pontic comedian in Greece, the big one, eeeh… I’m forgetting him now. It’s here that he became famous. All the Greek singers back then were coming here. It was as if we lived in a small Greece. RES.: Wow! ΑN.: Harry Klyn RES.: Ah, yes. ΑN.: It’s here that he became famous, here in… in Montreal.