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HIGHLIGHTS
from the
HIGH SCHOOL
Girls
Last Thursday, Marguerite Ford
and her team from XIIA competed
With Sally Slosser and her team from
XIA for the girls’ senior basketball
championship. This game, which was
refereed by Mrs. Williams and Sandra
-Smith, ended with a score of 22 to 5
for XIIA. For XHA, the baskets were
•cored by Donna Copeland, Marguerite
Ford and JDonelda MacDonald. Winni-
fred Munro got all the points for XIA.
XHA will now meet XC to compete
for the girls’ basketball championship.
Louise Jefferson
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In the junior boys’ league XC cap
tained by Jim Lockridge edged out
XA captained by Greg Buchanan in
a very close game. The final score was
14-12.
Both play-off games, like all league
games, were played in the Wingham
Armouries. Congratulations to both
winners.
Boys
The senior boys’ basketball champ
ionship was won by grade twelve with
a decisive 59-5 win over grade eleven
' A. Captain Mac Cameron, the grade
twelve scoring ace, scored 49 pointy
wjth Mac Eadie 9 and Don Biggs 1.
Don Breckenridge was the lone scor
er for eleven with all 5 points. Offic
ials for this game were Bev Brooks
and Bill. Laidlaw.
Ron Higgins
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Following is an article written for
this column by Lois Thompson,
' The Decline of Courtesy
Is courtesy towards women declin
ing? This is a topic which is discussed
a great deal—both in magazines and
in women’s groups. It Is also the sub
ject of many jokes, of which a typical
one is the following:
First lady to a friend, “I do believe
that the age of chivalry is not com
pletely dead.”
“Why do you say that?” inquired
her friend. -
“Well,” replied the first lady, “when
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I was getting on the bus today I fell,
and instead of walking on me, the
men walked around me,”
While this is an exaggerated situa
tion, there hd doubt that the age
when men treated women as fragile
china dolls ip past, No longer does a
man bow and kiss a lady’s hand when
he is introduced; he merely says
“hello” and shakes her hand: Like
wise, he is no longer the object of
shocked looks if he remains comfort
ably seated in a bus while ladies
Stand.
“What” you ask, “has caused the
change? Are men becoming impolite
and thoughtless?” The answer is de
finitely, “No”. They still open doors
for a lady, allow her to precede them,
and walk on the outside of the street.
It is the women themselves who are
responsible. Before World War I, the
woman's place was in the home”.
After the war, women not only secur-
. ed the right to vote and to hold public
office, but also invaded every profes
sion from medicine to astromony.
Naturally, men deemed women incap
able of successfully carrying out their
new role; however, ’the competent
work of women, especially during
World War II, soon changed this at
titude. Women now have the same
status as men, and are no longer con
sidered delicate creatures who should
sit at home with their dainty hands
crossed. Why then, should they be
treated as such? Here, is the true
reason for the so-called decline of
courtesy.
If the growth of women’s independ
ence and the disappearance of such
fiddle-faddle as bowing and handkiss
ing, is a decline of courtesy, the de
cline has certainly been tremendous
and wide-spread. Most women (not
without pyide) recognize and accept
this fact; thus they do not insist on
“all the little courtesies”. Most, never
theless, (and wen might do well to
remember this) do appreciate such
courtesies as opening doors and walk
ing pn the outside of the street. For
after all, even the most competent
lady executive is still a woman at
heart.
Lois Thompson
WDHS CURLERS IN
WOSSA FINAL AT
OWEN SOUND SPIEL
The Western Ontario Secondary
Schools Curling Championships were
held at the Owen Sound Curling Club
on Saturday, March 27th, Competing
were rinks from Owen Sound, Kitch
ener, Mount Forest, Galt, Port Elgin,
Wingham, Walkerton and Kincardine.
The Wingham District High School
team defeated Port Elgin and Walk
erton to enter the finals against the
Kitchener-Waterloo Collegiate team.
The latter team, who have been curl
ing for four years, defeated the locals
to take the W.O.S.S.A. crown.
The Wingham District High School
team was composed of Jim Bain, skip;
Jack Elliott, vice; Bruce Robertson,
second and Dave Slosser, lead.
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If Wingham is even to have a suc
cessful drama organization, we must
get away from the idea that “putting
on a play” is simply a fast and rela
tively easy way of making money for
a club project. .We must think of a
play in terms of good theatre, not
just in terms of community fund-
raising; we must want to see the play
for the play’s sake, not merely be
cause a couple of our friends are in
it; pnd wq> must irivite comparison
and criticism. t, u
The first big step in such a move
ment was taken last Thursday and
Friday nights, when three local
groups under the auspices of the
Wingham Recreation Council present
ed a one-act drama festival, And a
successful one, from all standpoints.
There were three plays, two com
edies and one serious drama. The first
was “Mrs. O’Leary’s Cow” presented
by the Catholic Youth Organization
and directed by Miss Margaret
Brophy. It is the story of the compli
cations that ensue when an Irish
family on the outskirts of Chicago
comes into possession of a green cow.
As the adjudicator said, it is not a
well-written play, depending as it
does for its dramatic movement on
the appearances and speeches of one
character, Betsy. But there were
many things to praise about the per
formance of the play. Most of the
characters entered into the spirit of
their parts, and the audience had a
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I good many laughs. We should remem-
■ too, that the performers in this
; play were the youngest and most in
experienced; with one or two except
ions they are junior high school stud
ents.
The heavy part of Mrs. O’Leary was
p£ayed ShirIey Chettleburgh, and
that of Betsy by Margaret King. The
JJars u ithC play were l°avid Slosser,
Mary Hihn, Sally Slosser, Marykae
ewman and Jim Newman. Sally
& NXn~y as
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bi MaVTg People aad dieted
by Mr. Vin Dittmer. Based on an in-
abS” the mCatOri HUg°’S "Les Mis*r’
ames the play is an old reliable for
huts™ T1™1?a wt wrny porh“Ps.
but still dramatically effective. As the
nly play with a serious theme and
placed between the .7 , . cne two comedies, it gave a nice balance to the evening's
Fnrt-n P and Persom« were Don
Other • Donalda MacDonald,
beh Bo^P G CaSt WGre Jean CamP' Sv X5ergUS°n’ BfUCe Ma<Ponald,
and Ken McKague. The adjudicator named this the win-
e“itsPd^S the fe‘ltiVal’ and Prcsent-
trophy Wlth the Lions Club
Piv.henthlrd play was "Sunday Costs
Club Z? Presented by the Ninette Club and directed by Mrs. Miles
Overend. This was a lovely little
1 Mexican comedy concerned with the
^ve troubles of Berta, played by Jane
rie^Thrl F/de1’ pIayed by Jim Cur’
’ i. , named actor gave usfestival gIH'St biJ °f. playing in the
festival. His natural charm plus a
J®?0!? understanding of his part
w^i.glVe a deliShtfuI Perform
ance which was fully appreciated by
audience and adjudicator. Edith Wal
er was a good, tempestuous Celes-
tina, and Catherine Crewson and Ruth
were the other two Mexican
girls. The lighting, costuming, and
setting of this play was the most ef
fective of the three. It -suffered as the
adjudicator said, from too much Can
adian reserve and too little Mexican
bounce.
The adjudication jvas given by Mrs.
Sparling Little, of’Toronto. And, as
one member of the audience said the
next day, she was as good as a fourth
play. She spoke for twenty minutes
and had the rapt attention of her aud
ience every second. She commented
on a number of things in each play,
giving the groups the public praise
and encouragement they deserve and
the suggestions they need.
Though she was generous in her
commendations, she was pointedly
critical of a number of things—of
choice of play and stage movement
in “Mrs. O’Leary’s Cow”, of lighting
and character portrayed in “The Bis
hop’s Candlesticks”, of a lack of Mex
ican vitality in “Sunday Costs Five
Pesos”. But her criticisms were al
ways pleasant and constructive, never
caustic and destructive. Her frame of
reference was not the professional
stage, or even the semi-professional
Little Theatre; it was rather, the
small-town community playhouse. She
realizes the limitations of “community
drama”, but she is uncompromising
in her insistence on directors and
actors stretching themselves ns far
as possible within those limitations.
We were fortunate enpugh to listen
in on Mrs. Little's later remarks td
each cast, when she went over the
directing and staging of the Plays in
more detail and talked over individ
ual parts with the players. All the
directors and players showed an abil
ity to accept criticism that bodes well
for the futpre of drama in Wingham.
Onp Of them said later, “She had a
way of telling you how lousy you
were, and making you like it.” This,
like any such summary remark, is
only a half-truth, but at least it sug
gests the reaction of the performers
in the festival.
The phrase ^‘sparkling personality’*
has been overworked until it means
nothing, but if it had any meaning
we can’t think of any recent visitor
to Wingham to whom it could be
better applied than to Mrs. Little. She
had a wonderful vitality about her
that made all of us like her and listen to her. it was a vitality not just of
the bouncing, athletic type—though
she showed that, too—but something
that springs from a knowledge and
experience of, and a passion for, good
theatre.
EXPECT GODERICH TAX
RATE: UNCHANGED
Goderich tax rate will likely be
struck April 15, it was decided last
week at the regular council meeting.
Mayor J. E. Huckins expressed the
view that the tax rate might remain
unchanged from last year’s 57 mills.
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