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DRAMA GROUP WINS TRQPHY—Exeter Players' Guild won its first award, the Lake
Huron Zone Drama Festival Trophy, last week at the one -act competition in SHDHS.
Above, Miss Kay Jordan, Listowel, presents the cup to Mrs. James Glaab, director of
the winning play, "Rise and Shine." J. Burke Martin, drama critic of the London
Free Press, was adjudicator. Members of the cast were Mrs. Art Whilsmith, Bob
Rusel, Mrs. James Smith and Frank Wildfong. —T -A Photo
CuWins.First Award,
., . .
Hope To Spark Revival
Exeter Players' Guild, only 1 Miller, vice-president, conduct- rection of Miss Kathleen Jordan;
two years ,old, won its first I ed the WMS business. former high school teacher here,
drama award last week when it 1 enthusiastic approval of a rela- p r e s e nit e d "Miss Marlowe at
captured .the Lake Huron Zone ttively small audience, most of Play", a farce in which a famous
Recreational Council trophy at whom were from Exeter, actress turns the tables on a
the one -act festival presented in Officials of the local club hope Prim gentleman who believes all
. people in the theatre are im-
SHDHS Wednesday night. the victory will revive enthus
A cast of four, under the direc- iasm in drama here. They say mral•
• • tion of Mrs. James Glaab, won more members are required if The Hanover group presented
the honor with a play entitled the guild is to continue. "We "Angel and," which featured a
• "Rise and Shine." by an Ontario cannot cast the same pedple in scheming young brat who fixes
author, Elda Cadogan, of Dur- every play," one officer pointed up her brother's and sister's
ham. Adjudicator J. Burke Mar- out. love problems for a stipulated
tin, drama critic of the ..London A meeting of the guild will be fee.
Critic Martin said he enjoyed
the festival. "Nothing takes the
place of live theatre—I take the
greatest pleasure in watching a
play come alive. on the stage."
Bob Secord, zone representa-
Free Press, gave it the nod over held soon at which time its fu -
productions by Listowel and Han- ture will be decided.
over groups. Size of the crowd which at -
Mr. Martin's Choice met with tended the one -act festival was
disappointing but those who were
present thoroughly enjoyed the
three plays. They were also bye for the community programs
Thames. Road entertained by the SHDHS.
chestra, under the direction of
or- branch of the Department of
Education, introduced the adjudi-
teaeher Cecil Wilson, and by an cator. Cecil Porter, of the Exeter
By MRS. WiLLIAM RHODE array of old and new costumes group, also spoke.
displayed by local models, Miss Kay Jordan presented the
Praises Production zone trophy to Mrs. Glaab.
Adjudicator Martin said the
Exeter play, which he described.
as "pure fantasy", was. done
"extremely well ont the whole."
It was a delicate play to present,
he pointed out, because it came
close to being sacrilegious.
Two principal characters were
Bob Russell, who portrayed
Philip Grant, a playboy, and
1!).-s1 Art Whilsmith, president of
the Guild, who played the part i
of Hepzibah Jones, a young
mother who distrusts her hus-
band.
The two are late in rising
from their graves after Gabriel
blows his trumpet and find them-
selves alone in Willowdale Ceme-
tery, Hepzibah, who died after
giving birth.to her sixth daugh-
ter, was buried nearly a century
before Philip, who was killed in
a car accident.
• After sharing miseries, the two
fall in love with each other and
engage in a series of embraces
when Hepzibah' husband, Henry,
played. by Frank Wildfong, and
his second wife, Jane, Mrs.
James Smith, return to the
This Week In
1VIrs. Lila Davey and. Miss Ed-
. ma Merkley of London were
guests on Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. Reg Hodgert.
• - Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Miller,
Brian and Barry were guests
s' on Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
William Stew/art of Wesley.
• .Mr. and Mrs, Ted Goddard
and family of Ilderton, Mr. Chas
Montieth, Miss Ella Montieth of
Exeter were guests on Sunday
with Mr. and Mrs. William
t Snow.
Mr. and Mrs. Thos: Allen and
family of Londesboro were
guests on Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. IVIelvin Gardiner.
Mr. and 'Mrs. Glenn Jeffery
and Mr. and Mrs. Chas Jeffery
attended. James St. Sunday
School anniversary and the for-
mer spent the day with Mr. and
Mrs. William Thomson and the
latter with Mr, and Mrs. Bert
Bissett.
Quite a number from this
community attended the church
‘. service at Elimville on Sunday
evening when Miss Audrey Fink-
bemer, missionary home on fur-
lough from St. Lucia, British graveyard. Hepzibah finds out
West • Indies spoke and also/ her husband wasn't inconsiderate
as she thought he had been. .
showed films on her work there.
Henry and Jane burst the
The Mother's Day service will
be a combined service on Sun- llovers' bubble when they dis-
cover' that Hepzibah is Philip's
day in the auditorium of the great grandmother.
church at 11:15 a.m. The Sun- Mr. Martin praised all mem-
day School members are asked bars of the east—and criticized
to meet at 1045. their performances too.
The play required an extensive
set — a dilapidated cemetery —
which was cleverly created by
_Ralph Sweitzer and Cecil Porter.
Not As Difficult
The other plays, the adiudicator
said, were not as difficult to
portray as the Exeter.one.
Listowel. Guild, under the di -
The monthly meeting of the
SM Club will be held on Wed-
nesday evening, May 15 at 830
• p.m. in the church basement,
WA and WMS' Meeting
The monthly meeting of the
; WA arid WMS was held in the
baselnent ,of the ehurch'on Wed-
, nesday evening with a fair crowd
in attendance. Mrs. Robert Ma -
vers and Mrs. Mac Hedged were
the hostesses for the evening.
Mrs, Kenneth Duncan, president,
'1 Of the WA VMS in charge for the
meeting.
The theme was Mothers Day,
Mrs. Duncan gave a poem on
. Mother. MrS. Jack Duncan, read
the Scripture lesson. Mrs.
fred Hunkin gave an interesting
'„,)•• tOPie. Mrs. Arnold Cann, repre-
sentative to the Hospital Aux -
gave a report. It was de-
cided to donate ten dollars to
the Hospital Auxiliary.
Mrs. Stanley Coward was in
charge of the program which
consisted of a piano solo by Mrs.
Lloyd Knight and a reading by
• Mrs. /ohm SelVes. Mrs., Edwin
'FAST RELIEF FOR
"KM OF Pat'LNIMENT
Message From
Centralia
By .MRS. FRED BOWDEN
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Essery vis-
ited with the former's parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Essery be-
fore returning to their home in
Pontiac, Michigan, following a
wedding trip to Washington,
D.C. and other points, A group
of friends helped them celebrate
the homecoming with a chariv-
Ait'S. C. Irawkshaw of Luean
was a visitor at the hone of
Mr. and Mrs, Arthur McFalls
on Thursday of last week. On
Friday Mrs. Byron Hieks, who
reeently returned from Toronto
to spend a few weeks with Mr.
and Mrs. Stan nicks, called on
them.
Mrs. Wm, Bowden. returned
horno Cram 81. JOSeph's hospital
On Friday of last week.
Miss Florence Clarke has out-
pieted her course at 'MacDonald
Guelph and. is visiting
with her parents, Rev; a, T. and
Mrs. Clarke before returning to
the college for the graduation
exercises. Miss Clarke has so.
cured a position in Sault Ste
Marie.
The annual Mother's Day serv-
• ice will be held in theUnited
'Church nn Sunday morning at
It will be a combined
serv-
ice and Sunday School
Bell Head
TB Assin
The annual meeting a littron
County Tuberculosis Association
named Elmer Bell, Q.C•_.,'Exeter._
President. succeeding. Go r II o n By SKIPPER •
Knight, Brussels. The associa-
tion met recently in Clinton Town Even th"gil our days are
1-lail, with representatives train longer now, -there .still doesn't
. all parts of ,litiron 'COUnty pre- seem to be enaugh time for .411
we have planned The annual
seY .GiennHayes, Q..c., moon Huron istrict e amporee is be
Attorney, was named to log held this weekend at Hnline$J
the position of vice-president, ville and your writer is cootwhile Judge Frank Fiuland, ganizer and camp-ehlef so we
Clinton, is honorary prhave esident; been quite busy making
H. C. Lawson. Clinton, honorary plans and "correspon-
ndlillg
•
treasurer. Mis. J. B. Russell, den".
R,R. 2, Seaforth, is secretary. We hoe to have about 125 to
treasurer*. 150 boys m camp so you can see
Committee heads are: Dr. R. that it will be a busy weekend.
AgittAeed!s,anmdeclaile:01 ardovirseosie.yranivne- blast
trict will he represented by at
of the troops in the clis.
-
Qn the Ontario Tuberculosis As- least one patrol. Exeter is Send
sociatian; F. E. wow, wing, lug two patrols of eight boys
ham, •chairman of the 1957 tO represent us. Doug
Christmas Seals sale committee; and Bill Ellerington are the two
H. A. McDermott, of Pord.wich, Jermyn
and W. A. Mountain, 13lyth, the
case -finding committee; Mrs. K.
B. McRae, Reg.N., Clinton the
TR •education committee.
A new committee, social ser-
vice and rehabilitation, was set
up with J. Digin McKinley, Zu-
rich, 11. C. Lawson, Clinton, and
Gordon Knight, Brussels, in
charge. The association execu.
tive feels that more can possibly summer camp in July,
stricken with TB, especiauy thOen these, camporees the key -
be done to help families of those
„ note is light weight camping,
less equipment the better
where finances become ,.a pro-
blem, as Tong as you are comfortable,
All the patrol equipment must
The Huron TB Association has be carried on the boys' backs
a balance on hand of nearly $12,- and the hike into the camp is
000. With this in mind, and the almost a mile so you can see
recollection of having given that lightweight equipment is
grants to each of the other hos- very important,
pitais in the county for help in
We recently purchased about
TB detection, and their
general $200 worth of camping equip -
X -ray work, Judge Fingland sug-
gested that consideration be ment for the troop, all very ser-
viceable and light. We have a
given to offering similar help to
the . Goderich Hospital Board,
now in proceSs of enlarging the
hospital there. Grants to other
hospitals amounted to $4,000 to.
$5,000.
Patrol Leaders for the ,camp..
We know there are a few dis-
appointed boys in • the troop re-
garding the eamporee. However
we just couldn't take everybody
so preference was given th sec-
ond class Scouts .and then to
senior boys and hardest workers.
The fellows who don't go this
time will he going on a week-
end camp before we go on our
few more items to buy yet and
then we shall be equipped for, al-
most any type of camping. As I
mentioned before; our summer
camp is- being held from July
In a report on the mass chest
!I:3 to 20 and is a combined camp
X-ray survey carried 'out last
lwith R.C.A,F. Clinton and Ceri-
tralia troops. Application forms
year. Mrs, Russell noted that the, will be sent home with the
percentage of eligible persons Scouts next Monday
taking the X-ray had . been 55,In our last column wemen-
an increase front the '38.7 per 1
cent turnout at the 195 survey.itioned that the Cubs were hoping
.
Although this is six per cent low-
: to put on a tea and bake sale.
er than the highest recorded 1This, as a few people -know "fell
through" and instead the Cubs
turnout in other counties, it was
Iliad a candy sale at the Xing
considered to be • encouraging,
especially when Huron showed Ganam show Wednesday night.
the greatest increase in percen-
The Scouts had to forego the
.• euchre party also ;but we hope
tage of all counties. to be able to have it later in
Considetableattention was the year,
ven 1;o education of the public District Commissioner, Doug
with regard to TB, TV spots and
C
pamphlets will be used. Mrs. Carswell visited our meeting
Rssell noted that in the last Monday night to present -Scouter
ai
survey, only 111 Huron people Ralph Sweitzer with his part
one, wood badge certificate. Our
between the' ages -of 80 and 90
had taken the X-ray, he i -
congratulations to/Ralph and we
dors this was not enough, and Scons
hope we'll see him receive his suspects that many people in parchment and badge at next that year's .banquet.
age bracket are suffering from
and spreading TB,
There are 12 Huron County a six-year-old child,
people in TB sanatoriums at pre- The education. committee, bead -
sent, and two of them are in the ed by Mrs. McRae, was autho-
80-90 age group. One patient is rized to spend up to ;500.
Mr. Carswell congratulated.
the _troop on _outstanding smart-
ness. We had 24 boys at the meet-
ing, :411 in full -uniform, including
short pants. i feel ,confident in
saying that we have .the smart-
est troop in Huron District.
Next week we hopeto present
two more s.econdclassbadges,
and we have at least three more
conservation badges :completed;
we have just to :await the eXa-
Miners's continents.
Progressive Scouting is our
Aim. and I think most people
Will agree we are -certainly ad-
vancing. These boys - of ours. in
Exeter sure hale taken up scout -
in a big way and we hope
,you are as proud of tit= As we
are.
The Story In
Elimville
By MRS. ROSS SKINNER
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Johns of
Hamilton visited Wednesday eve-
ning with Mr, and Mrs. Win.
johns. •
Mrs, McLean and Mrs. Gal-
braith of Xerwood visited Thurs-
day with M. and Mrs. Win,
Johns, Mrs, Gailbraith staying
till Sundey.
Mr, and Mrs, Jackson Woods,
Bobby and Edward Johns visit-
ed over the weekend with Mr,,
Lewis Woods of Stokes Bay,
Mrs, Jackson Woods, Mrs. Phil
Hern of the Women's Institute,
and Mrs. F, Collings -of Granton
attended Huron County library
luncheon at Goderich on Friday.
The Woman's Missionary So-
ciety had as speaker on Sunday
evening Miss Audrey Finkbeiner
of London, who is on furlough
from St. Lucia Island, British
West Indies. She gave an inter-
esting talk. Mrs. Edward Johns
and Mrs. Harold Bell sang a
duet. Miss Finkbeiner showed a
few articles that came from the
West Indies.
During 1957 and 1958 Cana-
dian industry's need for engi-
neers is expected to increase at
an . average annual rate of 11.4
per cent.
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