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-r49."1"."1!"1""—THE, BRUSSELS POST,AUGUST 13, 1980
HEY, SHE'S TAKING MY PICTURE—Young Jonathan Van-Ankum at
first was the only one of this group of happy eaters who noticed that he
was getting his picture taken. He was just one of many who enjoyed a
meal at tahe Huron County Cattlemen's Association's beef barbecue on
Wednesday night. (Photo by Ranney)
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bringing it up for Mr. Exel's comments and
that they didn't want to do anything without
conferring with him.
NOT COURT CASES
"Mr. Exel then said the present council was
not there when he was hired, when he had.
said he'd write the forms, but did not want to
be the chief building official and wanted
nothig to do with lawyers or court cases.
Councillor Gord Workman then asked Mr.
Exel if the previous council had not outlined
his responsibilities. Mr. Exel said he told
council that he was not going to be their
police officer and it was agreed then that
what he'd said he would do was sufficient.
Councillor Workman also asked about
some of the $25,000 and $30,000 building
permits that had come to council for the
I building of new homes.
"You can't build a house for that," he
} said.
Reeve Krauter said it would be better
when Mr. Exel was making out . a building
permit to see if a building met all the
requirements of the building code and then
he could issue it or deny it. Then if it was
brought to council, council would say the
building inspector denied it and that would
. be all there was to, it.
"You can understand our position, I
.hope," he said.
"Yes, but I can't understand how you can
combine the position of dog catcher with
bui'll'dThinegrein'ssPneoctt one° of
inspector/'
hre
Exel said,
that's
a full-time job by itself," Reeve Krauter
said.
Councillor Gord Workman said, "Building
permits are $1 per thousand and if somebodY
is too cheap to pay that extra $9 or $10, then
I'm not going to Sit :on council and be made
a fool of."
"The trAouble with the building code
`by-laws is that the only one that can enforce
them, is the building inspector," councillor
'Malcolm Jacobs said.
COUNCIL'S OPINION
Mr. Exel told them that in Grey Township,
after council gives its opinion on a building
;permit, the clerk writes out the' building
permits and sends them out or puts a stop
lwork order on them. '
"If you can find somebody that will
combine the three jobs, that's fine with me,.
'but I will do this part and no more," he said.
Reeve Krauter told Mr. Exel council
would see about wages and would look into
the possibility of combining the three
positions and if they did he would be
notified.
Council went into in-camera session to
discuss the possibility of licencing trades-
men from outside the village who work in
'Brussels. No motions were made.
The Life Jack Built is a pleasure
BY HERB SHOVELLER
The most dependable
judg ment on the play may
have been that after it ended,
Jack McLaren, the man
about whom the . Life That
.Jack Built at the Blyth
Summer ,Festival is based,
stood to be acknowledged by
the audience. ,
With a simple wave of his
hand, the 85 year old painter
told the actors on stage
several things.
"Away with you, you 'crazy
lot," said the wave. "You
said it well."
The gentlemen's gesture
suggested satisfaction with
the results of the collective
production. There may be no
truer test.
The Life That Jack Built is
of the same kind of stuff of
which CBC television dramas
, are made. Indeed one would
not be surprised to see this,
or a variation of it, turning up'
on the national network
sometime over the next few
winters.
The production focussed.
on McLaren's life shortly
before and during the First
World War, and for a period
after the war. He was one of
the original Dumbells,
founded daring the war, and
was the originator of many of
the group's characters and
songs. Several of his songs
are included at Blyth.
The Dumbells were a
troupe whose aim was to
entertain the Allied forces.
Theirs was light and amusing
fare and it resurfaces in this
presentation.
But while the spirit of the
Dumbells was mainly light-
hearted, it was only one of
McLaren's memories of the
war. The sadder side is not
forgotten at Blyth , as the
death of ‘a comrade swings
the mood to the opposite end
,.of the emotional spectrum.
Mr. McLaren volunteered
for active service with the
Princess Pats Canadian Light
Infantry Company at the
start of the war. While
recuperating from the strains
of war, he did some im-
promptu entertaining and
was asked to join the Prin-
cess Pats Comedy Company.
Their aim was to entertain
the troops on the front line.
The Princess Pats toured
the wartime battlefields.
They eventually became the
Dumbells and their popular-
ity continued to expand after
the war. The group toured
Canada as well as perform-
ing in London (England) and
New York.
Mr. McLaren left the
Dumbells well before they
disbanded in 1929 to develop
his interest in painting.
The painter was visiting
Blyth last summer to bring
some of his work to a
regional art show when he
met Janet Amos, the festi-
val's new artistic director..
She was intrigued by the old
man, and after consulting
him, she enlisted the aid of
actor. David Fox to research
the role and play the part of
Jack.
It is Fox who shuffles
about the stage as Mr.
McLaren and is either look-
ing back at, or participating
in,• skits from the Dumbells
or vignettes from Jack's life.
The audience is convinced
Fox knows McLaren well.
Other participants in the
collective are William
Dunlop, Thomas Hauff, John
Jarvis, -Michel Lefebvre,
Seana McKenna and John
Roby, , who composed and
arranged the music. They
alternate between being
some of Jack McLaren's
fictional Dumbell characters
and actual friends of the
artist.
It is a fascinating segment
of a man's life that is brought
to life on the Blyth stage,
ranging from the jovial
camaraderie to the. fear and
anguish of troops fighting
shoulder to shoulder, and
later to friendships with
other artists and personal-
ities who were part of the
foundation of Canadian
culture in the 1920's.
Mr. McLaren's acquaint-
ance with men • like Dr.
Frederick Banting and the
Group of Seven originated at
the Arts and Letters Club in
Toronto, a gentlemen's club
the painter helped found.
The most intriguing
creative stroke in the pro-
duction occurs. when Fox, as
the painter McLaren, is
asked to prepare a wartime
painting about the time of
the Second World War.
McLaren, though, says he
must create to honestly
reflect his own experience,
and sets about arranging
each character on stage,
adjusting them in a fitting
pose. While he "paints" on
*stage, he assigns qualities to
each personality. In the end
it is a story of man's life,
past, present and future. In
it, war makes sense though it
remains difficult to justify.
If there is one slightly
bothersome feature of the
production, it is the choreo-
graphy. Even that is uncer-
-
tain though, for one would
hardly expect a group of reality.
stepping is as imprecise as
soldiers, entertaining on the
front dines 'during war, to be The. Life That Jack Built,
the story of Jack McLaren stepping about with uncanny
precision. In one sense, then, who now lives in Benmiller,
this slightly out-of-sync is a pleasure.
A trip to
the south
Brussels Post reporter Debbie Ranney is just
back from a ten day tour to New Orleans and
points south. Read all about it in next week's
Brussels Post.
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