Village Squire, 1978-03, Page 48UPDATE
Few of us realize when we look at a
poster or an advertisement that we're
really looking at a work of art. We are at
(east when companies like Stratford's
Integrated Graphics Ltd. are involved.
The company recently won three awards
from the Toronto Art Director's Club for
work done last year for the Stratford
Festival and for Gallery Stratford.
Two designs won the award of merit in
the poster category: the 25th anniversary
season for the Stratford Festival and the
poster for Gallery Stratford's summer
exhibition, Made Glorious. The third
award came for a catalogue design for
Made Glorious.
The company was also a winner last year
for design work for The Church Restaurant
and its poster for the 1976 Festival was
chosen for an international touring
exhibition.
LISTOWEL RESIDENTS SEE
THEMSELVES IN FILMS
Listowel residents saw themselves as
stars of a recent film evening presented by
the Queen's Bush Historial Society.
The event showed films taken in the
town in the 1930's and 1940's. One of the
films shown was reported to have been
taken by German spies who travelled from
town to town taking films of local
industries.
Another film showed local hockey games
and one of those said to be taking part was
Fred (Cyclone) Taylor, one of the country's
Inst famous hockey players of times gone
by.
The evening was held to increase
interest in the preservation of important
artifacts from the past of the town. Elwood
Smith, one of the local historians told those
present: "Don't throw it out, throw it our
way."
BILL AMOS HEADS HURON COUNTRY
PLAYHOUSE BOARD
Bill Amos is the new president of the
board of the Huron Country Playhouse at
Grand Bend. He succeeds Bill Cochrane of
Goderich.
The board has planned three fundraising
events including a Beaux Arts ball on
March 4, a rummage sale June 16 and 17 in
connection with the Buffalo Burger Fest
celebrations in Grand Bend, and an
international art auction on Sunday,
August b.
The theatre is entering its seventh
season under an executive of Mr. Amos,
Mr. Cochrane, Bert Albertson, vice-chair-
man; Dan Corrigall, treasurer; Mary
Spieran, secretary; Leo Morningstar and
Jill Waters, members at large and Helen
Kleinstiver representing the Playhouse
Guild.
Other members of the board include
Douglas Coo, Douglas Cook, Betty
Duffield, Len Evans, Bill Heinshohn, June
Hill, Barbara Ivey, Jim Kneale, Ed
Procunier, Doris Thomas. Benson Tuckev.
PG. 46 VILLAGE SQUIRE/MARCH 1978.
Virginia Vossler. Gwen Burchill. Betty
Gibbs, Linda McKenzie, Dave Sheppard
and Josephine Wilcpx.
COMPUTERIZED AGE COMES TO
THEATRE
Actors and playwrights may never be
replaced by computers and robots but the
computer has become of the theatre world
at least at major centres such as Stratford
Festival.
The computer came to Stratfdrd three
years ago to handle payrolls and other
accounting chores. It aided box office
duties as well as phone and mail orders.
This year its taken another step in that it
will print all 650.000 tickets for the
Festival. Formerly the tickets were printed
by a company in Galt but the expense had
mounted. So the computer was pressed
into service. It prints 24 tickets a minute
and ran 24 hours a day during the printing
operation. The job was expected to take
about two weeks. The projected saving is
$20.000.
The project was headed by Gerry
Corner, the Festival's data processing
manager who says even more advances
may be coming in the near future. "In a
couple of years from now we're hoping to
have another computer in the box office to
produce tickets for people on the spot.
They could come in, select the ticket they
wanted, and the computer would print it up
while they waited. We're already
investigating the potential for doing that."
BATTLE ON TO SAVE OLD STATION
In recent years old railway stations have
been disappearing in Western Ontario at
an alarming rate. For some, the loss hasn't
been too great since they were ugly
buildings in the first place. Others,
however had a distinction all their own and
one of these, now threatened with
extinction is the old St. Marys Junction
Station near St. Marys.
The station has been unused for many
years but now local citizens aided by
Perth -Wilmot M.P. Bill Jarvis are out to
save the building. Canadian National,
which owns the building, isn't arguing that
it can't be saved. They'd be happy to turn
the building over to the town of St. Marys
for restoration. They just want the building
moved off their land. The hitch is that it's
one of the few solid stone railway stations
around and would have to be dismantled
stone by stone to be moved. The St. Marys
Heritage committee has already looked at
that possibility and decided the cost would
be just too prohibitive.
Mr. Jarvis says that CN should ease off
on its insistence that the building must be
moved. Now that the St. Marys council has
accepted the local heritage committees
proposal that the town take over the
building and restore it on the present site,
Mr. Jarvis has promised to try to work a
deal out with the CN officials in Toronto.
The 120 -year-old station is more than
just another pretty building. Thomas
Edison is reported to have once worked
there for a short period as a telegraph
operator before moving on to inventing
such modern wonders as the light bulb,
moving pictures. and the phonograph. The
station was one of the local stations
featured in Elizabeth Wilmot's book Meet
Me at the Station.
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