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A taste of the island
A packed Blyth Community Centre thrilled to the talents of Cape Breton Island's Rita MacNeil
on Friday evening. Lines started forming at six o'clock for the event even though the show
did not begin until eight o'clock. The show proved to be an unforgettable performance.
Stratford’s early sales good
Drayton begins 3rd season
General Manager Gary Thomas
announced the box office revenue
for the Stratford Festival's 41st
season has reached $9 million. This
box office advance represents 52
per cent of budgeted revenue from
ticket sales for the year.
Mr.. Thomas said, "The
productions in the opening week of
Artistic Director Richard Monette s
inaugural season were excep
tionally well received by audiences
and critics, with several of the
productions ranking among the
finest ever produced at Stratford.
"It is a season not to be missed,
with strong sales anticipated based
on the response to the opening
productions of Twelfth Night, Long
Days' Journey Into Night, The
Doon
hosts
car show
On Sunday, June 19, the Central
Region of the Historical
Automobile Society of Canada will
be holding its annual Invitational
Car Show at Doon Heritage
Crossroads from 10 a.m. to 4:30
p.m.
Over 100 antique cars, trucks,
street rods, custom and classic
automobiles dated 1974 and older
are expected to be pul on display
by their proud owners. This popular
car show attracts even the earliest
of vehicles and is a wonderful way
for car enthusiasts both young and
old to experience the evolution of
the automobile. A 1915 Harding
roadster, believed to be the last one
in existence, is expected to be at the
show this year. This performance
vehicle, one of only six Hardings
manufactured, has a 60 horse
power engine and is capable of
speeds of 80 miles per hour.
The love affair with the
automobile continues to grow and
will be alive and well at Doon as it
presents one of the finest car shows
in the area. Give dad his Father's
Day present with a visit to Doon
Heritage Crossroads on Sunday,
June 19.
The Canadian Panel on Violence
Against Women reports that more
than one half (51 per cent) of
women age 16 and over have been
sexually assaulted.
Pirates of Penzance, Hamlet and
Cyrano de Bergerac."
The 1994 Season continues
through to Nov. 13, with In The
Ring (opens June 24), Othello
(opens June 25) Alice Through the
By John Schedler
Leading off this week’s new releases is the box office hit Ace Ventura
Pet Detective ** (Warner - $26.95), a silly and intermittently funny
movie starring rubber faced comic Jim Carrey. The basic plot revolves
around an unconventional detective, the kidnapping of the Miami
Dolphins’ salt water mascot and their quarterback Dan Marino just before
the Super Bowl. (Rated PG-13)
The Air Up There **1/2 (Hollywood) is an unpretentious
comcdy/drama about a college basketball coach (Kevin Bacon) on a
mission to Kenya in hopes of signing a Winnabi tribesman for his school
team. Sure it's predictable, but what the heck, you could do a lot worse.
(Rated PG)
If steamy sex and Madonna excite you then maybe you will like
Dangerous Game (MGM/UA), an erotic thriller about a movie director
who finds the line between reality and fantasy dangerously blurred. I
didn't view this film mainly because I don't care for Madonna. (Rated R)
In the classics department is The Movies Begin **** (Kino) a
marvelous five volume treasury of films made between 1894 and 1914.
Film scholar David Shepard of Film Preservation Associates and Heather
Stewart of The British Film Institute took two years to restore and
assemble the films for this project. The Movies Begin is a unique
collection of over 120 movies all mastered from prime archival material
complete with new musical scores. Charles Musser, Professor of Film at
Yale University and author of two leading books on the subject of early
film has written a comprehensive brochure to accompany each box set.
Among the films featured here are the works of the cinema's greatest
pioneers including Thomas Edison, Louis Lumiere, Georges Melies,
Edwin S. Porter, Max Linder, Eadweard Muybridge, Zecca, Pathe Freres,
D. W. Griffith and Max Sennett, as well as offerings by lesser known but
important early filmmakers.
The movies I find most fascinating from this early period are the
actualities, where the filmmakers took their cameras into the streets to
record ordinary people going about their daily lives thus allowing us to
visit a time long gone from the collective memory.
Of the other films from the sample tape I received from Kino, those I
particularly enjoyed are Georges Melies’ A Trip To The Moon (1902), a
beautiful mint condition print of Edwin S. Porter's The Great Train
Robbery complete with the authentic hand-tinting witnessed by
audiences of 1903 and a hand coloured copy of Pathe Freres' Aladdin and
His Marvelous Lamp also from 1903.
Each volume in the scries sells for $49.95 (U.S.) or $200 (U.S.) for the
boxed set and is available from Kino on Video by calling 1-800-562-
3330. While the price may seem a bit steep for many individuals your
best bet might be to check out your local public library.
tsr TUES., JUNE 21st ~ T.V. and its effect
on children. 7:00 to 8:30 pm
e? TUES., JULY 19th ~ Breast Health
7:00-8:30 pm
THE BLYTH LIONS CLUB
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GUITARS & CADILLACS
A Tribute to
Dwight Yoakam
SAT. JUNE 25,1994
BLYTH & DISTRICT COMMUNITY CENTRE
DANCING 9:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m.
$8.00 per person - $15.00 per couple
Held in conjunction with Rutabaga Festival activities
Age of Majority Required
Licenced under authority of L.L.B.O.
VideO IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY...
J.R.'S GAS BAR &
TAKE OUT LTD.
Brussels
NEW RELEASES THIS WEEK 887-6951
Wayne's World II, My Life, The Getaway, The Air Up There, Tombstone,
The Pelican Brief, Ace Ventura Pet Dectective
Children's Movies 99c Regular Movies $1.49 New Releases $2.49
Looking Glass (opens July 10) The
Comedy of Errors (opens Aug. 4)
and a double bill of Moliere
comedies The School for Husbands
and The Imaginary Cuckold (opens
Aug. 5).
In 1993, in only its third season,
the Drayton Festival Theatre made
Canadian Theatrical History - an
entire season of professional
summer theatre sold out; every one
of the 34,000 available scats was
booked.
After such a success, the obvious
question was how Drayton planned
to match its own accomplishments.
No one was prepared for Drayton's
encore!
•The Drayton Festival Theatre has
just announced yet another sold out
season. A sell-out, not during the
last week of performances, or mid
season, or even after opening night
- but almost two weeks before the
curtain is scheduled to go up.
Drayton’s fourth smash season
had 36,000 seats available. That's
an additional 2,000 seats over last
year's sell-out and, with a waiting
list of over 1,500 patrons, 1994
accomplishments have surpassed
everyone's expectations.
Yet another credit to add to their
list of achievements, the festival's
first off-season production, a new
Canadian musical entitled
Jamboree!, was also a sell-out.
Presented earlier this spring,
Jamboree! extended its run to
facilitate demand for tickets. All
6,000 were sold before the show
opened.
In a six-week period this spring,
the festival was selling close to 800
tickets a day. The Festival's Artistic
Director, Alex Mustakas, said, "W<
had three telephone lines goinj
constantly. Some people wh<
couldn't get through on the phone
faxed their ticket orders."
This success has prompted a
reassessment of several
components of the Drayton Festival
Theatre's direction. Every attempt
is currently being made to fulfill
the wishes of patrons, hundreds and
hundreds of whom are on waiting
lists for tickets.
Drayton's popularity is largely
due to the patronage of its guests
and.preparations are underway to
ensure they have "Another Summer
of Music and Laughter." Those
attending this season will enjoy
Swing! a salute to the Big Bands of
the 30's and 40's. Swing! is
Drayton's most ambitious
JlODAY
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ANNUAL GENERAL
MEETING
Monday, June 20th,
WED., JUNE 8th~7:00 pm-8:30 pm
•Career planning in the 90's. Deb
Patterson, Huron Employment Liason
Program.
MON., JUNE 20tb - Annual General Meeting
Huron County Museum. Speaker to be announced.
production ever. "We've gone all
out for this production", Mr.
Mustakas says.
Patrons will be further
entertained by the romantic and
antic comedy The Affections of
May and will hold their sides for
that wacky musical comedy
Nunsense.
Seniors Day
at Schneiders
The staff of the Joseph Schneider
Haus is hosting "Seniors' Day" on
Wednesday, June 22. Admission
and refreshments are free for
seniors over the age of 65. Visitors
will have the opportunity to
participate in a rousing game of
crokinole or to watch costumed
staff spin as the Schneider women
would have done many years ago.
The Joseph Schneider Haus is the
oldest surviving Pennsylvania-
German Mennonite homestead in
the region and many memories are
rekindled within the minds of
senior citizens who visit the house.
The historic farm house has been
restored to the mid 1850's and is
staffed by costumed interpreters.
This allows visitors to experience
"first hand" the lifestyle of the
Schneider family. In the historic
house the costumed staff will be
providing some traditional
Waterloo County treats for seniors
STAG & DOE
for.
Bob Millian
&
Mary-Anne Franken
SATURDAY, JUNE 18™/94
at the Goderich
Arena.
9:00 pm to 1:00 am
Lunch provided/Music by D.J.
Age of Majority/Tickets $5.00
For more information
524-7023
or 523-9592