Times-Advocate, 1986-03-19, Page 10Pogo 10
March 19,
"� Exciting Canadian plays
to feature Blyth season
PLAN TO MARRY — Mr. and
Mrs. Roy Ferguson, Exeter and
Mr. and Mrs. Elzer Masse, Zurich
are pleased to announce the
engagement of their children
Mary Elizabeth Ferguson and
Ronald Joseph Masse. The mar-
riage is to take place April 12,
1986. Reception to follow in Hen-
sall. For further information call
235-1087. 12*
. "A truly rich and exciting season of
Candian plays" - that's how Artistic
Director Katherine Kaszas sums up
the Blyth Festival's 12th season.
There will be three premieres, a
Canadian classic, and the return of
Cake -Walk which was so popular in
1984.
The season opens on Friday June 20
with the premiere of Another Season's
Promise. The Purves have farmed
their land for four generations but
now they risk losing everything to the
bank. Written by Anne Chislett
(award-winning author of Quiet in the
Land and The Tomorrow Box) and
Keith Roulston ( Blyth resident and
author of McGillicuddy's Lost
Weekend and His Own Boss among
others), Promise is a moving look at
the human cost of farm bankruptcies.
There will be two previews for Pro-
mise on June 18 and 19.
Drift by Toronto -born playwright
Rex Deverell is a powerful portrait of
an exotically beautiful young woman
who immigrates to Canada and mar-
ries , a local farm boy. Set in the
Depression and seen through the eyes
of a writer from the next generation,
Drift is a touching and funny play. In
1989 Prairie Theatre Exchange in
Winnipeg produced Drift, under the
direction of Katherine Kaszas - a pro-
duction that was described by the
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Winnipeg Sun's Morley Walker as 'the
best play I've ever seen'.
A bittersweet comedy about two
elderly women, Gone to Glory by
Suzanne Finlay, premieres on July 15.
Winnie and Lulu live in a ramshackle
cabin in the interior of British Colum-
bia and eke out a meagre existence on
welfare and pensions. The two women
maintain a feisty front, but their lives
are haunted by old sorrows which the
conventions of their time have forbid-
den them to share. American -born Ms
Finlay emigrated to Canada in 1952.
She has worked as a.professional ac-
tress, play editor for MGM, play
agent for such notables as Noel
Coward and Samuel Beckett, script
supervisor for The Beachcombers,
and author of numerous TV shows
and the play Monkeyshines current-
ly on tour in Ontario.
The stage premiere of Kenneth
Dyba's Lilly, Alta. opens on July 22.
When two lovers attempt to free
themselves from the obsessive
matriarch who rules over the small
town of Lilly. Alberta, they unleash a
chain of events which forever alters
this small Prairie town. This is an
unusual and imaginative play,
underscored with music and punc-
tuated by the comic antics of the
town's highly eccentric inhabitants.
Lilly, Alta. was originally produced
as a radio play on CBC's Festival
Theatre. Kenneth Dyba has worked
as a director and actor, and adapted
and translated Lorca's Yerma; a
novel, Sister Roxy, was published in
1973.
Another Season's Promise, Drift,
Gone to Glory, and Lilly, Alta. will
play in repertory through to August
23.
On August 26 Cake -Walk by Colleen
Curran returns to the Blyth Festival
stage to close the season. Five unlike-
ly contestants at a cake -baking con-
test find themselves getting more
than they bargained for when so-
meone sets out to sabotage the en-
tries. This comedy was premiered at
the Blyth Festival in 1984 and prov-
ed very popular with audiences here.
(Regulars to the Blyth Festival in 1989
will remember Ms. Curran's hilarious
comedy, Moose County, which played
to packed houses last summer.) Cake -
Walk will be touring Southwestern
Ontario, and perhaps farther afield,
following its run at the Blyth Festival.
The 1986 season blends music, com-
edy and drama,, plus the usual 'ex-
tras' for which the Blyth Festival has
become so well-known: country lun-
ches and suppers, art gallery exhibi-
tions, country fairs, craft fairs,
playwrights; workshops, Gourmet
Dinner, and much, much more.
Season brochures, containing fully
details of the plays and ticket order
information, will be available mid-
March. Special voucher packs are on
sale now, giving savings of up to 30
percent over the regular ticket prices
for this summer. The Box Office will
be open for single ticket sales after
Mary's Musings
• By Mary Alderson
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Those of us who live in rural areas
or small towns are fortunate to be
able to do business with people we
know. When I go into the bank, I
usually get a friendly smile. The
tellers ask how I am or how my
daughter is.
At the grocery store check-out,
there's more friendly conversation.
When 14top at the gas station I get
prompt service and my windshield is
washed. If I'm shopping for clothes,
clerks are very helpful. They have
even allowed me to take clothes home
to try them on, or match colours,
without paying for them.
Since the first of the year, I have
been working in London, and have
had occasion to do business or shop-
ping there. I have noticed a marked
contrast between service locally and
in the city.
If I go into a London bank, I don't
get a smile, let along a "hello" from
the teller. In fact, when I said thank
you to the teller, I didn't even get a
"you're welcome". She did the entire
transaction without even speaking to
me! To be fair, I said to myself,
"Well, she doesn't know me. Perhaps
the tellers are friendlier to their
regular customers." So the next time
I was in the bank, I watched. And
none of the other customers got a
smile or a "you're welcome" either.
Forconvenience's sake, I have also
done some grocery shopping in Lon-
don. I've decided that there's nothing
super about a superstore. If I can't
find an item I want, there's no one
around to help me. There is no con-
versation .with the checkout person,
'and 1 have to pack my own bags.
There's no carry -out boy =- I have to
truck the bags out in a shopping cart
-- the shopping cart I paid a quarter
to use (yes, I get the quarter back, but
what a nuisance). Apd the worst is
that the prices really aren't any
lower!
Then, if you want to buy clothing in
the city stores -- it's almost impossi-
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1986 Pitch -In campaign to take place
May 5-11, 1986..
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kits which are being sent to schools,
cities, towns and community
organizations throughout Ontario,"
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tario Federation of Anglers &
Hunters.
May 16. For more information, or to
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9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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ble to find a helpful clerk. They
carefully watch the number of items
you take into the dressing room. And
you're under suspicion again if you
want to use a credit card. First they
have to check a list to make sure your
card is good, then you have to give a
telephone number -- neither of these
is necessary at a local store.
As for gas stations in the city -- on
the route I generally travel, I cannot
find a station with service. Self-
service is the order of the day in the
city. To that I say "No thanks". I'd
rather stay in my car on a cold
blustery day, and I'd rather not have
the smell of gas on my gloves or
clothes.
It would be easy just to draw the
comparisons between the small
towns. But recently during a trip to
Florida, I stayed in an urban area.
And yet, I found the service to be ex-
cellent. The southerners, with their
slow drawl, were warm and friendly
and most helpful.
A pharmacist told me I could call
him any time, day or night, if my
daughter had any type of reaction to
the medication he sold me. Store
clerks were most helpful when I was
trying on clothes or shoes. Grocery
check-out people always had a kind
word for Chelsey when she was sitting
in the cart. These were all busy peo-
ple, in very busy city stores — but they
weren't too busy to be helpful and
friendly. London business people
could take a few Lessons.
And those of us who do business in'
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small towns would do well to
remember the importance of friend-
ly, courteous service. And toall those
who give me a smile when I'm in your
place of business, I say thanks, and
keep it up!
Right to Life
group meets
The regular monthly meeting of the
Stratford & District Right to Life was
held at St. James Anglican Church,
Stratford. The film "The Silent
Scream"ayas presented to the Chris-
tian Reformed Youth Group. T� was
followed by a decision and nswer
and question period.
Picketing at the Morgentaler abor-
tuary (Toronto) is still continuing,
and this area's picketing dates are the
third Tuesdays on each month.
John Devlin, president, gave the
education report stating that a new
Pro -Life book to be read is "Rites for
Life" which is the finest and most up-
to-date evidence yet available on the
humanity of the unborn.
Two Stratford members, Dorothy
Smith of Crehan Crescent, and Mary
Devlin of Woods street, were among
the 500 cross-country representations
who attended the R.E.A.L. (Realistic,
Equal, Active for Life) Women of
Canada Conference in Toronto, on
Saturday February 15th. Among the
principal speakers were Dr. Matthew
McQueen, from McMaster Universi-
ty Hamilton, Dr. Donald DeMares,
professor at Waterloo, along with
Gwen Landolt, Pro -Life lawyer for
campaign (canad) and Onalee
McGraw, U.S. educational consultant
and writer.
Theodore Roosevelt, on delegating
authority:
The best executive is the one who
has sense enough to pick good men to
do what he wants done and self-
restraint enough to keep from med-
dling with them while they do it.
On location or Studio
Bart DeVrie
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