Times-Advocate, 1984-06-27, Page 24OAKWOOD CELEBRITY — Helen Hayes was a special visitor to the Oakwood Inn, Wednesday. From the left
are Griff Thomas, Helen Hayes and Colin, Valerie and Dave Scatcherd. T -A photo
Young actor steals show
Playhouse opens with delightful comedy.
The 13th season of summer
theatre at the Huron Country
Playhouse near Grand Bend
opened Wednesday night with
a light hearted comedy entitl-
ed A Thousand Clowns.
Kelly Proctor, a grade
seven student from St.
Catharines was a hit with his
portrayal of a gifted boy who
is staying with his out of work
uncle. They are visited by
welfare workers played by
Marcia Kash and av'
Nairn who question the un-
cle's ability to keep the
youngster in his care.
Kash who has appeared in
I Ought To Be In Pictures,
Butterflies are Free, Califor-
nia Suite and South Pacific
gives a -touching performance
as she shows growing interest
in the nephew played by Pro-
ctor and David Brown as the
eccentric uncle and her ex-
pressions changing clearly in-
dicate she is falling in love.
In his part, David Nairn
moulds the welfare character
who could be cl seed as a
clown into a symp4thetic and
real human being.
As the dreaming uncle,
Brown gives a reasonable
performance but lacks some
of the skilful discrimination
needed for the role.
Probably the most difficult
part in the entire play is
handled very well by Wally
Michaels as he portrays a
television comedian as
Chuckles the Chipmunk. Most
of his antics are silly, but, yet
makes the audience feel for
him.
The sixth member of the
cast is Edwin Stephenson as
a talent agent and brother of
the idealistic television
writer. Stephenson comes
across as a very funny, but,
more down to earth character
than his brother.
The set designs by Terry
Nichols are one of the best in
years at the area playhouse.
The play is directed by Ron
Ulrich, Pamela is in charge of
costumes and Ray Salverda is
in charge of lighting.
The first night audience
was welcomed by Playhouse
board of directors chairman
Jill Waters and director
Ronald Ulrich.
In her remarks Mrs.
Waters cited the faithfulness
of Benson Tuckey of Exeter
who was one of the hard
workers in organizing the
original playhouse and hasn't
missed an opening night of
the season since it opened.
A Thousand Clowns con-
tinues until Saturday night,
June 30 and area theatre
goers still have a chance to
enjoy a couple of hours of
laughable entertainment.
Legendary actress and popular son
thrill districfresidents durinqvisit
t
that seemed, ronic,
ag-
a 12 -day Theatre Guild cruise
around Alaska, mother and
son hopped Via Rail in Van-
couver, disembarked in
Toronto and motored to
Grand Bend.
"It just worked out," said
MacArthur.
It was also a chance for an
obviously adoring mother and
son who live a continent and
half an ocean apart to be
together. Hayes, who still
lives in the family home at
Nyack, N.Y., took a mother's
interest in MacArthur's golf
game.
"OK good luck," she said as
she kissed him. "I'm wearing
all my charms."
MacArthur teed off well
before the clubhouse gallery
and joked: "Mom, you've
seen a miracle. I got it on the
Grand Bend's popularity as
a summer resort has at-
tracted many celebrities
through the years and the
Huron Country Playuae has
also drawn several big names
from theatre circles for its
attractions.
However, none has at-
tracted any more attention
than last week's special
visitors...legendary actress
Helen Hayes and her son
James MacArthur, of Hawaii
Five -0 television fame.
The two were on hand for
Wednesday's third annual
Dave Scatcherd Invitational
Golf Classic at Oakwood.
Dozens of star -watchers, as
well as the 140 or so male
golfers teeing off for the
event, moved in uncertain
waves — alterna y pressing
close and then ly stan-
ding back — around the
83 -year-old woman known for
almost a half -century as the
"firstlady of the American
theatre." Despite a gripping
cold, the slight five-foot Hayes
still commanded the grace
and bigger -than -life presence
which earned her the
honorific title.
MacArthur, 46, moved easi-
ly through the crowd, relaxed
and openly friendly, smiling
and chatting, much to the par-
ticular delight of the sportily
clad woman golfers. Decked
out in purple and mauve golf
togs, MacArthur happily pos-
ed for photographs with one
enthused woman after
another. ' ' `
' Kept before the public eye
by the demand for Hawaii
Five -O reruns, MacArthur,
who still livens in Honolulu,
described his life since leav-
ing the now -defunct show a
number of years ago as
"footloose and fancy-free." he
travels a lot, recently spen-
ding a month in Kuwait doing
a documentary oh the Arabic
country and winning a tennis
tournament in Ecuador.
Wednescjay, the query on
many lips was "why Grand
Bend?"
Basically it's because he's
a friend of Dave Scatcherd, a
Londoner who. now spends
most of the year in Hawaii.
Scatcherd bought the
Oakwood club three years ago
and started up the cb rity
tournament to raise funds for
theScatcherdChildren's Cen-
tre in London - a school for the
mentally handicapped found-
ed by the Scatcherd family.
The aim for this year was to.
raise $15,000 for computer
equipment for the centre.
MacArthur accepted an in-
vitation to the tournament
and, in turn, sparked long -
held plans by Hayes to travel
across Canada by rail. After
gravated by the atmosphere
of theatres. As she remarks,
her "retirement" has not kept
her from working every day.
"How do I live? That's a
question I ask myself a lot of
times a day. I do too much.
I'm atrtjggling with too many
Hayes has been to Canada
many times, both to visit and
to perform, but at long last
realized a dream to ride the
rails across the country.
"We came across on the
Canadian National — what a
great thing that is. Ooh, I'm
going to sell it to everybody I
know down in the States.
That's a wonderful trip.
"The Canadians 'modestly
tgyd,ane that after the first day
— we started from the West
green." Coast so we went from Van -
Hayes formally quit the couver'to Calgary which is
stage in 1971, yielding to the magnificent part where it
chronic asthmatic bran itis goes through the
Rockies...some very, as I say,
modest Canadians said it
would be dull after that —
well it isn't...the whole land is
so dramatic and exciting.
Canada lived up to her ex -
'Hard as nails'
now possibility
"Hard as nails" is now a
literal possibility. The Jessica
Nails System which promises
to make natural fingernails
almost unbreakable was in-
troduced in Canada two
months ago.
Diane Dunlop, working in-
dependently from the
prey nises of Young Classics in
Gra id Bend, is one of a small
number of operators qualified
to administer the new
treatment.
Dunlop, formerly with
Nails and Lashes, sees no
reason for artificial nails if
natural ones can be made to
TALK ABOUT PLAYHOUSE — Prior to Thursday's opening night of the season at
the Huron Country Playhouse, board of directors chairman Jill Waters chats with
general manager Heather Redick, costume designer Pamela Lampkin and stage
manager Carol Chrisjohn. T -A photo
Legion start fund in memory of Art Rubery
THE OLD AND THE NEW — Benson Tuckey of Exeter was on the original board
of directors of the Huron Country Playhouse and hasn't missed an opening night
in the 13 year existence of the playhouse. From the left are Benson Tuckey, last
year's chairman Adrian Bayley and Kelly Proctor of St. Catharines, the youngest
member of the cast of A Thousand Clowns. T -A photo
Lioness elect slate, review activities
The Grand Bend Lioness
Club held their dinner
meeting Thursday evening at
The Thirsty Fox. Twenty-two
members, plus six guests, en-
joyed their meeting. Lion
liaison, Jack Casler. from Mt.
Brydges, representing
District A -I, awarded each
new executive member with
his comments and new duties
expected of them in the com-
•r,g '84-'85 season. The past
executive gave the new girls
a pin representing their posi-
tion held.
Secretary Lee Thomas read
the minutes and new business
from over the last year, then
each new member reported
results from her job:
The Grand Bend Lioness
Club has served Lionism in
our community for eight
years.
Our present membership is
24 members. Throughout our
year we have guest speakers
on such topics as the Youth
and Music Canada Series,
Huron Crisis Centre (battered
wives) and the community
centre study, to create an
awareness of what is happen-
ing in our area.
We are totally self-
sufficient for operating ex-
penses which are funded by
membership dues, in -club
raffles, fines, etc.
Community funding is
basically funds taken from
the community by dances,
draws, cheese sale, etc. This
money is then put back, in-
directly or directly, into the
community by donations
made to community and pro-
vinical facilities. At the Pro-
vincial level, donations are
made to March of Dimes, Big
AFTERNOON GRADUATION — Grand Bend Nursery School pupils who attended
afternoons were, back row left to right: Daniel Finkbeiner, JoDee Grasdahl, Rebekah
Voir, Jonathon Lovie, Crystal Mennen, Jamie Hoffman, and Jason Shepherd. Front
row Christine Went, Elizabeth Fitzgerald, Bobi-Jo Whiting, Sarah Bannister, Joey
Forrester and Nicole Masse. (Absent was Stephanie Christie and Julie Hicks).
Brothers and Sisters, Ronald
MacDonald House, Diabetes
Ass., etc., which are available
to our community residents
when the need arises.
Lionism is here to serve the
community. The following list
represents projects the
Lioness Club participated in
this year: beef and pork
draw, hard times dance,
cheese sale, Christmas pin
sale, Easter Bunny sale, card
and tupperware party, gold
party, radio ticket raffle,
Pinery Flea Market sale, car
wash, cookbook sale and
Septemberfest dance.
We earned a total of ap-
proximately 82200.00 in the
1983-84 Lioness year, which
was then donated to the
following recipients:
Chamber's Children's
Christmas Party, Youth Ex-
change Through Lionism,
Huron County Crisis Centre,
South Huron Big Brothers and
Sisters, Grand Bend Public
School, Ronald MacDonald
House, Canadian Institute for
the Blind, Lions Home for the
Deaf (Brantford), Diabetic
Ass., Grand Bend Swim Club,
March of Dimes (draw),
flowers for Meals on Wheels
recipients and Grand Bend
Nursery School (Incorpora-
tion costs) .
As a service to our com-
munity this year, the Lioness
provided:
Seniors: Meals on Wheels,
dinner and seniors night with
entertainment and prizes,
poinsettas at Christmas.
Boys and Girls: movies
(three throughout the year),
citizenship awards (four area
schools), refreshments for
Grand Bend School playday,
provided cookies, and pop for
Chamber Christmas Pary.
donation to Creative
Playground at Grand Bend
School.
Community: provide
Christmas Baskets with the
Lions. We assisted with
preparation, donations and
delivery. Assisted in
Burgerfest weekend, worked
in the tent.
Upcoming events (pro-
jects) which we are involved
in this summer are bake sales
at the Pinery Flea Market on
Sunday, July 22 and Sunday,
August 19. Proceeds will go to
community betterment.
Our goal as a community
service club is to assist when
the need arises, to the best of
our ability such as drive pa-
tients for special treatment or
financially assist in sending a
child to Nursery School, etc.,
as we have done in the past.
Please be aware that we are
here to help.
We greatly appreciate all
the support we receive from
you, the community, which
enables us, the Grand Bend
Lioness Club, to serve our
community.
Legion Branch 498
Bingo will be starting on a
weekly basis on July 5, at 8:00
p.m. at the Legion. The new
building is well under way
with the roof now on. A good
donation was collected by
Marg Hedley from Turnbull's
Grove and Legion members
for the building blocks fund in
memory of Art Rubery, past
president.
Eve Rubery and her fami-
ly would like to thank the
Legion and ladies for their
kindness and goodies after
Art's funeral last week.
MORNING GRADUATION — The class at Grand Bend Nursery School who
graduated from the morning session are: back row left to right, J.J. Anderson, Steven
Ducharme, Johnny Rutten, Timmy Scott, Adam Wiendels, Shannon Sweiger, Ion
Becker, Darcy Hodgins, Jack Weber, Bradley Voogel, and Chod Voogel. Front row
'Jennifer Miller, Matthew Turnbull, Bryce Kadlecik, Jule Diotte-Hume, Julie Mclin-
chey, Brianne Hoist, Bradley Scott, Amy Twynstra, Melissa Rogers, Mandy Smith,
and Jeremy Jennison.
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LIONESS EXECUTIVE — Thursday the Grand Bend Lioness Club elected their new
executive. Back row left to right are Kay Green, director; Ruth Dunlop, director;
Karin Hume-, director and Shell. Teevins, tall twister. Middle row Cathy Huggill,
treasurer; Hazel Willert, tamer; and Marge Roberts, secretary. Front row, Joyce
Morden, second vice-president, Marilyn Martens, president; Koren Woollen, past
president; and Donna Hoffman, first vice president.
look as good, or better.
Dunlop explained that six
weekly sessions are recom-
mended, with monthly follow-
ups thereafter. when the
operator has determined if
the client's nails are dry, nor-
mal or brittle, a prime coat is
applied to seal the nail
surface.
This is followed by the heart
of the treatment's success, a
custom, primer containing
nylon fibre, and a ridge filler
to smooth any uneveness.
Two coats of polish, in one's
choice of the coloured or
natural look, finish the
session.
Dunlop claims polish will
stay on without chipping for
two weeks. The non -acetone
polish does not harm the built-
up undercoat.
Therevolutionary new pro-
cess was developed by
Jessica Vartoughian, a
Romanian emigre of Arme-
nian parentage who landed in
America a penniless young
woman of 22 in 1961. Now, 23
years later, she lists Nancy
Reagan, Diana Ross, Cher,
Cheryl Tiegs and Raquel
Welch among her clients.
Since opening her first nail
clinic in 1968, the manicurist,
who started out making 82.50
per hour in a Beverly Hills
department store has become
an astute businesswoman
overseeing 10 salons and a
line of nail care products sold
in over 4,000 outlets.
Dunlop said customers may
purchase cuticle creams, col-
ours, glazes and removers but
the all-important build-up
coats must be applied by a
trained cosmetician.
A step-by-step demonstra-
tion of the Jessica Nails
System will be held at the
Cinderella Cafe, Grand Bend,
on Thurs{y June 28 at 7:00
p.m. (A former Merle Nor-
man cosmetician will give a
make-up demonstration).
pectation that it would be less
crowded and less developed
than her nativeU.S.
"I'm in that state of mind of
_iplaywright) Noel Coward's
lor 'I can hardly wait til I see
the great open spaces, my
loving friends will not be
there, I'm so sick of their god-
damned faces; because I'm
world-weary, I could kiss the
railroad tracks, I wanna get
right back to nature and
relax.'
"Well, that's the way I.got
on that train."
With a couple of weeks of
travel behind her and a ticket
in her hand for San Francisco
(where she is to present the
equivalent of the medical film
Oscars), Hayes misses the
22 -room Victorian home in
Nyack, N.Y., she set up with
her late husband,
newspaperman-playw;fight
Charles MacArthur.
"That's what bothers me —
I have a rose garden that 1
adore." She has long beep
noted for her love of the rose:
"It is, I think, the most attrac-
tive and satisfying of all the
flowers in the world."
ACTING FAMILY — Actor James McArthur and his
mother. actress Helen Hayes were among the many
celebrities attending Wednesdtiy's third annual Dave
Scatcherd Golf Classic at the Oakwood Inn course at
Grand Bend. T -A photo
You are cordially invited to join
Diane Dunlop
(Cosmetician)
and special guest lecturer
Lisa Gosselin
for an informal seminar at
Cinderella Cafe
Grand Bend (opposite the post
office)
Thurs., June 287p.m:
Subject will be the all new program of
growing and strengthening your own
nails, called
The Jessica Nail
System
Also present will be Wendy Dilts
(formerly of Merle Norman) Make up
specialist
Door prize
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