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Aileen Taylor -Smith
Michael Beirne
Special m=are dance competition to be h
eld
Have you seen the
notices springing up here
and there about a square
dance to be held at the
Walkerton District
Secondary School on
Kxonduy. August 21st?
Only dancers
invited to buy a ticket and
dance, but everyone is
invited to drop in and,
watch the dancing. The
dance will be held in the
doub|e'gym, and the
bleachers vvU) be set up
for the public to sit and,
watch.
The guest 'caller, Art
Shepherd, is from
Chr|ntchurch, New
Zealand, but is no
stranger to this area. Art
was stationed in Clinton
while with the RCAF
during the war, and
stayed on to teach high
school physical
und\|086.
While living in Clinton
he began calling for
square dancing in the
area, and a good many of
these dancers will be
coming to the dance to
op*Ar�?ndbis.Caumdion
wife Blanche, and to
renew old acquain-,.
teomnmeo and`danCm to
himonce again. Thirty'
couples from theCUnton-
Gnd*r|oh area have
already bought tickets
and will come by bus, as
well as dancers from
G{itchoner, Lundon,
Hamilton, Scarborough
and up tuL|ons8ead.
In- New Zealand, Art is
called the father of
Square Dancing as he
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introduced square
dancing to that country
after his return. .Fifty of
these dancers will he
coming with him, so it
should be a Breutop-
portunity to meet
someone from "Down
Under" and to see just
how successful Art was
as a teacher at the same
time. Art and the 50
dancers will be coming to
Walkerton directly from
the first Canadian
National Square Dance
Convention in Edmonton,
where Art will boo guest
caller, so they should 'be
in top form and tbe'
dancing should be the
best.
The Hanover Happy
Twirlers Square Dance
Club, who are sponsoring
this danco, have their
home in Hanover, but the
members 'come from
Bruce, Grey and
Wellington Counties. The
full club will be in at-
tendance (except for a
few who will be away). as
well as the club caller,
Mr. Roy Hull from
London, who, along with
his wife Evelyn, will MC
the dance and supply a
little levity. Evelyn will
likely call some of the
rounds as well. This is a
cordial invitation from all
of them to all of you to
come out and join the fun.
. .
Fourplays to ������ ������ Blyth at
Blyth Summer
Festival's two successful
plays "The Huron Tiger"
and "His Own Boss" are
now joined by two new
plays, Ted Johns' "The
School Show", and
"Gwendoline" by James
Nichol. -The-your plays
will in repertory
style,' meaning that a
different play is offered
almost every night, along
with Thursday matinees.
"The Huron Tiger",
Peter Colley's colourful
cOmedy ' of the'
irrepressible Scot, 'Dr.
William 'Tiger' Dun|op,
has proved to be .'a,
Yummhceid`
v/ cripcoond
audiences oUk*: Peter
Whito, in the Toronto
Qiobg and Mail, writes:
"the world of Tiger od
his coterie as Colley
presents it, is a sea of
eccentricity". And Trish
Wilson, in the }(i/chonop
Wotpr)oo Record,
remarks that "...Terence
Durrant plays Tiger as a
rakish, but irresistable
opportunist, given to
DdTnbnynnceand ataste
oYUqunr-"
"The Huron Tiger" has
only four more por'
^ynrmonous; August l0th,
l8th.and 20tbut8:30p.nn.
and August 24th at 2 p.m.
Don't miss your chance to
catch the fun that has
drawn enthusiastic
response from theatre
0oerotbinmoaoon.
Keith Roulston's "His
Own Boss"has audiences
rb|}ing in the aisles 'with
the hilarious story of an
assembly line worker
who inherits a cheese
h`otnry, along with all its
problems and com-
plications. Only two
performances of this play
remain; August 16th at
8:30 p.m, and August
17thut2p.m.
Tickets should be
reserved now for these
rinuhpuryormuncoo.
TedJohnn'"ThoSchnn|
Show" continues its
limited run on August8th,
|lth, 14d`. /7th and 22nd
ot8:3Op.m.
"Gwendo|ino''. by
James Nichol, opens
August 9th at 8:30
and will play August 12th,
15th, 19th, 21st, 24th and
August 10th at 2 p.m.
The Festival's final
play of the season, "Two
Miles Off- opens August
23rd, and will play every
night from August 28th to
The Blyth Summer
Festival is now air
conditioned for your
comfort. See you all
there.
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, CLIN QN NE'��R��CORD.THURSDAY, A1978—PAGE 19 .
Playhouse leading
gets forPicnic
roles .
The leading 'roles in
Picnic by William Inge
have been confirmed,
James Murphy, Artistic
Director of the Huron
Country Playhouse ...
Grand Bend announced
....,,Eacently. The Pulitzer
Prize and multi -award-
winning romantic
comedy -drama will play
for two big weeks,
starting August 15, as the
fifth production of the six -
show 1978 Playhouse
season.
The often humourous
but earthy and emotional
play represents the fifties
in this season's "Tribute
to Six Decadma" at the
Playhouse. t was one of
Broadway's biggest hits
during the l952'03 season,
honoured by many
prestigious theatre
awards.
Michael Beirne will
play the male lead, Hal, a
baodmonue. former
college football star with
more animal vitalithan
he knows what to do with,
brashly fighting a world
which does not offer too
much for a not -too -bright
former athlete. He visits
a small Kansas town as it
prepares for its Labour
Day p/cn/o, seeking out
his former college pal,
son of a wealthy fa,ni|y,
but during the course of a
day finds himself the
centre of attention by an
assortment of women,
hiding secret yearnings
and desires under a staid
exterior.
Beirne will be making
his first appearance t
Countrythe Playhouse
dh|s choi mo ine
famous by William
Holden in the 1955 movie
vnryion, created on
Broadway by Ralph
Meeker. Beirne has
appeared on Broadway
himself ]nCactus Flower,
Hallelujah, Baby, and
The Ritz, was in the
nation'al companies of
1 776 and Little Murders,
and has a biography
which holds an im-
pressive
nn'pre | list of television
credits which include
mb]0f~`rote,- On 'The
Doctors, Wagon Truin,
and The Virginian among
others., Be attended
Harvard Business School
and served in the Marine
Corps,
Judith Dagley co-stars
as Madgc, the quiet, 18 -
year -old virgin beauty
who, lured by the sounds
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of the outgolngtrains and
the romantic sexual
awakening by Hal,
decides against marrying
the rich boy in town and
his life of security, to live
with Hal, a potential life
of love and fulfillment.
Kim Novak became a
big star in movies
through this role, played
in the original New York
production by the much -
acclaimed actress Janice
Rule.
Miss Dagley was seen
last season on the
Playhouse stage in Plaza
Suite and Any Wed-
nesday. She was
associated with Chicago's
Second City Revue for
many years and is a
familiar face to ardent
television commercial
watchers, currently '
through a deligbtyui,
popular spot, Snacking
On Milk, and on Global
TV's comedy series,
Mixed Doubles.
Aileen Taylor -Smith
returns to the Playhouse
once again after
numerous roles over the
seasons to play
Boaemory, the tragi-
comical spinster school
tnocher, battling the
spectre of a lonely old age
and her dormant
sexuality aroused by
B4l'npr000non.
The late Rosalind
Russell in the screen
version and Eileen
Heckart .in the original
stage producdnh both
immortalized this role,
one of the finest for any
actress in the American
theatre, for thbir
respective uudienro�
Picnic won the *New
York
York Cr(ticn Circle
Award among the many
tributes it 'received,
providing all 'members of
its cast a tremendous
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opportunity to display EVERYONE WELCOME
their varied acting skills.
One notably seen in
that �
w
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cast was Paul Newman n
as the college ). Alan.
For its author, William
Inge, it cemented his
name and place into the
annals of the American
theotro, following on the
heels of his 1950 success, .
'Come Back, Little Sheba.
He fulfilled the con-
fidence of New York's
drama critics (who voted
him the most promising
new playwright of 1950)
with Bus Stop in 1958 and
The Dark At The' Top 0Y
The Stairs in 1957. Both
nythem, like Picnic, were
turned into highly suc-
cessful' films.
uc'ceauyuUyi!ms.
Some of the criticalacclaim accorded Picnic
include these corn men um
"Mr. Inge has the
capacity for looking into
the tormented souls of
ordinary people with the
sort of respect which
reveals the paradoxical
truth that there are not
ordinary pc6p)o.
(Richard Watts, New
York Post); "It's a honey
of a play, with an utterly
o,nno'socdon of
life," (Women's Wear
Daily); "Inge has ox'
WEDDING
RECEPTION
AND DANCE
forGwen Hendrick
and
Bill Davis
(BRIDAL COUPLE)
SAT. AUG" 12
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pressed tbo deepest
feelings of puzzled,
groping, inarticulate, but
passionate people ...
shaken by their own
fe,elings..." (Eliot Nor-
ton, The Boston Post).
The roles of Alan, the
intelligent and wealthy
pal, the younger sister,
0xUUc, and the mother
Flo, plus the euppnrt|ng
cast of these secondary
principals will be an-
nounced next week as
rehearsals get underway
this weekend. •
Picnic plays Tuesdays
to Saturdays at 8:30 with
Wednesday matinees at
2:30. the usual playing
days and times this
season. The Playhouse
box office is open Mon-
days to Saturdays from 9
to g, and telephone
reservations can be made
through calling 238-8451.
It runs till August 26 at
the Playhouse located on
the Stephen B Line, one
mile east of Grand Bend,
off Highway 81.
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