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NOTICE
The council Of the Village of Brussels hag
declared
Monday Aug. 4/80
CIVIC HOLIDAY
and requests that all residents
Observe it as such.
J. Calvin Krauter
Reeve
Village ofaruisels
Daily Dinner. Specials
Entertainment
Fri. & Sat. Aug. 1 & 2
Nitelighters
3 DAY BALL SPECIAL
Fri. Sat. Mon.
Mr. FIVE BY F1VE$2.00 Reg. $2.50
HOUSE SPECIAL
• Pizza
• Pig Tails
• Ribs & Kraut
RUSSELS
NN:.887-09.21' Bruttels.
HOTEL
Programme Starts at Dusk
Admission $3.50
CHILDREN IN CARS
(12 Years and Under)
ADMITTED FREE
THEATRE OPEN
SEVEN NIGHTS A WEEK
Programme subject to '
unavoidable changes.
PHONE 338.3121
Thursday, Friday, Saturday
July 31, August 1, 2
George C. Scott &
Trish Van Devere
in
THE CHANGELING
"Drawn from a true account
involving a haunted house"
[Warnings Some scenes may
be too intense "Theatre
Board of Ontario]
—Pius—
"Action - Suspense"
A FORCE OF ONE
Starring
Chuck. Norris &
Jennifer O'Neill
[Adult Entertainment]
Sunday, August 3 only _
—Giant Holiday Special —3.
4.
1.COUNT DRACULA'S
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2. HOT SEX IN BANGKOK
WIDE OPEN MARRIAGE
FEMALE ANIMALS
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Shamrock Lounge This Weeks
Wed. - Sat. & Matinee LISLE Sh'""13"02
Next Week. Than. - Sat. CHRYSALIS
Open 5undiy 12.10 p.m. til' _An
12 noon.- 2 p.m. Dinner special
Continuous Entertainment Ur
from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m.
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Fri. & Sat. Aug. 1 &2
Gold Dust
DAILY DINNER SPECIALS
WELCOME TO ALL BALL PLAYERS
Talent Nite '
July 31
Kitchen closed every evening at 7 p.m
Hamburg., cbeesburgs, subs and sand ache
at the bar
Banquet Room for small wedding., banquett,
private meetings
THE BRUSSELS JULY 30, 1980
le we now
PLAY CELEBRATES JACK -- Jack McLaren Benmiller area artist and
World War I comedy troupe member, is the subject of the Life that Jack
Built at the Blyth Summer Festival. The original collective ,play opens
next Tuesday night.•
What a life Jack built!
sPendinti a ninntiii vacation'
with their sons. And families,
Jim of Russell, Manitoba and
Larry of Broadview,
Saskatchewan.
Mrs. Dennison has been a
visitor with sister, Mrs. Gus'
Edder.
Three young ladies are
,visitors in Brussels or guests
on the Lions Youth Exchange
program. They are Karen
Becker of Herning, Demark,
with Jack and Esther
McCutcheon; Gail , M.
ConliskY of POtt Neches
Tens, U.S.A. with Howard
and Joan Bernard and
, Natalie Cate of Arthabaska,
Quebec with. Bruce and Judy
Hahn and Bob and Doreen
Raymond.
Robert Kennedy, his
daughter Janice with her
baby daughter Samantba,
and Deanna, and sons,
Andrew and Adrian of Ot-
tawa are spending two weeks
with the former's mother;'
Mrs. R. W. Kennedy.
Guis Edder is a patient in.
Wingham and .District.
Hospital.
Several people from this
community were in Stratford
Saturday night at the
Masonic Temple attending
the 25th wedding
anniversary of Gordon and
Jean Stiles, former residents
of Brussels.
Mr. and Mrs. Ross Duncan
returned home after
Anne Thynne
honored
A family picnic was held' at
the home of Heathe and.
Dianne Thynne and family in I
Wingham,' on Sunday after-
noon, Aug. "20, to celebrate
the 80th birthday of Anne
Thynne.
About forty relatives and
friends enjoyed a supper.
Anne received many lovely
cards and gifts.
Guests were present from
Shelbourne, Orillia, Port
Elgin, Brussels and Wing-
ham.
Jitney scores
Brussels Lawn Bowling
Jitney results from July 21
are: Vera Hastings - 3W33;
Frank Carter - 3W32; Wilbur
Turnbull - 3W30; Jim
Coultes - 3W29; Peter Strick-
land - 3W24; Jack Bowman -
2W38; Margaret Douglas -
2W32; George Michie -
2W30; Harmen De Vries
2W29; Carl Hemingway -
2W27; Ida Evans - 2W21.
The songs of the First'
World War will live again
when the Blyth Summer
Festival opens The Life That
Jack Built on August 5. The
show tells the story of the
development of the comedy
troupes that entertained on
the battlefields of the Great
War, and the show uses
many of the original songs
and skits that were per-
formed on the make-shift
stages of the barns of Bel-
gium and. France.
The show follows the life of
Jack McLaren, who is the
last surviving member of The
Dumbells, the most famous
of the comedy companies
that came out of the war. Mr.
McLaren, at the age of 85, is
still actively pursuing
another of his life's interests
--painting--at his home near
Benmiller, Ontario.
Mr. McLaren first volun-
teered for the active servic
with the Princess Patricia's
Canadian Light Infantry regi-
ment, but after a few
impromptu entertainments
he gave for other patients at
a lodge where he was recup-
erating from war injuries, he,
and a few others, were
commandeered to do their
part for their country in
another manner. It was from
those first spontaneous
entertainments, or from "the
songs in a dug-out, to help
keep our spirits up", as Mr.
McLaren puts it, that the
Princess. Pats Comedy Com-
pany arose.
ThePrincess Pats Comedy
Company travelled around
the battlefields of France and.
Belgium, performing where
and what they could --
scrounging the debris of
war-torn Europe for use in
building scenery, and writing
their skits and songs around
the props that they happened
to find along the roadside.
Their skits were mostly about
the life of the army at ,that
time. One of the skits in-
cluded in the Blyth
production concerns the
misadventures of Canadian
boys in the "Estaminet" or
French tavern. The shows
were light and riotous,
designed to lift, if only, for a
moment, the minds and
hearts of the enlisted men
from the ugly realities
around them.
THE DUMBELLS
The Princess Pats Comedy
Company evolved into The
Dumbells, a group that
began as entertainment for
the troups, but whose
popularity outlived the war.
The Dumbells toured Canada
for thirteen years after the
war before they disbanded,
and during that time they
also played, in London,
England and in New York
City.
The play also deals with
Mr. McLaren's life after the
war. As Mr. McLaren says,
"I've been lucky in the
people I've met in this stupid
journey." Those people have
included many of the great
figures in Canada's cultural
history. Mr. McLaren was
one of the original_ members
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