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Times-Advocate, 1980-02-20, Page 17LEARN TO FLY NOW!! AT WESTERN AIR SERVICES CENTRAL LAKE DIVISION Specialists in flying training • Private • Commercial .3110- • Night Rating • Instructor Rating • Aerobatic CENTRALIA AIRPORT (519)-228-6367 tit . Special introductory flight $15.00 for Feb. & Mar. In The Control Tower She kept busy with the Many little theatres, and the same year 1952 marked the opening of CTiQ studios in Toronto. She soon had parts on television shov‘rs and commercials, "In my first television job, I wore very tight pants and was a space cadet, she says, She took time out from acting to have three.children - David, who is now in college in Tennessee; Averil, who attends Western University in London and is in this year's Gilbert and Sullivan production; and Joannah, who lives at home in Toronto and attends high school. Ms. Taylor-Smith first became acquainted with Huron Country Playhouse when her husband who works for Imperial Oil in Toronto had to spend a summer in the Sarnia plant. She acted in. Grand Bend, while he was in near-by Sarnia. In recent years she has acted in Theatre St. Lawrence, Kingston; Theatre New Brunswick; Sudbury Theatre Centre; as well as numerous Toronto area theatres. Now she's hoping to take some time off from her new job at act at the Gryphon Theatre in Barrie. The director there, Vern Chapman, is a good friend and has asked her to take the same part she played at Huron Country Playhouse in "Any Wednesday". She says she'd like to go - "It's im- portant to keep a relation- ship with other theatres." • Financial assistance • Management counselling (CASE) • Management training • Information on government programs for business Can we help you? See our Representatives Bob Pearce and/or Bill Schutz at: The Devon Building, 476 Main Street, Exeter Every Tuesday on: (Next Visit: Tuesday,. February 26thi) FEDERAL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT BANK wners smaller rovide: (Branch Office Address) For prior information please call 271-5650 (collect) or write 1036 Ontario St. Stratford BASEBALL CARDS WANTED Will pay $2. each for style shown (1952 Topps Gum Co., actual size 2 5/8 x 3 3/4 ). Send any quantity by registered mall for prompt payment. Other pre-1960 baseball cards also wanted. Send sample or list for offer. Robert Bruce, Box 4344, Long Beach, Calif. 09804. Say goodbye to house painting with Stelco Siding free estimates, sales & installations, tp 100 square in stock JIM BECKER CONSTRUCTION DASHWOOD 237-3526 SEDUCTION? — What do you do after a leader loses his charisma and sex appeal? Give him some, of course. Artist Brian Richardson was selling posters • at the Liberal celebrations in Alvinston Monday night. Three nude figures were sketched into the drawing to entice voters subliminally. MU. DON'T MISS IT ... GOING OUT OF BUSINESS E OFF EVERYTHING IN THE STORE • II MARKDOWNS BEING TAKEN DAILY, AND YOU GET ANOTHER 50% OFF ALL SALES FINAL . . . NO GIMMICKS ALL STOCK MUST GO YOU SAVE AT LEAST 50% AT in EXETER only By MARY ALDERSON While actors and actresses who start out in the small ' theatres of Ontario hope to go to California to "make it big",, Aileen Taylor-Smith did just the opposite. Ms, Taylor-Smith studied drama in California now she's made it big at Huron Country Playhouse near Grand Bend, She Wilt over the role of artistic director last November when founder James Murphy left the playhouse. Ms. Maylor-Smith is no stranger to regular patrons of Huron Country Playhouse. Last summer she directed the popular comedy "The Owl and the Pussycat", In 1978 she played the spinster school teacher in "Picnic". The year before that she played Karen in "Plaza Suite" and Mrs. Dorothy Cross - the wife who gets dumped - in "Any Wed- nesday." In 1976 she played Donna Lucia in "Charley's Aunt" and Madame St. Pe in "Waltz of the Toreadors." The erection of the barn theatre in 1975 marked a very busy summer for Huron Country Playhouse and Ms. Taylor-Smith. She played Miss Prism in "The Importance of Being Ear- nest", Amanda in "The Glass Menagerie" and Ethel. Banks in "Barefoot in the Park". That same summer she also directed a production of "Winnie-the- Pooh". Her first appearance at the playhouse was in 1973 Times-Adverate, FeloNary, 20, 1900 POI* 17 Piayhouse actress turns director when the one year old theatre presented "The Show-Off". She played Miss Fisher, in the big circus tent theatre. Ms. Taylor-Smith says that when she heard the position of artistic director was available at Huron Country Playhouse, she tried to encourage all her director friends in Toronto to apply for it, Suddenly she realized that she would like the job heRrsigelit. now, she's living in Toronto and visiting the playhouse periodically as they prepare ,for 'the new season: She finds it easier to live in. Toronto because at present she's busy seeking rights for plays and con- tacting actors. So far the weather has co-operated for her long drives. As the season gets closer she plans to take an apartment in Grand Bend, as she has done in past summers. Ms. Taylor -Smith says she "reallyexcited" about coming to a theatre "so beautifully established." She has great praise for James Murphy and the board arid guild members who set the theatre on its feet. She plans to give the residents and visitors to Aileen Taylor-Smith Grand Bend what she thinks they want - comedy. "Never Once the neighbourhood undercut comedy - laughter knows there's a child who is very important," she says. likes to go on stage, then/ She stresses that producing you're asked to do all kinds and playing good comedy is- of things, Ms. Taylor-Smith more difficult than drama. says. She kept busy with She tells of the very old actor speeches, recitations, and who said from his death bed, acting during her school "Dying is just a little bit years. She performed easier than playing frequently at Memphis Little comedy," Theatre. She says her family ' Being able to laugh at was "generous about trips to one's self is also important; New York" to see theatre. according to Ms, Taylor- When she finished school, Smith. Comedy helps you do her parents sent her to study this, especially if you see drama in California. She yourself in the actor on spent three and a half years stage. Keeping a good at the Pasedena Playhouse. perspective on life is easier if Things changed ,when she we have comedy, Ms. was invited to be maid of Taylor-Smith advocates. honour at a friend's wedding Besides' a season of in New York. When she went comedies, Ms. Taylor-Smith- back home, she told her plans to close with a "big parents she wasn't too im- musical". Because they are pressed with the groom, but still negotiating play rights, she really liked the best and getting actors to sign man. She married the best contracts, no names of plays man, Ron Smith, in 1952, and can be announced. moved to his home, Toronto. M s . Taylor -Smith She decided to combine his describes getting actors and name with her maiden name slays like the old whichTaylor. came first the chicken or the. egg" routine. For some she's choosing a play she likes, then try to. find .actors to do. it; for others she'sfinding good, actor, then. trying to Come up with just the right play.. Ms. Taylor-Smith says that she has always wanted. • to act and ultiinately to direct, 'She was born and raised in 'Tennessee where her parents still live. At age five she played one of the children in an amateur production of "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch". LIBERAL WINS Liberal Ralph Ferguson shakes Tory incumbent Sid Fraleigh's hand after Fraleigh tells the crowd that he is conceding to Ferguson. The two candidates ran a close race in Larnbton-Middlesex, T-A photo *Maybe it works! Artist seduces voters ton-Middlesex Ralph to shampoo of hiding the Voters are probably seduced by politicians more than they realize it during an election campaign. Things get even,worse when the seduction is subliminal. Brian Richardson, an Ipperwash area artist, came up with way of subliminally enticing voters to support Pierre Trudeau. Richardson sketched a portrait of Trudeau and hid three female nude figures in the drawing. Richardson was selling his posters at the Alvinston arena where successful Liberal candidate in Lamb- FACE G, two wilt e V A1,.- • roll`," g god reitigr: Ferguson was'' celebrating his victory 'Monday night. The posters were selling well at $5 each. Richardson admitted that the idea was not his originally. He has seen other artists use subliminal seduc tion, and he is also familiar with Wilson Bryan Key, a former professor of Journalism at the University Trudeau. of Western Ontario. Brian is the son of Mr. and Key has written several Mrs. W.B. Richardson of books on the subject of Southcott Pines. subliminal seduction in anggmaya advertising and has accused r many companies from liquor • word "sex" in magazine ads. Key claims that these hidden words and obscenities ap- peal to the subconscious and influence the consumer. Richardson said he was having "fun" with his posters. Ironically, as one bystander pointed out, it was Joe Clark who got stripped Monday night, and not noon. He too me over to the hospital, and spent part of his lunch hour sewing up my wound. First came the needle to freeze my finger. The doctor didn't like my suggestion that I just go out and stick my finger in a snow bank for a while. Before I knew it the whole thing was over. I hardly felt the needle, let alone the two stitches. I didn'teven need to bite the "biillet the nurse offered me. The two stitches looked like two tiny black bugs sitting on my finger. I thought they were rather cute, but other people moaned at the sight of the coagulated blood, so I covered the whole mess up with the bandages the nurse gave me. Back at work, I realized the excitement was over, and the problems were beginning. I sat down at my typewriter and soon found out that I could not type any D's or C's. "Mary," I said to myself," You cannot go a whole week typing stories that do not contain any D's or C's. It would just take too long to think them out." So the typewriter collected dust, while I wrote everything out longhand, I haven't had such writers cramp since I explained Shakespeare's use of the symbolic clashing and in- tertwining of the three worlds in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" with reference to Puck, Bottorri and other members of the artisans, faeries and royalty for an English exam. Another painful ex- perience was trying to open a car door. Those things snap down hard, if your finger isn't bent and out of the way. Then I learned that I couldn't tie bows. It's very embarassing to walk out on the ice with the laces in your curling shoes dragging out Please turn to page 20 S I • Mary's musings BY MARY ALDERSON I have recently emerged from a rather traumatic experience . Unscathed, I hope. But it may be years before any psychological damage is revealed. And the scars go away. I was making sandwiches with frozen bread a few weeks ago, when the knife slipped. I sliced the top of the middle finger of my left hand at the first knuckle. Blood poUred over the countertop. I kicked the. dog. .S),nce bead ~,this horrible accident, many people' have come forward and revealed that they, too, have injured themselves grievously while working with frozen foods. One woman confessed that she nearly lost a (finger trying to separate frozen pork chops. Mother man told me in confidence that he had slashed his hand while trying to puncture the top of a frozen meat pie as directed by the instructions on the box. I suggest that a poll be taken to determine how many accidents in the home are caused by frozen food. Too many people are willing to blame themselves and ignore the problem. Did any of the candidates in the election express opinions on the great frozen food problem? After several metres of paper towel were used up, I eventually got the bleeding stopped. I wadded up some gauze and wrapped it with adhesive tape, and thought I might survive. Unfortunately, each time I bent the finger the bleeding started all over again. My mentors here at the Times- Advocate did nothing to help the situation. Ross wanted to hear all the gory details, but turned queasy when I told him. Bill's suggestion was something to the effect of why don't I just go home and bleed to death. Ignoring both of them I summoned up my courage and went to see Dr. Stecink. By this time it was nearly DOG FEE SCHEDULE FOR THE TOWNSHIP OF HAY For a male dog, spayed female if one is kept • $6.00 For each additional male or spayed female owned by the same person or kept in any one household ,, $10.00 For a female dog if only one is kept $10.00 For each additional female dog owned by the same person or kept in any one household. $15.00 For each additional male or female dog ex- ceeding two dogs owned by the same person or kept in any one household $20.00 For a kennel license ........ $25.00 Joan M. Ducharme, Clerk Treasurer Township of Hay