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Times-Advocate, 1980-07-09, Page 18go 2A Timss-Advocuts,. Jut ALICE IN WONDERLAND — Kim Worobec as the white rabbit, Sandy Michaels as Alice, Mark Terene as the Queen, Tricia Adams as the knave and David Talbot as the King pose in a scene from,Saturday's childrens play. Staff photo INFORMATIVE PERSON — Janice Rumball of Dashwood is looking after the information office for the Grand Bend Chamber of Commerce this summer. Staff photo In the know Janice has the info .e> FISHERMAN'S COVE RESTAURANT Specializing in fresh fish dinners from our boat to your table, NOW OPEN 7 DAYS, A WEEK 63 River Road, Grand Bend Eat in or take out 238-2025 n t2 PACKAGE # CARAVELLE's LEBA RON's CORDOBA's 1Hat4iFSON-WARNER "Nice People to Deal With" Open 7 days GRAND BEND 238.2391 Plymouth itittsi tit wriltE W 1HCIMPSON - WARNER "THE DEALER THAT DARES TO BE DIFFERENT" BRINGS YOU FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER OUR:- NE PRICE EVENT PACKAGE #11. 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Sunshine Bo 0 afterneon at 2:30 and, tonight at 13:30. IVIatinees will be Saturdays and Wednesday at 2:30 and it runs each night, except Sunday, at 109. The movie id*. My F4.1bor Told Me will be on Sunday at 8;30 p,m, There will be children's performances on Saturday at 11:00 a.m. SUMMER '80 now enjoys a retail fashion career with The Junction in Exeter. Starring -in The Sunshine Boys as Willie Clark is. Cec Linder. You'll recognize him, if you ever watch television. To anyone who. watches CBC programs, soap operas and even commercials, Linder will have a familiar face. Linder says he has come to Grand Bend at the request of artistic director Aileen Taylor-Smith, He and Ms. Taylor-Smith worked together as far back as 1953 when they appeared together in "Space Command", a CBC television science fiction series, Linder says that in those days they were making a total of $60 a week, which included both rehearsals and filming. More recently he worked with Ms. Taylor-Smith in a production of The Price at Theatre New Brunswick. Linder originally from Timmins and became in- terested in acting during his high school years. He now a makes Toronto his home, but travels frequently pursuing roles: Linder is a widower with one daughter, Nida, V. Nina has-a summeNjob.with the playhouse where she's busy' ushering, painting, °sewing and doing other odd jobs..She will appear in Annie' Get ° Your Gun, this year's musical, and she hopes to follow her father into an acting career. Linder played a CIA agent in the James Bond movie Goldfinger with Sean Con- nery. He describes Connery as a "regular guy" with whom he's played poker on several occasions. "Many people don't remember, but the CBC got him in Toronto to play MacBeth before he played James Bond," Linder says. Recently Linder was in I Miss you, Hugs and Kisses a Canadian movie about the murder of Christine Demeter. Linder describes it as "dreadful" - " the idea was good, but it was not well executed." This year, Linder played in a Japanese movie called Virus. He says the film industry is big in Japan, but much of ,this? .movie was made in Nova Scotia. Linder describes. Stanley Kubrick as the ,most imaginative director he ever worked with. Linder ap- peared under his direction in Alice in Wonderland was never on any of my university drama courses, and I didn't feel qualified to give it a fair critique. After all, it doesn't really matter whether I like the play or not - the actors weren't aiming it at me, So I took two experts with me to Huron Country Playhouse Saturday mor- ning for the Young Players production of Alice in Wonderland. Who better than a kid to judge a children's play? I borrowed eight year old Mark and five year old Cindy from their parents for the day. (It's easier and mere expedient to borrow than to have your own.) And you'll be releived to know that both of them pronounced Alice in Won- derland "good" when we left the theatre. It was their first visit to the theatre and both were impressed with the buildings as well as the play. I think that little Cindy actually enjoyed the prodc- tion more than her brother. Mark is a very mature eight year old, and some of the "magic" failed to cast a spell on him. In the scene where the Mad Hatter and the March Hare have their tea party, a tea pot slides across the table all by itself. Then a plate of bread and butter pops off the table on a long spring. The Mad Hatter fills a tea cup with gallons of tea and it never overflows. Cindy was en- thralled, but on the way home, Mark bluntly told her "somebody was under the table doing that, and the teacup must have had a hole in it." Cindy said she liked Alice best, because she was the prettiest. Alice was played by Sandy Michaels, a 20 year old music and theatre student from Toronto. Both kids said that the funniest part of the play was when Tweedledum and Tweedledee presented each other with unbirthday gifts. They were played by Mark Terene, 23, and David Talbot, 24, Mark is from Toronto, and David is a native of Ingersoll. Mark also played a Daisy, a Doormouse and the Queen of Hearts. David was a Tiger Lily, the March Hare, the Four of Hearts and the Kin of Hearts. Another favourite with the children was the cheschire cat, who kept losing its body. Tricia Adams played the cat's head, and sang a jazz solo as the cat, and Kim Worobec played the escaping body. " Tricia also played the Caterpillar who metamorphosized into a butterfly before our very eyes, as well as a Violet, the Two of Hearts and the Knave of Hearts. Kim was the nervous White Rabbit, and the Madd With. Mary Alderson Hatter and the Six of Hearts and the Ten of Hearts. Cindy said it was scary when the Queen of Hearts threatened to chop off Alice's head, but Mark said he wasn't worried. Nonetheless, it did provide some suspense for the children. Costumes were excellent. The Madd Hatter wears the brightest combination of loud plaids ever invented. Tweedledum and his twin brother had identival suits, but as Mark pointed out they had hula hopps under them that always stuck out. The cast is to be com- mended for thier quick costume changes, and for their ability to change ac- cents as they changed characters. The children didn't realize that only four real people were playing all those parts. The set was simple - a big box which could be turned about, and with a little imagination and a few gimmicks, used for anything that is needed. Audience participation, was excellent, and went over big with the children. Alice asks the audience to help her find the jittery white rabbit, and although the kids shout directions, she never seems quite able to catch up with him. Mark and Cindy were particularly impressed that I was able to go back stage after the show to take photographs and talk with the characters in- their "real" voices. They were amazed that Alice was 20 years old; they had taken her for one of them. A suggestion for the future might be to have the cast come on stage after the performance, tell a little bit about themselves and an- swer any questions the kids might have, A few lines seemed to have been missed or mixed up during the show, but that didn't bother the children at all. I expect that these were opening day problems, and will not occur again. Alice in Wonderland continues each Saturday morning at 11:00 until August 30. The Playhouse is spon- soring a special program that would enable han- dicapped children to enjoy this delightful production. However, they require some assistance: A donation of $25.00 will sponsor a group of area children, who might otherwise be unable to see the show. Persons or businesses interested in taking part in this special program may do so by contacting: Huron Country Playhouse, Attn: Albert Brule, Grand Bend, Ontario. NOM 1TO. Your $25.00 gift will ensure that 20 youngsters will have an opportunity to come to the Playhouse and see Alice in Wonderland. The girl in the know this summer in Grand Bend is Janice Rumball. The 18 year old Dashwood native is manning the tourist infor- mation booth for the Chamber of Commerce. Janice, who has been tak- ing business at Fanshawe College, attended a seminar to prepare her for this job. The seminar was sponsored by the Southwestern Ontario Travel Association, (SWOTA). Janice says the most im- portant things she learned at the seminar were how to read road maps, and how to use the Ontario accommoda- tion and camping guides. Since starting at her seven day a week full time job, she says she has handled mainly requests for accom- modations. She says that people come The Grand Bend Colonials Soccer team have regained their first place position in the Ausable soccer league after about a month's ab- sence. A win over the league leading Nairn team Sunday put them back in top place. The Colonials beat Nairn 3- 1 with two goals scored by Kevin Simmonds and one from Dave Nolan. The Colonials won despite playing most of the game a man short after one player was asked to leave. The B's also had a 3-1 win this week when they took on Huron Park. Goals were scored by Steve Donaldson, Nick 'Vandenberk and Guy Wilde. However the Bantams didn't fare as well as the senior teams. They lost to Clinton 5-1 on Monday, and again on Saturday they lost to Kincardine 4-3. The Atoms continued their winning streak by beating Seaforth, 3-2. Peter Donaldson, Jonathon O'Connor and Steve Lingard By MARY ALDERSON There are two good reasons to go see The Sun. shine BeyS. which opens tomorrow at Huron cotintry Playhouse. One is Helen Brand. and the other is .cee' Linder. I think we should all .show up to support Helen in her first professional acting job. Helen, you'll remember, is our very own Miss Exeter Fall Fair, She has the role of the Sketch Nurse in The Sunshine Boys. Twenty year old Helen was born in London and, has been a resident of Exeter for the past ten years. She will be competing this summer for the title of Miss CNE Queen of the fair, in Toronto. A graduate of South Huron District High School, Helen in asking for things to do in Grand Bend as well as infor- mation about. Huron Country Playhouse. She ' has also sent many people on their way to Goderich or Tobermory with fresh brochures and road maps. She says that she has already noticed that people visiting from overseas like to stay and talk to her. The information office has been open weekends since May 17, and open daily since last week. The office is at a new loca- tion this summer on the cor- ner of highway 81 and 81 crescent. It was formerly located behind the Public Utilities office, but the Chamber of Commerce mov- ed it to the more prominent place this spring. scored the goals. The girls team had the week off from league play, and squirts continued with houseleague action. Next Sunday the Colonials and the B's travel to Huron Park for the mid-season tournament.. There will be continuous action on that soccer field all day. the movie Late. Linder has eight other movies to his credit. Before becoming a. professional actor, Linder worked in radio. He has been a disc jockey, sports an- nouncer, new reader and program director for radio stations in Brantford, St. Catharines, Montreal and Hamilton. Television has also played an important part in his career. He has been in several CBC productions and has lived in London, He has also spent time in New York doing several soap operas. He was Peter Ames in "The Secret Storm" and Ben Travis in "The Edge of Night." He lived in Hollywood for a time where he did guest appearances in such. T.V. series as Ironside, Run for your Life, and It Takes a Thief. This September he will be appearing in a '07. series for Educational Television called Board. He's played in several Canadian theatres, and says he prefers stage work. In television or movies, he says, the editor has all the fun when the film is put together. In stage the play is done in sequence. Linder has never played Willie Clark before, and says it is a "marvelous" part. He says he wishes the per- formances ran longer than two weeks, but he un- derstands the business reasons behind the short run. The Sunshine Boys is a modern Neil Simon comedy about two aging Vaudeville stars who are asked to get together for a television show. The men have hated each other all their lives, and continue to do so. David Holmes plays Al Lewis, the other half of the. Vaudeville Team. Holmes is a St. Thomas native, who has turned to professional acting since Helen Brand retiring from his work as a high school teacher at Central Elgin Collegiate in 1977. He has appeared in plays at Stratford, and Theatre London, among others theatres. , Stanley Coles plays Clark's nephew Ben. You'll remember Stanley from his roles last year in Pools Paradise and Harvey. Also at Huron Country Playhouse, he has been in Charlie's Aunt, See how Therrun and The Mumberley Inherita nce. He has been in several other Canadian theafre productions, as well as some CBC work and television commercials. Sandi' Ross will be • the registered nurse, John R. Bushel of Beach• O'Pines plays a patient and Mark Cole plays Eddie. Another very important role in The Sunshine Boys will be filled by local talent. "Charlie" a local non-equity actor has been given the part of Mr. Melnick. The announcement came after several interviews and an intensive final audition conducted by Ms. Taylor- Smith and guest director Stephen Litchen. The role of Mr. Melnick is particularly difficult to play and requires a tremendous amount of concentration. Charlie is permanent resident of South Huron Hospital in E?ceter, and looking Sorward to returning to his peaceful existence there when the play is over. The Sunshine Boys opens tomorrow and continues until July 19. There are preview performances this It Plenty of talent in Colonials regain first place spot Cec Under Chairman of the PART OF A SKELETON CAST — Aileen Taylor.Smith auditions "Charlie" a resident of South Huron Hospital for a part in the Sunshine Boys at Huron County Playhouse. Skydiving Demonstration Amps Grand Bend Beach Every Wednesday evening at 8 p,m. Watch far parachutist rump from 3,000 feet and try to land on a 4 inch target. 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