Village Squire, 1978-11, Page 49PEOPLE
Tom Patterson who revolutionized
Canadian theatre with his idea for a
summer theatre featuring the plays of
Shakespeare in a little city called Stratford
in southwestern Ontario is now trying his
hand at movies. Patterson is one of the
principals in a new movie company along
with Chris Yaneff. Toronto-based advertis-
ing and graphics expert and Robert Nagel
former studio president of the Burbank
studio in Los Angeles which was owned
jointly by Warner Brothers and Columbia
pictures. The first production scheduled for
shooting in Nov. and December is to be for
a major U.S. television network. Two other
major Canadian productions are reported
to be under discussion.
Philip Street. former illustrator for
Village Squire and editorial cartoonist for a
number of Western Ontario weekly
newspapers is still in his first year of
college but his work is getting wide
exposure. The student of St. Michael's
College in Toronto has had several of his
cartoons featured on the Friday night
television show over TV Ontario called
Ferguson. Short. and Ross Show.
Not many people have the honour to
have something named after themselves
but Clarence Peterson of London has
earned the honour. Recently the Board of
Theatre London had a presentation to
name a board room at the new Grand
Theatre after the tireless worker. Mr.
Peterson headed the campaign to raise the
more than $2 million in private funding
needed to pay the cost of building the new
theatre. Art Ender, president of the board
of the theatre made the presentation to Mr.
Peterson of a Mike Becom cartoon of Mr.
Peterson and said a brass plaque will be
installed in the room designating it the
Clarence M. Peterson Conference Room.
A man who made his contvibution in the
early days of the Stratford Festival died
recently. Peter Smith the photographer for
Festival productions from the beginning in
1953 to 1967 died Oct. 1 in St. Catharines.
For several years he operated a
Photography Studio and Lithography Shop
in Stratford and was also manager of a
brokerage office for a time before moving
to St. Catharines in 1975. He was 63 years
of age.
It's a case of like daughter like father
this fall as the new line of books for the
Christmas trade were announced. MacMil-
lan Publishing company announced what
must surely be a rare occurence: the listing
in one catalogue of fiction books by a
father -daughter combination. The books
are by Canada's foremost short story writer
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November 1978 The Village Squire
Alice Munro of Clinton and her father, the
late Robert E. Laidlaw of Wingham, who
contributed many short stories to Village
Squire. This time it's his first novel that
will be published.
Whether it's a bicycle decorated with
macrame and bits of yarn or pieces of tree
branches and a variety of fibres from fur to
jute and acryilic yarns the fibre sculpture of
Stratford artist Nina Soltys is not
something one runs across every day. Mrs.
Soltys recently completed a showing of her
work at the Stratford Public Library and
now will have her work on display at the
Young People's Theatre in Toronto from
Nov. 3 to Dec. 3. She's been doing wall
sculptures for about three years she says
and most are more suitable to large
buildings than for the livingroom.
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