Times-Advocate, 1987-10-28, Page 7r
MITT KNITTERS — Gladys Cooper, Hensall•{left) and her daughter
ElizabethNeeb (right) have already made over 100 pairs of mitts for
the 1987 Christmas Bureau. They came in to Stedmans store to pick
up more wool from Lorna Finkbeiner.
BORN TOO SOON Camille Mitchell and Stephen Miller are shown
during the Grand Theatre performance of Born Yesterday.
Born Yesterday is
heart-warming comedy
A junk yard tycoon finds out who
was really born yesterday in the open-
ing play of the Grand Bend Theatre's
1987-88 season.
At th'e premiere performance Fri-
day night. Born Yesterday proved to
be extremely funny and warmed the
heats of all the patrons. •
Stephen E Miller plays a junk yard
tycoon Harry- Brock who goes to
Washington to finish off a corrupt
business deal. Ile realizes his
mistress Billie Dawn portrayed by
Camille Mitchell doesn't stack up to
capital standards as far as social
graces are concerned and hires a
young reporter to tutor her.
While the tomer chorus girt is very
naive in the opening scenes she quick-
ly turns the tables on her sugar dad-
dy thanks to the tutoring and lots of
book reading.and outwits Brock and
Growing up is usually so painful that
people make comedies out of it, to
soften the memory.
On location or Studio
Bart DeVries
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-eventually marries Inc reporter.
Camille Mitchell joins the Grand
cast following five successful seasons
at the Shaw Festival where she star-
red in Salome and Marathon 33.
She received a 1983 Jessie Richard-
son award for her portrayal of Ariel
in the Vancouver Playhouse produc-
tion of The Tempest.
The other top star Stephen E. Miller
also makes his first appearance in
London after extensive work in Van-
couver. Ile has just completed work
on the films Sundown and The Little
Match Girl.
Borh Yesterday continues Monday
through Saturday al the Grand at 8
[P.m. until November 14 with matinee
performances at 2 p.in., Wednesdays
and Saturdays.
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Wednesday evening with N.(; ,Irr
Mavis Atthill presiding.
V.G. Sister Elaine Skinner reported
several visits made to the sick.
A donation was made to the Town
and Country Homemakers.
Gifts for the sunshine poxes can be
brought -into the next meetipg.
Sister Alice Bowen ga x -I' a reading
and we all joined in a sing song.
Lunch was served and a mwial time
followed.
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Murder mystery
"THE MURDER OF GItAHWELA;
GROMMET"
By: Arthur Iloppe
On the morning of his 42nd birth-
day, Grabwell Grommet awoke to a
peal of particularly ominous thunder.
Glancing out the window with bleary
eyes, he saw written in fiery letters
across the sky: "SOMEONE IS.TRY-
ING TO KILL YOU, GRABWELL
GROMMET"!
With shaking hands, Grommet lit
his first cigarette of the day. He didn't
question the message. You don't ques-
tion messages like that. lfjs only ques-
'87 Blyth season
another success
Tim Chapman, General Manager of
the Blyth Festival, today announces
that nearly 36,000 attended 92 perfor-
mances during the recently com-
pleted 1987 repertory season. Atten-
dance averaged 80 percent over the
season --- another extremely suc-
cessful season.
Colleen Curran's MISS
BALMORAL OF THE BAYVIEW
broke box office records averaging 98
percent attendance, closely followed
.by Kelly Rebar's BORDERTOWN
CAFE at 87 percent. BORDERTOWN
is. now receiving its second profes-
sional production at Prairie Theatre
Exchange in Manitoba.
THE GIRLS'IN THE GANG, John
Roby and Raymond Storey's new
musical, averaged 76 percent atten-
dance. In 1988 the musical will be co-
produced by the Factory Theatre and
the National Arts Centre in Toronto
and Ottawa.
The season closer. ANOTHER
SEASON'S PROMISE by Anne
Chislett and Keith Roulston, played to'
71 percent houses throughout its three
week run in August and September.
PROMISE is currently in the midst of
an Ontario/Alberta tour opening for
a four week run at the Citadel Theatre
in Edmonton on October 18, 1987. The
Festival's other offering in the 1987
season, BUSH FIRE by Laurie Fyffe
finished its run at 65 percent
attendance.
Vouchers for the . 1988 summer
season are now on sale. Box office
hours are now Monday to Friday, 9
a.m. to 5 p.m., phone
519-523-9300/9225.
lion was, "Who"?
• At breakfast as he salted his fried
eggs, he told his wife, Gratia, "So-
meone's trying to kill me".
"Who"? she asked with horror. •
Grommet slowly stirred the cream
and sugar into his coffee and shook his
head. "I don't know", he said.
Convinced though he was, Grom-•
met couldn't go to the police with such
a story. He decided his only course
was to go about his daily routine and
hope somehow to outwit his would-be
murderer. He tried to think on the
drive to the office. But the frustra-
tions of making time by beating lights
and switching lanes occupied him
wholly.
Nor, once behind his desk, would he
find a moment, what with jangling
phones, urgent memos and the pro-
blems and decisions piling up as they
did each day. It wasn't until his se-
cond martini at lunch that the full ter-
ror of his position struck him. It was
all he could do to finish his Lasagna
Milanese. "I can't panic" he said to
himself, lighting his cigar, "I must
simply live my life as usual".
So he worked 'til seven as usual.
Elimville 1 4-H
discuss fruits
On Wednesday September 7 Elim-
ville 1 met once again for our fourth
meeting. Our topic was on what dif-
ferent kinds of fruits were used for.
As our meeting continued, we talk-
ed about fruits and vegetables of On-
tario. After we were done discussing
meeting four we tasted some Museti,
a fruited dessert that was prepared
ahead of time -by Nancy Smith our
leader. The last thing we tasted was
prepared by Linda Johns, our other
leader.
Our next meeting was scheduled for
October 14 at Nancy's house. Our
meeting was adjourned by Tina
Taylor our president.
Press reporter -Tina Taylor.
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Drove home fast as usual. Ate a hear-
ty dinner as usual. Had his two
cocktails as usual. Studied business
reports as usual. And took his Usual
two Deconal capsules in order to get
his usual six hours of sleep.
As the days passed, he manfully
stuck to his routine. And as the
months went by he began to take a
perverse pleasure in his ability to sur
vive. "Whoever's trying to get me",
he proudly said to his wife, "hasn't
got me yet. I'm too smart for him"
• "Oh please be careful". she'd rep-
ly, ladling him a second helping of
beet stroganoff.
Th8 pride grew as he managed to
go on living for years. But, as it must
to all men, death came at last to
Grabwell Grommet. It came at his
desk on a particularly busy day. He
was 53.
His grief-stricken widow demand-
ed a full autopsy. But it showed only
emphysema, arteriosclerosis.
duodenal utters, cirrhosis of. the liver,
cardiac necrosis.a cerebrovascular
aneurism, pulmonary edema, obesi-
ty. circulatory insufficiency and a
touch of lung cancer.:
"How
ancer.-
"How glad Grabwell would have
been to know", said the widow smil-
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ing proudly through her tears. "that
he died of natural causes".
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