The Goderich Signal-Star, 1966-02-10, Page 8Mrs. R. S. Winter, a resident ,of Huronview,
celebrated her 90th birthdafin Goderidh en
Monday with a Party at the home of Captain
and Mrs. Roy Wombold of the Salvation' '
Army. A former. Goderich resident, Mris.
Winter received . birthday congratulations
from many of her former neighbors who
dropped in durimg the afternoon. Here- she -
chats with Mrs. Wombold.
Signal -Star Photo ..
Good Sight., S�id Vital Today
"We live in the age of vis-
ion," said Mrs. J. T. Patterson,
president of -the"Canadian Coun-
cil: • of the Blind, in a special
-White Cane Week interview.
.ttroday; more than at any; -time
in history, working conditions
demand good sight. We de-
pend on our eyes for driving,
for watching television and for
reading, which libraries report
increases each ,year."
Because good sight is so es-
sential to modern . Iiving, the
C -CB. and, The Canadian Nation-
a1.Inftitute for the Blind, who
sponsor White Cane Week; are
dedicntieg this year's program
to sight perservation and pre-
vention of blindness.
There is good reason for their
choice. Iri this day where vision
is so necessary, blindness is
on the increase, According to
a, thxeexyear"study-recently-r-e-
leased by CNIBB; the ratio -is 132
•- .blind- persons to 100,600 popu-
lation as compared with 105
blind persons ,.pt?r 100,000 in
1946.
• Doctors state that half the
'blindness" in `Canada could be
prevented if .people would seek
eye rare at the first sign of
trouble. In additien, thousands
. suffer eye, accidents needlessly
• each year. The (Workmen's
• Compensation ,Boards of Can -
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By John Whife
G.D.C.I. curling, now in its
second draw, is really prodtic-
ing lots ofkeen competition for
,ihe students taking part.
A good example was the game
between Eel. Curry's team, skip-
ped by Chris. Greham, and
Cathy Gauld's rink in which
Chris lel the team to victory
in an extra tie-breakingend."
In another tie-breaker, -Frank
-Wheeler list out to John Hugh-
es who overcame the handicap
of ripping• his pants, a hazard
of the .game.
A.--pjua,, of eight was tallied
by both P: to Walzak and Bob
Boutilier putting Pete's team
of Robin Sully, Sheilagh .Slemin
and Don Leitch into top spot.
•Also undefeated and challeng-
ing Pete's lead are rinks skip-
ped by Bob Boutilier, Ed. -Curry
aand John Hughes, _.
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ada report on-the-job injuries
totalling between 300,000 and
400,000 every year. This re-
cord does not include :farm,
household or recreation aocid-
ents.._--
"Needless
_`iNeedless blindnessand un-
necessary eye injuries indicate
that :seeing •Canadians should b6'
mere alert to the importance
of their own sight," Mrs. Pat-
terson, who is blind herself,
en%phasieed. She declared that
people give more thought to
the care of their 'cars than - to
the care •of their eyes. '
She gave a few suggestions
for protecting' dour vision. See
your eye doctor at ,the first sign
of . trouble • If he prescribes
glasses, wear them. ' When
watching televsikh, keep the
room lighted to avoid sharp
.ntrast-it " may-- cause -strain.
If you work in industry,. pro-
tect your eyes by wearing safe-
ty- glasses, and most important
Of all have a routine eye exanl-,.
inaneri every tM1Mto three years:
The pain you will save yourself
and your Ufa lily is inestithable.
"These simele precautions are
effective, in sight protection,"
Mrs: Patterson pointed out. "Re-
member, theyare your eyes -
one pair fir a lifetime."
Historical Research
Discussed By LocalWI
Historical Research was the
subject of the January meeting
of the• Tiger Dunlop, branch of
the Women's Institute. ' .•
' This subject was taken by
Mrs. Ralph Jewell, the convener
of Historical Research who gave
a reading of a letter written
by Daniel Lizars froth his
home at "Meadowlands" in Col-
borne Township to °friends' in
England.
The letter was written in
1835, the year after he came
to Canada. The ,Ralph Jewell
farm is part of Meadowlands.
Mrs. Buchanan was in the
chair and the roll call for the
meeting "A keepsake- I, intend
to pass on to my children, •and
how it came into my posses-
sion," was well answered.
The letter -from the new . pro-
vincial president, Mrs. Everett
Small was read.
,A donation was voted to the
Mental Health Association.
I+
wis decided to Send a dele-
?ate to the Officers,' Conference
in _Guelph in May and also to
sponsor the next 4 -II Club pro -
A _letter re the Hobby Show
at the International Plowing
Match at Seaforth in October
was read and five dollars was
voted to this project.
'The current events were
taken by Mrs. Norman Allen and
Mrs. Stanley Onyder.
At the February Meeting a
demonstration will be given
by Mrs. Ireland on rug -making.
Every member was asked to
bring a friend. -
Hostesses were Mrs. G. Young,
Mrs. R. Moore, Mfs. R. Jewell
and Miss B. Long.' •
Each Canadian farm worker
supports 30 people in other
work today compared with 15 in
1951. Much of this increased
'efficiency down on the farm is
due to the wider application of
electric power.
A
auadian- PLays
For •(entenniaI•
YOUR KEY
The Western Qntario Regio.'1
of the~a)ominion Dogma Festival
has: announced., the Oroun4 .tries
fcir the 1967 All -Canadian, Flay
Festival in Western .Ontarie.
• The parent Dominion Drama •
Festival deeided 'some 'mai',
ago that to celebrate' Canada's
Centennial the 'final Dominion
festival' would be ltknited to.,
plays in the All -Canadian tate"
gory in 1967. .
•
-- a esult- t- hin-ere iona-i•,
festivals will be heading toward
this sain'e goal in order to c t al-.
ify their own winners to gd on
eto the national finals, -
' "Since this'' is a first for all
of us," said Mrs. Nora Winter
of Simcee, W.O.D.L. president,
"We've had to go s� far• as to
define what a Canadian play
really is. Our Canadian .play
committee, headed by Mrs. Flbr-
enee • L. Smith of London, has
given us the following defini-
tion: A Canadian play for our
purposes is a play written by a
Canadian citizen or a person'who
was or is normally resident in
Canada -the theme and locale
of the play are irrelevant.
Mrs. Smith added -"We have
decided that we cannot allow
Canadian' translations of plays
by foreign authors -and also
that since there may be some
marginal- cases within this very
broad definition, that all such
cases shall be reported to the
Dominion Drama Festival
through , the Western Ontario
Canadian Play Committee. I
hope this will cqver any event-
uality."
The committee also announc-
ed that added prize money•will
he offered If the play produced
by any group is an original,
being givepits first production
for thetiv 1.. .
Mrs. ' Winter added, "We're
very excited• about this direct
effort to .,seduce - more really
C''anauiae 'theatre and to pro-
duce it'for the interest and en -
entertainment of our audiences
as well as for the purpose of
developing agreater interest
among Canadian authors in the
creation of Canadian plays."
The • 1966 -Western '. Ontario
festival is scheduled for March
22 to 26 in Niagara Falls- and
-the 1967 Festival - at which
only Canadian plays will )Se
allowed -is set for London. The
1967 National' Festival . is set
for St. John's, Newfoundland.
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2.In• 1964 was the average pro-
fit per dollar of sales of Can-
adian -Manufacturers -3.5 cents,
5.4 cents or 10,5 cents?
3. The federal government col-
lected $2;1 .billion in personal
income taxes in 1964-65. What
is -the estimate for the cfirrent
year?
4. The . number of Canadians
with jobs outside agriculture
-was 4,164,000 in 1951, 4,843,-
• 000 in 1956. What is the/pre-
sent figure?
5. Which is the -longest river in
Canada? .
ANSWERS: 5. The Mackenzie
River, with its headwaters 2,635
miles. 3. Estimate is'$2 billion,
after allowing -for 10 per cent
tax cut. 1. About 33.9 per pent
of the total area. 4. At Feb.,
1965, Total was 5,838,000. 2.
AVbrage profit per dollar of
sales veal 5.4 cents in 1964, un-
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111E, SQUARE -
P wys Thomas as Becket surrounded -by
(left to eight) Alfred Gallagher as the
Second Knight, Mervyn Blake as the Third
Knight and Dan MacDonald as the First
Knight in a scene from 'Canadian Pryers'
4; . • *
production of "Murder in the Cathedral"
by T. S. Eliot. The play .has, been directed
by Marigold Charlesworth with settings
and costuzn,es by Brian Jackson.
EIiot's Famed Historical Play
raws Record -Breaking Crowds
"Murder In The Cathedral,"
which is coming to Goderich on
February 18th, had an enorm-
ously successful run at the Cen-
tral Library Theatre, the Can-
adian Players Toronto based
home. In fact so successful was
this productior, that- it seldom
played to less than one hund-
red per cent capacity. •
-The demand for tickets to see
this outstanding production ex-
ceeded wildest 'dreams.
Applications • from some six
thousand grade XIII students
swararped.. the box office .when it
became -known pawn that this play
was being staged by Canadian
Players. -
These students were studying
the play and .were advised by
their English teachers to see a
performance.
Many were unable'• to get
tickets during the scheduled
run of• the play so Jean Rob-
erts, Administrator of Canadian
Players; decided to cancel "the
proposed 'Christmas show for
children and run'IVItirder In
The Cathedral" - during - the
Christmas vacation, break in
order - that students. who had
been unable to obtain • tickets
would have another opportunity
to see the Eliot play. .
Directed. by Marigold Charles-
worth,•Artisie irector of Can-
adian P l a y e r s Foundation,
`Murder In :The Cathedral" by
T. S. Eliot stars Powys Thomas
as Becket. Mr -Thomas has the
dietinetion of having played
leading roles with all three
Stratford companies; Stratford,
upon .Avon, England; Stratford,
Connecticut„-U.S.A.; and - Strat-
ford, Ontario. _.ether leading
players are: Mervyn Blake, Bar-
bara Bryne, Roland Hewgill, Al-
fred Gallagher and :Dan Mac-
Donald. •
Mervyn Blake, . who plays the
Third Tempter and the Third
Knight in this production, has
travelled 'sow. 150,000 miles
with ° the_, Canadian Players in
past tours and this is his sev-
enth -season with Canada's na-
tional touring theatrical com-
pany. -
The sets and eostumes for this
production have been designed
by Brian Jackson, well known
for his work at the Stratford
Festival. .
Mr. - Eliot accepted the com-
mission to write a play for the
Canterbury Festival, of June,
1935, at the request of George
Bell, Bishop of Chichester, and
he chose_ for..his-subject matter
-
the-martyrdornof the most fain -
pus of all English Saints, Thom-
as Becket, who was Archbishop
of Canterbury between the years
1162 and 1170, when he was
brutally murdered. on t•he,.29th
o£ -December, in his own cathed-
ral church. •
The assassins were . four
knights, Reginald Fitz Urse, Wil-
liam de Traci, Hugh de Morville
and Richard Brito. When they
had accomplished what they
had come to do if Becket proved
stubborn, they left the pre-
cincts shouting that they were
the King's men; and indeed in
fairness to their bloody-minded
and reckless feudality it must
be said they'prebably believed
themselves to be acting in con-
sonance with a half -expressed
wish of-_ his in the matter, in a
long -drawn out but not entirely
straight fight between Crown
and Church on certain -constitu-
tional • issues. -
To them Becket appeared'' an
arrogant and turbiliient priest, a
traitor whittling away the right-
ful and reasonable powers of
their supreme overlord, Henry
II, and his successors; to Becket
and his fellow -monks it was a
spiritual e'nflict; an incident in
the eternal .struggle of Good
and Evil in which they happen-
ed to be all -importantly - involv-
ed; to the monks, and, later to
the Christian world, Becket was
God's champion; it had the, air
of a naked war between Black
and White, each side believing
itself'to be the latter.
The story is richly document-
ed, but all the documents issue
from the supporters of Becket;
there exist at least eleven eye-
witness accounts, written -down
imniediately after the event, by
monks of" Canterbury for the
most part, and these are the
sources on which Eliot drew
for the facts of the case.
He has treated . their evidence
faith#nlly brat seleotiv.-elee to give_
thefor m and concentration of
n
art to', the natural hubbub •of
murder; almost everything in
his' dialogue has its basis in
one - or other account so that
what he has written is imagined,
not Invented.
At the same title many an in-
cident, and in particular one of
the most touching -an elderly
monk; .Edward Grim, raised his
arm to protect the Archbishop's
head from the first sword -thrust
ofReginalt? Fitz Urse, and it
was sliced through -is left :out
as not ge: mane to the true
theme of the play; for - this is
not a Shakespearean chronicle -
play that tells an intricate, pro-
liferating- story full. of .incident,
but a sparer drama, more in the
manner of Aeschylus, -about a
great cause ' in which incident
and idiosyncrasy lose their -ine
portance. -. .
•
Unlike Shakespeare's plays•, all
of which take and 'give delight
in the excitements of narrative,
,Eliot's plays • are about situa-
tions, not stories, like "Every
man before them, and "Wait-
ing for Godot"' after. "Murder
in the Cathedral" is about a sit-
uation and a quality of life; the
- situation_ is perpetual and the
quality is rare.
(Reprinted from Nevill .Cog -
hill's Introduction and Notes •to
the Faber= and Faber - edition of
`Murder in . the Cathedral").
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