Parade of Ladies _ becomes famous.

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ys. In one Of the delightful scenes went into determining the tvpe —

Summer festival gains reputation

fm “‘Anne of Green Gabjes’’, Mfs of clothing worn by the women Rachel Lynde takes-a@ good took represented, since these wom ata children’s tableau of the en are mainly wives of the Fa- 1864 Charlottetown Conference thers of Confederation and states. and loudly identifies it as ‘The men representing each prov .— Last- Supper. —- = The mistake isn't really that Dominion. the time span runs silly, for in this part of the coun-«from 1867. to 1949 and fashions try the DaVinci painting and the yarv accordingly. photograph of the Fathers of The costumes were Confederation share an almost from the researchers’ equal fame. by Malabars of Toronto, so care- The trouble is, we know the fully that one older lady exam- Fathers so well in that ficture, ‘ining the bridal gown of “Mrs it's-hard-for—us-to-mentally take--John- A—MaeDonald"-said-- “Now _ them out of the frame you can't tell me that this was Plays like “John-A, Beats the not someone's wedding dress - Devil” help, but surely the just look at the attention to de- greatest humanizing force for taj).” those early politicians is “The; Authenticity {s achieved not Ladies of the Provinces Confe- only in. the costumes but in the deration Parade’’ originated in hairstyles of the models. These ‘Charlottetown in 1964, made na- are done by Mrs. Eileen Wood- tionally famous on a tour of (ruff. So complicated is the pre- Western Canada, and schedul= paration for each, show that at ed ig pert of this year’s Sum- takes several hours to complete mer Festiva The show will be staged Wed- COMMITTEE nesday evenings at 7:00. p. m.| Mrs. Roberts. Mrs -Tweel, starting July 13, and continuing Mrs. Boswell, Mrs. Alfred Mc- until the last night in August. |Neil; Mrs. Walter C. Auld. and Its location, appropriately, will Mrs. William L. Hambly, and be in Memoria! Hall, the part of Mrs. T. D. DeBlois are the mem- . Confederation Centre specific- bers of the show's production A ally dedicated to the- memory committee. They were the ori- _ of the Fathers members of the Centen- ota

“CAREFUL RESEARCH ~ Aid of the Prince Edward The Prince Edward Island Island Hospital, which originat- women who stace it. oresents ed the show. The ‘show still has more than g parade of fashions. an Aid affiliation any gprofits By dint of-careful research in go through the Aid to buy equip- provincial and dominion archi- ment for the hospital __ ves, Mrs. Athol Roberts,” Mrs. Dramatic - highlights in Mrs —_1________Pavid- Boswell and “Mrs. Da- Robert’s warm and witty script nie] Tweel, have made unknown will again be underscored~ mu- historical figures “come alive: A sically by Royston F. Mugford, great deal of the research time the musician who wrote the

made sketches

NORTH RIVER pes VE-IN

TDPRI TEM CRS PERCE ERO a

JULY 1966

—~ince-in-the~year-#—entered—the—

- MARYLYN STU ART, BOB AINSLIE, LLOYD MALENFANT SHARE A JOKE BACKSTAGE

severy

background im 1964 and has fe- jret a Merling Bea

leently returned to P. FE. 1. Models in the show are:

jsan Roberts,

iMrs J. H. Shaw, Mrs. Charles iF. Bentley, Mrs. J. K. L Miriam Hyde, Mrs __}{Thompson,; Mrs.

non, Beers,

Mrs. Barry

iton, Mrs Su- Mrs Heather Armstrong Tom D.°DeBlois. The production is sponsored Irwin by the Fathers of Confederation William |Memorial Building Trust through | er

T. A: Lat

Marga- \tion Centre.

fe

Island has- assumed the’ sobri- quet “Kentucky of Canada”, a reference to the penchant. of the natives for: fine. horseflesh, On

second. farm you're apt ta find a standard bred trotter or pacer in the barn along with the dairy herd, and the community madness—of-the Prince “Edward Islander -{s without ‘question: the sport of harness ab

t there's a new horse race on the Island scene —. a theatri- eal horse race, and the betting is that’ a new musical comedy opening July 5 at Confedera- tion Centre w dn for the nine week run of “Music and laugh- ter’’ what Anne of Green Gables did last season * «Little Annie came home a win- _Mer. with audiences and critics tast-year playing tr 106 per cent houses (they put seats in the aisles) for all 14 performances This year the production is back

‘Turvey providing competition for Anne 7

the-years Prince Edward again to ppen the Festivat tuty—

4. The other entrants both rate as stronz,additions to the »ro- gram, with one a sleeper and the other a sure bet to give Anné a run for the box office till — on the form chart at least .

The new entry is a musical comedy. version of — Turvey, Farle Birney's hilarious Cana-

dian classic of a buck private's-

misadventures. with the World War JI Canadian Army. The Donald Harron-Norman ‘Camp-

bell team who adopted Anne for the stage has also prepared Tur-

vey ‘for world premiere af Char- |

lottetown

The cast list can only be de- scribed as dazzling TITLE ROLE

Jack Duffy has been awarded the title role in as neat a bit of

“type tasting as you coult wish. teacher *Mr> —Phittips

for. Jane Cassdn, Bob Ains!ie, Dean Regan. and Bill Cole are featured players, and with the

| Canadian ‘has high potential —

Theatre

Last year's Charlottet ew n Sera

| D. Howatt, “Festival of Music and Laught- | wand Mrs. er’ proved that new-and lively

|Canadian theatre has a hand-

some potential audience, among”

or Canadians and their visit- |

.. The fame of our mntent |

as ter as Tokyo, at the ‘ea

The @harlottetown Summer) Festival has gained an enviable | reputation in a remarkably short time. With the curtain about to go up on a new season I should like to pay a personal tribue to | the enterprise —and~imaginati on! of those who have laboured to achieve this fine result eg

The decision to present works | written and composed by Can- adians” is especially commend- | able: It is a welcome declara- tion of faith in the talent of our! wtiters. and composers drawing |

their—inspiration—from Canadian >

themes these |

The critical success works have enjoyed and the} Pleasure they have given - to thousands of visitors have shown that your confidence - was well placed 7

With. the associated program

inthe fine—arts—the—Memorial

iF

JUDY LA MARSH

Centre is. well on the wav to becominz a mecéa of cultural.

“activity in. a setfing of great charm :

Please’ accept my warmest wishes for the 1966 Sumpfier Festival which 1 know will add new lustre to the —hright name that the festivall has aurearyv

achieved-and which T hone’ will launch some new. careers

DY LaMARSH “See ‘nelaty of State

i tsa ag hee &. ee SRS

ing impresario wants to ‘do it in

Japanese; Laugh With Leacock |

|

has become a John Drainie staple; and An Fvening With | Wayne and Shuster went right “eeross €anada -

In tts second year the Festival | |sets out to consdlidate its position. as a leading summer attraction |

the leading showplace anywhere | for Canadian. Our most ser- ious lack last year was a full or- chestra for the musicals and for the Sunday Concerts: this year “we have one we have set up our own scenery and property workshops in Char-

forward in developing complete local facilities and providing on- |

portunity for our burgeoning Is-— “land talent.

has been added, under the dean of Canadian ‘poets and writing teachers, Dr. Earle Birney: and the Mount Allison $ u mmer School of Music. the leading teacher-training ‘institute of its kind in the Maritimes, has hap- _pily moved to Charlottetown this Lyear.__ Our -Summer—-School— of Theatre, begun last year, has

__-Also_expanded_itsactivities.-The4—

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Victoria by the Sea Fishing : Housekeeping.

City Conveniences Excellent. Beach

- Swimming

in the Maritime provinces, and'|

This summer too }

| of Harron

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lottetown— an important step already notable Art Gallery and

Museum grow apace, and - the

| Library provides a fine ‘source in-Canadian literature;

| My colleagues

this” enchanting Island. MAVOR MOORE

Artistie Director

\ theatre : |choreographs this one as well as Anne.

= to link © plotless story while retaining all -one, sharing-the bill with Miss the rare mineral” platinum. ; the charm of authoress [.

re

join me in A course~n- creative writing “wishing -you-a merry time on

. JACK DUFFY plays the title role in “The Ad venttires of Privafe Tur:

vey” andthe school

a “Anne. of Green Gab les’’. e

-

Festival's repertory operation, cameo paris are ta- ken by Kate Reid, Donald Har ron, Barbara Hamilton, House, Judy Armstrong—and—oth- er major lights from Canadian Alan Lund ‘stages and

The remarkable achievement and Campbell with Anne was their uncanny ability together an essentially

lcy prose. Their Anne was no goody-good

cate? Nttlea miss. with 4

little minx, but a rather compli- hewil-

again

avsterr ims breeding.-- Written

‘Erie Moore with a. Manitoba settin

Teste -valinte-t-enten eanee Fae netting te that eens wi

nara changes have once again proven himself rahe pint: was no ‘sugarrnat- a shrewd judge of! theatrical ed tchn zy recollection of ‘he horseflesh when the final curtain good old days. They managed to falis om the '66 sweepstakes retain e sentimentality7of the : era wit t drowning it in bath-

os_and they threw in just enou zh fragedy (Matthew dies in the next to last scene) to keep the ladies’ fandkerchiefs at the reads

The oe now is whether they have given Turvey enouch <3 to do -the same job: Again hey’vé adopted a piece of prose without coherent plot: and they've tackled ead | character well fixed in the minds of many and a way of life ‘ser- vice time) equally familiar to most males over the age of thir- ty THE SLEEPER

While these two entrants move down the stretch for the box. of-

le

fice kudos, the sleéper in the} race will be alternating. with both of them ‘under ‘the Festi- | val's rep system. It's only | be- cause —of the innate appeal of musical comedy that’ the third entrant gives anything away to JANE CASSON is Tur-

the other two

The Ottawa Man has faultness by Nikalo: Gogal. as “The Inspector Gen- eral’ and adapted by Mavorj,

veys girl friend Peggy in “The Adventures. of Private Turvey."

BELL WAS HERE

The Ottawa Man ~ has n -

around for a while as a- stage Alexander Graham Bell, in production at Toronto’s. Crest vented the telephone at his fath- Theatre and in radio and televi- T's home in Brantford, Ont

sion versions. However, Moore has updated and rewritten the piece for the Charlottetown pre- miere July 6 Harron has the.

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