Local committees press-hard to make success of festival i“

About this time last year It 'lt‘ final festival we e k in committee Mc- "qur’in. ('t'l'la‘ll‘mtal‘l and R. Gor- ~inii White. stage director. were tlci'e.

lI‘m-y weren‘t there'solely for the purpose of watching plays. They were there to learn how to run a final festival week.

They did see the plays

i-oiii‘sc. but they also talked a

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itTin-1y talked to the actors; learned that for them the festi- lal was a holiday time and that iticy enjoyed it most if their

hotel. 'I‘h made I note to look after Ol'iiau‘lot

‘n. ‘ m“l‘hov talked to Michael Spence the h,

They Kitchener; they talked to the people from across the country who came to the festival.

enthusiastic about the ion Drama Festival.

EARLY STARTER ‘ The two along with executive chairman Ran Ma

sponsoring body. Centennial Committee.

Ten subcommittee chairmen were appointed by the executive. and the work of some com- mittees got. underway last May.

The publicity and public rela- tions committee was one of these carly starters. It is made up of Mrs. Robert Large. Mrs. Wil- fred A. Farrell. Mrs. W.G. Hogg. Roland G. Taylor. all of Charlottetown. and C. Ross Mac- Kenzie and Robert Sohurman. of Siiimmerside. with Mrs. Large

as chairman. . n the initial stages. this committee's work cmisisbed

mauin of writing press releases

though. At this

"look after” Visiting memtbers of the press. Press kits containing maps

Information on the theatre and the DDF itself will be distribut- ed to those people.

Since last spring. Mrs. Large has been keeping a scrapbook of DDF clippings. A glance at this shows that she [has been far from idle.

Mrs. Fictliatud. chairman of the ticket. committee. organized her attack on the buying public last fall. ' ' really. ‘ vouchers to ' for tickets to the DDF would make idea] Christmas presents.

She. had things in her favor- the appeal of the new theatre. the donation of an ohfice HM. Simpson and Harry Bar- tlott, a good committee—but her own ideas and methods of "l‘L‘ll‘l/Jll‘l I‘Ilf‘lll \icre her main nasf‘lu

ll timst have horn confusuig. Piv) dift’crcnt seats ovcr 9.000 seats in the theatre,

single ti‘ckcts. series tickets. theatre parties . . .

TICKET COMMITTEE

Sen-in: on the ticket c0m~ mit‘ec were Mr and Mrs Arthur Peatke. Mr and Mrs.

Gordon White, Dr and Mrs. Don nrvsdalc. Mr. and Mrs. George Biiiitain. Sgt. and Mrs Eric Tcrliford, Mr and Mrs. Manning Baznall. {\Iiss Iphiigenie Arsen- ault and Guy Fichaud.

munities . ge ‘ Dewar. O'Leary. and Mrs. Ruth t MacLond. Montague. 1

Besides the committee mem-, hers. there were numerous vol-. unteers who staffed the DDF on 5 ticket-selling days. These in- ‘ eluded: Mrs. Malcolm Putnam. Mrs John tlanl '

. Hancox. Mrs. Davies, and Mrs. Harold Pal-i "N‘l‘. l

Thomas Lottuan. consulting occasionally with provincial

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festival program. 5 A thl‘k print design with an ‘

Island theme. done by Mrs.

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011 April 12. the final festival l competition .

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Quaid. the other members of her committee—— ' Barbara Rogers. Mrs. J.P. Millar. and palm are mem bers of the Charlottetown Little of Thati'e Guild. ENTERTAINMENT

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members of their committeev have been arranging a dizzying program of entertainment for final festival week.

Serving on lll'lls committee are. Mrs. JA. MacM‘ilIan. Mrs. Har- old Palmer. Art Mclnnis. Claude Maurice. and Sterling Walker. The executive chairman. Mr. Manning. has reported that the. entire DDF committee met 3 roughly once a month through-f out the winter.

Proceedings of such meetings 1 were duly recorded by Miss: Duchemin and reports made to the head office in Ottawa. l

tMiss Duchemin served also I as vice-chairman of the pre- - festival theatre c0nlerent‘e.l I

The books were kept by Jack Cooke. who took over the po- sition of treasurer when Bev Cook moved to Ontario in Feb- ruary.

Some DDF committees are hav- ing their busiest time right now. Such a group is the registration committee. headed up by Mrs. Frank MacKinnon. who describes its task as “a fair amount of ordinary but detailed work." PLASTIC CARDS

This rather large committee types and assembles plastic-en- cased cards for the visitors to wear and stuffs envelopes wtth tourist and centennial mation for them.

Working with Mrs. Mackinnon are: Mrs. D. Brehaut, Mrs. T. Chandler. Mrs. F. Coffin. Mrs. J. J. Coyle. Miss M. Donahue. Miss C. Fraser, Mrs. Kent Irwin. Mrs. Ian MacLeod. Mrs. J son. Mrs. George Rogers. Jr.. Mrs. D. Samson. Miss Helen Wakeford. Mrs. G. Wellnet‘. and Miss 8. Worth.

For Malcolm Reeves’ strans- portation committee. most of the

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sistant. Brian Scott. are respon- sible for arranging bus tours and transporting contestants from

IRON SHIPMENTS UP

OTTAWA tCPt—Iron ore snip- ments by Canadian producers in

the first quarter of this year ‘ 0Pp051l10n were nearly 56 per cent greater having closer

than in the comparable 1963 pt riod Wednesday placed the January- March

ments almost doubled to 1.650.-

303 tons from 825.270. Most of spirit of coexistence" between

the ore went. to export markets.

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. The bureau of statistics Europe. Ulbricht and Hungarian

shipments at 3.573.8l0 put their names to a communi- tons compared with 2.295.523 la que. published Wednesd year earlier. In March ship- proving efforts to develop nor-

the railway and airplane ter- minals to their accommodation. and then from the hotels to the various special events sched- uled.

Ten cars have been loaned McGowan Motors Ltd. S. Johnston Ltd, and Stewart ‘ Motors Ltd. and a crew of vol- I unteers will drive them through- i out the week. ‘

Little Theatre members Mrs. t Bernard Hughes. Miss Betty H011. and Mrs. Jack Mackin- non are looking forward to I Week backstage m the new Con- federation Centre theatre. i

As members of the "back- stage hospitality“ committee. they will be on hand in rehears- al times to serve sandwiches and coffee to the casts. i ‘ WARDROBES i 3 Mrs. MacKinnon is also in A charge of wardrobe and. until i tthe festival gets underway. she won't be quite sure of what her duties involve.

She will probably have to press costumes for the casts. and act in an advisory capac- lty.

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As stage director. Gordon White has spent the winter wor- rying about construction pro- gress on the theatre and making inquiries about same

In the past few {mailbox has been filled with scripts. lighting directions. and stage plans. and he as been funnelling this information to stage manager Michael Spence.

Then there's Mrs. Douglas Mc- Gowan. the chairman of the en- tire committee. Her job is to override all phases of the op- ; oration. ‘

I here. It's taken a year work.

. BERLIN iAPt —— Walter U'l- lbricht. Communist leader of lEast Germany. has withdrawn, I to West. Germany relations with Communist countries in east

Communist leader Janos Kadat' ay. ap-

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Hats off to the local commit- 1 I work lies ahead. He and his as- : ee

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performer on stage and radio she smdned ballet. music and drama. She twice toim‘ed Can- ada as a professional tainer and was given the Army rank as t (-13."

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Mrs. McGowan. Final Fes- tival chairman. Montague, born in Toronto and educated at St. Joseph's Convent and Dominion College. As a child

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University of Toronto ROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC

Boyd Neel, Dean

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MRS. DOUGLAS McGOWAN when she was sent oversea! to bouzr Europe with a Cana- dian Civilian Concert party. Since coming to Prince Ed- ward Island. she has been act- ive in PEI. Musrc Festival, Provmcial Drama Festival and Caledonia Club Appomtcd as Gm‘ernor in 1955 to Dormmon Drama Festival she had direct- ed four Regional entries. re»- ceiving awards for best direc— bor and actress.

resides in P.E.I. S h e was

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honorary lieutenant. Including a comprehensive course

in Theatre Technology under the supervision of Wallace Russell

STAGE MANAGEMENT STAGE LIGHTING SCENIC CONSTRUCTION

School of Music Ettore Mazzolen. Principal

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