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PHOTOGRAPHY
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Oct. 27 - Oct. 28
Tues. & Wed.

ENTERTAINMENT

RLOP production
light and bouncy

By RON NORMAN
Editer

The HMS Pinafore sailed into Castlegar Friday
under the steady hand of the Rossland Light Opera
Players and set anchor at the Brilliant Cultural Centre.

This was the second season in a row the RLOP his
performed the Gilbert and Sullivan comic operetta, and it
was evident in the performances. For the most part, the

a little like a pre-1900

who penned the clever and ever-so lightly satirical lyrics,
and Sullivan set the action on the quarterdeck of a British
naval ship anchored in Portsmouth harbor during the late
18008.

They then have some fun taking a look at the British
class system by having a younger sailor, Rafe Rackstrom
(John Beck), woo Josephine (Wendy Garbe), the
daughter of the ship's captain.

Josephine and Rafe are in love, but the captain has
his own idea. He thinks Josephine should marry the First
Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Joseph Porter (admirably
played by George Bourchier).

And therein lies the play's central dramatic conflict
— such as it is (there is also a minor love conflict involving
“Little Buttercup” (Denise McMillan) and the Captain
(Paul Buckley). The Pinafore's biggest problem is some-
thing the cast has little control over — its structure. It is
not a well written play.

The dramatic conflict that should drive the play
along simply isn't there. When the cast isn't singing,
(which, admittedly isn’t that often), there isn't much
happening.

And the conelusion is wholly unsatisfactory. The
play’s happy ending hinges on the premise that Rafe and
the Captain were switched in their cradles as babies.
That makes Rafe old enough to be Josephine’s father.

But that’s only the half of it. The ending sees Little
Buttereup — who made the inadvertent switch when she
nursed the Captain and Rafe as babies — marry the
Captain. Yet she’s'surely at least 15 years his senior (how
else would she have nursed him?).

But if you forget the details, the play can be fun.
Sullivan's music is superbly performed by music director
Lorne de Paolis and his 19-piece orchestra.

George Bourchier is the individual hit of the play as
Sir Joseph — and he does a delightful rendition of the
classic “I am the Ruler of the Queen's Nav:

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PHOTOGRAPHY
AYS HOURS

TUESDAY

9:30 a.m.-1 p.m.; 2 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY

p.m.; 2p.m.-4:30 p.m.

COMIC TOUCH . . . Sir Joseph Porter (George
Bouchier) tells sailors that one of the ways he rose
through the admiralty ranks was “I polished up the
handle of the big front door”. The song is comic

Dennis McNulty is another strong performer as Dick
Deadeye. McNulty is the sinister element in the play and
his voice and stage presence nearly overshadow some of
the major characters.

Wendy Garbe plays a terrific Josephine. Her soprano
voice is so good she overwhelms John Beck as Rafe
during the duets.

Beck, while he has a good voice, didn’t project it very
well Friday night. When that was combined with a
physical presence that took a back seat to say, McNulty,
Beck's character just wasn't as strong as it should have
been.

Perhaps the play's weakest links are Paul Buckley as
the Captain and McMillan as Buttercup. Much of the time
they were hard to hear over the orchestra.

The real stars of the production were clearly the

male and female choruses. The sailors were particularly

Debbie Reynolds

still here. Not only has shé
survived, she has prevailed.

Her third marriage is an
apparent success, she has
created a best-selling exer-
cise video and she has been
breaking records across the
country in a show co-starring
Donald O'Connor.

She's also starring in her
first movie in 17 years. Sadie
and Son, which will appear on
CBS tonight. She plays an
over-50 New York police
officer who asks for street
duty and ends up as partner
with her son (Brian Mc-
Namara).

Sadie and Son was filmed
in Toronto last summer
under conditions far different
from what she enjoyed dur-
ing her MGM heyday.

E REYNOLDS
55 years old

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November 14

“Once we worked for 22
straight hours: 14 to 16-hour
days were average,” she re-
called.
ynolds believes in main-
taining her roots. Her
brother, Bill, a makeup art-
ist, shares her home in Bur-

Trail

Hotel.

Dec. Sth
Day tour

bank and her recently
widowed mother lives across
the street. Son Todd Fisher's
house is nearby and daughter
Carrie is not far away in
Beverly Hills.

Despite 40 weeks a year on
the road, she still enjoys per-

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highlight of Rossland Light Opera Pla

rs’ HMS

Pinafore staged Friday at the Brilliant Cultural Cen-

tre.

solid with their deep, powerful booming voices. They
carried the play whenever they took the stage.
Charles Bailey's set was suitably utilitarian. That
was likely by necessity, since the play toured three other
communities, including Grand Forks the next night.

It was a pleasure to see the RLOP tour again. A
program note says the idea to topr this year was inspired
by the RLOP’s success with last year's show, We'll Meet
Again, sponsored by the Royal,Canadian Legion.

And the Brilliant Culturdl Centre is a natural
location for such productions, with its large stage and
ample parking. Perhaps the only complaint is the wooden

bench seating. One member of th:
Friday after the show, commentin;

idience defended it
[t builds character.”

Well, my character was getting a little tender after 2%

hours.

a survivor

forming. However, her last
year she became seriously ill
during a Las Vegas ap-
pearance.

“They couldn't really find
out what was wrong with me:
they thought it was a blood
disease of some sort,” said
the actress.

“I had to take a month off
to restore my health: I took
all kinds of vitamins as well
as glucose. I got over it.

“I think maybe it was
stress, exhaustion. It was the
second year of my marriage
(to Virginia land developer
Richard Hamlett). I hadn't
been married for 13 years,
and I was flying back and
forth from Virginia . . .

“I think my body just said:
‘Stop already! Now I feel

it.”

At 55, the face is smooth
and the compact figure trim
from long hours in the re-
hearsal hall. She has known
triumph and tragedy during
a career of nearly 40 years.

Her first big crisis came in

1959 when husband, Eddie
Fisher, father of Carrie and
Todd, left her for Elizabeth
Taylor. Reynolds | married
shoe magnate Harry Karl a
year later.

When they divorced in
1973, she discovered that his
gambling and business ven-
tures had wiped out her
earnings and left her $2
million in debt. Karl died in
1982.

“I think more than Eddie,
it was the end of the second
marriage that caused a lot of
Carrie's pain,” said Reynolds,
referring to the emotional
upset of her daughter, whose
best-selling book, Postcards
From the Edge, deals with an
actress’ drug and drinking

problems.

“She holds a lot of grudge
and upset, as I do, when he
changed our lives for the
worse ....I didn't have a car.
I didn’t have a house and I
had to go on the road. The
children had to be uprooted.

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TRAIL ARTIST . . . Pat Freschi is one of three Trail artists whose work is on display at
the Gallery of the Kootenays until Oct. 31,

Trio
exhibits
paintings

SAM RELKOFF

Gallery of the Kootenays is
exhibiting paintings by three
Trail artists Oct. 20 - 81. Pat
Freschi, Olga D'Andrea and
Mary Elliott attended DTUC
together and have continued

styles make up a show that
fills the middle chamber of
the large gallery at “459
Ward St.” in Nelson.

Thrums man area's
oldest immigrant

By CasNews Staff
A Thrums man was hon-
ored recently by the Castle-
gar and District Mutlicult-
ural Society in recognition of

koff, 94, was born on Feb. 16,
1898 in a village near Batumi,
in the Soviet Union.

In 1899 at the age of six he
emigrated with his parents to
Canada and settled in Kam-

a car, enjoys gardening and
chickens.

sent 40 years of Canadian
citizenship.

Louis Dyck was born in
Alexandrouka, Russia in
1907. Her family was of Ger-

the man descent, her forbears

Interior, in Sir Wilfred Laur-
jer’s Liberal government.
Sifton's plan was to bring
agricultural workers from
Eastern Europe to populate
the Canadian prairies.

Relkoff married Nelly
Popoff in Kamsack in 1912
and in 1918 the couple moved
to Brilliant.

Relkoff first worked in a
logging camp and later as a
carpenter. The death of his

Thrums in 1948 and in 1960
he retired.

He and his wife still reside
in Thrums and he still drives

Party
Fever
to sing

Party Fever, an a cappella
group from Victoria, will
perform at the Vallican Com-
munity Centre Saturday
night. The quartet, uses
vocal styles ranging from
traditional choral to con-
temporary rock to touch
musical bases from toddlers
to octogenarians.

The singers — Helen
Davis, Jack Smith, Pam
Evans and Bing Jensen —
perform original tunes and
have been playing to aud-
fences for the past three

years.

They have also just com-
pleted a recording session for
a new album.

having moved to Russia
during the reign of Catherine

Sasi
She married in 1928 and lived
with her husband Julius in
various locales until 1934. In
that year they moved to Re-
nata.

Because of the building of
the Keenleyside Dam, the
coupled moved in 1965 to
Robson. Her husband's death
in 1975 caused her to move to

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The Dycks received their
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lations. However, Mrs. Dyck
decided in 1976 to take out
her own citizenship papers in
Nelson under the Canadian
Citizenship Act of 1947.

The Castlegar and District
Multicultural Society chose
Dyck to represent 40 years of

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under the Canadian Citizen-
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