CASTLEGAR NEWS, April 29, 198)

Home from London theatre tour

For the students of Stanley Humphries Secondary School’s Omega Theatre Company, the London The- atre Tour was probably one of the most memorable ex- periences of their lives.

It allowed them to visu- |,

alize beyond the confines of their own local and better understand the realities and career possibilities of the larger world.

The tour was a well bal-

enjoy the people and places

they saw, but they also -

learned about a rich and var- fed culture where theatre is part of the bloodstream of the socity and has been for hundreds of years.

fhe four was a suecoss for isany reasons, according to

sponsor Joe Beales, Three of *

the main ones were a sup- portive administration; a hard- working and sensitive Mrs, Ann Proud;

anced of edu- cation and entertainment. Not only did the students

and a great group of young people.

Book almosts ends at three chapters

By Bob Thomas — HOLLYWOOD The visitor fumbled inside her purse and produced her business card. It read “Mer- cedes McCambridge, Presi- dent, Livergrin Foundation, Bensalem, Bucks County, Pa.”

The same Mercedes Mc- Cambridge who won an ,Os- car as supporting actress in 1960 for All the King’s Men,

who played a series of strong-willed women in other films, who provided the other-worldly voice for the demon in The Exorcist.

The Livengrin Foundation, she reported proudly, is “the best alcoholic rehabilitation facility in America,” with a record of patient recovery at 81-plus per cent. McCam- bridge herself is a recovered aleoholic.

She discusses her booze problems and a mutlitude of other matters in her new autobiography The Quality of Mercy (Times Books, $10.95}.

The actress was in the middlo of a 30-city tour for the book, a new experience for her: “When I was in movies, they always sent someone like Joanne Dru on personal appearances; I was the mean lady in the movie.”

She admitted being a re- luctant memoirist. She un- dertook the book at the be- hest of New York - Times books, then balked after writing three chapters, ‘I quit, I was a private person,” she told her editors. They sweet-talked her back to the typewriter with assurances she could do it her way.

“It won't be chronological, it won't be well-organized,” she told them. “I'm not that way, and my life has not been

Pe The Quality of i seems a8

(AP) —

She recently appeared ona segment of CBS's Magnum PI, and enjoyed it. But she added: “I don’t think the Hollywood community is in- terested in what I can do. That's all right. I've never looked for a job in my life, and I'm not going to start now. I have plenty to keep me busy. I do plays and I sometimes do a one-woman show of readings.

“One of the things I enjoy most is going to colleges and stepping into plays with a east of 2l-year-olds. That's exhilarating.”

; Drama Festival

- Heritage Players | _ first performers

‘Thursday: is the opening “night of the West Kootenay Drama Festival at tho Trail

’ Junior High auditorium. ‘The first night plays will * be Theatre Unlimited's “The Tiger” and “Ludlow Fair" by

‘ the Heritage Players of Nel-

“The festival continues-Fri- day and Saturday nights, with a curtain time, each " night of 7:30 p.m.

The Friday schedule has the original play "What Now Ms, Bloom”. by the ‘Nova ‘Theatre Company of Argenta and Slawomir Mrozek's “Striptease,” put on by the Heritage Players.

winning play will go'en tothe B.C. Drama Festival; Bee) held in Nelson, June:2-6.

Hoffman will'provide Bab! lic and private adjudications of the plays each night and’ present awards ‘ for acting. and other areas of achleve- ment on Saturday night. He will also lead a workshop on acting and characterization on Saturday in conjunction with the festival.

'The workshop, to be. held at St. Michael's School in- Trail from 2-5° p.m., will be available for. participants in the competing plays and, for asmall fee, to others.who are interested.

LONDON PHOTO was taken when some of the mem." bers of Stanley Humphries’ Omega Theatre Company pause briefly to get their picture taken in front of the British Houses of Parliament and Big Ben. Fifteen minutes after this photo the group was seated in Lon- don's ‘National Theatre watching famed London actor Pau! Scofield in his recent hit Amandeus, Members of

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OFFICIAL OPENING of the Grand Forks‘ Union of Spiritual Communities of Christ Community Centre, part 2, at 8 p.m, Thursday, on Channel 10.

the company are, left to righ Derek K Satiken; Brian by Yolande McKinley, chair- Ashion, Cha parang Mrs, Ann Leanne Smalley, Colin MacDonald,

Chris Wanjotf,

Proud, Cpihie Ward,

Dinae Vader, Elizabeth MacDonald, Roshus. Weber, Marie Keochin, Chris McFarlane ‘and Monica Gleboff. Photo taken by Sponsor and Chaperone doe Beales.

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§:30—Sign-on and program information.

5:35—Five-day weather re- port from the West Kootenay Environ- ment office.

5:40 Castlegar Library

time.’

6:00 Voyager I Saturn En- counter — Part VIII. An exciting and his- toric series of video- tapes which high- lights the Voyager I

passage past Saturn —

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present best buys, canning and freezing tips and a list of items to be boycotted for the West Kootenay consumer. 8:00—Community Centre Opening — The open- ing of the newly-re- constructed USCC community centre in Grand Forks, which took place Sept. 28, ° was celebrated and by the’ Doukhobor community, friends, itaries and six

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7:00—SHSS Report - Car- rie Proud and Brian Ashton report on the SHSS Theatre stu- ,dents’ recent trip to London, Eng.

7:15—Emily Carr School of Art Outreach Pro-

tote as her life has some- times been, but it is also an endearing portrait of a sur- vivor — just barely. Sur- prisingly, the story of her long descent into alcoholism was not the most difficult part of her writing.

“The most painful thing to recall was learning the truth about Santa Claus at the age of five," she said. “Alcoholism isa terrible problem, but it is a disease that can be dealt with, But disillusionment is something else.”

McCambridge confessed she became weary of constant questioning about her alcoholism. Still, she is intensely proud of the Liver- grin Foundation and her role with it; she is an active, not just an honorary presidents she said.

“One of the things 1 ‘aia was rename the detoxifi- cation department,” she said. “That sounded harsh to me, andI fheoght ‘we should call

it Primary Care. That, after ail, is the: keynote of the place. We have 72 patients — and we're always at capacity — with 74 on the stafi.

What about Mercedes Me- Cambridge the actress?

When in N enjoy 2 different Chinese

25 years in show. business

By Yardena Arar

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The hair is a bit longer and a couple of pounds have settled’ around the middle, but where it really counts — in his vocal chords — Johnny Mathis hasn't changed much in the

millions who've grown up, grown older and — most import- antly — romanced to th matchless Mathis tenor, that’s cause for celebration.

Mathis is celebrating, too —, his silver anniversary in

show business, something

few people get to do while still performing and selling record (more than 100 million of them worldwide since 1956).

Speaking of records, it's considered unlikely that any- one will topple the longevity mark set by his Johnny's. Greatest Hits, which spent more than 9'/: years on Billboard magazine's album charts.

At 45, Mathis has become a poised performer who talks

of his career with an appeal- ing if somewhat .reserved candor. HAS NO SECRET

“T really don’t think there's much of a secret,” he said of his longevity in a recent conversation at his Holly- wood Hills home.

“I think perhaps I sing the |

kind of music that an awful lot of people all over the world like. It's not very com- plicated, and it isn’t too pyrotechnical and I've had a lot of. very outstanding peo-

great long time — romantic- type ballads — that market has disappeared. Now every- thing, even the ballads, have a very heavy pulse beat behind them.”

Mathis, who has sung so many songs that he rents warehouse space to store his arrangements, also found that two main sources of

material in his early days — .

Broadway musicals and song- writers who sold their tunes rather than sing, them them-

‘selves — have all but dried ‘up.

ple in my | musical career JUP.

guiding me.”

While he’s ‘experimented with other styles, Mathis has never abandoned the kind of romantic ballad that swept him to the top — Wonderful, Wonderul, Chances Are, Misty, It's Not For Me To Say, to name a few.

He admitted the big hits have been harder to come by of late,

“There is. so much music now to be assimilated by the public that the market that I had almost a corner on for a

Royal Canadian Legion |

Branch No. 170

“ “Now what I do is what. mostly everyone else does — Barbra Streisand,. Diana Ross. They find a producer or producers who write the songs, arrange the songs and produce the songs, and live

with them for two or three ©

weeks or a month or what- ever amount of time it takes.”

four records a year “and thought nothing of it,” Ma-

this now spends less time in * the studio and devotes six.

months of the year to per- formancés and tours. He never travels more than a month at a time, however. “After about three weeks on the-road, mentally I'm incapable -of thinking,” . he said. “I'm like in a trance. And you're dying, you're

‘saying, ‘If I sing Misty one

more time T'll go crazy.’ “But you figure if you did three weeks, you can get by

"that last week. I've missed a

couple of performances through illness and I think that's pretty good in 25 years,

special guests — tal- ented opera singers from the USSR. The previous community centre was destroyed by arson on Sent.

21/77. 9:00—Access — Dave Glov- er and Rae Thomas discuss the difficulty of access to buildings by the handicapped. Thomas is the West Kootenay rep to the Canadian Paraplegic Association. 9:30—Castlegar City Coun- cil meeting of April 28 in its entirety. 11:00Sign-off.

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