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PAGE 18, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 198 1. WHITBY FREF PRESS Whitby Free Pres s.... ENTER TAIN MENT ,..with Barry Murkar 0F CRAFT BOOKS AND HAN D-CRAFTIED GIFTS 10% OFF NOV. 4 - l7th #74eNG THEATRE 8RANCM, RyA.NONe-AL Tmis, WII CHILDRENS yyAR MATINEETA.IIOII SAT & SUN. El.M JACK THE STARTS: GIANT KILLER FRI. & SAT. 7 & 9 P.M. SUN. WED. THURS. 7:30 CN MAWHITBY 6683618 C-o m n gCINEMA SHOWCASE p erfo rm ance The first Command Performance in the history of Canadian entertainment held Satur- day night at Massey Hall featured over eighty Canadian performers. This extravaganza was organized by the Asso- LO O K E Rciation of Canadian Television and Radio Artists STARRING ALBERT FINNEY, .(ACTRA) to aid the Actors' Fund of Canada, a JAMES COBURN AND SUSAN DEY fund set up in 1957 to aid performers encounter- ing financial difficulties. Governor General of Warning - This Is flot a fillm for chlldren Canada Ed Schreyer, patron of the event, said it -Ontario Theatre Branch well "Because they bring us into a world of SatiS. - 3,:,7:00 & 9:15 ADL make-believe and dreams, we sometimes tend to Wamln. -hi2:la,4ot4afilmfor ch1ldan ogtta oratsshaet aeth aehr Thoafrea Branch, Ont. sh realities the rest of us are confronted with." The star-studded audience (at $100 and $250 a each) wà'tnessed some three and a haif hours of entertainment (despite 12 acts being cut) which will be edited and aired soon as a CBC television special. RIIChhudIf Some of the performers in the show pictured here are: clockwise from above, Sandra O'Neil; FAM O %.-J,ç-iFred Davis on the clarinet, along with two mem- bers of the National Press & Allied Workers Jazz Band; Gratien Gelinas, Gordon Pinsent and Bet- HELD OVER ty Kennedy; Patsy Gallant; Dinah Christie and W..knighta - 7:00 à 9:15 Ben Wicks. S*tiSun. - 2:30,4:45,7:00 & 9:15 Other acts worthy of mention were Buffy Ste. Marie, Catherine McKinnon, The Royal a: Canadian Air Farce, and Tommy Ambrose. -Free Press Photos by Mike Burgess c- x c: ?~ j