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the PIER ALP Home Newspaper of Hills Community news page 11 Reopen Milton jail page 14 SECOND SECTION Period piece Wednesday February 1171 Paget Costume designer prepares for play The Georgetown Little Thea tre Is having tome professional help in staging their upcoming production When We Are Married by J A come from Barbell Schrlm a pro- from Ben Mn Schrlm a Georgetown resident has volunteered to design and make the costumes for the play She was born and raised in Berlin and received her fash Ion designing education there She can remember a time when she wanted to be any thing but a clothing designer I never wanted to become anything else I knew right from the beginning that this la what I wanted to do When you have a talent In a field shows early on you must work at it always to get the most out of it When you notice you have some talent in a field like fashion design and you re you want to follow that through she said FASHION DEGREE After graduating a deg ree In fashion design Mrs spent two years ap prenticeship In dressmaking and tailoring When I graduated there were many others in my class who could sew very Utile We only hod dressmaking once a week so you really t learn all that much The only reason I con sew now Is because of my apprenticeship period she said During that two years rim worked with various pro fessional theatre companies In her native Germany where she training in every as of costuming When she moved with her husband and daughter to Can ada in 1 she could barely speak English although she could read and write it She stayed at her Brampton home tending her daughter for a while but soon became what she describes as bored to death Mrs Schrlm then applied for a Job in Toronto in a small boutique where she worked doing sewing and alterations She qui because of the travel ing distance and because there were more children on the way Som dimes I took work Into my home but design you must spend all your lime with it she said You get and you don want to slop while you re in the middle of doing it Once her three children were older and required less of her attention Mrs Schrlm felt It was time to devote more of herself her craft She taught a night school class in pattern designing in Brampton and year taught the same course in Georgetown She felt dlscour because not very many people were Interested in pat I designing and so dropped of pari lime teaching WANTS TO TEACH She would still like to teach lo travel a college such as Sheridan is a bit far I ve thought of leaching a community college where there would be more had in my night school courses I ve even talked to a I Sheridan about It I HALTONS PEOPLE Highland dancing keeps local teen busy By MAGGIE HANNAH staff writer Highland dancing not for everybody says a young Georgetown woman who has won numerous medals and trophies for her skill in he art It requires a lot of dedication and work and students don get anywhere In it unless they ve got it Kathryn has been leaching Highland dancing in Georgetown for a couple of During that lime she had just over a dozen students Right now she has five youngsters taking lessons Students come and go she says They are really In the beginning but once wears off they slack off Parents in some cases seem to think of It as a short course like an evening course and alter three or four months they get tired of bringing them so the youngsters quit Miss smites at the idea She began taking lessons around the age of four and entered her first competition in Scarborough in the of 1967 LITTLE TROPHY I remember it was an outdoor thing and everyone got a little trophy because it was Centennial year she says She stopped competing In 1973 when she was in Grade at Georgetown and District High School Highland dancing has to be as graceful as ballet but it five times as strenuous bee suae you need endurance and height as well as the precision and accuracy required in ball she says I think you only compete against yourself When you re dancing it s a matter of doing your best knowing you tried your hardest rather than knowing you did better than the person next to you I want my students to enjoy It first she says 1 think you have to enjoy it before you II want gel into competition 1 was never really pushed 1 always had the option to quit any time I wanted to do so I had bad series of sprains and wound up on crutches for a couple of months My feet t hack it any more after that so I had to quit Miss Hueck 18 a the daughter of Mr and Mrs A M de of Eden Place The family has lived in George own about eight years She has a younger brother attending Georgetown High School but she graduated in January as an Ontario Scholar which meant she earned better 80 per cent in her Grade 13 subjects She is working as a waitress lo earn money to enter nursing at university in ft it SKI PATROL One of Mis Hueck ambit is to be a ski pa troll and she hopes to take an Intensive first aid course next fall which would enable her to addition to dandng Miss de Hueck is a swimming enth usiaat and cant recall when she swim I think I like swimming even batter than dancing she says It was always more of a struggle and that why I liked it She tikes so much that she Kathryn de not many awards for her ability si dtneer she also teaches the art graduated from Georgetown High School a an Ontario S passed all her tests and began leaching swimming at the Georgetown pool She has been a life guard there for almost Working wilh the kids taught me a lot she says and I like them but I would I want to bo a teacher Kids can grind on you after a while if you have to work with them all I be time That a why enjoy Iheworkldowithlhem I only have for a Utile while and that way hey re fun You can see them progressing and it rewarding to know they re doing something now they t doing a few weeks ago In addition to her work the pool and her job as a waitress Miss de also sews for customers But I don I do pants she says They re Just too hard to make fit During the years while she was competing Miss travelled all over he province from Parry Sound the Thou sand Islands to lnndon Fall to spring there are one or wo competitions a month the dan cers may enter During the summer that picks up to one or two a week and even four or five some weeks When there that many you pick which ones you will attend because you jus can dance here one day Jump In the car and drive to next competition during Ihe night and then dance the next day she says It just too hard to do thai WORLD FESTIVAL Miss de began earned working to earn money to enter nursing at Highland Mtssdelluecklotes She has Just all kinds of sports and won the Girls Physical ducatlon award for Grade 12 and Is ting at Ihe Canadian National Exhibition in 1968 and was still going to the compel when the Ex began the Scottish World Festival in or 1971 The first time she entered the world competitions she soys there were girls there from Scotland New Zealand Wales United Slates and almost every part of he world where Scottish immigrants have gone and taken their dancing with them There were about girls in her age group alone and there were seven or eight age groups The competitions are divided into category by both age and amount of dancing experience of a competitor The first lime she entered Ihe world competitions at the Ex she placed third In her class The second year she entered them she had sprained her ankle the week before and had lo dunce in a bandage That time she only managed to take a fourth place in one of her events CHECK COATS Any parent thinking of get ling their child Interested In taking Highland dancing with a view to competition be well advised to look at costs Involved before they start Miss Hueck warns To begin instructors are plentiful Miss de took lessons from teachers In Clarkson Milton Hamilton and Toronto over course of several years Sometimes she had more than one lesson a week That entailed a lot or travelling and such expenses must be included along with the cost of the extra lessons Then there is of the dancers costume Tartan for a kill runs around yard and because of all the pleats a kill requires six or seven yards of fabric On top of that there will be a to charge make the kill Ail dancers wear jackets of They about lo get mode and require three yards of velvet for which the prices varies from to depending on quality The dancer requires a white blouse lots of lace Miss de Hueck mother made a lace bib which could be i from one white blouse to but another dancer need buy special blouses Socks have be Imported from Scotland unless the has someone who can knit them for her They SlSnpair Then there arc dancing shoes to be purchased at a pair Every dancer needs two pairs one for practising and one for compel ion While the price seem too bad at first glance It is a different story when one realties dial slippers wear out very rapidly and a dancer may wear a pair Into holes in one single compel ilion If the dance surface is rough Then a I these costs multiply when one considers that a dancer must have a different costume for all different dances except the compulsory but It Is rather far travel every day said Mrs Although she designs and sews her own clothes as well as those of her daughter Mrs was get restless for something else to do I ve known about he Georgetown Little Theatre for years now ever since I came she said I just never really nought about designing costumes for them before this year And some times I seemed be loo busy doing other things like when I teaching night school All hough the job of designing costumes is basically the same in both and professio nal theatre m finds that Ihere are some very real diffe rences If I was working for a professional heat re my job could very well be done by now II quite likely thai I have sew together one costume There would be people on ihe to do lhai she said She also slated thai low of an amateur group such as GLT ore a hinder to a In a professional theatre company you can spend a more money because they have more to start But here you have to compromise You have look for cheaper to where ever you can None or the material used for costumes cost over three dollars per yard and in some cases trains on the back of dresses had to be eliminated altogether In order costs the dresses had be compromised because of Ihe low budge Many of Ihe f not results do exactly resemble Mrs Schrim drawings because she just could afford to gel the which she had Mrs finds the suits which will wear in play most difficult and Ihe least fun make They lend io be more complicated Ihan women dresses to She has also found the women who ore in play be In getting tho costumes ready for ploy a opening date I probably t gel all costumes ready on time If Ihe other women I help me with them she said One of the ladies did all ha la for iheplny and most of helping mi wilh small details like basting If I had do all myself Id never gel finished Minyof them can already sew well but for the ones that can I I show them how do It and then Ihey do it quite well I COSTUMES Three of Ihe costumes are finished completely and the 10 need only the hand work done in order to finish Mrs finds the work she Is doing for the partly because she hisn t done llus type of fashion since she left Barbell costumes for When We Are Married are from the Edwardian Period Mrs Schrim history In school and so in most cases knows already what the cost should look like The cut of the costume is Important but it not really necessary to pul on the exact amount of ruffles they had In those day she said The minor details of the costume arc not thai important Mrs Schrim also finds co ordination of the costumes on slage to have a great deal to do with the play a total effect You see whole picture In theatre she said It a not like everyday life where it just coincidence what people wear and whether what they wear matches in theatre you can I leave colour and style chance you have o hlnk of ihcm In the context of the final picture That s something thai many amateur theatres don realize likes to reserve some time in her days for her other pcrsults such as painting ncedlecraft walihanglngs or just whatever Is that interests her at the moment I enjoy working wilh the GLT but I don I think that would lake on any other work outside of my family like lo spend time working on other things I enjoy I want to keep my work schedule so that I still hive time for myself she old When We Are Married by will start Its run on February CLOWNING AROUND r Elf BUI