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Page TON till I Ji OUTLOOK Friday July Entertainment Outlook Tom Patterson first to chronicle Stratfords glory days Alec Guinness opened the ford Shakespearean on Monday July 13 1953 with Ihe spinetingling wonJi Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer From that moment things were never to be the same again for dinn theatre for Stratford Ont nor for Tom Patterson I he Stratford native whose grand design came to fruition that hot humid evening So was the impact of that event that it led to renaissance of theatre in Canada and theatrc- here and in other countries It even produced a new category of Canadian letters model wed bookshelf could be filled the books about the festival that haw since been written by Stratford in others Only now however has the Stmt ford story been brought to comple tion by the one man who was there from the beginning Patterson assisted by Allan M Gould a Toronlobasid writer specializing in theatre has written First Stage The Making of Stratford McClelland and Stewart 224 pages The Festival in its 35th si slrctilung user some six months has won tional recognition as a first rule classical re perl Hut if it had lopped a- ly of people in and were predicting in 1353 the fail lhil it had even Tom Patterson had been bom in Stratford in and during his teen age years tin so with that no new industries could be attracted and many of its people drifted oft to lirger cities such as Kit London Toronto The hoy r and although he had attended a theatrical conceived the idea of staging a Shakespearean festival centred on the in Hit park After Ins city was namid after the s English birthplace it too was on an Avon the city s for From then on Patterson had not the slightest doubt that he would achieve his plan He nurtured the idea throughout his overseas service in the Canadian Army his three yeirs at the University of Toronto Trinity College and four editor of a Maclean Hunter tradi magazine Administration 1 he relates he had enough supporters by pitting Toronto people against Stratford people telling each that lilt must surely wanl to match the Torts of other that his good id his One of s with designer Tanya Moiscwltsch who had frequently been associated with Guthrie productions Pattersons book provides an ex plana ion to the mystery of why such theatrical greats were wTlling to take a gamble with valuable Mine on what must have an unlikely and even bizarre project It was because they were bursting with innovative ideas about theatre There were no sis because there was no theatre In Stratford to be traditional about Patterson I Jin architect named lloberl field and a supremely dedicate liuildiiig named neither of whom mush applied Face in the crowd IK77JW22 or drop on looking it If Ihe fa ire luckv winner of a pni lurlrsv i I ill us at GEORGETOWN CINEMAS a What i new in movies vtdfO Robert Predator meets Alien 235 STREET STARTS TODAY Evening at pm Matinees Dally at In his tut movies Arnold has bom a Viking warrior a barbarian a com man do jnd a federal agent all without eve- seeming fully human Thais Amies feral charm lies a cartoon hulk for action In Predator physique looks a hit scaled down more subtly huge perhaps befitting his new off screen status as a member of the Ken family He plays Ihe head of a military unit sent into a Latin can jungle to rescue some operatives from an enemy Once there hi and his team including fellow hunk Carl Weathers find that the missing men have been murdered and skinned alive Eventually the commandos discover that the murderer is man a chameleon changing form sue and dimension By the lime and the creature each other Predator has turned into Rambo Meets Serious Schwarzenegger fans may prefer their star in beefier form in more blatantly absurdist fare like Conan the Barbarian But as junk movies go Predator Is a crisply di rected hightech action thriller GRADE 2 3rd GREAT WEEK 2nd GREAT WEEK Evenings at 9 only 3 DAILY AT 2 PM ONLY ALL SEATS ANY SHOW ON TUESDAYS 15 WINGS This Friday Saturday Sunday EATIN ONLY Welcome Rebels to the Georgetown Centennial Reunion We Have Great Entertainment CONTAGIOUS 8774166 Mountainview Rd S GEORGETOWN