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§ # How do you keep a ruby in a harem girl‘s navel? I don‘t know what the answer is when it‘s a real harem girl, but the answer for stage purposes is that you paste the ruby onto a small piece of fine mesh and stick the netting to the skin with spirit gum. This is the sort of problem that you run into when you get involved in amateur dramatics, which probably accounts for the boom in what is euphemistically called "little theatre". We Seagâ€" ers tend to live at a run most of the time, but the pace has quickâ€" ened over the last two weeks. Let‘s start at the beginning; this is the third year that Ken has directed the local Anglican Church‘s young people in a oneâ€"act play, which is usually put on for two nights in the church hall and also entered in Deanery and other festivals. Suitable oneâ€"act plays for teenagers are hard to come by, so Ken asked me to write a play for his group this year, which 1 did. It‘s funny and light and 1 called it "Never look a giftâ€"horse in the yashmak" â€" I know, I know, you should have heard what Ken said about the title, but I couldn‘t think of anything else and anyway, long titles are In now. The hub of the plot is that a 17 year old high school boy living in a small Canadian town is presentâ€" ed with a harem of beautiful girls by the King of Waziristan as a reward for saving the life of the King‘s 35th son the previous summer; this lends itself to some very funny situations and just when it looks as if Bob, and hero, will have to send them back because the local Board of Trade threatens to boycott his father‘s store, Mr. Pearson sends a diplomat to tell him that he must keep them so as not to upset the king, with whom Canada is negotiating for navel bases. (Incidentally, no one in any of our audiences has ever snickered even at this line, which I though someone would get.) I shan‘t tell you the resolution of the play â€" I must have some secrets â€" but you can see that it has some lively moments. Of course, over the months that they‘ve been rehearsing, Ken has had some dropâ€"outs among the teenagers, some of whom are with him for the third year and beginning to know something about acting, but the final blow was when he got to the rehearsal before dress rehearsal and lost another harem girl, which left him with three. He started with six. I had originally written a part in the play for a 10 year old girl, with our own daughter, Joni, in mind, but then we realized that this was supposed to be for members of the church only and we thought it wouldn‘t be fair to put her in, so Ken had used a smallish teenager in the part. However, when this final dropâ€"out occurred, he decided to bring Joni in and put the other girl back in the harem, which she agreed to quite willingly, Joni attended rehearsal on Saturday and walked through the part with a seript; by Sunday evening, she had learned her part and by Wednesday, when Ken held dress rehearsal, she was sure of both movements and lines. She‘s a natural actress, which is not surprising since she‘s been brought up in a family involved with the amateur theatre. A further complication was that Ken was going to be in Reâ€" gina on business all the week of the play, so he had to hold dress rehearsal ten days before production and wouldn‘t be back here until the Saturday night for the final presentation. But that isn‘t al â€" the play was not only being put on in the church hall on Friâ€" day and Saturday, but after our Saturday production, we had to pack up everything and rush up to Newmarket, to put the play on there, in the Newmarket Oneâ€"act Play Festival, which was taking place the same night. There was going to be an adjudicator at the Festival and we knew it would be valuable for the youngsters to get professional criticism. During the intermission between plays at the church hall (Bradford High School was also presenting a play along with ours), Jeremy and his combo were going to play for about twenty minutes; since Jeremy has a Friday night and all day Saturday job at a groceteria which lasts until 9 p.m. and since his group was scheduled to perform at 9 p.m., I had to arrange for him to get off fifteen minutes early and, as Ken wasn‘t there, I had to drive up to the groceteria on Friday and Saturday nights at quarter to nine to get him back to the hall in time. I also had to get all group‘s instruments there both nights, take the kids up to Newâ€" market on Saturday afternoon for a runâ€"through on the stage there, do the makeâ€"up and generally supervise everything until Ken got back, which he finally did after being delayed by fog and getting in some hours later. He actually arrived in time to see the play on Saturday night. While all this was going on last week, I was also attending rehersals for a play I‘m in with the Aurora Drama Workâ€" shop, as well as trying to keep up with my writing. Well, to cut the cackle, we did take the play up to Newmarket Festival and won a bestâ€"acting award there (our young hero) and nearly got into the oneâ€"act play finals. It was a toss â€" up between us and the Newmarket group, which won, the adjudicator said, primarily because we had teenagers playing middleaged parts in our play. This couldn‘t be helped, since it is a young people‘s group only, but I agree that it doesn‘t make for very convincing acting. However, Joni got a special mention for her performance and the audience lapped up the play. Anyway, we have been specâ€" ially invited to participate in the finals down at the Central Library theatre next weekend, since we are the .only teenager group involved and the only one with an original play. Robert Gill of Hart House theatre is going to adjudicate each play, going through it afterwards briefly with the actors on stage, so this is a great chance for the actors to learn something from a professional. I wish I could be there too. but I shall be onstage up in Aurora. By the way, the adjudicator at Newmarket began his remarks about my play by saying, "When I first read this play, I thought it was the corniest thing I‘d ever read and I couldn‘t unâ€" derstand how anyone could want to put it on. But J was wrong, since it is a very funny play and as you may have noticed, I made hard!:y any notes during this play becuase I was laughing too much . . ." P.C. Tea Held To Honor Ladies Of Yorkâ€"Humber The lovely Swansea residence of Mr. and Mrs. Vie Colebourn on Mosson Place provided a delightâ€" ful setting for a house and garâ€" den party last Friday when the Colebourn‘s entertained the ladies of the York Humber Proâ€" gressive Conservative Women‘s Association. It‘s not surprising that my ego is turning brown around the edges. Leading executive members from neighbouring associations assisted in the festivities which were divided into two sessions: One during the afternoon from two ‘til five p.m. and one in the evening from seven ‘til nine. Mr. . Colebourn, â€" Progressive Conservative candidate for York Humber, was present on both occasions and graciously assisted his wife Joan during the recepâ€" tion. 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Solicitors Notaries Public 15 Penn Drive (Finch and Milyan) BARRISTERS If Busy EM 2â€"7481 GARAGES 749â€"0452 Professional â€" Business The annual dinner of the Univâ€" ersity Women‘s Club of Weston, held this year at the Skyline Hotel, was well attended by 47 members and guests. The group was entertained after dinner by songs from "My Fair Lady", ably sung by Mrs. Viola Murray, with accompâ€" animent by Mrs. Hilda Buil, Introduced by Mrs. J. R. Baldâ€" win, the guest speaker was Mrs. Martha Stewart Leitch, a Univâ€" ersity of Toronto graduate in architecture who is now on the staff of the Department of Food Sciences at the same university, where she teaches a course on "Community Planning, Public Housing and Home Design". Mrs. Leitch, who also teaches at OCE during the summers, adâ€" dressed elmborl on archâ€" itecture in Europe, where she was on tour last spring with a group of civil engineers and her surveyor husband. She had workâ€" ed on a research station in England during the war while on a twoâ€"year travelling scholarâ€" ship. "At that time, England had great plans for public housing, and I was anxious to see the result, and also other engineerâ€" ing projects in other countries. When I left Britain in December, 1945, people were still living in the subways, carrying their posâ€" sessions in an old baby buggy or two shopping bags. I was most interested in seeing the changes that had come in 20 years." The speaker pointed out that housing in Britain was always different to that in continental Europe. ‘"In medieval Europe, people would camp inside castle walls in times of trouble. 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Mrs. Leitch felt | that Montreal was said to be more continental than provincial Toronto because it has more apartment ‘buildings. EACH CONNECTED Her talk was illustrated with slides she had taken herself while on her tour, and she showâ€" ed some of satellite towns, first designed in 1920 in England. There are now 18 in England and two in Scotland, the largest for 80,000 people, each with its own ‘ industries, parks, schools and | playgrounds, and each connectâ€" ed to London by subway. She ‘poinwd out that these were deâ€" signed as balanced towns, separâ€" ated from others by greenbelt "which does not have to be protected by being used as golll courses, as it does here". | She spoke of Switzerland‘s | tunnel project from Zurich tol Geneva, where she found the | most surprising thing was that | none of the workers wore hard hats for protection. She mentionâ€" ed the formation of one of the largest dykes ever to be built, across the mouth of the Maas and Rhine Rivers in Holland. 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