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Queensborough junior high school‘s senior band placed first in the grade 10 and under Kiwanis Festival of Music last week. They also won the Henry Birks and Sons‘ Award. The previous week, the band took second place in the Kiwanis junior high school contest. Put a spirited director together with a dozen enâ€" thusiastic student actors at Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology, and you‘ve got the ingredients for a fine group of players. PAGE 10 The curtain goes up on their first play next weekend. It‘s the Seneca College Children‘s Theatre group who‘ll present ‘Please Don‘t Sneeze‘ to children‘s audiences Friday, Saturday and Sunday, February 27, 28 and March 1 at Seneca College, Finch Campus, Finch Avenue at Woodbine, in North York. Tom Crothers, who directs the group, is a staff member at Seneca College in its English and Comâ€" munications Division; he‘s been interested in children‘s theatre in Canada for some years, and his background on the stage goes back a long way â€" to County Down, Ireland. Student actors offer play for children ‘Please Don‘t Sneeze‘ has all the ingredients to keep children in suspense, to tug at their hearts, to make them roar with laughter, to send them home happy. Suspense, nonsense, sadness and gladness â€" and action, lots of action. ‘"Guaranteed to transfix any kid", says Tom Crothers. First baby born at the new Yorkâ€"Finch Hospital is the son of dentist Dr. David Berns and his wife Sandra of Willowdale. * A layette from _ the hospital‘s Volunteer Service Organization and a $100 savings bond from a local Lion‘s Club were among the baby‘s first gifts. Trevor â€" Aaron â€" Berns weighed in at seven pounds 11 ounces and was ‘born 21 hours and 10 minutes after the hospital‘s opening. The play‘s by Chris Wiggins and produced by Cathy Day, a fourth semester student in General Arts and Science at Seneca College. Other members of the cast are Veronica Benjamin, Jeff Burns, Marmie Charndoff, Richard Crivari, Kris Gruscyk, Tom Lambrakos, Linda Ludberg, Donn McGee, Neil McEwan and Briane Nasimok. Friday night the play will be presented for about 200 First baby Helen James, Director of the North York Branch of the Children‘s Aid Society says: underâ€"privileged Children‘s Aid youngsters who‘ll come to Seneca‘s Finch campus from dozens of foster homes and institutions in the area, and (hopefully) settle down sufficiently for the show to begin at 7:00 p.m. This first performance is bookedâ€"solid. It‘s Maple Syrup time at the Royal Botanical Garâ€" dens, Rock Chapel, Highway 5 near Hamilton. 00000000 000000000 000 FA S$ST CA R WA S H Beginning March 7, 1970, guides will be on hand Saturday and Sunday for three consecutive weekends from 10 a.m. â€" 5 p.m. to explain in detail the process of making syrup. Special equipment is used so that everyone ~may see the process from sap to syrup. Maple syrup exhibit A fun opening takes place at 11 a.m. on Saturday, March 7 when Ontario Maple Syrup Queen, Ruthann Shaw, will do the honours at our new Sugar Shanty. Admission is free and there is ample parking. 1865 WESTON RD. : (South of Lawrence) , 248â€"5521 WEST END CAR WA SH 1.00 With 15 Gal‘ons 1.25 With 12 Gallons $1.50 With 9 Gallons MATS, WINDOWS LEX}CD] and VACUUM With gas the wash costs on Mon thru Thurs & Car _ Wash Includes â€"* ‘"‘We‘re delighted with Seneca‘s community awareness and community involvement. These children don‘t have the same opâ€" portunities enjoyed by others." Director Tom Crothers says: "I have found exâ€" tremely talented students at Seneca College. We‘ll be developing several more plays over the next few months â€" for presentation through the spring and next summer." Saturday February 28, public presentation _ of ‘Sneeze‘ is scheduled twice â€" at 10:00 a.m. and at 3: 00 p.m. Then again on Sunday at 3:00 in the afternoon. The capacity for each performance is 200 youngsters. You can reserve by telephone: call Seneca College at 491â€"5050, and ask for Miss Ginsberg â€" anytime between 10:00 and 11:00 a.m. or 3:00 and 4:00 p.m. $1.75 With 6 Gallons $2.00 With 3 Gallons $2.25 No Gas fndutnd With 18 Gallons Includes Interior ]5C The Black Box Theatre will premier their new production at the Northern Campus (highway 27, north of Rexdale Blyvd.), on March 6 at 8.30 p.m. The show, which â€" runs for _ apâ€" proximately 1% hours, will take place in the new 400â€" seat auditorium. According to the group‘s artistic director, Mikulas Kravjansky, too wellâ€"known Czechoslovakian writers have collaborated with him on the script for the new production. One of the writers, Jaroslava Blazhova, is the authoress of "The Nylon Moon"‘. She has also written film scripts and material for the National Theatre in Czechoslovakia. Unlike the first production (presently playing at the Dell Tavern), which offered a mixed bag, the new show is based on a single, unusual theme and, for the first time, background voices will be introduced. The â€" Black _ Theatre originated in Czechosâ€" lovakia. Like its forbear, the Japense "Bunraku‘", it based its illusions on the use of invisible manipulators in black, handling props in a lighted area. George _ Srnec, _ who originally devised ‘"The Black Box" in Prague during the late fifties, experimented further by using fluorescent light on speciallyâ€"treated props. â€" The theatrical form of "Black Theatre" began to a\ttract Czechoslovakia‘s Black Box Theatre at Humber College Campbell The Story of Your Wedding ,__ _ PHONE: 769â€"4984 1146 Weston Road (at Eglinton) Located in Brian Foley Dance Studios Building MON. to FRI. 10.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. OPEN SAT. 9 a.m.at’: Gop.m. M EVENING APPOINTMENTS ARRANGED Mr. Kravjansky, who also teaches in the Creative Arts Division, at Humber College, producer Lubomir Novotny and Florentina Lojekova, choreographer, now resident in Toronto, have adapted the form to their own special talents. They use the props and puppets of the original theatre and have added the fine arts and dance moveâ€" ment. foremost writers and artists. Srnec‘s group eventually split into three groups, each with its own philosophy. 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