Pickering College - Voyageur Yearbook (Newmarket, Ontario Canada)

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way his father's song he inherited from him a love of beauty, a passion for justice, a hatred -of violence, with all these attributes and more-among them tenderness and stoicism and hope-Arthur Burt endowed Ben rlle.rander,- the high point of his characterization was perhaps his moving' speech against. war, but his understanding' of the role was consistently expressed througliout. Dick Powell brought to life a grocer torn between a desire to help others with all he had and the necessity of safeguarding his own family, and Peter Leduc quietly portrayed the eternal old mother , patiently taking for granted the rightness of the sense of values of her younger family. Tom Connor handled the role of .lIaCGrcg0r with competence and understandingg it is no easy task for an actor to break into unaccompanied song, nor to quote effectively, as an old actor on the point of death, from King Lear, and to these particular challenges Tom re- sponded very well indeed. Craege McQuarrie, Garth Enerson, Ian Paterson, Derry Moore, Bill Patten, Fred Little, Tom Mc-Cann, and D-on Downs provided sound and colourful supportg Mct1'ann's entrance on a bicycle from the rear of auditorium, as the mailman, was notable, as was Downs' whistling approach as a newsboy from the same quarter. The play was directed by Mr. Stewart, but of direction in the formal sense there was a minimumg even more than in previous Club productions, the actors seemed to live their parts , and behave accordingly. spring production N MAY 12TH Mmimcks or Huixnns IX AND X took part in producing A. A. Milne 's The Allan in the Iiorelcr Ilat and Galsworthy's The Little Mlm, and much credit is due Mr. Vangeloff and Mr. Clifton for bringing these plays to the boards in the middle of a short and crowded term. Farce is difficult under the best of circumstances, but what the players in the Milne play lacked in finesse they compensated for in enthusiasm. The trying' and complicated inquiry into the whereabouts of the key to the hatbox in the check-room came off Well, and Don Harris, Clark Mexicotte, and Ron Sutton are to be congratulated for the villainy, bravado, and ever-lovin' loyalty they brought to their respective roles. The stuff of The Little .llnfn is more challenging. and Mr. Clifton skilfully developed in his actors a sense of characterisation so that although each was a consistent and well-defined type, all were still believable as people. Paul Feld- man sustained well the heavy role of the American, whose actions differed so markedly from his words, a Prussian ruthlessness was clearly conveyed by Alex Perron as the Hermang Dave Scatcherd was refreshingly uninhibited as the clownishly good-lnimoured Dutchmang Peter Feldman and Bob Macklin were towering' models of British reserveg Peter Campbell successfully overcame the dangers of female impersonation before one's friends so that the audience could F:l.,!Illll'!'lI

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ctivities the dramatic club ' Y lII+:AR'1 s IN Tim IIIGI-ILANDS celebrates the beauty, integrity, and dignity of 1nan's spirit, and his eourage before the dark powers that invade his peace and right, Wrote Herman Voaden in an introduetion to Saroyan's play which the Drainatie Club attempted last fall. lt was a more experimental work than the Club has attempted in some years, and its measure of sur-f-ess was due even more than usual to the brilliant three-part set designed by l+'rederir'k Hagan, and a eolnplieated lighting'-plot exeeuted hy Doug' Thomson with Bill Alg'er's assistance. Our photo does not do ,justiee to the groc-ery store, living- rooin, and front porch faeing on a street in San Fresno, California. Shifts of seene were effected by hlaekouts and spotlighting, and free use was niatle of the auditorium spaee fronting the stage for entrances, crosses and exits. The dwellers in this little world of sunshine and storm were Hen Alcxrunrlvr, a penniless poet, his son J0ll'7l'7l.U, .lolzningfs Hrandniotlier, Jlr. Ii'o.wul.' the grover, his hiautiful daughter Esther, Jnspel' fllut'!lregm', who sang' inovingly that his heart was in the highlands and renieinhered his fornier days of greatness as a Sliakespearean actor, and various friends and neighbours. No plot linked the lives of these peopleg rather, they touehed one another's hearts with love and pity, living' with the candid innoeenee of childhood. This mood was well estab- lished by Alfie lluys' fine creation of JOIHl'7IQIj,' relaxed and uninhibited, affevtion- ate and eurious, no one was proof against his eharni, least of all lisflnfr, von- Yl1ll lIIQ'lY and easily played by -lanie Vlifton. Jllilllllqlj, however, was in every Sl'l'l'Hll'4'lI

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truly appreciate his bearing and emotion as the frantic peasant mother- and the simple quiet humanity of Jack Tippings Little Man contrasted effectively with these strongly developed characters. Mr. t'lit'ton's attention to properties was meticulous, and ,justified by the result. Tom Metfanns sets were notable, especially that representing a continental railway carriage. lt is good that the tradition of drama in the spa-i11g ' was so s- tint hanced. . a s actorily maintained and en- the glee club N THE QUAKER CRACKER Fox l'lEBRl7ARY 1954, the followinff note appeared: 7 rw - H, M. S. 'Pinatore' has begun to move slowly' away from her moorinfrs ' l , . 1 ' ? ' ' wit 1 Admiral Cornell at the helm and Messrs. tfarroll and Houston as First and ., y becond Mates . . . The new crew is whipping into shape fast and, after a few more hours on tl1e routine, should be ready to make a very good show ot' it on this trip. The Captain tllonald Macllillank, and llickilleaideve CRL-U' Nashb, with able assistance from the Boatswain 's Mate tTom tfonnorj and the t'arpen- 1er's Mate fllon Racel, are learning' their new duties fast and should be Y vil1l'fl'4'Il