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wey LAKE
- ‘Ont. (CP) — Having George
i Berna rd:
-” Ponorary thumously . declared .an
Canadian. citizen

oar ~ aw 2 y bet the Shaw Festival’s

: “only way: out of its financial.
bind..

ee "Canada ‘Council’ officials
oo Saye «the festival: cannot
.. “expect... more . liberal
a - Canadian tax subsidies until
-\it--does more’ to . promote

"Canadian . playwrights

. rather than concentrate on

- Southern born.
“but true blue, too

There are two days iti the-

 “-PELEE’ ISLAND, . Ont.
(CP) — The only way you
-ean ‘live further south in

ll: Canada than ‘Ellis
-McCorméck is to pitch a
tent in. his -‘backyar

| MeCormack, a retired

‘farmer, was -born on the

southern tip of ‘this 11,000-
aere isjand in Lake Erie 75
~ years ago-and is the third
feneration McCormack to

ive “on: Canada’s
“southernmost point. When
ee atarted
fa neig rs
- were Indians. ;

The : ‘MeCormiack
“choniestead. is about as far
south’ ‘as Eureka, Calif., and

Pelee # pong ‘once had a

eects Of (00, b _but -now
200 year-
a ‘round Siidente,

‘Lake Erie: has.
: forced many people to move .
mainland,”’ .

‘Tho end of the fishing in :
«dusty ln

“to the.
McCormack.’ said. And
ON besides, , small farm were
wo ae er farms,

Boe SSM itis nice. place to
TRE “tive ‘and in -summer the

“ about 700 ‘with . ‘the
ers. ws

ae ia ie ‘Hamel, “al, who

was? born-on the .mainiand

‘pitgrew uy

has‘ mov

away. but says

othe. two-room

‘. Sandusky, Ohio. The only
“scheduled boat: connection
fo the island is a‘ United

which: crosses to
e and -back: once. a-

“the isla

in’ Peterborough, Miss

met has spent

‘office in Canada.
."Lwould love to. raise my
- kids on the island when I get

‘won't. happen
because. there just. aren't
‘enough jobs here.”

Shaw.

an Irishinan’ ’. plays
athe: Shaw Festival is the:
country's
theatre in terms of a
(after the Stratford Festival

_ and ‘Moritreal’s Theatre du .
Nouveau -Monde),’ but it:
ranks 4ath in at size of Canada
gran for sti
‘Itis the only (heatre in.the -

world . Mievoted to © the =
playwright whom ‘many ::
consider : the--
test. English-language - .

persons

ramatist .since
Shakespeare, but. -its

fall when the island's

population swells to more.

than 1,000, when about 800

hunters, mostly from. the -
- US., arrive for the annual: th

- \ the festival’s $1. 6-million

pheasant hunt,

1 FE e st

third-biggest

“-There..
‘ “playwright at Stratford this
ME peta ating var
; ght at-the Manitoba --
. Theatre Centre this winter,

eness does not impress"

“natlo onalists who contend
‘that every Canadian theatre
should Bive priority to”

Canadian works.
Artistic director Paxton

ose ha
Evilch to Canadian plays

‘just because they are.

Canadian.
“It's true. that we do not

‘have Canadian playwri

as a general rule, but I
that's an absurd ‘charge.
is no Canadian

there was none on the main
stage of the Vancouver
Playhouse. and I don’t think
there was one at. Neptune

(Halifax) -eit

The Shaw receives far less
federal operating aid than
ose theatres, however. Of

_ iv the count

recently,

THE TOWNSMAN, Thursday, July 2, Ww, PAGE 3

"BECAUSE GB. NOT. CANADIAN -
ival. feels Woes -

~ The complaints about lack we
content are a
he said,.  ~
although -he could’ not. ~ *-
the ; : Teal |

budget, Whitehead said,

only §.7 cent comes from
the Canada Council, at

‘other theatre

is “ta
about 15 to.25 per cent, an
in the cage of ane or two I's
even more.”

Other theatres close to the

“whereas an

| Shaw’s size had been

receiving about $300,000
“and we are
fetting. $140,000—less than

“We're only asking for
parity. We’re not asking for
speci treatment. ” .

125 Air Conditioned Suite & Rooms With View
Color TV, Telephone, Tub & Shower, Ele- |

Canadian
smokescreen, ©

account for
objection. ;

1975 when Tony van

was running the season
(Whitehead. had taken a
sabbatical), he did a

Canadian play and we .
smaller -

actually got a
annual increase fram the
Canada | Counell, than ever
before.”

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o _, Reputation gets back to |

on Pelee Island, .

she would like to. ‘return.

“some.
af Aer she gi graduated from

bile: school.
: shere, she and her 10 fellow --

tes: had -to-live in--

i § ville: di the: week | —_

es from + _

- _ Ses operated, ferry: from -

faye Stopping each way at.

third-year English r

‘gtudént at. Trent University —

lasttwo |

ummers. working as a .

Canada Customs agent at °

8 “southernmost Suatoms

“married,” she said: “Itisa —[-

- “ccmuper place to:grow-up, but [7
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