20 Terrace Review —~ Wednesday. November 13, 1991 Murder mystery evenings [ -on way to becoming serial _ ’ Contributed by . Marlanne Brorup Weston We are at the mansion of Sir Roger Watersdown, presently located at the Inn of the West in Terrace, B,C., a northem commu- _ hity, The night i is dark, it is snow- : ing and there is an air of expecta- tion. The guests arrive in pairs, dressed to the nines. Are we in ~ another era? ‘Yes, it’s 1930. Is that Sherlock Holmes coming in? Why it is, and his beautiful wife Watson is with him. And there is Dr. Malcolm - Practise with Dame Alison Blythe. It’s going to be a very interesting _ evening... Thus began the Terrace Little Theatre’s first adventure into the world of murder mystery evenings. And by the response of the dinner guests, it is only a first. The three-hour mystery revolved ~ ground the highly suspicious char- -acters, who circulated, spread . rumours, pointed fingers, lied, delivered clues and wove tales about their past. There was not one, but two mur- ders, an ambulance crew (real) and the arrest of the murderer by the - RCMP (also real). Guests were invited to solve the murder and a $100 prize was awarded to the winner, as was a prize for the best costume (which went to Dr. David Bowering as Sherlock Holmes — so real it was thought he was part of the Terrace Little Theatre. Young musicians urged to The guests rounded out the evening by discussing the clues and dancing to Big Bark and the Howlers. The event was hosted by the Inn of the West. Another murder mystery is planned for February. apply for youth band The Terrace and District Youth Band will soon be marching along. Terrace Community Band director Jim Ryan reported last week that it’s an idea which has been brewing for awhile. Many members of the Community Band have expressed enthusiasm to help get a youth band off the ground. Ryan says, “Local pat- ades are shockingly short of (marching) bands.” The Youth Band will be for Grade 7 through 12 students (limit of 50 participants). The students must already be mem- bers of the Schoo! District #88 band program and have good academic standing at school. The students will initially be respon- sible for bringing their own instruments. Ryan hopes they can entice some corporate spon- sorship. Applications to join the Youth Band are available through school district band teachers and in the music department at Sight and Sound. Auditions will be conducted through December. Northwest Arts Entertainr nent Calendar | R.E.M. Lee Theatre *Nov.16, 8 p.m. — A Tribute to Harry James, featuring Gary Guthman and Jazz International, presented by the Terrace Concert Society *Nov.30 —- Loreena McKennitt, Celtic singer and harpist, in concert | The Terrace Inn *Gigi’s — Road Rock-itz, music from the 50’s and 60's Northern Motor Inn, George’s Pub *Until Nov.23 — Champagne Plus ‘Nov.24 - Dec. 14 — Long Gone McColl Playhouse *Nov.14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23 - adult comedy Hooters, presented by the Terrace Little Theatre; directed by Gordon Oates Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 13 *Every Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday — Darts *Every Monday — cribbage at 7;30 p.m. *Every second Thursday — bridge at 7;30 p.m. *Nov.22 & 23 — Peter Turner Terrace Public Art Gallery | «Until Nov, 29 — Edward Epp presents an exhibit of his oil and acrylic paintings of Africa and Eastern Canada Prince Rupert Performing Arts Centre *Nov.22, 8 p.m. — Tribute to Harry James, presented by the P.R. Concert Society *Nov.29, 8 p.m. —— Loreena McKennitt, Celtic singer and harpist And | This Column Sponsored By: 4720 Lazelle Ave., Terrace B.C, Ph. 638-0321 Fax 638-0422 The Best from the Stacks. Reviews of books from the Terrace Public Library by Harriett FjJaagesund . Faces In the Smoke by Douchan Gersi - Adult non-fiction published by Jeremy P. Tarcher, Inc. - For 25 years Douchan Gersi, professional explorer and documen- tary filmmaker, has journeyed to the farthest and most inaccessible corners of the earth. His quest has not been to hunt for exotic ani- mals, but to document the wild frontiers of human abilities. Raised in the Belgian Congo, he relates stories of his childhood — murder by magic, faith healing, survival after death — that first whetted his appetite for the frontiers of haman knowledge. He has travelled to the farthest outposts of the world and lived among peoples of tradition on islands, in jungles, and high in remote mountain ranges, here he participated in and photographed initia- tions and other sacred rituals normally forbidden to outsiders. He describes the magic practised by Haitian sorcerers, of human . beings levitating and passing through solid walls among the Flying Men of Haiti, of driving across the Sahara Desert guided only by a blind seer from the telepathic Tuareg people, of faith healers in the Andes and the Philippines, and much, much more. The author’s films have been made into a series, Explore, shown on both the PBS network and the Discovery channel. The Cookcamp by Gary Paulsen Juvenile fiction published by Orchard Brooks | It was a strange summer for the boy, one that would stay with him long after he grew up and became a man. It was the summer he went to live with his grandmother in the cookcamp deep in the Minnesota woods. The boy really didn't understand why he had to leave the city, just that it had something to do with his father hav- ing to go off to war and his mother being alone in the city. None of it made much sense to the boy. In the cookcamp there were nine raw and rough men, each one as big as a mountain, and only one woman, the boy’s grandmother, who cooked for them, They were building a road almost to Cana- da. The boy guessed this had something to do with the war. That strange summer of 1944, when he rode a Caterpillar tractor in the morning and a gravel truck in the afternoon, when he learned the fine art of spitting, and watched as his grandmother wrote seven letters by oil lamp, one a night, to his mother far away in Chicago, letters that she intended to mail “good and hard” from a dusty little town 30 miles away, shaped him somehow. Even then the boy knew he’d never be quite the same again. An excellent read! Also by the same author: Popcorn Days and Buttermilk Nights; The Voyage of the Frog; and The Island. TE ST ar TOUR in Concert Thursday, Nov. 28, 8 p.m. ROI Theatre, Smithers (sponsored by Bulkley Valley Folk Music Society) Friday, Nov. 29, 8 p.m. Performing Arts Centre, Prince Rupert — Saturday, Nov. 30, 8 p.m. R.E.M. Lee Theatre, Terrace