8, ENTERTAINMENT, THE HERALD, Wed. Aug. 25, 1976

_ Reid will play Nellie

_ John Hirsch, head of CBC- TV drama, has announced

- that the internationally-

acclaimed Canadian actress Kate Reid will play the title role in the CBC-TV drama production, Nellie McClung.

“Tam very pleased,” said Hirsch, “that Ms, Reid, an ‘actress of enormous talent and sensitivity, is now available to play the Canadian suffragette Nellie McClung, and that production of this original television drama can go

ACTRA refused to grant a work permit to the American actress Kathleen

Widdoes. Ms. Widdoes had .

been selected for the lead because no _ suitable Canadian actress was available when the drama was originally scheduled for production this summer. Ms. Reid scored a triumph at the Shaw Festival this summer in Mrs. Warren’s Profession. Writing in The Globe and Mail, drama critic John Fraser said

Broadway in the ANTA production of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof. Her earlier Broadway performances in Dylan and . Slapstick Tragedy, both garnered Tony Awards nominations

for her. Her film credits —

include A Delicate Balance, with Katharine Hepburn and Paul Scofield. Her television credits include many CBC-TV productions and four Hallmark Hall of Fame specials, the most prominent of which was

spent seven years as a leading lady at the Stratford Festival, and wili be returning there for the 1977

season next summer.

— ft) Repay enia

cClung

Nellie MeClung will be taped in Toronto in

December. Directing will be Sheldon Larry. Herb Roland will produce.

Disraeli, for which she received an Emmy ~ nomination. Ms. Reid also

ahead. The CBC had cancelled production March 16 when

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Critters

simply, ‘‘Welcome back, great lady”. Ms. Reid ap- peared recently on

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