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DRAMA FESTIVAL MAY BECOME AS POPULAR


last, Clitheroe will have its own drama festival, Town Council is to be congratulated for arranging


AS ‘OPERA WEEK’ and Clitheroe and finan-


cing the event. People may scoff at drama, but these scoffers are definitely in the minority. Thc:


great increase in successful amateur productions in the district is ample proof of this fact.


At one time the public approved musicals and for many years ‘‘opera week'


reigned supreme and real dramas were left to the cinema and television. “Opera Week” , as it was, has almost disappeared to


be replaced by light opera performances by Clitheroe Parish Church Amateur Operatic Society and at various local schools, and now there is an ever-increasing number of plays performed in Sunday schools and school halls by local theatre groups.


g lR Frank Pearson. MP lor ihe Clilhcroe Divi­


sion, visited Conservative clubs at Clitheroe. Whalley. Read, Great Harwood and Longridge at the week-end. Mr. Neil Murtagh, divi­ sion chairman was unable


to accompany Sir Frank through illness, and Mr. S. J. Moore, Clitheroe polling district . chairman, depu­ tised. Sir Frank spoke to many


members and thanked all his supporters during the


election for their splendid efforts which had resulted in his return to Parliament. Our picture shows Sir


Frank, and a few friends chatting at Clitheroe Con­ servative club on Saturday evening.


SHOCK ■ FOR COUNCIL •;i


HOUSE . TENANTS AFTER CLASH OYER GARAGES


^JLITHFROE Town Council made a major swoop on council-house tenants whose garages were not up to standard, when they announced at their monthly meeting on Tuesday, that no fewer than 13 Clitheroe tenants are to be served with notices to


quit. . This shock decision came after a comprehensive report by the Public Health Ins­


pector, Mr. Walter'Grange. The families involved live on the following roads in the


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town—Edisford. Road, Faraday Avenue, Central Avenue, Mytton View. Henthorn Road, Seedall Avenue, Kemple View and Talbot Close.


The tenants had either— 1. Failed to . erect garages


and/or failed to complete works incidental to them, in accordance with the coun­ cil’s conditions.


2. Parked their vehicles in


the open within the curtilage of their houses, when they had not applied for permis­ sion to erect garages.


A spokesman for the Coun­


cil told the Advertiser and Times “ In some cases tenants have applied to the council for permission t o e r e c t garages, and while they have


been proceeding with this theyf ’have left their cars parked in- the middle of the lawn. Others have erected their garages and not done the job properly.” “ Some have ripped fences


down and left them. In every case we have written to the tenants and pleaded with them, but we have not been able to get any sense out of them. “ The council want to pre­


serve some sort of common standard in the erection of garages,"'


WRESTLING AT CIVIC


HALL MOVE


PROFESSIONAL wrestling •*- may be staged at Clitheroe’s Civic Hall soon, on an experi­ mental basis. At Clitheroe Town Council


meeting on Tuesday councillors agreed to this proposal by the Civic Hall and Entertainments Committee. Professional wrestling has


only been staged in Clitheroe at fetes, and council officers are to enquire into the likelihood of it proving a success in Clith­ eroe. If the wrestling is staged, it


will form part of the Council’s massive entertainment expan­ sion scheme.


Many members of these


theatre groups take elo­ cution lessons or attend


the local night school for speech training courses and through these courses even­ tually enter examinations


and festivals so that Clitheroe’s new drama fes­ tival will not be a novelty to .them. However, the group will


find it difficult to choose, learn and rehearse their three- act plays without neglecting their own productions. Many groups for instance have


BY JANE PRESTON


already booked halls for the productions and surely they would not change their dates around now so that they will hot coincide with festival


week. Taking it that none of the


dates do clash, it is certain that there will be sufficient entries, perhaps three or four local groups and one or two teams from away.


A SUBSTITUTE


■ If for any reason a team was unable to come and one night was left without an entry, the advantages of being affiliated to a national association would be evident. At the last minute this, asso­


ciation would send a substitute team to fill the blank evening. This association will also offer


useful hints and advice to our own festival, especially valu­ able to such a new and inex-


that the event is being run by men and women who have no drama experience. One of the committee members alone has had more than 20 years of ex­ perience at drama festivals and the others all know at least the basic essentials of a successful festival. The committee has examined


the organisation of the other sucessful festivals in the dis­ trict and considered every aspect of a festival, so deciding on its form and organisation.


REWARD TALENT Clitheroe’s festival need not


create debts for a reasonably full house each evening during the week would supply adequate funds, and if it were to prove a money loser, the town would be ready to give it all pos­ sible support. The idea of a drama festival


though is not to make funds for the town but to recognise and reward talent and at the same time to provide the public with entertainment. Although there are still members of the public who are antagonistic towards en­ tertainment of this sort, the majority would welcome the opportunity of enjoying, at least, one night of drama at its best. One can easily see from the


audiences at any amatuer pro­ duction, no matter how brilliant or poor it is, that even if some people prefer to sit at home watching the television, they are being educated into appre­ ciating drama. Shakespeare plays are still


cinema’s away. Then there are those people


regulars will' stay


who rave over Shakespearean works and “scare” the timid away. But many people have become


Shakespeare fans by accident. They have had the TV. on and as there was nothing better on the other station, they’ve “suffered" the Shakespeare and found it entertaining and not as stilted as they had believed. Eventually, Clitheroe drama fes­ tival should include Shakes­ peare sections and these should prove popular among the ap­ proving section of the public. They will certainly prove pop­ ular where entries are con­ cerned. Most amateur actors try their


hand at Shakespeare, and usually, once they’ve tried they enjoy it so much that they keep it up, studying for examinations and entering festivals such as Blackburn, Burnley or Colne After acting Shakespeare suc­


cessfully, an actor is certainly ready to take almost any part in any play for though Shake­ speare is interesting and fun to act, it entails much careful thought and hours of practice. If you do happen to forget


your favourite television pro­ gramme or ignore your usual uninterest in plays and such­ like, and visit the Civic Hall for at least one evening of the drama festival, then remember how hard the organisers and entrants have worked to please you, the audience, as well as the judges. Councillor John Hall and his


perienced festival. Do not think for one minute can be sure that many of that


not fully appreciated by the majority of the public, probably because they had it pushed at them so much at school and they were brought up to think of it as uninteresting and stilted. But it is surprising how many of these people have never “given it a try”. If a Shakespeare play happens to come on the television many people will switch over without extra thought: if a Shakespeare film comes to the cinema you


band of helpers have done a wonderful job which some people previously thought im­ possible, and at last Clitheroe will be making use of its hall with all the new and costly facilities specially for “.uch an event. It is hoped that the festival


will become more general in its outlook with more sections. It is also hoped that it will become an annual event. If these plans are successful, Clitheroe Drama Festival will certainly replace the old ‘opera week’ in its ap­ peal to the public and as Clitheroe is central for Lanca­ shire and Yorkshire drama en­ thusiasts, it will win our lovely town an even greater reputa­ tion.


Letter to the Editor CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IT was.-with, disgust and


Goers Favour Capital punish­ ment.”


amazement I read “Church- As. practising Christians I


wonder where they h a v e , all'gone morally wrong. Surely it . is God’s right, to give, and take,life.


pears calmly to sit-back stating, and I quote, “We can safely say


• A minister of the Church ap­


that folk generally favour • the retention bf capital punish­ ment.”


-I ask you Christians to look


into your .souls,' hearts .and minds and f in d '. that two wrongs never, make, a . right The man who murders has done wrong, when you'condemn that man to die, you must remember that you also are committing the same wrong. You cannot have two sets of rules for the same moral issue.


Janet Eatough (Mrs.) The Barn, Grindleton.


MOVETOSTOP VANDALS


MINOR explosions in the pavement of Pimlico Road,


,a month ago, were due to a damaged electricity cable, which was in ‘close proximity’ to a gas main, it was reported at the monthly meeting of Cltiheroe Town Council on Tuesday even­


“inadequacy of reinstatement work carried out in the vicinity, following main laying by the Fylde Water Board". The Borough Engineer, Mr. J.


ing. Members commented on the


Newton Bell said that steps were being taken to deal with the matter.


More Damage


A FTER repeated acts of vandalism in the public con­


veniences,. Market Place, Clith­ eroe, the Town Council are to consider the possibility of mak­ ing bye-laws to regulate the use of the conveniences. At the monthly meeting on


Tuesday evening, councillors decided to ask the Town Clerk (Mr. H. Sagar) to inquire from Clitheroe police about the pos­


sibility bf making bye-laws. Vandalism in the shelter


between the bowling greens in Clitheroe Castle grounds was also reported. In the latest act of vandalism,


three large panes of armoured glass in the shelter were broken. It was decided that the chair­


man and vice-chairman of the Parks and Cemeteries Commit­ tee, with the parks superinten­ dent should investigate the possibility of redesigning the shelter.


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Back to village


after 60 years in Canada


QIXTY years after leaving his native village of Slaidburn P to live in Canada, Mr. Robert Hanson AVoolf was back in' the village on Monday to renew acquaintance with m


of the families he knows so well. He was particularly interested in the Brennand Endowed


School, which he attended as.a child, the ancient historic parish church and' the Methodist chapel.


Mr. Wooff is on holiday in


Settle, where he is staying with a cousin, Miss D. J. .Wooff of Scar View. ■ His-parents. Mr. and Mrs.


Isaac- Wooff, fanned Pages Farm and in March, 1906, they emigrated to Canada with their four young chil­ dren to settle in Saskat­ chewan. As pioneer homesteaders they


were eventually given three years by the Government to build a house and bam, dig a well and break 15 acres of land. One of Mr. Woof’s recollec­


tions of those early years of his life in Canada is of seeing strange birds, flowers and trees. Some idea of the loneliness


the family had to endure is seen from the fact that it was three months before his mother saw another white woman and two years before the children went to school which was built by the settlers themselves about three miles from their home­


stead. The nearest doctors were 40


to 70 miles away, and religious services took place in their


homes. Later an undenominational


Sunday School was held in the schoolroom and Mr. Wooff be­ came a Sunday school superin­ tendent and lay preacher for many years, His family took an interest in public affairs, and his father became the first JP for many miles around. Mr. Wooff went to the Agri­


cultural College at the Univer­ sity of Saskatoon. He became interested in politics, and in 1940 stood as candidate for the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation. In 1942 he rode 500 miles on


horseback over his constituency campaigning, in all kmds of weather. The reason for Mr. Wooff’s


visit to this country is that he is a representative of the Sas-


rT''HE Leather Shop. Castle A Street, Clitheroe, was one


of three premises in the Clith­ eroe area to have a minor Are on Monday evening. Clitheroe Fire Brigade put out a chimney fire at the shop, a chimney fire at a private house on Robinson Street, Chatbum, and a pile of burning material on spare ground near Luke Smalley’s Timber Merchants, Chatburri.


katchewan branch of the Com­ monwealth conference. He ar.


rived in London after a six-hour air journey 60 years, to the month of having left tile coun­ try by sea, the journey then taking seven days. Mr. Wooff will probably leave


for home, at the end of this month, where he has a farm of 1,100 acres, 700 of which are cultivated, in the same district where his father settled. . He is married, with a family


of three sons and a daughter, but unfortunately his wife wnZ unable to accompany him or his visit.


any


by T°w Council


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Aon Tuesday, Mr. and Macnaughton of 1


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fete queens.


c w it week, the present “f f Miss Patricia Owen,


que illfeH with the new rei Mr Macnaughton


$ g £ l ly made with the he! ! ^^Macnaughton spent :


1 . his spare time making j f JJiery out of old broex S


aces. 'rings and brae


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|] /NAMES facilities in Clitl m I * castle Grounds are t ™ open to the public for the log season, as from tomoi


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