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Tickets available at the Humanities Theatre Box Office (885â€"4280) and all other BASS outlets, Hours: Monday to Friday I ran into my old Lions Buddy, Gary Thomas, manager and controller of the Stratford Festival, just before I flew to New Zealand. Recently I received a flyer from his office indicating that on Feb. 26th the box office sold the ticket that pushed gross sales over the "one hundred million dollar‘" mark since its founding in 1953. The spinâ€"off in generated tourist dollars is $840,000,000 and many of these bucks ended up in the Kâ€"W hotels. This confirms what manager Alan Hughes said to me at the Sydney ‘"Opera House" last month: namely, he claims the theatre attracts $100 million in tourist dollars to Australia annually. To a lesser degree, the UW Humanities Theatre and the Centre in the Square do the same thing for the Kâ€"W area. When you support your local cultural theatres, you‘re not doing them a financial favor but rather you‘re protecting a tourist asset. The "early bird" golfers are shining up their clubs for another season. For newcomers to Kâ€"W, it may be of interest for you to know that there are two cityâ€"owned golf clubs â€" Rockway and Doon Valley. They expect to be open by midâ€"April and the fees are: Adults $387 and "restricted" (Mon. to Fri.) $260, couples $552 and "restricted" $358, Seniors (65 years old) $290 and "restricted" $195, Sr. Couples $414 and restricted $269. We have been told the Beaverdale Golf Club has been sold to the Toronto Firefighters Association but manager Jim Bedford tells me that it will not affect the membership in any way. There are rumours also that Toyota of Cambridge might buy the Brookfield Country Club but it should not affect the memâ€" The Retired Business and Professional Men‘s Club of Kâ€"W is the fastest growing organization in the area. The club meets twice monthly at 1:30 p.m. at the Adult Recreation Centre, 185 King St., in Waterloo. The executive has accepted 37 new applicants and some of the new Waterloo candidates are: Albert Barber, Erb St.; Willard Bechtel, Washington Ave.; Howard Crosby, Erb St.; Donald Gillies, Bristol St.; Ross Hahn, Craigleith Dr.; Harry Huehnergard, Dover St.; Douglas Janke, Mackay Cres; Scott Moss, Algonquin Dr.; and Robert Pritchard, Vermont St. Some of the winter activities are five pin bowling, curling, and cribbage. Details phone: 748â€"6302. championship. Here for the second year in a row was a former member of the Kâ€"W Granite Club on the winning team. Glen Howard, viceâ€"skip, curled at the Granite while he attended University of Waterioo. The year before Brent Syme, lead for the Calgary team, attended University here and curled at the Granite. The Kâ€"W Granite Club also holds the record for representing Ontario in the Brier with four teams. It seems the tradition will continue as Jim Uhrig, the general manager, says the club is introducing 15 pound stones (40 lbs for adults) next September for the young junior players. I can recall my youngest son, Chris, at age 10 could only push the rock out of the hack. Pacific, it‘s nice to be home again. The first show we saw on local television was the final day of the Brier curiing Mail items to Box 898, Waterioo, Ont. After seven weeks of living out of a suitcase in the South with Ted Rooney 0 W on Irish television screens, and New York critics have hailed him the best ballad singer in the world. Film director John Huston (Prizzi‘s Honour, Chinatown) agrees, and has cast Patterson as haughty Irish, ladykiller tenor Bartell D‘Arcy in upcoming movie The Dead, adapted from James Joyce‘s famed novel The Dubliners. Though the D‘Arcy character and distinguished mustache have vanished now forever etched into film frame, Frank Patterson lives on, with GUSTO! The Centre in the Square audience was disapâ€" pointingly smaller than anticipated in this memoâ€" rable performance sponsored by the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem (who provide medical and educational assistance to needy regions in the Middle East). Many patrons in this spirited throng were thrilled to hear Patterson‘s enchanting varied repertoire chosen from an impressive roster of treasured timeless melodies and vibrant new arrangements, by exciting new composers in Patterson‘s attempt to reach a wider market. ‘"Any song I sing, I treat with respect, no matter what it is, and it comes over the audience then as a little gem in its own right." Worldâ€"famous tenor Frank Patterson is Ireland‘s Here is an utterly charming Dubliner who takes each song and makes it his own, be it the dramatic Memories from the musical Cats, or moving Irish mother and son farewell Danny Boy. Patterson has sung this a thousand times, yet when you hear his soft urgent lament you‘d swear it was the first, a fresh, rich, round simple, sentiment. The handsome Tipperary tenor is a popular mug Sincerity is synonymous with Patterson, who You could say that Vicki Rath and Michelle Marcelia are about to set off on the adâ€"Venture of a lifetime. These two teens, members of the Ventures drum and bugle corps, were chosen to travel to Kobe, clinics to teach members of the Sumanoura girls‘ corps some of the Ventures‘ performing secrets. Also making the trip are Michelie Morey of Kitchener, Ventures‘ executive director David Phillips and his wife, and the Ventures‘ musical director David MacKinnon. Chronicle photo Tenor Frank Patterson a charming Dubliner ON THEIR WAY 11 a m. to 6 pm I pm. to § p.m in Donning bowler hat and auld tweed cap, the friendly Irish tenor teamed with standâ€"up comic/actor pal Des Keogh (married to O‘Grady‘s sister) for Irish ditty McBreed‘s Heifer, written by grandmaster nonsense troubadour Percy French (The Mountains of Mourne, Abdul the Bull). Patterson, returns to Toronto this fall. Let‘s hope the Centre in the Square follows this delightful Irish suit. Patterson performed lovely old favorites When Irish Eyes Are Smiling (flanked with an eager audience singâ€"aâ€"long) Galway Bay, plus renowâ€" nedlIrish composer John McCormick‘s I Hear You Calling Me, and Rose of Tralee, featuring a fauitiess faisetto, mastered through the teachings of great French soprano Janine Micheau, in Patterson‘s formative years and years of training. His ease and relaxed technique on the high notes was incredible, likely the reason he selis out Carnegie Hall. was delighted to receive and perform numerous requests including stunning Irish religious revelaâ€" tion How Great Thou Art, for Social Services Minister John Sweeney. Patterson treated the audience as his preferred houseguests, displaying an instantly likeable stage personna, rather than the usual stuffiness expected from a performer of this calibre. 4 885â€"4280