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FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1948 THE DAILY TIMES.-GAZETTE Railroads Aided "Alberta Theatre In Pioneer Days Edmonton, Jan, 8 (CP).--On the word of no less authority than the late Senator W. A. (Billy) Griesbach of Edmonton, a railway provided the greatest fillip to dra- matic efforts in the early days of this city and of Alberta. In his autobiography, "I Re- member," Senator Griesbach des- cribed the building of the Calgary and Edmonton Railway from Cal- gary to South Edmonton as the means by which travelling com- panies were able to stage their uctions this far west. "Before the railway came in and rwards we had amateur the- atricals," he said. "If the company did well in the home town, it travelled to Calgary, and one of our amateur shows travelled through the mining towns in the Kootenays." He referred to the then unpre- cedented tour of the La Cigale Comedy Company, which played for 10 weeks in Calgary and, as Edmonton Bulletin proudly recorded in 1896, "every station between there and Vancouver, and at New Whatcom.") Financial embarrassment was nothing new to the thespians of those days, for the newspaper records t the La Cigale Com- any returned "after a most de- ightful and successful tour from every point of view except finan- cially." Senator Griesbach recalled that occasionally an "Uncle Tom's Cabins" production came to town. Robertson's Hall--razed by fire in 1906--was the centre for stage GENERAL WELDING AND REPAIRS! -- BLACKSMITHING -- JOE KAZAKEWICH Phone 4619J 283 Byng Ave. presentations. The early ones had something for all tastes. One "concert" program, held in 1908 in aid of the Edmenton Mechanics' and Literary Institute offered 21 acts, including a mandolin solo and an exhibition of Indian club swinging. 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