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Canada'sBirthplaceO Montreal Election Probe Finishes MONTREAL (CP) -- Aa in| Drama Host To Festivals: tween $1.50 and $2.50 a ticket they Canadian Press Staff Writer |expect to fulfil this commitment. HALIFAX (CP -- Nova Scotia,| Part of Mr. Ross' staff spend where Canadian drama was born | four to five hours a day planning 880 years ago, plays host next | the big week. Along with other th for the first time to the Working groups, they grapple with infon Drama Festival. |a variety of problems. The first Canadian play was For example, a list of required produced in 1908 in the French items reads like this: 3,500 sheets settlement of Port Royal, mow of correspondence paper; 6,000 Annapolis Royal, about 130 miles programs; 250 convention envel- west of here. It is one historical [opes; 9,600 tickets; hotel space fact visitors will be reminded of for more than 300 people: meals, when the festival is staged in this coffee, luncheons and other sun- port cty May 12-17. |dries for actors and stage hands. About 12 city organizations, |The festival pays for it all. hpaded by the Board of Trade, | Apart from the serious business are combining original ideas with of drama, visitors will be feted a $20,000 budget to make the fest. at several civic banquets, tour ival a success. [the city in buses and cruise Hal- HOPE TO BREAK EVEN ifax Harbor in a destroyer, Trade board president Ken|gcorTISH TOUCH Ross, chairman of the festival or-| ganizing committee, says grants| Badges imprinted with lobsters of $2,000 from the Nova Scotia Will be distributed. Scottish pipers government and $1,000 from the Will escort Nova Scotia's lieuten- city will help to pay the bills,|a0t - governor Maj.-Gen. E. C, "But this isn't a profit-making [Plow to the opening play. And on venture," Mr. Ross adds. "If we the final night when awards are break even, it's all we can ask," Presented, pipers will do a similar To break even the committee|chore for Governor-General Vin- must sell out for six nights and cent Massey, honorary festival two matinees the 1,200-seat high |Patron. school auditorium where the eight] Donald Wetmoe, By JOE DUPUIS drama ad- plays will be presented. At be-|viser for the province's education day. department, says happily: "I've | attended so many festivals and es. atice Wikd Lazu, who: received such a big lift . . 1 send a written report to chief! couldn't wait to get the festivallg i iora) "officer Nelson Caston-| here so all of us working in guay by early May. { drama in Nova Scotia can know The Inquiry raguested by the how it feels." d | Liberal and Progressive Conserv- Mr. Veamon is in charge of 4, candidates in the riding, in-| the theatre conference, a recent |yesigated charges of padding the| festival innovation. It's aim is tol. uicion™ ist forgery and at-| stimulate discussion of theatre ation nied telegraphing J lan advanced level and "initiate Wore than 1.000 3 0 " " [ways of getting more and better|, "04" on "the » oh groups. were investigated by the RCMP] Among prominent speakers dur-| going door-to-door. More than 400] ing the week will be Toronto|,s the applications were sald to |eritic Herbert Whittaker and Brit- pe pogys, |ain's Michael St. Dennis, found f the Old Vie Dram ntre in Sone, 8 Cue PRICE WAR CONTINUES Silver . colored programs will] WINDSOR (CP) -- The price of; commemorate the 25th anniver-|standard gasoline may fall to 25 sary of the festival, first held at cents a gallon before a price war Ottawa In April, 1933. It will mark here is settled, D. F. Fletcher, the second time the festival has been held in the Maritimes. The|secretary of the Ontario Retail 1952 festival was at Saint John, Gasoline D eal ers Association, N.B. {said Tuesday. 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