The Vancouver Sun from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada • 62

EK TERTJltHME NT INGRID'S GIRL IN MOVIE ROME (AP Pia Lind-strom. Ingrid Bergman's 25-year-old daughter, will make her film debut with Sophia Loren and Marcello Mas-troianni. Embassy Pictures announced todav. Miss Lindstrom will play a waitress who flirts with Mastroianni. Sophia Loren plays a prostitute in wartime Naples who finally marries.

Our Chela Has Talent Aplenty By JACK RICHARDS Chela Matthison is young, blonde, beautiful and talented. She has been interested in theatre as long as she can remember. She studied under Verlie Cooter and acted with New Westminster's non-professional Vagabond Players. She attended the University of B.C. summer school of theatre.

Sf BOX OFFICE OPENS FROM TUESDAY, MAY 19th In 1960, she was one of three chosen as B.C.'s first students In the National Theatre School she studied for three years. Now, with her first television lead behind her as Julie in the six-episode Morley Callaghan series More Joy in Heaven, Chela is beginning to feel the vast expanse of Canada confining. "There's not much in the way of stage roles in Toronto," she told The Sun by phone recently, "and in television, use either people they know or import people. That makes you mad. "I would love to come to Vancouver but there is simply nothing there.

I would like to go to New York or London to learn more. I can dance and maybe I could learn to sing and then I could do musical comedy." She landed her leading role by dropping In to the C'BC just hours before she came home for last Christmas to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Rann Matthison of 235 Fifth Avenue, New Westminster. They asked her to come back the next day but when she said she was flying home, the CBC tested her and signed her as Julie in two hours.

Playing that lead hasn't improved the employment situation any. A few bit parts are all that followed. Chela Isn't discouraged. She will stay in Toronto if she gets work. If not, she will try her hand in New York or London.

CHELA MATTfflSON she's got talent Theatrical Boom Hits Chilliwack VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL Seats were acquired from a defunct movie house. Professional specialized construction men volunteered labor and the work was on. Permission was received from Charles Laughton's widow to name the theatre after her illustrious actor husband. The theatre has two innovations. The 43-foot proscenium is only four feet from the nearest of the 130 seats and only 16 feet from the farthest seat The stage also breaks down to become risers around the walls of the auditorium, converting it from proscenium to arena-style theatre.

Plans are to present theatre every Friday and Saturday the year round with a new play every seven weeks beginning with The Great Sebastians which runs to June 13. The new building will also house executive offices, conference room, workshop area, makeup, costume and properties rooms, coffee bar and box office. Opening ceremonies on May 29 begin at 8:15 p.m. with curtain at 8:40 to launch the new venture. It puts Chilliwack in the forefront of the non-professional movement which has seen Vernon and Kel-owna with new theatres, Metro in Vancouver completing its theatre for opening in September and Nanaimo in the beginning of a drive to build a theatre there.

By JACK RICHARDS Chilliwack Players Guild, In one short year, has become a driving force in B.C.'s non-professional theatre world. With only 11 active members, it rehearsed and produced plays in an undistinguished manner in whatever quarters were available, regardless of suitability. They were like a hundred other clubs. Then the very evident spark of non-professional theatre enthusiasm that has swept through the province caught hold. Today, the Guild with more than GO active members are preparing to open the Charles Laughton Theatre May 29 with a production of The Great Sebastians, directed by and starring Richard Savage with Constance Chester and a supporting cast of 19.

It's not surprising', really. The Guild made its presence felt in the Dominion Drama Festival competitions in Vancouver with an Imaginative and daring presentation of Caligula. It did not win but it drew high praise from everyone for its presentation. Just weeks ago, the building committee under Jack Pollock rented a building which had housed an automotive welding shop and the members, social workers, teachers, broadcasters, artists, housewives, students, and business men pitched in and started scrubbing. FESTIVAL July 1 to August 1 Record Advance Sales Show the VIF has a hit programme this year for North America's largest Festival of the Lively Arts! See it all, or choose from this exciting variety! GALA OPENING NIGHT SYMPHONY SJSvSSJ Symphony Orchestra.

Radcliffe Choral Society. Harvard Glee Club in an evening of splendorous music. July 1. Queen Elizabeth 1 neatre. so.au, 54 54.UU, $3 :0.

5J.00. $1.75. TUC CTADC nz TUt DADIC ODCDA DAM CT With the most vi ihum vruxn muui renowned dancers or France. July 2, S. 4.

6. Queen Elizabeth Theatre. $5.00, $4.50, S.DU, $1.0. THE DAMNATION OF FAUST "aFchoi? sinning mcnaro erreau, niarnyn lyier. July 5.

7. Uueen Eliza beth Theatre. $5.50, $4.50, $4.00, $3.25, $2.50, $1.75. World of Art RAYMOND TROUARD French Pianist. July C.

8, Queen Eliza- nnimunu ikuuwiu th Playhouse Snly 14 Queen ElizaDetn By FLORA KYLE Drove over to see a one-man show of semi-naturalist paintings at The Canvas Shack, the work of Robin Mayor, who teaches at Western State College, ca.nc xpt.rj, io.av, THE MERCHANT OF VFkJIfF Tne splendid Compagnie Canadienne mMVlwni Ju Theatre Club production. July 11. Queen Elizabeth Theatre. $4.50, $3.50, $2.50. IRMA I A nnilf Tne saucy Parisian musical version, produced iruriH im vuuu D- Jean and Gabriel Gascon.

July IS August 1 (excluding July 26). Queen Elizabeth Playhouse. Evenings: $4.50, $3.25. Matinees: $3.25, $2.50. NEW YORK PRO-MUSICA ENSEMBLE ue andR eval masters re-created on authentic instruments of past $250riCS' iWlr 1S' 15' Queen EIizabeth Theatre.

$450. $3.50. UfCCT c.fe CTADV A major new production, starring Don McKay nul Jivmi as -Tony" and Marlvs Watters as July 18. 19. 11, 22.

2S. 24. 25. Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Evenings $5.00.

$4.50. $4.00. $3.25. $2.50. $1.75.

Saturdav Matinees Mayor, 27, trained at St. Martin School, London, won a Royal Academy scholarship and did post graduate work to a tired theme titled The Rape. The latter, the largest canvas in the show, must have posed a considerable transportation problem. Desert Noon. Verdant Landscape, The Frog, all make interesting viewing.

Other eye-catchers are seven Oriental panels by Albert Sterling; some good abstracts by Clive Daly and Geoffrey Re s. By the time your viewer got around to seeing the work of another 27-year old artist, A. Skulimoskl's at Studio Art Gallery, half of his group of 14 palette knife works were sold and bound for Seattle with a batch of new canvases for a showing sponsored by Boeing Aircraft Corp. To the home of Michael Horvath for a preview glimpse of some of his Chinese and Canadian water color scenes, prior to their exhibition May 11-17 at Kit-si 1 a Auditorium, 2114 West Fourth, 2-9 p.m. Horvath, whose eventful life makes fiction seem pallid, is related through his mother to the famous Benois family of architects, musicians and artists.

Alexandre Benois, a great-uncle, was the man who inaugurated a new era for the theatre world by first interesting Diaglulev in Russian ballet. Robert Genn's new one-man show at The Art Emporium opens May 21 and continues to June 6. Two paintings by this artist are among rejects for Burnaby Art Society's upcoming show, but at the eastern end of the country, in Montreal, Walter Klin-koff, a leading Canadian art dealer, when shown seven canvases by Genn bought all of them and said: Very promising work, the best I have seen from the West Coast in years." Jurors Jack Long, Ben Metcalte and Abraham Ro-gatnick selected 24 paintings from 140 entries in a variety of mediums for Burnaby Art Society's spring show, scheduled for display May 20 to June 6 at the gallery, 7252 Kingsway. Featured in Vancouver Art Gallery's drive this month for new members is a luncheon May 27, 11 a.m. in the gallery, to which all newcomers are inv'ted.

Richard Simmins, director, will discuss plans for the 1964-65 season, and new. ly-elected president of the Women's Auxiliary, Mrs. K. R. Martin, will reveal projects of her group.

July 1 a Z5. 2:30. $4.00. $3.25, $2.50, $1.75, $1.23. THF IITTIFT riBflK For all children (and their children!) inc LIIILOI IHU.U) iuty S1 ,4 J5 (2 performances daily).

Queen Elizabeth Playhouse. Adults: $250, Children: $1.50. 7171 IFANIMAIRF Sensational song and dance from the Parti UH On the same programme. Roland Pctit's "Ballet de July 28. 2S.

S. SI. Aug. Quetn Elizabeth Theatre. Evenings: $5.50.

$4.50, $4.00. $3 25. $2.50. $1.75. Aug.

1 matinee 2:30: $4.00. $3.25, $2.50. $1.75. $1.25 fDf rilAIADCV ADrUECTDA Ever-popular "Music at 6' series. VtH.

inAfTlDCn UKincJIRA iulr 14 Queen Elizabeth Playhouse. July SI. Vancouver Hotel. Tickets free from CBC, 701 Hornby, 684-0246. ALL SEATS RESERVED For Tickets, Reservations, or Information, Write, Phone, or Coif in Person to: Vancouver Ticket Centre, 630 Hamilton Street, Tel.

63-3255 (open dath except Sunday, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 m. Tickets olso available from: All T. Eaton Co. stores where yon may chary your tickets); Froser Radio, 41st and East Boulevard.

FLORA KYLE at Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris. He has had numerous exhibitions in Britain, France, the West Indies and United States. This is an odd collection of work in which an evocative social commentary, such as a small panel titled Hear provides sharp contrast THE VANCOUVER SUN: May 15, 1964.