OSCAR WILDE'S classic comedy of manners, The Importance of Being Earnest, will be
mounted at the Presentation House, Feb. 17-26. The West Coast Master Class production,
directed by NEWS theatre critic Martin Millerchip, stars (L-R) Shawn Macdonald, Silver
Brobst, Katey Wright, Alan Campbell and Allan Morgan as Lady Bracknell.

On this day in history

BORN ON this day in history
were filmmakers Robert
Flaherty, in 1884, and fohn
Schlesinger, in 1926.

The former, a one-time
explorer, created the classic
Nanook of the North, regarded
as the first significant documen-
tary ever made.

The fatter directed Sunday,
Bloody Sunday and the contro-
versial Jon Voight-Dustin
Hoffman vehicle, Midnight
Cowboy.

Meanwhile, in India in 1887,
the jubilee of British queen
Victoria is celebrated with the
freeing of 25,000 prisoners.

in 1939, American women

were thrown into a shopping
frenzy with the release of nylon
stockings.

The material’s inventor,
chemist W.H. Caraothers, died
shortly after patenting the materi-
al two years prior. He never lived
to see the rise of its popularity.

In other fashion news, Coco
Chanel, known as the High
Priestess of Style, squashed the
corset in 1923.

She reportedly considered
fashion as architecture..

British actor Alan Bates will
celebrate his 60th birthday
tomorrow, a date which also
marks the deaths in 1982 Lee
Strasburg and Thelonius Monk.

NEWS photo Mike Wakellold

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