Stratford’s Festival Theatre, 1972

52. See almost any issue of the Globe in Jan. 1847. 53. Bathurst Courier, 10 Nov. 1846. 54. T.P.L., R. Baldwin Papers, Fergusson to Baldwin, 4 Aug. 1846. 55. Examiner, 4 Jan. 1849. 56. The Cameron Act is printed in D.H.E., VIII, 167-85. 57. See D.H.E., VIII, 242. 58. Examiner, 26 Dec. 1849. 59. Huron Signal, 10 Jan. 1850. Similarly see the Signal, 13 Dec. 1849 and the Bathurst Courier, 24 Aug. 1849. 60. Bathurst Courier, 24 Aug. 1849. 61. Quoted in Sissons, 11, 160. 62. See ibid., 159-60. 63. Pilot, 16 July 1850. The Globe, as party organ, uncomfortably hewed to the same line. See, for example, 10 Jan. 1850. S4. T.P.L., R. Baldwin Papers, A. E. MacDonell to Baldwin, 29 Apr. 1848. 65. Ibid., G. W. Ridout to Baldwin, 29 Apr. 1848. 66. Ibid., Jos. Morrison to Baldwin, 27 May 1849. 67. See, for example, P.A.C., LaFontaine Papers, Baldwin to LaFontaine, 23 Apr. and 18 Sept. 1844. 68. See the Pilot, 3 June 1844. 69. For example, see the Pilot, 13 and 29 Nov. 1844. 70. Pilot, 3 Nov. 1846. 71. Pilot, 3 May 1845. 72. See Sissons, II, 166-67. 73. T.P:L., R. Baldwin Papers, Hincks to Baldwin, 30 Oct. 1849. 74. For example, see the Pilot, 20 Dec. 1849. 75. Examiner, 3 Apr. 1844. 76. Compare, for example, his "lack of power," D.H.E., VII, 109, para. 5, and his "veto power," D.H.E., VIII, 236, para. 6 - the one a public, the other a private document. The idea, moreover, that the "Board has no authority of any kind" (see the former reference) hardly corresponds Stratford's Festival Theatre, 1972 JOHN PETTIGREW August was slightly rocky, for, after only one Stratford's twentieth season (and thank goodness that they didn't make a big fuss about it) was in all probability the most controversial of all. Generally, reviewers comments on individual productions ranged from the ecstatic to the damning, and so to judge from friends' violently contradictory assessments and from eavsdropping on the protracted verbal fisticuffs in the Avon bar and other cultural centres - did those of the general public. The one exception to the controversy over 48 to what the Act Itself clearly says. As John Carroll remarked , "that he [Ryerson] knows how to conceal the objectionable parts of his projects is no doubt true, but that he does more of it than his opponents would if they could is doubtful." J. W. Grant, ed., Salvation! 0 The Joyful Sound (Toronto, 1967), 247. 77. See D.H.E., VIII, 225ff. 78. For example, on the Municipal Bill of 1841. 79. For example, T.P.L., R. Baldwin Papers, James Jones to Baldwin, 10 Apr. 1848; David Willson to Baldwin, 18 May 1849. 80. Ibid., Merritt to Baldwin, 18 Feb. 1843. 81. P.A.0., W. H. Merritt Papers, Pkge. 28, D'Everardo to Merritt , 17 July 1847. 82. Globe, 27 Jan. 1847. 83. See for example the Globe, 16 Jan~ 1847 and 25 Apr.1849. 84. Globe, 27 Jan. 1847. 85. The decision of the Executive Council and the committee report on which it is based can be found in P.A.C., RG1, E1, Vol. J., 546. 86. The Act of 1850 is printed in D.H.E., IX, 31-49. See Section XXXIV. 87. See D.H.E., IX, 11-17. 88. North American, 11 June 1850. 89. Quoted in the North American, 18 June 1850. 90. See Huron Signal, 10, 17, 21 Jan. 1850. 91. Huron Signal, 27 June 1850. 92. Bathurst Courier, 17 Aug. 1849. 93. Examiner, 29 Aug. 1849. 94. Examiner, 31 July 1850. 95. Examiner, 5 Jan. 1853. Similarly see the North American, 11 Jan. 1853; Huron Signal, 14 Apr. 1853. 96. The phrases are from Strachan's Report on Education of 1815, quoted in Spragge, 75-79. the offerings at the Festival and Avon theatres was Goldsmith's great classic, She Stoops to Conquer. Its opening early in preview, the timing was frequently off, but even on opening night, it was clearly a production of enormous promise, promise redeemed within the first...