Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Christopher Plummer, who had a Broadway triumph as the Earl of Warwick in The Lark (TIME, Nov. 28, 1955), was cast in the title role. Opposite him, as the French King Charles VI, Langham put Gratien Gélinas, the ranking clown of French-Canadian musical revues. Members of Montreal's theatrical corps, schooled in the French acting tradition, were brought to Stratford to people the French scenes. The play was a solid hit, with Shakespeare's French and English contrasts made twice as vivid as a one-language company could play them. The effect in the battle...
Last week, it was the French Canadians' turn to take top billing. Twelve players from Montreal's Théâtre du Nouveau Monde turned in crackling, rapid-fire performances of three Molière one-act plays. Most of their audience was English-speaking, but the French actors' skilled miming as they romped through the Molière farces got the meaning across. The addition of the French plays and French style to the Stratford program was hailed not only as a theatrical coup, but also as a rare illustration of Canada's dual culture...
Canadian Petrofina set up its first office in a one-room Montreal apartment, opened its first service station late in 1953. Since then, the company has opened 1,500 stations in Eastern Canada and is currently building new ones at the rate of three every two days, aiming for a total of 2,200 by the end of this year. Capitalized at $25 million when it began, Canadian Petrofina is now worth around $130 million. Its stock, sold for $10 in 1953, is now quoted at $29 a share...
...Pointe aux Trembles on Montreal Island last week, Petrofina opened a new $30 million refinery, designed by Belgian Engineer Baron Prosper de Haulleville. The plant will give year-round service to the company's Eastern Canada outlets. Crude oil will be carried by tanker from Petrofina wells in Kuwait, fed into a pipeline at Portland, Me., then piped more than 200 miles to Montreal so that the flow can be maintained even when the St. Lawrence River is frozen over. Later, Petrofina plans to branch out to Western Canada and eventually to have service stations from coast to coast...
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