Dorothy Somerset, Bullock-Webster

[Alex Hawkins]

Dear Moira,
        I don't have exactly the information you're looking for, but I do
have something that you (and others on CANDRAMA) may be interested in:
it's a photograph of the D.D.F. Executive Committee, meeting at the
Palliser Hotel in Calgary during the 1950 DDF national competition, on May
9, 1950.
        It is a group photograph, with the following people arrayed around
a large table in one of the function rooms of what was then the most
luxurious hotel in the city:  J. Phelps, Betty Mitchell, Pauline McGibbon,
D. Park Jamieson, Dr. H. Skinner, Major Brown, Father Emile Legault,
Dorothy Somerset, Robertson Davies, Gwillym Edwards, Mrs. White, Roy
Stewart, William Reid, Dick Macdonald, and Jessie Richardson.  The reason
that I am so fond of this photograph is that not only does it show all
these people together in one place, but also, many of them are at the most
robust time of their lives, pictured at a time when the D.D.F. itself was
entering the period of its greatest national influence.
        The original of this photograph is in the Glenbow Museum Archives
in Calgary, in the Betty Mitchell Collection:  M852, volume 8.  I don't
know who took it.
        If you or anyone with CANDRAMA wishes to take a look at the
photograph, I would be willing to share it via fax on request.

Best wishes,
Alex Hawkins
Phone:  (780) 492-8714
E-mail: jhawkins at gpu.srv.ualberta.ca


On March 15, 1999, Moira Day wrote:
>Dear colleagues,
>        I am seeking background information on both Dorothy Somerset and
>Bullock-Webster. To date, I have accessed Jim Hoffman's earlier fine
>article on the Major in TRIC and gone through some of the papers and
>interviews in the provincial archives at Victoria, but if anyone has done
>further work on either person I would be delighted to know. (Given the
>upcoming conference on theatre in British Columbia perhaps I'm hoping my
>request will prove a particularly timely one.)
>        My own research is centered on Elizabeth Sterling Haynes but I
>would very much like to place her career in the context of other drama
>extension people working at the same time. I would be careful to credit any
>help I'm given  on either figure in the book I'm currently writing.
>        Thank you for your help.
>
>Moira Day
>
>Moira Day
>
>Moira Day, Associate Professor of Drama
>moiraday at duke.usask.ca