Playbills (1)

Not a lot of time to post today, so here is a selection of Players' Guild of Hamilton playbills involving Bill and / or Joyce.

The Sound Girl

Remember the girl in the CKOC control room?

That's Joyce Parker, who also ran the sound for Players' Guild productions and, in a pinch, did bit parts in some of the Guild's children productions such as "Robin Hood" (that's Joyce on the far right):

The Hamilton Players' Guild

Bill's main interest was acting. In fact he originally trained as a radio actor, but took up news reading because the paychecks were regular. After he moved to Hamilton, he joined the Players' Guild, Canada's oldest continuously operated amateur theatre group. There was a close affinity between the Guild and the local radio and television personalities and Bill wasn't the only one to get involved.
He made his debut in the 1959 season as "Yank" in "The Hasty Heart", with his good friend Frank Aldous.