CANADIAN AUTHOR OF PLAY
Hugh Garner, one of' Canada’s best short storywriters and novelists, is the author of a play, Some Are So Lucky, which screens this afternoon. Rod Murphy, a prosperous man in his thirties, discovers an old girl friend. Ethel, working in a dress shop. They go out for a drink to talk about old times 15 years before. What unfolds is two people who were different from each other then and are poles apart now. Rod had been deeply in love with Ethel, was rebuffed, has never married and is now a sJf-possessed, successful, boring, careful man. Ethel who was pretty and popular once, is now "a bit cheap. She drinks too much and her marriage is pretty shaky. They finally quarrel and go their own ways, both convinced that they were very lucky their romance stopped when it did.
The story was adapted byBryan Barney and directed by Rene Bonniere, and stars Jackie Burroughs and Michael Tait.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33450, 4 February 1974, Page 4
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