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Actress Valerie Boyle took over Eleanor's PAL apartment and keeps a picture of Eleanor frolicking at the PAL Celebrity Club on her door, with the caption "Eleanor Beecroft lived here". PAL "PALS" Kenny Wickes and David Cargill are helping Eleanor with plans for her 100th Birthday Celebration. Can it possibly be more fun than her 90th? (Kenny and Vern Chapman promise an updated version of their singing tribute to Eleanor that brought the house down at the 90th!

Kenny's first appearance in Canada, coming from England after the war, was in "She Stoops to Conquer" with Eleanor shining as "Mrs. Hardcastle". Later they played together in New Brunswick for Walter Learning in "The Incredible Murder of Cardinal Tosca". Eleanor played a housekeeper in the first act and a Madame (Mother Midnight who runs a brothel) in the second act. Kenny says " she played both parts to the hilt". 

Eleanor recalls the terror of doing her first live TV Drama around 1955. She played Mom to Kate Reid and me. Kate played a blind girl who had fallen in love with a black man (the handsome and imposing William Marshall) but in true 1950‘s fashion, her uptight and prejudiced sister broke up the relationship. Barbara Chilcott and Charmion King recall looking up to Eleanor when they were all early "Straw Hat" players and she performed regularly with the Alumnae Theatre through the years.


 
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