An evening with Slade Hopkinson
Chase Manhattan Bank is sponsoring today a one man stage production by Slade Hopkinson, one of Guyana’s artists of the theatre.
‘An evening with Slade Hopkinson’ will be seen at the Theatre Guild and later this week at some of the chief educational institutions in Georgetown.
The evening will offer a varied theatrical experience.
The presentation will consist of three parts: characterizations of Shakespeare’s tragic heroes, readings from Slade Hopkinson’s poetry, and dramatizations from West Indian fictions.
Slade Hopkinson was born in New Amsterdam Guyana.
He has lived and worked in Guyana, all over the West Indies and the United States.
He had his first experience as an actor when he was still a schoolboy at Harrison College, Barbados.
He played Brutus in a production of   ‘Julius Caesar’ and received reviews that expressed astonishment that so mature a performance could have been given by a seventeen year old boy.
Since then he has acted with the University Players  and the West Indian players in Jamaica, Yale University Drama School  and the Trinidad Theatre Workshop in the United States , the Theatre Guild in Guyana and the Caribbean Theatre Guild in Trinidad.
During his years in Jamaica, he helped to make a considerable critical reputation for both the University Players and the West Indian Players performing the lead and directing a production of ‘King Lear’.  (Guiana Graphic – January 9, 1973).
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BOY KILLED BY LADDER
A SIX-year-old boy died on his way to hospital while his seven-year-old cousin was admitted to the Georgetown Hospital in a critical condition shortly after a ladder fell on them.
Reports state that Rohan Jagdeo and Cecil Mangru of Better Hope were playing near a ladder which was left leaning against a house in the district when it fell on them.
Cecil is nursing multiple injuries and his condition was described as still serious by a hospital spokesman. (Daily Chronicle January 9, 1973)

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Chamber opens doors to ‘small man’
The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce at a special general meeting on Thursday amended its constitution to provide for a new category of Associate Member paving the way for admission to the Chamber of corner drugstores, business agencies and small industrial establishments all paying special subscription rates.
But while Associate members will be afforded the same rights and privileges as other members with respect to protection, representation and the liberty to raise issues affecting the interest of commerce and industry they will not be allowed to vote or serve on the Council, a release from the Chamber said yesterday.
This new move of extending membership to the smaller man in the business community is another effort by the Chamber to genuinely serve both the Guyanese nation and the business community in a more  effective way and is within the Object of the Chamber’s Ordinance of Incorporation, the release said.
The Chamber will ensure that the new category of members will maintain the continued high moral and ethical standards displayed by other members and in this regard will take rigid disciplinary action to ensure compliance with respect to rules and regular business ethics. (Guyana Graphic January 7, 1973)

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GO-CARTS
The new craze: Go-carts. You push it from behind and I steer it with my feet and if I tilt over I don’t have far to go to reach the ground. Top speed is also well within the safety limits. Those are the good points about the home-made Go Carts boys are operating nowadays. They say they make it themselves. (Daily Chronicle January 7, 1973)

Clifford Stanley can be reached to discuss any of the foregoing articles at cliffantony@gmail.com or cell phone # 657 2043.