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Ian Pratt is an Associate Professor Emeritus in the UBC Dept. of Theatre and Film. First employed there as a stage technician in 1961, he joined the faculty 10 years later and taught stage lighting, scenery construction and other stage crafts until his retirement in 2004. From 1974 to 2003 he was the Technical Director of the Frederic Wood…
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Barney Potts we was born April 25, 1910 in Harrogate, Eng. He led bands in the 1930s in Vancouver nightspots like the Alma Academy, Happyland, the Cinderella Ballroom, the Quadra Club, Mandarin Gardens, Odyssey Room and The Narrows. He performed in musicals in the 1940s, and spent 12 years with Theatre Under the Stars. Accompanied…
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Polson, Arthur (Ludwig). Violinist, composer, conductor, b Vancouver 2 Mar 1934, d there 25 Feb 2003. Polson began violin lessons with his father at four and studied subsequently in Vancouver and at the Music Academy of the West, Santa Barbara, Calif, and privately in New York. He was a member 1954-62 of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra…
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Hugh Pickett was born in Vancouver in 1913. As a teenager he discovered his passion for entertainment and entertainers while working weekends as an usher at the Orpheum. During World War II, he served in the Canadian army, working for military brass in Vancouver organizing visiting movie stars’ tours to overseas military bases. Postwar, New…
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Born in Vancouver in 1923. Betty (Muriel) Phillips. Mezzo-soprano, actress, BA (British Columbia) 1976.  She began her singing career in Richmond High School musicals and appeared at TUTS for the first time in a 1946 production of Robin Hood and subsequently played leads in more than 20 TUTS productions until 1960; she is best remembered…
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