Considering she’d never met the man, my mother certainly had her share of William Shatner stories. There’s the one where they’d both gone to the same high school in Montréal, even if they were seven years apart. There’s another where she first saw him perform at the Mountain Playhouse; and then maybe the early years in Stratford, but she’d lost all her programmes to a basement flood and couldn’t be sure. Oh, and one more about how she had to convince 11-year-old me it really was Captain Kirk in those
Loblaw’s commercials, because he looked so weird out of uniform.
Inspired by
Winter Whiteouts and Memory Blizzards. The 1950 photo of the
Mountain Playhouse is from the
Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, where I also found one of the Playhouse
programmes from 1952, which lists Mr. Shatner in two roles: “Richard Stanley” in
The Man Who Came to Dinner and as the Assistant Manager of the Playhouse itself.
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