PAGE 10 Septerrber 19, 1985 @ IS ° kaw HK Anke kkk * K Houle ye pe MF ore oy x FF 50t DOK ent MH HT cn x * e%y cai gust * M it x *« ne com Kandy * + * ot AS wv x x b wo 9 ne, 0 - \\ une . Ww oF ants! gee 3 20 on Wwe ; : ov a A) € e\o e Oy ov \ es ine” gi ac ye?! ge ot) WS S Aine Yon ' 0 a ~ pel& \u Ae acd Bhodwe chy ene! our’ aoe ny 0e Xt: es ae cine. Ne ta Fu. oe”. gn woot, eat ie ee S Bee Soh oon wre “aot \ oxen 5 te Grates sa, Wh = was pre? at LG> ot Fr We Ngo BY weal ae Sue? ne MN \2 “Smid Ga Gin® PON’ or \ ‘gi Bho eA BOGAN e me NE * - Bene MISS oo Wh® 2\c0 AoE AHS ae NE * - Ao 08 kot - ott There are crossroads in peoples lives, points of decision which can make all the difference between success and happiness and fear and by Jeremy Bloom Failure. Should 1 take the job in Prince Rupert? Should | major in Commerce or English Lit? Should | person, or is he/she as much of a jerk as | think they are? Salt Water Moon is a love story that takes place at one of those crossroads. Mary Snow (Leslie Jones) is to be married in a month to Jerome. He’s well educated, a very nice guy, a bit thin, and dull, and balding, but the son of the wealth- iest man in the county. She doesn’t love him, but she thinks she could learn to. He’s Mary’s ticket out of 1920’s Newfoundland poverty, out of her hated servants job. And he’s Mary’s only hope of getting her younger sister out of the hell of an orphanage. But then her old boyfriend comes knocking on her door on a moon drenched night. Jacob (Brian Mulligan) had gone off to Toronto spur-o-the-moment a year before, not even saying goodbye, and now he fits into Mary’s hopes and plans like a brick in a_ stained glass window. But there were reasons, there are explanations, and there Qn ie | PARP OULL BY’ Hie ORR TS spend the rest of my life with this. is - Entertainment ek RRO ok sek IR x rr * was some real feeling between them. He’s quite the talker, loaded down with Irish Charm, and against her better judgement, Mary finds herself falling back under his spell. We know what Mary’s choice will be. This is the third play by maritimer David French about Mary and Jacob Mercer, but it pre-dates the other two by twenty years. So we already know what a mess their marriage will become, how Jacob -here a charming, self-confident young spinner of tales - will turn into a pig-headed, distant man in his middle age, incapable of dealing with his wife and sons. Mary knows better. ‘‘I’ve never met anyone who could make me as cross as a hornet as you could,’’ she says, and she is still furious at the way he walked out on her a year ago without a word of explanation or farewell. But she loves the spirit of him, the fire in him. She buys the romantic dream, and pays... Is this a happy story? It is very amusing at times, and the estranged lovers come together in the end. French draws you into the lives of his characters, the rich life and desperate poverty of Newfoundland in 1926, with the sure hand of an expert craftsman who loves his material. But it is not a happy story. Salt Water Moon is playing at the Waterfront Theatre (Granville Ct