"She asked why and I said 'For heaven's sake we put that play on years and years and years ago when I was just a girl. I want to see it again," "Then Agnes called me one morning and said she had heard it over CBC." "We wanted to see the play we did so many years ago," says Mrs, Dickson. "We wanted to see our parts and how they did them and compare what we did to how they did it...and to see ourselves sort of because it was a long time ago since we put on the play." RELIVE THE PAST With Mrs. Howatt 's daughter in the driver's seat, the three friends left for Georgetown on a Tuesday evening about three weeks ago. In a plastic bag Mrs. Dickson carried that old black-and-white photo¬ graph. The women arrived at the playhouse, took their seats and watched the show with great interest. "It was really good," Mrs. Howwatt re¬ calls. "They were on the stage saying their parts and it was bringing it all back. You could remember. You knew exactly what was coming next." "It stays with you," adds Mrs. Dickieson who still remembers the feelings of nervousness before going on stage so many years ago. "You'd get butterflies...afraid you'd forget your lines." But it was different this time. The women could relive their roles without getting on stage. RUSH BACKSTAGE They could watch and make their own observations. After the show they rushed backstage to meet their characters. Mrs. Dickson pulled out her photograph and showed the actors, who were thrilled to meet the three women. "They all did their parts well but I told them their garden scene wasn't as pretty as ours was," laughs Mrs. Howatt . "We had beds of tulips and everything. They didn't have anything like that;" "I think the stage setting added to ours. We had a real English garden," says Mrs. Dickieson . "We made thousands of roses out of crepe paper." 21