A spirited response
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Four such. MLAs, according to COMPASS sources, this week paid a call on the Attorney General, Mr. David Barwick, and protested, on behalf of a local church organisation, the announced arrival in the colony on Friday, 13 December, of a "world famous spiritual medium" bearing the name of "Madame Arcati". That truth is stranger than fiction figures prominently in the story.
So far as reports go, the Glass House visit is truth. But Madame Arcati is fiction, being, as she is, simply a character in an upcoming Cayman Drama Society production of Noel Coward's "Blithe Spirit." In real life Madame Arcati is local the spian Judy Dredge. To end the confusion, we explain. The Drama Society, as it often does, is running a series of advertisements in the classified section of this newspaper. The first appeared in the Friday, November 9. edition, and read thus:
"MADAME ARCATI, world famous spiritual medium will be summoning the spirit world on Friday, December 13, at 8 o'clock p.m. in the Town Hall. Book from page 1 your seats now. No one allowed in after doors closed."
The play in question revolves around a man whose wife has died and who is now remarried, but who is plagued by "visitations" of his former spouse. He calls in a medium to make contact with his dead wife.
A leader of a prominent local church saw the advertisement and reacted. A "sorceress" coming to Cayman? No way! The AG must hear of it.
Of course the entire matter was explained, and all no seems to be well, and, we understand, the original objector may be presented with a complimentary ticket to the C.D.S premiere.
From a business standpoint, the COMPASS advertising manager is pleased that patrons of this paper read every line with such acuteness.
