pt. 1 - Donna Butt's reasons for joining the Mummer's Troupe were more political than artistic', but she has become increasingly committed to a career in the theatre as an actor, director and co-founder of Rising Tide Theatre. -- pt. 2. Stella Burry trained as a deaconess at the Methodist Training College in Toronto, returning to St. John's as a social worker in the depressed economic conditions of 1938.