RECORDS Folkways record of Rawhide best of irrepressible Canadian A CURIOUS phenomenon. in ‘radio, no longer new but still as novel as the day he be- gan, is the irrepressible Max - Ferguson — better known to CBC listeners from Newfound- land to Victoria as Rawhide. (Heard in Vancouver: Monday through Thursday from 6:00 to 6:15 p.m.) His’ program includes witty satires, parodies, and barbed comments on just about every- thing, including the CBC. With folk music.and general non- sense, this talented mimic — he has about two dozen distinctive voices at his command — runs one of the. most popular Cana- dian radio institutions. Now Folkways Records has issued a 45-minute helping of “The Rawhide Little Theatre Playhouse.” (12” Folkways FP 86-2, $5.95.) It includes a slight- ly amputated version of the famous Defense of Rawhide, in which Rawhide’s friends defend him from the charge that he is “slightly more than pink.” This “defense” is the kiss of ! % Vancouver 4, B.C. . “Times rauning out This year why not give a gift subscription to the Pacific Tribune ? Circulation Manager, Pacific Tribune, Room 6 - 426 Main St., Please send the PACIFIC TRIBUNE for: “a notice announcing your gift will be sent to the person for whom you subscribe. death, of. course. Out of 50 million cowboy songs, his friends ask, what does he play? “There’s A Love Knot in My Proletariat, Lenin on the Old Toprail, and other “red” songs. The skit originated while Ferguson was under attack for his forthright views, especially in slamming Senator Joseph McCarthy. The record also includes his hilarious take-off on Wuthering Heights, a devastating satire on soap operas: The Nymph and The Lump (with apologies to Thomas Raddell, we hope), and a skit on the CBC series for correct English pronunciation: So To Speak. The announcer informs us that “Englitch well spoke is a real euphemism.” This is clever stuff, valuable for entertaining and impressing your friends, but (let’s face it) it. doesn’t wear that well. You won’t want to listen to it more often than once a month or so. ge nae Tom Lehrer is a wit with quite another approach, but his satire is no less penetrating. SERIO ISSA ESA SOG EM OR OTR TRE IE IOS I IE NE ISS 5S SS INES NIE i ERE EDS BE SCE OS ee as ws ses Yank te ses eset sce se esse Six months $1.60 CI One year $3.00 C Fd To INA er 8 a a ee 5 ABDRESNE oo 2 a a ee : cay eet gar ee ged Unies oe coer tie Yi . Y From NAN Sc es Se : PEN INGS ee ee ge § Lehrer sings satirical songs bas- ed on Tin Pan Alley banalities. Lehrer Records No. 1 ($6.50) | has 12 examples of his “so-call- ed voice,” wonderful timing and’ mimicry, and clever lyrics of Lehrer’s “own devising. His broadsides at college songs, boy scouts, atom bombs, race hat- red, and other topics, embody mature satire which becomes downright savage at times. In I Wanna Go Back To Dixie, a takeoff on the Jolsen brand of white chauvinism, he sings nostagically of “whuppin’ slaves and sellin’ cotton” and of ~““Swanee where the pellagra makes you scrawny.” He con- cludes this hilarious ballad with: “J want to talk with southern gentlemen And put on my white sheet again; * : I haven’t seen one good lynch- ing in years. The land of the boll weevil Where the laws are medieval Is calling me to come and never more roam. I want to go back to the south- land, That ‘you all’ and mouth’ land — Be it never so decadent, there’s no place like home.” In The Wild West Is Where I Want To Be, Lehrer satirizes at once the intolerable cowboy hit parade and the rape of Nevada) by the atomaniacs. ‘Where the scenery’s attractive and the air’s radioactive” he observes, ‘Til watch the guided missiles while the old FBI watches me.” ‘There are lots more sallies equally pricesless. It’s the best thing to come this way since The Investigator. ‘shut my N. E. STORY MUSIC His example GRRE SS Santa’ union workshop . These smiling workers, doubling as Santa’s helpers, are members of United Auto Workers’ Local 222 and its ladies auxiliary, whose strike against General Motors — richest cot poration in the world—in Oshawa, Scarboro, St. Catherines, Lon- don and Windsor, is now in its third month. ' DRAMA British production of Hamlet thrills Moscow STAR-STUDDED audience of 1,200 last week acclaim- ed Hamlet, first appearance on the Moscow stage by a British company since the Revolution, with. 13 curtain calls. Actors and actresses, writers and leaders of Soviet cultural life led the audience in applau- ding the first night performance which Moscow radio described as “an enormous success.” Produced by 30-year-old Peter Brook and starring Paul Sco- field as Hamlet, and 23-year-old blonde Mary Ure as Ophelia, Hamlet is playing at the branch will inspire, writes Joe Hill's sister ‘eg sister of Joe Hill hopes “.. his ideas, his strong be- lief for a peaceful, creative and healthy world should also in- .spire the present generation to follow with renewed strength in his footsteps.” A letter from the sister, Mrs. Ester Dahl of Stockholm, Sweden, was published in the November 19 edition of Labor’s Daily, national labor paper, published at Charleston, West Virginia. November 19 was the exact 40th anniversary of the execution in Salt Lake City of the Swedish-born labor song- writer for a crime of which he swore his complete innocence. Her letter said: “On the 19th of November, I wish to send you a greeting ¥ and a heartfelt thanks to all y % who have offered their time and work in research which has proved that my brother was innocent of the crime for which BIS PRC PEK EA EIS PIN PR PSS IK ERIS BEE PSS RS SE LS PS PRE VEE BEY he was executed. “That his memory be cleared, bright and beautiful, and that you honor him on the 40th year after his execution brings hap- piness to me, his youngest sis- ter. “As his ashes were strewn all over the world, so also do I hope that his ideas, his strong belief for a_ peaceful, creative and = healthy world should also inspire the present generation to follow with re- newed strength in his footsteps.” , theatre of Moscow’s famous Art Theatre for 12 performances before opening at the Phoenix Theatre in London, on Decem- ber 8. All tickets for the first night —and all subsequent perform ances—were sold out long be fore the curtain went up. Nikolia Okhlopkoyv, vetera? director of Moscow’s Mayako- vsky Theatre, welcomed thé British actors and actresses 7 a two-minute speech before the curtain rose on a $6,000 set % — Elsinore brought from Brital™ which will be left behind as # gift for the Soviet theatre. Greetings “the messengers of ’ the British theatre,” Okhlopko¥ said that Hamlet opening 19 Moscow “was an event of out- standing importance ‘in oU! cultural life.” Se _ Then there was.a bouquet % flowers from Russian actress Alla Tarosova for Peter Brook who replied in Russian. “We at@ happy to be here in MoscoW where everybody is so good and so kind,” he said. whe The first night audience 1 cluded Svetlana Stalin, the laté Premier Stalin’s daughter, olg Knipper-Chekhova, actres® widow of Anton Chekhov, com poser Aram Khachaturian, bal _lerina Maya Plysetskaya, DepU Foreign Minister Valery Zor? and other leading art and litet ~ ary personalities. A party brought by thé British Ambassador, Sir Willia™ Hayter, included foreign diplo mats and the Bishop of Fulha™ who is visiting Moscow. i onor —10 no 10 Refreshments —0nHN6S—10r1 A000 —OMIOr NFLY CONVENTION DANCE ‘Saturday, December 3 — 9 p.m. Clinton Hall — 2605 E. Pender - Music by the COMBO _ fl ° ve Admission - 50¢ omer omore PACIFIC TRIBUNE — DECEMBER 2, 1955 — PAGE 8 | ous | ° d ts ‘ “\