A number of young people from this province will he among Canadians attending the 6th World Youth Festi- val te be held in Moscow from July Picture above was taken at the 5th reported this week. 28 to August 11, it was World Youth Festival held in Warsaw in 1955. Don't cramp artists, Shepilov declares W° do not want to strait- jacket the artist, to tell him not choose,” former Soviet For- eign Minister Dimitri Shepilov which themes he can or can- declared in an address to the first Congress of Soviet Artists in Moscow. This statement makes it quite clear where the Soviet Com- munist Party stands in the dis- cussions that are now taking placa on the role of art, litera- ture and music in the life of LEGISLATURE ee and. LABOR=PROGRESSIVE POINT of VIEW, by NIGEL MORGAN. the people. “The main thing for artists.’ Shepilov said, “is to get still closer to the people, to pay more attenion to the thoughts, sentiments and feel- ings of Soviet man. “T should like to say only one thing. The bigger the theme. the nearer it is to the thoughts and feelings of the people, the more artistically it must be rea- lized.” “Patronage of art and. on the other hand, the habit of hastily issuing orders instead of ideo- logical education of the artists, arid red tape which imposes upon artists the subjective and at times incompetent opinions by ‘civil servants in the sphere of art’—all this must be over- come. “But while denouncing such shortcomings we shall fight for the utmost strengthening and improvement of ideological-po- litical and party guidance of art for their lies the guaran- tee of its correct development. Shepilov made a strong attack on formation in art and gave an account of a recent visit .o a Paris exhibition, in which “everything we saw seemed to be pathological ravings, a moc- kery of human feelings and imagination,” SAM RUSSELL LO he pe Drama Work- shop of the United Jewish People’s Order announced this week that it had obtained the services of Per-Olof Bendz of Arthur Miller’s play All My Sons. Bendz, an actor and execn- tive member of the Vancouver Little Theatre, comes to the Drama Workshop with a long record of achievement in the field of drama After workng in the Swedish amateur theatre, he migrated LPO se Workshop produce Arthur Mi a to Canada about five years ago. Within these few years he has taken leading roles in such plays as Moliere’s The: {magi- nary Invalid, Chekov’s Marria- ge Proposal and The Boor. It was in the latter play that he won the best actor award in the provincial one-act festival. Bendz has also found time to act as director of entertainment at the Banff Springs Hotel as well as directing such groups as. the Marpole and Sunset Community centres. . plans play ‘ Prior to joining pr Vane ver Drama Workshop, Bé performed in the Vancow Little Theatre production Anastasia, which won top nors in the recently-conclu B.C. Drama Festival. a Lou Osipov, UJPO Dr Workshop production man has announced that the All Sons will be staged at Yor Theatre on April 19-20. Tick will go on sale shortly at Mf dern Music. 4 One question about women nd even asked, let alone answereé T° SURVEY the whole his- tory of woman and. her struggle for emancipation is what you might call a big job. In Woman, The Dominant Sex Hendrik de Leeuw has tried to do this — not alto- gether successfully . In 176 pages he has attempted to cover the place of woman in various religions, the gradual removal of some of her handi- caps, the enormous advances of the last 100 years, and to give a general survey of her position in the modern world. He has dealt with the posi- tion of women in Japan, and the fine distinctions between geisha, singsong girl, prosti- tute and concubine; the So- viet Union, with a very fair picture of what socialism has meant to Russian women; France and Britain, where he concludes, the husband is still the head of the household; and the changes just beginning to penetrate the life of the Moslem woman. Such a wide field necessarily leads to generalisations which are unconsciously funny in their naivete “Let us admit that the sex practice has been a fait oc- compli for thousands of years.’ “(The French) realize that sex is here to stay.” “The- Russians are not what “one might call sexless individ- uals.” “French women never for- get that they are feminine first and human afterwards.” “American women are a great deal more complicated than they look.” But de Leeuw is not wholly superficial. The real study of his book is the American wo- man and her increasing dom- inance of the social scene. The advances in science and labor-saving devices have led to more American women be- ing able to go out to work. This, says de Leeuw, has led to the decline of the home and, consequently, to the de- x cline of marriage. He devotes several chapters to the breaking down of the taboos on sex and its conse- quences — particularly the ex- ploitation of sex in American -; life, in films, plays, and in ad- vertisements, as a commod- ity for mass sale. But, I ask, is this really a consequence of the education and emancipation of women, or is a product of capitalist society? Egyptian government. Foreign reports that Egypt is secretly offering treas from the tomb of Tutankhamen for sale in order ™ plenish its treasury have been categorically denied by © MARCH 22, 1957 — PACIFIC snmune—Padt Surely it is the Ameri way of life which is -respt sible for the increasing. vorce rate, juvenile delinqU®) cy figures, and statistics neurosis—and not, Leeuw would have us bell the growing dominance 0 American woman? g I think that de Leeuw standing on his head; and, surprisingly, this leads hit be slightly hysterical sf estimation of women. : ROSEMARY SM.