Shakespeare on film

T® Varsity Theatre, 4375
West 10th Ave., Vancouver,
Will be Presenting a Shakespear-
®an film festival from August 6

th. ptember 2 inclusive, The

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August

‘ tion 6 with a British produc-
Vist Of Richard II, Filmed in
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ie Produced by Laurence Olivier
E Kop 8SSociation with Alexander
Orda,

fraser also directs and pro-
chug ichard III, Other stars in-
* — John Gielgud, Ralph Rich-

on, Cedric Hardwicke,
4).°° Bloom, Pamela Brown,

f° Clunes and Stanley Baker,

On Friday, August 7, it’s Jos-
: thet; ankiewiez’ American pro-
“iy On of Julius Caesar, Lead-
Players in this 1953 produc-
An are Marlon Brando (Mark

“ohy), James Mason (Brutus),
Cath, Gielgud, (Cassius), Louis
‘Seale (Caesar), Edmond
bor. €n, Greer Garson and De-
Kerr,

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ew.’ Will see Laurence Oliv-
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by Olivier, the cast is comprised
of Robert Newton, Leslie Banks,

Renee Asherton, Esmond Knight,’

Leo Genn, and Felix Aylmer,

A Midsummer Night’s Dream
will be shown on Sunday, August
9. This U.S, version was filmed
in 1935, Cast includes James
Cagney, Olivia de Havilland, Dick
Powell, Joe E, Brown, Hugh Her-
bert, Ian Hunter, Victor Jory,
Mickey Rooney, Anita Louise and
Arthur Treacher,

A joint British-Italian venture
takes over on Monday, August 10,
when Romeo and Juliet will be
screened in Technicolor, Di-
rected and adapted by Renato
Castellani, leading players are
Laurence Harvey (Romeo), Susan
Shentall (Juliet), Flora Robson,
Mervyn Johns, Bill Travers and
Sebastian Cabot,

Macbeth is the fare on Tuesday,
August 11, Lead roles are hand-
led by Maurice Evans and Judith
Anderson,

On Wednesday, August 12, it’s
a Soviet version of Othello, Di-
rected by Sergei Youtkevich, ad-
apted by Boris Pasternak and An-
nha Radlova, it features Servei
Bondarchuk and Irina Skobtseva,
(In Sovcolor),

«Another Soviet production fol-
lows on Thursday, August 13,
This time it’s Yan Fried’s Agfa-
color production of Twelth Night,
Leads are Klara Luchko, Alla
Larionova, V, Medvediev, and M,
Yanshin, -

Yet another Oliver classic will
be shown on Friday, August 14—
Hamlet, Also featured are Fileen
Herlie, Basil Sydney, Jean Sim-
mons, Felix Aylmer andTerence
Morgan, :

The festival lasts until Sep-
tember 2, but films will not be
shown in the same order the se-
cond time around, For some in-
formation, phone CAstle 4-3730

after 6:30 p.m,

Book challenges FBI case

“Oswald: Assassin or Fall Guy?”
by Joachim Joesten. Published by
Marzani'& Munsell. Available at
People’s Co-op Book Store. Price
$4.50.

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Li Joachim Joesten, a free-
lance writer, goes the distinc-
tion of authoring the first U.S,
published book on the case of Lee
Harvey Oswald,

The book is a fast product and
will undoubtedly be followed by
many more comprehensive works
on the subject, New evidence
and material surrounding the as-
sassination of President Ken-
nedy, and on Oswald and Ruby,
is coming to light continually as
we have seen in just the weeks
since the appearance of the books,

Possibly the decisive material
is yet to come, But that in no
way diminishes the value of
Joesten’s book, both as a sum-
mation of the available material
to date and its analyses,

But most important in getting
the book out fast was the stated
objective of the author to in-
fluence a widened investigation
and prevent the “closing” of the
case on Oswald as the sole crim-
inal, and to shift main attention
to the areas, so far ignored,
where those who need an Os-
wald as the “fall guy,” are con-
centrated,

Joesten concludes with the
chapter titled “The Court of Last
Resort” in which he expresses
confidence that popular pressure
for the facts will yet force out
the truth even if it takes a poli-
tical “bombshell.” Joesten
doubts that the Warren report
will depart in essentials from the
findings placed before it by the
1 Bid bs : :

Joesten’s line of examination
of the evidence can be judged
from the fact that he dedicates
the book to Mark Lane, the for-
mer New Your Assemblyman,
who undertook to be Oswald’s
attorney, and presented the War-
ren Commission a brief refuting
or putting in doubt much of the
evidence against Oswald that was
generally taken for granted,

Joesten enlarges on that ma-
terial, but he stresses also his
conviction that Oswald was “in-
volved,” Joesten puts it this
way:

“I wish to make it absolutely
clear that I believe Oswald in-
nocent only as charged, but he

was involved -with the conspira- -

tors in some way, This is what
‘fall guy‘ implies,”

The hours slip past;

our moments melt

into the eternity behind us;
Time sweeps us on

to a destination

While yet there is time
look out upon the world,
_ devour it with your eyes,

add at least one stone
to the edifice being built,

blow through your hair,
While yet there is time

while yet there is time
love, and be loved;

let our thoughts

throw light in dark places:
let your lips

from which there is no return

and, if your spirit demands more,

Fill your lungs with the smell of flowers; —
let the first cool breath of dawn

let us greet the dawn together;

In this respect it should be
noted that Mr, Lane himself, in
his latest statements, shifted em-
phasis from earlier flat asser-
tions that Oswald was innocent,
to the view that he was not the
“sole assassin,~

Joesten does a good job of tear-
ing to pieces much of the case
of Dallas Police and the F.B,I,
He collected much from the dis-
patches of the numerous corres-
pondents on the spot, He per-
sonally surveyed the field and
drew heavily from European
correspondents who were in Dal-
las and whose dispatches were
more independent of F.B.I, in-
fluence,

BOOKS

Joesten also brings together
the numerous bits of information
that pointed to Oswald’s employ-=

- ment by the F.B.I.; C.I.A., or

both, He puts the many pieces
of the puzzle together into an
emerging consistent pattern of
undercover work. Joesten says:

“Once Oswald is seen as an
FBI, agent provocateur with a
C.I.A, background and connec-
tions, the most puzzling discrep-
encies fall into place; his not be-
ing on the risk list, his getting
a passport, his calmness when
arrested, Most important, it
helps to explain the most puzz-
ling aspect of Oswald's behaviour
after the assassination-his flight,
If he were innocent, why should
he flee?

“There is no question that Os-
wald left, and left in a hurry,
The reason is probably quite
simple: He did not want to be

Lee Oswald

While Yet There Is Time

blossom in

While yet there is time
let the hand of a friend
feel the warmth of your hand
How much we have yet to do,

live,
labour,

but live and labour
So that when you are gone
everyone will see
that where once you were
an emptiness yawns,

ere!

July 31,

Do not say, “I love everyone”—
be merciless to your enemies,
be tender to your friends,
While yet there is time

arrested by the Dallas police as

a Communist,”

Joesten explains that Oswald
had good reason to expect rough
treatment from Dallas police and
it is a well known rule of under-
cover agents that “they are sup-
posed to stay clear of police,”

“It was not an assassin who
was fleeing; it was an undercover
agent, an agent provocateur,
whose cover as a pro-Castro
man was, for the time and place,
singularly provocative and un-
healthy,” writes Joesten,

In one respect the book is
disappointing, Joesten, while re-
futing (rather mildly— the idea
that Oswald was a*Marxist,”)
has left entirely out of considera-
tion the fact that from the hour
of the shooting, an extraordinary
effort was made to connect the
crime to the left,

The original indictment, until
it was deleted on request of the
State Department, named Oswald
as a tool -of the “international
Communist conspiracy,”

Senators Towers, Mundt, et al,
cluttered up scores of pages of
the congressional record with
texts of editorials and columns
charging the killing to Com-
munists, The Birch Society ran
full-page ads from coast to coast
alleging the killing was by a
“Communist” who acted on or-
ders,”

Unquestionably this initial bias
in the atmosphere influenced the
course of the investigation and
the pro-F,B,I, and pro-C,1,A,,
makeup of the committee headed
by Warren, How can the Oswald
case be treated fairly without
taking into account what the Com-
munist Party and The Worker
said on the subject?

In his preface, Joesten lists
numerous publications here .1d
abroad that contributed in a posi-
tive way in the investigation,
The Nation, for example, did not
get around to suspecting Oswald
as an F,B,I, agent until two .
months after the assassination,
The National Guardian held out
on that score for some four or
five months, But while those
and others are mentioned, there
is not a word of The Worker.

I repeat, however, that the
book is a useful treatment of
developments inthe case, as least
until the Warren report, and
should prove valuable in ‘the
movement for the full truth of the
Kennedy asSassination,

—George Morris
(U.S. Worker

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