DRAMA B.C. festival winners take play to Regina . (above) won ie Joanne Walker cthe best actress award in the B.C... Regional Drama _ Festival for her performance in The . Crucible. Pre-school Workshop “planned for July 4-22 ‘A demonstration course in pre- schoel teaching methods, spons- ored by ‘University Extension De- partment, is to be given on the UBC campus, July 4-22. Tuition fee for the three-week course is $20 and a-high school graduation certificate will be re- quired of all applicants. ‘Classes will meet Monday ’ to Friday each week- from’ 10 a.m. to noon and from 1to3 pm. - Special Pre-Pub. Price History of the Three — Internationals — Wm. Z. Foster = $5.25. plus 26 tax «= Reg. Price - $7.00 plus 35 tax = OFFER GOOD TO MAY 15TH ONLY - PEOPLE'S CO-OP. ET TT it tt i it nt i TT BOOKSTORE 337 WEST PENDER Vancouver 3, B.C. Pa SPRING FESTIVAL CONCERT PENDER AUDITORIUM . 339 W. Pender Sunday, May 15 -8 p.m. 3 DANCERS - MUSICIANS CHOIRS - MAGICIANS | Auspices: C.S.F.S. Van. Br. es Alumni Players production of The Crucible has been chosen to appear in the Dominion Drama Festival in Regina this month. Winner of the B.C. Regional Fes- tival, Arthur Miller’s play will be one of eight chosen from the twelve regional winners. This powerful drama about the 1692 Salem witch hunts, paral- leling -the current McCarthyite — hysteria, won enthusiastic praise from Andre van Gyseghem, Brit- ish actor-director who was adju- dicator at the regional festival. One of its leading performers, Joanne Walker, won the best actress award. ‘ : In order to cover the expense of travelling to Regina, two more ‘performances of The Crucible will be presented May 6 and 7 at the UBC Auditorium. The additional performances provide a welcome opportunity for those who could not attend the regional festival to see one of the most outstanding stage productions.in this city in re- eént years. xt Se FRE A leading theatrical director from Finland, Gerda Wrede, will be the adjudicator when the Do- minion Drama Festival paige in Regina on May 9. All ‘provinces except Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island will be rep¥esented, but only one drama group, La Jeune Scene of Montreal, is performing an orig- inal Canadian play. t eo 3 xt Two one-act plays, Salame (in English) and Rikolinen (in Fin- nish) will be presented this Sun- day, May 8, by the Finnish-Cana- dian drama group at Clinton Hall, 2605 East Pender Street. Curtain time is 7.30 p.m. Salome, one of Oscar Wilde’s better plays, was chosen because it is just 100 years since Wilde was born. Rikolinen tells the story of a young Finnish student who lost faith in his future, turned away from his studies and fell in with evil companions. Finally he re- sorted to crime, and during an armed robbery a man is killed. Suspense builds up from scene to scene, but perhaps tthe most ‘interesting thing about the play is the manner in which it em- phasizes the direct tie between the young man’s degeneration and the unstable, degenerate so- ciety in which he lives. . The play also shows, to some extent, the effect wartime living had on the Finnish people. Castle Rawalan Watchmaker and Jewelers Special Discount to Wi\ all Tribune Read- ‘ ASIN ers. Bring this ad ‘with you 752 Granville st.- DO YOU KNOW ???7?? | —that Tribune readers get a special discount at DUNSMUIR VARIETIES when purchasing Trunks, Suit- cases, Handbags, English Bone China and other Varieties? Dunsmuir Varieties 519 Dunsmuir St. . New Zealand author tells story of Maoris' historic struggle ROM a reader in Auckland, New Zealand, the Pacific Tribune this week received the following review of 151 Days: The Parihaka Story, by Dick. Scott, The ac- companying letter suggested that many Canadians might be inter- ested in a, book which tells the story of the Maoris’ historic strug- gle against white domination. 5o3 % 5o3 FOR years the story of Parihaka has lain buried. Glossed over in standard history books, dis- torted in the handful of histories of the Maori people and men- tioned only in occasional articles, it is, to the average person, an unknown piece of’ New Zealand history. _Yet the story of Parihaka is a proud one for New Zealand. It is the story of the Maoris’ last stand against colonialism— not one of the short fierce battles at places like Orakau or Te Kooti’s Ngatapu fortress, but a stand that lasted 40-odd years, a stand in which the Maori peo- ple who flocked to Parihaka vil- lage, at the base of Mount Eg- mont, used with telling effect the then new method of mass non-Violent resistance. They ploughed in the paddocks of the land ‘taken from them by the pakeha. When the pakeha erected fences, they took them down. When the pakeha soldiers pulled ‘down Maori fences, the people of Parihaka calmly put them up again. And when the pakeha arrested ploughmen and fencers one day, another group was back 'to take - their place the next, and the next; and the next, until, at one stage, more than 400 had been arrested and jailed in Hokitika and Lyttelton, many of them to die there. : bog ee ae Their story—the story of Pari- | haka, its people and their leader, Te Whiti-O-Rongomai — has at last been told by Dick Scott in ~ History of Canadian stamps traced Early Canadian postmarks, some of which are shown above, 4! among the many interesting subjects dealt with in the eighth edition of Holmes’ Specialized Philatelic Catalogue of Canada and Britis North America, just published. The postmarks, now eagerly Ss? * by collectors, were in use before 1800. One of the many rare P illustrated is that of the Viking head stamp designed but finally rejected for the first issue of Canadian stamps. Another is’ the shown at left, design for which had-been authorized at the time xi George VI died. The stamp was never issued. his recently published book, 151 Days: The Parihaka Story. Scott's story deals in the main with the period following the end of what we know as the Maori wars, in the early eighteen-six- ties. At that stage, after years of great battles, the Maori people seemed left with only two alter- natives: either submit to the pakeha or fight to the death against overwhelming odds. Te Whiti-O-Rongomai would have neither. He retired to Pari- haka ‘to fashion a new weapon to make his people strong. Descendant of a long line of. great chieftains, priests and war- riors, Te Whiti was steeped in ancient Maori learning. To this he added the teachings of the Bible which ‘he had first studied at a German Lutheran mission at Warea, and, on the basis of the two, his people’s resistance move- ment was built. As Scott puts it: “While the pakeha battalions and the mercenaries ravaged the North Island, ‘and Titokowaru and Te Kooti struck back from Tara-. naki to the Urewera, the Pari- haka people lived iin seclusion. Cut off from the experience of the world’s freedom struggles, their only literature the Bible, they hammered out new tactics to suit the new times. — “There was to be peace, but peace of a different kind, a fight- ing peace, a peace of no sur- render to the invader, no accept- ance of his ways. : “Instead of despair there was to be pride in a vigorous Maori nationalism, instead of apathy a will to build an organized wall and the word of his eae of resistance.” As the prestige of Te “Whiti spread, Maoris from as far afield as the Chatham Islands came to. join his ranks. As his influence grew, so did oe PACIFIC TRIBUNE — MAY 6, 1955 — sane ught the efforts of ithe government a stop his message. eo BES AE Te Whiti’s ploughmen ii fencers were jailed by the und reds without trial and in man} eases without charges agains” them. Pleas came from the sore ment. Bribes were offered. ce army of 2000 specials and pollé was recruited. i Parihaka was invaded. ES ‘people’s homes and crops W destroyed. A cannon was mou ed on the hill overlooking “Te town to terrorize the people. ee Whiti himself was jailed #7" times. . But all this and more ai break his spirit and that 3 people. Thus the story moves te through the courtroom ‘ welcome homes of freed pm ers; the turning of the pa ati the land; the looting of wee haka iby white mercenaries ee stir the whole business © ver” throughout the country and 0 seas. | The entire story shines. the fine spirit of the Maori, ple. * Here we have a glimpse of 5 people of the Chatham Set who could find £500 to free Te Whiti but who went jail rather than pay a fives ling dog tax; glimpses also af fighting chief Titokowaru, ” with a price of £1000 0? _ head, fought on with a 4 i band in the King Country " — “Taranaki bushlands. {0 Throughout, it is @ story 4 make the Maori people P oF and the pakeha ashamed Yé ance fident that-the fighting resis {he spirit of Parihaka must in end lead to freedom for 30 The book, priced at Ps be ordered through: the Pe Cooperative Bookstore, 337 Pender Street, Vancouver. — ‘ane se