x _ Americans and Canadians saw _ Policy. ANTON CHEKHOV. > 2s .. great Russian writer “ g3 NEW BOOK TELLS OF -KHRUSHCHEV U.S. TRIP FACE TO FACE WITH AMERICA — Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow. $1.50. This is the story of the profound change in international relations — the thirteen days of the visit of Khrushchev. to the United States, as Seen through the eyes of the Soviet journalists and writers who made the tour It could not have come at a better time. Now when the United States is once again Practising “brinkmanship,” when the President who talk- ed with Khrushchev. at Camp David is seemingly a prisoner j of forces he cannot control, it _4s good to read this account of}: the impact made by the head of the first socialist state on the people of the United States. | Despite unnecessarily strin- gent security precautions, thou- sands of Americans saw Khurshchey in the flesh, saw, in his own words “a real live Communist” and millions more and heard him on television and radio. The authors quote a U.S. journalist as saying that the American people “took an all-American Seminar in Marx- Hollywood Stars for nuclear ban Milton Berle, Groucho Marx, Red Buttons, Joanne Wood- ward, Jeff Chandler and Arthur Miller have joined the list of show people in the Coast Chapter of the National Com- mittee for a Sane Nuclear The group urges a world- wide ban on nuclear weapons. ' discussion — and he read his thirteen days that marked a ism-Leninism.” . This book describes the whole journey, beginning with the tremendous send off given the party at the airport in Mos- cow; the flight in the TU-114, even the conversation with the Canadian navigator who was aboard. 2 The impressions of the Soviet journalists of the United States are in themselves fascinating. Striking indeed is the pro- fundity of their observations of American life. The ironic description of the dinner meeting of the Econo- mic Club is alone worth the price of the book, but that is only one morsel in a volume simply packed with good things. Here, for instance, is the full account of the famous meeting with Reuther and the other trade union leaders where, to quote the book, “Reuther had a thick file be- fore him—the scenario for the questions and retorts from it without batting an eyelid.” Mention must be made of the splendid photographs and the inclusion of a selection of the letters received by Premier Khrushchev from Americans in all walks of life thanking him for his visit. A memorable book to read, to keep and to lend. (Available at People’s Co- Co-chairmen are Robert Ryan} and Steve Allen. — op Bookstore, 307 W. Pender CENTENNIAL MARKED absolute and honest truth.” He was born in 18690. feckless family of hov’s personal life was an un: ending struggle against pov: erty and. ill-health. He determined to study medicine and used his pen toa pay his way through Univer. sity. During this period, he contracted tuberculosis from which he died in 1904. As a physician, he regarded healing as a human right and most of his patients came from the poor. His writing continued to provide his _ livelihood. He wrote to a friend, ‘Medicine is my lawful wife and litera- ture, my mistress,” | ; The youthful Chekhov was influenced by Tolstoy’s ideas on .non-resistance to evil but his experiences while study- ing. conditions in a Tsarist pri- son camp caused him to reject ‘that doctrine in order to fight the evils of bourgeois society. His novel, “‘Ward 6” demolish- ed hazy idealism in favour of active struggle. : In a society oppressed by a dissolute aristocracy, he por- trayed the frustrations of mid- dle class life with ironical truth. Throughout his writing, one finds that men and women become what they are through the impossible social and econ- omic stresses of their society. Unimaginative critics have said that his work lacks action, shallow because Chekhov makes use of the psychological climax and his subtle restraint conceals the immediate impact of his writing. He depends on Plan Soviet science film Producer Sergei Gerasimov is thinking of making a film about a Soviet engineer’s plan so change the climate of vast areas of the northern hemi- sphere. Pe But “it will not be a scienc fiction film,” he said. “It will rather be a study of the cir- cumstances in which it would become possible to tackle the “project.” : Gerasimov believes - science and scientists will play a much more important part in Soviet His father, a petty and tyrannical grocer deserted his somewhat six who turned to Chekhov for moral and financial support. Chek- By KAY EDWARDS Rights of man was the credo of Anton Chekhov _ “I too love my country and her people. I feel that as a writer, it is my duty to speak . of their sorrows, of their future, of science and the rights of man.” Such was the credo of Anton Chekhov, grandson of a serf, who instituted a revolution against the artificial plays and slick short stories of his time and who aimed in all his writing to tell “the Photo of Chekhoy and Tolstoi taken around 19602. delayed action to convey un- derstanding to his readers. Chekhov’s association with Stanislavsky and the daring young Moscow Art Theatre was vital to the successful pro- duction of his work. Indeed, without “The Method,” and its “ee shocking innovations, it is doubtiul if “The Seagull” and the “Cherry Orchard’ could have suceeded at that time. “My Life’in Art,’ by Stanis- lavsky conveys much of the richness of their relationship. Chekhov’s influence on mod- érn writers should be noted. Katherine Mansfield was his lisciple as was Ernest Heming- way. His unusual combination of realism and impressionism created a new school of writ- ing. This year, we celebrate the centennial of his birth. Could we do better than to recail the speech of Trofimov in the “Cherry Orchard”? “Mankind marches forward, perfecting itself. All that we find unat- tainable now, will some day be near and clear; but we must work, we must do our utmost to help those who seek after truth.” CANNES—A Soviet pic- ture of young love in war- time moved the Cannes Film Festival audience to tears and _enthusiastic _applause recently. _“Very _touching”’ wione a DrUiant tm 450.6 “certain to win an important prize,’ were some of the comments on “The Ballad of a Soldier.” The leading actors, Vladimir Ivashov, who plays a soldier on leave, and Shanna Prok- horenkova, a girl he meets in a military goods wagon, were New Soviet film hit at Cannes ours. Both are stuxents at the State Institute of Cinemato- graphy and this is their first Major picture, directed by Grigori Chukhrai, whose first film, “‘The Forty-First,” attrac- ted world-wide attention. The new film tells the story of a 19-year-old soldier who has a six-day leave to visit his mother but the journey takes so long he has only a few min- utes to embrace his distraught mother. He departs for the front where he will die. The last scene shows the Russian moth- er looking down a dusty road immediately tipped as strong as a vcice announces: “He candidates for top acting hon- | might have lived.” to dam the Bering Straits and| % St.) R. Ross film making in the future. Chinese students in Peking are seen above celebrating May Day with street dancing. May 20, 1960—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 5 | “