Ash Street Productions
presents

Tom Paxton
)) sings for peace

Sunday, February 27,
é 2:00 p.m.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
PLAYHOUSE

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Salute to Labour
Sunday, April 10, 2:00 p.m.
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Leon Bibb
Sunday, June 12, 2:00 p.m.
Series & Single Tickets
VTC, CBO, All Lower Mainland
Eaton’s & Woodward’s stores,

AMS, UBC
INFO: 687-4444 CHARGE IT: 687-1818

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Tom McEwen
on the occasion
; of his 92nd birthday,

Feb. 11, 1983

Lily, Ray, Louise;

Toma, Roy, Carrie,
_ Jennifer;

Karen, Gordon,

Kimberly, Michelle.

Film touches

SOPHIE’S CHOICE. Starring
Mery! Streep, Kevin Kline and Peter
MacNichol. Produced and directed
by Alan Pakula. At the Odeon, Van-
couver.

This is more than a movie; it is a
two and a half hour recreation of a

brutal part of our history and

heritage; the bestiality of the Nazis
in World War II, centered mainly
in Poland — Auschwitz and
Dachau — and an aftermath that is
played vividly and in tortured
drama in Brooklyn, New York, in
1947.
Pakula’s screenplay plays out
the novel in great detail, but what
makes every moment pulsate with
the Nazi cruelty, creating anger and
outrage rarely seen on the screen, is
the performance of Meryl Streep,
an American actress, as the thirty-

Newman

THE VERDICT. Starring Paul
Newman, Charlotte Rampling, Jack
Warden. Directed by Sidney
Lumet. At local theatres.

No reviewer of a suspense-filled
drama should give away its ending.
You must see The Verdict for
yourself to find out how the jurors
vote.

Your hopes will rise as the

In memory of
Nadia
Huculak

who passed away
Jan. 29, 1983

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ish Polish emigre who was released
from Dachau by the Soviet Army.
Viewers will not soon forget this
actress’ great skill and devotion.
She spent two months prior to film-
ing studying both Polish and Ger-
man, taking intensive private
lessons. As a result, in the lengthy
flashbacks into her own country,
when speaking with Poles and Ger-
mans, her use of the language is as
natural as theirs. Put that together
with a character driven half mad by
grief and guilt, and you will witness
what must be an Academy
nomination next spring.
_ The guilt-ridden Polish woman
is tortured by the memories of the
lies, the compromises and the
degradations and the choices she
was forced to make in order to sur-
vive. The discovery that the cruelty
she now suffers at the hands of
Nathan comes

convinces

lawyer, skillfully played by Paul
Newman, conquers numerous
obstacles as he tries to establish that
medical malpractice caused his
client’s irreversible coma. You will

~ tejoice as he locates an expert
medical witness and a surprise

rebuttal witness.

You will applaud even more the
way in which this aging,
deteriorated man, divorced, ad-
dicted to alcohol and to playing
pinball machines since he was fired
from a law firm for being “too
honest,’’ transforms himself into a
champion of the patient and her

_ family.

You will despair as friendly pro-
secution witnesses vanish, as the
lawyer’s friends disparage or trick
him. You may identify with the pa-
tient’s impoverished sister and
brother-in-law who berate him for
refusing a huge out-of-court finan-

cial settlement.

This is no situation drama. The
protagonists, as the lawyer charges,

from a.

Nazi horror

schizophrenic personality, cannot
be understood by Stingo, the inno-
cent young Southern lad. But
Nathan is the one who saved her
when she was at the seeming end of
bet: and she could never desert
Throughout the lengthy, and
often overlong scenes, interest re-
mains intense because of the
flashbacks to the concentration
camps, and up to her final

‘choice’? — a scene which the

viewer is not likely to forget.

Dramatically there is some in-
coherence: Sophie’s guilt is not
thematically connected with the
Jewish Brooklyn lover’s psychotic
behavior, but she feels responsible
for all such suffering; the price for
her own survival — vividly played
in the concentration camp — holds
her hostage forever.

— Lester Cole, People’s World

COMING EVENTS

FEB. 12 — COPE and Ash Street
present Somthing to Sing About,
an extraordinary cabaret evening.
Doors 6:30 p.m., dinner at 7:30,
showtime 9 p.m. Dance at 10 p.m.
to Champagne. Peretz School,
6184 Ash St. Tickets $15, oap, un-
empl. $9. Advance tickets only, ph.
COPE 876-2615 or Co-op Books
685-5836.

FEB. 17 — Reg. monthly meeting,

Canadian-Cuban Friendship

spas Rm. L-4, Britiannia Centre.
p.m.

FEB. 17 — Hard Times Dinner,
Vancouver. See display ad.

FEB. 19 — FRC Valentine’s Day
banquet and dance. Banquet 6
p.m., dance 9-1 to Harry
Hoshowsky’s orchestra. Russian
Peoples Home, 600 Campbell Ave.
Adm. $10, oap, unempl. $8.

FEB. 26 — Card night and social at

the Brown’s, 12127-95A Ave., Sur-
rey. Games, refreshments and good
company, starting at 8 p.m. For —
ride, ph. 590-1248.

FEB. 27-MAR. 27 —

BASIC
SERIES ’83: A series of four lec-

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in his final speech to the jury are the
‘poor against the rich, victims of a
U.S. heartless medical system,
against the forces which sustain
that system.

The Verdict is not flawless. It
seems to condemn all doctors,
hospitals and health workers,
overlooking that there are sincere
health workers operating within
and without the hospital system.
They are often overworked, their
seriously ill patients in wards as was
this comatose woman. There are
ethical lawyers too. There is an ex-
cess of explicit bedrooms scenes
and four letter words. There is one
unquestionably provoked but ex-
cessive display of violence by aman
against a woman.

But it is a film with content, rare
in a season that has produced Star
Wars II and Videodrome and all
manner of reactionary rubbish.
The acting is convincing, the pro-
duction arresting.

— Julia Barnes, Daily World

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HARD TIMES

Hear: William Kashtan
~ - leader, Communist Party

Feb. 17, 6:30 p.m. AUUC Hall, 805 E. Pender

DINNER

7:30 p.m. Classes on Marxist
philosophy, political economy and
the Communist Party. Registration fee
$10, pre-regis. only. For info. Miguel
254-9836 (wkdays).

MAR. 5 — Keep this evening open.
Come and help celebrate Mona
Morgan’s 70th birthday. Details to
come.

COMMERCIAL |

GRAMMA PUBLICATIONS.
Complete printing services. Bro-
chures, menus, leaflets, etc. Spe-
cial rates for the progressive move-
ment. A union shop. 1595 W. 3rd
Ave., Van. 733-6822.

ROOF REPAIRS — New roofs.
Reasonable. Ph. 277-3352.

ELECTRICAL, plumbing, appli-
ance repairs. Don Berg. 255-7287.

CLEANING lady. Reas. rates. Ver-
na 251-6750.

WANTED

BLUE JEAN CAMPAIGN.
Donate your old jeans to the people
in need in El Salvador. Drop your
donations of at 2135 Charles St.,
Vancouver. Your contributions will
be greatly appreciated. For more in-
fo. ph. Sue Lockhart 254-9797.

FOR RENT

ONE-BDRM. bsmt. ste. Partly fur-
nished, well-heated. Vicinity 6th
and Victoria, $200 mo., util. incl.
Avail. immed. Non-smoker.
254-9337.

LEGAL SERVICES

RANKIN, McMURRAY &
BOND, Barristers & Solicitors. 157
Alexander St., 2nd Floor, Van-
couver. 682-3621.

You Que cordially invited
toa banquet Geb. 25
to meet

eminent scholars from the Ukraine

Dt will Le held at the
Russian People 5 Home,
600 Campbell Ave. at 7 p.m.

Advance tickets only ate available

from Canada~-USSR Association

members or from the Russian Hall.
Admission is $8.

DIRECTORY

COMMUNIST PARTY OF CAN-
ADA offices located at 102-2747 E.
Hastings St., Van. Ph. 254-9836.
For information on political issues
or assistance in political activity.

HALLS FOR RENT

RUSSIAN PEOPLE’S HOME —
Available for rentals. For reserva-
tions phone 254-3430.

WEBSTERS CORNERS HALL —
Available for banquets, meetings,
etc. For rates: Ozzie, 325-4171 or
462-7783.

UKRAINIAN CANADIAN CUL-
TURAL CENTRE — 805 East Pen-
der ‘St., Vancouver. Available for
banquets, weddings, meetings. Ph.
254-3486.

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