Dail ; Penticton’s = Theatre by S tarlight, start a by a me an artistic and financial success. RECORDS Folk Songs of Canada includes French, English, Eskimo numbers QpoLk SONGS of Canada i allmark CS-3; 44 minutes) Colle, atvable and satisfactory py con. It includes 19 ag all drawn from the 77 Por, in the indispensable oy nes of Canada book Wag € and Johnston) which Published in 1954. enbtano Joyce Sullivan .and ate ae eles Jordan sing sep- tine y and together, some- S With choral accompani- @ ct at others simply: with ellen Or piano. Both have ex- Matic Voices and lend idio- { Canadian treatment to *ppealing program they © assembled, Bey, ell - balanced, it includes ly " Tench, one Eskimo and ter Nélish songs; with the lat- lng -2Wn from Newfound- Ontaa* the Maritimes, across Yuk 10 to the prairies and the On, iter that 'S Worthwhile noting, too, txe ‘the book to -which t * Is : £ atran rd is a companion, the ang Sements remain simple folk rect according to their of «dition with a minimum Jorg, PtOvements.” Although The a Tustic vigor in I’se Y, Vive La Canadienne Vn N Seymour wins al Worker praise Sey © Performance of Lynn Mette in the dual role of i Coven Steg tj, “ess,” ile in Swan Lake at Garden shows promise wrote the ballet Wong of the London Daily an exciting 8nd a_ passionate and When The Ice Worms Nest Again is a trifle exaggerated, adherence to the smooth evo- sion of folk tradition is prac- ticed. This is good musical com- mon sense as well as com- mendable integrity which ‘the “improvers” of folk songs could well emulate. Outstanding in the recital, a real gem of folk imagination, is The False Young Man; Can- adian variant of a song of dis- appointed love widely known in the. British Isles under titles like As I Walked Out. The False Young .Man has undergone further polishing and refinement in Canada until well nigh perfect. The affecting ballads: Un Canadien Errant and Brave Wolfe are rendered with proper dignity. The beautiful praise of Newfoundland girls —The Blooming Bright Star of Belle Isle is tender; while the rousing tribute to Cana- dian womanhood — Vive La Canadienne — has appropriate swing. Complaints about marriage — The Farmer’s Curst Wife and Dans Tous Les Caritons— contrast with the tribute to homesteader Old Grandma and the ancient love song: A La Claire Fontaine. The Huron Carol (which dates from 1641) and D’Ou Vienstu Bergere, two Christmas carols, _ sit cheek to jowl with the rousing logger’s songs: Les Raftsmen and Ye Maidens of Ontario. An Eskimo Lullaby has a reasonably close transcription of the Eskimo melody, but the English lyrics by an Anglican missionary substitute Christ- ian platitudes for the lovely group of art ists a few years ago, has be- folk simplicity of the original Eskimo words. Other selections are Blood On The Saddle, En Rouland Ma Boule and We’ll Rant And We'll Roar. Folk Songs of’ Canada is available at the Peoples Co-op Bookstore, 337 West Pender at $4.95. N. E. STORY the man who succeded Hitler, tell his story. Today he is a free man in Western Ger- many. In his book, Memoirs — Ten Years and Twenty Days, pub- lished in English this week, the Grand Admiral makes ab- solutely plain that “the main preoccupation of the military authorities in the present situ- ation (Germany’s military col- lapse) is to save German ter- ritory and the German race from Bolshevism.” It is significant that Doenitz recalls that ‘Churchill at first opposed my removal. He want- eded me as a ‘useful tool’ and to pass on instructions through me to the German people.” With typical arrogance, this head of a vanquished state, who was soon afterwards con- demned as a war criminal, re- lates how he gave interviews after the surrender to British reporters, “I gave my warnings on probable political develop- ments in Eastern Europe and made proposals for dealing with them,” he writes. Here are other points in the book: SOVIET Hitler's successor talks like conqueror HEAR ADMIRAL Doenitz, / Doenitz recalls that even after the declaration of war by France on September 1,. 1939, rigorous orders were issued-to U-boats not to attack French ships of any kind. Evidently Hitler did not believe in the sincerity of France’s “phoney war” effort, and was hoping that the war might still be “switched” eastwards, with France at least “neutral.” Doe- nitz says as much. “The invasion of Norway is justified by Doenitz because he claims it forestalled a ,British occupation. He blames the “contin- entally minded German goy- ernment and high command of the German armed forces” for underestimating the im- portance of U-boat war on Britain’s shipping and for not concentrating on this from the beginning. The book is full of such gleeful phrases at the sinking of British merchant ships as: . . . the convoy ran into the line of U-boats . . . Once again we had got them!” or: “In January 1942 62 ships were sunk ... with a total tonnage of 327,357 tons. That was a handsome figure.” Speaking of Hitler’s seiz- ure of power, this scion of an old Prussian landowning fam- ily says the armed forces wél= come it, since “they could not come down on the side of the Communists,” although he ad- mits they were the “third strongest party and continuing to gain votes. “I myself believed that Ger- many had chosen the right path,” he says. “The unifica- tion achieved -by Hitler of all German races into one corpor- ate Reich seemed to be the realization of an age-old Ger- man dream.” Admiral Doenitz recalls that Field-Marshal Montgom- ery accepted a separate sur- render five days before the general surrender of Germany on May 9, and writes glee- fully: “The first step toward a separate surrender to the West had been accomplished without our having been for- ced to abandon German sol- diers and civilians to the mercy of the Russians.” The memoirs give the im- pression of a man who always considered himself in the right whatever the point at issue; a man of alternate arrogance and whining — and complete unrepentance. 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