Count Bas ", NEW ORLEANS (AP) — ~ Count Basie, still full of life _ at 74, has been travelling and leading a big band for 40 > yee gand hesayshe does not - plan to stop until he gets old, ‘> ‘As long as I get carfare -bome and room rent I'll be “around one way or another, + because this is my life," he . Said inan interview. “I enjoy - it or I wouldn't be doing it,” At an age when many people are in the ,rocking ‘chair, Basie still keeps his 17-piece band on a travelling _ schedule that would wear out aman half his age, Take a typical two-week itinerary: Los Angeles to Rock Hill, $.C., to Decatur, Alg., to New Orleans to Mm VENETIAN DINING LOUNGE —= = ——s LA GONDOLA OINING ROOM & DRIVE-IN t LaGordela « VENETIAN DINING LOUNGE “CONTINENTAL ATMOSPHEAE™ Soul te foe Mupert even san ‘Ouartaaming ine Marne 624-2621 or 624-3359 Atlanta to Little Rock to Skokie, IIL, to Galveston, Tex.—all for one-night Stands, : “We'll work seven or elght weeks, then take off for two or three weeks and that's not tao bad," said Basie, whose permanent home is in the Bahamas. Except for a brief period in the early 1950s, Basie has had a big band continuously Since about 1938, when he was discovered by John Hammond while playing in Kansas ; It is an amazing record of longeviety for any kind of band and Basie says he cannot explain it. “We just moved together +e. OINE IN OUR EXQUISITE Oem dé Da. is th pan. ae. Foe RETEA VATIONS ‘Ht ave. W. af 6th 51. lelalaialata sano ink toee ect k ick won. Hidden somewhere in the paper are two Terrace phone numbers. IR re Find them, and if oneis yours you've: Pick up your tickets at the Herald office, 3212 Kalum St. THEATRE PASSES rkrktkitkivkktvkitvkhke E Faroe Bit qrit® giro vono meno HORA NO ODIO? AFTER & DISCO NEW YEAR’S EVE PARTY 3 * Limited No. of Tickets && DINE ® DANCE Big Prize : Sunday, December 31, 1978 315 City Centre 4 z f sve mvevmnnvoron WEFAN Ha Kitimat and enjoyed one another," he said. ‘It’s a family. It's always been that way,” The Basie band has sur- yvived and flourished without radical changes in its style— blasting ensembles; simple, hummable riffs; exciting solos and the light, infectious tinkling of the Count at the piano, Basie has been called the world's most economical piano player—one who can get more out of two fingers than others can with 10. In New Orleans, as he was about to be presented an official proclamation from the city, a_ television camerman asked If he could film Basie on a pianosolefor about 30 seconds. _#I can’t do that,” Basie said. “I never play that long," “What about maybe 10 seconds?” the cameraman pleaded, “Well, okay,"’ Basie replied ‘But 10 seconds is a jong time!" Basie does not waste much motian directing his band ei- ther. A nod, a shrug or a Sorvino’s career takes off HOLLYWGOD (AP) — Paul Sarvino's acting career is blooming with three{ilms in current release, ; Sorvino can be seen this season as ane of the helaters in The Brinks Job, as a sentimental New York columnist in Slow Dancing in the Big City and as an Italian-American primitive in Blocdbrothers. Coming up: Lost and Found, a comedy with Glenda Jackson and George Segal: Dummy, a television mavie with Sorvino as a reallife deaf lawyer. It is a remarkable accom- plishment for a. man who gave up acting at 28 because he could not stand the con- stant rejection. Sorvino readily admits that he is 39—-"because most people think I'm 45 or 4, based on the roles ] play.” Sorvino’s success as he ap- proaches middle age is all the more enjoyable because of the disappointment of his earlier years, “In my 205, I had the body of an Olympic athlete but with a cherubie face,” he recalled. “The look was off, and so 1 was hard to cast. I sang and acted in New York, but I was only marginally effective.” At 28, he was married to actress Lorraine Davis and they had the first of their three children. The un- certainty of the acting life seemed unendurable, and Sorvino took a job as a copy writer in an advertising agency. . “tT was good at it, too,” said Sorvino, ‘I was into the $300 suits and the $1 cigars and I rose to become vice- president and creative director. My company had bought another agency and wanted me to move over at $60,000 a year. I had five jobs offers at more money than | was making.” Yet his advertising career endéd after a year and a half, What happened? He saw a performance of Jack Warden in The Man in the Glass Booth, Sorvino returned to acting classes the next day. Within four months, he quit ad- vertising “and ever since, I've never been out of work— except by choice.” He scored on Broadway in That Championship Season, Starred in a pair of failed television series and played a variety of film rales, His first real romance came with Slow Dancing, which he admits is his best shot so far. Business has been slow, with no help from two bad reviews in the news magazines, Director John Avildsen has added 15 minutes to help develop Sor- vino's character and the actor believes the film is much improved. About Bloodbrothers he Is less pleased—“‘let’s just say Thad a difference of opinion with the editing depart- ment,’* Half of his scenes were junked, he said. Brinks gave him pleasure, especially meeting with Jazz Maffie, the real-life robber Sorvino pertrays. Maffie's tribute was worth a dozen reviewers’ raves: “'I think he done a good job.” Maritime culture on move HALIFAX (CP) — Two literary events here in 1978 illustrate what one young Halifax . publisher calls a blossoming of interest in Maritime culture. First was a display by Dal- howie University library of the works and mementoes of six Mritime authors in an exhibit entitled Windows on the Atlantic Authors. The other was the ap- pearance of Poems of Rita Joe, put out by two young -Haligonians who have revived The Abanaki Press after a lapse of nearly 30 years. The publishers are Scott Thompson, second- year law. student = at Dalhousie, and his wife Susan Renoul, executive director of the Nova Scotia Drama League. Scott is a grandson of Andrew D. Merkel, who was Atlantic superintendent of The Canadian Press until his retirement in 1946. Merkel, himself a published author and poet, helped found the original Abanaki Press about 1928, In the 1920s and ‘30s, the Merkel home was a gathering place for such Maritime writers as Bliss Carman, Charles Bruce, Kenneth Leslle, Sir Charles G.D. Roberts and Dr, Robert Norwood. They com Municated their ideas and work through a newsletter, and thus The Abanaki Press began. It was Carman who suggested ihe Abanaki name after an extinct tribe of New Brunswick Indians—the people of the dawn. The idea of reviving Abanaki came to the Thompsons some years ago.- “For quite’a few years,™ said Susan in an interview, “Scott and I had been | bemoaning the fact:-that there hadn’t been much. publishing going on here, * costs are lower, “but before we knew it, we were into it,” says Susan, “So, that's basically how and what was going on was "Wwe got started, There was a primarily non-fiction— histories and recaps and: things like that—and we thought it was a shame that, with so many writers here; nothing was being done. 2 “So we talked about it for a: couple of years and then, ‘about a year ago, we decided we had better stop talking and do it.” After some research anda check with the Writers Federation of Nova Scotia, the Thompsons were handed the manuscript of Poems of Rita Joe, the work of a middle-aged woman who provides sensitive glimpses of her own life and that of her Micmac people, “Phe thought, at first, was lo publish in Ontario, where Hamilton’s history is now subject of book HAMILTON (CP) — There: were cockfights, political and religious brawls, and an occasional tarring and feathering. Speculators made fortunes overnight and lost them just as quickly. Governments were bribed and judges were in the pockets of the ruling class. Hamilton in the 1930s was arude, tough and sometimes violent frontier boom town, says a McMaster University professor who wants to expose the city's flamboyant past, Dr. John Weaver says his history of the city will be a lively chronicle of the people who lived there. The book is part os a movement, sponsored by the National Museum of Canada, toredistover Canada's urban past. The social history of several cities will be available in softeovered books with plenty of pictures to help tell the story. Weaver says Hamilton once rivalled Toronto as the majorcentre in the prevince. “After the canal was cut through the beach strip, Hamilton became a major distribution centre for set- tlers’ supplies for all of southwestern Ontario," He says steamships which plied the Great Lakes brought masses of im- migrants fram Europe and travelling circuses from New York. No thugs here LONDON (CP) — British publicans have started a campaign to bar convicted thugs from their pubs. They took action alter a woman. publican, Pauline Varley, waa attacked by a customer, leaving her with a fractured spine, fractured ribs and loss of hair. Mrs. Varley says she still is partially deaf and sulfers frequent blackouts. Her al- tacker, a convicted thug, was fined &25 for assault. “This case is typical of what we have to face," says George Ives, secretary of Britain's Licensed Vic- tuallers Associatlon, ‘We Telen: 04-52168 Modem, § slurey, first class motor hotel. 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George Cross, owner of a pub in North London, says cuslomers prone to violent periods often become belligerent when refused further drink at closing time, or when told not to shout or act in an unruly manner, “Such men are dangerous,” he says. The publicans decided to lobby their members of Parliament, asking for tougher Jaws against hooliganism in pubs, They plan te hold a rally in Lon- don’s City Hail in February. The professor found that a bylaw was passed in the city during the 1830s banning bowling, but lotteries were popular. It was a fairly brutal era, Weaver says. In politics reformers were harassed by Tory strong-arm groups. One group tarred and feathered a reformer. “A grand jury brought in an indictment against those caught and identified, but the Tories controlled the local magistrates and they refused to hear the case.” He says Hamilton had some head-bashing religious Ticts between the Orange order and Catholic groups. “It was a wide-open boom town in the 1830s," Weaver says. “There was a_ great problem with prostitution. They rounded up all the prostitutes at one point and put them on a steamboat to Toronto.” feeling that too many writers were having to go to Ontario to be published and there was no reason why they Idn’t be published here.” The result was a slim, paperback volume which by last September had sold almost half its first run of 2,500 copies. The Thompsons also stressed the importance of good design, and set up a young ' company, Com- munications Design Group Ltd, of Halifax, to do the job on the book. “At first,’ says Susan, “we found how much cheaper it was fo publish in - Ontarie and almost thought of going there. But then we thought that wasn't right. If we felt strongly regional, we should do our best to do all the work here.” The Thompsons’ plans now are to concentrate on sale of the Rita Joe book and keep an eye open for a good manuscript for the next volume. Some thought is being given to publishing or republishing some of the works of the authors associated with the original Abanaki Press. One that Susan says she has in mind is poet Charles Bruce, anexecutive with The Canadian Press who died in 1971. Bruce received the Governor-General’s Award in 1952 for his volume of poetry, The Mulgrave Road. Bruce was one of the authors in the Dalhousie library display. 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