oS She's glad to be home : Joyce Landry, 21-year-old Toronto model, has a greater apprecia- tion of her own country after her experiences of the American way of life in Long Beach, Hollywood and Las Vegas. Last July she was Canada’s entry in the Miss Universe contest held at Long Beach and her subsequent experinces of Hollywood convinced her that the centre of dollar culture is'a hoval of “big time, small time, all time phonies,’“although she earned $1050 in 12 weeks. Now she has $25 and is happy to be back in her own country. BOOKS ‘Yet to feel iron heel’ Fast tells Toynbee Saisie FAST, the progressive American novelist, has answer- ed an attack on one of his most — recent books by Philip Toynbee, literary critic of the London Ob- server. Replying to Toynbee’s assertion that The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti is a ‘moral monstrosity,” Fast says: “He (Toynbee) has yet to feel the iron heel against his face.” Toynbee said that Fast was a Communist and that the book was “a blasphemy against the very men whom it claims to honor.” He added that he could “only ‘review the book in the full light of my extraneous information about its author,” and made num- erous anti-Soviet aspersions. In the course of his reply, pub- lished in the Observer, Fast says: “Several times in his reveiw Mr. Toynbee calls me a Commun- ist. Not only has he no proof or evidence of “this, ‘but there has never been a public state- ment. made by myself which designated me as a Communist. “In our land, where we have lived many years now with a host of police informers and oth- er types of spies and provoca- teurs, Mr. Toynbee’s action can only be regarded as a piece of gratuitious informing. .. . “He then goes on to state that Sacco and Vanzetti were victims of an anti-Red hysteria which— to quote him—‘was a great deal madder and wickeder than any- thing which is now associated with the name of Senator Mc- Caring. > Drive on comics Educational authorities in Scot- land have joined in the country- wide agitation to ban the sale of horror and crime comics to child- Ten. “T must add that what is hap- pening today in America is total- ly unprecedented in our land, although there has-been a reas- onable precedent in Italy and Germany." * 3..." - “By what unimaginable inso- lence does Mr. Toynbee dare to say that when I choose as m platform the issues of civil liber- ty,. rule of law, human compas- sion and truth, I am performing, as he put its, ‘a shocking imper- tinence’? “I think “impertinence’ is all “too mild a term to use to de- scribe Mr. Toynbee’s arrogance, inhuman “Mr. Toynbee writes very well and cleverly, but he has yet to feel the iron heel against: his face and the gun at his throat to in- struct him in the art of writing, either cleverly or otherwise.” Douglas Goldring, prominent British novelist, also protested to the Observer, stating, “Mr. Toyn- bee’s review is an affront to all progressive Americans.” = HOWARD FAST “What is happening today in America is totally unprecedented in our land... .”" ‘CHIEFSWOOD’ TO BE PRESERVED AS SHRINE Pauline Johnson’s house saved from ruin by Native Indians eee is a lovely old house you should visit if you’re ever at Brantford, Ontario, writes the Native Voice, organ of the Native Brotherhood of British Columbia, in its October issue. You'll find it on the banks of the Grand River 12 miles downstream, and it will cast a spell over you if you are a Canadian with an ear for the poetry of Pauline Johnson. Chiefswood has been rescued from ruin. People of her father’s race ac- cepted it as a gift and are now spending thousands of dollars re- storing it. Brush and tangled un- dergrowth have been cleared from its grounds and the exterior re- decorated. The interior is to be restored to what it was when the Johnsons lived in the house. Then the home, built 100 years ago by Pauline’s Indian father for his English bride, will be opened as a show place and a memorial to the Canadian poetess. The house was bequeathed to the Six Nations people some years ago by Evelyn Johnson, sister of the poetess and last of the John- son family. During recent years trees and underbrush, growing wild and nearly unhampered, hid the dilapidated old building from the road. But-its owners awoke to public interest and pride, for Pauline Johnson was of their blood, and last year the Indian Council de- cided to restore her birthplace. it Sos The dusky, dark-eyed maiden romped with her little black dog in the grove of majestic walnut trees around that house. Pauline’s father, Chief G. H. M. Johnson, built it with back and front iden- tical in design, the one facing the white man’s road, so legend says, to please his English wife, the other, overlooking the Grand River, the Indian waterways, to please his Indian mother. The nut groves of Chiefswood cover 12 or 14 acres and were the most extensive in Canada during the 1870’s. Re-roofed in cedar shingles, with wood trim painted and the old-fashioned green shutters re- paired and rehung, Chiefswood is recovering the outside appear- ance of its youth. . All but one of the ground floor windows were in the form of French, windows. The original doorsill of the entrance overlook- ing the river was a squared log. It is still in place, but worn by many visitors, white and Indian, who were welcomed into the Johnson home — and by the pil- PAULINE JOHNSON grims, of a sort, who have tramp- ed over it for a hundred years. -The wallpaper has been remov- ed from the rooms and they are to be repapered in the designs of ‘the eighteen-fifties to the eighties. The Indian Council hopes that some persons possessing momen- toes of the Johnson family may present them to be preserved am displayed. It hopes to be able to restore the home with furnish- ings as they would have been 12 the time of the Johnson family. Original items which have been preserved include a massive sideboard and a large chest of drawers. The fine old hand-carv- ed walnut stair rail is still in 4 healthy condition. Chiefswood was intended a5 4 home for aged Indians. But for several: reasons that seemed Im practical. Instead the Indian Council 15 slowly, and very carefully, restor ing it to the authentic atmosphere of its past. Some day, maybe, the federal government will be mov ed to make of Chiefswood a 14" tional shrine and park. A shrine that will belong 1 both sides of the Canadian poet ess’ family — the Native IndiaD and the white. 2 Chaplin plans satire on US. way of life CHARLIE CHAPLIN “The little man with the moustache and walking stick” will be back, “but rather respect- ably dressed,” in his next picture. Major Barbara on new Classic program ipa you ever wished you could see some of the famous films of yesteryear, or pictures that you saw once and wished you could see again, and the wonder- ful prize-winning shorts that have «won national and international awards? : Well, now youll have that chance, Last spring a group of Van- couver citizens interested in the history of the cinema formed. the ' Classic Film Society and arrang- ed an exciting program for the fall and winter season. - Films to. be shown are Major Barbara (the George Bernard Shaw classic); .Moussorgsky (a Soviet color film); The Louisiana Story; Kameradschaft (German);° The Ox-Bow Incident; Carnival in Flanders; and Paisen (the great postwar Italian film), — The following shorts will also be shown: The Rink (Charlie Chaplin); The Sex Life of a Polyp and A Mock Lecture (Robert Benchley); Wind from the West (Sweden); Corrall the Wild Stal- lion (Canada); and Tgurunga (Australia). The Classic Film Society meets the third Sunday of each month at Moose Hall, 1129 Howe, at 8.30 p.m. Admission is by mem- bership only, and memberships are available at Potters Jewellers, 695 Granville (or phone ALma 0991-L). A guest speaker and audience participation is a feature of each showing. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — OCTOBER 22, 1954 — PAGE 8 HARLIE CHAPLIN is making 4 new movie in Britain — 2 satire on the American way life “in a very healthy and funny way.” In his new picture the famous comedian, who has not made @ movie since Limelight two years ago, will again be “the little man with the moustache and walkin stick,” but this time “it is the little man rather respectably dressed.” ; Chaplin made his announce ment on Friday last week whe? he returned to London to sive away £2,000 of the £5,000 prize awarded to him by the world Peace Council to the needy 0! folk of Lambeth, the South Lom don borough where he spent his own poverty-stricken childhood. “The only political thing about me is that Iam one of thos \peacemongers,” he told a press conference in London. “I don't have to apologize for accepting 4 peace prize.” In Paris the day before he nye given £2,000 to the poor ° France. At a simple ceremony in. the Hotel Crillon he handed the money to Father Pierre, the priest who sprang into the news last winter with his appeals fF the needy. Kissing the bearded Father Pierre on both cheeks, ChapliD said, “I am happy that my peace money is to be. given to the homeless and poor families France. This is the right place for it.” i Father Pierre commented after this brief ceremony that he woul probably be criticized for accept _ ing the gift “because it came fro™ Communist funds,” but then, he would probably have been crith — cized had he rejected it. . Chaplin received the £5,000 with the International Peace Prize Medal awarded to him bY the World Peace Council last June. :