ON THE SCREEN

Soviet picture, Symphony of Life
woven around story of Siberia

DON’T MISS Symphony of
Life, the latest Soviet color-film
musical release to be shown in
Canada when it opens at the
State Theatre here this coming
-Monday, May 26, for a week’s
run, It will open your eyes and
-ears to a startingly Canadian-
like countryside reminiscent 0%
the proud Rockies, Gatineau and
Laurentians, full or warm Si-
berian song and folklore. ,The
picture is a refreshing antidote
to the steady diet of news fed
to Canadians about the gloom
and doom, the “‘salt-mines,”’ the
general bleak existence of the
people in the Siberian terri-
~ tories.

The fact is, of course, that
this hateful impression of Si-
beria, nurtured by professional
anti-Soviet writers, is a heritage
of tsarist oppression which creat-
ed a vast prison-house out of
the Siberian lands. Under so-
cialism the Siberia of the people
has come to life in rich and
vibrant music of a folk and
symphonic variety, as well as in
~@ radical economic transforma-
tion in the form of giant fac-
tories and thriving new towns
and villages.

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SYMPHONY OF LIFE brings
us the new Siberia in striking
color, the delicate shadings of a
kind introduced to us in The
“Stone Flower are vastly
improved on and project an
authenticity that beats anything
Hollywood ever produced. Thr-
ough the medium of gifted sing-
ers and excellent photography it
introduces newcomers (and most
of us are) to the rea] Siberia.

The plot is somewhat mech-
anical, but it is said to be based
on true incidents arising out of
the war, Andrei, the gifted
pianist with a bright future be-
fore him, goes to war, Is gravely
wounded so that he loses the
proper function of his supple
highly trained fingers.

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_ A STRANGER

Surprisingly human  Holly-

wood film about a lawyer (Gary
“Merrill) who survives a. plane

erash and in trying to comfort
the families of some of his dead
companions solves some prob-
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Entertaining story dealing

with the adoption of children.

Cary Grant and Betsy Drake.

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A collection of British char-
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million pounds worth of gold
bullion from the Bank of Eng-
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SINGING IN THE RAIN
Another, Hollywood musical
of the new, slicker (‘‘American

in Paris’’) type. Hollywood kids

itself somewhat. on ~~ circum-
stances surrounding advent of
talkies, but otherwise standard
Gene Kelly stuff,

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He returns to Moscow and
cannot face his former col
leagues, his old teacher. He is

bittered and violently rages
against the fate that prevents

his development as a great pian-

‘ist playing before large audi-

ences on the concert stage To
him, in the grip of his torment,
Moscow and the concert stage
are the centre of things artistic.
Now he has lost these and he
concludes that his musical career
is ended.

He returns to his native taiga,
the Siberian countryside, where
he experiences in daily- work
with the Siberian people, a re-
birth of his musical genius in
the form of folk music and
symphonic composition. Out of
his contact with the people and
the land comes a great work of
music and poetry, which he
brings to the Moscow concert
stage in a triumphant re-discoy-
ery of Sibetia for the citizens of
the USSR. Later he _ returns
again to Siberia to continue a
life of music,

The really great point made
by the story is that music in the
Soviet Union is seen ag a power-
ful influence shaping the lives
and activities of socialist citi-

' zens, adding in their work a ma-

terial construction and pioneer-

_ ing of the untapped territories of

their vast land. Again it estab-
lishes the essential fact stressed
in Soviet life that truly great
music springs from the people,
is nurtured by them and prov-

‘ides the artist of merit with an

unquenchable source. and audi-

‘ence for. his creations.

—MARK FRANK

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Symphony of Life, which opens this coming Monday for a We

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