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I met on Canadian soil.

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J. S. Wallace
She knew by heart

From finish to start
The book of iniquity.

CCORDING to an Associated Press despatch from Mos-
cow, 19-year-old Svetlana Trofimova has been sen-
tenced to five years imprisonment. Her crime? Haunt-

ing a hotel where drinks are sold for foreign currency and
Seling her “favors” to tourists to lay her hands on some. I
am expecting the Association of American Press Agents to
Single out this case as another sign of socialist savagery.
Did I say press agents? My tongue got tangled: I meant
Prostitutes. Excuse it, press agents, please: I have counted
several of you among my friends: decent people doing a dif-
ficult job under almost impossible conditions imposed by
Capitalism. There are others, naturally; even in the Soviet
Union there can be a Trofimova, My mind goes back to one

We were seated on either side of a grate fire at Mrs.
Turner’s in Halifax. After a while, as I seemed oblivious of.
the obvious, she got up and sat on my lap. I started a spiel
designed to get her back to her own chair: if possible with-
out hurting her feelings. In this latter I didn’t succeed. °

“Oh, I know,” she said bitterly. “I ain’t nothing that
Came off no Christmas tree.” It turned out that she had TB
and was dead within six months. With her physical and
€ducational handicaps it is understandable, even if not ex-
Cusable, that she. should have become a prostitute. Yet we
Served her more savagely than Svetlana: we sentenced her
to death instead of five years.

FOR ALL MY CHILDREN
You probably learned this one last summer or even

Mother may I go out to swim?

Yes, my darling daughter

Hang your clothes on a hickory limb
But don’t go near the water.

by side

—Robert W. Service

THEATRE

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_ Exarrsion into nostalgia

LD Angelo’s, a Toronto night-

club, is currently the home

of The Hollywood Blues,

“a musical story of the movies.”
Produced and written by
Louis Negin and directed by
Alan Lund, with music direction
by Herbert Helbig, the revue is
a once-over-lightly song-and-
dance excursion into nostalgia.
(Last week Toronto nostalgia
Seekers found it in Show Boat.)

In a program article Mr.
Negin is quoted as saying: “Ob-
viously it would be impossible

Ah

An eloquent pamphlet

Ace United Jewish People’s
Order deserves high praise
for its recently published

Pamphlet. on the war in Viet-

nam, “The World Speaks for

Peace,” by Jack Cowan, UJPO

President.

The preface to the booklet,
abbi Abraham Feinberg’s April
Sermon, is an important mes-
8 to the Jewish community.
“Challenged by a policy dan-
8erous and obsolete in the
atomic age,” says the rabbi,
the only consistant response of
hurch and Synagogue is arti-
ulate and unmistakable dissent.
Vine Right of Kings was not
to make way for the
ifallibility of elected officials.
'Ssent is not a privilege to be
asked for, but a duty to be exer-
“zed. Conscientious objection is
€ inescapable answer of a

“Udeo-Christian tradition true to
itself.”

R

Sa

The Pamphlet certainly lives
P to this criterion.
Cowan starts his pamphlet

With an appeal.

“It is said that Jews are ‘peo-
ple of the book’ to whom the
most beautiful word is ‘Shalom’,
peace. This appeal is aimed at
our people, who suffered so

much at the hands of the Nazis, _

to help stop the carnage now be-
ing perpetrated on another in-
nocent people, the Vietnamese,
and to stop the sending to their
death of thousands of young
Americans. It is an appeal to
urge man, who has fashioned
such wonderful scientific tools
in the past 50 years, to use them
for building and expanding
man’s quest for happiness, in-
stead of for killing and destruc-
tion.”

He reviews the protests of
the American-Jewish commu-
nity, of the world peace move-
ment; he succinctly outlines the
reasons for and progress of the
United States aggression in
Vietnam.

Speaking as part of the Can-
adian Jewish community, Cowan
says: “We of the United Jewish
People’s Order, who have a long
honorable history in the cam-

on Vietnam

paigns for civil rights, against
German rearmament, both be-
fore and since World War Two,
against Nazism in all its forms,
for peace, for freedom to deve-
lop our own language and cul-
ture, call upon all Jewish Can-
adians to take part in this cam-
paign for an end to the Vietnam-
ese holocaust.”

Cowan outlines a program of
action including protests both to
the Canadian prime minister
and the U.S. president and the
need to raise the question in
every Jewish organization.

And who can remain silent

_after reading his eloquent final

appeal: “The Nuremberg trials
once and for all made genocide

‘a crime against humanity. Let

not history say of us, as it does
of the German people, that we
allowed this crime to continue
because we were silent when we
should have protested.”

Copies of this fine pamphlet
are available from the UJPO at
585 Cranbrooke Ave., Toronto
19. (C.P.)

to cram into an hour and a half
the whole saga, but we hope we
have managed to capture some
of the glamor, frustration and
excitement that was Hollywood
— and the movies. Most of all
we hope to recapture some of
those rare, magical moments —
like Ginger Rogers‘and Fred As-
taire in Cheek to Cheek.”

One may argue about whether
Astaire and Rogers provided
Hollywood’s most magical mo-
ments, and one may dispute as
exaggerated: the claim of recap-
tured “glamor, frustration and
excitement.” One may note the
lack of even the mildest reflec-
tion of the ugly side of the Hol-
lywood story. (Remember the
Bosley Crowther book on Louis
B. Mayer?). And one may dis-
miss as pretentious the program

“quotation from Marshall Mc-

Luhan:

“The movie is not only a sup-
reme expression of mechanism,
but paradoxically it offers -as
product the most -magical of
consumer commodities, namely
dreams.”

Having noted these reserva-

_ tions, one readily concedes that

within its own framework The
Hollywood Blues is colorful and
fast-moving entertainment. It is
for the most part a inild spoof-
ing of the Hollywood musical
product, employing songs, danc-
es, skits and pantomime, toge-
ther with slides projected onto
a screen.

There are some sentimental

.backward glances, but banter

and laughs create the dominant
mood.

The revue’s entire cast con-
sists of four very versatile ac-
tors, all of whom have had a
surprising variety of stage ex-
perience. Tom Kneebone and
Rita Howell are deservedly well
known here and their excep-
tional comic talents assure the
success of the show.

The other two are new:to To-
ronto. They are Joan Karasewich
of Winnipeg and Gordon Thomp-
son of Montreal. They are young
and engaging and have, in addi-
tion, good looks, good stage
presence and good singing
voices,

—Martin Stone.

Mitchell Trio in Winnipeg

The popular folk song group,
who as the Chad Mitchell Trio
hit the top 10 charts with their
“The John Birch Society” a few
years ago, will appear at Winni-
peg’s famed auditorium on Fri-
day, Nov. 4, at 8.40 p.m.

Now performing under the
name of “The Mitchel Trio” the
group is made up of three young
men, including Canadian born
Mike ‘Kobluk, a native of Trail,
B.C. The other two are: Joe

The painting above, titled “Riot”, by Ghitta Caiserman-Roth,

Frazier and John Denver.

The Nov. 4 appearance will
mark a return engagement for
the trio, who shared the stage
two years ago with several other
folk artists as part of a “travel-
ling folk festival’.

Tickets are now on sale at:
Co-op Bookshop, 882 Main St;
Celebrity Box Office (Bay) and
Attractions Ticket Office (Eat-
on’s) ranging in price from $1.50:
to $4.40:

sahara erent

will be one of the 176 works on exhibit of the 87th annual Royal
Canadian Academy exhibition. This annual exhibition of paintings,
drawings, watercolors, sculpture and architectural photographs will
be on view in the Art Gallery of Ontario from Oct. 29.to Nov. 27. The
exhibit is made up of a selection of 400 submissions from artists
across Canada. After the exhibit closes in Toronto, it will move to —
the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. It is also scheduled to

be shown in Sarnia next January.

. November: 4, 1966 |