Here the famous film comedian Charlie Chaplin, now

68 years old, proudly regards his new daughter, Jane,
born at Lausanne, Switzerland, to his 32-year-old wife, the
former Oona O’Neill. With Chaplin are two others of his
six children, Eugene, 3 and Victoria, 6.

Leading Soviet historian

Anna Pankratova dead

NE of the Soviet Union’s
most distinguished histor-
ians, Academician Anna Pank-
ratova, is dead at the age of
60. t

Over a period of more than
30 years she wrote a number
of important historical studies
and textbooks.

Her first published study,
Factory and Works Commit-
tees of Russia, appeared in
1923, followed in 1924 by a
Companion study, Factory and
Works Committees in the Ger-
man Revolution (1918-1923).

Millions of Soviet school-
children used the three-volume
textbook, History of the USSR,
Which she edited.

Her latest work, published
in six volumes over a five-

year period, 1950-55, was The

Labor Movement in Russia in
the 19th Century, a monumen-
tal work containing secret
police and government reports
and manufacturers’ correspon-
dence.

She joined the Soviet Com-
munist. party in her native
Ukraine during the Civil War
in 1919 and at the party 19th
and 20th congresses was elect-
ed to the party’s executive.

At the 20th congress she out-
lined a program for the study
and writing of Soviet history
in new and free conditions
which she proceeded to put
into practice as editor-in-chief
of Problems of History.

At the international congress
of historians held in Rome last
year she was elected a mem-
ber of the bureau.

CBC to provide full radio, TV

coverage of election results

Aee CBC radio and television

networks will “clear the
decks” this coming Monday,
June 10, to provide listeners
and viewers throughout the
country with a complete ser-
vice of news and comment on
the federal election.

Everything from “hard news”

taken directly- from -Canadian
Press teletype machines, to
discussions, analyses and other
intepretive and background
material will be provided;
along with statements from
leading figures.

Whereas the 1953 general
election was covered by means
of a radio-TV simulcast, this
‘one will involve special and
distinct arrangements for each
medium, drawing on all the re-
sources of the national system.
French and English radio and
TV networks will have com-
plete services designed to meet
the interests of their respec-
tive audiences.

Zach of the six CBC regions
( Newfoundland, Maritimes,
Quebec, Ontario, Prairies and

British Columbia) will look
after its own coverage from

the close of polls.to the usual
sign-off time, or later if neces-
sary.

In. addition, a cooperative
headquarters in Toronto will
take material from al] regions
and provide the whole coun-
try with national election news
and commentaries.

The election picture will be
rounded out by statements by
party leaders and visits to
party headquarters, comments
on the rural vote, comparative
voting data from the cities of
Toronto and Montreal, on-the-
spot reports from other cities
such as Ottawa and Windsor,
man-on-the-street reactions, in-
terviews with members just
elected, and thumbnail sketches
of leading parliamentarians
when elected or defeated in
their own ridings.

Toronto radio commentators
will be James M. Minifie, the
CBC’s. Washington correspon-
dent who travelled for CBC
radio with party leaders dur-
ing the election campaign;
Paul Fox, a regular commeén-
tator on CBC-TV Open House
show; and J. B. McGeachy,
associate editor of the Finan-
cial Post and a frequent con-
tributor to. CBC radio and
television.

In Vancouver, James K. Nes-
bitt, Vancouver Sun corres-
pondent in the press gallery
at Victoria, will comment on
results in British Columbia.

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Coverage of election results
for Channel 2 viewers will be
organized in the CBUT studios
in Vancouver from 7 to 9 p.m.
Regional and national results

will be tabulated on bulletin
boards, there will be pictures
of the candidates, film stories
specially prepared for use dur-
ing the evening, and statements
by and interviews with min-
isters and other leading poli-
ticians.

A commentary on the re-
sults will be given by Peter
Inglis, associate editor of the

Vancouver Province, and well-
known to Channel 2 viewers
for his appearances on the dis-
cussion program B.C. Round-
table. Throughout the even-
ing Bob Fortune will be in the
studio to link the various items
and introduce any local can-
didates who may be brought
in front of the cameras for
their comments.

Fine Italian picture

returns —

HE Italian Strada

has come back—in English!
Winner of the grand prize at
the Venice International Film
Festival, this 106-minute film
ranges from wistful to broad
humor; from raw violence to
tenderness and naked suffer-
ing — conceived throughout
With a gentle humanity.

film La

Written and direced by Fed-
Fellini (who scripted
such classics as Open City and
Paisan), the film brings to-
gether (Fellini’s
wife Giulietta Masina), a little
sub - normal farm girl, and
Zampano, an itinerant strong-
man (Athony Quinn).

erico

Gelsomina

As they travel through Italy
in his motorcycle van, making
a carnival pitch when ever a
crowd can be attracted, they
meet many people and situa-
tions. Each encounter brings

new personalities and ideas
under scrutiny; illuminates

new facets of the characters
and relationship of the curious-
ly matched pair.

The most brilliant aspect of
Fellini’s art is his ability to
make each of the principals—
and even some of the minor
characters—live on two planes.

We see their external guise
— the “fronts” people put up
-—and real inner beings. With
tenderness and humanity we
are shown the external de-
fense mechanisms which peo-
ple adopt and their actual lone-
liness, their

confusion in a
harsh world — the underlying
decent instincts of ordinary
people.

The American actors, Quinn
and Richard Basehart acquit
themselves well, particularly

in English

the former. Significantly he
had to go abroad to realize his
artistic promise — and has
since had more mature oppor-
tunities and successes even in
Hollywood.

The most brilliant on-screen
personality, however, is Giu-
lietta Masina. The deep insight
and quick perception of her
projection, its agility and hon-
esty, the pathetic awkward-
“ness, leave a lasting impres-
sion. (Last month she won Best
Actress Award at the Cannes
Film Festival for her part in
Nights of Cabiria, also under
her husband’s direction).

On the same bill as La
Strada (at the Studio), is a
beautiful 35-minute featurette,
The Bespoke Overcoat. Made
in England under the direction
of Jack Clayton (originally for
television), it won awards at
both the Edinburgh and Venice
Film Festivals.

The play was written by
Wolf Mankowich on an idea of
the 19th Century Russian writ-
er, Gogol. It ‘concerns two
poverty - striken Jews (David
Kossof and Alfie Bass), one o!
whom dies but cannot res
until his greedy and heartles
employer of 43 years supplies
what the years of service hay:
“bespoke.”

Warm folk humor and ten
der pathos combine into an
exceptionally moving “exper-
ience.

Also showing in Vancouve«
this week are an Italian film.
The Bandit (Odeon Hastings
which has Anna Magnani bu
does not indicate in advance
that it has much else; Gran ;
Concert (Varsity) and’ Tha
Brave One (Capital). And ke: 5
an eye open for Lust For Li‘.
and Friendly Persuasion if you
haven’t seen them yet.

N. E. STOR

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