MARIA STEFYUK ANATOLI KOCHERGA

Orpheum concert shows
desire for friendship

Vancouver citizens demonstrated last week that decades of cold
war propaganda have not succeeded in erasing their memories of
the war years when Vancouver and Odessa in the Soviet Ukraine
were declared twin cities and that their desire for friendship needs
only the opportunity to find expression.

Despite the fact that the event had to be moved back a day, from
November 2 to 3, at short Notice, they packed the 2,800-seat Or-
pheum Theatre, with hundreds more turned away, for a concert
staged by visiting Soviet artists from the Ukraine sponsored by the
city of Vancover in co-operation with the Canadian-Soviet Friend-
ship Association.

Mayor Jack Volrich was among those on the stage who paid
tribute to the enduring friendship between the two cities and ap-
plauded a memorable performance by such artists as Maria
Stefyuk and Anatoli Kocherga of the Kiev State Academic Theatre
and pianist Yevgeny Rzhanov, all of whom were called back for
repeated encores by the delighted audience.

The Vancover performance was the first of a Series of concerts
across the country.

Cowboy cliches ride again

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Chefs dish up laughs -
over omelets and love

Undoubtedly one of the funniest,
most skillfully written and directed
mystery comedies to come along
since — well since Hitchcock held
centre stage as a suspense artist.

«To tell much of the story would
be to reveal what you will find out
for yourself; but this much you can
know. The editor-publisher of a
very high-class British gourmet
Magazine, himself over three
hundred pounds and a master of
the art of over-eating only the
best, has set forth in his publication
the four great Chefs of Europe, and
the dishes which have made them
famous.

Jacqueline Bisset, never as
delightfully sophisticated, smooth
and smartly put together, is his
favorite dessert chef, and she has
returned from the U.S. to make the
cake for the Queen’s birthday. Her
ex-husband, George Segal, has also
arrived to start a chain of quick
food omelet restaurants, a Big Mac

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JACQUELINE BISSET.. . sur-
passes anything done before.

WHO IS KILLING THE GREAT
CHEFS OF EUROPE, from the
novel by Nan and Ivan Lynons,
directed by Peter Kotchoff, pro-
duced by William Aldrich, with
Jacqueline Bisset, George Segal
and Robert Morley. Now play-

ing at Capital Six in Vancouver.’

operation with eggs. They meet,
quarrel over love and omelets,
Robert Morley tries desperately to.
stay on a diet with the aid of his
devoted woman secretary, warned
by both her and his doctor that he
will die within months if he doesn’t
lose one hundred and fifty pounds.

It is at that point that the famous
chefs featured in his publication
start to be murdered.

Morley is a comic genius, Segal
never better, and as said, Bisset
surpasses anything doene before.
But credit for this must go to those
who so seldom receive it: the
writers. The lines, repartee,
situations, twists, turns and
hilarious mixture of comedy and
suspense is of their making. They
are the composers, the director the
orchestra conductor, and the ac-
tors the instrumentalists.

—LESTER COLE

in Hollywood's ‘Horseman’

COMES A HORSEMAN, produc-
ed and directed by Alan J.
Pakula, starring Jane Fonda,
James Caan and Jason
Robards. Now playing at Park
Royal, Lougheed Mall and Rich-
mond Square.

Those who enjoyed seeing Jason
Robards and Jane Fonda work
together in Julia will be pleased to
hear that they’re both starring in
another newly-released film. That
is, unless they make the mistake of
actually going to see Alan J.
Pakula’s Comes a Horseman.
Sad to say, this is just another
rehash of the old humble-
homesteaders-against-the-evil-
cattle-baron-plot. There’s nothing
wrong with giving new life to an old
theme, but that’s exactly what
Pakula has failed to do. Despite the
fact that the story takes place
during WW II rather than the
1890s. Horseman is little more than
a mixture of old western cliches
carefully polished to look like new.
Not that the movie doesn’t have
its strong points, among them the
acting. Jason Robards neatly
underplays his role as Ewing, the
ruthless cattle baron who wants to
regain the control over the region
that his grandfather once had. But
even his substantial acting ability
can’t make up for the fact the film
is just too long and slow moving —
‘the audience developed a case of
the giggles during one of his many

, OMinous scenes.

Jane Fonda fares somewhat
better as Ella, the plucky widow
determined to keep her ranch
going in the face of seemingly
impossible odds. Although certain
parts of her protrayal struck me as
overly cute, as though she was
trying to recreate her role in Cat
Ballou, some of her quieter
moments gave the film a little
more class than it actually
deserved.

I guess I’m not a James Caan
fan. He handles well enough the
role of Frank, the soft-spoken but
two-fisted cowboy who teams up
with Ella after nearly getting
killed by one of Ewing’s hired
guns. But the character he creates
is eminently forgettable — an okay
guy to strike up a conversation -
with if you’re both trapped in an
elevator, but not much of a hero.

More memorable is Richard
Farnsworth as Dodger, Ella’s
colorful old hired hand, who
regards the cattle baron’s threats
with an appealing mixture of
common sense and earthly humor.
“One old man and a banshee
woman boss” he remarks: “Be like
a fart in a windstorm.” Un-
fortunately he fades from the plot
all too soon.

However, the real star of this
movie is Arizona’s Coconino
National Forest. Rolling
grasslands, mountains and
cloudstrewn skies are: all lovingly
photographed. For me, the movie’s
most exciting moment occurred
not in the violent climax but in the
scenes of Ella and the boys roping
cattle on heavily timbered slopes.
But then maybe I’ve just been

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Not even Jane Fonda can save newest Hollywood western from
trite cowboy theme and plot says reviewer Shane Parkhill.

living in Toronto too long.
Unfortunately, slick

photography and gorgeous

Scenery can’t conceal the fact that

this has all been done before. The

love that inevitably develops
between Frank and the embittered
Ella (whose brittle exterior, of
course, barely conceals a heart of
gold) is reminiscent of the much
more poignant relationship bet-
ween Fonda and Jon Voight in
Coming Home. In terms of
generating excitement, director
Pakula did much better in 1968
with The Stalking Moon. And as far
as the whole theme is concerned it

was much more deftly handled in
the 1953 classic Shane.
“A story of love and freedom,”

‘claimed the newspaper ad. “My

dog could make a better movig
than that,”’ complained a membey
of the audience on his way out. The
latter statement may be overly
harsh, but its not without its grain
of truth. However, don’t give up on
Hollywood yet, folks. According to
the preview before the main
feature, The Invasion of the Body
Snatchers is ‘‘Coming for
Christmas.”’
Hope springs eternal, eh?
. \ —Shane Parkhill

CITY 7

WARNING

To Consumers of Water in the
City of Vancouver

As a result of work being carried out in the City water system, there

~ may be periods when sediment appears in the water supply, and
when the water pressure momentarily drops. This work will be car-
ried out between Monday, November 13th, and Friday,
November 24th, 1978.

Any sediment will be bacterially harmless, but may cause the water
to be discoloured and may affect some industrial processes.

W. H. CURTIS
~ City Engineer

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