Mayor Charles Cates of North Vancouver holds the clay car-

ving of a rabbit, estimated to be at least 30,000 years old, found
by workers excavating for a sewer.

SCIENCE

Find places early man

in B.C. 30,000 years ago

A chance discovery may afford
the proof that prehistoric men
were roaming the coast of
British Columbia at least 30,000
years ago and cause anthropo-
logists to review their theories.
. Workers excavating for a
sewer on West Fourteenth
Avenue, just off Lonsdale, in
North Vancouver, recently un-

- earthed a clay carving of a rab-
bit beneath eight feet of glacial
till.

The man who found the car-
ving, William Burton, foreman
on the. sewer job, and John
Metcalf, who helped him pry
it from the hard till in which
it was embedded, ‘both confirm
the fact that it lay beneath two
feet of soil fill and eight feet
of undisturbed glacial till —

the key to estimating its age. |

They took the carving — four
by three and a half inches and
five-eighths of an inch thick —
to Mayor Charles Cates, whose
wife is a director of Vancouver
Art, Historical and Museum
Association. “It’s cleverly car-
ved—just like a clay tile,’ Bur-
ton said.

Dr. John’ Armstrong, federal
geologist here, bases his esti-
mate of the carving’s age on an
examination of the till beneath
which it was found.

“The glacial till is 14,000
years old,” he points out, “but
the rabbit would have been
deposited in it prior to the ice
age, which would be more than
30,000 years ago.”

' HAL GRIFFIN

Israeli scholar tells of
hunt for Dead Sea scrolls

A CHANCE reading of the
‘small ads in the Wall Street
Journal énabled Israel to_re-

gain’ ‘possession of an. archaeo- -

logical treasure — four Dead
Sea Scrolls, which had been
missing for seven years — in
the United States.

The story of the Scrolls, the
latest of which to be read has
‘turned out to be a 2,000-year-
old popular version of part of

the Book of Genesis, was told

in London recently by Dr. Yigal
Yadin, the man who got them
back from the U.S. and helped
to decipher them. :

Dr. Yadin, once commander-
in-chief of the Irael forces, now
a lecturer in archaeology at
the Hebrew University in
Jerusalem, told a press confer-
ence in London how the Metro-
politan of Syria had peddled
the Scrolls round the U.S. since
1948, but failed to sell them.

Afraid that Arab interests
might intervene, Dr. Yadin
opened negotiations under an-
other name, raised the money

from sympathetic Americans,
and bought the scrolls for $250,-
000 for his university.

(In Canada this week, Mc-
Gill University announced that’
it had acquired additional frag-
ments of the Scrolls for study.)

The Fourth Scroll had been
called “The Book of Lamech”—
Noah’s father—on the strength

of that name occurring on a

fragment torn from the outside.

It is a popular paraphrase of
the story of Genesis, often writ-
ten in the first person, he said.
In particular, Abraham’s “prob-
lems” are described in detail,
and in the first person, includ-
ing an account of the beauty of
Sarah, “from head to feet.”

The Scroll “fully confirmed”
the story of Sarah’s incarcera-
tion in Pharaoh’s harem, he
said, and described the various
iils which Pharaoh suffered
“for his impious act,” and how
he apologized to Abraham when
he discovered that Sarah was

his wife.
‘ SHEILA LYND

Chinese Communists’ struggle
for unity told by Mao Tse-tung

Now that the Chinese govern-

ment has appealed to Kuo-
mintang members in Formosa
to help in the peaceful libera-
tion of that island, the story of
the wartime relations of Com-

munists and Kuomintang tages
on a new interest.

The fourth volume of the
Selected Works of Mao Tse-
tung (obtainable here at the
People’s Co-op Bookstore, 337

‘

Romeo and Juliet
great Soviet film

HERE’S no doubt that-.the
Soviet film-ballet, Romeo
and Juliet, is the greatest film
of its kind yet made. Small
wonder, with the finest Corps
de Ballet in the world, the
world’s Prima Ballerina, with
what is probably the greatest
ballet since Tchaikovsky by one
of this century’s great com-
posers, based on one of the
greatest tragedies by the great-
est playwright of all time, and
made by a film industry long
noted for its sensitivity in the
production of enduring screen
art.

Does this praise sound too
extravagant? You won't think
so after seeing the film (and
probably sitting through it
twice). It fully justifies the
decision of the 1955 Cannes In-
ternational Film Festival which
awarded it the grand prize.

It goes without saying that
its greatest single asset is
Galina Ulanova as Juliet. Her
slightest gesture is a symphony
of movement, while the expres-
sive range of her characteri-
zation exhausts superlatives.
Moreover, she has _ support
worthy of her in the Bolshoi
Corps de Ballet and Orchestra.

Unusually effective is the in
tensive drama of Mercutio’s
(Serge Koren) death,
Romeo’s (Yuri Zhdanov) re-
venge on the treacherous Tybalt
(Alex Kermolayev).

An added gratification is
Prokofiev’s brilliant scoring of

this section, not previously heard.

here since it is not included in
either of the two suites extracted
from the complete score, which
have been made popular'through
recordings and concert per-
formance.

In addition to these more ob-
vious merits is the fact that
Romeo and Juliet is not a mere

filmed ballet — but a film-

ballet. That is, the integrity of
the ballet has been preserved
(somewhat abridged from its
full evening’s length), in terms

and’

of the limitless scope of the
camera and Cinematic art. Out-
of-door scenes, for example, are

shot in the open on sets of be-
. lievable proportions.

The cam-
era roves inside the action,
heightening and illuminating.

Scenario and direction were
under the supervision of L.
Arntshan and L. Lavrovsky.

Although Soviet color tech-
niques were already well in the
lead, we find still further im-
provements incorporated in
Romeo and Juliet. The sound
track is also improved over
earlier films where unevenness
of quality has been encountered
all too often. A quietly un-
obtrusive commentary—mainly
extracts from the play — clar-
ifies the action.

For all of its ingredients, and
for its triumphant unity, Romeo
and Juliet is a great master-
piece of Contemporary art.

* * *

NNA MAGNANI, in The Rose

Tattoo acts with the power

of a tigress. She devours the

film; gobbles up most of the

other actors alive and leaves

the English language licking its
wounds. ;

As an Italian woman in the
New Orleans district, matching
her love for her dead husband
with an outsize, theatrical grief,
she springs at us breathing fire,
pride, scorn and in fierce humor
— a wonderful performance
drawing its power from the
warmth and vitality of the
common people of her native
Italy.

This film adaptation of Ten-
nessee Williams’ play is part
fantasy, part earthly comedy.
It has a characteristic Southern
note of neurotic decadence
mixed with warm, raw human-

ity. It is haunting but, except

for the character of Anna Mag-

‘nani, not quite satisfying.

N. E. STORY

Kate Johnson wins award

ATIE JOHNSON, who is 77,
has won the British Film
Academy award for the best

performance by a British actress

in 1955, for her little old lady
in The Ladykillers.

Miss Johnson came out of
retirement to play the part of
“Mum” in the movie. :

Actor Paul Schofield is selec-
ted as “the most promising new-
comer to films” for his role in

. That Lady.

A special award, “for work
lying outside the feature and
documentary fields” goes to the

British film of Wolf Mankow-:
itz’s The Bespoke Overcoat.

Japan wins the award for the
best film illustrating the prin-
ciples of the United Nations
Charter, with “Children of
Hiroshima; the United States,
for the best documentary, with
The Vanishing Prairie.

Ernest Borgnine and Betsy
Blair win the awards for the
best performances by a foreign
actor and actress, for their parts
in Marty. —

Canada wins the cartoon film

award, with Blinkity Blank.
FEBRUARY 24, 1956 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE — PAGE 8

West Pender Street) is concera-
ed with these relations in the
latter stages of the Second
World War.

It contains Mao’s brilliant re-
port “On Coalition Govern-
ment,” in which he sets out the

-Communist ideas on how all

parties in China might be unit-
ed to build a new democracy
and defeat the Japanese invad-
ers.

Mao ‘said that the key to all
China’s problems was the Kuo-
mintang government's policy
“of oppressing the Chinese peo-
ple and carrying on a passive
resistance” and the opposed de-

sire of the Chinese people to.

wage a people’s war against
Japan and build a democratic
China.

Mao proposed’ that “all poli-
tical parties and groups and
people without party affiliation
unite and establish a provision-
al democratic coalition govern-
ment” to carry out democratic
reforms and defeat Japan.

RET AE *

China today is ruled by a
coalition government in which
that section of the Kuomintang
which broke away from Chiang
Kai-shek after his repeated re-
fusals of coalition plays a large.
part.

Why that coalition came into
existence through war and not
through peaceful means is ex-

plained in later parts of this ©

volume. The fault was even
more that of the U.S. govern-
ment than of Chiang.

. “In November 1944,” Mao re-
cords, “Hurley (U.S. ambassa-

‘dor to China), visiting Yenan.

(the chief Communist city) as
President Roosevelt’s personal
representative, agreed to the
plans proposed by the Chinese
Communist party for the aboli-
tion of the Kuomintang’s one-
party dictatorship and the est-
ablishment of a democratic co-
alition government.” + :
But by April the following
year Hurley had changed over
to encouraging Chiang Kai-shek
toward civil. war policies, de-

claring “the U.S. would cooper- —

ate only with Chiang Kai-shek
and not with the Communists.”

These words were recorded
by Mao in 1945. Later histor-
ians will be able to decide how
much Roosevelt’s death and how
much possession of the atom

bomb encouraged these disas- °

trous new reactionary currents

‘in the United States.

Mao just notes that Hurley
was “beside himself with jubi-
lation” at Roosevelt’s death.

Of course today, although

‘still ruled by a coalition gov-

ernment led by the Communist
party, China is rapidly advanc-
ing to socialism, with an econ-
omy far in advance of anything
conceived possible by Mao. for
the China of 1945.

As with all the excellently

and cheaply produced volumes
of this series, this volume, while
lighting up China’s recent his-
tory, has also immense impor-

tance as a source of suggestions —

for other peoples struggling
from colonialism to indepen-

dence.’

ARTHUR CLEGG

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