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zx CAUSE FOR “PEACE

_ Awd “BRoTHERH COD.
ARNOLD “Bek

MEXICO, DF:

Mexican
artist
greets ‘PT’

ARNOLD BELKIN,
formerly of Vancouver,
and now one of the
most famed Mexican
mural artists, sent this
drawing and message
to the “Pacific Tri-
bune”’ to mark the
paper’s thirtieth birth-
day.

His figure of hope is
dedicated to the cause
of “peace and brother-
hood” for which this
paper has fought for
three generations.

*

Don’t miss ‘Other Voices’
TV program on Joe Hill

f you missed the CBC-TV
a Production “Other Voices”
€n it first showed “Songs of

°e Hill” some time ago, don’t
Miss it

on

when it appears again
Tuesday, May 4th at 10:30

37

If you saw the half hour pro-
gram featuring Don Francks when
it first appeared you will be
thrilled with the opportunity of
being able to see it again.

There were so many requests
for a replay of the excellent
documentary on the American
balladeer and labor martyr that
CBC-TV decided to re-run it.

Don Francks, who since then
has had some ups and downs in
his career, does an excellent
job in singing Joe Hill’s songs
and in telling the story of Joe
Hill, The program pulls no
punches in exposing the frame-up
and shooting of Joe Hill by “the
bosses.”

It’s a good feature to be shown
in the week of labor’s holiday,

May Day.

he Train,” produced by United

Artists, is a curious and ex-
cellent mixture of the U,S, and
European film-making art, For
one thing, the bulk of the actors
appear to have come from French
studios, For another, itis aseri-
ous film directed by an artist,
John Frankenheimer, whose
earlier efforts have been well
above the Hollywood product,

Frankenheimer directed “Seven
Days in May,” “The Birdman of
Alcatraz” and *The Young Sa-
vages,” Star of “The Train” is
Burt Lancaster, who has also

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anti-facist film

been consistently associated with
films notable for their integrity,

The most interesting ingredient
in the mixture is the extraordin-
ary respect for the worker and
his craft: the trainman, Finally,
there is a perfectly direct social
message: fascism stinks, Fas-
cism here is represented by a
fine British actor, Paul Schofield,
as a Nazi officer to whom people
are swine, It is his job to move
a trainload of French art trea-
sures into Germany as the Allies
are moving on Paris,

Lancaster, as Labiche, station
master and resistance leader,
who at first is reluctant to stop
the art train, but as events de-
velop it becomes a high speed
race between some 100 railroad
workers and the Resistance who
are out to foil the Nazis’ plan,

Lancaster is not really called
upon to act, His rugged looks
and acrobatic skill are entirely
appropriate for the role, Each
trainman is beautifully cast and
the camera never neglects faces
for steam engines or pistons,

Ode to
the Pacific Coast

This is the land of big fir

And warm cedar and bitter hemlock,
Of craggy peak capped in a crown of virgin white.

Where the eagle soars on high and
Dives to pluck silver feast from the blue deep
That caresses the shore with thunderous love.

Where bear is king until man is come

To wrest his domain.

To strip it bare and leave his subjects naught.

And suddenly the silence of wilderness is cleaved
By the crash of the huge fir
A grandfather of Columbus.

The saws sing, the whistles scream and yarders grunt
The boat hooks on and off to town

To feed the giant.

And through what is left on rugged slope —

Broken wood like bodies smashed by war, and stumps
Like amputated arms thrust to heaven—

Will come a new breed to suck

From the soil and drink of the warm rain

To grow and burst with life and

Feel the sap that is its life blood

Course through its veins pushing it ever skyward—
Once again to fall and feed the giant.

April 30, 1965—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 17

—Thomas J. Kozar