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Return of Don Juan

lively CBUT play

E Return of Don Juan, a verse
play by Ronald Duncan, adapt-
ed for television and produced
by Paul Almond, will be given
‘{ts first North American perform-
ance on CBC Summer Theatre
Tuesday, August 30, at 8:30 p.m.
* Almond outlines the play:

“It begins in Hell, where Lord
Byron, Oscar Wilde and G. B.
Shaw, surrounded by all the
amenities of a London club, play
an eternal poker game with their
reputations as stakes; Don Juan
is the only inmate who suffers
‘as he ought.

“Satan, worried now ‘because
humans seem to enjoy Hell (In
the good old days, people knew
why they were in Hell. And I
could walk these halls and hear
‘the unending echoes of remorse,
and rub my hands. . . .’), decides
to send Don Juan back to earth,
to Seville, for a year’s recon-
naissance.

“Ft is a disillusioning experi-
ence: He eventually meets Dona
Ana, only to discover that the

dea of sin has become obsolete. .

Juan returns to Hell, and passes
on to Satan the news that peo-
ple no longer suffer remorse for
their actions — a fact that has
quite an effect on both Satan
and Juan.

“Brilliant and witty, The Re-
turn of Don Juan is a highly en-
.tertaining commentary — or vari-
-ation — on a profoundly serious
theme.”

Ronald Duncan is well known
in. England for his poetry, a
weekly newspaper column and
for his many plays.

The cast will include Patrick
Macnee as Don Juan, Barry Morse
as Satan, Eric Christmas as Ca-
talion, John Drainie as G. B.
_Shaw, Toby Robins as Ana, Jill
. Foster as Evelyn, and Ivor Barry
“as a bishop.

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“wear a huge mask in an interpre-

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tive Balinese dance this coming
Sunday night on CBUT’s Eleanor
show at 10 p.m. He has combin-
ed three main elements of the
Balinese temple dance into one
stylized routine.

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A talk about her future with
Marilyn Bell will be one of the
interesting items on Producer’s
Workshop August 29 at 9 p.m.,
Channel 2. :

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Guests on CBUT’s Folk Songs
program, Thursday, September 1
at 5.15 p.m. will be Denise Pel-
letier and children’s singing and
dancing instructor, Mme. Audet
with a group of her pupils. They
will present French - Canadian
folk songs and dances.

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Frederick Prausnitz, assistant
dean of the Juilliard School of
Music in New York, at the west
coast to conduct the final concert
of the BCE Symphony in Stanley
Park, will make a guest appear-
ance with the CBC Vancouver
Chamber Orchestra on Thursday,
September 1 at 9 p.m., taking
over from regular conductor John

- Avison.

Prausnitz was accompanied by
his wife, pianist Marion Barnum,
herself a former Vancouverite,
and she will be soloist on Thurs-
day’s broadcast.

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The CBC has concluded ar-
rangements with the BBC which
will bring to Canadian radio list-
eners the BBC comedy show, The
Goons, described by English col-
umnists as “the craziest of all
crazy shows.”

Scheduled to begiri September

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A surprisingly sunny August has resulted in B.C. citizens flocking to popular beaches and
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In Vancouver countl2ss thousands visit, English Bay, Kitsilano beac!

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west a joy to get away from
the average novel of today—
with dull characters living unreal
lives — into the clean fresh air
where people do something to
make life better and worth liv-
ing. :

Andre Stil’s A Gun is Unloaded

(obtainable here at the People’s

Cooperative Bookstore, 337 ‘West
Pender Street, price $2.20) takes
us into the very ordinary, but
nevertheless heroic lives of long-
shoremen, farmers and house-
wives.

This is the second yolume of
Stil’s trilogy The First Clash,
about resistance of a small
French port to U.S. occupation,
which earned its author a Stalin
prize.

Stil, editor of the French Com-
munist daily newspaper ?PHuman-
ite, has a facility for character-
ization. In his novel he portrays

many different types of people— _

moody people, impulsive people,
steady people, and he draws out
of their differing characters a
common bond of unity against the
new invaders.

The longshoremen

are the

_ spearhead of the resistance. They

have refused to load arms for the
war in Indochina, and have been
hhalf-starved as a result. Now
they are ready to stop the Ameri-
cans from sneaking in arms for
the Germans.

We meet them squatting in a
large building ear-marked for the
U.S. forces; and we leave them as
a huge US. gun ener hurtling in-
to the sea.

There is eine the long-
shoreman living with his family
in a squalid hut, hardly a franc
in his pocket, who is neverthe-
less able to remark:

“I always say it’s by the chil-
dren you can tell whether people
really love each other, or whether
it’s mere show. ... I look on each
child as meaning that love was
stronger than all the .difficulties.

“Each one of my children rep-
resents a kind of victory. This
one, now, she’s the Popular
Front!”

There is Grandgeon, the farm-
er, who is told to quit his farm
so that the U.S. base can be en-
larged. “He was a Radical of
sorts, who invariably voted as
far to the Right as possible and
made no bones about it because

Second volume of Stil’s trilogy —
continues story of a French port —

he was in a blue funk about the
Reds.

“But hang it all! Twenty-two
cows, two yoke of oxen and six
pigs; what was to be, done if they
all had to be dispersed? . . There
was only one thing left to do; dig
himself in, resist.” :

And it is the workers, the
“Reds,” who help him. ~

Above all, there is Henri, un-
employed longshoreman, area
secretary of the Communist party.

He is young, trained in a tough

Hollywood out in space
better than on earth |

ye I find puzzling in films

about the future is why it
never occurs to anybody that hu-
man beings, as well as inter-

planetary technology, are going -

to advance and improve.

In Conquest of Space a space
platform called the Wheel, man-
néd by Americans on behalf of
the Supreme International Space
Authority, has been established
just outside the Earth’s atmo-
sphere.

From here it is possible to
travel by space-ship to Mars (red
sand and voleanic rock), stay for
a year and return safely. Science,
it seems, will have advanced con-
siderably since our time.

But people? Apparently they’ll
be just the same. The space-ship
is commanded by an American
colonel (“Old Space-happy”’ to his
men) who is just like a typical
American commander of today,
including the tendency toward re-
ligious insanity.

The crew of the space-ship, sup~
posed to be handpicked from the
best the world can offer, are the
same old G.L.’s.

‘Nevertheless, this is an enter-
taining piece of nonsense notable
for some ingenious settings. I
found this cosy, matter-of-fact
journey into space much more

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school, not afraid of ye
but sensitive to human fe
understanding the failings | hes
others because he himself oe
known failure.

This is a real Communist — a
far cry from the automate ti
gested by some writers eri
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the struggle for peace. — L
FECORGE MacDOUGAY

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bison fighting for suPré :
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April’ 1929 - June 1

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