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Photo on top shows Chang Ming, one of China’s greatest
elay sculptors, working on a new’ figure depicting a woman

shop attendant.: Below is a

new work by a 19-year-old

youth. It is entitled “Joy Over Bumper Harvest.”

“BLACK ORPHEUS” IS A
FILM OF GREAT BEAUTY

_ Marcel Camus’ prizewinning
production, Black Orpheus
(Curzon, Brazilian dialogue,
English sub-titles) is a film of
intoxicating beauty. It is now
being shown in Vancouver.

A hauntingly lovely Brazil-
jan country girl named Eury-
dice (Marpessa Dawn) arrives
in Rio de Janeiro at carnival
time. She meets Orpheus (Bre-
no Mello) guitar-playing bus

Use the atom to build
a better life — not to

destroy life.

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conductor — a handsome and
carefree lad who is to lead the
dancing at the festivities.

They fall in love, and their
destiny is sealed. In the con-
temporary setting of a colored
South American community,
they are fated to play out the
ancient Greek legend to its
tragic but immortal ending.

Eurydice must die, and Or-
pheus demented with grief,
must seek her through the re-
gions of the underworld.

The film is dominated by
the carnival. The urgent
rhythm of the dance, the
swirl of the extraordinary
costumes, the surging of the
crowds, the color, the move-
ment, the dynamic, human vi-
tality of it, are brilliant, ir-
resistable, heady as wine.

The characters, though styl-
ised, are aglow with . energy

and a rich grasp of life. Yet:

the story is over contrived,
bent double to fit the pattern
of the myth. There is an ordi-
nariness about it; it rarely
achieves enough true legen-
dary nobility to challenge the
bewitching atmosphere of the
carnival.

When it does — especially
at the end, in which three en-
chanting children unconscious-
ly start the legend on a new
round of its eternal cycle of
life — it is superb.

“The Desperate People’”

In the year 1950 in Canada,
one of the richest lands in the
world, a woman shed _ her
clothing and walked naked in-
to sub-zero weather so that her
children and _ grandchildren
would be able to have her
share of food and her clothing.

Unbelievable? Fantastic?

It might seem to be both of
these things; but it is TRUTH
— fact that will shock many
Canadians who read “The Des-
perate People,” by Farley
Mowat. Mowat writes of the
inland Eskimos in the District
of Keewatin, a proud race of
people who have been ‘virtu-
ally obliterated as a result of
a policy of genocide against
these Canadian citizens.
“This,” says Mowat, “is the
chronicle of the virtual extinc-
tion of a native people in this,
the present hour of our _hist-
ory. It is also . . . an irrefut-
able argument for the full and
immediate emancipation of the
surviving Canadian Eskimos

from the intellectual, econom- |

ic and social confinement

which was imposed on them

more than half a century ago
”

Mowat writes from first-

hand experience, having lived
for about four years with the
Eskimo group, the Thalmiut, of
whom he talks, :
_ Today, Mowat writes, there
are only 49 survivors ~ of a
tribe that once’ numbered in
the thousands. Reason for this
he claims is a long: series of
errors, of neglect, misunder-
standing, disinterest’ and -bu-
reaucracy. by which one race
has inadvertently. -inflicted
physical agony and mental tor-
ture upen another.

Mowat is an angry man, who
brings this anger to the pro-
found tragedy of his story. The
book, .a sequel to his much-
talked-of “‘The People of the
Deer” should be read by many
Canadians and particularly Ot-
tawa politicians whose policies
have permitted this splendid
race of people to be detsroyed.

Vancouver singer
performs in Moscow

MOSCOW — Canadian folk
singer Perry Friedman has
given a series of concerts here
which included T.V. appear-
ances.

A recorded program of his
songs and an interview was
transmitted to North American
radio listeners over Radio Mos-
cow’s short wave.

Friedman is studying music
in East Germany.

“The Desperate People’
quotes chapter and verse in
the lengthy history of political
buck-passing and disregard.
Here are some of the facts
from Mowat’s hard - hitting
book.

In 1958, one out of eighi sur-
viving Eskimos had a history
of tuberculosis.

In 1958, when life expectan-
cy for ‘white’ Canadians was
close to 70—it was only slighi-
ly more than 24 years of age
for Eskimos.

Infant mortality. rate for
Eskimos is more than 260
deaths for every 1,000 births
—and is still rising.

More than three-quarters of
all Canadian Eskimos suffer
from chronic malnutrition.
Behind much of the wrongs
inflicted on the entire Eskimo
people, Mowat argues, is a del-
iberately contrived caricature,
long foisted on the Canadian
people, which has portrayed a

By Farley Mowat

‘A book which will
shock all Canadians

| Smiling, little Eskimo, be-deck-
;ed from head to toe in furs,
|like a TV ad, standing beside
| his snowy-white igloo. No pic-
| ture could be further from the
| absolute poverty and neglect
}in which almost 12,000 Canad-
|ian Eskimos find themselves.
“The Dseperate Peopie” —is
jan articulate argument for
|Canadians to become con-
scious of our Eskimo popula-

;tion and demand that they be

afforded a chance to be able
to help themselves. ;

“Canada’s voice,” Mowat
writes, has spoken out against
| South Africa’s exponents of
| Apartheid, ai the segregation-
ists in the Southern United
| States . . . Indeed, we looked
| vigorously in all directions,
|except northward into our
lense It is high time we start-
ed to look North. :

(Available at People’s Co-
Op Bookstore, 307 W. Pender
St.)

By M. KAY

A little girl runs home from
school with her friends. They
run and play and talk about
things which are of interest to
little girls. They come to Pen-
‘der Street and run across, The
little girl falls—she trips on
the edge of a large pothole.
Her mouth bleeds and she runs
home for comfort. Money for
repairing streets—this is what
disarmament would mean.

A young boy gets ready at
twelve o’clock to go to school.
He cannot go earlier because
the schools are too crowded
and others must go in the
morning to get the meagre bit
of education that can be push-
ed into them in half a day. The
boy would like to learn — he
would like to learn many
things — about the earth and
the’ people who live eon it.
There is not time for all of this
in half a day. He would like to
go a whole day to school.
Money for new schools — this

mean.
Four teen-age boys stand on
the corner of the block watch-
ing out of the corners of their
eyes the girls passing by on
the other side of the street.
“What’ll we do tonight?” “I
dunno — there’s never any-
thing doin’ around here. That
looks like a party in the next
block — let’s go crash it.’ So

they go — then the police come

WHAT DISARMAMENT MEANS
WHERE | LIVE-- A contest entry

Juvenile Court while anxious
parents hover over them.
There was no place for them
to go. Community centres —
this is what disarmament
would mean.

Three little boys play hap-
pily on the sidewalk with the
old pockmarked rubber ball
they found on the street the
week before last. They throw
and catch and laugh merrily.
Suddenly the ball flies past the
hands of the smallest boy. He
runs after it.— out into the
street. One second, a thud and
the burning tires screech and

is what disarmament’ would!

a little boy is dead. There was
no place for him to play safely.
Playgrounds — this is what
disarmament would: mean.

The doctor picks: his way
through the junk on the wood-
en steps of the old house on
Keefer Street. He steps out
onto the dirt pathway which
runs along the bumpy street.
“What can I do against the
filth and grime that these peo-
ple live in? These old houses
are nothing but a breeding
place for polio, tuberculosis,
disease of any kind. There is
not much a doctor can do
against poverty.” New homes
— this is what disarmament
would mean.

The _ healthiest, happiest,
most peaceful life man has
ever known — this is what dis-

armament would mean.

June 10, 1960—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 5

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