Friday evenings on CBC-TV is a time to “sing out.” That’s when
host Oscar Brand and a troupe of top folksingers from the United
States and Canada get together for a rousing half-hour hootenanny,
Let’s Sing Out. The programs originate from university campuses
across Canada. The music on the show ranges from harsh and biting
protest songs to earthy traditional blues. Some of the guest artists
appearing on the series are Phil Ochs, Eric Anderson, Jim and Jean
and Josh White Jr. Some ofthe universities visited include Queen's,
Windsor and Carleton.

J. $. Wallace

The speaker rumbles on and on

In an ox-driven cart

When on earth is he going to quit

And when is he going to start?

: ; MOSCOW

URI Rytheu could pass as a Canadian Eskimo because

he is a Chukchi, a small nationality related to the Es-
kimos of the USSR.and mingling with them. They can

’ see our continent on clear days but intercourse with our

Eskimos has almost stopped since the cold war.

He tells me there is now one professional writer to
every 6,500 Chukchis and that half of these are men and
half are women. Then explains, with a twinkle in his eye,
there are only 13,500 of his people. Until the USSR was
consolidated they were rapidly dying out. Now they are
slawly increasing and live on the average 66 years. Con-
trast this with the 32 years for our Eskimo.

They are no longer nomads and all have decent frame

homes lit with electricity and illuminated even more with

_ libraries, newspapers, magazines, radios and _ television.

They are still backward in some respects: I would like to

tell you today about the Chukchi woman and her electric

sewing machine but,-warned by the verse upstairs, must
Icave it for another time.

P.S.: Yuri is as smartly dressed as any professional
man in Toronto. ;
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FOR ALL MY CHILDREN

Whenever a dozen of you, say, are playing together
here is something to try: appoint a captain who will divide
you into three groups. He will whisper to the first group
that at a signal they will shout Hash. The second will be
told to shout Hish, the third Hosh. When all shout together
it will-sound like a giant sneeze. Now the captain will re-
turn to the first group and tell them to shout Hash at his
signal. But he will whisper to the other groups to keep:
quiet . . . and the laugh will be on the shouters.

_ Minister

Henrik Ibsen's symbolism
faithfully portrayed

Henrik Ibsen’s The Wild Duck
is a realistic play full of symbol-
ism. The duck, to different peo-
ple, means daydreams, or hope,
or escape, or even sacrifice.

Most of the people who ap-
pear in this story, centred in a
Norwegian city in the 1880’s, do
not know of the bird’s existence,
but it is there nevertheless, a
constant reminder that reality
and illusion are not always
clearly defined, and that. the

truth and the lie sometimes

overlap.

On the one hand Ibsen re-
moves some of the facade from
a socially prominent industrial-
ist, and also reveals some of the
lesser citizens as less than vir-
tuous and much less than heroic.
On the other, having effected
the unmasking, he now turns on
the character most responsible
for the exposure and :exposes
him:too.

-This is Gregers, son of the in-
dustrialist, and he is shown as
a meddling, moralizing prig, a

THEATRE

searcher out of sin to condemn,
a self-righteous busybody whose
fanaticism disrupts the lives of
several people and brings death
to the most innocent of them.

The New York APA-Phoenix
production, at the Royal Alex
andra Theatre in Toronto, is an
honest, probing and conscien-
tious effort, handsomely de-
signed, excellently costumed,
and directed by Stephen Porter
with a faithful regard for the
play’s meaning and an especially
sensitive ear for its humor. But
in the staging (as in that of last
week’s We Comrades Three) one
detects a literary leisureliness
where, instead, one should wel-
come conflict and theatricality.

There are 19 members in the
cast and, of these, at least half
a dozen present solid character-
izations, They are individually
interesting, but in combination
they ‘just miss producing the
spark, the sparkle, the inner ex-
citement of the stage.

_ Outstanding is Donald Moffat

Aid to Vietnam
is stressed _

By BERT WHYTE
Tribune Staff Correspondent
_ MOSCOW
This year’s parade in Red

Square on the occasion of the

49th anniversary of the October
Revolution was a reminder to
all aggressors that Soviet armed

: forces are strong to defeat at-

tacks from any quarter.

In his speech Soviet Defense
Rodion Malinovsky
$aid the Soviet Union is actively

. Struggling: against the aggres-
‘ give policy of imperialist states

and first of all the United States
whose criminal actions in Viet-
nam and other parts of Asia

“Jhave increased the danger of a

new world war.”

Malinovsky spoke of Soviet
assistance to the Vietnamese

people and predicted “their com-

plete victory despite - every-

thing.”
He expressed regret over the
position of the Chinese leaders

‘which hampers unity of action

of the socialist countries in sup-
porting the Vietnamese people
and encourages U.S. imperialism
to commit new crimes.

The military parade lasted 40

at Moscow fete

minutes and was an impressive
display of sophisticated fighting
equipment, including tube-
encased anti-missile missiles, in-
tercontinental ballistic missiles,
three-stage intercontinental mis-
siles and giant orbital missiles
of unlimited range.

Following the military parade
there was a march of hundreds
of thousands of Muscovites.

Guests from many lands at-
tended the celebrations. Cana-
dians who watched the parade
in Red Square included members
of Parliament, journalists and
businessmen who came to Mos-
cow on the inaugural airflight

from Montreal. William Kashtan °

and Norman Freed, represented
the Communist Party.

On Nov. 8, the first day of the
50th year of the revolution,
Pravda announced an interna-
tional photo competition. Aim of
the contest is to show the gains
of the Soviet people and revolu-
tionary changes in the world.
The contest closes next Sept. 1
and top prize for foreign en-
trants is an Invitation to attend
the celebrations of the 50th anni-
versary, followed by a_ three-
week tour of the Soviet Union.

November 18, 1966—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 6

as Hjalmar, photographer son of
a man involved in a business
scandal. Mr. Moffat’s Hjalmat
a figure of weaknesses and §
delusion, a boaster and a dre
er, but also a very human P
son, affectionate, humorous, ©7
cent, confused and likeable. HIS
is undoubtedly the performan®
of the evening. “
Sydney Walker plays his ai
graced father as a person wit t
drawn into his own distat
world, a victim who bears — il
froubles with dignity. Betty
ler, Hjalmar’s lower-class wi
is one of the few down-to-eal
realists in the story. eg

Jennifer. Harmon, the 14-¥
old daughter, is a lovely cree
ture, brimming with devotion
unaffected, naive and vital. clay"
ton Corzatte, the moralist |
earnest and straightlaced, 9
his stiffness makes him less that
human. Joseph Bird as Dr. Re
ling (the voice of Ibsen?) is |
forceful and incisive de-bunke ‘
an opponent of intolerance,
champion of the liberal spirit

—Martin Stone

Cuban artists
to perform
at Expo 67

More than 90 of Cuba’s fi
singers, dancers and musich
will come to Montreal next J
to participate in Expo 67’
tertainment program.

Expo officials and the ©
government reached agree®)
to present Fiesta Cubana fi
July 24-29 in the 1,30
ThéAtre Maisonneuve of
treal’s Place des Arts theé
complex.

Under the artistic direcUlO™
Rogelio Paris, Cuba’s directol
culture, the Fiesta Cubana
be a Caribbean-flavored —
tacle of exciting music and
ful dancing. The sight of b
ly-costumed dancers and
sounds of exotic Latin rhy¥®
will help to recreate al
gaiety of a Cuban holiday
show is being specially prod
for Expo 67. _ :

Although this will be ~
Fiesta Cubana’s first visit
Canada, the group has alt e
established its reputation
other parts of the world ¥
appearances in the famed Ol
pia Theatre in Paris Jast ©
and at Helsinki’s Festival
dial de la Jeunesse in
where the group won first P

During the group’s appearay
at Expo 67, Cuba will als?
celebrating its National Day:
July 26.

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