LAM aig i | i L.A dah ahaa fi ir a NEW DANCES WIN, PRAISE Fine concert given by Ukrainian Canadians SOME 150 latecomers had to be turned away from the Hastings- Odeon Theatre on Sunday when the Association of United Ukrain- ian Canadians concluded a two- day provincial convention in Van- eouver with a public concert given before a capacity audience of more than 2,000 people. The fine quality of Ukrainian Canadian orchestras, choirs and dance groups has become well known: to Vancouver . audiences through many festivals and con- certs over the years, but never have the talents which have found BETHUNE MEMORIAL Set judges in contest SINCE THE recent announce- ment that the Norman Bethune Memorial Contest has been. extend- ed to May 1 this year, three more manuscripts have been submitted and a number of .writers have made inquiries, it is reported by the Norman Bethune Memorial Committee in Toronto. The contest, namer for the great Canadian doctor who died while heading a medical mission to the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, is being sponsored by the Labor- Progressive party with the inten- tion of encouraging creative writ- ing on Canadian themes, historic or contemporary. It calls for novels of 40,000- 50,000 words or plays suitable for modest production. . Judges for the contest, as an- nounced by the committee, are Tim - Buck, LPP national leader, Gui Caron, LPP provincial leader in Quebec, and Tom McEwen, editor of the Pacific Tribune. ; All inquiries should be addressed to Bethune Memorial Committee, care of LPP national office, 555 Bloor Street West, Toronto. opportunity for expression through the AUUC shown to better advant- . age. Under the able direction of Miss Florenz Aksaniuk, recently ap- pointed AUUC musical director here, assisted by Miss Beatrice Be- zubiak, dance director, an already extensive repertoire has , been widened and the reception accord- _ ed the new musical and dance numbers left no doubt as to the audience’s approval. : Outstanding on the program were two numbers by the orches- tra, Albert Kettleby’s own ~ar- rangement of his popular In a Persian Market and Ukrainian Echoes, arranged by John Kolyn- chuk of Saskatoon, for several years musical director for the AUUC in that city. Two new dances, Bulba (Potato Dance) by the Zoya girls dance group, and Hopak by the Kobzar senior dance group, both drew an enthusiastic response. The choreo- graphy for the dances, done by Igor Moseyoyv, was brought back from the Soviet Union by Walter Balai, Toronto director for the AUUC. : The concluding number, We’re For Peace, music for which was written by the Soviet composer, S. Tulikov, was also the highlight of an outstanding concert. ,As the massed men’s and women’s choirs, acompanied by the full orchestra, sang the inspiring words, children‘ belonging to the AUUC junior groups paraded across the stage earrying cards that bore the word. - “Peace” in every major language. During the intermission John ~ Boychuk, national secretary-treas- - urer of the Associatién of United Ukrainian Canadians, and Mrs. Helen Weir, women’s director, ad- dressed the audience briefly. Miss Betty Thomas showed her- - self to be an accomplished accom- panist to the orchestra and. choirs, and the role of master of cere- monies,was well handled by Peter Maksyewich.. Saturn photographed at Palomar This is the first photograph of Saturn to be taken b , tain, near Pasadena, California. With better atmospheric conditions, astronomers hope to be able to obtalm — the great 200-inch telescope on Palomar Moun-— even sharper pictures showing the great planet with its unique rings — broad bands of minute particles — - revolving around it. LONDON PARLEY HEARS SHOCKING REPORT for which I enclose P.0;> fj TURKEY DINNER AND DANCE | 6.30-8.00 — 8.30-12.00 SATURDAY JANUARY 31 UKRAINIAN HALL 805 E. Pender Guest Speaker LESLIE MORRIS Admission $1.25 —— EL SF. Please enter my subscription to CHAMPION for one year CHEQUE O + ~ : Send to CHAMPION, Room 200, Ford Building Vancouver 4, B.C. Hollywood makes 40 war f ilms in 2} years - prepares 35 more . A WARNING that more films glorifying war are being prepar- ed in Hollywood came last week from Miss Marie Seton, a British Film Institute lecturer who recent- ly returned to ‘Britain from the United States. “é She told a conference on “films for war and peace,” held in Lon- don, that 40 war films had come out of Hollywood in the past two and a half years.: “Another 85 such features and shorts are now in preparation,” she added. Called by the Film Panel of the Authors World Peace Appeal, the conference was attended by over 100 film technicians and writers, and 73 delegates from trade union, cooperative and peace organiza- tions. gx ' Miss Seton illustrated the ef- _ fects of the ‘Hollywood thriller film by telling the conference of an 18-year-old boy who shot three people in Toronto after having sat through a gangster movie 12 ‘times. Opening the conference, Roger MacDougall, author of the pacifist play, The Gentle Gunman, and To Dorothy, a Son, named three types of film likely “to sharpen existing dangers and hatreds” in the world. . They were “films that appear to glorify war, films that suggest war is inevitable, and films that por- tray the irrational use of force as the only method of settling differ- ences.” \ ; The movie was described as the most powerful psychological wea- pon ever known” by Moniea Pear- son, the film critic. : “With the fate of the world in balance it must be of very deep concern to us in what manner this pia a is being used,” she. add- ed. : By quoting box-office returns she showed that films of violence are not necessarily popular. “There need be no conflict be- tween economic interests and the 1949 specialised in violence. An attack on films which en- courage racial discrimination and hatred came from Mrs. A. Reid, the London correspondent of the Hin- dustani Times. She cited as one of the worst examples the British film Outpost in Malaya. ,Mentioning that a character in the film was. ‘a gervile Indian overseer,” she added: “There was no mention of the Indian trade union leader who was hanged for helping the Liberation movement. “The real truth that the Malay- an people are fighting for their freedom was obscured.” The Asian people were tired of being presented in films as stupid or servile, she added. Montagu Slater, author and screen writer, announced the Film Panel’s plans for holding an in- ternational festival of Films for Peace in Britain in March or April. Junior choral. group formed Formation of a junior choral group, under the _ direction of Arne’ Jonsson and Mrs.. Kay Rankin, was announced this week. Membership in the group is open . to boys and girls between the ages _ of eight and 14. The first meet- ing of the group will be held in Pender Auditorium on Sunday, February 1, 11.30 a.m. : Mrs. Rankin said this week that, provided there is sufficent re- sponse from boys and girls in the 12-14 age bracket, a junior brass band will also be organized. , PENDER AUDITORIUM | (Marine Workers) 339 West Pender LARGE & SMALL HALLS FOR RENTALS Phone PA. 9481 SUITE 515 : STANTON, MUNRO & : Barristers - Solicitors - Notaries : FORD BUILDING DEAN 198 EK. HASTINGS (Corner Main & Hastings Sts.) ; MARINE 5 ieee ha ee TC Pree et it) PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JANUARY 23, 1953 — PAGE ‘Many directors, including Harty oe Watt, Paul Rotha, Basil Wright and several French personalities have agreed to sup” port the festival. * DOUBLE FEATURE | DON’T MISS IT 2 Films that make “Scrap” of the Iron Curtain CONSTRUCTION © SITES IN MOSCOW and SOVIET KAZAKSTAN Monday, ~ JAN. 26, 8 P.M. — LOWER HALL PENDER AUDITORIUM * FRIDAY, JAN. 30, 8 P.M. RUSSIAN HALL” 4 600 Campbell Ave. é * Admission 50¢ Auspices: Canadian-Soviet Friendship Committee and Italian