| RADIO-TV

| ODERN jazz arrangements
a paved by the orchestra of
a ancouver Jazz Society,
meee of Dixieland inter-
AGES, and — the singing of
=l€anor Collins, together make

ae 18-piece orchestra —
ee pone, four trumpets,
Bho thythm and five saxo-
“ones. — will be led by trum-
Bobby Reid,
* aes from-the big band,
a Vancouver’s foremost
tion Ae of the Dixie tradi-
Phe peace Harrison, will give
Ixle interludes.

* ok x

{ eee 2 viewers will be
ieee for themselves how
ices ae rehearsed and pro-
aaa a en it is on the air
NEG € CBC show tent at the
a uring the coming week.
a will see Alan Millar,
: Started with CBUT when
a cata (before that he work-
, n TV and radio in Seattle),

w
7

da
Ma :
ks on His Music, interview-
= nteresting people, while
Be obuler. Weatherman, Bob
Bests =? will make his fore-
Bee tp

W.
: een around 1,400 children
ae anley Park to get in-
Bits on in painting, the re-
. a likely to be interest-
Bults zond some of those re-

Raa recorded for Trans-
Ss Matinee when Hilda
| ee of Vancouver, took her
ei ge a to the park and
ie milcroph
‘som phone amon
Etheis of the children to oath
Seas on a dream
Bu. & they were asked to

lazz from PNE
on Channel 2

Laughter From the North, a
drama by Mary McAlpine, pro-
duced by Peter Garvie, will be
beard on CBC Wednesday,
August 29 at 9 p.m.

For maybe a thousand years
the Finnish epic poem, Kale-
vaia, was passed down the gen-
ecations by word of mouth
until, in the 19th century, it
wags finally written down.

One of the heroes of the
poem is a sort of Arctic Don
Suan named Lemminkainen—
s blustering peasant with a
blustering sense of humor who
doesn’t so much appeal to wo-
men as bludgeon them. The
story of Lemminkainen has
only been translated into Eng-
lish once, and then by a 19th-
century clergyman who put it
into Hiawatha metre and add-
ed occasional moral exhorta-
tions to counterbalance the
events of which he tells.

Laughter From the North is

‘« radio drama based on the

life of Lemminkainen. It tells
how he tires of his local amor-
cus conquests and in the man-
ner of* young men ambitious
tc succeed in their chosen field,
goes abroad.

After many adventures he
arrives in a land called Poh-
jola, famous partly for its
heautiful queen and partly for
a material object called “Sam-
po,” possession of which en-
sures happiness. a

The contempt with which
the queen treats him inflames
Lemminkainen’s hatred and he
urges his own coutrymen to
war to gain the Sampo. The
drama ends as it begins, with
the fanatic laughter of Lem-
minkainen as he realizes that
the two countries will con-
stantly suffer the misery of
war in a vain attempt to en-
sure the happiness of the Sam-

po

3 SS

BOOK CLEARANCE SALE

Three Days Only
Wed., Thur., Fri. - Aug. 29, 30, 31

PEOPLE’S CO-OP BOOKSTORE ASSOC.

337 W. PENDER ST.

Sales Hours: 9 a.m. - 9 p.m.

* Sid Caesar will have a new “wife” on his “Caesar’s Hour” television program this fall
Photo shows the popular comedian discussing future plans with Janet Blair. and k

on the diffilult assignment of stepping into Nanette Fabray’s shoes. Caesar is rated th st
consistently funny man on TV, and has a knack of developing stars, so Janet’s future Tears

bright.

Colette tells tender tale
of ripening young love

: Bere novels of Colette do not
enjoy the reputation in our

ccuntry they do in France.
There, she is correctly con-
sidered a major writer. Here
where known at all, she is
patronized as a clever and sen-
sitive “woman” writer whose
range is circumscribed by her
single subject: love.

Human love — and more
®precisely, love in the middle
class — is Colette’s sole sub-
ject matter and preoccupation,
but she is far more than a sen-
sitive writer with a delicate
ear for the psychologival nu-
ances of the tender passion.

The Ripening Seed, written
originally in the 1930s and
more recently made into a film
The Game of Love could serve
as an excellent introduction
to her work.

In this slender novel she
deals with a subject matter
that could throw the most ex-
perienced novelist: the ripen-

ing love of a 15 year old girl
and a 16 year old boy.

Vinca and Philippe are up-

per middle class children who
spent summer vacations en
famile ever since they were
small. The scene is the Breton
coast, and not the least of
Colette’s accomplishments _ is
her description of nature in all
its moods and passions, with
all its sights, sounds, smells
and tactile impressions.

These two have “loved” each
other since childhood, but now
they are ripening into maturity
and the intricate emotional re-
lationship that exists between
them — half-ecstacy and half-
torment — is projected with a
sensitivity and insight that is
spectacular.

Into the idyll enters: the
lovely and experienced ‘‘older”
woman — Mme Dalleray, who
is all of 32. Partly out of bore-
dom and partly out of her own
necessities, she initiates Phil-

August 24, 1956 —

ippe into the realm of physical
love.

Any reader looking for titil-
lation of a semi-pornographic
type will not find it in Colette.
She has enormous respect for
the relationships that exist be-
tween men and women, even
so off-beat and frowned-upon
an affair as that between a
youth and a mistress twice his
age.

Colette’s major concern here,
however, is what Philippe’s
newly-acquired manhood does
to his relationship with the
girl he -has loved since child-
hood, and will always love;
and what it does to her.

The beauty of this story lies
both in its simplicity and its
profound insight into people,
and while the love of Vinca
and’ Philippe is distinctly bour-
geois, the genius of their crea-
tor is such that all readers will
recognize their youth in them.

WILLIAN ROOT

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — PAGE 13