Picts the Tibetan peasants,

This w . ‘“ * 9s
: his woodcut entitled “Golden sun and golden mountain” | tions in Canada, but we WeIeloe the newspapers’ that havel |

sowing their joy over this year’s rich harvest.

THE SELECTED WRITINGS) radical journalism in English.,
OF WILLIAM LYON MAC-|He wrote during the golden

by Margaret Fairley. Oxford! nalism. It was a period herald-|
University Press, Toronto,| ed by politics for the people. |
1960. Price $6.50. ja publication edited by Daniel
The editor iMirs, Marvaret ; Isaac ~ Eaton; it reached its
Fairley, and the publisher, the| aman neh ene ee uate
Ostordieemivensus obrese: Tor-| writings of the celebrated Wil-
onto, are to be congratulated | yarn eee : |
on this handsome new volume, | Mackenzie had an immense
The Selected Writings of Wil-| UTS¢ to teach; he came from a}
liam Lyon Mackenzie, | race of great schoolmasters. A|
| journal served perfectly his|

We are all aware of Macken- grive to instruct, to convince |
zie’s giant service in the pro-| and to organize public opinion. |

motion of democratic -institu-) Togay when we open the files

recently freed from serfdom, | jess aware of his very signifi-' peen published in the past in|
cant place in the history of| 94;

province, none stirs us|

TROSEMARY”

‘eens

ROSEMARY. A Films-Around-
_ the-World, Inc, release.
Screenplay and story by
Erich Kuby. Produced by
Luggi Waldleitner. Directed
by Rolf Thiele.

You may remember the
’se of the expensive West
German call-girl, Rosemarie
ltribitt, who turned up dead
Frankfurt in 1957. She was
4 years old and no one has

Murder because the girl had
}°Onnections in high places
Which embarrassed the West
rman government.

A novelist Erich Kuby]
ote a book about her, and
0m all indications the film is
better than the novel, for in
'ddition to its value as an ex-
“Se of the connections be-
Ween German big business
Nd the underworld (and
American capital’s connection
With the rearmament of Ger-
any),it has gq satirical slant
: was lacking in the orig-
al,

Differing also from the

San Francisco Film
Award Won By USSR

SAN FRANCISCO — To no-

| °dy’s surprise tue Soviet Un-
Sn ran off with the major
Golden Gate Awards” at the
Surth annual International
~m Festival held here last
onth,

4 Participating for the first
Me, the Soviet film “Ballad
the Soldier’ was named
‘st picture and its director, |
;'lgori Tchukhray, the direc-

|

rs award.

Film Tells Of West
German Corruption

journalism.

Newspapers are the mirror’ we experience on examining}
of the times and they have aj, the files of the Colonial Advo-)
mirror’s fragility. Since they | cate and its successors, edited |
are prepared for prompt and’ by Mackenzie.
repeated examination and pub-;. The. volume reflects. the}
lished in a large format they, great range of Mackenzie's in-|
novel, the character of Rose-| are ill-equipped to combat the) terests. He was of course, im-
mary has been given more|Yravages of time. In addition, | mensely interested in the po?-

depth than the original girl ap-| 2fter the rebellion, in the time | itical life of the province and

parently possessed, because the|°f arrests and hangings, re-|every dodge of the Family|

KENZIE (1824-1837). Edited! period of this type of jour-| |

. . |
| with the same emotions that}

W. L. MACKENZIE’S WRITINGS REFLECT
SPIRIT, COLOR OF REBELLION DAYS

W. L. MACKENZIE

jacket of this new volume of

€Ver been punished for’ her|

book told us she was merely}
interested in cold cash and ran|
her business like any other
shrewd merchandiser.

In the film she is given a
more sympathetic treatment,
in her pitiful desire to be ac-
cepted in “society” by getting
the munitions maker Hartog to}
marry her.

There were a number of
gentlemen who had ample rea-

|ruption of a West Germany

son to have her done in, for
she was using a tape recorder
in her business and playing
one tycoon against another by
selling industrial secrets back
and forth.

The central character is
played by a handsome young
woman named Nadja Tiller,
who figured prominently in a
recent Jean Gabin film (‘‘Dis-
order and the Night,” Pw,
Sept. 17, 1960), and she sug-
gests both the cruelty of the
type, its seductiveness and its
pathos.

There-are also excellent per-
formances by Carl Raddatz (as
Hartog), by Peter Van Eyck
(as a French industrialist who
was not~ prominent in the
novel) and by Horst Frank (as
a salesman for the German
edition of “The Watchtower”
— who was not in the book at
all).

The film is also notable for
its imaginative use of the cam-
era, as well as for its fine,
satirical treatment of the cor-

that won the war by losing it.

—From People’s World.

formers with copies of Mac-
kenzie’s papers no doubt hast-
ened to destroy them. Fortun-
ately two of our Public Ar-
chives possess extensive hold-
ings in Mackenzie’s news-
papers; but only a few schol-
ars have visited the archives

Compact roused his fighting! Selections are these just words
qualities, but his interest was|°f the publisher: “His writing
stirred by every aspect of the| is everywhere distinguished by
practical life in Upper Canada, | firm judgement, an immense
including farming, roadmak-|Tespect for facts, and the in-
ing, canal-building, and in a} destructible idealism of a pas-
special way, education. Books,| Sionate democrat.

sermons and public manners|

A final word on the format

quate material to place Mac-
kenzie in the great tradition of

to examine these files. were among his preoccupa-| of this book that includes not
Prior to the appearance of| tions. Some extracts are de-| only extracts from the several
this volume of selections, most} Voted to his interest in life in} papers that Mackenzie edited
general readers were not in a} Lower Canada as. well as} but also from his other writ-
position to assess the qualities! events abroad. ings of the period. The volume
of Mackenzie as a publicist. His comments on his con-| recaptures in a most pleasing
Mrs. Fairley has, with im-}temporaries were, sometimes,| way the style of the early nine-
mense patience, combed this} biting; it was not an age of; teenth century. The _ sheets
extensive mass of material and|mealy-mouthed journalism.| printed in Mackenzie,s native
has selected those extracis| Lest any think him too vigor-; Scotland, are bound in rebel
from Mackenzie’s_ writings] ous in his denunciation of his red. On the front binding in
best reflect the spirit of his re-| antagonists, recall the words black, a part column from the
forming ardor and the color of; used by Sir Francis Bond Head Colonial Advocate calling Re-
the times in Upper Canada du-| to describe Mackenzie, “with! formers to the cause of Mac-
ring the period from the foun-| unprincipled impudence as his kenzie, and, on the back, a
ding of the Colonial Advocate} companion”’, “ this low adven-, column illustrating the style of
to the outbreak of the Rebel-: turer’, “ this low-bred vulgar} the advertisements of that per-
lion in 1837. man”’ etc. |iod; these are also reproduced
This volume gives us ade-| Bond Head made much of ‘on the dust-jacket. Altogether
| Mackenzie’s alleged careless- a most pleasing and valuable
a with facts. On the dusi- volume. (R.S.K:)
|

Belafonte Hits
War, Colonialism

Harry Belafonte last week spoke to 1,100 socialites
|f at a benefit rally in Toronto for the African Students
|| Fund of Canada. He told them “no armed conflict or war
‘| will settle the differences which exist between the two
| if great ideologies today.”

| He also said that “the blame in the African situ-
| ation can be placed at the doorstep of colonialism, ex-
|| ploitation and slavery. The African people are asking
| for their rightful place in the family of man, and they
|| shall achieve it whether by peace or force, And anyone
i,| who tries to stop them will have a very painful
| experience.”

ES

MARGARET FAIRLEY

December 9,-1960-—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 5

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