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New Weitalnstes Eoin artist, winner of the first

to life in pages of new book

UNHAPPILY only a few of us
get the opportunity to pay a visit
to one of the countries in which
socialism is being built. And, as
Jack Lindsay and Maurice Corn-
ford, authors of Rumanian Sum-
mer, make clear, it is impossible
adequately to realise the full
significance of that new life, un-
less you can see and feel at first
hand the transformation in hu-
man beings which the building of
socialism brings about.

But Rumanian Summer is cer-
tainly the next best thing. In its .
packed and glowing pages we are
constantly meeting the living
people of. Rumania in their
abundant variety, exuberant en-
thusiasm, and unshakable resolu-
tion. :

Our journey ranges from the
capital city, through great in-
dustrial projects like the Dan-
ube-Black Sea canal, to the most
remote of frontier villages. Every
detail of the working-out of the
sum which produces such stag-
gering statistics of construction
and achievement is presented to
us. The eye of a brilliant novel-
ist has missed nothing: so that
this is just the book to give to
the oe who always wants to

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cultural background of the multi-
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No part of this book is quite
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foreign region bordering on Yu-
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people in their collective farms,
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ever experienced before stands
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the backwardness and suppres-
sion still suffered by their kins-
men a few miles away across
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TRADITIONAL DANCES REVIVED

MILDRED Valley Thornton,
Vancouver artist known through-
out the country for her paintings
of British Columbia and Alberta
Native Indians, has gone to Bella
Coola at the invitation ot the

special performance of their old
ceremonial dances.

Native Indians from Bella
Bella, Klemtu and other villages
will gather at Bella Coola for the
celebrations, which are expected
to last several days, and they
have assured Mrs. Thornton of
their full cooperation in making
her drawings of the dances and
recording their songs, some of
them for the first time, on her
tape recorder. cs

The celebration itself is the
result of many months of pre-
parations, during which the only
two remaining members of the
Bella Coola band, both old men,
who know the traditional dances,
have carefully instructed the
younger people. Now ‘the cere-
monial costumes, preserved since
the early days but unused for a
good many years, have been
brought out again in an effort to
preserve an old and unique cul-
ture.

* * *
THE TRADITIONAL dances of

the Ucluelet Native Indians were
performed recently at the UAC

Noted artist to record
Native Indian ceremony

Native Indians there to record a_

hall in Ucluelet by the Nai

Indians of the Ucluelet and

quart reservations. Among the
dances were the War Dance, Vy
Party Dance, the Dance of vie |
tory, the Dance of the Wolv@
and the Dance of the Your
Braves, all of which have be!
handed down from one get! de
tion to another, as the olf i
generation of the Ucluelets ®
now handing them on to a #
generation.

Most of the dances were pe
formed by a group of some ed
boys and girls who were trail®® |
for the event by their elde
notably Mrs. Ella Thompson &
Jimmy MacKay.

To the accompaniment
drums, MacKay led a group ° ae
boys in the traditional bat
the Young Braves, in which
of the masks worn were
than a century old. i

Another historic mask, wi
opens into a large fan 45
dance progresses, worn th
Mack, traditionally must ™
be dropped nor must the
fall while wearing it. ‘

The oldest participant i

’ Albert Jackson, more ot
years old, who nonetheless *°
pace with the younger aay
and drew enthusiastic aPP aus ont
for his singing of the traditio

songs. SO

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