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of a greasy spoon

_ James Richardson.

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WINNIPEG {CP) — It's been a
long time since actors rehearsed in a
Winnipeg coal cellar or ballet dan-
ers performed free.

... It’s been a long time since the roof
ofthe old Dominion Theatre fell in —
literally -- or a theatre janitor led a
charge of his drinking buddies;
dressed in Ben Johnson costumes,
out Into a blizzard,

-..But early efforts to build up such
artistic pillars as the Royal Winnipeg
Ballet and the Manitoba Theatre
Centre paid off. They are thriving
today despite a dragging economy
and stiff competition for dollars.

- It’s never been easy.

When Gweneth Lloyd and Betty
Farrally arrived in Winnipeg in 1938,
few people on the Prairies had ever
seen a ballet,

DANCED FOR KING

. But one year later, the two British
women and their fledgling dance
company staged their _first
production for visiting King George
VI and Queen Elizabeth.

From that beginning, the Royal
Winnipeg Ballet has gone on to win
international acclaim, and is as
healthy today as it ever has been.
Meanwhile, the Manitoba Theatre
Centre, which set up shop over a
downtown greasy spoon in 1958 and
rehearsed in a dusty coal cellar, has
produced actors and artistic direc-
tors known across North America.
“And the Winnipeg Symphony
Orchestra, which spent its early days
accompanying men's choirs, is en-
doying its highest subscription list in
ite: 36-year history.

‘“:While some may wonder how
Wirtnipeg, stuck on the edge of an
often cold and desolate prairie, ever
managed to foster and support such
cultural groups, the people involved
say they actually used the unlikely
location to their advantage.

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“It was a wonderful place fo do

something because it was so far away
from anywhere and we didn’t get
anything very much in the city," said
Farrally, who now lives in Kelowna,
B.C,

“In those days, there wasn’t a
symphony, there wasn’t anything
except the ballet. We were away
from anybody else... and there was.
really nothing else to do.”

The Royal
developing such principal dancers as
Evelyn Hart who has been honored at

‘competitions around the world,

finished’ its 1992-83 season with a
$343,639 surplus.
Its subscription list has been rising
steadily and now is close to 10,000,
Kathleen Richardson, who has

been involved with the ballet since —

184, said its inception was part of the
city’s unending drive to provide for
itself,

HAD TO DO IT

“When there’s no one at hand,
when you can’t go to another town 20
miles away and if you want theatre,
you jolly well do it,” she said,

“I think that is Winnipeg ~ if we
want it, we make it ourselves,”

John Hirsch, co-founder of the
theatre centre and its first artistic
director, says the sense of isolation
provided Winnipeggers with ‘an
undaunted spirit: ;

“T always said that if Winipeggers
decided they wanted to grow oranges
they would have the foolhardiness
and the genius to build greenhouses
to grow oranges in the middle of
winter,” says’ Hirsch, who. well
remembers Winnipeg's notorious
winters,

“They had tremendous initiative
and a love for the arts," says the
current artistic director of Ontario’s
Stratford Festival. .

Hirsch supplied a lot of the early

initiative himeelf, :

“We had to build everything,” anything available

. ready audience,”

Hirsch said in an interview in which

. Green stripes and blue spray
_ form new Trudeau portrait

TORONTO (CP)

some green stripes in an

Prime Minister Trudeau
moved his eyes over his
“portrait,” drew a ‘deep
breath, and an exhibit of
highly-abstract paintings of
Canada’s 16 prime
Ministers was under way.
Phe exhibit — William
uynald, The Prime
Ministers — runs for 19
days in Toronto before
Moving on to Windsor,
Ont., Charlittetown and
Calgary — where it is sure
to,leave a trail of amused
and shaking heads behind.
The paintings, says a
plaque in the Art Gallery of
Ontario, express Ronald's
‘“utuitive response to the
individual’s personality in
relation to their public
presence and acts.”
«In other words, the
paintings look nothing at
’ all like their subjects.
.. Trudeau held up
remarkably well on first
sight of his portrait, a 3.5-
metre mural that could
pass-for a detailed piece of
work in a New York city
subway car.
BLUE SNAKES
, Serpentine lines of blue
Bpray paint facsimilie
knock about inside a half-
(illed outline of a head,
blackened in the core — all

upper quadrant and a
quasi-religions symbol
round out the effect.

“Mr. Prime Minister,”
called a voice, breaking the
silence. “Is it a good
likeness?” .

“Yes,"" Trudeau replied
eccentrically, “from the
back.”

The prime minister then
took a personal tour of the
16 paintings with Ronald,
who leaned. on a polished
walking stick before each
portrait and spoke en-
thusiastically to Trudeau
while a gaggle of
photographers and
hangers-on pressed in.

As he gazed at each new

The drawing of William
Lyon Mackenzie King was
the most outlandish — a
crudely drawn nude
woman, possibly bleeding,

Don’t tet the. rather
odd title put you off: I
Am a Hotel, an ex-
perimental video
dramatizing songs by
Leonard Cohen, isn't a
bad little film.

It is, if you like, a
long-play version of
those music videos that
seem to be popping up

Cohen's video
story of lovers

sets of lovers who meet
in a grand old hotel.

Also, unlike a number
of rock videos, the
producers have spent
time and money to —
create an’ innovative
and artful film. It is
beautifully filmed (at
Toronto’s historic King

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the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra.:

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and a dusty coal cellar

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Most such ‘videos are
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being shown May 7 on
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Positions in a_ loose
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Franca.

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VANCOUVER (CP) —
The Vancouver Art Gallery
has acquired 13 rare 17th-
century Dutch paintings,
valued at $2.1 million, from
John S. Davidson, a local.
businessman and art
collector.
Gallery director Luke
Rombout said Monday the
gift is of immense im-
portance to the develop-
ment of the gallery’s
historic European
collection. They will go on
exhibit May 25.

"Any museum would be
proud and pleased to
receive works of this
calibre," said Rombout.
‘"These beautiful and
important acquisitions
represent, in value, the
largest single donation of
works of art In the history
of ‘the art gallery. (The
Davidsons) are hopeful, as
we are, that their gift will
trigger other important
donations of works of art
from this community.”

The collection was
acquired by, Davidson over
a ‘period of years from

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