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Above is a new Chinese woodcut called, “Train speeds)

through the mountains.” Below is a traditional Chinese
painting, “Spring comes earlier to the mountains.”

BOOKS

TWO NEW SOVIET BOOKS
OF GREAT INTEREST

; Two interesting books have
just arrived from the Soviet
Union that are worthy of
attention. One, a small in-
triguing edition for animal
lovers of any age from eleven
up, 1s entitled “Durov and His
Performing Animals.”

Tt tells of the wonderful
work done by former clown
(as well as musician, painter
and sculptor and outhor of
children’s books) Vlademir
Durov, that led to the founda-
tion of the Animal Theatre in
Moscow. There are detailed
descriptions of the methods
used by Duroy and his assist-
ants in training 35 species of

animals including racoons,
cats, seals, elephants, foxes and
camels. He describes their

habits and propensities and ex-

plains how the seemingly un-
natural stunts performed by
them were developed from
their natural characteristics.

The reader finds himself be-
coming engrossed‘ with the per-
sonalities of these performing
animals due to the vivid and
affectionate manner in which
the reactions of each animal
to the training is described.

Durov clearly illustrates that
performing animals carefully
and gently trained can enjoy

doing stunts which are unna-

tural to their species.

The commonly-held falacy
that certain species are natur-
al enemies and will remain so
to the end of time is also clear-
ly debunked in this pook and
the author illustrates his point
by pointing to the fox and the
cock, the cat and the mice, and

other so called “natural”
enemies _ which are living
peacefully together at his.

theatre. The book is full of
interesting photographs and
altogther it is a very worth-
while little book for seventy-
five cents. 2

The second book ‘Moscow
Theatre” is aq much more
specialized and technical book
of great interest to people who
like theatre in all its forms.
It is also loaded with a most
fascinating collection of black
and white photographs. This
book is made more personal
and warm than most art books
by the writing in the first per-
son by Viktor Komissarzhev-
sky. He is a well known pro-

City singer liked
In East Germany

Readers of the Pacific Trib-
une will be interested in the
following item which appear-
ed in Democratic German Re-
port, a fortnightly printed
bulletin from East Berlin. It
was written by its editor, John
Peet. :

_ “Some of my readers, in the
USA, Canada and Britain will

#|/ know what a “Hootenanny” is

—a light-hearted concert of
songs from seyeral centuries
and just about all countries,
where the audience sings along
with the performers. The
Hootenanny just made its first
appearance in a non-English
speaking land — it took a
large audience in East Berlin
by storm on January 28th.
They not only sang old and
new German songs but did

-|their best with “Down by the

Riverside’ and other favour-

ites in English and other lang-

uages. I even noticed a wes-
tern mnewspaperman § singing
loudly along with the rest.

Lin Jaldati, recently return-
ed from a tour to Britain, sang
German, Dutch and Yiddish
songs and a Soviet: student
studying in Berlin came up
from the audience and played
and sang an Armenian folk-
song. The mainspring for this
first German Hootenanny was
a Canadian folk-singer called
Perry Friedman who is now
studying music in East Berlin.

“The audience loved the
breakaway from  stuffed-shirt
music traditions and decided
unanimously to make the Hoot-

enanny a regular occurrence
in Berlin.

ducer and drama critic who
deals with stage problems in
the art magazines and periodi-
cals of the USSR.

The contributions of the
ballet, opera, children’s thea-
tre, youth theatre, puppet

theatre and the new art thea-
tre to Soviet realism are all
described.When we absorb the
fact that in one week in Mos-
cow there are two hundred

‘and twenty different plays

staged it is obvious that this
review cannot possibly cover
the contents of this extensive
book.

One of the main features of
the book is the author’s per-
sonal reviews of many of the
plays, operas, and ballet pro-

ductions currently .playing in| %
Moscow. It is an ideal guide to) ;

the cultural. life of Moscow—
and a fine book for the library.
The cost, four dollars and fifty
cents. j

(Both of these books are|- : ; ; ,
Above is the work of one of China’s outstanding clay

sculptors, Chang Ming. It is entitled, “Happy old age,”
-run “old folks’ home.”

available at the People’s Co-
operative Bookstore, 307° W.
Pender St., Vancouver).

iJ

Remembers Ginger

JOHN LEE: So that was
how Cecil Clark (in the Vic-
toria Colonist) remembered the
day Albert Ginger Goodwin
was shot in the back by provin-
cial constable Don Campbell.

I met “Ginger” for a few
days when he was speaking in
Rossland for the S.P. of C. of
those days. He was a young
English lad in his’ early
twenties and he had probably
never fired a gun in his life.

Ginger stated that after his
experience with capitalism in
England and unemployment in
Canada he wouid never fight
for any capitalist government
anywhere. He said the workers
should compete in the produc-
tion of necessities of life not in
the destruction of human life.

Ginger was shot in the back
for his convictions and refusal
to accept the draft law. The
thoughts and beliefs of Ginger
Goodwin live on and we may
yet see the day when workers |
will compete in the production
of necessities and there will be
an- end- to warfare between
people, that sanity will prevail. |

Where freedom? |

B. M. WHEELDON, Squam-
ish, writes in part: Some of
your readers may have seen
my letter in the Sun calling for
a stand by Canada on the
South African atrocities.

»I would like to mention that
the final sentence was not
printed. It was: ‘‘We must de-
mand a stand.”

This may seém a small omis-
‘sion, but a very significant
one. Have we now arrived at

OPEN FORUM |

permissible to tell our elected

the point where it is no longer

representative what action we
intend they should take?
Where is our much quoted
“democracy” in this, our much
quoted “free” nation?

Phone Woolworth’s

SOLIDARITY writes: ‘The
lunch counter sitdown strike
by young Negroes in the
South,” says a progressive U.S.
newspaper, “is not an isolated
phenomenon. It is a ‘wide-
spread, inspired, self-organized.
movement by a new genera-
tion which knows that it has
a mental and physical ghetto
to lose and a world to. gain.”

It began in February when
university students staged a sit-
down demonstration against
lunch counter discrimination
by an F. W. Woolworth ‘store
in Greensboro, North Carolina.

And since then it has be-
come a crusade. :

In scores of U.S. Gities,
especially in the North, white
citizens have joined the fight,
taking their place on Negro-
organized picket lines outside
Woolworth stores. In Philadel-
phia an organization called
Youth Against Segregation has
circulated this petition:

“We pledge to buy nothing
from an F. W. Woolworth store
anywhere until the manage-
ment -of the national chain
orders all its stores every-
where to serve and seat any
customer without regard to
race or color:”

F. W. Woolworth operates
eleven stores.in Greater Van-
couver and the phone number
of each can be found on:Page
531 of the new directory. Why
not call the manager of: one
of these stores and tell him
where you stand on this issue?

and reflects life in commune

April 8, 1960—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 5