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eC ily the face of it they are an
/ unlike pair — Arthur Mil-

, one of the few modern
Aywrights with both some-
ndling to say and the ability to
it, and his new wife,
arilyn Monroe, the world’s
ist-known shape.

e is the intellectual hold-
ie a mirror to society; she is
se film actress, who has risen
fame less on her skill in
‘ting than on her ability to
2 the wide Cinemascope
lireen by herself (a feat shared
hly by the Arizona Desert and
Rocky Mountains).

He is the author of Death
a Salesman, All My Sons,
‘ad The Crucible. All of
ich exposes with ‘merciless
1 different facets of society.
ny think the last to be his
best work. In it he exposes
e witch-hunters of all time.
‘Once he shared his political
sinions with members of-the
ommunist party and other
ft wingers. These people
re his friends and everyday
ssociates.

ow Miller has changed his
ews. Not, perhaps, on the
ils within U.S. capitalist so-
ety, but on’ how to change

But to change one’s mind is
longer enough in the U:S.
ke his hero in The Crucible,
iller has had to face the
tch-hunters. Recently he
d before the committee of
-American Activities. He
mitted his past Communist
mpathies and said his views
d changed.
Even this is not enough for
e witch-hunters. Give us the
Wames of your associates and
iends of those days; tell us
hho you met at meetings; be
stoolpigeon, they demanded.
With more
any who have stood before
_he committee, Miller refused
0 rat on those with whom he
gow disagrees. “I will tell you
ything about myself, but I

courage than

Eleanor Collins, TV star, and her three c
appear in the Theatre Under the Stars production of Finian’s Rainbow, directed by Dorothy

Davies, The popular production will run until August 4.

cannot take responsibility for
another human being,” he said.

For this he faces the possi-
bility of trial for contempt of
Congress. He has been given
back his passport by the U.S.
State Department, but the
threat of imprisonment still
hangs over him.

To the witch-hunters, to the
little men grown big with
power, the book-burners and
the professional hysteria-
mongers, Miller is still un-
American. Marrying the wo-
man whom some may have
been justified in imagining the
All-American Goddess has not
changed that.

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But what of her? Perhaps
some of the difficulty in eval-
uating her lies in a tendency
to think of her only as an
outsize shadow on a screen
rather than as a real person,
who, despite her beauty and
well-known measurements,
has both fears and aspirations
of her own.

The publicity machine took
the shapely young woman and,
without her having to do much
more than wiggle her hips,
made her into a modern sym-
bol of sex. If American wo-
manhood wasn’t like this; then
it ought to be. :

At 30 she is on top of the
world. Yet it was not always
so. She has known poverty.
Her childhood was a time of
tragedy and insecurity. The
fear of insecurity must surely
stand beside her even when
she faces the cameras.

Despite that, she has sought
to enlarge her career beyond
the confines of cheesecake. She
has gone to acting school, and
some now believe her when
she says she would like to act
in Dostoevsky’s The Brothers
Karamazov. The task may be
beyond her. It might even ruin
her career. But she does not
seem afraid to try.

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ildren, B

arry (

rthur Miller, Marilyn Monroe
a couple with courage

“People laughed about the
Brothers Karmazov,” she said
at her press conference the
other day, “but I will be rash
enough to say that I would
like to play the part of Lady
Macbeth very much, but not
for years to come. That is a
dream.”

She is now in Britain to star
in The Sleeping Prince with
Sir Laurence Olivier, a shrewd
judge of acting ability. She
may not be a new Sarah Bern-
hardt, but she tries. Those
mobile hips are still more elo-
quent than her tongue, but she

has sought a way out of Holly- .

wood’s type-casting.

And she has married Arthur
Miller, the Un-American. This
cannot please the men who
run the movie empire. There
are powerful groups eager to
find anyone, even Marilyn
Monroe, guilty by association.

She has said little in public
of her husband’s radical views.
Yet she must be aware of
them. “I never discuss any-
thing that has to do with poli-
tics or religion,” was the ans-
wer she gave at her press con-
ference to a reporter who ask-
ed if she shared her husband’s
political views.

So. perhaps the playwright
and the blonde have more in
common than a first glance
might reveal.

Miller can quietly run away.
He can throw away the mirr-
or he holds to society, or re-
place it with a distorting one.
Or he can go on using his
great talent to show society’s
evils. In doing so he will come

nearer finding the answer he,

seeks to those wrongs.
Marilyn Monroe can also run
away. But if she does she must
know that this marriage, like
her previous two, must sure-
ly fail. She has said that she
,wants to be a real actress. Now
she must prove it.

left), Thomas and Judith, all

Marilyn Monroe is seen here in London with Sir Laur-

ence Olivier, with whom she will star in The Sleeping

Prince.

She told a press conference she would like to

appear in a stage play while she is in Britain, perferably
Pygmalion or a musical version of My Fair Lady with Olivier.

Centennial poster
contest opened

WARDS totalling $1,100 are
being offered to B.C. art-
ists for posters promoting
British Columbia’s centennial
celebrations in 1958. A prize

‘of $500 is being offered for

the winning poster, with sec-
ond and thir rizes of $200
each and two other prizes of
$100 each. ;

The contest is open to both
professionals and amateurs,
and wide latitude is allowed in
wording and design.

Fred Amess, principal of
Vancouver School of Art, is
chairman of the panel of three
judges. Other judges are John
Korner, president of the B.C.
Society of Artists, and Peter
Downes, advertising agency
executive and a member of
ee Art Gallery coun-
cil.

Entries for the competition
will be accepted until October
15 this year.

Five posters will be chosen
after the October 15 deadline.
Each artist will receive $100.

They will then be asked to
draw a-specific poster with the
winner of this contest getting
$400, and the second and third
place runners-up winning an
additional $100.

Distribution of the finished
posters will be undertaken by
the Tourist Promotion Sub-
Committee of the B.C. Cen-
tennial Committee, under the

July 27, 1956 —

‘petition,

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — PAGE 13

chairmanship of T.L. Sturgess,
deputy minister of trade and
industry. The sub-committee,
which recommended the com-
will reproduce the
poster in full color for wide
circulation with the primary
purpose of attracting visitors
from outside the province.

Contestants are urged to
give full reign to color in
their submissions. The com-
ittee suggests simple, striking
design. The sketches should be
on good quality illustration
board, 12 by 18 inches verti-
cal.

If, in the opinion of the jud-
ges, the submitted designs do
not warrant recognition, the
awards may be withheld; on
the other hand the committee
has announced that it will re-
serve the right to reproduce
any of the prize-winning post-
ers, upon payment of a fee.

Artists entering the com-
petition are asked to preserve
anonymity by attaching a
sealed envelope to the back
of the centre of. the sketch.
The envelope should contain
the offcial entry form with the
artist’s name and address.

Entry forms, and further de-
tails of the contest, may be
secured. from the B.C. Cen-
tennial Committee, Parliament
Building, Victoria, B.C.

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