ON THE SCREEN Motive ascribed to peace Movement spoils new film JUST ENDING its first run here is One Minute To Twelve, an interesting Swedish film on the vital subject of atomic ener- gy for peace or war. Much of the action is filmed in the physics laboratory of the Nobel Institute at Frescato, Sweden. English dialogue is superimposed on the sound tracks, notable for its ex- cellent musical score. The story concerns Nobel Peace Prize winner Professor Victor Bering whose atomic research leads in such a dangerous and destructive direction that first one, then another of his labora- tory assistants leave his employ and join the. peace movement, refusing to work on atomic :re- Search except for peaceful appli- cation. The professor, in the name of the inviolability of pure Scientific research, continues his anti-social application and is the subject of censure by the peace movement. 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Al- though well made and:with the other points pressed home, this dangerous slander seriously weak- ens the entire film. THE BROWNING VERSION Sensitive direction and superb acting combine to make this one of the best British pictures of the year In every sense an adult picture; as compared to the. juvenile delinquencies now being foisted on a long-suffering public by Hollywood, it brings its char- acters to the screen as real peo- ple. STRANGERS ON A TRAIN A slick elaborately contrived Albert Hitchcock suspense drama ‘about a murder committed by a wealthy young psychotic (Robert Walker) and -his attempts to in- volve a young tennis player (Far- ley Granger). All Hitchcock’s skill in building up suspense is lost, however, through a story which begins improbably an continues impossibly. : BITTER RICE The struggles of the rice work- ers, in a part of Italy little known to the outside world could have made this a-drama of great ori- ginality and vitality. But Italian film director Guiseppe De Santis has used this interesting locale and its people merely as back- ground for a trite melodrama about stolen jewels and unhappy love. HERE COMES THE GROOM Although there’s nothing out- standing about this film, starring Bing Crosby and Jane Wyman, it’s by no means the worst of recent musicals. THE VALENTINO STORY With all the excitement of the silent movie days to draw on, this biography of “The Sheik” never comes to life. It’s just not it. GOODBYE My FANCY Although some of the liberal- ism of the stage play has been left. Hollywood has watered down what was a successful comedy of social comment. PENDER ~ AUDITORIUM (Marine Workers) 339 West Pender LARGE & SMALL HALLS FOR RENTALS | Phone PA, 9481 NEW ADDRESS 9 EAST HASTINGS Corrier Carrall I invite you t visit my new office. I have ‘no connection * with any othe ‘dental office. Phone TA. 5552 DR. R. LLEWELLYN DOUGLAS a Our Alfie ; —Daily Worker, Englan{ ‘Wot word is worryin’ ou, Mr. Truman?” Se oe ‘GOOD READING ~ British report on Soviet Union THE BRITISH DELEGATION of twenty-six men and two women, all trade unionists, who visited the USSR in May, was a good cross section of the work- “ing class, and the report now published under the title of Russia—The Truth is in fact a handbook giving the facts as these workers saw them, of many sides of life in the Soviet Union. It is obtainable in Vancouver at the People’s Cooperative Book- store, 377 West Pender, price 30 cents. You only have to look at the contents of the report to see this. Here are some of the chapters, taken at random: i “Shopping in Moscow” by Kay Marshall, a hosiery packer; “Housing and Building” by J. Dallison and A. Jenkins; carpen- ter and woodworker; “The Mos- cow Steam Locomotive Depot” by J. Booth, an engine driver; “The Tula Coalfield” by four miners from four different coalfields in Britain; “The Stalingrad Tractor Works” by Jack Sutherland, an engineer. é 3 Then there is “Mass at a Ro- man Catholic Church” by E. Mc- Garry, himself a Roman Catholic. This report gives the answer to —those who are always asking— How do you know what it’s like when you have never been there? It also answers the big lie about “Russian aggression”. Again and again the delegates, collectively and individually, re- port the-friendliness of the Rus- sian people and their great desire to live in peace. yy ‘ Russia—The Truth can help to do in 1951 the kind of job that was done in the past period by the Dean of-Canterbury’s The Socialist Sixth of the World. The whole delegation says, in the introduction to the report: “We state categorically that the Soviet worker is a free work- er. We have} spoken freely to Soviet workers and they have spoken freely to us... “In every town we have been in the citizens show themselves as a free, happy ‘people, inde- pendent and confident, who work hard, play hard, and enjoy their good food and cultural activi- ties .. . There is equal opportun- ity for all.” SUITE 515 FORD BUILDING , (Corner Main & Hastings Sts.) MARINE 5746 STANTON, MUNRO & DEAN Barristers - Solicitors - Notaries 193 E. HASTINGS JIRASEK—PEOPLE’S WRITER Czechoslovakia celebrates great novelist’s centenary THIS YEAR the Czech people celebrate the centenary of the birth of one of their greatest writers—Alois Jirasek, chronicler and novelist of Czeth history. His is one of the few names which are household words throughout the land — Bozena Nemcova, Karel Havlicek Borov- sky, Jan Neruda, Alois Jirasek, Jaroslav Hasek. They all have one outstanding characteristic; they spoke for the Czech people, expressed the feel- ings and aspirations of the Czech people in bondage. Their pro- foundly national qualities make them even more popular today, when national freedom for the Czech is a fact, and when a fuller conception of patriotism reveals new depths in the thought of the great classics of Czech literature. Jirasek, although he takes his Place in the great movement of national revival, played a differ- ent part in it than the earlier poets and prose writers of the movement. Like them, he turned to, the simple people for his char- acters and for his inspiration; but his was the special task of bringing near to the Czech people ~ their own past, their history both glorious and tragic. ‘ His historical novels not only recalled the heroic past and brought to mind the sufferings of generations under foreign rule. They were a deliberate attempt: to undo the work of generations of falsification of history ‘and religious bigotry—and they call- ed for comparison with the pres- ent, for application of the lessons of the past. Generations of scholars had ex- pended energy and scholarship to belittle the great age of Czech supremacy, to besmirch the de- mocratic ideals of Tabor, and to beguile the Czechs into accepting the period which followed the Battle of the White Mountain— when Czech books were burned, Czech language and culture all but rooted out—as the greatest in their history. Palacky, with his careful re- search into the period, put the facts into their proper place. But it was Jirasek with his vivid, dra- matic novels who brought their history to life before the Czech people. Jan Hus, Zizka, Kozina— how many of the heroic national figures live in the hearts of the Czech people as Jirasek painted them. And Jirasek never failed to show the true patriotism of these heroes, their love for and work for their own people, their genuine democratic aspirations. -In their task of awakening the masses of the Czech people to their lost heritage, the writers of the national revival in the last century fostered and enriched the mothér-tongue—the only vehicle of national culture, for centuries the target of the oppressors’ at- tacks. . This love of the mother-tongue Jirasek considered a fundamental part of the patriotism of his her- oes, its natural expression, and his books are filled with the -her- oism of the countless thousands who fought to preserve the Czech language and free Czech thought. rages * IN HIS PLAY, Jan Hus, as in his play Zizka—both of which are having a _ successful centenary run on the Prague stage—Jirasek threw new light on a ‘maligned national figure. In Hus, in parti- cular, Jirasek destroyed the idea put out by Catholic reaction that Hus was primarily a theologian, who died for a dogma—and drew in its place the picture of a de- mocrat for whom truth, justice and freedom were one; who preached and taught for the peo- ple of his own land, whom he saw betrayed and deluded. ' Jirasek’s novels had one quality which. made them unpopular with middle class critics both before and during the first Czechoslovak Republic. Even where he took an outstanding historical figure for “hero”, that figure was never the real or the only hero in his book, For Jirasek the motive force of history, was the people, not the leader. During the showing of the new Czech film, based on Jirasek’s The Darkness, there are several incidents which call forth spon- taneous applause from the crowd- ed audiences. There’ could be no better proof of Jirasek’s ap- peal to the audience of today— unless it be the huge editions of his books now published. Always loved by the people as their own writer, today Jirasek, a hundred years after his birth, has attained the universal recognition which is his due. } The Star, ancient manor on ‘ the White Mountain beyond Prague, has been opened as a Jirasek museum and has become a place of pilgrimage for his countless admirers. On film and “stage his work is in constant demand, And the initiative of President Gottwald. inaugurating a new and complete edition of Jirasek’s writings towards the end of 1948 met with the warm support of the whole nation. From his tales of the legendary founding of the Czech nation, through his historical novels and plays of the Hussite era and of the centuries of oppression which followed, to his F. L. Vek biogra- phy of a fighter for the national awakening, close to his own time, Jirasek has given a vivid and faithful picture of the Czech na- ' tion in its struggle for freedom. The LONG and . the SHORT of it is. . . 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