aptivated Edinburgh with their sparkling production of Httry © nt Edinburgh Festival, in turn were captivated PY ee ante Sh city, Here some of them are shown touring the ancient castle. “fe of great Canadian explorer spires CBC children's series production will be the locale, 2 on 3 : actor and as an emcee on Tle Perrot, an island ‘near Who puts for U.S. parties? OME 500 families supply more than multi-millionaire 50 percent of the election funds of the Republican and Democratic parties in the U.S. and a smaller clique within this number actually controls their affairs. In the post-war period the Rockefellers have displaced the duPonts as the largest family contributor to the GOP prominent influence on_ its and have come to exercise 4 affairs through the -trium- virate of Winthrop W. Aldrich, Thomas E. Dewey and John Foster Dulles. Since the New Deal, the wealthiest families have ceased their direct support to the Democratic party, but con- tinue to influence it indirectly through the lesser financial groups most active in its affairs. Funds for the Demo- cratic party come from light manufacturing, trade and ser- vices industries, and from associated banking groups. These. and other startling facts are divulged in the ex- haustive study of big business and politics which constitutes a chapter in a forthcoming book by Victor Perlo, Ameri- can economist, x x *® Perlo shows how the laws supposed to prevent the: buy- ing of nominations and elec- tions are riddled with loop- holes and are not seriously en- forced. Occasionally, he shows, the real state of affairs is hinted at in a particular scandal, like that when Senator Francis Case, South Dakota Republi- up funds can, refused the $2,500 offered «by Howard B. Keck, president of Superior Oil Company to garner his vote for the bill exempting natural gas from government price regulation. (Incidentally Keck has given $5,000 toward President Eisen- hower’s re-election campaign this year.) In. the past, Case was not squeamish. Perlo says: “Case was sent to Con- gress in 1938, along with Karl Mundt (of Munat-Nix- on family), through a special fund which included con- tributions of 5,000 from Col, Robert McCormick of the Chicago Tribue, $6,500 from the duPonts and smaller sums from other outstanding reactionaries of the period.” In his work Parlo traces the use of Wall Street financial power to insure the nomina- tion of Eisenhower rather than Taft in the 1952 Republican convention. A As for the Democratic party, organized labor’s influence, despite its considerable con- tributions, is small compared with the big moneyed contrib- butors, Perlo writes: “In contrast to the 25 per- cent of Democratic party funds, supplied by labor, and the majority of the party's votes supplied by labor, only six percent of the delegates to the 1952 national con- vention were from the trade unions. Even this is a sig- nificant gain over the situa- tion 20 years earlier when labor had no voice what- soever.” Who appeared at estival, will ae of the famous lerre Radisson in piston series ie, € Adventures filme aaisson, which is f i and around IS -expected to Second week in the CBC television of Radisson’s and partner, TS, will be play- mber of Mont- €d Theatre du » Was Montjoy Production of 6-year-old act- € gone to Edin- € Festival Play- this oppor- the lead in the Stations in areas, he settled ag as recently ve both as an French network programs. The writer of the Radisson series is John Lucarotti * of Toronto, Each episode is be- ing filmed twice, once for the English version and once for the French. Godin and Caron will retain their roles for both versions. Lending authenticity to the — Montreal Island in, the mouth of the Ottawa River, where ‘ts will be built and back- a eas depicting the Radis- son period will be created. Other scenes will be shot in the Renaissance Studios in Montreal. Pierre Gauvreau of the CBC is the producer.