nite What You Pleate.

American record of
infervention cited

READER, Vancouver: Ameri-
can intervention in Korea is by
no meang the first time the “peace
loving” Yankees have invaded
other countries. In Korea alone
the record shows that the U.S.
intervened and sent in troops in
1871, 1888, 1904 and 1905.

America sent soldiers to Cuba
in 1905, 1909 and 1917; to Argen-
tine in 1833, 1852 and 1853; to
Mexico in 1914 and 1916; and to
the Soviet Union in 1918. :

The U.S. war fleet intervened in
the Dominican Republic on three
occasions; in Haiti four times; in
Honduras six times; in Nicaragua
10 times; in Panama 12 times; in
China 13 times and in Japan six
times.

These figures are taken from
U.S. News and World Report.
Isn’t it time America began mind-
ing its own business? ‘

4

Why doesn’t Pearson
want fo make protest

CANADA FIRST, Vancouver: aT;
see in the daily papers that Can-
ada has asked our ambassador in
Washington to make inquiries
about a United States military

WHAT'S ON THE SCREEN

Ye

map which shows Yankee jurisdic_
tion extending over a vast area
in eastern and northern Canada.

A story in the Ottawa Citizen
blandly reports that the U.S. has
created a new military command
“which fans out across Eastern

Canada and the Canadian Arctic
to the North Pole.”

External Afairs Minister Lester
B. Pearson pooh-poohs away any
criticism of this surrender of our
sovereingty, loftily informs the
press that Canada doesn’t take a

serious view of the map incident,

and adds “... except that the de-

partment fears that release of

such maps outside military ranks

can cause misunderstanding.”

What are you getting at, Mike?

Jt seems to me you think it’s okay
to sell our country down the river
to the ‘Yankee brasshats, as long
ag Canadian civilians don’t find
out what’s going on, So some day,
J suppose, we'll wake up and find
ourselves saluting the Stars and
Stripes, with strict orders to cheer
like mad whenever General Mac-
Arthur’s name is mentioned.

Seems to me its time we looked
into the doings of Pearson’s de-
partment and find out just what’s
going on. I’m a fifth generation
Canadian and I don’t like to see
my country being handed over to
a gang of slaphappy generals
from the Land of Al Capone.

4

goanTment

Council wide open on
‘wide open’ Sundays

J. K. SMALL, Vancouver: The

_ question, “How silly can you get?”

has been answered by our super-
silly city council, who showed less

than kindergarten intelligence in

dealing with the Sunday sports
issue. By bringing in a plebiscite

offering citizens no choice be-—

tween the present antiquated blue
laws and a wide-open, rootin’,
tootin’ Sabbath, the gas-house
boys from Cambie and Twelfth
probably figured the joke was on
us ordinary, fairly law-abiding
Joes who do the voting next
month.

It could be, though, that the
jokers at city hall will find the
jokeis onthem afterelection day.
Any voter in his right mind knows
that the provincial government,
which has the final say in the mat_
ter, won't okay an open Sunday
even if all of us voted “Yes.” On
the other hand, we know we'll
never win any relaxation of the
blue laws if we vote “No.” So an
affirmative vote will simply indi-

~ cate that we want some slackening

of the Victorian atmosphere, Any
how will the Mahogany Room boys
react if we mark our ballots “Yes”
just to show how we feel about
their crummy political plebiscite?
I say, let’s give it a whirl.

’

‘Glass Menagerie’ reflection of

one side of American life today

ing dissatisfaction and an imper-

FOR HOLLYWOOD entertain-
ment at its best, see All About Eve
starring Bette Davis, Ann Baxter,
‘George Sanders and others of first

line talent. But remember, it’s
‘champagne you're getting, not
solid food, » :

‘What’s in a story? When the.
story’s from Hollywood, the ans-
wer is — usually nothing. And that
goes for All About Eve, which
lets you know all about the, very
youthful, dreamy-eyed, heroine-
worshiping but oh how ambitious
Eve Harrington (Ann Baxter)
who latches herself into the life of
Margot Channing, the supreme
star of the theatre world (Bette
Davis) who, however, has seen her
fortieth birthday.

We're all sure we know what's
going to happen—and we do—es-
pecially when @ warm-hearted
woman friend of the inevitably
tempermental Margot, and two
highly eligible young men, an
author and a theatre director com-
prise Margot's circle of friends;
but we are not prepared for the
character revelation, the wit, the
humor, the originality and verve
of the scenes that make All About
Eve intoxicating.

In this slightly romantic piece

Bette Davis is exasperating but

enchanting; Celeste Holm is beau
tiful, loving, gentle, warm;
‘George Sanders is suave and sar-
‘donic; Anne Baxter demure and
open-eyed, with the velvet-clawed

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softness of the true feline.

, The picture is not to he taken
seriously, but it should be taken.

Perhaps the winds of freedom
and honesty that are blowing so
strongly in some parts of the
world are managing to penetrate
ever so slightly into the noisome
and dollar-dank atmosphere of
America; for in the past season
two Holywood actresses of ability,

Gloria Swanson and Bette Davis,
have dared to be honest on the

' screen and act their age. Is it be-

ing too simple to hope that the
healthy-minded in Hollywood are
not utterly routed?
Br eke raat
EXCELLENT acting, sensitive
and dramatic use of the camera

and fine team work on the part of |

the four actors carrying the chief
roles, make of Tennessee William’s
Glass Menagerie, the overwrought
and hyper-emotional play of futil_
ity and vain ‘hopes a production
worth seeing. : : ;
Most of the action takes place
in the cramped, unlovely three-
room suite of the Wingfield family,
mother, son, and daughter, where
the three live a jangled existence
of alternating sentimental afec-
tion and mutual recrimination.
Each is handicapped, the mother
by nostalgic memories of her
youth of gracious living in the
“old South”, the daughter by in-
validism, and ‘the son by a gnaw-

fectly realized ambition to write.
The secretly envied hero of the
family is the absent father who
“sot out” sixteen years ago, and
hasn’t been heard from since.

Into their ingrown livés is in-
troduced Jim O'Connor, extrovert,
ceptimist, and man marked for
success. His one evening visit
with the family precipitates an
explosion of emotion that rips the
family apart, and each retires into
his particular escape vacuum —
the mother to memories, and hopes
for a “young man” for her daugh-
ter, the daughter to her preoccu-
pation with her glass toys and old
gramophone recordings, and the
son to wandering in the merchant
marine. /

The domestic scenes tingle with
the nervous edge everyone has

ever lived in cramped quarters

will appreciate, Gertrude Law-

‘rences neurotic, loving, exasper-

ating Mrs. Wingfield is superb.
The ghastly frustration of people
who don’t know why they are what
they are, and won’t be critical of

the- world that is misusing them, is
authentic.

One gets the impression un-
fortunately, that Tennessee Wil-
liams himself is a victim of the
neurosis he portrays, and that he
believes that the worn-out Amer-
can formula—-the happy smile, the
willing hand, the dreamy eye—as
exemplified by Jim O'Connor, is
really the answer to life’s prob-
lems. — ELIZABETH SCOTT. ..

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the readers and supporters of the Pacific Tribune who
secured these subs and renewals, we extend our sincere

thanks for.a job well done.

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