kespeare urges m ore members

Vancouver Festival Society

eecouver Festival Soc-

iS announced a member-
drive reaching to all cor-
‘of the province. Also an-
ced were plans for ticket
s reductions, and gift cer-
ee for Festival events.

estricted membership in
fancouver Festival Society
keeping with one of the
Objectives of the Festi-
ich is to involve the citi-
British Columbia in an
arts festival of inter-
nal importance.

las

Approximately 115,000 peo-
attend the 1959 Festival,
ing visitors from all
of Canada and the Unit-
ites. At recent meetings
B.C. Tourist Association
estival was recognized a

r tourist attraction.

he effect of the festival
urism is an imporiant

|of the Festival stars. Included

consideration,” ‘mem bership
chairman, J. S. Shakespeare
said, “but we are more direct-
ly concerned with the Festival
in relation to the citizens of
British Columbia. We want
the Festival to become a part
of our way of life, and mem-
bership is just one way to
draw people closer to the
Festival.”

He explained that member-
ship in the Festival Society of-
fers a number of privileges in-
cluding the opportunity to at-
tend a series of pre-Festival
lectures and panel discussions
to be held this winter. Inform-
al gatherings will be held dur-
ing the summer’ when mem-
bers will be able to meet many

in membership privileges is a
priority in the purchase of

Festival tickets before the op-

ening of the box office and a

free subscription to the Van-
couver Festival - Newsletter
which will be issued at regu-
lar intervals.. All members
have the right to attend the
annual meeting of the Festival
Society.

“There is a definite satisfac-
tion to be part of a big and ex-
citing project,” he said, “and
we feel that many people will
want to demonstrate their be-
lief in the value of the Festi-
val and the influence it brings
to bear on their lives and the
lives of their children.”

Membership dues are nom-
inal — $5 for regular mem-
bers and $2 for students tak-
ing full-time courses. “Mem-
bership cards will be issued,”
Mr. Shakespeare said, ‘‘and
enquiries or applications for
membership can be directed to
the Vancouver Festival Soc-
iety, Hotel Vancouver.”

ME PRESS CLUBS OVER THE TOP

ecember is clean-up month’
year round subscription drive

December. is “clean-up
nth”? for city and provincial
clubs in the 1959 circul-
drive. A dozen clubs
already gone over their
ives and others are just
subs short.
‘op press clubs in Greater
ancouver include Broadway
6-subs turned in’ on a target
00), Advance (124 on 100),
h Burnaby (117 on 100),

ee ER VANCOUVER
1959 Target Achieved

North Van District __ 60
ity Miscellaneous -_- 150
CITY TOTAL

_ VANCOUVER ISLAND

ut eertnd

see ewe

Victory Square (109 on 100),
South Burnaby (96 on 85), Dry
Dock (78 on 60), Strathcona
(55 on 35), West End (52 on
50), and the new Pine club
(34 on 25).

Then there are clubs which
are almost over the top: Hast-
ings East. (99 on 100), Mt.
Pleasant (59 on 60), Electrical
(68 on 65), Waterfront (87 on

There are still some Septem-
ber, October and November re-
newals waiting to be picked
up, and December renewals

will be mailed out next week.

So almost every press club, if
it organizes a mass Canvass or
two in the next few weeks, can
reach its 1959 objective before
the Chrismas holiday. season

40) and Grandview (93 on 100).

Cowichan
Nanaimo
Parksville.

9
Ho Victoria

Press Club
Ft. Langley

Maple Ridge

Mission

Notch Hill
Powell River
Steveston

170+

eet <' Salmon Arm

. Sointula

82 Prov. Misc.

40

.

PROVINCIAL TOTAL
GRAND TOTAL

begins,

PROVINCE
1959 Target Achieved
Orr Hon 3

Fernie-Michel

Nelson-Castlegar ----
New Westminster -_~_

North Surrey
South Surrey

PROVINCE MISCELLANEOUS
Prince Rupert

‘37
‘95+
1,214

2,895

Gere Whyte's

SPOR

O you’re not interested in
my Grey Cup opinions. No
matter, here they are, anyway.

IT like the Bombers to beat
the Ti-Cats in a close game,
which will be decided in the
air. Both lines are so strong
that grinding forward on: the
ground. is going to be a painful
process. Sooner or later, the
quarterbacks will have to be-
gin slinging the pigskin.

Of course, the teams are so
evenly matched that a couple
of interceptions could make
all the difference. Such mis-
fortunes are in the lap of the
gods. Hence my prediction is,
at best, a guess.

The “experts” picked Ed-
monton to edge Winnipeg and
Ottawa to beat Hamilton on
points after the first Eastern.
game. If the “experts” can be
so wrong, what have I to fear?

Over a period of nine years
I managed to ‘‘guess-peri” nine
Grey Cup winners and was be-

TLIGHT

dads? For every drunken teen-
ager you could check off a
dozen adult delinquents, drink
ing Vat 69. and pinching bot-
toms in the lobbies of the,
better hotels. :

I’m not condoning the con~-
duct of either the lads or their >
dads, but let’s be fair, Frank,
let’s be fair. Don’t put all the
blame on the young, while
sparing the grey-haired Grey
Cuppers in their cups.

x * * *

Speaking of drinking, have
you heard the story about the
TV producer who came home
one morning at 9 a.m. to face
his very angry wife.

“The rehearsals lasted until
midnight,” he explained. “Then
I drove one of the-chorus girls
home and she asked me in for
a nightcap. Well, we had a few
drinks, and by that time it was
so late that she asked me to
stay the night. So I did.”

“A likely story,” retorted

ginning to believe my own
opinions had some value. Then
I selected three losers in a
row, and deflated to normal
size again.

F *

* ®

A few words, mostly approv-
ing, about Frank Fredrickson’s
piece in Maclean's blasting the
annual Grey Cup hysteria.

Frank pulled all the stops:
“Over publicized, over-rated,
over-attended . . . not the
thinking man’s sport . . . foot-
ball is not in the same class as
soccer or hockey .. . the Grey
Cup is sheer turnstile bait, not
the Holy Grail.”

No argument from where I
sit. The game of professional
football is a sport which has
definitely. got out of hand. Half
the people in the stands yell-
ing themselves hoarse don’t
have the faintest idea what’s
going on down on the field.

In-all fairness, I suppose this| |

could be said about any sport.
Few fans appreciate all the
fine points of hockey or soc-
cer. But the games are a de-
light to watch and relatively
easy to understand at an ele-
mentary level. Not so football,
where the ball is hidden most
of the time, and casual spec-

tators usually fail to follow

the play.

On one score I must disagree
with Fredrickson — in his de-
nunciation of the teenagers in
Vancouver who on Grey Cup
day “caroused through the
streets, drinking openly from
beer bottles and taunting the
police.”

Oh, some of the young
squirts did these things, all
right — but what about their

his furious spouse. “You've

been out playing poker- with -

the boys again.”
“ae

%* *

A few years ago the cry of
“Break up the Yankees!’’ was
‘heard across the land.

Now it’s, “Break up the
Canadiens!”

Money talks in hockey, and
Montreal Canadiens have
plenty of the green stuff. Their
farm club system makes them
almost unbeatable, and likely-
to remain so for some time.

For the good of hockey, per-
haps something should be done
to equalize things a Bit.

A faculty committee for nu-
clear disarmament at the Uni-
versity of Toronto is urging
all professors to sign a peti-
tion urging an international
ban on nuclear weapons.

“"World leaders should radic--
ally change «their thinking to
break through traditional dip- -
lomacy and end testing and
production of hydrogen and
atomic bombs,” they said.

The petition will be deliver-
ed to Prime Minister Diefen-
baker by a committee of 14
professors and a post-graduate

student.

November 27, 1959—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 7