To RALp 3 se | from 4 RICHARDSON and KATHERINE HEPBURN ina scene n& Day’s Journey into Night.” The play’s the thing’ but see the players | ther; aia K serine Hepburn’s perfor- ey 3 € in A Long Day’s Jour- Night is staggering, Xe Me | ty r ; ang eishea portrayal of a ee in the throes of Ction hits you like a Mow in ; ! © stomach, ] Hey Moy, S2Unt be auty - the h i a blotch y e huge Ur of pain beneath i Cheekbones - is an *Pression of im = al Collapse, impend the tow. j Ts pig ight Stage, the ner- 7 of her voice, striving Cont, ol, tails off into vague lng. Own hinterlands of the the : | cones rug takes hold, she a . Ps, Young and radiant - ily agin. erhaps - as when she } ? ly the eyes remain rats is a ity tp, Performance to churn te. Ther, 2 Ve you limp as a bom Te is Strong meat, too, i Richardson as her ta e actor husband, and VY “vey, Robards and Dean 4S her sons, Cee a by : oy, 1964 was marked get cecil program in the ty, "Sion ada series on'CBC’ a vO RTH FADING bat Pore, : a 8 Oak eert—Truth or Fic- Y C. Johnson. Price ly 8.1 Ny has ga calle the McCarran 4 Mgy ited What it calls a Atha, tt” That this de- Ny. . Peen used to violate mee ““titution is widely ‘On ; 14 the ia this pamphlet, goes a of such labelling Ma his .. US behind it, He logig °ry with great clar- Ine 4). ingipls Work gives one a Ama, to the struggles "atic *Can People for their hts and progress, As a quartet of acting, the film could hardly be bettered, But it ’. does less than justice to the ori- ginal Eugene O’Neill play. In the play - which is largely autobiographical - parents and sons. are locked in a rectangular kiss - of - death relationship, through which cross-currents of love, hate, jealousy and guilt flash and Spark and burn, Their afflictions - the mother’s drug-taking, the father’s psycho- tic meanness, the older brother’s weakness for the bottle, the youn- ger boy’s incurable illness - are not as melodramatic as they sound, They emerge as outward signs of deep-seated inner pressures, All this has been reduced in the film, O’Neill’s carefully de- veloped revelations of the men’s characters and conflicts, have been heavily pared down, Every- thing has been subordinated to the mother’s madness, But even at this limited level it provides a memorable exper- ience, Go to see it if you can - not for the play, but for the play- ers, —Nina Hibbin hat — no people? on Wednesday, July ih The CBC’s camera crews were able to show us some really fine techniques; Newfoundland, the Maritimes, French Canada, the Prairies, the Rockies and the West Coast were captured in varying degrees of splendor - and in all seasons of the year. But, if the form was eye-catch- ing, the content certainly left much to be desired, Anyone catching a glimpse of Canada for the first time would have been prompted to ask; ‘‘Are there no people in this vast country?’’ Not once during the whole pro- duction’ were our ears treated to any sounds of life - no people’s voices, no wheels of industry, no songs, no animals, not even the trill of a bird broke the lonely drone of the narrator's voice against the background orches- tral music, The taxpayer could be excused, for asking: “Is this the best the CBC can do to celebrate Canada’s birth- day?’ —J. Shack apitalist Society by its anarchy and brutal me- thods of exploitation and dis- crimination would demean all the human bonds amongst its victims, It seeks to instill attitudes of indifference, a ‘paddle your own canoe”’ outlook, The other*day on a Detroit street a women needed help, but she found death, Mrs, Virginia Nixon step- ped into a phone booth, made several calls, seeking a re- conciliation with her hus- band, for the sake of her 11-year old daughter, Mona, last moments of clarity, as she fell out of the phone booth onto the ground, she cried out, ‘‘Help me, help me, pick me up,”’ But Mrs, Nixon didn’t get a doctor, an ambulance, or the police, Indifference pre- vailed at the busy corner of St. Clair and E, Vernor, De- troit, Suddenly she began losing — consciousness. and in her: that help, No one called for ss Two boys carried her fi- ‘Help me,’ she pleaded _. Nally to a nearby porch on ‘St, Clair, “Get that woman off the porch,’’ a voiceshouted, — The boys carried the moaning woman between the two houses, across a dirty _ alley and into a space be- .tween two garages, And there two boys rap- ed her, “There’s a naked woman in the alley,’’ others were told out on the street, They came, boys and ‘girls, lit matches and looked at the silent woman, crumpled up on the concrete, : Then two other boys raped her, : Fifty minutes after Mrs, Virginia Nixon tumbled out of the phone booth crying for help, someone called the po- lice, i aye ae The police teletype spelled it out, ‘‘See what happened to a woman -at the rear of 2278 St, Clair,’’’ The cops found Mrs, Nixon lying near some garbage .cans, her clothes ripped a- ‘ed by capitalist society, way, Her blue plastic purse - was empty, At 3 a.m, that morning Mrs, Nixon no longer needed help, She was dead, The coroner said, ‘‘If she had a chance she didn’t get it.’’ The medical examiner ruled that Mrs, Nixon died of a spontaneous hemorr- hage, Reporters have found that people saw the woman drag- ged down the street but never moved to help or stop it, Meanwhile a local prose- cuting attorney seeks to make election votes out ofthe cruelty, savagery engender- Youths will be hauled be- fore judge and jury, head- lines will shriek, but the system that made each of these youths do what they did, the people who sat on porches, listened, watched but did nothing will go on unchallenged, —William Allan . (U.S. Worker) Capitalist Teaching L, A, Vancouver, writes: In Shaun Herron’s column, Vancou- ver Sun of June 24, he talks of a confessed murderer of three people, Says Herron; ‘tye liked killing, andeverynow and then when the notion took him, he went out looking for someone ‘to kill, . . He hadnever seen her before but she was the kind he ‘liked to kill . . . He shot her twice in the stomach, then ., . ‘I decided I might as well rape her’,”’ Three psychiatrists could not agree whether this man is in- sane, And why should they? For surely the attitude of this man toward others is only the logical extreme result of capi- talism, That is the logical end to being taught to live OFF one’s fellow beings, not WITH them, It has-often been said that the brutal *delinquent and vandal is only expressing rebellion against life as it is today, That seems probable, But it also seems likely that the form of expression - brutality and van- dalism - are the direct result and logical end of capitalist teaching, (Ed, Note: See article headed ‘‘Help Me,’’ elsewhere on this page). On The Flag Debate Dave McKinney, Vancouver, writes: I feel it important to me as a Canadian citizen and not as a British subject to mention afew words, which I consider as my opinion on the flag issue, Historically, the flag that now impersonates itself as the Cana- dian flag, that is the Union Jack, is a flag with a long and blood smeared history; a flag that re- ce | | presented ‘‘ British colonialism’’ during its plunder and slaughter of Indian, African and - yes- Ca- nadian patriots, ; To have a flag with such a mur- derous history begind it, and who knows what in front of it, shows that’ Canada and Canadians con- done this type of thing, _ Marlene arlene Dietrich gave her first interview to NBC News correspondent Ber- nard. Frizell upon her re- turn to Paris from Moscow, Here are excerpts from Miss. Dietrich’s’ talk, which was- heard on NBC Radio ‘‘Moni- tor’’: ; ‘My trip to Moscow was wonderful, It tired me but I was tired from joy rather that fatigue, - Every artist hopes for the kindof recep- tion. I received there, ‘Performing in Russia is different than performing in any other country, There, no one cries in their beer over ‘The Blue Angel’ — something that bores me, They have never seen the film, As a matter of fact, I have no claim to fame in Russia, I’m not a film star to them, They liked my singing, I did my usual re- pertoire - songs in English, French, German and He- _brew, I made only one pro- mise to them - that being I wouldn’t sing ‘Ochee Tchor- nya,’ “Another wonderful thing, Nobody in Russia took any notice of my dress, The press conferences were also wonderful. No one asked my The proposed new flag of three maple leafs is to my mind only representative of English Cana- da, A flag that would be truly national, in my opinion, would be a flag with a leur-de-lis in the centre, sided by two maple leafs; thereby satisfying the French as well as the English desire for a national flag, returns age or referred to me as ‘the worid’s most glamorous grandmother’ - something élse that bores me, No one asked my salary, my worth or if I were being paid in dollars or rubles, Russia has great respect forthe ar- tist, “The audiences were very young people, Their res- ponses were wonderful, They would stand there after my performance and Say how much they liked it, They’d come up on stage with gifts of roses or beads, Itwasall so touching - so joyous, I sang the entire engagement just for joy,’’