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HE loggers have probably been
responsible for more native

. Canadian folk songs than any

other single group. .The lumber
camps of our north woods were
particularly suited to ballad-mak-
ing, for the men were isolated

. for many winter months with no

entertainment. save what they
created themselves.

Those who could make up new
songs were justly popular, and if
their songs described incidents
and people known to the shanty
boys, they could count on wide-
spread fame. Songs composed
in ohe region soon travelled all
over the country as the lumber-
jacks made their way from one
forest camp to another.

On Friday, August 26 at 5 p.m.
on CBC Trans-Canada Folk Song
Time will present some of the
songs which have been sung in
the Canadian woods from New-

foundland to British Columbia.
*« * * :

A laboratory specialist defends

his right to be called doctor with

a surgeon’s scalpel in Kraft Tele-
vision Theatre taut medical
drama, Spur of the Moment,
scheduled for Thursday, August
25, at 9.30 p.m. on Channel 2.

* * *

William Powell takes the role
of Arthur Peabody, a fiftyish Bos-
tonian, in Mr. Peabody and the
Mermaid, the film to be seen on
CBUT’s Movie Nighi, Friday, Au-
gust 26 at 11 p.m.

x * *

Everyone, of course, associates
Dr. Roger Bannister with the
Miracle Mile — the first man to
run the mile in under four min-
utes. However, in a talk tran-
scribed by the BBC which will be

BOOKS

NEW edition of Milton's
Poems (Penguin Books, 60
cents, obtainable here at the Peo-
ple’s Cooperative Bookstore, 337
West Pender Street) is welcome.
Though it is only a selection it
it is a well chosen one and, be-
sideg containing the whole of
“Samson Agonistes,” is less like-
ly to scare off the weaker vessels
than if it contained the whole of
Milton’s major epics.
’ It chas an introduction by the
L. D. Lerner, which,

Whole, suffers from one major
blemish — the author's inability
to.-appreciate the full profundity
and significance of the English
Revolution of 164049 in which
Milton played so notable a part.
‘(To belittle the Revolution is to
belittle Milton and the work he
did — sacrificing his eyesight
therein — to vindicate that “Good
Old Cause” and make “All Europe
talk of it from side to side.”

Lerner appears to be most un-
duly scared of the “authorities”
—T S. Eliot and F. D. Leavis,
both of them strong anti-Milton
men. Also he is, as a professor,
theaded-off from challenging the
orthodox dogma that “politics
should not enter into a question
of art-criticism.”

3 a $02

This is humbug and worse. Un-

heard on CBC Trans-Canada at
16.15 Tuesday night, August 23,
he turns to an entirely different
subject when he discusses some
of the problems facing his gen-
eration.

The only reference to running

BANNISTER VS. LANDY

is contained in the title of his
talk, which he calls Racing With
Time.

* * *

Wednesday, August 24, will be
an exciting day for Vancouver
youngsters, and for adults, too—
the day the Pacific National Ex-
hibition opens.

less art springs from life and

forms part of its total activity, |

art is worthless.
And life is the actual living
process of men in society — with

all their relations, rising into con-

scious conflict, that social life en-
tails. Art can no more be divorc-
ed from politics than it can be
separated from the emotions of
actual living, breathing and striv-
ing men. And T. S. Eliot especi-
ally is a standing proof of it.

The fashion of Milton denigra-
tion grew up in the back-wash
among the intelligensia after the
First World War.

That war had lasted so long.
Its results, especially for the men
and women of military age, were
appalling.

The older generation had ‘by
their folly, greed and ineptitude,
allowed the mess to happen. They
had found no way out of it but
the panic massacre of virtually
a whole generation.

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The disaster had not ended
without arousing the Red Bogy—
the Spectre of Communism—in
its most terrible shape—for the
powers that be—of an actually
accomplished proletarian revolu-
tion.

To the exploited masses the

They'll come downtown to
watch the parade from West
Georgia to Exhibition Park, and
will crowd along the streets to
see the beautiful floats and hear
the bands.

CBC cameramen will follow

the parade, and those who can’t ©

get down to see it in person can
enjoy it on their television
screens by tuning in on Channel
2 at 10 am. The same night
they’ll have an opportunity to see
it again when there’s a retelecast
of the highlights of the parade
at 9 p.m.

PNE crowds will have an op-
portunity too, to see the popular
television program, Almanac, or-
iginate “live” from the Auditor-
jum in the B.C. Building. The
show, which features Bill Bell-
man, Alan Millar and Bob Fort-
une, will be a nightly feature at
7, Monday to Friday night, from
Thursday, August 25 to Monday,
September 5, inclusive.

x * *

Sundays at 4.30 p.m. CBC lis-
‘tenerg can hear Mac Shouhb’s
radio adaptation of The Reason
Why, Cecil Woodham - Smith’s
closely documented account of
the events that led up to one of
the epic blunders of British mili-
tary history: The Charge of the
Light Brigade.

x x

Another in the monthly series
of open broadcasts by the CBC
Vancouver Chamber Orchestra
at the Vancouver ‘Art Gallery is
scheduled for Thursday, August
25 at 9 p.m. The public is invit-
ed to attend the concert, and free
tickets for admission are avail-
able on request (phone MArine
6121).

God's Englishman to Milton
was an active revolutionary

Russian Revolution was the. wel-
come—though stormy — harbing-
er of a new day. To the over-cul-
tured and basically parasitical in-
telligensia it was a new occasion
for still more intensified terrors.

They had Jost faith in that pre-
sent which summed up all their
“slorious” past. They could have,
and would have, no faith in a
future which offered neither
shelter nor comfort for parasitism
of any kind.

They could have no part in
‘splendid John Milton, who. be-
lieved in God’s Englishman—es-
pecially when roused into revo-
lutionary wrath—who ‘believed in
the Universal Republic.

That is the central point. For
all its smug speciousness the
fashion of Milton-denigration is
fundamentally political.

For the common people Milton
is the epitome of the unconquer-
ed and unconquerable revolution-
ary.

And besides, in the’ more nar-
rowly literary sense, Milton is a
major nodal point in the history
of English letters.

Probably the most widely cul-
tured poet that England ever pro-
duced, at one and the same time
he sums up all that had gone be-
fore and points forward to all
that is to follow.

T. A. JACKSON

Brazil dancer at Warsaw

This feather-clad dancer from Brazil was one of 4
people who took part in the Fifth World Festival of Youth The
Students for Peace and Friendship, held recently in Warsaw: atic
festival was sponsored by the World Federation of Democl”
Youth and the International Union of Students, and
people from all parts of the world.

Rex Harrison stars
in comedy of the

‘OR constant laughter, constant

invention and constant high
spirits, thes film of the year is
The Constant Husband.: -

It’s British — produced by
Frank Launder and Sidney Gil-
liat, who also directed and had a

The Soviet Embassy in Wash-
ington this week confirmed a re-
port that Marilyn Monroe has ap-
plied for a visa to visit the Soviet
Union. Recently, the glamorous
blonde told reporters that she
would like to perform in a movie
version of the Dostoevsky’s “The
Brothers Karamazov.” Comment-
ed an American senator: “Well,
this is certainly one approach to

‘ East - West. tensions 1! never
thought of.”

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — AUGUST 19, 1955 —

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