Homer Stevens, Delta, writes:
On Sunday, January 15, Bargain at
Half the Price and Flying Moun-
fain combined their talents to
Produce an excellent concertat the
Queen Elizabeth Playhouse. From
beginning to end they produced
lively and talented music and the
audience responded with en-
‘thusiastic applause. It was
altogether an enjoyable evening
for both the audience and the two
Stoups on stage.
aving attended numerous
Public and trade union meetings
Where Bargain at Half the Price
has Performed, as well as an oc-
Casional concert by “Bargain”
Over the past three years, I
remarked to several people during
Intermission on the improvement
of their performance. Without
€xception, others agreed, and went
$n to say how much they enjoyed
© entertainment.
en, on Monday, I read Jeani
Read’s sarcastic diatribe in the
,*ncouver Province under the
adline “‘Not Much of a Bargain’.
€ would think she had been
red by her boss to perform a
z tchet job. She calls Bargain
‘What people used to call a
Tefreshing and youthful ex-
peace.” Yet she then devotes
‘Our Paragraphs to a combination
of nit-picking, phony adjectives
nd outright falsehoods to rip apart
& talented an developed group of

| Young amateurs. Most people who
‘Were present and read the junk

at passes as a review, will
Wonder why the Province pays this

Critic”’,

As long as she doesn’t bite the
hand that feeds her, and so long as
Most of her venom is reserved for a
Sroup whose repertoire includes
Working class songs, the Province
will be happy. .

The only unfortunate part of it is

at Read’s review may make
things more difficult for Bargain
and other groups of their kind to
Play to full houses. But people will
Come out despite Jeani Read. After

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all, she only came anyway to look
for flaws and fill some space.
Obviously, the real spirit passed
her by, the message went over her
head, and the music neither
refreshed her, nor did it enlighten
her. Poor Jeani.

We should not only continue to
support Bargain, but we should
build on it by telling our friends the
truth about how much they will
enjoy future concerts.

Mike Gillan, Vancouver, writes:
This letter is in response to the
critique of the film 1900 in the
January 20 issue of the Tribune.
There are enough ambiguities and
misrepresentations in the review
to have warranted its exclusion
from the paper.

First, the review states that the
film was ‘five years in the making,
$9 million in the spending plus
another million or so in ex-
exploitation.’’ The word ‘‘ex-
ploitation” is out of place. The
normal word is _ probably
“promotion”. If Bertolucci has
gone so far as to make a movie, its
promotion certainly isn’t
unethical.

The review was headed “‘an epic
disappointment”, but what did
Lester Cole expect? It would seem
that at least in the sense of por-
traying a period of a people’s
history it gave a fairly good ac-
count.

But then Cole says that an epic is
necessarily a drama first and
foremost. Surely more drama in
the movie should have been at the
expense of realism throughout. He
states that the movie was drawn
out. I haven’t heard this view from
anyone else; each scene was for a
reason, and it certainly wasn’t
drama.

While the scenery was nice, it

was not, as the reviewer contends,

“views of the Italian countryside.”
Basically, it was a small area,
apparently a man-made-plain with
dykes and irrigation canals.

The review says that there were

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Concert praised, reviews faulted

“scenes of recognizable social
realities.” The question might be
asked: Which scenes weren’t? And
while it might be true that the
padrones ‘‘looked upon their
hungry workers with less concern
than they have for their livestock,”
this was not implied in the film.

It would seem that Cole wanted
1900 to be an epic in the poetic
sense — something like Beowulf
with much drama extolling deeds
and virtues of heroic figures. His
portrayal of De Niro is probably
incorrect. De Niro was very
controlled in his performance, but
as might be expected of the son of a
wealthy landowner.

On the other hand, the satanic
figure of Sutherland is applauded,
“‘a maniacal fascist, giving a fine
performance and bringing sudden
life to the film.’’ Ah, good — more
drama!

Perhaps the critique was
chopped, or perhaps Cole skipped
part of the movie, but in any event
he uses two paragraphs to cross 27
years. In fact, it was World War I
that De Niro’s father kept him out
of, and there was no doubt that
Elmo was a soldier returning with
other soldiers.

Cole misinterprets and
misplaces the actual sequence of
the scenes and makes Elmo an
object of contempt. It is indicated
that after liberation, revolutionary
justice wasn’t meted out on the
spot. Elmo appeared to be a
‘Communist Party member and
probably did the right thing in
reasoning with the peasants about
handing over their arms and not
killing De Niro. It is a matter of
leadership when and if to arms the
masses, and the scene that Cole
calls ‘“‘the smoothest sophistry
ever.used to hoodwink the militant
peasants’? was undoubtedly
correct leadership.

Finally, with regard to the en-
ding, Coles’ contention is loose,
weak and conjectural, when he
implies it to mean ‘“‘the class
struggle will live as long as man
himself does.”’ The movie ended in
a struggle that was quite different
from that in the beginning. To
begin, there was no peasant power.
In the end, at least, there was an
active challenge for power.

‘Ringing the bell’
for disarmament

In June of this year a most ex-
traordinary session of the United
Nations will convene. The session
will be the first UN General
Assembly ever to be devoted
completely to the issue of disar-
mament. It is of immense
significance, but most Canadians
know little or nothing about it.

’ To transform that situation into a

groundswell of peace action that
will pressure Canadian
representatives into making that
Assembly work is the special task
of John Morgan, on the first leg of a
cross country tour, as he puts it,
“ringing the bell’’ for disar-
mament.

Articulate and engaging,
Morgan holds the high post of
Minister Emeritus in the Unitarian.
Church. But for the last five years
his skills in communication have
been.devoted to the cause of peace
as the president of the Canadian
Peace Congress.

Morgan is bringing all of his
skills to bear on his current tour
because, he says, ‘“‘This assembly
is new and important. It’s never
been done before — it is the first
step to peace.”

The UN Assembly is, in fact, the
first demand of the Stockholm
Appeal, he noted, but what makes
it really important is the potential
for what can come after. What the
Canadian Peace Congress and the
World Peace Council want is for
the UN General Assembly to make
a call for a World Disarmament
Conference.

“The UN by itself can’t do the
trick,’ he said, ‘‘There isn’t
enough pressure to break the old
stand-off.

“‘We need global representation
— both governments and peoples’
organizations from every country
— that kind of a conference can
begin ‘the roll back’.”

The concept of _ global
representation and a_ world
disarmament conference already
has wide support. But it is opposed
by powerful states such as the
United States and China. Canada
hasn’t decided yet, but that is
where Morgan and. the Peace
Congress campaign come in.

In cooperation with an Ontario-
based group, ‘“‘Peoples Assembly
for a New Canadian Foreign
Policy’, the Peace Congress is
endeavoring to establish ad hoc
committees all across Canada.
Morgan’s visit to British Columbia
is to be followed by Murray
Thomson, an organizer for the
People’s Assembly who will be in
B.C. on February 4.

In March, the ad hoc committees
are going to send delegates to a
mini disarmament conference in
Ottawa. About 400 delegates are
expected to be on hand.

1978 ANNUAL

Burns Night

January 28, 6 p.m.

Ukrainian Hall,
805 E. Pender,
Vancouver

Guest Speaker:
Port Alberni Alderman

George McKnight
Admission $6
Baron of beef, haggis and all the

trimmings, entertainment.
dancing, refreshments

Tickets at Co-Op
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FEB. 4— COPE celebrates Lil and
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Dance 9 p.m. Refreshments.
Price $7. 0.A.P. and unemployed
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FEZ, 12 — Sunday, Feb. 12 at 2
p.m. Grand Concert, Russian
People’s Home, 600 Campbell
Ave. Full program. Spons. by
FRC. Everybody welcome.

FEB. 16 — Thursday, February 16,
Communist Party Jobs Rally,
hear Fred Wilson, Jack Phillips
at the Swedish Hall, Hastings St.
and Clarke Dr., 8 p.m. Everyone
welcome. Spons. by the Van-
couver East Election C’tee.

FEB. 18 — Banquet and Dance at
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Saturday, Feb. 18. Supper 6:30
p.m. Dancing 9-1 a.m. with
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Tickets in advance phone 254-
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NOTICE is hereby given that an
application will be made to the
Director of Vital Statistics for a
change of name, pursuant to the
“‘Change of Name Act,” by me,
Varasiko Joji of #C-196 East 2ist
Ave. in Vancouver, in the
Province of British Columbia, as
follows:

To change my name from Vara-
siko Joji to George Joseph Tom.
My minor unmarried child’s
name from Latileta Tuanaki to

Nellie Perina Tom.

Dated this 16th day of January,

A.D. 1978.

Varasiko Joji
WANTED

WANTED ONE ELECTRIC type-
writer in good condition for YCL
use. Reasonable. Phone 879-5058.

NOTICES

OUR THANKS TO Surrey Club,
South Fraser Regional Com-
mittee CPC, New Westminster
Club and all others who donated
in memory of a loving wife and
mother, Edna Hamilton.

Miles Hamilton and family

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