PTET RRL TEV Er Ces fi | cece ‘page 14, The Herald, Friday, November 17, 1978 UBJEC O eh 7ibbs utd at bead II, WEST HARTFORD, Conn, HX AP)— Ernest lemingway’s novel The Old an and the Sea, a story hout a fisherman's struggle #0 catch and bring heme an suormous marlin, strikes 10st readers as a tale of curage. But aging is as much the heme of the story as SAAR ARR AAAAERRRRR IRA THEATRE PASSES ¢ 8 Hidden somewhere in the courage, says Phyllis Abrah- ms, a University of Hartford professor who has gathered this and other works into a new college course on the elderly in literature. “There's so much interest in the aged that I thought there should be a literary perspective,”’ she said in an interview. lence Lae paper are two Terrace phone numbers. 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The works confront ‘the loss of partners and friends death or illness, the loss of status, the loss of valued roles in the family Beleg.'s Pancake & Spaghetti House 4642 Lazelle Aged as seen by writers. and society, and the im- prisenment within a de- teriorating body," that can accompany aging, she said. “It isn't all gloomy, because there are so many triumphs,” she added. The old fisherman, for instance, reaches home with only the skeleton of the mighty fish in tow, but the villagers respect this evidence of his great accomplishment. — Canada is publishing more children’s lit TORONTO (cP) — Canada, once the dumping ground for everyone else’s juvenile literature,. now is Open 6 a.m. every morning except Sunday, Open II a.m. CLOSED 9 p.m. daily, except - Friday & Saturday - 3 a.m. Sunday - Special Opentug for Xmas Party 632-4205 6 p.m. ee cials avery day _ understand the problem. 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Largely through its efforts, Canadian books are well distributed across the country loday. =~ Ms. Yaffe says publishers, too, are more receptive to producing children’s books. One-half of all Canadian publishers have entered the children’s literature market, the centre says. - While the argument that children spend more money cn candy and movies doesn't deter parents from com- plaining about the high cost of children’s books, Canada has managed to sell its hard- cover books at prices below those in the U.S., says Ms. Yaffe. “But we are still fighting the old habit of parents buying the books they read when they were young for their own children,” she says. Judy Sarrick, owner of the Children’s Book Store here, says children are reading more than their parents did as youngsters. “They're reading more simply because there is more to read,” she says. “There are more choices available for,every kind of rdader,”” ae Ms, Sarrick agrees with Ms. Yaffe that parents olten choose books they remember from their own childhood. She says that Little Women, Alice in Won- derland, Treasure Island and Anne of Green Gables are popular parent choices. Ms. Sarrick’s experiences, first asa children’s librarian and now as owner of one of Canada’s few children's book stores, have convinced her that adults who read a lot have a better rapport with their children’s reading habits. while adults who read less prefer their children to read books that are educational but with little entertainment value, She says children’s beok publishing has made tremendous strides in the last few Years. “ree tt Vanities is the subject of drama Play staged here The Terrace Little Theatre group will stage a per- formance of *‘Vanities" tonight at the R.E.M. Lee Theatre, 'The play, described as a mature and wilty comedy. will aiso run Saturday and Sunday and be staged again the following Friday, and Sunday. Performances begin at 4 p.m. for this complex drama which follows the lives of three women from school days through to maturity, Joanne Ames, Belty Anne Sager and Brenda Taft under Saturday Troiano’s career You've got to he brief ta try to cram the changes that have occurred in the career of guitarist Domenic Troiano into one paragraph. At 17 he replaced Robbie Reberlson in the Ronnie Hawkins group. He moved on to play m The Mandala, formed Bush, recorded a couple of solo albums in 1970- 71 and then got a couple of breaks that considerably enhanced his reputation, He replaced Joe Walsh in The James Gang and stayed for a couple of albums before filting the guitar chair in the then-failing Guess Who. The man practically wears the evolution of the pop and rock music scene in this - country on his sleeve and yet he claims not to think much about it. “That's all past tense to me," he says. “I did it and it was fun and } enjoyed it ... but its history. afternoon. a delight 4551 Greig Ave blocks. 125 attractively appol U i units and suites — each with private bath, color TV and phone. Dining Room and Coffee Shop. Lounge with entertainment. Sample and Meeting Rooms. Drive-in lobby and free parking. 755 Davie Street, Vancouver V6G 1W5, Phone: 604-662-1831 collect “Every once in a while it does strike me, its funny that you bring it up, because 1 went to see Ronnie Hawkins the other night. “He's still got the same piano player who was in the band when I was in it and it made me realize how much time has gone by and how many things have actually happened. “I went up on stage and played Bo Diddley for the first time in 12 years and it was just like walking into a time warp.”' Trust Troiano’s fun away from his own music te be watching and sitting in with another band, He is totally absorbed by his musi¢ and yet still manages to maintain one of the more sane prac- tical approaches that you're liable to find in the business. Since The Guess Who fell apart, Troiano has been trying to carve a legitimate solo career cutting two albums that have been critically well received without causing much of a blitz at the record store counters. Domenic is non- plussed. “To begin with you've pat tobe happy with what you're doing and L am. i mean, ob- viously everyone wants to sell a million records but in ry case U only want to do it within the frameworlt of the music I want to play “T get the thing of ‘your the direction of Brian Koven and with the help of production and stage crews. Along with putting on the play the group is conducting a raffle, the prize being a dinner for two at the Terrace Hotel. varied | stuff isn’t commercial’ but I think people in the record: business and the radio busihess underestimate the general public. The radio guys say, ‘Well man, it’s not thal we don’t dig what you're doing. We think its great and, if we could play what we like, your music would be on the radio right now.’ “Then they tell me it’s not what the folks in their audience want to hear." He chuckles like a guy who is firmly on to someone else's song and dance, “{ mean, how can anyone assume Lhat they know what so many people want to hear? Maybe they do—but I doubt it, when I hear the same 15 records getting played over and over on the radio day in and day out.” Troiano’s last album, The Joke's On Me, shows his past influences as well as traces of where he wants to lake his music in the future. Some of the guitar playing is hc more complicated than jazzy extensions of his rhyth- m and blues roots. There is an oheisance to the John McLaughlin school of futuristic fusion and the vocalized passages show more than a passing nod in the direction of Steely Dan. So the record is a diverse collection of sounds, hard to puta handle on, certainly not in any mainstream com- mercial bag, This artist’s studio really hits heights SECOND PENINSULA, N.S. (CP) — Artist Tcny Law used one of the world's most unusual studios late this summer. It was the crow's nest of the Canadian scientific ship Hudson. The Bedford Institute af : : By The Sea Modern, 5 storey, first class mator hotel. Good local beach, English Bay and Stanley Park. near downtown, fon — 1 Hock from shopning within 2 dios, efficiency d alr Teles: 04-S1161 d rooms, Oceanngraphy invited the landscape and seascape arlist to paint the North by accompanying the research vessel on a recent Arctic voyage to Bylot and Raffin Islands. ' “T think they were a little concerned about taking an artist and all his equipment, but when they found out 1 was an old sailor they were much happier,’ Law says. The closed-in crow's nest, high on the Hudson's foremast, was equipped as a studio and its windows were heated to keep them from frosting over, “I still had to wear my Arctic clathes, especially when the wind whistled through the cracks," Law Bays. “Fhe North is a very ex- ciling part of the world, A tremendous grandeur is seen wherever you look.”