A nightmare ae ra. behind a corner of darkness, the hurricane creeps. Treachery hides in the high Mr. Minister in your lookout, 1914, Lee Enfield rifles Pepper thrown at angry dogs. = Then— S € = Now Hiroshima! One blast— The battlefields Terror circles in the air, beneath the sea, surrounds But here— These voices on the radio— BS Lunatics By coldly calculating. * They say, Snap off the lights! Will madmen sit in safety, deep inside their oxygen-fed den, while we in Canada within a grave, Honest rage can reach such heat, like briitling steel, bursting Then _ Gigantic pyramids will sound heodore Bikel is coming to Vancouver. Co-star for two years with Mary Martin in “The Sound of Music”, and acclaimed art- 'St of stage, screen, television, _ "ecords and radio, Bikel is Also one of folk music’s treas- ured artists. Speaking seven languages Seedy, Bikel’s repertoire Neludes over 500 songs from Wenty lands in their native ee His tremendous ap- ahs 8S a folk singer is dem- Tated by the turnouts to WORTH _ __READING ectterialism and the Dial- al Method (Volume 1), by $ Surice Cornforth. Price 150, aanie is the first of three eral Mes intended for the gen- Teader who wants to : vee what Dialectical Mater- Diack Means in theory and i Ctice. The ideas underly- arxist philosophy are ve Plained in non-technical tion 28° and their applica- is shown in a number of amples. Responsibility (Warning to a.Canadian Parliament) that breathe accusation, keep watch! made history at Mons— violence multiplies. supposed hostility— “A hundred million lives— must fill our little inch : the Earth? its pressure rising everywhere will make our old convictions crack their Spheric thunder in this traitorous night. winds of time. and round this shaking World, from every dwelling place, a shoui— waves vibrate. ¢ ROGER PRENTICE B ikel coming to city his frequent one-man concerts in New York’s Town Hall and other concert halls through- out the country, together with his eleven best-selling Elektra albums. He will be appearing at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre for one night only — Thursday, April 18 — and tickets are available at the Hudson’s Bay Box office. Phone number is MU 1-3351, Prices range from $1.75 to $4.00. THEODORE BIKEL e Eyes in her finger tips he sees with her finger tips, this 22 - year-old young Russian from the Urals, Rosa Kuleshova. She can pick up any playing card of colored cotton reel blindfolded out of a sack and describe photo- graphs she has never seen with her eyes. Passing her fingertips light- ly over a printed page she can read the letters. At first doctors thought she had unusually sensitive touch or that her fingertips could detect the minute tempera: In February she was invit- ed to Moscow by the Soviet Academy of Sciences’ Insti- tute of Communcations Prob- lems. A program of tests, pre- pared by this institute togeth- er with the academy’s Insti- tute of Biophysics, ruled out both the touch and heat sen- sitivity theories. ok * * The touch theory was teste- ed by projecting a light and dark image onto a matt glass screen of uniform surface. Rosa unerringly described the _ Blindfolded, Rosa Kuleshova ‘’reads” a newspaper wiih her finger tips. ture variations of light and dark. These were the views held by psychiatrist Dr. I. Goldberg, who last June re- ported his observations of Rosa’s extraordinary abilities. At a Urals conference of psychologists in November, Rosa astounded delegates by telling the color of unknown objects placed in an opaque paper bag. : Dr. Goldberg found she could describe pictures on matchbox labels or packets of cigarettes. Credence was lent to the ‘“‘sensitive touch” view by the fact that Rosa could not see or read if a sheet of cellophane or glass was plac- ed over an object. f images, thereby proving that her fingertips were in fact sensitive to light. For the next test a filter was inserted near the light source to cut out all the infra- red heat rays. The resulting light image of neutral temper- atures was again clearly de- tected. As a cross check a purely heat image with no visible light and dark was cast on the screen by infra red rays; this time, Rosa’s finger tips completely failed to pick out anything. “yes” in her fingertips? The ' theory seemed preposterous to the two young eye special- ists, Bongard and Smirnov, in charge of tests. In consulta- tion with Prof. Neuberg they conducted further ex peri- ments normally used for test- ing human sight. They found that Rosa’s fin- gertips in fact possessed many of the properties of the hu- man eye. ° The eye detects light with millions of light-sensitive ele- ments in the retina. The more elements there are the sharp- er is vision. Using special charts with lines of dots at varying inter- vals, the researchers were able to calculate that Rosa has ten light-sensitive ele- ments in every square milli- meter of fingertip. SCIENCE How could she distinguish’ color? Tests showed that her fingertips functioned in ex- actly the same way as human eyes. All colors are perceived as a combination of blue, red ‘and green, detected by triple clusters of “receivers” each especially sensitive to one of the three basic colors. Experiments showed that Rosa’s fingers, too, had clus- ters of red, blue and green “receivers” and their spec- trum sensitivity exactly cor- responds to that of the human eye. . If a red light we are watch- ing suddenly changes to grey, we s€e blue. So did Rosa with her fingers. They also displayed the well-known phenomenon of light interia. Her fingertips, like the human eye, must be in constant motion in order to see; if they are stationary, they see nothing. Rosa developed her ability by constant blindfold practice while teaching at a school for blind children in Nizhny Ta- gil. Scientific observers expect that study of her case will throw light on the evolution of vision in man ang on the development of the human eye. ‘ Soviet scientists are sure that Rosa is not the only per- son in the world with such powers at her fingertips—and they are looking for others. How about you? —PETER TEMPEST Variet ivorce Italian Style (cur- D rqntly at Vancouver’s Studio Theatre) is what the French term a “comedie noire” (black comedy). How- ever, in the socially conscious treatment of director Pietro Germi, there is nothing idle in| Divorce’s dallying with death. Its theme is satirical condem- nation of Italian law and Sic- ilian honor which treat di- vorce (prohibited in Catholic Italy) as a greater misdemean- our than murder. Divorce Italian Style (dub- bed into English in this ver- sion) is the sort of film which keeps you chuckling constant- ly, much of it attributable to Marcello Mastroianni’s hand- ling of the husband. This handsome and very popular romantic lead (seen in La Dolce Vita and The Night) is a most intelligent actor who simply refuses to be. typed as a stock romantic lead. * * * Divorce gives full play to Mastroianni’s abilities as, in. in film viewing sensitive response to Germi’s direction, he creates a seedy gigolo of a southern noble- man. Beginning with a per- fectly calculated slicked-down hair and moustache, Mastroi- anni pads out the characteri- zation with carefully observ- ed detail from life — his cig- _ arette holder, a facial mann2r- ism, his suavity and male ar- rogrance. The result is a real aristocrat who, typical of his class, hasn’t the moral values of a snake. This aristocratic decadence is an important sub-theme as, inevitably, the unequal status of women. Although one cannot be too appreciative of Mastroiannj’s characterization nor of the able and varied cast around him, the real strength of any worthwhile film stems from script and direction — and these are by Pietro Germi (himself an actor at times). A strong story line, the biting satire of situation, have been filmed with imaginative de- tail and perfect timing. Eng-. is _ lish. dubbing is as good as can be expected (I prefer sub- titles), but the parts of the sound track which survive from the original arouse re- gret for what we may have missed. Use of natural sounds and music brilliantly enhances this most satisfying film. * aes es The Flute And The Arrow Was Made several years ago by Sweden’s famous docu- mentarist Arne (Great Adven- ture) Sucksdorf during a year and a half spent with the -Murias, one of India’s aborig- _ inal peoples. Beautiful color photography and much per- ceptive detail make this well worth seeing, but the final effect is of promise unreal- ized. Period of Adjustment, bas- ed on a Tennessee Williams comedy (yes, comedy!), takes a number of perceptive swipes at American status symbols and sacred cows before the “happy” ending. ‘ _—N. E. STORY April 5, 1963-LPACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 5