oie ae ss La Chinoise, directed by Jean- Luc Godard. With Anne Wia- zemsky and Jean-Pierre Leaud. A blurb describing “La Chi- noise” says it is about Young Love and Revolution. In fact it is primarily about young “revo- lutionaries.” The movie, con- structed with the precision of a painting in the orange-red and royal blue tones so common to Godard’s color films, depicts five young French would-be re- volutionaries studying Marx- ism-Leninism, inspired by Mao’s Little Red Book. A lot of Godard’s movies are above Young Love, escapist ro- mance, casual gangsters, Paris in decay. “La Chinoise” is much more than this thematically, al- though it probably falls short of some of his other films techni- cally (A Woman is a Woman, A Life to Live, etc.). You might expect that Godard’s revolution- aries would be a type of casual — gangster, but “La Chinoise” is concerned with the search for what the characters believe to be The Revolution, and the con- versations, involving “Marxism- Leninism,”’ do more than en- hance the alienation of the ac- tors. They trace this search, and _the characters do in fact deve- lop, instead of merely perform. The young science student be- comes disillusioned with his compatriots’ lack of objectivity and gravitates toward the Com- CANADA TOUR BY UKRAINIAN BARITONE « Dmitro Hnatiuk, Ukrainian » baritone, People’s Artist of the U.S.S.R. and a leading soloist of the Kiev Shevchenko Opera . Theatre and the Baiko Sisters Vocal Trio from Lwiw have been contracted by D.K. Attrac- | tions to appear in a three week | concert tour of Canada. The Artists will make two concert appearances in Toronto on Sun- 4 day, April 28 in Massey Hall. The first program is scheduled for 2.30 p.m. and the second for 8.30 in the evening. — " Mr. Hnatiuk’s many appear- ances in the lead opera roles by Lysenko, Tchaikovsky, Verdi, Rossini and others haye brought ; him great . popularity: ‘in the | ‘Seviet Union. munist Party. Another student, the daughter of a banker, comes to realize that she is only in the nativity of her revolutionary experience. What does it mean to become a revolutionary, and. who are the true revolutionaries? In this complicated age of international splits, multiple levels of deve- lopment, errors and ‘confusions in the press, both left and right, who is correct? Who can be trusted? Where is the welter of claims and counterclaims can we find the formula for revolu- tion? This movie gives one a real sense of how people, disgusted and dismayed by the rotten so- ciety around them, but cut off from avenues of social activity by their open limited experience, turn inward, and come to re- gard their personal intellect as a vast reservoir to be tapped by good intentions, faithful study, and loyalty to unmitigated, un- qualified, and total violent revo- lution. It is not .a melodrama and it is not tragic. The antics are dealt with playfully, with humor, and a-great deal of hope. From the press and posters of “La Chinoise” that Godard is laughing at re- volution. He may be laughing at youthful excess, but it is a forgiving and. sympathetic laughter. Two scenes embody the con- flict of the story: in one, the group expells the science stu- dent for defending peaceful co- existence. In the other the seri- ous and moralistic heroine con- verses with a progressive pro- fessor on a commutor train. The gist of the conversation is as follows: He: Yes, I see you mean revo- lution, but how will you get it? What will you do? She: First, shut down the uni- versities. Stop the lies. He: How? She: (pause) Throw a bomb. Kill a few students. The rest won’t come back. He: And then? She: (Silence) Of course this movie is about French Leftists and French it may appear party people, and there are strong differences between the situation in, say, Paris and To- ronto. But the similarities are. telling. There are a great many ~ anti-party and anti-Soviet left- ists in Canada. The Cold War ~ resulted in a generational gap more complete than that experi- enced in European countries. That is, at present in the Cana- dian movement the number of ‘people between the ages of, say 30 and 40, is proportionately smaller than other age groups, the missing generation being those who were young in the ter-. rible fifties. For example, the probability of a student having a communist professor is eX- tremely slim in Canada. The party in Canada is much less a part of the political scene than its highly-developed coun- ‘terpart in France, so naturally it is much less a part of’ the young Canadian leftists. The alienation depicted in “La Chinoise” (isolated from the working class movement at home they look to their image of China) is perhaps even more acutely felt in Canada, the youth and age gap having been intensified by the Cold War. The movie does hit home. — It is sometimes said that a work of art is successful if it depicts some moment of change, some portion of the movement of life which elevates the view- er or listener from one point of experience to another, tuning him into reality and thereby - adding to his growth. Some con- sider art even better if it con- tributes to one’s social growth. The sequence of this movie sug- — gests both kinds of growth. It is very much alive. If it suffers from anything, it is that its optimistic message is very subtle. If the views are not fami- liar with progressive and leftist ~ types, the tone remains a bit ambiguous, and the direction of the growth of the characters is — difficult to follow. Like all Go- dard’s movies, “La Chinoise” is many-sided, and deserves con- tinual discussion. And it deser- ves to be seen. Pamela Maher Support grows for April 26- following ge nilecheal Jay, appeared in New York Worker. The national student officers of the Young Men’s Christian Association are urging their 180 campus chapters to support the by the April 26 Student Strike for Peace. YMCA’s national student’ council does not meet again until August. Five of the seven national student officers meeting in Bos- ton voted unanimously to send mailings urging support for the strike to all of the campus YMCA chapters in the U.S. The student division of the Young Women’s Christian Asso- ‘§ iation will. consider su vegart for e strike at a national’ meeting in me Fre~cisco in early April. 7 action — Growing support for the strike continues to pour in to the office of the Student Mobili- zation Committee in New York. The SMC called for the action at its Chicago conference Janu- ~ ary 27-29. The student government at San Francisco State has endor- sed. The Junior. Collegiate As- sociation of Chicago, a predomi- nantly black group representing the student governments of Chicago’s junior colleges, has endorsed the action. Linda Morse, executive secre- tary of the SMC, said that high school students in Detroit and New York planned to wear arm- bands at school the day of the strike, and demonstrations will .be ‘held outsidé of many high schools. cay oun city of beauty In three short weeks, the U.S. has reduced to rubble 80 per- cent of the ancient city of Hue, known for its architectural and cultural beauty handed down through the generations. Tens of thousands of people are home- less, herded into. concentration The following story appeared in the Vietnam Courier and inci- dents described may be some- what dated. The heroism and optimism is not. ° By NGUYEN KHAC VIEN We had loved her, of all cities. Amidst a rolling hilly expanse, the Perfume River unfolds its glittering stream. The scholar who came to compete in man- darin examinations was reluc- tant to leave Hue, charmed by the grace of her young girls in flowing gowns. The traveller felt himself attached to her, enchant- ed by the beauty of her palaces and gardens, and the refinements of her cuisine and speech. When in the evening, from the sam- pans gliding on the river rose the song of boatmen, one is irre- sistibly captivated by this city of beauty, which has neither factories nor trading centres, but exudes through all her pores an. indefinable pleasant way of liv- ing. — We had loved Hue, but our love was not without some bit- terness, for the emperors who reigned there had betrayed the country. The poet To Huu in his youth cold ; cade the tr patier when. belie actior mitab Ngo ! with arms, tortul ed. B ing. It \ in 19 test 1 regim found tion | At- Hue, : is no ans h and ruins burie ous ] more You | natin, West carry of de The continued imprisonment of Vo Van Tai, who led the Saigon power strike in January, has become a source of embar- rassment to the AFL-CIO’s lead- ers who term the Vietnamese union a “bulwark” for the Thieu- Ky government. So embarrassing has the situ- ation become for George Meany, AFL-CIO president, and Jay Lovestone, his international af- fairs director, that they brought pressure on the White House to intercede for Tai’s release, and dispatched their agent, Irving Brown, to Saigon. Brown was to explain to Thieu the untenable position that Tai’s imprisonment has made for the supporters for his government.