Page 12, The Herald, Thursday, May 17, 1984 Volunteers, grants'and. donations: National native magazine: TORONTO (CP) — The three Indian women pull their chairs together and huddle over the glossy magazine. “I's beautiful stuff,” one of them says. The others agree. Noone can blame them for being effusive: the product is their own. Sweetgrass, a national native magazine, has bucked adversity, particularly financial, and is finally on store shelves after more than a year of false starts. . True to its namesake, a hearty vanilla-fragrance grass with ceremonial significance among North America's native peoples, Sweetgrass has endured and grown even in bad weather, one of the magazine’s writers once said. The slick-looking magazine of art, features, information pieces, photography and poetry has its roots in Ontario Indian, the now- defunct publication of the Union of Ontario Indians. ‘JUMPED GUN' It was expected to put out its first issue last fall. “We jumped the gun,” said Lenore Keeshig-Tobias, the small, lithe editor, as she busily organized her desk in the magazine's store-front office in the heart of Toronto's Cabbagetown. Letters from those eagerly awaiting publication poured in, but the staff couldn’t do anything about it. Fhe magazine wasn't ready and they didn't want to be stuck in the LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Paper Chase has certainly dashed around the entertainment world: First it was a motion picture, then a CBS television series, then it was on public television and now it is ap- pearing on pay television. John Houseman starred in the 1973 movie as the hard-boiled law professor, won an Academy Award and has remained with the show in all its versions. The original TV series made its debut in September 1978 and.made its exit in July 1979, It was the kind of show the critics loved and the public . ignored as too intellectual. Chicago public television station WTTW made un unsuccessful attempt to raise money for new episodes, but the reruns were telecast by PBS. The Paper Chase is now in its second year on Showtime. The second-largest pay-television system in the U.S. The series is now called The Paper Chase — The Second Year, but that refers to the fact Hart, -Ford and Bell are now in their second year of law school. Incidentally, the once male-dominated series now has a good sprinkling of women students. Two other network castoffs, NBC's Fame and ABC's Too Close for Comfort, have found new life away from the networks. Both are being produced for syndication on com- mercial TV. same: position as other - native publications that died because they didn’t know what riarket to tap or how to attract advertisers. . The three Ojibwa women — . Keeshig-Tobias, Verna Friday and Nancy Wood — aren’t journalists, photographers or business types. They’re mothers and volunteers so dedicated to promoting — their culture they've spent the last 18 months working 12 hours or more a day without pay — hoping the ~ magazine will become a reality. “We're survivalists. It took a lot of determination and resilience to pet this issue out,’” said Keeshig- Tobias. “It shows the strength of native women. “We could’ve started three months after Ontario Indian folded ~~ gone feet first — but there was no guarantee it would continue.” OTHERS AGREE Friday, the soft-spoken managing director, and Woods, a jolly woman who turns im- mediately serious when her ad- vertising ‘department is men- tioned, nodded in agreement. a i2member board of directors. complete the volunteer staff. With. government | funding totalling about $139,000, and donations from churches and corporations, the magazine had humble beginnings. : Its directors put much of the funds into a market research study on the magazine's. prospects, leaving little for the day-today . operation. ““At one point our phone was removed and we had to go to the phone booth around the corner to do all our business," Woods said, chuckling. “Then it was removed too.”” But the magazine benefited from the wait. The first issue, launched recently with a gala dinner party at a posh downtown Toronto hotel, is a strong effort. Art director Beyer, a Cree-Metis, draws readers into the magazine with a stunning cover picture, The Red Robe. Painted by native Maxine Noel, it depicts a noble- looking Indian draped in red robes yo, A ay a .- “We prefer “native writers | _ because naturallythey know better ‘the -hearts and minds of native people,” said Keeshig-Tobias, A piece on the Inuit attests .to that with an interesting portrayal ofan Arctic people separated in language and distance from the ‘rest of the country. » VOICE NEEDED. Keeshig-Tobias said there is a ‘tack of native publications in North America and people are crying for a native voice across Canada, the United States and as far away, as - Germany where she says, Indians ‘are “a kindof hobby.” Sweetgrass will be publishes every two months if it can be kept financially afloat. ; “We need one year’s operational funding, a shot in the arm, to keep | going,” Friday said. “We may go to the government.” But Woods said:. “You can’t function as a‘ voice if you're dependent on the government,’’ Keeshig-Tobias said they would like to subtitle the magazine .The Magazine of North America’s First ane t is doing everything — all volunteer —— answering phones, everything.” Mason, circulation director Edna’ King, art director David Beyer and “Ideally we'd have a staff of 12 and $400,000 a year,” Friday said. “But the way it is now, everybody typing, Promotions manager Jay E,, John Houseman Twentieth Century-Fox produced seven new episodes of The Paper Chase for the first year and have made 12 for the second season, which has just gotten under way. “I think what we ali love most about the show is thé language," said executive producer Lynn Roth. “It’s such a pleasure to hear. Everyone fears if you use complicated thought and ideas people won't understand, but people iove it.” James Stephens, who stars as and gazing at the horizon, Phetographs by E. S. Curtis — a turn-of-the-century photographer who, Keeshig-Tobias said, ‘‘made the North American Indian,” — complement an article about the man who tried to capture native Indians on film when he thought breed, _ Hart, said: “It’s a show that tries to hase itself in solid reality rather than climbing up on the edge of humor, where the humor becomes more important than the reality of the situation.” - A hallmark of the series is the thoughtfulness of thestories, many of them. written by John Jay Osborn, Jr., who wrote the book on which the movie was based. In one show, the law students match their wits against a super computer in the engineering school. A student is torn between marrying Hart or accepting a Rhodes Scholarship in another. One story is built entirely around how the students react to a test given by Prof. Kingsfield (Houseman), stories. The emphasis here is. on character andthe clash and exposure _ of.ideas, all of which is leavened by MUMOP., eee Ce ee vee Roth said she believes the character of Hart is largely responsible for the success of the show. Hart is the thoughtful, bright student who often battles with Kingsfield. : “You don't have many heroes like that on television,” said Roth. ‘He has such good values. He has in- tegrity without being goody-two shoes. He wrestles with things in a very admirable way.” Play about suicide ‘devastating’ NEW YORK (AP) —_ Since December 1982, Kathy Bates and Anne Pitoniak have shared a special relationship on stage in Night, Mother, Marsha Norman's Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a daughter who tells her mother she plans to commit suicide. First at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Mass., then at Broadway's Golden Theatre and now off-Broadway at the Westside Arts Theatre, where the play recently transferred, the women have ridden - this emotional roller coaster more than 400 times. It’s a play that devastates the actresses as much as the audiences. “It's hard to do. It really is,” says Pitoniak, silting on stage at a kitchen lable where much of the two- - character play takes place. “I used to lie about that and say, ‘Oh, it's all right. It’s what you have to do.’ But it’s hard. 1 don’t do very much else.” Bates, who plays daughter Jessie, agrees, ; “I think it’s gruelling,” she says. “The obvious rewards of it through are the play itself and being able to perform it. “I know it’s made my work much better,” What makes it so hard is that the play demands a reality difficult to capture on stage, “It’s got to be effortless,” says Bates, “It’s got to look like real life. . The drama rises out of the characters and their situation with one another.” These are two ordinary women spending a quiet Saturday night at home, making cocoa, giving each other a manicure, changing the sofa cover and getting ready to watch Love Boal. The only difference is that one wants to end her life. SUFFERS PAIN Bates calls her character “a stub,” a tired woman who’ been hurt by life —a divorce, a son who’s turned into a petty thief, an uncaring brother, problems with epilepsy — and doesn’t want to go on anymore. “T really see her as just charging right up to God and saying, ‘I don't buy this. I don’t like it. I will not accept it, and I'am nat going to go on living this way,'” says Bates. After playing the role of the mother for more than a year, Pitoniak says she doesn't know how much of the roleis Thelma Cates and how much is herself. : “T think that in common with Thelma, I have an optimism. I always feel things are going to work oul fine, just fine, and if they don’t, well .. . Ehappen to be one of those people who thinks that learning takes care of just about everything.” When she first started preparing for the play, Bates found herself thinking about a close friend who had committed suicide, _ “But I found I couldn't do the work because Jessie is happy. She's not depressed. “We've since spoken _— to psychiatrists who say the people that they work with who are. suicidally depressed, you have to watch it when they get happy because that means they're going to go.” Now she tries, in her words, “lo * Just empty herself,” KLOSTERS (AP) — American author Irwin Shaw, whose 1948 best-seller The Young Lions was one of the most acclaimed novels to emerge from the Second World War, has died of a heart ailment. He was 71, The Brooklyn-born author, who also wrote scores of short stories and plays, died Wednesday at a hospital in Davos, near Klosters in the Swiss Alps. He was admitted to hospital last ‘Thursday for treatment of the heart condition, said his son Adam. The younger Shaw said he and his mother Marian were with the writer when he died. : The Young Lions, which told the stories of two American soldiers and one German soldier on the battlefields of the Second World War, was Shaw's best-known work and was made into a successful mavie., Major television miniseries were made from other novels wrilten by Shaw, including Two Weeks in Another Town and Rich Man, Poor Man. “He wasn’t that well for the last couple of days," Adam Shaw said. The aulhor hadbeen staying at his residence in Klosters, a ski resort in eastern Switzerland. ’ Shaw had completed about half of anew novel when he became ill, said his son, A memorial service was planned in Kiosters, followed by another in June in Brooklyi. Brooklyn-born writer told of battlefield For the last three decardes, Shaw had divided his time bet- ween Paris and Klosters, which the author called a “gold mine for a novelist”’ beacuse of the wide variely of people living there. WORKED IN HOLLYWOOD Shaw wrote scores of short stories and several plays, in- cluding: the anti-war Bury the Dead in 1936, which moved from a small theatre to Broadway and launched him into screenwriting in Hollywood. . In such novels as Lucy Crown (1956) and Two Weeks in Another Town (1959), Shaw exposed the internal conflicts in the lives of his characters with easy but dramatic prose. Adam Shaw said his father’s last completed work, a novel called Acceptable Losses, was published about 18 months ago, His father had been writing since ‘then, the younger Shaw sald. Early plays by Irwin Shaw included Siege, Quiet City, Retreat to ‘Pleasure, Sons and Soldiers and The Assassins, all written before or during the Second World War. ‘ Before The Young Lions, most of his books were collections of : short stories, including Sailor Off the Bremen and Welcome lo the City. Nations, but “it’s too political now” in the midst of aboriginal Be rights disputes between native people and the federal govern- ment. Political is not what they want to be. In three years they hope lo be - economically y H attracting all types of advertisers they were becoming a vanishing and so remain apolitical, Keeshig- . Tobias said. New life for Paper Chase — These are not your ordinary series" . = . With the first tong weekend of the summer just ahead, area parks will be open for camping, and will be collecting fees for the first time Friday. This year fees are Up one dollar, to seven dollars a night at Furlong Bay and five dollars at Kleanza: Creek parks. 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