BOOKS

Tet over 18 years ago Right
Rev. Hewlitt Johnson, Dean

of Canterbury, published one of

those rare books — each century

produces no more than a hand-

ful— which influence an entire
- generation.

The Socialist Sixth of the -

World, his brilliant popular ex-
position of Soviet society, tore a
great hole in the first iron cur-
tains of ignorance erected around
the Soviet Union. \
It has been translated into 24
“languages, in editions totalling
over six million copies, a circula-
tion unrivalled by any other book
published in England at the same

time.

Now the Dean has written an-
other fine book, Eastern Europe
in the Socialist World (obtain-
able here at the People’s Coop-
erative Bookstore, 337 West Pen-
der, price $2.37).

With this admirably simple
and readable account based on
many visits to Czechoslovakia,
Poland, Hungary, Rumania and
Bulgaria during the ten years
since their liberation, the Dean
completes a trilogy of his writ-
ings about Socialism — first the
Soviet Union, second People’s
China and now the Peoples’ De-
mocracies of Eastern Europe.

The book is packed with fig-
ures: and information — yet all
this takes on the glow of life
itself. What a master he is of
the simple statements of truth
that wither up all the clever and
evil nonsense that the capitalist

New concert series film shows
Soviet ballet at its finest

cee in the series of Soviet
concert films, which has in-
cluded outstanding. soloists and
scenes from opera and ballet, is
Stars of the Russian Ballet. Pro-
duced in Magicolor by the Lenin-
‘grad film studios, this film is de-
voted solely to ballet.

Excerpts from three ballets are
given. Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake
and the two most famous ballets
of Boris Asafiev, People’s Artist
of the USSR and Stalin Prize
Laureate, who died in 1949: The
Flames of Paris, a realistic depic-
tion of the French Revolution,
and The Fountain of Bakhchisa-
rai, based on Pushkin’s poem
telling of the legendary Khan
Girei. ‘

Galina Ulanova appear in two
of the roles. Although at the
top of her art for nearly three
decades, this supreme artist pos-
sesses {he same easy grace as
ever, enhanced, if anything, by
the experience and maturity of
years. Her almost. unbelievable
perfection of form and beautiful
rhythmical flow never falter for
a second.

Yet she is in worthy company.

Dudinskaya (as Odillia in Swan

Lake), Plisetskaya, the great
Vachtang Chabukiana, Sergeyev
and Gusev, give brilliant, moving
performances, supported by
scores of other soloists and the
huge corps de ballet.

Despite the peerless artistry
and extensive Soviet stage

Dean penetrates ‘curtain of lies’
told about Peoples Democracies

HEWLITT JOHNSON

papers print about the countries
where the people are in com-
mand!

With the quickest touch he re-
veals the human aspect of all
the great changes: in the spread-
ing of opportunities for a better,
more exciting and more varied
life in the host of measures ban-
ishing exploitation, in the dra-
matic political conflicts through
which the people seated them-
selves firmly in the seats of the
former mighty.

The process’ is captured in its
diversity and depth. The peo-
ple’s present is linked firmly
with their past. :

Most illuminating is the Dean’s

niques, however, the camera is
not bound to a spectator’s theatre
seat. The interaction of stage
and sereen techniques is always
challenging, as the camera roves
with the unlimited vision we ex-
pect of screen art.

For example, many scenes in

Swan Lake are staged out of

doors, with real swans cut into
the action. -The Wicked Magi-
cian meets his end from a (cine-
matically) real cliff, with the
storm he has conjured up beat-
ing about the struggling figures
and on the lake.

In The Flames Of Paris popu-
lar reinforcements stream into
Paris from all sides to defend
the Revolution against a plot be-
ing hatched in the Palace. The
lustily sung Marsellaise disperses
2 sedate ball at the Tuilleries
Palace, as the people storm it
and capture it — not without
losses. The ballet concludes with
a grand festival of the victorious
people.

The Fountain of Bakhchisarai

account of the trials in Budapest

and elsewhere where great

princes of the landowning church,

masquerading as defenders of

religious freedom, were exposed
* and punished.

And freedom? The Dean shows
extremely simply how the Social-
‘st case on ‘this fundamental
quest of mankind fulfils Chris-
tian teaching. ,

Champions of the freedoms we’
all want — freedom. of speech,
press and association — have too
often been people in comfortable

_ circumstances who forgot “that
the mass of men and women live
in constant dread of losing the
means to live or even to exist,”
he notes.

“A hungry man needs food.

A naked man needs clothes.

Man needs shelter. These are

basic needs. They come first. ...

“So, too, the founder of

Christianity . . . did not say:

did you have freedom of press,

speech or even religion for your

fellow man: no. He said did you
strive to satisfy hunger, clothe

Designs artificial artery

Here Prof. W. E. Schinn of North Carolina State College, Raleigh.
N.C., is shown working at a machine used for stitching neckties whic
he modified to produce orlon tubing as a substitute for the aorta,
main artery of the heart. Knitted to the right shape, the orlon tubing
has been used successfully to replace the aorta in dogs. Now it may
soon be used on human hearts. The orlon tubing, Schinn say%
is virtually indestructible.

nakedness, tend the sick? Did ninth
you make man’s basic meeds =
your care?” = _ Greetings to All for Full Labor Unity ia

And the Dean’s conclusion is:
“The Eastern world, the new
world of which I write, has
made basic need its primary
care. It builds on rock and its
edifices stand, and slowly but
surely the other needs of East-
ern citizens find fulfilment.
“This order of procedure is
akin to that of the great myth
and the Gospel precept. Grasp
that and you have the key to
’ many problems.”

STANLEY HARRISON

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presents Ulanova, Plisetskaya and
Gusev—all decorated artists—in
the principal roles, affording
them every scope for profound
characterization against a back-
ground of the fiery colors and
vivid atmosphere. of a Tartar
court in the legendary past.

The world’s greatest figures in
balletic art offer you peerless
art in Stars of The Russian Bal-
let. Warmly recommended!

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