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"1 Page 4 THE EVENING CITIZEN, OTTAWA, CANADA Tuesday, October 3, 1950 By Austin F. Cross '3y Discovery Of Canada' Open New Season Of Popular Glebe Concerts By Carl Weiselberger MklKQmmm. Neiv Bridge Is Needed To Help Fort Frances This is the sixth, of a series of articles entitled "My Dis 1 .1 .1 The popular Olebe Concerts, sponsored by the Collegiate Institute Eoard of Ottawa and its Advisory Vocational Committee, opened this season's series with; a very successful, well-balanced concert and organ recital last evening. Such fine local artists as Joan Brown, Ann Chambers, Laure Fink, Joseph Du Gay and Myron McTavlsh, the Glebe Concerts' Store Closes 1 p.m. Shop First at Ogilvy's for Specials! 9 a.m.

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After that, you swim under the stars in hot water and pitch through lonely passes and teeming fruit trees in B.C. Finally, you will sight the Pacific Ocean and take a quick look at Vancouver. The masterpiece, a work so charact Cups, Saucers return trip is via V.S.A. Then FORT FRANCES To get to Sunday School Attendance Has Doubled EncouragJng reports of larger Sunday Schools, increased attendance at the Sunday services, and widening interest generally were presented at the September meeting of the Chinese Mission and Christian Association of Ottawa. The need to help incoming younger Chinese recently arrived in the city to learn English was pointed out.

Paul Mcintosh, general superintendent of the Sunday School, advised that the school had doubled in numbers. Improvements were made to the Mission building during the summer, and R. H. Crain, treasurer, reported that through the support of interested people the expanding work could be maintained. Miss Ruth Yan, teacher-evangelist, expressed appreciation of the support given, and stated that the day school had increased in attendance, with the Sunday afternoon services ranging from 30 to 40.

It was announced that Rev. Dr. Wm. D. Noyes, Toronto, for years missionary at large to the Chinese in Canada for the United Church, would conduct a service in Chinese on Sunday, Oct 15, which would include the Sacrament of Baptism and of the Lord's Supper.

J. R. MacGregor was double back from Kenora, and travel almost 150 miles over good roads and bad, I did not believe that the scenery could be any more beautiful than It was around Kenora, but it got progressively more 6 Lovely Patterns! Seems unbelievable that we're able to offer these beautiful BONE CHINA cups and saucers at- 75c! Fine glaze, graceful shapes, pretty colors in floral designs. Hurry In! lso only Barrymore Axminster Mats Adding a couple of new scatter mats to your home? Alert homemakers will act now and 27 54 save welcome dollars on their budget! Allover jjegUiariy designs on blue, with rich wine border. Floor Coverings, Fourth Floor Save $1 on each yard of this All Wool Faille 54 Inches Wide organist, attracted a well-sized and gratefully applauding audi ence (applauding even each movement of the organ concerto which is a slight offence aeainst traditional concert rules.) Joseph Du Guay, Ottawa Music Festical prize-winner, opened the evening with two somewhat formal Italian baroque arias.

The young tenor has not a very but a thoroughly pleasing voice, with a warm, velvety timbre. Excellently accompanied by Lilian Forsyth, he sang the well-known aria, Ombra mal fu, from Handel's opera Xerxes with a great deal of expression and in an almost solemnly sustained tempo. It was a fine Idea to give also, the seldom sung recitative which prepares the mood for the aria. Mr. Du Guay seemed even more at home in an aria by the French composer Gretry.

Richard, mon roi! is an effective, somewhat cliche-like piece, but Mr. Du Guay warmed up to its chlvalresque and lively rhythm. The second group of his songs Included two airs from the British Isles, arranged by Healey Willan, and particularly the second song, Phyllis Is My Only Joy, sounded like an utterly sin cere, joyous statement. 'iwo French-Canadian folk songs, skilfully adapted by Arthur Somervell, were vividly Inter preted, and especially the song, Margoton va-t-a 1 eau, was lull of bright, playful charm. Joan Brown's fine pianistic talent appeared at a new peak last evening.

Her rendition of Brahms Intermezzo, Opus 118, No. 6, a work full of technical and emotional traps for a young musician, was an unusually fine achievement! The touch of her right hand has now the sensitiveness of a cultured pianist, and the architecture of this very Intricate late work of Brahms which so often becomes blurred and muddled under the hands of older pianists than Miss Brown retained classical trans parency in her interpretation. Joan Brown was equally successful as soloist In Cesar Franck's Symphonic Variations. Her accompanist at the second piano was Ann Chambers. We remember having heard this work played by the same two pianists during the Ottawa Music Festival but with Ann Chambers as soloist and Joan Brown as the Last night their roles were reversed a charming example spirit of sportsmanship-shown by these two young pianists! And their new achievement would have been again to the heart's desire of any festival adjudicator! Miss Brown played the variations with a warm, singing legato and a crisp, sparkling staccato.

And Ann Chambers replaced the brilliant orchestral palette with her musiclanly piano accompaniment. This was a thoroughly enjoyable interpretation of Franck's Fashionables-on-a-budget take note! This offer is especially for you! Come find your most flattering shade included In this shipment of all wool faille. You'll approve Its lovely texture its very special price. Colors: New Wine, Black, Navy, Moss Green, Admiral Blue, Chocolate Brown, eristic of both sides in Cesar Franck: the devout, slightly mystical organist of St. Clothilde and the elegant, sparkling Frenchman contemporary of the Impressionists (perhaps without his knowledge!) Organ Numbers Last night's organ numbers presented by Myron McTavish included a lighter Bach work his Fueue a la Glgue.

Bach must have been in a very happy mood when he combined this gay, little baroque dance with his highly-learned polyphonic style Mr. McTavish developed the little dance fugue with solid authority. The main work on his pro gram was a welcome repetition of a modern work, Flor Peeters' Concerto In minor, opus 52. The Canadian premiere of this interesting organ concerto took place in Glebe auditorium in spring, shortly after its North American premiere in Cincinnati. Already on first hearing, this concerto, written in a moderately modern idiom, impressed us as strong, expressive music.

Played by Mr. McTavish on the organ, with Laure Fink as splendid piano accompanist, we enjoyed this concerto of the contemporary Flemish composer. The majestic Introduction, the first Allegro with Its beautifully reflective, poetic middle theme, was followed by a melodious Largo. At the beginning reminiscent of Cesar Franck's pensive mysticism, this pianissimo movement assumed quickly a melos and mood of its own, and a fine spun, dream-like qual- -ity. The Cadenza was vigorously handled, and the final Allegro rose to a firm and brilliant climax.

The season's opening Glebe Concert was comparatively well-attended. Yet there were still a number of seats available! Let us be frank: Considering the fact that the Glebe Concerts are open to the public without admission fee featuring some of the world's finest music played by our best young local talents, the auditorium should be quickly filled up long before the beginning! Czechs Evicting Catholic Nuns By The Associated Press VATICAN CITY The Vati can radio said yesterday Roman Catholic nuns are being forced from convents and other religious properties In Czechoslo vakia and that the buildings are being taken over by the Communists. Nine convents In Southern Bohemia have been seized since early August, and the nuns have been transported to the vicinity of Opava, on the Moravlan-Sllesian border, the broadcast said. Copen Blue. Repeat Offer! Pinwalc Corduroy Overalls Brown, Dark Green, Maroon, Royal Blue City Giving' $771,000 A debenture by-law to pro vide funds in the amount of $771,000 for the Ottawa Trans-Dortation Commission passed through City Council unanimous ly last night.

The money will "enable the commission to eive the neces sary service, either by purchasing new equipment andor purchasing existing private com panies to serve the enlarged area of the city." While this new debenture issue will add to the debentures outstanding, it was pointed out that the OTC will be paying the city of Ottawa on December 31. 1950, the sum of to retire outstanding debentures. Austrian Minister Goina To VIENNA. Austria Foreign Minister Dr. Karl Gruber will leave Vienna next Wednesday for a three-week visit to the United States, the Foreign Office said yesterday.

Dr. Gruber will discuss matters of mutual interest with the State Department in Washington. National, half forgotten by the Liberal government, somebody ought to take our cabinet by the scruff of the neck and take them down to the Fort Frances-Rainy River sector, and tell them to do something for this neglected part of Canada. Don't we want these people? On to the Red River Valley next. To be continued tomorrow .98 A.

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Priced for quick clearance Wednesday morning white and colours. All perfect quality! Sizes 8'a to 10 '2. attractive, if that could be. The mixed sunshine, of the swift mirrory surfaces of the lake it- self, seemed to pile scenery upon scenery, until at last I was half surfeited with loveliness. I recall only, after that, the eye -smiting appeal of oddly named One Sided Lake.

Then the scenery broke. Hinterland Suddenly I had come into harsh back woods, where open fields looked half neglected, and where woods were scrubby. It was the hinterland of a potentially valuable farming section that stretches in a rough triangle. The southeast corner is at Fort Frances, the southwest corner, at Rainy River, and the apex on the Lake of the Woods Road. I was surprised here, as I was earlier around Dryden, at the poor buildings, the indifference of the owner to the looks of the place.

I now realize that anybody who lives by wood doesn't care how his place looks. Those who live by cattle and field crops do. Thus, wood and coal are dingy economies, and, seem to suggest poor houses, while cows and oil, to pick two contrasting commodities, offer affluence, good homes- The bad roads of the backwoods soon gave place to billiard table smoothness, and I rolled into Fort Frances, a mile a minute. I quickly crossed into Minnesota at International Falls. It is a woebegone place, ragged and poor compared to Fort Frances.

After I had had a short ride on the Minnesota, and Western, my 148th railway, I asked a roundhouse employe where the best place to eat in International Falls was. He said the best place was Fort Frances, In Canada. Food Dearer The table d'hote at the Rainy Lake Hotel was delightful, although, strangely enough, food was dearer here than in most U.S. hotels where I ate. But the hotel was clean, bustling, enterprising, and the meal a delight.

The mayor was too busy to see me, but I managed to find out what was the matter with Fort Frances. Hon. Lionel Chev-rier. Donald Gordon and Hon. George Doucett, Ontario Highways minister, all have the answer to Fort Frances' dilemma.

First of all, the bridge across the river to the States Is too narrow, too old. It is an antique, built for rail traffic, and jammed often by tourists. They line up for miles, they tell me. rn holidays. Yet the only other alternative l.s worse, the scow ferry thRt costs $2.10 at Ran.y River.

So obviously a new bridge Is needed to bring In the toiiri.st The Seal thtt Speaks for Itself Consutt your Eye physician Oculist then bring his preserip-don to us and be assured of glasses of Quality Accuracy and Suitability 0. L. DEROUIN Pretcrtptton Optician 37 fDtW Thone 2-4976 OUT-OF-TOWN MAILING SERVICE If T1 lit I no ff s-f fof iMtf U.Ut ft itxvi tmif la mail si sfi (w'hl miwrnrt "tlf CMf pttf n4 mm. rv7 IMS' XT" -LI Melra.fr fip the home stretch via Sarnla. Fort Frances by road, you have to combination of trees and mist- waters of Sioux Rapids with the dollars, and to bring Fort Franc es up to date with the times.

The next thing wrong with the Fort is that it has no real outlet, and conversely, it Is a market to which few can come. They desperately need a new road to Atikokan, capital of the new iron country- You will recall that this place was much publicized during the railway strike, and the strikers, agreed to send a mercy train in to this cut-off community. Atikokan badly needs a road to the outside world. I am told that already some logging roads exist, and the cost of construction would not be excessive. If that road were built, some of the miners' money would pour into Fort Frances, give it new incentive.

Needs Better Railway The next thing it needs is better railway service, and for this, Donald Gordon and Lionel Chev-rier ought to hang their collective heads in shame. Way back in 1929, the main line of the old Canadian Northern was linked up with the old National Transcontinental, and main line trains were re-routed this way. The seemingly blind men at 360 Mc- Gill Street, Montreal, have ever since failed to recognize that Geraldton, Port Arthur, Fort William, the new steel country, Fort Frances, and Rainy River, are served by a local that makes all the stops. Fort Frances has one train each way a day, at such delightful convenient hours as 2 a.m. westbound and 2.25 am.

eastbound. Meanwhile our crack transcontinental trains don't pick up a dime from Nak- ina west to Winnipeg. So this area could stand one decent train each way each day at a reasonable hour. Rainy River Is a dead end, and most depressing. The trou ble there is that the only way to get out is to take an old scow, powered by a motor boat, that runs to Beaudette, Minne sota.

Meanwhile, a heedless, thoughtless Canadian National lets a railway bridge stand idle much of the day. Just as the New York Central planked their little-used railway bridge at Cornwall to U.SA. for motor traffic, so could an Imaginative Canadian National do the same thing between Rainy River and Beaudette. It would bring Can ada millions, provide new reve nue for the Canadian National Railways. Half forgotten by Ontario, half forgotten by the Canadian jrttf itn 8, MSHCI toM.

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