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THE PROVINCE, Tuesday, April 18, 1972 27 INIIMIIHIIHIHIHIHII IIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIMII IIIIIIHIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIMIIIMIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIItlllllllltUtllHtlltlltlltttlltll 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 11 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 II 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 MlinillllMUMIIIMMtMIMtllMII Michael Walsh Film on Bethune planned epic the timeliness of his subject, but prefers to emphasize Be-thune's humanity rather than his politics. "Bethune himself said that he was a humanitarian more than a politician," Preminger said. "The idea was to help the poor people to help the tup-pressed more than any political consideration. What he did was help the soldiers. He set up blood banks on wheels.

He did things which they never had before and helped them." efforts. It was the Japanese- Chinese war." Preminger said that he got the idea for doing a Bethune film after teeing the National Film Board's documentary on the doctor. Production is scheduled to follow two more immediate projoctt a reconstruction of the atomic spy trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, scripted by lawyer Louis Niier, and Genesis, 1948, hased on Len Kurtzman'f history of the first Arab-Israeli war. is going to give me cooperation so that I hope that I will do this. This is certainly a very big film." Ontario-bora Bethune practised medicine in Montreal during the great Depression.

A tuberculosis victim himself, he became a pioneering surgeon and designed both instruments and techniques that are still used today. During the Spanish Civil War, he served with the Loyalists and set up the world's first battlefield transfusion clinic. He ended his days in the Chinese mountains ministering to the embattled forces of Mao Tse-tung. Preminger is well aware of The ttory of Dr. Norman Bethune, the Canadian sur-geon who revered at a national hero in modern China, it a project now In the planning atagei by film-maker Otto Preminger.

In an interview Monday, Preminger laid that the Be thune epic is one of three films that loom large in his future plans. "I think it's a fascinating life," Preminger said, "and I am waiting for permission to go to China to discuss with them if I could shoot the Chinese part in China. I've asked for permission and talked also to various people in Canada. "The Canadian government ernment," Preminger said. He hat already been in touch with China's cultural attache in Ottawa and her ambasia-dor to the United Nations.

"I hope to hear from them very soon," he said. Preminger's latest film. Such Good Friends, is scheduled to open here in Vancouver early next month. In the meantime, one of his most famous films has been sold to television for two showings. The Moon is Blue, the 1954 film that put the lint cracks in the Hollywood film code, has been picked up by CBS.

Unlike The Damned, it will be shown intact. "No cuts, no changes," said Preminger. Asked whether his film would be sympathetic to the Chinese revolution, Preminger said: "Naturally it will be sympathetic to (Bethune) and The Bethune film may move up one place in the schedule. "It will very much depend on whether I can get the cooperation of the Chinese gov 4ahJ therefore sympathetic to their DR. NORMAN BETHUNE OTTO rREMINGER JiiiiiiiiMiiiiiii MiiiititiiiiiiiiiiiniiinimnitiinimiiiiminiMitimgnntiiiitiiminnntiif i miiiiiiiiiimi iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiini iiimiii minimum i imiiiiiiiiiiHiimim miimmiimimini I 3 mmmmmmTri Clive BAKNES UMHiiimiimmiiiHiHHiiiiiiiiiiMiniiiiiiiiiMiiniHmmiiiMMiim New Hollywood sings McGovern tunel rally, and the political hoopla was kept to a minimum.

The only time McGovem's name was mentioned was when he appeared briefly on stage at the very end. The emphasis on music seemed to irritate tome McGovern ttaff members, ho could not resist the urge to proselytize 16.000 people. As one put it: "We've been trying to point out to them that George McGovern is not likely to sing his way into the While House. There is a definite political component here." But singers might help him. The real significance of the concert was not the endorsement of so many big names Sen.

Edmund S. Muskie has learned the limits of that tactic but the willingness of a new generation of man served as ushers in the Jiooa-seat section. The concert was the brain child of Warren Beatty, the actor, who ha campaigned for McGovern in more than a dozen states. "Essentially, this is a way of countering the money raised by big individual contributors on the old tide of the party," said Beatty, who wore a dungaree jacket for the festivities. "What we're really talking about is money." Sunday night's affair raised about one-tl)ird of what it a minimum budget for the California primary on June 6.

Beatty taid he hat 30 more start lined up for a series of concerts across the country, and the total take could reach several million dollars. The artists themselves stressed that the evening was a concert, not a By STEVES V. ROBERTS New York Timet 1 INGLEWOOD. Calif. The New Music and the New Hollywood went to work for the New Politics on the weekend, and raised more than 000 for the campaign coffers of presidential candidate Sen.

George McGovern. Carole King and James Taylor, two of the biggest names in the folk-rock field, joined Barbra Streisand and Quincy Jones for a fund-raising concert that became one of the social, musical and political events of the season. The 16,000 seats at the Ingle-wood Forum sold out in 18 hours. As an added excitement, several dozen movie stars, including Oscar-winner Gene Hackman, Jack Nicholson, Julie Christie and Salley Keller- stars to raise vitally needed cash. By CLIVE BARNES New York Timet NEW YORK There is a terrible time in store for anyone who ventures to see a play called The Soft Core Pornog-rapher, which ventured to open last week if good taste did not offer the world a last minute reprieve, for I saw it at iu final preview at Stage 73.

It is the kind of evening where they should dress the ushers in leather, provide them with whips, and then everyone would know what they were getting. The Soft Core Pornographer is by Martin Stone and John Heller. It concerns a man and woman who park their trailer in New Jersey within sight of the bright lights of Manhattan. The husband, Arthur, is a writer of soft-core pornography (which is dirty action without dirty words) and the wife, Grace, is an idealist. Her ideal is that her husband can be made into a straight writer, and indeed can write a history of her clearly boring family.

Next to their trailer there lives, it happens, an advertising executive of unbelievable and 1 mean incredible manipulative powers. He is convinced that regardless of Arthur's talents which are obviously more minimal than can be easily minimized he can make him a best-selling, celebrity writer. It is probably no accident that Heller and Stone were once in advertising, and it is a pity that they ever left. Their advertising executive, Trenton Corbett, is nonplussed when he finds that the author's pornography has been made the subject of a cover of Time Magazine. Frankly, so was I.

However the wife agrees to impersonate the suddenly shy pornographer and becomes a media heroine. The remainder of the story, for what it is, is too uninteresting to bore you with. The authors had some kind of an idea of presenting a satire about the media inflating mediocrity to visibility and beyond. However, they do not possess the' writing talent that might have allowed them to have exploited their initial idea. The acting was modest, the direction, by Word Baker, seemed more hopeful than defiant, but a bit of both, the set-, ting was cheap and grisly, and the play was simply awful.

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But when a small girl stands there, simply and mater-of-factly, and says, "I can't help who my parents and she says it in the context of an unavoidable reality (these are people standing on the stage, not TV images, not still protographs) it hurts enough to stay hurting. It is difficult not to he aggressive and almost vicious when the subject matter is the direct result of viciousness and cruelty and bigotry. Marjorie Morris' testimonial has the same character as Windigo, (he B.C. Indian play which was By JAMES BARBER Two Weeks of Free, at the Vancouver Public Library. About a hundred and fifty people Monday night, for the first theatre-arts presentation, A Testimonial to Suffering.

Very heavy, very worthwhile, the sort of theatre that makes no pretense of gentiness, no subtle inferences and no allegories it just comes right out on stage, grabs you by the neck and says Marjorie Morris wrote it for the Warsaw Ghetto Memorial Evening, in remembrance' of, and in tribute to the six million Jews who were slaughtered in the Second World War. There is no avoiding what it is about. It is a direct, stand up and say it evening which with words, and some haunting, melancholy songs, is long enough in three-quarters of an hour to wipe very clean your rose such an eloquent success last year at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Both of these works are outside the traditional theatre in ttyle. They have no place on a stage, with lighting and a ticket buying public.

But where else, apart from synagogues, churches, and community centres can these groups say what they have to The fact of full houses at both the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Library for non-conventional theatre perfciman-ces indicates a need for this type of facility. A Testimonial to Suffering plays again this evening, at 8:00 at tne Library. On Wednesday and Friday at 12:15 p.m., Manfrog will present Songs of the City, a piece which was extremely well received at S.F.U. if- 'I i UNIMPRESSED BY 'MOTHERHOOD' Museum guard at Duis-burg, West Germany, catches up on his reading among a sculpture exhibit at Wilhclm-Lehmbrurk Museum. Eva I and Motherhood, background, are the works of Polish sculptures Xawery Dunikowski.

duMaurier concert VSO at Fiedler's command Today's highlights Specials highlight tonight's 0B ftfeteB Tuesday tirJ 2 4. 5 6 7 0 12 viewing, starting with Jacques Cousteau's Octopus, Octopus, a documentary that sets the record straight on this misunderstood species. At 7:30 on Chan. 4. dances were despatched with a mixture of happy grace and ebullient confidence, and the slower movements unfolded with kind of perfectly vocalized phrasing.

Second work on the program, Raeh-maninov's Rhapsody on a them of Paganini, climaxed a long period of waiting to hear young Vancouver pianist Andrea Kalanj, who has been absent from the local musical scene for several, years, studying in Kiev, Brussels and' London. While I would have preferred to have heard her in a meatier work, I have By LAWRENCE CLUDERAY Monday night in the Queen Elizabeth Theatre famed conductor of the Boston Pops concerts Arthur Fiedler opened the first of another trio of duMaurier -Pop concerts with Hamilton Harty's arrangement of movements from Handel's Water Music. Apart from the monotony of keys this is a splendid suite and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, responding well to Fiedler's alert direction, played it beautifully. The opening Allegro had just the right touch of pomp and circumstance, the A news special at the same time on Chans. 7 and 12 looks at what goes on in schools and debates traditional versus open classroom educa tion.

Another news special, at :30 on Chan. 5, reconstructs to admit that Raehmaninov's Paganini Rhapsody is an engaging sort of piece for any concert, but only if the soloist's work has the right sardonic flicker and the spirit of Paganini is ever-present, diabolical and fantastic. Alas, diablerie was in short supply Monday night and, as the two dozen variations unfolded, I found myself wishing that Miss Kalanj would let any devil she had in her spill out more into her playing. Do not misunderstand me, her playing was always clear, light-fingered and marvellously poetic where that quality was called for, but it lacked ice-hard glitter and power, so that she was sometimes overwhelmed by the first orchestral swell Fiedler kept to a discreet minimum. In general the accompaniment was alert, if not exactly sparkling, and there were many instances of distinguished solo playing by the orchestra musicians.

An excellent performance of Weber's masterly Der Freischutz overture ed the second half of the program which then continued with a medley of Burt the murder of six persons during Christmas week in 1966. Program includes inter Dutch turn down chess plan views with the convicted kill ers. KCTS (Chan. 7:30 a.m., Washington-Alaska Regional Medical; 9, Sounds Around; 9:15, Is for Music; 9:30, de Habla Mas Espanol; 9:45, People at ICF only one solution remained: disqualification of Fischer. The board of the Dutch union considers Fischer's attitude reprehensible, Kapsenberg said, adding: "Following these Fischer manoeuvres all the trumps are now in the hands of the Russians.

Fischer would now have to beg the Russian Chess Union on his knees for a new deal. One cannot possibly expect Spassky to accept another agreement without cast-iron Work; 10, The Electric Com THE HAGUE, The Netherlands (NYT) The board of the National Dutch Chess Union has decided to give up all efforts to organize a world championship chess match between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky: Gerard Kapsenberg, secretary-general of the Dutch union, said this after receiving information from the International Chess Federation that Fischer has refused to play either in Belgrade or Reykjavik. Kapsenberg said that for the pany; 10:30, Listen and Say; 10:45, Music Time; 11, Music "I 00 School 'Movie: I'Sale of School Family I'Voga ''Family 1(115 Telecast "Man Century Telecast Affair Yoga Affair 1 1130 F. Giant From Hollywood F. Giant Love All About 'Love -LY'g C.

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Is for Music; 1:30, Music Time; 1:45, Se Habla Mas Espanol; 2, Worlds in Balance; 2:15, Images and Things; 2:35, Cover to Cover; 3, Multi- Media; 4, Sesame Street. 5 p.m., The Electric Com pany; 5:30, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood; 6, Speak Out; 6:30, Zoom; 7, Prism; 7:30, University Conversation; 8, The French Chef; 8:30, The Advocates; 9:30, Black Jour Zuk wins state chess tourney ELLENSBURG, Wash. (AP) Robert Zuk of Surrey, a former B.C. champion, took first place in the Washington Chess Federation's tournament of county champions over the weekend in Ellens-burg. Zuk collected $100 for his five victories and no losses in the wrap-up of a series which featured tournaments in 34 of the state's 39 counties.

Borek Groschl, Mike Murray, and Mike Franett, all of Seattle, took second, third and fourth places respectively. Opens Wednesday, April 19 SHECKY GREENE CAROL LAWRENCE nal; 10 Perspectives on Pov-erty; 10:30, Washington- I isr.ijl Alaska Regional Medical' Program. CABLE 19 7 p.m., A Show of Hands; 7:30. Guten Tag; 8, Art in 5 Coming May 3 DIONNE WARWICK NORM CROSBY Meteorology; 9, Income Tax; The United Way; 10, Plan Van..