The Province from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada • 66

ill Paul Bunyans hone tools for Squamish test of skills Talent glut by the music man ii wm jj. i KvKu.m..yk.i..i0 -m-tern I guitar accompaniment only, Miss James has no trouble coming across. She still has to develop the volume and depth of voice which the jazz singer needs to compete with a band, but there seems little doubt that this will come, given time and patience. Like all developing artists. Miss James is in the process of forming a style which will set her apart from other singers, rather than stamping her as an imitator of more established artists.

Like Colman, Miss James has been singing professionally for only three years. But both will bear watching In the future. ences at the Cave, and a CBC TV series, which concluded last night, was extended twice to a total of eight weeks. Though not strictly a jazz singer, Colman phrases with a good deal of jazz feeling and his stage manner is easy and relaxed. His husky baritone, which has a Mel Tonne timbre about it, sjides around a melody surely and easily, indicating a good ear.

Colman obviously has the equipment and lacks only a vehicle to take him to the top. Karen James, an attractive 23-year-old Canadian actress turned singer, isn't as close to fame as Colman, but the potential and drive are there. At the moment Miss James suffers from something of a musical split personality since she is best known as a singer of folk songs, but states unequivocally that she wants to be a jazz singer. Her repertoire contains a good many blues numbers, one of the prime sources of jazz, and she projects these with a good deal of emotional impact As a single working with A TcuriJtjf MARCO POLO presents a famous 10 COURSES Luncheon $1.25 Dinner $1.75 PENDER COLUMBIA In VMCwvtf'i Fvmoufl Cfcinatown WE CAM nn wiTUvnii A traveller with eye-peeled and ear-cocked lor local sound and color shouldn't miss B.C. logger sports days.

The next chance to see the real thing will be Aug. 3 at Squamish, at the head ol Howe Sound, 40 miles from Vancouver by scenic Seaview highway. Loggers' sports are simon-pure B.C. white man's culture comparable to Indian canoe-racing, or farmer ploughing matches, and cow-country bronc-riding. Unlike peasant dances of Southern France that have evolved from bare-foot grape-stomping through 1,000 years, the loggers' sports are tribal rites linked directly with woodsmen's everyday skills and needs.

They're as natural for the logger as native war and hunt dances. In the sports, the B.C. logger acts out the assault upon the tree, whose death and dismemberment provides the loggers family with food, pays his Income taxes and buys a car. Look at some of the contests: tree climbing, tree falling (felling), log bucking (sawing into sawlogs), log burling (rolling in millpond), log chopping, axe throwing, eye splicing (of wire rope) and so on. Kr The feats of strength, endurance and skill, with saw, axe, peevee and pikepole are as close to the woodsman's day to day struggle for survival as the primitive tribesman's hunting and war making.

Highpoints of the Aug. 3 Squamish sports will be an exhibition of tree-topping, including one by an Alaskan daredevil called Danny Sailor who appears at most loggers' sports to thrill spectators with handstand or hornpipe on a freshly cut tree-top. Anthropologists will note the impact of powersaw on the traditional sporting events. This newest tool of the woods has put the handsaw on the shelf. But on sports day the two tools are used in a double set of events, one for gas power, one for muscle power.

In the old days the logger after dinner tucked a pinch of snoose under his lower lip and spent an hour touching up the shark teeth of his crosscut until they cut like razors. Nowadays it's all power driven chain saw cutting. Squamish loggers sports were first organized In 1958 although the valley was first logged by hand In the 1880s. By 1914 steam donkeys and railroads were In use, and today the job is done by modern log-loading machines and trucks. In Squamish early days rlverbank trees we-e felled by axes swung by men on springboards and toppled Into the Squamish and Cheekeye creeks and Living as we do in Vancouver on the periphery of the entertainment world, we are seldom aware of the glut of talent that exists in our midst.

We need to be reminded of our assets occasionally, and Ken Colman, a young singer from Vancouver who seems destined for great things in the future, did just that recently when I chatted with him between shows at the Cave, where he was appearing. "Vancouver," Colman stated flatly, "is loaded with jazz talent," and at that moment a good deal of it was on display in the augmented Chris Gage orchestra, which was providing background music to our conversation. Despite the fact that he has been singing professionally for only three years, Colman has already climbed several rungs on the ladder to stardom. After working as a disc jockey in B.C. and Bermuda, Colman wound up in New York where he was heard by Sarah Vaughan in 1961 whole singing in an after-hours club.

She was so impressed with his talents that she arranged a six-week booking for him at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas. Other engagements followed at clubs and on TV in the eastern U.S. Colman's return to Vancouver has been something of a triumph. He played to highly appreciative audi- World's best on display FREDER1CTON (CP) The Dunn International Exhibition of paintings by 100 of the world's most famous living artists will open at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery here Sept. 7.

At an evening ceremony, Lord and Lady Beaverbrook, who with the Sir James Dunn Foundation are sponsoring the $30,000 prize exhibition, will announce six winners of $5,000 awards. Categories for the awards will be announced later. Also presiding at this ceremony will be the three Judges of the exhibition: Andrew Ritchie, professor of art history and keeper of the art gallery at Yale University; Peter Wilson, chairman of Sotheby and Company of London, and Douglas Cooper, formerly Slade professor at Oxford. Artists selected Include Karel Appel Georges Braque, Alex Colville, Salvador Dall, Stuart Davis, Max Ernst, Sam Francis, Alberto Glacomettl, Oskar Kokoschka, Joan Miro, Robert Motherwell, Ben Nicholson, Sidney Nolan, Pablo Picasso, Jean-Paul Rlopelle, Vieira da Silva, Pierre Sou-lages, Graham Sutherland, Mark Tobey, Harold Town and Andrew Wyeth. Ow mm aw ON YOUR 'mm'.

mm? mam NAXAIMO'S SQUAMISH'S EMERALD Emerald Players, the Irish theatre group which has given so many evenings of laughter In past seasons, Is holding an open reading for their first play of the new season. The Country Boy" by John Murphy. Casting will be at the Metropole Hotel July 22 at 8 pjn. Production will be If There Is regular delivery of Province by carrier or mail to most B.C. holiday spots.

You won't miss single day of your favorite newspaper if you tell the circulation department where you're going, and when. Frank Radelja Mike Hah erson WELCOME staged at the York Sept 15-28. Brian Butcher is the director. Officers for the Emerald Players are Tony Pollock, president; Tom Byrne, vice-president; Brian Harrison, secretary; Margaret Ma-lough, membership; Terry Floyd, treasurer. THE PROVINCE, Vancouver 3, B.C.

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