The Province from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada • 1

THE I'ROVINTE, Wcthicwlay, March 8, 1972 No, Archie, the nation's No. 1 dingbat will not stifle it W5 At 9 W. 9 4 1 VfcTV -J 1 V- tr Jf. 'fi vri' i ft VI 41 Vf Bv JEWRY Bl'CK Associated Press HOLLYWOOD Ktiilh Blinker, the No. 1 dingbat and browbeaten wife.

Jean Staplelm, lihuruled woman. That unlikely pair meets ami merge eviry week im Ail in the Family. Edith is hliml tu the world outside her living nHini, where she is an accessible target lur Archie's male ego and chauvinism. lint Miss Stupleion. outside of her rule as Edith, will nut be stifled.

"I go ahmg with women's liberation," she said. "I could never live that limited an existence, People should have a lot mine resources than that. "I think Archie's behavior and bigotry are terrible, hut it needs to be brought nut. Perhaps some family guilty of this behavior will see il and realize what's happening. "I've heard criticism that children go out and repeat the ethnic slurs they hear on the show.

I've seen no indication of that in my own children. They just laugh at Archie. "I think when children repeat slurs it's because they heard parents or teachers use them." Miss Slapleton'g children are fain, 12 and John, 11. Edith, by means of the top-ruled TV 7 The theatre is an integral part of Miss Ktapleion's life, bhe has a long background in slock ami on Broadway, where she appeared in such productions us Juno, Funny Girl and Come Back, Utile Slicba. It was through the theatre that she met and was courted by her husband, William II.

(Bill) futch. I'ukh it rhymes with Dutch Is producer-director irf the Tolum Pole Playhouse near Chambersburg, where the fulches and their two children will return in mid-March. Miss biapleluu will appear in three plays this summer, Slic says: "I'm a liberated woman because 1 have a liberated husband. 1 herein lies the key tu women's liberation, feople like Archie have to put (limn the blinders and look at their wives as human beings and not as pieces ul property." futch said: "I don't think cither of us knows how our professional ground rules lor living together and working together came about. 1 never read any of her scripts.

I'm just Iberc. it works in reverse in the summer. She just becomes anullier member uf the company." lie said he is professional enough to view her role as Archie's wife with some detachment. "Jean and I have done an awful lot of plays together," he said. "Even as a young actress starling out, she played character rules.

A ltll TKIiENT YH-W Kilitli ami Ar. liie. I IIOM 01 IIKHK Jean and Kill. conu'dy, has turned Miss Staplulon into a celebrity ami an Emmy-winning nc-tress. It is douhUul that til I 111 would comprehend this or that she could understand a lifestyle where the static is preferred in the kill hen.

Nevertheless, Miss Slapletnn feels she cuuld he friends with Edith, if there were sin a person. In fact, she emitess-es, sins knows many people with traces of Edith. "There arc a lot uf diuyhats in this world. "I approve of some aspects ul her, hut others I don't. 'Ilie negative aspwis for Instance, the way she shuts nut the umiil.

it, apathetic about su many things, including Kumen's lib. "She has lovable aspects, loo. She lives on a shallow level, but the has such ilrplb uf character anil honesty, Edith punctures thai iiaflatul ego uf An lnii's with her natural uil ami reddish-brown hair, and was fashionably attired in a burgundy jacket, a salt-aud-pepper tweed maxiskirt, and a white turtlcncck blouse during an interview. Miss Stapletun, who got the role, after throe auditions, said: "Edith has a natural gift of mtuilion It's not guile. She's guileless.

That's: one of the things 1 love about Edith; Sometimes I have a line that can be done two ways. You can do it as a wisecrack or do it innocently. I never do it as a wisecrack. Her wisdom is natural" "I saw elements of Edith even then that I've never seen in Jean at home. She will stand, for instance, with her knees six inches apart.

The cerebral part probably didn't come easy, but the physical pail did." Actually, there is little resemblance between Miss Staplclon and the weary, dowdy Edith Bunker, whose dresses are bought by a network customer at a thrift shop. Past the sunny side of 40, she is attractive, blue-eyed, has 2 drama Noon hour possible a mission: Liberated ladies rap wrong roles 4 I. V. jail mtmrmsmmmsm 1 it's liOWl.AMfS By 01 IMA WAKIl "Project 511 WHi: Lunch Hour Theatre aim to commence permanent, popular theatrical enleriaiumeiit at reasonable prices in an accessible location for employees and shoppers in the downtown area at lunch hour A Mission: Impossible preamble? No, a federal government memo announcing a grant of to a new Vancouver theatre under the local inilialivus program Failing to self dcslrm wihin five seconds, the bulletin lurtiicr disclosed the di.ector to he George I'lawski. Your mission, Ueorge.

should you decide lo accept it On further checking, the mission was tound accepted, adopted, and ready to roll up the curtain next Monday at 12:30 p.m. "We're not planning an extravaganza" said artistic director George Flawski of Ibe newly formed City Stage company. "We're producing relatively light entertainment that will give downtown office workers a lunch time break from the dreary grind." flawski, a 37-year nhl pilot, translator and director, saw in a donut diner the answer In Ibe city's noon hour entertainment problem. In January he began to negotiate with the federal government In obtain the former cafe at the corner of Howe and Uunsniuir fur a hinchtime theatre. Despite Ibe grant, which came through three weeks ago, flawski invested his own money in the new theatre.

"The opportunity was too good to puss up. In time 1 may recoup the money but the main thing is to do as well as we can with what's available." At present the City Stage company consists of flawski, codirecuir Ray Ml- easier to lie bud. Striptease, a play by Mrozck (a prominent Polish playwright whose works Plawski has translated). Last spring, afler New Directions disbanded, Plawski headed for London, to direct his first lunch hour theatre performances in a city pub. Their success was an inspiration for the City Stage theatre.

"Instant theatre has worked before. It's proved thai people want something more interesting ul lunch break lnfn a walk through crowded streets." In Vancouver the success of llje Vancouver Art Gallery noon hour program has confirmed it. "But there is a difference betwetm plays put on in a hare room, and real theatre. You don't have to have an elaborate setting In produce theatre, but there must be a certain atmosphere that gives magic to the performance." The rnagic, he feels, will be especially important in attracting the lunchliine office crowed. "Many of them have probably never been inside a theatre.

Maybe this small introduction will make them want to come back." For that reason, the 40-mimilc City Stage productions will be along the lines of comedy, satire and farce. Enchanted Night by Mrozck will open the season fiionduy at 12:15 p.m. Until May 31 the theatre will offer six one-act plays, each running for two weeks. Rights for some of Ibe plays are slill pending, said Plawski, but he hopes to present an adaptation of Orion's comic Good and Faithful Servant; Aladly in Love, a contemporary tarce; and the slightly more experimental Transcending. "There are a lot of things we'd like to do, and perhaps will do eventually," said Plawski.

"In the meantime we're giving the city something it badly needs an element of surprise and magic. And when you think about it, "the alternative is almost zero." HOLLYWOOD A vague discontent has broken into open and harsh criticism about the way women are portrayed in the movies, usually produced, directed and written by men. Critics say films stereotype women as empty-headed bed Imnnies at best. Actresses complain they can't find work or if they do they are cast as prostitutes. "Ti view films made in the last 10 years," says a woman screenwriter, "is to view a world where women make up one per cent of the population, don't work professionally and are either whores or harpy wives Recent U.S.

Academy Award nominations brought the point home, liesl-actress contenders portrayed a neurotic prostitute, a dope-smoking madam, two long-dead queens and a divorcee who shares her bisexual lover wilb a man. Why the deficit of grande dames in movies? "It is very difficult to film virtue," says actress Uena Howlands. "It's much easier to play a bad woman." Also, she notes, not many scripts these days are written by women. "Men are making movies for themselves, not for audiences," says actor-turned-director Jackie Cooper. "I guess it's one of the last desperate efforts to keep women back in the kitchen." Writer Eleanor Perry, whose Diary of a Mad Housewife zeroed in on the misery of today's woman locked in yesterday's role, says she still has to fight to show women as they are.

"Hollywood believes that a woman cannot be a sympathetic character if she swears," complains Miss ferry who had to chop four-letter words out of her latebf script. "In life those particular instant thcutie bus worked bcluit. women in those particular situations would have used those words." T'be dearth of roles for actresses shows in employment figures. A trade paper recently reported that in movies currently shooting, actors outnumbered actresses 144 to 66 in feature roles, and in 2f new TV fall shows men outuumliered women 283 to 81. But hints of change can he found.

Miss Howlands, actress wile of actor-director John C'asavetcs, sees her role in their Minnie and Moscowjtz as the birth of a 1970s female film type. The heroine, Minnie, is intelligent, liberated and self-supporting but also unhappy, emotionally wounded and vulnerable. She's the end product of Women's Lib, says Miss Huwlauds. "We're going to see mure Minnies as Women's Lib gains," says the actress. chat (ex-director of Playhouse Holiday children's theatre), publicist Martin Keelcy, and technical director Henry Jaeger.

The theatre itself was designed by Gil-gert Ciinqiiille, former student nf Salvador Dali and designer for the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. Seating is limited only 85 people can watch each performance with the blessing uf city inspectors but there will he two sessions each lunch hour. For both and 1:30 p.m. performances, sandwich lunches will be sold, and visitors are invited lo bring their own. The dramatic fare, says Plawski will be equally liit and digestible.

"No baby fund but. no tortured dramas either. Yon could call them bread and butter plays, no pun inferred." sihle at night theatre lovers come out." Plawski himself is a dedicated theatre lover. Born in Poland (from which he escaped after the Soviet occupation, in the best TV-thriller style), he and his family emigrated to Canada. The Plawskis settled at Duncan on Vancouver Island, and George later attended Victoria College.

Afler "wasting several years in ROTP naval training," he became a commercial pilot, meanwhile taking part in amateur theatre productions. In 19K4 he went lo VBC to take a theatre arts program. flew fire bombers every summer for support After graduation two years ago he wasted no time in gelling a group together for drama festival presentations. The group, New Directions, won the first competition they entered, with Today's highlights QS QfefflkG) Wednesday Until May 31, when the grant expires. City Stage will he staffed with professional actors.

An admission charge of is the fee for each performance. "After May we don't know what will happen," said Plawski. "But even if we gu amateur, I think the company will continue." His great hope at the moment is to do evening drama, in which "experimental plays, works by local playwrights and more artsy stuff can be done, Our daytime audience must be as varied as pus- Glenn Toppings, arlisl, cancel' victim at 41 Musical sounds, some 5 6 7 8 12 strange, some superb, high light this evening's TV listen ing. Cathy Berbenan inter SaleoT ITovie: TooTScTiooI prets the SMASH, POW FiSiHy Affair Peyloil Place Telecast Century AAAHRGG world of the Telecast 'F. Giant 10 All About "Half Angel" Cunt.

IiveOf 30 lF. Giant Hollywood FainiTy Affair IiveOf life 'WiwreThT Heart Is Live Faces .45 jC. Helena Sguares I comic strip, the baroque implications of the Beatles and her own association with the C. Helene Peyton WhereWt 'Galloping 00! 'Sesame Jean jeoparny Jeopardy Place Street twentieth century avanl All About Search Gourmet That Girl Cannem Jean Cannem Qui Sesame Street garde music movement on Faces Tomorrow Chan. B's Vibrations at 9 Vlrpiia Bob Game DEia7r Distaff Heart Is Search for Tomorrow Noon News World Turns p.m.

Noon Show Conl, Malinee: 12 SwiUer 'Luncheon Dale Bewitched Password Password Days Of Soviets ready lo negotiate chess match site United Press International MOSCOW The Soviet Chess Federation has said it is ready to start final ne In more recognizably seri Od'rXuncfieoa Splendor- drahain 'David Frost Frost David Frost ous vein, Lhans. ana News Pete's Plane Mylinee: "Moment To Moment" Jean "So berg Cent. OorMves Tloctors Doctors Another world present a i 1 e-w i Dale Galloping Gourmet I I :45 performance of pianist Cluldren Jl'sMako A Deal WcvvTyweH' Game Marek Polish To Moment" Jean "S'chcfg Cout. Orffanie "Secret OofPsycfiP born, Jablonski grew up Ue was totally committed in the sense that art formed the core of his life and he never compromised. As a painter, teacher and designer he was actively associated with Simon Fraser University, UBC, the Vancouver Art Gallery and the New Design Gallery.

lie was thus able to cut across institutional lines and influence the total community. Being an ex-logger gave Toppings a tremendous advantage over many of his contemporaries. lie was hard without being aggressive, yet highly adaptabjc and able to find alternatives which is the basis of wisdom. For the last three years Toppings was closely associated with the new generation of artists who have become associated with new organizations like Metromedia and Intermedia. Branching out on to the national scene, he participated recently in flic Canadian Artists Representation and co-ordinated Art probe for the gallery.

flc was a catalyst, a modest, unmoved mover. Perhaps more than any other B.C. artist of his era, he was aware Pf the growing political power of the creative individual. Survival was an aesthetic trip as much as a biological Glenn Toppings, 41 year-old Vancouver artist is dead. He died from lung cancer in his studio, the Granville Grange.

That he should be at the workshop space used on and off by some of his closest friemis was good. Artists such ss Dallas feel in an. Roy Kiyooka, Gary Lee-Nova and Sherry Uraocr had had studios in the grange under Granville Bridge. But it was Toppings who was identified with it and marie it a creative environment for numerous artists and architects. it was here that he worked as one of the first Fibreglas designers in Vancouver, where he collaborated with Brian Fisher and Selman on major projects.

As a consultant and master craftsman Toppings pioneered in the true cooperative movement which now exists in the form of collaborative projects. Toppings fell the whole commercial and establishment gallery scene was basically phoney. 11 divided artists instead of making them aware of common goals which could be solved by concerted action. Early in his career he suffered critical neglect, which made him an opponent of the "pony" classification that made artists a commercial commodity like rare thoroughbreds. OS Storm Edmonton.

The Nf- Briffht Fniiiiise Somerset Somerset Gonil Splendor- Dating gotiations for terms of the World Chess Championship match between Boris eil ThinK Guiding bijdiL Secret Storm Kdwdf Nhi tinnier I'yle Dick Van Djke atrist flick Van Dyke Kkeli produced film follows him on Gardening Word Take 30 "Aiioilier Spassky and American challenger Bobby Game General Hospital a return visit to Poland and on a concert tour in Spain. Take 31 Fischer. Tass. the official news agency, said ii Ti :3 lK Nl One JjIu IriKeOf Take 30 EdKcOf Nydjt Pariifly KCTS (C han. 9) To Live Night 'Dinah Sliore 'Anylbing Yiiii Ian 'Mike Douglas Mike Douulas the federation sent a letter to the International Chess Federation president 00KaniiIy 9 a.m., Listen 'ourt Max Euwe saying it wants to meet with 'I jive.

Am. Style 'What's MyUne and Say; .5) a mol; 9:30, 10, The Si World 'Anylhind Von Can fli.il The Cluck ilTiiiey: "Toronto Maple lafs 9:15, Se Hablu Espa ('ourt Norlliern Summer Northern Summer edThing IfsTour Bet 'What's My Line FunlT" Kama Kun-O- Rarna jn lililifiail's Island Perry Mason "Ferry Mason Waller all parlies concerned to "thrash out all Best of All Worlds questions and to sign a final agree Green Petticoat Electric' like Douglas ment." Junclion Video I People "Trouble AloriK The Way Wayne Donna Keed Walter- Cronkite Clif Hit. iJli 11 JT 4f.tm, fm iW' Vl lie At Workf 10:45, Vi ic Makers; 11, Meet The Gi 11:30, Sesame Street; -WJ1S Company; Get New- Jack The letter said tne bovieis were Music Smart scrvice Kddy 'ready, in principle, to study the ques Arts iiwfBoF Reasoncr Kcw- 12:30 Urban tion of holding the first halt of the match in Belgrade and the second in Reykjavik servic Smith .1 Switzer 1, Worlds in Balance Acres 'Horn's Heroes News Hour News Hour MedlEaT" Centre Medical Centre News Jack tanning; I Espanol; 1:49, St Planning; Hour- before July 1." Se Habla se Lee News Kirk Cronkite lass vs. Dclroit Bed Wings" ToriL Cont. News Hour 1:30.

Music Makers Sur- McdTcaT" Hour vival Conseq. glass 'Singalong 'llcros lucy Movie: "Man Who This Is Centre Medical t'entre Tnraus Primus Rock classic Jubilee Wannix 'tTiTT This Warileil Movie: AHii'n lF Adam 12 land Man At Ijnd 'Man At "Torn CurUim" Mannix Mannix Mannix Mystery Movie Paul The Top Louie Louie sound is back town The lop "TfaTAT i i ToSriran At Habla Espanol; 2, Cultural Understandings; 2:30, High School Program; 3 People At Work; 3:15, Book Talk; 8:45, Is for Music; 4, Sesame Street. 5 p.m., The Electric Company; 5:30, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood; 6, Alcohol and Alcoholism; 6:30, Book Beat; 7, Interview; 7:30, Doorways To Science; 8, A Public Affair; Election; 8:30, This Week; 9, Vibratwns; 10, Soull CABLE 10 16 1 The Top iZOI'Marek Muviu: Newman "A Guide Julie For A Andrews Married The Top Marek Jablonski Your Life OTieT" Father Comedy Hour "Comedy Hour Per- suadert Ter mailers Bewitched Bewitched TNe'ws Final Dick 45 Jablonstd To I jve Forever" Cont. 'SfcdTcar" Centre Medical Centre SaTnt Saint Saint Saint UaieTjiai Will Travel Movie: Marek WirWarcS" THan" I Conl. 151 Jablonski Tommy 451 Ranks "Hystery Movie Mystery Movie 'NihT Gallery NiKht Gallery 'New" servne Tonudit Show Tonnilit Show Waller Cont.

Matihait 'Spoi ls t'ont Deal News "Ncwi 5 News 'News Movie: Hour j'Sol Final TudjKiews Viewpoint in 18. But they re formed a month ago, answering the profitable, tall of awakening Rock Nostalgia. They arc pretty tight for musicians who have been on the wagon for close lo four years, and you have to dig deeply to bear all those old numbers again no mailer who is playing them. The Kingsmcn are very, very loud but they are truly good to dance to. In general, they are exactly what one might expect from a group that was capable of Louie liOuie in the first place.

next to meaningless. It was undoubtedly the forerunner of music by present day groups like T. Rex. Wed to the milder, more melodic forms of pre Beatles rock, it was one of the founding fathers of buhblcgum music. Rough, impenetrable and indestructible, fouie Louie was truly great to dance, get very drunk and raise bell to.

Fans of the Louie Louie sound will Jove the Kiugsmen, at Gassy Jack's until Saturday. Most of them are from the original group, the one that broke up By JEAM BEAD Louie Louie is probably one of the greatest rock classics of all time. It was a song that had virtually nothing going for it musically. It was also a song that attracted an enormous following. First loosed upon the masses by the Kingsmen in it liecame an instant smash nd an almost insufferable request at dances from then on.

Any band that couldn't or, worse, wouldn't play Imte Iuie was in serious trouble, lis heat was neolithic and the words Jablonski Tommy Banjos News News Dour Fins Movie: "The Rat Bace" 'Sports 45! Hour- Csvitt si TftcT .001 class 7 p.m., Owning A Home; 8, Investment worm Madrid" David Mcl'allum Conl. Movie; "The Kat Kate" Madrid" David Md'allum Conl. Cavctt Dick (avitf 9, Van- 1 ii rorut cry; 9:30, font. Conver- fcJLiiHL couver Art tiall SHJ Today; 10: Conver it. sations..