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1972 33 i i i i i i s. 1 i I i if, eAV 4 Disney's slicker than slick IT. 4Hk. rf.v. i THE PROVINCE, Friday, June 30: i 1 rJW ym-JFtmi -Tiiiiifi'irriii i mWltyy jpTW.WV I'fvll'ftlm" Ifi! 4 1 crocodiles through a slice of Fantasia.

Goofy walked a tightrnpo and mcount- side of where else? Disneyland. Pinocchin proved that he was a good tied Herbio, the Love Bug. And every Disney on Parade continues at the Coli-boy after all, in spite of the lures of a segment was produced with an efferve- seum until Sunday, matinees and even-huge whirl of circus. Disney villians scence of detail and a richness of imagi- iug performances. And it's still woudcr- nation that you vou't find anywhere this ful.

celebrUcd then- evil deeds. 4 if fmmm i 1 1 mm 1 DH'SO DRAMATICS Barbara Nash in his pursuit of Wanda Pugilist (right) encourages Larry Wilkinson in The Drunkard. Love licks liquor while house hisses By JEANI READ It doesn't even have to be the best Disney to be better than anything else; it just has to be Disney. On Wednesday night Disney on Parade opened at the Coliseum, and this rendition proved more subdued, less ambitious, less downright awesome than last year's spectacular debut. But it is still next to impossible to imagine better entertainment for children in fact, for anyone.

Go to see Disney on Parade even if you don't have the excuse of somebody under-tnirteen to bring along. Disney is so familiar now it's as if he and his lovely world were stamped on our collective genes; and in spite of the fact that the production of this show Is slicker than slick, enormously elaborate, and disciplined down to the last eyelash, it emerges as completely personal and delightful and somehow completely unpretentious. Cartoons on a suspended screen provide continuity, set moods, and re-establish tlu roots; a gentle nudge of nostalgia and a flawless way to keep the pace high and quick. And on the floor the cartoon people cavorted, in dazzling costume and with expansive spirit and life; out of a castle they sprang, the flowers and the circus fulk, the ostriches and the puppets, Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, Goofy the works, keeping the kids on the edges of their seats with laughter and anticipation, and with involvement. Snow White and her prince eventually triumphed over the evil queen amidst a bustel of dwarfs and a heartful of sentiment.

Pink hippos waltzed with sneaky ti 1 i r. 1 9 i FRONT AND CENTRE FOR FINALE the varmint the cast used to hose itself off after the show, Wednesday night's management thoughtfully provided marshmallows for the audience, that they might voice their disapproval with something more solid than hisses and boos. Lawyer Cribbs, deft and dastardly, and Stickler, his uiU: assistant, got most of them as they tried to lead the true and loyal Edward duwn the drunkard's road to debauchery, degradation and death, although a few went the way of the virtuous and vulnerable Mary and her widowed mother. There are obviously male chauvinist marshmallows. The Drunkard is summer night Gas-town theatre.

Barbara Dahlquist is all bosoms and bustle, tarty as an English barmaid, a tenant who makes it hard for the landlord when rent day comes around. She plays her widow like Mae West playing Tennessee Williams. Wanda Wilkinson is unbelievably virtuous, her mouth a big red 0 and eyes like Shirley Temple. Larry Nash is the lawyer who tries to seduce her with sausages, Archie McMurchic his assistant, and Ed Milaney the drunken sot who is rescued from his excesses by Keuslaws Badical Rum Remedy. Pure corn, intimate, enthusiastic and at 6:30.

I hope they continue to provide marshmallows. in the peanut butter By JAMES BARBER "Love licks liquor, There's no twenty-sixer To match love's elixir, Because love licks liquor, And liquor will never lick love," There, in a shotglass, you have The Drunkard, Vancouver's own, perennial melodrama, adapted to a musical by the Gaslight Players, and performed, this time, in a shower of marshmallows, on the stage of the Gaslight Theatre. Tomatoes used to be the favorite ammunition of melodrama audiences in London theatres, where there was always, forty years ago, a good old turkey of a villain hero confrontation close to a pub or two. Tomatoes and eggs, and It's Fly-the-Flag Week Sunday, By IAN WESTERGREN t'uited Press International REYKJAVIK Bobby Fischer's big dream conies true Sunday when he sits down at the checkered board to play world chess champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union. The American chess genius considers the 24 game world championship match a mere formality.

He has said time and again that if he just gets a shot at the 35 year old champion, he is certain of defeating him. Ever since be learned to play chess in Brooklyn at the age of six, the lanky American grand master, now 29, has cherished one big dream to become the world champion in the oldest and most sophisticated of games. It he succeeds and there are many experts who believe he will he will become tiie second American world champion in the long history of chess and the first lion Russian In rule as champion since Max Euwe of The Netherlands held the title briefly in the 1930s. He we'd also pocket five eighlhs of the pih money, which totals The mop was put up by the Icelandic government and the city of Reykjavik to win the right to stage Hie match in this Fischer fulfils his big dream Wednesday's concert at the Vancouver Art Gallery was a good luncbtime. The lyrics for the songs came from Merv Campone.

Rose played his guitar (nylon and soft Bob Turner played bass electric but soft like an acoustic has) and Michael Dunn, who made ail the guitars played his steel strings (like blues on a harpsichord, very tight and precise and little). There was a basic simplicity to the music, Turner coming through Ike a .4 s- f4 tr I i iih that built an empire. trombone in early, pre-commercial and Dunn quick and easy. If Rose wanted it to be a commercial for Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris then that's fair enough. I feel exactly the same way about this musical, which opens tonight at the Arts Club.

I very seldom just blindly write and encourage people to go to a production I haven't seen, but for Jacques Brel it is valid. Tonight, at 8:30 p.m., the Arts Club Theatre. i more money 11 was learned that (he Icelandic federation wauled to avoid a rupture and was seeking a compromise. Ollieials were said to feel Ihe federation could not afford any additional expenses. However, the sources said that while (he federation might have trouble breaking even if the title series went on as scheduled, it would not stand to lo.se if it was cancelled.

A Fischer adviser said in New York Wednesday that Fischer will be ui Reykjavik in lime for Ihe start of the world chess cuinpclilum on Sunday. Prof. Churchill said Shepherd's acceptance by York University as one of JS graduate students amounts to international recognition of Carlelon's music depart ineul. Shepherd has been playing the fule since be was 14, but taiil his intuit is in mmpoMiion and musicology the theory and history of music rather than on Ihe conceit stage as a He composed a string quartet ami a piano sonata In the lasl year, Ills abiding Interest is in Ihe iniisiu of Frederick Debus, the English iniprts-Muiiist composer likened in much of Jul music to Claude Debussy. I '1.

41 .1 Shell bits This almost disgusting healthiness is strangely at contrast with his songs. Any self-respecting hick town might not exactly run him out, but it certainly wouldn't want its daughters running around with him. All those nasty, intellectual, cynical songs about oil slick, "relax, far away from nature's troublesome noises," and Indain problems. He sits there, dropping little bits of shell into the peanut butter. ''Fischer is a genius, an aggressive player who fights as long as there is a pawn left on the board," Larsen said.

"But if I have lo pick a favorite, I would pick Spassky because of his routine and better nerve control." Spassky has paid tribute to Fischer, whom he described as "a remarkable chess player. Without him the world of chess would be very dull." While Fischer goes on attack to win every game and is thrown oft balance by a draw, Spassky has proved in previous matches (hat he can come back from a series of drawn games lo score decisive wins. They have met five times before, with Spassky winning three games and drawing two. But (he Russian, who leads a comfortable life on his earnings as a professional chess player, agrees (hat Fischer has got more fire. Spassky told Western correspondents he would rather be at home in Moscow with his family and friends "sharing some wine and playing chess for fun" than competing for the world title in Heykjavik.

"I would like to leach Bobby that there are other things than chess in life." Bobby issues Associated Press REYKJAVIK, Iceland Bobby Fischer has made a last minute demand fur more money to play in the world chess championship against Soviet Boris Spassky, informed sources said Thursday. They reported that ihe 2.1-year old American challenger sent an ultimatum to the Iceland Chess Federation "two or three da; i ago" saying he would not show up unless he got 30 per cent of Ihe gate receipts as well as the unprecedented sums already guaranteed. Under Die agreement Fischer and Pat Rose: By JAMES BARBER Pat Rose has a YMCA face and night club mind, like Lenny Bruce burstng to get out of Tab Hunter. You could take him for Pat Boone, smiling his way, kind of different, onto a stool, a face fell of Mom and apple pie while he fiddles with his guitar, smiling gosh and golly-gee like he had a white convertible outside and his old man owned the only night club in a hick town and he was getting to sing in it. of sellout crowds of 5,000 in the Laug-ardals-Hocilin indoor sports arena.

The crowd is another potential cause of trouble with the temperamental American challenger, who has been known to leave games because the noise of the crowd irritated him. Fischer and Spassky, at a chess board made of white and green Icelandic stones and seated in specially constructed chairs, will be placed on the stage in the hall. The organizers, aware of Fischer's hot temper, first suggested that a glass wall be erected between the players and the crowd. But Fischer rejected the proposal. Other things which have come under fire from Fischer are the lighting and the ventilation in Ihe hall and the choice of German grand master Lothar Schmid as umpire.

However, Icelandic chess officials are satisfied that Fischer will accept the arrangements. They were not even worried when Fischer abruptly decided to change his arrival date. "We are satisfied he will be here in time," they said. The games will be played Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays with adjourned games being finished on Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays.

The match is scheduled for 24 games, but as is customary in world championship play, the remaining games will be cancelled when one of Ihe two has reached 12 5 points or more. The players get one point for a win and half a point for a draw. To retain his title, Spassky needs only 13 points a draw. To win Ihe title, Fischer will have to score 12 5 points or more. Under the FIDE rules, Fischer and Spassky must ir.ai-e 40 moves in two and a hail hours.

If (be game is still undecided then, it will be adjoin icd and finished later with both required to make 16 moves an hour. A player running out of times forfeits the game. While Fischer has predicted an easy victory, Spassky has refused to speculate about the match. assky, who von Ihe title in l9 from fellow couniryinau Tigran pelrosian, is the favorite of Danish Grand Master Bent Larsen. Larson, who was defeated by Fischer in Ihe el-nilnalion for the Reykjavik match and served as Fischer's adviser at one time, feels Spassky's experience from two previous world championship games and his better nerves will be decisive, have been approached to play major rules.

None has signed a contract. The movie script is based on Alberla Lt. Gov. Grant MacEwan'i book John Ware's Cow Country. Outdoor scenes are to be shot at High River, 2i milea louth of Calgary, and if successful, Ihe movie will be ready for inlcrnaliiui.il distribution by mid I'Ji'i, Forsylhe said.

IJOillSY FISCUKK boon to M'lflt! down Im fore a checkered board of green and white Icelandic btones. JFK Ccnlrc can work Shaw founder claims uulikeliest of settings on an island in the stormlossed North Atlantic. To Fischer, chess comes first. But money follows closely behind and the question of money almost ruined the championship. Eight cities offered to stage the match.

The International Chess Federation (FIDE), now run by Euue, asked the two players to select their candidate cities. Spassky picked Reykjavik, Fischer picked Belgrade, Yugoslavia, which offered $43,000 more than Iceland. FIDE then derided to compromise, playing 13 games in Belgrade and 13 in Reykjavik. Fischer objected and said he and Spassky should also get the money from the TV rights. In the end, Belgrade organizers got tired and made a request for a guarantee of to ensure that Fischer would turn up.

Finally FIDE presented an ultimatum to Fischer: accept Hcy-kjavik or lose the ribht to a worid championship match. At that stage, with his big dream threatened, Fischer agreed to the conditions offered by the Icelandic Chess Federation. The Icelanders, although there are only 20O O0O of them, are chess-mad and the organizers say they are assured creative process. We've gone tin ugh the same problems." Doherty was in town doing some advance work for Ihe Shaw Festival's production of Misalliancp which has opened a two week run at the Kennedy Centre's Eiseuliov.er Theatre. Doherty, a retired Ontario lawyer, founded Ihe Shw Festival in )0ti2 and it remains the only professional company devoted lo presenting Ihe works of the famed Irish playwright and his contemporaries.

Its productions for Ihe last It years have been staged in Niagara's 125 year-old courthouse, but it now has under tons! ruction a new $3 million, b20 seat theatre. movie, said the company wilt require $300,000. He said Greg Morris of Ihe television series Mission: Impossible, and Woody former Calgary Slampeder all-star football player, havu been approached lo play the role o( Ware. Lome Greene of Hmiauu funiu and Wally Cox, a movie and television star, also Associated Pics WASHINGTON A visiting theatre impressario from Ontario seemed more optimistic alMiut the prospects for Hie John F. Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts than many of its United States critics.

"People shouldn't get discouraged over Hie (roubles at the opening," said Brian Doherty, who founded ihe widely acclaimed Shaw Festival at Magara-oii-Ihe I ake 11 years ago and has been active in its affairs ever since. ''It look us two or three ytws In become eslabiisiie t. YuU dull't just open up and expect to be accepted overnight. In a few years yuu will start your own demand for Spassky signed with Ihe federation, Ihe players wilt share a purse of $125. Ouo, with the winner getting live-eighths of it.

In addition it was agreed that they would each get 30 per cent of receipts from sales of television and film rights for the match. Fischer cancelled scheduled flights to Reykjavik Tuesday and Wednesday. This had led to speculation lh.il he was waging a war of nerves will) litlehoidcr Spassky. The 24 game match Is due to start Sunday in a 2,500 scat sports palace where seals are sold for $3 a game. This spring he became Carlelon's first bachelor of music, and is the music faculty's first accepted doctoral candidate.

Aged 23, on (he campus he is known as "our prodigy." 'ibis year, be has been leaching undergraduates as well as Studying and preparing his thesis. Raised in Portsmouth, England, Shepherd came to Canada and to Carleton in 1007 when the music department opened. In coming to Canada, be followed au-olhcr British inuMial academic named John Churchill, head of the music department and liiumlcr of the Academy of SI. -Martin in (be Fields, Ihe professional chamber orchestra attached lo the dun li of that name in Tralalgar Square, Loudon. 'Our prodigy' off to study in England Alherla cowboy to bo film subject Canadian Press OTTAWA For five years, John Shepherd has been studying the theory and history of music and now he has won a chance lo delve into Hie works of an almost obscure English composer for another three years at York Univvrsily in England At the end, Shepherd hopes to be Dr.

Shepherd and lo id urn (o Canada lo leach music in a Canadian university, He already lias a BA degree, majoring In French, from Carleton University and lal suninier he became an associate of Ihe Royal College of Music in London, which in effect a leaching certificate. Canadian Prist LETHKKIDGK An Alberla film tompauy Is ting to raise fund lo produce a movie about John Ware, a pioneer Southern Aibrrla black cowboy. Dayne Foisylhc of Raymond, prenidcut of Chief Mouiiluin Studios Ltd and producer of Hie proposed.