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tit a. tr 1 mm i "Si A Book news TIIK I'KOVINCE, Friday, September 8, 1071 tft SIMM Pirates thwarted ljm) i mm ''W iaa AT av JT 7 KV1 mm A l.V3x. fa mm find that this strategy protects us under local laws," Wallace said. The experiment, which the 53 year old author began last January, has been closely followed by the association of American publishers and tha Author's League, which for years have been urging Nationalist China to help them fight the unauthorized reproduction. A number of American textbook publishers hava recently sold copyright to their titles to Mei Ya publications in (he belief that such action will deter unauthorised Taiwan editions and build pressure to induce Taiwan to sign the Universal Copyright Convention, an international agreement under which a book copyrighted in one signatory country it protected in all.

Last July the government indicated it was prepared to sign the agreement by aending observers to the Convention's conference in Paris. Chinese bureaucracy almost thwarted the arrangement for The Nympho and Other Maniacs which despite its suggestive title is a muled history of famous courtesans. Because Taiwan laws required that the finished bound book be presented for copyright registration, a pirate edition had already gone into print by the time Huang received all the necessary papers. Clearly the pirates somehow got hold of a review copy, Wallace said. But it was to no avail.

As soon as the hook was properly registered the police confiscated all unauthorized copies in the Taiwan bookstores. Of course, we'll never know how many copies were sent to Hong Kong or other English speaking outlets. But it's a good beginning. By HENRY RAYMONT New York Timet NEW YORK The Chinese Nationalist Government, which normally tolerates hook piracy ai a dollar-earning industry, has issued an order to have confiscated all copies of an unauthoriaed facsimile edition of Irving Wallace'! Nymphn and other Maniacs. The action hai disturbed Taiwan's book pirates and raised bopea among chagrined United States publishers that the Nationalist government will finally abide by international copyright regulations.

Wallace oulmanoeuvered Taiwan's literary bootleggers with the help at local publisher who believes in tha western notion that reprint editions can be profitable even if royalties are paid la the author and the original publisher. This was a test case, a preliminary skirmish, and it looks as if we've won," Wallace said in an interview here. The author nf The Chapman Report and other international best-sellers continued: I don't think we've crushed the bootlegging business but we now have a beachhead in terms of copyright. The beachhead was established wilh the support of Y. C.

Huang, a Columbia University graduate, whose Mei Ya Publications, has the reputation nf being Taiwan's only wholly nonpirate publisher. Huang says he is able to match the price of pirate editions even though he pays a 10 per cent royalty to foreign authors. He says his strategy is to register his authorized hooks wilh the government. "As long as Taiwan refuses to sign international copyright conventions we Nightscene The JiwUoii live rock group, all of nchool end thrir aiimmer Vacation consisted of a concert tour that took them to Chess Open Canadian pressing top man By PAUL RAUtil'HT An untitled Canadian player, Ed For-manek n( Ottawa, stood on the brink nf knocking world champion Boris Spassky ol Moscow nut ol lop niuney cuntention in the Canadian Open Chess Champion, ahip on Wednesday nlghl. Formanek, who haa already defeated two grandmasters in the 11 round tournament, held a decided edge when hia same against Spassky waa adjourned to thia morning.

Playing the whit pieces, Formanek was ahead by virtue of the strength nf a rook over a bishop, and threatening to even the count at six pawns apiece. Canadian champion Duncan Suttles of Vancouver and Hans Ree of Holland, both international masters, couldn't break their first-place deadlock as they agreed In a draw on the 18th move of their game. Moth now have IVt points. The winner of the Spassky-Formanek game will move into a first-place tie with Suttles and Ree. Spassky and Ree are the only players to remain undefeated.

Both have drawn three games. Only one player remained with a pos-bibility of taking sole possession of first place in the ninth round. That was George Kunrejannv, who with seven points, adjourned his game against grandmaster Walter Browne of Australia, the S. Open champion who has 6' a points. One other key game was adjourned Wednesday night.

That was between second-place contenders Zvonko Vranes-ic nf Toronto, another international master, and John MacPhail of Ottawa who have six points each. The adjourned games made it impossible to list second and third-place contenders. At least 17 players were still in contention for first-place money. Among these were former B.C. champion Boh Ziik of Surrey, who had seven points as a result of a victory over Craig Barnes of the U.S.

Grandmaster Lubom-ir Kavalek of the U.S. had 6'i points as he 'defeated lan Hambleton of Toronto. Other players with points included American Ron Ervin and A. Zaradic of Vancouver. Meanwhile, Ed Edmondson, vice-president of the U.S.

Chess Federation, announced that the World Chess Federation had voted Wednesday to deny its president, Dr. Max Euwe of Holland, the authority to settle the dispute over the site for the final world championship challengers' series. The match, between grandmasters Bobby Fischer of the U.S. and the Soviet Union's Tigran Petrosian, is to be held in about three weeks. The U.S.

and Soviet chess federations, attending the world organization's congress in Vancouver, have been unable to settle on a site for the match. Edmondson said that delegates to the congress have decided to settle the issue by a vote Friday. The U.S. wants the match held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, while the Soviets insist on Athens, Greece. Yugoslavia is also reported to be high on the list of possible sites.

mushroom Moses Bible papers Mythical By JAMES F. KING Associated Press LONDON John Allegro, the scholar who stirred a controversy by claiming Christianity was founded by a mushroom-worshipping sect, says Moses, Abraham and all the other Jewish patriarchs are myths. Allegro also says that Judaism is rooted in a sacred mushroom cult. The 49 year-old lecturer on the Old Testament puts his theory forward in a new book called The Chosen People. Allegro writes that the orthodox history of the Israelites was an "idealized mythology," a key incident of which was the rescue of the Jews from slavery by Moses, who led them into the desert of Sinai.

"The names of the partriarchal heroes, as that of the God himself, are non-Semitic, as our recent researches have shown, and go back to the earliest known civilization of the Near East, indeed of the world," Allegro says. "The biblical idealization of the desert wanderings" was false, says Allegro, and "the whole concept nf the desert God owed more to the efforts of later theologians to histnricize their mytholo Art study Gassy Jack's swine get Ian's pearls If you know what you like here's some encouragement By JEANI READ While some music is like sheet metal and relatively impervious to outrageous audiences, some music is like rice paper, wondrous light and delicate in texture, but with little resilience. It is difficult to imagine anyone even considering reacting similarly to these varied styles; but for some reason the audience in Gassy Jack's Wednesday night had this very idea. Do people really have to be numbed into silence by an overwhelming wall of sound? Will they slop talking only when they can't be heard above the noise? Wednesday night was opening night for Ian Matthews, formerly guiding light of Matthews Southern Comfort, which, if not sheet metal was at least aluminum foil and would have withstood adversity reasonably well. Rut Ian Matthews is now on his own, with some friends, and they are playing rice paper music, some of the most breathlessly lovely handfuis of melody and lyric that have been offered to a Vancouver club audience in a long while.

Wednesday night was almost closing night for Ian Matthews as well; the first set was something along the order of Pearls Before Swine, and it didn't really seem worthwhile to keep going. So Matthews and his friends, Richard Thompson on lead guitar, Andy Roberts on acoustic guitar and Bob Ronga on bass, bowed out until the incessant roar And a simple story it a vacation in front of Kchoolhoiie. 41) t'ilies in t0 days. "The dismeinherment of her stale and despoiling of her most sacred shrine bred into the Jewish soul a ruthless self assertiveness that has spared neither her own people nor those she has proclaimed her enemies," he says. Jewish history between 587 BC and 70 AD is described in the hook as a constant conflict between "moderates" who wanted to mingle and merge with other cultures, and religious fanatics.

The fanatics often acted under the influence of the mushroom drug and saw themselves as "the chosen ones," Allegro says. "The barriers that had been erected to safeguard the purity of Judaism have served ever since to provoke the envy, distrust and hatred of the gentile world." Allegro, an acknowledged Dead Sea Scrolls scholar, has often been accused of sensationalism in his writings and lectures. When his hook, The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross, came out last year challenging orthodox belief on the origins of Christianity, his theories were denounced by clergymen and 15 other leading academics as "erotic fantasy." confirmed the earlier polls and showed that the young, including university students, were "only a shade less conservative" than their elders. The assumption that there was a gap of two generations in acceptance was based on the fact that nearly everybody preferred pictures painted before 1920 to those painted since. There was no evidence, however, that the public would ever catch up wilh today's art.

aire weather? By KEN SPOTSWOOD The second annual (Dewdney Trunk Road) Pleasure Faire happens this Labor Day weekend, Sept. 4, 5 and 6, near Mission City, about 50 miles east of Vancouver. It is a large-scale craftsmen's fair, set in (he Medieval period, where craftsmen and fairgners barter for handmade goods, along with theatre, acoustical music on stage and by wandering minstrels, lots of food, merrymaking and games. Organizers have built a tiny village of wooden towers, tents, banners, geodesic domes and Indian-style teepees on the site, just outside Mission. The site itself has been leased from the federal government (who propose to buid new penitentiary on the land), with the necessary approval from Mission municipal council and health authorities.

There are more than twice the number of crafts exhibitors lined up this year, compared to last pear's Pleasure Faire at Langley. Entertainment will include the B.C. Travelling Fair, puppets, several theatre groups and a number of musicians and singers. Organizers have arranged free parking a mile from the site, with about a dozen chartered buses to take patrons to and from the faire. Grounds admission is $2 for adults with children admitted free.

it is open from 10 a.m. to dusk Saturday, Sunday and Monday and everyone is asked to come in medieval costume. From Mission take Stave Lake Road three miles north to the Dewdney Trunk Road intersection and turn left to the parking area. Signs will be posted along the way. gy than to any authentic tribal memories of Israel's early experiences." "We are now able to pinpoint the source nf the patriarchal myths in a particular form nf the fertility religion, centred on the cult of the sacred mushroom." Allegro claims the Jewish religion is rooted in ancient Middle Eastern cultures also associated wilh eating a sacred mushroom which induced hallucinations.

The Jews, he says, were formed of a mixture of peoples in ancient Palestine. Their religion was evolved "to deny their mixed heritage and to consolidate their precarious political position on the basis of a fanVrful ancestry and an ex- elusive religion," the book contends. The name of their Gnd, Yahweh, although portrayed as a "pure" anti-sexual deity, actually was a form of the Greek god Zeus, he says. Both names meant "spermatozoa" the source of all life. Allegro claims the exclusive Judaism still known today was "horn in blood and nourished in the agony and loneliness" between the deportation nf Jews to Babylon in 587 BC and the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans in 70 AD.

more than 50 countries have registered for the meeting. Heinrich said an earlier poll of individuals in the Toronto area had shown that "the gap between serious creative innovation and wide acceptance" was al least two generations, or 50 years. His group then conducted two-hour group interviews, using picture postcards of modern art from various periods to start the discussions. Analysis 4t v. "ijr 2t const ruction at faire.

i had died down, late in the evening when most nf the incessant roarers had left, and played a long set. I think they will stay until Monday night, if the audiences that love Flash Cadillac will either stay away or learn how to be flexible. Flexibility is what Gassy Jack's is all about a place where Paul Horn will be received as well as Albert Collins and it was distinctly unfortunate that their audience Wednesday was so inexcusably moronic. They missed a tapestry of intimate guitar work, and a blend of vocal harmony that was magically lucid and transparent. They missed lyrics that were much in the tradition of the new Taylnr-Kiny Stevens coterie, but wilh more of a clear, immediate presence, an unassuming honesty of expression.

Within the instrumentation, three guitars and bass, the groups displayed an unusual sense of diversification, dealing with a cappela numbers as fluently as accompanied ones. But the audience missed that too. As they missed the subtle humor. Ian Matthews and friends might have been the model for the current jargon 'lay back' the music makes you smile and the silhouettes of the notes last long into the night. But then everyone was talking so they probably didn't notice.

Go to Gassy Jack's this week if you are interested in weaving a thread of communication between yourself and the performers. Ian Matthews will be waiting for you. The film-play progressed from love to betrayal to corruption to eventual redemption and seeming happily-ever-after. It was punctuated by observations from the actors on their roles in the action notably a mock Fellini orgy on film. the scene I leave in disgust" said Norman Browning.

"Actually I saw nothing wrong with Although the main work of the evening was haphazard in comparison to the usual expertise of Savage God, it set a tone of romantic wilfulness that followed through to the end. Again, a curious turn for a revolutionary-minded group. The Perth County Conspiracy fitted it exactly. Four singers from Ontario, they recently crossed the country gypsy-fashion, living on juice and hamburgers from roadside stands and lived to sing about it. Their satire on the Stratford Theatre was a mixture of bitter humor and gentle remorse, reminding the audience that even the theatre has its hips and straights.

Their concluding Autobiography of an Elephant, with its rumblings of revolution and poignant stabs nf poetry communicated as only the least contrived works can. Unexpectedly, they outdid Savage God at their own game. Simplicity is The Savage God with a gentle heart A ml reus SCMI It OKI) lit Since I began this poetry series on B.C. presses and their snftcover andor chapbook titles, I've had so many phone calls requesting lists of the names and addresses of these various C. publishing houses, that I've de emed in lane me following shortcut and simply list them here.

A short note to any of these publishers will get you a complete list of their individual titles, both hardcover and paper- hack. As for those who wanted the addresses in order to submit their own manuscripts for publication, I advise a letter first, requesting information as to just bow full the publishing schedule of the press in question might be, as well as a request for a rough sketch of their critical biases and preferred styles of writing. The following, then, are presses (publishing poetry) located in the province. Talonbooks, 1911 Acadia Road, Vancouver 8, B.C. The Very Stone House in Transit, Editor: Patrick Lane, R.R.

No. 3, Vernon, B.C. The Sono Nis Press, Editor: J. Michael Yates, Box 94, Port Clements, Queen Charlotte Islands, C. Blewointment Presa, Bill Bissett, Editor, Box 8590, Station Vancouver 5, B.C.

Inter-Media Publications, 2023 East 1st Vancouver, B.C. Grays Publications, Sydney, B.C. Morriss Printing, 1745 Blanshard Street, Victoria, B.C. Massage Press, 21048 Lougheed Highway, Maple Ridge, B.C. Prism International Press, CO Dept.

of Creative Writing, University of B.C., Vancouver 8. Ingluvin Books, CO Seymour Mayne, 1778 Westhrook Crescent, Vancouver 8. IS New York Times PARIS Young people dislike contemporary art almost as much as do their elders, according to a new study. The report, delivered to the International Council of Museums by Prof. Theodore Allen Heinrich of York University of Toronto, underlined a mood of self-criticism that seems to dominate the council's ninth world conference, being held here.

More than 700 curators from mmm Crafts booth under Irv) By OLIVIA WARD For three weeks Savage God has led its audience through the dizzying curves and steep climbs of "alternate avenues" to traditional theatre. It's often been a bumpy and frustrating road. Like Alice, the viewers have cried "curiouser and curinuser," without finding a foothold. Last night at the Art Gallery, Savage God revealed a gentle heart. With a welter of medern mixed media mechanics they told the simple story of girl meets boy girl loses boy -girl gels boy.

Kimi, a film in process by Judith Egiinton, featuring Norman Browning, Donna Wong, Barbara Gordon and a cast of dozens, was a surprising mixture of sophistication and naivety. The story was told on film and stage simultaneously, using screened close-ups as added emotional ammunition for its wandering theme. But the machinery was off target, producing some very unemotional clicks, whirs, flaps and clattering noises. The roughness of the physical transition from stage to screen lowered the effectiveness to near zero. The work was performed to a solid background of poetry set to music by The Perth County Conspiracy, the most cohesive force of tha evening..