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1C T1IC TBOVINCE, Monday, 57, 1371 'I 1 (l speaks i. Canadian Film Awards V- The driver, we ire told In George C. Scott's new film "The Last Run, Ulented guy upon which Uie criminal elite depend. Olheri may be skilled In guni and lurlure, hut the driver can etcipe when It'i thought Impossible, He's in expert. Awards competition sets entry record (7 a Its comiictitloii in the feature film category Includes Albert S.

Waxman's The Crowd Inside and the National Film Hoard's Mon Uncle Antolne, both screened Friday night. Tiki Tiki, by Potterson Productions of Loving and Lanitliing, a Cine-plx film production; and Fortune and Men's Eyes, the Clnemex International production of Toronlonlan John Herbert's play about homosexuals and prisons, were all being screened Sutuida. Other features: I'm Going to Gel You Elliott Boy, by Cinepro Productions of i. n. Tiv lie iit ainMj, b' Mcr-dian Films of Toronto; Clarke Mackey's 1 he Only Thing You Know; The Proud Rider, by Lighthouse Films of Oshawa.

Foxy Lady, by Ivan Reltman Productions of Toronto; The Apprentice Fleur Blcue, by Potterton Productions; and Life and Times of Chester Angus Rama-good, by David Curiiik of Vancouver. The NFB leads the competitors with 13 entries, while the CBC has 10 and the Ontario Educational Communications Authority six. The judges will select best films In 18 categories. They also will choose recipients of 11 feature film craft awards and 13 non-feature film craft awards. The awards will be presented Oct.

A guest of the awards ceremony will be Darryl Zanuck, head of Twentieth-Century Fox. By VICTOR STANTON Canadian Press TORONTO The growth of the Canadian film industry has Increased competition for the Canadian Film Awards. This year's 23rd annual festival will feature a record 84 films. A spokesman for the awards festival, which got under way Friday, said there were so many submissions that for the first time all the films originally entered are not going to be shown. From 140 films submitted by their distributors, a pre-selection committee has i it l.

compel. ii.uu ami films to be shown out of comiietltlon. Last year's awards festival featured 66 competing films, ol ihum leawres. Free screenings for the second consecutive year will ullow the public to the films with the international Jury. 'the single exception Is the feature film Rip Off by Don Shehlb of Toronto, whose first film, Goin' Down the Road, was the choice of last year's judges a the best Canadian feature film of 1970.

Rip Off will have Its world premiere at a downtown theatre Thursday, final night of judging. This year's International jury comprises Bosley Crowther, former New York Times critic; Alex North, Hollywood composer, Edgar Anstey, British documentary specialist; Louise Bresky, Calgary film critic; and Jean Pierre Ta-drus of Montreal's Le Devoir. New York Film Festival WKI.SIIMKN ON THE WAY 90 voice under the direction of (ilynne arrayed on the WmnIi hillN above the Ithondda Valley. Welsh choristers converging on city By LAWRENCE CLUDERAY One of my most memorable musical experiences took place not in London's Festival Hall, Edinburgh Usher Hall, or In Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, but on a football field. The occasion was sn International soccer match played between England and Wales before a crowd of 40,000 at Nlnian Park, Cardiff, which Is the hnmeground of the Cardiff City Football Club.

There was no organized pre-game or half-time entertainment such as we are accustomed to only the thrill of thousands of Welshmen singing unrehearsed, un-conducted, and with that deep emotional fervor that has made Welsh choralism famous throughout the world. The memory of it came back to me Scott pUyi Chicago driver retired (or nine yean in a French SpanUh border fishing village. With nothing to do, he con-aideri- himself almost dead. Which la why he puta hi manhood, hia pride and hit life on the line to make one lint, dangeroua border run. Translated to movie entertainment, It mean a chase film with a (Ine actor In control.

Scott la Indeed auperb, but unfortunately there la little more than chase and more chase in the (Urn. Actor Tony Musante playa the murderer that Scott iprlntii from a Portguese jail, and he provides a trigger-happy and youthful contrast to Scott's aura of calm experience. The border mountains of Spain. Portu gal and France provide the setting for the stunt car racing; Scott and two passengers Musante plus girl friend Trlsh Van Devere) drive a souped up 157 BMW 503 while various teams of Syndicate assassination squads follow In assorted exotic cars. Don't think for a moment that this is another James Bond caper through Europe.

Between the screeching ascents and descents of the local mountains, the characters Involved are very much aware of their situation. And the movie, goer is made aware that Scott's heroics are based on his bordeom with life. Rarely is the moviegoer given a reason for the dangerous actions of the protagonists. Why on earth should Sean Connery (or, for that matter, John Wayne) risk certain death for a bundle of money or for the triumph of democracy? Because we know the reason for the heroics in The Last hun, the edge is taken off some of the spectacular actions. There is a certain amount of violence on the part of Scott (he murders one hood by running him down) but most of the shooting is done by partner.

Without Scott, the film would have been a bore. With him, it's acceptable but not spectacular. THE NEW Dick Van Dyke Show, for those with rose-colored memories, Is just the same sort of mindless entertainment that's been offered In the vacuum supposedly left by his old show with Mary Tyler Moore. This time, the wife Is Hope Lange, lute of The Ghost and Mrs. Mulr, and It'a too bad that she didn't stay with the ghost while Dick stayed with Mary.

I must admit, the situation Is slightly unusual. There are not many married couples on TV, and not many of those with children. Jimmy Stewart excepted, of course, Dick Is constantly kept awake on camera by a new manager, Marty Brill, and his on-camcra wife Nancy Dussault. Between the two couples, the child and the script, there's little to laugh about. At least we know now why unbroken homes are so unpopular on television.

FOR THOSE who've been keeping tabs on Canadian content, CBC has reported that the English network averaged 69.3 per cent last year In prime time, and 66.3 per cent over the average day. The French network had an overall average of 61.4 per cent, but Its prime lime figures hit 70.4 per cent. U.S., European gap closes as movies are more alike Ballet Horizons in Victoria the other day when I read about the forthcoming visit to Vancouver of two widely known and respected Welsh choirs. The Godre'r Aran Choir apitears Tuesday night at 8:30 at the John Oliver High School Auditorium, and Eraser, under the siHinsorship of the Vancouver Cambrian Society, and (he Pen-dyrus Male Voice Choir which Is being presented in the Queen Elizabeth Theatre on October 12 by David Y. 1.

Lui. Their style will he somewhat different. The Godre'r Aran Choir specializes in Penilllon singing (an ancient art based on musical and poetic extemporization) while the PendyruB ensemble draws on the choral literature of many centuries for Its repertoire not neglecting, I should add, some of the best loved traditional songs of Wales. Incidentally, the SO voice Pendyrus fought chase isn't hard enough, the love-making Is too gentle and their sudden departure is mesningless. It Is, however, Paul's first ballet end Is a competent attempt that should be reworked.

Dianne Hell and Graham Goodlmdy provided the high point of the evening with their Black Swan pas de deux from Swan Lake. Miss Bell sparkled In her performance. The nervousness and strain evident In her performance lust week in Vancouver were gone. Together they earned the extended curtain calls from the near-capacity audience at Victoria's Macpherson Playhouse, Morley Wiseman's ballet Spectrum followed and has undergone some drastic changes and Improvements with costumes and lighting by Vancouver artist Michael Malcolm. It is an abstract bit of dance which Mixed program leaves mixed feelings this year, its extensive special events will be omitted.

One Innovation, Roud said, will be a series of onstage panel discussions after seven or eight movies. Participants will he actors, directors, critics, screen writers, producers and others prominently connected with the film Industry. In doing this, the festivul hopes to widen its scope by going beyond the individual films to broader Issues. Among those named for the panel discussions are Woody Allen, Paul Bartel, Wurren Beatty, Robert Bresson, Kit Carson, Kurt Vonnegut Jack Nicholson, Krzysztof Zunussl, David Frost, Stanley Kramer, Barbara Loden, Sidney Lumet, Frank Perry and Milos Forman. Roud estimated thul he and the program committee hud screened 450 potential entries.

As in previous years, the committee Included Arthur Knight, Henri Langlols, Andrew Sards and Susan Sontug. Recent additions to the committee were Arthur L. Mayer and Richard Corliss, editor of Film Comment, The nine source countries and the number of films from each are as follows: The United States, five; Italy and France, three each; West Germany, two, and the Soviet Union, Japan, Poland, Yugoslavia and Switzerland, one each. The Debut, a Soviet film, will open the festival on Oct. 1.

It is described as being about people In a provincial Russian town and as offering some amazing peeks at the bureaucracy of the Russlun-film Industry. It was directed by Gleb Panfilov. Jone (furthest forward at left) choir Is (he principal attraction at San Francisco's British Week Trade Fair, after which it tours major cities in Uie U.S. and Canada. The Godre'r Aran Choir, complete with traditional Welsh harpist and national Eisteddfod adjudicator and conductor, Tom Jones, comes to Canada with the signal honor of having been the only Welsh choir invited to sing at the recent Investiture of Prince Charles as the Prince of Wales.

Beginning October 7 at 8:30 p.m. In the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Duo Victoria (consisting of plunlst Robin Wood and violinist Sydney Humphreys) will give the first of three recitals playing Beethoven's Sonala In flat, Opus 12, No. Three; Brahms' Sonata in major and Cesar Franck's Sonata in A Major. often clashes with the music (Four Last Songs by Richard Strauss), but more often delights in contrast to it. White body stockings and "humanold" helmets worn by the four dancers created an Illusion of an outer space ballet performed in moments of zero gravity, Kenneth Melville's Soiree rounded out the program and the appearunce of Paul Wakey improved the work considerably hut not enough.

(Blukey suffered a leg Injury last week and was replaced with Goodody doubling In his own and Blukey's rolei). The bullet Is a placid one, Victorian In mood and showed a luck of direction and strength In the choreography. It was painfully obvious, loo, that the small Mage area of the theatre confined much of the dancers' movement and expression. Soiree has many pleasing qualities, but they are loo few und fur between to make the complete bullet work. after having spent some four months working on It.

In addition, associates of Wade said th lit the 31 year old editorial executive had become Increasingly disenchanted with Shaw's emphasis on hackllst and reference hooks, whereas he preferred to work on new books of fiction and non-fiction. Among the hooks Wade edited are Herman Kahn's The Year 2,000, Dr. iirmio neuellieim The Empty Fortress, and Malcolm Lowery's posthumous novel, October Ferry to Gabriola. Peter Rltner. vice oresident anH tor general of World's publishing division, who brought Wade to the company wnen uie iwo men resigned from Mac-millan two years ain.

dem rllipH ilm Ignalion as "a terrible personal loss for me and a great professional loss for worm. Wade's departure was also deplored uy ivianin chairman of World, who attributed the move in "mil Ing away from highly visible trade nooss io encyclopedias and general ref erence niHiKs. Discussing the agreement on the Geh len memoirs, Ivln said It was conclud ed Tuesday "when we exchanged a check for the complete manuscript He said the transaction took place at a working luncheon which was also attended by the company's lawyers, several executives and George Bailey, an expert in German intelligence opera tions who has been acting as a con sultant for World in the negotiations. Bailey, who was a European corre- SMmdent for Uie now defunct The Re porter magazine, is completing a book for World titled The Germans. Levin said he expected the Gehlen book to be ready for publication in the United IIOOKWOItLII Editor lands spy memoirs but loses office cold war Louis never lost respect for the powers of pot By LOUIS CALTA New York Times NEW YORK Don't ask Richard Roud, who helps choose the movies for the New York Film Festival at Lincoln Centre, to name his favorites.

If you do, you will only get a question for your question. "Have you ever asked a mother who her favorite child Is?" The 42-year-old film scout and director responded the other day. "I can't choose among them, but I think they are all excellent. But then, it's the critics who will decide." Asked if he had detected any trends in his quest for festival entries, Roud replied; "The biggest trend 1 can think of is that American films are getting to be like the European type, Or maybe it's the other way around. In any event, there appears to be leas of a gap be-, tween the two." "Specifically," he said, "films In general are less conventionally plotted than they have ever been, This trend has been going on for the last several years, but it now seems to have Intensified," The festival, which until last May seemed unlikely to survive because of a lack of funds, opens Its ninth year at the 850 -seat Vivian Beaumont Theatre on Oct.

1 and runs through Oct. 18. Last year, It was housed In the Philharmonic Hull and the 1.096-seat Alice Tully Hull. A total of 18 films from nine countries, compared with the 27 of last year, will be presented. Each film will be shown once.

As part of the festival's economies with Red Nichols' Five Pennies, were sharing a "joint" In the club's parking lot between shows. "Just then two big healthy dicks came from behind a car nonchalantly and said to us, we'll take the roach (cigarette) boys," Armstrong recalled. "So one dick stayed with me until I went into the club and did my lust show. He enjoyed it too. Because when he and I were on our way down to the police station' we had a heart to heart talk." The talk, predictably, elicited the detective's admission that he and his family were big funs of Satchmo's and wouldn't dream of letting any harm come to his "chops." All the same, the 31-year old trumpeter singer spent 10 days In the Los Angeles county juil before being released on a six-month suspended sentence.

Thereafter, he wrote to Jones, he concluded life was too short and his ambition too great to risk the "drastic penalties" of further narcotics convictions. "So we had to put it down. But if we all get as old as Melhusela our memories will always be of lots of beauty and warmth from gage. but the price got a little too high to pay (law wise)," he wrote. Jones and his fellow author, trumpeter historian John Chilton, have fashioned Louis Into less a conventional biography than a chain of anecdotes and personal reminiscences, punctuated with analysis of Louis' music and personality.

It abounds In photographs and reproductions of concert programs and other documentary material, placed so as to illustrate points made In the text on the pages where they are made. jMIMimilW Illllll IHl By KEN SPOTSWOOD VICTORIA Vancouver's Ballet Horizons danced their first full evening program here Saturday night a mixed progrum that left some mixed feelings ubout the performance. It marked the debut of Faun, a new ballet choreographed by Bullet Horizons' Paul Blakey who conceived the work as a pas de deux partnered by his wifu Nicola. It is a loosely-woven ballet that fails to succeed for several reasons. Essentially, it is an encounter between a Faun und a Nymph, two sensuous, mythological bodies known for their rampant love making and teasing.

The concept was not taken fur enough In the ballet, It Is sometimes pleasing, particularly with Paul's Puckish antics, but begins and ends without any real encounter or sense of accomplishments. The hard Ixmls also includes a Chilton analysis of Armstrong's 50 years on records, the emphasis on the earlier and more influential recordings, and a year by-year chronology of the musician's career. There may lie more comprehensive biographies of Imis Armstrong to come, but they will have to go far to capture the warmth and flavor of the man as vividly as have Jones and Chilton. By HENRY RAYMONT New York Times NEW YORK The World Publishing Company has signed a contract for the controversial memoirs of Gen. Reluhard Gehlen, West Germany's former Intelligence chief and Inst a top editor who played a key role In obtaining them, Completion of the negotiations that give the company world rights to the memoirs outside Germany for a reported $500,000 became known on the weekend together with conflicting versions of the resignation of James C.

Wade, editor In chief of World's adult trade division. Wade first alerted the company to the existence of the memoirs early last summer. According to publishing sources, Wade resigned after being excluded from the final meeting last Tuesday with Gehlcn's representative, Volker Hansen, by Christopher Shaw, World's president. In separate interviews, neither Wsde nor Shaw would discuss any differences. "I left very amlcally and very happily," Wade said, interrupting a visit to another publishing house where he was Inquiring about a job.

"Once the Gehlen book was taken care of I simply wanted to change." Shaw, reached at his summer home In East Hampton, N.Y., confirmed that Wade was not present at the Tuesday luncheon, but explained that this was because he had resigned the night before. "He left very suddenly and I haven't talked to him," the company president said. Other sources at World, who asked not to be Identified, Indicated that one reason for Wade's sudden departure wss precisely that he had not been invited to participate in the conclusion of the deal By RICHARD M. SUDIIALTER United Press International LONDON It might have been the credo of any one of the current crop of rock superstars. "We always looked at pot as a sort of medicine, a cheap drunk and with much better thoughts than one that's full of liquor.

But with the penalties that came, I for one had to put it down though the respect for it. will stay with me forever. have every reason to' say these words and am proud to say them. From experience." That experience waa not this year or even last, but 40 years ago, the writer no rock star but Louis Armstrong. For four decades, as he moved from the relatively narrow celebrity of the jazz world Into wider acceptance In show business, Louis kept silent about 1931, his encounters with "gage," as musicians called It then and with the But early this year, only months before his death at 71, he told the full story In a letter to British author critic Max Jones, a personal friend.

It forms a sort of centrepiece to Louis, a biographical study of Armstrong published by Studio Vista and scheduled for U.S. publication by Little, Brown In November. Louis was In Los Angeles, appearing at Frank Sebastian's Cotton Club with the Les White Orchestra. As many jazzmen of the period, Armstrong had no objection to occasional smoking of "mu-ggles" or "gage." One night he and drummer Vic Ber-ton, a star in his own right for his work JAZZMAN UH IS AKMSTICONO after 10 day In Jie.ll. a resolve to Rive up the kKu never the warm and lieiiutifid memories.

All the familiar elements of the Sutch-mo saga are here: the tireless globetrotting, generosity, and determination to "play that music" at all cost, his attention to bis "chops" and even his sole outburst on the civil rights question, a 1957 denunciation of U.S. President Dwiijht D. Eisenhower and Gov. Orval Fuulius of Arkaiihus over the school desegregation Issue. States next spring..