The Province from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada • 31

THE PROVINCE, Friday, May 7, 1971 James PEMt Excerpts from a letter by Cable 10 director Vic Waters: in certain specific areas such is 'real access by the population' to Cable, I assure you that my concerns have extended over an even greater World Chess Championships Qualifying round to be fought here period of time and have been no less sincere. "Although my invitation to community groups of. every category to come forward and use Cable 10 has been, published many times, the I W' if! I response from groups other than those already seen on our channel has been discouraging. "When interested groups suggest that a committee might better serve the community, they fail to acknowledge that Cable 10 is programmed by a com1 mittee of persons "But most important, it is not programmed by Vancouver Cablevision. Ca- our group can defeat both me and Lar-sen (Bent Larsen of Denmark who Fischer expects to advance to the semi finals and meet the winner of the Fischer-Taimanov match).

Kazic says that in the event Fischer becomes the new world champion there may be complications because of the various conditions Fischer would make. Fischer conceded that he "would ask that the system of Candidates Matches be changed so that they would really-, show the relative strength of the two players. I would suggest that the matches should be won by the player who first wins six games, drawn games not coumV ing. "At present the matches are and if a player should win a game by luck, this would be a big handicap for the other player in a short match. Also I would suggest that the match for the 1 i-Iil -L.

1 I I I I i 1 iV 4 It i v-'1 I if I ble 10 is a member of Canadian Wire-vision family of companies, but with respect to its entire operation funding excluded it is totally autonomous. "Cablevision has never interfered with the programming nor dictated a single period of its eighteen months' schedule. With respect to your statement that 'low income groups and unorganized people have little chance to be heard' this is simply not true and I have ample evidence that we have given access right down to single persons with a point of view, Their point of view, not mine!" "Metro Media Council of Vancouver knows, as I do, that to produce exciting, mobile, highly visual, and highly relevant community programming it would have to command capital and manpower that is simply not available to Cable 10 at this time." "And a final thought. The people of Vancouver already have a broadcast facility in which they with other Canadians have a vested interest to the tune of some $160 million a year. "I'd like to join community access groups and committees and work with them toward greater exposure for a greater number of concerned people on any and all stations pledged to serve the public interest." Waters' last reference was to the CBC, of course, which has practically the same relationship with the government of Canada as Cable 10 does with Vancouver Cablevision.

From personal experience in visits to Cable 10's operation, I know that Waters and other staff members of the facility have put their hearts and souls into making the concept of cable-casting work. Other cable companies, admittedly smaller, haven't even tried. But I'll have to stick with my opinions on public access by underprivileged groups or persons. For heaven's sake, many people have never seen Cable 10. And not only the question of the monthly subscription fee.

I live in the area of False Creek, which alderman Harry Rankin described as a "slum." I can afford Cablevision, but it's not available. Check the cheap-rent areas of the city, and you'll find that many are not served by cable companies. 1 That's not Cablevision's fault, perhaps. Blame Free Enterprise. The To communicate in an electronic society you have to learn the language.

Without cable service, the gap between the haves and have-nots is widened. Even those who know the electronic language need money. Without films or visual aids, it's radio. There's access to every show in town that's not restricted. But it ain't free.

Rovers turn Cave into Irish pub By JEANI READ By PAUL RAUGUST On the eve of the Candidates Matches of the world chess championships, many experts are predicting that the current round will end the Soviet Union's long domination of the game. U.S. grandmaster Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn, N.Y., who meets Russia's Mark Taimanov in one of the quarterfinal matches at the University of B.C. starting Thursday, is being touted as the strongest threat to the Soviets since the competitions started after the Second World War. Three other Russians are in the quarter-finals, to be played at various locations this year.

The winner of the Candidates Matches wins the right to meet world champion Boris Spassky of the U.S.S.R. in Moscow in 1972. Bozidar Kazic of Yugoslavia has been named chief arbiter for the Vancouver match, to be held at UBC's, Graduate Centre. The match is expected to continue for at least three weeks. Kazic, writing in Chess Life and Review, said after the Majorca tournament which determined the quarter-finalists last year: "Fischer is a unique figure in the history of chess, the most talented player America has produced since Paul Mor-phy.

He is described as the genius the likes 'of which appear but once in a century. But at the same time he is the most controversial figure of contemporary chess." The remarks about controversy rounding Fischer are based on the strict restrictions the 27-year-old American insists on for his matches. Among these are that competitions end at sundown Fridays and not resume until sundown Saturdays, based on religious reasons, and that the public be excluded from the room in which the competition is played. The Canadian Chess Federation will, however, transmit the action to an adjacent room in the Graduate Centre to which the public is invited. Fischer regards this the most crucial period in his career.

Kazic quotes him as saying: "I believe it will now be for the first time that both finalists in the Candidates Matches are not from the Soviet Union. I don't think that Taimanov in I nn um ui a uacu number of victories, with draws not counting." In past Fischer has accused the Soviet grandmasters of playing as a team in individual tournaments. Mark Taimanov is reportedly pleased at having been matched against Kazic said "Taimanov is going info battle with Fischer with complete self- confidence. He feels that after so much praise and glorification of Fischer's successes, the match with the American grandmaster will be an extraordinary chance to become famous by defeating the hitherto unsurpassed Fischer. At any rate, he is an opponent against whom one has everything to gain and nothing to lose." "Larsen has no chance in the forth? coming competition," Taimanov is quot-; ed as saying.

"Fischer certainly is a great danger and it is he who has the best chances. But a struggle lies ahead One Soviet grandmaster said of Fischer: "He is a great fighter, a genius of the chess struggle. He knows no. mild. Avnnrts iie nnnnnnnf mucf win iVia rtpitir U.S.

GRANDMASTER BOBBY FISCHER a genius, the like of which appears but once in a century. m-vTTr7iT a crfTrnTTr Followinir is a list of dates of rounds to be Dlaved at UBC: 5 Rounds are scheduled for May 13, 16, 18, 20, 23, 25, 27, 30, and June 2, with the final round scheduled for June 4. The match will be over when one player reaches oy points. If i at the end of 10 rounds the score is tied 5-5 the first win in extension rounds decides the match. Sessions will be played at the Graduate Centre starting at 4:30 1 p.m.

except on Fridays when they will be held at the Penthouse of the Angus Building and start at 2:30 p.m. That time also holds true for the May 31 round. Tickets are $1 per session or $5 for a match because he concedes none. Fischer does not agree to a draw even when the outcome is quite clear. He is a great fighter and a good psychologist.

Only his repertoire of openings is pass. 5 Art and Artists There are five leprechauns in town-five leprechauns whose music magic conjures up gay postcards of an ideal Ireland, and whose intrepid humor conjures up a long-ago and far-away state of mischievous innocence. Yes, it's the Irish Rovers back again. They're at the Cave until May 15, bubbling over with good things, making everyone feel just that much better, smiling those terribly contagious smiles and singing those terribly contagious songs. Contagious, because you have to smile and you have to sing along.

Even if you don't know the songs, it's easy, and that's what they want you to dosing and smile and clap and stamp. Their spell is light but irresistible. This time around the show is opened by a comedian-vocalist-guitarist called Ron Coden, who tells very awful jokes and makes them very funny, the way only the worst jokes can be funny, if delivered with the proper wry twist. He cheered everyone considerably on Thursday night, before the Rovers bounced on stage with accordion, banjo and guitars in tow, to take us to their own charming and artless land. We were there for more than' an hour, and we never got lost or tired of the voyage.

Indeed, they did make the Cave into an Irish pub, as they announced they would, but they evoked even more than that a storybook garden of the fancy and of the bawdy, and the rollicking mirth of children at play. They sang drinking songs and lullabies and fighting songs, the whole slew of Irish Rover predictables and always, lovables. They played tin whistle and harmonica, they joked and teased and played and laughed. But they also presented a peculiar and eerie old Gaelic melody, a short and sudden echo of haunted glens and ancient rituals, a moment I wished could have been longer. However, the audience was already impatient for more foot-stamping and singing, and the Rovers hastened out of their reverie into a rousing, what they called "originally Irish" version of Galway Bay.

The Irish Rovers really are, simply, great entertainers. You can practise your harmonies when you sing with them (it's much better than warbling to yourself in the shower), you can laugh at their antics, and you can, sometimes, shed a figurative nostalgic tear for the time when the world was always as simple as they make it. hadbolt exorcises Garr spell i i it HTPl TOKWCT fwM A fl It 't I 1 I tn'jZxif iM i fm ill i Ill 'ill 1 ft 'W 'V'm P'' i mi it'fcf if; I his 'i if 5' mmki ml UNTITLED SCULPTURE MAQUETTE, BY JACK KIDDER tight precision from a isolated Victorian. By RICHARD SIMMINS There is a mixed bag at the Bau-Xi Gallery: Drawings and reproductions by Jack Shadbolt, sculpture by Jack Kidder and a few major paintings by Maxwell Bates tucked in the back room. Shadbolt is exhibiting IS large, charcoal drawings produced on Hornby Island in the winter of 1968-69.

With the gallery he reproduced them in a folio as The Hornby Island Suite. (Homage to Emily Carr). The folio is a limited edition of 350 copies of 15 drawings reproduced by offset lithography, supervised by the artist to ensure faithful translation to a reduced scale. One hundred and fifty folios are set aside for a signed edition and sell for $100. The remainder, unsigned but Identical, sell for $30.

The publication of the Hornby Suite is a major experiment for the Bau-Xi. You can call it a fusion of a democratic approach mixed with vanity printing. The signed folios are not collector's items, but on the other hand the unsigned verions are just as good and provide reasonable decoration when framed. Shadbolt, who knew Emily Carr as a student, seems to have had a mystical lovehate with this artist. She overwhelmed him.

The Hornby drawings are an attempt let us hope the final one to escape her influence. The results are neither vintage Shadbolt nor are they Emily Carr. They are competent a la mode exercises. In his introduction to the publication Shadbolt writes of his experiences in effulgent, rhapsodic prose. "Remembering Emily's moods and improvising on them as my own mood and the location and the weather shifted, I progressed from an architectural solemnity through and expression-istically graphic phase into a dark gloom and on into an exultant rhapsody until I finally realized that a quality of my own was emerging." In paying his belated respects and exorcising her spell Shadbolt has demonstrated that he can outdraw Carr.

Technically he is a superior draftsman, but he remains a lesser artist. JACK KIDDER'S Immaculate, steel and plexiglass sculptures have not been exhibited before in Vancouver, though recently he participated in a group show at Burnaby. He has eight works including five small maqucttcs which were originally designed as "illustrations" for a book of poems, Earth Meditations by Mike Doyle of Victoria. There are two works which I thought itunning. One is the programmed, space-time piece In which the artist projects ideas of light years moving through controlled space.

Triblum, life-size, gleaming and precise In stainless steel, shimmering chrome and IBM-perfect form is a beautiful work. It li complex and contemplative changing In mood as It sits In the sun or darkness or under cool neon lighting. Kidder has worked In Isolation for many years. His works needs exposure and patina from public viewing and touching. Nothing could provide a greater con- Networks asked for time for political dissent United Press International NEW YORK ABC, CBS and NBC have been asked by the American Civil Liberties Union to provide time for immediate response to televised presidential speeches by persons who hold opposing views.

The best way of achieving wide debate, said the ACLU in a letter to the U.S. network presidents, Is to obtain texts of presidential speeches before broadcast and make them available for persons with contrary views. Responses could be prepared by those disagreeing with the president's positions, and network commentators could provide the public with such diverse views. However, the ACLU said, diversity would be best served by giving air time to advocates of other positions. ij I I-- I 1 DRAWING No.

12, BV JACK SIIADBOLT recalllnfr Emily Carr's obsessive awe at tlte in-folding mystery deep in the foreboding forests. Gov't agency eyes own cinemas Canadian Press OTTAWA The Canadian Film Development a government agency, li considering whether it should set up Its own movie theatre chain to show Canadian films, Michael Spencer, corporation executive director, laid Thursday. Spencer told the Commons broadcasting committee that the advantage of such a chain would be that more Canadian films could be acreenrd. No decisions had yet been made by the corporation, which provides financial help to feature film producers. He was replying to David MacDonald (PC Egmont) who said the main prob West) suggested Canadian content quotas should be set for movie theatres.

Spencer laid In an interview later the corporation might consider recommending such quotas after further experience In distributing Canadian films. Replying to Patrick Nowtan PC Annapolis Valley), Spencer said the gov-ernmcnt agency frequently discusses the question of Canadian films for television with the CBC and the CTV Television Network Ltd. But it docs not make any specific recommendations about Increasing the number of Canadian films shown on television, he laid. lem for Canadian films In English Canada seemed to be distribution. Spencer agreed.

"We still have a tough fight to persuade Canadian distributors to take an active Interest In Canadian films." Spencer said Famous Players which owns a atring of movie theatres in Canada, has given financial help to seven Canadian feature films after the company was approached by the film development corporation. The Odeon group had so far refused to channel money Into Canadian film pro ductlnn but some smallrr theatre chains had. Mark Rose (NDP Fraser Valley TRIBLUM, RV JACK KIDDER life-size space-time piece, gloaming and precise in stainless steel and shimmering chrome. are museum pieces, are In the rear office, Old Max comes off third best. Which Is not unusual, but considering that his Beautiful B.C.

is the finest work of art at the Bau-Xi exhibition, not quite fair. r- trast to Shadbolt's flamboyant, bravura drawings than Kidder's tight precision which almost requires laboratory conditions for viewing, And Maxwell Bates? Ills five major canvases, two of which 4.