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THE PROVINCE, Monday, May 17, 1971 35 Anilretts Schroeder. James SPEAKS Classical concert Don't laugh. The Andromeda Strain is about a growing, green blob. Now at the Odeon on Granville, the most terrifying thing about it is the sign outside the theatre that reads, "The When I first heard about the idea I gravitated toward the seat of the. scornful.

Resource Publications (Vancouver) sent me a letter detailing a project entitled Solo Flight, a poetry kit aimed at the high school (Grades 9-12) student in Canada. Elijah conscientious but lacks command most terrifying aspect of this motion picture is that the incident has already occurred." It's not science- fiction, say the production publicists, but science-fact. I would suggest a word like i Maybe it was the term "kit." Maybe it was the suspicion of gimmickry. At any rate I had my doubts about the whole enterprise until I began to conduct more and more readings in SllllMKli B.C. high schools By LAWRENCE CLUDERAY Performances of Mendelssohn's oratorio Elijah are of such rare occurrence nowadays that the Handel Society of New Westminster was fairly well assured of a fine audience for its presentation of the work in the Vincent Massey hogwash, but it's not antiseptic enough for the germ-free environment where four medical specialists played by Kate Arthur Hill, David Wayne and James Olson search out the killer from outer space.

James SHOWING STRAIN Olson struggles to save the world, civilization and humanity. Theatre In Canada number of the poets reading their work as well as Indian chants and folksongs. This is important, because the marriage of music and poetry is an ever: increasing phenomena these days. Also included are overhead projection" -slides, as well'as an Earle Birney poem in manuscript form (a look into how a -poem is drafted, edited over and over, finally completed usually several ver-: -sions) and a Judith Copithorne poster poem. In short, an anthology of present-day 'I Canadian poetic activity in which both 1 student and teacher can find the expo-sure necessary to reacquaint themselves with an art they may have felt to be 1 more and more inaccessible.

And be-' cause this Solo Flight is planned essen-tially as a "survey it helps student to find his style without drag1- ging him by the ear through term after- term of (possibly, for him) lifeless ver-5 biage. Learning for historic reasons has never made more than a minimal sense to me, and that's one thing this form of study manages to avoid. Actually, the multi-media kit (on any particular subject) is becoming more and mare popular in many areas. Sever- al literary journals now include all sorts; I of get-involved gadgetry, tapes and even electrical devices. Resource Publications produces a ma- rine kit, complete with real dried star- fish, coral, etc.

as well as a timber kit, with bags of pulp, break-away sections of plywood, filmstrips and taped com mentary, packages of cones, samples of fir, cedar, hemlock stack of booklets on all facets of the in-1 dustry. More and more books (particularly poStry) are being sold complete with tape recordings of the poet reading his work. Phonograph records are including' posters and printed lyrics almost as a matter of course. The word these days is fusion, synth esia and cybernetics, and it's only a matter of time before it becomes the watchword of even such ponderous instK tutions as departments of Jane Eyre augers new O'Keefe policy and found myself running into one bewildered English teacher after another. All of them realized that Wordsworth wasn't what the students wanted, but they were incapable of providing the material and information for a study of the poetry to which they could relate modern Canadian poetry, written from within a milieu in which they themselves spent their time, written in a language they themselves could understand.

It was about that time I took a hard second look at an idea which seemed more and more the answer to the problem. I think the idea works. The "kit" contains five chapbooks (eight copies of each) of poetry written for the most part by living Canadian poets, both Indian and white. They cover virtually all forms being used in Canada today, including as well the ballad, the Indian chant, the folksong and the concrete. The idea here Is to split a class into groups of eight and let them explore the various forms until they have found themselves one or several with which they can be comfortable.

In this sense, the kit is basically a launching device to help the student find his entry into what has too often been made a hopelessly archaic and obscure art. But there is more. Two cartridge tapes are also supplied, featuring a Publishing in Canada At this point, I must explain that I didn't read Michael Crichton's bestseller, but I don't seem to remember any page one accounts of disaster in the past five years that could possibly be related to The Andromeda Strain. A research satellite lands in a small Arizona town, killing all but two inhabitants with a mysterious bug that attacks blood. (There's a recently made film titled Eat.

My Flesh, Drink My Blood that I'm trying to avoid.) As the close-up cameras show, the blood runs out of a slashed wrist in powdered form, disproving the theory that 98 per cent of the human body is water. Your job, gang, is to discover why the bug didn't kill everybody. Should you decide not to accept, there's a truckfull of Army types surrounding your house who will drag you off anyway. Faced with this alternative, researcher Kate Reid and general practitioner Olson join a more willing chief, played by Hill. It is suspected that Hill is trying to correct a human error made by a biological weapons unit, but no one knows for sure.

I don't want to dwell on the plot, ex' cept to note that it is both worn and unimaginative, capped with an incredibly hackneyed ending. Auditorium Saturday night. Karel ten Hoope conducted orchestra, and a quintet of soloists. Elijah was first performed in Birmingham, England, in 1846 under the composer's direction and The Times reported the event thus "never was there a more complete triumph never a more thorough and speedy recognition of a great work of art." Across the intervening 125 years that judgment has undergone considerable qualification. Few will deny that Elijah is an inspired work, but for too long it has been encumbered with a quasi-ecclesiastical attitude utterly at odds with its intensely dramatic quality.

One thing I liked about Saturday's performance was ten Hoope's approach which was fresh, and with just enough forward impulse to sweep the listener along with irresistible momentum. However, if the oratorio is to arrest and hold the attention of an audience today it must have a singer in the title role who dominates the proceedings, who reveals Elijah as a leader, and a prophet and sometimes a very angry prophet. Alas, Donald Oddie is a conscientious rather than a commanding singer who was at his best in the prophet's simple words to the stricken widow and Lord God of Abraham which, though a bit short on weight and dignity, was quite, nicely done. He simply does not have the voice for the blazing Is Not His Word Like a Fire, in the singing of which, he struck no sparks, or the middle section of It Is Enough, where his voice was oftimes barely audible over the orchestral swell. Soprano Ruth Huang did justice to the importunate widow's plea and gave a fairly acceptable account of Hear Ye, Israel.

She has, however, a bad habit of approaching high notes from below and, under pressure, her tone is inclined to spread. As for tenor Marcel Larochelle, he sang in an assured and forthright manner but his voice is not notable either for warmth or color, while boy soprano Don Hanley produced some nice ohter-worldly sounds but only one word that I could catch. Ironically enough it was the word "nothing." As I rather expected might be the case, contralto Gloria Doubleday was the standout among the soloists. She brought compelling insight to Woe Unto Them, and, despite some poorish phrasing, made the hackneyed Rest in the Lord shine anew with simple sincerity. From the choral point of view there was much to admire.

What a pity ten Hoope is short of tenors, and that the chorus hasn't got a tit more weight at the bottom. What a pity too that the Baal choruses did not excite more with their ever-growing urgency. However, conductors who strive for maximum dramatic effect in the early stages of Elijah often find they have nothing left in reserve. Not so ten Hoope whose choralists produced some good singing in Cast Thy Burden and He Watching Over Israel, and succeeded in communicating a feeling of heartfelt thankfulness in the chorus following the rainstorm. By VICTOR STANTON Canadian Press TORONTO When Jane Eyre, the box-office smash of the 1970 Charlotte-town Festival, opened at Toronto's O'Keefe Centre it became the first Canadian-produced musical presented as part of the centre's regular subscription season.

A spokesman for the centre's publicity department said he could remem-', ber only one other Canadian-produced show presented since the O'Keefe-opened a decade ago the musical Anne of Green Gables, another Char-lotletown-orifiinated hit that played here last year but was not a subscription attraction. Although the spokesman would not confirm if it would be the centre's policy to schedule at least one Canadian-produced work in future subscription seasons, a notice recently sent out to 1970-71 subscribers included among possible shows for next season another Charlottetown Festival musical, Mary, based on the life of Mary, Queen of Scots. I Previously, it had, been announced that on the day the box office for Jane Eyre opened there was an immediate i Aii fapps ppnlnrnVfl mi c-hnu finnctr al thfl nnc I tt 1 1 1 If At lICIDfl ajiuuiu ivuaiud iuv uuojiumij va uoiti 4-Kn coin nf ('ingHi'in natural pachninof suuiiu uidLiitco hi in ci luuiibiico. caucv imiduiaii ciiviiuuiiiciib. Anuiner arui'ie.

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Directed and choreographed by Alan Lund the festival's artistic director, Jane Eyre, an adaptation of the pre-Victorian novel by Charlotte Bronte, played to 98-per-cent paid attendance in its premiere season last summer. The Toronto opening saw the debut of Winnipeg actress Joan Karasevich in the title role. Miss Karasevich, of Ukrainian extraction and a graduate of the University of Manitoba and the National Theatre School in Montreal, lost out to another actress in auditions last year, but was asked by Lund to reaudition this year and got the part. The musical, largely the brainchild of British songwriter Hal Shaper, who co-authored the script and wrote the lyrics, sketchily tells the story of an English girl raised in an orphanage who becomes governess to the young ward of a severe and somewhat mysterious upper-class Englishman named Edward Rochester. In the Charlottetown company's production, the role of Rochester is played with a Richard Burton-like determination by Bill Cole.

For the Toronto opening, additional comedy scenes were added. These, mostly involving the characters of Rochester's valet and maid, played by Douglas Chamberlain and Roma Hearn, received the most applause from the premiere audience, which in general was more polite, about the production as a whole. Herbert Whittaker in The Globe and Mail said the musical "is amiable, pleasing, unsophisticated and modest There is craft and goodwill and a kind of quiet integrity here. Should Jane Eyre be a musical at all? Perhaps it would do better as a kind of opera, allowing its basic melodrama full expression. But if you decide on the format of the popular musical you must expect to lose some of the Bronte scope.

"The whole thing slips down into fun and games below stairs with an occasional mood piece." Paehlke says he doesn't expect the magazine to make money. "I think everyone on our editorial board realized, rr Tn Tnn iiEar inur ini im ii i if niiir tlVIII HIV vuvobt WlUt u0 vuiwu Xw vru By KORKY KOROLUK Canadian Press TORONTO A new Canadian magazine dealing with environmental problems is slowly making its way into book stores and magazine stands. Called Alternatives, it is published quarterly by a group of faculty and students at Trent University in Peterborough, Ont. The editor is Robert Paehlke, a political scientist in the politics department at Trent. The first issue appeared during the last week in April.

It contains 40 Maclean's magazine-sized pages with no advertising. The single-copy price is 75 cents and the annual subscription is $3. There were 1,500 copies of the first issue printed. It's a shoe-string operation. "All of our editorial staff is working on a voluntary basis," Paehlke said in an interview.

"None of our contributors is paid yet although that's something we hope to get into in the future." The first issue contains seven articles, including one dealing with the relationship between growing Canadian nationalism and environmental problems. Written by Geoff Mains, a doctoral student in biochemistry at the University of Toronto, it argues that Canada Film Board package sold to U.S. TV sometning out ot poem, im prepared-to subsidize it a bit myself." The first mailing has been made and the magazine distributed to Peterborough bookstores, where Paehlke reports it is selling satisfactorily. The next step is to place it in bookstores across Canada, and in some of the larger city The marvelous sets, and good acting, save the film from total disaster. Although the expensive gadgetry in the story is best seen in small doses, director Robert Wise has provided enough visual material of a scientific nature to make the action real.

White rats die off in an instant (with the approval of the American Humane Society) and a screaming, healthy baby underlines the scientists' complete lack of knowledge. When all four scientists finally get around to research after at least 30 minutes of scrubbing on camera, it tarns into a nice little detective-story-cum-chase-scene. Viewers are likely to learn more about how to track down an organism than about the human psyche. It was the same joy of discovery I experienced in high school physics class. If there is any message involved, it is that scientists shouldn't play with matches, and that their fireproof buildings may not be sd fireproof.

There is the usual amount of human error and government inefficiency; it doesn't add to the story but it does induce a further note of realism. The Andromeda Strain, in novel form, is claimed to have made the public more aware of the dangers of outer-space organisms riding on the back ot astronauts. I'm afraid the movie version has the unfortunate effect of cancelling that effect. That green blob did it, I think. Will future issues carry advertising? "Frankly, I don't know," he "We're babes in the woods in the maga-azine business.

We've been told that if we don't accept advertising, we aren't subject to the 12 per cent business tax. We'll have to get this confirmed. It might be cheaper for us to run without fiHvnrticinff rothm than four flric ana nave to pay tne Canadian Press MONTREAL The National Film Board has announced the sale of seven awardwinning films to the American Broadcasting Corp. for use in a one-hour children's television show entitled Curiosity Shop, i Two of the films, Walking and What on Earth were Academy Award nominees. Other titles sold are Sky, The Quiet Racket, The House That Jack Built, The Great Toy Robbery and Cosmic Zoom.

The NFB announcement described the sale, the first of NFB productions to a major U.S. television network, as a real breakthrough" that would make the board's work belter known in the U.S. til PI TI 11 KY iiirr MilMM i.i.h nr mm, 6 7 8 12 4 cnannc highlights 10 World chess match 11 12; Fischer gets jump on Russian his pregame tennis exercises for the remainder of this match. Scheduled for 10 rounds, it ends whenever a player reaches 5Va points. A win is worth one point, and draws Hlmk I WtllT N-KIW Whit 1 ulinuniiy 1.

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Fischer, who was about 10 minutes late in getting from the tennis match lo the chess match, appeared a certain victor of the opening round Sunday night. It was adjourned on the 40th move after nearly five houri of play to 2 p.m. today. If Mark Taimanov of the Soviet Union refuses to resign, Fischer appears In a strong enough position to force fate in three or four moves when play resumes. The Russian lost all hope of forcing a draw In the late stages of the match when the two players traded queens.

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The score now standi at lVa for Korchnoi to to for Gellcr. Another Soviet grandmaster, TlKrai" Pctroslan and Robert Iluebncr of West Germany, playing In Sevilla, Spain, tied Sunday on the 27th move in their third game. The two players also tied their other two matches and the standing now Is points each. In Lai Palmas, Canary Islands, East Ccrmanys Wolfgang Uhlmann defeated Dcnmark'i Bent Larsen In 46 moves in their second game Sunday. The match, adjourned after 41 moves Saturday, lasted a total of seven hours.

The two players now ire tied with one point each In two games. The first match Friday was won by Larsen when Uhlmann gave up after 44 moves. Canadian Press TORONTO Canadian photographer Roloff Beny has pumped gas as a boy In Medicine Hat, been honored at the International Book Fair in Leipzig, East Germany and had the medal he won there stolen In Toronto. The Alberta-bom artist, who was in Toronto for a retrospective exhibition of his work, said the small silver disc was taken from a plastic rase at the exhibit. The medal was awarded In for his book, Japan In Color.

"It's really strange," he said. "The only other thing I've had stolen was here in Toronto. My book on Canada, which was all autographed by poets and artists, was taken one night at party at Mrs. John David Eaton's." Canada: To Every Thing There li a Season was one of the books covered In the exhibition. The otheri were A Time of the Gods, Pleasure of ind The Thrones of Earth and Heaven.

The exhibition, A Visual Odyssey, waa assembled by New York's Museum of Modern Art and was held at the Toronto Dominion Centre,.