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TIIE PROVINCE, Friday, May 21, 1971 3J Ontario Place Prov. pleasure palace opens iff 11 ''ill fpivM M'llWwi4 i 4 flatly." 3 11 iJ i I pening at any one time on the site it'll come in handy, with more than 2,000 entertainers scheduled to take part in' opening ceremonies. In addition to the Forum, entertainment will be offered from floating barg- es, various spots around the islands and from the roofs of the five "pods" of the Ontario Place Pavilion sticking out of the water on stilts. Jim Ramsay, special projects director, says the government expects to earn about $2.6 million from Ontario Place during the first year of operation, including about $700,000 in sales taxes on admission tickets, restaurant meals and liquor. theatre called Cinesphere built to give the illusion that it is a ball floating on water, and the Forum, an outdoor amphitheatre with a capacity of 8,000.

Ontario Place will be open seven days a week 10 a.m. to 1 a.m. Monday through Saturday and 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Sundays.

The main exhibits will close for the season Oct. 11, Thanksgiving weekend, and reopen next spring. This weekend, visitors crossing the 300-foot-long two-level bridge 27 feet above Lake Ontario will enter the Welcome Wall, a huge spider-like structure serving as an information centre. Closed-circuit television monitors in the Welcome Wall will show what's hap- Canadian Press 1 TORONTO Fewer than three years ago, Ontario Place was an architectural pipe dream; Saturday at 10 a.m., the provincial government's $24 million Cinderella story becomes reality when Premier William Davis officially opens the lakefront showplace. Ontario Place is basically two man-made islands, 96 acres in area, set down solidly in the open spread of Lake Ontario to the west of Totonto harbor.

The two main islands are chopped into smaller chunks of land by canals and lagoons. The biggest eye-catchers are a domed Governor-General's Awards Activist refuses literary prize NIGHT LIGHTS OFF LAKE ONTARIO inspired by the province's successful participation in Montreal's Expo 67, an 80-acre dream pavilion is realized within 10 minutes of downtown Toronto. Neither will give in Chess champs at loggerheads philosophy at the University of Montreal, for his play Quans Nous Serons Heureux. B. P.

Nichol, 26, for three books of poems Beach Head, Still Water, The True Eventual Story of Billy the Kid-as well as an anthology edited by him, The Cosmic Chef; An Evening in Concrete. Michael Ondaatje, 27, Ceylonese-born English teacher at the University of Western Ontario, London, for his book of prose and poetry The Collected Works of Billy the Kid. Robert Weaver of the CBC and editor of Tamarack Review was head of the selection committee's English-language jury. Ottawa writer Claire Martin headed the French-language panel. Each recipient received a Canada Council cash prize of $2,500.

Canadian Press OTTAWA One of six Canadian authors selected to receive Governor-General literary awards refused to accept the honor at a presentation made by Governor-General Roland M'ichener. Fernand Ouellette, 40, a CBC public affairs producer, gave political reasons for not accepting the award. He was selected for his collection of essays, Les Actres Retrouves. Writer editor publisher David Godfrey, 32, received an award for his novel, The New Ancestors, hailed by critics as a major development in Canadian A third novel chosen for the awards was La Femme de Loth by Monique Bosco, 43, a professor of French literature at the University of Montreal. Other awards went to: Jacques Brault, 37, professor of afternoon.

It was adjourned Tuesday, and again Wednesday after more than 8'j hours of play in the 72nd move. Fischer has publicly criticized the game's acceptance of draws and therefore is not likely to make such an offer to Taimanov. If the game ends within two hours of play, the players will have two hours to settle the third game. Otherwise play on adjourned games will resume Monday. 'if! WVL i'f- A 1 itM-tanm By PAUL RAUGUST Soviet grandmaster Mark Taimanov appears to have time enough to burn.

While Bobby Fischer of the U.S. steadfastly refuses to offer draws in games that can end in nothing but forced draws, Taimanov is countering by refusing to resign in games that are nothing but losers. The two grandmasters, playing at the University of B.C. in a world chess championship elimination match, so far have started three games in four days of play, but each day has ended in an adjournment. Two games are now adjourned and, even if they are still undecided during play today, a fourth game will be started Sunday.

The outcome of only one game has been decided so far, and even that game had been adjourned. On Thursday, Taimanov got himself into the same sort of mess as he was in in the first game. He duplicated the first game's opening 10 moves, and ran up against the same brick wall of Fischer's King's Indian Defence. Time again was the big factor as the Soviet master spent 72 minutes on his 20th move. This left him approximately two minutes per move to complete the remaining 20 mandatory moves.

The 19th move turned out to be the one that turned the tide for Fischer as it allowed him to take an offensive position. At adjournment, Fischer was in a position to take Taimanov's bishop, leaving him with a rook, knight, king and three pawns to defend against black's four pawns, queen and king. Play will resume on the second game, which experts see as a forced draw, this WHITE Taimanov 1. f-y 2. P-QB4 3.

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N1COL ACCEPTS HIS AWARD FROM ROLAND MICHENER standing with the majority. Fresh and funny A bouquet to radio station CKNW. And please don't spray the orchids with pesticides. High school play is no bore The Wednesday night broadcast of consumer advo -cate Ralph Nader's speech to the UBC Alumni Association was a demonstration of broadcasting at its best, and the station deserves In the only other game played in the quarter-finals Thursday, Viktor Kor-chnoi conceded defeat to a fellow Russian, Yim Geller, in the fourth game in Moscow. Korchnoi won their first game a week ago and the second and third games were drawn.

praise even if the Canadian Radio- Spence reported was an. prepared long in advance of the man's death. Born in educated at early signs of success when Spence just filled in the blanks, yet the result was informative and even entertaining. CBC radio producers should occasionally listen to such programs as part of a purification ritual, washing some fancy ideas down the drain. But live broadcasting has its minor drawbacks.

One of the first sentences in Nader's speech was in praise of the CBC, which he described as the network that dared to broadcast his auto safety views before the U.S. stations. NW's people are sensitive that way. And before the Hotel Van microphones were switched off for the night, somebody mentioned in disapproving tones that NW insisted on exclusive live broadcast rights. That intervening hour of uninterrupted Nader was worth the trouble.

He's not the world's best orator in the conventional sense, but it's easy to see why hi environmental crusade has survived and grown. With the radio blasting away in the back garden (where I was weeding a pesticide-free organically pure food plot) the broadcast took on wartime characteristics. The call to unite against the enemy, corporate irresponsibility, had the right tone. Urgent, responsible, believable. One had the feeling that although the speech may not have affected the people who paid $6 to see Nader in person, it was really the radio listeners who counted most.

Such occasions are rare on radio. During the Queen's visit, I remember leaving the live TV coverage of the Queen's speech, jumping into the car and searching the radio dial to continue the conversation. There was none. Not even on the CBC. Just music and commercials.

Ti-ifn-wiiilhiif" iiini'- nii 'il A By JAMES BARBER Fresh? Very funny? Occasionally naive? More frequently sophisticated? Bright, colorful, theatrically ingenious? A little heavy? Where to start writing about a high school theatre piece, in a gymnasium, without being, patronizing or condescending, and without suggesting that the next stop for the production is Broadway, translation into 19 languages and a Canada Council sponsored tour of Russia for our new found friends? Electrogenesis, a West Vancouver High School production, written, produced, directed and staged by a group of Grade Nine students, is the best evening I have spent in a high school gymnasium, and a lot more rewarding than most evenings I have spent in amateur theatres. Obviously very little money, equally obviously a great deal of enthusiasm, but above everything else a serious dedication to the production. That's what they have on their makeshift stage, up p--- nmer of tin gym, with hardly any lighting to speak of, and a bright painted paper backdrop. Off stage, in t'e corridors, they ate the usual bunch of uncoordinated, incoherent kids, al; most embarrassed with one another." Doing it they are powerful enough to communicate with their peers and make their parents the embarrassed ones. Drama has a bad time in most high schools.

Not too many students get past the very conservative choices of their teachers. Electrogenesis is the groups' own, home grown, special blend of grass ELECTROGENETIC GROUP suiting out; (from left) Dave Swail, Paul Kirby and Dany Wark; Thursday night at West Van Secondary School. Television Commission happens to be meeting in town. Over two hours of live coverage of a public event, and nary a commercial within range. It was a special event for the station, which itself has become a crusader in the anti-pollution battle.

Thanks to thorough advance publicity (including a whopping and effective ad in the preceding day's edition of The Province) it not only performed a public service but probably grabbed a reasonably big slice of the ratings. In radio terms, 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. is definitely not prime time, and it takes shock tactics to convince sizable portions of tclevisionland to temporarily forsake the video portion of its collective opium pipe. Coverage of the speech was enhanced by a 30-minute introduction by Art Finley and newsman Terry Spence.

Not for Finley or Spence the CBC radio style using miles of audio tape, complete with sound effects, compressed into a few minutes. Both simply read from a typewritten script, and managed to convey more information about the fascinating life of Nader than any TV program could do with a similar amount of time. In newspaper language, the stuff roots theatre, no stems, no seeds, very pleasant, very mild. It is what is bugging any thinking kid, the irreconcila-bics of ecology and technology, the logue between God and his child prodigy, the confusion of prophets and profits. It is objective.

Not once does a character fall back on the old hackneyed lines of "my parents don't understand me" or "the generation gap is where it's at, man." The production Is concerned, all the way from Genesis to 1984. with some real problems. And they do it very well, with dance, with some mime, with a fresh, youthful sense of satire, and a really admirable sense of restraint, Electrogenesis runs again this evening at 8 p.m. It is part of the school's Drama Festival. Also on Saturday at 12:30 there will be a sensitivity workshop for theatre, and next Wednesday and Thursday an evening of one -act plays.

Watch Gwynyth Walsh. With half a chance, and not too many good reviews to spoil nor, this is a girl who could, one day, be very well known in the theatre. She is quite remarkable, a natural actress who moves and understands every minute she is on stage. 'Young actors left stranded' adjudicator Canadian Press PRINCE GEORGE Those who perform a play must consider its relationship to its audience, adjudicator Gil Bunch said at the opening night of the Fifth Annual B.C. High School Drama Festival.

4 About 350 students are attending the four-day festival and theatre conference. The three plays presented Wednesday were John Mortimer's Dock Brief, played by Prince George Senior Secondary School; Sam Shepard's Cowboys No. Two, played by Centennial, Coquitlam, and Henry Zeiger's Five Days, played by Tcmpleton Secondary, Vancouver. The importance of Five Days is that it is "a message play about war," said Bunch. "The message must come over crystal clear." The character who acted as a chorus should have been made more distinct from the action of the play.

Dock Brief is a play to which the audience must become committed so that it identifies with the comic, and at times pathetic, relationship between the lawyer, Morgenhall, and his client, Fowlc, said Bunch. The students were trying to play characters that would challenge highly trained actors. Neither "did any more than just mouth the lines." Bunch criticized the direction which left the students stranded on the stage. The festival is non-competitive, but Bunch will seleect the three best plays for an honors performance Saturday. Anniversary irritation Madoc Farmer's plans for rock festival rock ft 4 X- Cosby planning to cut classes Wednesdays Associated Press By LENNY WILLIAMSON Canadian Press MADOC.

Ont. Retired farmer James Quintan's plan to celebrate his 0th wedding anniversary with a three-day rock festival has created an uproar In staid Madoc Township. While the township council Is busy passing bylaws to stop the festival, the Quinlan family is hoping the Rock Acres Peace Festival will attract 50,000 persons to. their 200-acre farm near this community 30 miles north of Belleville. Quinlan, 66, was planning his anniversary celebration last September when the family got the idea for the festival.

The anniversary date Is June 24 but Quinlan pushed the celebration ahead to, July 3, 4 and S. The Idea of music came naturally to Quinlan, a country fiddler who learned In his 40s to play the violin for square dances. His son, Leon, 27, a lead guitarist with local rock groups, suggested "going all the way" and staging a rock festival. James 23, of Toronto, joined his father and brother to form LEJJ Enterprises to promote the festival. Reports of the festival have had the county agog since February, when Ontario Provincial Police found posters and tickets during a routine car check and notified the Hastings county clerk-treasurer, Carl Batcman.

Bateman has said controversy over the festival has brought him "the most abusive telephone calls" in his tenure of office. Madoc township council acted quickly. In April it passed a "festival bylaw" requiring, among other things a $200,000 public liability bond. the Quinlans said they would go ahead with the festival anyway, council Saturday passed another prohibiting use of land in the township for anything other than what it is zoned for. It will be forwarded to the Ontario Municipal Board for approval.

Quinlan layi the bylaw Is illegal. The family says about half the 11,000 advance tickets have sold at $10 apiece. It says il has a contract with about 20 Canadian bands including Lighthouse and Crowbar. The Quintan's place lies a mile down a rutted, one-lane township road. Ten miles away Is Madoc, population 1.500, The farm has electricity but no telephone.

The nearest community is the hamlet of Quccnsborouiih, about a mile and a half to the east, with 100 inhabitants, two general stores and a mill pond. Quinlan says the family is hiring 30 off-duty police to patrol their grounds In three shifts and "the OPP won't let drugs over my fence." Of possible nudity, he says, "They aren't going to keep their pants off long around here (he btackflics will take care of that." Quintan's wlfj Margaret Is only worried about one thing, the rock music. She wants her husband to lake over one of the two stages and play country music concert "for ui old folks." Mil NEW YORK Bill Cosby's exit from television will be short-lived he signed Wednesday with CBS for a hour comedy scrici beginning in September, 1072. Cosby, who milt his NBC situation comedy scries to return to college, Is the first major figure to sign with CBS for die 1972-73 season. The network said Cosby would continue his studies toward his doctoral degree In education at the University of Massachusetts.

The show will be produced in New York. TEN MILES DOWN A COUNTRY ROAD the Quintan. on Leon and hi parents Jamrs and Margaret, hope to have a few folks over for a festive 40th..