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iriE PROVINCE, Wednesday, May 2(5, 1971 21 The JFK Centre for the Performing Arts ITT; Centre draws culture to D.C. JAMES SPEAKS i White Hope's story overdoes love story Prizefights are nasty things, doing physical harm to the fighters and degrading those who pay large sums to see them. Not necessarily so with fight films. gtivtmrn There are a few S' 5 fff 51 '5 gory moments in the most gentle A I 1 fight films, but 4 mtm'" i -ssai vrf aireuiurs aim script writers soon find that the punching and bleeding is second- rate arama wan $70 MILLION WORTH OF GRECIAN GRANDEUR among the contributions, woven wool stage curtains from Canada; among the performers, the Stratford Shakespearean Company from Ontario. no entertainment value, and spend ttheir energies search grams for the young, the old and the poor.

Centre officials are responding with a series of schemes for low-priced seating and special attractions college theatre, jazz concerts and the like to fulfill it's mandate. But they have simultaneously begun a campaign for Congress to help meet operating costs in the same way the federal government supports museums and other public attractions here. So far Congress hasn't responded. house curtain from Japan and bronze sculptured panels from Germany. Other gifts are still to come from abroad.

Congress has demanded that the Kennedy Centre provide public service pro Centre home for black drama By PETER BUCKLEY Canadian Press WASHINGTON Cultural nabobs in New York and San Francisco have been Tknown to speak condescendingly about the town of i i 1 1 e-o n-t -Potomac." They mean Washington, of course, which might pride itself on being the diplomatic and legislative capital of the United Slates but is still regularly snubbed by the big touring cultural shows because it has no place to put them. Washingtonians believe the image will start changing in September. That's when the John F. Kennedy Cen- 'tre for the Performing Arts will open its halls and glittering corridors, ending the long era of Washington's as bush-league town for opera, ballet and theatre. The Kennedy Centre, 15 years a-borning, is a monumental bulk on the banks of the muddy Potomac River at the edge of downtown Washington.

Its final cost is likely to be about $70 million. Its size and architectural conceit two blocks long and a block wide, coated inside and out in white Italian marble, encircled by spindly gilder pillars are in tune with the capital's public jnfatua-' tion with Grecian grandeur. In a single rectangular building, the centre will house a concert hall, a opera house and a 1.000-seat drama theatre, with a 500-seat cinema above the theatre. For opening night, the centre has swallowed Washington's pride and gone lo New York for its star attraction. Compospr-conductor Leonard Bernstein is writing a song-and-dance Latin mass for the opening, with dances to be created by that other New York, cultural archetype Jerome Robbins.

The season that follows is to include visits by Canada's Stratford Shake-spearen Company, the New York City opera, and the centre's new resident ballet troupe, the American Ballet Company, with stars Natalia Makarova and Erik Bruhn. The National Symphony, which will become another official resident of the centre, will give a series of concerts under it's new conductor, Hungarian-born Antal Dorati. Designed inside and out by architect Edward Durell Stone, whose best-known works have included the American embassy in New Delhi and the U.S. pavilion at the Brussels world's fair, the centre has stark marble corridors six storeys high and draped with flags. There is parking for 1,600 cars underground.

While the concert hall win be in the austere style of many modern halls, the opera house with it's curved balconies will have more of the flavor of Europe. The theatre, named after the late president Dwight D. Eisenhower and his widow, will be convertible for use by, small or large drama and musical presentations. i The centre has received contributions from thousands of individuals and corporations and many countries. Canada is giving stage curtains in woven wool for the Eisenhower Theatre.

Italy has donated all the marble. Chandeliers come from Norway, Sweden, Austraia and Ireland, a silk opera- JAMES EARL JONES the better man gives in to the Mann. ing the souls of their characters. Even in real life, if that's what the sports pages can be called, people are more interested in the fighters than the fight. Mahammed Ali is no longer heavyweight champ and neither is Joe Louis, but both names evoke an emotional response that has little to do with prizefighting.

Another real-life fighter, beyond the memory of most, was Jack Johnson, pre-First World War heavyweight champ who is the subject of The Great White Hope, now at the Vogue. The "white hope" was a real sociological event, perhaps caused by white racial surprise when a black man beat the best the white man could produce. The black population of the U.S. was given an inkling of pride, and the white population responded to the threat with a rigged trial, a rigged fight and even some new laws. The fact that the law caught Jefferson with a white woman didn't help his case.

Which brings us, finally, to James Earl Jones and half a century later. He starred in the successful Broadway version of The Great White Hope as Ali starred in various appeal courts fighting his draft evasion conviction. The point is, the film is meaningless without history. As a statement on race problems, it is a weak story at best. As portrayed by Jones, Johnson is beyond black or white, an intellectual and physical superman who thinks inside like Ali talks outside.

It is a story of a man, and it that the man once existed outside the boundaries of Hollywood. It is good history, approaching the emotional involvement of something like They Shoot Horses, Don't They? which re-created the Depression-era dance marathons. Playing Jane Fonda is Jane Alexander, an actress who has that look of the past about her but who spoils it when she speaks. During the first half of the film, she impressed me by her silence, and her ability to communicate her love for the black boxer without words. unfortunately, her silence didn't last.

As a result, the love affair is too' much of the story, and Miss Alexander's histrionics too much of the love affair. The fight scenes, featuring a white opponent of Wilt Chamberlain's stature and Punch Imlach's proportions, contain more comedy than drama, but is also tragic. In return for a light sentence for a Mann Act (interstate travel for immoral purpose) conviction Johnson agrees to throw the fight. But in doing so, he manages to show himself and everyone else just who the belter fighter iS. For me, the film doesn't work well enough.

Jones is good, but the cameras aren't in the right places at the right times. Inspiring it is, and I think I'll read a biography of the heroic fighter, of which there is a good selection. By PAUL DELANEY New York Times WASHINGTON A national black repertory theatre company will be established here and housed in the new John F. Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts. The company is being organized by a group of prominent blacks, including actor Robert' Hooks, and plans to hold its first performance next spring.

The group has requested the use of the smallest of four auditoriums planned for the centre as a permanent home for the black company. Hooks said that if the group obtained the 500-seat hall, originally planned as a film theatre, they would name it after the abolitionist, Frederick Douglas. The board chairman for the Kennedy Centre, Roger L. Stevens, said he was enthusiastic about the plan and felt that a good black company would enhance the arts. He said the group was negotiating for the film theatre, but "that's something in the future." "I'm all for it," Stevens said.

"The company would have first rate arti'sts and would turn out some first rate productions. "So far, we are agreed that the company would have office space at at the centre, and would go ahead with is first production next spring. "But beyond that," Stevens said, "nothing definite is settled. Other matters are in the future. There has been some discussion for use of the film theatre as permanent home rather than using it as a theatre.

"But we haven't even finished constructing it yet and we don't have the money to complete it. They want to try and get the money together to complete it, but there are so many problems involved." Other members of the group are Peggy Cooper, an artist, and James O. Gibson, an urbanologist. The group has been negotiating with Stevens for six weeks. Besides raising funds, Hooks said the organizing efforts included finding an artistic director and selecting from the best black artists across the country.

He said he expected that most of the artists would come from New York. "This Is a tremendous undertaking," Hooks said. "We have to raise the money to obtain the film theatre and we have to prepare for next spring's opening. "Also, we have a tentative agreement to do one of the four musicals the centre will sponsor. But our first objective is to find ourselves and work out aims and purposes." Theatre Canada 71 Victoria Fair Theatre keeps abreast of times WELL-WISHERS WELL REPRESENTED hard-hatted construction executive Bob Aikman surveys last minute touches in Kennedy arts centre's flag-decked Hall of Nations.

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22 Oldtime automobiles. 21 Passover 2 Hncklisli. feast. 3 Cereal grain. 2(i Preserves in 41 42 Journeys.

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54 Penh. 55 Wierd. 4 Introduces brine. the mental torment experienced by those in jail. The man whose voice was used escaped from Collins Bay two weeks ago, after making the recording.

The play was written by former prisoner Peter Madden, who served a seven-year sentence for breakingentering and conspiracy. He said he got the idea for the play when he spent three months in Toronto's Don Jail before being transferred to Kingston penitentiary, then to nearby Collins Bay. A drama course offered at the prison by Queen's University Inspired him and he completed his play as an assignment. The play conveys the problems a man's criminal record creates. The main character got five years for stealing three bottles of liquor.

By KATHY KENMAN Canadian Press OTTAWA A well-received change in tone was set at the Theatre Canada 71 presentations by a Victoria Fair Theatre performance of the drama Justice, Not Revenge. The Victoria group delighted the National Arts Centre audience with an opening scene depicting an attractive prostitute with a single breast unclad. The rather off-beat day began in near-chaos as a horde of kids tried to follow the action in a children's play by Ottawa's Le Cerf-Volant. In another effort, fifteen prisoners from Collins Bay Penitentiary, a federal prison near Kingston, Ont did an impressive job playing The Criminal Record. It featured a tape-recorded litany of 49 In good shape.

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Larsen lecads the standings with four points to two. Winner of the match meels the winner of the Vancouver match. The competition is being held to decide who meets world champion Boris Rpassky of the U.S.S.R. in Moscow next year. QUESTION: What causes Zftocking in the corners of my moiah? I am 62.

T.Y. ANSWER: Once the skin at the corner of the mouth cracks, it is difficult to heal, as in any area where there is such frequent movement. As to the underlying causes, a vitamin deficiency may be involved, and a daily capsule of -c 1 (containing thiamine, riboflavin, nicotinic acid, etc.) may be helpful. In any case, avoid licking I the lips. Pipe or cigar smokers sometimes have this trouble.

Infection, whether fungus or bacterium, can prevent healing. (In some cases, therefore, and antibiotic ointment helps.) Sensitivity to foods, cosmetics, material In or used with dentures, may be i factor sometimes. Seeing your physician or a skin specialist is rccom-mended, rather than trying to guess the cause by yourself. 4 QUESTION. Is (liere any trey person com lose weight "in i arttii Hretch -wnrks? S.B.

ANSWER; Stretch marks 'don't develop from losing weight. They develop from gaining weight which Is hy they are called at retch marks. The kin Is stretching until certain of the underlying fihers are stretched beyond their natural elasticity. Not all skin develops stretch marks. Some skins ran take the stretching with-out the fibers giving way.

But It's the weight I hat Is gained, not weigh! that Is lust, which cause the marks, QUESTION: What can I lalt to get rid of pinwarms? I reckon tie nre pinworm. They are ohoit Me little white thread. Mrs. J. W.

M. ANSWER: Well, that's what prnworms look like. I'd that you have your doc-Mor prescribe one or another of the medications effectively used (or getting rid of these pesis. Children In the family should be checked as well. Scrupulous cleanliness Is essential, especially of the hands, W'nr timl family.

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liMlonclative. 41 Krowiiisli oriun.e: var. play from one of his own countrymen. Alcksander Kotov, of the Russian Chess Federation, said both players are making serious mistakes. In his opinion Taimanov should have won two games and drawn the third.

He said Taimanov "played terrible" in Tuesday's game, although he faulted Fischer for not taking a pawn in the early stages which would have given him a certain winning hand. Kotov will have certainly put his ample analytical talents to use overnight to find the best course of attack for Taimanov today. Fischer also will have had an expert available for analysis overnight. His second, Larry Evans, a three-time U.S. champion and twice a Canadian open champion, arrived in Vancouver Tuesday afternoon.

42 Concise. Nocturnal serenades of sort, Traitor. 47 Young sows. By PAUL RAUGUST Russia's Mark Taimanov, for the fourth straight game, asked for an adjournment of play Tuesday night in his world championship elimination match with Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn, N.Y. Playing at the University of B.C.

Student Union Building, the Soviet grandmaster halted play after 40 completed moves. It is to be resumed this afternoon. Fischer, who leads the match three games to none, opened with P-K4 that set up a Sicilian Defence that had a striking resemblance to the second game in the match, the only other time Fischer played white prior to Tuesday. At the adjournment the American held a slight edge in board strength by virtue of a bishop over a knight. The players were even in pawns, at six each, a rook each and of course the kings, with the only difference being Fischer's bishop over Talmanov's knight.

The earlier Sicilian Defence lasted more than 81 hours in three days of play, halting on the 88th move. In Tuesday's game, Fischer pressed a strong attack from the outset, and took advantage of a serious Taimanov mis-cue on the lfilh move that resulted in Fischer's holding the bishop over the knight. From then on Fischer consolidated his position, tying down hlack's knight and king behind the queen-side pawns and leaving him little room to manoeuvre. Taimanov received criticism from his 12S71 IP Klelit Knterprisi'f, lnc, Soliiliim of Ycslerday'a Puzzle MI I Ivlirf Hlmk Tslnmitiiv P-UHI Mhllp JlMlirr 1. P-KI 21 Qsn B-Bl UBC slmlcnl new chess champ A 10-year-old University of B.C.

student, Peter Biyiasas, has become the new B.C. chess champion, edging out champion Bob Zuk by half I point. The championships were held at the weekend at Simon Fraser University with the eight B.C. regional finalists meeting in a round-robin tournament. The championship gives Biyiasas an almost certain berth in the Canadian championships, to be played In Toronto In 1972.

Duncan Suttles of Vancouver Is the current title holder. Following is a list of the competitors and their standings: Riyiasas b'i-Vr, Zuk 52; Ray Kerr 4 Elud Mackasy Bruce Harper Harry Salanovt 2i-4'4; Wayne Crooks 2 Derek Banks l'i-Sti. 3: 4. NxP 5. N-HS 6.

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