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I 9 THE PROVINCE, Wednesday, June 2, 1971 Playhouse 71-72 Theatre's leading ladies leading lights for fall season 9W I C- lire a is Wmkisi Ji fSi 1 A I if i I in Toronto and Herschel Hardin's new play, Esker Mike and His Wife Agiluk will open at the Factory Theatre on June 9 in Toronto. This may be the year for Canadian playwrights to come out of the bottom drawer, if only there are sufficient theatre administrations prepared to accept an original script as a working base for A production and then retain the author to work with the director to get it into shape. Paxton Whitehead may just be the man to convince our Playhouse Board that writers do not produce immaculate, finished, guaranteed successes in first draft. In the meantime, Whitehead is quietly making changes in staff. Terence Thompson comes from Los Angeles as publicity and public relations director to replace Dorothy Metcalfe.

Thompson is a Canadian who before going to Berkeley worked with the Alley Theatre in Houston and the Stratford Festival Theatre, Ontario. Don Shipley is appointed artistic director of Playhouse Holiday, a very bright, dynamic young man who founded the Stratford Children's Theatre, received the Tyrone Guthrie Award, and has spent the last two years with the Children's Theatre and Education Department in Calgary. John Fenney replaces Margaret Bushton as costume head, and Margaret Bushton, retiring after 40 years in the theatre, is replaced by Carol Arnott. By JAMES BARBER Kate Reid may come to Vancouver next January, to star in the Playhouse's January opening, which will be Beverley Simons' play, Crabdance. Kate Beid has been called "the greatest leading woman in New York." She has starred in Stratford, on Broadway, in countless television plays and opposite Natalie Wood in a dreadful movie called This Property Is Condemned.

She is a quiet, warm person, and a ''Shatteringly good" actress. Time magazine described her performance in This Property Is Condemned as "a sleazy old bagful of Southern Comforts who snaps like a lizard." Which sounds exactly what Beverley Simons' play needs a really strong lead. It has never before been professionally produced in Canada, but when Malcolm Black directed it in Seattle he made very little of it. It is a fierce and horrifying play, the best of Mrs. Simons' work to date.

It is to be hoped the Playhouse will do it justice in choice of director. with Paxton Whitehead in The Cheminy Frances Hyland, who opens the season Circle, has been asked to participate in the season as a sort of assistant artistic director. There is hope that she will direct Crabdance, which may be the clincher in persuading Kate Beid to come. Captives of the Faceless Drummer, George Byga's controversial play, will open this fall at the St. Lawrence Centre if II3, 11 II FRANCES IIVLANl) clinches it with Crabdance.

KATE REID, who might be persuaded to come if Booksellers take stock of fall styles Ecology shares shelf with astrology, nostalgia cities, deeper humanism in the application of corporate and technological principles and a new concern for consumer welfare. Former U.S. interior secretary Walter J. Hickel addressed a luncheon meeting of booksellers as the author of the forthcoming Who Owns America? (Prentice Hall). Describing his book as years student radicalism, racial strife, Vietnam though they are still the subject of some new books.

Instead, there has been a spectacular increase in books on ecology and nature, the revolution in education, films, health foods and gastronomy as well as in thoughtful critiques of America's lifestyle, especially on the need for better and print, range from reprints of The Poky Little Puppy (Golden Books), to The Vampires (Grove), and from A Field Guide to the Birds of the West Indies (Houghton Mifflin) to Badical Politics in West Bengal (M.I.T. Press). There seems to be a shift away from some of the harsh themes that have dominated the book scene in recent World chess match Fischer poised for sixth win By HENRY BAMONT New York Times BOSTON America's book publishing industry, generally regarded as the world's most dynamic and diverse, though not necessarily the most selective, has opened the covers on its big fall and winter season. Like French wine growers who let experts taste the new vintage before shipping it to the market, 300 publishers are holding their annual preview with some 3,000 new titles that will be reaching book stores across the United Stales from now through Christmas. Only a few of the books will achieve best-seller status or literary fame.

Many will have nominal sales and be remaindered at a fraction of their cost next spring. Many more will go by almost unnoticed and will merely augment the statistics showing that annual book production in the U.S. is approaching 25,000 new titles a year. The occasion for the preview is as it has been for the past 70 years the annual convention of the American Booksellers Association. More than 1,000 booksellers and three times as many representatives of publishing houses are in attendance.

Their literary wares, which turned the spacious convention hall of the Sheraton-Boston hotel into avenues of pictures "a handbook for those who think about the year 2000," Hickel spoke critically of those who still believe in technology and growth as ends in themselves. "In our rough and tumble effort to discover economic prosperity the needs of the heart and the spirit were left behind," he said. "We were left with a society where the 'good life' was measured in tangibles, instead of those intangibles, such as friendship and service the thing that can make life a joy to live." Paradoxically, and perhaps responding to an escapist twinge, astrology books continue popular, bringing bright signs of the Zodiac to book jackets on Time for Astrology. A teach-yourself book by Jess Slearn (Coward McCann), The Occult: A History, by Colin Wilson (Random House) and The Bites of Modern Occult Magic, by Francis King (MacMillan). Nostalgia for the golden age of movies, musicals and the theatre is reflected in 'more than zQ titles, among them a new edition of the 1940 book Fields for President, by W.

C. Fields (Dodd Mead), A Life on Film, by Mary Aslor (Delacorte) and three books about Greta Garbo. Buth Gordon, the youthful 75-year-old actress, was one of the speakers at a luncheon for booksellers. She combined promoting her chronicle of Broadway Myself Among Others, (Athcneum) with tender words for a new book by her husband, Garson Kanin, Tracy and Hepburn: An Intimate Portrait, (Viking). With the U.S.

presidential election campaign still a year away, the political shelves have been left improbably uncluttered, leaving the field to former president Lyndon B. Johnson's first book of memoirs, The Vantage Point: Perspectives of the Presidency 1963-1969," (Holt) and Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt: The Story of Their Relationship, by Joseph P. Lash (Norton). journed the 43rd move after nearly five hours' play. Fischer was in a commanding position with a two-pawn advantage.

For the third time that be has played white in the current match, Fischer opened with the confident P-K4 move to set the stage for a Sicilian Defence. Fischer took control of centre early in the game and forced the Soviet grandmaster into a defensive position. The American's foraging bishop's split Tai-manov's pawns into three vulnerable groups. At adjournment two of Taima-nov's three remaining pawns stood By PAUL BAUGUST American Bobby Fischer's bid to make a sweep of his world chess title elimination match with Mark Taimanov of the Soviet Union was temporarily halted on Tuesday night when the Bus-sian grandmaster asked for an adjournment in the sixth game of their match. Taimanov has lost all five games played in the match so far, the worst drubbing a grandmaster has taken in recent memory.

Fischer can take the match with a win or draw when play resumes today. The deciding sixth game was ad Experts regarded the game as a certain yictory for Fischer. If the American wins he will have become one of four men in the running to unseat world champion Boris Spassky of Moscow. The four are survivors of the quarterfinals of the challengers' tournament that will reach a climax in September when two finalists battle for the right to meet Spassky in Moscow next year. Soviet grandmaster Tigram Petrosian, who lost the world title to Spassky in 1969, was the first to reach the Bimi-finals when Robert Hucbner of West Germany gave up eight days ago.

Petrosian was leading 4 3 in Seville, Spain. On Monday Bent Larsen of Denmark and Soviet grandmaster Viktor Korchnoi reached the semi-finals. Larsen, playing at Las Palmas, Canary Islands, defeated Wolfgang Uhl-niann of East Germany S'At-W. Korchnoi beat countryman Yefim Geller S'A-Z'A in Moscow. Semi-finals are to begin on July 4 with Korchnoi playing Petrosian in Moscow.

Larsen will meet the winner of the Fischer-Taimanpv match at a site to be determined. Of the semi-finalists, Fischer will be the only newcomer to that elite upper level of chess competition. He previously shunned the challengers tournament. Ringo to star EX-BEATLE KINGO STARR has signed to play bis first straight dramatic role in a film called Blindinan, due to go before the cameras next week in Spain and Italy. The former rock- drummer appeared in comedy roles in Candy, The Magic Christian and the two Bcatlc films.

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have a ring on my arm the sue of a half dollar, and also rinfl-sfiaped marfc on my foot which is getting er. Someone told me the ring mark on my foot could be a first signal of diabetes. Vlease help. Mrs. D.

H. ANSWER: Ringworm is a skin infection caused by a fungus several varieties of fungi may be involved in different cases. I' The fungus gets a start in one small spot, then spreads, so the discolored and some- times itchy spot grows out- ward in a ring shape. It is also even possible for another inside ring to start after the area has once healed. iThere may be just one spot or several rings.

There is no home remedy that is at all dependable, so, n-K3 B-KNS N1-QR3 32. rB3 Jules Feiffer doodles and writes and screenwriles for city people. His latest work Little Murders, now at the Downtown theatre is enough to convince SI 4. N-K5 K-Q2 P-QN1 PQI14 P-QN3 B-N3 PxP B-B2 lit R-II7 0. BxNl III ii.

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46Trenly. 47 Plan of it rather than running the risk of developing still more patch-' es, you should have your doc-' tor treat it-fungus has always been a difficult tiling to treat, but in recent years mure -ffeoUve medications js experiencing another brown out, Gould doesn't notice; his ever-happy mate talks about a single candle being better than cursing the darkness. Little Murders is not exactly a comedy, not even a black comedy. I think most moviegoers will be surprised at how serious the film can become if they let themselves be sucked into Fciffer's spell. Some may even walk out midway "through the film, and I would understand.

Especially if they live in Coquil-lam, where life is much simpler. Those little murders in the title number in the hundreds, and refer to the unsolved killings, usually with motive, that occur in New York hour after hour. The murders are so much a part of life that they are ignored by all except the families and friends of the murdered. Only one is seen in the film the murder of the girl. True, ber big brother got shot on a streetcorner a couple of years back, and true, he was a Korea-Vietnam veteran.

But he is not seen. In fact, lie is obscene. Spoken of only in a slip of thu tongue. Gould, a widower, is still apathetic. Is he without fueling or is he in shock? Or is he, like his fellow citizens, simply parunoid? Of late, a number of U.S.-made film characters bad the same mentality as Gould, a man able to cope with the very big cities that one day might include Vancouver.

The characters arc pretty bitter pills and their plots, in defence of the boxoffiee, quickly turn into harmless little comedies. Little Murders switches style mcd-stream, too. To mo, it is a weakness that probably had no alternative. But Feiffer changes from hitler to' worse, and from worse to almost incomprehensible. 11 will be one of the most talkcd-about films of the year, and many of the talks will be in the form uf questions.

llecoin.uended in spite of the doubts. 7311 ti field Enterprises, 1U71 Don't mess witli Medicine Hat, TV hippie told Canadian Press MEDICINE HAT A young actor's ad-lib remark about the people in this city was unfortunate, Donald Haldane, a Toronto film producer said here. Haldane, of Westminster Films, was the producer of On a Clear Day You Can Count Forever a film which, when shown on CHAT-TV here, generated two bomb threats from a male caller who objected to the presentation. In the film, the actor comments: "Medicine Hat They've got a weird bunch of people down there." "We were making up the lines on the spot and it was just a spontaneous remark with no malice intended," Haldane said. The actor portraying the same hippie-type youlh in tho Freiich-inoguage version of the film substituted the name Mexico City, he said.

Haldane, expressing apologies to anyone offended by the production, said Medicine Hat is a name wilh glamor which sticks in a person's mind. "Many Americans when questioned on their knowledge of Canadian cities, say they've heard of two places Montreal and Hat. 50 Diversions. Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle It is a thoroughly enjoyable collection of Fciffcrisms joined together by a first-rate Elliott Gould performance, a cameo appearance by Donald Sutherland and a modestly successful first directorial effort by Alan Arkin, who also appears in cameo. Back to the ugly, hard city of the movie.

Marcia Rodd, who portrays a rather agressivc Doris Day, meets Gould on a street corner, where he is being beaten up by a bunch of young thugs. He makes no effort to resist but the thugs turn on the girl when she interferes. Having whipped the lot, the girl turns on Gould and atiks why he didn't defend her. "Why did you interfere?" bo replies, "They were getting tired any-' way. When you jumped in they regained their energy." Gould, the evcryman, plays the corn-pleat apalhlst.

He murries the girl because she's aggressive enough to insist, lie earns a living photographing faces for fashion magazines and never, never gels mad at anything. Nut even in the ln.ll of New York city life. Bomb'ngs robberies and just plain noise assault the couple. Hie screen goes dark three times without acknowledgement from the characters before the moviegoer is aware Uiat New York IFlllillliil till have been developed for quite a number of types' Since the ringworm fungus can be transmitted from per-' son to person, be careful about that. Because of the one on your foot, assuming tiiat it really is ringworm, and it' sounds like it, don't go around the house barefoot.

Wear slippers. And only your own. Don't let anyone else wcur yours, either. Thu fuiiRus could spread to someone else. Don't scratch Hie S(s- That can spread the fungus.

It 1 also can open the way for other typos of Infection. If til spots itch loo much, your doctor can give you medication to subdue the itch. Ringworm on the foot is NOT an early sign of CRYPTOGRAM By Myrtle W. Cusbmait MIL FKNYNFCLY ALE CM ELDD HAILENO NOODLE HACK IM FMYLE, Yesterday's cryptogram: First horse (jilulcr) finished race a bend ahead of second place..