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the STAR-PHOENIX, Saskatoon, Saturday, February 25, 1978 25 a a Catsplay features Canadian actresses 0A TRUE LOVE For everyone who believes in happy endings I lit mi Mm if 4 a Petrie, who plays Mrs. Or-ban's sister, Giza, won a Canadian film award Etrog for her performance in Wedding in White and was also seen in the Rowdyman. She frequently appears at many of the regional non-profit professional theatres in Canada. Fenwick was most recently seen in the CBC-TV production of Hedda Gabler and plays the sophisticated Paula, Mrs. Orban's friend of many years before the action of Catsplay.

She has that archness that lends itself to many of the roles she has played at the Shaw Festival at Niagara-on-the-Lake with her husband, Gillie Fenwick. And of Hyland's far-flung experience there seems no end. In Catsplay, she makes a polished cameo of a small part, a milliner called Mousey, a name that fits the role. i) The continuing true story of 'THE farther now than Thursday night dinner parties whicli he gobbles voraciously. In short, sex has gone to pot.

But love steals in. just like the neighbor's cat. and feline instincts have full play not among the calicos and tabbies, but among the women. The play by Hungarian Istvan Orkeny starred Burns last season at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis and she won rave reviews. Its television adaptation has been made by Canadian voet, author and playwright Timothy Findlay.

Stephen Katz, winner of the Prix Anik, directs, and the music mainly faded Viennese waltzes, played on the piano or an old phonograph is by Alan Laing, who worked for 10 years with the Stratford Festival and now is music consultant to the new theatre company of the National Arts Centre. Burns, British-trained with long experience in the National Theatre, the Bristol Old Vic, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and in front of American and Canadian audiences, was in Paradise Lost. The Captain of Kopenick, The First Night of Pygmalion and Lulu Street for the CBC. Jill Kinmont, a woman OTHER SIDE with enough courage OF THF a a SS-L MounAIf to carry them both. 1AKl OTTAWA CP No longer dewy-eyed starlets, Helen Burns, Frances Hyland, Doris Petrie and Moya Fen-wick are four great international names in Canada theatre.

What they have in common is years of experience getting themselves into character roles with unvarnished reality and the knack of using those little mannerisms most people are unaware of but which make great theatre. Led by Burns, the four appear next week in a CBC-TV drama, Catsplay, on the Wednesday night, series. Front Row Centre a comedy about young love when it reaches past middle age. The setting is Budapest, where Mrs. Bela Orban, a widow, lives in a clutter of memories and junk, rarely donning anything more than an old dressing gown.

She has a lover, an aging opera singer played by opera basso Jan Rubes -1- but their love goes ho Oh, God! recommended LOS ANGELES (API -President Carter has recommended Oh, God! to his class at the First Baptist Church in Washington, a spokesman for Warner Bros. said. In the film George Burns plays God and John Denver is a skeptical grocer he asks to spread the word. "The rejection of George Burns in the movie was probably similar to the rejection of Christ on earth," Carter said, adding until he saw the movie he feared it would be a MARILYN HASSETT-TIMOTHY BOTTOMS Crcivert-a-Va TOWNI VAN CUSTOMIZING AND INTERIORS Doors 6:40 Shows 7 9 ADULT n. 01 1009 Ave.

P. South A Division ol Parr Trailer Services THE AWL SHOPPE CADE SHOE REPAIR SAVES YOU MONEY 1WA IF CANADIAN COUNTRY MUSIC is your thing, mark-down Monday as launch time for a most memorable week in Saskatoon's night life. Sylvia Tyson will be opening at the Bar Ranch House, the Rhythm Pals will be returning to the Embers and. the Mercey Brothers will be back at the Executive. Us a real sign of faith in Saskatoon audiences when the club managers book such exceptional talent as counter attractions in the same week.

But the past performance charts are impressive at two clubs. The Mercey Brothers have been playing the Executive an average of three times a year since early 1976 and they do top business. The Rhythm Pals made their debut at the Embers last July and the response has been 50 good that this will be their third booking in less than a year. For Sylvia Tyson, it's a first nightclub experience in Saskatoon. And she's quite a catch.

As a folk singer, she became part of the Ian and Sylvia duo which gained so much North American recognition during the wave of folk music popularity in the early 1960s. She worked with Ian on his CTV country show, went into CBC radio in 1974 as host of Touch The Earth, the folk music weekly show, and then went to work on a solo career with a pair of Capitol albums, Woman's World and Cool Wind From The North. Both albums proved Sylvia was an imaginative and poetic songwriter, a fine vocal interpreter and musician. Although Sylvia is known primarily as a country-folk artist, she is able to drift away from her major sound and score good points with different musical leanings. A CHANGE-OF-PACE on the nightclub scene is Dave Yip's introduction of the Vegas Polynesian Spectacular, a show troupe which originates from Honolulu and is on deck at the Casbah for at least one more week.

Clyde Vegas is the leader, guitarist and vocalist of the group, which came over from Hawaii in August and settled into steady work in the Tiki-Tiki clubs, alternating between Calgary and Edmonton. It's one of the largest Polynesian-type groups to play the Saskatoon area. Vegas has three musical sidekicks, Ron Matsuoka on drums, Jesse Spencer on piano and flute, and Jim Shawhan on bass. There are four dancers working out front during the two one-hour show sets, Kaluanani, Kuuipo and Puanani and a male dancer, Kanehoalani. The girls wear everything from sarongs to grass skirts to long gowns but there's brilliant mix in" the colors, impressive headresses, beads and all the trimmings.

The routines by the girls are the typical island dances, ranging from the fast hip-shaking efforts to the slower stylings. where the concentration is on the messages from the hands. If anything, Vegas has adopted a little more upbeat approach to his show, with some of the numbers bordering on Hawaiian rock. Kanehoalani performs the fire, knife and spear dances. Vegas dominates the background vocals, including the Hawaiian Wedding Song where he does the male lead as well as the lines ordinarily sung by a female.

Audience participation is always a key to any show, with each of the dancers usually inviting one partner onto the stage. The Vegas show has the ingredients, some of the numbers are done in fast order, but there are some lags between the dance specialties and with four involved in audience participation, the show sags a little at that point. But if you can't make it to Hawaii this winter, why not let a little Hawaii come to you? BOB McBRIDE. a former lead vocalist with Lighthouse and a onetime club headliner at the Red Lion, has released a debut album. Here To Sing, on the MCA label with Lighthouse, McBride's delivery was in the rough, macho category but he's shifted his style and thinks his sound is more mature and more sophisticated Trooper, who were among the most successful headliners at Saskatoon's Pioneer Days last summer, has gained a belated gift on the Canadian charts with the single.

Oh. Pretty Lady the song was originally tabbed as the side to It's Been A Long Time and now Trooper is getting double-sided airplay The Raes. who toured the west with Jose Feliciano last October, will soon have a new album in release from A and one of the selections will be Cara Mia. made popular by David Whitfield and again by Jay and the Americans Charity Brown has been working with a new band called Little Brother and they'll be turning out some A product soon victory by Kenny Rogers as top country- male vocalist at the Grammy Awards session will further enhance his drawing appeal when he comes to the Centennial Auditorium on March 16 382-2277 33rdSt. H.

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During classroom stints. Acme applies its eclectics to bring local folk tales to life, with youngsters playing such parts as a rooster and cockroach, characters in a story from the Virgin Islands, where the group performed last month. Money from the federally-funded National Endowment for the Arts helps pay Acme's way into the classrooms. Despite an active schedule, Acme performers get $3,500 a year a salary that hundreds of dancers would happily do splits over. During Acme's nonperformance periods, members collect unemployment, bringing their total annual income to about $6,500.

It is Cunningham's dream to pay his dancers $10,000 or more a year a feat managed by only 18 American dunce companies out of 300. Members of the remaining majority cut expenses by rooming together. NEW YORK (AP) Underpaid, overworked, but still kicking James Cunningham's Acme Company is 10 years old and almost an institution in the competitive dance world. "Dancing's in a state of expansion and we're applying it in new ways." says the 39-year-old Toronto-born Cunningham, choreographer of the often Impish but sensitive dance-theatre pieces that characterize his six-member troupe. Currently performing at New York's American Theatre Lab.

the group is winding up a difficult 1977-78 tour. For the last five years, the troupe has performed regularly 1 at elementary schools throughout the U.S. "We try to show kids and their teachers how dunce can make routine subjects more vivid." says Cunningham, a former actor in Canada and England who was tired of being typecast as a young man. Now he finds release as a dancer In his own troupe. Using masks and costumes ranging from the near-nudity of a bikini to voluminous capes and robes.

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