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THE MONTREAL STAR, MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1952 Canadians Win Guggenheim Fellowships Andre Giroux, Quebec Author Among Winners NEW YORK, April Four Canadians--an impressionistic painter, a chemist, a winter and an economist- were named yesterday 85 winners of fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation of York. The 1952 Canadian fellows are: Wilfred Roloff Beny, Lethbridge, artist: Dr. Karel Wiesner, Professor of Chemistry at UniversiNew Brunswick, Fredericton; Andre Giroux, Quebec, publicist for the Quebec Department of Trade Commerce; and George Alexander Elliott. Professor Political Economy at University of Toronto. The fellowships are granted to scholars and creative workers who have demonstrated high ability and wish to continue in their fields.

Although the average stipend is $3,000 the amounts vary depending on the particular work on which the fellow has embarked. The 28-year-old Beny, who has shown many of his paintings in the United States and Canada, is at present displaving them at a show in Paris. His father, Charles Beny, Lethbridge auto dealer, and his mother nave gone over to at tend the Paris show and another showing later in Milan. Beny, a native of Medicine Hat, was educated at University Toronto and Iowa State University. He has sport, much time in Europe, touring country in 1948 and holding a one-man show the following year at Strozzi Palace in Florence.

Wiesner was born in Czechoslovakia and held a Rockefeller Fellowship at Zurich's Technical Institute for two years. He was appointed assistant professor of Chemistry at U.N.B. in 1948. an associate professor in 1950 and was made a full professor last year. He has done outstanding work in the field of Alkaloids and as a Guggenheim FelJow will continue his studies of the structure of mould metabolites.

Giroux, 36, published his first novel "Au Dela Des Visages" four years ago. He holds the Prix Montyon from the French Academy and the Prix David from the Province of Quebec. He will use the fellowship to continue his creative Elliott, born in Napier, in 1901, will continue the theory of hitionadierado. He joined the University of Toronto fellow of the Society of Canfaculty six years, ago He is a ada and is managing editor of the Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science. TCA Plans Run To West Germany OTTAWA, April 21 (B.U.P.) Hon.

Lionel Chevrier, Transport Minister, announced today that Trans-Canada Air Lines had received authority from the Civil Aviation Board of the Allied High Commission for Germany operate a service to Western Germany. The Aviation Board, Mr. Chevrier said, approved an application TCA to exercise full traffic rights to and from the German Federal Republic. The application provides for a service from Montreal to Dusseldorf and Hamburg via either Goose Bay, Labrador: Gander, Keflavik. Iceland; Shannon, Ireland; Prestwick, Scotland: London or Paris.

The Canadian Government sent the application to the Allied High Commission, Mr. Chevrier said. Details of technical arrangements for the operation of the service will be announced later by T.C.A. he said. "When You Were Swe-e-et Sixteen" George Raven applies lampblack.

to the face of one of Robert Saul gives with typical minstrel show gestures. Make Way Fo' Rastus, Folks An' Oh, Dem Golden Slippers Anglican Church Boys' Club in Verdun Stages Minstrel Show to Packed House By Frank Lowe 'HEY George, how do you like married life?" "Like it like a bird, boss." "Like a bird. George?" "Yes boss. I have to fly for my And then the audience howls. in Montreal and the songs and the with this form of entertainment that they'll be around for some.

time. Hockey Game On, Too Take what happened this week in the hall of St. Cyprian's Anglican Church, Morgan boulevard. Several hundred parishioners left their radios (on a Stanley Cup playoff night, too) and the movies to watch a two-hour performance studded with such memory items as Sonny Boy, Dark Town Strutters' Ball and Carry Me Back to Old Virginia. And, of course, such show stoppers, as: "Amos, didn't I see you at the dog show the other night?" "That's right, sure did.

And boy, was I embarrassed." "Why were you embarrassed at 8 show, Amos?" "My wife kept asking the attendant where they kept those Ocean Greyhounds." Smooth Harmonizing This discreet blending of nostalgic corn with smooth harmonizing iS the work of the Boys' Club of the Anglican Church of St. John the Divine, Verdun. The minstrel show idea was dreamed up by Rev. E. N.

Dann to keep the boys off the street. It was so successful that it not only keeps the boys off the street. It keeps the adults off, too, as the boys play dates in church halls throughout the city, George Thompson is the interlocuter and arranges the music. George Raven, end man, is responsible for the script that loosely ties the show into one bundle. A chorus of 15- ranging in height from four feet to six feet- three additional end men, two male soloists and a guitar player complete the cast.

At first- -as this form of entertainment has been forgotten for SO long the audience sits passively as the show gets under way. But the interest warms up as little Ralph Thomson. complete with top hat and gold-headed cane, cuts loose with "There'll Be Hot Time In The Old Town Tonight." The first thing anyone knows, I the audience is joining in the life." The old-time minstrel show is back jokes that lived and almost died are back, too. And indications are chorus and not feeling a bit sheepish about it either. A Rich Man's Son "Lord's Prayer." Revival of Oldies And the small fry, who pack these shows, have less and experience knock with the joke foundries when this bit of thmselves dead themselves wafts over the footlights.

"Hey Bob, why is a rich man's son like a colt?" "Why is a rich man's son like a colt? dunno George, really don't. Tell me, why is a rich man's son like a colt "I'll tell you Bob, I'li tell you. A rich man's son is like a colt because neither is going to work until he is The end men--Harold Wheeler, Bob McBurney, Henry Thomson and George Raven the rubbery legs, the huge bow ties and -fashion jackets end men have worn since the minstrel show was born. And, natural-born hams, they jig a and mug into the hearts of their audience and make things tough for soloists like Robert Saul. That boy fine voice- but what other soloist has to contend with a yo-yo contest going on behind him? The Sextet, all little shavers measuring half the height of any ordinary stage microphone, whoop it up on "Shortnin and then the laughs are stilled and heads are bowed as George Thompson sings A reverent and moving The show is over for another night.

But as the laughing adults and happy children file out even after a fun-packed evening, it is an bet that in a dozen Montreal schoolyards there will be a revival of oldies such as this: "Henry, can you tell me why old maids always go to church early?" "No, George. Tell me, why do old maids always go to church early?" "They want to get there before re the hymns are given out." SAVE! WITH 2 COMPLETE Motor YEAR Foot Sewlite Control NEW Carrying Case GUARANTEE SINGER FREE DEMONSTRATION SEWING MACHINES REBUILT And converted to electric portables by Royal sewing controls with Royal sewing parts. Qi ONLY $3950 Sold on Home FULL PRICE Demonstration Only Within 100 Mile Radius of Montreal PHONE Or Mail Coupon UN. 6-5537 Without obligation I would like a FREE 24 HOUR PHONE SERVICE home demonstration of guaranteed rebuilt Singer. Name Address Town Phone If R.R, please, give directions HOME ROYAL SEWING CENTRES LID.

DEMONSTRATION 1225 Mountain Montreal Malan Regime Drafts Law To Curb Courts Bill to Come Before House Tomorrow CAPE, TOWN, South April African 21-(Reu- House of Assembly today rejected by a vote of 78 to 61 an Opposition demand that the Government accept a Supreme Court judgment which invalidated a Government law on voters of mixed blood. The law removed such voters from the common register, The Nationalist Government has refused to accept the ruling and plans legislation which would give Parliament supreme authority over the courts. Interior Minister Eben Donges announced today he will introduce a bill tomorrow which will establish a "high court of Parliament." The motion voted down today was proposed by Jacob Strauss. leader the United de (Opposition) party. It has been debated for a week the House of Assembly, where the Nationalist party has a majority.

Donges told the House of Assembly the bill will define the new court's jurisdiction provide for "other related His announcement was greeted with cheers by Government members, involved in a red-hot controversy with the Opposition beof Prime Minister Daniel Malan's determination to establish the supremacy of Parliament over the courts. This was the first Government statement on the Government's legislative plans to implement Malan's policy since the Supreme Court declared invalid last month the act placing voters of mixed blood on a separate electoral list. 100 Missionaries Ousted Monthly by Reds HONG KONG, April -Catholic missionaries are being thrown out of Red China at the rate of about 100 every month, church sources here said today. Before the Reds took over there were 4,200 Catholic missionaries in China. Now there are only 1,435 and of this number almost 150 are in jail, a spokesman said.

Seventeen bishops, 107 priests, 17 nuns and four brothers are in Communist jails. Church records show that seven are Canadians. ers are consulting engineers of Pan-Engineering Co. of New York. The tubes are attached to chambers containing a blood-purifying substance and to the patient's blood system.

The device, unveiled yesterday by Dr. Charles A. Brusch and Dr. Joseph A. Brusch of the Medical Centre, also was said to be capable of saving patients whose blood IS contaminated by overdoses of sleeping pills and other drugs.

Bird Protection Society to Meet May 12 The annual meeting of the Province of Quebec Society for the Protection of Birds will he held at the Mechanics' Institute at 8.15 p.m., May 12. Officers wilt be elected for the year, and spring field trips will be announced. First trip of the season will be held 6 a.m., next Sunday start(ing at Park and Pine avenues. G. M.

Prentice Dies in N.B. Was C.N.R. Employe For 38 Years Ralph Tomson, with top hat and cane, likes the livelier ditties. Gerald Goudge and John Thompson peek at the audience. Interlocutor George Thompson, who arranges the music for the group, explains to his earnest harmonizers just how certain passage should be rendered.

Inflation Under Study Industrial Relations Congress Opens Parley QUEBEC, 21 (C.P.) today at the of Laval UniCauses of inflation, were outlined versity's 7th annual Congress of Industrial Relations. Tremblay, Quebec DeMinister of Labor and head of Laval's Industrial Relations Department, said salaries and prices are "the two poles between which the majority of labor problems are created and solved." Mr. Tremblay, chairman of the two-day convention, said it is important to determine what and' inflation is to find its causes tion. Roger Dehem, professor of economics at the University of Montreal, said inflation "is an economic condition marked by excess of demand over supply." Inflation could be "open" or "hidden." It was open when the price system was free to adjust itself and to reach equilibrium and hidden when prices were frozen. Eden Sends Note to China Details Sought on Arrested Westerners LONDON, April 21-(Reuters) Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden said today Britain has sent another note to Communist China asking for information about a number of Canadians, Americans and other Westerners in Chinese hands.

Eden told the House of Commons he was sorry to report that earlier representations made in April and August last year "do not so far appear to have effected any improvement in the situation." The note is being delivered to the' Chinese Government by Leo Lamb, British Charge d'Affaires in Peping. Britain recognizes the Communist Government and looks out for the affairs of Canada, the United States and other Western countries there. Canada does not recognize the Communist regime. The Foreign Office said today the new move was on behalf of five British and Canadian subjects, three Australians and A total of 62 U.S. citizens, 42 of whom are in jail and 20 under house arrest.

The British note asks for information about the arrested persons, including the of the charge, present whereabouts, and what sentences if any have been passed. It also asks for permission for Lamb to communicate with them. Eden said the figures given were subject to correction "since in most cases persons under detention have not been permitted to get in touch with their national representatives, families or friends." Tribesmen Back Seretse Khama LONDON, April Bamangwato tribesmen from Bechuanaland in Southern Africa called on a Government Minister today to plead for an end of the exile of their chief for marrying a white woman. The delegates were dressed in snap-brimmed hats, belted raincoats and European style suits when they strode impassively into the office of Commonwealth Relations Secretary Lord Salisbury. They had waited since April 10 to meet Salisbury after flying more than 8,000 miles from the tribal reserve in Bechuanaland to plead for the return of their chief.

Seretse Khama, who married a London typist. The couple, forced to live in England, now have a two-year-old daughter. The Bamangwato tribesmen accuse Britain of banishing Seretse placate South Africa Prime Minister Daniel F. Malan, a white supremacy advocate. 'They insist they want Seretse and nobody else las their chief.

George M. Prentice, a C.N.R. employe for 38 years and roadmaster of the Gaspe and Campbellton divisions until illness forced him to retire, died April 9 at the Tuberculosis Hospital, East Saint John, it was reported here today. Mr. Prentice had been ill for nine months.

He was 55 years old. The funeral service was held in Campbellton and conducted by Rev. A. T. Duke, of Knox Presbyterian Church.

Pall bearers were John Kerr, Murray Henderson, John Lutes, J. E. Underhill, W. A. Anderson and George Bulmer.

Burial was in the Rural Cemetery. Survivors include his wife, six sons, Donald, of Edmundston. Robert, Roland, George and Gerald of New Carlisle, and Arnold, serving with the navy at H.M.C.S. Cornwallis: and four daughters, Mrs. Albridge Brown, of Glassville, N.B., Mrs.

S. J. Poirier and Mrs. R. Bernatchez, of Montreal, and Miss Wanda Prentice, of New Carlisle.

He is also survived by his mother, Mrs. Margaret Prentice, of Fredericton, N.B., a brother, Percy, of Halifax, and two sisters, Mrs. Ransford Lovely, of Briston, and Mrs. Blanche Merryweather, of Fredericton. WE RENT ELECTRIC REFRIGERATORS WESTINGHOUSE or C.E.

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its sessions today, was adjourned further to April 30 by Mr. Justice Francois Caron in Superior Court. If the Appeal Court judgment is not rendered by that date, a further delay will be necessary. The Appeal Court judgment will decide the validity of a writ of prohibition by which the police inquiry has been temporarily stalled. SPECIAL, PERFORMANCE WEYBURN, Sask.

A repairman probing into a "dead" radio set here found it full of life. Out popped a big mouse, which had chewed on various parts and put the set out of commission. Device May Save Lives 1 Brothers Invent Kidney' CAMBRIDGE, April 21 (U.P.) Four brothers have reported development of a new "artificial kidney" which they say might be used to save some of the 5,000,000 persons who die each year from kidney diseases and narcotic poisoning. Dr. John R.

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