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T ^ H I I 1 I ' ’¦'if% ¦ ' ' ' " 1 mm wf^ek fPfi.rro.SSSI Friday, March 25th 2—TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1983 Country music is singer Murray McLauchlan’s ‘roots’ “Elements of country are musically conservative, extremely reactionary, narrow minded and Ixtring, but the very best of it is like the very best of the things I like about all forms of music.” The speaker is Murray McLauchlan, a singer songwriter whose style encompasses country, folk, rock and rhythm and blues.“Those are my roots,” he said “What I like best about country is that it’s the most open form for lyrical honesty, but to some degree it has become too much of a form, and I Ihink that’s why 1 feel a little restricted working within that framework, or at least being perceived that way." During the last 13 years the 34-year old Toronto musician has released 12 albums and picked up a number of awards, including Junos Country music 4^ By DAVE 4MULH0LLAND as country male vocalist in 1975 and ’76.The Juno citations evoked backroom grumblings from the closed-shop, conservative element within the Canadian country music industry.But McLauchlan’s sound fits into the broad spectrum of contemporary country, as demonstrated in songs such as Farmer’s Song, Down by the Henry Moore, Honky Red and Whispering Rain.After all, everyone can t be expected to sound like Sneezy Waters.While McLauchlan's work also reflects his rock and R-and-B roots, the one consistency throughout his material is the folk foundation he formed playing on Toronto streets during the late 1960s.His current True North album, Windows, has the austerity of new' wave and a touch of reggae, with guitar, piano and synthesizer prominent throughout.Perhaps it could be described as new wave folk."I see the general drift of my music becoming quite a bit simpler in its conception,” McLauchlan says.“I’m trying to write songs that work with just guitar and piano, since that’s the way I’m performing these days.I’ve started calling myself a folk singer again, because that’s really what I am.” One of the reasons McLauchlan is currently performing solo is economic; attendance at his concerts has fallen off.“The only thing that improves that situation is getting hits,” he says, “but I’ve always gotten hits by luck, not by intent.1 think falling attendance at my concerts reflects two things: The music I’ve been making for the past three albums (Windows, Storm Warning, Into a Mystery) has been highly experimental, and it’s turned off some people who enjoyed what I did before I also think people just don’t have the dollars to spend on concerts these days.” Fortunately, McLauchlan has his priorities straight.Success is not being No.1 on the hit parade, but rather having as much control as possible over his life and career “I don’t have any personal sense of my life and career going down the tube," he says.“If I remain true to w'hat I’m doing, there’s a level beyond which I don’t see things dropping.I still make e living on my terms, which is what I’ve always done.” McLauchlan is currently on tour, but plans to begin work on a new album in April.He’s also going to be flying across Canada this summer with a film crew, taping interviews for what he describes as a contemporary portrait of Canada.Plans are to turn the interviews into a television special and a series of radio shows, and McLauchlan says he’ll write songs from the experience for an album Billion dollar loss caused by private record taping OTTAWA (CP) Brian Anderson, a fictional character, has a passion for big band jazz.He tikes meticulous care of his records and tapes and few people would consider him a lawbreaker.But the Canadian Recording Industry Association would lump him with thousands of others whom they say rob their business of $1 billion a year worldwide, $100 million in Canada alone Anderson, says the association, is typical of those who violate copyright laws by taping at home.In Canada he breaks the law if he tapes his own records, albums borrowed from friends, or music from the radio Use of tape cassettes is booming as more people install tape decks in their cars and carry small cassette players while walking, jogging or cycling.COST COULD BE $200 A person who buys a dozen blank cassette tapes a year to record 24 albums costs record companies about $200 in lost revenue, says the association Luciano Mottadelli, a Consumer and Corporate Affairs Department examiner, says that even if the law could be enforced, the penalty on first conviction is only $10 per unit, to a maximum $200 Further of fences can bring jail terms of up to two months.Canada's Copyright Act, which hasn’t been extensively revised since 1924, includes antiquated references to such things as per forated-roll recording equipment, which dates back to 1921.Officials from INTERGU - the international copyright society which met in Toronto in September, 1981 agreed that most national copyright laws are ill-equipped for today’s technology.At the conference, the record industry called for increased copyright-infringement penalties to offset revenue lost through illegal duplication Brian Robertson, president of the Canadian Recording Industry Association, says the government’s response to the industry's call has been lethargic.CALLED FOR LEVY The Applebaum-Hebert report on the arts recommended last fall that a non-governmental organization be set up to administer a discount-voucher system.Under this plan, consumers buying blank audiotapes or video cassettes would pay an extra charge but would receive a corresponding voucher which could be applied to purchases of Canadian-made records and pre recorded tapes.Retailers would be reimbursed from a levy fund.Sales of artists' works would thus be encouraged.It is still not known whether the government will help the record industry.Jim Keon, a Consumer Affairs Department policy analyst, said in a report released last May that it’s time to stop making criminals of one-quarter of the population who break an almost unenforceable law.NO.1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.11.12.13.14.15.16.17.18.19.20.21.22.23.24.25.26.27.28.29.30.31.32.33.34.35.36.37.38.39.40.CJ ?Music Chart TITLE Billy Jean It's Raining Men Stray Cat Strut You Are ET Shame on the Moon Allentown Back on the Chain Gang 1999 You Dropped a Bomb Do You Really Want to Hurt Me One On One All Right Separate Ways Mr.Roboto She Blinded Me We've Got Tonight Last Night a D.J.Everytime I See Your Picture Cuts Like A Knife Can’t Take My Eyes Off You Goody Two Shoes Hungry Like The Wolf Talk About It Diehard Lover Silhouettes Fall In Love With Me Breaking Us In Two Secret Information The Woman In Me Crimes of Passion I’ve Got A Rock & Roll Heart Sounds in the Night Jeopardy My Kind of Lady Human Race Let’s Dance Whirly Girl Beat It Knocking Down Love ARTIST Michael Jackson Weather Girls Stray Cats Lionel Ritchie Little Dabs Bob Seger Billy Joel Pretenders Prince Gap Band Culture Club Hall & Oates Christopher Cross Journey Styx Thomas Dolby Rogers-Easton Indeep Luba Bryan Adams Boystown Gang Adam Ant Duran Duran Belgazou Loverde Nylons Earth Wind & Fire Joe Jackson Chilliwack Donna Summer Rough Trade Eric Clapton Geraldine Cordeau Greg Kihn Band Supertramp Red Rider David Bowie Oxo Michael Jackson Goldie Alexander LAST WEEK 4 10 3 6 2 14 8 12 5 16 9 17 20 27 22 26 21 23 24 11 34 15 13 30 32 29 31 33 19 35 37 38 39 40 PL PL PL PL WEEKS ON 8 8 11 9 10 12 12 8 9 5 12 6 6 4 5 4 7 5 5 13 3 9 9 4 3 5 4 3 6 3 2 Country singer Baker lands lucrative U.S.contract TORONTO (CP) — With domestic record sales lopping the 500,000 mark, Canadian country singer Carroll Baker has landed a lucrative recording deal that will give her an opportunity to duplicate her success in the United States and Europe.The Port Medway.N.S., native has just signed with Tembo, an internationally distributed label owned by crooner Roger Whittaker.And, although the label's worldwide reach is important to Baker, even more so is that its president.Ed Preston, is the man behind her phenomenal sales record in this country.“Carroll has done just about everything she can in Canada,” Preston, former head of RCA Records' Canadian operations, said in an interview.“She can sustain her popularity with television shows, but to expand, she has to go after the U.S.market, and I have no doubt she has the talent to be successful there.” Preston said Tembo will undertake a full marketing and promotion campaign in the U.S.He currently is in Britain to discuss plans for a European push as well.FOLDED UNDER HER Baker, 34, had a similar contract with a U.S.company two years ago, but the firm went out of business after she had released only one single.Since then, she has recorded on her manager’s own small label.“The most significant thing about signing with Tembo is that Ed Preston is at the helm,” says Baker.“Our association goes back to the days when he signed me to RCA, and although he wanted to get things going in the States.RCA in Nashville wasn't interested in me."But now he has the control, and it’s a good feeling to know that.” Baker will record her first album for Tembo in April, and Preston said he anticipates the release of a single in late spring.•— CAKIü for the children Millions ol children desperately need basic food, shelter, schooling and health care.Vour help is needed.Send your donation today.CAHR Canada '31?Bank Si QUawa K1S 5H7 TOWNSHIPS WKKK -FRIDAY.MAROH 25.198:1—3 Salvador a ‘disappointingly uncompelling’ book Kaleidoscope By RICHARD LONEY Salvador by Joan Didion (LESTER & ORPEN DENNYS): $14.95.108 pp.Noted for her clear, incisive commentaries on the American psyche, as developed in such books as Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The White Album.Joan Didion trains the sharp end of her acerbic pen on the perplexing Central American country of El Salvador.Perhaps it is the enigmatic nature of her subject, and the ambiguous dilemma that the United States faces in a seemingly no-w in situation of giving aid to the "government" of El Salvador, that renders Didion's book disappointingly uncompelling.Didion journeyed to El Salvador in the summer of 1982.accompanied by her writer husband John Gregory Dunne, to see what the horrors of this third-world hot-spot looked like from close-up.Her account of the mood, politics and terror of the country relies too much on statistics and kill reports: In a January 15 1982 memo to Washington.the (U.S.i embassy issued a guarded' breakdown on its count of 6.909 reported political murders between September 10.1980 and September 15.1982." There are attempts to capture some of the terror and horror of the daily pattern of living in El Salvador, with gruesome reports of the bodies found hacked and bayoneted by the sides of roads, or with eyes and genitalia pecked out by rapacious vultures.But a reading of Didion's slim volume is scarcely as revealing about the unknown country as were many of the reports from Ernest Hemingway on European war zones, which were one-tenth the length of this report.Didion's attempt to see through the political facade of the former Salvadoran army intelligence officer.Roberto D'Aubuisson.who appears to be the man chosen by Reagan's advisers, pales when il is compared to Hemingway's accurate impression of Mussolini ("Biggest Blutl In Europe") when he interviewed him in 1923.some 10 years before Hitler's rise to power.Didion chooses details about the cultural no-man's-land that exists in El Salvador, but the reader remains disappointed by the end of the report, with a feeling that this journalist has failed to remain objective about the country she is exploring.Very much an American w ith an almost "British Empire" disdain for the poverty and cultural deprivation of El Salvador.Didion notes that the handicraft created by the Nahui-zalco Indians "were sewn by machine of sleazy fabric, and the simplest seams were crooked".Salvador bristles with statistics and figures about the Central American trouble spot, but a reader concludes that Joan Didion's report is hardly any more revealing than a well-written journalist's report on the country, appearing in one of the popular new smagazines or under an associated wire services imprint Kenny Rogers WE'VE GOT TONIGHT (CAP1TOL-L1BERTY) Having sold a phenomenal number of records since his cross over hit Lucille, several years back.Kenny Rogers doesn't really need to make good albums.But contrary to what might be expected from the griz- zled.whiskey throated veteran ot just about every pop mode trom folk to rock to country, he eonti nues to make each of his recording ventures as aesthetically pleasing as they are profitable ZWE'VE GOT TONIGHT will be a large seller merely tor the title track's appeal — Kenny's duet with young Scot.Sheena Easton, has been flowing over the Am airwaves for a couple of months.The entire collection of ten carefully chosen tunes is a tribute to Kenny's ear tor a good song.Scarlet Fever is an up-beat "sto ry " song, along the lines ot the old Coaster's tale ot Little Egypt, about a viewer at a strip show w ho gets a fever watching an exotic dancer named Scarlet There is a Randy Goodrum song.No Dreams, which shows that his writing for Anne Murray (You Needed Me.and Broken-Hearted Me) was no fluke : it is such a prêt tv song, it should make a dynamite single ballad.Producers play an important role on this album, with Kenny working with such red hot im pressarios as David Foster and Lionel Richie — even a Richie song.How Long adapts well to Kenny's vocals.Kenny manages to get a bit of his roots into the album in the presence ot Kin Vas sy and Terry Williams, (wool his First Edition cohorts whose voeal contributions add to the big.lull feel of the songs here.Look lor this album to be in the top It), Joe Jackson NIGHT AND D \Y iA&Mi Ills last album w as a tribute to Louis Jordan (.H MPIN JIVE), and in a similar nostalgic trip.Joe Jackson's NIGHT AND DAY hints of Cole Porter's inlluence But it is Porter's witty social commentary, rather than any heavy melodic obeisance that emerges on this.Jackson s most even, listenable set yet A song such as Cancer warns, ironically, that "Everything gives you can cor/ There's no cure.There's no answer".The thematic link through much ot Jackson's album turns on the black and white contrast implied in the album's title it ligures in such songs as Target.Another World, and tie light/ dark iniagerv continues to a les serdogrci in the lyrics ol several othri Cit-k ,on's keyboard work is i MIGHT AND DAY and (led by an asssortment ol p( oiists who keep the rh\ i , album very lluid to >w mg Now that he h mess out ol Ins al 'ai Jo.i.ickson s music is ve pealing on both the lyrical and melodical levels.More to Tootsie Role than comedy For some reason, British theatre and movie audiences have a special affection for men dressing up as women.Benny Hill the late night television comic makes a veritable career of it while the Two Ronnies often don female garb to make a point.Even such excellent actors as Alastair Simm, Peter Sellars and Alec Guinness have been known to take a part which involved a female mascarade.Strangely enough, this doesn't seem to be the case in North America, where we seem to have considerable trouble defining our sex roles.Apart from Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis in Some Like It Hot and the farce level comedy of Tim Conway and Don Knotts in the Apple Dumpling Gang, few North American actors have carried it off well.That is until Dustin Hoffman.Tootsie is not an incredible movie.It lacks the sweeping scenery of Chariots of Fire and the epic quality of Gone With the Wind.The cinematography is not outstanding and it is filmed, with the exception of a few street scenes, largely on sets.What Tootsie is.is an incredible performance by a marvelous actor.When Dustin Hoffman dons wig and dress to prove a point and find work as an actor— actress — he enters into a totally new world and takes the audience with him.Suddenly he sees the world as women often see it — the pats on the bum.the cutsie names, the lack of respect.He even begins to w'orry about his clothing.One of the funniest and perhaps most telling scenes in the movie comes when Hoffman who has fallen in love with a coworker.played by Jessica Lange, attempts to dress for their ‘first date'.Hof- fman fusses over his dress oblivious to the fact that any impression that he makes will be lost on Lange who believes him to be a woman.The supporting cast, which includes Te-ri Garrand the wonderful Bill Murray, are perfect and offer Hoffman a delightful series of insane situations that make the movie one of the funniest in many years.Often bordering on farce and almost always funny, Tootsie is more than just a comedy however.Hoffman’s character is never far from an awareness of the despair around him.He sees at first hand the prejudice that women fight every day and he rebels.Because of his deception, Lange talks to him as only one woman talks to another and through her he discovers him self.Tootsie is terrific but it’s not just a comedy.Actor Chamberlain wanted Thorn Birds lead BURBANK, Calif.(AP) - The minute Richard Chamberlain learned that The Thorn Birds would be a television mini-series, he wanted the role as the romantic Father Ralph.Father Ralph de Bricassart set female hearts to fluttering in the Australian outback in Colleen McCullough's best-seller, in which the priest was trapped between his dedication to God and his love for Maggie Cleary.The Thorn Birds originally was to be a big budget theatrical movie, but after three directors and numerous efforts to scale the story down, it was finally decided to turn it into a mini-series for ABC •‘1 heard about it and I went after it, the same as I did four years ago with Shogun." says Chamberlain."I thought it would be sensational television drama.” "Several actors were being considered for it and there was the same intense competition.I wasn't directly involved.It was the sort of juggling that goes on between studio and networks and agents.It's something you have no control over.Then it finally got narrowed down to me, thank goodness, because I wanted to do it.” LOVES FORMAT It's the third mini-series role for Chamberlain, who was the Scottish trader Alexander McKeag in NBC’s Centennial in 1978, and John Blackthorne.the English navigator who becomes a Japanese samurai, in NEC's Shogun in 1980.He says, "I love the mini-series format.You have so much time to get involved with the role and people you work with.” The 10-hour Thorn Birds begins Sunday on ABC and will also be seen Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.Academy Award Nominee Best Actor: Peter O’Toole My Favorite Year I 1 < j .IjJ Liltu.â.[- r wti., , !k jIjl m- iVt HAKH MYISViJi'll WAR' WDQWI'.XllJMft'’ WrBVJVt ‘OlllMH HMUCIDBYVKH#! CHUSKOf) W D 7h20 9)110 W E 1H00.2h45 4h30 6h15 8900 9945 Cinémas CARREFOUR Sherbrooke 565-0366 Support Our Local Campaign 10 ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATIONS INCLUDING: BEST PICTURE BIST DIRKT0R Sydney Pollock BEST ACTOR Dustin Hoffman BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Teri Garr ,,0^6 Jessica Longe y»**" Û JESSICA LANGE TERI GARR DUSTIN HOFFMAN Tootsie Y1AKS Cinéma CAPITAL 59 King est 56S-OTT Week: 7:00 and 9:30; Sun.: 1:00-3:30-7:00-9:30 4—TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1983 Times book of wine just for beginners At a recent wine tasting that I attended, one of the guests arrived with pencil and paper in hand ready to take notes and make comments on the wines we were about to taste.I Also noticed that tucked under one arm was a paperback copy of The New York Times Book of Wine by Terry Robards.Since its first printing in 1979, this 470-page volume has become one of the most popular books on wine.It isn’t suprising either since Robards’ book contains prac tically everything the beginning connoi-seur needs to know before heading off on the delightful road of wine tasting.Not only does the book contain encyclopedic references to all major wines, vineyards, regions and the appropriate vocabulary, it also has numerous maps, illustrations and vintage charts.Particularly handy are the various photographs of labels that the author includes and which act as visual aids in the understan Wine Bits BYTIM BELFORD ding of the labelling language used by the various wine producing nations.As in all good wine reference books, the Book of Wine begins with chapters concerning purchasing, storing, tasting, glassware, general vinification etc.There is also an illuminating passage on wine labelling and the various wine laws in place in France, Germany and Italy.The backof the book features 22 pages of simple maps and that most necessary of beasts — the index.One of the secrets to the success of the Book of Wine is the attitude of the author.Unlike some individuals who write about wine, there is no hint of snobbery, no false pretention.For Robards.it is obvious that wine is meant like all other food and drink to be enjoyed.A passage in the introduction is self-explanatory.“I have been asked many, many times how best to learn about wine, and I have always responded : by tasting it.There is only one way to educate yourself on wine, and that is by drinking it.No one should ever ask.How should a wine taste?The question should be: How does it taste?.You should drink what pleases you.not what someone else says should please you.” If the book has any failing, it is that it is not complete.The basics are all covered, but as your knowledge of wine prgresses you will find the need for more specialized works covering topics and countries in more detail.For a start however.The New York Times Book of Wine will suit most anyone.Cheers! your wing- Goebbels diary reveals the madman within By Timothy Belford The Goebbels Diaries 1939-1941.Translated and edited by Fred Taylor, Hamish Hamilton It is standard wisdom throughout the western world that Nazi Germany was the product of the actions of a collection of demented human beings — individuals so crazed and led by a man so perverse lhal they could contemplate the extermination of the entire Jewish race.The madmen that made up the higher echelons of the National Socialist party appear to have had no problem with the massacre of Foies, Russians, Lithuanians or any of the other so-called inferior’ Slavic races.The truth of the matter is perhaps more complicated.One of the most frightening moments in the trial of Adolph Eich-mann, the butcher responsible for organizing the deaths of millions of Jews, came when one of the witnesses against Eichmann broke down in tears The man began to weap not because of the memories of the death camps locked inside his mind but because of the sudden realization that Eichamnn was not the wild maniac he had always believed him to be.To his horror, the witness realized that Eichmann was just a man like millions of others — a man who had committed the most atrocious of actions merely out of a sense of duty to his coun try: a man who had merely followed orders.The Goebbels Diaries, recently published by Hamish Hamilton of London, England, contain a perfect example of the strange dichotomy that allowed outwardly normal and sane humans to carry out what were obviously insane acts.Joseph Goebbels.who controlled the brilliant propaganda machine of the Nazi state, was a loving father and generally devoted husband whose concerns for his family appear on almost every page of his diaries.Goebbels writing deals much of the time with the mundane aspects of his work; the reviewing of films, the writing and editing of speeches and the radio broadcasts which made up a large part of the German propaganda effort.He talks of the war effort, of Hitler and of the leaders of the allies who he felt were often decent men but misguided in their resistance to Germany.It is only on closer examination that one begins to perceive a thread of instability — a mental quirk that would indicate the moral blind-spot that dominated Goebbels life.Apart from his obvious disdain for the Jews, “These are no longer human beings, they are animals”, and his belief that the Poles, like all Slavs, were "mongrels", the diary is full of references to occurences and events that show an understanding of the world badly divorced from reality.At one point shortly after the German invasion of Poland, Goebbels confides that it is only the “English who must decide whether the war is to continue.” Later, he accepts a report that the British used mustard gas in the attack on the Graf Spec.Goebbels used every possible twist of fact and figure to deceive the allies and his own people and yet he called Churchill a liar.He described Jews and Slavs as animals and complained of the treatment accorded Germany by the United States.He talked of peace and the failure of England and France to avoid war while the German armies moved across Europe.Throughout the diaries, Goebbels reveals himself bit by bit — a word here a phrase there — until it becomes clear that despite the facade of domesticity, despite the pretense of culture, the man suc-combed to some inner madness that allowed him to serve a regime dedicated to genocide and world domination.The Goebbels Diaries are fascinating but at the same time terrifying.What emerges is not the clear-cut picture of insanity many of us would prefer but a pic- ?i ‘ Goebbels was a family man ture far more reminiscent of Stevenson’s Dr.Jeckle and Mr.Hyde.A picture of an outwardly normal man who committed ex-taordinary crimes including the murder of his own children.Quebec’s Véhiculé Press gaining a far flung reputation MONTREAL(CP) Thirty minutes after the hook launching began, there were so many people jammed into the room that new arrivals had to elbow their way to the book tables.Simon Dardick knew he had an “event” on his hands.The launching was for two hooks published by Dardick’s Véhiculé Press: Cross-Cut, an anthology of con temporary English Quebec poetry, and The Insecurity of Art, a collection of essays on poetry.Hardly the stuff for an “event," it would seem.But to the 500 people who packed the art gallery, the launching was “a getting together in an English cultural célébrât ion, " I Jardick recalled in an interview The biggest of the dozen or so small literary presses spawned by the poetic sensibility of English Quebec.Véhiculé, which has published only 40 works in its 10-year existence, is rapidly gaining a reputation beyond the province’s borders.“We see ourselves foremost as a regional publisher, which is really important in a country this large" Dardick said While a majority of Véhiculé s books have a Quebec connection, it recently put (Hit works on and by national literary figures.It was the first to publish a critical study of novelist Margaret Atwood's work, and is currently putting out the memoirs of Earle Birney.( AN REACT QUICKLY “One of the exciting things about being a small publisher is that you can manoeuvre quickly when you notice something hasn't been done," Dardick said, giving as an example Vehicule’s coup in publishing the Atwood criticism."We were the first ones, and that gave us a lot of visibility because the book got reviewed in every major literary and scholarly magazine and in major newspapers.” Small literary presses traditionally have been the risk takers, publishing works the larger publishers won’t touch because of un certain financial returns.“You're involved in it because of the love of it," Dardick contends.Love may be the incentive.but a keen business sense is clearly what keeps Dardick’s enterprise afloat.He won't put a figure on sales last year, conceding only that he is not losing money and may make a profit this year or next.The Canada Council underwrites the costs of certain specialized projects, such as the comprehensive bibliography of the late poet PRICE: No 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ago the New York Times called the Orford “an absolutely first-rate group." Last November, two newspapers in Basel called the four musicians “technically and stylistically impeccable," and Vienna called them "good .even to the critical ear of the Viennese public." Last month, the Los Angeles Times compared them with the Guarneri Quartet of a decade ago and said the Orford Quartet ‘is likely to become our next superquartet .flawlessly balanced, technically unimpeachable." Now in their 18th season with the Orford are founding members Andrew Dawres and Kenneth Perkins — on violins — and violist Terence Helmer Cellist Denis Brott has been in the quartet for three years.CANADA CATC HING ON "Canada still doesn't quite realize what a hot group we’ve got here,” says their publicist."It usually takes critical raves from foreigners before Canadians sit up and take notice " Home base for the quartet is a basement room in the Edward Johnson music department building at the University of Toronto, crowded with music stands and filing cabinets filled with their repertory.-Lately the performers have been engaged in the most challenging project for any string quartet, playing all the 17 quartets by Beethoven in six concerts.“I think you're not really a string quartet until you’ve done all the Beethovens." says Dawes, their leader, w'ho plays a violin made in 1770 by J B.Guadagnini.Helmer.a native of Northern Ontario who made his debut as a violist with the Toronto Symphony when he was 15, says it is a major undertaking to master the 16 quartets and a Beethoven fugue usually counted as the 17th in the cycle."It takes a long time to learn them, and then you have to work on them for several vears.” VERY HIGH ORDER’ When they played the Beetho ven quartets in London's celebrated Wigmore Hall.The Financial Times said it w’as “playing of a very high order, strong, searching and excitingly fresh.Nowhere was there any conventional gloss." Dawes and Perkins met in Geneva where they w'ere both students of Lorand Fenyves, and they joined Helmer and cellist Marcel St.Cyr in forming the quartet at the Jeunesses musi-calles summer school at Mount Orford.Que.Since 1968 they have been based in Toronto.St.Cyr later left the quartet to pursue his interest in early music.I he Orford Quartet have earned world-wide fame Even Pavarotti catches the boos from Italian fans Even the great Pavarotti can’t avoid Italian ‘boo-birds’ i • ROME (AP) - Italy's most vocal and demanding opera fans have been the bane of singers for years, but in recent months audiences have turned nasty enough to interrupt or shut down three major productions.Even beloved Italian opera star Luciano Pavarotti has been booed.Critics say the phenomenon isn't new, but resentment has intensified because financial and labor problems have forced opera houses to skimp on productions.Italian opera fans also object that the managers of the leading theatres are often appointed for their political connections and not their abilities.In the latest incident, renowned soprano Joan Sutherland and her husband.conductor Richard Bonynge, last week walked out of a performance of a production of Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata in Genoa after the sold-out audience repeatedly booed Italian tenor Lamberto Furlan."We are artists, not gladiators," the couple said in a statement — and they cancelled the rest of their scheduled performances.That came just a few days after Pavarotti was booed at Milan’s La Scala theatre during Gaetano Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor when the singer's voice suddenly weakened.“The dissensions were the logical consequence of the prolonged bad management of the theatre,” said Pieraturo Vertov, vice-president of a vocal group of opera buffs called Friends of the Gallery.The Friends and other "loggionisti " who sit in the lower priced gallery seats are well organized.extremely demanding and not shy about showing displeasure.“It w'ould be a wonderful idea to close the loggione (galleries) for 10 or 15 years for restoration,'" said conductor Peter Maag, who was booed along with Pavarotti and has worked in most of Italy’s opera houses.“We all live in fear,” he said in an interview with The Associated Press.“It’s a kind of terrorism.” Italian opera houses are city-run and depend on subsidies from the local and national governments and almost all of them lose money.Milan’s La Scala is run by a member of the gover ning Socialist party, Carlo Maria Badina Maag, a Swiss so said financial difficulties and high priced stars have forced opera houses to put on fewer productions.That has made each one such an event that everyone is under incredible pressure.Francesca Eminete, of the artist management firm of Propaganda Musicale, told The AP that audiences are more outspoken now because “overall quality of productions has been declining.” The state subsidizes as much as 80 per cent of the opera house budgets, but managers complain the govern ment is years behind in its payments.And financial problems have been complicated by labor demands for more pay Could ballet help the Maple Leafc?TORONTO (CP) - After watching Harold Ballard’s Toronto Maple Leafs lose 4-3 to the Detroit Red Wings and then get trounced 7-3 by the Winnipeg Jets last week, Sarah Lockett is convinced that hockey players would have “more agility of movement" if they learned to move to ballet's fast 16-note music.Th 29-year-old former ballerina believes a few' ballet lessons would benefit our sports heroes and help lift them to greater heights.“Basketball is jumping and our ballon, a French word for our springing from the floor, would certainly help basketball players get more height on their leaps,” she said.And ballet would give football players "more elasticity, a greater range of movement and flexibility of body.” But Lockett doesn’t expect to see these athletes in ballet slippers anymore than she expects the Toronto Argonauts to win the Grey Cup or the Maple Leafs to grab the Stanley Cup.VVhy not?BALLET IS UNMANLY “It’s just one of the many miscon ceptions of ballet that parents, especially fathers have.Ballet is for their daughters, but NOT for their sons.It’s just too effeminate unbefitting to a manor boy, too womanish, too unmanly." However, Lockett vehemently disagrees with this belief and challenges any young hockey or fooball player, or professional player for that matter, to meet the rigors of ballet lessons."It (ballet) is perceived as feminine by people who don’t understand ballet,” she said."That’s particularly true in North America.Europeans have a different attitude.“But then they have centuries of ballet behind them.” Lockett is convinced that if athletic coaches could see the “elasticity” that ballet would give their charges, it might become part of their pre-season training programs.But convincing fathers that their sons should take ballet lessons is another matter, she said.She only has to look at her school classes to see what she’s up against — seven boys in an enrolment of more than 600 at the Ontario School of Ballet.RESERVE NOW! TRANS OCEAN TRAVEL Business or Pleasure Just Drop In.Or Give Us a Call Services ore free 66 King West — Sherbrooke — Tel.: 563-4515 Zenith 59010 6—TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY.MARCH 25.1983 Sports Complex — the ideal spot winter and summer By Timothy Belford Participaction.jog King, physical fitness or just plain survival, call it what you will but it all boils down to the same thing.More and more Canadians are taking an active part in some sort of physical exercise program For those who like group or team sports there is everything from lunch time vol ley ball to weekly dan* cercise classes.For the individual who prefers the excitement and challenge of a one on one confrontation, the squash court, ten- \ 1 j Squash is popular.nis court or the bicycle racing circuit provides ample competition.And for those who just want to test themselves, jogging, mountain climbling and swimming are only a few of the activities available.We in the Eastern Townships are blessed with a variety of opportunities and facilities that make the sporting life that much more en joyable as well as readily available.We have ski hills, lakes, and mountains in close proximity, while our towns and cities contain an abundance of parks, and sports complexes.One of the finest of the latter, is the John H.Price sports centre at Bishop's University W'hich is fast becoming a necessary part of the local community.Under the direction of Tom Allen, the complex offers students and local residents a variety of programs and facilities at a reasonable price and at accessible hours.A witness to the popularity of the centre is the more than 680 outside members who pa y anywhere from $135, for a single adult.to $60.for a high school student, for a year membership.Senior citizens also come out on top for once since « A Pumping iron difficult.membership for them is free.Apart from just being able to use the fa-cilities — the pool, gym.squash courts, dance room, weight room, jogging track etc.— members can also take advantage of the many programs offered to the general public.This year there have been special sessions involving aqua fitness, weight training, prenatal swimming, yoga, a badminton camp, tennis clinics, gymnastics and many more.As a matter of fact there is something for practically everyone of any age An added feature of the complex is the Sports Medicine centre which offers twro distinct services.First, anyone so desiring, can undergo a physical evaluation by making an appointment for Monday or Thursday afternoon.The evaluation is covered by Qu-bec medicare and can be arranged by phoning during office hours.The second available service is an The gym boasts badminton courts injury rehabilitation concerning the facility.program that is offered.Anyone wishing to take part must be referred to the centre by a physician and must pay a service fee which is dependent on the program and the length of the rehabilitation period.Once you become a member,you will receive a newsletter published by the complex staff.The regular bulletin lists upcoming programs, tournaments.complex hours and general news \ * 'i ^J!*i V*.For example, the latest bulletin announces this year's tennis clinics which will be coming up shortly.If you're not sure, now is a good time to try the complex out since a special summer membership which runs from May until September is available for $50 per person or $75 per couple.If you are a student, things are even better since the four-month membership costs only $35.Gjven the fact that the tennis courts are open until 11 p.m.every night, you can t lose! Skis are put away Weight programs are for women too “If You Love This Planet” comes to Cowansville By Merritt Clifton COWANSVILLE — The controversial National Film Board documentary If You Love This Planet will be shown Tuesday evening.March 29.at the Ecole St.Leon on Davignon Street.If You Love This Planet was one of three NFB docu mentaries that the U S.Justice Department labeled "political propaganda" back on February 21.The U S.po- sition meant that screenings of the films within the United States must be preceded by a statement that they are not officially approved, and that the names of all groups showing them must be reported to the Justice Department.Ironically, If You Love This Planet stars U S.citizen Dr Helen Caldicott, and was mostly filmed at an an ti nuclear conference she conducted two years ago in Plattsburgh.New York, site of the Strategic Air Command's largest base in this region.The nuclear-armed F ill fighter bombers stationed at Plattsburgh would take a polar route to targets in the U.S.S.R.in event of war, passing over the Eastern Townships.In the film.Caldicott discusses the medical aftermath of nuclear warfare, and the inability of our medical care system to respond to a disaster of that magnitude.Even if all doctors and nurses were evacuated from target areas, she points out, they would not be numerous enough to cope with the number of victims, nor would enough medical supplies be available to them.Illustrating Caldicott’s points are recently declassified clips of the Hiroshima atomic bomb’s aftermath, "It’s not very pleasant," said Paul Ar- cher, one of the organizers behind the Cowansville screening.Archer believes the U.S.Justice Department opposed the film because it also includes several cuts from a World War 11 military training film depicting Ronald Reagan as a gung-ho fighter pilot who can’t wait to shoot down Japanese.Now U.S.President, Reagan then acted in Army films in lieu of combat service.Also on the Cowans- ville card will be a videotaped interview with Bernard Benson, a British physicist who pioneered development of heat-seeking air-to-air anti-aircraft missiles such as the popular Sidewinder, a distant forerunner of the Exocet ground-to-ground attack missile.According to Archer, “Benson went through a mid-life change, went to Tibet, studied with the monks a few years, and then wrote book on peace.” Copies of Ben- son’s book will be displayed at the filmshowing.While If You Love This Planet is being shown in English, the Benson videotape will be in French.Showtime is 7:30 p.m.; admission is free, with donations requested by the sponsoring organizations, Les Ami du Livre du la Paix and Voices For Peace.The larger of the two.Les Ami du Livre, is orga nized around suggestions in Benson’s book. TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY.MARCH 25, 1983_7 Sleeping at night is so much easier with Rocket Ronnie The staff at The Record were all excited this week after receiving a set of ‘brand new' junk food machines.Our first hint that everything wasn’t completely on the up and up should have been the fact the delivery man’s name was Noah Seriously folks, these machines are so old that Record wit Michael McDevitt noted that we now possess probably the only ‘coal-fired’ microwave oven outside of Germany.It wasn’t until Debbie Waite noticed the blue plastic food trays were actually supposed to be white however, that things got difficult.Way to go Richard.The folks in Denmark Tennessee have a bit of a problem.It seems in order to run for town council you have to have the signatures of 25 voters.The catch is that the town only has 24 voters on its polling list.Nobody noticed the problem until state officials realized the last time Denamrk had an election was 1948.County registrar Maridel Roberts, says there doesn't seem to be any way out of it since nobody wants to run anyway.Too bad governments can’t leave well enough alone.Un second thought, if the provincial government here didn’t force regular municipal elections w'e’d be deprived of the Leo-Paul “the light in front of my store is out" Valcourt show.Speaking of lights, how many Lennoxville council-men does it take to change a light bulb?Six councilmen to hold the ladder, the mayor to tell you what a good job council is doing and the town manager to screw it up.The Toronto Blue Jays, the team that beer built, have at least one fan — pitcher Dave Stieb.Stieb says he’s happy to be a Jay because the “pressure to win" isn’t that great.Someone should tell Stieb that’s because nobody in Toronto has won anything important since William Lyon Mackenzie dropped his wig and fled before the onslaught of uptight Tories in 1837.thus banis- Who’s who By TADEUSZ LETARTE hing anything resembling a pub for the next 100 years.I m told that some people are even proud to be Argonauts.Members of the International Fund for Animal Welfare ran into a little trouble in P.E.I.recently when a group of club-wielding fishermen played a drum tatoo on the hood of their truck.They also took out their frustrations on a boat the animal lovers w'ere going to use to impede the seal hu.t.The interesting part of the whole episode was that it took place in Savage Harbour — an apt name.A spokesman for the group.Susan Seaman.I’m not kidding, said that things were pretty hot for a w hile.Only the intervention of Canada’s finest, the Royal Canadian Mounted can I open your mail’ Police, saved the day.Ronald Reagan on the possibility of nuclear war being limited to tactical weapons: “Well, 1 would if they realized that we — again if — if we led them back to that stalemate only because that our retaliatory power.our seconds, or strike at them after our first strike, would be so destructive that they couldn't afford it.that would hold them off." All that without cue cards too.As Record staffer Caroline Thibodeau said."It makes me sleep easier at night.” Just a short note for the Quebec cabinet.The Midwest's First Annual Stupid Contest will be held in Davenport.Iowa on April Fool's Day.According to contest organizer, Steve Bridges, the idea is to see how stupid you can act in three minutes.1 realize that the members of our present government would be at a disadvantage since they normally have five years, but the prize is $2,000 in cash and goodies just about what thev now make for three minutes work.Speaking of the government, yes Rodrigue, your brother is part of your immediate' family.Life as a member of the royal family is really a b—-says bonnie Prince Edward.Edward, or ‘‘mini-randy" as he's known to his friends, is perplexed by the double life he is forced to live."There are times when one is alone with one s family just like everyone else — and the next moment one’s trying to be polite to everybody." The things those poor royals go through.Eddy also suggests that on the whole, he and his mum try to live as normal a lift' as possible.Doesn’t everyone live in a castle, have servants, a mum with a crown and a dad with no last name?News from the trenches.There is absolutely no truth to the rumor that the present problems between the Bishop's faculty and the principal will be settled at the snooker table in the faculty lounge winner take all.Actually, things have quieted down somewhat, much like things between France and Germany in the fall of 1939.The university did however take another loss at the arbitration table when the faculty was awarded a 19 per cent interest charge on the salary payments the university witheld to save money.The brilliant moneysaving ploy has now cost the school the original sum, 19 per cent interest and untold legal fees.That puts the faculty’s record for arbitration at about the same level as heavy weight champ Larry Holmes.‘Hollyweird’ revival shuns pimps and prostitutes LOS ANGELES (AP> — Prostitutes, wearing spike heels and miniskirts, strut up and down the boulevard.Across the street, a drug deal is taking place.Not far away, a dazed woman whose painted face attracts little attention pushes a grocery cart laden with all her worldly goods.Welcome to glamorous Hollywood, or as some call it, “Hollyweird.” The name Hollywood for many evokes images of beautiful movie stars, black limousines, world premieres and star-studded parties.But the real Hollywood is a dowdy reflection of the glorious '20s and ’30s when walled-in studio empires commanded huge stables of actors, directors, producers and writers.Landmarks like the posh Garden of Allah apartments, the Hollywood Hotel and the original Brown Derby restaurant are remembered only in nostalgia books.Once-flashy showplaces have fallen into disrepair or disappeared altogether.But new life is surging in a community that hit the skids in the 1960s.A grass-roots revitalization has cropped up among the local residents and entrepreneurs tired of prostitutes, pimps, derelicts and street gangs tarnishing a community with one of the most bankable names in the world Efforts are being made to refurbish crumbling landmarks, establish museums and restore old buildings.“It’s just going to take time; it’s not going to happen overnight.” says Dennis Lidtke, a businessman who spent $7 million in the last four years to restore the 55- year-old Hollywood Palace near Hollywood and Vine.The ornate theatre has been turned into a disco, restaurant, private club and video recording soundstage.Lidtke.who owns a design company, was convinced his project located near the famous street corner would pay off “I saw millions of tourists come to that corner.They would shake their heads and take a picture of a street sign.But they would still come.” Donations of more than $3 million are rebuilding the Hollywood branch library which was set on fire last April, destroying the facility’s film collection and rare books “It has been a wonderful outpouring from the community," says Sheila Grether of the Los Angeles Library Association.TOURISTS DISAPPOINTED The name Hollywood continues to beckon tourists from all over the world A 1982 survey by the Southern California Visitors Council found that Hollywood still ranks with Disneyland as one of the attractions tourists most visited.But about 43 per cent of them said it was their biggest disappointment “They come here to see what Hollywood was like when Hollywood was Hollywood," says Marian Gibbons, president of Hollywood Heritage, a preser vationist society she helped establish in 1980.Little of that - old flavor remains.Only one major film studio, Paramount Pictures, is still around.The rest moved long ago to such unexotic places as Culver City and Burbank But Hollywood Heritage is trying to give tourists a taste of the old days.One of the organization’s projects is to make a Hollywood studio museum out of the old barn Cecil B DeMille used in 1913 for his directorial debut, The Squaw Man.Currently, Hollywood’s top tourist at tractions are the famous corner of Hollywood and Vine; Graumann’s now Mann's Chinese Theatre; and the Hollywood Walk of Fame, where more than 1,400 brass stars embedded in the sidewalk honor radio, television and movie stars.Fantin-Latour display takes floor of National Gallery OTTAWA ( CP) — An entire floor of the National Gallery has been closed to prepare for its biggest show of the year, a special exhibition of paintings by a long-neglected French artist, Henri Fantin-Latour.At his death in 1904.Fantin was hailed as the foremost artist of his day and the elder statesman of French painting, but memory of him faded quickly.He now is being recognized again as having played a pivotol role between realist and impressionist art in the late 1800s.To find work space in w'hich to unpack, examine and generally prepare the 151 paintings, pastels, drawings and prints in the show, the gallery closed its fourth floor, reducing its public display space by almost a quarter.If the National had proper space and facilities, a show like this could be prepared in a workshop or staging area near the public exhibit halls, said a gallery of ficial.Such a staging area is to be part of the new National Gallery building now being planned.Fantin-Latour, who signed his works simply Fantin, now is best known in England for his flower studies and in France for his single and group portraits.He also did a number of imaginative works depicting scenes from music he loved, including Wagner’s operas and Berlioz's oratorios.Ladies in frilly, flowery dresses and men in beards and top hats abound.His flower studies shimmer with spring freshness and glow with ripe fall fruit.His most widely-known work, An Atelier in the Batignolles, is a group portrait of Edouard Manet, Auguste Renoir, Emile Zola, Claude Monet and other artists, w riters and critics, which has been widely reproduced in art history books.LENGTHY TASK Douglas Druick, a Montreal-born National Gallery curator specializing in French art, conceived the show's plan five years ago and spent the last three years selecting works from galleries around the world and negotiating to borrow them He said Fantin, while a long-time friend of impressionist painters, tended more towards realism in his works, though he often used the free brush strokes and contrasting colors favored by the im pressionists.The show, the first comprehensive scholarly study of Fantin’s 50 years of work since his death, was mounted for the Louvre at the Grand Palais in Paris last fall.After its exhibition here March 17 to May 22, it will go to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco June 18 to Sept.6.The first of three major shipments from the Louvre arrived this week at the National, and repor ters and critics were invited to see some of the pieces unpacked.Each canvas travelled in a specially-built crate, protected with layers of plastic padding and wrappings, and each had to sit 24 hours in the gallery environment to adjust to its atmosphere before being opened.Ursus Dix, chief conservator, watched each move by the work men and examined the paintings with magnifying glasses, checking each agaiust conservators' reports written when they left Paris.No damage was discovered Druick and Barbara Ramsay, a gallery conservator, are preparing a special study of Fantin’s technique One prized work is a flower study which has been in the Goeteborg Museum in Sweden for more than 100 years, untouched except for the recent replacement of its original varnish.The brush strokes and color harmonies are as fresh and vibrant now as the day they left Fantin's studio, Druick said.Hospital i Visiting 8—TOWNSHIPS WKEK—FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1983 WHAT'S ON Music costs $45 — a not-unreasonable price considering the information and contacts that can be had.There is very little really new on the music scene this week other than a return appearance of the marvelous jazz trumpeter Tiger Okoshi at Le Stress at the Hotel Lasalle.Okoshi has played with most of the modern jazz greats, and for years has headed his own band Baku to impressive critical review.It is surprising actually that a man of his stature is playing in the Sherbrooke area, but when a gift horse appears, don’t count his teeth.Okoshi’s jazz is complex but rhythmic and sure to surprise.Well, worth the effort.At Chez Rene The Flyers, a rock and soul band, will be lighting up the singles scene.Chez Rene has also started featuring music three, count ’em three, days a week, from Monday to Wednesday.At Le Bar Guest, Texas Quebec the Townships’ latest musical attraction, is still playing.These guys are tight and professional and the club is friendly and reasonably sized A good bet The Hideaway in Lennoxville is once again at it with Whiteliner.And as I said last week the music is good and the heer cheap.At the Manoir Waterville, Robinson Fowler Band are still entertaining on the weekends and the Del Monty is still featuring the retro group The Rolleeks Theatre, dance, events Although there is very little activity in the lively arts this week there are a few events of enough significance to merit a few words in my stately column, so I will pass them on to you.First of all there is a dance recital at the University of Sherbrooke's Centre Culturel this week, by the Création Danse group which has its home at the university.On Tuesday, March 29, at the Salle Wilfred Pelletier the group will perform different selections designed to demonstrate the creative aspects of dance as art and physical training More than 70 dancers will perform in this ‘spectacle’.The show begins at 8.30 The Sutton Playwrites’ Workshop will be holding BY MICHAEL MCDEVITT meetings every Wednesday evening at 7 for all interested in this complex and underrated craft.The workshops will consider all aspects of theatre and will welcome any wishing to participate.Those interested in taking part in this novel enterprise should contact Shirley Fischlin (514) 538-2778.New scripts can be forwarded to Eric Scott, Ayer’s Cliff JOB 2A1, or Jan Draper, care of Champlain College, Lennoxville Quebec J1M 2A1.This sounds like a good way to get introduced to the pleasures of amateur theatre.In Montreal this Sunday there’s a workshop conference entitled The Music Business and You which offers symposia on all aspects of the professional music business — publishing, promoting, performing etc, all the ins and outs of this complicated and frequently impenetrable profession.It’s a day-long conference with experts from all the various fields on hand and is a good way to get a handle on the music business.It will be held at the Spectrum at 318 St.Catherine Street and I have been informed that at the recent performances of The Ice Capades some customers felt they had been misled as to the quality of the seats they received after being ensured that the seats they’d reserved much earlier were top-notch, front-row seats.Personally this surprises me but I’m curious to know if these w'ere merely isolated incidents or if somebody over at the Sports Palace was actively deceiving patrons in order to sell more tickets.If such misleading occurred to anyone else.I’d be anxious to hear about it, so if you feel you’ve been the victim of such a foul-up I would like to ask you to notify me here at The Record either in writing or by phone.I doubt that there is any planned deception going on but if there is it should come out in the open.Exhibitions As the end of the month rapidly approaches and spring, in all her splendor and hope is supposedly upon us.local artists proudly display their latest creations.Art fans can catch some of these displays at several local exhibition centres.In Sherbrooke, w'atercolor painter Joyce Schweitzer Cochrane is opening a show entitled l’essentiel, c’est le ciel, which translates somewhat less poetically as ‘’the main thing is the sky”.Cochrane is very well known in the area for her fine sketches and paintings, and always has an interesting theme to her work.This show, which opens at the Galerie Mezzanine of the Caisse Populaire de Sherbrooke-est on Wednesday, concentrates, as its title would indicate, on cloud formations and the eternally varying beauty of the sky.Cochrane’s work is always a treat, and I know this show will be no exception.It will continue on display until the end of April.The Musée Beaulne, in Coaticook, is also starting a new show by a local artist, this one being Garthby native Yvan M.R.Savoie.Savoie has a diverse interest in the visual arts and is dedicated to the idea that an artist faces a “long and arduous” training and in that vein he has mastered many forms of artistic expression.The show at the Beaulne, which opens on .Monday, is called Tètà tète, and features both acrylic and pen-and-ink work.Savoie works in an expressionistic vein and offers striking visual images of what are normally considered ordinary things.At the Bishop’s/Champlain Art Gallery in Lennoxville a different sort of exhibit is presently being shown, this being examples of Theatre Design by students at the university, under the direction of Guido Tondino, whose students are being taught by one of the best.The exhibit features stage set designs, maquettes, costumes and examples of theatre lighting.It will run until April 1, and is open to the public from 11 a m.until 3 p.m weekdays.It’s the last weekend of the show by Thérèse Dassylva at the Exhibition Hall at the Mystery Spot.Dassylva captures the beauty of nature at her boldest in scenes of the beautiful Coaticook Gorge, and includes some still life as well as her scenic paintings.The Exhibition Hall is open on weekends from 9 a.m to 5 p.m.on Saturday, and from 11 a.m.to 7.30 p.m on Sunday.The Musée Laurier in Arthabaska is continuing its presentation of The Icon: a Work of Art by Rosette Mocior-nitza.Morcionitza offers a new approach to the medieval art of icon painting as it appeared to her as a child in her native Romania.She represents the icon for what it was and is.an object of honor and devotion and an art form of the highest grace and subtlety.The show will continue until April 10.It’s the last chance to see the National Museum's Marconi exhibit at the Léon Marcotte Centre at Séminaire de Sherbrooke.The show commemorates the great Italian inventor while examining the progress of communications technology in the last 80 years.Informative and fun, it offers a good show for the kids.It closes on Thursday, At the Sherbrooke Municipal Library the exhibition of the ink drawings of Denis Desjorlais also terminates this week on Friday.McGill University's McCord Museum is offering something a little strange for those visiting the big city this week.It is a tongue-firmly-in-cheek look at the world of organized holiday tours by world-famous traveller and racconteur Bob de Slob.It features photographs and photographic constructions of some of the world’s great holiday scenes.Entitled Vacation/Sedation, the show will run until the end of April unless somebody bums it down.Also at the McCord, a marvellous display of ancient Quillwork of the Plains Indians, an artform that once reigned in the prairies of the west, but which all but disappeared with the advent of the white man and his little glass trade beads.The ornamentation with quills was a colorful and intricate craft and its beauty and complexity are well attested to by the McCord display.The display is on view until May.The Twentieth Century Disease is examined on CBC at 10 Sunday TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, M ARCH 25.liWT-9 WHAT'S ON Finally, at Le Studio on Route 213 in Dunham art historian Tiziana Tabbia Plomteux will give a lecture and slide display on Some Italian Painters of the •Rinescimento-(15th Cent.) which will examine some of the breathtaking beauty of the Renaissance and the rediscovery of perspective in the projection of solids.Admission to the lecture is free and coffee will be served but reservations, while not necessary, will be appreciated.The talk will be held on Sunday, March 27, at 9 p.m.Movies Fun weekend coming up for the flick freaks but, alas, no skin in sight — or is that on site?Top of the movie line is a special at the University of Sherbrooke's Salle Maurice O’Bready, where the Grands Explorateurs series features Les Cinqs Soleils du Mexique.The occasional series, partly sponsored I believe by one of those breweries you hate to love so much, brings to the U de S screen full-length films depicting the adventures of various explorers — real people, not just Tinseltown plastic persons.This week's presentation stars the likes of Emiliano Zapata (love that name!), Obregon and Pancho Villa (not related to Pizzaville), in real scenes from their real live lives.The series is produced by Michel Aubert.One showing only, at 8:30 Saturday March 26, tickets $6 each.Repeat after me now.Zapaaaataaaah.Downtown at the Capitol.Queen-for-a-movie Dustin Hoffman struts his stuff — and a bit of strategic padding — in Tootsie, the transvestite flick to end them all.World-famous film reviewer Timothy Belford calls it ‘one of the funniest in many years’.Wait ’til they make one about him! Seriously though, this is a movie you should go see, whether you have drag tendancies or not.It’s bound to win some of those ten Oscars it’s nominated for.For 14 years and over.Across town, uptown at the Cinema du Carrefour is a downtown movie about some out-of-town boys, My Favorite Year, starring one of my editor’s favorite actors, Peter O’Toole (Sometimes I wonder about my editor; I think his Lawrence-of-Arabia fixation is showing again.Must be that crowd in North Hatley).O’Toole, of course is one of the silver screen’s most versatile actors and any film he’s in is bound to have a certain flare — er, flair.For all.One toke over the line at the Newport Cinema is the far-out adventure flick 48 Hours, starring Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy.Nolte needs no description — at least the women know him — while Murphy is a staffer at Saturday Night Live.48 is a story about a police detective who enlists the help of a con to track down a murderer.Do they catch him?Go see, this film has lots of action and Murphy in particular is terrific as the prey turned hunter.In Cowansville the Cinema Princesse is showing a double feature, Best Friends and Deathtrap — what a combination.The friends are Goldie Hawn and Burt (no shirt) Reynolds who get together pretty well for some hilarious scenes.Unfortunately the supporting cast seems to fall apart just when it should be getting together so the film has some flat spots too.Trap stars Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve and Dyan Cannon.Actually, she should probably be called Cannons but that’s another story.Deathtrap is a Rubik’s-Cube type mystery about the problems of a down-but-not-yet-out playwrite.I won’t tell you any more — after all, that’s what mystery is all about.Speaking of cannons, now the bad news.Truth: seems not enough Sherbrooke-area Englishes took advantage of the chance to see skin flicks in their native tongue.Consequence: This week there aren’t any.Sad but true, no blue.Television On Mystery tonight on PBS at 9 The Limbo Connection tells the story of Mark Omney, a man whose life is falling apart.He drinks too much and can't get along with his On Tuesday, CBC examines prisoner of debt The Creative Dance Group will be at the Centre Culturel Tuesday.wife, but they agree to meet at their summer cottage to try to reconcile after a bad argument — but she doesn’t show up.Tomorrow, at 8 p.m.on Channel 12, there’s a movie with some local connection which makes it interesting — sort of.Prom Night, one of the many bad movies made during Canada’s tax-credit movie days features the music of Highstreet.once a tradition for local rock fans.It’s about a killer who goes on a rampage the night of the senior prom and does what every red-blooded killer does, namely slaughter pretty young girls.At midnight, also on Channel 12, one of the better disaster movies — and the first — The Poseidon Adventure about an ocean liner that turns upside down in the middle of the ocean.Lots of fun.at 9 PBS presents an Errol Flynn doubleheader with The Adventures of Robin Hood and The Dawn Patrol.On Sunday afternoon at 2 CBC continues Wagner’s Ring Cycle with Die Valküre Acts 2 and 3.Later that evening at 8 CTV begins its broadcast of the newest in an apparently endless series of mini-series, Colleen Me Collough’s The Thorn Birds.This is a dramatization of what was a powerful and richly entertaining novel about forbidden passion in a rough and unforgiving Australia.Richard Chamberlain and Rachel Ward star.I don't mean to sound disparaging, for all I know this may be the best thing to hit television since The Brooke Shields Movie Festival, but I do get upset at being expected to faithfully tune in my television set for four nights in a row to see one show.It’s like being indentured.But anyway, lots of people will make lots of money out of it so I shouldn’t worry.For those not into thorny ornithology (sorry, I had to!), there are alternatives.At 8.30 on Radio-Quebec the Montreal International Jazz Festival presents Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, who real down-home blues fans know will be great.And at 10 The Twentieth Century Disease examines the absolute horrors, unspeakable in modern times, of forcing underpaid, overworked but still nice and friendly people to sit for hours like galley slaves stooped over a typewriter all day long, Charlie, (and sometimes all night long too, Mike — Charlie).The special is really about a debate between environment-related disease specialists and traditional allergists over the cause of new and mysterious ailments.An in depth and fair coverage.On Monday at 8 p.m PBS’s Frontline provides a study of the abortion issue in a behind-the-scenes look at an clinic’s set-up.This still-raging issue is a major political factor in North American governments and this show attempts to provide a reference point.This will be followed on PBS by The Catherine Wheel a poetic fantasy in dance, mime and theatre on the decline of family life and values in modern society.On Tuesday CBC justifies its existance again with Prisoners of Debt.This program focusses on the Bank of Montreal and details how this institution survived the disastrous summer of ’82 when banks were in danger of total collapse as major borrowers like Dome petroleum, Mexico and Poland were unable to meet their financial responsibilities.The program questions the very foundations of the international banking system.The show airs at 8 p.m .Also at 8 on PBS NOVA examines Sixty Minutes to Mel- tdown a docu-drama outlining the minute-by-minute unfolding of the mistakes and malfunctions which nearly caused America's first nuclear disaster.The people at Hiroshima and Nagasaki challenge that, but what can 1 say?On Thursday at 8 p.m.CBC’s Premiere Performance offers A Circle of Two.the story of an internationally known, sixty-year-old painter (Richard Burton), who lias lost his urge to paint.Along comes 16-year-old Sarah Norton (Tatum O'Neal) who restores it and other urges real quick.I love story lines like this one— I can hardly wait to see how it ends.Tonight's Nightfall is a chilling tale by Lawrence Gough entitled The Hit.which deals with a pair of professional killers who face earning their daily bread with completely different emotional attitudes.Bill becomes emotionally involved with his work in a way that takes over his entire outlook.Ernie, his partner remains dispassionate and carries out his functions in a matter-of-fact way.The difference ends up being fatal for one of them.Nightfall is heard every Friday at 7.30 on CBC Radio.On Ideas, at 9 on CBC Stereo, host Kevin Marsh presents the first in a three part series entitled Worlds in Reverse, which attempts to analyze familiar historical events from a viewpoint other than the one we are used to.Tonight’s show looks at Indian Response to the Spanish Conquest, which examines, as it says, the cultural, emotional and physical effects of that turning point from the eyes of the invaded people.Tonight's episode is the first of three on this subject.Tomorrow morning on the Entertainers at 11.05, a 90-minute tribute to the great lia Fitzgerald will be proudly offered, including portions of a concert recorded in Edinburgh.Ella is truly one of the greats, so if you care anything about jazz don't miss this one.The show will be repeated on CBC Radio on Sunday afternoon at 1.30.At 1 p.m.The Metropolitan Opera presents Verdi's Don Carlo, a story set in the period of the height of the Spanish Empire.Both King Phillip II and his son DoaCarlo fall in love with the same beautiful princess.Featured performers are Grace Bumbry, and Placido Domingo, the other Italian superstar.Domingo has not yet made a horrible movie, but he did make an album with the world’s most nauseating rich kid, John (God I'm cute) Denver.The Met is broadcast on both CBC Stereo and Radio.At 7.05 Sunday Stereo Theatre presents a dramatization of The Children’s Hour by Lillian Heilman.Mary, a young girl, runs away from a boarding school after being mildly reprimanded for being a troublemaker.She turns to her elderly grandmother who believes the stories she tells about the two headmistresses at the school.Martha Henry stars in this tale of the cost of deceit.At 10.10 p.m.on CBC Stereo tomorrow Anthology pre sents a study of prize-winning novelist Timothy Findlay, author odf The Wars, for which he won the Governor General’s Award Findlay became a writer as the result of a bet — which he lost — and naturally has never regretted the decision.Tonight the man and his work are examined in a meeting with the author and Vancouver critic John Hul-coop.On Sunday afternoon on Sunday Matinee, CBC Radio presents the story of a man caught by a phenomenon beyond his control.Jeffrey Segal stars as Robert Oman, a man who through a series of misadventures discovers that his body is having weird effects on all things electrical Despite a thorough investigation by doctors and scientists, the problem worsens until Oman finds he must be seen to by different authorities.Segal also wrote this intriguing play.At 9.05 on CBC Stereo Ideas Presents offers a thorough investigation into the Pope’s newest blanket, The Shroud of Turin.The show traces the history of the shroud, disco vered in the 16th century, and offers the various scientific and religious theories revolving around its mysterious image.Until recently the private property of the Royal House of Savoy, the death of Italy's last king saw the shroud bequeathed to the Pope, and speculation is now rife as to whether the public will be allowed easier access to this object, sacred to millions who have been permitted to see it only once.At 10.05 Testament provides a study into the most diffi cult book of the New Testament, The Book of Revelations.Probably the best show on radio, CBC Stereo’s Ideas continues its fine broadcasting with more good shows this week.On Monday the great, hopeless writer F ranz Kafka and his work are looked at in the first of a four part Monday series entitled Visions and Revisions.Kafka was almost unknown in his lifetime and many of his works were never completed before his early death but he remains one of the most respected writers of modern times.His unique despair and clarity of style have made him one of the greatest psychological prose writers of all time.Other topics discussed this week are Propaganda, Sibling Ri- .vairy, and Microchip Technology. 10—TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1983 A This week's TV _________________________________________________________________ Listings for this week s television programs as supplied by Compulog Corp While we moke every effort to ensure their accuracy, they are subject to change without notice y a Q o STATIONS LISTED CBFT - Montreal (Radio Canada) WCAX - Burlington, Yt.(CBS) WPTZ- Plattsburgh, N Y.(NBC) CBMT - Montreal (CBC) CULT - Sherbrooke (TVA) WMTW- Poland Spring, Me.(ABC) O CKSH - Sherbrooke ( Radio Canada) 89 CFTM - Montreal (TVA)