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She’s Just a Drifter, My Greatest Memory and Padre — that are not included on 20 Golden Memories.Three other songs are on both albums.But perhaps what makes the Biggest Hits album most interesting is that the extensive liner notes, written by Robbins himself.give us some insight into the writing and recording of the 10 songs.Marty Robbins’ recording career spanned 30 years, and it would be impossible to put all his hits on one or two albums.In coming years we’ll no doubt be seeing reissues of his work on subsequent albums.It’s Enough To Be Remembered: Tim Williams (Ahed Records) Tim Williams has written and produced 10 songs that are contemplative, surrealistic, realistic.funky, bluesy and just plain fun.Although the lyrics of the title track would have fared better with a sparser arrangement, overall Williams' imaginative production supports his expressive voice.It’s obvious that his writing and singing come from within.There’s a good mixture of moods and a delicate interplay of trying to co-ordinate his psychological and emotional needs with the circumstances of his life.There’s nothing forced about this album.It’s fresh, intelligent and highly entertaining music.The Tiffany Transcriptions V7ol 1 : Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys (Kaleidoscope) This album will be of interest to collectors of western swing.It features 14 songs recorded as radio transcripts in 1946-47.eight of which have not been previously released.Quality is as good as can be expected, considering the technical aspects of recording.Mandolin player Tiny Moore points out in the liner notes: “This is the way the Wills Band sounded on the many dances we played.In not trying for the ‘perfect take’, we had a relaxed, yet driving quality that is hard to get on a record.“I don’t remember any pressure at all during these sessions.It was fun.” It’s fun to listen to this album too.In Canada it’s available through Festival Records, a division of the Vancouver Folk Music Festival.For information write 3271 Main St., Vancouver.B.C., V5V 3M6.or phone 604-879-2931.Believing in himself makes Dario Domingues real star OTTAWA (CP) — Argentine musician Dario Domingues has risen from Ottawa street performer to European recording artist but remains virtually unknown across Canada, (he country we chose as his home five years ago.The situation does not surprise him.On the contrary, the quiet-spoken Domingues.29, sees himself as a natural ally of many Canadian performers, their talent exposed in foreign countries before it is recognized at home."In Canada there is an attitude that if it won’t produce big, fast money, forget it,” he says.“In Europe, there are hundreds of small companies and a different attitude — if you believe in something you can sell it.” Accustomed to that state of affairs.Domingues divides his time between Canada and Europe, particularly West Germany where he is to record his second album with the Munich-based Trikont company after his fifth concert tour abroad this spring.The Domingues sound is a blend of traditional South American folk music with contemporary North American and European melodies and rhythms from classical, jazz or rock styles, depending on the composition.On the walls of his country home near Perth, Ont., hang giant posters showing his intense face framed by long, shiny black hair, posters used for concert promotions in Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Austria.COLLECTS INSTRUMENTS The walls and shelves of the loft in his home are a musical museum of pan pipes, bamboo flutes, traditional drums of wood, goatskin or cow skin from Africa and South America, gongs from China and other unusual instruments collected on his travels.Born in Cutralco, a small town in southern Argentina, Domingues was the youngest of six children and the first in the family to have a chance at a college education.But he was uncomfortable in academia.on LAST WEEKS NO.TITLE ARTIST WEEK ON 1.Let s Dance David Bowie 1 12 2.Overkill Men at Work 2 10 3.Electric Avenue Eddy Grant 7 8 4.Little Red Corvette Prince 3 11 5.Flashdance Irene Cara 14 6 6.Beat It Michael Jackson 4 12 7.Time Culture Club 12 6 8.My Love Lionel Ritchie 8 12 9.Safety Dance Men Without Hats 10 11 10.Putting on the Ritz Taco 6 8 11.Young Guns Wham 5 10 12.Always Something There Naked Eyes 15 11 13.Twisting by the Pool Dire Straights 13 7 14 Don't Let It End Styx 19 5 15.Solitaire Laura Brannigan 9 9 16.Affair of the Heart Rick Springfield 20 6 17.Jeopardy Greg Kihn Band 11 13 18.Sign of the Times Men’s Room 18 9 19.Reach Out Narada Michael Walden 23 4 20.Straight From the Heart Bryan Adams 22 7 21.I Won’t Hold You Back Toto 16 9 22.Ship to Shore Chris de Burgh 26 5 23.I’m Still Standing Elton John 27 4 24.She Blinded Me With Science Thomas Dolby 17 13 25.Our House Madness 30 4 26.Every Breath You Take Police 36 2 27.Whirly Girl Oxo 21 15 28.Lean On Me Chilliwack 31 4 29.Family Man Hall & Oates 33 3 30.Total Eclipse of the Heart Bonnie Taylor 34 3 31.The Woman In You Bee Gees 38 2 32.Making It Work Doug and the Slugs 35 3 33.We Two Little River Band 37 2 34.1 Couldn’t Say No Robert Ellis Orrai 29 5 35.Too Shy Kajagoogoo 40 2 36.Bang The Drum All Day Todd Rundgren 39 2 37.Baby Jane Rod Stewart PL 1 38.W'anna Be Starting Something Michael Jackson PL 1 39.White Wedding Billy Idol PL 1 40.No Time For Talk Christopher Cross PL 1 Ryan’s Fancy — trying something altogether new HALIFAX (CP) — From singing for more free beer than he could drink on the Newfoundland ferry to embarking on a career as a stockbroker is a big step, but Denis Ryan has decided to take it.Ryan, leader of the folksinging group Ryan’s Fancy, and his two partners, Fergus O'Byrne and Dermot O’Reilly, have decided breaking up isn’t too hard to do.They will give a final concert here next weekend before amicably disbanding to pursue new challenges.Ryan, 39, is studying the stock market in Toronto before returning to Halifax to join a brokerage house.O'Bryne, 35, will spend two years in Greece studying folk music and O’Reilly, 40, will live in Newfoundland.writing and doing some work for the provincial Education Department.“Two years ago we decided that the group had had a really good long run,” Ryan said in an interview.“Things had been very successful.“I looked around at some of the people who had been in the business a long time and were getting very frustrated.We decided among ourselves we had had a good run and had a great time doing it.We were getting a little older and it was time to move on.” “It was very fortunate that Fergus and Dermot felt as I did.We had been very close as friends and always will be.It was an easy decision to make.“When we started 14 years ago we were in our early 20s,” Ryan said.“It’s a different ballgame today, tra- velling really gets to you.The only way you can make a half-decent living after a while is doing one nighters and that demands an awful lot of energy and organization.” He said Ryan’s Fancy has many offers for future concerts, but a decision had to be made — the three men decided to call it quits.Ryan’s Fancy, known best for its Irish songs, certainly went a long way in 14 years.In the early days, their singing for beer on the Newfoundland ferry was legendary.More recently, they’ve had a weekly television series produced by CBC Halifax, called Ryan’s Fancy on Campus.In between, they’ve produced 12 albums, had three national television shows and starred in several TV specials.One highlight of their career included entertaining U.S.president Ronald Reagan in the televised Gala for the President at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.Ryan said his move into the busi ness world is something he has been considering for some time.He said he has been intrigued for years by the financial system.“Before the start of Ryan’s Fancy, I worked with the Irish civil service in the department of Industry and Commerce and took a few economics courses at University College in Dublin Then I went on to Newfoundland to do a degree in folklore.So my whole background is very diversified.People wonder how you can go from one extreme to the other; for me there's no problem whatsoever." TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY.JUNE 10, 1983—3 Spaced-out Michener comes back with another winner Kaleidoscope By RICHARD LONEY Space by James A.Michener (RANDOM HOUSE): $23.95 .622 PP Whether it has been with fictionalized accounts of the source of the Nile River (The Source), the genesis of a mid-western state in America (Centennial), or the story of a particular region of the United States (Chesapeake), novelist James Michener usually finds his books atop the bestseller lists.Space, his current novel, has been leading the lists for many weeks thanks to its appealing topic and Michener's solid reputation as a novelist who entertains after having done extensive homework on his subject matter.Space is a fictional treatment of the fascinating era in America science which began when Russia scooped the western powers with Sputnik and the race for the moon began.Michener's novel takes the reader back to the frightening days of Hitler’s plan to obliterate London with the un- heard of powerful rockets created at the secret Peenemunde installation on a small island facing the Baltic Sea.Choosing Dieter Kolff as the German connection to Wernher Von Braun, the bril liant scientist who became the leading figure in the American space-race, Michener weaves his fictional story around the immigrant German families who became the braintrust of the organi zation that became N.A.S.A.The other three families whose lives are traded in Space include Stanley Mott, whose expertise in the lore about the universe was so crucially important: John Pope and his wife Penny, both of whom played extraordinary roles in the N.A.S.A.saga — John as an astronaut.whose lifestyle closely resembles that of John Glenn, and Peggy as a brassy Senate assistant who keeps the space program funded and attempts to bring the manned-vehicle aspect of it into the public eye.Finally, there are Norman Grant, a navy war-hero, who goes on to become Senator, and his schizoid wife Eli nor.who offers the comic relief in Michener's epic.Elinor Grant becomes entangled in a U.F.O.cha sing scam located in California, and the embarrassment she causes the Senator affords some of the lighter moments in Space.Readers of Tom Wolfe’s The Right Stuff, the non-fictional as- sessment of the N.A.S.A.program, will have little difficulty in recognizing the prototypes for Michener's band of astronauts that he calls the Solid Six.In addi (ion to John Pope, the real straight arrow- of the test-pilots chosen for the Mercury and Apollo programs, there is wayward Randy Claggett.the brash, uncouth.boor who is a P R.liability for the N A S.A.officials, but who can fly rings around the rest of the crews.The other four who are also Southerners, make up the small (by necessity, due to the close quarters of the capsules) superb group of flyers that became heroes to the American people.Using the four families and the lives of the Solid Six, Michener takes the reader into all aspects of the N.A.S.A.programs that chased and overtook the Sputnik phenomenon, and it culminates in the flight of the Apollo 18.a fictionalized moon-landing by Claggett and the first black astro- naut which ends in disaster Mi chener’s book, as well as creating the fictional counterpart of the revelations of The Right Stuff, concludes with the United States turning its attentions to the probes into the universe to ascertain if and where life may exist on distant planets.rnmi rïïf ïtîTik- JJ JM NEED TOU.0?0fa from the Heart.Canadian Heart Hind Girl named Gus is Nashville’s latest star NASHVILLE.Tenn.(AP) — The first thing you should know about rising country music star Gus Hardin is that the singer is not a man.Gus is Caroline Ann.The nickname, Gus, struck when she was a teenager.The second thing you should know is that the talented entertainer doesn't know a thing about music.“I don't even own a record player.” she says.Still, the 38-year-old singer from Tulsa.Okla.managed to reach the top 10 of the national country music charts in May with her first RCA single.After the Last Goodbye.There are a lot of things Gus Hardin confesses during an interview.She’s been married six times, got a recording contract because of a resourceful lawyer and says her voice “sounds weird." About those marriages.which break the unofficial country music record of five by singer Tammy Wynet-te.she says: ‘‘They averaged a year and a half but some lasted three years.I got married so much because my parents are so straight.Plus.1 had a daughter (now 19iand I didn't want to drag a whole line of men in and out of the house indiscriminately.” Hardin kept the name of husband No.3.Steve Hardin, who encouraged her to sing professionally 15 years ago.He now is a musician in Glen Campbell's band.For the past five years she has been single.During this time, her Nashville law-yer.Ralph Gordon, took advantage of an opportunity to turn her career around.LUCK A FACTOR Joe Galante, who heads RCA's Nashville division, was in Gordon's office to sign a will.Gordon, sensing an opportunity to show-off Hardin's music, insisted on playing one of her tapes for the music executive.Galante was impressed and laterwent to Tulsa to hear her sing.That led to a contract with RCA."I feel real fortunate.' Hardin says.‘‘Luck is a dominant factor in anyone attaining success in this business.You need ability, but luck, too.” Her RCA biography describes her voice as an "earthy, lusty, sensual.belting vibrato which can shade into defiant heartbreak on the edge of one note." But she's slightly more prosaic than that urbane assessment."I sound pretty weird to me.” she says candidly.“It's odd to listen to yourself." Born and raised in Tulsa, she sang in church and attended Tulsa University.She wanted to pursue a career teaching the deaf to speak.Then marriage, pregnancy and music intervened and at 23 with three marriages behind her she began singing in Tulsa nightclubs.“I really love to sing.” she says.“It's sort of a physical necessity People come into clubs and want to be entertained.Music is so important to people.I don't know anybody who doesn't listen to music.” Advance weekend edi tions June 10-11 MESSAGE FROM THE SPAV- BIRTH CONTROL NOT FOR PEOPLE ONLY YEARS » mw WHS WM PS iSf flint ¦ Pr tucuiiw imm-m mb w a m ¦ anwwt w w «e.« sfws » 8! (JM «[(• fflDOlttO Bï DON IKON M JF» BRMKP •CitliD Bt AIM Ai W D & Sat.: 7hOO-9hOO Sunday 1 h00 3h00 5h00 7h00 9ti00 James Bond’s all time action high.ALBERT R BROCCOLI presents ROGER MOORE as IAN FLEMING'S JAMES BOND 007'“ MAUD ADAMS.10DIS JOURDAN.KRISHNA IAAYB0RN, KAfilfl BID! VIJAY ABMIIRIJ -mm»- AIB1R1R BROCCOLI ««««.JOHNGUN fcttftaert'xrceV*» GEORGE MacDQNAED ERASER » RICHARD MAIBAUM i MICHAll G Ml SON «•«rOT» !iK*Rp(tfa< ‘‘-tfutei OesfR' tasoa*Q«a> to:» RITA COOUDGE MICHAEL G WIISON PEIER EAMONI EDM PEVSNER JOHN BARRY CINEMA [2] Cinémas CARREFOUR Sherbrooke 565-0366 W D & Sat 6h45-9h15 Sunday 1h05 3h35 6h45-9h15 CINEMA [3] BELVEDERE 2 Next to Place Belvedere Sherbrooke - Tel: 562-3969 SUPER EROTIC FESTIVAL “NAUGHTY NETWORK’’ SPIRIT OF THE SEVENTY SEX" v Week continuous from 7h30 p.m.Sunday continuous trom 2H00 p.m.WEDNESDAY: BARGAIN NIGHT SI .99 HE’S OUT THERE.Flying the most lethal weapon ever made.The Blue Thunder Special.He can see through your walls.Record your moat intimate convereatione.Turn your neighborhood into a raging Inferno YLARS AW aJ.\ And only one man can atop him from uaing it on you.ROY SCHEIDER IIV WAKKKN OATKS • CANDY CLARK • DAN1H STKKN and MALCOLM McDOWKLI.TIitlDissionarg MICHAKl.PALIN MAGGIL SMITH Admission $4 50- Students 14-20 («v.ihcatdi $3 00 Cinéma CAPIT9L 58 King eat nOn-OTTI Missionary Week: 7:30 Sunday: 1 30.7:30 Thunder Week 9:10 Sunday 3:10.9:10 Sorry for the inconvenience but we are refreshing up. 4—TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1983 ‘Discriminating’ tasters can do better than Cribaldi Since the SAQ seems to be slowly but surely stocking more Californian wines, I thought I’d take the time to mention one I had recently.First, you should be aware that the local liquor board won’t be offering any of the really good Californians since, with our tax struc ture being what it is, they would be far too expensive by the time they hit the shelves.Besides, most of the best is drunk in California and rarely gets away from the coast.Nevertheless, many of the wines offered will be of a reasonable price and of decent quality and will serve to introduce the beginner to the style and grapes of California.They will also be one of three types : generic, .jug or varietal.These three terms, which are no longer used only in California but in Canada as well, denote varying qualities of wine.The lowest of these is the ‘jug’ wine such as Almedan Mountain Red or Taylor Lake Country White Wine Bits BYTIM BELFORD These are wines made from the makers own blend of grapes and are designed to impart a consistent style in taste, bouquet and overall character.The second term, generic, is used again to describe a blended wine which is usually given a European name such as Inglenook Chablis or Gallo Burgundy.The first is not a Chablis and the second is not a Burgundy but the makers have used these terms to give their prospective customers an idea of the ‘type’ of wine being offered.The last category, and easily the most important, is that of the varietal.By law, a varietal wine must contain at least 51 per cent of the grape listed on the bottle.For example, Sebastian! Caber- net Sauvignon must be at least 51 per cent Cabernet Sauvignon grape — although it is often more.One of the varietal’s offered at the local outlets of the SAQ is the Cribaldi Chenin Blanc.The Che-nin Blanc is a grape of French origin, used extensively in the Loire valley.Although it is not particularly distinctive, it is a prolfic vine producing acceptable if common wines.California presently has about 23,400 acres of the vine under cultivation.Cribaldi is a label used by Guild Wineries and Distilleries who operate primarily out of Fresno.Their wines include several varietals as well as generics and jug wines.This particular offering has a very flowery bouquet with a strong taste of fruit and a slightly sweet after-shock — definitely a wine for sipping after work and not for meal time.Considering the price— nearly $6 per bottle — the discriminating wine drinker can find better.Cheers! PINK CHABLIS I ïlÂf ^ i PINK CHABLIS * » t » I * "F A Sf Ml m m iè iW»»«r i itSli! ISWS m t smm» «ne 1 The story of James Gray and the birth of the west By Timothy Belford Troublemaker!, by James Gray, Goodread Biographies, Halifax.James Gray has been an author and journalist since the ‘dirty thirties’.As a reporter for the Winnipeg Free Press he met and knew the likes of John W.Dafoe, Clifford Sifton and George Ferguson.He covered the dust bowl, the oil boom, the war and the depression and along the way developed a feel for Canada's west that was both perceptive and personal.As an author.Gray is renown for his well-written, engaging historical studies such as Booze and Red Lights On the Prairies — one the story of prohibition and the Bronfmans, the other a delightful study of the role of the ‘camp follower’ in the development of the west.In Troublemaker, Gray puts it all together in a winding, often tongue-in-cheek autobiography that is as much the story of the west as it is the story of James Gray.The tale he lays before the reader is spiced with anecdotes galor concerning the men and women who turned the land west of Superior from a northern outback into the resource heartland of a burgeoning industrial giant.Admittedly, as in all biographical works .there are lulls — no life is interesting from start to finish — but the dull points are few and far between.Originally published in 1978, Troublemaker has been re-released in paperback by Goodread Biographies, a subsidiary of Lorimer Press.It’s witty, wild and western and definitely a ‘good read’.Despite economy, grassroots magazines flourishing WINNIPEG (CP) — Grassroots publications that deal with issues the established media doesn’t touch are increasing in number, industry spokesmen say.Luc Jutras, arts officer with the writing and publications branch of the Canada Council, says such magazines have increased significantly in the past four years.“And it’s strange in a sense, because the economic situation seems to be contrary to that," he says.Jutras speculates that in the past 10 years the level of cultural and artistic activity in the country has matu red to the point where it can support such publications, which are generally aimed at a narrow segment of the public.Penne Mitchell, writer-editor of Horizons, a feminist magazine launched in Winnipeg five months ago, agrees.“I think people are beginning to recognize.the shortcomings of the more traditional media,” says Mitchell, whose magazine covers a variety of issues and events from a feminist viewpoint.“(Our existence) is a reflection of how poorly the traditional media cover certain issues.not that we should be relying on the traditional media for everything." Mitchell’s comments were echoed by Rob Labossiere, co-editor of Midcontinental, a Winnipeg-based cultural publication with what has been described as an avant-garde point of view.COVERAGE TRIVIAL’ “The coverage of the arts is minimal,” says Labossiere of arts coverage in newspapers and on radio and television.“When it does happen, it’s trivial —it only touches the surface.It may be of interest to the general public as news, but it’s not of interest to the arts community.“In a more open sense.I think there’s a failure in the popular press to deal critically or responsibly with the issues arising at the moment." Other publications that have been launched in the past year in the province include Arts Manitoba, a quarterly journal of visual and performing arts: FITNESS NOW AND HOW How not to get fit Once and for all we’d like to clear up a few misconceptions about fitness.None of the following approaches represents a sensible way to get fit 1.The "drive yourself til you drop" approach.2.The "more it hurts the more it works" approach.3.The "make up in an hour for what it took you ten years to lose" approach.The Canadian movement for personal fitness.The plain fact is that exercise does not have to hurt before it is doing you some good Real gains start long before you reach the pam barrier If you want to get fit, you have to get active.Do it but don’t overdo it.This is the sensible approach to fitness And it works.Can you get fit without struggle, without strain, without pain?AND HOW! V panvapacTfon *2| kthjpW* Prairie Fire, a bimonthly Manitoba literary review; and Word Loom, which bills itself as an international ma-gazine of socially committed literature.There are also a number of infrequently published under-ground journals devoted mainly music and culture.Magazine publishing at the grassroots level usually depends on public funding, particularly at the start-up phase.The Canada Council and provincial job creation programs also have a hand in getting some publications started.In fact, Labossiere says unemployment is probably another significant factor in the current phenomenon.Writers and artists looking for ways to use their talents, but can’t find room in existing organizations, make their own jobs by starting up such magazines, says Labossiere./ TRANS-OCEAN I TRAVEL LOWEST PRICES FOR EUROPE PACKAGE INCLUDE: AIR TRANSPORTATION, TRANSFERS.HOTEL PRICES ARE FROM: LONDON: 1 week 399.00 $ US IRELAND; 1 week 399.00 $ US ENGLAND.IRELAND, SCOTUND, WALES; 2 weeks 699.00 $ US SCANDINAVIA: 2 weeks 699.00 $ US Also special fares for Athens, Rome, Spain, France.Places are limited.TRANS-OCEAN TRAVEL INC.66 King St West 663-4515 Zenith: 59010 Sherbrooke, Qué., Québec permit. / “V TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY.JUNE 10, 1983—5 Festival Lac Massawippi art show well worth the trip Gail Krause."Woman with Roses", collage •> T Georgette Samson.“Le temps du sucres”, oil ¦ By Timothy Bdford Everyone knows that the Townships has probably the largest number of artists and artisans per square foot of any region in Canada.From Knowlton to Way’s Mills there are painters and potters, sculptures and scriveners.We have those who work in bronze and those who pound a potter’s wheel.We have water colourists, oil painters and acrylic specialists.We have wood workers and metal workers.As a matter of fact the Townships can boast someone working in almost every medium known to mankind.Festival lac Massawippi, the brain child of Jan Draper and Eric Scott, is out to let the whole world know and they got off to a good start this week w'ith the opening of the Festival’s first art exhibition.Held in the St.James Church Hall in Hately, seven days a week from 11 to 4 p.m.the exhibit presents the works of some 25 local artists both professional and amateur.There are some 70 works on display and they include a variety of styles and media.Watercolours, oils, acrylics, pen and ink drawings and photographs hang side by side in the cosy atmos- Stratford ticket sales soar but still $400 thousand short STRATFORD, Ont.(CP) — Ticket sales for the 23-week Stratford Festival passed the $5-million mark Tuesday, more than half the budget goal of $9.3 million for the new 1983 season but $400,000 short of its week-byweek goal.With 22 weeks to go, officials said there is little cause for alarm.Ticket sales can improve as news spreads of this week’s opening shows.Advance sales of tickets for Macbeth ran to more than 40 per cent of capacity when it opened the festival Sunday night.Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Gondoliers had advance ticket sales of more than 50 per cent when it opened Monday night.Shakespeare’s As You Like It, directed by John Hirsch, the festival’s artistic director, opened Tuesday night with just under 40 per cent.Executive director Gerry El-dred said it is too soon to predict whether the festival will show a surplus or deficit when it closes October 22.“These figures change from week to week, and we don’t know all the factors involved,” he said.A cold, wet spring could be one factor.Patrons are less likely to plan ahead when the weather is uncertain.THREATENS ITS SUCCESS Hirsch has been pessimistic, warning that the tightness of the economy and rising costs are a danger to the festival’s success.Top ticket prices are $25 a seat, though cheap seats are available in both theatres for as little as $6.50, and Hirsch has appealed for more government and corporate subsidy to keep the festival viable.The 1983 festival of 14 productions is budgeted for a cost of $12.7 million with $1.2 million to be obtained in government grants.For budget purposes, the festival counts on total attendance of 535,100 at its 486 performances.Total capacity is 700,417.Eldred said the budget calling for box office receipts to contribute 74 per cent of the total cost is conservative but realistic.“It could, with luck, go higher than that, or it could fall below.” The festival, in short, is looking for another money-making hit like last season’s Avon Theatre Production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado directed by Brian Macdonald.For many weeks last summer, The Mikado was sold out.Advance ticket sales for its revival this season already have reached more than 60 per cent of capacity, even though the show does not reopen until June 30.LOOKS AT SURVEY Meanwhile, festival planners are pondering an audience survey taken last July and August which found 20 per cent of the festival’s patrons were firsttime visitors, and 30 per cent of those were aged 21 to 34.Of all the first-time visitors, 30 per cent said they came because they were curious, about the same number who said they were theatre buffs.Festival promoters are anxious to encourage these first-time visitors to return and to establish the festival’s patronage among young people who will be the steady audience for the future.phere of the old church hall just opposite the village common.The works cover a variety of subject matter from portraits to landscapes and all, I believe, are for sale.Some of the work is obviously amateurish, but even those produced by the untrained hand display a certain feel for the subject matter — if nothing more.There are as well, a number of indi- vidual artists worth mentioning.Anthony Hobbs, who spends his time between Montreal and the Townships, employs a semiimpressionist style with exceptional use of colour.His works show depth and feeling and tend to grow on one.Gillian Angus Cook’s pen and ink drawings of various geese are al so delightful as she catches perfectly the nature of those often reclacitrant beasts.Virginia P o w e 1, another local artist, shows a certain delicacy of touch with her watercolour that indicates talent galorwhile some of the enamel on copper works — Flying Geese for one — of Rejane McDonald are also extremely well done.The display will be open for public viewing until June 19 and the trip to Hatley is well worth it.Second Poetry Reading coming this Wednesday Following its very successful first event.Festival lac Massawippi continues its summer series of readings on Wednesday, June 15 at 7:00 in the Rip-plecove Inn, Ayer's Cliff.Ginette Bureau and Réal Faucher, two writers from Windsor, Québec wdll read from their works.Festival lac Massawippi is grateful to acknowledge the Canada Council’s financial sponsorship of this reading.Bureau, a native of Québec, was born in a village in the Beauce, and trained to become a secretary-bookkeeper.After her marriage she worked at the United Nations in New York before returning to The Townships with her family.Here she resumed studies first at the CEGEP and then at the Université de Sherbrooke.Subsequently she has worked as a supply teacher for the Régionale de 1’Estrie.Her first work.Mona, has appeared in four separate editions and in two languages.At present Bureau is finishing a second novel, and plans to begin a third in the autumn.Réal Faucher, a New Yorker by birth, moved to Canada in 1965.He has studied at Pace College (in New York), Université de Sherbrooke, and Concordia University.Besides being a writer, Faucher is also a teacher, working at Ecole La Tourne Sol.teaching English as a second language.Faucher’s first book.Fires and Crucifixions.a collection of poems, was published in 1980 by Samisdat.llis second work Touching the Emptiness was published just this spring by An-suda Publications in the United States.Faucher’s poems have also appeared in a number of Canadian and American literary journals, among them The Canadian Forum, Ellipse and Matrix.Festival lac Massawippi cordially invites you to attend this reading.If you’ve never come to a reading before, try it.You might be surprised at how enjoyable it is.1 Ginette Hureau The ultimate fitness book by a man who knows HOLLYWOOD (AP) — George Burns, who has an Oscar, a few millions, beautiful young dates and almost everything else an 86-year-old would want, now has a best selling book.It’s called How to Live To Be 100 - or More: The Ultimate Diet, Sex and Exercise Book, and that covers a lot of territory.Burns has been hustling the book on talk shows all over, and the results have paid off.His book had reached No.15 on The New York Times bestseller list.“This is my fourth book,” he said proudly in a recent interview.“Not bad for a guy who has read two.” How to Live to be 100 is not likely to be among the contenders for the Pulitzer Prize.It reads like an extended Burns monologue.Even the chapter headings fit the pattern! Sex Can Be Fun After 80, After 90, After 100, and After Lunch.Relatives Can Be Nice — If They’re Not Yours.Stay Away From Funerals, Especially Yours.Burns, just returned from a four- night appearance in Las Vegas, ap pears to be the best possible advertisement for the book.“Of course I had to lie a little in the book,” he confessed.“I made up the beginning and the end.Nobody believes the middle part, anyway.” About the TV appearances: “I never prepare.Because if you do prepare material, you don’t listen.It’s better to listen, and something good is bound to come up.Like at the Phil Donahue Show.” “A lady asked me if it was true that I only went out with young girls.I said, ‘Not necessarily — what are you doing tonight?’ Big laugh.” On his future list are appearances in Washington, D.C., Indiana and Lake Tahoe, a movie and a television special celebrating his 80 years in show business.Burns has always deprecated his own career, claiming it’s all due to his playing straight to his late wife, Gracie Allen: “By the time I found out I had no talent, I was too big a star.” “Now I’m an accepted commodity.” 6—TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, JUNE 10, lOH.'l Hirsch’s As You Like It proves love can conquer all STRATFORD, Ont.(CP) — John Hirsch has given the 198.3 Stratford Festival a new interpretation of Shakespeare’s As You Like It in which love and the gentle bucolic life can overcome even stern black-shirted and jack hooted tyranny.The festival artistic director’s personal contribution to this week's opening of four productions started on a grim note, with prisoners being led across the stage in chains, and Graeme Campbell appearing as a whip lashing Duke Frederick surroun ded by menacing black-garbed officers.One even wore black smoked glasses and snapped his fingers to carry out the duke’s commands.It left many in the audience wondering what was this, Sha- kespeare’s happy comedy turned from England’s lovely Forest of Arden into some kind of middle European dictatorship?Some sort of 19th Century Naziism?But as the play progressed, Duke Frederick’s court is left behind, and the happiness of the play was established among the courtiers who run away to an Austrian or Black Forest camp of gentle foresters.Composer Raymond Pannell even provided lilting Viennese waltzes to accompany the action.LEADS ESCAPE Roberta Maxwell appeared really boyish as Rosalind, the girl who leads the escape in a young man’s garb from tyranny into the forest with Andrew Gillies as Orlando, the young lord who pins love sonnets to her among the trees.They won a standing ovation at the end of the curtain calls, shared by Nicholas Pennell, the melancholy Jaques, who delivered the famous Seven Ages of Man speech while buttering biscuits for a picnic supper in the forest glade.Pennell’s Jaques was a masterpiece of character makeup and performance as a sardonic phi-lospher, far different from his commanding, vigorous Macbeth in Sunday night’s festival opening production.The pair of roles is a fine example of what this highly versatile classical actor can do.Stephen Russell, whose return to the festival stage is always welcome, was Oliver, Orlando’s elder brother, paired off with Rosemary Dunsmore as Rosalind’s companion Celia.The two other happy couples in the quadruple marriage festivities at the end were Mary Haney as Phebe and John Jarvis as the shepherd Silvius, and Lewis Gordon as the nimble court clown, Touchstone, with Elizabeth Leigh-Milne as his sluttish Audrey.NOT REPEATED The Nazi theme is not touched on again.The play’s title has no real meaning for the plot or the play, except as a label.It was written as a direct appeal for audience popularity, in other words As YOU Like it.Shakespeare wrote it in 1600, taking the plots from a rustic love story published only about 10 years earlier.Scholars say it is a pieced-together work, probably written hastily to make money.It hasn’t much plot.Nothing really happens after the first act until the finale.But it contains some of the Bard’s loveliest love lyrics.Whether Hirsch added to or detracted from the original spirit of the play by his inclusion of the dark, threatening scenes of Nazi-like tyranny will be debated among the critics.He was obviously drawing from his own experience as a Second World War refugee, a stateless person when he came to Canada in 1947.The play is one of two pro 'uc-tions at this year’s festival to be videotaped for CBC-TV presentation next winter.The other is Gii bert and Sullivan’s The Gondoliers, given a sprightly new setting by Brian Macdonald, director of last season’s hit.The Mikado.Houston’s Eagle Song makes one hope for better A promotion letter tucked into a review copy of James Houston’s novel, Eagle Song begins with a list of abbreviations and occupations: "James Houston, O.C., D.Litt., D H L., D.F.A., F.R.S.A., author, artist, designer and film maker.” Clearly he is an accomplished man.But after reading Eagle Song, this reviewer only hopes Houston is better at art, design and film making than he is at writing.The story begins in 1803 when the New England ship Boston sails into Nootka Sound, on the west coast of Vancouver Island, to trade manufactured goods for sea-otter pelts.Capt John Salter inadvertently insults Chief Maquina of the Eagle tribe and the Indians massacre all but two of the sailors, cut- ting off their heads and lining them in a row on deck.The two survivors are John Jewitt, a blacksmith, and John Thompson, a sailma-ker — both valuable assets to the chief who makes them his slaves until Jewitt engineers a rescue more than two years later It is a true story.KEPT DIARY Ship logs of the day tell of the wily and impetuous Chief Maquina.And Jewitt kept a diary, publishing it in both short and long versions after he finally got back to New England.Pierre Berton made good use of the historical material in his nonfiction narrative, the Slavery of John Jewitt, which appears in his 1978 book.The Wild Frontier.But Houston fritters the material away, changing some facts to no advantage and leaving out some of the best parts.The most annoying aspect of the book, however, is the first-person narrator, an old Indian named Siam.He is Maquina’s brother-in-law and an elder of the tribe, in a good position to observe events.But he is a prosaic, unanalytical storyteller with a limited vocabulary and immature turn of phrase.There are 685 exclamation marks in 330 pages of text.For example: “Her teeth gleamed white when she smiled at Maquina.Yes, I could tell he wanted her! But did he show that?No, not he!” When Siam gets truly worked up, he switches to onomatopoeia: “She smiled at me and made a secret gesture with her body that made my heart go tum-tum-titty-tum-tum.” DETAILS INDIAN LIFE The book might be worth reading for what it says about the festi- vals, attitudes, houses, eating habits and religious beliefs of the West Coast Indians at the beginning of the 19th century.But Houston lacks the talent to convey the sights, sounds and smells of the period and after seeing how he has manipulated the story line, one tends not to trust the anthropological material.Eagle Song is Houston’s fourth novel — his 19th book — but he re- mains famous for adapting Inuit art to world markets more than 20 years ago.This book does not help his chances of being remembered as a novelist.Stratford presents American Accents STRATFORD.Ont.(CP) — Andy Warhol, the popular personification of modern art in America, has graduated from Campbell’s Soup and Marilyn Monroe to something much more basic for inspiration, the great symbols of Western and Soviet culture.Two of his large acrylic and canvas works are included in a special showing here of 46 modern American artworks by 21 artists.They’re quite simple.One is a green and earth-brown dollar sign on a bright orangey-red background.The other, the hammer and sickle, the symbol of the revolutionary workers' struggle, is in blood red on a blue-black background.The show, called American Accents, opened at the Stratford Gallery on Monday and will remain here until August 7 for the first part of the Stratford Festival theatre season, before moving on to eight other Canadian cities this year and next.Rothmans of Pall Mall Canada Ltd., the sponsors, call it the most important collection of modern American art to tour Canada in decades.It has the good points of being small, accessible and digestible, and of being eclectic in its inclusion of subject matter and art styles.They range from Jess Collins’ 1969 touching portrait of three kids by the seaside.Will Wonders Never Cease?, to one of Frank Stella’s Swan Engravings, a cacophony of black, grey and white forms in which — if you try hard — a swan such as the one that forms the symbol of Stratford can be discerned.Warhol’s two canvasses are hung in a corner of the first of the three Stratford Gallery showrooms devoted to the exhibit, and the contrast between them is striking.There is no doubt here where Warhol’s sympathies lie in the brightness of Dollar Sign, contrasted with the threatening tones of the hammer and sickle which he calls Still Life.1976.The Dollar Sign is a 1981 work.‘Awesome - tubular’ says Police’s drummer Copeland TORONTO (O — Stewart Copeland, American born drummer of the British-based rock trio.The Police, indulged in a few “California isms" when told of the radio play the group’s new single has been receiving.“Awesome — tubular,” was how he responded to the overwhelming programming of Every Breath You Take, released in advance of the fifth Police album.Synchronicity (A and M Records).The album is being released this week."It seems each album has done better than the last, but for (something from) a fifth album to continue to do that is aweinspiring." Copeland said in a telephone interview from his home just outside London.In its first week of release.Every Breath You Take was receiving regular play on 189 U S.sta tiens alone.Copeland’s surprise in radio in- terest might seem a bit feigned given the Police's supergroup status, but he explained that he, guitarist Andy Summers and singer-bassist Sting have again gone in a new direction on this album.The sparse, distinctive flavor that characterized the band's first three albums has become a blueprint for a number of bands throughout Britain and abroad "It can become very frustrating.which is why we have to look for a new direction every time." he said."I've felt several times when 1 was writing material that, God, here l am trying to write a Police tune, just like bands all across the country are doing." LOTS OF TRICKS Yet he rejects suggestions that such an attitude might be forcing The Police from their own style."We’ve got more sounds than just one — we’ve got plenty of tricks We’ve got a long way to go and we can come up with a lot more stuff."Of course," he added with a light laugh.“I'm speaking confidently now ’cause we seem to have done it this time, but I’ll be biting my fingernails for the next one and it’ll be just as nerve-wracking doing it again." The search for a new direction was apparent on the group's last album.Ghost In the Mchine, which all but abandoned the characteristic fusion of reggae, rock and jazz in favor of a more roots-oriented rock and R and B.plus definite production largess.However.Synchronicity shuns the elaborate production, returning The Police to their curiously appealing bare-bones approach.Yet the new album is different from their earlier releases.Much of the material provided by chief songwriter Sting (nee Gordon Summer) is decidedly dismal in tone; a contribution by guitarist Summers is totally ec- centric, and Copeland’s own composition.Miss Gradenko, is strong but uncharacteristic Police.The reggae flavor is limited; more pronounced is an exotic, Mideastern feel, notably in the cuts Walking In Your Footsteps and Mother.Copeland admits that this is largely a byproduct of the group's touring in the Third-World.“All that stuff does sink in — not so much the music you hear there, but the sights and the smells and the ambiance of the place.You start to think in terms of world artistic values.“In other words, when we started out and were playing in England we were thinking about playing to an English audience — it's like a dialogue.Then we’d go to America and we’d be speaking to Americans, go to Canada and speak to Canadians.Gradually, the body of people you're facing gets larger and larger and more diverse.And when you start crossing some of the weirder frontiers like India and Egypt and South America, then it gets very diverse, which I suppose is reflected in our music.” Of the dismal tone of Sting’s lyrics, Copeland exercised some diplomacy, answering simply that "Sting was going through his blue period,” and making no mention of the singer's recent marital split.But there’s little doubt that personal problems played a major part in Sting’s new material — from the painful pleading of Every Breath You Take, to the darkness of King of Pain, the sense of madness in O God and the loneliness of Tea In the Sahara.Andy Summers' tune.Mother, may be the album's quirkiest cut, but it also provides a bit of comic relief amid Sting’s malaise. TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY.JUNE 10, 1983—7 By TADEUSZ LETARTE Spot the gossip: Everyone’s favorite columnist Tadeusz Letarte is in this picture.Well.he's in Ottawa for the Conservative Wl meeting.National Branch, actually More slander, etc., next week.« xrdsk ¦f-l i :-£W c A?v J» ' ># "«T»* " ” Mkc- ./ s„.> %ï MIËSi gpljP'iP •'s: .‘Invasion of the Jedi’ - at your nearest supermarket LOS ANGELES (Reuter) — Darth Va-der and Luke Sky-walker are about to invade homes across North America.Children soon will be eating Luke Skywalker cookies, washing in Jedi shampoo and playing with furry little toy animals called Ewoks.They will hear messages from Darth Vader, be photographed in front of scenes from Return of the Jedi and ride Jedi speeder bicycles.It’s all part of a mass-marketing campaign to bring in extra millions for Return of the Jedi, the third film in the enormously successful Star Wars tri- logy.The latest space-fantasy adventure of Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), Han Solo (Harrison Ford), Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) and Darth Vader (David Prowse) earned $41.1 million during its first six days of release in the United States, reported 20th Century-Fox, the studio distributing the film.This far exceeds the one-week box-office showing — a previous record — of $25 million set by another giant, E.T., The Extra-Terrestrial.But a saying among theatre managers that popcorn makes more profit than admission tickets is being taken to the hilt with Return of the Jedi.Firms have been recruited by Lucasfilms, headed by George Lucas, executive producer of Return of the Jedi, to market what is possibly the widest range of products ever linked to a film.HITS FOREIGN MARKETS Overseas agents will market similar products when the film is released in their countries.Film-market analysts say the income from the products may reach $1.5 billion and far outstrip the profits of the film, which cost $32.5 million to make.Sale of products was also tied to the first two films in the trilogy.Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back, the second- and third-biggest box-office winners of all time.But Lucasfilms realized that some of the products came on the market long after those films had been released.This time a different approach has been taken in marketing the goods.Giant stands called Jedi Adventure Centres will be set up in shopping plazas to help promote the film and the goods.Shoppers will listen to recorded messages by the iron-masked Darth Vader and another film character, C-3PO, visit a Jedi Hall of Fame and have their photographs taken in front of scenes from the film.Fifty companies marketing Jedi goods will spend millions promoting their products and an $8-million advertising campaign by 20th Century-Fox for the film will indirectly help sales.HIGH HOPES FOR EWOK Kenner Products, which has produced a series of Star Wars toys since the first film appeared six years ago, is banking on Ewok to be a big seller.Ewoks, creatures that look like koalas and race through a redwood forest on jet-propelled sleds in the new film, are expected to become a main attraction of the teddy bear-toy range, Kenner says.Lucasfilms gave Kenner closely guarded drawings of Ewoks more than 18 months ago so the firm could produce the toys on time, a studio official said.Another big seller could be plastic models of Jabba the Hutt, a legless, bloated, froglike villain.A bakery, Peppe-ridge Farm, will market Star Wars coo- kies and children will be able to munch on likenesses of Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader and other film characters.There will be Jedi bubble baths, new video games based on the film, bubblegum cards portraying the film’s characters, patterns which parents can use to make copies of film costumes and toothbrushes bearing an image of Darth Vader on the handle.To help the film along, there is also a Star Wars fan club, which claims 110,000 members, all committed to seeing the latest film and potential buyers of its products. 8—TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1983 WHAT'S ON Music Brian Monty and The Blues Busters are back again at The Hideaway, but there’s a little different line-up this week due to the necessary absence of Mick Hall who’s off to the Laurentians with Eyes Only.This weekend Monty will be joined by drummer Chris ‘call me dad’ Griffith, organist Brian ‘call me dad first’ Herring, and Des don’t call me’ McKeon on the bass.On Saturday, this collection of talented rejects will be joined by Sherbrooke trumpeter François Gaudette.who I hope knows what he’s doing.Actually, as anyone who’s ever heard them will attest, these guys are extremely good even though no one can figure out why.The Hideaway has been doing pretty good business these days since they started providing regular entertainment, and the Sunday after-ball parties have livened up the town quite a bit since the ‘G’ decided to commit suicide.Note to Calvin: I’m going to start bringing my own beer.Cal.Speaking of the ‘G’.they may not have given up entirely yet.This Saturday.Marylin.the only reason many of us bother to go there at all, has decided to celebrate the impending nuptials of her brother by having a party at the old Georgian, and to do so she has engaged the services of The Rocky River Band, a good solid country-rock group from the Lennoxville area.They’ll be playing Saturday night only, and everybody is invited.Good luck Marylin.The Del Monty in Rock Island is back onto rock'n'roll tonight and tomorrow with a band called Clear Light from down therein the U.S.somewheres and that's always nice.Good rock is hard to find these days.The Manoir Waterville is still presenting Texas-Québec and will be for the rest of the month.This, as I constantly repeat is an excellent band who are polished to the teeth.In Sherbrooke.Le Bar Ouest presents Collection, a country band that accompanies Jerry and Johanne when they go on tour.They'll be there until Sunday, after which they’ll be followed by Bigl'oot who really don't need any introduction in this column.Also in Sherbrooke.Le Stress is apparently just featuring a D.J .this weekend, but next week they 'll be featuring the dance-jazz sounds of the John Elson Trio.At La Boustifaille.Québec singer Louis Morin will be playing from Thursday until Saturday inclusive.Morin plays a variety of tunes from Québec stuff to American pop.He'll be back again next week as well.BY MICHAEL MCDEVITT At a place called the Rock Palace on Wellington South in Sherbrooke, a hard-rock group by the name of Lites will be performing until Sunday.Don't know much about either the place or the band, but 1 will investigate.At Station 88 in lovely South Stukely.the country and bluegrass sounds of Cedar Creek will be livening things up every Saturday this month, including, naturally, this one.What is usually referred to as a grand spectacle' in this here neck of the woods is going on at the Eglise Racine in Racine (nice coincidence, eh» tomorrow night, and again next Saturday.Entitled Choeur à Choeur this event features entertainment by 43 singers.7 musicians.2 comédiens, and 4 dance groups, so if you can t find anything you like there you might as well give up.The outfit putting on this extravaganza is called La Farandole.and this is the 11th time they have produced this annual special concert.Jacques Proulx and Lucie Dubé appear every Wednes- 1 day and Friday night at Hovey Manor and every Saturday at The Ripplecove to perform lovely music by which to enjoy your meals The duo (Proulx on viola and Dubé on piano) perform both light chamber music and ballads, and do so quite proficiently.The music starts at 6.30 in the evening and continues until 9.30.A nice idea.Finally, all you aspiring fiddlers out there should be getting out the resin and checking out your bows, 'cause the Bury Athletic Association is looking for contestants in the Fiddling Contest held in conjunction with Bury’s famous Canada Day Parade.If you're interested in competing in this event, with the eyes of the world upon you.then you should contact either Galen Morrison at 872-3303.or Nancy Lawrence at 872-3475.The same folks are accepting registration for floats in the Parade itself.Finally there is a free organ recital at Christ Church Cathedral on Montreal's St.Catherine Street this Wednesday during lunch hour beginning at 12.30.Featured performer will be Olga Gross.I knew you'd like that.Exhibitions The Ripper has struck again.' Christopher Plummer [right) stars as the legendary Sherlock Holmes, on the trail of the notorious killer.Jack The Ripper in Murder hy Decree—to he seen Thursday, June 16 at 8:00 p.m.E.D.T.James Mason, (left) plays the loyal and earnest Dr.Watson and Frank Finlay (centre), is Inspector Lestrade.CBC.The people in Cookshire have always appeared to me to be a little strange, what with that weed killing business they’ve got and everything, but now its time for them to prove how really weird they are.Today they began their 10th annual Festival of Pain.Now.I don t think that I'm that much of a prude but I can't handle all this S and M stuff so.huh?.Oh.Ahem.The people of the beautiful community of Cookshire are rightly proud of the tact that this year, today in fact, marks the beginning of their loth annual Festival du Pain or bread festival, an event that has been enjoyed by thousands over the years.The festival runs until Sunday, and features all kinds of good and fun things.The happenings kick off tonight with a Retromania Party featuring Maryo Bellemare of CHLT radio Tomorrow.there are all kinds of things to do including puppet shows, modelling contests, a parade, a folk show and a fiddling show as well as music and dancing till late in the evening when the fireworks start.There are kiosks and games and other good things as well, and the whole kit and ka boodle starts up again on Sunday.The activities begin at 10 a m.in downtown Cookshire tomorrow, and at 9 a m Sunday.There are over 70 different craftsmen and artisans displaying their goods as well so don't miss it.Festival Lac Massawippi is holding itrs first art show of the summer right now in St.James Church in Hatley.The show features the works of a whole bunch of local artists, and the trip to the village of Hatley is a work of art in itself.The show will run until June 19.The festival will be holding several such shows this summer as well as poetry readings and concerts.The festival is always looking for volunteers to help out in any capacity, and Jan Draper at (819)564-3653 and Eric Scott at (819)838-4801 wil be delighted to hear from you.The Orford Arts Centre is presenting its world Symposium of Mosaic until next Saturday, and guests are encouraged to come out and see what is happening in this ancient.yet thoroughly modern art.The blending and matching of different-colored stones originated in pre history yet still offers a medium of adventure and new horizons.There is no limit to the variety of color and texture offered by natural stone, and the artist's imagination is his only barrier.At La Galeries d'arts Les Peintres Contemporains, a show featuring work by all of its contributing artists until the 17th of June.These include such well-known painters as Yvan Dagenais.J.R.Sylvestre.Gilles Gingras.and Gordon Pearson.The gallery is situated at 1508 King Street West and is open afternoons until 5 p.m on Tuesday to Friday, and from 1(1 a.m until 5 on Saturdays.This is a good varied show, and is bound to feature something for everybody w ho has any feeling for painting.This weekend at St.Michael’s College in Winooski.Vermont The 11th Annual Vermont Bird Conference is taking place, and if you like birds, then this is the place for you 'well, it’s one of the places for you».The conference will feature workshops on everything from running a woodlot tor nesting birds to birdwatching and nature writing, given by qualified experts.Myself.1 only like birds to look at.but it seems that everywhere I choose to live it turns out to be right next to the largest population of shrill-beaked churningbums in North America.Anything that has to share its misery at the beginning of a new day by screaming at me at 5 a.m.I do not like.That's why I keep cats.Finally, on Monday evening at 7.30 at the Lennoxville Library the Lennoxville-Ascot Historical Society will begin a display ol Victorian Fashions.This will be an exhibit ol the kind of clothes people used to wear (therefore making it necessary for them to put them on and take them off again — sometimes several times a day» and offers remarkable insight as to why the British spent most of their time running around the world conquering it.Frustration you know.Seriously.The fabrics and designs ol the era were quite lovely this is a chance to be grateful yo didn't live back in those days.Ask Desmond.He was only middle aged then and he hated it. TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY.JUNE 10.1983—9 Movies Television Flashdance a good solid piece of entertainment is back again lor one more week at Cinema Carrefour 2.This is not a movie that will change your life or anything like that, but it is worth seeing if just for the dancing Jennifer Beals who plays the leading role is beautiful, and the street kids who do the wild gymnastic type breaking are unreal.Check it out.Outrageous title of the year has to go to the new James Bond movie now playing at Cinema Carrefour 3.Octopus-sy (I swear to God its true) stars Roger Moore as the oversexed spy and the lovely Maud Adams as .Octopus-sy?.that would be quite a trick.Anyway, the screenplay was written by George MacDonald Fraser the lunatic who gave us the delightful, if somewhat pubescent Flashman-series of novels.Now that the Bond producers realize that they should no longer be taken seriously, they may have come up with something worthwhile.but Octopussy?Blue Thunder the adventure film starring Roy Scheide-ras the pilot of a superplane is back again at the Cinema Capitol along with The Missionary starring a probably very embarrassed Michael Palin and Maggie Smith.Blue Thunder, I think, depends on personal taste, although, as usual the quality of the filma king is superior to the plot, but The Missionary is a great disappointment.Despite the undeniable talents of the two stars, nothing can save this example of bathroom humor from total abuse.It is not funny, even for those of us who roar at the nonsense of Palin's alma mater Monty Python, it is cheap, shoddy and infantile.Shame on you guys.I hope they made a lot of money.In Cowansville at the Cinema Princess a double bill featuring Tough Enough and The Entity.Both these films are supposed to be entertaining enough, although I haven't heard anything special.We ll see.At the Derby-Port Drive-in in Derby.Vermont they have a pretty good line-up this week.Tonight and tomorrow is Tex.an example of the new kind of film coming out of alt Disney Studios these days.It stars teen lubricator Matt Dillon, and Ben Johnson.On Sunday, a spoof of the kind of blood-and-guts and blood-horror film that have become so popular these days starring two people who can be as tunny as anyone when they have the material Richard Benjaminand Paula Prentiss star in Saturday the llth This one takes a pot-shot at the kind of movie 1 hate so I give it a gold star.Others may have different opinions.On Monday and Tuesday.Jim Henson and his muppeteers out-do themselves in their production of The Dark Crystal a fantasy adventure featuring the most amazing collection of puppets you are ever likely to see.Personally.I join all the other 8 year olds in being totally fascinated by what Henson can create out of rags, glue and a limitless imagination.Excellent.On Wednesday and Thursday.Peter O'Toole gives a masterful performance in an otherwise mediocre film called My Favourite Year.I will admit 1 was a bit disappointed by this piece of fluff, but there are moments which are extraordinarily amusing.Y’ou won't want to see it twice, but it isn't bad.On Friday.Airplane 11 the Sequel takes over, and while not as funny as the original it still is worth a few chuckles.This time the nuts are on their way to the moon, and have to face sabotage on their way.It stars the same gang of clowns that lit up the original: Albert Brooks.Julie Hagcrty.Lloyd Bridges and William Shatner The comedy show of the year lor at least it would be if it wasn't so sad) begins tonight as CBC offers coverage of The Progressive Conservative National Leadership Convention live from never-never land.Throughout the weekend the national network will provide in depth (up to here) coverage of this circus w here 3.000delegates and god knows how many media parasites will gather over endless drinks, carryings on and other nonsense to see who will stand against Pierre Elliot You know in the next federal lottery.1 don’t know who'll win.but we all know w'ho loses.On Saturday evening at 8.CTV presents a film based on the novel by science fiction great Roger Zelazny about a group of survivors in nuclear war ravaged North America.Damnation Alley stars Jan-Michael Vincent and George Peppard and a host of special effects and monster mutations.At 9.Vermont ETV presents The Night of the Iguana, a fine adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play about alcoholism and decay in a tropical hotel.Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor star as themselves, as usual Early Sunday morning channel 12 presents Separation a highly fictional prophesy of what would happen if Quebec finally chose to separate from Canada.Written by someone who understands little about Quebec but know’s how to make a buck.Richard Rohmer, the novel upon which this was based was a best-seller shortly after the election of the first PQ governemnt.At 8 p.m.on Sunday.CBC rebroadcasts its excellent comedy-drama series Seeing Things, which is one of the best things that network has managed to produce in years.Despite it’s somewhat silly premise — a journalist with precogniton (a journalist with any kind of cognition is rare enough) — the show offers good scripting, direction and casting by star Louis Del Grande.At 9.on ABC Murder by Death is a great spoof on mystery novels and offers an all-star cast portraying mock-ups of the great detectives of popular stories.Sam Spade.Charlie Chan.Miss Marpole and Hercule Poirot are all sent-up marvelously by the likes of Peter Falk.Peter Sellers.Elsa Lancaster and James Coco, and Truman Capote is wonderful as the evil genius who tries to outwit them all.Alec Guinness is also superb as the genius' blind butler.Also at 9.CBC begins a rebroadcast of I Married the Klondike based on the autobiography of Laura Beatrice Berton.This excellent drama series (three parts) stars Leueen Willoughby.At 10.CBC begins its series of summer concerts by the Victoria Symphony with a program dedicated to the music of England.On Monday at 9 on Vermont ETV Frontline presents an inside look at some of the estimated 100.000 Soviet emigres who have settled in the United States in the last ten years, and reveals some startling facts about these people.The Russians Are Here examines how the immigrants have adapted to a radically different societal outlook, and reveals that for many their new-found freedom is frightening and that they miss the status and security they cn joyed in the rigidly controlled Soviet state.Conservationists run head on into nature on Tuesday at 8.as Vermont ETV's Nova presents Umealit: The Whale Hunters Set in a remote eskimo village in Alaska, the conflict between natives who have hunted the bow-head whale for centuries and the conservationists who fear their (the whales not the people) extinction poses grave problems in the tar north.At 9.Vermont ETV presents For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enough, a CBC TV Sews Specials' extensive coverage of the I9H3 political correspondent David Halton (right).On Saturday Conservative Leadership Convention will he anchored by June 11, starting at ! ! :00 a.m.EOT CBC will cover the national correspondent Peter Manshridge (left) and chief delegate voting until a leader is chosen.is WHAT'S ON powerful series of ‘choreopoems and dramatic vignettes based on the writings of Ntozake Shange about "bein alive, bein' a woman, an’ bein' colored".The show stars Trazana Beverly and Lynn C.Whitfield Vermont ETV has the best offering again on Wednesday as Peter O’Toole hosts a biographical look at The World of James Joyce at 8 p.m.Joyce is regarded as the greatest, it most difficult modern Irish writer of the English language.and is credited with revolutionizing both literature and Irish national consciousness.In this special.O’Toole examines the spirit and motivation of the man who gave us The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses On Thursday at 8.Vermont ETV presents the beginning of a series of seven Great Railw ay Journeys of the World written by seven prominent writers who share a love for the romance and beauty obtainable by rail transport.Those of us who love rail travel understand the marvellous opportunities it offers for communication with fellow travellers and the unique rewards that can be had by this threatened method of travel.Trips through the U S.Australia.Britain.India.South America.Europe and Africa are featured.Also at 8.on CBC.Murder by Decree is an excellent Canadian film starring Christopher Plummer.James Mason and Donald Sutherland The unstoppable Sherlock Holmes and his buddy Doctor Watson tear off in search of Jack the Ripper Not bad at all.Radio On CBC Radio's Nightfall this evening at 7.30.Arthur C.Clarke’s World of Science Fiction presents John Wyn dham's nightmare novel of the future The Chrysalids In a post-nuclear era.society savagely protects itself from mu tarions by quickly destroying anything that deviates from the 'norm'.David is an outwardly-normal looking young boy who is frightened by the discovery that he is capable of 'mind-sharing1 a telepathic process that causes him to become part of an underworld group of outcasts.Tonight is the first of three parts.On CBC Stereo at 8.recorded performances from the Montreal International Violin Competition in which repre sentatives of over Ifi countries try out for the prestige — and money — that goes with winning an international competition.The show will also feature interviews with many of the performers.Also, be reminded that the marvelous BBC production of Ulysses by James Joyce offers its second in a 13-part so ries tonight at 11.05 on CBC Stereo.On The Entertainers on CBC Stereo Saturday at 11.05.a retrospective of the career of music great Ray Charles is being presented.Charles is truly one of the giants ol the modern music era and he has managed to create a style that is uniquely his own.Charles has fought blindness and drug addiction to survive as one of the most influential figures in music today.Saturday Stereo Theatre at 7.05 presents a play by Carol Boll called Silent Pictures which examines the Hollywood of the early years and deals particularly with Mary Pickford.Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks who founded the still-prosperous United Artists studios.Boll will be remembered as the author of Festival Lennox-ville’s highly successful One Night Stand At 11.05 on Simply Folk also on CBC Stereo, a performance by singer-songwriter Tom Paxton who has composed many big songs including The Rovers smashed hit Wasn't That a Parly.Also featured is Australian Eric Bogle, composer of the beautiful The Band Played Waltzing Matilda a heart-wrenching ballad about a survivor of the 1915 raid on Galipoli.On Sunday.Live From Roy Thomson Hall presents a repeat of Leontyne Price's recital ol January 3(1.This was the first time Miss Price ever broadcast live, and she was greeted with a demand for seven encores.At 4.05 on CBC Radio's Sunday Matinée a repeat broad cast of Dynamite Trail, the story of rodeo legend Peter Knight by George Salverson is presented.Knight was a world-champion rodeo rider who was killed during his last scheduled ride before retiring to become a ‘family man' Later at 7.05.Sunday Stereo Theatre presents two more episodes of The Lord «d' the Rings by .Lit.It.Tolkien To night, the hobbits and their new friends form the Fellows hip of the Ring and set off together on their perilous mis sion to destroy the ring and Sauron's hopes for omnipo tenee They soon reach thy mysterious Mines ol Moria.which stand tribute to the once mighty greatness of the Dwarves.At 8.both CBC networks offer live coverage of The Montreal International Violin Competition from Theatre Maisonneuve at Place des Arts.Ideas this week continues its series on The Microchip Battleground (Mon.11.05), The Cult of the Body (Tues.8.05), Marx and the Marxists (Wed.11.05) and The World of the Child