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MP: t 2—TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY.MAY 2.1986 SAQ’s draft wine makes good ‘vin ordinaire’ Wine Jules Lefebvre demonstrates how easy it is to get decent wine inexpensively with the SAQ's new wine-on-tap feature.___________________________ I find myself in a bit of a quandary.Like so many wine drinkers in the province of Quebec I am still furious over the recent price hikes announced by the Société des Alcools.So furious in fact, that I find it difficult to recommend any product of the SAQ even if it is probably a good one.Which brings me to the the So-ciété’s latest innovation — draft wine.As most of you are undoubtedly aware, the SAQ has begun selling wine on tap at selected outlets throughout the province.Here in Sherbrooke, the wine is available at the King West branch of the SAQ The system is simplicity itself.The customer merely brings his own 750ml or 1 litre bottle to the store and one of the staff will fill it for him or her.If you haven’t got an empty bottle kicking around the house, don’t worry.The SAQ will sell you one for 35 cents that you can use again and again.The wines — one white, one red — are blends of several different .Spanish wines and are both quite ’ palatable.Although lacking in dis- || cernible bouquet, both have a reasonable viscosity, a clear color and a not unpleasant taste.They are also a trifle acidic and the white will bear considerable chilling.The prices of the wines however — $3.75 per bottle or $4.95 per litre Bits By TIMOTHY BELFORD — are low enough to mask a variety of sins and make them both worthy ‘vin ordinaires’.It also makes it financially possible to drink wine on an everyday basis and at the very least will give you a far better appreciation of a good wine when you have one.The experiment will continue for two months after which the SAQ will evaluate the potential market and decide whether to continue the program.Until then, sale of the draft wine will be restricted to the one outlet here in Sherbrooke.Best of all, for once you don’t have to take my word for it.In its pamphlet describing the project, the SAQ encourages would-be customers to try a sample before they buy.A word of advice however.Don’t go back too many days in a row.With only one store selling the fill-yourself wine, they are bound to recognize you.Cheers! MODENA, Italy (AP) — Tenor Luciano Pavarotti celebrated a quarter-century of success with a hometown performance of the same role he sang as the young winner of a competition in 1961 The crowd in Modena’s Teatro Communale applauded for nearly 10 minutes at the end of the first act of La Boheme, in which Pavarotti sang the role of Rodolfo.Playing the other principal roles were young singers who won last fall's Luciano Pavarotti Opera Co.of Philadelphia International Voice Competition.NE W YORK (AP) — The secret to comedy, Bob Hope told a seminar, is timing, and he proved he is still a master.Comic timing ‘‘is the most mysterious thing of all,” Hope, 83.told a session Tuesday at the Meusem of Broadcasting.‘There's no way you can teach it.You have to be born with it.” And he knows good timing when he sees it.Last week, he said, during the fruitless opening of Al Capone’s vault, a television announcer remarked, ‘‘Maybe he saved dirt.” “He knocked me off the chair.” Hope said.SPRING TIME 198611! 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Brent Cairns brings his magic touch to Galt stage By Laurel Sherrer LENNOXVILLE — You'd think an audience of small children would be a magician’s dream.Not so, says Ives Hill magician Brent Cairns."The kids always want to know how it's done,” said Cairns."They're always out to get you.The Rl.CORD PKRRY BEATON In one of his more complicated large-scale illusions, magician Brent Cairns saws assistant Christine Batley in half.Artists honored in Montreal show MONTREAL — Townships watercolorists Mary Martin, of Dunham, and Denis Palmer, of Sa-wyerville, have received honourable mentions at one of Canada’s most prestigious juried art shows.Martin and Palmer received recognition from the Society of Canadian Watercolorists, whose Salon du Printemps exhibit concluded May 4 at the Centre Guy Favereau in Montreal.Martin’s painting ‘Spring Barn’ received 12 out of 15 votes, leaving her just short of the three cash awards.Fifty-six artists were selected for the competitive exhibit, from among 275 applicants who submitted 425 paintings.The 56 were represented by one painting each, displayed alongside works by 25 of the 31 S.C.W.members.Acceptance into the Salon du Printemps exhibit was the first step toward admission into the S.C.W.for both Martin and Palmer, who would be the first locals included in what amounts to a Hall of Fame’ for Canadian watercolorists.The two must now win acceptance into the same exhibit again next year.After that, they will have five paintings of their choice reviewed by the whole S.C.W.membership, who will vote thumbs up or down.Among 14 candidates for admission this year, only five were accepted.older ones don't care how it’s done ; they just enjoy the entertainment.” Cairns, who turns 21 Saturday, has been performing magic tricks since about age 13, most of which he learns from reading and watching other magicians on TV.“I’ve worked up from packs of cards, and now I saw my assistant in half," he said.For several years now he’s kept busy with about three magic shows a month for elementary schools, various clubs and even weddings.But he doesn’t do birthday parties.“When they're in their own house they’re all over you.” he said.A show planned for this Sunday at Alexander Galt is the most spectacular production Cairns and his crew have ever attempted, and probably will last a long time, he says.It will go on for at least an hour and a half, with music, spotlights and drumrolls to accompany many tricks Cairns has never performed before in public.ADAPTS TO STAGE Cairns has adapted his talents to the stage with a good supply of pocket tricks, stage tricks and large-scale illusions.These, of course, are all magician’s terms that may not mean anything to the uninitiated.Pocket tricks are those that use cards or other such small objects, and which are just as effective when performed right under the spectator’s nose.Stage tricks require some kind of props, but not so big that they can’t be carried out onto the stage.Large-scale illusions generally involve large objects such as boxes that have to be rolled out before the audience.These are better if not viewed too closely.Among the large-scale illusions Cairns performs is one where his assistant is hand-cuffed, placed in a bag and locked into a trunk.Briefly shielded by a curtain, Cairns and the assistant change places within seconds.Cairns is a carpenter by trade, which is handy when it comes to constructing his equipment.“You can buy the equipment, but the cost is unreal,” he said.The box used for sawing his assistant in half would have cost him $1300 to buy, Janice & Ludwig Voggenreiter Uu R.R.1 Ayer’s Cliff Gardening 838*4906 Open 7 days a week 8 to 6 And all your needs for gardening.but he made it for $200.He makes about a third of his equipment himself.Good equipment and practice are important in creating illusions, but presence of mind is essential.Things don’t always go exactly as planned."I usually have a line ready,” said Cairns.SUCKER TRICKS Then for the precocious youngsters, or even adults, who insist on calling out that they know how you did that, there are "sucker tricks" to put them back in their place.For example, you make it look like you’ve clumsily hid something away somewhere, let them start to heckle, and then make the object reappear in an unexpected place.Cairns watches other magicians whenever he can, and particularly admires David Copperfield.“I’ve always watched him on TV," he said."When I see him perform an illusion I have to buy it or build it." (Magicians have to purchase the right to perform certain tricks.) He tries to keep the secret behind his tricks to himself where possible, but his assistants have to be let in on most of them.Christine Batley and NicholasShattler assist him on stage, while his sister Marlene works back-stage.A three-piece band will create atmosphere for this Sunday’s show.All proceeds from the show will go to the Lennoxville-Ascot Historical Society for its project to buy property for a museum and cultural centre.The show starts at 2 p.m.and tickets are $4 for adults, $2.50 for children under 12.They can be purchased in advance at the Christian Reader Bookstore in Lennoxville.INTERIOR S ALE -99 VSK***v « ^99 Æe\^a< -TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1986 ‘You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think’ Kaleidoscope The Little Brown Book of Anecdotes, Clifton Fadiman General Editor (LITTLE, BROWN-McCLELLAND&STEWART): 751 PP H, as an observer once stated, “one anecdote of a man is worth a volume of biography”, then the volume that Clifton Fadiman has assembled is a gigantic treasure trove of biography indeed.Fadiman, a Book-of-the-Month Club judge for over forty years, originally conceived of an idea of doing for the anecdote what Bartlett’s has done for the quotation, and this gathering of well over 4,000 anecdotes by more than 2,000 famous people is the result.It goes beyond the scope of literary anecdotes to include memorable little stories about everyone from Yogi Bera to Richard Nixon, and manages to place funny bits about Casey Stengel and Laurence Sterne on the same page of text.Fadiman selects this short gem about the old perfessor : “In his old age, Stengel was asked how he was doing.He sighed and said, ‘Not bad.Most people my age are dead.You could look it up.’” Some of the most entertaining anecdotes come from the most unexpected sources.For instance, when Dorothy Parker was asked to use the word ‘horticulture’ in a sentence, she replied.“You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.” A sure source of comic quips would be the Marx Brothers in any context, and Chico doesn’t fail to score with a laugh: “Marx’s wife had caught him kissing a chorus girl.During the ensuing row, Chico declared: ‘I wasn’t kissing her.I was whispering in her mouth.’” This book is the kind of casual reading that never fails to reward a browser with the following type of short, amusing tale, whether apocryphal or not: “While performing at a nightclub in a seaside town, early in his career, Jackie Gleason stayed at a local boardinghouse.Finding himself unable to pay the rent, he devised a way of escaping from his lodgings without raising suspicion.He packed up his belongings, lowered the suitcase out of his bedroom window into the arms of a waiting friend, then strolled nonchalantly out of the house in his swimming trunks, heading for the beach.“Some three years later, anxious to pay off his debt, he returned to the boardinghouse.The landlady, recognizing him at once, stepped back in horror as if she had seen a ghost.‘Oh, my Lord’ she exclaimed.‘I thought you were drowned.’” The range of anecdotes in this collection encompasses the kinds of short tables that make it into Henny Youngman’s repertoire of stand-up comedian’s jokes, such as the Dylan Thomas story : “There is a story of Thomas’s friend in the funeral parlour, who looked down at the poet’s painted face, loud suit, and carnation in his buttonhole, only to declare, ‘He would never have been seen dead in it.’” Or the Pierre Elliot Trudeau memory: “Trudeau faced some criticism when opposition members learned By RICHARD LONEY that anonymous donors were financing a new swimming pool at the prime minister’s official residence in Ottawa.‘You may come over at any time to practice your diving,’ Trudeau told one of his opponents.‘Even before the water is in.’” Whether the anecdotes in this thick book originate with statesmen, kings, buffoons, writers, politicians, cinema stars or baseball players there is one common thread of humanity linking them all together-and a more than generous amount of satirical comedy which Clifton Fadiman’s ear for a memorable anecdote preserves for the satisfied reader.RECORD REVIEWS Let’s Active BIG PLANS FOR EVERYBODY (I.R.S.-MCA) He’s known as the innovative producer for Georgia’s enigmatic group R.E.M., but Mitch Easter has now been associated with a couple of projects leading to albums by Let’s Active, a band that gives a fan club address of Water-bury, Connecticut on the cover of their latest record.BIG PLANS FOR EVERYBODY is more of Easter’s inventive engineering on 11 quite individual differentiated songs and sounds — there’s a track that sounds like the freaky guitar tones that John Lennon was putting on a few of the late REVOLVER tracks such as “Tomorrow Never Knows” or “She Said She Said”, but the orientation of the Let’s Active tracks is not toward imitation.Flickers of Byrd’s riffs, Dylan phrasings and Beatles chord shifts may play across the Mitch Easter tracks but the album is an important response by an American band to match the experimentation coming out of Britain.Let’s Active needs a Top 40 single to join Katrina and the Waves as purveyors of fresh new sounds that push the four instrument frontiers out a bit further.Some of the instrumentation on these densely textured tracks features an essentially folky style of acoustic and electric guitars, with enough ingenuity on the mixing to blend them into some strange, catchy effects.If Let’s Active was a band playing the late sixties they would be branded an “underground” group, which means that they have a substantial, loyal following and push out a great deal of fine music, all without the dubious benefit of having scored a commercial hit record — like R.E.M.They don’t seem to let the latter minor hitch keep them from making outstanding records.Journey RAISED ON RADIO (COLUMBIA) The leading edge in America’s corporate rock players, Journey, check back in with a carefully groomed, pre sold album that may just happen to ha ve the digital data between the grooves to match the hype that will be set up for this rock giant’s latest coming.Steve Perry, the diminutive vocal presence with Journey, has managed to prune all the influences of Santana from the band’s program, with the result a synthetic, over-layered attempt to make more sound like best.The single “Be Good To Yourself” throws every cliché of singing and playing into the fray, drops in a Neal Schon extended, groaning guitar solo, but the entire recipe may be something that teen record buyers will feel that they have heard before.RAISED ON RADIO is a preprogrammed record in every sense — the single has been picked, the ballad pulled, and the title track is being touted as a tune that features the titles of the most memorable songs in rock history in its lyrics, a “Radio Ga Ga” or “Rock and Roll Heaven” for the mid-80s.The only real problem with the track is that the vocal mix is so muddy you can scarcely hear the lyric — but that’s perhaps a blessing, because how serious can you get about lines like “When we found our thrill on Blueberry Hill, we wrote our love letters in the sand”?There’s a lesson here — Journey seems to feel that rock and roll is the trappings of extended riffs on blazing guitars or repeated inane lyrical touchstones that will trigger instant success.Luckily it’s much more, but to explain it to Journey would be like having to repeat Louis Armstrong’s reply to the innocent who inquired “What is Jazz,” to which the Satch responded something along the lines of, “If you have to ask, you might as well not even bother!” VIDEO SCREENINGS THE COCA COLA KID (MALIBU VIDEO) Those who were impressed with the hyper-manic performance of Eric Roberts as the cool Greenwich Village Italian goombah who played so well against Mickey Rourke in The Pope of Greenwich Village will be surprised at his laid back role in the sleeper The Coca Cola Kid.Roberts plays a corporation hot-shot from Coke’s Atlanta headquarters who is dispatched to the wilds of Australia to find out why one solitary valley in the outback is holding out against the relentless onslaught of the universal solvent.With the attractive aid of newcomer Greta Scacchi, Roberts is directed by Dusan Makavejev in this sometimes slowly developing mo^ vie which is just odd enough to keep the view wondering where it’s headed.Songs by Tim Finn, former leader of Commonwealth rock group Split Enz, add an authentic musical edge to this quirky, provocative film that has some clever moments of satire.VISION QUEST (WARNER BROTHERS VIDEO) The steel-town settings of Flas-hdance and All The Right Moves have shifted to Spokane, Washington for Vision Quest, and the plots revolving around jazz ballet and football are replaced by high school wrestling in this teen movie NOT directed by mogul John Hughes.Harold Becker directs Matthew Modine as Louden Swain, as the rugged looking young man battles against himself to prove that he can be a successful wrestler in a weight class about 10 pounds below his own level.When Swain and his single-parent father adopt a wayward young lady drifter (Linda Fiorentino) named Carla, there’s a different kind of a love angle in this film, as the wrestler sweats to beat the weight and tries at the same time to make any kind of impression on the frosty, sophisticated Carla.Lots of beaty rock music as a backdrop to this picture, ensuring that this quest to win double favours in sport and love will be the kind of thing the under-25 set that flocks to movies adores.(Videos available at Le Club Vidéo, Queen tT.Lennoxville and Tre-zième Avenue, Sherbrooke.) H^nrcu New in Coaticook Garage Hyundai Coaticook Now open to present Kmi li in f^rs-mn.L modal r A trail dm* my mitqaippèdttlah* prie*.Tbe'WimMtint*’* alapric* ynvoan dbrd Wm you m** rout b* cowinced.Soon manufactured in Quebec to serve you better.Mr.Luc Branchaud, representative, is there to welcome you.at 460 Bolduc St.— Coaticook (819) 849-4166 Mozart’s Requiem: TOWNSHIPS WEEK FRIDAY.MAY 2.1986—5 Moulding the next word, syllable into perfection By Laurel Sherrer SHERBROOKE — Conductor Jean-François Sénart has made the pianist go through the introduction eight or ten times to achieve the right tempo and emphasis, and now the choir is poised to deliver the first solemn syllable of Mozart’s Requiem in a practice for this weekend’s performance.They’ve scarcely hit the note when Sénart cuts them off.Something about how the vowel sound wasn’t quite right.They try it several times before moving on to mould the next syllable and word into perfection.It’s not as if the Ensemble Vocal de Sherbrooke hasn’t sung the Requiem before.In March they joined the Montreal Choir and the Metropolitan Orchestra of Greater Montreal to perform this final work of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and they’ve been practising it on their own in Sherbrooke for months.But such is Sénart’s demand for precision — precision that will be even more essential in the Sherbrooke performance because the choir is accompanied only by piano rather than by a full orchestra.This makes each of the 35 members particularly attentive to his or her own performance.MORE DANGEROUS “It means it’s more dangerous for the choir,” says Marc Bernier, a bass who has been a member since the choir was founded in 1984.“You can’t allow yourself to make a small error.” The spring concert of the Ensemble Vocal takes place at 8:30 p.m.Saturday, May 3 in the Saint-Jean-Baptiste church in Sherbrooke.The concert will also include Johann Sebastien Bach’s Jesu.meine freude.“The Ensemble Vocal concert will allow amateurs in music to observe the contrasting attitudes of two musical giants toward death,” says director Sénart in a press release.Bach’s work, he goes on to say, “doesn’t deal with death in its tragic and anguished dimension, but rather as a source of joy — the joy of reunion with Christ beyond the ultimate threshold.” “The steadfast faith and mystical serenity of Bach gives way, in Mozart’s Requiem, to the full “The steadfast faith and mystical serenity of Bach gives way, in Mozart’s Requiem, to the full scope of the human drama.” scope of the human drama,” Sénart continues.“The action takes place on earth and the heart of man is his only hell.We find there both fear of the punishment of damnation, and the hope of being heard by God, of having prayers answered, of being saved in the end.” DEATH APPROACHING “Composed at the very moment when Mozart felt his own death approaching, the Requiem becomes a moving witness to the anxiety that gripped him and the hope he maintained for the salvation of his soul.” Technically, says bass soloist Bernier, the Requiem is the easier of the two.“It’s not extremely difficult to sing as far as the notes are concerned, but as far as the feeling that must be put in the music, it’s quite difficult,” he says.The Bach piece is more complicated, particularly since it’s sung in German.The choir will be accompanied in the Mozart work by pianist Renée Gilbert and in the Bach by Thérèse Laflamme on the organ.Hélène Martin, soprano, Lucie Roy, alto, Denis Boudreault, tenor, and Bernier, bass, will sing the solo parts of the Requiem.DIFFERENT DIRECTION The Ensemble Vocal wasformed in September, 1984, by a group of people who left the Choeur Symphonique de l'Université de Sherbrooke to take a slightly different direction with their music, Bernier explains.Among other things, they wanted to do pieces that didn’t require a full orchestra.Since then the choir has recorded Bach’s cantata no.191 Gloria in ex-celsis Deo, which has been broadcast by Radio-Canada and will soon record Bach’s Jesu, meine Freude for the Société Radio-Canada.They also performed the choral part of the Sherbrooke Symphony Orchestra’s first concert of the 1985-86 season.Conductor Jean-François Sénart also directs the Sherbrooke Symphony Orchestra and the Radio-Canada choir, and has conducted the Montreal Symphony Orchestra on occasion, among other accomplishments.For its weekly practices, the choir relies on Sister Fleur-Ange Morin, who has been instructing young people in piano and voice in the Sherbrooke area for the past 45 years.Jean-François Sénart conducts the choir for performances and major rehearsals prior to concerts, hut leaves the task to Sister Fleur-Ange Morin the rest of the time.• •• Richard Corliss, Time David Ansen.Newsweek "ROMANTIC Sheila Benson, Los Angeles Times Siskel & Ebert, At the Movies" "RBjpjANTri: T.WlTodav Show” NBC TV Peter Tiavers.IVople îHftnlLARIOUS” HMWH AND MOODY ALLEN MICHAEL CAINE MIA FARROW CARRIE FISHER oxon SPECIAL ¦ jini,»immimnwiin .mi.• i i The 35-member Ensemble Vocal performs Mozart's Requiem this Saturday at 8:30 p.m.in the St.Jean Baptiste Church in Sherbrooke.Wednesdays evening OO Every Night: 7:00 p.m.& 9:00 p.m.Sun.& Tues.Matinee: CiNEMA CAPITOL 565 0111 59 KING est Sherbrooke (i—TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY.MAY 2.1986 Blue-shinned subway traveller discovers big-time opera By Patti Tasko TORONTO (CP) — Two little girls are squirming and giggling as they’re painted blue.Nearby, a middle-aged man with a blue face has makeup artists laughing as he tells about the stares from fellow subway passengers the day he forgot to remove body paint from his shins before heading home.Such things happen when you mix ordinary folk with grand opera — as the Canadian Opera Company is doing with its production of Verdi’s Aida, a tale of tragic love in ancient Egypt.About 100 supernumeraries — opera’s word for extras — were hired to act as guards, soldiers and blue-skinned Ethiopians in the elaborate production.People who by day are bus drivers, businessmen and mechanics sweep on to the stage beside stars Leona Mitchell, Livia Budai and Ernesto Veronelli.The supers give up about 14 nights of their lives, allow themselves to be poked and prodded by makeup and costume artists, then wait up to three hours at each performance for their brief 10 minutes of glory on the O’Keefe Centre stage.Then it’s back to the basement to remove the costumes, scrub off the makeup and finally head home.PAY NOT GRAND Why would anyone do this for a measly $6.50 a night?The love of opera and the thrill of being on stage is enough of a reward for more than half of the 400 people who responded to the company’s call for able-bodied supers, says co-ordinator Brian Pearcy.Others are aspiring actors who want a chance — any chance — to work with professionals and add to their resumes.The remainder know nothing about opera and couldn’t care less — they’re just looking for a lark.Super Peter Nobel, a quiet-spoken business executive by day and a black soldier by night, is an opera lover.Aida happens to be his favorite.“I had an opportunity to see things behind the stage,” he explains in a faintly Hungarian accent while waiting in the crowded wings for his grand entrance.“I don’t know if it’s worth it,” he acknowledges, “but I would suggest anyone who loves opera to do it.But I don't think I'll do it again because of the time it takes.” The biggest thrill for Nobel was rubbing shoulders and having a chat with singer Budai, a fellow Hungarian.HIS ROLE SUPER In the hierarchy of supers — some of whom are as sensitive about their roles as the most egotistic soprano — Nobel struck it rich.As a black soldier, he gets away with wearing the minimum of makeup — a tan base and is on stage three times.At the bottom of the pecking order are the blue-skinned Ethiopian prisoners.They must have their faces, ears, arms, legs and feet painted blue.There are a couple of The single-digit hello on banknotes?Oh joy.Oh rapture! Canadians are going to get new bank notes.And although the faces will be much the same, the poses will be different.According to the Bank of Canada, the reason behind the change is to make our currency less susceptible to counterfeiting.(You have to wonder who would want to counterfeit a Canadian dollar given its present value, but that’s another story.) Anyway, if the central bank is going to do this, why not go the whole way and give us some up to date Prime Ministers on the bills.Perhaps for the one dollar bill, a photo of Pierre Trudeau’s now famous single-digit greeting to B.C.protestors.And what about Joe Clark on the five.A nice photo of him counting his support at the last leadership convention would probably do (the twenty is out since a former Prime Minister with his shoes and socks off would be silly).Ideally for the two dollar bill the bank could use the classic photo of John Turner patting Iona Campa-gnolo's backside — providing both cheeks were clearly visible.Brian Mulroney couldn't very well be left out so why not put him on the ten along with any nine of his cabinet ministers or advisors w'ho have been forced to resign since he formed the government.(This bill could be particularly attractive to collectors if the flip side displayed one of those quintessentially Canadian nature scenes — perhaps a Tuna rampant on a field of Suzanne Blais-Grenier’s travel claims.It didn’t take Robert Fisher (you remember, he used to be called Bobby when he worked for us), long to carve out a new niche for himself with the Quebec CBC.Thanks to his good friend and former colleague, Peter ‘Son of Reed’ Scowen — also of the CBC — Bobby’s been given his first important assignment While Peter lolls around the National Assembly on budget night, Bobby, oops, Robert will wait outside in his car ready to wisk Peter off to the Who’s who By TADEUSZ LETARTE studio to file his report.Given Fisher’s previous track record with automobiles, the one block-ride could be the most exciting part of budget night for Scowen.Talk about not being wanted.Ferdinand Marcos, the only man to force Century 21 to admit defeat, still can’t find a place to live.Marcos is presently domiciled in Hawaii but rumor has it the United States government would just as soon have him go elsewhere and the feeling is apparently mutual.Marcos’ most recent rejection came from the Caribbean Island of St.Vincent where Ferdinand and his lovely wife Imelda — who has more shoes than the entire population of St.Vincent — attempted to buy an island retreat.The offer of $65 million represents St.Vincent’s GNP but happily there are still people who can’t be bought.One final note.The Record is busy trying to confirm reports of the Weeping Queen of North Hatley.According to a spokesman for the North Hatley post office, tears have been seen emminating from a photo of Her Majesty, Elizabeth II w’hich hangs on the post office wall.The tears, which are visible on the Queen’s cheek and chin, were first observed shortly after the celebration of Her Majesty’s 60th birthday.Unconfirmed reports claim that since the phenomena occurred not one letter, post card or piece of junk mail has been lost.Le Club Vidéo de Lennoxville A FABULOUS DEAL IN MACHINE RENTALS * MON: TUES: WED: THUR: $095 OR SPECIAL RENT A MACHINE FOR 2 DAYS DAY $C95 For only SC95 OR SPECIAL RENT A MACHINE FOR 2 DAYS /DAY $Q00 For only w dozen, and they do nothing on stage but lie around and look sad.In the middle are the less numerous red soldiers, who only need their faces — but not ears — painted.Aspiring actor Michael Ga-bris, 27, confides he wormed his way from being a run-of-the-mill red soldier into the lead position, as well as the extra duty of standard-bearer.“You just try to be available,” he says.LEADS THE BLUES Burly bus driver Edward Indri-lunas is a blue prisoner, but he wastes no time in letting a reporter know he is the most important because he leads the group on stage.The plain-spoken Indrilunas, 34, is an opera novice but says the company doesn’t work much differently than the amateur theatre groups his wife got him involved in.He doesn’t get nervous for two reasons.“I’m a bus driver so I’m used to having people watch me,” he explains.“And I don’t have my glasses on (on stage) so I don’t get stage fright.” HIRED OFTEN Many operas require supers but usually fewer than 40, says Pearcy, who has co-ordinated supers for the opera company for about five years.“We’ve never really had a disas- ter with supers,” he says.“Ninety-nine per cent take it very seriously, fortunately for us.” The cost of hiring professional actors for the roles would be prohibitive, he says.“As it is, the supers (in Aida) cost about $12,000.” Repeat supers are wise to the pit-falls of the sport.They know enough to ask in advance if rehearsals will interfere with holidays or if they'll have to shave off their moustaches.Most supers enjoy opening night, start getting bored by the third performance, and, Pearcy says, “by the sixth night it’s ‘Oh God, do I have to?”’ Canadians all over are waiting for the gift of a life-saving transplant.The Kidney Foundation of Canada urges you to sign an organ donor card.The Kidney Foundation of Canada Improving the odds.On life.178 Queen St.567-3797 Lennoxville MOZART REQUIEM J.S.Bach Motet No.3 Ensemble Vocal cle Sherbrooke Director: Jean-François Senart At the altar of Saint-Jean-liaptiste Church Saturday, May 3, 1986, 8:30 p.m.280 Conseil St., Sherbrooke Tickets: Adit] is: $8.00 Students and Seniors: $6.00 TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, MAY 2.198fi- Sylvie Dolbec, Patrick Georges and Jean-Benoit Nadeau were recently awarded the second, third and RECORD/LAUREL SHERRER first prizes respectively of the third annual Théâtre Entre Chien et Loup drama-writing contest Drama contest winners announced SHERBROOKE (LS) — The third annual drama-writing Théâtre Entre Chien et Loup re- contest.cently announced the winners of its The first and second prize win- 1 RECORD/LAUREL SHERRER Martine Dostie, president of the Théâtre Entre Chien et Loup board of directors, and publicity director Bernard Lebel unveil the theatre's new logo.Top 10 books Here are the week’s Top 10 fiction and non-fiction books as compiled by Maclean's magazine.Bracketed figures indicate position the previous week.FICTION 1 (1) The Bourne Supremacy — Ludlum 2 (2) Lie Down With Lions — Foiled 3 (3) The Mammoth Hunters — Auel 4 (7) A Perfect Spy — le Carre 5 (4) Cyclops — Cussler 6 (-) I'll Take Manhattan — Krantz 7 (5) The Handmaid's Tale — Atwood 8 (6) What's Bred in the Bone — Davies 9 «