The record, 7 novembre 1986, Supplément 1

nships week k 1 Friday, November 7 n 00- 0 2—TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1986 Stamp series honor those who fought in World Wars On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918, an armistice was signed bringing to an end hostilities that prevailed for four years.The first world war, or The Great War as it was more commonly imHOîitüiUuiiiGJiiftttüttüJUiutuH.muHutimuiuiJiiti War memorial known, was supposedly to be the war to end all wars.Never again was the world to know such ravages.In Ottawa a war memorial was erected, and in towns and cities across our nation, cenotaphs were built listing the names of those who didn’t make it back.Each year on Nov.11, people gathered at these memorials to observe a two minute silence at eleven o’clock in the morning, in memory o those who had fallen.In May of 1939, Canada issued a stamp depicting the War Memorial as part of a three-stamp issue to commemorate the Royal Visit of their Majesties King George VI and Queen Elizabeth along with their children Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret.A short few months later, the peace was shattered with the outbreak of the Second World War in September of 1939.Once more Canada was called upon to send its young men to fight for the preservation of freedom.In 1942-1943, Canada issued a set of stamps that became known as the War Effort Issue.The profits Stamp corner By Peter McCarthy from the sale of the issue went towards badly needed war supplies.Included in this series were a one-cent, two-cent, two three-cents, a four-cent and a five-cent denomination depicting King George in the uniforms of the various services.A four-cent grain elevator and an eight-cent farm scene were to illustrate the food stuffs provided by this country.The 10-cent issue depicted parliament buildings while the thirteen and fourteen cents depicted ram tanks.The 20-cent issue shows a corvette under construction, this proud little convoy escort vessel was built in Canada for both the Canadian and British navies.The t .Corvette Munitions factory Destroyer The War Effort Issue: King George VI, grain elevator, farm scene, parliament buildings and rant tank.fifty cent stamp depicts a munitions factory.The last stamp in the series, the one dollar stamp, shows a destroyer, queen of the seas under a full head of steam.Canada not only supplied men to fight the war.She also provided much of the needed material.Peace once more came to the world.However, the price was great.Many of the young men that went overseas didn't come back.And so, these names were added to the cenotaphs in the appropriate towns and cities across the country, and on Nov.11 at 11:00 we remember those of not only the First World War, but also of the second and Korean Wars.Philatelists have the opportunity of remembering more than just on the 11th of November.Each time the stamp album is opened, these stamps plus the 1968 fifty years commemorative stamp of the armistices of the first world war are always there in front of them.This year, as we remember those who served in these previous conflicts, and especially those who died, let's also remember those who donned the uniform of our armed forces since the Korean conflict and those presently wearing it.It’s these men who were and are ready to guarantee our tomorrows as were our yesterdays and are our todays.SAQ has done something right for a change Wine Although I hate to say it, the Société des Alcools has actually done something right for a change.This doesn’t mean all is forgiven but it does mean there is hope.Unlike many of their Quebec-bottled wines — including Feu Follet, Valpolicella and Chianti — which lack the distinct regional character of the native breed and which are invariably overpriced — two of the latest offerings are worth a try.The first is the SAQ’s white Anjou which sells at $5.45 and is generally available throughout Sherbrooke.Anjou is located at the lower end of the Loire River and although it has long produced many interesting wines they were generally ignored by North Americans.When the better-known wines of Burgundy and Bordeaux started their meteoric rise in price, however, the wines of the Loire — Anjou included — began to gain popularity.This particular version is a clear, golden yellow with enough acidity to make it quite refreshing.It is also, like many Anjou whites, less than bone dry and somewhat Germanic in character— although Bits By TIMOTHY BELFORD Saturday, December 6, 1986 Do you have paintings?We're havinq an auction, we can sell them for you! 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K I'VE BEEN TRAINING AS A DISC THROWER.« • prtiértttu o4 Ah tmfom EXTRA DISCOUNT Vckd up to Nov.30/86 j^dbonzecMistnbutoi^f^^^WORKGLOVES I Kino- 'Quebec Kino-Québec, a ministère Loisir, Chasse et Pêche Program Puppeteer uses skulls, rags to By Melanie Gruer LENNOXVILLE — One of the newest muppets is directing a play at Centennial Theatre.It’s Basil the Bear, one of three new muppets created especially for the Canadian version of Sesame Street and he’s written a play which will hit the stage next Thursday.Actually, it’s not Basil that wrote the play and he’s not really directing it either.It’s Tim Gosley, a puppeteer who helps Basil come to life on the television screen.In his own life, Gosley is helping 11 third-year Bishop’s drama students bring his creation to life.The play is called Merlin and it’s the story of an ancient Celtic tribe during the eighth century in Britain.Their world is changing around them and their gods are dying out.The play is their story, or perhaps a story about their story since the characters spend a great deal of time spinning yarns about ancient legends.“It something I’ve been working on for four years,” said Gosley."The show you’H see at Bishop's is just a workshop so it’s only a portion of what it will become." ONE-TIME SHOW What Gosley means is that the performance you will see next week is a one-time show.Merlin may reappear again but it will never be the same as it was here.The show is called a “work-inprogress” because it's a stage creation which does not always follow the rigid confines of a script and blocking.Things are altered as rehearsals go along.“Eventually I’d like to include dance but not yet,” said Gosley.“You can only do so much at once.” The creator says it doesn’t bother him that his ideas are being altered by the students and by director Greg Tuck.“You can oniy be creative for so long then you need input from other people,” said Gosley.“There are parts that are sacred to me — like the idea itself,” he said.Tuck adds, “It’s not unusual when you’re working with the playwright in the theatre to alter things.Sometimes the actors point out things that need to be changed.” Gosley says it doesn’t hurt his ego to have his work changed.It was never his idea, he says, to run the show.Everyone has the same amount of importance “If this production works as it should, the playwright is as important as the choreographer and as the musician,” Gosley said.DROP DIALOGUE The play uses a great deal of movement and sometimes, Gosley says, even the dialogue will be dropped in favor of a move.“Depending on the actor’s ability, sometimes they can move out an idea better than they can say it and it works better for the play,” said the playwright.The play is further complicated by the fact that the 11 third-year Bishop’s drama students play a total of 22 characters.So how do 11 people become 22?With the help of skulls, old rags and wood.Each of the 11 actors also controls a puppet with a head made out of a skull, some material for the body and a few pieces of interestingly shaped wood for the antlers.The musician, is a synthesizer-player who has, like the actors, not worked from a script.He impro-vizes the music and has come up with a score for the play.Gosley says a great deal of the project belongs to the students.“The students had lots of input in the set.It’s made up of things we found like old trees, chopped up old poles and leaves.The costumes are stuff we found or made ourselves,” he said.“The project has become very much the students’ project.” EASY TO UNDERSTAND Gosley says the play is easy to understand and he doesn't think the audience will have any problem appreciating Merlin.The actors generally agree but they have a few more concerns at the moment.“It’s tough,” explained Chris z McGregor.“I play a character na-; med Emmet who controls a pup-£ pet.I have to be Emmet control-| ling the puppet so I can’t be Chris.| It’s hard to be three people at 5 once.” | The cast and crew include Kate “ Robertson.Bruce Spinney, Kathy Mitchell, James Gordon, Willy Badger, Craig Lindsay, Heidi Web- Kate Robertson, Sylvie Lavelle and Tim Gosley show themselves and their masks made of skulls and other sorts of bones.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) It — King 2 (2) Red Storm Rising — Clancy 3 (3) Wanderlust — Steel 4 (5) The Progress of Love — Munro 5 (4) A Matter of Honour — Archer 6 (6) A Perfect Spy — le Carre 7 (7) Act of Will — Bradford 8 (9) Hollywood Husbands — Collins 9 (8) The Bourne Supremacy — Ludlum 10 (10) The Telling of Lies — Findley NON-FICTION 1 (2) The Rainmaker — Davey 2 (1) Vimy — Berton 3 (3) Fatherhood — Cosby 4 (7) Memoirs — Levesque 5 (8) His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra — Kelley 6 (5) Controlling Interest: Who Owns Canada?— Francis 7 (6) James Herriot’s Dog Stories — Herriot 8 (4) Fit for Life — Diamond and Diamond 9 (9) Both My Houses : From Politics to Priesthood — O’Sullivan 10 (10) The Rotation Diet — Ka-tahn TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1986—3 bring legend to life In a flash, the bone-puppets take on life-like features and become characters of their own.> t; ‘ ber, Collette Micks, Daron Millington, Chris McGregor.Hamilton Shippee and Sylvie Labelle.Merlin opens Thursday, Nov.13 at 8:30 p.m.Two other performances take place Friday, Nov.14 at 10 a.m.and Saturday, Nov.15 at 8:30 p.m.Tickets may be reserved by calling the Centennial Theatre box office at (819) 563-4966.On the cover: The 11 Bishop’s actors who will present Merlin next Thursday through Saturday at Centennial Theatre show off their puppet co-stars.Qiüdren of a Josser WILLIAM HURT • MARLKE MAT LIN PAUCMOTNT MCTmES PRESENTS A NOT SULUMAN PMWOCTHM A HAMM HAINES FILM CHILDREN Of A LESSER GOD PIPER LALRIE PHILIP BOSCO Scmapl» by HESPER ANDERSON ml MARK MEDOf F Bmd on (Ik SURt Plrr k MARK MEDOFF PnxbaR b?BlIRT SOGARHAN ind PATRICK PALMER Dinrtri fe RANDA W HES amoonCmnnuMunnciwB A PARAMOUNT PICTURE -jfiP mlHainm ui nom arenvm n rnfwivwiI rn.¦ WM ¦fe Night: 6:45 - 9:15.^ Sundav: 1:15 - 3 J Sunday: 1:15 - 3:45 - 6:45 - 9:15.WM: CARREFOUR |'ESTR|E 3050 PORTLAND Blvd 565-0366 RECORD PERRY BEATON 4—TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1986 A long way from Marbleton Eva Tanguay alarmed the prudes and drew in By Bernard Epps Eva Tanguay was born in Marbleton on August 1,1878, the second daughter and the youngest of four children of Dr.Octave Tanguay and Marc Adele Pajeau.Her father had been born, raised and educated in Paris; her mother was a music teacher and precocious little Eva had her first singing lessons from her mother.Before her sixth birthday, Eva and her family moved to Holyoke, Massachusetts, where she started school and mastered English.Shortly afterwards, her father died, leaving the family in straightened circumstances, and Eva began singing, dancing and winning prizes in local amateur shows.She became a professional at the age of eight when the regular child star of Little Lord Fauntleroy became ill while the Francesca Redding Company was playing Holyoke.Eva and her mother toured with the Redding Company for the next five years and she was so popular that offers began pouring in from other theatrical companies.She toured with The Merry World and won a Broadway role in 1901 in My Lady.In 1903, she attracted wide attention in The Chaperones where she sang the song of reckless abandon that became her theme and made her a star — I Don't Care.SO OUTRAGEOUS She went on to play Claire de Lune opposite Frank Daniels in The Office Boy.In 1904.The Blond in Black opened with Eva playing Carlotta Dashington, the ‘Sambo Girl’ but she was so outrageous and so popular that the title was quickly changed to The Sambo Girl in acknowledgement of her drawing power.She was now the undisputed queen of musical comedy and moved easily into the vaudeville circuit w'here she commanded as much as $3500 a week and became the highest priced star in the world.Mae West played opposite her on the old Keith Circuit and she — although not known for her generosity to rivals — had this to say in her autogiography: “Eva Tanguay was strong opposition.She was a remarkable and wild personality who tore down a theatre, and she was an established star.A headliner for many years, she always looked great and was great.She was the greatest song seller vaudeville ever had as she shouted T Don't Care!’, her theme song." Of herself, flamboyant Eva said her success was entirely due to her ebullient, impudent personality."That’s all there is to it," she said.“As a matter of fact, I’m not beautiful; I can’t sing.I do not know how to dance.I am not even graceful.’’ TWO PEARLS She was, in fact, a tornado of unruly blonde hair, wide mouth always laughing, outrageous blue eyes, turned up nose and lithe figure.She did Salome’s Dance of the Seven Veils that usually brought down the house and sometimes brought in the police.Her costume, she claimed, was “two pearls”.Another costume she stitched together out of dollar bills spangled with Lincoln pennies.They called her the “oomph girl”.She was run out of Pittsburgh for flaunting the blue laws and responded by singing Nothing Bothers Me.She sang I Want Someone to go Wild With Me, Go As Far As You Like and It's All Been Done Before but Not Like I Do It.Nobody could belt out a suggestive song like Eva Tanguay.Her philosophy, she said in a rare sober moment, “largely amounts to losing one’s inhibitions and being natural.I know life and I know the meaning of my song ‘I Don’t Care’ as applied to life.” CLASSIC STUNTS She set the style for the Roaring Twenties, alarmed the prudes and drew in the crowds.Always aware of the value of publicity, it was Eva who originated some classic stunts — the fake kidnapping, the stolen $10,000 diamond necklace.She became the star of Florenz Ziegfeld’s ‘Follies of 1909’ and toured the country.In Louisville, Kentucky, a stagehand got in her way when she was rushing to take a bow and she assaulted him with her hat pin.Others joined in the fight, and the stagehand got knocked down a flight of stairs with Eva “slapping right and left.” Taken to the police station, she was told she would have to post bail, whipped out a roll of bills and cried; “Take it all and let me go for it is now my dinner time ! ” Next day, she was fined $40 and costs.In Evansville, Indiana, she cut a stage curtain to shreds with scissors after the house manager fined her for missing a matinee.In Sharon, Pennsylvania, she publicly chided a manager from the stage for his meanness in not giving her a larger mirror for her dressing room.WORE TIGHTS In Rockaway, New York, a plainclothes policeman named James McVey was delegated to arrest her for improper dress on Sunday.A blue law required variety artists to wear only such clothes a stage on Sundays that could be worn on the â gift tfjat feeeps on gibing tije entire pear Sni) sabes pou 15% \S>V CHRISTMAS RATES: ENCLOSE PAYMENT FOR 1 year 6 months 3 months 1 month Home Delivery A signed card will accompany each gift subscription.(Prices for Canadian subscriptions only) PLEASE SEND TO: ADDRESS: GIFT SUBSCRIPTIONS Looking for a Christmas gift that will be appreciated throughout the year?A great way to remember your friends and relatives this Christmas is by ordering them a gift subscription to The Record.It's easy to order and the cost is small compared to the pleasure given each day.Your gift subscription will remind the recipient of your thoughtfulness throughout the year.Home delivery where available the crowds street and Eva Tanguay wore tights.The policeman, aware of the delicacy of his task, politely waited until she had returned to her dressing room before bringing up the subject of her arrest.Her piercing shrieks backstage alarmed the audience out front.They could plainly hear her screaming “Don’t touch me!”, “How dare you!” “Don’t dare come near me ! ” Champions rushed to her rescue and poor McVey very nearly had a major riot on his hands until the house manager found a lawyer among the audience and Eva won release on a $500 bond.In 1913, at the age of 35, she married her dancing partner, John W.Ford, but divorced him four years later.In 1927, she married her pianist, Alexander Book, but won an annulment within three months on the grounds that he had misrepresented himself — his real name was Chandos Ksiazkewacz.EYESIGHT FAILED Then her eyesight began to fail.She was still a great star and carried on for a while with a red bulb among the footlights to mark centre stage and the audiences never knew she had to be led from her dressing room to the wings.She had earned around $2 million but was always a reckless spender and wildly generous to friends and strangers alike.The stock market crash of 1929 left her virtually destitute, she could no longer work and became totally blind in 1933.Her old friend, Sophie Tucker, paid for the operations that removed cataracts and restored her sight and she immediately threw herself into plans to raise funds for the endowment of a hospital for blind children — but then she was crippled by arthritis.She became permanently bed ridden in 1937 in her small Hollywood bungalow.Visitors, however, found her as irrepressible as ever.The walls of her room were papered with yellowing photographs of herself at the height of her carrer.She threatened to write the story of her hundred lovers and actually began work on an autobiography she called “Up and Down the Ladder,” but she died of a cerebral hemorrhage on January 11th, 1947, aged 68.She’d come a long way from Marbleton. Collection Demon Box by Ken Kesey (Viking-Penguin): $19.95, 384 pp." The early reports of the complete demise of America’s psychedelic novelist, which maintained that Ken Kesey had sustained such heavy trauma in the creative area of his brain, thanks to controlled and random experimentation with various mind-expanders, that he would be reduced to a blithering idiot, have been thankfully proven false with the release of Demon Box.Kesey, the darling of the counter-culture of the West Coast in the Haight-Ashbury days of San Francisco, when wearing a flower in your hair was one of the more innocent things you could do to your head, he of the Merry Pranksters’ madcap assault on staid America, proved that his novels One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest and Sometimes A Great Notion matched just about any other contemporary novelist’s oeuvre in quality and staying power.Since that output of the 60s nothing much has been heard of Kesey, except for desultory appearances in print in such magazines as Esquire and a publication that he takes a personal interest in called Spit In The Ocean.Demon Box represents a gathering of assorted Kesey pieces which have appeared in Rolling Stone, Playboy and the above-mentioned venues, and they prove, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that Kesey the writer has merely been directing his unquestionable literary talents in unexpected directions.Many of the hilarious short pieces here might have been titled “Life Down On The Farm", or “Many Flew Over The Scribe’s Nest ”, as they tell of Kesey’s eccentric lifestyle, his devotion to the desperately hard life of a mixed farmer, and the wondrous attraction that his abode holds for unrepentant children of the Flower Power Age, whose assaults on his time and hospitality would keep any writer from getting down to the solitary task of out-staring the blank page before him.Kesey’s eye for comedy is intact and some of the situations that arise in these tales conjure up some hysterical visions of unlikely humour — such as the hapless Hell’s Angel who rides into the Kesey barnyard, only to have his “hog", with him unhappily aboard, mounted by the oversexed, rampaging bull known as “Hamburger”, who feels that his mission in life is to mate with anything that moves or even twitches.His back tire having been brushed by a heifer in hat, the unsuspecting Heller becomes a fitting target for Hamburger’s aroused ardor.But the farm is setting for only a few of Kesey’s entertaining sketches, with others taking him to Mexico.Cairo, to the Great Wall of China and a marathon race he covers for an American publication, to Saville Row at the height of the Beatles’ Apple Corps.Attempts at corporate befuddlement.or in the title story to the scene of the origin of his labors at a mental institution which were transmogrified into the powerful tale of “the Chief” and luwiNôMiriS WcJIvK—r RIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1986—5 shows Kesey’s eye for comedy is still intact Kaleidoscope ~ By RICHARD LONEY | The Big Dish 0 K that unforgettable American “original”, Randle P.McMurphy.Whether he’s documenting the stunning parorama of sounds, sights and odours of a Cairo street scene, or describing the strange delegation of Frisco weirdos who descended on John, Paul, George and Ringo at their Apple digs, or attempting to make sense of the post-psychedelic era in American cultural history, Kesey is a writer that should be read for the sheer fun of it.There are sections of Demon Box that convince you that this ama-zine gentleman can write circles around just about any American writer toiling at a typewriter today, from Philip Roth to Ann Beat-tie: and there are some indications that just when Kesey was hitting his stride he was suddenly confronted with a tranny being thrown on his favorite tractor, or else he was conned into entertaining a perky, female journalist from Crawdaddy magazine at the same time as a delegation of Hell’s Angels has dropped by to terrorize the farm animals and guests alike.For now, it seems, devotees of Ken Kesey will have to be satisfied with his random assaults at the literary life and hope for massive crop failures in Oregon to force this gifted American writer back into his one true craft — literature.RECORD REVIEWS The Big Dash Swimmer (Virgin-A&M) Named after a bowl of soup, this group w'ith Scottish connections has all of the verve and flair for originality you might compare to that of the Band, with a Robbie Robertson style of songwriter in Steven Lindsay, who also handles the singing chores for the Big Dish.Basically a guitar band, the Big Dish sing sophisticated songs with interesting inspirations — “Prospect Street” is based on the American painting of Edward Hopper, while other tunes owe some of their depth to Lindsay’s admiration for artists such as Andrew Wyeth.“Prospect Street” is a bubbly, optimistic song that shares the qualities on SWIMMER of making guitar sounds fresh and spontaneous, and vocal blends that are understated, surrounding these fine songs like perfect lacework.The Beatles’ influence on this band is manifest on every song they sing, but never so clearly as on a throwaway "Revolution No.9” type of finale they provide here, called “Second Swimmer” as a type of coda to the title song tht occurs as the opener to side two.This continuation features string quartet action played off against an insistent voice that intones “get in” in a hypnotically repeated reminder of Yoko’s wonderfully inventive idea of repeating “number nine” ad infinitum on the White album.Call The Big Dish a second generation Beatles band, but do call them innovative and able to write striking melodies and sing them with such impeccable taste that Eagles & Stones producer Glyn Johns sat in at the production controls to oversee a track called “Another people’s palace.” Boston THIRD STAGTE (MCA Records) Tom Scholz has put Boston fans through a six-year period of enforced withdrawal from the music of the band that had strong performances on the first two album outings and soaring hit records with songs such as "More Than A Feeling”, culled from a debut album that sold more than six million long before the diminutive Jackson unlocked the piggy banks of teenie-bopperdom.With liner notes emphasizing the long trek of six years in the studios — Scholz counts studio time in terms of light bulbs blown, 175 of them, and estimates that singer Brad Delp popped a “P” on his vocals about 300 times, or that the record button was hit about a million taps, each of which could have occasioned an erasure of something already on tape — and the pride that producer & engineer Scholz has in the fact that all digital.syntesized or state-of-art gad-getry used in most new recordings was eschewed in favor of allanalog recording on 2-24 track tape machines, one for vocals and one for instrumental backing tracks.All of w'hich doesn't amount to a row of guitar picks if the music fails to justify the means, but in Boston’s case, and happily for the band’s myriad fans, the output on THIRD STAGE is indeed worth waiting for.Lead track on the record is a beautiful ballad.“Amanda”, which gives some indication of the multi-tracked wonders to follow.Singer Brad Delp is put through the same kind of intensity that Scholz brings to shaping his guitar sounds until they are hard to tell from actual violin passages, forcing his voice into some searing, soaring bits of vocal workouts that have the sugary sweetness of the best Beach Boys blends.Side two’s “Can’tcha Say (You Believe In Me)” has all the punch of about three barbershop quartets with all of the voices being Irish tenors, as they spit out the infectious chorus of one of the album’s absolute highpoints.Several cuts also feature some almost Wagnerian organ inserts, with “The Launch” employing a Conn theatre organ, which gives all of the feeling of an actual rocket launch as it surges into life and pumps up some incredible walls of organ sounds.Tom Scholz has wisely spaced out the dynamic elects of this handcrafted album, making sure that the pacing is right for such a collection of high-octane, powerful musical tours de force.Boston will be maligned for the excesses of Scholz’s creative muse and for not producing an Abbey Road, given such an extensive gestation period for his ideas : all things considered, however, THIRD STAGE is state-of-the-art rock, done up with the care to detail that current bands such as Asia, and other British artsy groups boast about.VIDEO SCREENINGS THAT WAS THEN.THIS IS NOW (Paraount Home Video) S.E.Hinton’s novels have been a much raided orchard of teenage stories of violence and just plain growing up, providing the basis for such films as The Outsiders and several others, recently.This latest of Hinton’s works.That was Then.This is Now has been adapted for the screen by one of the stars, Emilio Estevez, who I am told is the son of actor Martin Sheen (of Apocalypse Now fame) — not that the genes have to be repeaters, keeping in mind that Art Lin-kletter’s daughter tried skywalking at about 20 stories up in an L.A.spawn of celebrity incident of lesser note ! But Sheen’s son.he of The Breakfast Club notoriety, does a fine, understated, but entirely believable job of transcribing Hinton’s tale of a perfect friendship between two lads in their late teens into a gripping and sometimes poignant story of youth.Mark, the Estevez character, has been beaten a lot as a kid, and when his parents blow each other away with guns, he moves in with Bryon (Craig Sheffer) and his nutty mom, Mrs.Douglas, played by Barbara Badcock.(When one of the kids intones: “I’ve finally decided what I want to be when I grow up ”, she bites and says, “What?”, and on his reply of “Rich”, dryly notes, “Well, it’s expensive!”).The teen friendship between heller Mark and gentler Bryon is sundered, as many are, by the discovery by the latter of a young charmer named Kathy (Kim Delaney), and this, plus a couple of other subsidiary but interesting plots, leads the duo into some perilous circumstances.In fact, with a murder by a couple of pool hustlers, deadly beatings, Kathy’s kid brother M&M getting permanently in touch with Disneyland thanks to a drug trip that goes awry, and the usual teen angst, there’s lots of chance that Estevez’s screenplay could have gone overboard with the maudlin and trite.Instead, the various themes are handled with insight and an understated, un-hip, un-cool dialogue that is far more suited to actual teens than some of the hyperbolic, unbelievable trivia that is put into their mouths by studio hacks.This movie did little business in the theatres, but it is superior to most of the stuff that passes for pages from teen diaries that attempts to make it, buoyed up by bold, rocky soundtracks.Definitely worth a viewing! (Video available at Le Club Video, Queen Street, Lennoxville, and at Treizième Avenue, Sherbrooke) ft—TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1986 Townships square dancers go toT.O.By Laurel Sherrer LENNOXVILLE — Step into the Lennoxville fireball any Friday evening and you’ll hear a strange shuffling sound emanating from the upper floor.That’s because there are eight young square dancers up there practising their feet off to compete at the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto in November.Their teacher and caller Stewart Deacon had been hoping to take the group to Toronto ever since he found out two years ago that there was a square dance competition at the Royal Winter Fair.This year he did all the preliminary footwork and got the group registered for the competition Nov.16.They are currently working on four different calls sent by the organizers of the competition.They have to be prepared to perform any two of these, decided by the judge on the spot, said Deacon.GROUPS HELPED With the help of community clubs and individual donations, they have been able to raise the $1000 to $1200 needed to get them there and back.Stewart Deacon has been calling square dances for about 35 years and has been teaching square dancing off and on for the past 15.He says the group of young people, aged 18-22, are an exception among their age group, in that most of them have grown up with square dancing.Few young people today know how to square dance, he said.“What we’re trying to do is keep young people interested so they'll teach their kids,” he said.Each region of Canada has its own peculiar variations on square dance calls, Deacon said.“The square dances like we’re doing come from Scotch jigs, Irish jigs right into the French Quebec reels and stuff like that,” he said.In Toronto, the eight young people will be judged on two of the four calls they’ve practised, based on their attitude, spirit, audience appeal, entrances and exits, accuracy and knowledge of the moves, uniformity, style, dress and neatness.Their caller is also judged for his spirit, clarity and accuracy.MUST RESPOND Although the dancers learn the steps in the call, they still have to listen and respond to the caller, said Deacon.“If he says jump over a chair in the corner of the room, you do it,” he said.The square dance club began as a Quebec 4-H and Young Farmers group five years ago, but now includes dancers who do not belong to these groups.They are working people and students in high school and CEGEP.For Lana Humphrey, 19, the trip to Toronto and the experience of the competition will be worth every one of the hours spent practising.“When you enjoy doing something you don’t mind giving up the time for it,” she says.Donna Bray, 18, says a lot of young people don’t understand the group’s devotion to square dancing.“A lot of people think ’Square-dancing — that’s just for farmers’,” she said.The group is not entirely new to competitions.For four years they have competed in a Quebec Young Farmers square dance competition in Howick, Quebec last year they took second place, but the two preceding years they were the champions.Hotel président New Year’s Eve GALA EVENING Come and celebrate New Year’s with us * Champagne on arrival * Gastronoinical supper * Dancing Music * Several drawings per person (lax &: service iiidiulcd) RESERVE NOW 3535 King St W., Sherbrooke Reservations: 563-2941 Bottles found in lake have stories to tell One day doing a dive I found a very nice bottle called Hutchinson type, (invented in 1879), with the name inscribed: “W.H.Darling & Son, Newport.” A few days later a diver friend, Daniel Quirion, told me of his finding of a bottle bearing the name Memphremagog Bottling Works, Newport, Vt.Let me try to share with you the story of these two bottles.At first I went to Newport to meet with Chester “Chet” Carpenter, an old friend, also a famous bottle collector and he showed me six different bottles from these two companies.He also shared with me that he helped Mrs.Nelson in her information in her book “Frontier Crossroads Volume #1" pp.216-217 and here is what I found : “Another extensive institution of West Derby is the bottling works of W.H.Darling & Son who occupy a three-story building and was established in 1887 with H.W.Darling, son, as manager.This firm employs seven men (two of these are salesmen).The plant is operated by steam power and a very extensive business is done in bottling of all carbonated drinks such as coffee tonic, champagne beer, many fruit flavors and ice cream parlor concentrates.While they manufacture the celebrated Newport beer, a non-intoxicating drink, they also bottle “Wheatley and Bates" nonintoxicating hop bitter ale made in Sheffield, England, and for which the firm is sole agents for Vermont.Pure water came from a very deep artesian well.“Harry W.Darling has had twelve years experience in this business and for three years had charge of the works of Begley & Sons of New Britain, Conn, who employed twenty men.He is a native of Canada.It is but simple truth to say that Mr.Darling has worked this business up from a small beginning to one of the most successful in Vermont.” (From The Reformer-Brattleboro, Vermont, July 13, 1894).This business was located in West Derby on the Causeway at the junction of East Main Street and Causeway hill.The ownership changed from the Darling name to Mr.and Mrs.John Rock some time after 1906 (maybe 1910) and was renamed Memphremagog Bottling Co.of Newport, Vt.Mrs.Rock was at one time bookkeeper and secretary for the Darlings.Under the new owners it was operated into the early 1920s.An interesting sidelight of the Walter H.Darling & Son business was the type of soda water bottle that was popularly used.It was called a Hutchinson soda — with a patented internal closure that stayed inside the bottle and pushed in to fill and empty and was pulled tight against the inside neck to close it.The usual method of cleaning this type bottle for re-use was by steam pressure and inverting the bottle till dry.Hence the need for steam power in their plant.A very few of these are still in existence and at Bubbles By JACQUES BOISVERT of the Société d’Histoire du Lac Memphremagog Inc. drama department will present a condensed version of the classic early 20th century play The Cherry Orchard, by Anton Chekhov.Set in the Russian countryside, the play tells the story of the fading aristocracy and the rising bourgeoisie.Presented by 2nd and 3rd year acting students, the play also benefits from the input of Herbert Whittaker, critic emeritus of the Globe and Mail, who has directed and designed amateur andprofessional production for over 50 years and has directed The Cherry Orchard in both Montreal and Toronto.Anna Cameron, who did some of her first professional work in Knowlton at the Brae Manor and has worked on stage and TV in Canada, the U.S.and England for 30 years will be involved in the production as well, playing Mme.Ranyevskaya for the Sunday evening performance.Friday, Nov.14 and Sunday, Nov.16 the performance is at 8:30 p.m.and Saturday it’s a matinee at 1 p.m.Tickets, at $2 for students and $3 for everyone else, can be reserved by calling the box office: (819) 563-4966.Movies Upon finally seeing The Decline of the American Empire this week, I was more than a little disappointed.After all the acclaim, it turned out, in my mind, to be little more than “a movie that’s all talk about sex” as one reviewer bluntly put it.I must admit it was wonderfully acted and stunningly photographed (great shots of Lake Memphremagog, for example), but even in this day and age a movie needs a plot, and this director seems to have set himself above this most basic of requirements.It’s a movie about how society is deteriorating through the increasingly heedless pursuit of personal pleasure (I think), and it gets this point across by presenting a pretty decadent group of men and woman, on the assumption that they’re representative of society as a whole.Although initially disturbing, it eventually becomes clear that the writer had nothing more profound in mind here than the already worn-out tactic of shocking the au- dience with explicitness and candor on sexual matters.My colleagues, Melanie Gruer and Eleanor Brown, had quite a different reaction, however, more in line with what most of the critics are saying, so I guess you’ve got to see it yourself to decide.Le Déclin de l'Empire American plays at the Cinéma Capitol in Sherbrooke at 7 and 9 nightly.The versions with English subtitles are showing only Wednesday and Thursday at 9.I've heard mixed reports on Children of a Lesser God, now playing at the Cinémas Unis at the Carrefour de l’Estrie.It’s the story of a teacher (William Hurt) who uses some unorthodox methods to teach kids at a deaf school.It ’s also a love story between him and a janitor at the school (played by Hurt’s real-life girlfriend, who happens to be deaf).One account I’ve heard has it that it’s a wonderful movie, while another says it starts out as an interesting story about the courage and daring of a concerned teacher, but then disintegrates into a predictable sickly-sweet love story.To judge for yourself you can watch the movie at 6:45 or 9:15 nightly at the Carrefour, or Sunday at 1:15, 3:45, 6:45 or 9:15.In Cowansville this week you can get your fill of Oriental combative arts with a $3 double feature special, The Karate Kid and The Karate Kid II, showing at 6:45 and 9:15 nightly.This ongoing tale starts when a peace-loving karate master (Pat Morita) teaches a scrawny kid (Ralph Macchio) to defend himself from bullies.The second part takes them to the master’s homeland, Okinawa, where each has to fight for the love of a fair lady.At the Merrill’s Showplace Cinemas in Newport, Vt., The Color of Money shows nightly at 7 and 9:15 and Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m.as well.This is about a legendary pool player (Paul Newman) and his challenger, a hot-headed young upstart (Tom Cruise).Time Magazine's critic Richard Schickel seemed to like it, saying the two characters are caught up in “a situation that is rich in melodrama and comic misunderstanding.” Also at Merrill’s is Jumping Jack Flash, showing nightly at 7:10 and 9:20 and Saturday and Sunday at 2:05 and something called Trick or Treat showing at 7:15 and 9:25 nightly and Saturday and Sunday at 2:10.Television There’s a long list of guests scheduled to appear on the community affairs program Townships Magazine next week.To begin with, there’s the Mestrys, a brother and sister singing act who will be appearing in a benefit variety concert in Lennoxville next week.Then there’s Chef Serge Morin, who will cook up something for the occasion.Paul Camirand from Communication-Quebec will be back, and two people involved in the iiisliop's (Untocrsitp drama department production of The Cherry Orchard will be on hand to talk about and perform a scene from the upcoming play.Townships Magazine, of course, is seen on Cable 11 in Sherbrooke Tuesday at 9 p.m., Wednesday at 11 p.m.and Friday at 8 p.m.Magog residents can also see the show Tuesday and Thursday at 7 p.m.PCs gained 650 votes in Montreal and lost a province Who’s who By TADEUSZ LETARTE Is there no end to this madness! Sink Stevens, the man who doesn’t talk to his wife, is not only being investigated for breaching the government’s rules on conflict of interest, but you and I are paying for it! That's right.Brian the Bold and his cabinet cronies have decided that poor old Stink should get public help to pay his legal fees to the tune of $350,000.That’s like saying the Hell’s Angels should get a subsidy for the purchase of camping equipment.If the poor man can’t afford to pay for counsel — and God knows +iis business interests aren’t doing too well lately, just ask his wife — then let the court appoint a lawyer to represent him like any other ‘disadvantaged’ Canadian.Speaking of our enlightened government, what ever happe- ned to that good old Tory idea of awarding contracts on the basis of sound business principles.Winnipeg, which is feeling this week like the sailor who bent over to pick up his soap in the shower, did everything right recently in presenting a bid for the CF-18 maintenance contract and still came up empty-handed.The contract, the jobs and the money all went to Montreal’s Canadair despite the fact that the lowest bid came from west of Wawa.I suppose the only surprising thing is that a consortium from Manicouagan didn’t get the job.It appears that PCs have gained 650 votes in Montreal and lost a province in the process.Obviously the Chinese have taken Prince Phillip’s recent comments about “slanty eyes” to heart.According to a recent article out of Peking, operations to give Chinese women rounder eyes, thinner noses and bigger chests are becoming increasingly popular.One doctor says he alone has performed 10,000 eye operations since they became legal in 1981.Maybe the palace could losen Phil’s chain on his other forays around the world.Just think what he could do with frizzy hair, broad lips, big feet and that quintessential North American trade mark the beer gut.I won’t even go into what he could do for Princess Anne.When will people realize that toys don’t make the tot.A local couple have started a campaign to ban violent toys and although I agree that the plethora of Rambo dolls is enough to make anyone wish Sylvester Stallone had taken up rug-hooking, I am not so sure children are quite as stupid as most of us would like to believe.I myself, a model of civility, played with toy soldiers throughout my childhood yet strangely enough didn’t grow up with a fondness for guns, violence or war.As far as that goes, I also love John Wayne movies and I have never yet shot an Indian.For those of you out there who are truly against obscenity and violence, I have personally asked The Record staff not to take any pictures of nude football fans this weekend in Ottawa.Although, anyone out there crazy enough to take their clothes off in November might be of interest to our readers as an endangered species.Finally, I would like to offer my congratulations to Sherbrooke mayor, Jean Paul Pelletier who proved that doing nothing can be popular.Who cares if we have the worst roads in Quebec?Why bother following the Police Commission’s recommendations?And above all, avoid those expensive elections. 10—TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1986 Travel #i__ggj Hecora Montego Bay, Jamaica: More than an escape to the sun A couple of weeks ago Record reporter Laurel Sheerer had the good fortune of being offered a week-long trip to Jamaica, all expenses paid by the Jamaica Tourist Board.Representatii'es of the tourist board took a group of reporters on a guided tour of many of the attractions of the northern coast of the island, from Montego Bay to Ocho Rios.This is the first in a series of articles on Jamaica to appear in the Record over the coming weeks.By Laurel Sherrer MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica — You could spend the whole week on the beach.The powder-fine white sand, clear blue-green water and temperatures hovering around the 34 degrees Celsius mark make the thought of stirring from the beach or poolside less than attractive.Judging by the sunburnt bodies lounging around the hotels, many tourists slip into the easy-going, slow pace of the island and never exert themselves to range far beyond the gates of their hotels.And that’s a shame, because there’s much more to Jamaica than the sun, the sand and the sea.Our group visited Jamaica during the slow season.It was October, a time when North Americans are neither in the summer vacation nor the winter escape mode.It was also supposed to be the rainy season, but we saw it rain only three times; refreshing half-hour showers that only served to make the lush vegetation brigher when the sun came back shortly after.We landed in Montego Bay, the second largest city on the island with a population of 43,521.Facing north across the Spanish Main toward Cuba, this crowded city is a typical tourist trap, with dozens of hotels lining the seasides and all the stores and marketplaces geared to making money off spendthrift travellers.ENGAGING WAYS The omnipresence of fellow tourists tends to make you suspect at times that everything from the engaging ways of the straw market vendors to the spectacular sunsets is orchestrated for their benefit.It's picturesque, of course.The roads are narrow and winding, even in town, lined by trees that look like overgrown versions of our tropical houseplants, often in full, vivid bloom.The buildings, other than the posh hotels, are generally made of cement, often crumbling.There are no neon signs, just painted wooden ones.Makeshift craft shops and booths are to be found on every corner.Visit the straw market and you can get lost for hours wandering amid the booths of wood carvings, clothing, jewellery and of course, straw articles, as eager vendors crowd around, vying with each other to make a sale.Residents of Montego Bay may very well structure their lives around the tourist trade, putting on a bit of an act for the visitors’ benefit, but it has its authentic features as well.AMONG RUINS Just outside the Jamaica Tourist Board offices, for example, you can tiptoe among the ruins of the oldest Jewish cemetery in the western world.In the middle of town you can see a monument dedicated to the memory of Sam Sharpe, a Baptist preacher who led a slave rebellion in 1831.Venture into the side streets and you’ll find a somewhat sobering view of the lives of many Jamaicans: 10-foot square shacks of plywood and tin with no plumbing, no running water.One particularly striking sight is the view from Richmond Hill, a hotel placed high above the town, overlooking the bay.From one side there's a spectacular view over the hotels and beaches and the sea, while around VI A different view from Richmond Hill shows a more sobering view of Montego Bay: Canterbury, the city’s largest ghetto.back, across a valley, is Canterbury, the city’s largest ghetto — a hillside packed with wood and tin shacks.The main allure of Montego Bay is its easy access to a wide variety of attractions in the surrounding countryside such as several plantation and great house tours, the Jamaica Safari Village, rafting excursions and more, all within a few hours of the city.Next week: we visit two great houses and hear their lore and legend.A northward view over Montego Bay from Richmond Hill.r Mi For the smart alternative to expensive piece-meal vacations - CLUB MED(of course) ALL INCLUSIVE! 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