CASTLEGAR NEWS, February 8, 1981

. FOCUS ONses

The background
It all began In televislonland on April 2, 1978, ‘Dallas,' the
creation of David Jacobs in conjunction with Lorimar Produc-
tions, made its premiere as a saga of two Texas families in-
volved in a long-standing feud. What began as a limited
.series soon gushed Into a well of success during the '78-'79
season. There was Just no stopping it during the '79-'80
season either as J.R. mania shot up and J.R. was shot down,
only to be revived this season to show us more reasons why
we love to hate him. Although it's questionable whether there
exists a real-life ‘J.R.,' a man named Ewing in Texas is inun-
dated with phone calls from people confusing him with the
fictional character.
The story
The Ewing family owns one of the richest oil and cattle
empires in contemporary Texas. They possess the power and -
prestige to do virtually anything, that is, except keep peace
among themselves. Patriarch Jock Ewing had always ruled
the family” dynasty through means that were often
unscrupufous: As soon as‘sons J.R. and Bobby assume

DTU students
perform for public

Students in the fine and

Ad

The gallery management

...» Dallas’,

responslbility of the empire, there Is constant dissension in, -
the family as each has strikingly different business tactics.

The players .

Linda Gray (Sue Ellen Ewing),
who describes herself as a
15-year ‘overnight success,’
began her acting career In televi-
sion commercials (400 to date),
Linda then gulded her career Into
motion picture and television ac- -
ting. Her guest-starring roles in

man Lear's ‘All That Glitters’ and
to made-for-TV movies Including
‘The Grass is Always Greener
Over the Septic Tank’ and ‘The
Two Worlds of Jennie Logan.’

Linda Gray

Leigh McCloskey (Mitch
Cooper) made his acting debut in
a PTA play when he was in the
third grade. His acting ambitions
led him to New York and The
Yullliard = Schoo!.
Hollywood
Shakespeare plays, he began.

'. guest-starring in "Hawaii Five-O,"
‘The Paper Chast nyttis,’ ‘Rich
Man, Poor. Man’ and the televi-

Returning to
after: various

- College on

performing arts at the David
Thompson University Centre
do not confine their talents to
the classroom. Weekly
events on campus this term
will give the public a chance
to see students in action, as
well as giving the students a
chance to practice their: per-
forming and presentation
skills in an informal setting.

Every Wednesday at 12:45
students from the School of
Writing give a free public
reading in the writing room
of Maryhall. The readings
may include poetry, excerpts
from novels in progress,
short stories or plays, and
songs.

Student organizers of the
series are pleased with the

students also maintain on-
going shows of student work
in the Open Learning Insti-
tute Advising Office’on+
Baker Street in downtown
Nelson, and they prepare
travelling shows for local
schools.

Each graduating student in
fine arts will be featured in a
show at the Kootenay Schoo)
of Art Gallery on campus in
the spring. -

The end of the term will
also bring informal presen-
tations by graduating stu-
dents in theatre and students
enrolled in dance. + \./++.<°

All student readings, re-
citals, and gallery ‘shows are
free and open to the public.
For more information, phone
David T U i

quality of works
and the audience response.
“Readings are a good way to
bring poetry and prose
‘alive,” according to student
Dietmar Trommeshauser.
"The presentations also in-
spire non-writers to pro-
duce.”

The public is also welcome
at lunch-hour recitals given
by music students in the
DTUC Chapel at 12:80 every
Tuesday. Soloists and en-
sembles present classics,
jazz; and origifal: composi-

Centre, 952-2241,

ing a chiropractor (“in the event |

Webb. to read her:

‘, Welkknown . west coast
poet Phyllis Webb will read.
from her work at Selkirk

, work. at Selkirk.

through her work for. CBC.”

Radio’ during the past’ 20
years. Sho waa ‘executive

av
by Joey Sass

CONFIDENTIAL REPORT:
most famous family man,
left last summer when he mov
sweetheart. In fact, Michael, 43,
happy together again that iney

dnesday in the
Faculty Lounge at 4 p.m. °
After a: 16-year’ silence,
Webb has just published a
new collection of poems
called Wilson's Bowl. She will
be in Castlegar as part of a
national. tour, reading her
new book, Her work has been
highly regarded for the pow-
erful and evocative images,

Stark, but beautiful, her‘

poems always leave a strong
impression on the reader.
She is also well-known

British

Pp of ‘the prog:

Idear for five yoars and has
also done many radio reviews
and arts commentaries, Some
of this work has been re-

cently published in her book.

‘Talking: Selected Radio Talk
and‘other Essays. .
Born in Victoria, she has
lived .in .Montreal, Toronto
and Vancouver. She is pros-
ently writer-in-residence’ at
the University ‘of Alberta in

Edmonton, Her, home is on°

Galiano Island,

humor

comes to Nelson

A bigslice of British humor
arrives in Nelson next week
with the Vancouver City
Stage production of Heyond

+ the Fringe, a live satirical

wouldn't make it a& an actress),

‘she was injured in an automobile:
accident. When she recovered,-
she went to New York for her first
serious try at dn acting career.
After“ moderate success, she
abruptly quit -acting for three

ie a successful

years to bec :
agent for actors, writers and pro- -

Victoria Principal

revue slated for Feb. 18 at
the Civic Theatre, ;

According to Vancouver .

Sun critic May Wyman,. Be-
yond the Fringe is “older and
wittier than Monty Python,
wiser and more ‘irreverent
than the Goon Show."
Beyond the Fringe was
created in 1960 by the team
of Alan Bennett, Peter Cook,
Jonathan Miller and Dudley
Moore. It is a tour de force of

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CASTLEREN-NEWS |

ENTERTAINMENT

Writer of occult books dies

By STEVE MERTL
CALGARY (CP) — T.
Lobsang Rampa, once a con-
troversial mystic and an
author of books on the occult,

has died at age 70 after a long’

tions, The weekly recital en-.

courages students to develop
performance skills and- to
demonstrate their progress,
.. Preparation of student ex-
“hibits in the visual arts is
handled by -the third-year
gallery management class.
The class created a major
display opportunity in De-
cember. when they opened a
Student Gallery in the DTUC

avoid: publicity, his widow,
Sarah, said'in a recent inter-
view. :

Rampa had lived in seclu-
sion in Canada for more than
20 years. But until the late
“1960s, he was a controversial

figure in British literary cir-_

cles, The accuracy. of ' his
books on Tibetan mysticism
were at and he was

Student Union

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attacked'as a fraud for his
claim to being a Tibetan
mystic,

His first book, The Third
Eye, detailed the life he
claimed to have led as a
young boy in the Tibetan
lamasery of Chakpori. It des-
eribed his receipt of mystic
powers through an operation
performed by Tibetan Budd-
hist monks,

Rampa also claimed he had

* been an adviser to the Dalai

Lama, served in the Chinese
military in the Second World
War and spent time in Russia
and J: i

the errors showed Rampa
was not from Tibet.

But the strongest charges
of boax came after the group
hired a private detective to
investigate his background.

The detective's report said

Rampa « was~' really-* Cyrit -
Henry “Hoskin, born in De-.
von, England. It said he had
caught the bug of Eastern
mysticism while working as a
career counsellor in London.
In a statement aired on
British television at the
height of the controversy,
Rampa said the body of
Hoskin had been taken over
completely by the spirit of a
Tibetan mystic. Years later,

he changed his name legally
to Tuesday Lobsang Rampa.

“The person whose place
he took was born in En-
gland,” Sarah, his wife of 80

years, said Wednesday. “He's.

not the person I married.”
:_ LEAVE ENG! -
The Ramipas ~

England for the-Republic of
Ireland, where they lived
briefly before coming to Can-
ada in 1958 to escape Brit-
ain’s heavy tax laws and

- what his widow termed pres:

hounding. *
The couple lived ‘in the
Maritimes, Ontario and Van-
couver before settling in Cal-
gary, giving up their British

Movie

chains

plan expansions.

WINNIPEG (CP) ~ Des-
pite a slight drop in movie
attendance in Manitoba’ in
the last four years, two es-
tablished chains plan major
expansions this summer.

Owners decline to give de-

tails on the drop in atten-
dance at i $2 movie.

camps.

CHARGES
The first printing of The
Third Eye in 1956 sold
300,000 copies, most of them
in Britain. A loose coalition of
scholars compiled a list of
what they considered factual

-errors in the book and said

MONDAY-SATURDAY |

[WOODEN SHOE

theatres... But Jim. Fustey,
general manager of Canadian
Qdeon Theatres Ltd. for
Manitoba, Saskatchewan and "
Thunder Bay, says -atten-
dance has not fallen enough
to become “a concern.”

Fustey says movies —
even at $4 an adult admission

— are still the least expen-
sive entertainment source in
the city.

By summer, Cineplex

Corp. of Toronto and Edmon- ,

ton-based Landmark Cine-
mas of Canada, will have 15
new screens operating in two
multi-theatre projects seat-
ing nearly 3,000. -

As for Odeon, Fustey says
expansion in Winnipeg by his
company is “a very realistic
possibility.” a

Brian Cameron, western
manager for Famous Players,
says his firm’ has discussed
expansion “but nothing for-

-mally has been decided.

(Voice of the People /

Editor, Castlegar News:

The Victoria College satu-.
dents who attended classes -
at Craigdarroch Castle are
invited to take part in-a
reunion which will be held in
Victoria on May 22 and 23,
1981. ; ae

Enquiries in connection
with the reuinion should be
addressed before March 15,
1981 to: :

Craigdarroch Reunion |

c/o The Alumni Association
University of Victoria

P.O. Box 1700

Victoria, B.C.

Vaw 2Y2 “

Telephone: 604-477-6911,
Local 4588

The Planning Committee

Tues, - Sat.
5to10p.m.
Sundays

citizenship to become Cana-
dians in 1978, x

They have lived in Calgary
for eight years and have. no
children.

Rampa received no honor-

high comedy and intellectual
fun, lampooning culture, pol-
ities and society. The Van-
couver City Stage revival of
the revue, presently touring
B.C., stars ©. Holto David-
son,’ Duncan Fraser, Colin
Miller and Rie Reid.
Beyond the Fringe is spon-
sored in Nelson by the The-
atre Centre of David Thomp-

son University Centre and by -
* the touring office of the Can-

ada Council, Tickets for the 8
p.m, performance are -avail-
able at the door or through
the DTUC Theatre Centre,
352-9566.

Now.a major
talent in
country music

original tunes, inctuding, ‘Mama's
Gonna Give You Sweet Things,’
‘ms Hungry, I'm . Tired’ and
‘Grandma's. Song,’ The LP also
contains some certified country
classics, such as ‘It's a Lovel

Me Home.’

‘ary recognition after coming . -

to Canada except for a certi-
‘ficate:.of merit. from th
Alberta government, she
said.

Despite adverse publicity,
Rampa wrote 19 books on
experiences with such phen-
omena as astral projection
and reincarnation, 1 .

Many were published in
several languages. Titles in-
clude The Saffron Robe, The
Hermit, The 18th Candle and
Living With The Lama, the
last about Rampa’s mystic
relationship with his cat.

His most recent work, The

” ‘Tibetan Sage, was published

last month.

A steady stream of mail
came in from persons who
said Rampa’s philsophy ha
changed their lives. :

“He has a terrific follow-
ing,” Mrs, Rampa said. “Even
the Pope reads his books.”

Gail also produced and ar-
ranged this album, a feat she ac-
complished on her first Warner
Bros. LP, The Game. Itis unusual
for @ female artist to oversee such
aspects of her career and even

- more unusual to do it with the

degree of professionalism with
which Gail Davies has done.

ighted resenly i special Sew
recently in a special seg-
ment of ABC-TV's ‘Good Morning
America,’ The minl-feature traced
the singer's achievements of the
past 10 years of her career, as
well as more recent accomplish-
ments such as her role in ‘The
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of the United States .. . Chris Evert Lloyd, who capped
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TV CLOSEUP: Telly Savalas will’ portray the ‘most evil: -
man who ever lived! in his:next TV movie. No, he won't be
playing Hitler, Stalin or. Attila the. Hun. “I'll be playing Sir
Basil Zaharoff who was knighted by King George V of
England for his service to the allied cause in World War I,”
Telly said. “He was “alsoathe gecipient of the Croix de
Guerre from France, the:highést hdner that country can
bestow.” Telly, taking a brief holiday at the Union Plaza
Hotel in Las Vegas, said Zaharoff was an ammunitions
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every country in the worldiand paved the way for the U.S.
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we are doing is gearing for war, any kind of war, against
anyone,” he added. “No one thinks of the possibility of a
universal peace. So | think we should shake them up and
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NEW PARENTS GROUP ‘
A New Parents Group will meet at the West Kootenay
Health Unit Monday, Feb. 9 at e.m. Topic. of
discussion will be “Two to 14 Months.” Guest speaker will
be Sandra Crossiey. All mothers, fathers and tots welcome.

: SNOWARAMA’ :

The West Kootenay Sno-Goers and the Lions Club will bo
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- be greatly appreciated. Anyone wishing to join in the ride
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