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V based singer puts
the alchemist’s touch to
everything she undertakes;
critical praise for Mortifee's
talents has become common-
place.

But her work — even when
it aspires to the commercial
milieu — carries with it a
sense of production — big,
weighty, important.

An example is the beau-
tiful title tune, released as
the first single from the al-
bum. Her co-writer on that

~ FRASER'S

But it wasn't intended that

way.

“When we set out to do
this album, we first examined
all the songs in my repertoire
and we looked for the ones
that weuld be the most ac-
cessible,” she explains. “We
went into the studio trying to
be more open about shorter
songs and a tighter sense of
production.”

RECALLS BAPTISM

Mortifee has ‘taken this
step only once before, with
her. 1975 release Baptism.
Her other recorded material
has been entirely conceptual:
The Ecstasy of Rita Joe,
which she was commissioned
to write for the George Ryga
stage play (later mounted as
a ballet production); Journey
to Kairos, a highly personal
work encompassing — Morti-
fee's experiences in Africa,
India, Greece and Lebanon;
and Reflections on Crooked

Walking, her children's musi- ~

cal which has both been
staged and broadcast by CBC
radio as a Christmas special:

Surprisingly, the affable ‘

entertainer seemed not a bit
concerned when I suggested
Born to Live had decided
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“If all you do is that which
you're familiar with, you can
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DEREK JACOBI
He's wary of
star status

LONDON (AP) — By his
own admission, actor Derek
Jacobi is a company,man.”

Jacobi, best known in
North America for his role in
the television series, I, Clau-
dius, has spent most of his
‘theatrical life with British
repertory companies.

In February 1982 he made
his debut with the Royal
Shakespeare Company, and
his current work there may
make this confirmed “com-
pany man” a bona-fide star.

Whether playing two

ed by people who have been
carefully chosen so as not to
Qutshine you and diminish
your gloss.”

Jacobi contrasts his Royal
Shakespeare affiliation with
his one Broadway appear-
ance to date — as the above-
the-title draw of Nicolai Erd-
man's Russian drama, The
Suicide;which ran for several
months in late 1980.

“That show was my first

—a
youthful Prospero in The

the “commercial, critical and

Tempest or a frolicking Bene-

About
long-nosed Cyrano in Ros-
tand’s Cyrano de Bergerac,
Jacobi brings audiences to
their feet in appreciation of
his versatility and seemingly
boundless energy.

Still, Jacobi, 45, is wary of
succumbing to the allure of
star status.

“T function best as part of a
company,™~ the boyish-
looking performer says, “and
I don’t see what I'm doing as
the springboard to a one-man
show. It's highly dangerous
to be out there as the star, as
the money-puller, surround-

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This theatre
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By JAMES NELSON
The Canadian Press

Many stories are told about actors auditioning for roles.

One concerns a young actress with a lisp and a limp who
appeared before a director. She haltingly announced that for
her audition she would deliver one of Portia’s great speeches
from Shakespeare's The Tempest. ms

Drawing herself up she started, “The quality of mercy is
not strained . . .” and continued to the end with no hint of a
lisp. 7

The director congratulated her, and in the kindliest
possible way admitted he had been concerned in advance
because of her lisp and limp, which entirely disappared
during her performance. How did she do that?

The actress replied that if she hadn't affected the lisp
and the limp, her performance would never have been
noticed among all the other girls auditioning for the part.

DEADLINE FEB. 1

The story is timely now that the National Theatre
School of Canada has announced its deadline for applications
for new students is Feb. 1, 1984. Auditions and interviews
will take place across the country during March, April and
May.

This must be one of the most exclusive and difficult
schools in the country, with no academic degree and no
guarantee of a job for the graduates.

Last year, only 82 of 933 applicants were admitted.

pr
way’ are quit

“You can't afford a. failure
in America, whereas you can
here,” he said.

Jacobi should be back on
Broadway next fall, perform-
ing Much Ado and Cyrano in
repertory. Both plays will go
to Los Angeles for the arts
festival preceding the 1984
Olympic Games, and from
there to the U.S. East Coast.

“It's the best of both
worlds: two marvelous lead-
ing roles within part of a
company,” he said,

Committed to the Royal
Shakespeare for at least one
more year, Jacobi confesses
to yearnings for more film or
television work. A support-
ing actor in the films The Day
ef the Jackal and The Odessa
File, Jacobi has played the
title roles in two Shakes-

peare plays for television —
Richard II and Hamlet —

They were req ‘to pity $900 a year in tuition, arrange
their own room and-board in Montreal at a cost of perhaps
$4,000 a year, and work from 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m., five days a
week, with little chance to take any part-time employment.
Rehearsals often run long after normal school hours.

The National Theatre School is truly a national
institution, supported by the federal government and all the

except British Columbia.
DOORS OPEN

While its graduates have no guarantee of a job, they do
in fact find the doors to many theatres opened to them
because, since its founding in 1960, the school has estab-
lished a reputation for the quality of its graduates.

It's a novel and important school because it offers
training in both French and English, and in both onstage
acting and offstage disciplines of playwriting, design,
lighting, production crafts, history and management.

Students of the National Theatre School gain admission
only through competitive audition and examination. No one
can ¢laim a right to go to the school. Everyone must prove
by prior experience an aptitude for the work.

The school offers a three-year acting course, a
three-year playwriting course, and two-year courses in
technical production and design. After two years in the
design section, a student may be invited back for a third
year of work on sets, costumes and property design and

=and__construction for productions staged by_students in the acting —

ina TV movie school. =

has appeared
about Hitler, Inside'the Third
Reich.

“The grass is always
greener: when I was doing
TV, I wanted to get back to
the theatre,” he said. “I was
afraid of losing my. voice, of
everything getting rusty, sot
was desperate to get back.
Now I'm back, and I'm eager
to be in front of a camera.”

IT’S COMPLETE °
School productions are more than just exercises in the
700-seat Monument National, an 1894 building which has

Lane
_ played
24 parts

The record for the number
of characters played by one

actor in a film is held by
Lupino Lane, who played 24
parts in a 1929 comedy called
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of an early morning breakfast, pushed to the surface by
marauding barracuda, wahoo or giant mackerel, In the
distance, a steady wisp of smoke can be seen floating gently
from the throat of Matupi, the restless voleano.

A porpoise erupts directly in front of the canoe and as
he slips beneath the surface his black eyes seem: to say “good
morning.” Seon the entire school-is frolicking about,
whirling, diving and ing
display of silent power. As suddenly as they arrive, they are

gone. +

Life is also stirring in the village ‘nestled in the palm
trees at the shoreline. A puff of blde smoke signals that the
morning fires are being started. Across the water floats the
sound of distant laughter, the yelp of a dog being kicked out
of the way and the splash of water 4s someone takes an early
morning plunge into the crystal clear lagoon. Farther down
the shoreline, three large canoes, each with five men on
board, approach the . from the night's
fishing venture with the day's supply of meat.

I rest the paddle on the edge of the canoe, lower my
fishing line into the depths and contemplate the birth of
new day in these South Pacific Islands.

Papua New Guinea is indeed an enigma. It is a land of
15,000 foot i ing above of tropical
islands; a land of fiery and fr ear ks

fire dances,

sortery and magic.

It is @ land where 50 years ago the majority of
had not seen a white man; a land wiiere only last week a new
vib ra;

t ia a lind of dria and ek

‘western
confidently leading the nation to maturity. ‘

Papua New Guinea is a struggling giant of a child; a
child reaching with languid tranquility for maturity; The
nation is moving out of adolescence into the not-dlways-
pleasant world of adulthood. The naturally warm’ ‘and
friendly manners of the Melanesians who inhabit ‘fiiese
islands are now being mixed with Western materialism ‘énd
the desire for personal gain. tay

Although the tribal and family unit remains strong,
more and more individuals are seeking material things
instead’ of “developing the natural wealth of their li
Money, a6 in our society, has become an end unte. ‘
Young men and women, who have known nothing but 'théie
necessary responsibilities within the village structure, aré
now leaving for the cities to find jobs which will pay cash. In
the recent past money was not required for-the.essentials~
. and the pleasures of life, but now it is becoming important
for the young to own a transistor radio or cassette player.
‘The youth of this awakening nation are no longér ‘content
with the simple ways of life — something most of us in
Western civilizations have lost and wish we could find again.

It seems very strange to be walking alotig a jutigle path
observing the natural beauty of this land and suddenly being
confronted by a half-clad native youth coming through the
jungle with a radio blasting out of the latest “pop” music’

of his past. .

When I first wandered cautiously into the village
seeking to purchase an outrigger canoe, | was accepted with
cool dignity. As the new doctor at the “Haus Sik” situated on
the hill above the village, 1 was tolerated for short casual
visits — but only tolerated. My proper place was at the
hospital — to cut out the siekness inflicted on his people by
the sorcerers of other villages.

No one on these islands, it is profoundly helieved, ever
become sick or dies of natural causes. All illness or back luck
is caused by wicked spirits who live in the sea, the rocks or

— of by witchcraft inflicted by a sorcerer from

tribe. As the months have passed, they have learned

that my knife is powerful and can rid the villagers of many

diseases. They know my needles are powerful and can stop

put them to sleep and drive out many devils placed

them by sorcery. They also despise my pills and liquid
medicine. If it doesn'tshurt how can it be of any use!

So Mylati had his half-brother, Josif, carve me a canoe
from @ Kapok tree. I was a “big man” in my village and
therefore he would insist on having his finest canoe builder
make my-eanoe! Josif is indeed a fine craftsman. He is also, I
learned, much later, the traditional medicine man and

beamed across the airways from Australia, Singapore’ or ‘sorcerer of Mulati's village — and the best fisherman.

Japan. The old men sit around the fires ‘ih'the village at
night, dreaming about the past and contemplating the
future. Some stnoke their home grown’ 'tobacco rolled in

(the strongest this year measuring 7.6 on the Rjchter scale);
a land of gold and copper mines and coffee, cocoa and copra
plantations but where the average weekly income is only
$20, A land proudly proclaiming two universities but where
only five per cent of the school age children go beyond Grade
6; a land where education is not compulsory but a privilege;
a land ruled by stable democratic government but where
tribal warfare is a daily occurrance; a land where three
million people live and where 700 languages are spoken.

Ps as others chew betel-nut and contemplate the
of old ways and the emergence of the new: They
are wi and concerned. Mulati, the “head man” of the
village say it this land will be destroyed by Western
ways with much greater devastation than the Japanese ever
wrought upon the nation and the people during the Second
World War.
Mulati is only partly correct. The land will not be
destroyed — unless, of course the volcanic “Rim of Fire”
decides to erupt all at once. But the old traditional ways of

_ Births & Funerals.

waTHs SOARES — To Mr. and Mrs. An-
ANDERSON — To Mr. and Mrs. tonic Soares of Castlegar, a boy,
Dennis A ‘of Nelson, a born Dec. 19.
boy. Dec. 26. ee

* STRELIEV — To Mr. ond Mrs.
BRADY — To Derrelt Streliev of Castlegar, a

Mr. and Mis. Joe
Brady of Fruitvale, a bey, born
Dec. 13. .

CARON — To Mr. and Mrs. Bob
Caron of Nelson, a boy, born
Dec. 25. :
CHAMBERS — To Nir. and Mrs.
Jim Chambers, a boy, born Dec.
18.

COLVILLE — To Mr. and Mrs.
Derek Colville of Costlegar, a
girl, born Dec. 27.

INELL — To Mr. and Mrs.
Alon Connell of Trail, a girl, born

COWAN — To Bill Cowan. and
idorson of Nakusp, a

FIELD — To Mr. and Mrs. Lorry
Field of Trail, a boy, born Dec.
16.
GORKOFF — To Mr. and Mrs. Bill
Gorkott of Costlegar, o boy,
born Dec. 26.

——

GROOM — To Mr. and Mrs. An-
drew Groom of Genelle, @ girl,
born Dec. 18.

SYLVESTER — To Mr. and Mrs
Robert Sylvester of Nelson, a
girl, born Dec. 16.
WARNER — To Mr. and Mrs.
Richard Warner of Castlegar, o
boy, born Dec. 24.
2 — to-Mr. and Mrs.
Wayne Zimmerman of Castlegar,
a girl, born Dec. 24,

DEATHS .
BEATTY — Catherine Beatty of
Montrose, away sudden!
Dec. 26 in Montrose.

service wos

Friday, Oec. 20 in St. John's
Anglican , Fruitvale, Rev.
Lloyd Northcott officiating.
Cremation took place in Trail.

dentist Dr. Leroy Joseph Maurer 22 aj Fairview United Church,
died Dec. 21. Cremation has Nelson, Rev. R. Brown oticiating.
been held and ae ¥ =

there was no ser-

vice at Dr. Maurer's request. SCODELLARO = _—séDuk
ee Scddelloro, age 69 of Trail,
MAYNARD — Jean Maynard of away suddenty Dec. 17 at
N ‘away Trail Regional. Hospital. Prayer
the service services were-held from Our
* Lady’ of Perpetual Help Church
on. Dec. 20. Funeral mass was
celebrated by Father Armando
Maglio. Dec. 21. Interment
ar i View

MORRISON — John
McQueen Morrison,
Nelson died at home Dec. 20. A

(Jock)
83, of

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LANGILLE — To Mr. and Mrs.
David Langille of Genelle, a bey,
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MOUL — To Derek Mou! and
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POMPU — To Mr. and Mrs. Lauri
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