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Tiaiert ree conchae Kain's home will remind her of bargain-hunting in polis. : ‘ ‘At ago 35, Kain is a dark-haired beauty, graceful even in her off-stage sweatshirt, tights and worn satin A dancer is an retirement with ambiguity, giving herself five more years on stage —but then again, “maybe it won't, be that jong and it’ CP NE, RO RL: eee The important thing, she says, is to know’ when “my time” has come: “I'm not really one of these people that Feally is just going to hang in there. I hope I'll know when it's time to step down gracefully.” Meantime, a day on tour goes like this: Awake ina hotel room at 10 or 11 a.m., at the theatre by early afternoon for an hour or two of warmup and training exercises and up to three hours of ul di on the with the role and dancing partners. 7 “I had a rehearsal scheduled today but I decided not to do it because my knees are bothering me from bruising and J want to feel my best for tonight's performance,” she said, ee mt Oe We Pack of «chile ihe orapty tre, Late afternoon, it’s time for an exceptionally light dinner — tea and a sandwich or yogurt and fruit: That leaves but two hours to prepare for performance: fussing With hair and loads of makeup, donning a costume and doing ‘warm-up “exerchjes. ~~ “Some costumes I get into really early because they're really difficult to move in and you want to get used to the weight and feel of it — and perspire a bit in it so it'll be a little more flexible,” she said. May I, 1967 Castlegar News ar revive co-star serious LOS ANGELES (REUT- ER) — James Bond's new girlfriend sits in her elegant hotel room choking on a let- tuce leaf. “I take my acting very ser- iously,” Maryam d’Abo splut- ters. “I didn’t come into this world just to be a pretty face.” A press agent rushes for- ward to pat her on the back. A waiter provides a glass of water. d’Abo plays Kara Milovy, a double-dealing Czechoslovak cellist, opposite the latest film Bond, Timothy Dalton, in The Living Daylights, to be released this summer. The 26-year-old daughter of a Russian mother and an English and Dutch father, d’Abo runs a hand through her thick blonde hair as she emphasizes her dedication to acting. “I don't take myself ser- iously, but acting — that is another matter,” she says in faultless English after re 1060 Eldorado — ex.Konkin Irty Bird Buliding : Easy Access no Stairs Thursday, May TRAIL ELKS LODGE Saturday, May 16 TRAIL GYROS Lic. No. 60942 Tuesday, May 19 CNIB Pe Lic. 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The Photo by John Botechowshy U.S. musical comes to China BEIJING (REUTER) — That quintessentially capital- ist art form, the Broadway musical, has come to com. munist China with salty hu mor, tap dancing and all the trimmings. At the Beijing Central Opera Theatre's nondescript complex of buildings, the raf. ters of rehearsal halls are ringing with some old-time favorite American songs, sung by Chinese performers in their own language. 5 “Robert 's°Restaurant Hwy. 6, Winlaw SPRING HOURS: Wed.-Sat.. Sp.m_9p m.: Sundays 11 am.9p.m ro d alu\ = Brunches Open Il a.m. - 9 p.m. Victoria Day 4 +, Mexican Specialties 226-7718 Outrageous Desserts “They're not accustomed to singing, dancing and act ing at the same time, but they're enjoying it — the singing is wonderful and they're good actors,” said Gayle Ritchie, producer of The Music Man and The Fan. tasticks. The Fantasticks is the longest-running show in New York. It has been playing at an off-Broadway theatre for 27 years and the men who wrote it, Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt, plan to attend its premiere here. The two musicals, involv ing about 100 Chinese and 10 visiting Americans, are being staged this week. After 12 performances the Fanta. sticks is sch to go on tour to Shanghai and possibly other cities. OFFERS SHOWS Shakespeare festivals and concerts by Western pop groups and Italian classical opera stars have put varied fare before Beijing's the- atregoers in the last year. The latest sample of Wes tern art forms — “and the most indigenous thing we do in American theatre,” said Ritchie, arrives at a delicate moment in China's courtship with Western culture The Chinese leadership has been waging a campaign against what it calls “bour. geois liberalism” since stu dent demonstrations in De cember led to the downfall of c party chief Hu Yaobang. 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A candidate for the pres. ident's job at the Central Opera Theatre attacked man agement for putting on too many Western shows. “The theatre has not per formed a Chinese opera for two years,” said Li Guanxi, a singer of traditional opera, which predates the Broad way genre by several thou 9 of the i-final: features Canada vs West Germany. 10:25—Sign-off. Note: The schedule is re. peated Friday at 9 a.m. and Sunday at 1 p.m. ROSE'S RESTAURANT += Ethnic Costumes, tor Evening Dining * Russion Feasting * Full Western & Mexicon Menu AIR CONDITIONED & LICENCED aus cence [opat" 359-7855 Sot, Sunfest Bingo $1000 Jackpot Soi Saturday May 23 Qo Early Bird: 6 pm Regular 6:30 pm $60. min payout Castlegar Community Complex First 5O door re Suntest ladics in ecive a thre [ree button! sand years. Li told the China Daily newspaper that traditional opera was threatened be- cause many singers were going abroad, young com posers looked to the West for inspiration, and money minded managements sought to lure spectators seeking “only entertainment instead of artistic appreciation.” AVOIDS CONFLICT Rehearsals for The Fan tasticks have not been affec ted by the campaign, said director Rodney Marriott “Whoever has been shield. ing us from all this con. troversy has been doing so very successfully,” he said. The show tells the story of two fathers who feign a feud to encourage a romance be tween their children that would have happened any way “The cast is so eager ot learn that we are working al most as fast as I would with American actors experienced in musicals,” said Marriott. Early Bird 6:30 Wang Xingna, one of the actors of The Music Man, said he didn't like American mu. sicals at first because they were unfamiliar. “I did not think musicals were on as high a level as classical opera, but now I find that they have their merits,” he said. “I think audiences will like them, just as they like pop songs.” The scripts of the two shows were translated into Chinese, then back into Eng- lish to check that the sense of jokes, puns and slang had been respected as much as cultural differences permit: ted. for U.: : By VICTOR DARBY - Canadian Press ‘The Oscar-winning movie Platoon may have helped flagging American interest in the Vietnam War. But in Canada, author Victor Levant thinks that h . in Vietnam When Saigon refused in 1966 to liold a free election on Vietnam's future, Canada ignored this blatant violation of a key clause of the Geneva accords. In 1967, Canadians on asa the commission excused of two U.S. Air Force planes to amnesia continues to prevail when it comes to assessing this country’s role in the conflict. If asked, the average Canadian might recall that Ottawa had cast itself as the well-intentioned, if somewhat r ne Levant’s book, Quiet Complicity, takes a much darker view, stating that Canada served as the “eyes and ears of Washington” in Vietnam. OOK REVIEW A. humanities professor at Montral's John Abbott College, Levant came to that conclusion after years of research that involved sifting through government documents, secret cables and, for the first time, thousands of pages of long-forgotten stenographic notes of the International Control Commission. CANADA INVOLVED The - Lit in 1954 to ii the Geneva accords on Vietnam's future after France's withdrawal — was made up of Canada, which looked after western interests, Poland, representing the east bloc, and India, for the non-aligned countries. “Canadians get very upset when their relationship to the United States is compared to Poland’s relationship to the Soviet Union . . . it is hard to discern any Significant difference,” journalist Gwynne Dyer wrote in the book's preface. “We ran errands for the Americans; we lied for them; we spied for them — not once or twice, but continuously for almost two decades.” Levant makes this case by providing numerous of how Canagi on the ission covered up for the Americans at every stage of the Vietnamese conflict. hipping error the the South Vietnamese } ‘- again in defiance of the Levant reveals that four years later, a U.S. cable said a Canadian commission member. to Washington that the Americans spirit military personnel into Vietnam by disguising them as ¢ivilians. And Levant cites the mild response of one Canadian on the commission, Gordon Cox, to the American's controver- sial program to defoliate large areas of South Vietnam's jungles with the now-notorious Agent Orange. The defoliants, Cox is quoted as saying, were no worse than “commercially prepared herbicides which I myself have used in my garden in Canada, and which I have never considered to be of the slightest danger to my children or their pets.” WAY UNCHANGED Levant writes that Canada continued to act in a similar fashion when it became a member of the International Commission for Control and Supervision, set up in 1973 after the United States and North Vietnam signed the Paris peace accords. Oddly enough, Levant culled most of the book's material about Canada from U.S. sources under Washington's access to information laws. He said he received little or no help from officials in Ottawa, who he claimed tried to block him at almost every turn. Unfortunately, Quiet Complicity will have a hard time finding a mass market, since it is written in a dry, academic style, ‘weighed down with seemingly endless details. But without a doubt, the book is an indispensable research tool for history students, and helps set Canada’s dubious record straight. Quiet Complicity, by Victor Levant. Published by Between the Lines; 322 pages; paperback $16.95, hardcover, $39.95. ETTA JAMES ONE OF GREAT SOUL SINGERS LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rhythm and blues singer Etta James keeps finding records she never knew she made. With more than 30 years in the record business and 35 legitimate albums, James says it's difficult keeping track of what bootleggers release in her name. “Sometimes I see albums of mine that I've never seen in my life and I just go, ‘Oh, no, another one,’ ” she said in a recent interview. James, 49, is acknowledged as one of the great:soul sirigieS dnd “hét power,-HS witn’ssed ‘on this~year'’s televised Grammy Awards salute to the blues, shows no sign of diminishing. “She reads the audience in a way I've never seen another performer do,” said Peter Guralnick, author of Sweet Soul Music and other books on American music. “She's about as commanding a performer as I can imagine. She just tears up the place.” As well as performing on the show, James was nominated for a Grammy Award for best-female jazz performance for her Blues in the Night album. That record, recorded live, has been in the upper regions of the Billboard jazz charts. She also will be seen on a Diana Ross television special this month. James, originally from San Francisco, was dis covered by bandleader Johnny Otis in 1955. STREET SINGER “A couple of girlfriends and I had a group that used to sing on the street corners. At the time Hank Ballard and the Midnighters had a hit with Work With Me, Annie and we decided to do an answer. We didn’t think we would get in show business, we were just running around making up answers to songs,” James said. When Otis came to the Bay Area and heard the group, “he said to get permission from my mom to go to Los Angeles to record. I went home and wrote the note myself. I told him I was 18 when I was really only 15.” Their answer song, Roll With Me, Henry, hit No. 2 on the RB charts in 1955 under..the title The Wallflower. James toured’ as part of Otis’ revue through the mid-1950s, sometimes earning as little as $10 a night. But soon after signing with Chess Records in 1959, she had a string of hits. “During those days they had shows called the Top Ten Revue. All the Top Ten artists including Bobby Vinton, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Gene'Vincent, Jerry Lee Lewis and the Everly Brothers would be on the tour,” James said. “We would travel on four buses to all the big auditoriums. And we had a lot of fun.” In 1967, she went to the Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, Ala.,:to cut one of the most highly regarded sdjl “alBuni$ of Wl tittie, Téll Matha” ~ ~~ “~~ * * Fame, where Aretha Franklin recorded many of her classics, was known for its loose, atmospheric “southern” sound. “I got a different feeling than I had in other studios. It was very relaxed, the guys walked around little country bumpkins,” James said. “Once I got there I knew there was something magic about it.” COLLECTORS ITEM Tell Mama is an earthy fusion of rock and gospel music featuring blistering horn arrangements, funky rhythms and a churchy chorus. The original Chess release changes hands among collectors for up to $75. In‘a recent sold-out club engagement at the Vine St. Bar Grill in Hollywood, James had the crowd gasping at her compelling readings of such bittersweet ballads as Sugar On the Floor and I'd Rather Go Blind. “I think everybody should be able to relate at some time in their life to what I sing about,” she said. Her current band, which includes drummer Andre Fisher, bassist Reggie McBride, South African guitarist Joshua Sklaris and keyboardist-saxophonist Bobby Martin, is a classy and tight outfit. MINOR SPORTS Sure, we're interested! Phone the Castlegar News for details on how to get reports of your organization onto the Sports pages. 365-3517 Champion Bingo Upstairs, Trail Towne Square Mall Tonite Wed., May 13 ““Everyone Equal Night’’ cranes? 500 Combination Express Night $42.00 Value Package for $30. NO EXTRA CARDS SOLD ALL NIGHT. Thurs., Fri., Sat., Sun. May 14 - 17 Everyone Equal Night $26 SPECIAL $41.00 value for $26.00. NO EXTRA CARDS SOLD ALL NIGHT. 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