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Chinese approve script

MONTREAL (CP) -
China has approved a movie
script which details the mer
curial temperament, alcohol
ism and stormy personal life
of Dr. Norman Bethune, the
Canadian surgeon revered as
a hero of the Communist
revolution.

Chinese movie star Wang
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men will see a different side

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“In this film he will be a
great hero, but he will also be
a man with shortcomings and
weak points,” Wang said in
an interview.

A Chinese film delegation
is to return to Peking today
after reaching an agreement
in principle on a $10-million
movie and TV mini-series
which could go before the
cameras in China as early as
September. It will also be
shot in Spain and Canada

Partners in the proposed
Bethune project are Mon
treal's Filmline International
Inc., the China Film Co

4 has
been reached with the CBC.

Allan was 18 when he first
met Bethune and later
served as the battlefront
surgeon's political officer in
the Spanish Civil War. He
first began writing about Be
thune in 1940.

“I just couldn't be more
pleased that the Chinese ap-
prove,” said the 70-year-old
playwright, novelist and
Holly wood screenwriter back
in his hometown to meet with
the Chinese.

“This time, I haven't held
anything back about
Bethune. I was obsessed with
him while he was alive and
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Completed earlier this
year, the script traces
Bethune's life in Montreal as
a brilliant surgeon so out
raged by fascism that he
joined the Communist party
and went off to aid the
Republican cause in the
Spanish Civil War.

In 1937, he went to China
to join Mao Tse-Tung’s guer.
rilla fighters and in the space
of two years is credited with
saving countless lives, train
ing Chinese doctors and up
lifting the soldiers’ morale by
his dedication.

In 1988, at the age of 49,
Bethune died of blood pois
oning after cutting his finger
during an operation.

Bethune’s story through the
characters of his wife, Fran.
ces, and a journalist based on
the screenwriter.

“Bethune and I had a very
stormy father-son relation.
ship. I had hero-worshipped
him, but became totally dis.
illusioned in Spain . . . his
heavy drinking . he got
violent, and abusive and un
pleasant.

Allan admits that for
years, he did not believe
Bethune had changed in
China.

“But I have spent a lot of
time in China and there is no
question that he stopped
drinking, totally. In China,
Bethune became this man of
legends that the Chinese hold

Allan has chosen to tell him to be.” ‘

Dancing defectors star

By ROD CURRIE
CP Entertainment Editor

TORONTO (CP) — After the agonizing wrench of
defecting, spending their first night hiding in a van and then
settling into the American way of life, one of the many
things that puzzled the Soviet dancers Valentina and Leonid
Kozlov was the concept of income tax.

Their fascination was more academic than real, Leonid
acknowledges with a grin, because they had no income at the
time.

Explains Leonid: “We said: ‘Why you have to pay taxes?
It is your money, why you have to pay taxes?”

But it was one of the many things they couldn't
understand, say the stars of the old Broadway musical On
Your Toes, which opened a six-week run at the Royal
Alexandra Theatre.

The two principal dancers with the Bolshoi Ballet made
a daring backstage escape while performing in Los Angeles
in 1979. They spoke no English and were pretty much babes
in the woods.

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As Bolshoi performers, they had had a rather good life
in the Soviet Union

“We lived, I could say, the ‘easy’ way, in the sense the
government controlled everything — where we worked,
where we lived, where we travelled — you are like a child,”
said the slim, darkly handsome Leonid.

“Can you imagine what it was like for two Russians
suddenly in America — credit cards and cheques and bank
accounts?It was, oh, such a mess.”

MANY PRESSURES

Aside from the fear and emotional upheaval, there were
artistic pressures.

They had received a great deal of publicity after they
slipped out an unguarded side entrance at the Los Angeles
theatre, were met by an American friend and spent the
night huddled in a van before applying next day for asylum.

“Three weeks later we started work, giving our first
American performance in New Orleans,” recalled Valentina.
“It was very difficult because everybody expected so much
— that we would be better than anyone else.”

That was after they had travelled to Washington, where
a Russian musician tutored them in the facts of American life
and urged them, as a start, to sign a manager

“We picked a man who spoke a little Russian,” said
Leonid who, with Valentina, flew to Toronto for a day of
interviews during a break in their U.S. tour.

After New Orleans they da .ced, toured, worked for
several years in Australia and now are with the esteemed
New York City Ballet in addition to their current tour with
the classic Rogers and Hart musical, which was first
performed in 1936 and won a 1983 Tony Award as best
revival.

The first musical to combine the drama of classical
ballet with the more traditional Broadway fare, On Your
Toes includes choreography by the late, great George
Balanchine for such numbers as Slaughter on Tenth Avenue
and such songs as There's a Small Hotel, It's Got to be Love
and Glad to Be Unnappy.

Choir
pleases
clubs

The Kootenay Doukhobor
Youth Choir led by director
Paul Samsonoff sang Tues
day night; at the Fireside
ballroom an enthusiastic
audience of Castlegar Rotary
and Kiwanis club men and
women

The 40 attractively cos
tumed young people aug
mented by another 20 grad.
uate members of the choir
also sang a 25-minute pro
gram of peace songs, hymns
and folk songs last Sunday at
the Expo auditions held in
Stanley Humphrey Second
ary School.

John Charters introduced
their repeat program for the
club's dinner meeting and
they were thanked by Lach
Farrell who recognized many
of them as his former pupils
at the high school.

Farrell was generous in his
praise of the group, saying
that over the years he had
heard many choirs and was
particularly delighted with
the variety of the songs and
with their presentation.

On behalf of the Rotary
and Kiwanis clubs he wished
them every success in the
Expo competitions and the
opportunity to express our
love and pride in the cultural
richness of the Kootenay
area.

Aging
scares
Shepherd

NEW YORK (AP) — Ac
tress Cybill Shepherd is en
joying her success in tele
vision's Moonlighting but ad
mits she is scared about
aging.

CYBILL SHEPHERD
it's scary

“I think about Marilyn
Monroe a lot,” Shepherd, 36
told McCall's magazine. “I
have this terrible thought:
Tl be fine until I'm 40. It's
very seary.” Monroe died in
1962 at age 36

“I think you have to learn
to work around it. You have
to learn to take pride in your
face aging. It's OK to be as
old as you are. I'm enjoying
life more now and am more
relaxed than I've ever been.”

Bette
wants

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kids

NEW YORK (AP) — Bette
Midler, 40, who has been
married for just over a year,
says she and her husband
would like to have children
“and I think I would raise
them in a very Victorian
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actress, who has described
her stage persona as “trash
with flash,” said in McCall's
magazine

“I wouldn't let my kids
watch television eight hours
a day, and I would be careful
about what they watched. I'd
teach them to paint and be

creative.”

BUSINESS

Canadians love mutual funds

TORONTO (CP) — Mutual funds have become the
investment darling of the day.

Appr 800,000 C: have invested in at
least one mutual fund, says the Investment Funds Institute
of Canada. It bases its estimate on the fact that its members
have almost one million individual fund accounts.

Mutual funds pool the savings of hundreds of individuals
and offer something for everybody.

If you are a small, inexperienced investor you can take
advantage of the skills of a professional money manager,
enjoy the benefits of the diversity of a broadly based
portfolio ang have almost instant liquidity.

If you are a large, sophisticated investor you can take
advantage of specialized mutual funds that offer sity in
particular areas. Gold funds, for example, buy a variety of
gold investments from bullion to stocks of gold mining
companies. Dividend funds specialize in buying stocks that
offer high dividend income.

In addition, a considerable number of mutual funds are
eligible for the tax benefits of a registered retirement
savings plan.

The Templeton Growth Fund, for example, run by the
grandfather of Canada's mutual funds, 73-year-old John
Templeton, would have turned a $10,000 investment in
1965 into 4 $797,695 pot of gold by the end of last year.

By comparison, if $10,000 had been invested in a stock
portfolio matching the Toronto Stock Exchange's composite
300 index the investment would have returned $150,352.
(Both les assume all divi were the
Templeton example assumes an 8.5-per-cent sales commis-

‘Cominco likely

sion on the initial investment and the TSE example does not
charges.)
EARNS $1.9 BILLION
In 19865 the 170 funds belonging to the which

invest in the stock market.
And there are glowing examples, like the Templeton

represent 85 per cent of the assets of Canadian funds, made
$1.9 billion in net sales, more than doubling sales of $961
million in 1984, said institute president Keith

The funds’ assets have increased to $10.1 billion at the
end of 1985 from $6.7 billion a year earlier, he said. That
compares with net sales of $206 million and assets of $3.6
billion in 1980.

The institute attributes the increase to a variety of
factors.
BOF sober market hasn't been too shabby since 1975,”

, oting that it has advanced in ever but

one in the last decade. st pyatereverd

Bank interest rates have been lower in the last couple of
years than earlier in the decade when investors became
accustomed to double-digit returns on their savings.

The federal government's proposed $500,000 lifetime
capital gain ion has more to

ag pay

single most important thing that people who buy
mutual funds acquire is professional management,” he said.
“A fund doesn’t sell a product, it sells a money

The
thing about mutual funds is that you are able to hire an
in even if you're a little guy.”

it perf
long. Some funds advertise their
just one or two years or even less of

reduced
size of the investment is significant.

Bonds not ‘competitive’

TORONTO (CP) — Cana- Savings Bonds to pursue
dians are beginning to think better interest rates else-
of redeeming their Canada where, investment counsel-

lors say.
Canadians hold about $50
billion in the --government
to shut “{n¢t<-
paying 8.5 per cent of inter-

crease the rate to a level that
is more in line with the re-
cent prime rate increases Milic, an investment coun-
prompted by the Bank of sellor at McLeod Young Weir
Canada to prop up the dollar. Ltd.

“We have seen substantial Since Jan. 1, Bank of Can-
turnovers,” said Henry ada figures show that Can-
Schnetzer, manager of tax adians have cashed in just

aren't as competitive as
treasury bills,” said George

Pine Point zinc mine

PINE POINT, NWT (CP)
— Eight years after ending a
long search for a steady job
and about to start a family,
Dab Dube is preparing to
pack his belongings and move
again.

Cominco Co., which built
the remote town of Pine

Point to serve employees of a
zine mine it opened 24 years
ago, plans to shut down the
operation by mid-1987.

The town, built on a bed of
muskeg near the southern
shores of Great Slave Lake
800 kilometres north of Ed-
monton, won't be far behind.

Titsworth new
council head

By CasNews Staff
The new president of the

Last November, the labor
council endorsed 11 candi

Nelson-Trail and District La
bor Council says he wants the
council to get back to its
mandate of dealing wit!
municipat issues. -

Gordon Titsworth, 39, was
elected to a one-year term
Tuesday during a meeting of
labor council delegates in
Nelson.

“The mandate of the labor
council is to deal with mu
nicipal issues,” Titsworth
said. “The labor council can
act as a lobbying group and
support group for people and
positions favorable to labor.”

Titsworth, a production
analyst at Cominco's data
processing centre, said he
wants the council to give
better support to labor can
didates in West Kootenay
municipal elections.

dates in regional municipal
elections and made only small
campaign contributions.

Titsworth said the 13
member council will also be
focusing on international
trade negotiations, especially
the issue of free trade with
the United States, which he
said would have a negative
impact on working people in
Canada.

Titsworth was born in
Trail and has spent most of
his life in the West Kootenay.
He has been with Cominco
since 1973 on a permanent
basis but also worked for the
company when he was a stu
dent.

He served a previous stint
on the labor council as sec
retary-treasurer nine years
ago.

Weekly Stocks

TORONTO (CP) Toron.
to share prices closed mixed
Friday in active trading to
end a week of further de
clines in commodity prices
and higher interest rates.

The TSE 300 composite
index edged up 0.53 of a point
to 2,761.32. But it is still
down 37 points from last
week despite record highs on
Wall Street, which usually
sets the pace for the Toronto
market. Declines outpaced
advances Friday 419 to 298
Volume was 19.7 million
shares.

In New York, the Dow
Jones industrial average
jumped 19.38 to 1,664.45,
bringing its gain for the week
to 51.03 points.

Financial service stocks
dominated actives, gaining
back some losses from Thurs

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day when the prime lending
rate jumped to 13 per cent
from 12.25. The entire sub-
index rose 10.19 to 2,028.23.
Canadian Imperial Bank of
Commerce had the largest
volume of trading. It was off
1/8 to $19 1/8, followed by
Bank of Montreal, which rose
1/8 to $28 5/8.

Gold stocks stayed weak
with the sub-index falling
44.92 points to 4,447.15. This
group lost 2.02 per cent of its
composite points over the
week and it has been in a
four-week slump.

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The town’s 1,500 or so in-
habitants, most accustomed
to the boom and bust gamble
of all one-industry towns, will
be on the road again, their
businesses lost and welfare
threatened.

“I don’t know what I'll do
or where I'll go if the mine
shuts down,” Dube, a native
of Spiritwood, Sask., said in a
telephone interview.

“Tve been trying to stay
stationary,” he said. “It's a
good place for kids to grow
up, a quiet, small town. The
money's good.”

Metal prices continue to
flounder while production
costs increase. Companies
are having difficulty selling
ore they've already mined
and processed.

Dube, like many others in
Pine Point, has moved front
town to town in search of
employment. He worked on
oil rigs in Alberta and on
other jobs in Saskatchewan
before finding work in Pine
Point.

“There's a strong likeli
hood the mine will close, I
can't see it continuing,” said
Mike Mandry, the mine's
general manager. He has told
400 union workers and 130
other employees they likely
will be out of work by the
middle of next year.

There is full employment
at the mine now, but if world
market conditions have not
improved considerably by
then, Pine Point will be shut
down.

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