years ago RED sominns Guam Town or LENIN sunny AT BARBIE LIBRARY on Adventuring run QUEST roa QUiriorn by Rupert CroftCookc Mr CroftCooke has used his favorite novel Don Quixote as framework for book on Spain It is not another study of Don Quixote or Cervantes Two ycarsago the authorde cided tofollow the routes of the three journeys which his hero made and on writing of Spain in these journeys he says will go where am taken meet who comes and write of what find For transport he chose go ing part of the way by car and part on horseback taking with him as Don Quixote did on the first occasion an attend ant his 24 yearold gardener In every place the author visited the knights birthplace the villages of La Mancha which were the scenes of his exploits and Barcelona where Don Quixotes adventurEs met their ignominious end Mr CroftCooke found past and present mingled It was al most as if the men and women whom he met on the roads in the fields where he camped in the inns where he slept in the taverns where he ate and drank were the direct descend ants of the characters who ap pear in Cervantes master piece The reader will cross the sunbaked thymescented La Mancha plain and climb with him into the rugged grandeur of the Sierra Morena He will in fact share to the full the authors own enjoyment of fascinating journey And Mr CroftC0016 also writes so well RIDING To THE TIGRIS Frjeyaqstark Freya Stark is wellseasun ed traveller and the years and experiences of her journeys have deepened and enriched her sensitivity but have not changed her method of funk ling Most of the journey in this book from Lake Van on the high Turkish plateau through the lonely and moun tainous Hakk and down to the River Tigris was done on horseback Freya Stark has genius for travelling on her own It is the unexpected in events and companions that brings out the best in her and in her vivid descriptions whether it be falling ill in hospital empty except for anrold wo man or an impromptu stay in nomad tents or the dangerous behavior of her horse every time shcopeu2d her mum Beyond being the story of remarkable achievement at time when events weremaking this borderland dangerous the book presents philosophy both of life and travel and according to the authn for contemplation in desolate laces there is nothing like he saddle of horse IEOPARDY AND JEEP by Dorothy Rogers This is the story of two ad venturous women professors who took extended leave to make complete tour of Africa by jeep They drove from France to Algiers and then via the Sahara Desert and Congo jungle to the southern tip at Alri They rounded fari the Cape turned north to Cairo and completed the cir cuit by following along the Mediterranean Their trip took half year and covered 25000 miles Travel was fascinating but rugged Tracks and trails were often materials nightmare him In Moscow are seen in these hitherto un published photnl the Rn aian rhpital taken byExanr iner th Editor Barry Conn Hughes this trip then three Travelling on preuvismhcwastoidnottn take photos of anyone input form but customs ofï¬cials did not askto see the nude veloped negatives when holclt the Soviet Union His pinto cs reveal city which is at oncc grim and beautiful MASSIVE STATUE depicts factory worker and collec tive farm laborer symbolizing the union of the hammer and Nights were spent on the open desert or in the wild forests sometimes in native villages For several days they were the lone passengers on cattle barge on the Nile Hazardous situations followed in quick succession They were frequently lost because they had no guide and nothing but crude maps and meagre in formation concerning the prim itive regions With teargas guns and pistol for protec tion they penetrated lands in habited by hostile natives and wild animals constant oro blem was water and often petrol was close to exhaustion Heatwas threat to life itself and relentlessly melted rubber fromthe tires BABEL IN SPAIN by John llaycraft This is not travel book and it is not book by someone who has merely IllEd in the country it is the record of young man who starting with almost nothing but his wits his education and his wife op ened school for teaching Ens lish in Cordoba In doing so he has had to deal in both personal and official way with the people and the book shows howSpaniards of themiddle classes live and manage their affairs Teaching unes language to foreigners is the best way of gettingtoknowwthcmu The author and his wife were in vited into every art of private home andpublic estivity shar ed in picnics and pilgrimage and learned patience with the inconveniences of making home in Spain His sketch are clever and delightful amusing in provincial Andalusian town as seen with keen sens itch and amused eye it is immensely readable AFRICA IS ADVENTURE by Attlllo Gatti This is fastpaced and supercharged story for arm chair adventurers It tells of Commander Gattia recent as into the nixinfested plains below Kilimanjaro to obtain closeup photographs of wild animals The Vexpedi on almost ended before it began when Gatti found himself stranded one afternoon in an immobilized Land Rover The cartridges for his gun had been stolen and only the glass and canvas roof on the car separated him from an enormous pairof lions that were scrambling all over the vehicle He also describes several other narrow escapes FRUIT VOTE MONDAY ST CATHARINES CPL proposed plan to control the mar keting of soft frult in Ontario will go before fruit growers Mond in ballot conducted by tticOn Thisds lively bookon um DON QUIXOTE SATURDAYI GUIDE ROXY Anthony Franoiosa starves around in various gar rets missing out on food friends family and funds in an effort to make it as an actor Dean Martin who looks something like Bing Crosby trying to play the lead in the Cecil De Mllle StoryShirley MacLaine as an oddball husbaudcollector and couple of divorces are thrown in to try to convince him he should be something clse Formula story above average Vacflng Movie Career turnout raise kiddies take off becausethe hear lawyer threatening to place them in an orphanage TIIEV Ithree hEONARD childrénfthatï¬s Rex Reason Nan Leslie and Betty Lou Gerson are in Mir stolen the Hills and no doubt its one heck of movie Its not often three children take off because theyoverheai lawyer threatening to put them in an orphanage Nothing much more to say really havent seen it CANADIAN moron Dancing refreshments for members opninmows mam And more dancing for those who wish to see Barrie at itsliot test liveliest best BARBIE ARENA If spending the evening continuing around and around and aroundlitre the proverbial music appeals to you if you canskatband if you have the entrance money janglingjn your hot little fist wbynot dig out your skates and slide along BARBIE ARMOURY Dancing at Officersf andm Sergeants Messes for members and guests LAKE SIMCGE Walk out to the middle of the hay with shovel turn around look at Barrie think about the pres ent temperatures in Voo couver 62 Bermuda Jam ales Florida California London Eng and then carve inlthe snow with your shovel ll reasons why you love On tanoin the winter its all tariog Farm Marketing board thr rage is nmecrinornsmc on connnnsiom nan squane sank JAZZ BAND TOOTLESV AT MOSCOW PRESS CLUB sassy coiui Honors Their Plot Was ALabor of Love You might suppoSe call it qualified suc cess for while it didnt actually work we werent actually caught Johnny Blggs Thomas and myself hatched the plot at 830 am one day in lfloughtSl sitting on curb just outside the school boundary drlfiking cakes and eating read Field day was approaching and call had gone out for volunteersto prepare the field for the big event This involved getting up at am every day for about twoweeks to congress and lay out the white lime lines We three had hap pened to volunteer individually mainiybecause of the thrill of being up and out for couple of hours while everyone else was asleep Having finished our work quota earlythat morning we tried to charm something to eat out of the school cook but with no success So we went to the nearby bakery fora prebreakfast snack food which in turn led to complaints about the dining hall seating EIBH SEGREGATION Albert College was and isra etaeducational institution and the authorities deemed it advisable to dictate most carefully the seating arrangement of thedinlng ball couple who were going steady were invariably separated at meals to discourage closer liaison troublemakers were also separ ated newcomers were seatednelttto older stud ents good little girls were placed at the table of the dean of womenarid so on Itwnsa highly unsatisfactory arrangement from the undergraduate point of view The seating plan wes changed every two or three weeks and we decided to substitute more suitable one few days before the normal time for changing We were good team forrthe job be cause we normally moved in dflferentTlï¬les and would be less suspect than known groups of cronies As waiter on tomes was able to leave d9 openvat supportime After study halleacliw Johnny flavouldistandiwuard whiievf wrriig boosteoiiie througntiiewindow intothe barontal hall where the plan was pinned to bulletin board After it had been filchedpwed lock ourselves in room while the names written in the heads fine hand were laboriously forged on our substitute copy Each morning we returned the original on our way to the field msrnnrincn It took about 11 days of this to complete our copy but the finished workwas masterpiece Every steady couple had been placed side by side girls were placed between their old and new boy friendsthe school toughs were sitting at the table of the dean of women feuding masters faced each other It was replete with fantastic juxtapositions On the night the forging was completedwe had put in about 24 hours labor all toldéwe pin ned the p1antotlie bulletin board took the orig inal and the heads copy from his tableand burned them In the morning the students began to filein for breakfast took note of theriewp1an and went to theirvplaces Unfortunately some clotnwhose family knew the head remarked on residence master thattlie head had unaccoun bly polled his name Rledlnstead of Reid After hurried staff conference we were ordered backj our old places and the Jig was up Ineffectual though it was and apar fr the fatal flaw we would have done it again it drop of hat From planning to execution we were proudrof job well dime Dam clever these kids work to be done when theres dirt We began to complainabout Lboardingsclhool opage 3AM EXAMINER SATURDAY MARCH lKOS CORNER ii nhvniosnpmmu Organist and Cbotrmukr St Andrews Barrie Much controversy surrounds the use of modern forrm of the fine arts in the church is mod ern architecture with its bold symbole fitting place of worship for the people of God Arc modern painting and sculo turc effecllve in turning the thoughts of Christian people to ward holy things is modern music worthy vehicle to carry thepraises of Gods children heavenward The attitude of the church to ward contemporary arthas al ways been rather conservative is tbereany reason why the lan guage of our contemporary art ists should be unacceptable to the church Let us consider specifitu the position of music Music for use in church must be imbued with certain char acter that sets it apart as being uniqusfor the worship of God it must express beauty in form worthy of this highest use This qualification must be applied whether the music was written In the 16th ltllh or 20th century but its application is most neces sary to that music which has not had the test at time imposed up on it Before reference is made to bribe work of individual com posers may we examinesonie ottlie general charactorlsn oh modern music SAME TRENDS Modern music displays similar tendencies of form to the con temporary visual artsarchh tecture painting and sculpture The trend toward simple lines and bold texture is evident in all of the fine arts Consecu tive fifths and octaveslong the cardinal sin of harmony stu dents are and with good effect in bold harmonic progressions while simple yet strong melodies soar to heights of expressive power Much care is exercised to make verbal and musical accents agree The listener is not dis turbedin most works written by our best composers by min placed accents which make non sense of the words being sung PLAINSONG renewed interest in plain song the carilst form of Church music may be responsible for the use of the ancient lmodes by many writers today The use of thenscales which predate by several centuries the major and minor forms familiar to anyone whose children study the piano links these modern works with the past and serves to mark born as the property of the church While suchgeneral statements often lead to foolish conclusions it ban heaccepted that the music being written for the church by ourbest lnuslciahsis eminently suitable for use by the congre gation choir and organist When the history of music in the 20th century is set down and the contributions of the com posers of this period are assess ed the work of Ralph Vaughan used unashamedly passing notice Wrilinx in al most all forms this master English composer has left so ciety and particularly the church an invaluale legaq Our leshlprIlas been greatly enriched by his superb tune Slna Nomine to which we sing For all the saints who from their labors restX His choral works range from the exquisite ly simple setting of how am iable are Thy dwellings to the overwhelming Featival Te Deum wriuen for the 1917 Damnation Who can fail to be moved to holy thoughts when the lovely prelude on the hymn for Holy Conunuiilon Rhosyme dre is played This music is neither stonal iiordissonant but it is distinctly of our time CANADIAN Canadians should feel sense of national pride in the work of Dr Henley Within This To ronto musician has gained an international reputation for his church music While Dr Willan employs the mass motet chorale prelude and fugue he stamps his fresh traditional forms music is widely used and his fine organ compositions are heard in all cluirches One could mention the work of Flor Peelers Sigirid Harg Elcn Oliver Mmlan Jean Langlais Louis Vicrne in Eur ope Percy Whitlock George Oldroyd Martin Shaw George Dyson in England Leo Sower by Evcretl ï¬tcomb Norman Lockwood in the United States and Anderson CrawfordV Richard Eaton and Walter McNutt in CanadaThEii far from complete Just asrthcrc are some who feel ltiat the grace and beauty of Gothic form displayed in the cathedrals of Europe and imi tated to some degree in many churches around the world can ncver be surpassed or even up preached as an architectural form there are those that main tain that modern writerscan never attain the heights reached by Palestrina Bach Handel and Haydn Let us suggest that per haps this is not to be desired Rather let us hope that onrart ists in general and musicians in particular may strive toward the expression at beauty in an idiom unique to our age not for the sake of beingdifferent only but that our generation may advance thecause of fine outlook iindupersonal idiom on all his work His liturgical Do Good Friday evening April 15 the PassionAccording to St Luke by Johann Sebas tian Bach will be performed in St Andrews Church Barrie by the cbo under the direction of organia and cholrmaster Raymond Dane iels The Evangelists St Luke narrative will be sung by Wil Ilarn Thompson tenor soloist at Glenview Presbtyterian Church Toronto Also assisting in the program will beBrucc Owen wellknown for his work in Bar rie and Orlllia bnritonc Paul Lazier recent soloist at St Andrews in this work which follows the pattern of the lath century German form the story of the Passion is narrated word for word as contained inure 22nd and 23rd chapters of St Lukes Gospel The Evangelists part Is as signed to tenor voice and the words of the Lord to bass Pilates words are also sung by bass and the parts of the malefactors by tenor and bass respectively The words of the priests and people are in the form of effective ehonises practical application of the would You Pay What Goes on MightCome Down suggests the French Williams will receive more than WINS swims The 1960 gtRyeison Fiction AWardhas beenwon by Mrs Granger Bennclt for Red Waistcoat magazineRealites ioa current article on market trends in painting Modern painting is certainly commanding high price Bern ard Buffet can ask $6000 each for his works which were un known few years ago And such relative oid masters as Cezanne and Picasso claim phenomenal prices In 1952 still ï¬r with apples by Cezannejwss bought for $67 347 In 195 another still life by Gauguin wasrsoldrto the Greek shipbuildcr Goulandris for $212 It was generally believed at thetime says Realites that the cé had bgengeached infant prices woifld Eudta drop following such eccentric ities But in 1958 at the sale of the Goldsmith collection in London Cezannes Boy In was sold for cant last forever Ask some Since presentday spec ulation has transformed the her ndvel Short of the Glory it was announced last night bl awar carricswith ammo in addition to 1th customary Mrs Scone ho re vcd her early education in Coiling wood hasvhad previous books published Land For royalties earned by the book Dickinson general euucA mt SERVICE ens art and so enrich the mind of lman Will Perfor Passion Here Presbyterian nizucc OWEN llessons of the Passion is made by the traditional German chor St Luke friend and cowork er ofst Paul was also tha au thor of the Book of Acts to chapter 22 of his gospel is the story of the institution of the Lords Supper Christians missions For tin Impressionist Painting painting market into averitablo stockniarket where prices have been artificially swollen by abusive bidding why should it threatens all stock markets However rising living stand ards arecreating an increas ineg large artbuying public and the magazine contends that an overall drop in1prices oil While the destiny ofsome pain ters may waneï¬luturc masters will be there to take up the slackso it appears there are many bright days still ahead for modern painting iMPERiAF OWSHOWING work is worthy and the listis escape the kind of crash which familiar to all modern paintings is improbable