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2thsigxaniner Wednesday August 15 1979 in ii unn March EsraMme Billy Bishop goes to war By STEPHEN GAUER Of The Examiner Air Marshal William Bishop was that rare breed of man seldom found in todays comfortable stable times true hero At an age 24 when most young people are intent on completing degree impressing the boys or simply enjoy ing life Billy Bishop had already courted death on hundreds of aerial combat missions watched close friends fall from the sky in flames shot down 72 enemy aircraft and won the highest military honors Canada and England could offer So begin Rick Bulters liner notes on the just released soundtrack album of John Grays musical Billy Bishop Goes to War The play was easily the Canadian hit of the 197879 theatre season playing to capacity audiences and critical acclaim in Vancouver and Toronto The recording was done live at Theatre Passe Muraille in Toronto last In the title role Eric Petersons performance judging just from the album is brilliant He handles 17 roles sings 14 songs and even impersonates an airplane in oneman show of such impressive versatility that it comes as no sur prise to learn that American theatre superstar Mike Nichols is taking the show to Broadway in the fall our intention is not to glorify war and death but to celebrate the courage flair humor and humanity that mankind is capable of in the most difficult circumstances notes Butler producer of the play Grays script and songs do precisely what Butler describes treading the fine line between glorifying war and preaching an antiWar sermon Bishop was hero who beat the incredible odds facing pilots in the First World War the life expectancy of new pilots was just three weeks but Bishop combined expert markmanship consistent courage and large doses of good luck during his 18months in aerial combat TRAFES PROGRESS The play traces his progress from Owen Sound where he was born through the muddy illusionment of calvary of ficers life the first perilous solo flight as Royal Flying Corps recruit and the simultaneous awarding at Buck ingham Palace of the Victoria Cross the Distinguished Ser vice Order and the Military Cross Theres plenty of humor in the album Petersons ability to mimick accents and machines is flawless and kind of energetic bravado in the way Peterson addresses the au dience during his monologues At times he turns Bishop into standup comedian He makes distant war hero seem so real and so human that its easy to believe Peterson really is Billy Bishop The soundtrack album is available on Tapestry Records small Ottawa label The play itself comes to Peterborough Aug 21 to twoweek run at the Arbor Theatre Peter borough is the first stop on national tour that includes 0t tawa Halifax Montreal St Catherines Hamilton Waterloo Kingston Calgary and Edmonton Following the tour Bill Bishop Goes to War leaves Canada for run on Broadway sights and sounds Competes at CNE Sandi Lee Miss Barrie Fair 1978 competes today in the 1979 Miss CNE Queen of Fairs Pageant in Toronto Miss Lee is one of 95 contestants represen ting 95 fair boards across the province Miss Lee who works at the Queens Hotelwbeat out 13 other girls to win the Barrie ti tle last year Top prizes at the CNE competition in clude $1000 scholarship award and return trip to next years Calgary Stampede Miss CNE Queen of the Fairs will reign over the Barge band concert History will be made when 90piece AllStar Conc Band appears on the barge in Gull Lake Park in Gravenhurst on Sunday at pm Traditional marches fran tasies and overtures will be performed by members of three regimental bans of Toronto headed by Mel Isen of the GovernorGenerals Horse Guards James Kerr of the Royal Canadian Legion and Robert Gray of the 411 Squadron Air Reserve Band According to Lieut Ilsen this is the largest professional band ever assembled in Ontario for specific concert The twohour program will pay tribute to such legendary bands as led by John Philip Sousa Dr Edwin Goldman and Herbert Clarke In case of rain the concert will move to the Centennial Centre where the Pioneer Weekend theme starts Saturday with fiddle contest and square dance The concert is being presented by the Gravenhurst Civic Music Association in co operation with the Toronto Musicians Association and the Toronto Star Free park music The next concert in the Parks Are For People series of free park concerts is Thursday evening when Wayne Forget and Variety perform at Centennial Park at pm On Aug 21 at Sunnidale Park the Barrie Concert Band performs The Barrie Stage Band directed by Al Mote performs Aug 23 at Centennial Park followed by Inspiration on Aug 28 and jazz festival on Aug 30 The concerts are sponsored by the city recreation department with support from Young Canada Works grant All concerts are free and all start at am Toronto exhibition from Aug 15 to Sept with salary and expenses paid by the CNE wesr St 2517 3266542 entertainment Editor Stephen Gauer7266537 Producer Jim Brown and Heather Treacy discuss the Ms Copa Banana logo iused to promote the upcoming cabaret show by the Littles Hill Players Miss Treacy designed the logo and is also assistant manager for the show Theatre begins search for Ms Copa Banana The Littles Hill Players the Barriebased amateur theatre group have launched four week contest to find Ms Copa Banana the girl who most resembles the young miss on the logo of their new cabaret show Copa Banana is musical revue that will open to Barrie audiences in October The show will present song and dance numbers from the turn of the century to the present The Ms Copa Banana contest is the start of highpowered public relations campaign designed to promote the new Littles Hill show Its more than just promo tional gimmick however says Jim Brown producer of Copa Banana Its part of the whole new thrust of Littles Hill Our group is on the move with bigger more professional entertainment In addition to Copa Banana weve got cam paign underway for new members new talent brandnew image Any girl 19 years of age or over may enter the Ms Copa Banana contest Each entrant must be able to render short disco vocal or other musical number SUMBOLIZE Were not just looking for pair of pretty legs said Brown Ms Copa Banana will symbolize our cabaret and the CHAOS IN THE COSMOS mu DISNEY Production nldentifled lying ball Dennis DUGAN Jim DALE Riv MOODY 10hr LE MESURIER PJGTEV DEVES Show WHITE our slamc can it mum to inulinii ii KenneirMORE rtull non imuui AI Dlivl IIIU mu MI in girl chosen will have to have the personality the zest for life shes got to reflect the pro duction values of the show The final judging will be held in the Bayfield Mall on Sept 14 at pm All applicants must have registered by Sept For more information about the contest call Robert Newby at 72841169 or Jim Brown at 7266256 The winner of the M5 Copa Banana contest will receive an allexpense paid evening at the Copa Banana show on Oct 13 and $50 gift certificate from the Bayfield Mall Merchants Association Contestants still sought for Miss Barrie Fair Contestants are still needed for the Miss Barrie Fair Con test to be held Aug 21 in the curling club building Girls must be between the ages of 17 and 24 For more in formation call Jean McEachern at 7289229 Entry forms can be picked up at CKBB radio on Ferris Lane Drivers for the International Demolition Derby are needed for the event to be held Aug 23 at pm at the fair Entry forms and rules are available at Ron Smiths Texaco station on Essa Road The annual pet show will be held on Kids Day Aug 21 Classes for all types of pets and for all ages are welcome En tries for the pet show will be taken in front of the grandstand at noon on Aug 21 The Barrie Fair runs from Aug 21 to Aug 26 at the Barrie fairgrounds on Essa Road Dishes must be done NORTH HATLEY Que CP Mary Robinson and her kit chen staff must have the dinner dishes washed by curtain time so as not to disturb the audience at the Piggery Theatre in this town south of Sherbrooke Que IAI no um Iulro nrnunuoin Al Anuii IIIIIIAIIIIII think we say shhh in our sleep said theatre ad ministrator Claire Hopkinson of the dinner style meals to its patrons theatre which specializes in serving country MOSCOW AP Jane Fondas name is like curse to Hollywood bosses because of her politics says the Soviet youth newspaper but in Russian eyes shes symbol of American freedom fighters The name of Jane Fonda is today on all the blacklists of America journalist Krivchin wrote in Kom somolskaya Pravda The Pentagon CIA FBI all are vigilantly watching her She is like Joan of Arc and they are threatening her with the same fate The article gave the im Expose of nursing homes pression that Miss Fonda is unable to make movies and said she was deprived of an Oscar for her performance in They Shoot Horses Dont They which was shown on Soviet television in July Nothing was said about her current box office hit The China Syndrome or the Academy Awards she won for Klute and Coming Home Krivchin said she has found prominence among Indians blacks Puerto Ricans and Meitican Americans as result of her outspoken political views But it was her opposition to causes trouble for Lou Grant By PETER BOYER LOS ANGELES AP Lou Grant CBSs acclaimed news paper drama 14 Emmy nomi nations this year that prides it self on authenticity has stum ped into one of the reallife haz ards of the newspaper dodge the outrage and hassles that come with controversial story The story in question was an episode called Home broadcast last February in which the ace reporters of the fictional Los Angeles Tribune reported on nursing homes The general point of the show was that home home was the best place for an oldster to be not nursing home At one point reporter Joe Rossi Robert Walden asks Gray Panther Cant there be such thing as good nursing home Gray Panther Even the best of them is just place to wait and die The American Health Care Association the countrys larg est federation of nursing home operators didnt like dialogue like that An intensive effort was made by the AHCA to keep the show from being repeated this summer SHOW WILL GO ON Sponsors were pressured the FAMOUS OLAVIRS murals Dont Miss The Fun Rilli THEATRES network was pressured CBS af filiates were pressured the pro duction company was pres sured The result Home will air again Aug 27 minus four of the advertisers that spon sored the show in its first go CBS stuck by the show with James Rosenfield president of the network explaining in telegram to affiliates We resent the pressure being brought to bear by the AHCA on the network the pro ducers the advertisers and now you affiliates to prevent the rebroadcast of dramatic epi sode however controversial Lou Grant is fictional series that does not purport to present journalistic treatment of any issue although the AHCA is clearly treating the program as if it did We do not intend to deny Home repeated broadcast in response to this elaborately mounted special interest cam paign We hope you will support our position in this important matter Apparently most affiliates will The network reports that none of its stations have bent under the pressure to the extent of refusing to air the repeat but at least one station FFDA in Amarillo Tex will air 30 second disclaimer reminding the speed of sound rde evade attack HELD OVEI llll IIKIIAI rl unit inntin scum NORTH DALLAS FORTY IS FRESH FUNNY AND POWERFUL PACKS SUBSTANTIAL EMOTIONAL WALLOP The story lives through its diameters The hero is super embodied by Nick Italic Mac Davis NORTH DALLAS roan in mm MASTERPIECE BONECRUSHER 0111 Game COSMOPOLITAN NORTH DALLAS FORTY HAS NO DULL MOMENTS ITS ROUSER nsien NEW VORA POST STRONG AND PLAINSPOKEN OF MDVIEI GRITTY BITINGLY HONEST MOVIE THAT SCORES EXTRA POINTS FOR ITS GUTSY DETERMINATION TO TELL IT LIKE IT IS MOVIE WITH POWERFUL KICK Kittvv Ntiu VORK DAILV NEVIS limes himsett natural mmnis first outing downfield tadile leaves Its mark Dawd AnsensNEWSWEEK migmmnr 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group would not have objected had Home dealt with just individual nursing home abuses but the thrust of the show is that there is no place in America for nursing homes There are lines in the show that blast nursing homes as an in dustry not on an individual basis He said that several AHCA members reported can cellations from people who had planned to put members of their families into nursing homes which the AHCA blames on Home The pressure exerted by AHCA was enough to cause four sponsors Oscar Mayer and Co General Foods Prudential Insurance and Kelloggs to ask that their advertisements not be used on the Home repeat CBS wouldnt comment on the action by the sponsors but the network cant be too con cerned Fonda praised as freedom fighter US involvement in the Viet nam war that caused her the most trouble Jane Fonda was forced to hide out in Paris from the persecution of and from the attacks and harassment wanted to unbalanced movie star it said The Soviet press has been paying tention 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