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it During the Cannes Film Festival awards ceremony French actress Catherine Deneuve presents the two Gold Palm winners American Rebroft returns for third concert The famous Ivan Itebroff will return to Barrie for his third concert here in years on June He is being brought to Barrie by the Gryphon Theatre Foun dation and will perform at Georgian tollegc at 830 pm Berlin 1931 was the setting for the birth of Ivan Itebroff to Itussian parents who had fled to Germany at the time of the Revolution His mother non professional singer passed her love of the beautiful folk songs of Russia on to the little Ivan and then encouraged him in violin studies The instrument was presently dropped in favor of voice training at the Ham burg Music School The little boy grew into 66 giant with voice to match VA rich sen sual bass that spans more than four octaves The voice would be enough to amaze and delight listeners but Itebroff adds much to it by his constant at tention to technique and emotive interpretation As fledgling singer Ivan Itebroff was exposed to many musical influences and during his seasons started in 1954 as soloist with the Blzfck Sea tossack borus he was able to further develop his keen in terest in the colorful song literature of Old Russia After Ivan Rebroff had com pleted his formal education he joined small German opera company which led to the posi tion of First Basso with the distinguished Frankfurt Opera ompany in 1962 After winning numerous competitions Rebroff gradually emerged in the cosmopolitan c0nsc10usness when he was sought by televi sion radio and concert agents for engagements throughout Germany and major European capitals The release of his first record in ltitH gave further spin to the Rebrofl spiral This was the year too that he wrote Russian Lyrics to llaras Across Canada starts June Across anada series of half hour documentaries from ltt regional production cenv tres starts 1tiweek series on lfl Friday lune at to Each of the documentaries has previously been telecast onr ly regionally Across Canada will be their first airing on the full tHtl Network The first in the series on Friday June is ll Van couver production Women and Alcohol The documentary points out that the number of female alcoholics has increased rapidly over the past ten years Women and Alcohol says that 1974 study at British olunihia high school students found little difference III the level of alcohol consumption between male and teinale major portion of the documentary is deoted to an interview Ith an attractive blond haired 37 year old woman who is an alcoholic and who is trying to tight her way out ot skid row She describes the tears of the people ho ll on sknl Io why the find ll easier todrink than to work Theme for the movie success Doctor Zhivago By 1968 Rebroffs international career was well established with con certs star appearances on French television networks ac ting stints and recording ses sions Ivan Rebroff first toured Canada in 1972 The audiences loved him Besides Russian this talented performer speaks English German French and Greek capturing crowds with his multilingual charm In house hidden in the forests near Frankfurt Ger many Ivan Rebroff bachelor at 43 years old treasures his leisure hours and spreads them to cover reading cooking for friends studying music and taking care of menagerie of household and wildlife pets Tickets for the Rebroff con cert are $950 and $750 and are available at the Foundation of fice 103 Dunlop St or call 7284613 USED BOOKS We Buy Sell and Trade New and Used Books ADAM BOOKS Inc 74 Dunlop St x1 2nw BI LE TOUR NEW YORK CITY July Isl Weekend VIAEAEA BRIS T0 TRA VEL 73 740 director Francis Coppola left for Apocalypse now and German director Volker Schlondorff for his film The Tin Drum AP Photo OF THE RECOMMENDED AS ADULT INTIITAINMIKT PLUS THIS GREAT MOVIE At the DriveIn Only SPECIA LIMITED ENGAGEMENT FUNNIEST MOVIE EVER MADE NEW YORK NEA posite pole from Pomerances drama Elephant Man one of the ugliest earth misshapen John death four years later audience by Treves Merrick For the Finest in Movie Entertainment THE MlRISCH CORPORATION PRESENTS PETE PETE SELLE 8ELLE THE TIE IARRIE DRIVEIII John Keats Beauty is truth truth beauty this is all ye know on earth and all ye need to know would seem to be at the op Bernard The which chronicles the brief adult life of human creatives who ever limped on Yet the play indeed testifies to the poem in that the horribly Merrick possessed an uncommon gift for truth And if was that which lent bright validity to his tor tured life as it does to this luminous new play about him In 1886 Merrick was rescued from grim existence as sideshow freak by Frederick Treves surgeon who cared for him in the London Ilospital Whitechapel until Merricks Merrick is introduced to the medical lecre illustrated by lantern slide projections of the actual man So the viewer knows pretty much what to ex pect Nevertheless it is two edged surprise to encounter Philip Anglim in the role of 150N113 an DRIVEll scum IMPERIAL st TIo mo RECOMMENDED AS ADULT ENTERTAINMENT SAMUEL ZARKOFFma Louis Nikon Riesent ROBERT SCHAFFEL mm stiiYsmE JOEY TRAVOLTArJOHN ANSING STACEY PlCKRENsANDREW RUBIN TALIA BALSAM MICHAEL TUCCt Play chronicles life of freak HEALTHY MAN First he obviously is healthy and wellproportioned young man wearing no grotes que mask or marvelously hdeious markup Second his posture vividly suggests just the malformed monster youve already seen in the pictures His right arm hands low with the hand like an irregular knob Hips are out of line legs twisted face distorted The actors squawking use of his voice is acceptable as that of the real Merrick whose mouth was half insideout so that he talked strangely and drooled constantly Under Treves benevolent care Merricks bright in quisitive mind and shrewd in sights are revealed He becomes kind of pet of London high society Each visitor sees him as mirror reflecting some laudable quality they think of themselves as possess ing But it is with two in particular Treves and the ac tress Mrs Kendal that Mer ricks unerring instinct for truth is most movineg reveal ed He sees society his new friends himself for what they are not bitterly through be well could be bitter but with kind of sad acceptance YOU COULD WIN Details in the Mall gebzgai Cyuan Hwy 27North the examiner Saturday May 26 979 SPIRITUAL BEAUTY Nothing in the play is more delicately touching then the scene in which he tells Mrs Kendal that he has never seen womans body and she hesitantly undresses to the waist for him to look in awe It is one of several encounters in which kindness and affection elicit spiritual beauty from an enormously ugly man Presented earlier this season offBroadway The Elphant Man comes to Broadway QENEVA Akmfylng Love Story ORilliA THEATRES Rare gift sprngs from ugliness the Booth theatre with cast able to realize every nuance of its statement It takes masterful acting for handsome man to suggest monster and this is ac complished by Philip Anglim as Merrick Kevin Conway as Treves articulates the conflicts which the surgeon must resolve in his own soul as he attempts to decide what is right for kind of patient beyond this previous experience IbWEST ST 326633l Into Can Therest is history AWild West Fantas JOEY tRAvdLrA ADDED FEATURE At the DriveIn Only YOU FORGOT WHA SHIELDS IAIIIE DRIVEIII scum IMPERIAL Thu 100 90 75330 WAS LIKE ITS BACK The terrifying motion picture from the terrifying No1 best seller M01 out ROY IKOMMIIIMD ADULT lmlullfllfl Aria She was the first wwwMma WARNING May in in km to manual utiliizii its WT hll smiw memo Innmuss JAWS