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» Lets Go Europe most comprehensive for the back packing crowd by Shirley Whittington There are lots of travel books around for the casual tourist, but Let's Go Europe is the most comprehensive one I've seen which is directed to H DRAY @OFAR thariag = Donation the back packing crowd. Each summer Harvard students travel through Europe, and their reports on bargains, places to see and out of the way hostels and hotels are published in an annually up-dated guide. Let's Go Europe for 1978-79 includes in- formation on Israel, Turkey, North Africa and the USSR. For $5.95, it's a lot of book. The advice within its orange covers is practical and down to earth. In London, young travellers are advised against Simpson's-in-the- Strand. "You'll have to wear a tie and jacket and it's not worth it - the food is ex- pensive and the service is rude, particularly to young people.'"' Various uses are suggested for the bidets of Paris: "use them for chilling wine, soaking tired feet, washing un- derwear and socks and so on." If you are really broke in Paris, LGE suggests you "try wan- dering around the markets a few minutes before closing time...a few minutes later, after the vendors go home, the gutters will be filled with over-ripe, but often only half bad, vegetables and fruit." Young travellers in Russia are reminded that foreigners are required to Book review stay within a 25 kilometer limit of major Soviet cities unless they are members of an escorted group. "Foreigners have been deported for this violation, so stay within the limit, or make yourself very in- conspicuous if you ven- ture further."' In case of problems in Russia, "always speak English - it usually gets you off the hook." Does Iceland beckon? LGE warns that in order to enjoy Iceland you need "either bags of money or the heart to make yourself at home camping in the cold and windswept moors." Nightlife is not one of Reykjavik's big attractions, and most Icelanders are "Saturday night professionals" according to the Harvard investigators. 'Drinking until you are dead sen- LAST TWO DAYS Joyce Hamelin and Inga Cornish, members of the Quot.a Club of Huronia, an international ladies service club, present Gord Walker, chairman of the arena fund raising committee with $100 toward the new arena. The Quota Club has been actively helping the arena fund raising committee and ran the telethon held last. year at this time. Staff photo Gable biography is well balanced by Terry Dupuis Clark Gable has been dead for almost 18 years now, yet to many he is still thought of as having been the quintessential movie star of Hollywood's Golden years. In a career which spanned exactly 30 years and 66 films, he became known as '"'the King of Hollywood". Yet for a," star' sof shis reputation, he made a surprising number_ of poor films. Only about four of his 66 movies can genuinely be regarded as classics today, and they were all made during his first decade in motion pictures (Mutiny On The Bounty, It Happened One Night, San Francisco, and of course Gone With The Wind.) Gable has been the subject of at least a dozen books but the latest Gable biography Long Live The King, by Lyn Tornabene is the best one yet and likely to remain the definitive book about Gable for years to come. It was published two years ago as a hardcover and it has just recently become available in paperback. Tornabene's book is the result of almost three years of exhaustive research. She in- terviewed more than a hundred people who knew and worked with Gable. She also dug deep into the files of MGM, the studio under which Gable was contracted for most of his career. The achievement of Ms. Tornabene's volume is that by her research she was able to cut through Movie review SHIRLEY MacLAINE King St. Midland Nitely 7&9 526-579! all the legends, press releases and _ studio fabrications which surrounded Gable for so many years that they had become accepted as gospel. For instance the official studio biography of Clark Gable. claimed that he was born William Gable to parents of Dutch-Irish ancestry. However, the truth is that both his mother and his father were of pure German immigrant stock. The MGM publicity department manufact- ured the Dutch-Irish ancestry. In fact, the thesis of Long Live The King is that Clark Gable was indeed manufactured by the studio and that young Billy Gable the young oil- field labourer who was to strike it big in Hollywood was indeed at first nothing like the Clark Gable image which was presented on the screen. But, Ms. Tor- nabene feels that the real- life Gable gradually took on the characteristics of the screen-image Gable, and eventually developed into that screen person. For example, in . the thirties the MGM publicity department issued statements that Clark Gable was an avid outdoorsman, to fit in with the he-man image he presented on screen. Now Gable had never been fishing or hunting in his life, but he began to do so V7 gas BS OWwER RATES FOR "78" _ WEE Is out BOATS ARE "IN" Set Your Course... Straight for Safety See BOB CASCAGNETTE or Lynda Zuidema at R.J. CASCAGNETTE INSURANCE un. LIFE -- GENERAL INSURANCE WITH INTEGRITY ¢ the entire Gable for publicity promotion reasons. He found to his surprise that he really did love the outdoors, and he became an avid hunter and fisherman in reality. Ms. Tornabene covers his early years as a rising star, his years as a superstar, and his mature years when he was regarded with awe within the industry. Long Live The King covers Gable's five marriages--his first to two older women who advanced his career, his marriage to Carole Lombard which ended tragically, and two final marriages. Long Live The King is a well-balanced biography. It does not portray Clark Gable as the plaster saint which some earlier biographies __ portrayed. But neither does he emerge in its pages as a heel. Tornabene portrays a very real human being who had both faults and virtues. Long Live The King is one of the most readable biographies ever written on a'major Hollywood star. story-- STA RTS OO am : "What we have here is a total lack of respect forthe law!" ' WARNING y - ome ~ language may be offensive Theatres a anch, Ont Bay Burt Reynolds {7 "Smokey .0n- Bandit" Sally Field Jerry Reed... Jackie Gleason 2nd Feature ADULT ENTERTAINMENT REMAKE Gates OF BRAI GESTR "ec-=| open7:30 MIDLAND DRIVE-IN THEATRE EVERGREEN SIDE RD. 526-2411 seless is perfectly ac- ceptable." Travel in Poland is complicated, confusing and slow. The Polish character according to LGE is an inter-weaving of Marxism and Catholicism plus fierce loyalty to the idea of a sovereign and free state, and aé_e mistrust of strangers. Let's Go Europe in- cludes a 29 page in- troduction called Plan- ning European Travel commodations and food than a man. "Two women travelling together are absolutely fine anywhere (except in Muslim countries, where they are simply doubling the trouble) and it is always cheaper, less hassle, to travel with a guy." Women are further advised not to carry anything valuable in a shoulder bag, "Carry money and valuables around your neck, in or in a money pouch or belt at your waist." Since the book is aimed at students on a shoe string, a lot of the advice is directed pinching. "The key to an inex- pensive trip is to adopt the life style of a per- manent resident whenever possible."' How much should it cost? LGE_ suggests between $8 and $15 a day, "adding a little extra for mistakes, especially if it's your first trip...the only way to enjoy Europe is to assume - no matter what the chances seem to be at to penny the moment - that you'll be returning." A nice thought returning. And if I do, Pll surely tuck Let's Go Europe in my,suitease. I'm not an impoverished student, but the advice within those orange covers would stand any traveller in good Let's Go published by Irwin $5.95. ---- ---- ea stead Europe Clarke, and Company Wanta REPRINT of a photo in our paper? Payable in advance Come into one of our offices and order yours today which fills back-packers in on attitudes and tips on hitchhiking, documents and formalities. Women travelling in Europe must count on spending about 25 per cent more on _ ac- COMING... "SUNFEST" 8738" June 10th Wasaga Beach PEN THEATRE Wed., Thur., Fri. May 3, 4,5 HERE COME THE TIGERS plus THE INCREDIBLE MELTING MAN Sat. 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Well-placed with ( couples celebrate humour, it is a charming yet Christmas Eves on hres ( thought-provoking study of successive years in eac their. joys and sorrows, other's homes. A _ highly dreams and disappointments on the way to womanhood, ' which will appeal to both women and men. _5 for the price of 4 Dear Friends: ( by Patrick Hamilton 31st July-5th Aug. A criminal maniac is at work and a tissue of suspicion sustains suspense between the suavely sinister Mr Manningham and his lovely wife. Wondrous in its dramatic dexterity, in its mounting momentum of intensity and off the top-shelf of those marvellous "made in-Britain"' melodramas! Thoroughly engrossing enter for your been carefully selected to give you a mixt of mystery, music and nostalgia. | sincerely hope you will enjoy them. Andremember! An empty theatre seat is a waste. Why not occupy one for our summer season! joy ONE SHOW FREE! it. This season's plays have ONE! MORE ! TIME! by Jack Northmore 14th Aug.-19th Aug. This is a delightfully facetious compendium by Jack Nor thmore of the great songs of the thirties and forties brought back for you by a talented foursome who will entertain you with music and humour. If you were not around in the thirties and forties, come and hear what Mom and Dad were singing and dancing to. 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