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OTTAWA CP Christo pher Plummer who plays Sir John Macdonald in CBC TVs blockbuster production Riel feels one of his Scottish ancestors has been slighted in dramatic potrayals of Canadian history Plummers great grand father was Sir John Ab bott Conservative prime minister after Macdonald and Macdonalds chief legal adviser who probably in spired him with the vision of transcontinental railway for Canada The Canadianborn actor now living in the United States and dividing his talents between Hollywood Broadway and London returned to Ottawa Tuesday for preview screening of Riel at Government House The twopart saga of the Metis rebel is to be broadcast on the English and French networks of CBCTV Sunday and Tuesday The preview amounting to command performance by GovGen Edward Schreyer was for an invited audience including the principal actors at Rideau Hall MADE DEBUT IN OTTAWA Plummer who made his professional stage debut here in the late 19405 in the old Canadian Repertory Theatre when he was in his teens said Abbott played no impor tant role in the Riel story but did in the history of Canadian nationbuilding by railway He regrets that Abbott did not figure larger in Pierre Bertons The National Dream which was made into documentary drama series few years ago Perhaps Berton didnt think his story was dramatic enough but it certainly was important Plummer said Tuesday in an interview Jewish humor painful TORONTO CPI The es sence of Jewish humor is pain Jewish lecturer says But Allan Gould humorist and an employee of CB radio says Jews dont have monopo ly on that kind of humor It is found in any minority group that thinks it has been persecuted unjustly Gould says the Jews found humor even in concentration camps Two Jews are talking in Auschwitz One says he knows MC FOIBT HAM IAIID STUFFED TROUT EASTER DIHHSID Horseshoe Valley Resort SUNDAY APIII 15th tlI pm Menu Includes Your Choice of Appetlurs Served with Melee run reinh sauce fled with oer own special seafood nefth 4031 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willdie Jewish holiday the prisoner says But what day Eichmann asks It doesnt make any lifA terence the Jew says Whatever day it is will be Jewish holiday Gould says jokes help people cope with despair 600 750 At Holiday Inn we handle more social and business functions than anyone else in Canada Theres got to be should find out what Call us soon confused one in his mind Plummer said It was the way Canadian history was taught guess dull and unimaginatively But from what research was able to do preparing for this role would say this script is fairly accurate The TV film took two years to make with 60 leading ac tors and more than 1000 ex tras appearing BANGOR Me AP Ilis books are published in several languages but Janwillcm van de Wetering former Dutch policeman who writes mystereis about Dutch policemen says Americans are his biggest fans He has returned the compli ment by moving to the UnitedStatestolivc really like America better than any other country Ive ever IIVed in says the 48 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