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12 tlyogegamlnar Friday Doc 1979 Started life in ice bucket TORONTO UP The gen eral director of the tanaihan Opera Company started life in an Iranian lee bticket Lotti Mansouris colorful life got off to slow start because on the day he was born his mothers doctor declared him dead and tried the ice treat ment in desperate effort to get his heart started It worked and Mansouri has been going strong ever since Along the way IOlll Man souri has had ati un conventional career devoid of most of the stereotypes formed by others in his field For example you might cs peet an opera director to delve in his spare time into the work of such authors as Proust Not Mansouri He prefers detective novels You might also expect man with an international reputation who is sought after around the world to spend free time travelling the world Not Mansouri He prefers to bicycle IIASAMBITION This bald heavysmoking scotchdrinking man with quick wit has one overriding ambition to bring opera to the masses even if they enter the world of opera wearing sneakers and blue jeans We must get away from the derogatory esoteric cori notations of the word opera and involve people in the art form rather than the social function Mansouri says Mansouris populist attitudes began early including time he spent doing comedy sketches with arol Burnett and singing beer commercials for television Ile has been known to write letters to such stars as lleltc Ilai sell persiuuilned wallpa per to Frankie Laines wife and work in grocery store so he could serve sncli luminaries as Marilyn Monroe Loretta Young and Zsa Zsa labor who bought SILil worth of froen fish each week for her cats Mansouri said when he saw his first opera at 21 he was so enchanted he chose music as his career decision that led his father to disinlicrit him be cause lotfi Mansouri was sup posed to be doctor Ive always felt my decision to drop out saved lot of patients he quipped OPENS lROllltTlth Mansoiiris connvuiy opened its production of Donizettis Elixir of Love at the OKeefe entre Wednesday It was quite transition that brought Mansouri the son of wealthy Iranian landowner lawyer who was married to peel and actress to the OKeefe His past has included or vitations to witness the first marriage of the thenshah of Iran In 1971 he began work as cultural adviser to the shah job that left him in charge of four orchestras ballet an op era and folk dance group In 1973 he had had enough Next Mansoiiri joined the anadian Opera Company decision that resulted in terse note from the Iranian govern ment telling him not to bother coming home feel any civilization can only be judged by its cultural output he says If Canada truly wants an identity it can only achieve it through its cul ture its books its plays its opera ballet and symphonies Hoffman at premiere Dustin Hoffman and supporting actor Justin Henry appear at the premiere of their Actor new movie Columbia Pictures Kramer vs Kramer in Los Angeles Wednesday The movie plot deals with divorce of the Kramers and what happens to their child AP Photo Publishing hit EDMONTON CPI High interest rates are dealing body blow to Canadas book publishing iridUslry The latest casualties are to staff members of Mctlelland and Stewart one of Canadas largest cornmerical publishers Among staff laid off were pub lishers representatives in the Maritimes Saskatoon and Mori treal fine toys boolu records art supplies stationery The Frog Prince Store for Children 205 Dunlop Street East Barrie Telephone 737200 ADAM BOOKS mc 74 DUNlOP ST Noun MomSol IOAS fridoy Ill9 Seven feet of protection Princess Caroline of Monaco and her husband Philipe Junot get promise of assistance from sevenfoot tall security guard Sal Turkis as they rush from Studio 54 in New York recently pursued by nearly 20 photograp hers The couples visit to the disco lasted only few minutes before they ran for cover AP Photo By JAMES NELSON The Canadian Press Every night at the Booth Theatre in New Yorks Shubert Alley strange bit of fancy footwork takes place during the curtain calls The undoubted star of the show stands back and lets the two other leading players Donal Donnelly and Patricia Elliott stand forward for the applause Donnelly who played My Astonishing Self at the 1979 Shaw Festival and Miss Elliott who most recently played Artichoke in New York are veterans of the Broadway and London stage with many awards to their credit The man standing between them and always just step back is making his Broadway debut Jack Wetherall who few years ago had only spearcarrying parts in Shakespeare plays at the Stratford Festival native of Sault Ste Marie Ont he joined the Stratford Festival seven years ago when Jean Gascon was artistic director When Robin Phillips took over Wetherall was natural recruit for the group of actors young in spirit if not all young in age whom Phillips welded into first rateactingcompany PLAYED ORLANDO Wetheralls story is typical He played an en dearing Ferdinand in The Tempest and Orlando in As You Like It with the renowned Maggie Smith Last season he created the role of Ned Sheldon play wright crippled with creeping and incurable arthritis with Alan Scarfe as the flamboyant John Barfllflflfft Shld9li Former spearcarrier Rosens Ned and Jack This season be interrupted his threeyear contract with Stratford to try his wings on Broadway His appearance at he Booth seems to be highly successful judging from recent midweek formance Audience reaction in the form of applause has many overtones for those who listen carefully It can be only passing polite 0r generous applauding good try It an be warm saluting old friends on stage Or it can have special intensity recognizing an outstanding job by an unknown actor TELLS OF ORDEAL It was that kind of ap plause that greeted Wetherall at the end of Bernard Pomerances The Elephant Man play about Winter is always warm and friendly at the luxurious Toronto Harbour Castle Hilton But especially from now until March Sist 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Subject to restricted availability call your Travel Agent any Hilton hotel 0i Hilton Reservation Service per enertainment National gallery plans to mark 99th Christmas with gusto By JAMES NELSON The anatlian Press Despite its cramped quarters and the fact that some of its ar tworks are deteriorating be cause of inadet uate facilities the National la lery of Canada plans to mark its 9th tihrist mas with gusto 4loyearoltl Holy Family paint mg by Paolo Veronese has een taken out of storage and hung in the main entrance lobby and nearby conternpo rary sculpture in fluorescent light by llan Flavin will spill rainbow colors into downdown Albert Street Upstairs nos talgic look at art for Victorian children marks Christmas and the end of the International Year of tluThild The gallery will have its cen tennial in limo without word vet Acadian culture recognized OTTAWA CPI Antonino Maillet first Canadian winner of Frances most important lit erary award the Prix ion court said Wednesday that Acadian culture in the Maritime provinces has won recognition after 300 years Her novel Pelagie Ia Char rette Pelagic and the Cart won the prize for 1979 virtually guaranteeing it bestseller status in the world of French literature She was guest of honor at reception given by Secretary of State David MacDonald who presented her with an Eskimo soapstone sculpture as me mento worth far more than the traditional 50 francs now valued at SMI that goes with the Goncourt The prize usually is awarded by jury to one of select few of venerable authors in France Miss Maillet 49 university lecturer is the author of nu merous stories based on the French settlers of the Mari times in the 160th and espe cially about their expulsion after France ceded Acadia to Britain in 1713 Pelagic la Charrette tells of woman driven by British troops from New Brunswick in 1775 She goes with others to Loui siana but then buys cart and spends 10 years making her way back home with her friends Miss Maillets bestknown work translated into English is La Sagouine series of mono Iogues by an old Acadian woman which has recently been popular in English and French theatres in Canada as stage production Miss Maillet native of Bouctouche NB in the heart of Acadian country studied at Moncton Montreal and Quebec and at the age of 13 refused to write in English which then was the only ac cepted language in New Brunswick schools ENROI NOW Horseshoe Volley Christmas Slti School Racing Camp ages up 835201 liltlfMil 700 pm900 pm 51 rsali29r9uggmuertck recommended as ADUIT INTERTAINMINT that the government will pro ceed with construction of new building Director llsioYen Shih said in her report to PM liamenl earlier this year that inadequate gallery space is causing damage to the collec tiori particularly the anailian artworks because they art more often moved in and out of storage warehouses away from the gallery proper lltTIRESCHOSEN The Ottawa gallery is highly regarded in the art world siil ficieritly so that 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