Oshawa Times (1958-), 22 Sep 1962, p. 10

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Yankees, his first novel. The Sale was small but, the critical K Of C Honors He THE OSHAWA se Seturdey, September, nies : 'Raddall Believes He Is Only reception 'ontusion | ae ae i ; ote Sg maumsrmvccts. Member On Novelist Writing On Canadazin ye ath Anniv. . Raddall remembers ape f 'orical fiction books behind him, i By DAVE PIKE -- French Canada they support)Mont Blanc exploded, killing Bay on Nova Scotias Southjhe wanted to get. out of the) The Supreme Council, Knights LIVERPOOL, N.S. CP) --|their writers better, There ajmore than 1,600 and flattening) shore. He has lived in the area/costume novel groove. He sug-|0f Columbus has named Brother 'lThomas Raddall believes that|800d sale would be 15,000 to 20.-|the north end of Halifax, Rad-/ever since. gested a novel about wireiess| Matthew Johnson of the council 'lwith the death last year of/000. In English-speaking Can-j/dall suffered only a slight cut SOLD FIRST STORY opeators on Sable Island to his/ 28 Honorary Member. The title Mazo de la Roche he became/@da a sale like that would be and concussion. He had been at-)°"" 'publisher but Doubleday wasn't|{S8 given only to a Brother who the only Canadian novelist earn-|nothing short of phenomenal. |tending a school in the city's) "It was so remote there that/ interested. jhas reached 65 years of age ing his entire living by writing) "The typical Canadian book|north end which was turned into} was told I'd better get a rifle /and has served in good standing : "So I financed myself'? and! . tf about Canada and Canadians. |Shop is.the paperback stand in|an emergency morgue. and rod or go mad. I finally jin 1950 The Nymph and the|for a, minimum of 25 years with Which seems to signify he|the drug. store, department qurr scace. came to like the woods better/Lamp came out. 'the Knights of Columbus. ' interview in his|Store book racks. I've been told|' i ; y_jthan the sea and have spent) «up, cies an ie pean og tag fie core town of|that there are only about ad agen 1S Jn the any why years. Soanting the MerSeY tance it hes had a ae 113,500, that a truly canadian|authentic book shops in the} ain ee anmaa He Wak told re ec unting. and fish-|cesstul book and has been pub: The special presentation of an "Honorary Member" pin was made by Grand Knight Frank Canzi at the meeting on Wed- . He added that Arthur Hailey and David Walker and perhaps one or two others come to mind literature is still a long way off. ie ak 'mainly for his|0 back to school instead, Bul historical novels, finds writing/>Y adding threé years to his\ Freeman, about "straight history easier|@8¢ he managed to talk his way|nearby Milton. In 1927 he married Edith a music teacher at lished in every country west of \the Iron Curtain. It's still sell- ing well in some places. Three more novels based on nesday, September 19, in- St. | John's parish hall. | Brother Johnson accepted the her have .|because you don't have to|into a pool of wireless operators) 'phe following year he sold his contemporary hist honor and expressed his delight oh Gy cas pol ge worry about making a plot. |SOrvine the navy and merchant|rirs) story to Maclean's maga-|including The Wings oe Nigut ag] with this distinction, = tend their writing beyond the|, 'If you introduce history into - zine. : /1956, the story of a former sol-| Brother Dave McGinnis, Cath- Canadian scene. fiction, however, you owe some: During the next three years) "I wanted to write about the/dier and a friend who try to/0lic Activity Chairman, announc- | Every word Raddall has writ-|thing for the liberty you are|he became 'one of the best/Nova Scotia scene but Maclpry the grip of one man, fromled that on Sunday, September _cowwm lten -- except for The Path of|taking--a good careful regard|brass-pounders in the business.|leans didn't want that, I got'the Nova Scotia timberland. |30, there-will be a Father and ~ |Destiny: Canada from the Brit-|for the facts. The historical|At loose ends when the war hold of a copy of Blackwoods| joy, April and May the CBC| S97 Communion Breakfast, to lish. Conquest 0 home-- rule,|novel should be just as care-/ended, he decided to go into the|magazine published in England television network will present/¢ held in St. John's Parish |1763-1850--has been set exclus-|fully researched. merchant marine a5 a wirelessiang they: accepted a StOry fe-lg series of elghit spate Hall ively in Nova Scotia. + |BORN IN ENGLAND pend joined the Marconijjected by Macleans. They|episodes based on the book,|. Social Activity Chairman, Pat penn RaRiERS OTR A Canadian writing only about} Raddall has assembled a VOmpany and was 'eventually asked to see more. That started| with outdoor sequences shot in| L¥nch, announced that there will THIS YEAR'S CHRYSLER his own province would seem to|"'pretty good library in his or sg to ee Island, 100/my career, : Nova Scotia. be a Supper and Dance on Oc- ibe courting economic hardship |home containing ae <i pg ' 4a nigh gover to on Practically all: of Raddall's tober 20. f i i will be building the entire | "I must admit I haven't made|books, documents and _ notes. fe time Sable was the vote all his time to writing. He/novels and stories have been| After the meeting a movie Coles St Casale' presicrs eigeat orn caieceneate Ths | Chrysler line tot the first ja lot of money, he said. "'But)When he requires further in-|second busiest wireless station = encouragement {ro mldramatized for radio and TV by|was shown and_ refreshments a dynamic and distinguished | principal components of the | time, with the introduction of |I have' managed to make a liv- formation he visits the Novajon the Atlantic coast. ey John suchan pe became inter-|the CBC. The CBCs first at-|were served by Brother Lynch new trend in styling in the | engine to rear axle power- |. the high-line New Yorker to jing and educate my children./Scotia Archives in Halifax "The flattery of that didn't|ested in a be ek stories and,/tempt at a TV series was basedjand his committee. luxury car field. Matching | tra'n on all 1963 Chrylser prod- | its production schedule. The |Nearly all my books have been He travelled to New Hamp-jhelp being stuck on a lonely in 9 while as Lord Tweeds-| on Raddalls 1953 book MOG Chrysletr's 1963 advance- | ucts are now backed by a 5- | other series retain the identifi- adopted by book clubs. Without shire to do research for his)sand bar for a year, I passed aha: Pde a bla of Can-|Sudden, a historical novel about;/Lorne Pierce Medal by the ments in styling, pody design | year, 50,000 mile warranty. | cation of Windsor and Sara- that I couldn't have lived en- latest | book, the Governors/my 18th year there and was/|@da, " ed sige an ir roduc-| Halifax and the French fortress|Royal Society of Canaga for and chassis engineering is the | This year Chrysler of Canada toga. tirely by my writing. | Lady, published in 1960. able to do some thinking, I/tion to Raddalls first collection. | o¢ Louisbourg. joutstanding contribution to Ca- ' cages earl pau ~~ |SWEAT IS NEEDED Raddall, onetime wireless op-|realized I had missed a lot of| "I soon began to realize that} However,-he says, radio and nadian literature. ' Raddall, who has been a full-jerator on bleak Sable Island be-| education." the story of the American Rev-jand television have not been| "At present I'm trying: to : hd time writer since 1938, says:|fore becoming Canada's most) He took an accounting course|olution as it affected Novalparticularly lucrative as sour-|make tip my mind what.to do , "If we are ever going to have|"'Canadian" author, has wovenjin Halifax and finally found a/Scotia had never been told. |ces of income. next," he says. "I've picked up : a Tl ers n '@ | a distinctive Canadian liter-/his writing so deeply into the|job--they were scarce then -- Theodore Roosevelt Jr.) Raddall received the gover-|material for two true tales, one ature we're going to have tofibre of past and present Novajat "a little antiquated pulp Thomas Costain and other spur-|nor-generals award for Cana-|dealing with court cases in ' ° have a number of writers wh«|Scotia history that it sometimes mill" on the Mersey Riverjred him on and, in 1942, Double-|dian literature in 1943 and 1949.| Nova Scotia and the other about ; bd ® a |stay home and write about our|is difficult to recall that he was which empties into Liverpool'day published His Majesiys\In 1956 he: was awarded (he!true sea stories." : TS ] aws cities, our provinces, our coun-|born in England, pee ce ETN cece 1 try. I've been hammering away| He arrived in Halifaed 1913 at that for years. as a young boy. iis fat gets " ' ; .; "And to write good books that|had transferred 'rom the Brit- ar the Suess: peothe: and the tan be aeecisd Dioctacs bo earn money, they have gotjish to the Canadi Ai heaig A rf ir fi is i j improvisation is|to learn that they must put a|shipped overseas with the Ist ' old --e agetieag roo Wha pede ee ana Pe ee Me. 7. ay is ap-|lot of sweat into their work. |Canadian Division. He saw a Soll mast aterpts every play|Could be politically undesirable | proved. |, He says the Canadian reader/father, who died in the final} : tai ° are vetted by the prime minis-| Theatre managers often favor|""comes way down the list in/phase o f the war, only once produced A en ve ights and| ter?" 7 lthe Lord Chamberlain's role as|civilizations as far as his book|again--in 1915 during a month s Pe dee 8 iil vient The playwrights' major com-|a protection. Police are unlikely buying goes. ; | convalescence for wounds suf-) 1aie than ual fit their attacks|Plaint is the lack of appeal from|to prosecute -a play passed by| "But they do read a lot, with/fered in the Battle of Ypres. on the unique censorship the Lord Chamberlain's deci-! him. paperbacks and libraries. In! Only 14 in 1917 when the method following t that the present Lord Chamber- lain will be replaced in Janu- * ary. They fear the new official » will prove even more obdurate * in banning plays. " "The office of the Lord Cham- : Q oe 4 © berlain may be eccentric, illogi- : , : . 'cal and as English as warm ' j . » beer and tapioca pudding," * Playwright John Mortimer said. ; "It is also irresponsible, child- + ish and an insult to authors working seriously in the theatre. 5 Neither he nor his readers need { have any qualification, literary ! or otherwise, for the work they * do." ; The present Lord Chamber- » lain, the Earl of Scarborough, ' 66, banned outright Tennessee > Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof » and Arthur Miller's A View * from the Bridge. Late in his <eareer he slightly raised his * ban on homosexual themes but j only in plays he considered « "sincere and serious." § LIKES EVERYTHING » ._ Lord Cobbold, the new Lord 4 Chamberlain, terms his taste in ' theatre "'catholic." "TI like everything," said the | 57-year-old former governor of » the Bank of England and a di- rector of the Hudson's Bay Company. But the question is: Will he allow everything on the | Stage? The Lord Chamberlain's office has become accustomed to pro- .tests from authors and direc. =tors. Bernard Shaw was one of * the best-known playwrights to , rub the blue - pencillers the * wrong way. When forced to sub- * mit his Mrs. Warren's Profes- sion for censorship in- 1899, the outraged author wrote: ; "I must submit in order to obtain from him an insolent and , insufferable document, which I cannot read without boiling of » the blood, certifying that in his opinion--his opinion--my play !'does not in its general tendenc contain anything immoral or otherwise improper for the stage,' and that the Lord Cham. Werlain therefore 'allows' its . performance (confound his im- . * pudence! )."" | ' Shaw's play was banned until 1929. By ALAN WALKER t 1 LONDON (CP)--A 250-year-|Archbishop of Canterbury view ou remem THE CHURCH FOR ALL... ALL FOR THE CHURCH 'The Church is the greatest factor on earth for the building of character and good citizenship. It is a storehouse of spiritual values. 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