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NICHOLAS URBAN, Grade 12, works on his_ sculpture, "The Spartan'. A showing of his work will be featured in the Donevan Art Exhibition which opens this Friday. Nich- las is having trouble with the legs of the figure which keep . collapsing. ws THE OSHAWA TIMES, Tuesday, Mey 12, 1964 3 ART EXHIBITION KATHY FEDYK and Judy Dalton are shown designing a new Canadian flag. Their de- signs, which are to be sent to the Prime Minister, will be shown in the Donevan Art Ex- hibition, Friday. Both girls have bright ideas about a new flag but say: '"'We have not much hope of being taken seriously." BIRTH PLACE OF THE BEATLES Teens Dig Liverpool Cavern LIVERPOOL, England (CP)-- There's .a cavern in this town that has a nation of teen-agers beating a path to its door. "They come from all over the country," screame. Ray- mond MacFall above the ear- splitting crsecendo of three elec- tric guitars boosted over five loudspeakers. '"'Some of them treat the cellar as a shrine." MacFaH is the _ personable young manager of Liverpool's lucrative and legendary Cavern Club. As most every youngster with ears to hear and feet to twitch knows well, the Cavern is where the Beatles began. The brick-vaulted club, once a wine cellar, lies beneath a de- caying warehouse on one of the city's shabbier side streets. Sometimes, during brief lulls in the music, ship horns. can be heard biasting in the nearby docks on the River Mersey. The atmosphere is squalid, airless and authentic. Wooden benches line bare, sweating walls. There are a few strag- gling rows of chairs in front of a makeshift stage, two clap- board cloakrooms and a greasy counter serving hot dogs, soft drinks and coffee. Yet seven nights a week the cellar is crammed to its cob- webbed nooks and crannies with 10-to-20-year-olds, Lolitas. and would-be Brandos, all come to twist and shout, kiss and cuddle or just plain listen and look. Liverpool has half a dozen similar clubs and a score of more sophisticated institutions which serve alcohol and provide gambling. But the Cavern is tops for the 300-odd beat rhythm groups that swing through Liverpool's grim and dirty streets. For them it's the station where a lucky combo might win a ticket for the Rock Island Line--that frenzied suc- cess train that speeds towards golden disks, millions of dollars and the privilege of being mob- bed in New York and je in Israel. "Getting a group weiter costs these kids a small for- tune," F. DacFall explained. "By the time they've each paid £150 for a guitar, bought drums and amplifying equipment and rigged themselves out in fancy gear, they could be owing the credit companies more than £1,500." As he spoke a quartet in skin- tight brown suits calling them- selves The Boomerangs finished off an old Beatles number and, after a brief reshuffling of in- struments, were replaced by an identical group in black her- alded as Lee Paul and The Boys. LIKE TO SWING "Those groups will each make about £20 here tonight,"' said MacFall. "But their prime source of income is the hun- dreds of working men's clubs dotted through the city. Work- ers and their wives don't dance to the Mersey beat, of course. But they like to be in the swing of things." The Cavern recently installed a new stage. The old one, the one the Beatles trod, was prac- tically worn through with con- stant stomping. "We chopped the old stage up into pieces and sold them with the slogan: 'Buy a Bit of Beatle Board.' We made £1,000 in a matter of days and gave it to the Oxford Committee for Fam- ine Relief.' The names chosen by the groups--ranging from Ahab and his Lot to The Zeros--are one of the most fascinating aspects of Liverpool's beat bonanza. Current fads set the trends. For instance The, Tornados, The Cyclones, The Hurricanes, The Tempests and the gentle Zephyrs are known collectively as the '"'windy" groups. A spate of recent spy novels inspired James Bond and his Premiums, the G Men, The M15s, The FBIs, the slightly sinister Maifa and the determined Bloodhounds. DETONATORS EXPLODE Explosive sounds can be ex- pected from The TNTs and The Detonators. Adam and the Sin- ners concentrate on religious themes. The Liver Birds, named after the mythical sea fowl that is the city's symbol, are the only all-female group. Nobody knocks the Mersey beat here any more. Culturally, the sound has been dignified by a penetrating analysis from con- ductor Sir John Barbirolli and even Boston's Arthur Fielder has dropped into the Cavern to pay his respects. But the happiest people of all are the city's cops and social workers. As a young sociologist at Liverpool University was the first to note, there hasn't been a teen-age gang battle in the dusty city streets for 18 months and last year the juvenile crime rate dekued sbhile the ordinary crime rate soared. "The real villains are stil there," said a city councillor. "But the rest of the kids don't join gangs any more. They join beat clubs instead and work off their surplus energy dancing every evening away." ISSUE STAMPS Australia marks the 50th an niversary of her first airmail flight in July, 1914, with the issue of two new stamps. Have You Heard The Exciting News? WIALKER'S is sponsoring YOUNG ADULT FASHION COUNCIL What is it? ... it's the most It's your opportunity to take part in fashion shows, meet exciting celebrities, learn the es2 sentials of charms, modeling, etiquette, and p ise. 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