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2A THE OSHAWA TIMES, Seturdey, Mey 28, 1968 TEEN SCENE MATT GiIMPELJ BETTY ANH YANCH LYNN CONLIN Teens Talk of "Drop-In" Construction of a 'drop-in centre" im the downtown area for Oshawa's senior citizens was urged in a brief presented to city council. Students of Oshawa Catholic High School were asked if they thought such a recreational centre should be erected heere. They said: JOE MARKS, 17, Grade 11: "I feel this complex would be a valuable contribution to senior citizens in town. Many of them are not occupied with anything and have much leisure time on their hands. They could channel their energies into the projects provided and at the same time make lasting friendships." 'MATT GIMPELJ, 15, Grade 11: 'It's about time the idea came forth. The old people definitely need a common meet- ing place where they can have a good time with friends in their own age groups. Since they don't work and strenuous sportts are above their capabilities, they must do something with this time." LYNN CONLIN, 18, Grade 12: "A 'drop-in' centre is a good idea. After all, there's around 7,000 senior residents in Oshawa and we have no community centre for them At such a centre, our senior folk could get away from their idleness. They could meet many friends and this is good because a great deal of senior citizens feel they are too old and no one want: them. At such a centre we could see many of the talents these senior people really have." BONNIE CHISHOLM, 16, Grade 12: 'It's a great idea for those old people who can't work or have nothing to do. They can get together and play cards or do whatever they want to pass the time. It would give them an opportunity to be active and to mix with others their own age." BETTY ANNE YANCH, 17, Grade 11: 'Such a centre should be provided for senior people because there are so many old citizens here who live alone, This would give them a chance to meet other people their own age and do things without having to live in an old people's home," BOB LAMBE, 17, Grade 12: "A senior citizen's 'drop-in' centre is a new idea but one by which our older citizens would profit. Just as young people gather at shows and drive- ins the older people should have somewhere to assemble. If tthey had a place to meet they could discuss their own ideas and therefore time would not be wasted as it is now for tthe most part." Earp Of TV Fame Turns Down $100,000 Plus To Gain Prestige HOLLYWOOD (AP) -- Hugh! yon play Guys and Dolls at O'Brian turned down a $100,000- New York's City Centre Theatre plus movie offer to appear for) at Actor's Equity scale, he'll | three weeks in a New York play | play big-time gambler Sky Mas- | opening June 8 for about $150 terson. a week. : Why? "Prestige," said the hand- | fome tough guy, television's former Wyatt Earp. "You've got to convince the Bel-Air circuit (movie producers) that you're not a TV actor. "You've got to do what you believe in. I do two pictures a| year, but I've still got a way to go before 1 get where I want | tures via the theatre, estimates to be." | his net worth at $3,000,000 and The square - jawed bachelor | his annual income. at $35,000 O'Brian plans his career moves | even without further work. He from a luxurious, tree-hidden | owns about 100 acres of devel- hilltop home. His strategy is as | opment land and a percentage careful as a general's in battle.| of five bowling alleys, three is one big crap game and I've been rolling the dice ever since iI got in it. "Once you get there, you've |} got to work. You can become |am unknown real quick. It's a [tenuous business. They're buy- ing and selling meat." O'Brian, 38, a N.Y., native who came to pic- "I think the reason I love | HAULAGE that part is that this business | Rochester, | LIBRARY NEWS AND REVIEWS @ (These reviews were writ- ten by Samuel Schulze, of the Music Department of the McLaughlin Public Li- brary). THE GREAT PIANISTS, by Hafold C. Schonberg, is an en- grossing study of the lives and personalities, manners and man- nerisms, techniques and musical profiles of all the notable pian- ists from the time of Mozart to the present. Well illustrated with photographs, prints, with the invention of the first "gravicembalo col piano e forte' in 1709 and the develop- ment of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as the first keyboard virtuoso who established the new instrument, by 1775, as a replacement for the previous harpsichord. Along with such well-known pianists as Clara Schumann, Rachmaninoff, we learn of many lesser-known, though equally virtuosic, musicians such as Johann Hummel, Ara- bella Goddard and Malcolm Frager. Here we can begin to under- stand what Ludwig van Bee- thoven and Artur Schnabel may have in common, or how Ignace Jan Paderewski, as a pianist compared with Glenn Gould. This is a wonderully alive book, jin which the reader comes to | magnificent and the eccentric -- lin their homes, among their | friends, in their (sometimes | tangled) private lives, and on ithe concert stage. drawings | and caricatures, the book begins | | Other notable books: The Or- | chestra and Its Instruments, by | Christopher Headington; Music /im the Classic Period, by Rein- hard G. Pauly; The Wheel of Fortune, an autobiography, by | Edith Piaf; Folk and Tradition- | al Music of the Western Conti- nents, by Bruno NettL Words get overlaid by habit, and become buried in. custom and tradition. Unfortunately, traditional form is often con- fused with the spirit that ani- mated it, Sometimes an entirely new context is needed before the message shines forth again. | This is certainly true of the words of the liturgical Mass. The distinction between popu- lar and what we call "class- \ical'" music is of fairly recent | Origin, and is quite superficial; |80 also is the division separat- | ing religious and secular music. 'This was not so in medieval | times, when tunes of many love | songs, and even drinking songs, |were transformed into hymns. i"Religion" and '"'life' were |} merely aspects of the same s0- |cial existence. In taking over | the popular musical forms and | adapting them for its own use, the church drew strength from | their popularity. Yet, when jazz | was recently introduced in a |Toronto church, there were 'eries of blasphemy, sacrilege, heresy. The problem of how to ex- press an old faith in contem- porany terms has to be solved ifor each generation, To Pope | i | | | | j Selected Poems Published Of Dean of Canada Poetry | | Earle | traveller, a world broad- Birney = is playwright | ocaster, sometime novelist, | English professor, and cur- | rently Resident Writer at Scar- | borough College in Toronto. He is also the | poetry, | Now in his early sixties, | Birney can look back over a |} long and unusually productive | poetry career. Some of his first | published popular verse goes | so far back that it is now out | of print; hence this new anthol- logy of selected poems by Mc- | Clelland and Stewart to futher preserve the best of Birney. | The selection is eclectic: |there are 98 poems which | range from a short haiku to | the long and still popular nar- | rative 'David', Birney lovers | to find. that | Case History", | will be happy "Canada: + A |*'North Star West", "Anglo- | saxon Street', "The Bear On | Delhi Toad" are all within the covers, not to mention trans- lations frem the Hungarian of Attila Jozsef and the Chinese of Mao Tse-tung. As a bonus, there is a radio play entitled "Damnation of Vancouver". Birney's one-volume selection seems certain to tart a major re-evaluation of his work; it | should be a leading contender BEATTY SAND GRAVEL LOAM TRENCHING EXCAVATING BACK FILLING LOTS LEVELLED 725-2156 344 Pine Ave. Salverw es Working in the Damon Rua-! apartment houses and a theatre. dean of Canadian | General's | for. the Governor Award, For. the older generation, Se- |lected Poems offers an oppor: | | tunity to catch up on a favorite |} author. The new § generation | should avail itself of the oppor- | tunity to discover the amazing- | ly artful and agile Canadian who deals in the geography and history of his country as no previous poet, other than E. J. | Pratt, has done, Wonderfully Alive Book Puts Pianists In Spotlight Gregory I is ascribed the credit for making a certain final are rangement of the Roman Chant, and compiling music for the mass in the 6th centu However, a composer name Guillaume de Machaut, in the early 14th century, was the firs€ © to combine the five sections of the Ordinary of the Mass into a single work, which became known as a Mass in the special. sense, a form that reached its perfection in the B minor Mass of Johann Sebastian Bach, in the 18th century. Utilizing modern popular melodies and rhythms that have become part of 20th century culture, Fr. Geoffrey Beaumont has come |posed the Twentieth Century | Folk Mass, presented on record |by Cantor Charles Young and the Peter Knight Singers, with Frank Weir and his Concert Orchestra, The Missa Luba presents the Mass in African Rhythms, Here the harmonies, rhythms, and improvisations are the result of spontaneous co-operation of the singers, "Les Troubadours du Roi Baudoin", directed by Pere Guido Haazen, If the 20th Century Folk Mass might be confined in interest to the younger set of the western world, and the Missa Luba to the Congolese native, the tradi- tionalist may hear the St, Cecilia Mass by Franz Joseph Haydn, the Great C minor Mass by Mozart, or the Missa Solem- nis of Beethoven. Other new records of peculiar interest: The Baroque Beatles Rook, rediscovered and edited by Joshua Rifkin; Where Docs Love Go, with Charles Boyer; Pass In Review, a stereé | marchpast. The Adult Department of the McLaughlin Public Library will ibe closed to the public' from June 11 until further notice, due |to building construction. Beginning May 24, all adult | books borrowed will be due in September and adults may bor- row an unlimited number of books. This will not affect the Chil- dren's Department, The Booke mobile will operate until June 30, be off the road in July and resume service in August. ' ACADIAN 299 BLOOR W. Is your man extra particular about the way his shirts are done? We finish each one of his shirts to perfection every time. OSHAWA'S SHIRT SPECIALISTS ! %& DELIVERY % CASH & CARRY We'll Launder His Shirts to His Taste... CLEANERS 728-5141 Mf it's The Big "M™ Drive-in, Of Course it's McMurrey's COUNTRY srvun Ts Fried Chicken ENGLISH wa oi FISH 'n CHIPS DRIVE-Wi RESTAURANT Gimeoe St. WM. of Tewnten Ad. Phene 726-2291