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THE OSHAWA TIMES, Soturday, July 9, 1966 mbababiaves enh eernseensnt neat LIBRARY ROOK REVIEWS VHA EOD PROEAT PEER MUON H T4240) 72S ENP 102 RHE 091 01 ANSSPTHPOPRTENOOTT AAO OTDS nena Faves DT) HISTORY OF SCARROROUCH BREE WI EE WI MEE Space Age Preview For Man On Street The following reviews were uncomfortable shocks' by new fiction books are: Islands in takes us far back into geologi- writien by Miss Edna Jam- jeson, Head of the Youth Department, McLaughlin Public Library. 4 VOICES FROM THE SKY, BY Arthur C. Clarke. "Previews of the coming space age," this. stimulating collection of essays, beamed at the lay reader, both young and old, opens up for us a. tanta- lizing view of the future. Arranged in three sections, its first part deals mainly with space travel and its accom- panying problems of disiance, and time; the second describes communication satellites of to- day and their implications fer the future; and the iast in- cludes miscellaneous topics such as: unindentified flying objects, science fiction writing, and metheds employed. by the author in answering correspon- dence from his writing public. Early in the book, Mr. Clarke space discoveries. A little further on, in the chapter entitled Uses of the Moon; ~he-makes--the folowing provocative statement: '"'if any nation has mastery of the Moon it will dominate not merely the Earth, but the whole access- ible universe." He marshals convincing arguments to back up his opinion. Written in lighter vein, his article on space-age sport dis- cusses its amusing and novel possibilities. . A fellow of the Royal Astron- omical Society, and former chairman of the British Inter- planetary Society, Arthur Clarke, in World War II served in the RAF and was in charge of the first experimental Ground Controlled Approach unit. Possessing the rare gift of being able to make science intelligible to the non-scientist, he was awarded, at New Delhi the Sky, and A Fall of Moon Dust. A-----HISTORY.....OF____SCAR. BOROUGH, edited by Robert R. Bonis. Published by Scar- borough Public Library, this very detailed story of a town- ship now forming part of Metro- politan Toronto is a valuable addition to previous records of Ontario pioneer life. *Written primarily for the schools of Scarborough", this interesting account takes us all the way from the days of its early British and American settle- ment right up to its present expanding urban development. Illustrated by over 200 photo- graphs, maps, and drawings, containing a useful bibliography and a nine-page index, this book is recommended to al] readers who enjoy Canadian history. Although the first land titles in Scarborough were registered cal ages. In the second chapter the story of the early Indian inhabitants is related.. iInciiided" is" a descripiion~ of A Feast of the Dead at which the bones of those who had died during the previous dec- ade were buried in a huge pit or ossury.,Two ossuaries were -- at Tabor's Hill in 1956. Many human interest stories are highlights of the book. For example, David Thomson re- covered from pneumonia 'in spite of a tenth blood-letting by the doctors of the day; Wil- liam Jarvis, Justice of the Peace in the dangerous days of 1803, in trying to subdue a mob, was saved only by using his sword, with dire conse- quences to the hand of one of four men who attacked him; and Asa Danforth after a hard straggle to build his famous road had difficulty in collect- warns us that 'our philosphi- cal and religious beliefs" be dealt "the most painful and may for "his in 1962, the 1961 Kalinga prize popularization of science." Two of his science in 1796, so that its Centen- nial was celebrated in 1896, the first chapter of ing payment, with the result that he departed for the United this history States. ieee Contralto To Move To U.S. But Says Still Canadian! By DONALD PHILLIPSON TORONTO (CP)--Singer Mau- reen Forrester is moving te the | United States but she says she'll | stil] be a Canadian. | The contralto and her hus-| band, conductor Eugene Kash, | vigorously affirmed this in a talk with a reporter after a) recent broadcast. "No matter where you live, | even in Bogota, if you think Canadian you are Canadian,"' | Kash said. } Miss Forrester has accepted | the post of head of the voice | music critic Eric McLean, amd the newspaper's publisher, J, W. McConnell, underwrote her early years as a_ concert artist. The first two years took be- tween $20.000 and $25.000 of the publisher's money besides ail her own earnings and savings. She made her New. York debut in 1956. She had already had auditions with conductors Otto Klemperer and _ Bruno Walter, and the tough New York erifics echoed their praises of her voice. department at the Philade!lphia| sang FOR CASALS Academy of Music and will leave Canada im August, preb-/| ably setting up a home in New Jersey. "T simply must be somewhere close to New York,"' she said. Not only is it the administrative centre of her musical career, but she has three days of re- hearsal there for each of 20} concerts next season. The Kashes have lived for several years in a Jarge rented | house in Toronto, where "Opus Five"--Susanna--was born two years ago. They have four other children, Paula, 11, Gima, &, Daniel, 7, and Linda, 5. Part of | the reason for the move is to} allow the family to spend more time together. Besides Miss Forrester's eX- | oy The same year Pablo Casals asked her to sing the leading role in his oratorio E] Pesebre (The Manger) and her career as a singer of world rank was launched. Now, 10 years later, her en- gagement book is filled for two years ahead. Over the years, Maureen For- rester has sung with most of | the great conductors. Hermann Scherchen, for one, said her voice is the only one today which has the special] qualities Caruso's had. A New York Herald Tribune critic said it was like 'a stained-glass window with the midday sun pouring through." Maureen met Eugene Kash in tawa in 1953 when he at- tensive tours there are Kash's | tended one of her recitals. They own commitments as a con-| ductor and musical talent- spotter. He estimates they have been together with the children no more than 20 per cent of the | time in recent years. SCHOOL DROPOUT A secondary reason for Miss Forrester's departure is ber be- lief that she lacks the educa- tional qualifications that would prompt institutions to offer her the academic position she has ------~<i in Philadelphia. | She left school] at 13 because | it was wartime and few good teachers were left in the na district of Montreal where her family lived, she said. '"'My own children will finish university if it takes them. 50 years," she insists. Maureen was a regular mem- ber of a church choir at 15. Her voice dropped into the contralto range a year later. While work- ing as a typist and switchboard operator in Montreal, she took singing lessons. At 21 she came second in a CBC talent competition (to June Kowalchuk, now a doctor's wife in Hamilton). She had by then affair after 12 |Kash, hugging his buxom, 170- been, spotted .ka, Montreal Star were married the following year in Lendon. "And we're still having a love years," said pound wife. "All our friends said we'd never suit each other but they're all divorced and look at us Miss Forrester gives about 50 concerts a year, for fees rang- ing from nothing to more than $2,000, and is fed up with com- muting by air to New York. WILL BUY HOUSE "'Now we'll be able to buy a house, 'too,' -she said. "You know, we've only been in the black for the past few years." Miss Forrester, now 36, said a few years ago she would probably retire at 40 because most voices have passed their best by then. But she will remain active, passing on her skilis to younger singers. At the Philadelphia academy she will have half a dozen of her own students, as she had in Toronto, and will supervise the technical training of perhaps 100 young. yocalists. i seannneatens & SINGER MAUREEN For- rester (left) hugs choreo- grapher Hanya Holm after Miss Forrester's operatic AHH iin debut in Toronto in Orpheus and Eurydice. 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