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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1969-12-25, Page 19M 4 4 Christmas television specials for a happy viewing holiday -CBC television will present a cnumber of special programs during Christmas week including its 90 -minute classic eomedy Vol one, an, experimental Chtmas celebration, and a colorful performance by the ;Royal Canadian Mounted Police Band, Starting Sunday, Dec. 21., at 6 p.m., The . Wonderful World of Disney wiE present Babes in 'Toyland, a feature-length motion picture fantasy starring Ray Bolger, ° Tommy Sands, Annette Funicello and the late Ed Wynn. The second part of this Christmas special will be •telecast Sunday, Dec. 28. . Immediately following, at 7 p.m.,. CBC -TV will present Peace; an hour-long variety color specials' featuring entertainers Dan Rowan, Bobby Darin, Victor Borge, Joanie Sommers, Larry . Storch, Forrest Tucker, The Kids Next Door and'•Bobby Rhea. At 9 p.m., Volpone, a classic comedy of the 17th century starring Jack Creley, and Brian Petchey, Joseph Shaw, Chris Wiggins, Leo Ceyden, with Diana Barrington and Brian Russell will be telecast. Volpone, a Venetian nobleman, pretends to be dying in order to draw gifts from those who pay court toi him. Of interest to youngsters during the Christmas and New Year holiday period is Children's Cinema, a series of internationally -produced, award-winning feature, films to be telecast weekdays at 10 a.m. The Friendly Giant (Robert: Homme) is host. At 8. p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 24, CBC -TV will colorcast the finals of CBC Radio's Song Market, a series which over the previous nine weeks has presented a song -writing competition. The . hour-long program features the works. of and interviews with the four finalists. Co -hosts are Bruce Marsh and Juliette. Ars Nova Musica, a 60 -minute color special at 9:30 p.m. is a musical and visual feast for Christmas Eve -- music and dance of the Renaissance performed in the rich ,and colorful costumes of the period. Featured are the Fest Wal Singers of Toronto, members o of the Hortus Musicus Torontonensis (an instrumental group), and students of the National Ballet School. At 10:30 there's air hour-long Christmas Eve church service produced by CBC in 'Halifax. This is a Christmas Mass celebrated by Monseigneur Richard J. Murphy from St. Mary's Basilica in Halifax and featuring . the 80 -voice church choira...i:}nder the direction of Father Joseph Pottie. Organist is Christopher Moreash. Earth's The Right Place For Love is a special 60 -minute color' presentation ,from Toronto be telecast at 11:0 p.m.Conceived for the Unitet Church by the Rev. Ronald ' Atkinson, the Christmas Ese production is a festival of tire birth of God in man. In a • .contemporary environment, participants experience birth, rejection, p en i tance, renewal, love, offering, and finally rejoicing. Specials • on Christmas Day start at 10 a.m. with a 30 -minute color film entitled Christmas 1 c 'ti?L�ii:$?;.'•77,:;?7:?�:ti :7:y$:u{:sir{}�{rr.�;�Q�'?.;_•},:k��i•>•••:i.i;y}]i7,::\,:}?•ti:C.7.7':hv::•J:{•:i:•7':•. .... ... � :.....7'.tivih<?t:+ti::'.•'•��•4: ' : i,:i{:}`�ti' {1�,:::<:{L 7:• :•{7:?;:� r\ a sd "`hail 2/au . 7or a Christmas sparkling bright, fresh and merry, we extend our sincere wishes to you. We'll do our best, always, to deserve your valued good will. �:ti rti?{:•y •7.wa ri BLUEWATER; CLEANERS alts the story of the first Christmas unfolds, may the light of love and understanding shine upon you and bring you everlasting peace and happiness. Best wishes for a joyous holiday. . 'The Compliments of the Season to all our firends. We have donated to 'the Children's Aid Society to help • bring Christmas ch"der to others andnot be sending Christmas dards this year. ""'t ' Ed and Melba Stiles • Remembered, Produced and directed by Czechoslovakian film maker Miroslav Ondracek, it is a lyrical montage of film that looks ' at Christmas in Canada from the past and present. At 12:30 p.m. there's a CBC Newfoundland production called Songs By The Sea. Christmas Company, an hour of instrumental and. vocal . music set . in a relaxed home -like atmosphere, will be CBC Winnipeg's color Christmas TV special at 1 p.m. Headlining the singers are Bernard Turgeon, Wilmer ' Neufeld, Phyllis Thomson, 'Heather Ireland and Mary Nowell. Instrumentalists are pianist William Aide, violinist Arthur Polson and -harpist Lisa Wellbaum. With the Eric Wild Orchestra. Mrs. , Diddle and all her Crabgrass community friends will be on hand at 2 p.m. with a special half-hour Christmas Day edition of the popular Ottawa -produced puppet series Hi Diddle Day. Cue The Angels, a 30 -minute Toronto color, production at 3:30 p.m., shows a group of public school children discussing, rehearsing and performing a Christmas play about the birth of Christ. The children also make up their own Christmas entertainment, a "celebration" using puppets they have created themselves. Actress Araby Lockhart directs. At 8:30 p.m. viewers will see Phil Nimmons 'N' Nine Plus Six, a half-hour color program in which Nimmons, one of Canada's leading jazzmen, is seen with his big band in rehearsal and in performance at Canadian high schools. Featured soloist is Salome Bey. Holiday Festival, a 45 -minute color special featuring the Ottawa -based A1 -piece Royal Canadian Mounted Police Band is the CBC Halifax contribution ._.at.:.9.._. p.m -___Joining_ the famous band as guests are the 60 -voice Mount Saint Bernard Girls Choir from Antigonish, N.S., and Halifax harpist Phyllis Ensher. Don TrenTaine is host. This special is followed by Parade, a short color 'film by John G uld, featuring ethnic readingand poetry illustrated by sketches, drawings and paintings. Thursday Night,. at 10 van. ' -will present a special hour lorig color . film entitled The Day Before Tomorrow. This program, with Stanley Burke as host, is designed to give Canadians some insight into the daily work, play and way of life of people„ who live in the countries of Dahomey, Nepal, Thailand and Somalia. Singing Carols With voices lifted in har- mony for "Silent Night," "The First Noel" and other beloved songs, today's carolers carry on a Christmas custom that originated centuries ago. In the fourth century A.D., St. Basil was praised with a musical poem in honor of the fight for Christianity over the Byzantine emperor Jul- ian. Later in Greece, lege ds of St. Basil were set to mic and sung at Christmas and the New Year. St. Francis of Assisi led the villagers of Grecchio in sing- ing hymns of praise to the Christ Child when' in the 13th 'century he created a manger scene in this Italian town. DEi CU SIG NA TAPR8DA : ICF 1t3IR28,1 a9 7A • Deck your homes with mounds of holly, trimthe tree with care .... for 'tis the merry season of Christmas. Many heart- feltu thanks for your friendly good will. We're proud to be able to serve you. Vic Pope, left, proprietor of the Kentucky Fried Chicken Take Home Store on Kingston Street, showed up again this month with a community effort when he presented 100 regulation size pucks to the Goderich Minor Hockey Association. Accepting the gift is Gord Crawford, president of the association. Mr. Pope had previously presented a bursary cheque to a local student on behalf of the Colonel Sanders Charitable Organization that will be used by the boy to further his education. Regulation size hockey pucks are at present being presented to every purchaser of $2.50 worth of Kentucky Fried Chicken. — staff photo Art, Too, Shows 'illumination' To Light Up Christmas Scene By ANNA MANG Illumination. The very word seems to.. belong to Christmas, the season of light. Like the star - that guided the wise men, Christmas illumi'hates. the spirit of man. In an artistic sense, illu- mination has another mean- ing that is also linked to Christmas: The decoration of books and manuscripts with colorful illustraticns, in- itial letters and borders, "lit" by gold or, occasionally, silver. Like • all the arts, the an- cient art of illumination was o%ten employed by man in his efforts to capture some portion of the wonder of Christmas, to retell and to picture the story of the Na- tivity and related events. "The Annunciation," "The Nativity," "The Adoration of the Magi," "The Flight into Egypt" — these and other scenes from the well -loved Christmas story appear again and again .in the hand -let- tered, individually -illustrat- ed books known as illumin- ated manuscripts. * * * • W hen It Began In the early Christian era, illuminated manuscripts were generally tl4e products, of monasteries and cathedral schools. The first examples of illumination appeared, however, centuries before the birth of Christ. The Egyptian "Books of the Dead," manuscripts in- tended for tomb burial to "serve as guidesfor the de- ceased in the afterworld, of- fer examples of gold -lit vign- ettes dating back to 1350 B.C. These "books," written on papyrus scrolls, envisioned afterlife as a continuation of life on earth. People and.ani- mals were pictured, • along with decorative lettering showing swirls of gold and sometimes silver. * * * To Spread Learning The coming of Christian- ity brought a continuing concern With religious sub - jects as the text for illumin- ated manuscripts. Monaster- ies of Egypt and Syria were early dedicated to the crea- tion of art, the development of crafts, the spread of learn- ing. • In the Western world, these aims gained impetus with the founding of the Benedic- tine monasteries in the sixth century A.D. Artists and craftsmen worked devotedly to preserve _ sacred texts through their hand -copied, hand -illustrated, elaborate- ly -bound vellum manu- scripts. From time to time, secular texts — scientific treatises, for example.— were also cop- ied and illustrated. * * * How It Grew Just as the celebration of Christmas gathered together many customs and rituals of earlier holidays, so too the monastery artists drew upon techniques ' evolved by pre - Christian craftsmen. Influence of classic Greek and Roman style is evident in the early illuminated man- uscripts of the Christian era. This gradually gave way to the decorative, abstract By- zantine style. With the approach of the Renaissance, more natural, realistic techniques came in- to use, in illumination as in other forms of art. * * * Treasured Today In. the -preparation of illu- minated manuscripts, a mas- ter artist often set the style for copyists and assistants to follow, since even the deco- ration of an initial letter could be a major project. A single letter might occu- py an entire page, and a complete scene or miniature painting might be contained within the boundaries of, for instance, an initial "C" or LLL>•RL._ 11.J1Some manuscripts, . i fact, represent the' work not only of more than one artist but of more than one generation of artists. Today, illuminated manu- scripts are treasures of li- braries and museums, and rightly so, for throughout a thousand years of Christian history, the art of illumina- tion brought an extra dimen- sion of beauty to manu- scripts that are, in them- selves., precious works of art. Sending Greetings The custom of exchanging greetings at holiday time is older than Christmas. The custom of the Christmas greeting card, however, is a relatively new one. Christmas cards originat- ed about 1.25 years ago, in England. Despite this re- cent start, printed greetings quickly caught the public fancy and are today one of the most popular forms of Christmas holiday traditions. * * * Decorating Trees The gaily decorated tree so much a part of Christmas has its counterpart in trees • adorned with colorful trin- kets during the ancient feasts of the winter equinox. This pagan custom of dec- , orating evergreens became associated with Christmas observances, and legends link it to the birth of Jesus. One such story says that on the night of the Nativity, all the woodland trees burst into bloom and bore fruit. * * * N � 1 IIIIIIII IIID FROM THE STAFF AT HURON- AUTOMOTIVE AND SUPPLY LTD. HURON ROAD GODERICH Like the sparkling beauty of a snowy landscape, hearts' are filled with peace and good will. Over the mountains, through the woods or wh-erever•you'll be at Christmas, we wish you a merry one and sincere •"Thanks" dor your continued support. ,74s we rejoice in the story of the first Christmas, may the happy spirit of the holiday light up your home with peaces good will. Thanks to all you wonderful people for your loyal trust and support.." { BLACKSTONE FURNITURE WEST STREET