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The Brussels Post, 1962-03-15, Page 2Palled to. bring Sta.sye. here, she was going back to Lithe tianie to marry him, "I think slie is taking a very big chance," her father said, "There's a great pos, eiblitty she might, not be aliowed to leave, I think she's making a. mistake, and if it were up to me, I'd stop her from going, But it is inevitable. So I have to live with that, "When they are married, .she will apply for • his entry, • Since. lie is her husband, he will not come under any quota, Whether' the Russians will let him leave is to be seen." If her husband is refused permission to leave Litt, uania, Regina will remain there with him, Late the next afternoon, Re-. gina went to Chicago's airport to begin the long jour- ney back behind the Iron Cur- tain. Her parents were there, her brother, seven family friends, and a priest. There were no smiles this time. "This is like a funeral to me," said Paulius Leonae. Wilt Regina return with Stasys? "1 have no grudge against Khrushchev., He fulfilled his original 'promise.. But if he wanes to be 150 per cent, he can do this and let them -return." From .NEWSWEEK How You Can Kill Any Organization I. Do not come to the meetingt or, if you do, come late. D'cs not think of coming if the weaelter does nee, suit, or if you leave another' engagement of Tess im- portance.' ' 2. If yotz attend a meetinge fend, fault with the work of tree -Offie cers (Particularly the' secretary) and other members.. 3. Never be *nominated: for *the committee. It is, far easier to criticize than to db things. Be strre, however,. to be' annoyed' it you are not appointed to a cone- rnittee. 4`.. If you are asked by tlite chairman to give your opinibn on an important matter, tell 'mm that you have, nothing. to say: After a meeting tell everyona what should have been- done. 5, nothing yourself, If other members get busy',, grumble and declare- that the, association h run' by a clique, Doi not listen, to the business, and' afterwards say' that nobody ever tells you' anything. 7. Vote in favors of something, and then' do exactly* the (siva si't'e t Agree with everything that is' said in the- meeting' anti dis' agree outside. '9. Get all' the benefits, you: oar through the work of the assn.' elation, but do not contribute anything' yourself. Id: If' you are asked' to, pap your overdue, subscription;, re• sent such impertinence, and tem d'er your resignatiern [)0 eenuren CAR `'roll Sty el,. n-.ir.Jm, .., r:44 ir4X:4 '• • • .3k^.67t TONY ATTENDS FIRST SESSION — The Earl of Snowdon and his wife, PrincesS Margaret, lea ,e the House of Lards after Lord Snowdon's first attendance at a session of the upper house of Parliament Less than an hour after he took his seat in a quaint and colorful ceremony, he found himself in still another controversy over his job on a London newspaper. The institute of Journalists expressed "profound regret' that he had joined another union, the National Union of Journalists. 9. Why' All The stir About Oscars? „„,,..., Hollywood an Oscar means meteb more today than just award for .cinematic achievement. It is the sun and stars, and Alade din's. temp lumped into one Tigi•et, inlpegive, gold figurine.. It can. rnake careers, And in cold irn.. pereOnel 'box office cash it is. quite literally worth e million, • It is. Only human, therefore, that people no longer merely wait and. work and hope and pray to win One. They campaign for it, Nominations fee the 1901 Aeacle • emy Awards are now known, Performers and craftsmen in two dozen categories are )cow within reach of this most coveted award in the motion picture world. - And the "campaigning," which began with the New Year, will continue in the weeks between now and April 9, when at least two dozen dreams wilt come true in a misty-,eyed. climax. before millions of television viewers. It was not always thus. Back in 3927 the Academy Awards were established as a family at- lair, The idea was that the award- ceremonies would be quiet, un- pretentious occasions in which. performers would be honored for outstanding achievement • by a jury of their peers, '• There was never any intention or expectation then that it would become newsworthy. Motion pic- tures in those days were held in low repute) widely regarded as mostly frivolous timelcillers, in- tellectually only .a cut above pro- fessional baseball and perhaps a cut below the Chautauqua, • But as the years rolled by radio began to cut in on the last 15 minutes of the ceremonies to record who won the acting awards. Then radio. began airing the entire ceremony, and the Academy Awards began moving toward its present mixture of sober recognition of quality and TV spectacular,. Last year's Academy Award presentations drew a larger TV audience than the Presidential inaugural. And in direct propor- tion that the Hooper ratings have Increased, so has the yearning after an Oscar within the film in- dustry. Actor Wendell Corey, the handsome, affable president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, says with can- dor: "An Oscar must mean some- • thing or people wouldn't struggle eo hard to get it." The most obvious outward evi- dence that people do indeed struggle hard to get it, or at least to be nominated for it—which is almost as good for egos and ca- reers as winning—is the adver- tising campaign hopefuls wage in Hollywood trade publications. One observer who has followed the Academy since • its earliest days estimates that the number Of ads run each year in the trades Itas increased 10 times in the past 10 years • Only five years ago, before nominations, 77 full pages of ads appeared in the trades calling attention to potential awards win- ning performances or pictures. Another 77 pages appeared after nominations. Last year a whop- SALLY'S SALLIES and don't forget to wash behind the fendere." 331 pages of ads ran before norathationS. and •447142 between nominations and, awards night, writes 4-011n C. Waugh in the. Christian Science Monitor, Nobody in the Academy really objects to this. It's not the quan- tity of ads that irks, but their sometimes offensive qtiality. "We don't really pare how many ads a person wants to run urging Academy members to see his picture," says one high-rank- ed Aeadenle official. "What we object to is when a performer or somebody comes out "fatty and says 'vote for me'." Last year quality became par- ticularly offensive, causing the Academy's board to promulgate a code of advertising ethics, This code was aimed not at stemming quantity, but at cutting out ques- tionable quality, There is no proof that "earns paigning" for an Oscar has ever influenced any outcome. People repeatedly win who haven't spent a dime, And despite some admitted faults, the Academy has kept the Oscars in the cinematic world the Oscars free from taint. No award in the cinematic world is so enduring or so dearly covet- ed, And this would not be so if the winners were determined by full page Ads in Daily Variety. There is little doubt, however, that an Oscar can skyrocket ca- reers and fill pocketbooks. And nobody in the Academy really objects to that either. An Oscar is widely conceded to be worth an extra. $1,000,000 at the box office for whatever pic- ture wins one. "And if an agent had a client who had won an Academy Award or a nomination," adds Mr. Corey, "and didn't use that fact as a level for negotiating contracts, he would be a pretty lousy agent." But none of this is really so important as another question that is often widely overlooked: Have the' Academy Awards in their 34 years done anything to improve the quality of motion pictures? That was the main reason they were established in the first place. But anybody who tries to assess the success. or failure in this fundamental goal must re- sort to hunches, impressions, and dead reckoning. Nobody knows. for certain if films have become better because of Oscars or not, Mr. Corey can't even say for certain if they have. But he •will say that Van award for excel- lence is bound to upgrade some- thing. More people are trying now to win Academy Awards, And you've got to make a good picture to do it." Modert, Etiquette By Anne Ashley '. When a girl introduces the man to whom she is engaged, should she refer to him as her fiance? A. Yes. Q. When sending a reply to a wedding invitation, should it be addressed to the bride-elect or to her parents? A. Since the wedding invita- tion is usually issued in the name of the bride's parents, your reply should be addressed to them, Q. Should garage attendants or service station attendants be tipped? A, Only if some special ser- vice has been performed outside of what is regularly charged for. Q.* When it is necessary for a house guest to make a long-dis- tnce telephone call, how should this be handled? A. , First, of course, the guest asks permission of his host or hostess, Then, after his call has been completed, he immediately calls the Operator, asks for the charges of his call, and then re- mits this amount to his host or hostess. Well, have you all caught your second wind? Who would have thought last week would be so momentous John Glenn final- ly going into orbit? For the next few days we heard of little else so I won't add to what you al- ready know — except to say this. To me the most heart-warming incident of the whole marvellous achievement was the attitude of John Glenn himself. His modesty, and his generous insistence that the success of the entire project was the result of good team work from start to finish. No doubt he was right but a man with less personality might have been ex- cused had he retained a little more of the honour and glory for himself. Another thing ,t like about him is his delightful sense of humour which he certainly needed to help him endure all the publicity that came his way. So, like everyone else, I am glad to say "hats off to. Lt.-Col. John Glenn". Now I hope the public will show a little understanding and give the poor fellow a chance• to get a little peace and quiet- ness. As you know, after the Glenn excitement, almost everyone in Ontario towards the end of the, week came out of the clouds and down to earth with a vengeance — to an earth that was covered by ice and mountains of snow, driven by a strong cast wind. This morning our driveway was completely filled in and theback- door blocked by a huge snow- drift. It was a mercy it was, Sat- urday so that fewer people had to fight their way to work, Even so driveways had to be' cleared from every housee se shovels were soon in action. Then after a double wheel track was elear- ed to the road the inevitable hap- pened — along came the snow- plough and blocked the entrance to all the driveways. More shovelling! But yet everyone, around here anyway, seemed to be in• good spirits, neighbours resting on their shovels once in a while, joshing each other about our nice Canadian winters. In one house there was a temporary grass widow' with two small chil- dren, Naturally the men rallied to her assistance although she insisted on helping with the job herself, Partner was busy most, of the day and had wheel tracks dug before the delivery men tame around. As for the things I meant to do during the week, some of them got done, some of them didn't. Between storms I man- aged to get to the hairdressers for a "perm" so I now feel like a different person. Wednesday was such an awful day — snow, rain, fog and drizzle — that I went to bed quite sure X couldn't Make it to 'Toronto "next day. But in the Morning it began to clear and I was able to Cateh the ten- thirty bus. After all, you think twice these days before eaneell, ing an appointment With an eye4 specialist, And atti 1 glad I kept it! I thought my glasses needed changing but. they didn't, I'll tell you what happened because nies '04)e/dente May help someone elee, For Yeers I have been go., ing to a well-known oculist Mid has built Up a tteniendotts prac- tice, itedetitly however; hat/dill Been tetielied. His patients were in and out. of his office as if they ;ISSUE 1162 were on an assembly line. He asked little and said less. I start- ed making inquiries and a friend told -me how. much she liked an- other eye-specialist. So I made an appointment with him and liked him immensely. Instead of a ten-minute consultation I was in his office two hours. As I said before he didn't change my glass- es. This doctor said my main trouble was dry eye-sockets — -terribly dry. "Don't I know it," exclaimed, "I have been trying to tell doctors and oculists that for five years. I don't suppose I could cry if I wanted tot" "And that's a pity," said the doctor, "a little cry sometimes does a lot of good." He gave me a prescription for some kind of eye-drops to act as a lubricant for the eyes. 11i less than two clays there was a tremendous im- provement. I suppose the' human body is much,Iike any other` form of machinery — and we know ball-bearings won't work with- out lubrication. That was the same' day I was supposed to stay overnight with my daughter and to go to the Girt Guide Festival' with her. But J phoned Tier that. I was go- ing straight home — r couldn't take the mud and slush any long- er, I never saw- Toronto hr such a filthy' mess. While waiting for the bus if I stood near the kerb I get plastered with slush; if I stood well back there was a chance of missing' the bus. But I finally made it — and' was• never so pleased' in my' life to get back home. Next day there- was, promise of more bad' weather err the way so- I got the ear out and rushed around paying bills and shopping*, The- storm came an right but it found our refrigera- tor well filled. Today is Ross's; birthday . . more excitement., And weather "Probe" are for an- other storm from the east! There's never a dull moment any more. If variety is the spice of life, we're getting it! ! Even the Maple Leafs managed to wrest a game from the Bruins! idling Along Old Ontario Roads This begins with praise of certain roads in southern Ontario as they were thirty or more years ago. They were not considered important roads. Some had been marked off as what the province called concession lines, but for one reason or another they had never been opened to traffic — roads in intention only. Others had fallen into partial or com- plete disuse. Some were not properly roads at all, but aban- doned railroad rights of way. But they all shared this one peculiar- ity that, for the few human -trav- elers who 'frequented them, the road itself was a destination, in , stead of rnerly leading to one. They Were for those who believe that it is better to travel than to arrive . They had no particular beginning or end, and to hurry along them was impossible; One of the best of these roads ran from east to west through part ,Of the townShip of Erin istnore, .a long peninsula between two laketiof, the kaeveethe trinistilore had a casual; easy-, going Way about it, and this Par. tictslar road Was steeped in the very e.seetice of Erthisnedee. It tart anti tiippcd and Waned as if to a FLU FIGHTERS—These young women are among many To- kyo residents wearing surgical masks as, protection against a flu epidemic. fiddler's• tun es It aff or de d glimpses; of the blue lake to the south,, and -the smell of the lake was in the- air,. Farms did' not face upon the road but. backed up to it,. and wild ducks often flew in from the marshes along the lake'} edge to feed in the grain fields. That road stays most clearly in memory as it was in October,. with a lively wind out of the west sending the fallen leaves flying across' it, and apples on the. neglected old' trees along the way already touched by frost. The, lake had «hanged' colour, reflect ing the clearer- blue of the' sky,. and those were good days for watching the habits of clouds.. The land lay bare, and its, beauty„ now that the hardwoods- had' lost their leaves, was rather of litre and form than ci colour:, Only the wintering birds remained, and toward' dusk of a gusty day the, Sky wan-Id lilt with the honking. - of Canada geese;, their wedges. pointed' south.. To one. on trots whose- onlY coneern was to fill his eyes and hie mind,. there was; nothing; sad about October weather, It tingled with life;, and yet, it, was, leisurely whicen sparing never Was. Spring' was; el hurrying growth, willows; dire lead and hepaticas, in bloom. even before the last of the snow was gone. Spring nights were clamourous with peepers, but October nights had the wind in the pines and. the •da.neing,, Moving lights in the northern sky. Just possibly, this idling along old roads may be Condemned as escape, as an attempt to get away .from duties and responsibilities. But the workaday world is only part of an older and Much wider Woidd into Which We are teem* If this is escape, it is to a rich and living freedom. It is the return Of a prodigal, the resumption of a birthright. It is going back to a place we may leave but never wholly lose,—From "Speak to the Earth," by William A.-I3reyfogle, COMOAdt:',.itt—Mode'..by view jet tests either =civilian` or rrillitary into .-production' by 1961 She Prefers love o t.iberty The family of Paulius Leonas. would never forget that reunion. at cilicage. Midway. Airport two short years, ago, It was a raw, grayi and windy day -4, but joyous. One, Reporters,. photograd. Phere, and More than 200. moans of. Lithuanian extraction crowded. around Patillus and his Xlettat as they waited for the big DQ-,70 to touch down. Then at the top of the, plane's ramp, pausing for just a second, stood blond, blue-eyed, 20,yeer,. old Regina Leones and her tow, headed, square-jawed,. 17-year- old brother "I'mas. For fifteen years, they had been separated from their parents by the Iron Curtain, The crowd cheered and ap- plauded and the two children raced dawn 'the ramp into the arms of their parents. All four wept and embraced as micro, phones- were thrust at them from every direction. "i can thank Khrushchev and the American press," said Paulius, "This is a joy. This a free and wondeeful country. This is the most excit- ing day of my life. They are free . . . they are free „. Paulius Leonas did, indeed, owe the Soviet Premier thanks. The Leonases, Lithuanian-born American citizens, had fled the Russian wartime advance into their country, leaving Regina and. Tomas with grandparents. When Khrushchev visited the U.S. in September le59, the Leonases 'taught up with him . in. the lobby of a Iles Moines hotel, tearfully begged him to let their children come to America. Khrushchev promised he would and after a four-month delay, kept his ward. Yet even as Regina, radiated smiles at the reunion with her perents, there were strains of sorrcw in her heart- Left behind in Lithuania was, her schooldays!' sweetheart, 25-year-old music teacher Stews, .Bikatches. As time wore on,. 'Regina went to work as acv inventory -taker in a downtown Chicago) clothing, store, attended night etasses learn English. But she was shy and refused to date American boys. She thought only of Stasys;, and. in the two years since their separation they wrote . about 1601 • letters to one. another:. She also tried to have him brought, to. this. country,* but her efforts failed,. Having reached • at hard deci- sion,. Regina was interviewed one day last week in the red-carpet- ed living room of the Leonases'' news two-story briCk- 'combina- tion home anct real-estate office • on Chicago's South Side., Her talkative father sat. on a. sofa on one side, of her; her quiet, nets-. vous mother - on the other*. Re, gine, too, seemed' nervous, and' spoke in Litlinanian. Her father acted as translator. for .1111e, inter- view„ .-,• `T'HROUGH THE LOOKI:NG,,GLASS —Jimmy Pitts, 5,, didtva. quite make it to Wonderland as Alice did, but he did see a constructionprojectthrough one of the six sidewalk superintendent-typee portholes. 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