Village Squire, 1975-10, Page 33in
London hosts
water colour
show
The 50th Annual Exhibition of the
Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour
will be held this year at the London Art,
• Gallery, 305 Queen's Ave.
The showing commences October 4 and will
close October 27. •
The Canadian Society of Painters in Water
Colour was formed in November of 1925 for
the practice and encouragement of painting in
the medium of water colour. The eleven
founding members believed that Canadian
artists could express themselves through the
delicate and subtle medium of water colour,
as the Group of Seven had done in the denser
medium of oils. The Society held its first
juriedexhibition in April of 1926, and
membership has since grown to is present
number of 92 artists who live all across the
country, although headquarters remain in
Toronto.
What constitutes "water colour" has
changed with the discovery of new media and
the evolution of fresh artistic concepts:
chalks, pastels, gouache, wax, inks, acrylics
and collage are now included in the general
category of "water colour". However, while
these other media are accepted, the emphasis
is still on the translucency of the water
colour medium.
The jurying for the 50th Annual Exhibition
of the Canadian Society of Painters in Water
Colour took place on iSeptember 13, 1975 with
the following members serving as jurors: Mr.
Herbert Ariss, Mr. Peter Goetz, Mr. John
Mattar, Mr. Gordon Peters and Mr. Tom La
Pierre. These jurors chose 67 works for the
exhibition from a total of 250 entires.
An Awards jury of three: Dr. Clare Bice,
Artist and former Curator of the London Art
Gallery, Mr. James Kemp, Artist and former
Heed of Publications for London Life
Insurance Company and Mr. Kenneth
Saltmarche, Artist and Director of The Art
Gallery of Windsor, disbursed $4,400 in
Awards of Merit and Purchase Awards to
fourteen entrants.
Apart from its natural juried exhibition,
The Canadian Society of Painters in Water
Colour also arranges exchange shows with
other countries such as the United States and
Japan.
Movies
Some mini -reviews
of current movies
BY JOHN SCHEDLER
"Aloha, Bobby and Rose", directed by
Floyd Mutrux, is a contemporary love story
se. in Hollywood, on the Pacific coastline, and
in Tijuana, Mexico. Aimed at youthful
audiences, this film follows a pair of
star-crossed letters from an accidental murder
in a Hollywood liquor store to a night of
carousing in Mexico, to inevitable tragedy on
a rainswept Los Angeles street.
Paul LeMat plays Bobby, a garage
mechanic with an obsession for souped -up
cars, and Rose, a young divorcee who works
in a car wash is played by Dianne Hull.
Despite its title, no frame of Aloha Bobby and
Rose is set in Hawaii. But Hawaii has a
special meaning for the young lovers who
start out planning an island vacation, and end
up on the run from the law.
Much of the action in the film centres
around automobiles. Included are spectacular
hot rod chases and races down the California
freeways, as dragsters whip in and out of
Saturday night traffic. The rock music
soundtrack, with songs by Elton John,
Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder provides a
fitting background for his youth -oriented
melodrama.
***
A provocative film with an unusual theme
is "The Reincarnation of Peter Proud"
starring Michael Sarrazin, Jennifer O'Neill,
Margot Kidder and Cornelia Sharpe. Based
on Max Ehrlich's gripping best-seller, the
movie follows the obsessive search of a young
man who comes to believe in his own prior
existence. Irresistably, he seeks out the
people and events of his previous life, as well
as the mystery and terror they provoke.
The belief in reincarnation has been
recorded from ancient times; today it is part
of the growing occult scene, especially in
Europe and the United States. The
Reincarnation of Peter Proud takes an
exciting look at the subject, and might make
even the skeptic wonder whether someday
someone will prove that reincarnation is
possible.
The
press
Stop the presses
If your daily or weekly newspaper begins to
look a little thin in the coming weeks don't be
too surprised.
Canadian newspapers are facing a two -fold
threat these days, both from labour problems.
The thinness of the papers is due to the fact
newsprint is becoming increasingly scarce.
Only one newsprint mill in Ontario is not out
on strike at the present. The strike may be a
long one: it already has been for some
companies like the giant Abitibi mill which
has been closed since July.
Ironically, reports leaking out indicated
there is no shortage of paper; the mills are
reported to be full of paper, but the problem
is that truckers cannot get through the picket
lines to get the paper out to the hungry
printing plants.
Meanwhile the newspapers across the
country are limited to the amount of paper
they have been able to stockpile before the
strike closed the newsprint manufacturers.
Storage, however, is the problem. Where do
you put a few hundred tons of paper without it
getting wet and ruined?
Most weekly newspapers are now printed
at central printing plants equipped with large
rotary offsets presses. These plants have
already begun cutting back. Among the early
casulties were flyers and periodicals other
than weekly newspapers. The Village
Squire's upcoming November issue was one
of these. The magazine 'will be printed but
with the slower, more expensive sheet -fed
method on a small press.
The problem is that even if the strike is
resolved, many periodicals will be in danger
of the threatening mail strike, in which case
the publications will sit there undelivered.
These are not good days to be a publisher.
Theatre
Guthrie awards
total $14,500
to Stratford
personel
Eight Tyrone Guthrie Award applicants
received a total of $9,200 at a presentation in
the Festival Theatre Sept. 10. In addition,
$5,300 was awarded in "special category"
and unsolicited grants.
The largest sum this year, $4,000, went to
establish an award for opera singers to be
known as the "Maureen Forrester Guthrie
Award". Private donations will be solicited to
increase this initial sum so that it can serve
effectively as the basis of a continuing
scholarship for needy opera students.
Funds for the annual Guthrie Awards come
from a benefit matinee performance of a
Festival Theatre production. The perfor-
mance this year was Saint Joan on August 8.
All proceeds from the performance, after
expenses, are donated to the Awards Fund.
The 1975 total was S14,500.
The largest individual award went to a
young actor, Robin Nunn, who received
$2,500 to assist with expenses in a
multi -faceted project designed to expand his
skills as an actor and increase his knowledge
of theatre generally, through participation in
a variety of workshops and study with specific
individuals.
The second highest award, 31,500, went to
Jack Merigold of stage management to help
with travel and research necessary to the
completion of a book of personal reminiscenc-
es about the late Sir Tyrone Guthrie, with
Whom Mr. Merigold worked over a ten-year
period.
Voice coach Lloy Coutts received S1,000 to
help with the expense of a refresher study
course on new methods and new directions in
the area of voice teaching.
Two other $1,000 awards were presented:
to actor John Innes for research into dramatic
literature, history and current philosophy,
necessary to the writing of a one-man show
and a play dealing with pertinent issues of
twentieth century morality; to Hendrik
Swaneveld for purchase of and instruction in
specific musical instruments so that he will be
able to perform more effectively as a musician
in theatre orchestras.
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