The Wingham Advance-Times, 1974-04-25, Page 22Cressroads--April 25, 1974—
Dinah on a Sunday
"When I was younger I never really wanted to get into show
business..I wanted to be a vet or a teacher or something
really useful."
(Continued from page 1)
pearances on the now -defunct
CBC production, "This Hour Has
Seven Days
But, in the next year she may
be best known for her superb
concerts with symphony orches-
tras across Canada. Quality,
depth and excellent showman-
ship will be the passwords as she
appears with musicians such as
m
the Edlnton Symphony Or-
chestra, a group of 64 masters of
music in her own production.
She will be touring with the
various orchestras most of the
year and it will be the first time
she has appeared live wtsuch a
large group. "My largest -band
before had 16 pieces. I am really
expecting great things from these
concerts."
Dinah also opened recently
with Tom Kneebone at the Royal
York in Toronto where the
famous team presented a right of
Noel Coward and Cole Porter ar-
rangements.
CRTC RULING NOT NEEDED:
The CRTC ruling on Canadian
content is not of any use or need
now, says Dinah, who maintains
the ruling merely nudged disc
jockeys • over the hump and got
them to give a listen to Canadian
music.
Shortly after the ruling was
laid down, Dinah says, "D.J.s
were playing a lot more than 30
"What I really want to do is a feature length movie."
HOW CAN /???
By Anne Ashley
Q. How can.I preserve the nat-
ural color of knotty pine?
A. By treating it with a half-
and-half solution of turpentine
a n d linseed oil. A thorough
treatment should be allowed to
dry for about two hours at least.
Any excess may then be •wiped
off. Keep up the.treatment, us-
ing a good clean brush, until the
'wood no longer absorbs the mix-
ture.
Q. How can I dispel the un-
pleasant odor that comes from
mq garbage disposal after grind-
ing cabbage, cauliflower, onions,
or other strong -smelling vege-
tables?
A. By grinding up a half -lemon
after all the waste matter has
been disposed of.
Q. How can I, when skinning
hailed potatoes for a salad, avoid
having the skins sticking to my
knife and hands?
A. By putting a little shorten -
Cr -o s s to a ds1
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because they really thought It
was great music."
Her favorite music lies in. the
pop and rock vein. "I love Anne
Murray." Also among her favo-
rites are the Guess Who. ()MIL
Edward Lear and Dr. Mus .
And so, when she writes for
herself, it's usually fairly loose
and pop. "I usually get a feeling
with the words and de the words
first, whereas a lot of writer's do
the music first."
Has she had musical training?
"Not a thing. Which I could kick
myself around the block for
because it was offered to me and
my mother was very good about
that."
She has picked up the guitar
and "it's just sort of a feeling I
have to play, rather than - any
'educated form of musicianship,"
What is true success for Dinah
Christie? "What I really want to
dp is a feature length movie and
especially the one I have written,
Harley's Head, the one penned by
Gordon Pinsent."
What is holding it back is a
heavy budget. "There is a
slow -down in gathering finances
to do it."
Other than that, she is in-
terested in films from a direc-
tor's point of view. "I just started
to do some directing for stage
musicals last season and I am in-
terested in at least that one shot
at directing for a flick.
"The other thing I would like to
do, after this year is out, is come
back here and just be here to do
some writing. And not have to
work right away and pay off the
next mortgage payment quick-
ly.
f,
SETTLE. DOWN, BABE:
Her husband Bob, an ex-
tremely talented creative photo-
grapher, would also join her in
her writing retreat because
Dinah, both- the artist and the
person, needs him, as these lyrics
she penned will verify:
"My old man is in Montreal.
I'm in Thunder Bay.
I wonder how we love
It all, living life
This way.
Still, I wait for
Him to call,
Hoping he will say
" 'You don't have to
Leave at all.
Come to me and
Stay.
Settle down, babe,
In the town or
On the farm.
Settle. down, babe.
I'll keep you warm
/1
Dinah Christie relaxes with her husband and their horses at
her farm near Holstein. Why does she retreat to the Country
every chance she gets? "Sanity. Ethics and real sanity,"
COME AND SING 1T:
Winnipeg has long beeryn one of
Dinah's pet, cities in which to per-
form. Why? "There are many in-
telligent people there, a tot of
'money and a deep interest in the
arts. The minute you say you are
an actress or singer or an artist in
any sense, they say, 'Hey, come
and sing it. Let's make a TV show
or something.' It isn't the same in
Toronto where they are indiffer-
ent to entertainers arid just a
little too tough.
"Winnipeg people are like'
country people. They are wide
open, love artists and love being
entertained. I would work there
atthe drop of a hat, and have and
will again. •
DON'T HAVE TO WALLOW:
As one would suspect upon
meeting the vibrant Dinah Chris-
tie, she frowns on "downer
music". "I don't like music that
screams out things like 'look
what you have done to our planet'
and all that sort of thing.
"People, I think, want mainly
Agricultural Tidbits
WITH ADRIAN VOS
An advertisement in a mag-
azine offered "organically grown
vegetable seed" for sale. It made
me think that some people have
ideas in their food eating habits
and are willing to pay much more
for food than less concerned
people do. On the other hand, now
that beef grown with the help of
hormones, that could theoreti-
cally cause cancer, is banned
from our shores, one hears more
about a possible price increase
than about a possible cancer
-death.
0 0 0
Not many people are too con-
cerned about the reports that
there is only enough wheat in the
world today to feed this world for
one -- I repeat one — month. It is
frightening. One worldwide crop
failure, or near failure, and
literally millions upon millions of
people will starve to death. Most
everyone knows that now, at this
very moment, hundreds of thou-
sands of Africans are starving.
We, the rich peoples, go right on
squandering our resources that
grow food.
Another reason for food short-
ages is the fact that there is so
much opposition to ingredients to
preserve food from spoilage. It
could presumably cause some-
thing or other if eaten in great
quantities, so we prefer to let it
• rot. I heard mention that one-
third of all food spoils for this
reason.
0 0 0
Beef prices in the NWT are so
high that people can't afford to
buy it. Now they turn to the hunt-
ers for caribou meat. The Indian
leaders are worried that the cari-
bou may be hunted to extinction if
this keeps up.
0 0 0
Marion Brechin, of the Con-
sumers Association of Canada, is
one of those women who claims to
come from a farming area
(Lucknow) . If she did, she cer-
tainly wasn't very observant, for
she keeps on attacking farmers.
The last I heard of her was that
consumers can't go on indefinite-
ly subsidizing agriculture. For
heavens sake, can't 'one of her
fellow CAC's set her straight that
agriculture has been subsidizing
consumers for a hundred years?
0 0 0
Food prices are up, what? Look
at running shoes. They are up 60
per cent and before the year is
out further increases are expect-
ed.
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• HERE IS A CHALLENGING
MAZE ' WHICH I AM SURE
YOU WILL ENJOY. THE OB-
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WaY ON AND OFF RAMPS.
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START AND TWIG ENDS ,IME.
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to be entertained and lifted up:
They don't . want the scoldings .
and finger -wagging and to- be told
they're heading for doom unless
we do something. I. think ,they al-
ready know that,. so I "say bring
them up.
"Give them happy music and
good entertainment because
there are other choices. We don't
have to wallow in what we've
created. We can get up out of it."
Dinah Christie is one of those
choices who can get us up,.
As she talked her eyes darted
towards the window periodically,
usually following with a bulletin
on how the horses were doing.
And the Sunday reveries were
dancing in her smiles.
Tornottow would end this
Dinah. And with the 'dawning
would be born a new one. A Dinah
ready for the stage. Ready to en-
tertain.
But, Dinah on a Sunday is
ready only for a real fable: a
gallopade loping fast and free,
further ... and further... away . .
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