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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 28, 1965, Winnipeg, Manitoba 14 Winnipeg free press thursday january 28, 1965 Rural land use coordinator salary to . Is concerned with the adjustment of agricultural and Rural resources to modern conditions technological changes one of the major areas requiring attention is Rural land use. This position has been established to provide technical advice on posed programmes and to assist in the formulation and review of National policy relating to land use. The Man sought for this assign ment will be a University Grad uate probably in economics geography or agriculture and will have experience in the development and implementation of agricultural programmes. It is hoped that some of this experience will relate to farm enlargement consolidation or alternate land use. In addition he will have demonstrated the ability and capacity to direct a professional staff and to meet and address the Public. For details write civil service commission of Canada Ottawa 4, reference 65-310. Agricultural rehabilitation and development administration a review by Christopher Dafoe almost a disaster Irma la Douce a musical comedy by Marguerite Mon not Alexandra Geffort Ancl others. Staged for the Mani Toba theatre Centre by Roc co Bufano. By Christopher Dafoe Rocco Bufano s production of the French musical comedy Irma la Douce Falte just Short of being a Complete disaster. On hand to save the Day with not a min Ute to spare Are two valiant actors Eric Donkin and Len Cariou. But let s begin at the be ginning. The Spectator arrives in the theatre and is confronted by a Mammoth Grey Sel of the sort that might have been designed does the Label on the oven cleaner in your Kitchen say Wear rubber gloves. Do not allow to spill or get on skin clothes paint furniture or linoleum. Do not use on heated surfaces. Avoid electrical or does the Label say. Or does the Label say. Caution Wear rubber gloves. 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Redemption through any outside Agen cies brokers etc., will be honoured except where specifically authorized in writing by Owen Paul inc. Void if prohibited taxed or restricted. Customer must pay any sales tax. Mail All coupons to Owen Paul inc., . Box 307, Don Mills Ontario. In . Mail to Owen Paul. Inc., . Box 1513, Iowa Cash redemption value of one cent. 15 by Gordon Craig s sometime around the turn of the Century for a production of oedipus. Beyond a frowning group of columns we see what appears to be a Bare Brick Wall. This in fact is what it is. One is sup posed to think of Paris. One tries. The set is not Early Craig. It is late Colin Winslow. Then the band strikes up. Once again one is supposed to think of Paris. One tries but in vain. One is reminded rather of the string Trio in the pump room at Bath. Never has Marguerite Monnot sounded More like Ivor Novello. The musical director is Glen Harrison. The Lush arrange ments Are the work of some unknown hand. Irma la Duce a charming Little Story about a Paris tart and her Ponce began its life As a musical in Paris. Then it turned up in an English version in London. In its trip across the Channel one gathers it lost a bit of its gallic Charm but still it was innocent Gay a Delight fully bittersweet trifle. T h e n Irma crossed the Atlantic and hollow. The rare moments the americans got their hands on it. God save Irma. The Gay Little musical with the innocent a refile was goosed into More Vig Orous and leering life for the expense account and theatre party set. The score was jazzed up. The lyrics were spiced. The double Lentendre was replaced by Broad jest that the yahoos would understand. The charming and sophisticated Story of a love affair in the Milieu became a locker room joke. Then Irma came to Winnipeg and or. Bufano and company added the finishing touches. The theory seems to be forgive me if i m wrong that if the new York expense account audience is made up of yahoos the Winnipeg audience must be made up of provincial dolts. So it w a s that the great insult was perpetrated. Someone at Mac should warn visiting directors that Winnipeg is not the Backwoods. We have standards Here. We weren t born yesterday. Sows ears cannot be palmed off As silk purses. The keynote of Irma la Douce is innocence. The Crooks who in habit Boble hot s bar in the Milieu Are not Chicago gang sters. They Are not characters out of threepenny opera. It is fashionable these Days to drag Brecht in at every Opportunity a program note states baldly that Irma has brechtian Over tones. Rubbish. Little women will have brechtian overtones next Irma cannot be Success fully played As a soiled tramp a fallen woman a cheap pickup. She is there s no use denying it a prostitute but her patrons have somehow not left their fingerprints on her. She is As in Nocent As Chloe. She just Hap pens to make her living on her Back. The opening scene in which Nestor a myopic Law student defends Irma and becomes her Ponce is in this production exceedingly sinister. One would Al most suspect he were watching serious social drama. The entire scene is played heavily and so Are most of the scenes which in which the proper mood is established and the right Light touch flourishes come when Eric Don Kin Bob and Len Cariou nes Tor hold Centre stage. These two alone seem to have resisted the temptation to labor unnecessarily in the brechtian vineyards. After the interval however a dramatic change occurs. The old heaviness vanishes Brecht goes out the window and the Light less that should have prevailed throughout comes bubbling to the surface. One is tempted to sus Jet that act two is under re Learned. Apart from a hopeless y overblown prison cell number and a group rendition of there s Only one Paris for that in which shameless Lily gilding be comes the order of the Day the act is right in every Way. Some body should have noticed the striking difference Between acts one and two at rehearsal. What can be said about lil Ian Lewis performance in the ;