Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 18, 1967, Winnipeg, Manitoba 12 music arts Winnifer free february 1967 Leisure Magazine the arts artist returns to classrooms to veil a 41yearold cherubic composer who has conducted a life Long affair with the Frozen music of has returned to school in a search for permanent i want to construct something More lasting than a 32bar he explained in an interview earlier this Harris said it with the air of Sel Depre cation you dont expect from a Man who has been a prime figure in a River of Light music that has rippled across the Canadian scene for 17 the turned to his philosophy of made Harris such should be talked about Only Over a i Glass of Harris is in his fourth year in architecture at the University of this is his second term on the merry his first trip is a resounding song of born in Harris graduated from the provinces University in 1947 with a degree of All i got no formal degree for studying makes a successful Man plunge into a 19hour Day of production and study the search for permanent he sees these in the slants and lines of the values crystallized three years ago when he gave five talks on Csc As a Layman on he entered the univer Siviy of Manitoba for the first year i found in difficult mingling with Fellows half my but now in they Call me the Grey the Fox moves through the bewildering flux of modern society with the occasional burst of not at the huge things of our times but occasionally at but there Are so Many things that makes one harris7 occasional bursts of temper Are of the cautious Type As though he were too perilously aware of the demons of to the artist attempting to create some sort of order out of the chaos of human conformity shrouds and sur rounds him with a very positive glitter of his sentiments Are his designs his courage has to be perhaps this is Why Harris is paternally dispassionate about his own work and at the age of financially he is Back at John Lown slav gallery Gaul hits sore spot sphere is the suspicion Here that i if you were hawking tickets to hell on an instalment plan the Market Worth exploiting would be someone with a Glass Eye for Art coughed up two grand there recently for that seven foot wide if that int bad the award should go to the Art gallery of Ontario for Fobbing off the super Burger As the limit there is a nine foot Ketchup bottle turned Down after Art students left it on the gallery Steps after a Burger protest one poster carry ing student pictured in the Toronto Globe and mail had the last and probably the Best line dont Burger up our Art and a Bow to saner whoever the Man is he should get a pay credit 2mb Century Fox for coming out with a straight but compelling publicity included in a news package on their flick the Valen tines Day massacre was a reproduction of the front Page of the 1929 Chicago daily news the Day the Capone gang bumped off seven members of the Mora Obanion world premiere of this Barber shop music your cup of Tea at the play Hose March 18 is the Parade the annual show presented by the Winnipeg chapter of the society for the preservation and encouragement of Barber shop quartet singing in Eric Wilde conducts the Winnipeg symphony in a pops concert next sunday in the auditorium at 3 featured will be the ukrainian male contemporary american Art is on display at the Winnipeg Art gallery until artists include Hans Hoffman and Lubers graphics by pop Art originators will i shown until March Large painting by Harold town will lie exhibited a the gallery 21 to March town also has an exhibition of prints at the yellow door 291 Kennedy until March Jack Shadbolt will lecture on the search for the form at the Winnipeg Art gallery theatre goers will get a preview of the actors showcase entry in the Dominion drama this the play is scheduled for the theatre across the Street wednesday through Verdis Kiev fee will be presented by the Goldovsky grand opera theatre company 20 at at the the event is under the auspices of celebrity concert the Manitoba registered music teachers association will con duct auditions 25 and 26 for the Young artist series of 1967 68 at the school of University of instrumentalists not Over 25 and vocalists not Over 27 studying under registered teachers Are Len Zidovsky ukrainian graphic sculptor will be present at his exhibition 26 to March 4 at Andrews the display is sponsored by the Alpha Omega of the University of the works Are for Kevin Roland first of a semes Valenti draws up new movies code Washington Santa there is a Virginia but no ones afraid of her any a streamlined set of morals for the movies has been unveiled by motion picture Czar Jack some americans who watch the flicks each week if predictions Are expect bolder fare especially in the realm of the relaxed code for motion Pic Tures is largely the Handiwork of a Dapper texan in Alligator loafers who was until recently presi Dent Johnsons top in his Plush office three blocks from the White Valenti denied he opened the door to our modes and customs have we have gone through two our rising level of education Means More people Are demanding in and motion that Means they want honesty and As president of the motion picture Valenti draws a salary for representing eight companies embracing 90 per cent of the Industry most of what the average movie goer laps up on the Silver screen is governed by a set of rules called the production devised by the Industry in 1930 As a measure of self discipline to Ward off the odious hand of the prevalent code updated Only in 1956 was 12 pages of finely printed bans against illicit and the films conformed or were not granted maps Seal of theatre owners rarely booked a film without the Moon is a Light spoof of which seems innocent by today was not Given the nor was the Man with the Golden a drama of drug Addic their producers showed unusual courage in releasing them both made As do the cheap Nudie films produced by outlaw companies for showing in shoddy even Geoffrey maps code admitted the stresses on the taboos in the old there was a time when did not Trust themselves to Deal with such subjects As abortion or dope Addic it want Long before these As Well As More Touchy and controversial matters such As homosexual and contraception were being discussed openly and responsibly on television and in family Maga so we joined the other when Shurlock even issued the Seal to Mich big studio studies in household Hist and profanity As kiss stupid and who afraid of Virginia Woolf everyone knew the old code had out lived its in the Case of director Wil Liam a master of tasteful made a rare the smutty result violated the but so great u Wilders in fluence in film land that Shurlock issued a Seal the film was later condemned by the powerful legion of decency which classifies motion pictures for americas stupid didst when Virginia Woolf came Shurlock knew it violated the code but realized Warner Brothers was bound to release a film representing a investment Seal or no he bucked Virginia to who ordered two words then okayed the legion of decency apparently because of the films artistic shortly after Valenti passed a British Story of promiscuity and other pressures on the antiquated code hit the movies where it Hurt most in the Box television Cut audiences by almost interest in sports began to movie admissions grew Hollywood faced stiff Competition from realistic foreign films whose originality and imagination Drew sizable audiences despite Lack of the code when major companies were forced in ims to divest them selves of theatre holdings and stick to producing and distributing the tight grip which had enforced code rulings at the Point of release was now Valenti has his new but he claims film lands biggest Money makers Are not sexy he ticked off my fair West Side and Bridge on the River excellence is what makes be examples the longest guns of and All of which Valenti said Are doing boiled to 10 Brief valentis new code appears to have caught up with the growing sophistication of american while it prohibits a scenario from justifying crimes or its bans Are couched in what Valenti describes As Gau Zily defined guide to protect Young people from what May be the damaging effects of Vio Lence and certain films will be tagged suggested for mature Audi an admonition which shrinks to sea in the Small the chore of singling out sea films will fall to code administrator Shurlock who operates autonomously in since taking Over As movie Czar in Valenti has been educating him self intensively in the Industry which grosses Between two and three billion dollars a year in the alone and reaches More than 150 million viewers abroad per in he travelled to Bri and to meet and other creative foreign showings account for 55 per cent of the Industry he has peppered movie moguls with ideas for upgrading film oms image and is working with the National Council of the arts and Stanford re search Institute to establish a film there will be awards and a plan to mine campuses for creative Talent is under this frenetic which takes Valenti to new York twice a week and to los Angeles every could produce an artistic Renaissance in motion As of there Are few Legal bans inhibiting what May be shown on in the supreme court recognized motion pictures As a medium of communication entitled to the constitutional protections of the first four years in a Case involving the an italian drama about a demented peasant girl who bore the illegitimate child of a Vag rant she envisaged As the court ruled that a film could not be denied a licence because of nor can a licence be denied for Legal bans against obscenity re with customs and state Laws operating to Stem the flow of such books and but essentially the motion picture Industry sense of responsibility is virtually All that now stands Between the viewer and the powerful influence of the screen next week How do you define sin Vera closer ;