Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 29, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press Friday november 29, 196s Tot club Back 0 t t a w a cp1 majority cover Mont Ikis revived the commons to to Tchili. To to to refers to maps who at tend commons sittings to thursday and stay Home for Long weekends running from Friday to monday inclusive. Maps of All parties conceded that the membership of the t to to club has t been stronger since the mid-1950s, just before j the 1956 pipeline debate. Commons attendance has held up Well during the last decade because of the proliferation of minority governments elected in 1957, 1962, 3963 and 19g5. In the years of the huge con. Serva Tive majority from 1958 to 1962, attendance was Good be cause then prime minister Diefenbaker insisted on it. With the Advent of prime minister Trudeau s majority government there is Little Prospect of the liberals being beaten in a commons vote. This Prospect had overshadowed pre Vious governments from 1962. Maps say another reason for poor attendance is the weekly air travel pass to Home Ridings. One my said before the free weekly ticket. Mari Kitners and westerners could t get Home for weekends and they stuck around Ottawa. Now we can t depend on them any More to hold up attendance on Mon Days and it is not unusual now for at Tendance in the House Mon j Day and Friday to be no More than 50 or 60. Including five or six of the 28 Cabinet ministers. There is Only one vacancy in the 264-Membcr chamber. J commons committees Seldom meet on these Days because. Many would fail to reach a quo rum. Even on tuesdays and theirs j Days the chief committee Days i attendance has been falling. J the 30-member commons de i Home never looked like this. But members of the touring Royal Winnipeg Ballet were made to feel at Home in Paris nov. 1i Al a reception following the troupe s triumphant opening night performance at the sixth International festival of the dance. The reception at the Canadian embassy was Given by minister in residence Eldon Black and mrs. Black. Winni Peg s cultural whizz kids went on to win two coveted medals at the Paris festival. They now Are preparing to perform in Russia where their arrival was eagerly announced by the soviet newspaper pravda. Ranks As top troupe Fence committee for instance. Finished its tuesday sitting this week with Only five members j present though the quorum is 16. On the same Day in the coir. J Mons attendance for a special j debate Oil the nigerian civil War slumped at times to Only 21, one above the quorum. Wednesday morning is the j time set aside for the meetings j of party caucuses. The com i Mons does not sit wednesday i evening. Some maps Are suggesting thai the commons cancel most of its i wednesday afternoon Sillings to provide More time for commit tee sessions. The commons thursday sit Ting this week was cancelled for just this purpose As an Experiment. By Leo Ryan Paris special they came they were seen and they conquer a a. On their first invasion of Paris the dancers of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet More than justified their reputation of being Canada s most exportable cultural product. The Royal Winni Eggers. Who Are at present touring Eastern Europe firmly established themselves As a troupe to be taken seriously in Europe on the basis of their performances at the sixth International festival of the dance. They shared Golden slur awards with the dance theatre of Alwin Nikolais the talented futuristic american group. The a wards were announced unexpectedly on thursday. The Winnipeg Ballet won a medal As the Best com Pany and Christine Hen Nessy another for Best female interpretation. The p r o g r a m of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet consisted of two creations by c a n a Dian choreographer Brian Macci Onald. Aimez Vous Bach and Pas d action. And works by two americans the still Point by Tod i Bolyn Der and opus ij5 by Anna Sokolow. The Macdona d creations were a Success whereas the other two items on the program notably opus 65, were less successful. In an in depth review of the Royal Winni Eggers. Leading Ballet critic Claude Bai Gercs of be Figaro said the Canadian troupe voluntarily look impertinent liberties with the traditional vocabulary but Only after having demonstrated that it was unbeatable in orthodox the result he said was a spectacle of great linear Brian Maedonald. Says or. Baig Neres seems to have teen born to employ this instrument c h o r e o after describing with Evi Dent pleasure the two Maedonald productions or. Baig Neres said that in Pas d a c t i o n a h r i s t Ine Hennessy performed the in England we dress for breakfast you should see us on sunday mornings. The occasion. Like this Robe tailored by when we actually have time to eat a Trade Caulfeild. Tonal English breakfast. A curious fabric blend of we might tackle a Brace of kippers then Lambswool an Cotton. Soft and Light. Yet you Down a stack of Toast spread with dark bitter could Wash it every week. But the thing you la marmalade. T . We might even finish v i y i i a the warmth Ofviey Lla the crossword. V a a Between you and the we Wear Viyella for there Are imitations or course. Draughty ancestral Home. Most sparkling variations that have been seen for a Long time on the Paris everything seems to be a game with her As one senses she is incapable of committing the least error of balance or or. Baig Neres. However Felt it was unfortunate that the evening ended with opus fi5, a Ballet which he depicted As timidly hippy and without writing in 1 Aurore a right Wing Paris morning paper Rene Sirvin said the Royal Winni Eggers enraptured the audience with virtuosity and he said miss Hennessy was ravishing irresistibly Furphy and marvellously Jacqueline Cartier. The critic of t he mass circulation evening paper France soil compared miss Hennessy to the finest Champagne and said that dancer Richard Ruther Ford s remarkable Joie re Livre animated the whole troupe. In the Paris morning paper be Parisien Gilberte Cournand said the two Maedonald ballets would make the most stubborn individuals like classical she said the c a n a Dian choreographer possessed a natural sense of geometry in Olivier Merlin Ballet critic of be Monde the influential Paris daily was also full of Praise but said in was unfortunate that the nest classical troupe to have Ever taken part in the festival should have chosen a parody As a piece de resistance Pas from the soloists he singled out Ottawa born David Moroni miss Hen Nessy and Richard Ruther Ford. In an amusing vein Youra Bousquet writing in the Centre left daily com Bat kept expressing her amazement that a troupe of such High Quality should come from a Canadian City that most French people associated with wheat and she said that Pas cd action was a masterpiece of the p a r o d i c miss Bousquet stressed that the nearly total Success of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet proves once More to so called worldly Ballet Manes and the chauvinistic French that not Only Paris offers the highest Paul Bourcier who has been writing a special dance column Lor Over a decade in Les Nouvelle Lilter Aires a literary and arts weekly praised the visitors for their technical Quality and commendable the Maedonald productions he added were of remarkable inventiveness and full of or. Bourcier in his column regretted the fact that the three French troupes which took part in this festival did not measure up to Standard they were in fact booed and cat called by the he said that in the six year history of the festival Only one French troupe of inter National the Marseilles Ballet had taken part. Various papers in France have published articles lamenting about the Stag nation of Ballet in the country Over recent years. Most frequently cited Rea sons for the crisis Are the Lack of choreographers the Lack of a coherent Cul Tural policy by the govern ment insufficient govern ment credits and the exis tence of class minister May face commons grilling Flag Grey cup linkages of Unity son introduced and made Mem Bers of the legion boo him in that meeting in the Capitol theatre is a red Flag with a White Centre that bears a red Maple Leal that s what he said says to do with an the old he said it s a Good Flag. And when it is old and tattered it should be burned in dignity Book Flag. Then he went on to say there Are a whole Bunch of rules about the Flag that Aren t hard to learn. He said he did t have time to go into All the rules but he would bring a Book on it next meanwhile he had to a train for the Grey cup and he had to pick up a Little Maple Leaf Flag to wave at the and get that feeling. Week catch by John Mcmanus i could t see what tattered flags had to do with the Grey cup but he said it s the same kind of thing it s kind of a feeling. So this old Guy and i stood in the chill wind and looked up at this tattered Flag and he talked about the cup and the Flag. He said the Grey cup is kind of a patriotic thing it kind of unites both parts of the country in a common emotional kind of a cause so it s like a Flag. But How about tattered flags Well that was his Point. There Are too Many tattered flags around on buildings and in front of drive ins and other places. People have forgotten How they should feel about the Flag game it s really an emotional thing be e Grey cup Sato Cabinet resigns he said we could have this proud kind of a feeling All the time if we just paused once in a while to think of the Flag As a kind of rallying Point All year round and respected it. No he did t think he was a Patriot in disguise he said he was a Patriot and was proud of it. What would he do about the tattered dirty flags that Are hanging Well first of All the mayor or some other big shot should proclaim a Flag Day or a Flag week to make everyone realize what the Flag Means. That Way the old flags would be replaced and with a whole Bunch of publicity on them people would Start looking up to something they take for granted. He knows a Little bit about flags. First of All he said the Canadian Flag that Lester Pear a plate dinner off a request by the Winnipeg student Christian movement that the City sponsor a plate dinner during its National conference in december was turned Down by Winnipeg s civic finance committee thursday. Committee also decided to take no action on an alternative request that the City provide a Grant of to the Organiza Tion. Finance committee was told by John Brown conference Secretary that the meeting would attract about 250 students from All parts of the country. The theme of the conference would be Asia and Southeast Asia or. Brown said. Unfortunately the student Christian movement is one of the least Able organizations to carry the financial Burden of the conference and we must resignations to pre look to other sources for Mier Eisaku Sato who will he said that the total Cost for form a new Cabinet following the conference would exceed his re election to a third two-1 this would include year term As president of the travel expenses and Accomma ruling Liberal democratic Dation a t the Marlborough party. Sato is assured the pre hotel. Mie ship because of the party s j we Are looking for subsidies parliamentary majority. Totalling Tokyo a japanese Cabinet members Friday sub i correction i i r f . F a Viyella so so available by in card. W Ham hoi i ins a Corr Pliny limited Paisley Scolland. A i a Deal. 6, . Hollins company room 2c2, 12 Shuler Slipel Toronto 1. By Victor Mackie Ottawa Canada is consolidating ils administration offices in the City of Winnipeg in the new Richardson building. Transport minister Paul Hellyer told the House of commons this week. James Richardson minister without portfolio May face opposition questioning in the com Mons As a result of the disclosure. Or. Richardson Heads a Cabin it committee which is studying air Canada ownership and operation and retains financial inter est in the company in the form of fixed income the decision to concentrate the offices under one roof was made two years ago. At that time the Crown company decided to move All its administrative offices into one building and made an extensive examination of existing and planned buildings in the Winnipeg or. Hilyer said. The minister replied to questions by Stanley Schumacher in the commons. Tile name of the building to which the offices Are to be moved is the Richardson build ing he said. Owner of the building is Lombard place limited. Air Canada will lease Square feet of office space and feet of storage space. Ail Canada will occupy five and one half floors. Or. Schumacher asked for the annual rental per Square foot of space leased. Or. Hilyer re plied it has not been the company s practice to disclose details of such transactions because the disclosure could pre judiciously affect the com Pany in future transactions. The company made an examination of its requirements in Winnipeg and the going Market rate for office and storage space suitable to its present and future needs. It opened discus Sions with the building s owners in 196g and concluded negotiations in september 1967. The lease with the building owners was approved by the Board of directors of air Canada at its meeting of october 31, said or. Hilyer. Air Canada will Lake posses Sion on August 1, 1969 according to present plans he indicated. Or. Hilyer was asked when the term of the lease covering air Canada s present premises in Winnipeg were scheduled to expire. He replied air Canada building and Donnell building dec. 31, 1974 and Canadian wheat Board building dec. 31, 1969. 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