Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 29, 1972, Winnipeg, Manitoba Women of factory worker is party Leader following is the third article in a series on the women of China by a missionary of the United Church of Christ who has just visited there. By Rhea White head Sian special in this Cap ital of the ancient chinese Empire through which the old silk route and Marco Polo passed we were taken to visit the fore most textile Mill of China s Northwest a sprawling brightly lit Plant employing workers 60 per cent of whom Are women. We saw various units of the factory and chatted with Young apprentices in their quarters simple but adequate accommodations House three of them to a room. The factory Nursery takes children of workers from two months to seven years. Mothers with nursing infants get time off their shifts to breast feed their babies. Of the 470 children in the Nursery 210 Are Over two years of age and stay five Days a week return ing to their families for week ends. Parents pay the equivalent a month to have their children in the Nursery. We Kuei Hsein an. Attractive pigtailed lass whose looks belie her 33 years toured the factory grounds with us. We Kuei Hsein is not Only a worker in this Tex tile Mill tending and threading the spinning frames but was chosen a member of the Cen trial committee of the recently held ninth Congress of the chinese communist party. She has been written up in the Chin reached a level of lower Middle school. Early recognized As Bright activist today she is the Leader of the factory s party cell. Yet despite her High rank am political responsibilities she spends two thirds of her time tending the spindles priding herself in her fast work am leading the women in her factory Section to greater production. The factory claimed that 1970 s increase in Cotton yarn production equalled All the in creases of the past 10 years. The 1971 figures Are not in yet. Said we Kuei Hsein with red books in our hands we will March Forward. We will spin millions of Yards of Cotton cloth o support struggle on five con we Kuei Hsein was married to years ago following she ays the instructions of chair Man mao1 to marry late. She described her three months old on with enthusiasm similar to hat of any new Mother. Her husband is a University graduate involved in military re search half an hour away from their Home in Sian. They have a Small Flat Here with an aunt caring for the baby but if we i pm pc Ohki tuesday february 29, 1972 Omen s news Ese press As a Model for workers to follow. We Kuei Hsein s family migrated to Sian from Honan province following a natural disaster in 1939. She says she grew up helping her Mother scavenge for food and had no Opportunity for any education. She joined the textile Mill at age .14 and through spare time Choc Jig in the factory has Kuei Hsein is especially Bias she sleeps at the textile Mill returning Home Only a couple o time s a week. In addition the aunt sometimes brings the Bab to the Mill. We Kuei Hsein s Devotion t her work is apparent. She i proud of the dignity Ordinary workers in China have achieved. Her task she said is to help create a sense o greater purposefulness among workers. They will have a deep sense of responsibility toward their she continued Only if they keep the whole world situation in mind. They must be far sighted selfless. And this Means having the breadth of vision to work not Only for the chinese people but the people of the Mondrian Romance revealed by author exceptional child study stresses common needs Amsterdam Reuter a 62-year-old dutch author has disclosed her part in an unhappy Romance in the life of dutch abstract Painter Piet Mondrian More than 40 years ago. Lily Van Wareren believes she was the Only woman to whom Mondrian Ever proposed marriage. She was Only 20 and the Painter was in his late 50s. But her father the dutch poet Dop Bles to the marriage and hustled his daughter Back to Amsterdam from Paris where Mondrian was working at the time. The Painter the Centenary of whose birth Falls this year died still unmarried in new York in 1944. At a press conference Here mrs. Van Wareren said i was four years old when we first met. I would sit on Mondrian s knee and sing Street songs for him our next meeting was 16 years later in Paris. We fell in love but my father disapproved because of the difference in our she said she received three love letters from Mondrian after his proposal was refused and then never heard of him again. She keeps the letters under lock and key and would show them to no one. They Are a precious remembrance and they were very intimate. He was a very romantic Cor describing some of the artist s eccentricities she said contemporary dancers from left Michele Presley David Tucker and Janet Andreae rehearse symphony to the Devil to be part of the Winnipeg company s final Home show of the season Friday and saturday at the play House theatre faces of jazz in dance Paul Charach studio 411 ave. Mull it narc anniversary special one j natural co Rcv Chad a unfed pm 2 proofs phone 775-4608 passports fast service the reason he turned to abstract painting geometrical Fig ures and straight lines was that he came to believe that the creation was a mistake of god and that anything natural meant suffering. He thought the Only Way to avoid suffering was to be unnatural. This resulted for instance in his belief that houses should not have windows so that peo ple could not see nature. He hated the color Green to such an extent that a plastic Tulip in his studio had its leaves painted White. He was a keen jazz fan and always painted to jazz music. Even when he was discovered dead in new York the Gramo phone at his bedside was still warm and he had been work ing furiously at his unfinished painting Victory Boogie Boogie 1944." contemporary dancers o Winnipeg will close its Secor season As a fully professional company with performance Friday and saturday in the playhouse theatre. Included in the program Wil be a completely new Section o the three part dance three faces of jazz. Choreographer for the new Section is Lusia Pavlichenko of Saskatoon. Especially Active with several ukrainian arts groups. Miss Pavlichenko has previously choreographed for a Range of Amateur dance companies from Folk dance troupes to Clas Sical ballets. In addition she has operated her own Ballet school in Saska Toon for Many years. A number of her former students have gone on to dance professionally with major dance companies throughout Canada and in eng land. One of the members of con temporary dancers Michele Presley received much of her training from miss Pavlichenko. Miss Pavloch Entas choreographic assignment for contemporary dancers is her first Opportunity to set a work for a fully professional dance com Pany. The music she has chosen for the 15-minute segment is the blood sweat and tears Rendi Tion of symphony to the Devil. The first two segments of three faces of jazz Are by Rachel Browne artistic director of the company. Originally done As separate pieces the Seg m e n t s were Recho Neogra plied by miss Browne to fit in to the larger work and show through dance the evolution of jazz. Miss Browne s Conte Hondo and mighty world will also be on the program. Music for Onte Hondo is by Mauricio Ohana and the accompaniment Tor mighty world is made up of music and lyrics by Black . Folk Singer Odetta. Mighty world portrays the toys and sorrows of an oppressed people its mood is uplifting and its message is one if Hope and vitality. Another work on the program will be James Clouser s dances Screes it profane to a de Pussy score. The dance deals the subject of love in its acred and profane aspects. The duet was scheduled to be performed in the season s open ing Home shows in november. Cancelled on that occasion on account of technical difficulties it was rescheduled for the Jan uary program. An injury to one of the dancers shortly before the performances necessitated the substitution of another work once again. Completing the March pro Gram will be Anderca choreographed by miss Browne to music by Tzvi Avni Edgar Varese and Anton Webern. Based on Eskimo folklore. Anderca says something about a Hardy existence in a forbidding Region of the world. Though not meant to be a literal portrayal of Eskimo life the work con cures primal struggle Between Man and a hostile environment. Anderca has a special significance to contemporary dancers or another reason. It was one of the works from the com p a n y s repertoire when it toured the Northwest Terri tories last year. In the past season the com Pany has presented four pre Mieres and a coast to coast tour covering 22 cities 38 performances and Miles of travel. Tin gut9 Hilary Back from War Ottawa up grass never gets time to grow under the feet of adventurous Hilary Brown an Ottawa broadcaster who recently re turned from a Jaunt to the other Side of the world. Until a few months ago she was a parliamentary reporter for ctr television. But she had a Chance to cover the of course professional naturally tie 2500th anniversary of the per Sian Empire last october in Iran and since the station Here could t Send her or allow a leave of absence she quit her Job and went the party Over the tall blonde 31-year-old kept on going. Among other places she visited Nepal scaling mountains for 10 Days with a Sherpa guide. Expecting the Onset of the Pakistan War she went to Rawalpindi in West Pakistan where she worked for the bbl and Csc running film up the khyber pass. The most dangerous part was the driving style of truckers High on drugs she says. A couple of times she visited West Pakistan air bases under Indian air attack. She also earned herself a Nick name tin gut Hilary be cause while she feasted on a succession of strange dishes male code Agues from the Western press had digestive difficulties. Miss Brown had no sooner returned to Canada than she was planning Ber next trip to Florida to take part in Ocean Saurag competitions. J a keen Sailor she ins j served on she Crew a Ber a Cpd races Ami Cuce sailed a to Rio de we spelt tone brazilian Mountain villages. She has also vacationed in Cuba and interviewed com Mandos in the Middle East in the course of her travels. Her father entomologist a. W. A. Brown former head of the zoology department at the University of Western Ontario and her Mother encouraged travel. During a couple of years when or. Brown was working in Geneva Switzerland with the world health Organiza Tion Hilary attended the inter National school where she picked up French and met some unusual people. The Spanish Infanta was my classmate for heaven s she recalls. Returning to Canada she earned an honors English and French degree in 1962 Start ing her studies at Western and transferring on a scholar ship to the University of Brit ish Columbia. Then she was off to London 1 est tilt Fasmussen ctr Broom tuts Doy is fee re Trossen of Agnes Street is def crating iwo 96ft j birthday tuesday. Bom ;