Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 20, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press monday March 20, 1978 for people celebrate your special occasions japanese Steak House Carllton St 942-ms3 Pine parking available heated underground pages 15-30 Fanfan Fleur fascinate in one woman show photos by a Avn Glowacky Sacre Coeur Grade 2 students enjoy the show. Fanfan in search of missing magic Pearl. Soggy sprouts vanish in . By William to oily the los Angeles times London once much maligned culinary arts in Britain Are undergoing a quiet yet dramatic re Naissance. In the land of the overdone roast soggy Brussels sprouts Good food has become the lop subject of drawing room conversation overshadowing politics the Pound. To Many a Continental gourmet s Surprise Britain is becoming something of a inc Ca for lovers of Good food. People Are showing a vocal interest in the food they said Egon Honay publisher of a popular annual guide to British restaurants hotels. We have begun to care about Good food complain about Robert Carrier american born author restaurateur said i think you Are seeing a real Renaissance in this country. Britain once had the Best cuisine in Europe. The 17th 18th Century menus Are fabulous to read. French chefs like Escoffier came to Mara Berni who with her husband runs san Lorenzo one of the Best italian restaurants in London said we be seen a real revolution in British eating habits. The Public is now More adventurous. They know How to complain now. They used to accept anything placed before the elegant Cecilia Tapsell who runs Chelsea a catering service staffed by former debutantes said you la find lots of wonderful restaurants that simply weren t around a few years ago. In my parents Dayou did t talk about food. Like sex Money food was a taboo subject for conversation at the table. You ale what the servants put in front of you that was that. But now it is Chic to Cook Christopher Driver who edits the Good food guide said what was once an arcane subject of interest Only to specialists is now appealing to a wide variety of peo ple of both sexes who like to Cook to criticize restau rants where they the popularity of dining out particularly in London is enhanced by Large number of foreign restau rants that have opened Here in recent years. They have resulted in an abundance of new cooking ingred Iunus. You can get exotic herbs spices at the Safeway now that would t have been possible before people tasted these asian kit Van tulle or. A food Book editor said. There has been a revival in traditional British food Steak kidney pie rugged Hare Salmon Trout Aylesbury duckling the puddings pies. It is possible for the first Driver said to set up a gastronomic tour of Britain the Way you once did in France or Fay Wachsler food writer for the London eve Ning Standard said there is a burgeoning Fasci nation with cooking at Home. People who once had Cooks now have to Cook themselves. Many of these Middle class women have decided that As Long As they have to Cook they might As Well do it Well. And having to economize makes Good cooking a most experts attribute the growing awareness of Good cuisine to travel abroad where britons sampled other fare to increased budgets for food to a new spirit that approves of Good food. Authors Carrier Nanny note that Britain has always had Good raw materials Fine meal Hearty game tasty vegetables. It was just a matter of cooking it properly. In his latest Guidebook Ronay castigated the cafeterias restaurants along the superhighway system. The head of a Motorway catering firm protested Ronay s judgments in the letters column of the times of London a Lively Exchange ensued. As Ronay said that would t have happened before the food interest upsurge. By Pat Angek Fanfan is quite a character with a worn leather Satchel full of goodies a Lens less magnifying Glass battered umbrella plastic watering can Hammer wooden flute Green Flower pot an in visible magic Pearl. From the Pearl gingerly planted in the Centre of the gymnasium floor at Sacre Coeur school no. 1, 597 Mcdermot Avenue fan fan grows a Friend a Fleur. Kile est Belle fan fan says shaking flour s Leaf in greeting. Chorus about 50 smiling Grade 2 Stu dents silting in an Ever tightening Semi Circle eyes gleefully Bright. In minutes the children will gasp in mock pain As a Black masked Raspy voiced burglar viciously uproot Lefleur while Fanfan sleeps. An angry murmur will grow As the Meanie takes the Pearl to his ire stump hide away around his prize sprinkles evil sparkly dust which he explains will turn Fanfan into a robot. The murmuring will Esca late to shrieks As Fanfan awakens follows the chief s Trail finds the dust co Vered Pearl. Be Pas be Pas. Fan fan of course Fanfan does touch but with he help of a now frantic audience a special magic Book Man Ages to work things out. Fanfan in Whit face with a Bright red cupid s Bow Mouth Black Derby atop Short dark hair baggy plaid pants held up by color Ful suspenders is the brainchild of Gilberte Bohe Micro a 22-year-old Dynamo. She single Anderly wrote the play composed the music constructed the cos Tumes gathered props lakes the part of Fanfan the Nasty burglar no apparent audience confusion to relate the whimsically entertaining talc in song mime French. Sponsored by be Bureau do i education Francaise miss Bohemier is presenting her 25-minute show to children from kindergarten to about Irac t in 10 French Immer Sion programs throughout Winnipeg to March 21. Last june actor s show Case sponsored a similar Bohemier tour to Manitoba s schools francophone centres where she enacted her first two plays. The first Jacques it be louvre Chyau a Bohemier word for a monster with a Wolf s head Deer s Antlers Crow s wings a Bear s body is about a Metis boy who must hum the fearsome monster Only to find it s really Friendly an enchanted Indian Princess besides. The kids kind of find in Mushy Al the Les Aventi ires do capita inc Frederic is drawn from Boli Emier s acadian friends. Gilberte Bohemier As Fanfan. Capil inc Frederic is the acadian cat commander of a fishing boat who nets an undersea fish nation Dis covers buried treasure with an ironic twist. A fishing she says with an Imp ish smile. Miss Bohemier who holds a Bachelor of arts degree in French psychology from St. Boniface College grew up on a farm in St Anne Des Chen is just outside Ste. Anne. There when company called Gilbert s father would recall old French Folk tales Tell spooky stories about in Feu Follet the will o the Wisp which hovered around the Graves of the recently deceased. A lot of the stories i write have to do with my experiences on the she said of her vividly com posed repertoire. The acting started in Grade 3 i was Mary in the Christmas thing has taken her to actors showcase several weeks ago to a National theatre school audition. In both places she was told to Slick with her own stuff in was that Good. Now miss Bohemier is anticipating a unique one woman National tour with her three children s plays. Despite the enthusiastic Young audiences miss Bohe who Waits until things come up instead of mapping out an elaborate Long Range life plan thinks poem brings Little Joy to Church her real Success lies else where in entertainment. I write my own Materi says the Multi talented musician who plays guitar piano dulcimer har Monica. It s a Little bit of Folk blues. Essentially i m a Solo performer. A Singer hit Rich contralto has had an effect on Kansan s Audi ence who frequently join in on choruses but there s More to the performance than that. Ail Revoir she tells the mesmerized Stu dents. In unison the remarkably fidget free eight year Olds answer a then. A Revoir fan fan. Merci by Barbara Katz Washington Post Washington Ann Landers has quoted it in her syndicated advice column. Millions of americans others around the world have bought it As a poster or plaque to hang in their Homes. Greeting card companies have sold hundreds of thousands of cards bearing its verse. Desiderata an inspiration Al prose poem of gentle Lan Guage supposedly 17th Century origin has been heralded As a Beacon of Light illuminating modern Day life with its ancient Wisdom. Of Fering common sense advice for enjoying life placidly amid the noise the haste be yourself. You Are a child of the uni verse no less than the Trees the it has be come world famous in recent years As a Credo for living joyfully peacefully. But As the result of a 20 year old Case of mistaken identity it is bringing any thing but Joy peace to the Baltimore Church with which it has become associated. The cause of the distress is a seemingly innocuous credit line accompanying the poem found in old Saint Paul s Church Baltimore dated 1692." the Date has drawn an endless Stream of Calls let ters would be pilgrims to the Church some pestering the pastor his aides for a glimpse of an old Graves Trone or some other ancient Marker bearing the famous verse. In fact there is no such Marker because contrary to what All the posters printed on imitation Parchment would have one believe contrary to what the old time script might suggest desiderata is a product of the 20th Century not the nth. It was composed by a Terre haute ind., lawyer for an Overall manufacturing firm. I m sick of said Rev. Halsey m. Cook Rector of old St. Paul s. I be been dealing with it in times a week for 15 years. Forty times a we just wish it was for agreed Henry i Lallcer administrative Assis Tant to the Episcopalian congregation in Baltimore s Central business District. How it came to be regarded As the Wisdom of the Ages How old St. Paul s figured in its own troubles is a tale that even its True author might appreciate. The Chirch began getting Calls about desiderata Cook i Lallcer recall in the Early the poem had found a foothold in califor Nia where san Francisco s Flower children embraced it delightedly As a centuries old affirmation of their philosophy of love an peace. And from there it spread out As underground printers thinking they were dealing with a work in the Public Domain started cranking out inexpensive posters. Momentum picked up even More in the mid tips. After Adlai Stevenson died in 1965, a guest in his Home found a copy of desiderata near his bedside with notations Indi Cating he had been planning to use it on his Christmas cards. The publicity that Fol Lowed spread the poem s Fame old St. Paul s from basements to Board rooms. But the questions began cropping up. Some of the words in the poem literary authorities pointed out were not even in use at the Lime it was supposedly written. And old St. Paul s kept denying any claim to it. Gradually a Baltimore connection emerged. The Rector at old St. Paul s in the late 1950s, it turned out had been fond of essays poems of an inspirational nature. It was often his prac Tice says Rev. Frederick Ward Kates now retired living in upstate new York to mimeograph the writings he liked in Booklet form place them in pews around the Church. During Lent one year Kates recalled in a Telephone interview he came across desiderata he says in a Barbershop read ing a decided to use it on the front Page of one of his booklets. And As was also his prac Tice he made sure that the Booklet carried the letter head old St. Paul s Church Baltimore . The year of the Church s found ing. Someone who attended lenten services Kates Theo Rizes picked up the Booklet look a liking to desiderata passed it along to a Friend who passed it along to a Friend so on. And someone along the Way who reprinted it obviously transposed the Church s letter head into the misleading credit line that has been Pla Guing old St. Paul s Ever since. Whoever picked it up also omitted the name of the author a relatively obscure in Diana poet by the name of Max Ehrmann. Ehrmann born in Terre haute in 1872, made his Liv ing practising Law Busi Ness. But his real love was writing especially philosophical poems plays. He composed desiderata in 1927 wrote in his journal at the time out o need to remind himself How he wanted to live his life. The title is latin for things to be like most of his writings. Desiderata failed to attract much attention during his lifetime. Three years after his death in 19-15, his widow. Bertha k. Ehrmann tried to gain More attention by get Ting desiderata some of his other poems published As the poems of Max Ehr Mann. Ehrmann s current pub Lisher Robert l. Bell of Melrose mass., is doing All he can to set things straight. Bell who bought the rights to Ehrmann s poems from a Nephew says he spends much of his time chasing in both in out of courtrooms. At stake is not Only Max Ehrmann s reputation but the royalties on a desiderata retail Market that Bell estimates runs Between is million million yearly. Not Only the credit line needs correction he notes. One of the first infringe cars he says changed some of the poem s words the mis takes have been perpetuated. Be cheerful in the orig Inal for example often comes out be Sears carpet furniture cleaning service in t this the Day to revive enliven the color Fibre texture of your soiled dulled or matted Down carpets upholstered furniture Call us today for your in Home cleaning needs. Charge it on your All purpose account. 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