Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 19, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press wednesday april 19, 1978 35 jewish survivors of holocaust Praise portrayal on television it Al Toronto survivors of the persecution of jews in the second world War have praised holocaust a television drama saying it is a tribute to those who suffered and unlikely to cause new resentment Between jewish and German canadians. Psychiatrist Henry Fenigstein 64, said in an interview the movie is a reminder against if this can help prevent another holocaust then it s Worth some canadians of. German extrac Tion have expressed fear the film will stir prejudice against them. Milton Berger 53, an Alderman in the metropolitan Toronto Borough of North York said that it reminds us we have to be on guard at All times to protect Berger who saw his parents being led away to the Gas Chambers said the film should be shown every 10 years. Chava Kwinta 48, an author and part time nurse who was imprisoned for 18 months in Belsen before being liberated by British troops in april 1945, said holocaust shows a Good understanding of what it was our Young people must know what politics can she said. We should be grateful to television a mass Audi ence will be the movie being shown Over four nights is based on a novel by Gerald Green. The Story is told words of a jew whose family was wiped out by the nazis and although the characters Are fictional the author says the facts and setting Are accurate. German embassies briefed on reaction Bonn a West Ger Man government officials say they Are embarrassed about the television film holocaust and other portrayals of the nazi Era but realize they can do Little except try to Stem any anti German reaction. This is part of our his tory a dark part. There s no sense denying said one West German official As he thumbed a copy of Gerald Green s Book based on the four part series written by Green for Abc to. Years ago we discussed whether there was anything we could do about anti Ger Man films on late shows in the he added. Finally we decided there was the influential West Ger Man newsmagazine Der Spiegel said West German diplomats in the United states feared the series might Lead to a new anti German wave among Ameri cans influenced by the film. Government sources told the associated press that information officers at West German embassies in Washington and elsewhere were briefed on How to respond to questions that might arise from the. Four episodes. Der Spiegel noted that the series is accurate but faults the film because it does not Tell viewers about modern West Germany which abhors the cruelty of the past and which May in no Way be compared with the nazi Germany of Adolf the Bonn newspaper Gen eral Anz Cigar in a dispatch from Washington entitled concentration Camp horror roots retains series record in . Los Angeles a the first episode of Abc s holocaust a dramatization of nazi atrocities against the jews in the second world War outdistanced the other networks in three major . Cities but fell Short of the viewing records set by Abc s roots. Almost half of All the viewers in new York and slightly fewer in Chicago and los Angeles watched the first of four consecutive nightly episodes according to Early Nielsen ratings. The estimated audience in new York was six million in Chicago it was 2.6 million and in los Angeles three million. There was no imme Diate estimate of the nation wide audience. The network reported that Telephone Calls it received in new York and los Angeles were almost evenly split be tween Praise and com plaints. Ten uniformed american Tenor Chambers quickly forgotten Toronto up Martin Chambers s performance in the Canadian opera company s production of la Traviata was t memorable says Stephen Godfrey opera critic for the Globe and mail. Godfrey said Chambers s steady Light Tenor was perfect for the part of Alfredo in the libretto. However the Tenor faced the problem of playing a character not admired onstage and not remembered when off he said. Chambers s passionless acting and vocal character do nothing to compensate for this Godfrey said. Chambers made his Cana Dian opera company debut during the autumn of 1977 in the role of Andres in Berg s Wozzeck. He is a professor of voice and opera director at the University of Western Ontario in London. Godfrey praised Pamela Myers s performance As Vio Letla. It is a voice entirely Capa ble of negotiating the Colora Tura of the first act along with the dramatics of the last and in Between miss Myers is As thrilling yet pure of sound As her Alfredo Evi Dently finds her of charac nazis and about 25 civilian sympathizers marched in protest against the series outside Abc s suburban Burbank Headquarters. In new York about 20 German americans demonstrated outside Abc s main offices. They carried placards saying Abc is anti demonstrations in both cities were without incident. Gerald Green author of the screenplay and novel said in a Telephone interview from new York i wrote it then i saw it last week and saw it again last night and i was moved each Lime. Not because i wrote it but be cause it is truthful dramatic important material. You feel you have a part in re creating history everybody should know City woman Magazine set for autumn Toronto up comae communications Ltd. Of to Ronto has announced it will begin to publish a new Cana Dian Magazine called City woman in september. Editor Dawn Macdonald of City woman said in a statement the Magazine will cover life styles and issues facing contemporary City women. The Magazine also will in clude stories on Interior de sign food arts travel and entertaining she said. Publisher Tim Goodman said the Magazine will have a controlled circulation and will be delivered to upper income houses in to Rollo Montreal and Vancou ver. Goodman said that besides the september Issue a Sec Ond one will be published in 1978 and five Are planned for 1979. Comae also publishes homemaker s Magazine Madame a foyer and quest Magazine. _ Tamblyn Tau smart where pharmacy comes first. R we Reserve the right to limit quantities. 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Nothing like Oscar to attract movie goers by Jerky Buck los Angeles a Oscar Gold brought More than prestige to Academy award winners. It brought an almost immediate Boon to Box office receipts. Ticket sales for Annie Hall have taken a big jump since the film was named Best picture at the awards april 3. Two other Oscar winning films Star wars and the goodbye girl have also reported an increase in audience. We Are very delighted by its said Annie Hall publicity director Lloyd Leipzig who declined to re lease any National Box office figures. The film was re issued to 500 theatres the wednesday before the awards. Figures compiled for variety the entertainment Indus try weekly show that the Woody Allen film took off immediately after the re release. For the week ended april 5, Annie Hall was the 24th biggest Box office attraction up from 34th a week earlier. In addition to the Best picture honors Annie Hall won Allen the Oscar for Best director Best actress award for Diane Keaton and Best original screenplay award for Allen and Marshall Brickman. Star wars won six oscars for music and achievements in the crafts plus a special for sound effects. It moved to 12th from 19th on the variety list for the week ending april 5. It collected at the Box office the week after the awards compared to the week before said Philip Myers of 20th Century Fox. The film has grossed in the . And Canada All time Box office Champion. Richard Dreyfuss won an Oscar actor for the goodbye girl. How did it do at the Box office afterwards the goodbye girl has done much said a spokesman for Warner Bros. It took a decided increase after winning the Oscar for Best but failure to win a major Oscar does not necessarily spell Box office trouble. Close encounters of the third kind moved to fourth from fifth for the april 5 period and recently passed the Mark at the Box office in 17 weeks of release. The account of a visit by intelligent life from another planet did win two shared an award for special sound effects editing with Star wars and cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond went Home with an Oscar. Fiction history linked Banff Alta. Up the barriers Between history and fiction in stories dealing with the development of the West Are not As formidable As Many believe Don d. Walker a University of Utah literature historian says. In an address to a Confer ence on Canadian and american Western literature in this Rocky Mountain re sort he said there was Only the slender est strand of wire not barbed be tween fiction and history. Walker said the cliched image of the Cowboy who is trampled by stampeding and then is Laid to rest in a lonely Prairie grave with Only the howling Coyote As a companion was Only one Symbol for the West. Other cultural props for the North american West included the prospector who did of thirst the Miner killed in a Cave in the rail Way worker killed in a Colli Sion and the marshal gunned town on the Dusty streets of a Frontier town. Walker rejected As Aca Demic arrogance suggestions that history has nothing to do with dead cowboys and argued that the individual nameless Cowboy upon whom much of the Western Economy and myth were founded was important not because he was a Cowboy but because he was a he suggested that burying the trampled Cowboy was part of the historians Job of explaining the past to help shed Light on the present. To do this better the Histo Rian could adopt the techniques of the novelist apply ing the imagination and perception of fiction to illuminate history Walker said. At the same time novelists would be Well advised to try their hand at the rigor Ous objective investigation of evidence followed by historians to add authenticity to their fiction he said. 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