Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 23, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Photos by Gerry Cairns Jackson Beardy and his mural a Rich testimony to verbal Indian history by Pat Zanger artist Jackson beards mural in the Manitoba museum of Man and nature boreal Forest gallery is a Rich visual testimony to a traditionally verbal Indian his tory passed through the acrylic on Canvas is tucked in a second level Corner overlooking the gallery newly christened working water fall and till be at least 16 months before the boreal Forest is ready for the Beardy will finish within a called the great Chain of it illustrates the insignificance of Man to its symbolism will be broken Down item by item in an extensive legend to one Side of the but the artist momentarily put Down his brushes to give a pre View explanation and when the great spirit thought of building a world in the image of himself through his dreams to make it real he created the four Basic elements from there he put on special properties or then the great spirit created the Cosmos the Moon and he imparted the Earth to be the life to be the when he built the he needed some Earth was one of four orders which included animals and Man the last in that Beardy each order had Mother Earth nurtured her capable of growth and fed animals which also possessed Healing Powers and the ability of precognition they could relate to the humans were Given very special Powers the Power to the Power of auras and the Power to in Indian legends animals and humans once had the ability to a detail of the Beardy communicate with each but Man with his reasoning decided he should have what followed was a break in the interrelationship among the four orders which was eventually restored somewhat by the Advent of a Christlike with the return to the peace pipe was created to Symbol ize the Beardy the pipes Stone bowl represented Mother tobacco came from the decorations such As claws and feathers were animal and Man is the Cele in that Case he commemorates All when he celebrates with the great beards mural shows a tiny Pip smoking human vastly overshadowed by the three other at the paintings base Mother Earth exudes her essence feeding the animal and human orders which Are connected by lines to a father Sun Symbol in the upper right Indian culture forbids artists to make even a suggestion of what the creator looks so we make the Beardy the four life lines also represent the four directions everything is connected at All grandmother Moon floats in the upper left Corner Over Grandfather thunderbird who controls the elements of nature including four Clouds signifying the huge Flowers climb up the left showing the importance of and then i Drew in a a Bear was very Strong and Man was so Beardy spent his Early child Hood steeped in storyteller and traditionalist influences at Gar Den Hill Island he also had color dreams of the legends and disco Vered a natural gift for the Oral and visual finally began to meld when Beardy was in his Early now he has be come if not major Indian artist Winnipeg free press May 1978 for people pages 2136 magician with words remembers speedy Days when he wrote by William Gildea the Washington Post Washington who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men the Shadow the Shadow the cloaked crime remembered for his blazing automatic and the eerie laugh that chilled his victims and radio listeners from 1936 to is in the Hes in of but not that of lament he is 80 years White he an Swers to the name Walter or Maxwell Maxwell Grant was the pen name used by Gibson when he wrote All 282 Shadow novels averaging More than a million words a year for 15 years that used to sell up to pulp copies each Al most As fast As they hit the the some recently reissued in became the basis for the famous radio series and eventually made the author a cult the Shadow did not die in 1952 today there Are nostalgic Shadow and correspondents who address letters to Gibson Sim the his it got to be part of my he the closer you got to the faster the ideas the living the Black master were just two of the titles that launched the Shadow on the Trail of evildoers a character of unlimited scope that Gibson says he created by combining Houdini penchant for escapes with the hypnotic Power of tibetan a magician himself and author of 125 other Many on Gibson used to travel with Hou Blackstone and and is married to the widow of the celebrated great Gibson was in Washington for the annual brotherhood of magicians he could write a word Shadow novel in four a deadline wizard on Philadelphia papers in the Early Gibson gained a reputation for so when he walked into the Smith Street publishing of fice in new York in 1931 to peddle some detective the editor youre just the Man we want to we want four novels another Street Smith official had the idea for the Shadow their Only instruction was to hit his typewriter keys and get Back to them in a introduce a Chinatown Angle in the first novel to save they planned to use a cover with a chinese figure on Gibson obliged with an Rule 1 for new Gambler lose and quit by David Miller Las the Best thing that can Hap pen to a person walking into his first Casino to Gamble is to walk out a loser a few minutes firs time winners often think Treyve got the that they Are fortunes favor that kind of thinking keeps them from learning the gamblers most Basic lesson the Odds Are with the House always and in All All professional gamblers know they dont Gam ble big with their own they use Money management and two Basic rules for smart budget the amount of Money you can afford to lose each Day and never exceed test your quit if its the pros make Small bets until they Start winning and then they use their winnings to make bigger and bigger when their Luck turns they quit while they Are if their Luck is bad to Start they change tables or or just Stop for several in any they never exceed their daily loss and the casinos hate the Amateur often plays the other Way he presses his Luck when its doubling his bets and hoping his Luck will the Amateur steams ahead when he should head for the steam and so he is known in the Trade As a the casinos love amateurs often Gamble without really knowing the Basic rules of the games or the variations that each Ca sino May they throw their Money on the tables and Trust to they play the mindless games of Chance that require no like Slot machines and which have High Odds favouring the Ca because most people dont take the time to learn How to play the better Slot play is the biggest Revenue maker for Las vegas Ca every thousands of people walk away from Mil Lions of dollars in jackpots because they Haven taken the time to read the machines payoff they expect the coins to come clattering out or a Bell to ring or lights to Flash to Tell them Treyve the Best games in the House Are Blackjack and a player can exercise knowledge and skill with Blackjack and the Odds against such a player Are about three per craps offers the Best less than one per cent against the player who takes free Stock reduction 20 of Carls lounge Wear swimwear 263 Kennedy Early chapter titled the Tea shop of Wang once i got the Tempo of the he i would suddenly get a new like getting up a new i had a backlog of for i was doing re search into castles in England and came across a description of the Golden Arrow i began to think of some murders taking place on this and so came the opening pages of Zemba legendary Pari Sian the master fighter whom All gang Dom feared became so popular so fast that in 1932 he was asked to deliver 24 stories at words he did it in 10 months and then wrote four extra he figures Hes written 29 million including thurs tons 200 tricks you can bunco games to be Ware Houdini Houdini several in the Biff Brewster series under the name of Andy and judo explained under the name of Noboru Shi the Shadow always Man aged to escape from difficult trapped Between two violent he ducked As the robots smashed each other to locked Hou Din fashion in a Bridge builders encasement under water the Shadow managed one of his most memorable escapes he egged on the villain to turn up the air pressure until the Case blew shooting him up through the in one Gibson says he always plotted Well in Advance at least before he put paper in his some writ ers would get to chapter 11 and have a big id sweat it out on the if i took five Days when i should have taken id make it up on the hed add bits of color that occurred to him in Midden As he the Carriage nudged a Large Cooper bowl further and fur ther toward the Edge of his until it fell off with a Gong just the sound he says that might occur in the Lair of Wang he took the names of Many of his characters from rail Road if some body said to Why did you use me for the villain in that Story id because you happen to be the third Stop on the Winchendon Cranston was the name of a scottish theatre owner whom Gibson came across in some notes for one of his Houdini there was a financier named lament Maxwell Holden and Grant names which Gib son combined for his own pen name were both new York City magic As Maxwell Gibson made for his first Shadow for and near the if i wanted to buy a he i could do it with two but i never really did make any if i had invested in things like real i would have come out very i didst get As much As a typist would today for Typ ing and copies of the originals Are Worth More now than i got for writing he has much saved at his Home the equivalent of 22 rooms including barn and smaller House in Eddy Ive got a room for Shadow a room for True crime a room for Ive got about books in All the stuff from the great raymonds the memories prompted a laugh from not the laugh he made a the shuddering laugh of Triumph that ended each Shadow the gentle laugh of the shadows 20 to 40 off entire Singer fabric youll find fabulous fabric savings at Singer sewing centres this Here Are just a few of the Good buys youll 20 off off 60 Qiana Nylon in 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