Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 5, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press october pages 1938 has Miami vice As Competition Toronto exuberant and Jennifer Dale grabs a Coffee and a seat at a cramped convenience cafe Early one afternoon to extol the Virtues of the part she has tomorrow in Csc tvs love and larceny 8 Channel 6cable it she says of Betsy the 1890s con the bes part Ever written for an actress in the Prospect of a breakthrough looms Large for the hard toiling the highly glamorized to portrayal of what was a deceitful woman is being earmarked As a highlight of the homered television everything about the to film reeks of from Rob Iscove Chautauqua girl As director to Douglas Bowie Empire As Csc is putting no Small amount of Stock into the Canadian answer to the sting by predicting a Large audience of million for the three hour make theres Well founded Confidence love and larceny swims and sails on Dales compelling everything is in or so it theres the thorny matter of com petition from South of the Border on to that Dale matter of factly inquires about Jennifer Dale con woman a fellow named Don she is you the Guy in that american Miami it turns out that Hes in this two part the Long hot summer 8 Channel 7cable Cable with this cybill from that other she some color Leav ing her a four letter word com ing to her looking As if she might head for the window just recognition maybe it int the end of the maybe it int even the end of love and but the Long hot summer makes it an Uphill struggle for the Canadian yarn to meet its audience objective and give Dale just recognition for her first rate piece of love and larceny takes Bigley from her rough Hen farm Days in where she first tries to live out her dreams of for through her Well publicized bilk of Bankers in a new York Art scam in which she posed As Andrew Carnegie illegitimate daughter where her dreams come for a i think Betsy was one of the original material Dale the More i read about the More 1 wondered about How she got away with it really says something about Bankers of the appealingly but a Tad Long at three love and larceny is Dales a Bigley or As the highly fictionalized Bigley she is in practically every its just the Type of film that can be a career stepping Stone to the whose husband Robert Lantos is one of the country most ardently nationalistic objects to the common belief that canadians must be successful abroad to be so at that May in fact be but were Here to disprove says who has just finished a feature film for separate and has been working in film adaptations of a group of Sleuth i want to hold on to my dreams that i can be recognized abroad for my work books of future May be unique by Doug Whiteway in the Book we May be soon going Back to the just As in medieval times when each Book was customer printed and illustrated usually by hand Bunch of poor monks May the books of the near future be singular made to the buyers Only this time around it wont be accomplished by anything As laborious As and cramped All that needed today is a Toronto poet critic Frank in Winnipeg this weekend for i he fourth annual Manitoba writers Guild says the technology exists that would allow a Book Lover to go to a scan any number of make a selection and have the Book printed right in the store with typeface and on paper of not Only is the customer provided with a Book suited to his own a system of electronic publishing allows buyers Access to a much wider variety of titles while saving publishers the expense of transporting and storing this weighty thing called the technological Snag its not too far says the Only technological Snag remain he is the current Lack of High Speed letter Quality but those Are in the what is farther off is the desire of Canadian publishers and bookstores to make such a the publication and distribution system in this largely centralized As it is in is Well entrenched says unlikely to change unless it can be demonstrated that electronic publishing is feasible and that Hus to come from the Bot Tom he the Only Way to Iron out the innumerable Little bugs in such a system is to try to that he is in the planning stages with a Victoria publisher to begin an Experiment in the electronic Book it wont be his first venture in As a headline writer in in Canada recently called along with British Columbia poet Fred Davey inaugurated two years ago what is considered the worlds first literary electronic entitled the Maga Zine links by computer some 70 Well known Canadian writers including Margaret George Bowering and Robert Kroetsch As Well As other interested parties such As universities and sub scribers pay a year thanks to Canada Council and support from York University where Davey teaches English for Telephone Access to the database which includes or work sin by theres been in spectacular Davey says of the Experiment in electronic pub Middle aged he May be unused to the new technology while too burdened with other expenses to afford a the area of potential growth lies with younger writers who have begun their writing careers on com Puter and Are prepared to make the sacrifices to own far Flung country the value of computers for writers in terms of and storing work has been Well Docu where something like Swift current takes on greater meaning is the ability of the com Puter to vanquish the geography of this far Flung and decentralize the Book publishing at this Davey circumvention of the publisher by going directly to the is not the aim of Swift current or an electronic rather the Point is to overcome distribution critics have suggested electronic publishing presents problems be cause there is no longer anyone to separate Good from poor works a function of the traditional publisher Davey says this is via com the consumer of literature is empowered to be his own this democracy May be too novel an experience for Many readers and Davey recognizes there will always be people who prefer the hierarchical he there will always be those who need the Seal of approval from a front Fiona Algernon Williams on Bench Edmund la Barry Watt standing Graeme Robert James Bof Antyn step up and say hello new talented performers arrive to perform for you by Doug Whiteway Eton the arts Cul Ture Welcome bring Over some Home drop around for a there Are some new people in come Here to dance and play mostly for your there the new faces in Winnipeg performing arts the additions to the Winnipeg symphony the Royal Winnipeg Ballet and contemporary dancers Canada that audiences should be Able to spot from their comfortable seats Over the next be kind to them now Winnipeg has cold Mother discovered that classical music on the radio turned him from a howling baby to a contented the seed was he started on the violin As a child in Ottawa but until the end of High school his and were directed toward his parents you mean we gave you All those violin lessons for nothing so he changed his its worked at Bruyn is the baby of the sos first violins and says Hes come a lot further than he expected to when he was in time to travel previously the principal second violin with the Saskatoon symphony Bruyn received his music degree from the University of Toronto where he played with the u of t he likes the sos 34week season it gives him time for his favorite extracurricular Randy Balzer Vancouver bom was the third of three Brothers to study the the older two quit in their Randy kept up with he attrib utes this to the he disco Vered Csc at age eight and often went to sleep listening to classical his Brothers in the next room fell asleep to Rock n maybe theres something to sleep learning after Balzer got his bachelors and masters degrees from the University of British co Lambias school of for the two he has been an extra performer with the Vancouver symphony orchestra in and around educational per formed with the ubic symphony orchestra and the National youth among he spent a year with the Regina symphony which has prepared him for Winnipeg he comes to the Winnipeg symphony orchestra As second Fiona Drinnan whats a new Sealander like you doing Way up Here Good i wonder the dancer who has joined con temporary dancers came to Canada four years ago just for three months to study dance at the Banff school of Fine but the Banff school emphasized Ballet she wanted so she went to Toronto to study at the Toronto dance i loved the classes and i just stayed dance began at age five she kept but then worked As a still in one piece but it was a Case of to dance or not to she i decided to go for it while my body was still in one cd pro Vides the relative Security of a company position after a year of freelance in but in quite worried about the James Froelich when Winnipeg symphony orchestra conductor Kazuhiro Koizumi per formed in last Froelich found it such a Good experience that when auditions were held for a so Viola and a graduate of Bostons new England conservatory of Ohio born Froelich Learned a love of stringed instruments from his father who taught Froelich played a Little violin but the Viola won Over the years Hes played with orchestras in Milwaukee and san when not Froelich likes to or violinist likes to work on engines More furniture refinish ing has been his Edmund la Fosse you might imagine just How much bal let there was in where la grew he was a rollerskating competitor but by age 10 Hgt old his 1 want to so he took jazz and Ballet lessons didst come until he was he to Complete High school and continue his dance from soloist with the National Ballet it was an easy step to new where he joined the Eliot Feld after 10 years in new he needed a he so he made a Broadway debut in some thing a Little More pop Bob losses hit musical he sees the Royal Winnipeg which he has joined As principal As yet another change of Pace he loves the mixed Reper by the la Fosse knows Baryshnikov Well enough to Call him the new York dance world int that after and they have shared Robert Miskey coming to Winnipeg As principal second Vio Lin after four years at the Edmon ton symphony orchestra is Robert educated at the University of Alberta and at Indi Ana University where he earned his masters degree under Franco Miskey is a Lover of the baroque repertoire its More geared to strings and also a Lover of cars he likes to work on engines and aftermarket he drives a sirocco part of a dynamic duo of music brother Neil just joined the Van Couver symphony As assistant principal Viola Miskey joined the so for the Opportunity to have a principal position with a major just to play As much As i can is his Basic Ca reer Cross country skiing is an extracurricular he was an avid downhill skier in Alberta but in Manitoba you have to take to the Graeme Mudd born in Dun Mudd lost All traces of a scottish accent at age six when his family moved to because of i Canada had economic opportunities Oshawa had rela Mudd took up the cello in Grade 6 but got stuck with the Bass a year later in a school or Chestra when he politely held the storeroom door while others grabbed the no regrets he has no the Bass can do Rock and Classi he Ever heard of jazz cello coming to Winnipeg As principal Bass with the so after four years with the Victoria sym phony enjoys such rigorous sports As Ocean kayaking and Rock climb youd think the latter would be deleterious to string plucking pinkies but Mudd says its less severe than it it also builds up the which comes in Handy handling the educated at the University of Toronto and at the Banff Mudd has reached his principal goal to be a principal Bass in Canada in a Good Barry Watt watching Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly in All those old musicals did Watt was at 13 he went to an Amateur dance school in and took tap and since few boys were taking he was offered Ballet lessons before you know the National Ballet school offered him a Bur sary to study in he dancer quite worried about Winters went to new auditioned for the dutch National was accepted and stayed there for seven sounds relatively it it seems As if 1 just had to sort of wait and be patient and work conscientiously and something would come says the 26yearold dancer who has joined the Royal Winnipeg Ballet As he loves the modern though he was made and known classical he loves to tour which will endear him to the eve Tourin Algernon Williams you can Call him Williams is the son of a Diplomat for Trinidad Tobago and consequently bounced around All Over the planet As his father changed growing up was mainly in and he had decided on a career in Medicine when the charms of percussion came his he was the drum Mer in an English in he moved to percussion for a dance company called London from there it was but a skip and a jump to dancing after London it was Back to Canada for apprenticeships with Toronto dance theatre and Van covers Karen Janieson dance the 26yearold who joined contemporary danc ers Canada this Hopes eventually to Start his own dance he has the entrepreneurial in he used to buy and sell cars As a sideline and he says Hes interested in Success Tutere should soothe the parents he a bit shocked when he threw Over Medicine for ;