ag TRE ene ES + ee ye YN a ea eye HU HS ee ee eee YH TH capital. i North America’s largest The Ottawa Ski parking lot caters to over 10,000 skiing ent ski club is only thirty minutes from the centre of Canada’s Club with its five lodges, dozen tows, new chair lift and huge husiasts from the Ortawa-Hull area. . M7 if A at, i 5 hace re) ES A burnper crop of Canadian skiers are getting to the top of their favourite slopes the easy way--by tow, T-bar or chair lift. At Camp Fortune in the Laurentians a newly - installed lift carrics 900 skiers an hour up the Skyline Hill. Siding has come a long way since 1887 when Lord Tanul- ‘ron gave citizens of Ottawa _ their first glimpse aft the ‘sport: “amidst universal Gcti- sion”, he strapped on a pair ~ ee” a OO _ TT RS kiing with North A dozen years later organized skiing got its start in Canada with the formation of ski-jump clubs. Today near most citics in Canada there are ski grounds with excellent } trails, tows, jumps and lodges where enthusiasts flock for a | weer or a weekend. The Ot- | rawa Ski Club with its 400 6 acres in Gatineau. Park pro- vides healthful recreation for, or its many menthers one of 2 whom, young Anne Hegetveit, % i sok SES We ET SS of skis and descended the brought home to Canada its Bias More than 700,000 Canadians are taking to the snow-covered hills this winter. With slopes near Government first gold medal for skiing them they’re packing over two million dollars in brand new skis and equipment. _ House, yagi poumpy from the Winter Olympics. Friday, January 5, 1962 @ prince nupert Vally News | MOVIE COLUMN Ginger Rogers bans “Twist” | By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD (fi—Resist the twist, urges Ginger Rogers, who hopes the danee mania will ring out with the old year. Such a prospect is not likely, but at Jeast Ginger ean raise her voice In dissent. And who is better qualified? Wasn't she the pretty half of the most suceess- ful dance team of all time? She puts her protest pretty strongly: ‘The twist is unpracefal, vul- rar and exhibitionism personi- fied. I think it’s) terrible.” There are those who — aprec with her, but they are ino the minority. The rest of the coun- try has fone twist-nulty. Three feature fllms on the craze are flooding the theatres. The ailhiae night ebub industry bas taken 9 twist for the better and is stap- ing vw comeback with the new dance, “YT think It’s a seandal,” wer relterates, “Tt is the most obscene dance Tye ever seen, worse than the shimmy ever wits, If people realized how bad they looked while doing, the — twist, they wouldn't da it.” So lf someone asks her ta dwist, Gingers reply wilh he her nla sone: ST won'l danee.” “Never, Another thing when Taceept an oimvitation to danee, + one wee te see oe Gin- Army ranks for overhaul OTTAWA @ — An overhaul of the officer rank structure in the Canadian Army is approaching as the army acquires new weap- ons and equipment, informants say, Such a revision would put the army on the samme level as the nuvy and the RCAF in which the rank structure is based more on weapous and equipment commanded by these services than on the number of men wha operate them. For instance, references to a navy or RCAF squadron concern the number of ships or planes in that squadron, But references to an army battalion coneern the mumber of men in it, nat the number of weapons, vehicles and sO.On. it’s because To want ta dance with the man. —T don't see any sense In standing: five feet away trom your partner, Te might as well be in Honoka. Ginger said she was intro. duced to the twist on (he golf course, of all places, She met n friend who said her t0-year- old son had been out until 6 ian, doing the daneey whieh employs maximum movement of the hips and minimum of the feet. “She demonstrated if for me and Jo owas astonished!" Ginger suid, oT was embarrassed for al of us = my husband Willan Marshall, aogirl friend and the three young enddies. And for Lhe womnn too, beenwse — she didn't. realize how obscene she looked. ; “m was ad though a friend said she wanted to shaw you samething--and then did a belly danee, With prindst” Ginger is often asked about a reunion with her famed part- cer, Pred Astalre, eld like nothing betler,” ahe sald. “My husband) was) talking bout dt reeently and sid he was poling to diseusa tt with red, “But Chen Trend an item that Pred Astaire would not cisenss three things dn interviews: Us ane, Clinger Towers, Barrie Chase. Bo T told any husband that maybe db warn'h sie oa good iden” GILBERT AND SULLIVAN COPYRIGHTS UP Musical world awaits distortions By CAROL KENNEDY LONDON (CP)—At midnight New Yeur's Eve, the twin pillars of Brit- ain’s musical stage rocked to their four-square Victorian foundations, As the belly rang out the old year, the Gilbert and Sullivan close, the D'Oyly Carte company operatlas passed out of copy- was packing them in with a rep- right and simultaneously the ertory season at London's Savoy Do'lyly Carte family, whose op-, Theatre, traditional home of G era company has held the soletand §. Tt was built in 1882 out of performance rights since 1908.1G and S profits; so was the forfeited its power to preserve’ Sayoy Hotel. The operattas are G and S$ in the time - honored) yaditionally known as the Savoy 19th century mould. operas, Barely 20 hours after the copy- “The Jast chance,” said one right bonds were broken, the} London critic, “ta see the works curtain went up at Stratford-jpure and complete and almost on-Avon on a freewheeling try-|untouched by time, They de» oul production by Sadlers Wells |serve to be seen.” Opera of Tolanthe --- with news: | pit most reviewers seemed to paper erities barred, The prow |yoave a sigh of relief that the ducers sald earily they had tsq-yvear-ald spell was about to something tp heir sleeves, be broken and fresh air sweep Five weeks later, on February Jat last through the mummified g, London OLS its fi ‘st taste af production conventions, modern = ape Gilbert and Sih- | orwoenty days to freedom from van with Sir Tyrone Guthrie's Lpyigyry clehes ” oyulted Noel versions of FMS Pinafore andleocawin in The Dally Mall - The Plrates of Pengaanee, : “Thay dG and S& will have to ALREADY SUCCESS face the bold, bad world on thelr These two productions alrendy [OWN werits.” have heen sheeessful in New| ‘Tople, the new weekly news York and Stratford, Ont. maravine, slashed right and left As the old order drew to itstat what it ealled “the p'oyly Assessments show rise in city There ds no osiieht over-all ine have been inereased by. 4.6 per crouse di assessments of dand, cent while Jand assaessments houses nnd puldings ta Prince have been reduced by five per Rupert this year, Clly Assessor cent. HM, Alderdice sald today, Mr, Alderdice sald that owne Mr, Alderdice sald that in ne= ers an receiving their 19620 ass cordanee with dnstinetions re sessments will notlee that nl- eelved from. the Provineial As-) though no work has been envied sessment Commissioner da Vie- out on their property in the Loria, assessments have change past year, the 1962) valies will ed, (Assessment Equalintion Act, differ from the 1964 assessed toh, vauies," Accord, to Vieloria, 1968 'Chenerally speaking, property, assessments are ceqaired to be house rad) budldings jn Prince related to the coment market Rupert are asscased at 50 par valites, To madntad a fade ores eent of their eurrent market lationship doo Prinee Tapert, a value” sieht addist upwards da die Proviously, nissessed vaio provements and a slight td-~were based an 60 per een at Justment downware in hind) 7958 yates for provements valiies, bask heen Weeessayvy, Sand 6G per eent of 155) values Thiprevements hige bean ia fer tnd, creased by 4b per eent white Me Alderdiees added thick pers Jond lia been reduced: by pee GOV wishing to nppenl thea vse cont, [sessments mitst do ko before Assesamnents an rarprovententa Pheriery: 2 etter eee tte vos pat eee enero macnn Carte - blanche, music’s tough - es monopoly.” The standards of those “rit- ualistie productions,” it snorted, would hardly be tolerated ino a touring show. NOTHING ALTERED “Not a word of Gilbert's li- bretti has been altered, not even the onee - topical jokes that lit- ter the seript like crumbling historic monuments.” Yet, as Topic reluctantly ad- mits, the D'Oyly Carte Gilbert and Sullivan has become a na- (ional Institution. Britons have ny ostroney sentimental attach- ment to family concerns and it was only three generations back when Richard D'Oyly Carte first brought Arthur Sullivan and the sardonic, sidewhiskered William Schwenk Gilbert together in their stormy partnership. With vomposer and Hbrettist, he was in oat the birth af the oripdnad productions and Gil- perti's old prompt - hooks sti form the basis of today's D'Oyly Carte operas, Many fans would probably ngree with the words of Bridget Woyly Carte, present owner of the company: “What was food enough for grandfather Richarel is rood enough for me” Not long ago, 600,000 Britons showed their affection for the old ways by slening a petition to let TYOyly Carte relain’ the copyrights for ever, Bul Pariia- penser ee faet ame eheen . . in a nearby cafeteri Eager youngsters crowd the outdo season’s end the Midget Ski Programme will gra Neconallintion”’ — hopes to fin- a) serene gg. merica oF a or snack bar. National Fiim Board of 1a RE ae SI Be oe oo : OP POP RAMA LEP OSEPID DOPE LDIOL SE OGING CLPPBEE POLE IOUE VOD DILE DIVA ID IO TD. ALLYSON, POWELL RETIE KNOT HOLLYWOOD UP -- “You just can’t break up after 15 years,’ says actor-producer Dick Powell, The entertainer was explaining to reporters Wednesday that it’s no secret that he and his wife, actress dune Allyson, have long since reconciled. Miss Allyson, 38, was granted an interlocutory divorce decree last January 31 after she charged extreme eruelty and testified Powell, 57, was “always tied up with business.” ‘alifornia law requires a one year waiting period before a final decree is granted. Powell said they have the same home and have been appearing in public together for severa months, since Miss Allyson'suffered a throat ailment, The vetress has fully: re- covered after (wo operations, Powell said. Miss Allyson commented: "It was a diveree that never should have been. Besides both of us realized we had made a horrible mistake — that we loved cach other. It was the children who brought us together again, Both Pamela, 13, and Rickie, 12, kept telling us we were both idiots, Dilek and I finally got the message,” PAO POPEDPOL IDLO LOPPE SOIL LILI IIOEALEVIDIUIUEEIIAIIGILODITELELILOTY REPAIR VESTRIES COVENTRY, England @ —- A squad of young German crafts- men started to reconstruct the veatrles of Coventry Cathedral this month, The huildings were levelled by German bombing during the Second World War, The squad — called “Operation ish jts work by next May, when the new eathedral will be conse- crated. B.C, Land Surveyor Nn. 3. REYNOLDS on Beaner Block Box 2ht Phone 2082 PRANCH OFFICE Wox 1488 Terrace Phone VIS ~ Hh22 —— popeerenmneny ms het : SOE ce on j ny i iy i Y) Hy i an es he vk Y q seme SoS ARE a imeem a pete nt! NGO| CIVIC CENTRE MONDAY -— 8 p.m. $450.00 ‘in Prizes Plus Cash Prizes Jt’s only a few hundred feet from your car to one of a half-dozen Ane hills in Fortune area of the Ottawa Ski Club. 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