The Age from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia • 2

THE AGE Friday December 14 1979 What a Landmark: prizes for a mere 47 NEWS DIARY Mr Walker Mr Hamer at the MCG last weekend bore this name) but the professor does add that ocker is a colloquial form ot names like Oscar In Cartload of Clay' published in 1971 George Johnson wrote: "The big man would be a good player a vigorous clubman a hearty participant in the companionship of the club bar He was a type Julian had sometimes talked to him about what the boy called an In the interest of non-sexism we note that there is also an ockerina defined in Sydney at least as woman on the eastern suburbs bus studying a race guide while slurping down a meat Digging deep leader Mr Joe Gormley and the man tipped to succeed him Mr Arthur ScargiU have gone to the American conference in Denver As is his habit on trips to the United States Mr Gormley will be trying to drop in at Watergate hotel This infamous spot has a powerful fascination for him His miners' pension fund owns 44 per cent of it The rest belongs to the Vatican publicity about this mishap was damaging the reputation on the world market We noticed that the damage was nearer than Sir Leslie may have believed The magnificent ball room in the Customs House was being prepared for a festive dinner of the Australia-China Chamber of Commerce The Chinese are a sizeable wheat customer and would surely have been interested in revelations down the corridor especially that the board made 134 accounting including one for $47 million Ocker pied THE OCKER has brawled back into the news this week but where does the term come from? We turned to Professor A Wilkes head of the English Literature Department at Sydney University and author of 'Australian who says the term superseded the nickname of anyone called Stevens He found the term in a 1927 newspaper comic strip with a character asking: you know what I did to Stevens at school on Wednesday Accusing those named Stevens may be unfair (not one of the 35 arrested He says this money will be used to buy historic buildings and land on the Great Barrier Reef to preserve wildlife Mr Mason candidly tells us that the United States Government investigated' the cult for tax evasion (the sect won) and the New South Wales Government is showing an interest in its activities As for Mrs Rye she says: think they might have made a monkey out of From Eton? WE NOTE THAT the University of Cambridge is starting to take food seriously It has appointed Lord Salmon of Sandwich to the office of Commissary Puffed wheat THE SMALL matters of just why the Wheat Board has failed to produce financial accounts to Parliament for three years was occupying the Senate committee on finance and Government operations in the Old Customs House Flinders Street yesterday Sir Leslie Price the board chairman made the point that bad attention however seemed on matters other than the housing conditions and rate of illness Several times he tried to ring Mr Fraser eager to find out whether he had kept his portfolio in the reshuffle His calls were made from the Tingha shop recalling Sir Harold remark that a good Prime Minister had to be a good butcher It turned out that Senator Chaney did not get the chop but instead was given the additional post of Minister assisting the Minister for National Development and Energy Senator Chaney remarked later: may forget Tingha but never forget the Cult calling WE HAD A telephone call from Mrs Beryl Rye of Rosanna who was curious about the people behind a fast-talking attractive girl who knocked on her door while she was busy and extracted a 50 cent donation the Mrs Rye received a strange receipt with a dog-headed baboon pictured on the front The doorknocker said she was from the Universal NO FEWER than 47 prizewinners are we hear to be announced in the extraordinary $100000 Landmark competition Embattled members of the committee are sighing with relief now that judging is over It is now up to experts to devise a plan that will work including residential areas parkland a type of Tivoli gardens fun park and an obelisk Mr Dick Hamer has put his prestige behind Landmark but one committee member tells us: will never be We are told that Mr Hamer will announce the winners next week possibly on Monday Our disclosure of the division among the committee (and the judges) has led to an attempt at a security clamp around the project particularly after Mr Tom Worland a Channel 9 reporter walked into -a- Landmark committee meeting on the fourth floor of the ANZ Building in Collins Place His request to film the 2300 entries spread around the floor was quickly rejected Mr Ron Walker the usually ebullient chairman of Landmark was noticeably cautious when approached results of Landmark are he says we expect the Premier will make the final announcement of the winner or winners early next week and I Life Church Interfaith International Chartered Australian Missionaries Prominent charities tell us they know nothing of this body and Heidelberg Council says it did not have its blessing The council sent a by-laws officer to investigate Our inquiries reveal that the doorknocker represented a cult based in California We traced its Victorian headquarters to an expensive-looking block of flats in Toorak Road Toorak but there was no one in behind the brass nameplate From Marrickville Sydney a sect elder calling himself the Reverend Bill Mason tells us that the sect offers work to unemployed artists and the disabled selling drawings He says the collectors get a third of the profits from and the sect the rest believe that the results will be widely applauded by the people of Exceptions to this applause will include some Landmark committee members including one who was threatened with expulsion for allegedly making indiscreet remarks Tingha ring TINGHA a tiny settlement about 400 kilometres north of Tamworth New South Wales is an alluvial and tin mining settlement once notorious for the squalor of the living conditions of its Aborigines Last week it was visited by Senator Fred Chaney in his role as Minister for Aboriginal Affairs His ARTS ENTERTAINMENT edited by Neil Jillett Brian Courtis TELEVISION CINEMA Colin Bennett DOUBLE BILL PARODY PHOTOGRAPHY Tony Perry influence revealed deal CRAWFORD Productions the Melbourne-based television drama producer is to become a distributor here of overseas TV programmes The company has signed an agreement with Richard Price Television Associates Ltd of London a firm that in fact marketed Crawford programmes worldwide for many years Announcing the arrangement yesterday managing director Hector Crawford said the imported programmes would include dramas documentaries and shows Programmes would also be available from an American source and would set up a separate company to handle distribution of overseas product TERRY STAPLETON and John Chambers have been appointed to Crawford Productions' board of directors THE GRUNDY Organisation which produces the Channel 0 series is to make a pilot episode for a new TV drama on crime and punishment The show will be filmed on location in and around Sydney and is being made with Australian American and other overseas markets in mind It will be called and will involve stories that follow through from a crime to police to prison Alan Coleman the producer-director of Young is to head the production team for the pilot which is expected to be completed by late January Tonights viewing BOOK NOW! 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Call your AnsettTravel Agent or Ansett Airlines on 345 ZZZZ A nude study by Karin Szekessy: extraordinary poses and Teutonic determination Deborah Forster STAGE GRANTS: A VERY DELICATE AREA We make it easy for yon Karin szekessy wife of the German painter Paul Wunderlich can claim much of the credit for her inspiration An exhibition of her photographs at the Church Street Photographic Centre Richmond indicates that her influence on vision is almost total The absolute femininity of these photographs seems to rule out any collaboration Her photographs provide the models for most of her recent paintings and if his studies of the female nude seem impossibly distorted this exhibition shows that his renditions are invariably quite accurate Judging by the way the models disport themselves before camera I would not be surprised to learn that the studio was let to a group of yoga enthusiasts on weekends The impact of this work relies for the most part on the use of a space an artificial distance created between the elements of her pictures by the almost exclusive use of wide-angle lenses Whether this has been done for her benefit or for deep metaphysical reasons as the gallery blurb suggests is debatable I suspect her style has developed from purely visual concerns By placing her nudes in virtually empty space where they appear uncomfortable and odd Szekessy effects a pseudo-surrealism which barely escapes being kitsch yet exerts a peculiar fascination These expressionless women adopt extraordinary poses with a Teutonic determination that does them credit and are photographed so seriously that there is no room for vulgarity These photographs rather sloppily printed and perhaps not enduring are at least endearing DRENT TAYLOR at the Uni- versal Workshop Fitzroy is a romantic who has been seduced by the tired philosophy of I applaud his intention of recording Brunswick Street Fitzroy before it becomes another boulevard of cute curio boutiques and soya bean outlets but if his drab little snaps are anything to go by such changes would be desirable His more personal work in spite of the need for a stronger hand in editing shows a casual eloquence that is far more YOUR BODY LIE ABV-2 6 pm: Intriguing At special presented by Kel Richards In psychiatrist Dr John Diamond demonstrates how we can measure and increase life He claims it can be weakened by refined sugar rock music or looking at pictures of Farrah Fawcett CRICKET GTV-9 7 pm: Continuation of the direct telecast from Perth of the first Test between Australia and England Commentators include Richie Benaud Freddie Trueman and David Colley THE HARDY BOYS HSV-7 730 pm: Well-produced American family series featuring the adventures of a private son Tonight In the second part of the episode Frank and Joe search for a mysterious magician leads them into an eerie quarter of New Orleans WEB ATV-0 9 pm: Promising new American drama series that emerged from the success of the Peter Finch movie In episode TV executive Ellen Cunningham (Pamela Bellwood) jeopardises her career by casting a close friend in the lead role of an important series Cnr Bwanston Franklin Streets Australia Centre J58 CaKna Street 570 Bourke Street 59 Swanston Street Melbourne Airport CU-P-860M THE AGE Prices MONDAY-FRIDAY Recommended and Maximum only Victoria and Southern NSW (by road) 14c Broken Hill 20e BY AIR ACT NSW inci Cooma South Coast Brisbane Gold Coast Sunshine Coast Sth Aust Tasmania King Is 20c Nth Queensland Parth Alica Springa Katharina Tennant Crk 2Sc Darwin Port Moresby 35c IN (Trak) Stanley Donen asks us to laugh fondly in remembrance of screen times when Broadway producer Warner Baxter turned chorus girl Ruby Keeler into a star overnight and boxer John Garfield refused to take a dita in the fifth is two potted pasticheparodies of 1930s and 40s genres presented back to back a color musical Beauties of and a black-and-white boxing melodrama (Originally the two stories were shown in the opposite order which makes more sense) As it stands in the first entrepreneur Spats Baxter (George Scott) who is determined to produce one more musical hit before he expires of some obscure show-business disease discovers the new star (his long-lost daughter) at curtain time when his bitchy leading lady passes out from booze In the second trainer Gloves Malloy (Scott) promotes as boxer a law student for suckers these hands are for reading who needs the money for his eye operation In each formula yam the beloved stock characters are ail present: They include the young bookkeeper who turns out to be a song-writing genius the torch singer who temporarily lures the boxer away from his childhood sweetheart and the crooked promoter who wants him to throw the championship at Madison Square Gardens The settings are splendidly familiar too interchangeable opening street scenes tenement rooftop interludes and naturally Busby Berkeley wedding cakes with their symmetrical overhead shots simulated by choreographer Michael Kidd Until the advent of the late show on TV full enjoyment might have been restricted to National Film Theatre buffs Now nearly everyone will recognise the plot spoofing in this homage to the heyday of the double bill In case anyone recognise it Donen prefaces the films with George Burns telling us about it and writers Larry Gelbart and Sheldon Keller pack the stories with dialogue of convoluted cliches mangled metaphors and anatomical jokes with particular reference to the eyes And for a thin slice of meat in this film sandwich they also insert a trailer for a coming attraction: a air drama seems poised midway between campy send-up of the studio pot-boilers of 40-45 years ago and nostalgic affection for them It even adds a few displays of genuine talent in its own right notably in a table-leaping song and dance routine by Barry Bostwick in This sequence in its non-parodying vitality reminds us of the one-time greatness of Stanley Donen as a musical director in partnership with Gene Kelly rhe in the Unfortunately George Scott and his wife Trish Van Devere who appear in both segments are not good choices for this kind of parody They remain dramatic rather than satiric performers a bit on the heavy side although they are surrounded bv veterans (Eli Wallach Red Buttons Art Carney) and enthusiastic voungsters (Bostwick Rebecca York Barbara Harris and Harry Hamlin in the Garfield part) more in keeping with the tradition Perhaps there is something snide about bits of in the preponderance of cheap wisecracks But the package does contain a lot of innocent nostalgic fun for Christmas CHARLES KEMP skirts around the subject of Australia Council grants very very carefully am not a critic of other he says think it is fair to say that there is still a certain amount of aesthetic gang warfare going on and I think it can only harm the Dr Kemp stage director-inresidence at Melbourne Ormond College is the recipient of a $62865 grant the smallest of the Australia three limited life grants The money will be used over 34 weeks There has been some surprise in the theatre world at the size of Dr grant which is larger than this Australia Council grant given to Hoopla ($62000) one of three main theatre companies The Australia Council says the grant has been made to Dr Kemp so that he may professional live theatre in the community by creating accessible and portable productions using four Play it MUSIC Kenneth Hince Imagination and fine performance THIS final concert from the Astra Chamber Music Society in the Collins Street Baptist Church brought generally fine performance to a programme of considerable imagination The Astra Choir under John McCaughey sang unaccompanied music by Bach Schein Keith Humble and Schoenberg the early eight-part setting of on Beautifully prepared their work was alert accurate highly musical and full of enthusiasm An occasional slight drift in pitch often in the middle voices amounted to nothing of a fault The Australian premiere of Trio Op was given by Tor Fromyhr Keith Crel-lin and Christian Wojto-wicz all ex-students of Jan Sedivka in Hobart It is hard to understand that music with such credentials has taken more than 30 years to reach Australia It was and largely still is quite unknown to me: I found it very uncommunicative though full of structural interest But the performance sounded forthright and lucid Wojtowicz played a thing it goes against the grain to call it a work entitled by Mauricio Kagel The programme note recorded that it was a reordering of the elements of the old thoroughbass to the ironic quasi polyphonic monody rich in If this means anything at all it is a pity that the music did not read it and try to live up to it Keith new work commissioned by Astra and having its maiden run was called Shapely mild in temper and pleasant to listen to it was on first hearing more of an exercise in sonority and intervals than a developed argument REPORTS actors and a director in the production of one act plays exploring the area of comic Limited life grants are not available to established companies nor can they lead to the establishment of a company The grants are available to groups of actors for performances of an unusual or experimental nature The grants underwrite the salaries of the performers and allow the actors to develop ideas that might not be commercial prospects Questions about Dr qualifications for the professional aspect of the grant are met with prickly thoughtful silence before he says: work as a professional director of college theatre 1 ceased to be an academic three years ago My background is He believes he is well qualified to administer the conditions of the grant is peculiarly my sort of area Anyone who has done the sort of background work I have done a 100000-word thesis on tne social perspective of contemporary theatre would be emP cahs himself ot those people who started as an academic and finished up a faking an honors degree in history from Melbourne University he went on to teach history for a year but gradually he became more interested in theatre originally interested me in the theatre were thebries of role he says wanted to see why things had Stage one in Dr plans will be a community production of Carl Captain of He hopes the play will open in mid-April and he is looking for interested amateur actors In the other stage of the project Dr- Kemp will direct four professional actors in one-act plays which trace the history of comedy from farce to tragi-com-edy He likes comedy a means of destroying But he has not yet decided which plays the group will do or how many nor has he chosen his actors got to be talented concerned AUSTBAUfTS GROWING RESOURCE with FANM ASTER AIR CIRCULATORS The controlled air circulator for factories offices shops stock poultry sheds nurseries etc Fanmaster cools ventil- ates increases productivity Ask our nearest office for details on floor waN and ceiling models JAZZ musicians Dave Brubeck and Herbie Mann and the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra will be featured in a three-month programme organised by the Victorian Arts Centre The programme Summer starts in mid-January and includes attractions from the Adelaide and Perth Festivals Peter Paris-based theatre company is one of them The Chief executive of Arts Centre Building Committee Mr George Fairfax said yesterday the programme was a forerunner to the opening of the theatres in 1981 and 1982 events in this programme show something of the range and quality of entertainment we will be bringing to Mr Fairfax said Swedish baritone Hakan Hage-gard Canadian pianist Andre Lap-lante soprano Cathy Berberian the Netherlands Wind Ensemble the National Youth Jazz Orchestra of Great Britain and the Cologne Mime Theatre will all give performances during the season Performances will be staged over seven different venues and many sessions will be on TWS Victorian Minis-try for the grants to dance companies have increased by $22000 from last year to $377500 The Ministry gave the Australian Ballet $71500 the Australian Dance Theatre $219000 and Kolobok Folkloric Dance Company $87000 HPHE LONGFORD Cinema A South Yarra is to extend its late-night season of Australian short films The programme designed to assist Australian film makers will now be screened on both Friday and Saturday at 1030 pm The new programme will include a month of feminist films and a season or Australian road movies 'T'OP British rock musicians will A give four concerts in London just after Christmas to raise money for United Nations Kampuchean relief The musicians include Queen Ian Dury and the Blockheads Matumbi The Who Billy Connolly Elvis Costello and the Attractions Rockpile Paul McCartney and Wings Elton John also may appear BROS PTVLUMTB) r80 Oertng Street otee NSW 203 When this Rachata Pine seeding reaches maturity it wM be part of a new Australian independence By the year 2007 the objective 6 to achieve nabonai seM-sufficiency in timber 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