: Th tv, ENTERTAINMENT, THE HERALD, Wed. July 28, 1976 SOUNDS. LIKELY — The middle-class stodginess of England’s Bury St. Edmunds produced the most remarkable maverick in 1839: Maria Louise de la Ramee. Her mother was English and her father was a mysterious Frenchman — a secret agent for the. Bonapartists, some said — who finally disappeared. | Whereupon Louise, an independent, courageous young woman convinced since childhood that she was destined for fame, persuaded her gentle © mother and grandmother to move to London, where she was determined to make a fortune as a writer, and did. Although she had travelled very little, she had a vivid imagination, was a shrewd observer of high society, and wrote with florid exuberance and self- indulgence of the peers, . roues,. Guardsmen and demi-mondaines in the capitals of Europe and fashionable watering-places as if she were one of them. She used ‘the pen-name of Ouida, which was the way she had. pronounced Louise Rent @@the pro ss ‘ob ereua th wit \ 6 197605 Frog Systesiy ine STEAMEX 15 a Aegistesed Service & Trade Mark STEAMEX utilizes the Hot Waler Estraction Process -635- Does your carpet look like Santa’s reindeer stayed | the night? _| ' Clean it faster |: by JUNE GRAHAM - -as an infant. She was a born storyteller, with a passion for beautiful places, people and objects and wrote about them glowingly. Her novels were widely denounced as immoral, so her public gobbled them up as fast as ‘she turned them out. As G.K. Chesterton said, you might laugh at her, but you ° had to read her. With Ouida, vice was vice and virtue was virtue. She always made her naughty characters pay for their flings, but what a time they had enroute! Ouida was a plain, intense little woman with a raspy voice, a sharp tongue, a soft heart, -tempestuous emotions, a great zest for life and little sense of humor. She conversed brilliantly, entertained with lavish ostentation and had a wide circle of friends. She thought she was fascinating and because she believed so completely in the flam- boyant role she had assumed, she was fascinating, but not in the way she thought. . “J was born to write, as— larks to sing,’’ she said. And and better. : for July. _ USE OUR HANDY DRIVE THROUGH WINDOW —~ ONE HOUR egies RICHARD CLEANERS LTD. SHIRTS IN‘BY 12, OUT BY 4. OPEN B30 TO 6pm. . Le | ] 9 Opposite Pon Oflice - © Do it yourself and save! ® Jet action (D penetrates ta loosen ground-in dirt and old shampoo (2) then sucks it out, ~ @ to beautify carpeth * Dries quickly!" . ® For rental location near you. — * someone remarked that you might as well preach birth control in a rabbit warren as suggest that’ Ouida should write less. Her books, in- cluding Under Two Flags and A Dog of Flanders, which are still read today, made her a fortune and she lived up to and beyond it, with Worth-designed satin gowns in romantic tones like her heroines’, a satin-lined coach drawn by two ponies and exotic parties where men greatly outnumbered women, for she wasn’t too fond of her own sex. , Passionate and ludicrous, prejudiced, rude, eccentric and brave, she was always . larger than life and never boring. She didn’t marry, but mooned after gen- tlemanly, cultivated figures, and had one-sided romances with the famous: Italian tenor Mario; -the Marchese’ Lotteria Lotharingo Della Stuffa, a This On ‘Thursday, September. 2at 4 p.m. the first game of the Canada Cup Hockey series will come to us from Ottawa, Other games will be on September 3, September 5, September 7, September 9, September 11, September 13, September 15 and if a handsome, melancholy man from an exhausted line of Patricians, who was too dominated by his. brusque English mistress, who had a head for business and an unnoticeable husband, to’ return Ouida’s love, though he enjoyed her company on an intellectual level; and, at the age of 47, the first Earl of Lytton, who was the poet Owen Meredith. In 1871, when she was 33, Quida removed herself to Italy, where some of her finest writing was produced, and where she lived splendidly and continued to hold court. She took up the cause of the downtrodden Italian peasants and wrote an expose of their appalling conditions in her book, A Village Commune. She was away ahead of her time in everything she did, such as recognizing and supporting environmental control, and’. campaigning against. cruelty to animals ... she always had numerous dogs around her,.and even when she had spent all her money . and was living in poverty, she existed on. left-over scraps from friends’ tables, or on just tea and biscuits, so the dogs could be fed. When she died her friends made sure all the dogs found ‘good homes. Noted Canadian actress Phyllis Maleolm Stewart has written a memoir of this passionate, colorful and ultimately tragic figure, which will be presented on CBC Tuesday Night, August Srdat 9 p.m. Production will be by Elizabeth Fox in Halifax, Miss Stewart will be heard as Ouida. Others in the cast are Mary Mac- Murray, David Renton, Faith Ward, Dennis That- cher, Rosemary Gilbert, and Graham Whitehead. fallon BCTV third final is necessary on September 17. A confirmation to all the hockey fans, BCTV will also be carrying fifteen Van- couver Canuck games on Wednesday evenings commencing October 6. > Lookfora | _ Homeowners policy that'll eep up with the times. Un- der many Home- owners policies — you may find yourself alarm- ingly short of in- surance. Howev- . er, if you havea SAFECOHome-, ss. owners policy, you don’t “need to worry. Because 4646 Lakelse Avenue Terrace, 8.6. VaG tR2" | SAFECO's automatic ap- always save with SAFECO, |. “Braid Insurance | Agencies Ltd: FOR ALL TYPES OF INSURANCE INCLUDING AUTOPLAN Eight of the games will be preciation fea- _ tureguarantees - replacement costs at today’s costs—new ma- terials for old— up to the limits of your policy. So you'll get dol- ‘lar-for-dollar re- imbursement— not eighty cents on.the dollar. And that’s just one more © reason why you'can almost Bus: 635-6142 Flas: 635-2015 Kid’, home games and will have a . start. time of 8 p.m, The remaining . seven away games will start at 5 p.m. Due to two of the franchises being moved, the home schedule has still not been definitely set. The movie ‘'The Tenth .Level’’ with. William Shatner ‘poses a_ fun- damental . question in modern civilization:. How far will people go in in- flicting pain on others in a ‘situation where they know in advance that they have been absolved of all respon- sibility by a higher authority? CBS has post- poned this feature several times due to. its very mature theme; however, they have now scheduled it for August’ 26 and BCTV will pre- - release them by one day, ‘playing it on Wednesday, August 25. . The play of “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance scheduled for Saturday, September 25 will be followed by “Most - Wanted Woman” the following Saturday. This is a continuation of the ad- ventures of Etta Place after the death of Butch Cassidy - and. Sundance. Katharine. Ross will continue in the role of Etta, and Supported by Don Meredith, Steve Forrest, Stella Stevens and :. Michael Constantine. Movies of some note that - are scheduled at this time. are “The Tenth Level” with - William Shatner on Wed- — nesday, August 26: “The . French Connection’ on Saturday, September 11; “Helter Skelter” in two. parts on Monday, Sep- tember 13 and Wednesday, _ September 15. Also, “Gone - With The Wind” will be shown in two parts on. “Sunday, November 7 and 7 Monday, November 8.