RECORDS : "ihe » ills' latest record /survey of sea songs ALLAN Mills’ latest record, + (Songs of the Sea, 12-inch Folkways 2312, 55% minutes), 8S an ambitious survey of the folk songs of the old sailing ‘Ships, 32 shanties and fo’c’s’le American and Canadian sail- ors. Other recordings may be as well sung, but none approach Mills’ “Songs of The Sea” in comprehensiveness and gener- Séngs. It begins with Rio ous program time, Recom- Grande, the most popular out- mended. || Ward bound shanty, and pro- Sears x feeds through voyaging ex- Twenty selections. taken Perience until the time comes to Leave Her, Johnny. } . The collection appeared _or- inally as a 13-week CBC Series. Scripts were by Edith *“Owke, whp also compiled booklet for this recording. It } 7as extensive introductory ‘etes and complete words of ll songs. from an actual concert at} Car- negie Hall are offered on a new record by The Weavers (The Weavers at Carnegie Hall, 12-inch Vanguard 9010, 45 minutes). The concert marked a re- union of the famous quartet after several years lapse. Its members ‘were: Pete Seeger (banjo), Ronnie Gilbert, Lee Hays and Fred Hellerman (guitar). The program was qis- tinguished by humor and en- thusiastic singing, although more ragged than in The Wea- vers’ heyday. Most of the numbers were American, ranging from moun- tain ballads like Darling Corey ; Mills acts as shantyman with The Four Shipmates” as crew *nd B. Lacombe accompanying " guitar. Arrangements (chiefly in English variants) &re bluff and direct without € unwelcome affectation so Often injected into this tune- ful folk art. Mills had a master teacher, well known in this ee ¢ Province, the late John Goss, to the recently popularized e 0 was an authority on the miners’ song, Sixteen Tons. { Rect _Others included Leadbelly’s _, the chorus responds solely speciality, the Negro work f N unision without harmoniz- | ‘Ng effects — just as the sail- y ve themselves did. Yet their Marching In and I’ve Got A €Sponses are too _ flawless; Home in That Rock; and the t nechanical and stiff instead of Underground Railway” song t rently vigorous as work helping slaved to escape to ne should be. Mills sings Canada: Follow the Drinking “styl peaay. Anos pats Gourd. The last named was thr € and approach vary little compiled from several versions oughout. by Lee Hays is a magnificent, Booty Anna is about Santa gwinging piece of folk imagina- ina, president of Mexico dur- tion. ‘ing the unsuccessful struggle One section is entitled *fainst American annexation «around the World.” It. in- °f California, Texas and New cludes Wimoweh (South Af- €xico. With the wonderful ,...). . 5 : rica); Suliram (Indonesian lul- ‘lchemy of folk art the under- 5 Sulina song Rock Island Line; spirit- uals: When The Saints Gc > . laby); Sholom Chaverim 8; with whom “the iill-treated (israel) and Venga Jaleo ‘“tilors instinctively sympath- (Spain — better known as } ed, became victor in the song. |.the Chesapeake and The ' Shannon tells of a British- , juadian victory in the War of 812 with the USA. A-Roving (a John Goss fav- rite) is set in Plymouth in- Quine Regimento in the fam- ous Songs of the International Brigades album of early for- ties: Stinson LP 52). This splendid album, is more successful than other recent st : 5a Seeger record projects, its AS of Amsterdam, The nos- tuneful enthusiasm, infectious a Sic Tommy’s Gone to Hilo ang exhilerating. Shenandoah; the sentimen- THESE rBcords=mnaybe obe he Sailor’s Grave; the light- tained at the People’s Coop arted Fire Down Below; the Bookstore, 337 West Pender, Nock; pre 4 ee : : Scking Boney; etc.; fully Vancouver 3. Price: $5.95 each. N. E. STORY tb ianmarize this rich cosmopoli- | “N folk art created by English, —— © + ANAUNPRECEDENTED FILM SPECTACLE mw MAGICOLOR Lar he eaturing The Greatest Sonet Stars of Ballet Music ond Opera ¢ (Gye AL ARTKINO presente ——— —": |SEE ULANOVA ¢ LEPESHINSKAYA ¢ += | EMIONOWA* MAKSAKOVAsKOZLOVSKY eee MN i ee . ‘Swan © — PROKOWIER'S “Romeo es 20 WEST HASTINGS MU3-3726 THURSDAY: ° The cry of British mothers protesting the H-tests, “For the children’s sake, stop the tests,” will echo around the world as International Children’s Day is celebrated June 1. Top Soviet picture returns ay showing in city for three-d Be grand Grand Concert has finally returned — this Thursday, Friday and Satur- day at Hastings Odeon Theatre in Vancouver, t The first feature length re- cital of excerpts from Soviet ballets and operas, its popu- larity led to a series of similar productions, among them: Con- cert of Stars and Stars of the Russian Ballet. By far the most outstanding sequence in Grand Concert is a lengthy excerpt from Boro- din’s opera, Prince Igor, fea- turing Alexander Pirogov as Igor and the celebrated Mark Reizen as Khan Kontchak. The scene concludes with the Dance of the Polovetski Maid- ens, the most commonly ex- cerpted section of the opera but rarely available visually on this continent. Folk music, scene’ from Tchaikovsky’s ~opera, Eugene Onegin, with Georgi Nellep and others: make up a varied and gratifying program. On the same bill is the Soviet featur- ette, In The Circus Arena. Next week the same theatre will present Nazar Stodolya — Ukrainian dialogue and En- glish titles. Xt Xt $e In Funny Face, Paramount has taken an old — and enter- taining Gershwin musical, and turned it into a tired Cinder- ella story. The Cinderella this time is Audrey Hepburn, who runs a grimy bookstore in New York’s Greenwich Village. And the hero is Fred Astaire, photo- grapher for a fashion maga- zine. Despite the good Gershwin tunes and lyrics, the film sags pitifully. Astaire is not given a chance to do his stuff and unfortunately looks old en- ough to be Audrey’s grand- father. She, however, is de- lightfully pixie in her pixie way, and a neat, sardonic bit is done by Kay Thompson as editor of Quality magazine. But the clothes are beautiful and Paris — in color — is beautiful as only Paris can be. MAY 24, 1957 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 13