ee fete, pee ss EEC: ee iy EER a CRE, cei Sena aed ce sey see. suger Rca mE WLS attoebeata z. ob iii ins Acie Wednesday. April 1, 1970 PAGE FIVE ailing One of the depressing aspects of looking at the ancient movies that unfurl during the long afternoons —as I've been doing this week. home with Galloping Snuffles — is the tendency to fall out of love with a lot of the sweethearts of yesteryear. Any red-blooded Canadian boy who once carried a small torch for Norma Shearer, Kay Francis. Claudette Colbert, or any of the other queens of the silver screen in the dear, dead days of yore, is apt to be in for a rude awakening the second time around, Take Sylvia Sidney, a thing I was dying to do about a quarter of a century ago. Time was when I kept a pretty regular tryst with Sylvia from.a seat up in the peanut gallery of the Rex Theatre and, by jim- miny, she brought the roses to my cheeks in those days. Imagine my dismay, . then, when one of her old pictures turned up on the tiny. screen yesterday afternoon and it came to me that we'd cutgrown each ‘other. Sylvia hadn’t changed so it had to be me. HILARIOUSLY PATHETIC I felt that sort of let-down that’s said to inflict spinsters who come across:an old treasury. of love letters in the attic only to find that, in retrospect, they're pathetically hilarious. I suppose everybody hates to be | _ separated from an illusion. - That’s really. what was hap- pening to me. My blood pressure remained distressingly normal. _ My. toes refused to curl as they ‘once had. I wouldn't bother mentioning. this except that.a couple of items ~have come to my _ attention - ~recently which bear on the. subject: : One of them is the report of the ~:reaction that’s. attended the re- “release. of a picture called “‘A. before my. time you ‘understand is awnings of ‘those. it . lids, ‘so. the: story “Now the picture is showing to modern, 1970 audiences. and the. ‘response. to. Theda: is “just -as. “positive. as itever” was, The. ~ difference: is’ that the cries of. ~ today -are cries of heartless laughter, The great. fascinator of: the past has become a comical - figure. “That.. brings me to an. essay - _ written’ by one. Barry: Bingham, . ‘onetime editor of the Louisville - Courier-Journal. a man who has : _ taken a long look at the changing. itferent Sort irens By Jack Scott “any old album of photographs to - prove the point. The girls of you have a large family there's anextrs bedroom down, waiting tobe ~ DESMOND HOLMES ‘The following. is the meteorological report for the week ending. March’ 29 furnished by the Research Station, Saanichton. Maximum tem. (Mar. 24)" 57° Minimun tem, (Mar. 24) a 34 Minimum on grass oe oo) Precipitation ; nih Total precipitation : * 9.57 Sunshine. © : oe 425° , Supplied by the meteorological | division: Department of Transport for. the week en- ding March 28. Maximum tem. (Mar, 29) oe 9 Minimum tem, (Mar. 28) 38 Mean temperature oe 4 Rain. ».- csos) oo trace Total Vee 8 100. hay He . Price is under $70,000, Ta view call SN4-8120 or ATB-1227 oie ek RDA SN iia at ala cre WS be a) Gath Ab degen Mada dae seal e ratata ave PAM W Valter ‘¢ ement } ine tt in) eadership b Must Be. Merited | Over titty: years, McCall's has: curned the re. ; _ spect of families inevery Greater Vietoria Neigh- ; The nae ds wasur ance, RE CAR WON'T START ? HPREAK DOWN UN THE MIDDLE GE NOWHERE 7. You're poaranteed PHIORITY Emergency Roads service aaa BRITISH, COLUMBIA AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION : Is SIDNEY ROV'S: c HEVION | SERVEC E : “CAML AND PICK UP AN. APPLICATION t Vietoda District Ober net a unnninhdated hes a seme ip a