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THE NEW CANADIAN
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Organ for Canadians of Japanese Origin
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1959.

TORONTO. ONT.

SOLILOQUY

I have been waiting for some time for a commentary to appear
about Seven Samurai from someone among the hundreds of people
t who have seen it in Toronto or Vancouver. But none forthcoming.
BE AMS VILLE, O
I have been tempted to make some random comments on the Japanese remember arrived for Mr. Yasufilm since catching up with it in a small cinema in London’s Chelsea taro Yamaga Satu "day, April
district. It is much of a good thing to pass up.
18th, when his dream of the past
One aspect that struck me almost immediately was that it is 10 years became a reality with
not a particularly Japanese film in .the light of what we are now the official opening- of the Nip­
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accustomed to expect from having seen Rashomon, Gates of Hell ponia Home for aged Japanese
and Ugetsu. It lacks the racking anguish of bone-cutting incision Canadians.
into human values and the wealth of brooding psychological probing
The ceremony in which some
into character that made these other films so memorable and vaulted 250 persons from London, St.
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Japan’s international reputation into a front-rank position. Yet, fqv Catherines, .Hamilton, Toronto
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all that, Se'ven Samurai is a good film, a crackingly exciting and and local Occidental residents at­
entertaining one.
tended, Mr. Yamaga was paid tri­
I have read in one publicity blurb the following advice:
bute not only for his time and
In approaching this masterpiece, a Canadian audience should keep in
effort, but also his fortune to
mmd'the variations of classical Japanese dramatic conventions and-tradi­
realize this humanitarian project.
tional concepts from Western attitudes.
/
In any community there is a
I cannot disagree more strongly with this rather mechanical need to help the aged and to pro­
—photo by JACK HEMMY
approach. (And is it a “masterpiece”?) It might be true of other vide them with security and com­
Japanese films with their stylized decor and strange lyricism but fort. It was with this purpose in
In the arms of the eldest resident of the Nipnonia Home Air.
not of Seven Samurai. This film needs an entirely different frame mind that Mr. Yamaga initiated Ichizo Higo, is Shirley Komiyama, 3-year-old daughter of Rev. Ko­
of reference. And it is one with which a Canadian audience is most the building of the Nipponia miyama of Hamilton, Ontario af the opening ceremony April 18th.
familiar.
Home.
The group picture depicts from left to right, John Smith, M.P. for
Lincoln, Hon. Chas. Daley, Member of Legislative /Assembly, Rev. T.
To
me,
as
I
sat
watching
this
film,
it
had
all
the
elements
that
Lawrence
Crawford
represent
­
•>
one asks for in the Hollywood Western; and therein, I think, lies its ing Welfare Minister- Cecile, who Komiyama, Chairman of Board of Directors for Nipponia Home,
main attraction. Translated into 16th century Japanese terms are officially declared the Home open, Lawrence Crawford, Public Welfare Dept, for Ontario, and Y.
the cliches of the myth of the West: the isolation of the lonely fron­ told the gathering that this Ven­ Yamaga.
tier, the Indian massacre, the deadly gunsman, the bronco-busting, ture may start a trend in care
the duel, the sub-plot of the love-affair between the juvenile leads, for the aged throughout Canada. started on the revised plan to age. By the time the Home was
the sharply-defined Good and Bad Guys, and several other inex- He said the provincial govern­ cut costs by the Robin' Stewart completed ' the
contributions
ment will give a 50 per rent Construction - Company of St. amounted to $17,662.60.
{Continued on Page Eight')
The
grant to any organizations which Catherines, Ontario, on July. 2, Atkinson Charitable Foundation
can raise the other half for simi- 1958. The Home was completely also made a contribution of
liar projects. Mr. Crawford spe­ ready for occupation by Decem­ $1,000 toward the cost of furnish­
cializes in the care and welfare ber 15, 1958.
ings.
of the aging.
In view of the increased co^t of
With the funds that came in.
CHICAGO.—Contra’ry to popu­ written language, Chinese and
ll
The
Nipponia Home was incor­ construction, the Board of Direc­ it was possible to use better
lar belief, a linguist does not Japanese languages have nothing porated under Letters Patent tors decided to adopt a member­ materials in the construction as
necessarily speak more than one in common, Markel stated. They Sept. 30, 1957. The application ship system and also to make an well as building an “ofuro” (Ja­
language. But if he has mastered are about as different as English for the incorporation was made appeal to the Japanese Canadian panese style bath.)
’’I other tongues, he is known as a is to Japanese. In fact, Chinese by a provisional Board of Direc­ residents in Ontario for dona­
The Board of Directors has de­
Polgot linguist.
belongs
to the Sino-Tibetan tors consisting of Rev. T. Komi­ tions to help defray the estimat­ cided to inscribe the names and
1 This was learned at the Mc­ family of languages while Japa­
yama of Hamilton, Ontario. Mrs. ed shortage of $12,000 from the gifts of the 917 donors, including
Cormick YWCA April 10 when nese is related to the Malayo- T. Uyehara of Edmonton, Alber­ $80,045 cost. The Board mailed all life members, in a “Memorial
Norman Markel discussed, “Lin­ Polynesian.
ta, and Messrs. Y. Yamaga and 1,800 letters of appeal to the re­ Book.”
When a baby first babbles, he T. Namba, both of Hamilton and sidents of Toronto. Friends in
guistics, the Scientific Method of
At present, there are foui' re­
Analyzing Language”, before a utters all the sounds that can be Mr. T. Umezuki of Toronto.
other Ontario .centres were also sidents in the Home. All arc ensmall but highly enthusiastic found in all the languages of the
joying the congenial atmosphere.
The Board ■ then appointed approached.
world. But he begins to discrimi­ George Yamazaki of the architec­
gathering of Chicago JACLers.
The appeal brought a magnifi­ and Japanese meals, It is heeped
Markel, a graduate student at nate and verbalizes those^ sounds tural firm of Henry Fliess of cent response so that within two that the Home will serve more
me university of Chicago and he hears most often. Which is Toronto to draw up the plans for months the total contributions Japanese Canadian Senior C (ti­
presently research assistant in why his first words are usually the Home. Construction was exceeded the amount of the short- zens in the future.
the.speech laboratory there’, gave, “dada” and “ma-ma”!
During the question period,
an interesting explanation of how
someone wondered out loud why
this science came into being.
our English language lacks the
Brahmans Start Method
onomatoipeia of the Japanese.
obtained by calling Mr. Joe Ohori
The Japanese Canadian Centre plant tour on Monday.
India hundreds of years ago,
instance, a cartoon portrays will
The- cost, approximately $18.00 at EM. 6-7140, Monday to Friday
sponsor a tour to Rochester,
(■he Brahmans faced the problem For
the sound of an object falling
oi recording their intricate pray- into water as simply “splash’ . New York on May 17-18 to see per person, includes the charter­ between 10:00 A.M. and 3:00 P.M.
the films “Chushingura”
(4 ed bus fare (4 hours one way),
or chants for future generations.
the National JACL hours),
hotel accomodations, banquet and
“Himeyuri-no-to’’
A form of notation was worked Whereupon
President Shigeo Wakamatsu,
three
films. The cost will be re­
out which kept track of all the who was present at the meeting, hours) and All Quiet On The
duced
depending upon the number Due on U.S. Market
and valleys of intonation, drily observed that perhaps the Western Front”.
of
persons
participating in the Seedless Watermelon
The two Japanese films select­
and stresses, etc.—a Japanese. could contribute to the
tour.
method so amazinglv accurate King’s English by introducing ed this time are the ones donated
Please contact Mr. Kameoka bv
NEW YORK.—The first grow­
to the George Eastman House by
^hat a prayer dating from the
Japanese film producers. The May 9th at EM. 8-9934. If the ing of a Japan-developed seedless
m century could be chanted to- .the sound “kotonk”films are originals and uncensor­ first bus is filled, you will be watermellon is planned for this
V.f1 exactly the same way.
ed. If there is no desire to see the placed on a waiting list until the month on a 40-acre farm in
T ..
the British, conquered
Huntsville, S. C., with marketing
films you may take a sightseeing second bus is reasonably filled.
A ’A 'hey adopted this system
Further
information
may
be
set for mid-June in New York
tour on Sunday and the Kodak
A irkroduced it to western civil­
ization.
City through a major chain re­
tailer. _
Markel believes that the best
Phoney
Eskimo
Art
by
Japan
Floods
Can.
Market
The new seedless melons, which
describing sounds is by
'TOKYO.—Japan
Air
Lincs
had
a successful test growing in
OTTAWA.

Imitation
Eskimo
carvings
made
by
Japanese
!?•
criteria or articula- predicted on the basis of advance
Mexico
last year, are 15 to 18
craftsmen

using
beef
bone
instead
of
ivory
and
stone

have
invad
­
, ?
h"°r example, the bookings that Japan will have a
ed the Canadian market. These carvings are about two inches high, pounds in weight as compared
th ’ can be explained as record tourist season this year.
depict traditional poses, and are cheap. They are a “ghastly imita­ with the 25-30 pound average of
1 s>ound which is produced
JAL already has booked from tion''' of the genuine Eskimo article, says Jim Houston, an artist the usual watermelon.
tfaH
of the tongue is the U.S., 3,694 tourists in 147
Considered 10 to 12 per cent
•' •behind the upper central separate groups. Last year the with the Federal Northern Affairs Department. He saw some of
-"Cisors.
the Japanese products in Vancouver and he believes they are being sweeter than present varieties,
airlines carried 1,451 persons m sold elsewhere in Canada. Mr. Huston, who helped promote the sale the melons will not only be easier
'J-Varies to foreign fields 62 groups.
to eat but will fit better into re­
v-lL k?ne .a great deal to adA total of 1.405 tourists also of Eskimo carvings which now yields about $125,000 a year, isn’t frigerators.
worried
about
the
competition.
But
the
precaution
of
establishing
aboT-A-!Jri®UI5''lc5- Because most have booked passage to Japan
The seedless watermelon was
a trademark for the true Canadian Eskimo work has been taken. The
have no written lan- from various Asian countries.
developed
by Japanese geneticist,
newly-apnroved
emblem
shows
an
igloo
with
the
words
Canadian
r<=^r--A‘e?e 711611 °f God through
Domestic tourist travel have
Underwent much pains- also shown large gains. JAL Eskimo Art on a sticker or tie-on tag. The tag also has space for Dr. Norio Kondo, chief of the
Yre5earch and collecting of said. For the six-month March- the carver’s name, the place of origin and the price. Both stickers plant-breeding laboratory of the
supply the natives with through
period, 20,791 and tags are applied to the carving at the point of origin. The Tokyo University of Agriculture.
-^.acons of the Gospels.
persons have made reservations trademark, registered by the Northern Affairs Department, was Staff members of the school are
Nothing in Common
compared with 17,000 persons for requested by the Eskimos themselves in the face of imitations of providing technical assistance in
the Huntsville project.
their work.
'Me from the orthography or the same period last year. -

Centre Tour to Rochester, N.Y. to View 1 Chushiitgura

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Chrysanthemum Society
Meeting This Friday

keg news
10-PIN. April 12i Ken Ncnai
Te-rv Doi 575 (203); Shig Mitt;'?'* (204); Paul Omoto 538 (232);
Tad Wakabayashi t503.
''Marv Mitsuki 483; Yoko Noda
-WFXr- Akave 462; Alma Miike 454;
K^-a Nakagawa 440; Jean Nitta, 430;
By JACK NISHIZAKI
Okada 422; Kay Shin 420; Terrie
kanaka 415; Fudge Hayakawa 413;
The Kent Japanese Canadian
Alice Nagami 402.
Association
membership drive
' Team results; Frank Omoto over Mike
Po; Tad Wakabayashi over Ken Doi which, took place April 12th was
7_n? p*auj Omoto over Barney Ozawa. , most successful.
The public is
Yoko* Noda over John Nishimura 3-1;
credited
for
the
grand
co-opera­
Tosh Fujioka over Mas Kawabata 3^-^;
VoHta over Terrie Yamanaka 3-i; tion in which it extended to the
George Chori and Anne Okada, Herb volunteer canvassers. The Asso­
ramaae and Terry Doi split 2-z.
ciation would like to at- this time
Executives !:or the 1959-60 season: Mike
extend its gratitude to all fami­
Doi—presiden t; Barney Ozawa—vice-prelies
as well as to the helpers in
sident; Terry Doi—secretary; Paul Omoa
job
well done.
—Barney O.
•c—treasurer.
cttNDAY

CHATHAM SLANTS

3H

'W

ion’
'earn results: Shig N.
T., Mas O.. Micke' N., Stubby W., 5-2
over Aki S. George Y., Mas I., Tom
Kaz K.. Ke
; Harry I., Mits K..
over Kaide S Sanzo S.
Triple winners' for the month of April
Tats Kubota 856 and Mary Yonenura 712.
High averages for the season: Kaide
Shimizu 229; Mas Isoshima 242; Mas
Ohata 220. Ladies: Ginger Terakita 209;
Mary Ebata 208; Mitsie Sakura and Toki
Yonemitsu 189.
—Mits

SUNDAY 5-PIN. April 19: Tats Kubota
812; Tuck Kataoka 811; Kaire. Shimizu
805; Shig Nishikawa 796; Curly Nakajcwd 742; Satoshi Yonemitsu 739; Harry
Inouye 702; Stuby Wakabayashi (314);
Harry Hayashi (305).
Ladies: Ginger Terakita 727; Toki Yo­
nemitsu 697; Mitsie Sakura 666; Tomi
Baba 639; Tomi Nishimura 611; Ruth
Yano 610; Terrie Watanabe 604; Marge
O’cashimo 603; Pat Kamino 601.

it is a good policy to
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Consult

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Phone WA. 1-3171

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REC SOCRATIC. April 15:
Husky
Iida's team captured the league cham.pionship in a thrilling finish just edging
out Jack Ohara's team by one point.
Members of the winning team are:
Captain, Husky Iida, Mits Harada,
Casey Tokitsu, Ken Kobayashi, John
and Mickey
Nakanishi, Marie Fuj
Mori.
Some good scores "o
men wer*3:
Tosh Omoto 749 (296); Yosh Shin 738
(253); Joe Kumamoto 719 (291); Nobby
Kimura 711 (259); Roy Chiba 710 (285).
For the ladies Grace Omoto was top
with 614 (303); Betty Nishimoto 596 (207);
Doris Omoto 591 (217).
Bowlers are reminded about the Wind­
up Banquet to be held this Saturday,
April 25th, at Muirhead's Restaurant
starting at 6:30 P.M.

The recent, annual bowling
event and social which took place
between London and home-town
bowlers over weekends was an­
other success. with iriore thjin
fifty bowlers participating, there
■is every indication that this an­
nual event will carry on for a
long time. We are already look­
ing forward to next season’s rollalong.
_ The local 6th Annual KeiroKai was held Saturday, April 18,
at YMCA Hall in a warm gettogether honoring our elders.
Guest speaker was Mr. Kaisaku
Kawamoto, assistant attache at
Toronto Japanese Consulate for
Consul M. Endo who was unable
to attend due to previous com­
mitments.
A reminder that the next gen­
eral meeting is Saturday, April
25th with many interesting topics
for discussion on the agenda.

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The Canadian Chrysanthemum
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of the chrysanthemum.
The Society’s first meeting was
held at the home of Mr. J. H. L.
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Toronto.
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1959, at the Canadian Leg-ion
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CALENDAR
24—Toronto. Nisei Anglican Fellowship’s
"Bunny-Hop” at St. Andrew's ^Anglic­
an Church, 651 Dufferin St. at Dundas
"
Dancing 8 to 12 p.m. Adm. SI pe
51.50 per couple.
24—Montreal. Japanese Can a d i a n
Centre's Annual Bazaar at the Centre,
Bazaar also to be held over the next
day, the 25th.
25—Winnipeg. Nisei Fellowship Society
' Little Tokyo” at Knox United Church.
2-5, pm. (Tea and Bazaar). Entertain­
ment with Oriental flavor.
25—-Toronto. Hec Socratic Bowling Club's
Windup Banquet at Muirhead's. 6:33
p.m.
25—Toronto. Japanese Centennial United
Church's Fifth Annual Spring Display
panose flower arrangements. 2-6
p.m Exhibits, sales of Japanese foods.
Toronto J CCA sponsored
25—Toronto.
"Spring Fan Fare” at UNF Hall,
25—Chatham. Kent Japanese Canadian
Ass'n's canvass, for membership fee.
25—Hamilton. Kodokan sponsored Judo
tournament at Hamilton Forum. South­
ern Ontario tournament.
25—Montreal. "April Dance” sponsored
by Committee of Stewards of the Mon­
treal Japanese United Church. Church
of All Nations.

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1-2—Toronto. Toronto Nisei 10-Pin bowl­
ing league's 3rd annual tournev.
Olympia Edwards. 1st: 9:15 p.m. team
event. 2nd: mixed and men's doubles.
1—Toronto. Club Ami dance at Univer­
sity Settlement House. New building
; at 8:30 p.m. All welcome.
. Older Nisei Group's Spring
St. Anne's Hall, Dufferin and
2-5 p.m.
9—Toronto . Club Rec Socratic Windup
Banaaet at Pickfair Restaurant.
16—Toronto. Annual
Eastem-Ccmada
Open 5-Pin
Bowling Tourney at
Olympia-Edwards.
23-24—Vancouver. Vancouver Nisei Fel■kend Camp at Camp
lowship's
Fircom.
30—Toronto. Windup Banquet and Dance
» for Club El Chocio at Zuchter's,

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haustiblc elements of which one could think.
By
LYNN
CARTER
One might conclude, without exaggeration, that director Akira
. as a medium of expression and news outlet
Kurosawa has made this film to appeal to a wider audience than
Q. What’s a good exercise for
among those of ■Japanese origin in Canada
his somewhat esoteric Rashonion attracted, so. that what he has shapely ankles—either thin or
come up with is a highly efficient commercial film. And that to do fat?
T. UMEZUKI, Publisher
this, he had clearly in mind the patterns of the Western.
A. Place a thick book on the
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You have the scene skilfully arranged in the opening sequences floor. Stand on it, and raise and
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when the bandit horsemen, those magnificent centaurs, trace thea lower ■ your toes several times
arabesques against a background of hilly country, lush va.ley, cruel over the front edge of the book.
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underbrush. (Why is the villainous chieftain so pock-marked, the Then slide back and raise and EM. 6-5005
small vindictive eyes rheumy in the thicket of the terrible old race, lowbr your heels. Repeat this five
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and the heroes so clean of face and limb?) And as any practicing to 15 times per exercise .period.
Indian chieftain would do, he cunningly waits until the right time to
Q. What precautions can I take
strike against the village.
to prevent any “yellowish tinge in
The rest of the film follows the familiar pattern of the Good my gray hair?
struggling to win an uphill battle against enormous odds. The ten­
A. Try following your regular
sion mounts and slackens alternately in some finely-directed scenes
The Committee for Japanese Canadian Centre in Toronto grate­
shampoo
with a bluing rinse. Or­
as the villagers gather seven samurai—a band of altruistic, poor
and adventurous warriors-—to ward off the threat to their hx es, dinary bluing, put out by a re­ fully acknowledges the following contributions and pledges:
women and croips. Then the attack comes, with bloodcurdling sud­ putable firm, ds all right, but use Best-Bestway Cleaners .... ... §2500 Mitsuo Am emori ......... ............ 290
denness, as swarms of bandits gallop with murderous intent upon it with discretion. Your water Cherry Cleaners,
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the quivering village. They are decimated one by one upon the should be warm—not hot—as hot
Nobby Uchikura................. ... 200
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Aoki
&
Sons
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600
bristling bamboo spears of the villagers or by quick sword-thrusts water tends to discolor gray hair. Tom Ebata _ __ _________ _
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200
Q. What external means can I
in the dead of night. The village is saved, though at a high cosr,
•50
50 G. K. Tamura ......... ........ ........
take
to call life back to a pale J. Ito —.......
as four of the “magnificent seven” lose their lives.
Moriyoshi
Takata
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50
Jon Onodera ......... f------------ 150
The film has a feeling of size and space, a swirl and sweep of and colorless complexion?
Noboru Kikuta .....
100 H. K. Miwa .......... ....... ............. 200
A. One excellent method of Shiz & Chieko Kikuta ........... 150 Saburo Takata ------------ ------ 150
action. And all through it, I had the feeling that I had seen all this
before—in all the smallest details of plot, structure and characteri­ doing this is a honey mask-— George Fujita ... ........ ......... 100 Tatsuo Yanoshita ..................
50
zation. Even the tough-grained aristocratic code of the samurai, the patting honey over face and Toy oshi Hiramatsu
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Kanichi Furumoto
pride in themselves as a caste of fierce, proud warriors, has nettl­ throat in a thin film, leaving on Yoshizo Irizawa .......
300
ing on the gunmen of the West with their jealously cultivated for 15 minutes, then removing Mrs. K. Morishita ... . .......
(on his 77th birthday) ....
25
50
emphasis on integrity and raw-boned courage—or so we have learned with a damp cloth.
Akisaburo
Sato,
Lethbridge
H. Fujiwara .... ........... .........
50
10
. Q. How can I make my <v,vn Yee On Trading
(on his visit to Toronto)
through the movies.
5
Louis Straf ............
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Notice the stalking silence of the Duel scene when the expert underarm deodorant at home?
(2nd donation) .
50
10
W.
Carney
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samurai swordsman kills his opponent with one deftly-placed stroke.
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The choice of weapons is different; but-the beady-eyed, cat-like water paste is very good for this Shigeshi Fukushima ... ........... 200 Proctor & Gamble Co.
posturing and gesturing conform to the convention of the gun-duel. purpose. It’s also a good idea to Bing Tanaka _____________
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The romantic heart is there too: the tremulous love-affair between add a little bicarbonate of soda Yoshio Kutsukake __ _____ ... 100 Controller Wm. Dennison....
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the young peasant girl and the noble-hearted striping samurai and to your regular bath water.
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its hay-stack consummation by moonlight while the older folk pre­
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Q. Do you think the proper Miss F. Fujii ____ _______ _
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pare to clash by day. And now and-then the passages of comedy— care of one’s elbows is impor­ James K. Hori ..... .... ........
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for instance the private struggle with the bronco, one of the best tant?
Chodchi Sumi _ __________ ... 200 Kenneth C. Woodsworth ....
20
entertainers in the horse-world. Does it matter if the bronco in this
... 150 Dr. C. J. L. Bates ... . ...........
A. If you want true arm beauty, S. Takahashi ..—.......
case is only a broken-down rice-field nag?
Jack
Watanabe
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200 Alderman Mrs. Mary Temple 25
you must pay particular attention "
150 Rev. Takashi Tsuji
But most of all, the mood of brutality and violence and rapa­ to your elbows.
In youth, the. George Fukuda .......
(on departure) -------- ----- 100
50
city of the Wild West is depicted in Seven Samurai. A child-carrying elbows tend to become roughened Anonymous ..........
70
Nisei
Women’s Club .............
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peasant woman is speared in the back; revenge is wreaked by a or to appear dirty. They are one Fred Sunahara ____
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(in
memory
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bent-hacked, ‘ old woman with a pitch-fork on a squirming, helpless of the first "Darts of the body to F. Nagasuye ............
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of late Mrs. Yu Arai) ......
100
prisoner—and the savage frontier justice of an Eye for an Eye is show wrinkling and. aging. To' Wataru Ohori ..............
Kamino
Family
(in
memory
50
carried out; flames gut the houses of both sides; men mow each keep them young-looking requires Masao Murai ....I....... ....... _........
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of late Mr. A. Kamino) ....
100
down in swathes; and no quarter is asked or given. The lonely Ameri­ constant scrubbing and massag­ Roy Okihiro ..............
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can prairie and the frontier were brutal; so, indeed must have been ing- with a handbrush. a grainy Genzo Hamazaki .............. . ... 200 Movie “Seven Samurai”...... 1100
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tire rice-fields of IGth century Japan.
cleanser or toilet pumice, and a Terry Irie ............
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It is not that there is no point in this savagery. Like all good regular application of a nourish­ Anonymous ...........
Westerns—and though Seven Samurai is not a great film, it is at ing cream.
. Total ............
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least a good Western—it has something to say. Kurosawa attempts
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Q. What is a good astringent
to present the savagery as pointless or odious: in the end as self­ lotion for an oily type face?
destructive. The leader of the samurai sums up the bitter irony of
A.
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your
makeup,
Donations acknowledged
the struggle in the end when he comments that they have again sur­ squeeze some lemon juice into a
separately _____
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vived but are again defeated. War is futile and tragic for the gun- bowl of ice water, and splash this Dear Friends,
men-samurai; victory is vainglory and hollow. The text of his ser­ on the skin.
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mon might be that the paths of glory lead but to the grave, as the
Q. Please suggest a good bust- from Marge recently. You will be
sight of the four mounds of earth, bearing the bodies of the dead, developing
exercise.
amused to know she has been
so starkly silhouetted against the. sky at film’s end, sadly gives
looking
round my old haunts in
A. Stand tall, arms uplifted so
evidence.
the
Quartier
Montparnasse. I re­
Lucien C Kurata
that the upper arms are slightly
This is surely a grand bld theme, but I question whether this above
member very well my old walk­
a
position
at
right
angles
BAKKISTICK and SODICITOB
maxim is not merely tacked on to the end of the film as a kind of to the body, palms toward each up studio in the Rue Delambre
XOTABY PUBDIO
after-thought. I do not suggest for a moment that the film is an other. Clench fist hard and pull (1001!), at the top of a steep
exaltation of savagery under the cover of a hypocritical morality. elbows in and down a few inches. long flight of wooden stairs. I do
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But the ‘‘war is hell” theme does not weave in and out or counter­ Relax,
believe
the
workshop
adjoining
it
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and repeat. You should
point. the action, either through implication, uttered word or symbol. feel the
TORONTO
is
occupied
by

The
Group
de
pull on your chest
And at the end, what one remembers are the robust high spirits muscles.
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Feu” where Marge met one of the
and heroics of the swiftly shuttling sensation of action, mixed with
Japanese
artists,
and
it
appears
Q. What is a convenient
bits of wild comic-relief. This, at least, is a good tonic for that method
adding oil to a dry he is living right in my old den.
dreadful old bore of contemporary realism. The film is not really scalp andofhair?
Can coincidence go further?
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to be taken too seriously. In short, the film >is great fun. And some­
I read Ken Adachi’s pugent
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A. Wet the -hair well with 70 and vivid article, “First Time I
how I feel that I must have missed out on something by not seeing
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pei- cent alcohol in which a small Saw Paris” (NC Feb. IS), and it
Japanese ehan-bara films.
A. E. McKaque, Q.C.
Toshiro Mifune, as the rather silly lout transformed into tire comic amount' of castor oil has been warmed my heart to its core.
dissolved.
The
alcohol
evaporates
Glad
he
mentioned
Toulouse-Lau
­
hero, is responsible for most of the fun. He- puts on an extrovert,
BARRISTER, SOLICITOR
leaves the castor oil in the trec. He used to come often to
performance of splendid animality and ferocious vitality. But then and
NOTARY PUBLIC
again it is essentially a re-play of the bandit-rapist of Rashomon, hair. A proper mixture of this our Atelier (Academie Julian—
sort
is
three
or
four
teaspoons
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grunting, leaping, cackling, scowling, grinning, scratching- bare of castor oil to a pint of rubbing Marge tells me it is still there)
to chat with his buddies. I never
330 Bay Street (at Adelaide)
thighs, tumbling- to his feet (Why are Japanese samurai and pea­ alcohol.
does not mean knew then that he was famous
TORONTO
sants; so unsteady on their teet?), so that his performance becomes simply oneThis
oiling,
but the repeti­
almost a parody of his earlier role. He is a dynamo of perpetual tion of it. as frequently as neces­ all over the Quartier, and prob­
ably at the peak of success and
motion, the prototype of the caveman, and he is always a pleasure
to keep the hair in the pro­ money at that time. He was a
to watch. One becomes aware, however, that this vital actor is em­ sary
per condition.
little bearded dwarf, large head
ploying" the effective tricks that have long- become associated with
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Q. What can I do about stained and very short legs, always in a
him, and that the novelty may soon wear out through too much
and discolored fingernails?
repetition.
shiny plug hat and exquisite
AGENCIES & PATHAY
A. Wrap the end of an orange raiment. I never spoke to him. I
The photography and lighting, though less markedly good in stick .with cotton and dip into
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this black-and-white fihn, are still something rather special: the peroxide. Clean under your nails was far more taken with his two j
or
three
girl
friends
(WOW
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startling shots of the white flowers in rhe dark forest as the fitful thoroughly, taking a bit of time
sun-rays streak through overhanging branches; the downpour of over this. Oil, ink, grime, etc., Stately young goddesses). He I A. K. (Alfie) KAMITAKAHARA
!
lain as the oandits dash through the thickets: the sudden looming will respond to this treatment if died that fall, 1901.
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frame of a burning windmill by a quiet stream: the cmuuosrtmn
Alan
P.
Allsebrook,
j
you’re real patient about it.
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women planting rice in the fields, with legs sunk in the mire seen
Kaslo,
B.C.
I
Q.
How
can
I
reduce
the
pro
­
only from the back; and the overall mistv effect of sky and 'bLak
minence of my rather bulging _
landscape.
eyes?
" ' ;
Seven Samurai is not really so exotic ns some might like to
A. By using a touch of eye- !
suggest; rather, its roots lie in the nivths of the untamed We’t I shadow oyer the entire eyelids, i
am happy not to have missed it. after all: I had a lovely time^of it.’
and wearing a heavier evebrow ■
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line.
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Editor's Note: “Seven Samurai" will again be shown in Toronto
at the Kent Theatre on the dates June 4. 5. and 6th.

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