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2A THE OSHAWA TIMES, Saturday, Morch 26, 1966 OPERA COMPANY COMES TO TOWN 'Carmen' Dances In For Two Shows The Canadian Opera Com- pany comes ta town on March 28. Its presentation will be George Bizet's famous opera "Carmen"'. The company, in the city for just two performances, will pre- sent the opera at the R. S. Mc- Laughlin Collegiate auditorium. The Canadian Opera Com- pany is at the tail-end of a trail blazing tour of the provy- inces. The 22-member opera troupe left Toronto in early January for a 14-week tour which has taken it through communities in Ontario, Quebec, New Bruns- wick, Nova Scotia, Prince Ed- ward Island, Newfoundland and five U.S. centres. At the end of the tour next month, the Company will have made some 75 performances in 62 centres. The visit here to Oshawa is sponsored by the Oshawa branch of the Canadian Con- cert Association. The one public performance will be at 8.30 on March 28. During the afternoon the com- pany will present the opera to high school students from all over the city. This will be a closed performance with the public not allowed. The opera wili be played to piano accompaniment only. At the beginning of the tour there was some doubt as to whether this would prove satisfactory. Through experience, however, the Company has found piano accompaniment is different; but just as good. In some ways, critics have said it is better. You hear all the singing and the theatrical experience is con- centrated on the stage. The company brings to Osh- awa a young but extremely ex- perienced cast. Singing the fead role of Car- men will be Yugoslavia born Marija Kova. She made her operatic debut ACT TWO DURING "QUINTET" IN OPERA Company in 1961. An artist's New York, Miss Kova is known with the New York City Opera| pupil of Milan V. Petrovic in|for a wide variety of leading | mezzo roles, including that of {Sara Chicken in the Central Durable Blonde Movie Queen Still 'Gets Bubbly At Applause' NEW YORK (AP)--'T get all bubbly at applause," said the durable blonde in the green scarf. "I get billy bumps all over me." At 46 Lana Turner, whose life reads like a cycle of soap|.. operas, still enjoys the role she! has played the longest--that of reigning movie glamor queen. As a child she was a high school cheerleader and wanted to become a nun. She and her widowed mother knew real pov- erty. The movie moguls waved a few wands and changed ali that. They changed tecn-aged little Julie Jean Mildred Frances Turner into Lana Turner. They changed her sad rags into glad rags. They changed her from "the sweater girl" into a top film star. At 25 she was earning $4,500 a week and had won a name as one of Hol- jywood's best-known playgirls. The years have brought her tragedy as well as fortune and fame but have never taken away her zest. Lana was in town with her sixth husband (businessman Robert Eaton) to celebrate the launching of her 42nd film-- Madame X, a tear-jerking re- make of an old stage-and-screen standby. LIKES RACING Popping up and down like a thrilled ingenue, Lana gave this account of herself: "Ym im racing now. My former husband'? -- she didn't mention which one--"got me in- terested in it. I have three horses. So far I'm ahead, but every month you're buying feed while they are doing nothing but stand there on four feet. "To me life means aware- ness. I want to be aware of --to learn something new every day: A new word, a new mel- ody, or make a new friend. If you do that, at the end of the year you're 365 ways smarter. "What do I like? I like chili . smoked salmon .. . beauti- ful clothes . . . things that are kind of dreamlike, because re- ality is so harsh . .. yellow roses . . . wearing slacks and very high heels . .. With a white diamond you can buy a race- horse, if the horse wins you can buy another white diamond. "My dislikes? Oh, packing and unpacking . . . the wind, it makes me nervous... the color of purple . . cigars... getting up early . . gossip .. . break- ing in new. shoes . . . backpat- ters and phonies with a big spiel . . . being touched by peo- ple . . . and people with limp handshakes and kissy faces." PROUD OF MEMORY Lana feels her biggest char- acter fault is a tendency to pro- crastinate. "My eye is always on the clock, and I don't like to be late, but I don't pace myself well. I don't sprint until it is post time." But she prides herself on an almost infallible memory. "T treasure that, because it's a great gift,' she remarked. "TI don't have to slave over a script to get it right. I can smell it and remember it." As do many celebrities, Lana feels that the public has,a mis- conception of the kind of person she really is. "A part of the public at least has the idea that I'm aloof--al- most to the point of coldness. "They seem surprised to find that I am a warm and friendly person. "Y'm. the. corniest, hokiest, kookiest broad in the world. I'm not aloof at all." BROTHER GAVE LEG UP Jerry Van Dyke of My Mother the Car got his big break, after 12 years in show business, on his brother's TV series. MANY STRINGS TO BOW Acter James Pritchett, Matt Powers on TV's The Doctors, used te be a practising lawyer and is a qualified meteorologist. CAME HOME FOR TV Canadian actor John Vernon left the Broadway success The Royal Hunt of the Sun to appear in the CBC's series Wojeck on Vv. Sundey -- Merch 27th 11:00 p.m. -- 1:00 p.m. U.A.W. Hockey 1:15 p.m, -- 3:15 p.m. Family Skating 4:00 p.m. -- 7:00 p.m. Duplate Hockey Mondey -- March 28th -- for -- COUNTRY STYLE ENGLISH STYL Phone 728-2291 everything going o@ ground me If It's The Big ""M" Drive-in, oF Course It's McMurray's Fried, Chicken FISH 'n CHIPS DRIVE-IN RESTAURANT Simcee St. N. of Taunton Rd. 6:00 p.m. -- 8:20 p.m. G.M. Office League 8:30 p.m. Junior 'B' Game Tuesday -- March 29th 8:15 p.m. Junior 'A' Game Oshawa vs Montreal Wednesday -- March 30th 8:00 p.m. -- 10:00 p.m. Public Skating (adults only) City world premiere of Robert Ward's "The Ladv From Colo- rado". Playing alongside her as Don Jose will be French Canadian Guy Lavoix. Born in Ha Ha Bay, Quebec, Mr. Lavoie was educated in Grand Bay, Trois Rivieres and fin Montreal. With the assis- tance of a provincial govern- ment scholarship and grant from the Canada Council he _ continued his studies in Italy. For the past three seasons Mr. Lavoie has been a leading tenor with the Saltburg Landes- theater in Austria and his made guest appearances in Holland and Yugoslavia. The rest of a young and very talented cast are Roland Rich- ard, Jeanette Zarou, Oskar Raulfs, Kathryn Newman, Elsie Sawchuk, Thomas Park and Tito Dean. Musical director and pianist is George Brough. Production is staged by Herman Geigere Torel. Set and properties de- signed by William Lord, cose tumes by Warren Hartman and choreography py Paula Moreno, COMING SOON S MATINEE DOUBLE FEATURE TRENT: ODEON BILTMORE NEXT WEEK'S ACTIVITIES AT THE AUDITORIUM MARCH 27th -- APRIL 2nd Thursday -- March 31st 6:00 p.m. -- 10:00 p.m. Skating Ciub Friday ----- April Ist 7:15 p.m. Bingo Seturdey -- April 2nd 7:00 a.m: -- 4:00 p.m. Litthe N.H.L. Tyke Tournament 7:15. p.m. Possible Junior 'A' Game ----- COMING ATTRACTIONS: April 11th 8:00 p.m. "A BREATH OF SCOTLAND" (Scottish Varieties) THORNTON RD. S. OFF KING ST. WEST