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FRANCE'S DON CAMILLO
From Sydney Smith
Paris.
VILLAGE priest who denounced from his pulpit the existence of pur- gatory is France's new Don Camillo.
You remember the film of Don Camillo the fight- ing priest who fought noisily, dangerously, yet with affection against his Communist parishioners? Well, in the elder-drinking country of Brittany there is another priest and his villagers at war with Rome and Moscow.
It's a lie and death struggle that has aroused all France.
The hamlet of Landobla- population 352-hardly stirred when
a popular and tough priest, 32-year old Abbe stood up in his pulbit
one Sunday.
in
He said that he still believed
In heaven and hell. Then he told his flock he had lost faith the intervening stage 'of purgatory-a kind of crossroads for those going to heaven and those doomed to hell,
The people were not upset. But his local bishop of Saint- Brieuc WOR shocked- very shocked. He sent for the Abba at once.
The
TOO MUCH
young priest
was
"invited" to think things over in a monastery. He refused. And the very next Sunday he Invited
lay в
friend and to sympathiser
preach the sermon from his pulpit,
This was a great deal much for the Bishop, He suspended the Abbe from parochial duties, and named an older priest-Abbe Robert-to take over.
too
But Abbe Lammay decided
to fight on. He obtained from the Town Hall authority to stay in hls
vicarage. He held a "rebel Mass, while the arrival held his Mass
new
official
WEB
wan
The parish of Landebla split. The young. Abbe supported by his organist his church wardens and
So village. the of the
found his own. incumbent
olher church and organist
The village wardens.
50 Waa
The young Abbe Lammay- who still refuses to believe in His winning purgatory-is church salary has been stopped. But he is sticking to ht vicarage, with the backing of the Sociallat Mayor.
T
FIRST OF A NEW TWO-PART STUDY
ARE THE FREEING
HE so-called "libern-
lisation" of the arts
Berious
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RUSSIANS CULTURE?
By David Laidlaw
composer, will be reviewed
Com
the under
Party Line
by
somo
member.
ling decline both in
interest ship and
experienced by the Writers' Union. Some- thing, it is clear, has to be done,
n field
Jcave
the ideologists to
present longer in its But to what extent can reforms really be instituted?
state.
Meaningless
without
50
recently begun in Soviet Russia has in the hands of the Party pro- the least chance of being pub- Of the technical incompetence Culture is too valuable
lished. Ehrenburg is well ac- of contemporary Soviet drama for
with disclosed in its wake a state pagandists,
this, quainted
but he Lavrenev has some equally much of affairs more
Dealing with the plight of offers no hint that their fate harsh things to say: than bad been imagined, the Individual Evidence of the ideological Khachaturyan provides an in- terms of the "new enlighten- "The majority of authors, and bureaucratic strangle- teresting insight into the system ment."
though possessing lively and in- which has operated since the
teresting Ideas,, have no concep- hold exercised on the
Yet the desire boldly set forth tion of the basic elements of a Zhdanov decree:
in his statement, as in those of dramatic work: of genre, sub- and country's artistic develop-
No far all, that the campaign most ment by
"Under the presest guardian- his fellow spokesmen, is for a ject, the notorious,
plot, action
has effected is a slight re- ship system' the composer 1a, in 'varled presentation of Soviet climax, new Zhdanov - Inspired Centra fact, reileves of all responsiblity. life in contrast to the rigid, character."
denouement, image or
laxation of the controls on the OWL Committee decrees of If he takes a new song or other uniform
actual treatment imposed style
of material. Simonov, after a series of ad- The materjal been composition along to this or that Zhdanov. 1946-48, has never
itself is still missions
amazing as rigidly prescribed. Yet it is dim- intrigued by the battle that the lacking, but it has remained administrative body (the Com- the Central Art
Lavreney's, testlies to an al cult to see how much more can Union, church
every full for
for the Russians themselves posers'
most unbelievable absurdity. So be done service, and curious folk from.
to depict the full extent of office, or the radio) everybody
there considers
it seems, ready,
were
clush producing a it his duty to
the artist's so- the neighbouring countryside
the contra dividual utterances and the un- priests their paralysing influence.
give him 'advice. In short, he really morbid" and dictory demands of different changed fundamental doctrines took Mass with both
WHAT if the suppressed books authors to "meet for rewriting from 0.30 in the morning on-
Striking revelations have sels instructions
the work. And the odd thing "Introspective?" "We will make theatres"-most of which yield which
regulato the Soviet emerged from recent statements is that ocrtain composers easy every effort," writes Simonov; local Arts Administration-that wards.
ed to every
Pressure by the State a whole. by four of Russia's leading cul-
the they cheerfully composed cover liberalisation"
Certainly to talk about tural exponents Aram Khacho-ee to all these changes, even "to respond worthily to
if it means throwing out parts demands of the Party, to the
variations
on one and the much as turyan, the Armenian composer of the work, which may be the will respond with our plays to same play, each with a differ-
of the people. demand's
We
-hint of such freedoms once denounced by Zhdanov as frulls of some deeply felt will
freedom to travel, freedom of a formalist" together with
that, translation, freedom of exprez- inspiration, and readily dress it the questions of life, work, ont title, with the result Shostakovich, Prokofiev, and
Ilya Ehrenburg, the up to make it look like a hair friendship, love and way of life to pick out only one instance, a sion, and treedom of publication -
was to bo Miaskovsky:
which agitate Soviet dresser's dummy."
play by A. Simukov people."
(to mention only a few) is writer and publicist; Konstantn
Have morbidity and introspec acen ut two Moscow theatres meaningless. Simonov,
deputy Scertary-
al- tion truly
under different titles, "and place in the ready" according
And what is one to make of General of the All-Union Con-
emotions of the Russian people? "the protests of audience are tion made only recently by
to Simonov, the contradictory recommenda gress of Soviet Wrllers; and the
It is this proscribed attitude spreading, dave been twice to the official organ of the USSR Secretary General himself,
since in their simpli- contributor to Soviet Culture, Alexander Fadeev.
AN amusing parallel, as it
they emotions city effects the painter, appears towards the human
1 which has so perturbed the see the same play."
Ministry of is in a set of two illustrations by 1.
Culture? statements Each of these
What will be the ultimate re writer suggested that the Rus notably outspoken, and it is Semyonov, in the April 1953 dramatists, whose clear that in order to emphasise issue of Ogonyok. The first of this aspect of the Party line led suit of the present campaign sian classics should be revised major only time alone can show, Cer- for general consumption, "ren- this new deviation in policy the these depicts the artist's original them
Nekrasov's pitfalls of their art. For, with lain it is that the authorities dering them free from the er- interpretation of request to investigate his illegal Party has granted its most pro-Go to the Volga-whose out acceptance of the full range have seen the red light. A great rors and numerous
minent cultural spokesmen more lines,
on the consciously introduced of emotion and behaviour there apathy. has descended resounds
there? than the customary latitude. groan
light Soviet artist and his public revolutionary editions...pre procession of dismal, ragged can be no portrayal Khachaturyan's indictment of puasa
peasants,
maybe fisherfolk, and shade," while conflict, the alike. Fadeev himself has con-
More Tomorrow Zdanevism,
has affected roped one to another, are rain- life-blood of the drama, disap- fessed only recently to musical composition, appears in fully dragging a boat up the pears altogether.
It has become impossible to an article in the November 1953 beach from the water's edge. issue of Soviet Musle, entitled The prevailing mood is one of introduce the elements of con- "Creative Boliness and Enapa sombre realism, very much in flict by staging such characters tion." Without actually
ofcial, dis- the Victorian manner and well
stupid
a lazy નવ
Д militiaman,. cr
conceited the caption. Before bureaucrat, since to do so is, in claiming the doctrine of
fitted to cialist realism, which was the the pictures stands the artist, keynote of Zhdanov's cultural
ral facing a panel of
critics.
the official view, to typify a policy. Khachaturyan carries to The second Illustration shows phenomenon thus
his of remarkable lengths con- the revised version of the same all officials, all militiamen, and
demnation of its unlimited ap- picture, executed in accordance all bureaucrats. plication and its stultifying with the crities' advice. In the effect on creative impulse.
FLAT OUT
He has no money, but every day faithful parishioners,
not believe
who in purgatory elther, are bringing him
do
more
egga, chicken, milk and ment than one man can cat.
$15.00
25.00
25.00
1s not many
church' stoned: There
The police, embarrassed by a
occupation of the vicarage, do not know what to
do wit
with him. When his rival, honest Abbe Robert, holds
services,
the
Are
un-
windows left
35.00 broken. Leftist political meet- 10.50 ings are held on the Church who steps of the young Abbe, has never had a political thought In his head.
And the local Socialists
a strong smattering Communists-aro #at out for
D
they
They are so flat out for him that they have drawn up petition on his behalf. And to his great embarrassment have produced 505 votes in his support although his parishion- ers number only 362.
This problem alone may be enough to persuade the young Abbo that purgatory is indeed trise.
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Soviet Man
VEN such a perennial standby holiday-makers, gally harnessed for the role of villain as the or the
behind homeless
· qosmopolitan" 110
HE describes how, seared of ribbon, drawing bellrad them up "bourgeois nationalist
doing the wrong thing, com the beach a glittering pleasure posers played for safety at
Alt steamer, .while from a y longer seeing to match the need, costs... they assumed post- booth a woman ruda towards since, according to the Literary tions of thoughtless adaptability them with a tray of
nearby
ah Gazette, Soviet critics regularly villain in
refresh-
tho
average
(to
that the the Zhdanov decree), and ments and, beyond, a group of complain were producing flat, conven- sun-bathers raise smiling faces such cases is much mare con tional stuff, lacking in all crea in salute as they pass
Held Vincingly drawn, much more tive individuality and charac-
aloft above the procession is a attractive terised second-hand musical
banner inscribed "Overfulfil the specta
spectator then the wooden au- tomaton who gcos under the Volga Shipments Plan!"
title
of "Soviet man."
conception of low Soviet Man" has "Now come home to roost. with B
put
pital works resound-
ing with
emptiness, Khachaturyan, repeatedly
writes won
official approval Bolely because
sponse
Watchdogs
The idealistic
the
their titles contained something IKE Khachaturyan, Ehren- vengeance. A one sarcastic
critic has about "Love for the Soviet burg indignantly demands Moscow theatre Homeland" or "The Struggle for the removal of restraints to place for drama in our Socialst "There is no longer any Peace," though, with the public the creative artist, though, mis place
evoked: little, if they
There attributes the society.
Is not enough any, re-leadingly, he
friction in our everyday life to and were
a meni- noto, when he
for
were ́ independent : voices In the plane of ; the Legitimate revival.
d, above all, Instead of mere executives of drama, comedy The Soviet the Weller on Compcancer waties)) (which echood Mby
by Unions. This, when it com-
mably douriah,
such con- dramatists who wanted age of called "Ave-year
pian
literature"
Bayo boen compelled to 1920, was ordered from Fibove, 2. i
.and. devote themselves plays about though
gh these critics were simply collective farms and Industrial
Khachatryan forgotten. entire blame for his present. BOBEL Paws Mrevolutionary pon to the critics, as it provide material
my appeal
Simonov in 'his'nostalgie harking mon kadwledge that all the so
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