\ THE CADRE, OCTOBER 22, 1974, reviews.... Support Your There is a need for good theatre in this province. A very real need. Amateur theatre is all very well and fine but a man will pay to see his nephew blow cues only so many times. Act- ually, Amateur theatre is. needed as a training ground for our professionals, but if we do not start support— ing professional theatre, the amateurs are going to have no place to go but home. Professional theatre is suff— ering from a lack of support. There is in theatre as in a football game or a horse We’re Northern Electric, and if you’ve been assessing the Cana— dian business scene with an eye to pinpointing your first career move, you may already know quite a bit about us. Growth that’s been'called almost explo— sive. Telecommunications product development that’s been termed fantastic. We are on the move and to maintain this momentum, we need more talented people. ,, You see, as big and booming as we are, we know we’ve hardly if PAGE 14 local Theatre race, a guaranteed house but, in Charlottetown the guaran- teed house is not enough. You can afford to break even or take a loss only so many times before you must fold. Theatre in Charlottetown is not in danger of folding but it is in danger of be- ing empty nine months of the year. Summer Festival will .always have an audience, for the tourists will support it. The rest of the year it's up to us. The Confederation Centre of the Arts has made a big move with their Fall Festival.They have signed If you’ve spent V the last few years learning the. , business of money management, we’d like to talk to yOu about managing some of ours. touched the surface. ‘ creative with money as There’s a whole world our engineers are with waiting for better means telecommunications of communication. South technology. lies the giant American market; East, the chal- lenging European Common Market and West, a Pacific Rim poten- Of course, our stan- dards are high. But then, so are the financial re- wards and career securi- ties for Commerce up one of the finest programs of entertainment Charlotte- town has seen in a long time. There really is something for everybody. There is music for all moods from the light touch of John Allen Cameron to the Phil Nimmons tial so big we can’t even measure it. We’ve already established effective bases in these markets, but to be as big a part of them as we want to be, requires sound financial planning. So we need people —— ambitious and enthusias— tic finance and accounting graduates who can be as graduates who can help us achieve our goals. If what we offer appears to match what you want, talk to your Campus Placement Officer. And the way we’re moving, today would be a good day to do it. Nor/[70m [lee/rib COMPANY, LIMITED 9 & 6 big band jazz sound. For lovers of the dance there is everything from the classic ballet form- of the National Ballet and the folk form of Feux Follets, right down to the very contemporary dance form of the Toronto Dancer theatre. For straight thea— tre lovers there is every-' thing from the classic touch of the Royal Shakespeare Company to the modern mood of T.N.B.'s "Head, Guts and Soundbone Dance". The Fall Festival has semething for all. Support your local theatre, while you still have one. Doug Gallant Solzhenitlen Among the most powerful of books to come out of the Soviet Union in recent years has to be Alexander Solzhen— itzhen's The Gulag Archipelago. Containing as it does ekplo— sive material about a penal’ system that has destroyed at least as many human lives as 'Nazi Germany's, it is easy to understand the furor that was created upon its being published. Even though much can be gained from Gulag simply as a historical account that unearths oceans-full of new evidence about conditions in Leninist and especially Stalinist Russia, it is th— rough the acid sarcasm, the embittered commentary, the quiet reflections that this book is at its greatest in showing the inherent contra- dictions in a society which purports to be socialist yet condems millions of its cit— izens to torture and death for no more reason than the whim of an egomaniac or an unfilled quota. What can be said about a book that is at the same time a historical document of major moment, a powerful statement on the human con- dition, and still so highly readable that you won't put it down? I won't even try. David MacRaé