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'0*0 >f”- * V w t i fcWas/*! CRITERION


YOUR correspondent, Mr. Read, doesn’t seem to like one of the plays to be performed next week In the Drama Festi­ val, and he suggests that it ought to be censored. We believe this to be a good play, as are all others in the Festi­ val. All plays for public presen­ tation have been censored a t a higher level and it would be presumptuous on our part to attempt any modification even


mencing next week gives the critic a good hunting ground. Authors today present the human situation, perhaps in a provocative manner but usually in a way that engenders thought.On investigation we find that the play to which Mr. Read takes exception because of its unsuitability for young people is in fact issued regularly from the County Library to many secondary schools. Being its first effort, the


television had received drastic treatment at the hands of some TV producer. The society pro­ ducing this play in our Festi­ val tell us that their version presents a different aspect, that they are enjoying preparing it and they are sure all who see it will enjoy it. In any case, we need more of the plays which give room for thought and discussion. The Drama Festival com­


if we wished to. • The Play Mr. Read saw on


One of the finest plays


Read found Harold Pinter’s magnificent play, “The Care­ taker',” filthy, degrading and vulgar.” The theme of the play is blameless, indeed highly moral. I can find only one reference to sex in the whole play and although there are a dozen or so occasions of swear­ ing, not one of these uses any of the sexual swear-words,- What Mr. Read presumably


of our time Sir,—I do not believe that Mr.


means is that one of the three characters is filthy, degraded and vulgar and speaks the language we should expect from such a character. Would he deny the dramatist the right to create such a despicable charac­ ter? Would he cut Thersites out of "Troilus and Cressida” or Iago out of "Othello,” or at least censor their parts because they are foul-mouthed? But why should the dramatist


Low Moor cottages


I WAS very interested in a letter published in your paper (Church Brow Cottages). I would like to draw your atten­ tion to some more cottages in Low Moor, which are soon to be demolished. If someone had come along and bought them and repaired them, the cottages could have been up another five or ten years. But there was just one snag, the Council wanted some land.’ The cottages, it was stated,


homes to people who had lived in Low Moor all their lives. It is time someone stopped this burial of beauty, beauty which can only be found in Low Moor.


were not fit to live in. But these cottages were


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be denied his primary resource of showing what a character is by the language he speaks. If Davies in "The Caretaker” be­ haved and spoke with perfect propriety how should we recog­ nise him for his vileness? We should probably merely pity him, and the whole dramatic tension and moral structure of the play would be destroyed. If Mr. Read and his 56 friends


Committee had doubts about being . able to attract enough good societies. In fact, the num­ ber of applications of high standard proved * to be an embarrassment and we were able to select a well-balanced programme. May we offer some indepen­


Poppy Day


were unable to respond to this tension or perceive this struc­ ture when they saw the play on television, they ; should give themselves another chance at the Civic Hall on Wednesday. I hope that the local schools will advise their sixth-formers to grasp this opportunity to see one of the finest plays of our time. On December 8 the Clitheroe


dent views which seem to differ from those of Mr. Read. From Mr. Stanley. Hildebrandt, prob­ ably the most experienced adjudicator in Britain and one whose services we have been fortunate, to get: "The list of entries is extremely stimulat­ ing both from my point of view and that of the audience.” From. “Amateur Stage”: "You


I WOULD like to express my thanks to all those people who gave their services in any way for a wonderful cause during the Poppy Day campaign . . . including works, schools and clubs, the Rotary Club’ and Inner Wheel. May I 'also say “ thank you ” to Tomlinson’s Ltd., and to the Conservative Club for the use of their rooms. Without the help of all con­ cerned the campaign could not have been a success.


WEA literature class will be dis­ cussing "The Caretaker” (at the Royal Grammar School, York Street, at 7-30). We shall be glad to welcome any members of the public who would like to drop in. KEITH SAGAR


36 Balmoral Avenue, Clitheroe.


our Festival, unlike most, has no" system of patrons and thus depends entirely on the support of the people of our town and district. As a first venture we need all the help we can get to make It a success and establish a firm future for drama in Clitheroe. The committee have done well to get such a first- class programme and we invite Mr. Read and all your readers to share our enjoyment of the Festival. JOHN HALL, President. RICHARD TURNER, Chairman.


have certainly succeeded in obtaining a strong and bal­ anced programme for this first venture.” I t is worth pointing out that


ABERFAN FUND


I WOULD be very pleased if you could give a little space to announce that the above fund will close on 30th Novem­ ber 1966, except for receipt of the proceeds from the compe­ tition being organised by the Mayoress’s Committee. . The appeal has been very


successful indeed and I thank everyone who has helped in any way to bring some token of practical sympathy to Aber- fan.—Yours etc., T. ROBINSON


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appointed I was at the poor response to the appeal for Poppy sellers on the Saturday. F. HOLT


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“lolanthe”


WILL you allow me space to offer very grateful thanks to the Clitheroe Parish Church Operatic Society for their pro­ duction of “ Iolanthe” which provided me with one of the most enjoyable evenings I have had in the amateur theatre for a long time.


I would make. 1 thought the use of an organ, though novel, was unnecessary and at times, at least to my ear, it con­ flicted with the orchestral tone. This, however, is a purely personal opinion, and I would not wish it to be taken as a reflection on the musical standard, which was of the highest quality throughout. Everyone concerned in the production is deserving of sincere praise.


There is one small criticism SAVOYARD I am sorry to say how dis­


NEEDS MUST when the Devil drives. An old saying not without a smattering of truth. I don’t view the pro­ posed or recommended change in Ribbiesdale’s ad­ ministrative structure as any­ thing in the nature of a holocaust, but with some possibility of improvement. It must be seen not as some­ thing of archeological inter­ est but from the bird’s eye scanning of the. astronaut. It is no use now clinging with ivy-like tenacity to age-old, time-worn customs, usages and traditions of a by-gone if not dead age, but be wil­ ling to surrender something


to the inexorability of natural progression. It is useless and futile to attempt to erect a substantial building on decay­ ing foundations. Think, talk or write as we will, the stark, stubborn fact remains that Ribblesdale, in common with other regions, is on the fringe of the Great Divide, a past with all its lessons and a future full of rich promise.


ventured to express in the hope that they may stimulate a healthy public interest, I hope I am not uncharitably dubbed an idle star or crystal gazer, or incomprehensible visionary, but one with some purpose. As, with the Royal Com­


In the views I have already


remains to be seen. Like that of the Editor, that Royal Com­ mission’s findings will virtually be final. The Brobdignaglan in Lilli-


What i will eventually emerge


put I feel, is vanishing into the mists and with him his unmis- takeable appreciation of that old saw “I t is better ■ to at the head of the Squires than at the tail of the Knights.”


PROPHESY


section could have its own executive authority, subject only to the overriding authority of a central power made up of a judiciously selected represen­ tation of the several units centrally situated. Since that would function in


gether irrelevant to the topic under the more immediate local discussion, dare I make one more prophetic suggestion in looking much further ahead. Is it not within the limits of probability and practicability that the entire country itself may be regionalised or sectiona- lised in the interests of the general national economy — North, South, East and West— with their varying character­ istics and distinct administra­ tive necessities? Each region, division or


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mission, I take a little more than a superficial peep into the future, I risk making this prog­ nostication, that the day of the politician as .we know him, with all his cajoling wiles and prejudices, is on the way out, making way for the man of s t r i c t , purposeful business. The management of the coun­ try with its regions of varying characteristics, is now, if never before, Big Business, and the businessman, with his peculiar capacity to handle the economic superstructure of the nation, must step in. We are now in the scientific and tech­ nological age and the essential adaptation to the requirements of that great change must, of necessity, now be made.


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be easy but, as I see it, the difficulties are not insurmount­ able. They must, however, be faced, whatever heartaches there may be fo r ' those who seek to preserve their individual distinctive entities. In such future methods of government, national and local, there must he a measure of remote control but that remoteness need not necessarily impair its effective­ ness. I see no need whatever for the intimate personal touch with the electorally selected epresentatives o f a given area. That could always be


The process is not going to


substitution of Westminster itself, with its 630 members and the Second Chamber with its 850 hereditary and 84 life peers, it follows tha-t tile centre of gravity nationally would be moved. As the entire country appears now to be on the move, administratively, I can’t elimi­ nate from my thinking that the Parliamentary structure may also be changed or vitally modified to meet the clear requirements of the new age. The prospective change is terrifyingly complex in its immensity but the unmistake- able demand for- change must be dealt with by the architect and the builder with vision. In Clitheroe and surrounding


districts there must be an interesting diversity of opinion on this all-absorbing topic of tile day, inspired by your “letters” a n d “Viewpoint” observations. Could the “Adver­ tiser and Times” have a few?


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-treat "Observer’s” cynical com­ ment with the cold indifference it richly merited and there to leave him to perish beneath the bushel under which he timor­ ously sought to hide his flicker­ ing light. That, indeed, is where I do abandon him, warn­ ing him of the not too kindly fate that will most assuredly overtake him if he does not direct the pen he so carelessly wields to more charitable pur­ pose and with the courage to disclose his identity rather than, to seek refuge in that all-too- convenient hide-out for the chicken-hearted.-'the nom de" plume. It is, in the circumstances,


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n o t without something of reluctance but for pure • self- satisfaction, that I provide-him with the little knowledge he was so clearly-lacking, that the civic authority’s invitation to those Waterworks Inspections, always a serious business in the public Interest, were not to me personally but to th e' office I ha^ the honour to represent, to whose command I acted in dutiful obedience.


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