Reporter’s diary

Press, 10 August 1982, Page 2

Reporter’s diary

Early Bird CARRIE Cohen (pictured), of Macon, Georgia, is only eight months old, but she is an accomplished whistler. Carrie whistles upon the slightest encouragement from her parents. Dr Louis and Darlene Cohen. Versatile

AN ENERGETIC Canadian. Evelyn Roth, aged 46, will be at the Arts Centre in Christchurch from November 6 to November 28. Reference to her arrival is made in an

Arts Centre newsletter, which refers to a “50 foot salmon which shows films and swallows, children’’ and to the fact that there will be "giant spider w’ebs in the Great Hall which can be explored, by rocking, tumbling and crawling through.” Mr Ray Sleeman, director at the centre, says Evelyn Roth is a much-travelled woman. She is being brought to New Zealand by Air New Zealand, and the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council. She will display. painted on fabric, her journey through the Pacific to Australia; the salmon will consist of 1000 sections of appliqued, brightly coloured nylon. Beside it she will perform, the “salmon dance,” a Canadian Indian fable. She will be supported by the “90 in Limbo" dance group. Ms Roth is very interested in recycling and she works in nylon substances, crocheted together. She will be in Brisbane for the Commonwealth Games, before travelling to Christchurch. During her last week at the Arts Centre, she will perform ritual- dances from countries she has visited.

Oversight A READER has expressed

surprise and disappointment that none of the four speakers at the opening of the. City Mall on Saturday saw fit to mention that a few metres from their podium there was a stone commemorating the fact that just opposite — in Cashel Street — a group of citizens led by J. E. Fitz Gerald. and R. Packer in 1851 “removed the tussocks and filled in the ruts.” The memorial stone was put there by the Pilgrims’- and Early Settlers’ Association in 1950. Surprisingly, the reader says, FitzGerald is labelled “superintendent,” an office he did not gain until 1853. But the point, he says, is that • the link between the “do-it-your-selfers" of 1851 ahd the initiative of present businessmen and the Christchurch City Council in the same area nearly 131 years later warranted some comment. The stone commemorates what was. apparently,, the first road “building" in the town of Christchurch. Limbo

"TRAILFINDER” (which describes itself as the magazine for real travellers) is an English giveaway .covering air holidays; its advertisers include Air New . Zealand.

Cathay Pacific, and Pan America. The July edition carried an Air New Zealand advertisement proudly announcing the inauguration of direct flights between London and Auckland. It also devoted considerable space to an article describing recreation and travel facilities in New Zealand. In support of this, there is a coloured map of New Zealand showing the “major centres.” Auckland. Wellington, and Dunedin are in heavy type Twenty-six other “majoi centres" are shown. Christchurch is ignored altogether. Comic cuts THE UNIVERSITY Dram; Society needs some help witl its production of “Gum ant Goo" at the Ngaio Marsl Theatre on September 1, 3 and 4 — and it should not bt difficult for its needs to bt met. The producer. Nit Farra (after hours telephone 62-893), says the one-act plaj by Howard Brenton, a British social dramatist, needs coloured comics to cover the set. He pleads poverty eloquently. Even the tickets are pasteboards he has made himself, to save the cost of printing — with coloured comic frames on them. .