DORIS CHILi.COTT as Miss Daisy points out the way to her chauffeur Hoke Coleburn (played by photo Glen Erikson Alvin Sanders) in the easy-going Arts Club production of Driving Miss Daisy. Miss Daisy tackles racism with gentility Driving Miss Daisy, Arts Club Theatre, through July, phone 687-1644. OME PLAYS drive home their point with alarming directness. Driving Miss Daisy, now playing at the Arts Club Theatre, is not one of those plays. Its message is more a gentle nudge, and its overall tone is genteel. ti is a safe play, and somewhat predictable, but watching it is akin to sitting in the shade on a hot southern day sippin’ lemonade. The play, which strolls along with a charming inevitability, chronicles the 25-year relation, a kind of begrudging affection, be- tween Miss Daisy Werthan and her chauffeur Hoke Coleburn. Doris Chillcott, as Miss Daisy, plays it lightly from the beginning. Rather than being a cantankerous old Jewess, she plays the part more inwardly. Dismayed at the prospect of having a black chauf- feur drive her around, Miss Daisy shows her disapproval by being aloof — within the confines of re- spectability. Playwright Alfred Uhry makes his statement on class and racial prejudice very quietly. Revolution is just tiptoeing into the character's lives, hiding behind the sheer cur- tain of propriety. While the radicalism of Martin Luther King foments in the background and Miss Daisy even takes an interest in his views, she never quite makes the connection (or wants to admit it) between the theory of equality and its real presence in her life — the fesh and blood black man living under her “‘rule.” It’s not even certain that she makes the conne. «+1 be- tween her own experience uf an- ti-Semitism and ¢ cial prejudice toward blacks. Hoke one day tries to bring the indignity of his station to her at- tention. He points out the hurnilia- tion of nol being able to use public washrooms and then having to ask her permission to ‘make water’ by the roadside. While Miss Daisy doesn’t express excessive sym- pathy to his plight, when he walks away from the car to relieve himself she cries out his name in loneliness, thereby betraying her dependence upon and fondness of him, Barbara Black THEATRE REVIEW * CAL SPAS * CAL SPAS * CAL SPAS « SPAS *CAL SPAS « GA * XL 800 Gazebo $449500 poten acy The two-act play contains quite a few scenes, which take place in three different spots on the stage. The set, designed by Ted Roberts, conveys the upscale interior of a Georgian home with the bare min- imum of antique furniture and a suggestion of hardwood floor. Three swaths of graceful sheer curtains of a lilac hue float behind the sets, giving the action a parlor-room softness and also conveying the shifts in mood with light changes (sensitively done by Marsha Sidthorpe). The car, central to the action, was simply two chairs set one next to the other. Alvin Sanders mimes the opening of doors, steering and OVER 150,000 SATISFIED & CAL SPAS CUSTOMERS! any spa purchase * CAL SPAS * CAL SPAS:* CAL SPAS:* OR $157 mo. O.A.c. . CAL SPAS - CAL SPAS 988-4006 Store Hours Mon. - Thurs. Friday Saturday 9:80-7:00 9:30-9:00 10:00-6:00 1480 MARINE DR., NORTH VAN. CAL SPAS.» CAL SPAS + CAL'S PAS.*: CAL: SPAS. *. CAL SPAS Sleek and Sexy YW leg Wax fknees down) only $15 rep. S25 See us for Summer Facials too! La Scala 3012 Edgemont Blvd. GALLERIA SALE $9499 $999 Jewellery Grab Bags $499.29 INSTORE SALE Summer Shoes 25-50% off sme, — Wea Selected Summer Clothes & 95-50% of Accessories Lonsdale Quay Market 986-4893 Sundresses Sendals shoes clothing accessories A ONE ITEM | Two a ITEMS A THREE ITEMS es COUPONS NOT APPLICABLE.