The Young Canadians.

The burgeoning program in the Hopkins Center related to Dartmouth's concentration on Canada was in evidence in corridors and studios from one end of the fine-arts complex to the other last month, but it was the arrival of two talented young Canadians to take up "residence" that really got the Center's publicity cannons booming.

Jack Cunningham, author of the awardwinning Marise, acclaimed as the Best Canadian Play of 1966, breezed into town to hold tryouts for his play and be interviewed over WDCR. Playwright Cunningham will direct the Dartmouth Players' production of Marise as the drama highlight of the Center's Canadian Year.

In addition to winning the top prize of $1,000 for Marise last spring at the Dominion Drama Festival, Cunningham also received a special award for his Contribution to Theatre in Montreal; a Canada Council Arts Scholarship for playwright; and a fellowship to New York University where he is now studying at the School of Arts. His play will open in the Hopkins Center's Studio Theater on February 28.

The other young Canadian, Jacques Hurtubise, is on campus as Artist-in-Resi-dence for the Winter Term. The Montreal-born painter, 28, studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Montreal, was awarded a Max Beckman scholarship for studies in New York, and grants from the Canada Council and the Ministry of Cultural Affairs. His work has been seen in numerous group and oneman shows in Montreal, and he has exhibited regularly since 1958 in the Salon du Printemps at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. He recently had a one-man show in New York, and he will be featured in a one-man showing in Toronto this month.