PAGE. TWO - TGIF! Mleuir- Alw n A l v "'G TW Ui.I1[ iI fl'tXlw A . t 3iLYK SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER AT YIH FORUM: Joker's' Crown Jewel Theft Relies on Overdone Stereotype Satchmo: Sending It BaCk to the Old Days KEEPING OUT REFUGEES: Hong Kong-China Border Shut As Battles Continue in Canton By FRED BOOKSTEIN Much great literature inquires piercingly into the criminal mind, illuminating dai'k crannies of an- tisocial: libido and spurring re- spectable citizens to check their sons' and. daughters' beds and minds: "Crime and Punishment," "The Stranger," "In Cold Blood," "Itey Largo." "The Jokers," currently at the Vth Forum, a recent British at- tempt at serious farce, is not of this genre. It shines a new and- unneccessary light into the mind of that most exploitable, of- all s. t e r e o.t yp e s, the Effervescent Young Man (E. Y. M.), played by Michael Crawford, whom the elder among you may recall as the same character in "The Knack."-. Our-E. Y. M., booted out, of the army .for cheating in war games, ,wants revenge. Well, he doesn't want revenge, exactly. He simply wants the world to~ accept him on, his own terms, poor lad, So he and his brother steal the crown: jewels, and then the E. -Y. M: tkkes sole possession by' hiding them by Stonehenge and then, having demonstrated his superiority to Scotland Yard and to the ordinary laws of acting, he meekly returns them to an anonymous populace. E. Y. M. is therefore a nice guy after all. He is also completely un- interesting. The central attraction of a tale of larceny is the larceny, of course. In this regard, "The Jokers" is perhaps adequate. The scenario, though it makes up in gag lines ("Where did you get that laser?' Rent-a-Laser?" Yuk.) and ghastly James Bond technique (lasers In- deed!) for- what merits it might legitimately sport (fast cuts, in particular, being less confusing in this film than they usually are), still manages. to give the viewer a tingling antisocial thrill when the jewels are caught and cached. Thy sensation is vaguely- like that promised by books titled "Sex Without Guilt": according to the sociological notions of conscience, there ain't any; but there is any- way when you're watching other people do it. Aside from that, the movie is distressingly precious and unfun- ny. It stumbles more clumsily over characters: they. are too well- defined., E. Y. M.'s brother, a half- wittingaccomplice in the theft is left, skeletal by the -scriptwriters. We are told in one thrown-away Lead er Notes Riot Threat (Continued from Page 1) "but the committee still has a big job to do." In the area of education, the NAACP is particularly concerned about racial inbalance- in the Mack Elementary School. It plans to meet with the parents of the school children and determine their 'feelings. It also plans to study the program at Jones School before recommending!definite pol- icies. "A good many people," says Mrs. Wheeler, "regard the NAACP as a noderate middle class organiza- tion." Mrs. Wheeler attributes this to the fact that "to a large extent the NAACP, in seeking to help all Negroes by working through the courts, has inadvertently opened the doors for a few well-educated, well-trained Negro people. "The masses have suffered and they look to another kind of leader- ship." She contended, however, that "this has not been true in Ann Arbor." The Ann Arbor chapter has 300 members-a small per- centage of the city's Negro popula- tion-and about a third of the or- ganization's membership is white. But its support "comes more from the percentage ofdNegroes that suffers the most deprivation. "In -seeking to improve condi- tions, we find that we have little or no help from the Negro middle class. 'They are, as much of a drawback as white bigots," , she said. S C. S . r 0 a ', a , i 1 i r line (the sound track of this pic- ture is remarkably ambiguous) that he is an unsuccessful in- terior decorator; thereafter we as- sume he is in this. business for the free publicity and forget about his motivation. Not so, alas, the E. Y. M. We watch him. wanly' sarcast his par- ents, his friends. We would read in the script that he is a con- summate liar, though the acting is not too clear on this point. He is flattened by a 'fat dossier of EYMish behavior which rapidly ceases to make us feel E along with him. The theft is pulled off, he not unexpectedly doublecrosses his brother.. At this point the viewer ought to leave the theatre. What remains is a repetition of the prologue, but unbuoyed by ex- pectation, unjustified by plot (which collapses into mindless slapstick) or humor (which weak- ens equally; laughter is release of tension, and after therheist there's no more tension to speak of). "Topkapi," one recalls, ended just about five 'minutes after the audience let' go its breath; "The Jokers" drags for eighteen hun- dred empty seconds. (Continued from Page 1) 'love you for it. The whole min- strel show-Eddie Cantor-vaudeville business.was absolutely too much. It was Louis Armstrong who must have taught The Shadow every-j thing he knows about clouding people's minds. And you loved him for it. And you loved him for bring- ing all these different types of people into the Hill audience, some undoubtedly for the first time. You saw the milkman, the for- eign student (both American and foreign), the new grad student, the custodian and a whole bunch of wonderful people who you know must have danced to the Glenn Miller band when it stopped for a one night stand in Ann Arbor. "Misty" but I thing that they knew it and justified it on the grounds of being different and, therefore, ,good. But that's where they made their, big mistake. The smallgroup tunes never made it. The bass player, Buddy Catlett (any relation to Big Sid? . . No.) was the most modern in his solo of "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams and Dream your Troubles Away." He stays very "in" and straight but he stretches out a little bit more than the rest. He gets up there and his intonation is good and so his tone despite a seeming- ly weak instrument and all-gut strings. The night's flaw-Jewel Brown, female vocalist. God knows why she's been travelling with Arm- Arabs Agree t Sen Tyree Glenn, who plays trom- strong for six and one-half years. bone and vibes (why the electric She tries to sing like a jazz vocal- cord if he didn't use the vibra- ist but couldn't even substitute to?)' is the Kingfish image of for the worst Vandella of Martha. the group. "That's My Desire" was This whole affected business with just that. Tyree clowned around the hands and looks and smile is and played with his fluffy chap- ridiculous. Not only does it not eau and stole the show (with. his mnake sense with the Armstrong fluffy chapeau. His trombone did quartet, it justtis bad. The girl all those Dixieland things and on shouldn't be up there. "Volare" he whipped out his plun- She clearly h rs a chip on her ger and waa-waad us to pieces, shoulder and it shows, honey, it He meant it but don't forget that shows. The outfit that she switch- Roswell Rudd means it too. The ed into for the second half was vibes business, though, was kinda borrowed from the Groom and silly. "TLove. Paris" was very Clean mermaid. But I'm not really that down on you, Jewel. I just R se hope that you sing with a little 0 R esum e O il bit more honesty and 'warmth in the future. You have a nice little .*" voice and 'I don't really think that you have to use all that dopey stuff. Maybe you do. Louis Armstrong is the only guy however, will be governed by in the world who is capable of' three principles-non-recognition getting an almost packed house! of Israel, no conciliation and no to clap accurately on two and negotiation. four. He got some heads moving The summit , was a victory for and feet tapping that I'm sure, the moderates among the Arab haven't moved in a long, long leaders and Egypt's President 'while. If a kid and his parents are Gamal Abdel Nasser contributed having hassles about generation much to their success. things and the kid says "you just The $256 million Nasser is don't understand" (which is us- promised from the new develop- ually true), but he wants the' ment, fund will go a long way to- argument to end on a positive ward offsetting loss of revenue side, then he should go with his! from the waterway. parents to see Louis Armstrong. HONG KONG G.P)-The British began rolling out a' coiled barbed wire fence along 10 miles of its border with Red China yesterday as a safeguard against the pos- sibility of a flood of refugees from Red China's Kwangtung province whei'e bloody fighting has been reported. British colonial leaders express- ed fear that a heavy influx of" refugees, untrained and unskilled, could swamp Hong Kong's econ- omy. Various reports from inside Red China say a sharp struggle con- tinues in Canton about 60 miles northeast of Hong Kong's border, between supporters of Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung, and his opponents. Rail Traffic Halted Rail traffic from Canton to the border was halted yesterday. This, plus a Radio Moscow broadcast stating that fighting continued, cast doubt on claims by Maoists that they had seized control of Canton. The Moscow broadcast quoted eyewitnesses in Kwang- tung' province. There washowever, no inde- pendent confirmation of the re- ports. The barbed wire barracade is going up between a few hundred yards and.a half mile behind the actual border fence itself. It is designed as a secondary line of defense. The fence was being set up de- spite the fact that colonial offi- cials said they had no confirma- tion of reports that 30,000 to 70,000 Chinese were poised in Kwangtung for flight to Hong Kong. The building of the fence itself, however, shows that the govern- ment has not forgotten its refugee crisis of 1962. when 200,000 Chi- nese flooded into the colony. THEY GOT A MURDER ON THEIR HANDS. THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITh IT. #1 Hong Kong faced then what it would face now if there should be a mass exodus of Chinese into Hong Kong. The colony is working to house, clothe, feed and find jobs for the nearly two million Chinese refugees that have arrived since the Communists took China in 1949. Refugees Not Stopped Officials expressed hope that the, mere presence of the new fence will act as a deterrent. In 1962, Communist Chinese officials made no attempt to stop the refugees. This year, however, all signs along the tense border indicate that the Communists are-at least as of this' moment - preventing refugee escape from China. The Radio Moscow broadcast, monitored in Tokyo, said eyewit- nesses in Canton reported that a few Maoists managed to seize the Canton radio for a brief time 'Thursday and broadcast a claim they had seized the city. Widespread Clashes Moscow said the reports it had received described the clashes around Canton as widespread and bloody with estimates of 1,000 persons having been killed. Radio Moscow said trouble had also broken out in the industrial city of Chengchou, capital of Honan province, about 500 miles south of Peking. It reported fresh clashes had started Friday and said production there had been hard hit b the unrest. JAW Refuses Contract Without Higher Pensions DETROIT (P) 'United Auto Workers President Walter P. Reu- ther put the Big Three automakers on notice yesterday that there will be no agreement on a new con- tract unless it includes higher pen- sions and an escalator clause gear- ing pension payments to the cost of living. Reuther said both future re-, tirees and those already on pen- sions must be included, and he rejected as inadequate offers by Ford, General Motors and Chrys- ler to increase by $1 the basic pen- sion rate for future retirees only. The union chief emerged from yesterday's negotiating session with Ford Motor Co., which is the union target for a contract or strike by Wednesday midnight, and said little progress had been achieved. Malcolm L. Denise, Ford vice president for labor relations, agreed. Contracts Expire Wednesday They said, there likely will be bargaining meetings today and tomorrow-as the union drives for a settlement at Ford that would. be the pattern for" the industry. Four days remain before current contracts expire. Talks~ gat General Motors: And Chrysler were recessed yesterday until Tuesday.1 Since 1948, wages have been tied to the .government's cost, of living index and move a penny an hour for each .4 change in the index each three- months. If the Index falls, wages drop. If it shows 'an, increase, wages rise. Since current contracts were negotiated three years ago, wages have increased 18 cents per hour because of increases in the index. The ension escalator would go up or down likewise, Reuther said. "If it makes sense to protect workers on the payroll on full pay against erosion caused by an in- crease in the cost of living," Reu- ther said, "it makes a great deal more sense to protect the retiree." Canadian Workers Ford has 27,000 on its pension rolls and its pension fund stood at $553 million last Dec. 31. Before Reuther raised the issue of tying pensions to the cost of living, the union had made win-or-else de- mands for a substantial wage in- crease for all, something addition- al for skilled workers, guaranteed annual income and equal pay for its Canadian and American work- ers. Denise told a news conference that Ford does "not propose to negotiate Canadian wages as such" at U.S. bargaining tables, but Reuther asserted that the union has "a perfect legal right" to ne- gotiate the issue in the United States. If Canadian' wages are less than U.S. wages, U.S. workers' jobs are unprotected, he said, adding:. "That is a matter to be ;:settled here." KHARTOUM, Sudan (P) - The decision of the Arab summit meeting to resume oil shipments to the West was made as a bid to win western sympathy and sup- port for the.Arab nations in their efforts to wipe out Israel's gains] in the Middle East war June 5-;10, delegates reported yesterday. The conference wound up Fri- day.. The delegation of Kuwait-1 a major oil producer - departed yesterday predicting that oil will start flowing almost immediately from Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Libya to the United. States,; Britain and West Germany. The Arabs had accused those countries ~in siding with Israel in the wvar. In surprisingly conciliatory de- cisions, the summit rejected pro- posals put to a meeting of Arab; finance, economy and petroleum ministers in Baghdad last month for a complete-halt to oil supplies to the West for three months fol- lowed by a permanent ban on sup- plies to the United States, Britain and West Germany. Oil as Positive Weapon "The summit conference real- ized that the flow of oil could be used as a positive weapon which' could be directed toward the con- solidation of the economies of the Arab nations that suffered di- rectly from the Israeli aggression and help them in facing the pres-I sures of battles," the resolution declared.. "The summit conference has therefore decided on the resump- tion of the flow of oil." The decision also enabled the oil-rich states to contribute gen- erously to a $392 million develop- ment fund from which Egypt will draw $256 million and Jordan $122 million. Moderation was the keynote of the summit resolutions with mili- tary action to regain occupied Arab territories apparently having been abandoned. Eliminate Aggression Instead the Arab leaders agreed- on "joint political and diplomatic action at the international, level to eliminate the traces of aggres- $ion." Their political maneuvers, The year' No0. 1 best seller picks you up and never lets you down! east; Phone 434-0130 w oft nCARPENTERORAD OPEN 7:30 P.M. NOW SHOWING LEE MARVIN-ERNEST BORGNINE Shown at 8:30 & 1:10 METROC O t Also-Shown at ll:30Only " f""""""""stc" w '"""'"""" m. Matinee showings are NOT continuous! will be sold prior to show times. No one admitted after the feotu're has started. 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