Page Two
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Friday, March 23, 1973
Pane Two THE MiCHIGAN DAILY Friday, Morch 23, 1973 A
LESS POLITICAL CONTENT:
COMING SOON !
DUS1JN HOfIFMAN
Chinesi
PEKING (Reuter) - China has
purchased four Western-made1
films, including "The Sound of'
Music" and "Tora, Tora, Tora,"'
as a perceptible but cautious re-l
laxation appears to be taking placei
in native Chinese movie-making.
During the past few weeks, cm-
ema-goers in Peking have been
flocking to see two nature films
which are both low on ideological
content and high on human interest.
-and scenic beauty.
Called "Tame Deer" and "To3
Catch an Elephant," they contrast i
film-makers may shift focus
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starkly with the often well-made
but strictly political dramas like
"Red Detachment Of Women" and
"White Haired Girl" which have
been the staple film fare here since
the cultural revolution began in
1966.
At the same time, Chinese film-
makers have been told in a care-
fully-worded article in the Com-
munist party theoretical journal
"Red Flag" they may now depict
China's beautiful landscapes of
mountain and river, immortalized
by traditional scroll painters for
centuries. the novel by L. P. Hartley. ,
The article appears to indirectly But their acquisition does not
criticize the rigid political themes mean Chinese will soon be whist-
wihich have totally dominated the ling tunes from "The Sound of
Chinese cinema during the past six Music," or staring in disbelief -_
years. But it warns against por- or horror - at the torrid haylhftl
traying "scholars and gentlemen" scene played by Julie Christie and
instead of the laboring people as Alan Bates in 'The Go-Between."
the heroes of new movies. But Premier Chou En-Lai is be-
The Western films, besides the lieved to have expressed an inter-
two American movies already men- s,
tioned, include the British-made est in the two American movies,
i "Tales of Beatrix Potter" and "The according to sources.
Go-Between," the latter a child's And it is just possible that select-
view of Edwardian love, based on ed Chinese auiences see "Tora,
---- - - Tora, Tora," about the events lead-
ing up to the Japanese attack on
t" 1 7 _
Consumer boycotts may have
d dhIU~i
Yeari mrUoon-anu "iraces of
Beatrix Potter," performed in vivid
costume by London's Royal Bal-
let.
However, the films are believed
about to imitate Hollywood's ways
in other fields - such as turning
China's leading film actress, Shih
Chung-Chin, into an American-
style super-star.
At present, Ms. Shih, who starred
in "White Haired Girl" and is
known to the majority of China's
800 million population, lives in a
Shanghai dormitory with o t h e r
girls and draws a salary of $20 a
month.
Nor are Albanian, North Korean
and North Vietnamese films like-
ly to be supplanted in Chinese
cinemas in the near future by pro- I
ducts from the United States and
Europe.
Peking's oldest cinema, situated
in ancient Da Sha Lan Street, is
currently screening the Albanian
movie "A Militant Morning."
Although such foreign films are
far from the test of cinema aud-
iences in the non-communist world,
they make even Soviet films look
full of romance and humor. They
are light relief for Chinese aud-
iences, who otherwise must view
Chinese films.
A recent movie from the Demo-
cratic People's Republic of Korea
showed the heroine shyly taking
the hero's hand. Any hint of any
Ching other than revolutionary ar-
dor is excluded, totally and com-
pletely, from Chinese films.
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MU1 MI 111I I UIVICA 111 IIIUa 1L f LUAS by observers here to have been
acquired principally so that film-
makers in China, most of whom
WASHINGTON OP) - Chairman labor unions for "self-restraint and by December. are based in Shanghai, Changchun
Herbert Stein of the President's statesmanship" in new wage de- "I hope they (labor leaders) will and Peking, may study their tech-
Council of Economic Advisers said mands. see this in a broader context andan i n a u h-
yesterday consumer boycotts Stein said farm product prices not upset a national goal because niques.
against high prices may have con- rose 14.5 per cent in the three of an unfortunate concentration of Western visitors have been told
tributed to a decline in wholesale months since November, and said increases," he said. by Chinese that their technical lev-
meat prices in the past week. - this was "one of the most drama- Asked what additional steps the el in this field is lamentably behind
"Something seems to be working tic price increases on record." government coud take to restrain the times. "Like ours in the thir-
back from the demand side," Stein But he added he hopes labor will food prices, he said, "the biggest ties," said one representative of
said. "Consumer resistance may be understand this is a temporary things have been done." an American film company w h o
having an effect." situation and predicted that retail He said he could conceive of a'
At a news briefing on the na- food prices will fall off to a 2 per situation where controls on food saw film studios here late I a s t
tion's economy, Stein appealed to cent annual rate of increase or less prices would be necessary, but add- year.
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Vincent Canby of the New York Times says:
"THE BEST ANDOTHE_____
CIA pian rejected
by ITT hierarchy
WASHINGTON (P) - A sen-
ior vice president of International
Telephone & Telegraph Corp.
(ITT) said yesterday the com-
pany rejected a CIA plan to in-
duce economic collapse in Chile
in 1970.
Edward Gerrity, the ITT vice
president, told a Senate subcom-
mittee that the five-point plan
was suggested to him on Sept.
29, 1970, by William Broe, head
of Latin American clandestine
services for the Central Intelli-
gence Agency.
"It didn't make sense and we
didn't want any part of it," Ger-
rity testified at a hearing of a
special Senate Foreign Relations
subcommittee on multinational
corporations.
Gerrity said company officials
did contact other companies with
properties in Chile, "but only to
reinforce my opinion that the plan
wouldn't work."
Gerrity conceded that ITT was
fearful of property expropriation
of Salvador Allende, who already
had won a plurality in a popular
election, and was declared pres-
ident of Chile by the Chilean con-
gress.
"All we were concerned about
was that we receive prompt and
just payment," Gerrity said.
The five-point economic chaos
program, which Gerrity said Broe
suggested, was outlined in a tele-
gram to Harold Geneen, ITT
board chairman, on Sept. 29,
1970.
Gerrity said Geneen rejected the
idea also as being "self-defeat-
ing." He said the ITT affil-
iate, Chile Telephone Co., had
service agreements to live up to
and needed money to carry them
out.
Meanwhile, the Chilean Embas-
sy in Washington issued a state-
ment denying Allende ever stated
he would confiscate ITT's hold-
ings in Chile without compensa-
tion.
The embassy said the Chilean
state took over control of the
Chile Telephone Co. in Septem-
ber 1971 because of "rotten serv-
ice" and without denying ITT's
property rights.
ed he thought it unlikely.j
The latest consumer price index
showed a 2.2 per cent increase in
all food prices in February, fo-
lowing a 1.9 per cent increase in
January. Stein said the March and
April indexes will show additional
increases.
He said the two developments
that have characterized the econ-
'omy so far this year are a rapid
expansion of activity and an in-
crease in inflation, especially in
farm, prices.
Stein said it is normal for prices
to increase and that there would
be no food crisis if prices were ris-
ing at an annual rate of from 1
to 2.5 per cent since real wages
still would be increasing faster
than prices.
"It is only when they hit 2.5 per
cent in a month that everybody
knows there is a food crisis," he
said.
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TONIGHT -
CARNAL KNOWLEDGE
MOST ORIGINAL
AMERICAN
COMEDY
OF 1972.
As startling
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directed by
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"Carnal Knowledge" I have experienced only three
or four movies that I was genuinely sorry to see end.
I was sorry to see "Carnal Knowledge" end!"
-Vincent Canby, N.Y. Times
NEXT: BARBRA STREISAND in "UP THE SANDBOX" I
KATHERINE HEPBURN WEEKEND
~J:
ALICE ADAMS
with Fred MacMurray, Ann Shoemaker, Fred Stone, and
Hattie McDaniels. Directed by George Stevens
Alice Adams: Redemption of a Dull Season
Hollywood bestows a garland The scene is both riotously fun- pulation. The truth and beauty
on the languishing Summer cin- ny and tragically real, and the of the work lies in Alice's flimsy
ema in the splendid screen ver- laughter of the audience is al- pretenses to gentility, her moth-
sion of "Alice Adams." An oddly ways close to tears. er's bitter insistence that she
exciting blend of tenderness, co- shall have the same advantages
medy and realistic despair, It It, is a temptation to regard as the daughters of her neigh-
touches life intimately at many Alice's misfortunes as the just bors, and her father's tearful
points during its account of a punishment of a social climber collapses when Mrs. Adams be-
lonely girl in a typical American rather than the stuff of authen- rates him for his failure to pro-
small town, tic tragedy. But the plight of vide for his family.
the Adams family becomes gen-
In "Alice Adams" Booth Tark- uinely heart-breaking when we Katherine Hepburn's special
ington momentarily ceased his realize how accuraete y ed achievement s ner ability to
detached contemplation of the these people are in terms of clarify the duality of Alice's
foibles of youth and wrote a small-town ife before the de- character, the contrast between
highly subjective story of an pression. while his neighbors the absurdly pretentious de-
American family. Without aban- have grown in affluence and or- meanor which she adopts for
doning his great gift for expos- ganized their local aristocracy, public consumption and her nat-
jug the comic details of adoles- old virgil Adams has been con- ural mood of lonely frustration.
cent behavior, ne was able to re- tent with his lowly job and his Fred Stone's performance makes
gard Alice's difficulties with in- shabby house. Alice has been his screen debut one of the sea-
teinor- sympathy and understand- outdistanced socially by the son's heart-warming events. Ann
lng. girls who were once her cronies. Shoemaker, the veteran stage ac-
The tragedy of her position is tress, is perfect as the mother,
The photoplay skillfully recap- seen at its most poignant at the and there are excellent perform-
tures this engaging compound of dance given by Mildred Palmer, ances by Fred MacMurray as
sentimental realism, building a where she finds herself an un- Alice's young man and by Frank
wealth of kindly, amusing and wanted interloper whose pitiful Albertson as her rebellious br -
yet truthful details into its finery Is in sad contrast to 'the ther.
study of character and atmos- resplendent evening gowns of
phere. You have the work at its the other girls. The recital would be incom-
best in the beautifully managed plete if it neglected to applaud
episode describing the dinner lIt is a virtue rather than a Hattie Daniels for her hilarious
given by the Adams family for handicap that the photoplay is
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ever!"-Liz Smith, Cosmopolitan
the best movies
Mike Nichols, Jack Nicholson, Candice Bergen, Ar-
thur Garfunkel, Ann-Margaret and Jules Feiffer
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