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 A 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. I 'I 4' Y' NiTWL BIG C-mP NEW WORLD FILM CO-OP, I" 4 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. SOON: PAUL NEWMAN "THE LIFE & TIMES OF JUDGE ROY BEAN" HELD OVER-2nd Week! 603-east-_ibery OPEN 12:45 Shows Daily at 1-3-5-7-9 t I H I G A U 2 Academy Award Nominations Jeannie Berlin, best supporting actress Theatre Phone 6654290 Eddie Albert, best supporting actor 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. The Michigan Daily, edited and man- aged by students at the University of Michigan. News phone: 764-0562. Second Class postage paid at Ann Arbor, Mich- igan. 420 MaynardaStreet, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104. Published daily Tues- day through Sunday morning Univer- sity year. Subscription rates: $10 by carrier (campus area); $ii local mail tin Mich. or, Ohio); $13 non-local mail (other states and foreign). jummer Session published Tuesday through Saturday morning. Subscrip- tion rates: $5.50 by carrier (campus area); $6.50 local mail (in Mich. or Ohio); $7.50 non-local mail (other states and foreign). But the Chinese cinema is not M&?Media trics ZABRISKIE POINT 7 &9:30 p.m. Friday & Saturday Nat. Sci. Aud. Only 75c Tickets on sale at 6 p.m. TONIGHT - CARNAL KNOWLEDGE MOST ORIGINAL AMERICAN COMEDY OF 1972. As startling in its way as was fNeil Simon THE HEART ED directed by Elaine May " 'The Graduate'" __ "ONE OF THE YEAR'S BEST!" Said the N.Y. Times, Newsweek, Time, and The New Yorker - I HOw Showing PROGRAM lKFORMATOi4 0 44-1752 WAjYvS A Shows at 1:00 and 9:00 P.M. NEER::NOT EVEN IN NDDAYS OF WINE Y > ROSES'-UAS JACK :.:... MON BEEN MORE OAY AND FELICI T EL PAIRED WITH A ROL E. "his is a superb acto plizto the hilt a, role that comes along nce in a decade !" lrhuwr Knight, Satu~rdy * R~iewand Westways Ma. A. DEEPL;Y PROFOUND. AND SHATTERING . EXPERIENCE! IT USES. f;ITPOERTO IN- ~ /LEEENTERTAIN' ; ..,..AND EVDEN GRIP 'TI-E AU:<>:DIENCEAS"FEW~ . M... 0 V IE S I N R E C E N T . . ....A E T D T O D "-Re~Tc ke i c.Srdated Columnist' 'SPIItIVE AC EVMNTO ti': : A Cti;MM};{.a t+:riti" ;"': : . i urn-;.}:i:. Y::.:: :.. ,.. ,."v{, pohanhk .t%."'r"el r:ebiirat1:1:4}:i:" n 7Bof h'4:s r354i ?:+.+ "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 -1 I I "Carnal Knowledge" is one of ever!"-Liz Smith, Cosmopolitan the best movies Mike Nichols, Jack Nicholson, Candice Bergen, Ar- thur Garfunkel, Ann-Margaret and Jules Feiffer - TONIGHT - Modern Languages Auditorium 7:00-8:00-8:45-9:45-10:30 p.m. I PARAMOUNT PICTURES CORPORATION and FILMWAYS, INC. present JK LE-M-MON 1z ? rnt -FIFDSn F NFIWARPFFI . l.41 ...J ..SrII. 1- f Lf t L ..'J O.Fl 1 L. Y..J1 X.LL-..