The Michigan Daily-Thursday, April 13, 1978-Page 7 ARTS ARCADE ... a weekly roundup - Off the wall ROCHESTER, N.Y. - A Picasso watercolor valued at about $150,000 has been stolen from the . Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Rochester, officials there said yesterday. A gallery spokesman said the pain- ting, titled "Flowers in a Blue Vase," disappeared from the wall the gallery auditorium Tuesday evening. The pain- ting was donated to the gallery in1931. plete two-volume Gutenberg Bible - the first book printed by means of movable type. "I thought it was a very reasonable price,'' says Martin Breslauer, the New York City book dealer who bid $2 million for the books. "I thought it would go much higher." Breslauer put in the bid Friday in an auction at Christie's on behalf of the General Theological Seminary of Baden-Wuerttemberg, which had owned the leather-bound books printed highest price ever paid for a book. The bible is one of six known complete Gutenberg bibles in the United States and 21 in the world. Pirates sunk CINCINNATI - Tammy Wynette and Johnny Cash have won another court case against record "bootlegers." The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday not only upheld the country singers' previous court victory over MVC Distributing Corp., but also held MVC official Donald Merry personally liable in the case. A lower court earlier had refused to hold Merry liable. Cash and Wynette, along with A&M Records and CBS, Inc., were awarded $120,000 in damages and MVC was or- dered not to duplicate and distribute "pirated" recordings - reproductions of original records marketed under a different label. The court said MVC had sold more than 174,000 duplicates of 123 albums of Cash, Wynette and other performers such as Bob Dylan, Carole King, Paul Simon, Barbra Streisand and the group "Chicago." Helter Skelter leads to helter skelter. MILWAUKIE, Ore. - The North Clackamas School Board has agreed to a $4,500 settlement in the case of a 12- year-old student who claimed psychological damage from a course that included the showing of the television movie "Helter Skelter." John Tujo, attorney for the unnamed student, said the girl's parents conten- ded the school district was guilty of negligence of malpractice in the man- ner in which the course on death and dying was conducted. Tujo,said the girl received treatment from a psychiatrist after she became obsessed with dying and constantly worried about it after seeing several movies about' people dying. He said one film was "Helter Skelter" about the Manson murders. Superintendent Donald Charles said the school board agreed to the payment on the advice of the district's attorney. He said the main reason for the set- tlement was the wish to avoid publicity that might surround a lawsuit threatened by the parents. Nazis remembered CHICAGO - An upcoming four-night television dramatization of the per- secution of Jews in Nazi Germany has become the focal point of a nationwide Holocaust remembrance. Seminars, services and youth-counseling sessions are planned at Jewish community cen- ters, churches and schools throughout the country before and after the telecasts. The NBC "docu-drama" is a fic- tionalized account of the systematic Nazi destruction of 6 million European Jews before and during World War II and focuses on two families, one Jewish and one Nazi. The series will be shown on four consecutive nights beginning April 16 at 8p.m. EST. Schools in Illinois, Florida, Pen- nsylvania, Louisiana and Minnesota are distributing information on the Holocaust. The mayor of Hartford, Conn., has designated the week of the telecasts as "Holocaust Remembered Week." And Sen. Edward W. Brooke, D-Mass., is to take part in a Holocaust convocation with Catholic, Protestant and Jewish clergymen .at Boston's Faneuil Hall on April 16. Decor stops traffic BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - In this mecca of millionaires and movie stars, where many homes truly are castles, an Arabian sheik's recent purchase of his dream palace is becoming a night- mare for his neighbors.' "It's a dirty Disneyland," complains one resident who has watched in astonishment as the young sheik's workers painted Romanesque statues black and bright red in anatomically strategic places. But that's not all. The bizarre renovation of the stately $2.4 million, 60-year-old mansion has been causing traffic jams on heavily traveled Sunset Boulevard and com- plaints to the City Council. The decor of 22-year-old Sheik Mohammad S. A. al-Faissi's new house underscores a trend: the Arabs are coming. In the past year, millionaires from the Middle East - mainly from Iran - have purchased homes as well as some of the most valuable commer- cial property on exclusive Rodeo Drive. "With our devalued dollar, it's a good investment for them," says John F. Glick, vice president of the Beverly Hills Chamber of Commerce. Recently, he said, a real estate survey showed, that 26 percent of the homes in ex- clusive Trousdale Estates had been bought by the Middle Eastern rich. Meanwhile, back at al-Fassi's house; cars screech to a halt at the sight of giant urng filled with orange, red, blue and yellow plastic flowers in a land where the real things grow on trees.. The 58-room mansion, once an under- stated white stucco, has been painted bright green on the outside with redl and orange walls within. Those who have been inside say the walls are emblazoned with murals- some of nude women, some religious scenes and one desert scene with :a camel. Outside, sunbursts of gold have been painted above each window, and purple drapes are visible from the, street. - The Arts Arcade was compiled by, arts staffer Mark Johansson ,frn the A P and UPI wires.' r Mon., Tues., Thurs., Fri., 7-9 Sat., Sun., Wed.,1-3-5-7-9 Vonesso Redgrove-Y Winner of Best Supporting Actress L pG ©,}97720THCENTURY-FOX Kerry Comerford, technical director of the new Israel Horowitz play "Mackerel," coaxes his one-ton replica of the object of the play through its en- try scene. The finny creature, built of wood, foam, and rubber, was recently wheeled through the streets of Washington's Capitol Hill area to the Folger Theater. With good behavior.. . LOS ANGELES - Evel Knievel walked out of jail early yesterday into a tangle of financial and legal problems. But his publicist says things will be jumping again soon for the daredevil motorcyclist. Dressed in a gray sport suit, the self- styled "professional life-risker" step- ped into a late model sedan reportedly containing his wife and was driven away. Knievel, 38, served a little less than five months of a six-month jail term imposed after he pleaded guilty to assaulting television executive Sheldon Saltman with a baseball bat. Knievel said he assaulted Saltman because of allegedly libelous material contained in a book Saltman wrote after working as a promoter on Knievel's un- successful rocket-cycle leap over the Snake River Gorge in Idaho.. "I feel that the majority of society have understood the reasons for my ac- tion," Knievel said. He contended his incarceration would not serve "as a deterrent to others." 'Knievel's early release was due to his good behavior, said Sheriff's Lt. Joseph Race. Publicist Stan Rosenfield said one of the first problems Knievel will have to face is a civil suit filed by Saltman for an undisclosed sum. Rosenfield noted, however,'that Knievel has filed a $210 million libel suit against Saltman and his publishers. Divine dead 'n Latin by German printer Johann Gutenberg abolut 540 years ago. Fending off further questions, Breslauer said hehopes to resell the books at a profit. The seminary copy contains history's first known printer's error. Gutenberg and his associates printed one page twice. Bidding at the auction opened at $500,000 and within 10 seconds, it had readhed $1 million. It hit the $2 million sale price 20 seconds later. The $2 million price tag was the In the heart of Ann Arbor's theatre district 300 S. Thayer Breakfast 7:00 a.m. Weekdays 8:00 a.m. Sundays NOON LUNCHEON Homemade Soup & Sandwiches 50C FRIDAY, APRIL 14 Speaker: CAROL BURRIS President and founder of Women's Lobby Incorporated at GUILD HOUSE 802 MONROE (corner of Oakland) Ms. Burris will speak on "Reproductive Freedom" 8:00 pm-ist Unitarian Church 1917 Washtenaw Sat., Sun., & Wed. 1:00,3:30,6:00,8:30 Mon., Tues., Thurs., Fri. 7:00 & 9:15 POETRY READING with GOLDA M. EAR, BARBARA WAGLER, and JANE NORD Mon., Tues., Thurs., Fri., /-9 Sat., Sun., Wed., 1-3-5-7-9 WE Thurs nts reading from their works day, April 13-7:30 p.m. at GUILD HOUSE 802 MONROE (corner of Oakland) Refreshme A I ~ ~ hn~ ijfA~ tsAt ANG LLHALL The Ann Arbor Film Co-Operative prHURSDAANP L1 DAY FOR NIGHT (Francis Truffaut, 1973) 7 & 9-AUD. A Truffaut's love poem to the cinema, and the film he was born to make, The warmth, humor, and elusiveness of film (and life) is- explored as a director (played by Truffaut) sets out to make a film amid endless bitter- sweet complications. Winner--Academy Award, Best Foreign Film; National Society of Film Critics, Best Film, Best Director, Best Supporting Actress; New York Film Critics, Best Film, Best Director, Best Supporting Actress; French Film Critics Association, Best Film (Prix-Melies). Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-\Pierre Leaud, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Valentina Cortese. t Tomorrow: PUMPING IRON, HEAD, AND STAY HUNGRY. If you have Used Books STU DENTSto Sell - Read This! NEW paid $1j YORK - A book dealer has million a volume for the com- As the Semester end approaches-bringing-with it a period of heavy book selling by students- ULRICH'S would like to review with you their BUY-BACK POLICY. Used books fall into several categories, each of which-because of the law of supply and demand-has its own price tag. Let's explore these various categories for your guidance. CLASS I. CLOTHBOUND A textbook of current copyright-used on our campus-and which the Teaching Department involved, has approved for re-use in upcoming, semesters-has the highest market value.,If ULRICH'S needs copies of this book we will offer a minimum of 50% off the list price for copies in good physical condition. When we have sufficient stock of a title for the coming semester, ULRICH'S will offer a "WHOLESALE PRICE" which will beexplained later in this article. (THIS IS ONE REASON FOR SELLING ALL YOUR USED BOOKS AT ONCE!) . CLASS II. PAPERBOUND Paperbacks are classified in two groups: A. Text Paperbacks; B. Trade Paperbacks A. Text Paperbacks will be purchased from you as Class I books above. B. Trade Paperbacks would draw an approximate offer of 25% of the list price when in excel- lent condition. CLASS 11. Some of the above Class I or Class II books will be offered which have torn bindings, loose pages, large amounts of highlighting and underlining, or other physical defects. These will be priced down according to the estimated cost of repair or saleability. r~ N