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12B DES MOINES REGISTER Aug. 29, 1978 Woody's World United feature Syndicate Inc I SJ 1973 Battle for votes gets heavy in natural gas price debate 4 -i at this point, but the vote is still extremely soft," Meyers said. Muskie's Key Vote Sources said opponents are directing much of their efforts at Senator Edmund Muskie Maine). "He's important not only as chairman of the Budget Committee but also since he can sway a lot of Northeast votes," said one congressional aide who asked not to be identified. But Muskie spokesman Bob Rose said Muskie remains undecided on the bill.

"I'm sure that both sides would like to have his vote but, as many people who know Muskie are aware, after a certain point lobbying becomes counterproductive," Rose said. against deregulation as too costly to consumers. Now, with what the administration has called the single most important part of its energy program a crude oil tax apparently dead for this session of Congress, the White House is emphasizing the importance of the natural gas measure. The Senate is expected to take up the controversial legislation the week of Sept. 11.

Opponents are expected to promptly move that the measure be rejected in favor of a short bill just giving the president energency powers to deal with severe natural gas shortages. This is the key vote on which both sides are now focusing their attention. Carter to Return Carter, vacationing in Wyoming, decided to cut his vacation short and plans to return to Washington on Wednesday. Presidential spokesman Jody Powell said that a main reason for Carter's decision was so he could mobilize support for the plan. "I don't know who he'll find when he gets here," said Roy Meyers, an aide to Senator Howard Metzenbaum Ohio), a leader of forces opposed to the measure.

Meyers said opponents now have 24 firm votes against the bill up from the 18 they claimed at the end of last week and "we're assuming we can pick up an additional 10 or 15" who he said seem to be leaning against the measure. "That would give us in the range of 34-40 votes. We don't have a majority WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) A behind-the-scenes congressional battle over a natural gas pricing compromise intensified Monday following President Carter's decision to cut short his vacation and help drum up votes for the plan. Both sides scurried for additional votes, with the fate of the deregulation legislation, which the White House is depicting as crucial to Carter's energy plan, apparently in the hands of undecided senators.

There are from 12 to 21 who are undecided, depending on who is doing the counting, with neither backers nor foes able to claim a clear victory. Both the House and Senate were in recess but congressional aides reported that heavy lobbying efforts had begun in members' home states. Supporters of the measure, calling for the lifting of federal price controls from natural gas in 1985, were optimistic that personal contacts by President Carter might pick up the needed votes to assure passage of the plan. Carter's original April 1977 energy package called for continued price controls on natural gas, although at higher levels to encourage exploration for new supplies. Compromise However, when it became clear that measure could not pass Congress because of strong Senate opposition, Carter announced he would accept the deregulation compromise in its place even though administration officials had previously argued Boyer's death "NOW I remember what I forgot ta turn off before we left!" follows wife by two days Carter fishes for trout on Wyoming cattle ranch JACKSON, WYO.

(AP) -President Carter matched wits with wily cutthroat trout Monday during his western vacation. Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, spent part of the day fishing Crane Creek, a cutthroat spawning stream that flows into the Snake River about five miles south of Jackson. The Carters flew by helicopter from their vacation cabin in Grand Teton National Park to the 4 Lazy Ranch about 35 miles to the south. The Hereford cattle ranch is owned by Emily Oliver of Jackson and Pittsburgh, and her sons, Harry and Bucky. All say they are Republicans.

After six hours, the president "had some nice strikes and had some nice fish on," but didn't land any, said his fishing guide, Don Daughenbaugh. The Olivers said they invited Carter to fish on their property because they thought it would be good for him to get off public land. Carter took some practice casts for the benefit of the press corps, and despite a slight headwind, laid the fly on the water without a large splash. Carter nominates woman to Federal Reserve Board WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) -President Carter made an expected formal announcement Monday that he is nominating Nancy Hays Teeters to be the first woman member of the Federal Reserve Board.

The nomination was announced by the White House. Teeters, 48, is chief economist of the House Budget Committee. If confirmed by tl.e Senate, as expected, she will fill the unexpired term of resigned board chairman Arthur Burns, who was succeeded as chairman by William G. Miller. The term expires Jan.

31, 1984. tastes. "Lightning," he said, is usually done here by flickering lights. I went to the guys who do the stage effects for rock groups like Kiss. No one had ever asked them to work on Broadway, and they were very eager to do it." Then there is the Wulp scenery.

The play opens with a magnificent gateway to a palace-turned-British fort in India. The second scene shifts to 221B Baker St. in London. A seedy home in suburban London, an opium den in Limehouse and the Thames follow complete with a boat chase. The writing of the play meant a lot of research for Giovanni who says he worked "18-hour days" to get the play in shape.

"The only interest I had had in Sherlock Holmes in the past was from old Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce movies." Reading of Conan Doyle led him to an appreciation more of what Doyle unconsciously wrought than on what he wrote. Doyle "Terrible Snob" "Doyle was a terrible snob, Giovanni said. "What he really wanted to be was a serious novelist. He wasn't interested in the development of character in his series of Holmes cases that he wrote for The Strand magazine. I don't think he knew what he was doing: He was creating a myth that is staggering.

There are only three names from English literature that people all over the world recognize Robinson Crusoe, Hamlet and Sherlock Holmes. And the whole idea of London fog comes from Doyle. "I did a lot of work on India, Giovanni went on. "It is so exotic that you kind of fall in love with it. But India was my hardest research and it was hardest of all to write Indians in the play." Giovanni also researched the use of drugs among Victorians Conan Doyle used cocaine, and Holmes takes it in the play.

"Opium dens existed in London," Giovanni said, "but Doyle was the first to have the courage to write about them. The British were heavily involved in opium trade with China, and the British who served in India used opium there regularly. When they returned to England, there was a terrible craving for opium. So opium dens were opened in warehouses along the Thames. Usually a Chinese or someone else ran them." I0WAN AMONG CRASH DEAD RATON, N.M.

(AP) Five Pittsburgh-area men and an Iowan destined for an antelope-hunting trip in New Mexico were killed when their light plane crashed into a mountain during a storm. State police identified the victims in Sunday's crash as James Arthur Bishop, 57, of Sergeant Bluff, and Ronald Mullen, 37; Richard Homic, 51; Daniel Schneider, 27; Michael Jaworski, 54; and James O'Donnell, 44, all of the Pittsburgh area. Officers said Mullen was the pilot. Pam Green of the state police office in Raton said the victims were going hunting in Vermejo Park, about 40 miles west of Raton in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. She said the plane was going to land at Crews Field near Raton but crashed about three miles northwest of the airport.

State police found the bodies Sunday and said they were being taken to Albuquerque. The pilot radioed at 8:30 p.m. Friday that he could see the landing lights and the airport. That was the last word from the aircraft, authorities said. Col.

Earl Livingston of the New Mexico Civil Air Patrol said the mountain peak where the wreckage was found was at the head of Mule Canyon. He said the plane stopped to refuel in Kansas City, en route to Raton. Homic and O'Donnell were buyers for U.S. Steel Corp. Schneider was an executive with Pittsburgh Mechanical Systems and Jaworski was superintendent of Deuquesne Light Elrama Power Station.

Bishop, who boarded the plane in Missouri, was an acquaintance of Schneider's. Mullen was a pilot for Special Jet Services, which is based at the Allegheny County, Airport. Richard Ryan, a spokesman for Special Jet, said his company did not own the plane but that it did provide the pilot. ruled suicide; Boyer, at 78, without an heir. Boyer would have been 79 years old Monday; his wife, the former English actress, Pat Patterson, was 68.

They had lived quietly in suburban Paradise Valley for the past year, but relatively few neighbors knew of their presence among them. In a career dating back to the 1920s, the French-born actor may be best remembered for his role as a thief in "Algiers" the movie in which he supposedly uttered the famous line to Hedy Lamarr, "Come with me to the Casbah." Actually, he never spoke the line, but dozens of impersonators used it in their routines, making it Boyer's professional signature. The Los Angeles Times reported that his wife had been buried in a Los Angeles cemetery; Boyer was buried Monday afternoon in Holy Cross Cemetery. The burial ceremony was brief, attended by seven close friends including actor John Forsythe and actresses Loretta Young and Irene Dunne. From The Registefs Wire Services PHOENIX, ARIZ.

Actor Charles Boyer, screen lover of Hollywood's most beautiful women of the 1930s and '40s, killed himself Saturday with an overdose of drugs, a coroner ruled Monday. Boyer, whose screen loves included cuth ct4rc drain Garbo, Hedy Lamarr and Ingrid Bergman, took his own life just charles two days after boyer Patricia, his wife of 44 years, died of cancer. Coroner Thomas Jarvis ruled blood samples showed he died of an overdose of Seconal a suicioe. Seconal is a barbiturate widely used as a sleeping potion. In 1965, the Boyers only child, Michael, also committed suicide at the age of 21, and this was said to have thrown the actor into deep depression for some time.

The death of his wife last Thursday left Charles FINALLY, By BARBARA CROSETTE 1971 Ntw Yrt Vrrm NEW YORK, N.Y. A new play about Sherlock Holmes is getting ready to open on Broadway, and everything about it from who wrote it to whodunit is going to be a surprise. "The Crucifer of Blood," now in rehearsal at the Helen Hayes Theater, is the first play ever written by a young musician-actor-director named Paul Giovanni. It was first performed last winter at Buffalo's Studio Arena Theater, and it so impressed the Broadway producer Lester Osterman who arrived in a blinding blizzard to see it and found the house full that he decided not only to back it, but also to put it in his Own theater where it will open Sept. 28 after previews starting Sept.

14. Giovanni got his inspiration for the play from the Arthur Conan Doyle story "The Sign of the Four." "But the story didn't really have a mystery in it," Giovanni said during a rehearsal break at the theater. "There were only a couple of things the paper, a chest of jewels So in the end all I used of Conan Doyle were the names of Holmes and Watson. What I've done is given the Holmes story an Agatha Christie twist without in any way disrupting or being unfaithful to his world." Young Holmes The Holmes and Watson of Giovanni's play are young men. "It is 1887, and they are Victorian," Giovanni said, "It's an experiment to show them at 33 five years out of Cambridge, with all the great cases to come.

No one's ever seen them in the right clothes. They will wear frock coats and stovepipe hats. People are used to seeing them as older men usually dressed in a vaguely Edwardian to 1920s style." Giovanni has moved his characters out of the drawing room and on to "location" in this case no less than five sets done by the noted designer John Wulp (who is also among the producers of the play). "In Buffalo they offered me the Royal Shakespeare Company "Sherlock Holmes," Giovanni said. (That production, starring John Wood, was seen on Broadway four years ago.) But that play like all the other Holmes plays we looked at was not a proper mystery.

"I said to them: 'Why don't I write And that's what I did. The play took only three months to complete and most of the finishing touches were put on in rehearsals in Buffalo. Bizarre Clues Paxton Whitehead, the former Royal Shakespeare Company actor who has more recently been artistic director of the Shaw Festival at Nia gara-on-the-Lake in Ontario, created the part of Holmes in Buffalo. He will play the lead in the Broadway production, supported by Timothy Landfield as Dr. Watson and Glenn Close as Irene St.

Clair, the woman who brings the bizarre clues of the case to Baker Street. Giovanni has defied Victorian tradition by making the woman a strong character. In his view "women were the most oppressed class in the 19th century." "The Crucifer of Blood" centers on two former officers in the Royal Army in India during the Mutiny of 1875 who have made a pact with a third British soldier over the sharing of a chest of jewels. The pact is broken, and 30 years later it appears that primitive revenge has been taken on the two officers. The plot is complete with savages and poison darts and an orphaned and penniless young woman of gentle upbringing with whom Watson falls in love.

Paul Giovanni, 37, was born and raised in Atlantic City, N.J. He was a premedical student at St. Joseph's College in Philadelphia, but went on to the Catholic University in Washington, DC, on a scholarship to get a master's degree in drama. He was a songwriter and member of a rock group called "Side Show" before beginning an acting career in regional theaters and Off Broadway houses. Most recently he has been a director of "Equus" at the Coconut Grove Playhouse in Miami as well as at the Studio Arena in Buffalo, and of "Black Comedy-White Lies" at the Shaw Theatre in London.

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