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2-C METROPOLITAN- Qwfef Cape Jfay starring role in horror movie The Scene In Philadelphia and its suburbs Monday. Nov. 3, 1980 Philadelphia Inquirer KISli i yWfVlw Wf4 Pil5 iffe i i 1 -ySi, Tl kit i 1 IN Washington Senators' Walter Johnson and Connie Mack: to each his own uniform (see Images, below). Imagesi How would Dallas look in civvies? Last Monday we asked why baseball managers, unlike their counterparts in other sports, dress like one of the players, right down to the spikes. We've received many responses from readers who want to ext plain.

Most said that the reason baseball managers wear a uniform is because, unlike coaches in foot- By Charlotte-Anne Lucas Special lo The Inquirer CAPE MAY, N.J. For 10 days, Mary Crilly has heard gunshots and other macabre sounds coming from the front of her Victorian mansion on Washington Street. People scramble on the roof in the moonlight. And at least every other night someone gets murdered. It doesn't bother Mrs.

Crilly, 78, at all. "My son told me that if I heard shooting, I. shouldn't get worried, and I don't," she said cheerfully. "After all, they are such nice people." The people in question are actors. Movieactors.

Graduation, which stars Farley Granger, is being filmed in Cape May. It a is a whodunit, the plot of which involves several murders at a 1945 graduation dance at a girls' school, an incident that puts a crimp on social dancing. Nearly 40 years later, when school officials decide to revive the graduation dance, the murderer strikes again. Was it the janitor, a combat-happy soldier, or maybe the town sheriff An independent film company from New York arrived late in September, much to the delight of Cape May residents, who see them as an off-season boon to the town's economy. The shooting rather, filming is to continue here for at least a week longer.

The company made itself at home in Mrs. Crilly's huge house, moving her 19th-century furniture -from room to room and lugging large equipment over the lawn. "They love Cape May and they like my house," Mrs. Crilly said, and that was enough to convince her to rent the front part for a few days as a setting for the macabre events. Despite the grisliness, folks in this quiet seaside town have been eager to get into the act.

About 150 local people, including men stationed at the Coast Guard base, have captured roles as extras. "They already have short hair and really look the part for the 1940s scenes," one movie official said. David Fincke; 21, waited patiently last week to see if he would have to stand in for an actor and be stabbed in the back. Fincke, a construction worker, has already appeared in two scenes, and will be involved in the 1945 dance scene. For that, 'he even agreed to cut his blond hair.

"It's great," Fincke said, grinning. "They're going to teach me how to jitterbug, the real thing." John White, a barber, cut Fincke's hair and was responsible for shearing the locks of several other extras in the style of 1945 a task awarded him only after he completed a test cut. The film company has dressed up the historic Chalfonte Hotel near the beach to act as the girls' dormitory, converted a shoe store into a '40s-style mom-and-pop deli and taken advantage of Cape May's gas-lit streets for outdoor shots of antique cars and people. Scenes also will be filmed around the Physick House, and inside the Franklin Street Civic Center, which will serve as the gymnasium-ballroom. Last week, the gym began taking on a post-World War II appearance.

Red, white and blue streamers hung from the ceiling. At the front of the room, a platform had been constructed by local carpenters to hold music stands provided by the Coast Guard. In one corner, crew members were outfitting a coffin that will appear in the film, shrouded in purple, to hold one of the killer's victims. And in the basement, special effects director Tom Savini worked his magic on a rubbery model of the head of one of the film's stars a head that, he noted, would be shot off in the movie. "I guess you could say I'm the assassin behind the murderer," Savini said.

The cooperation between cinema-makers and citizens even produced a Halloween bonus. Savini lent Cape May some fake body parts for use in the town's "haunted dungeon" in the Physick House this weekend. Graduation producer David Streit chose Cape May because of its "period atmosphere." An added bonus, he said, has been the cooperation of the residents. Streit said he hopes to sell the low-budget film to a major film company for distribution, but said if that fails, "there's always some market for horror films, and right now there's a huge market for them." Members of the company told residents that Graduation would premiere in Cape May and, when it does, Fincke plans to see it. "My friends and he said, "we'll all be there, even if it's just to see each othef backs." By CLARK DfLEON Philadelphia Inquirer RICHARD U.

TITLEY IT WAS LIGHTS, action, cameras on Market Street yesterday, as a parade was staged and a stunt man drove a car through a John Wanamaker window in the filming of "Blow Out," starring John Travolta and directed by former Philadelphian Brian De Palma. ball, basketball and hockey, baseball managers actually step onto the field of play when they replace pitchers and chew out umpires. Almost as many people who offered that explanation pointed out the grand exception, Connie Mack, owner and manager of the Philadelphia Athletics, the team that brought the World Series championship to Philadelphia in ii '-rtn i five times. Connie Mack always dressed in a three-piece suit while mannpine the A's from the duenut. where he gestured for a change in.

pitchers by waving a score card. 1 fttiirwirowm inMSf fair i VPSWiiitilt'-lMfl iiniirgirnatiitwiniiwii ffi-y ii-VtiiirfiiTiil Campaign '80 Kennedy for Flaherty Specter visits churches wrote recalling a game against the Yankees in 1928 when Mr. Mack emerged from the dugout to argue with an umpire. "As far as I know (it' was) the only time he ever did so," Beifield wrote. We called the National and American League offices in New York, as" well as Commissioner Bowie Kuhn's office, to see if there was any rule', concerning manager's dress.

The closest we could come was Rule 3.15 of the Official Baseball Rules, which states, "No person shall be allowed, on the playing field during a game except for players and coaches uniform, managers, photographers authorized by the home club. You'll note that it says players and coaches must be in uniform, but the dress code for managers is not spelled out. Bob Grim, a spokesman, for the American League, said he thought that rule applied to managers as well, "but if someone had a lawyer, they could pick that apart." So it looks like managers could dress in civvies if they wanted to, but there may be a practical reason why they don't. According to Cheryl Spillerman of Northeast Philadelphia, "It is because tobacco juice hap- pens to stain three-piece suits, while the old baseball uniform and cleajs are impervious to such problems." Trashscamt Who tricked J.R.? The story, according to Washington Post columnist Maxine Cheshire, is that when the FBI was searching for just the right agent to play the phony sheik in the Abscam sting they considered an agent from the Philadelphia office who had proved his ability as a natural con man by successfully pulling off a practical joke on "one of the most respected investigative reporters in Pennsylvania." The story said that the agent. then assigned to Harrisburg, had tricked the reporter into picking up a politician's trash every morning at 5 o'clock for six weeks and deliver- ing it to the agent in return for an exclusive story on the dirt the F.BL.

got on the politician. The agent then discarded the trash.and chuckled to himself for suckering the reporter. The question, of course, is who is the agent and who is the reportef Based on the description, the agent sounds like Michael Wald, who had been assigned to Harrisburg, and played a key role in Abscam Che co-starred as the sheik's representative, Michael Cohen, along with Ozzie Myers, who played himself, in the Barclay videotapes). He's also'a-notorious practical joker. "He's capable of doing it," said one FBI agent of Trashscam.

After Wald was read the Washington Post story Friday, he said, "That sounds like me." Then he said in a period of two minutes' "I never heard of anything like that in my life." "I wish I had done that." "I never play practical jokes." "There's no truth to that." "If I did. it, I don't remember it." After hearing the details of the case, a number of sources in Harrisburg said it sounded like the work of investigative reporter J.R. Freeman of the Greensburg Tribune-Review, who is friendly with Maxihe Cheshire. Freeman said Friday night that he knew nothing about wish to hell it had been me," Freeman said, after hearing the description of "one of the most respected investigative reporters" in the state. "I appreciate the compliment.

But I'm not prone to get up at 5 for aiiV-one." However, a staffer in the Capitol contacted later Friday night said Freeman called him during the period Wald was in Harrisburg and asked him the best way to get access to a certain powerful state senator's trash. Let's face it. reporting is a dirty business. lican candidate Ronald Reagan's opposition to several programs for minorities. Flaherty is running against Republican Arlen Specter for the seat of Republican Sen.

Richard Schweiker, who is retiring. The support of black voters is considered crucial to victory. Flaherty has been endorsed by the black ward leaders in the city and by several elected officials, but his support among blacks has been considered soft. Specter has received the support of several black labor leaders and of Democrats, City Councilman John Street and his brother, Milton, a state representative. "The rank-and-file will be for Pete, but, I'm not going to lie to you, there's no great love there," one black political observer commented at the church service yesterday.

His remarks were echoed at an afternoon service at the T.M. Thomas Memorial United Presbyterian Church in Chester, where Flaherty introduced Mr. Jackson to a smaller congregation. "I'm not in love with him, but I'm not in love with Specter either," said Eugene Alliston, chairman of the Democratic Party in Chester. By Jan Schafier inquirer SaWrifer Democratic Senate candidate Pete Flaherty yesterday picked up ringing endorsements from Sen.

Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) and' Vice President Mondale at a rousing Democratic rally last night in the new Franklin Plaza Hotel. The speeches from two of the party's most-popular leaders came as Flaherty wrapped up a day of campaigning among blacks and union members in Philadelphia. Flaherty flew in from Pittsburgh to attend a morning service at the Bright Hope Baptist Church, 12th Street and Columbia Avenue, where U.S. Rep. William H.

Gray 3d is pastor. There, Flaherty was endorsed by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, a civil rights activist. In a spirited sermon, Mr. Jackson, who is the president of the Chicago-based Operation PUSH, garnered applause for Flaherty and exhorted the crowded congregation- to vote Democratic.

"I am for Carter," he declared, citing the President's record in appointing blacks to judicial and administrative positions and criticizing Repub Reader Martin Beifield of Elkins Park. Neshaminy, William Peniv school strikes continue Teacher strikes in the Neshaminy. and William Penn school districts' were expected to continue today; there were no outward signs of progl ress toward settlement of the dlI putes over the weekend. A spokeswoman for William Peoli said no negotiations have beerj scheduled with the William Penn-Education Association, whose 36J) teacher members have been striking since Tuesday. No classes were sche uled for today, and the annual College and School night scheduled for tonight has been cancelled.

A spokeswoman said that bus transportation for vocational technical, parochraj and special education students would continue unaffected by thfc strike. The district covers Lansdownej East Lansdowne, Aldan, Colwyil, Darby and Yeadon in Southeastern Delaware County. A spokesman for the Neshaminy Federation of Teachers Local 1417 said no negotiations have been called since the strike began a week ago. None is planned, he added. A scfidbl district official said yesterday that there would' be no classes today.

City and Suburban News in Brief By Charles B. Fancher Jr. Inquirer Stall Writer There probably are still a few black churches in Philadelphia that Arlen Specter has not visited in his campaign for the U.S. Senate. But yesterday, on the last Sunday before tomorrow's election, Specter, who has visited at least one such church each Sunday, and frequently two or three, during the final weeks of the campaign, ran hard to drop in on just a few more before time runs out.

Later in.the day, Specter appeared with Republican vice presidential candidate George Bush before a largely Jewish audience at a rally sponsored by the Reagan-Bush campaign. About 350 persons attended the rally at the Klein branch of the Jewish at Red Lion Road and Jamison Avenue in the Northeast, where Specter spoke briefly. Accompanied by his wife, City Councilwoman Joan Specter, at his first church stop of the day, Specter struck pay dirt. In what amounted to a ringing endorsement from the pulpit, the Rev. Thomas Ritter told about 1,000 members of the congregation at the Second Macedonia Baptist Talks resume Thursday in N.J.

Symphony strike Musicians and officials of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra will meet on Thursday in an attempt to negotiate an end to the performer's strike that has jeopardized the orchestra's 1980-81 season. John Hyer, the orchestra's execur tive director, declined to disclose the details of a new contract offer to the musicians, who rejected a proposal for a three-year pact that would have raised salaries from $9,920 to $10,948 in the first year of the contract and to $13,478 in the third year. The management is seeking a three-year contract of 28 weeks per season. The musicians want a 31-week season and salaries more in line with middle-level orchestras around the country. Gov.

Byrne considering plan for urban state police units Gov. Byrne is studying a plan to send a permanent task force of state police into urban areas to combat a rise in violent street crimes. The report was prepared by the state attorney general in response to Byrne's proposal and followed recent reports of increased crime in the cities. It was modeled after other similar programs in Georgia and Church that with spouses and friends "you represent 3,000 to 4,000 votes. Make sure you vote for the young man I'm going to introduce to you." Former Pittsburgh Mayor Pete Flaherty, Specter's Democratic opponent in the race to succeed Republican Sen.

Richard S. Schweiker, also has been courting black voters, and in Philadelphia, he has received a number of endorsements from black elected officials. Specter, who was endorsed by the black-oriented Philadelphia Tribune and by City Councilman John Street and his brother, state Rep. Milton Street, is continuing to work hard to garner as many black voters as possible as in hope of overcoming the Democratic Party's large edge in registered voters in the city. At the third church Specter visited yesterday morning, Miller Memorial Baptist Church, where he delivered his now-familiar message of how he fought street crime, drug abuse and gang warfare in the black community when he was Philadelphia's district attorney, he arrived just in time to see Robert Elliot baptized.

Equipment trouble closes Phila. television station Morning programming on WTAF-TV (Channel 29) was cut short yesterday when the station halted operations after an amplifier blew out at its Fourth and Market Street offices. Police said they were called late last night by station personnel who told them that the amplifier had blown out during the 10 a.m. broadcast of "The Jetsons." A station official said the part would have to be ordered from Pittsburgh, and that the station would be off the air for "a few days." Channel 29 is a privately owned UHF station. Woman is critical after jumping in front of El train Police said a 45-year-old woman was in critical condition last night at Misericordia Hospital after she jumped in front of a car at the 56th Street Station of the Market Street El.

The motorman of the car told police that he was headed west from 69th street when the woman, who was not identified, leaped from the platform into the path of the train shortly after 9 p.m. Man trying to sell TV set is shot to death at bar A man trying to sell a small television last night was shot to death at the Virgo Bar at Germantown Avenue and Tulpehocken Street, police said. The man was tentatively identified by police as Rodney Smith. He was pronounced dead at Germantown Hospital at 7:20 p.m. Police said Smith had been inside the bar attempting to sell the television and was on his way outside when he was shot twice in the back.

Fireworks in Center City caps Democratic rally The artillery-like explosions that shock sections of Fairmount and Center City at about 10:20 last night were fireworks capping off an preelection Democratic political rally at the Franklin Plaza Hotel at 16th and Race Streets. The fireworks display began after speeches by Sen. Edward Kennedy and Vice President Mondale. The fireworks donated by Democratic Party members were set off "in anticipation of a Carter-Mondale victory," said one optimistic party worker. The display lasted about 15 The driver of the van, Robert A.

Goulet, 39, of 126 W. Maple Morrisville, was not charged. Eastampton Police said Goulet was traveling south at 40 miles per hour, when Miss Garron, walking close to the edge of the road, turned and took a step. The van's mirror, protruding 11 inches, struck and hurled her 20 to 30 feet. Two girls walking with her were not injured.

Man, 18, is chased by police from New Jersey into Pa. A Bucks County youth was chased for 12 miles by police yesterday after he allegedly threatened to kill his girlfriend. Police said Scott Stewart, 18, of Appletree Drive, Levittown, was captured after a chase from New Jersey into Pennsylvania. Stewart waived extradition and will face charges in New Jersey of aggravated assault, possession of a rifle, possession of hollow-nose bullets and eluding police. He was also cited for six traffic violations.

Stewart's girlfriend, Terry Migliacci, 20, called police at 5:45 a.m. yesterday from her apartment in Hamilton Township to report the incident. Police chased Stewart through Hamilton Township and Trenton to New Falls Road and Levittown Parkway in New Falls, Bucks County. Procession to be held tonight in honor of the hostages A candlelight procession honoring the 52 Americans being held hostage in Iran will begin at 6:30 p.m. tonight at City Hall.

Temple University dormitory residents will pass out candles and lead a 24-block walk from City Hall courtyard to the Temple Bell Tower on the university's main campus. A candlelight service will be held at the Bell Tower. If the hostages are released by the time of the service, Temple University organizers say they will make the service a ceremony of thanksgiving. Students from various local universities and colleges have been invited to attend, and the public is also invited to take part. The ceremony should end by 9 p.m.

Teen dies after being struck by mirror on passing van A Mount Holly, N.J., teenager died early yesterday after she was struck shortly after midnight by the outside rearview mirror of a passing van as she walked along Route 206 just south of Route 537. Beverly Garron, 16, of 190 Mill Mount Holly, died at 1:25 a.m. at Memorial Hospital in Mount Holly. i.