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section fa (tilabelpfa Inquirer people Action Line 2 Ruth Seltzer 2 Ann Landers 5 Obituaries 6 Friday, Jan. 16, 1981 Ira Einhorn: Poet, wanderer, hippie, and now fugitive Update n' 1 V'V. 11 Ira Einhorn United Press International HER PORTRAYAL of a power-mad TV executive in "Net- ried Juan Peron and helped install him as dictator of work" won Faye Dunaway an Oscar. Now, for NBC, she is Argentina. In scenes from the movie, to be telecast Feb.

23 cast as another powerful woman in "Evita, First Lady," a and 24, she watches a street demonstration, above, and four-hour movie based on the life of Eva Peron, who mar- campaigns with Peron, played by James Farentino. By Bill Collins Inquirer Stall Writer In the 1960s, Ira Samuel Einhorn was probably Philadelphia's best known and most visible dropout. He lectured and wrote on behalf of LSD, personal freedom and the New Left, and against war, money and the Establishment. This week he dropped out again, and now police are looking for him. He is wanted for failing to show up at a pretrial hearing in connection with charges that he slew a woman whose body was found packed in a steamer trunk in the Powclton Village apartment he had shared with her.

Einhorn, 40, had been charged in the homicide of Helen (Holly) Maddux, who vanished in September 1977 at the age of 31 and whose remains police found in March 1979. Police say her partially mummified body apparently had been stored in the trunk, found in a closet in their apartment, for 19 months. A medical examiner said the victim's skull had been fractured in several places. Einhorn, who lived in the apartment during most of the time Ms. Maddux was missing, said that he was innocent and thought he was being framed.

On Wednesday, he failed to appear at a pretrial hearing before Common Pleas Judge Paul Ribner. The judge revoked Einhorn's $40,000 bail and issued a bench warrant for his arrest. Ira Einhorn writer, poet, wanderer, youth organizer, self-styled teacher, occasional liaison between police and protesters and once a candidate for mayor of Philadelphia was a fugitive. Just who is he? He is a product of northwest Philadelphia, Central High School and the University of Pennsylvania. Through most of his adult years he was bulky, bearded and longhaired, and clung to the hippie image even though he and that movement had grown comparatively old in the late 1970s.

(Last week, however, he appeared at the editorial office of a Center City entertainment weekly where he has been working as book editor, with a haircut and neatly trimmed beard. According to Harry J. Katz, his friend and employer, that was the last time he was seen at the newspaper. His lawyer, Norris G. Gclman, told Judge Ribner that he had last seen Einhorn on Jan.

Einhorn has described himself, at various times, as "an earthling" and "a planetary enzyme." Depending on which acquaintance you talked to, Einhorn was either brilliant or boring, a "beautiful clown" or a lazy drifter, a generous guru or a grifter who lived mostly on the dole from his friends. Some days, they said, he was a little of each. Erom shortly after he was graduated from college in 1961 until the mid-1970s, he was also the city's most visible, and vocal, champion of the causes of youth and the counterculture. In the early 1960s, he wandered the country hanging out with the Hell's Angels motorcycle gang on the West Coast and with Yippie leader Abbie Hoffman in Chicago. He also spent some time in northern Europe, in a time when Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Copenhagen, Denmark, and Berlin were becoming havens for the dissident young.

Lectured weekly He was for some time an admittedly frequent user of 151). Later he summarily abandoned his advocacy of drugs, and said he had stopped using them. In the mid-1960s, he gave weekly lecture classes at the Eree University, a non-credit school set up on the Pcnn campus. His subjects ranged from Nietzsche to reports on' civil protests in various parts of the country. In 1967 he organized a "Be-in," in Eairmount Park.

The following year he conjured up an "Easter Resurrection" gathering. He was also the chief founder of Sun Day, an ecological observance. He said he was a consultant to various corporations, including Bell Telephone Co. His talent, he said, was seeing the trends of the future. He wrote for various publications, and one article was an existentially styled essay on the evils of money and the money-dominated social structure that appeared in a special report in The Inquirer on "The Rebels and Their Critics" in 1969.

His fame peaked in 1971, when he declared himself a candidate for mayor and wound up on a ballot along with Frank L. Rizzo, William Green David Cohen and Hardy Williams, although he bowed out to support Green before the election. While in the race, he campaigned at a leisurely pace on a platform of "planetary reformation." In 1976, he told The Inquirer's Today magazine that he lived on an annual income of less than $3,000, and admitted that much of his life support came as gifts from friends who paid his rent and grocery bills and even gave him money to go to graduate school. That interview was conducted in the Powelton Village apartment in which he was living with Helen Maddux, whom he had met about two years before. Together four years Ms.

Maddux, a pretty, introspective young woman from Tyler, Texas, had come onto the Powelton Village scene after graduating from Bryn Mawr College. Friends say that she and Einhorn "just sort of came together," and lived in the apartment for about four years before her disappearance. Neighbors said Ms. Maddux and Einhorn were known to quarrel frequently. On Aug.

3, 1977, Ms. Maddux called her parents in Texas to say that she and Einhorn had returned from a European vacation, paid for with part of a $30,000 inheritance she had received. That was the last time Fred and Elizabeth Maddux heard their daughter's voice. The next month, Helen Maddux disappeared. Einhorn said she had gone shopping and never came back.

After months of worry, her parents hired two private detectives, former FBI agents J.R. Pearce, of Glenside, and Bob Stevens, of Tyler. A year of searching led finally to the Lerner Court Apartments at 3411 Race and a closet in the bedroom of Einhorn's apartment. There, as Einhorn watched, officers found a steamer trunk, and in it, packed with Styrofoam and plastic bags, and covered with a 1977 news-, paper, the body of Helen Maddux. A Kennedy released on good behavior Newsmakers witness stand in y.S.

Bankruptcy Court, but' there were no takers. Lewis, who in October filed with the court for reorganization of his debts, appeared in Las Vegas Wednesday to give creditors a chance to question him about his debts and assets. Under his reorganization plan, Lewis proposes to pay $26,000 of his S50.000 monthly take-home pay to creditors. new career A new Gibb Lynda Gibb, wife of Bee Gees' musician Barry Gibb, has given birth to their third son. Mrs.

Gibb, a former Miss Scotland, gave birth to 4-pound, 5-ounce Travis Ryan Gibb at a hospital in Miami Beach, a publicist for the family said. Mrs. Gibb and the child were expected to return to the couple's Miami Beach home soon. The'Gibbs' two other sons are Stephen, 7, and Ashley, 3. Edward M.

Kennedy 19-year-old son of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, has been granted a conditional discharge on charges of possession of less than 25 grams of marijuana. Kennedy and Steven J. Okun, 20, were charged last month with the misdemeanor after a New Jersey State Police trooper stopped their vehicle for speeding.

Pole Tavern Municipal Court Judge Andrew Rhea Wednesday granted both men conditional discharges, which are routine for first offenders in minor cases, subject to a six-month period of good behavior. No plea was required, and neither Kennedy nor Okun will be supervised during the grace period. Kennedy said he had been traveling from Wesleyan University in Middle-town, where he and Okun are students, to the Washington area, on a trip home for the Christmas holiday. The judge in the Salem County community told Kennedy, "I have considered you as an individual, and this is just another case." To a separate charge of speeding, Kennedy pleaded guilty and paid a $15 fine, plus S15 court costs. Vice President Walter Mondale confirmed yesterday that he would begin a new career as a college and university lecturer in the St.

Paul, area after leaving office next week, although he plans to continue living in Washington, lie said he would have some comment on his political future at that time. "I intend to remain in public life," he said. Mondale is Viewed by Minnesota political sources as an almost certain contender for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984. -Bill Thompson Comedian in court Comedian Jerry Lewis laid himself open to questions from creditors when he took the A quiet man, making noise with his movies for 22 years 1 Profile there with his second wife and their daughter. It is, he says, a quiet existence.

He passes the time talking long walks, listening to music activities that even the most proper British gentleman would find acceptable and working on scripts. "In the winter, there's not a soul around," he said. "It is sort of a Shangri-La. You go through a pass and you're in another time and place." But there is another side to Russell. It is evident in Altered States, a mov-ie about madness, scientific experimentation, hallucination and love.

Russell says love is the theme of the movie. "Ix)vc conquers all. That's the message of every film I've ever made." The story is about a brilliant psychologist who tries through the use of hallucinogenic drugs and an immersion tank to experience altered states of consciousness. He transforms himself into primitive man and finally experiences the birth of the world. Translating this imagery to the screen required an (Sec RUSSELL on 4-B) thing would have stopped when one reaches 50." Russell is 53.

Mad genius? A maniac? Scum of the earth? "I think it's just journalese. I think most people are disappointed when I don't smash the cameras." It was hard to imagine this man smashing cameras. He was wearing a pale blue turllcneck jersey that made his face seem slightly pink and cherubic. His white hair fell in wisps. A genial elf, perhaps, but hardly a mad genius.

"I only have one obsession. Wherever I go, the first place I look for is a record shop. I collect obscure records. When I went to Venice for the first time, I didn't care about the churches. I just went straight to the record shops." There is a look of immense satisfaction on his face.

"I found two Mahler performances by Erich Leinsdorf, Symphonies 5 and 6, which I'd been looking for. That sort of thing gives me a tremendous kick." Another thing he loves is his home, a stone cottage in the Lake District in the north of England. Russell lives By Barbara Kantrowitz Inquirer Stall Writer NEW YORK Some of the things that have been said about Ken Russell by the critics are not nice. Not nice at all. Like enjant terrible.

Mad genius. Maniac. The scum of the earth. These are not the kind of notices one pastes in a scrapbook. Some of the films he has directed haven't done so well by the critics either.

Of his 1975 film, Lisztomania (which portrayed the composer Franz Liszt as the rock star of his time), one reviewer wrote: "This kind of film more richly deserves the term, pornography, than any number of films about the rites of sex." Once, on British television, Russell got into a shouting match with a reviewer who attacked his 1971 film The Devils for "monstrous indecency" and "gross harping on the physical." Russell responded by calling the critic "old womanly" and "hysterical." Then Russell picked up a copy of the newspaper containing the critic's review and hit the critic over the head with it. Just two years ago, Russell's anpli- A cation for membership to an exclusive London club was rejected, reportedly because of (a) his flamboyant style of dress and (b) the fact that he had left his wife to live with his girlfriend who had just had his baby. The membership committee should have had a chat with the man who sat back in a cushy chair in the Pierre Hotel the other day with a glass of red wine in his hand. Russell was in New York to promote his newest film, Altered States, but he talked so quietly that many of his sentences simply vanished into space. The film previews today at several Philadelphia-area theaters.

He did not even come close to any of the wild descriptions of him that have appeared in print in the 22 years he has been making such movies as Tommy, Women in Love, or The Boyfriend. Enjant terrible? "1 would have thought that kind of 0 1 SpKill to Tim Inquirm STAR BLACK Ken Russell: 'Love conquers all; that's the message.