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Murder at the Hangar Theater INDEX TV LISTINGS Saturday Page 9 Sunday Page 12 Weekdays Page 16 Monday Page 18 Tuesday Page 19 Wednesday Page 20 Thursday Page 22 Friday Page 22 TV SPORTS Listed Page 8 FEATURES Pages 4-6 Word games Page 5 TV ratings Page 7 Radio highlights Page 23 Old farmer's almanac Page 23 Mini Page, Pages 24-25 Soaps, Page 26 the title role in IC's "The Lady's Not for Burning" as well as in other roles at the Hangar, in community and college theater. Wagstaff, playing the adventurous, brash character of Phillip Lomabard, has been involved in theater for the past seven years and has recently started a dinner theater at the Sheraton Inn. Anthony Marston is played by Riordan, a first year Cornell hotel student and the youngest member of the cast who has been acting since age 6. Siber, an agricultural economics grad student at Cornell plays William Blore, and is appearing with the Players for the first time. Sir Lawrence Wargrave, the pessimistic judge, is portrayed by Wyatt of the Cornell History Department.

He has worked with the Savoyards and other community groups for the past ten years. Harrison, a member of the Cornell agriculture faculty, plays Dr. Armstrong. He has been with the Players in various capacities for the last five years. General MacKenzie is portrayed by Frank Turner, who has been in Ithaca since 1934 and with the Players since '39.

At 76, he is the oldest member of the cast and has played in Ithaca Community theater so long that, it has been suggested, "he should be bronzed." Ten little indians will be murdered at the Hangar Thursday through May 24 and May 28-31. Curtain time will be 8:15 p.m. for all shows except the Sunday matinee May 31 which will be at 2. Tickets are $4.50 for evening performances, $3 for the matinee and students and senior citizens will receive a discount; they are available at Smedley's, McBooks, the Corner Book Store and the Hangar Box Office. Tickets for the May 24 performance will be priced two for one at the door.

Following the performance opening night, all are invited to a champagne reception at the theater. Mark Sawyer-Dailey, director of this production as well as artistic director for the Players, explained their choice of the play as being a matter of what they felt the community wanted to see. "Ten Little Indians" is a play people of all ages can enjoy. There has been a strong resurgence of simple horror and mystery entertainment which Sawyer-Dailey thinks fulfills a need people have to escape from other pressures and lifes uncertainties. There is no moral to the story and no "deeper meaning" just good, frightening fun.

Although the play closely follows Christie's version as she wrote it in 1944, it remains faithful to her original 1938 novel, "And Then There Were None" upon which the play is based. Although there have been revisions made to update the play, it remains true to the period and style of 1930s England. Several among the cast have been on the stage for as long as they can remember. Sawyer-Dailey has been involved in theater for 25 years, having started his career as a bumblebee in a kindergarten show and, he says, "it's been uphill ever since." Members of the cast include Gus, Scheon-Rene, Martha MacMahon Holmes, David Adler, Vesta Millard, T.G. Wagstaff, Patrick Riordan, Jim Siber, Yvonne Paterson, David Wyatt, Marty Harrison, and Frank Turner.

Rogers, the aloof and rather shifty butler, is played by Scheon-Rene, an Ithaca College drama student who has been acting since he can remember and has played in various productions at Eisenhower, Hobart and Ithaca colleges. Mrs. Rogers, a nervous character among the first to go, is portrayed by Holmes. An IC drama student appearing in her first production in Ithaca, Holmes has worked in theater in high school and in other community theater. Fred Narracott is played by Adler, a Cornell graduate who runs a landscape architecture firm in Ithaca and has worked on and off in theater for 20 years.

Millard plays Vera Claythorne, secretary to the unknown host. Millard is also a drama major at IC who played By MARGARET B. MOSS Ten little indians are being murdered at the Hangar Theater. They will die mysteriously, one by one, in the Ithaca Players production of Agatha Christie's widely-acclaimed play "Ten Little Indians" opening Thursday at 8:15 p.m. Regarded by critics as her masterpiece, the play is frightening who-dun-it at its best.

Each of the characters have a motive as well as the capability for murder, but only one criminal imagination can mastermind the murder of them all. The play is set on a bright August day in 1938 on Indian Island, off the coast of Devon, England. Guests are arriving for a holiday at the solitary mansion of the island, having been invited by a mysterious host. They seem to be rather ordinary people out for a relaxing jaunt. We soon find out, however, that these ordinary people have murlty pasts that they'd rather keep secret and their holiday will be one they'll remember to the grave.

But their memories need not be Things begin to go awry rather quickly, as the guests discover that their hosts will not be arriving until the next day. Neither the servants nor the retary have ever met them, and they begin to realize that they have been lured to this deserted place under false pretenses. And then they begin to die. One by one they die, as one by one the little china indians on the mantlepiece disappear. The deaths at first appear to be suicide or heart failure simply unfortunate accidents until the remaining guests notice that these "accidents" bear an uncanny resemblance to that quaint little nursery rhyme above the mantle: "Ten little indian boys went out to dine; one choked his little self and then there were A childhood rhyme soon becomes a chilling clue for each of their own immanent deaths.

The Ithaca Players, an all-volunteer theater group with a cast and crew of 60, come from all sectors of the community Cornell, Ithaca College, working people, students, faculty, amateurs and professionals. Ages in the cast range from 18 to 76. 1 2 3 4 5 I 7 8" ioiT" 12 lT" 14 15 17 Wl8 19 "-20 Tj22 23 Hp 25 "2T27 Jrr" 28 2T30 pi 32 371 34 I I lv 35 I 36 37 38 39T 40 7T 42 43 I 144 45 46 47 48 49 1 51 52 53 54 55 ACROSS a free-lance Margaret B. Moss is writer. Out and about 1.6 Pictured, a 35 Pay the Lou Grant star check: Dial.

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The other recipients 250 West 57th New York, New were Binghamton's Boundary 2, York, 10107. This year's application deadline is June 1. DOWN The CAPS Program is made possible through support from the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. CU. Sage Choir Leonard Bernstein's Chichester Greenfield Center's Greenfield Review, Buffalo's Seneca Review and Top Stories, and the Niagara-Erie Writers Newsletter.

They were among 164 magazine and seven newsletter applicants to the Coordinating Council's Spring Grants Committee. A total of $170,000 in grants was awarded to 94 literary magazines and five newsletters around Psalms will highlight the concert by Cornell's Sage Choir at 4 p.m. Sunday the country. The Coordinating Council of Literary in Sage Chapel. By PAM SMITH Journal SfoW Masterpiece close-up A photographic system that can reproduce paintings in actual size and detail has led to the exhibition "A Masterpice Close-Up: The Transfiguration by Raphael," on view at Cornell's Johnson Art Museum through June 15.

With a goal of making photographs that are as nearly as possible exact records of original artwork, a team from Polaroid photographed Raphael's "Transfiguration" in 1979 at the Vatican Museum and Picture Galleries. To make the nearly full-scale reproduction of the entire painting, a room-size camera was built inside the galleries. The exhibit is supplemented by photographs of details of the painting, as well as photographs of the process of creating the reproduction, and a scale model of the special equipment constructed for the project. A brochure accompanies the display, as well as a book of full-page actual-size reproductions created with the Polaroid process. Following its stay at the Johnson Museum, the exhibit will travel to Columbia, Yale, Chicago, and California universities.

Hours at the Johnson are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. Magazines is funded by the National The three-movement work, commissioned by the Dean of England's Chichester Cathedral for the 1965 music festival, will be sung by the choir under the direction of David Conte. Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts and private sources.

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organist Stephen May, pianist William Cowdery, and percussionist Charles Peltz. The program will also include Mozart's Missa Brevis, K. 220, known as "The Sparrow Mass," Gibbons' "Hosanna to the Son of David," an English Renaissance motet, and Haydn's oratorio, "The Creation: The Heavens are Telling." Admission is free. CAPS grants Professional artists from New York State, who are not matriculated students, are eligible to apply for CAPS Creative Artists Fellowship Grants in the fields of choreography, fiction, film, graphics, multi-media, music composition, painting, photography, playwriting, poetry, sculpture or video. mikmimmi -ftrarvt' 3Arvteet (Approximately i2O0 ranging sS 11 11 Continues Page 27, ii.Mt uum i uu mm w.f'.? vim fiueu Juurnu ipuiu, cui luidua mciaijr magazine, LriLii nrit I lit" nil.