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THE SUN, A refugee grandmaster stairs. Even after I became famous in chess, I couldn't go to the West to compete in a tournament unless someone came along to watch over me." Kavalek's chess career began at the age" of 11, when he learned the game from some friends. "I was so ambitious that within half a year I called Pachman (Ludek Pach-man, a grandmaster and Czechoslovakia's leading player at the time, he has since been arrested and imprisoned)," Kavalek recalls. "It was my Christmas wish that year to play against him," Kavalek says. "He agreed to meet me, and he explained that chess is not so easy." So Kavalek developed his obvious talent for a couple of years, then worked under Pachman's tutelage for two more.

"I went through theoretical books, and studied five or, six hours a day," he says. "By the time I was 15, I was By LARRY ELDRIDGE When Russian tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia in 1968, chess grandmaster Lubomir Kavalek decided it was time to get out. The 24-year-old genius was already famous in his homeland as one of the world's leading players, but he knew that wouldn't make any difference. I More important to the Communists" was the fact that his movie director father had. left the country in 1949 to work for Radio Free Europe-not exactly the credentials to make the Kavalek family a favorite of the regime.

The Russian power play thus became the young man's invitation to flee or risk unpleasant consequences. He chose the former course. Now as a somewhat delayed result the United States has a new player who ranks second on the rating list of his adopted country, Bobby of course, is No. 1. Just about everybody knows that.

But how many Americans could name No. To play in Olympics Try out the name Lubomir Kavalek on the next person you meet, and see if you get anything more than a blank stare. Such is the fate of the chess master in this land where the Joe Namaths, the Arnold Palmers and the Willie Mays are kings. Kavalek's importance to the American chess scene, though, can "hardly be overemphasized. The brilliant refugee is looking forward to representing his new country in the Chess Olympics at Skopje, Yugoslavia, next fall and he will give the United States team a much better" chartce of emerging victorious.

Meanwhile, he keeps busy playing in tournaments, working as a writer, broadcaster and translator for the Voice of America, and telling anyone who wants to listen how he found life under "I had some difficulties with the he says. "I wanted to study acting or directing, but I wasn't allowed to. Eventually I became a journalist, working for newspapers and magazines, but I felt there was no possibility of writing what I wanted with complete freedom. "Under a regime like that, you're a machine. The orders come from up-: Michael York? Isn't he the one who.

to live with yourself when the interviews and silly publicity stories are over, and I couldn't live that kind of phony life. In Hollywood, where careers depend on that sort of thing, I remember everybody told me I couldn't have a suntan because it meant you weren't working. That's all nonsense. Liza is better at giving the press what they want than I am. I'd rather let her do the interviews.

David Hemmings is the best at it I've ever seen. He said he realized a long time ago pertain stories were required by the press and he just invented them. Incredible all. lies. But I can't do that.

I don't even want From job to job Vt.v.T One of the "reasons he isn't written about more often is that he's never around. He's made 14 films and never had time to publicize any of While other actors work the talk-show circuit or hire press agents to get their names in the papers, Michael just goes on to another job. Not that there's a great; deal to tell. He jives a very normal, unassuming life. He has' a very happy marriage with an American girl named Pat McCallum, whom he met five years ago when she was: travel editor with Glamour magazine.

She was sent on an assignment to photograph him never' even heard of stie laughs) and hasn't left his side His father is a department 'store executive in London. He started acting on school holidays with the National Youth Theater, went to Oxford, a week after; finals went into a repertory company in' Scotland everything I remembered seeing Olivier do, which consisted of-clicking my heels a did a walk-on for Franco Zefferelli at the Old Vic and as a result, got into Zefferelli's "Taming of the Shrew" with Elizabeth Taylor, and Richard Burton, He's been' in the ever since, except for a return to the stage a year ago to do "Hamlet" for three 'Weeks. wrote -a nasty article' damning movie stars who polish off their egos by play--ing Hamlet and Michael decided movies his -preference. His agent "says he gets, more offers than Clint Eastwood. fTve" ne'ver' beert part of any pop scene, or any swinging London scene.

I'm a "man with no I like the variety and the life style that goes with making films. Luckily I've been able to mix perfectly, awful things like Alfred the Great', and now But it's impossible to plan a career. couldn't believe, the editing on thought it would be -a good film, but when-1 saw it it had been cut together lineVto line with no reaction, nothing New going on between dialogue, and atmos-' phere clipped together from footage by ra French camera crew that had come to North Africa to do a documen-, tary. "My favorite movie was 'Something For but it was sabotaged. It' hasn't even been seen in half the world.

It got marvelous notices in London, but they opened it with no advance publicity and under another title. Hal Prince had a misunderstanding with the releasing company and it became a matter ot 1 personal" vindictiveness against him. But on' that movie, I had a feeling of really working creatively. I think of all the films I've "made in association with; places' and people, and on that one I made friends with fantastic people like Angela Lansbury and Hal Prince people I'd like to. know all my life.

"The best part of movie-making is travel. I have made films in Morocco, Africa, Germany, Yugoslavia, Ireland Holland, Tunisia, Malta, you name it. Pat goes everywhere, with me and we rent a house. and live a native life and learn the language. may have played blond rat, parts, but at least I've seen the He just, finished a film for Philippe De Broca with Michel Piccoli and Marlene Jobert Marrakesh, an- IN RECYCLING other film called "England Made Me" with Peter Finch in Yugoslavia, and did a cameo as a leper in Zefferelli's "Brother Sun, Sister Moon" -in Italy.

The Yorks spent Christmas in the Sahara desert with Juliette Greco, sleeping in sleeping bags, eating caviar and photographing camel caravans. Once in Mexico they got hepatitis and took a freighter for South Africa just to let someone else look after them for two Massage and prayer The only time their travels almost ended in catastrophe was four years ago in a remote desert village in India where Michael was making "The Guru." He had asked Pat to marry him on Valentine's Day in Bombay. A few days later, she developed food poisoning, her blood pressure dropped so low that she became paralyzed. The other actors in the movie kept massaging her hands and feet to keep her alive. She lost 30 pounds in two 'days and they couldn't get her to the hospital in New Delhi for fear she'd die on the plane.

So they gave her a speed injection (that's -right, speed!) to get her blood pressure -high enough to operate, discovered gan-' grene had set. in, and started praying. Miraculously, an Indian doctor was yis-, iting the area and he performed emer- Agency surgery; 1 Six tfeet iof intestines were removed, and Pat was put into a mud hut where she was surrounded by hordes of Michael's screaming fans asking for autographs. It's a grisly story, but it hasn't deterred their interest in travel one bit. Michael will go anywhere to do a movie if he likes it (he once turned down the Ryan O'Neal part in "Love Story'! be- cause he didn't like- it).

After his. success in and" bis- popular appearance on the TV series "The For- sythe Saga," he went to Amsterdam; to do an improvised Dutch movie written on the back of an envelope, simply because he liked the kids who made it. The only thing he won't do is a nude scene one exception was where: showed end because it was too complicated to reset the. camera so my underwear didn't It' was time for Dick Cavett. He wasn't much better than Frost.

"Why do I D3- with successes in Bulgaria and East Germany. And where does Kavalek, who at 28 is the same age as Fischer, fit into today's scheme of things? Does he too have world title "If you don't have ambition, you'd better stop playing he says. "However, I realize it's hard to come close to such a player as Bobby if you are working and not playing chess full-time." Each world championship cycle runs three years, starting with sonal tournaments around the globe and culminating in the title match. After failing to qualify in 1967, Kavalek had to pass up the 1970 preliminaries while he was moving from country to country, but he plans to compete again in the new cycle which will begin late this year. "Let's say I'm a little bit skeptical 'about myself," he says, "but I feel I have to try." (c) Christian science Monitor MM Continued jrom Page 1 Hollywood to talk to Ross Hunter about starring in the Burt Bachrach musical of 'Lost but the reason I'm interested is they said they were filming in Tibet.

I've never been to Tibet. Then it'll be someplace else. 1 may be boring, but I'll never be bored." He turned off Cavett in the middle of a sentence. He'll survive. (c) Chicago Tribune on covers of Time and Newsweek for her her co-star, received neither pix nor prose.

S3 in five days. I thought of three tent poles standing in a garden. I thought, 'Well, you can't just leave them standing So, I put in a man. Who's the man? Well, he's the contractor who's going to put up the tent. "Then I brought in a second guy.

Who's he? Well, let's see, he's the man who ordered the tent put up. At the end of 'The there's this white wedding party table and I thought to myself, 'That's a good dramatic Harry and George "Well, when I sat down to write 'Home' I put a man at the table and another man walks up and says. 'Hi. The man at the table says. 'Hi.

Well, that established that it was Harry and George. They talk a bit and go off and two women come on and sit at the table and talk, and it develops they are in some kind of an institution." Storey wrote "Home" in two days. This story of perpetual literary motion began in 1933 when David was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, a mining village. His father was determined none of his four sons would follow him down into the coal pits and he force-fed them with night study. Storey gave up a university scholarship later on.

"I decided I didn't want to be educated that way." he said. He signed up to play professional rugby league football, a grueling sport. At that time he wanted to be an artist. "The club agreed I could come to London and study art." he said, "if I trained two days in London and came back for the game on Sunday. 1 couldn't get out of bed until Wednesday.

I wasn't getting much art work done." So he turned to his other love, writing. The odds appear good that Broadway will see Storey's "The Changing Room." a three-act play involving rugby footballers in a locker room before, during and after the game. Storey wrote it in five days. Sunday, March 5, 1972 Storey already pretty strong. I won the championship of Prague.

Then when I was 19, 1 became the youngest person ever to win the CzecHoslovakian championship." What is it that separates a player of this caliber from the general run of chess enthusiasts? "It's a matter of talent, but it's hard to describe," he says. "Some people think it's a question of logic and science, but I still feel it's a game of Fantasy plays a big role. Also the will to work." When he was 21, Kavalek suffered a serious injury in a skiing accident. He lay immobile for three months, then had to learn to walk again. In grandmaster rank After liis recovery, he concentrated on chess.

He won the international master title, then surged to the international grandmaster rank (the highest there is) they put all that make-up on?" asked Michael. "Why am I so aggressive?" Cavett was asking him what it takes to make him angry. Michael was not listening, anyway. He was reading a map of India and planning a trip to Haiti. "When I'm home I want to be somewhere else, when I'm somewhere else I want to be home.

I have to fly out to Liza Minelli appeared simultaneously role in "Cabaret." But Michael York, Storey's average height and low-key approach made him a man more than likely to melt into the background. He seemed to live so much within himself that things outside his mind constantly surprised him when he stum-bicd over them. His first novel, "This Sporting Life," won the Macmillan fiction award in the United States in 1959. 'i don't know where they got a manuscript," said Storey. "I remember my agent told me about ii.

He said it wouldn't be much. I telephoned him in a few days and he told me it was for $7,500." Storey sounded hugely surprised. He grinned. "We lived off that for quite awhite." "This Sporting Life." which made the movies with Richard Harris in the starring role, moved Storey around the literary corner. He also wrote the screenplay, then did other film scripts before turning his eyes to stage drama it.

the mid-1960's. He stuck to novels for a time "Flight Into Camden" in 1960 and "Radcliffe" in 1963. Storey's first play in 1967, produced at the Royal Court as "The Restoration of Arnold Middleton." brought him the Evening Standard award as the year's most promising young playwrignt. Then followed "In Celebration" and "The Contractor." He doesn't rewrite Four novels and five successful plays in 12 years are a sample of the Storey pace. Like most runners, he doesn't look over his shoulder.

He doesn't rewrite. "It gets turgid if I try to edit my stuff," he said. When Storey talks writing, the lounging mildness goes away. The eyes sparkle, the hands gesture. "I begin with the first sentence." he said.

"I found out planning ahead just doesn't work for me. Now. well we ought to go back to 'The Contractor' really." He began to talk faster. "I wrote that -I HES "OLD NEWSPAPERS l.UKE MAD. It DID N'T.

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DAVIS I.onilon. David Storey hasn't stopped running long enough to find out that he's a big trans-Atlantic success. He hardly seems to realize that he wrote a hit, "Home," which won the New York Drama Critics' award as best play on Broadway in 1971 after ing the Evening Standard award in London's West End the year before. He shows the same tenuous grasp of reality about "The Changing Room." now doing a bustling business in London, and "The Contractor," scheduled for a New Haven-San Francisco tryout before heading for Broadway. Storey just keeps on working seven days a week, nine hours a day.

writing stage plays and hovels in his daughters' bedroom while they are out. His fourth novel. "A Temporary Life." appears in Britain next fall, and three of his plays await production at London's Royal Court theater. Lives in basement flat With his wife, Barbara, and four children, the 38-year-old son of a Yorkshire coal miner lives in a four-room basement flat in North London. The furniture is early kindergarten with plywood tops and tubular legs, or upholstered pieces squatting lumpily in middle age.

The Hampstead living room, reflected Storey's unconcern with settings not on stages a good backdrop for the comfortable sweater, the lounging posture, the slightly tousled shock of hair. Like the furniture, the Storey features didn't quite look as if they came with the original model. His nose was designed for a larger face. His hands, like bargain-basement misfits, made a pencil look like a splinter. His shoulders and midriff flatly defied the rounding influ-t nees of sedentary playvriting.

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