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PART IV TUESDAY. APRIL 8, 1969 immmmmtl i i i rr- nm i "i i J-' 7 i I 1 s' rl ywA i i 1 I xt -X. JW CHARLES CHAMPLIN All the World a Stage to Courtenay Tom Courtenay is a principal beneficiary of the new English stage and movie tradition which says that an actor can be a success even if his voice doesn't sound as if he were gargling with vintage champagne. There was a time, as another beneficiary, Michael Caine, once remarked, when the English actor lacking an Oxford-BBC accent could hope for no more than a walk-on in which he touched his cloth cap in salute and said, "Roytoe, guv, I'll go quiet; it's a fair pinch." Today, of course, the actors with Oxford accents do the walk-ons, as butlers serving tea to pop stars with acne and guitars, while Michael Caine makes more movies per year than Buck Jones did, and at better wages. Courtenay is not so visible, regarding movies essentially as a way to finance his first love, the stage.

But Courtenay, the son of a painter on the fishing boats sailing out of Hull, started his film career with what is now a classic. "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" is required study in more schools than "The Mill on the Floss," and "King and Country," the brutal and unforgettable anti-war film he did with Dirk Bogarde for Joseph Losey, is also an underground classic. Courtenay was in town a few days ago in behalf of "Otley," the fine little English comedy in which he stars (and which transfers Wednesday from the Crest Theater to the Beverly Canon to continue an exclusive run). He doesn't like promotional tours for films (partly because a couple of the works he's been in seemed to call for official denial rather than exploitation). But "Otley" was a source Of satisfaction to him: his first comedy since "Billy Liar" and a chance to work in part improvisationally.

Also, the producer, Bruce Cohn Curtis, snd the authors, Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, are friends for whom the venture was an important first. AT HOME IN FALLS CHURCH family examines a picture dog Heidi, Maureen, 18, Robert Finch, Cathleen, 11. Mrs. Finch and of a bird that Kevin painted. From left, Priscilla, 13, petting their Kevin, 15.

They still have houses in Sacramento and La Canada. r. limes photo A Period of Adjustment for Robert Finch Family BY THOMAS J. FOLEY Times Stiff Writer fortunate to do as well with, their Sacramento house. "We had it only two years and put in $10,000 worth of improvements," she said.

The Finches had two main criteria in house-hunting in the Washington area. They wanted five bedrooms and they wanted to be near Five-bedroom houses with swimming pools are practically nonexistent in the District of Columbia, at least at a price the Finches felt they could Mrs. Finch' spent the first of three trips to Washington during December and January looking at "houses in the district. WASHINGTON Shortly before moving to Washington in January, then Lt. Gov.

Robert Finch was telling a group of Sacramento neighbors about his son Kevin's reluctance to uproot from their California home. "You'll be able to see his heel marks all the way to said the secretary designate of health, education and welfare. A -month earlier in Washington, when President-Elect Nixon introduced his cabinet selections with their families to a nationwide television audience, Kevin was' the only one of Finch's four children who It was futile, she said, and the search shifted to suburban Maryland. This was nonproductive and on the final trip, for the inaugural, Mrs. Finch went to the Virginia area around Lake Barcroft, the only lake of consequence in the metropolitan area.

There she found three five-bedroom houses for sale on the lake front but only one that was available immediately. "We wanted to move as soon as possible," Mrs. Finch said, "so we took it." The Virginia choice was natural enough, she conceded. The Finches Please Turn to Page 8, CoL 1 didn't make, the trip East for. the announcement.

The 15-year-old high school, freshman would have missed basketball practice and that would meant several extra laps around the track. Breaking Kevin's ties to Sacramento was only one of the seemingly trivial but nonetheless humanly real problems faced by the family since Finch accepted a cabinet post. Another more material problem is Finch's three houses. He has bought one in suburban Falls Church, Va. a decision that has brought some criticism in Congress.

But so far he has not been able to sell either the house in Sacramento where the Finches lived while he was lieutenant governor or the one in La Canada where they lived until 1967. A new freeway is being built within 50. yards of the La Canada house, and property; values -are depressed at the moment. Once the freeway finished, however, the Finches hope to get their money out of the Mrs. Finch believes they will be BRAILLE NOTATIONS New Music Opportunities for Blind BY JERRI MOORE Timet Staff Writer To the blind, playing a musical instrument meant learning the music by rote and committing it to memory.

Leonard Berling changed that. Three years ago he founded the Braille Music Foundation, a non-profit; educational corporation devoted to giving the blind and multi-handicapped blind an opportunity to express themselves through music. "Music among the blind is not new," says Berling. "For many years the blind have been learning to play the piano; however they were restricted to Eimple tunes and attempted to play any other instrument. "There was no sheet music for them to study." At the foundation, printed music is transcribed into Braille music notation for classical and popular music for all musical instruments, music text books and music literature.

"Transcribing the music into Braille is a long process," says Berling, a former Chicago attorney who has been blind and partially deaf for 25 years. "All the dynamics of the music must be written out. Instead of a music staff the blind read a horizontal line of Braille." With the aid of Mrs. Rose Lample, a volunteer reader, Berling demonstrated the process. She reads a line to him: "right hand, dotted half chord, 'D' above the leger line with a sixth interval." He then reads the Braille to her.

"It is very important that the music is complete and correct," says Berling. "It took us five months to transcribe the Brahms First Concerto for Piano and Violin." The 19 pages of printed music equaled 37 pages in Braille. At present, Mr. Berling is the only person in the foundation transcribing the more advanced works. Mrs.

Lample is one of the few volunteers who has remained long enough to read the music Berling is Please Turn to Page 6, Col. 5 Xj ii "Sometimes a film just simply saves the exchequer. A Dandy in Aspic's paid for my house," Courtenay says. "But what I really look for is the chance to work with good people." He is slightly more nourished-looking than the rebellious reform schooler of "Loneliness," but still the sort mothers' first thought is to send soup to. His accent, if not anywhere near Oxonian, does not require subtitles the way it used to, and is even sort of mid-Atlantic.

Courtenay was beset with offers to movies like "Loneliness" but saw with considerable foresight that that was a bandwagon that could deliver him nowhere except to a dead-end of type-casting. He was hurrying home to England to begin rehearsals in Manchester of a revival of "She Stoops to Conquer." He is a principal of the theater company, along with Michael Elliott, the last director of the Old Vic before it gave way to the National Theater, and Caspar Wrede, who directed the the least-known of Courtenay's films, "Private Potter," in which he played a soldier court-martialed for insisting he saw a vision of God. Courtenay has previously done "Charlie's Aunt," "Playboy of the Western World," "Romeo and Juliet" and what from all accounts was a lively and controversial "Hamlet." His Ophelia was Anna Calder-Marshall, recently seen on television here in a special with Paul Scofield among others. He could still play the longdistance runner. He works out with the Chelsea football team, and purposely bought his house near its ground.

4 1 i 1 ACCIDENTAL ACTRESS Lynn Carlin, a former secretary at Screen Gems, is the first nonprofessional to win an Academy Award nomination for "Faces." Times photo by Gordon Wallace Lynn Carlin: Memo Taker May Take Home an Oscar BY MARGARET HARFORD 4 rw Timet Stiff Writer 1 1 3 -v I TODAY'S REVIEWS accidental actress, got to play the pampered middle-class wife who goes off the deep end when her marriage comes apart, in "Faces," a film that has drawn glittering notices and brought Academy attention to Miss Carlin. She makes no smug-actress effort to conceal her joy and astonishment at being nominated for a Best Supporting Actress award at the annual Oscar fete Monday night. The first rough cut of "Faces" ran seven hours and Cassavetes spent almost three years cutting lt. The picture took about four years out of her life, during which time Miss Carlin had two babies while waiting for "Faces" to go into release. "John is a marvelous, exciting, wonderful director," she says in genuine admiration, "but I would have gone crazy waiting if I hadn't been having babies.

My husband got nick of hearing about that picture. Now, he has to hear lt all over again rieas Turn to Pace 11, Col. 2 You're a secretary at Screen Gems, right across the hail' from' John Cassavetes' office. One, day. Cassavetes' comes over and asks "you to read fori movie he's making The picture is "Faces" and later at dinner Cassavetes tells you and your husband that making movies is a terrible business.

Be thankful, he says, you're not an actress. Weeks, go by with no word from the producer so you decide to forget it. and only wish you could. What As Lynn Carlin, who may be the first nonprofessional, to win an Academy Award tells it, she got fired from hec secretarial job (too much time spent checking across the hall) and also got "Finally, I Just called him up and Kiid, 'Look, John, I'm pregnant. If vou don't hurry, it's going show." A week later Cassavetes phoned and said she rould have the part.

And that's how Lynn Carlin, MUSICt English Chamber Orchestra by Martin Bernheimer on Page 14. Country end Western Show ot Shrina by Robert Hilburn on Page 16. BOOKS: "The Last Habsburgs" by Robert Kirsch on Page 10. AND OTHER FEATURES i DEAR ABBY Page 3 ASTROLOGY Page 5 BRIDGE Page 11 COMICS Page JOYCE HABER Page 12 CECIL SMITH Page 17 MATT WEINSTOCK Page 4 Iff ii Leonard Berling, center, founder of the Braille Music Foundation, lesson to Gregg Katz, 10, left, ond Glenn Kotz, 8. Time photo by Marjr Frampton i.