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The GAZETTE, Montreal, Aug. 22, 1972. Karen Black film goes before Montreal cameras next month Karen Black and Christopher Plummer are among the stars of a new movie to be made in Montreal beginning next month. The film, The Pyx, is based on the novel of the same name by Montreal author and Loyola a College professor, John Buell. The movie is to be directed by Harvey Hart, a Toronto native and CBC alumnus, who has directed several films and television series in Holywood.

Maxine Samuels. an independent television producer, also of Toronto, is producing. The Pyx, published here in 1959, was described as a "suspenseful character study." It concerns the death, by murder or suicide, of 'a young lady with possible underworld connections. Karen Black, the wellknown American actress, will play the part of the young lady. Black has appeared in many movies, including You're a Big Boy Now, Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, Drive He Said, Born to Win, Cisco Pike and the current (at the Place Ville Marie Cinema), Portnoy's Complaint.

Miss Black's co-star, Canadian actor Christopher Plummer, made his name at the Stratford, Shakespearean Festival, and went on to an international film career. His films include The Sound of Music, The Night of the Generals, Oedipus the King, The Royal Hunt of the Sun, The Battle of Britain, and the recent Soviet-Italian production of Waterloo, in which Plummer played the Duke of Wellington to Rod By DANE LANKEN of The Gazette Steiger's Napoleon. The Pyx John Buell's first novel. Buell, educated at Loyola and the University of Montreal, has also written plays, lectured and directed religious spectacles, as well as teaching English literature at Loyola. He published a second novel, 4 Days, in 1962.

For Harvey Hart, The Pyx marks his second directorial effort in Quebec. In early 1971, he came from Hollywood to direct the screen version of John Herbert's Fortune and Men's Quebec City. Hart, educated at the University of Toronto, worked in television in New York City before returning to Toronto in the early 1950s to become one of the leading creative forces in the first years of CBC television. He later went to Hollywood, where he directed several films, including Bus Riley's Back in Town and The Sweet Ride, and segments of television series including Peyton Place, The Young Lawyers, Mannix and Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Producer Maxine Samuels is making her movie-making debut with The Pyx.

She took up television producing in the early '60s following a successful career in the garment business, and has made a number of internationally successful series, among them The Forest Rangers and Seaway. Filming on The Pyx is Priest for Exorcist HOLLYWOOD (UPI) Playwright Jason Miller will play Father Karras in the Warner Bros. production of The Exorcist. Miller was author of the New York Drama Critics Award-winning play, "That Championship Karen Black in Portnoy's Complaint scheduled to being within two weeks, in and around Montreal, supporting roles being filled by local actors and actresses. Parts are still being cast.

Financing for the film is coming from MGM, the Canadian Film Development Corporation, and private sources through Host Productions. Film Awards expand The Canadian Film Awards, the Canadian film industry's answer to Hollywood's Oscars, have taken steps this year to ensure the national character of the awards. Last year's awards ran into NOW PLAYING St. Helen's Island LOVERS by Brian Friel directed by Vernon Chapman starring GERARD PARKES with Ann Wickham, Nan Stewart Mary Ann Rushbrooke, Bill Lake thru Fri. at 8.30 Sat.

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Marcil, husband of Lucienne Cardin, is survived by two sisters, Alexandra (Mrs. Germaine Lemire) and Emilienne (Mrs. Alfred Pigeon), and his daughter, Monique. The funeral will be held today, August 22, from Urgel Bourgie Funeral Home, 63 Lorne St. Lambert, for service at St.

Lambert Parish Church. Interment will be in Cote des Neiges Cemetery. Canadian plays highlight Centaur Theatre schedule fied for the awards last year, only two films were entered. This year, the awards committee has been busy drumming up support among Quebec producers, and have so far lined up a dozen Quebecmade films for the awards, scheduled for mid-October in Toronto. The awards has also opened a Montreal office (at 4073 St.

Hubert) which sends out press releases in French only. The Canadian Film Awards also reached agreement with the Association des Producteurs de films du Quebec, which represents about of Quebec's producers, for support of the awards. It was the Association president, Montreal filmmaker Arthur Lamothe, who last year claimed Quebec producers were "indifferent" to the event because "the interests and preoccupations" of the French Canadian producer were different from those of the English Canadian producer. Ironically, it was one of the two Quebec made films entered in the Awards, that walked off with the lion's share of the prizes. That film was Mon Oncle Antoine, produced by the National Film Board here and directed by Claude Jutra of Montreal.

Besides the features category, there are 16 other competitions within the Canadian Film Awards. The Awards, a week of screenings held at a Toronto theatre, ends with a gala awards night at the Royal York Hotel. OPENING THURSDAY GARDEN OF La Ronde A in The theatre Canada. largest cabaret Dmytryk's nude dilemma HOLLYWOOD (UPI) Edward Dmytryk had directed 60 motion pictures with nary a nude until now. He directed such powerful hits as The Young Raintree County, Hitler's Children, The Caine Mutiny and others.

Then along came Bluebeard with Richard Burton murdering seven wives, most of whom are seen in a state of if not totally in the buff. 4 NIGHTS ONLY-AUGUST 24-25-26-27 trouble from Quebec producers who felt that the competition, held annually in Toronto, did not reflect the hopes and accomplishments of French-Canadian filmmakers. Although some two dozen Quebec-made features quali- Pat Boone Family 2 SHOWS NIGHTLY: 8:30 11:00 P.M. SUN. $3.50 and $5.50 SATURDAY, $5.50 $7.50 Tickets now on sale at all TRS outlets, Miracle Mart Simpsons, Montreal Trust, P.V.M.

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David Freeman's Creeps is the second Canadian play to be produced by the Centaur, a drama about victims of cerebral palsy, of which playwright Freeman is one. Like French's Leaving Home, Creeps is Freeman's only play, and it too received a successful production at the Tarragon Theatre. Ex-Montrealer Ronald Garrett's Autumn! at Altenburg is the third Canadian production Doubtless Dmytryk has seen naked women in his more than 60 years. But he had never been with the problem of photographing faced, them for the screen. What to do? "I had to have a long talk with myself," said the beard- slated for the Centaur this year.

After the opening production of Leaving Home, the productions in order appearance are Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman (November), Creeps (January), Tom Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound (February), Autumn at Alt enburg (March), Machiavelli's Mandragola (April) and Harold Pinter's Old Times (May). LENNOXVILLE In other English theatre productions in Montreal, Festival Lennoxville's productions of Ann Henry's Lulu Street and George Ryga's Captives of the Faceless Drummer may not have finished with the Lennoxville season. The two are being considered for the Saidye Bronfman Centre, and word is expected to come this week It is not yet known, however, whether the productions will be moved from Lennox- ed director. "There was the matter of propriety. I wanted to handle the situation with as much taste as I could.

And, of course, there was consideration for the actresses." "But I did insist that the girls remained clothed throughout our ville, or if the Saidye Bronfman Centre will mount entirely new productions. Further plans for the SBC haven't been decided yet, but the Centre is considering both importing other acting troupes as well as creating their own pieces of theatre. The SBC is not expected to carry a full season of plays as it has done in the past. STRATFORD At Place des Arts. The Jewish Theatre of Bucharest will perform at the Maisonneuve theatre from November 2 to 5.

Stratford's productions of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and King Lear will also be presented at the Maisonneuve, from January 10 to 20. The Manito ba Theatre Company will also visit Montreal with a production of the Tony avard-winning play Sleuth, by Anthony Shaffer. A second play will also be presented by the Manitoba troupe, wiich is yet to be announced. but will be taken from their regular season repertoire. RADIO-TV ANNOUNCER CAREER COURSES NOW enrolling.

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