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Daily News from New York, New York • 86

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Daily Newsi
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New York, New York
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86
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and for m-hat it's worth, be really 3mc tiUnd. n-eu ileckart arrrea one cf the mmt quiwt'1y detailed yxjrform- aaoes yoa are rvrr likty Is on ihc arrw.a, avoiding all the clirbrs ta a magtufipiUy sxmible reading of a mother" role tht would lie to dislike ia less craftcmanle litmds. But for zn, the film's major and most dciichtf ul sturprine is GcJdie Hawn. who lias Seamed aa amf ul lot about acting In a very abort smosst of time, la ber early films, all that ctrWie-jue dunAmess was fairly obnoxious rwOJy rouldot sOand Jier in Carta tleaer). tct JlUikora talent sihowed llaupn amder Richard Brooks turfly diTwaion In and the wrrofM and depth with winch )lr Ue rootless Look in this film stow rommees me almuld cliange try way tit thitAing.

I'm taill jol ure he e-an yjlay aej-tkiag other than cmiiemporary Judy Jiolliday rle, liut vVi lias Jcarttod nucn sJtout oniic timing tiatt if taer arreen apjHratees are ta tie restricted La the suns kind of randm ruikoo turds, at least be determined to jihiy tliem IkIXct than any- sime tine. Wa wondrous cj'e like a Tirerocioua feki-wne and 0 ftounds of yellow liair, ahe looks Ike a Brrofhel tuilkntaid rum-d on lJ.outits.in Dew, tiut is a rolden daffodil of a rtrl and Sie Holly tioligbily rbaracter tia Tun er tnwa jiortrayed ao ten-Sej-ly. liBlierfUca Are free is aa endearing snadrigal far tliree voices funry, stioinc iionest and often uite lularions and St Itas lrought te the acreen with affection and diKtinrtion. Tie voir-es are tiU tt-re. but the wtiole tlmig aeems orclieiitrated in a winer key.

Trags fat anoaraaesl is a tworonlc Swrror snovie enasijaeraditig as a rontJibuiioa te the wlory tnove-metJt. ia wiarh all the croakers on a jilaatation in 'e llnrida Everglades ft rven with Jiay Milland. 1 rertainly dcwit lane thm for that, I'tft for all iWir ainiBter boppmg Viut, all they da 3a litter the front joreh, all the dirty work up to sjrtders, rroeodiless, smukes turUea, lnncliea, fisa and a kind of ambSvalent tnews that fills out of the upper Ift4iand corner of lh cren 3ke jwroleum jelly. Outfcide of tla Brrms 7.n. I've te'er aeen ae tnany and aH of them are to sie rood, tiCuT the rireumstatuyHi, it i tmrd worry about Hay alone at It nd in tu t'nele Sam costume, waiting as otie JJrAinta mlic ointcrved te be rumtned te death.

'Butterflies' a Gentle Character Portrait The problem with Butterflies Are Free, the new movie M. J. Frankovich has produced from Leonard Gershe's Broadway play, which opened yesterday at Radio City Music Hall, is one of mobility. I think it's been solved quite nicely. Most movies mad from plays tend critic Streaming to their Smith-Corona protesting with the same old denunciation: "It's not cinematic!" Sometimes it's true.

But one of the tests of rood play is whether it can stand up under its own strength when the Hollywood hacks work it over in an effort to "open it as they say in the trade. With Bat terflies Are ree, some literary angel must bare been looking orer the shoulders of everyone inTolred. W-cause they haven't "opened it op just lo male an opulent movie out of an essentially entertainment, and as a result more insight and sweetness hava been squeezed out of it than I thought possible. Batterflies Are Tree, as yon probably know al-ready, is a bittersweet lrr story about a blind boy who has left the comfortable suburban borne of his doting-, well-mean inz but stifling- and over-protective mother to start a new life of his own, and the golden hippie next door who helps him find the way in a world of dark but hopeful promise. The whole thing take pUr in one room, mhirh doesn't always make for the most promising kind of movie.

Some movies based on plays in one set piece can be expanded, but this one has a particularly awkward barrier: you rant have the central character roaming all over the place saying his lines and playing his scenes in jazzy locations. He must slay in that room he knows as well as the feel of bis own toes, where everything is familiar with its own special place, because that Is bis escape. He's already been outside, with a seeing, eye mother, but can he make bis life work in his own room? This is the filmmaker's problem Sow to keep everybody in that room and not bore audience to death and a young director with muscular thoughts about style and movement named Milton Katsclas has made it work. The screen is full of stage basine. but Charles Tang (the brilliant cinematographer who made Iaie Patsy Clover such a thing of beauty to look all does not move in on it too quickly.

The characters flow really into the story, and once UbeyYe tl-re, they aren't aofforatied hjr the camera to aanoyirx closeujks as those they're getting a n-r their faces. Two attetepls are made le the procecdisr once, kn the girl leads Ux VLmi boy throve the streets la a unity clothing sftare to buy aotae "fcr4 par, and a aeeond lime, when the mother take the gut to sua Italian rrtarat -and these are the two weakest scenes la the entire film because they intrude span the flow Unrest and Impose on the taorae a nana and tnnancaJy constructed ouUUe axstli. Bat inside that rewm, found snyarlf drawn to the screen, lost la Mr. tbrme fcmu Isolation, without rw U-xig bored. Wlk kot I cse, bow rood the tlay ray was in Ue first rlace.

A Mreeicar Neaard IsrWe took filar erne room, too, bat yoa forfgft ahest the prfWcni c-strsrbaa and space breast tbe dialogue as te Ik a a-tfsl and the swtsabon tttrrestirg. CatJrtfU Are rr lsl'r of tnaktRg ea at4 evirryone inv4rd in tak4g tV tant is Is aj. r4 for trtainMig rl fUm. Tbe best Cjua3ue ta tUs film are the writing eSchaefer cVIusicstival in is on the air! Direct fnxnits exdusht a louc test cticncd tfcs trjcKd forever! W. i kV Academy Winner i fBtST Art OifT-clIOS "Broadcasts in Stereo ncWCBS'eFM 10U Hear selected concerts from The Schaefer Music Festival in Central Park broadcast in FM Stereo.

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