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40 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW Thursday, September Action Corner Seeing red over late lavender May 28, I sent $3.33 to Maryland nursery advertising "lavender plants." do The offer was in full color and most attractive to be sure. You guessed it, the plant has never arrived and my letters of inquiry and later refund request, ignored. There's not much money involved, I know, but the situation really irks me. Can you make some inquiries for Wenatchee In checking their records, the company told us that they are holding your order until the "proper planting time." The spokesman explained that at the time you placed your order, the company had closed its shipping department for the summer because of the extreme heat and risk of the plants dying in transit. If you do not wish to wait for the lavender any longer we were assured the order can be canceled and your money returned.

Let us know how you come out. Inconsiderate drivers annoy There seldom a time when there aren't from four to 10 unattended cars parked illegally in front of the stores at the Manito Shopping center on Twentyninth off Grand even though there is ample parking space a few yards away in the designated area. I have seen few shoppers who wouldn't profit from the extra steps involved. The inconsiderate drivers who park along the curb create a congestion that is hazardous to the shoppers. There should be some enforcement of the Spokane City traffic engineering director B.J.

Schmitz couldn't more heartily agree with you, G.H. Unfortunately, the police department has no jurisdiction on private propery which means that enforcement of these regulations is the responsibility of the property owners. Schmitz says the vehicles "can and should be towed away by the property owner but they are usually overlooked because the drivers are These areas are usually marked "No Parking" and often "Fire Lanes," but this means little to the "inconsiderate drivers." Perhaps a word to the store manager involved would produce results On the other hand, if the store's customer is making a major (heavy, awkward, large) purchase, the manager would probably, be hard pressed to insist the merchandise carried across the parking lot. A dilemma to be sure. Fan looking toward the big Series Can you help me in securing tickets to the baseball playoffs and World Series in Los Spokane Not really According to The Spokesman-Review's sports editor, Bob Payne, "You need to know somebody somebody in major league baseball." Payne explains that most of the tickets reaching the general public are those distributed by the participating clubs.

As the time draws near, the leagues authorize certain contending clubs to start taking and then "you must gamble that your club makes the playoffs and-or series." All major league clubs do get a certain allotment and Payne suggests calling the Seattle Mariners although he assumes that team's allotment will go to season ticketholders. You might also check with local travel agents who may know of World Series packages. Such "deals" would be most unlikely to be advertised as no one probably has many (or any) tickets available in this area. Good luck. Action Corner, dedicated to solving problems of public interest, will walk, talk, run and dig to get information for you.

Answers to the most interesting questions will be published; others will receive mailed replies. Readers offering further information or taking issue with Sunday through Friday columns are invited to send their views to "Re Corner" published Saturdays. Send your problems or comments to Action Corner, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash. 99210. Your name will not be printed, but must be included to permit a reply.

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22 30 Obtained 60 Your 90 Charming MAR. 20 1- 5- 8-21 Good (E) Adverse Neutral 41416-224 3 24-31-32-901 8, 1977, Spokane, Wash. Movie's L.A., a By WAYNE WARGA HOLLYWOOD has been (LAT) in -Los Angeles movies since the movies began, a continuous terrain threading its way across the world's screens since the century was young. It began as background, and its flexibility was such that it could be made to look like New York or the South Pacific. Only rarely did it emerge as a character on its own, but it nevertheless influenced millions who saw it, influenced them so effectively that by the mid-'20s the movies, still unable to speak, became the lure for the greatest internal migration this country has yet known.

Millions moved west, and a great many of them became a part of what was then the largest industry in Los Angeles. This great migration helped to form the eccentric character of the city and the place and its poplace began to exert their influence on the rest of the country. Anyone sampling the ongoing commentary about Los Angeles will quickly find that the city confuses many: It contains the laughable but also much to envy, Tourists and writers puzzle this place in home movies and magazines and the attraction is stronger than ever. Stronger, perhaps, because more and more of the Los Angeles character emerges in contemporary flims. It was fascinating, for instance, to see "Shampoo" a continent away in New York, noting the audience's reaction to both the characters themselves and the city in which they lived.

Los Angeles figured forcefully in "Shampoo" and it was present as well as a sort of misplaced ennui in "Welcome to L.A." L.A. as character So much happens here and with such incredible diversity, that one's hunch is that a trend may be in the making, one which uses Los Angeles not only as background but as a character as well. Two films currently shooting here have their roots in phenomena associated with the geography. "Bit Wednesday" explores relationships and growth as it took place during the 60s surfing craze. "Stingray" looks at a society on wheels, a boy and a girl finding one another a part of a triangle, the apex of which is a customized Chevy Corvette.

The writers, producers and main 'vette, and directors of the two films are four men intimately familiar with their material. All are graduates of the University of Southern California. "Big Wednesday" writer-director John Milius and producer Buzz Feitshans grew up as Angelenos. "Stingray's" coauthors are Hal Barwood and Matthew Robbins, the former producing and the latter directing for the first time. Milius, Barwood and Robbins used the one means to enter the film industry without a long union-restricted apprenticeship: They wrote screenplays.

Feitshans is the son of Fed Feitshans, a widely respected film editor, and was thereby able to thread his way through the long apprenticeship and move on to producing because of his own editing talent and experience. The premise of "Stingray" perhaps more simply stated that it may turn out to be in the completed film is the evolution of a relationship WHAT'S DOING University, 8 to 4 p.m. weekdays. Play "Trails West," 8:30 p.m., amphitheater at Fort Walla Walla Park. Art showings An exhibit of 21 Charles Harper silkscreen wildlife prints depicting national park wildlife, in the Fine Arts Department of the main branch of the Spokane library during library hours.

Original landscapes of Northwest scenes in oil and acrylic by Anita Lundquist at Corner Gallery, W905 Riverside. Suite 412, Tuesday through Friday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday from noon to 5 p.m. Watercolors and oils by Fred Ploeger, curator of art at Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum, at First National Bank in the Lincoin Buliding, 8 a.m.

to 4 p.m. weekdays and 9:30 to 5 p.m. Saturday. Photography by Tom Murphy, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.

weekdays; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays, 1-Stop Workshop and Gallery, W831 Garland. on Paper: American Art 1945-1975," Washington Art Consortium Collection at Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum until Oct. 2, daily except.

Monday 9 to 5 p.m., Saturday and Sunday 9 to 5 p.m. Painting by Stan Miller at the Mushroom Gallery, W714 Sprague, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, noon to 5 p.m. Saturdays.

Oils and serigraphs by Kathleen Gemberling Adkison at the Ad Gallery at Gonzaga So Proud of Our Food You Won't Believe It" THE ALL NEW of Mai Tai Chinese I BUFFET THURSDAY 5-10 P.M. ALL Menus YOU WISH TO EAT $395 Change Weekly NEW OWNERS NEW CHEFS East 9611 Trent 924-6632 VA CINEMAS Sprague 535-7668 Havana Sis A long time ago PG NO PASSES nagalaxy for for away. DEEP characters: the 'gut' ly chosen. "What a triumph! Fellini's new 'Amarcord' is even more beautiful than It is a -Penelope The New Yorker FELIN'S A mi. at 7 9:20 PAUL NEWMAN.

SLAP SHOT A UNIVERSAL PR TURE FEST LES at 9:40 Plus. at 7:30 SILVER "Star Wars" Mark Hamill) between a boy, (played by and a girl (Annie Potts) as he searches for the customized Stingray stolen after he and auto-workshop chums build The script is a moral tale richly mixed with adventure and comedy. The adventure begins when the triumphant customizers take their Stingray and parade it on a Wednesday night along Van Nuys Blvd. "Van Nuys Blvd. is the heart of the car culture on the planet earth, Barwood says.

"Matthew and I were not car nuts when we were high school kids. It's come to us rather late in life. We grew up in rather strict conservative families, me in Hanover, N.H., and Matthew in Great Neck, Long Island. "We are interested in observing culture, even though in this film the observations are peripheral. Because a big portion of the story is the car, Van Nuys Blvd.

was essential. "What I'd like is for someone 200 years from now to see this film and look at it as a chronicle of our time. The way Pepys chronicled the London of his time. In 200 years there won't be anything like this on earth." It is among the most improbable of social customs, yet it has gone on for years now and there is no end in sight. Robbins and Barwood both point out that a lot of drivers of the customized cars are no longer young, yet they continue to participate in what is generally considered a ritual of youth.

The film company shot the boulevard on a Wednesday night, then returned the next night for several more locations. The cars for these nights were special- Special Weekday STREAK Special Weekde Matinee Prices PG -E- at 8 10 General Admission $2.50 PG Matinee Child (1-11) $1.50 Prices MAGIC LANTERN SOUTH 121 WALL COLONEL'S BIRTHDAY SPECIAL September 7-18 2 Pieces of Chicken Mashed Potatoes, Gravy and a Roll. COLONEL SANDERS RECIPE Kentucky Fried Chicken. FILM TIMES United Artists Cinema 1 "Star Wars," 1:10, 3:55, 6:45, 9:35. United Artists Cinema 2 "The Deep," 1:25, 3:50, 6:15, 8:45.

Magic Lantern I "Amarcord," 7, 9:20. Magic Lantern HI "Slap A 7:30. Magic Lantern III "'Silver Streak," 8, 10. Dishman "Divine Obsession," 12:15, 2:50, 5:20, 8, "Teenage Milkmaids," 1:40, 4:10, 6:45, 9:25. Studio "Lovelace Meets Miss Jones," "Teenage Sex Therapy." Fox I "Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo," 1, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10.

II "Smokey and the Bandit," 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30, Fox III "MacArthur," 2, 4:35, 7:10, 9:45. Ready to decorate Spokane Porcelain Decorators have scheduled their first fall meeting 9:30 a.m. Friday at Finch Arboretum, said Mrs. J. F.

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