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Thursday September 3 1970 vr Buffalo Evemng News Amusements Section 111 59 BOULEVARD SENECA Plumage Sadistic but Superb By TERRY DORAN The title Bird With the Crystal refers to a variety of bird normally found in Siberia and seldom elsewhere The peculiar creaking noise it makes however appears in the background of a recorded mes sage by a homicidal maniac at large in Rome and it is most of the picture in the Boulevard Cinema and Seneca Mall Cinema Theaters before to identify the sound It is the most exotic clue though by no means the only nor the best in this murder mystery pieced together by an Italian German English cast (English dubbed in all around) under the direction of Dario Argento whose screenplay contains many deft touches These are most enjoyable in the minor characters en countered by the hero a young American writer played by Tony Musante on the trail of the 'psychopathic killer screative juices are at a low ebb and had to take on a hack writing job to earn money forthe passage home when he ac cidentally witnesses an at tempted murder The fleeting scene takes place in a brightly lighted art gallery DURING POLICE ques tioning Musante runs the scene through in his mind seeking an answer to what he instinctivelybelieves is odd about what he witnessed And Argento obliges his audience by replaying snatches of the scene a teasingbit of instant replay because I doubt you will discern whatMusante thinks he saw and Argento has set up to give his picture a twist ending All we know of the murderer is that he wears black from head to foot and is a sadist with various kinds of knives that he is resourceful agile terrifying nuts and selects his young women victims at random It might be a good place to anyone is able pause here to mention that in spite of the GP rating based perhaps on carefully curtailed sex there are scary completely gratuitous scenes of sadistic violence MUSANTE and his girl friend Suzy Kendall gradually are drawn into the web of in vestigation which proceeds with modern high powered laboratory methods such as voice graphs and computer profiles The critical clues are more ordinary though There is a strange pain ting for instance purchased the day of the initial murder In his underworld adventures Musante meets a panderer who is known as So Long after a speech habit Another character is an informant who begins every colloquy by saying the op posite of what he intends thus: your and taking it The painter of the curious picture discovered in a remote village lives barricaded in a loft where he creates mystical art and raises cats for his dinner plate Argento above putting a red herring in our way He above making his picture enormously pretty either the work of his talented photographer Vittoro Storaro Others in his attractive com petent cast are Eva Renzi Enrico Maria Salerno Mario Adorf Renato Romano Umberto Rano His film editor who knows just what he is doing is ranco raticelli 1 Campus Beat WARREN DARCY son of Mr and Mrs Gerald Darcy of 418 Delavan Ave graduate student it the University of Illinois has had his fe composition for flute horn cello and fe piano performed on the Urbana Champaign campus as part of the Summer Institute of the American Society of University Composers Two Buffalo youths are among 225 Jewish col lege students attending the 25th annual summer in Is stitute at Camp Starlight Pa They are Lynn Kassirer 54 Commonwealth Ave a senior I at Syracuse University and aiga Levine 711 Delavan Ave a freshman at Niagara Community College Alan Danaher son of Mr and Mrs Robert Dananer of 60 Birchwood Dr Cheektowaga toured Japan for three weeks this summer with the Purdue University All American Band which performed at Expo 70 THREE BUALO area girls have been named student dormitory advisers at Ithaca College for the coming year The girls are: Patricia Gulino a junior daughter of Mrs Ann Gulino 211 Anderson Pl Katherine Jordan a sophomore daughter of Mr and Mrs Matthew Jordan 725 Crescent Ave and Diane LaBelle a sophomore daughter of Mr and Mrs Randolph John LaBelle 11423 Bullis Rd Marilla i Carol Ann Nitteraurer 759 Bird Ave who graduated in May from Russell Sage College Troy received a certificate of proficiency in physical therapy at ceremonies at Albany Law School this month after completing her clinical requirements Participating in Michigan Technological Summer Institute on Earth Science was Thomas A Rakovan 43 Prospect St Attica a science teacher at Attica Central Junior Senior High i School JR DEPT STORES BASEMENT SHOE DEPT 460 MAIN ST ONLY Open Mon and Thurs 'til 9 PM SPECML PURCHASE BETTER GRAPE DRESS SHOES MEN 4 jMBk Reg ffrwsX 1088 R0M ITALY 1 and loafers available THURS RIONLY AT THIS LOW SALE PRCL CHARGE IT! 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tailor Zero Mostel meets black ministering angel Harry Belafonte in Angel at the Cinema and Amherst a modern Jewish folk tale with all the ancient schmerz and schmalz and a criss cross of wit idiom and pathos from both the black and Yiddish theaters about an worth of dramatic potency stretched out to the required commercial run ning time of an hour and 47 minutes There are five prin cipal players and all heart but even with the guidance of Czech born Academy Award director Jan Kadar they sustain the elevation Tailor shop has burn ed down His wife (Ida Kaminska in a superb portrayal) is dying eloquently in bed giving instructions on the window the television set the medicine insisting on talking when the exhausted tailor longs for sleep The welfare lady says it make take three weeks or never The phone company says Monday and it BLACK ANGEL Belafonte appears in the kitchen on probation admitted to angelhood after a human life as a small time con man and sent back to get tailor Mostel to believe in him or else catches the tone and line of the lonely blighted interiors and city streets a Belafonte Enterprises film and should do fairly well with the drawing power of the principals But nonetneless padded so that it seems about to end in about five different places and the actual ending is artily allegorical and confused It would be much better off as a one act play but there not much box office there Rooftop Players Seek 5 or October Production The Rooftop Players are hold ing casting for Tennessee Wil the Bar of a Tokyo Monday through Wed nesday 7:30 9:30 PM in Adam Mickiewicz Library Dramatic Circle 612 illmore Ave Director Bill Martlock needs to fill two female and three male roles including a Japanese bar man Production dates are Oct 15 17 and 21 24 Test Your Nostalgia By MARTIN A GROSS Special to Buffalo Evening News and North American Newspaper Alliance Identify these famous women writers from these hints? 1 PR Man Dismisses Talk on Money Io Panthers LONDON Sept 3 A report She described her life as a Jalna was the scene of many of this writer's novels 3 Before hitting the bestselling list she worked in a hard ware store This shocked England and the and introduced that the Rolling Stones were planning to give money to the Black Panthers was dismissed as laughable today by the pop group public relations officer A Danish newspaper quoted She burnt her candle at both ends She wrote "ive Little Peppers and How They Grew In Way of the she said and the whole world laughs with i Bab a subdeb and Tish were her heroines Dr Lavender a kindly old clergyman who played an important part in her novels and stories Her name was Eileen Answers appear elsewhere on this page Series Planned for Nurses Rolling Stone Mick Jagger as say ng: want to earn money on our new records not for the sake of the money but to invest it in other things such as the Black Panther breakfast pro gram for ghetto But Rolling Slones spokesman Leslie Perrin said that Jag ger comments were com plete send If he did say anything like this he was just being sarcastic probably out of sheer frustra tion at the stupid questions that he is sometimes Perrin added A 10 week educational series for nurses will be sponsored in area hospitals by District 1 New York State Nurses Association starting Sept 15 Sessions will be Tuesday evenings and require advance I registration with the district office Member nurses may at tend free but non member nurses will be charged on a (Course or single session basis Topics will include pro statectomy neck injury care birth defects eye care head in jury skeletal fractures diabetes psychiatric nursing hip fracture community health and hospital social work Miss Marlene A Werner and Miss Zoe Triftshauser are co chairmen of the committee ar ranging the program North Java Girl in inals Special to Buffalo Evening News PALISADE Sept 3 14ice Cnnkin Ann 1 iruco riini mvhvvml i Vf 2246 Weatherfield Rd North Java is a finalist in the 11th an nual Miss American Teen Ager Contest which is underway at Palisades Amusement Park She will compete in the regional finals riday Tailor Mostel can believe in nothing and so the contest is joined Mostel develops some compassion and insight but only after too late It is his seem ingly self centered wife who honors the angel with belief and acceptance but not enough His mission was to restore the faith of Mostel whose disbelief deals tragedy to both I hate to say it but the in spirations for the original short short story by Bernard Mala mud include not only the stentorian Book of Job and the classic but also the central idea of If you believe in the jaunty sprite fall and perish DUBLIN ACTOR Milo is convincing and expressive a a poor doctor and Gloria oster is strong willed and moody as Angel real life girl friend Cameo bits are played by Barbara Ann Teer Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson a lot of talent in a little space Photography by Richard Kratina is exceptional and oc casionally melodramatic but Sees Speech Curbed The refusal of a visa for Mr McGraw was announced in the Australian Parliament in Canberra today 'Govern ment legislaors said Mr McGraw president of the Col umbia Baptist Church in New York had edited one of Mr books in the and had applied for an Australian visa in New York on the same day Mr Gregory said the government permitted him the right of free speech at home it looks as if the government is persuading Australia to do something it wouldn't do Mr Gregory and Mr McGraw were en route to Zambia to at tend a meeting of non aligned nations there Government Criticized In Australia today the Labor Party opposition continued its attacks on the refusal to allow Mr Gregory in to the country Senate Minority Leader Lionel Murphy accused the government of abuse of power and denying freedom of speech He said the government refused Mr Gregory a visa because he had committed the of being against the war in Vietnam and being black Immigration Minister Phillip Lynch told the 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