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A handsome young hero falls in love with and proposes to every beautiful girl he meets, a best friend risks losâ€" ing his income and an uncle might gain that income if the hero marâ€" Add to that scenario three beautiful girls and an enraged brideâ€" PAGE 12 â€" WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1982 Other guests include a retired theatre star (Diana Rigg), her husband (Denis Quilley) and stepâ€"daughter (Emily Hone); husbandâ€" andâ€"wife producers (James Mason and Sylvia Miles) who want the star to return to the stage: a gossip columnist (Roddy McDowel!l) who wants the star to sign a release for a scandaiâ€"filled book he has written about her; the star‘s latest romantic conquest (Nicholas Clay) and his mousey wife (Jane Birkin), and a millionaire industrialist (Colin Blakely) who has been the star‘s previous lover. It takes about an hour to establish the reasons virtually everyone else has for killing the star, before she is actually done in, and then another half hour is needed to demonâ€" strate that every one of the suspects has a seemingly perfect alibi. The final halfâ€"hour is devoted to Poirot‘s explanation of how the murder was committed (and by whom. of In Evil Under The Sun, set in 1938 and with the principal action taking place on an idyllic, remote island in the Adriatic, the group consists of a luxury hotel proprietress (Maggie Smith) and her uppercrust guests, including Poirot who is investigating an attempt to insure an imitation diamond for 50,000 pounds (in those days. something in the neighborhood of $250,000.) The essence of the Christieâ€"style mystery certainly has been preserved â€" the familiar plotline about an isolated group of people, one of whom becomes a murder victim. Christie purists may well have cause to grumble both about Ustinov‘s interpretation of Poirot and screenplay writer Anthony Shaffer‘s fairly freeâ€"wheeling adaptation of the original novel, but the majority of today‘s movieâ€"goers likely won‘t have read the Poirot books anyway and will be totally comfortable with the characters and story as presented. UW presents farce In the tradition of recent screen versions of Agatha Christie mysteries, Evil Under The Sun offers no surprises. Colorfully opulent in its setting and star stature, resolutely oldâ€"fashioned in its leiâ€" surely storyâ€"telling and engagingly whimsical in its mixture of intrigue and fun, Evil Under The Sun fully lives up to the expectations of movieâ€"goers who enjoyed 1975‘s Murder On The Orient Express, 1978‘s Death On The Nile and 1980‘s The Mirror Crack‘d. As in Murder and Death, the principal character in Evil is the smugly eccentric Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot, portrayed with amusing pomposity by Peter Ustinov. Ustinâ€" ov‘s first appearance in the role was in Death, when he followed actors Austin Trevor, Tony Randall and Albert Finney in bringing to the screen Christie‘s most widely known fictional character. MOVIE REVIEWS No surprises in Evil Under the Sun Bring them all toâ€" gether through the agency of a poor, though honest, Scottish lad who makes his livâ€" ing derailing trains, and you‘ll have Enâ€" gaged, a romantic farce which is the groom who has been left standing at the altar. By Victor came the librettist for the famous light opera team of Gilbert and Sullivan, this producâ€" tion of Engaged is directed by Dougias major production of the University of Waâ€" terioo (UW) drama deâ€" partment‘s winter seaâ€" There‘s an overall gloss to the film, which was shot in Toronto, Washington and Vienna, that gives it the ‘"Hollywood look". That‘s probably enough to ensure it a fair degree of boxâ€"office success, but underneath that gloss it‘s just another glib treatment of a superficial theme . There‘s a strong sense of realism esâ€" tablished in the initial hostageâ€"taking scenes, but once the focus shifts to the revenge motif believeability in The Amateur is rapidly dispensed with in favor of routine chaseâ€"andâ€" kill melodramatics. The action moves along at a pretty steady pace, although always following a basically familiar and predictable route. Typically, characterizations are secondary to the deâ€" tailing of each assassination, although Canaâ€" dian native Christopher Piummer gives an interesting portrayal of a Czech intelligence chief. American actor John Savage plays the principal character, always with a rather pained expression on his face that seems to designate everything from frustration to joy Contrivances abound but the practised armchair detective should have a relatively easy time of coming up with at least a portion of the twistâ€"filled solution. Given lesser talents both in front of and behind the cameras (like The Mirror Crack‘d, Evil Under The Sun was directed by Guy Hamilton, whose directorial credits also inâ€" clude four pictures in the James Bond series), this movie certainly could have been a colossal As it is, there‘s a fair amount of visual and verbal padding throughout the picture. But the adept performances, the generally witty script, the styleâ€"conscious and attractive backgrounds and a slightly selfâ€"mocking tone that permeates the entire film all combine to make it thoroughly enjoyable light entertainâ€" ment. An alsoâ€"ran in several categories of last week‘s Geni (Canadian Film) Awards,, The Amateur is a slick enough revengeâ€"th@med action picture. ; The plot, remotely reminiscent of 1975‘s Three Days Of The Condor, has this C.L.A. cipher clerk setting out to assassinate three terrorists who killed his girlfriend in a hostageâ€"taking incident. course), with accompany visual reâ€"enactment of the crime. Canadianâ€"produced, with a predominantly Canadian crew and native performers appearâ€" ing mostly in subsidiary roles, The Amateur, of course. has absolutely nothing to do with Canada or anything Canadian. Stanton Written by W.S. Gilâ€" For more informaâ€" tion and reservations call the UW Arts Cenâ€" tre at 885â€"4280. Abel. It will be presentâ€" ed to Waterloo audiâ€" ences on Tuesday. March 20 at 8 p.m. in the UW Humanities Theatre. Tickets are $5 for general admission and $3 for students and seniors. F ro m M on d ay . March 15 to Friday, March 26 the art of WLU students, staff and faculty will be on exhibit in the Con course Gallery. Introduction to Chaâ€" plin: the Gold Rush is the title of the film presented by the WLU English department on Tuesday, March 16 at 2: 30 p.m. in room 2E7 of the Arts Building. Then on Wednesday, March 17 at 7: 30 p.m. in room 2C8 of the Arts Building Dr. W.R. Later that day, from 1: 30 to 3 p.m. Dr. Ron Roesch of San Fransiâ€" sco University will speak on criminal jusâ€" tice in room 3â€"309/313 of the Central Teaching Building. at noon concert will feature baritone Theoâ€" dore Baerg of the Alumni Recital Series in the Theatre Auditoâ€" rium. Sylvia Miles stars as Myra and James Mason as Odell in Evil Under the Sun. They feel that if Ariena will star in their next play, they can get their money back. Wilfrid Laurier Uniâ€" versity (WLU) has a full schedule of events on tap for March 11 to the 17. On Thursday, March 11 at 12 noon the music Two Waterloo school string orchestraf reâ€" cently successfully competed in the Toronâ€" to Kiwanis Music Fesâ€" tival. The Waterloo colleâ€" giate senior string orâ€" chestra placed first out of four competitors with a mark of 88 in the secondary school string orchestra class. The MacGregor school grade 7 string WLU hosts free events Waterloo school orchestras win bring four concert proâ€" grams to the Kâ€"W area for its members‘ enâ€" joyment. Featured this year are the singers, dancers and musicians of the Ballet Folclorico Nacional de Mexico; the New Christy Minâ€" strels; Rosalind Elias, hold its 198283 memâ€" bership campaign from March 15 to 20. The association is a nonâ€"profit organization which this year will The Kitchenerâ€"Waâ€" terloo Community Conâ€" cert Association will Cummins of the deâ€" partment of Botany, Erindale College, Uniâ€" versity of Toronto, will speak on "Arctic Agriâ€" culture â€" Fantasy or Opportunity .‘ Admission to all of these events if free and everyone is welcome to These orchestras are conducted by Waterloo resident Yasuhiro Shiâ€" class placed w-m of seven £ RACitors with a mark of 86 in the elementary school â€" second year of training category, while the Grade 8 string class earned second place out of six competitors with a mark of 85 in the class for third year of training. Community concert club seeks members tion call T44â€" 3270 A season subscripâ€" tion is $20 for adults, $10 for students and $50 for a family (children land who will perform musical selections *‘From Bach to Baâ€" charach." up to 18 years.) Admittance to the concerts is by memâ€" Then, on Tuesday, March 16 at 7: 30 p.m. Mary Johnston, an avid historian and longâ€"time member of the Waterâ€" loo Historical Society, will present an illusâ€" trated history of the city of Waterloo at the Adult Recreation Cenâ€" tre, corner of King and Allen Streets, Water mez:oâ€"soprano and baritone Theodor Uppâ€" man of the Metropoliâ€" tan Opera; as well as Rostal and Schaefer, a On Saturday, March 13 at 8 p.m. the Waterâ€" loo Chamber of Comâ€" merce will hoid its secâ€" ond annual ball at the Waterloo Motor Inn. bata. According to Shiâ€" bata, the winning groups are comprised of more than 100 Waâ€" terloo students. The celebration of the city of Waterloo‘s 125th anniversary conâ€" tinues as city residents have a choice of two special events to attend during the next week. 125th events this week