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36   L   THE NEW YORK TIMES,
Andy Warhol Is Shot Here; Police Hunt Actress

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automatic she was carrying had been fired.

After questioning by Rodrick Lankler, an assistant district attorney, and Inspector Thomas McGuire, commanding officer of the first detective division, she was booked on charges of felonious assault and possession of a deadly weapon.

Dressed in a brown leather jacket, blue jersey and khaki pants, Miss Solanis gave no address, saying "I live nowhere." Asked if she was an actress, she said "No, I'm really a writer."

She said that she had written a manifesto "telling what I'm all about." She said that she was a 1960 graduate of the University of Maryland.

The police said they knew of no motive for the shooting, but acquaintances of Mr. Warhol and Miss Solanis said that she had wanted to film a script that she had written.

Dr. Bazzini said that Mr. Warhol had been shot in the left abdomen and in the left and right side. A four-man medical team operated on him for more than four hours. it was believed that the artist had been hit by at least two bullets. His mother, Mrs. Julia Warhol, was placed under sedation at the hospital and then taken home by two of her son's associates. She and her son live at 1342 Lexington Avenue, near 89th Street.

The shooting, as reconstructed from accounts by witnesses and the police, took place at about 4:20 P.M. Shortly before then a young woman, who had visited the studio at 2:30 P.M. and left when she learned that Mr. Warhol was out, emerged from the self-service elevator.

She found Mr. Warhol and Mr. Amaya in a large room, onto which the elevator door opens. Mr. Amaya, a London writer specializing in the arts, said that after the woman entered the room he turned away and then heard the gunfire.

"I thought it was coming through the window," he said. "Then I noticed a revolver like one of those guns you seen in Dick Tracy in her hand."
He said that Mr. Warhol, clad in a brown leather jacket, trousers and boots, shouted "Oh, no!" as she fired. She then turned to Mr. Amaya and fired as he ducked.

John Morrisey, technical director at the studio, who said he was in darkroom at the time, said that the woman waved her gun at Fred Hughes, Mr. Morrisey's assistant, and then re-entered the elevator and fled.

The police and an ambulance were called. On the basis of description of the woman, the police began searching for Miss Solanis.

About a year ago Miss Solanis placed an advertisement in The Village Voice, a Greenwich Village weekly, announcing the formation of an organization called S.C.U.M., the Society for Cutting Up Men."

At the office of The Voice last night a spokesman said that the ad had been accepted as a humorous concoction. 

Until last October she had lived at the Chelsea hotel, famous for its literary and artistic clientele, and the locale for a Warhol movie "Chelsea Girls."

Activities Described

John Ransley, night manager of the hotel said: "She wasn't friendly with anyone here. Her activities didn't really go down well with the tenants."

Tess Jennings, the night telelphone operator, said, "She'd stand by the wall and buttonhole people. On the telephone, she'd like toa nnounce who she was calling—maybe a famous actress—and tell you to stay on the line, so that she wouldn't be charged for the call if the actress didn't answer. 

"She wore men's clothes, slacks and jackets and hats. She had long hair, but she wore it tied i short because she said it was 'to feminine' when it hung down."

Mr. Warhol, the son of Czechoslovak immigrants, was either born in McKeesport, Pa. either in 1927 or 1929—there is some doubt about which year it was.

His talent for drawing notice to himself has tended to obscure some of his accomplishments as an artist and as a film-maker.

His work has stirred controversy in the art world where saw in it a refutation of abstract expressionism. They were unable to say whether  he was celebrating or ridiculing middle-class values in his sculptures and silk screens that faithfully presented to the viewer a reproduction of commonly-advertised items. He has denied there is any meaning at all in his work.

His hair is light brown, but he dyes it silver. He usually wears dark glasses. 

Three years ago he described himself as a "retired artist" who would now make only films. He had been experimenting with 8- and 16-millimeter movies, and an early film, "Eat," showed Robert Indiana, the pop artist, eating a mushroom. Another, "Empire," was an eight-our film of the Empire State Building, shown from morning until night. 

In 1964, Mr. Warhol's cinematography won him the Independent Film Award, presented by the Film Culture Magazine. 

He has made more than 150 films since he began his career in the movie business. In 1966, he made "The Chelsea Girls," a 3 1/4-hour film depicting life among a group of homosexuals, lesbians, and dope addicts. It was actually two films, shown side by side on twin screens.

The film set new precedents in displaying male nudity and in presenting dialogue liberally sprinkled with four-letter words. It earned more than $500,000 on a cost of less than $1,500.

Mr. Warhol has developed his own stable stars, who go by names such as Mario Montez, Ingrid Superstar, National Velvet, and his latest, Viva, who was talking to him on the telephone at the time of the shooting.

One of his more recent productions was wordlessly titled in"[[?]]." It ran for 25 hours, although it was later exhibited in a 2 1/2 hour version. 

Transcription Notes:
Second full paragraph, second column Unsure how to mark the four stars near the end of the last paragraph. Left as [[?]].