The Journal News from White Plains, New York • Page 21

NYACK, N.Y., MONDAY, JULY 20, 1970 THE ROCKLAND COUNTY JOURNAL-NEWS 'Solitary' Changed Denny Hall SHOWTIME rr.ne. and pay rent in prison. In California, that part alone would save $30 mXior. factores behind bars for prisoners to work in. is all an ex-jailbird's dream, one which keeps him I'm conferring with union reps and top echelon executives of national firms, trying to encourage their installing Movie Clock Rifles 11.

ROUTE 303, Orangeburg Paint Your Wagon 9, 1:25 a.m. Italian Job 11:45. (All Times r.M.) CENTRAL Pearl River -Anne of 1C00 Days 7, 9:20. CINEMA 45. Spring Vallev -Z 7:25.

LAFAYETTE. Sufforn -Boys in the Band 7:30 9-35 MALL CINEMA. Nanuet -Taint Your Wagon 2 7 9:45. ORANGERCRG Oliver-2, 7. Brain PEARL RIVER Airport PLAZA, W.

Havorstraw -Beneath Plain of Apes 2:30. 7:30, 9:35. ROUTE 59, Namiet Pat-ton 2. 5:30. 8:45.

SPRING VALLEY -Undefeated Bevond Vallev of Dolls 7:20, 9:30. TOWN, New City Man Called Horse 2, 7:30, 9:35. By DENNY HALL Mr. Hall, a fornjer convict who has been in j-jil (or more thar haj his Lie cmi is now making it as a country and etT.i is pju hitting today for Jack O'Briun. I've spent 17 of my 33 years in prisons.

It started when I was 6 and "boiT'nved" a rowboat to row across a Jersey lake. I was taken to a reform school and gradually found myself going from bad to worse, to road gangs, solitary confinement and too many prisons to count. In the neighborhood in which I grew up, most of the kids wera off on the wrong track. My earliest memories of the crime life which was to control me for too long go back to when I stole pies so I could get money to go to a carnival and gamble. I gambled everywhere, but I reflect on the things that happened, and I don't know that it was all my fault.

During the latter part of my prison years, around 1965, my mother died, my wife divorced me and I think this was the most crucial moment of all I was put in "the hole," solitary confinement, or as authorities call it, "administrative segregation," for 90 days. The offense was carrying "a concealed peanut-butter sandwich." You see, at night in ynur cell you get hungry. There's no place like a store you can buy anything so I was saving the sandwich for a snack. In solitary those three months, I had no clothes, no Bible, no toiletries. This makes a man face himself squarely, and to keep from losing my mind, even though I had no previous ability in that direction, I started composing tongs words, music, arrangements and memoriz-Jng them.

I had nothing to write them down with or on. They were based on my heart- break alone in solitary. Tie experience changed me. I started to read, to stucy, to loarc. Never having had any formal education.

I learned enough law to write the appeals that got me my parole, and this wasn't simple. I was wanted by many prisons for various crimes at the time. I even conducted a disc jockey show, "Radio Free Lewis-burg" (2,200 in-their-cells listeners), at Lewisburg Penitentiary. I had such guests on my show as: Jimmy Hoffa, Teamsters' Union boss: DeAngelis, salad oil king; Paul Casavino, gravestone king; Jinx Falkenberg's brother Tom, bank robber; all con-vic's and my friends. In prison, you meet an amazing cross section, bright and successful people except for what put them there.

And from them I learned. As f. kid I learned things I shouldn't have, so that each time I was released, I was able to become an expert second-story man, rob a car, etc. This is one of the most horrify-ing parts of prison life. A youngster goes in a finished criminal comes out.

When I was released from I.ew;sburg in February, 1969, it took trips to four parole officers to finally find one who didn't want me to get work similar to making license plates or Navy boat beds as I did in prison for 7 cents an hour. I explained I'd learned music and guitar-playing as well as other instruments in prison, and! I wanted a chance to follow that career. It worked. With my own group last year, I earned, honestly, $80,000. I worked the Mint Hotel in Las Vegas and the Circus and I have $120,000 in bookitigs awaiting me this year.

But I can't just accept that work. I have to tell the world of the horrors of our penal system; the plans I want to suggest and promote for improving crime solution in our country. I've been making radio and TV appearances nationally in that interest. I've been using the monies my group and I earn to return to prisons and stage shows for the inmates, a sorely needed feature. I've spoken before the Los Angeles City Council on this, and I have the ears of both ex-Governor Brown of California and Governor Reagan.

I am not bitter. I am happy for every day I'm out. I want to sing the songs I've written, act in films, perform in plays. I've written movie scripts and plays and will do a TV special on prisons in August. My dream plan is one where prisoners would be paid a living wage.

They could then support their families outside, make restitution to the victims of The leading ladies of "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls," now playing at the U.A. Cinema 304, New City, form a decorative pinwheel. The film stars Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers, Marcia McBroom, Phyllis Davis and David Gurian. Complications Accumulate For Astor Plaza Theater Hobe f1V Morrison U.A. CINEMA 304, New City Ikwonri Valley of Dolls 7:35, 9:50.

DRIVE INS NYACK, Blauvelt Bevond Vallev of Dolls 9, 12:50 a.m.: 10(1 Rides -11. ROCKLAND. Mousey Airport 8:45, 12:45 a.m.; Change of Habit 11:15. ROUTE 17. Upper Saddle River, N.J.

Bevond Vallev of Dolls 9, 12:50 a.m.; 100 Get Lost! CALL el 6-8800 Rockland Travel Buriau lit W. HI. St, Normal, N. Y. NOW SHOWING RICHARD BURTON IN "ANNE OF A THOUSAND DAYS" SHOWN 7 9:20 P.M.

KIDDIE SHOW 2 P.M. "BLUE SAFARI" THIATKt Newtlty town M2S.MainSt.reet 634 5100 RICHARD HARRIS as "A MAN GALLED HORSE" mNAVISION'TKCHNICOLOR' 'CM Matinee Today A Tomorrow "THE DEADLY BEES" cinema 45 i'HINOVAlltT tli-i" ali7 -X mn naar dLm Ualllii a a knocks you out of your seat." The New Yorker HELD OVER f- EXCLUSIVE mm. ROCKLAND COUNTY SHOWING -DIRECT FROM RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL ir ir n.i AIRPORT WiDt SOMEN Oj FAMILY SHOW iURr LANCASTER DAN MARTIN-JEAN SIB1RS I TECHNICOLOR AirCoi'dil'OfftiJ iwAiiriffj it Ktnl)nanuet DIRECT FROM ITS EXCLUSIVE RESERVED-SEAT A Rio Mi Kiral Hit I 1 1 1 1 eddie mem, frnmim THE PUSSM nPFMIkl TftUlfUT Kid. Muilc.l Aurora, Tria Slt.pina Baauly Tuaa. Jul, It 11 am 1 1 pm m.

PATTON smia.T.ttnmumUMX rxm HlHHHmia ONE OF THE 6RMTEST MOVIES IKE EVEI SEEN IN MY LAST TWO DAYS! a HIGHEST RATING! A thriller ot human lntarat humor and uipana gator!" ROCKLAND DRIVE SPRING VAUEY N. Y. Elmwood 6-iOiO NOVEL OF THE YEAR HOW A MOTION PICTURE! AIRPORT BURT DEAN LANCASTER' MARTIN jonscbirc jicoutimr eisstr C10HGU11MDV HIUKHIV15 If Hit HI Mm MiUflEIN SIIPLLTON 15 IIRtVJllSON LIOVO NOLAN uvit 'tmiT'CHANOIOPHMiri -jk fM iioutit. minimum thin iamt udoii I twe brll JO IMlirl Si I I tW CITY, N.T. I ilMJOO NYACK 17 DltTVE-lH RT.

303 HrnwoeH-ie44 ROUT MArMN OTrVO0O SifeWG mmm. wagon plui IWHVM.WAHABTm.MU. LAFAYETTI iUFf IRN, N. Y. (Iibw 7 7477 Mart Crowley's "ii rim WIICIASD tawauaal "MARVELOUSLY BRITTLE, REVEALING AND WITTY! What connot be cmphaiized loo strongly is the intelligence and uncompromising manner with which oil concerned have brought a fine stage drama to the screen!" mall cinema JEAN Jtf, CfRFPf, i irnrr 59 THEATRE 'V'T' MA6HIFICEHT.

f'CTr 1 LIVINS i THE1 Jtl. 100 RIFLES KfiH Wll I HOUTC 1 i II Ml NEW YORK THEATER DIRECTORY Complications are accumulating for the theater in the new Astor Plaza building on the site of the old Hotel. The over all project is already plagued by the tightening money rrarket, skyrocketing construction costs and the shrinking demand for office space, as explained in the newspapers the other day by Sam Minskoff, the president of the company that is building and will operate the Astor Plaza. An additional difficulty not mentioned in the news stories thus far is the enormous expense of modern technical equipment for theaters, including lighting, sound and air-conditioning. All of the theaters in the Times Square area have antiquated backstage technical equipment and facilities.

The new Metropolitan Opera House and the Vivian Beaumont Theater in Lincoln Center, in contrast, have up-to-date, highly sophisticated electronic lighting and sound, as well as scenic equipment, much of it automated. It would be short-sighted, if r.ot dowin ight stupid, to install old-fashioned technical equipment in ihe new theater in the Astor PJaza. On the other hand, an electronics expert estimated the other day that it will cost about 100,080 to put the latest and most efficient equipment in the house. Alber W. Seldon, the Broadway pioducer who is to lease and operate the new theater, is reportedly insisting on having it technically up-to-the-minute.

For Minskoff and his associates the prospect of an addition il $500,000 expense in a theater that has already cost far more than anticipated is sobering. Under the circumstances, it may be assumed that the matter is being stud Wolfgang Signs German film star Wolfgang Preiss has been signed for a co-starring role as General Er-win Rommel in Universale "Raid on Rommel," which will star Richard Burton. Join the crowd for the Pasta Festival at the FORVM EVERY TUES. EVE. Spaghetti, Manicotti, Ravioli, Rigatoni, Ziti $1.75 per person $1.25 for children under 10 The FORVM 170B So.

Main New City Clarkstown Mall (Mr. Grand Union) Tel. 1-472-4400 PLEASE NOTE FEATURE WILL BE SHOWN 3 TIMES SATURDAY EVENING 6 p.m. 8 p.m. 10 p.m.

Doors Open at 5:30 p.m. For The Early Birds IOOCLANO SHOWING THiriRSTOFTKE SHOCK ROCK: This theySre reH goo Beyond the Valley a.t. n.is. a Mali: "THE UNDEFEATED" Weil: "THE HAWAIIANS" SSI WINNER 6 ACADEMY AWARDS! Plus Evtt only "The Broln" Wed: KELLY'S HEROES (Tt TU)'-D NiiiiTlT CVS MI'S Ml HI ACMniX 01l OO AfC DOM I (naWlT laKrMbft HiCjT il I F)lt ah AOMtnioroa ti oo JjH hit 5 ui rt nViW 1 l'll'tllili'iiil ffl rv T7 best 4m PICTURE i 1 I of the Xrr ied by officials of the Chase Manhattan Bank, which must have bad considerable to do with arranging the financing of th" whole Astor Plaza project. Seiden, it might be mentioned, is a grandson of the late All ert H.

Wiggin, who headed the bank handling his fortune. It was reported in the last edition of this column that the ot "Detective Story," the Sidney Kingsley drama of lWVW, are still receiving dividends the venture. Not all Broadway productions are so profitable, it should be added. For instance, "Dar Me, the Sky Is Falling," a Leonard comedy in which the lute Gertrude Berg starred for tie Theatre Guild 19C2-G3, still represents a deficit of $12,953.78 on its $125,000 investment. The production is still mi -ing small repayments to the backers it earned a net operating profit of $2,879.32 during 1969, i.nd has a balance oi $166.90 in its bank account.

But despite the high hopes of the Guild and the investors, the play had a run of only 145 performances, and did not do smash business even for that period. A factor in situation was the fatal illness of Mrs. Berg, wsich presumably shortened the engagement. The subject in this space recently was Olga Petrova, the 303 Drive-In I ORANGEBURG. N.

ELrrSwood i Broadway and movie actress of the 1911-1920s era who became a playwright and, at the age of 86, is now living in retirement in Clearwater, Fla. We are now informed that the lady's real name was Muriel Harding and that she called herself Olga Petrova as a glamor gimmick. Returning as the supposedly exotic Russian, Mme. Petrova, she had major success. The device worked for her as it hns for so many others.

Miss Petrova, I assume, changed her name legally many years ago and probably became an American citizen. If Archibald Alexander Leach could Cary Grant and Leopold Stokowski could change his name from Stokes, Muriel Harding could hardly be criticized for becoming Olga Petrova particularly if Broadway producers and the public preferred il thai way. :f.ir."MHhtwn I I Iri laJ FaI ITlJ m'-mmmmw a i SMnui Of I UIIM mm Mcwum em tsmioo mmm rnism JNttSMMSTNT rsn oin-of-TDWMfitr tarbTMMU.AM JMJHITtTttl "SWIM TO THE 'fit" THt I3CHTTK, THE BALLET COUPMY, TMI SWHOKT OICHtSTIA. DOORS OPEN WEEKDAYS 10 A.M. SAT: 10:30 A.M.

SUN: 11:30 A.M HUTS I IK riaWT MM Iff DMT PIZZA AU AWAIOS UST MUSICAL Mil AN OF LAMANCHA (The ImpoMible Orram) Mall Oraan Maa. Ikra Thurt. Ivai "I 0, 10. 7 50, 3 75; M. 1 Sal.

hfj 1 1 0. ao, 1.75, 7.fO) 7, a. Man. Waa. A Sal 0, 5.75.4 10, 3 75.

Ak-Cd. MAITIN IKK, 45Hi 144-4341 "A WONDIIFUUY HAPPY IVININO Of SHHI INTHTAINMINT." am a SAINT SIBBER pmtntt DON PORTER PEGGY CASS INEIL SIMONS I LAZASl'ITE Dirrc ltd by MIKE NICHOLS Mail Ordan Man. thru Tkun. Ipi.i "7 SO, 4.75, 3 73, 4.73. 1.50: M.

A Sal 'I 7, 4. 1, Man. Wad. A 1.15, 4.75, 1 75 1. Air-Cd PLYMOUTH, 114 W.

45 144-OS4 "THI WITT UST MUSICAL TOWN OirrBmrmn. ftawi JERRY ORBACH I ROMISES. PROMISES A Nr. Miwr.l Mail Ordan Man -hi. Kat Ml, 10.

5, 1 Sal MS. II. 10.. 4, 5. 1 Man.

Wad. 7.0, 7, 4. 5. 4, 1. Aa-Cd.

SHUUIT, 115 W. 44 144-5144 3 MATS. SAT. 170 TONY AWAIO WMNRSf CUAVON UTTli 4rr MB1A MOOII 8m rlr PUHal IS VICTOHOUS" brnt. A Y.

7hm "PUIUI IS VICTOIICHIS" ysnn f.aMan. Oaifr Aral "PUIUI IS VKTOHOUS" Lnntri Hvm. CSS TV I I RLIE A Vra Waa'al r.amrdv BaW mm tkr Plm PuHf Iwlariaa Aird ItOADWAY THIA. way al 53rd SI, 147-741 ar 147-KH: I 3D; Wad. 1: Sal.

1 Sun 1 UST MUSICAL Y. MAMA CIITICS AWAIO TONY AWAIO Amvrirm'i aard Wimnimf Waaraf Ivai I 30 Man. Wad. 1, 1 SO Sharp. Ad 44 134 W.

44 144-4171 SHIT NOW iowist musical summh naau AN UOUAINO IVIMiNO. IICHT, TUNHUL ano ocuohtpuuy act. 10" l-hard 9 tru aa "CAMPY ANO LOTS 0 WN" canard Mirru. IV Jl DY tARNE 1 HE BOY FRIEND A Muurml ml imr tmmnmi I '20 1 SANDY Dl Aird AMIASSADOI 44 Si 145-1131 Hfa. al I 10.

Man Wad at Sal. at 1 30. WATCH THIS COLUMN REGULARLY UST MUSICAL IVo TONY AWAIO WINNfC LAI REN BACAIX Batt ActraM Tany Award Wimtar Applaise A New Musical Mat (Mm Ivai '11, 10, 7, S. 4: hi. A Sal.

Kfi MS. 11. 7. a. Waa Mate a.

Sal. Matt- 7. a. 3. taclata ramaad Ml aaaVattad anvalaaa with chart at M.O.

and lilt a Mvaral eltar-aala aelar. Aa-C. PALACI. 1 544 Iraaaway. 7-JaJa Goad SaaH Hraa.Ua WWHH UST PUT N.T.

MAMA Ctl'ICS AWAIS 170 WMNH UST PUT TONY AWAIO 170 ORSTAL BOY NIALLTOIBl.N FRANKCRIMES Prkat Man. thru Sat. Il 'I SO, 4, i Wad. A Sal MaK 1. Aa-Cd.

LYCfUM, 14 W. 45 Sl JU )-U7 WMNH 5 TONY AWAIOS! "WONDIIfUUV POWtltUL WH! TMMIL AUMNCtS POI A LONO TIMI TO COMI." Uti Bmrmmt. I Timmt Chii.ds play Mad (Mart Mad Ivft: 50 7 50 0. t. 4 10: Mai.

Wad. A '4, 5 5 0 4 (0, 4 30, 1.40. Air-Cd IOYAL, J41 45th 145-S740 Y. MAMA CIITICS' CIKll AWAIO. UST MUSICAL 170 COMPANY" IS TMI PIISMIST.

MOST MOO-IIN IIIOHTIST AND UST MUSICAL ON MOAOWAY" Jar. 0 Br. Company A Munril foairdv Air-Cd. ALVIN 111 W. Slnd 757-1444 tvaa.

ai Man. Wad. al 1: Sat. al 1: 10. RDOlft IS A IIOAOWAY MIIACll.

STIU HAS THI LUSTH Of A NfW SHOW AaOUT i Smrrnn. Tmn 1 it 1UULKR ON THE ROOK Directed Bv JEROME ROBRINS MaM Ordart: Man. thru Sal Hit: 0. 1 50, I. 7, 4 40, 5 40.

4 40: Waai. Malt- '413, I 10, 4 40, 4, 140. 1 10 Mart 50. 5 10. 4 40 4, 1 60.

1 10 Aa-CaV MAJBTIC, 147 W. 44ltl 144-07 "UST MUSICAL Of THI IIOABWAY SIA-JmriKrmU. Wnrrrt il AIR Mad Oraare tvft: Man. Ihra Thun. Ml.

11, I. 7.4. fri A Sat Ivjv '15, II t. 7, 4. 5: Mart Wad A Sal.

'7 30. 4. 5. 4 1 Air-Cd. IIL1MOU.

J4I W. 47 SI 5I1-3M0 "MOADWAY'S SIIATEST MUSICAL HIT!" "THI NfW HIT IN TOWN. ITHIl MEIMAN IS TIULY ONI THI CHAT LAOHI Of THI MUSICAL STACI" I T'" ETHEL MERMAN in Hi ELLO DOLLY Mad Ordar- Man -hi. Hat 0. I 05.

7 50. 40. 140: Sal Hat Ml 0. 10. I 40, 7 50.

4 10 Man. Wad A '7 50. 4 0. 4. 5, 140 ST JAMES 144 W.

44 Si 63 5851 "IXTIAO0NAlY PUNNY A INOUItNO, GO AND SH IT" U'i Bmmn. Tmn SAINT Sl'BBER prrwnu i JAMES Linda Marcia Dorit LAN IN ROW) ROBERTS in L.NEIL SIMON'S AST OF THE RED HOT LONERS A Nra Canwdr Dirrrlarl Robart Moorf MaH Ordart: Man Sat Hat SO. 7 30 4 50, 3 30 4 50: Man. Wad. A Sal.

1 50 4 50. 4 1. Aird. IUGINI O'NIIL, W. 4 144-0130 PRESENTS its fanfast'ic SMORGASBORD EVERY Tuesday Thuray 5 to 8 p.m.

ADULTS CHILDREN 99 49 In The Winner's Corner!" -ACMt WINSIFN. Y. Pot PIZZA HUT Explosions Of Laughter! Rt. 9W, Haverstraw Accompanied by Adult W.Wtr.UHLja LE CUNT MA WIN mWOOJ) WOTVPRVlflGON.