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Mat Mi Ymi Have Tins cp 9 It sounds crazy at first, but the more you think about it, the more sense it makes. Here is a true story about how one busy family is able to sit down, uninterrupted, and have a meal together. fSuch Interesting People 1 1 1 cooking and yoga. Treyz claims to be "the oldest player" in his adult ed class, "Basketball for men." He also attends the monthly meetings of four different dental societies and Lewisboro Democratic Party caucuses. Right now he's running for town board "but in a Republican town like this that's more of an exercise." THERE THERE ARE shared activities.

That weekend, for example, the Treyzes were manning the apple and cheese booth at the South Salem Library Fair, "The social event of the season." Which may explain: Why some of the captain's chairs around the table used to be empty at every meal; why the roast would burn while the cook stewed at the bus stop; why after re-heating an entree several times, Betty Treyz would have "this guilty feeling that somebody hadn't eaten." Now, a "guilt-free, pressure-free" Mrs. Treyz sets her stove's time-bake dial at 11 p.m., pops meat loaf or whatever into the oven and herself into bed. Along about 5 a.m., while the Treyzes sleep, the oven coils begin to glow and the kitchen fills with wonderful smells. ONLY ONCE DID the system fail. "I think it was my fault," mused Mrs.

Treyz, who woke to cold, raw meat loaf. "But I quickly made it into hamburgers." "I lost 12 pounds last year," Treyz boasted. For him; lunch means "just a thing of yogurt." "I feel at least 100 per cent better," added Mrs. Treyz whose nighttime stomach once felt "like a lead balloon." Seated around the table, which was covered with a cranberry cloth, were Douglas, 14 (he wanted an end piece); Peter, 17; Donna, 12; Nancy, 15; Barbara, 11, and Lisa, 8. "We're down one," Treyz explained.

Jane, 18, had just left for her freshman year at the University of Vermont, so there was room at the table for a guest their first morning dinner guest. Even the dearest freinds can't stomach meat loaf at sunrise, it seems. "KNOW WHAT MY friends at school always say?" asked Lisa. "They always say: 'What did you have for dinner this morning'?" She and Barbie had a good giggle over that. Over coffee, Betty Treyz explained the compulsion: "Pete and we grew up in families where, at 6 o'clock, father was home, dinner on the table, the kids in their chairs.

I didn't have 20 different activities after school." But her children do. There's football scrimmage, soccer practice, intramural gymnastics. Not to mention girl scouts, Brownies, babysitting jobs, riding lessons, tennis lessons "And all the girls take ballet at assorted hours. Nancy goes three times a week," said Mrs. Treyz who chauffeurs passengers in leotards when she's not meeting the 4 and 6 p.m.

after-school activities buses to pick up riders in shoulder pads. Her Volkswagen bus does "about 20,000 miles a year." Not that mother and father are stay-at-homes themselves. "A lab girl" at her husband's offices from 9 to 3, Mrs. Treyz makes every Parent-Teacher Association meeting, and takes adult education courses in gourmet By Georgia Dullca thf XftoUorkEimra SOUTH SALEM, N.Y. By 6:27 a.m., which was when the sun rose on the first day of school here, the meat loaf in Betty Treyz's brick and beamed kitchen looked brown and juicy through the oven window.

It was baking away in there with nine potatoes. Mrs. Treyz did not rise herself until 6:30 a.m. when she put on a fuzzy, pink bathrobe, padded into the kitchen and began boiling broccoli. Her seven children "just love" meat loaf in the morning, she said.

And, at an hour when some of their peers may be toying with their corn flakes, the Treyz children consume roast chicken, spaghetti, even lamb curry. "But their favorite's lasagna, I make it one morning a week," added Mrs. Treyz, a small blonde of 40 who was yanking hot potatoes from the oven now, one eye on the clock. It said 6:42. Eight minutes to dinner.

DR. AND MRS. PETER Treyz (he's a 41-year-old orthodontist) solved a classic suburban dilemma 18 months ago by radically altering the family's eating patterns. Here, in their rustic colonial something happens on weekday mornings that doesn't happen every night in most suburban homes. "The whole family is sitting down to a meal together," said Mrs.

Treyz, placing a napkin on her lap. "We never could get a quorum at night," added Treyz, who began slicing the meat loaf and wondering aloud: "Who wants an end piece?" What compels perfectly reasonable people to rise and dine on meat and potatoes? Mr. And Mrs. Kirk Douglas: A Most Unusual Couple Marilyn Beck's Hollywood very glad that Michael and whose sense of masculinity Joel adore their mother wasn't threatened by sharing AND their father." his career with his wife. awn was breaking and, in by boat, and that a courier, be found to transport rough prints of the film back and forth from Belgrade for developing.

"Originally I was not supposed to be involved in such matters. Kirk had hired a production manager to take charge of the set, and I was to limit myself to administrative duties. "But two weeks into shooting it became apparent that the manager would have to be discharged and I ended up handling the whole He encouraged Anne to work beside him in every capacity from editor to publicist on various ventures of his independent Bryna Production Company. And finally in 1972 discovered she had already handled so many of "Scalawag" pre-production details that she might as well get credit as producer. Italy when she was lucky enough to get a phone connection to the outside world, and serving as den mothcr-ncgo-tiator-referce to the international crew.

"If I was fortunate," she said. "I'd finally be able to take a break by mid-day, grab a quick bite of lunch, change into some suitable work clothes and then plunge right back into work until Kirk and the boys returned exhausted from the set about 7:30 at night." Those boys are 17-year-old Peter and 14-year-old Erlck, who served, respectively, as still photographer and runner on the production. "We're a most unusual family," observed Anne, then proceeded to prove her point. 4 (lflllfil3lil Kirk Douglas and his wife on location. nsconced in the comfort of Ohc spoke of Kirk's relationship with the son who has found independent fame as television's "Streets of San lead and said, "Michael has been very determined to establish his ow identity.

Being the son of a star, wanting an acting career of his own, it was terribly important to him to cut the cord and be his own person. "Now that he's found such success, he's more at case about the situation. But still, whenever Kirk makes the mistake of saying to him, if I were Michael will visibly freeze." i A smile highlighted her face once more as she observed, "I must say Kirk does have trouble controlling his Instincts as a Jewish father. "'His only worry is that he hasn't given the boys enough, lie wants them to have everything he didn't have as a er driving motivation, she dressed in nightgown and rumpled robe, she stood over an electric hot plate preparing! her family's breakfast. A half hour later her husband and youngest son would leave for work, and she would proceed with household chores, attempting to make order out of the cramped four-room quarters; washing dishes and clothes in the cold-water, bathroom sink.

This was no tenement housewife, but Anne Douglas, a lady accustomed to luxury the lady who had been named an International Best Dressed Woman in 19155 and 1900, and voted Into the Fashion Hall of Fame in 1070. This was the wife of motion picture star Kirk Douglas, regarded as one of Hollywood's most gracious hostesses, a society and philanthropic leader whoso lifestyle had been turned upside down by a film entitled "Scalawag." "They called mc 'the producer In the nightgown, she described her Image. "For It would be at least noon each day before I ever found time to get properly dressed," It was her robe-and-nlghl-gown uniform that she spent her mornings In a Yugoslavia motel room situated 40 miles from the hamlet of Zadar, organizing activities for the picture which her husband directed and In which he stars Willi Mark Lester, Don Stroud and Neville Brand. her Beverly Hills home, surrounded by the modern Impressionist paintings and pre-Columbian works she and Kirk have gathered during various foreign visits, she made the point that after that production baptismal she felt prepared to handle any assignment that might come up. "We spent 10 weeks on the Adriatic coast, which started off as a marvelotisly heavenly adventure until the bourras hit! one had warned us about the bourras the winds of hurricane force that bring with them torrential, flooding rains.

They hit us five times, each time lasted from three days to a week and Invariably washed out the power and telephone lines, and turned the area into a sea of mud." Nearly cut off from the outside world when plane service was discontinued during the storms, It fell upon Anne In see that supplies were brought l.s child, Kirk Douglas explained, "was keeping pressure off Kirk's shoulders. It had been a dream of his for years to film the story about the relationship between a one-legged man and a 13-year-old boy that's based on Robert Lewis Stevenson's 'Treasure "I wanted to do all I could to make sure Kirk was free to concentrate on directing and starring in the film without having to worry about anything else." Would she do it again? "I already am," she laughed. "We're Into pre-production now for a Western Kirk's to star In and direct next January. "I'll serve as producer again but this time I'm making one thing terribly clear: the film will he shot In America, close to civilization and decent plumbing." Yugoslavia, Anne Douglas has discovered, Is a nice place to visit but no place to make pictures. v3io spoke of step-sons Joel and Michael, the products of Kirk's former marriage to Diana Dill, and she said, "All of us have always been terribly close.

There's never been any anomosity. She recalled the first time she worked professionally with Kirk, year after their wedding, ind reminisced, "There I was, highly pregnant, and usslgncd to do all the casting for 'Indian She assigned the part of "Indian" leading lady to Diana. And then she remained behind to care for Diana's young sons while Kirk and his former mate set off Into the sunset fur lengthy film location. "I Ihlnk you could safely say we shure urt unusual relationship," she laughed. Then, Millie fudlng added, "I'm had very little, raised In far-from-luxury conditions by his mother and six sisters after his father deserted the family.

"Being brought up as he was In all-woman atmosphere I was iifrnid I might have a problem as his wife, that he would seek a sense of Independence from me, regarding too much closeness as a sign 1 was attempting to smother him." Instead, he proved to be one of the rare Hollywood stars Monday, Oct. 1, 1973 rt7mcs To Anne fell Mich duties oh organizing cull sheets and filming schedules for the Paramount release, paying tylls, ordering props from.