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THK A ST: M'U TttfxnM JitJMtn YticAmr-i Al- 'litai-t Whilniil lr. M-'k Kl-tniu K1ro- lr. Irnhaoi Murtjr Maiifm By ROBERT SYLVESTER- Faces Places By KATE CAMERON i From the mail: "Just a few lines to say good-br to you and New- York. After operating my night club El hico for more than 40 years. I was forced to close it Tuesday.

The reasons? Well, taxes first. And then what with the When I saw "Signpost to Murder' on the London stage two or three years ago, it seemed to have maintained an exciting atmosphere throughout the action. On viewing know. BUT IA the MGM film based on the Monte Doyle play, some of the tension seemed to have gone from the original drama, even Comedy Coming "The Eye of the Needle," a romantic dramatic-comedy starring Yittorio Gassman, Annette Stroy-berg. Gerard Blain, Gino Cervi and Xino Castelnuovo, will follow "He Who Must Die" into Cinema II.

The film presents Gasman and Cervi as lawyers setitng up tha defense for Blain and Castelnuovo, who are charged with induction by Miss hotTi.jTan nTa hw vh though the screen-play was the work of so knowledgeable a plav- writrht as Sally Benson. In watching the moves made situation in the subways, the danger on the streets, the difficulty of findins a cab after midnight, hardly anybody wants to be a target in New York late at niihf which is when a night club operates. Also, it is impossible to hi the boss of a place you own yourself these days. For example, waiters work a five-day, 35 -hour week and their new union gimmick is three weeks vacation plus $20 extra per week to make up for the meals and tips they don't get durinsj their vacation! I fought this for three years and can't take any more. So I gie this place to the unions and creditors and will start a new life somewhere else and with GJ'a help will make it.

I want to My ood-by and thanks for tbi la-t favor. You were a ereat by a well-seasoned -3t in the murder mystery, I was distracted by the background of the action. Most of it was contained within the glass walls of a most peculiar OPENING TONIGHT house, outside the windows of -f 3 wiiiw i irirff in f- Ww ii which a huge waterwheel moved continuously to the accompaniment of a grinding noise and the fall of water. The setting became hein to me in Dast vears. Benito And so another landmark in New York's niht life history fades frosn our scene.

ThU is the season in life, hnwever, when the prom kids Joanne Woodward and Stuart Whitman Murray Matheson, as meiical attendants of the nearby asylum. Suspense is well maintained up Ueret a-e oiakinz their reservations to descend in hi groups on the night cluns. All dressed in their pretty eowns and their white dinner manv of the kids make three nisjht flubs in one nijrht. This wnt tie HalLuSaJoo's more absorbing than the figures in the drama. THE PLAYERS, under George Englund's direction, perform their roles with competence, but they might have made, a deeper impression on the audience if it hadn't been for that busy wheel rotating just outside the two-storied windows of a house the edge of an English village.

The action resembles that of "The Desperate Hours," in which a whole family is kept captive by a criminal. In a woman, keeping a lonely vigil for the expected return of her husband from Holland, finds herself shut up with an eseaped convict from a nearbv mental hospital. confuses rtieht club operators, who wonder where the kid ill iboat! to the final scene, when a com ket their monev since their parents J.n'c make three nights p'ete and surprising change takes place in some of the characters ciuto in a year. involved. Em Tunnel, new secondary coach for My Giants, in Kenny's "Signpost to Murder" shares Steak Pub: "I don't see why a defensive back ever gets hurt.

I never the double bill on the Forum an other theatre screens with "Your a hurt in my life. If you break things down, a defensive back will on! have bodr contact 10 or 15 times durinz a game. I don't say Cheatin Heart." another MGM production. he esnt have to work. Chasing those decoys around is.

tough eiiough. Iut mostly it's running up and taking a second grab on as was paotu presemts JOHNNY MATH IS RONNIE MARTIN BOBtT VALtNTI DUNE ItSLIE The World Famous Copa Girls run. couftse scoo DINNERS from SERVED 6 30 P.M.-9:30 P.M. a raoner that a linebacker or a lineman. has grabbed already.

Yet THE PLAY BETWEEN the frightened woman and the man. it' almost impossible to find outstanding defensive backs. If 'Girl Happy' to Open MGM's "Girl Happy," starrin bad Willie Wood and Herb Adderly I wouldn't even have to go to who tries to impress her with the Elvis Presley, will open next idea that he is neither a crinun--! practtce. nor insane, takes up most if the Wednesday at the Forum Theatre and at approximately 2-5 other Showcase theatres throughout th time of the action. Joanne Woodward and Stuart Whitman oer-form well together, and they are I was with a lady in a caS last ntsrht an 1 a bus brushed fenders with us.

ir driver was furious. I didn't have a lady in my cah VI teil you off." he ye! fed at the bus driver. "Please go right ahead," pleaded my lady. 'I don't want to spend the rest of the mtropolitan area. Co-starring 2 SHOWS NIGHTLY 8 12 SHOWS Ft, SAT.

8, 11:30 7 with Presley in the Joe Paster assisted by Edward Mulnare and nak production is Mary Ann night wondering- what you were goinsr teil him" A noted Moblev. dram critic was in a local saloon yesterday saying that he TODAY'S CROSSWORD ANSWER owes everything to h-s wife. ''Not so fast." said Mike the bar- HOTHS AND tetKle--. have a tab here from yesterday IS OMBR I Lost cool A husband and wife we know recentlr reconciled and the missus Vf is optimistic about the reunion, partly because daddv is trving to be SO 60 PL 8-0900 MfMSER OF THE DINERS' CLUB AMER. EXP.

CARTE BLANCHE ClTjO a real pal to their son. In fact, the other day he even went skate-boardfosj with him. We asked how the trip turned out. "Well," was the answer, "the doctor says we can take the cast off in a couple TON omb ejrae Eft Of BllO PllD AMB or weeks Our Place, a new discotheque E. 4Sth opened nigfct before last and proved a jumping, lively spot in an otherwise NIGHTLY (iael.

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