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Daily News from New York, New York • 273

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HOTELS RESTAURANTS HOTELS ft RESTAURANT! 'The Dunwich Horror' oc His Thriler -1 By DOUGLAS WATT Sex By ANN GUARINO Show People At Sard i's bar, the talk was about show people, of Before one can enjoy "The course. Two theater press agents were discussing put-downs. One of them, Marty Schwartz, was telling the other, Dave Lipsky, who had given the Boston-born Schwartz his first job in New York, about an experience with Helen Hayes. At the time. Dunwich Horror," a thriller doubling with "Scream and Scream Again" at neighborhood theaters, one has to be she was starring in Mary Chase's "Mrs.

McThing" at the now defunct 43th St. Theater, where it had moved from the Morosco. It was the holiday season, and one night, backstage. Miss Hayes lieve that a gal like Sandra Dee, playing a smart college student, presented Schwartz with a box of ties. "Thanks," said Schwartz, making a clumsy attempt at a joke, "but I never accept an unwrapped gift." The star pondered this for a moment, then nodded.

C5 All right, said Miss Hayes. TECHNIQUE FOR DiRECTINGr 02 "The Dunwich Horror," a American International Pictures release in Color. Pro--duced by James H. Nicholson and Samuel Z. Arkoff from a screenplay by Curtis Lee Hanson, Henry Rosenbaum and Ronald Silkosky based on the novel by H.

P. Lovecraft. Presented at neighborhood theaters. Running time: 1 hour, 30 minutes. MPAA rating: GP (All Admitted-parental guidance suggested).

THE CAST; "Tell you what you do. There's a Woolworth's around the corner. Why don't you just po there and pick up some wrapping paper and ribbon?" Schwartz did and, returning to the theater where Miss Hayes was now on stage, placed them in her dressing room. After the final curtain, he was presented with a neatly done-up gift. But Schwartz had had to pay for part of it.

reminded lipsky of the GREATER THAU EUER Nancy Walker Sandra Dee Dean Stockwell Wilber Whateley i Dr. Henry Armitage ur. tory Ed Begley Llovd Bochner Donna Baccala Elizabeth Hamilton with N.Y. AQUARIUM IN CONEY ISLAND ABE STARK ICE SKATING RINK with adjoining Municipal Parking Lot 485 THRILLING ATTRACTIONS including late Richard Maney. the most famous of all theatrical publicists, a man with a sharp tongue when needed.

Listening on the phone to a harangue by a woman asrent wh.9 was trying to get her actor cfient's billing improved on the theater marquee, he waited until she was forced to pause for could be attracted to a wild-eyed, bushy-haired Dean Stockwell, portraying a student of demonology. Somehow Sandra's seeming stupidity is unacceptable, though her acting is fairly convincing. FOR THAT MATTER, the entire cast is serious about being involved in a tale of nameless horror. And, as is the fad these days, sex is dragged in to spice breath and then said, "Madam, I think you have your client confused with Henry Irving." and hung up, mm 12 BIG NEW ONES GAMES. KIDDIE PARKS BEAUTY CONTESTS SIDESHOWS ANIMAL NURSERY EDUCATIONAL EXHIBITS THE WORLD FAMOUS Nearby, director Reginald Denham (Ms wife, Mary Orr, wrote up what could have been a good the short story on which the film All About fcve and the current musical "Applause" were based) was telling a couple of friends about old horror tale, anyway.

Sandra is drawn to Dean when he tries to borrow a rare book his difficulties with a famous actress many years ago. It was impossible not to eavesdrop. "I couldn't get her to do a thing I wanted during rehearsals, Denham was saying in a well-modulated voice that deals with a legend of BOARDWALK and with pleasant British overtones. I say Sit here' and she say o. creatures from another world.

She accepts his invitation to tea. Fd rather sit there and I'd say 'But that means you have to walk DC A fit anil tfro, clear across the stage to and she'd say, 'I can walk across a (Some tear it puts her in a daze Uknviii ft to top it all off, there's stage anywhere in the world and make my exit and I don't need and gives her sexy nightmares.) He then uses her as a sacrificial lines. So I decided on a strategy. I directed her to place herself where she didn't want to be and, invariably, she protested and c-ese th spot victim in weird rites, suggesting the influences of "Rosemary's I wanted her in. But it was wearing and, after three days of this, I invited her to lunch, right here.

I said to her. Now listen, you re the Baby." A FRIEND (Donna Baccala) last nerson in the world I'd choose to lnnch with, but now that you're here and, by the way, yon might as well order lunch I wat to tries to warn Sandra, but is destroyed by an unseen monster tell yon something. And Denham said he then proceeded to explain what he been up to, concluding Either we continue this way. and I assure you I'll be a step ahead of yon every time, or we eet to in Dean's house. Ed Begley steps forward, finally, as a professor who breaks Dean's spell, but not the possible perpetuation of gether." The actress, Denham said, called him every name she could with their incomparable FRANKS, FRENCH FRIES, HAMBURGERS, DELI SANDWICHES, SHRIMP, SEA FOOD, FRIED CHICKEN, STEAK, PIZZA and even FROGS LEGS, all SO delicious and at Nathan's moderate prices.

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