European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 5, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 16 the stars and stripes August 1985 entertainment Vincent paid the Price by Vernon Scott United press International Ovie horror shows Arent what they were 30 years today juvenile oriented Happy birthday and the disgust rather than those Are the thoughts of Vincent who has scared More than his share of people Over the beginning in 1953 with House of Wax in 3d the elegant and mellifluous Price reeled off 20 horror pictures that terrified moviegoers and earned him a some were made with his buddies Boris Kar Loff and refer among his thrillers were the the House on haunted tales of terror and a string of Edgar Allen Poe Price says contemporary filmmakers have lost the touch when it comes to genuine gothic horror such As the Mummy and pictures today Arent As scary because they leave nothing to the said Natty and Hearty at today the action is too too specific and too they dont suggest the greatest Ter ror is not what you its what the audience Doest see that scares the pants off the human imagination can create worse horrors than any makeup actor or special effects i played a monstrous character in House of but his face was Only seen briefly in a scene when his mask is and the Fly in the Fly was hardly seen at it was the same situation with the audiences were left to fill in the characterizations from their worst each individual has a Dif Ferent Point of what frightens one person May Only bore or disgust the horror has been a two edged sword for he has appeared in 110 movies since his screen debut in service de luxe in Only 20 were horror i had done 70 movies before House of he Many of my pictures were based on Elizabeth and Essex was and i starred on Broad Way for three years with Helen Hayes in Victoria regi i was told i resembled Prince i suppose i have a victorian suited to gothic and certainly my voice has added to that the same could be said of my Friend Basil myself and Boris Karloff had the same sort of i have been a Good straight Man for comedians since i began doing horror id simply go on television and do a Good Send up of myself with Jack Milton Merle and Carol i did More than 25 red Skelton i recently finished a new the House of Long but its not the same As the old horror i imagine the last really old fashioned horror film i worked in was theater of blood about a dozen years Price can be seen As Host of the Public broadcasting systems mystery which features top English to among them the 12part Ace of spies and the new 13part Sherlock Holmes series with Jeremy the English make better thrillers than we do be horror movie Star Vincent a photo cause they cant afford the expensive special effects that really get in the Way of True Price they actually play their horror films they dont Hoke them there have been few Good recent Hollywood horror one of the Best was because we really didst see much of that shark until the end of the Ive been typecast since House of Wax and i cant break the for the past 30 years Ive lectured at 350 colleges on Art and Ive also done 800 performances of my Oneman Oscar Wilde diver Sions and which is great deadly sins make Best Sellers by Janet Braunstein associated press like his retired detective Edward author Lawrence Sanders finds himself haunted by an but while the Gruff Delaney is driven to solve his More charming creator is inspired to write them As Well As other forms of Intelli gent youve got to be absolutely obsessed to write pro in going to die at the said whose works include the deadly sins mysteries featuring the Anderson tapes and the tomorrow like who is in his Sanders is but while Delaney is a retired new York City chief of Detec Sanders edited magazines for 20 years before he quit in his 50s to following the smashing Success of his first the Anderson Delaney played a secondary role in that Best readers noticed that was his Hes done very Well for Sanders Delaney is featured in Only four of Sanders 20 including Sanders most recent the fourth deadly sin the Detec Tive is popular with about 50 percent of the letters Sanders receives from readers ask for More Delaney demands that remind the author of a Titbit about sir Arthur Conan the Story is told that Conan Doyle got so sick of Sherlock Holmes he tried to Stop writing about he popular demand forced him to keep that wont happen with who appears Only in the deadly sins of the seven deadly sins envy and sloth Sanders Al ready has used the first and when the sins Are used that the end of Sanders i have no idea what in doing to do with author Lawrence and sloth Sanders said he writes a Delaney Book about every three readers will have to wait a while before seeing a fifth deadly in the Hes already sent his publisher his next the eighth which should come out sometime next the novel is about the theft of a very valuable and that Allim going to Tell the author who said he finishes a Book in eight to nine months on the already was preparing to Start another project a Book containing two Short Ive got some ideas that dont lend themselves to a conventional its fun to try these he Hes a writer who does Little preferring to pay someone else to do the he reads it was a snippet he read in a newspaper about the Mur Ders of psychiatrists and the dangers they face from demented patients that triggered the fourth Delaney before he starts to write a Sanders mulls various ideas until he knows How the victim was Mur dered and the identity of the the he is like a Jigsaw fitting in potential suspects and the technique through which the crime is then he writes about 50 pages in longhand on a yellow runs it through the typewriter and looks at if he likes he if he he throws it out and moves on to a new with the fourth deadly i this is although Only eight of his 20 novels Are Sanders said he realizes he is seen As a writer of detective his which include the tomorrow the Case of Lucy bending and the seduction of Peter have been widely his shelves hold versions in Hun Garian and while Delaney is living out his retirement in new York Sanders moved to Pompano eight years ago and returns to new York Only twice a Here he lives quietly in an nth floor apartment at a beachfront and works from 7 to 11 most nights in an air conditioned office on the 27th