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The Horace Williams House, 610 E. Rosemary St., has a history of haunty happenings.
Ghosts abound :
Unexplained happenings occur
at the Horace Williams house
By DIANNA MASSIE
Staff Writer
Question: What University-owned building is
haunted by a ghost?
Answer: The Horace Williams House.
The Horace Williams House, built in 1845, was
donated to the University in 1940 by Horace
Williams. Since the house needed repair, the Chapel
Hill Preservation Society renovated it, and it is now
an art exhibit house and cultural center.
During the renovation, a workman claimed that
the dishwasher turned itself on, said Elizabeth
Daniels, director of the house. The workman check
ed the dishwasher for a short in the wiring, but found
none. A few days later, the dishwasher again turned
itself on. No explanation has been found.
The "ghost," whose identity is controversial, goes
"bump-bump-bump" according to Norma Berryhill,
who lived there from 1949 to 1951 with her husband,
a former dean of UNC Medical School, and their two
daughters.
The sounds come from the fireplace in the south
west room of the house, according to Berryhill.
Daniels said she had also heard the "ghost."
Several times, Daniels said she had been alone in the
house and the toilet mysteriously flushed.
One explanation, -Daniels saidfduay be .that since
Horace Williams, never-installed tuirnkigwater;' the
"ghost" is Mrs. WMairts comlhgack"f6'&y'oia "all'
the new devices that use water.
Mark Bozymski, a Chapel Hill native and a UNC
student majoring in biology, lives on the ground
Several times, Daniels said she had
been alone in the house and the toilet
mysteriously flushed.
floor of the house. In return for free rent, Bozymski
"housesits" at night. He said there have been no un
usual incidents since he has been living there, al
though he has set off the alarm by accident several
times.
The Horace Williams House has been the home of
a number of University professors. Benjamin S.
Hedrick is credited with building the basic three
room farmhouse to which the other rooms were add
ed. Hedrick lived in the house until 1856 when the
University Board of Trustees dismissed him for his
outspoken opposition to slavery, making him the on
ly professor ever dismissed from UNC for political
reasons.
Hedrick is also credited with the Octagon Room,
built between 1852 and 1855. Renovation to the
house was focused in this room which now serves as
the main art exhibit room.
George T. Winston lived in the house from 1868
until he,iecame president of the University,
i Tapestries, paintings and sculpture byChrista
Balogh are now on exhibit in the Octagon Room.
, Balogh, an artist born in Hungary, teaches at South
eastern Community College in Whiteville. The
Balogh exhibit is free and open to the public'
By JEFF GROVE
Arts Editor
When Kathy Danzer makes her first
entrance onstage in Crimes of the
Heart, she's fighting an uphill battle to
win audience sympathy. Minutes before
she arrives, another character describes
her by saying, "She was known all over
Copiah County as "cheap Christmas
trash, and that was the least of it."
Danze'r plays the role of Meg'
MaGrath in Beth Henley's Pulitzer
Prize-winning comedy, which will be
performed Friday and Saturday in
Memorial Hall. The play is about three
sisters, Lenny, Meg and Babe. Babe has
just shot her husband because she
didn't like his looks, and Meg has been
called home from California to help the
family through its crisis.
Danzer's attitude toward her
character, however, should help Meg
win her battle. Speaking from Ann Ar
bor, Mich., where she was performing
last week, Danzer was quick to defend
Meg.
"I think Meg's a wonderful lady,"
Danzer said. "She's lots tougher than I
am. I wish was that tough."
. The dark-haired actress may not be as
tough as the character she plays, but she
had to have spunk to make it from her
hometown in Montana to Broadway,
where she played Meg for the last six
months of the run of Crimes of the
Heart.
She had her first taste of the stage
when she was 11 and didn't waste any
time entering the acting profession. "I
decided then that I really wanted to do
it," she said.
Being a replacement in an established
Broadway hit, though, takes more than
spunk. "You come in and you're stuck
with a bit of business that may have
worked for Mary Beth Hurt (who
originated the role of Meg) but doesn't
fit well on you," Danzer said.
Fortunately the show's production
stage manager, James Pentecost, was
there to assist. "He found ways to make
the action right for me," Danzer said.
Pentecost reproduced the direction of
the New York production for the tour
ing company, which features two other
actors who performed their roles in New
York. "It was a real help for us,"
Danzer said, "because Jim knew us real
well."
Between Pentecost's help and
Danzer's experience playing her role
more than 300 times, Danzer now
knows Meg pretty well. "I think she did
drink and smoke and put on a good act
when she was younger, but she was not
as bad as everyone imagined," Danzer
said. V
Danzer feels that Meg's decision to
go to California to become a singer was
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The cast of 'Crimes of the Heart' is back row, left to right, David Allison Carpenter, Dawn
Didawick and Tom Stechschulte. Front row, Cyd Quilling, Caryn West and Kathy Danzer.
right but that she didn't know what to do once she
arrived. "I think she got out there and cut herself off
from everything, and that's what led to her break
down," Danzer said. "When she comes back to
Hazelhurst she's on her way back to being healed."
That concept fits in well with the rest of the play,
which Danzer said is about a healing of family
discord. The three MaGrath sisters spend most of the
play sitting around the family kitchen getting reac
quainted. It must be difficult, though, for Danzer to play the
- sister who intrudes on the situation after being away.
How does an actress prepare for such an emotional
moment as a homecoming?
"I've tried a million things," Danzer said. "I
thought when she got the telegram saying that
Zackery had been shot and Babe was in trouble, what
did it cause? What did she pack? How long did she
have to wait for a plane? I found the thing that works
best is just to run that telegram through my head. We
have the most beautiful porch on the set. I look at it
and think, 'I'm home' and I go in and hope it comes
out right."
Danzer is not worried about notoriously conser
vative Southern audiences who might not see
anything funny in an attempted homicide, either.
"No one has ever ;. rushed Jback to., say, 'I hated
mat, ant daiu ..- - h t ..
"At one performance, two sisters who hadn't
spoken to each other in years came back after the
show. They had tears in their eyes and just said,
'Thank you.' "
WEEK'S
TODAY
-Q Ain't Misbehavin', a musical tribute
JLr to '30s swing pianist and composer
Thomas "Fats" Waller, will be presented
Thursdays through Saturdays at 8:15 p.m.
and Sundays at 2:30 p.m. through Feb. 19 at
Triangle Dinner Theatre in the Governor's
Inn. Call 549-8631 for more information.
A master class on "French Baroque '
Musical Rhetoric as Seen Through French
Baroque Viol Playing" will be offered by
John Hsu of Cornell University at 4 p.m. in
103 Hill Hall. Call 962-1039 for more infor
mation. Work by students in the N.C. State School
of Design will be displayed through Feb. 5 in
the upstairs Union gallery.
.
Master Drawings From the National
Gallery of Ireland, 85 drawings and water
colors covering a 500-year period, will be
displayed through Jan. 29 at the Ackland Art
Museum.
Sculptural forms using a variety of media
by Pat Dougherty, Hunter Cevinsohn and
. Beth Beede will be exhibited through Jan. 28
in the Art Classroom Studio Building.
Photographs of subjects in Guatemala and
western North Carolina by Terry Kelly will be
displayed through Jan. 31 in the Morehead
Building.
Ivory carvings from the Southern Historical
Collection will be on display in the mam lobby
of Wilson Library through Feb. 2.
Her Infinite Variety, an exhibition of life
drawings by Didi Dunphey, will be displayed
through Jan. 29 at CenterGallery.
Far
Prints and drawings by Carol Cobb Caruso
will be exhibited through Jan. 29 at
CenterGallery.
Paintings and collages by Marianne
Manasse and works by the Durham Art Guild
Exhibitor Selection Committee will be shown
through Jan. 31 at the galleries of the Durham
Arts Council. .'
Paintings by Nicholas Africano will be
displayed through Jan. 29 at the North
Carolina Museum of Art.
Ben Owen, Ben Owen III The Tradition
Continues, 40 pieces by two folk potters of the
same family, will be exhibited through Feb. 15
at the N.C. State Craft Center Gallery.
Skyways, an exploration of how real and
apparent changes in the heavens affect every
day lives, will be shown through March 26 at
the Morehead Planetarium. Call 962-1236 for
more information.
Folk musician Jesse Winchester will per
form at 8 p.m. at Rhythm Alley. Call
929-8172 for more information.
A Message for My People: The Traditional
Origins of Gospel, a program on the evolution
of gospel music, will be presented at 7 p.m. in
Hill Hall Auditorium by the curriculum in
African and Afro-American Studies.
FRIDAY
A n er Mai651?'8 Secret Service
JLJ stars George Lazenby as James Bond,
who battles Telly Savalas and the deadly virus
he uses to threaten England. The 1969 film
will be shown at 6:20, 9:15 and midnight in
the Union Auditorium. Admission is $1.
Crimes of the Heart, a Pulitzer Prize
winning play about three quirky Mississippi
sisters, will be performed through Saturday at
8:30 p.m. and Saturday at 4 p.m. in Memorial
Hall as part of the Broadway on Tour Series.
Call 962-1449 for more information.
TOUCH, the resident mime theatre of the
Art School, will give a benefit performance
for the Art School there through Saturday at 8
p.m. Call 929-2896 for more information.
Sky Rambles, a narrated tour of the current
night sky, is offered at 7 p.m. before the
regular program at the Morehead Planeta
rium. Separate admission will be charged for
each show.
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SATURDAY
y Yol, directed by Yilmaz Guney from
jL 2l prison cell, shows five political
prisoners on leave in the oppressive Turkish
society and will be shown at 7 and 9:30 p.m. in
the Union Auditorium.
The North Carolina Arts Council Artists
Fellowship Exhibition will be displayed at the
North Carolina Museum of Art through April
8.
SUNDAY
A Delicate Balance, a film adapta
tion of Edward Albee's Pulitzer
Prize-winning play concerning a Connecticut
family whose lives are disrupted by the sudden
arrival of two lifelong friends fleeing a strange
fear, will be shown at 1 p.m. in the Union
Auditorium.
Rudolph Kremer, a UNC professor of
music, will open a series of Dedicatory Organ
Recitals at 2:30 p.m. at University
Presbyterian "Church with works by Pachelbel,
Scarlatti, Bach and others. Call 929-2102 for
more information.
The Ciompi Quartet will perform at 4 p.m.
in the Ernest W. Nelson Music Room on the
Duke campus. Call 694-2534 for more infor
mation. v
Works by 10 Afro-American quitters and
quilts from the North Carolina Museum of
Archives and History will be exhibited in the
N.C. State Student Center Galleries through
Feb. 26.
Salsa and Fission Original Musk by
Dark Door will be performed at 7 p.m. at the
Art School as part of its Sunday Jazz Series.
Call 929-28 for more information.
MONDAY
Harpsichordist Peter Marshall will
perform at 8 p.m. in Recital Hall on
the Peace College campus in Raleigh. Call
832-2881 for more information.
TUESDAY
A Safety Last and Hot Water, a silent
double feature starring acrobatic
comedian Harold Lloyd, and Sherlock
Junior, starring Buster Keaton as a movie pro
jectionist who imagines himself the world's
greatest detective, will be shown at 7 p.m. in
the Union Auditorium.
The Harvard-Paris Axis 1929-1971, 20th
century chamber music played by an ensemble
of faculty members, will be performed at 8
p.m. in Hill Hall Auditorium. Call 962-1039
for more information.
WEDNESDAY
-) C American violinist Eugene Fodor will
X) perform with the North Carolina
Symphony at 8 p.m. in Memorial Hall. Call
962-1449. for more information.
Dean Walker, curator of the Ackland Art
Museum, will give a gallery talk on the Master
Drawings From the National Gallery of
Ireland at 12:15 p.m. in the museum's main
gallery. Call 966-5736 for more information.
Thadious Davis, a UNC associate professor
of English, will give a lecture titled "The
Writer as Cultural Detective: Go Down
Moses" at noon in the banquet hall of the
Morehead Building. Call 962-2091 for more
information.
MOVIES
Plaza II Scarface at 3 ends today. Sud
den Impact at 7: 10 and 9:30; times change Fri
day to 2:30, 4:50, 7:10 and 9:30.
Plaza III Hotdog ... The Movie at 3:20,
5:20, 7:20 and 9:20.
Varsity I Koyaanisqatsi (Life Out of
Balance) at 3:30, 5:30, 7:30 and 9:30 ends to
day. Never Cry Wolf starts Friday at 3, 5, 7:05
and 9:10.
Varsity II Tender Mercies at 3, 5:05, 7:10
and 9:15; times change Friday to 3:20, 5:20,
7:20 and 9:20.
Varsity Lateshow Female Trouble at
1 1:30 Friday and Saturday.
Carolina Blue Terms of Endearment at
2, 4:30, 7 and 9:30.
. Carolina White The Big Chill at 7:45 and
9:45; times change Friday to 7:15 and 9:15.
Carolina Classic Lolita at 2:15 and 5:05
ends today. King Kong starts Friday at 2:30
and 5:05.
Carolina Lateshow s Dawn of the Dead
at 11:30 and Night Shift at midnight Friday
and Saturday.
Ram I D.CCab at 7 and 9 ends today.
Educating Rita starts Friday at 7 and 9;
weekend matinees at 2:30 and 4:30.
Ram II Yentl at 7 and 9:30; weekend
matinees at 2 and 4:35.
Ram III To Be or Not to Be at 7:30 and
9:45 ends today. Pieces starts Friday at 7:15
and 9:15; weekend matinees at 3:15 and 5:15.
Ram Lateshows Animal House and The
Rose at 1 1 :30 Friday and Saturday.
Carolina (Durham) Streamers at 7 and
9:10; Sunday at 1, 3, 5, 7:10 and 9:15.
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editor.
Plaza 1 Gorky Park at 2:15, 4:45, 7:15
and 9:45.
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