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[[advertisement]] [[image - black & white photograph of a man and woman's forearms and hands, both wearing watches]] Dior discovers the wrist. Over the years, while designers have been concentrating on everything from the bosom to the knees, the wrist somehow got overlooked. But now there are 14-karat gold, custom-fitted Christian Dior watches, all with 14-karat gold bands. And at long last, the wrist has been given its due. The Christian Dior Collection by Bulova. Seven ladies' styles from $165. Two men's from $350. At fine jewelers and dept. stores. Models shown, hers $275, his $350. Both 17 jewels, 14-k gold one-piece case and band. Bulova Watch Co., Inc., New York, Toronto, Bienne, Milan, London, Pforzheim, Hong Kong. (c)1968. [[/advertisement]] [[end page]] [[start page]] [[advertisement]] Minneapolis' swinging Holiday Inn - CENTRAL 13th at Nicollet Minneapolis, Minn. Phone: 612/332-0371 Home of: The Starlite Room The Little Foxes The Brandywine The Round TAble and Pierre's FREE ADVANCE RESERVATIONS through any Holiday Inn or Holiday Inn Reservations Office in major cities. [[image - drawing of a Holiday Inn hotel]] [[image - a Holiday Inn sign]] [[/advertisement]] [[logo]] ARTHUR T. BIRSH president and publisher LEONARD T. GIARRAPUTO executive vice president THOMAS A. STEINFELD vice president ALEXANDER H. CARVER, JR. vice president ABE LANDAU vice president WILLIAM W. BROWNE, JR. vice president ROBERT R. ITZKIN V.P. & national advertising director LEO LERMAN senior editor JOAN ALLEMAN RUBIN editor JUDITH ANDERSON art director MIMI HOROWITZ assistant to the publisher RONNA JACOBI TELSEY copy reader PLAYBILL Volume 5 November 1968 Issue 11 CONTENTS 3 BACKWARD GLANCES by Pauline Saltzman 7 DUSTIN HOFFMAN TALKS ABOUT SUCCESS interviewed by Joan Alleman Rubin 15 SARDI'S OUTSIDE by Walter Spencer 25 THE PLAY 51 "UNCLE FIRECRACKER" by Diana Barth 59 MAN'S BEST DOG by Carol Schwalberg 65 ON A PERSONAL BIAS by Bernice Peck 72 THEATRE SCENE by Walter Winchell PLAYBILL is published monthly in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, Washington, D.C., St. Louis, Cleveland, Atlanta, Dallas and Great Britain. The Performing Arts Magazine serves as the Los Angeles and Sand Francisco editions of Playbill. New York edition of Playbill is published by the Publishing Division of Metromedia, Inc., 277 Park Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10017. Pres. John W. Kluge; V.P. & Treas. Richard L. Geismar; V.P. & Secy. Robert A. Dreyer. Printed in U.S.A. Title Playbill, Copyright (c) Metromedia, Inc. 1968. All rights reserved. Subscription to National Edition: U.S. & Possessions $4.00 a year; $7.50 for two years; $11.50 for three years. Single issue price 35 cents. Write Dept. S., Playbill Magazine, 579 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10017. [[advertisement]] CUTTY SARK AMERICA'S No.1 SELLING SCOTCH DISTILLED AND BOTTLED IN SCOTLAND BLENDED 86 PROOF THE BUCKINGHAM CORPORATION, IMPORTERS; NEW YORK, N. Y. [[image - drawing of the ship Cutty Sark and a bottle of scotch]] [[/advertisement]] 5