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CACTUS FLOWER'S bachelor dentist gets an assistant for his love intrigues at Falmouth, Mass., Aug. 4-9 with Barry Nelson; Plymouth, Mass., Aug. 18-23; Charlotte, N.C., Aug. 12-16; Nyack, N.Y., Aug. 18-23; Hendersonville, Tenn., through Aug. 24; East Hampton, L.I., Aug. 25-30; and Cooperstown, N.Y., Sept. 2-14.

BAREFOOT IN THE PARK cuts up about the period of marital adjustment in Warwick, N.Y., through Aug. 10; Salem, Va., Aug. 19-23; Cleveland Musicarnival, Aug. 18-23, with Virginia Graham; New London, N.H., Aug. 18-24; North Tonawanda, N.Y., Aug. 25-30; and Wallingford, Conn., Sept. 1-6.

GEORGE M! brings George M. Cohan's familiar music to audiences in Brunswick, Me., Aug. 4-16; Westbury, L.T., through Aug. 10; Haddonfield, N.J., Aug. 11-23, with Mickey Rooney; Corning, N.Y., Aug. 26-31; and Los Angeles' Dorothy Chandler Pavilion through Aug. 23, with Joel Grey, who starred on Broadway.

DON'T DRINK THE WATER takes a Newark caterer and his family into difficulties behind the Iron Curtain in Plymouth, Mass., Aug. 4-9; Denver, Aug. 4-9; Winooski, Vt., Aug. 12-23; Weston, Vt., Aug. 14-17; Fishkill, N.Y., Aug. 19-24; and Flat Rock, N.C., Aug. 19-23.

THE LION IN WINTER re-creates the frosty family politics of Henry H's 12th century England in Hampton, N.H., Aug. 11-16; Cooperstown, N.Y., Aug. 19-31; Plymouth, Mass., Aug. 25-30; and Orleans, Mass., Aug. 26-30.

THERE'S A GIRL IN MY SOUP spoons out its comedy in Ivoryton, Conn., Aug. 11-17; Laconia, N.H., Aug. 18-23; Beverly, Mass., Aug. 25-30, wiih William Shatner. Also plays Charlotte, N.C., Aug. 19-24.

WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? spits vitriol for those who enjoy someone else's marital problems in Middletown, Va., Aug. 5-17; Olney, Md., Aug. 5-24 and Garden City, L.I., Aug. 14-16.

LUV makes the world of three kooky characters go round in Gilbertsville, Ky., Aug. 6-23; Southbury, Conn., Aug. 19-23; Dorset, Vt., Aug. 20-24 and Kingston, R.I., on dates between Aug. 20 and 31.

CINEMA

MARRY ME, MARRY ME. This wistful French comedy is the story of the trials of a courtship. Although Claude Berri (The Two of Us) wrote, directed and stars in the film, it is not a one-man show but a commanding display of ensemble acting.

TRUE GRIT. What would otherwise be just another formularized western comedy is saved by John Wayne's best performance in a decade.

EASY RIDER. From the unpromising material of drugs and motorcycles, debuting Director Dennis Hopper has made a strong odyssey starring himself, Peter Fonda and a brilliant newcomer named Jack Nicholson. The film occasionally slips into selfpity; yet the places and the faces of mid-America are true and tragic.

THE WILD BUNCH. Under Sam Peckinpah's direction, this film emerges as a huge and beautifully composed canvas of violence in the waning West. The script may be a campfire yarn, but the final shoot-out is one of the most raucous, violent and magnificent gun battles ever put on film.

LAUGHTER IN THE DARK. Love is literally blind in this film version of Nabokov's novel. Nicol Williamson is a sightless and insightless Englishman deceived by Anna Karina, a tarty movie usherette.

THE DEVIL BY THE TAIL. Yves Montand comes on strong as a sardonic, Gallic Bogart in this lively little French farce directed with wry mockery by Philippe de Broca.