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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23,
1957.
HIGH SCHOOL TO HIGH LIFE
-the 10th TEENAGER COPES
THINK," said Miss Jean Seberg, choosing a word carefully from a sprouting vocabulary, "I'm getting
reorientated to the new life. But it hasn't been
The new life, of course, started when Miss Seberg was chosen from 80,000 applicants to appear us St Joan in Otto Preminger's film version of the Bernard Shaw play.
At 17 she was transported from her home-town in gumbymmERN the deep Middle West of America. Marshalltown, Iowa- "Have you read Sinclair Lewis's Main Street? Well, it's just like that" -to London, England; from dramatics In the high-school auditorium to tough professional filming in Shepperton; from chocolate sodas in Pop's drug store
PICTURE SY RONALD HITCHELL
with calłow young men to dinner with
and drinks
LOGAN GOURLAY
1
terrors of the bullring were become quite friendly. We do perhaps no worse than what crossword puzzles together. she had taken on.
Sho obviously did not share my thought us she looked at the studio set-the market square et 51. Joan's' village with squawk- ing pese, and a goat tethered in the corner, which I had been told had recently attempted to butt Joan Crawford, A brave goat. A foolhardy goat,
An instinct
Wo
"The other night when had dinner with the Oliviers i picked up quite a bit just listen- ing to Sir Laurence talking,
"And of course it I've any problems I can go to Otto at any time. Personal problems too."
"He's just like a you"
to
father to
"Yes, He's very kind, "When he took me to. France visit some of the places associated with St Joan wo had a few days in Parts and he bought me some lovely clothes" "I heard you didn't like the Givenchy clothes,"
"Givenchy crew cul").
there OLLO
Miss Scberg stood up while the hairdresser fused with the dowing blonde wig she wears in the early scenes to cover her shaven Joan
coiffure
nos
(It's shorter than
Her face, haloed by the wig,
bur treshly pretty was inspiringly beautiful. Her grey- green eyes were bright, inelli gent, if not luminous,
me, please") ("Coke for with Bergman. Quite a the Oliviers, transportation. Every teen in her ager squirming cocoon dreams of it happen- ing to her and if it did nine out of 10 of them could not cope with it.
Yet høre was Migs Seberg siting In her canvas structio Otto, or Mr Preminger, chair with her nuno on the has said that he had an instinet back. displaying assurance, about casting her for the part, potec,
a sweet self-con- stopped shooing the geese and idence, quite distinct from an had a few fairly non-commh.tai adolescent brashness. The tenth Viennese-accented words with
who was inc.
HRAN SEBERG: The hood to hide a crew-out
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teenager. The coping successfully with what can be thic worst 110 of all--the realisation of a cherish-
ed dream.
"Of course," she said, "I'm 18 -now."
She went on to describo the expected reactions. In the ex- pected language. I could not have borne it if she had trotter out scintillating quotes. I would have been too much even from the tenth teenager.
Wonderful....
whw
"No, I've no plans for her beyond St Joan, rll wolt to see how that turns out first,
"No. I've no regrets about my chalca. No misgivings.”
It has been suggested, that Pruninger — who looks like a bald, beardless Svengali — wiil have no trouble in hypnotising, cajoling the itquired perfor- mance from Miss Seberg.
Certainly Preminger, who drew an exciting performance from Dorothy Dandridge in "Everyone's been wonderful Carmen Jones, can do it if any- to me.
But
Is the Especially Olto."
Si Joan (She one can,
demands DIA used Mr Preminger's Christian kind of part that name with a hint of reverence extra dimension in the actress. like a modern child who has been told by modern parents to drop all that daddy and mummy stuff.)
"Naturally, I was terrifled at arst. I didn't even want to try
for tho part, thought it was all a publicity stunt,”
"So did 1.".
"But my teacher entered my name. And here I am.
A
"There Was time after reading Hemingway when I thought I'd like to be 2 lady bull- fighter. But I don't think I'm cut out for that."
I thought
myself that
TODAY
LIMELIGHT:
Glass of milk
Ms Seberg turned down the favour of a ginis 01 studio's afternoon cup of tea in milk 10d talked about her attitude to the DANÍ.
"I got a bit overawed at first when people kept talking about the Si Jeans of Sybil Thorndike an dother famous aotrcesta,
"But I decided not to brood about that I'd have got terrible inferiority complex.
Д
"My Mid-West accent was a I'm not trying to lose Worry. it completely. But I've got coach to tone it down a bit.
"Of course, I learn about set- ing just from watching the to other people in the Glm. Sir the John Gielgud specially. We'vo
himself So wo went bought me a
with evening coat cover my crew-cut."
Wasn't to Dlor, beauulul hood
20
Just a novelty
"Bought anything for Otto?" "Ye, mink 100.hbrush " "Mink?**
Yes. The Stifts ITO mink. It's just a novelty. Of course,
to
"I also gape him some art books. He's an expert on the subject. I'm trying
learn myself. I've got a Picasso in my room at the hotel. Just a reproduction, Child With Dove."
Whatever Miss Seberg achieves with Si Joon she will at least culturai have picked up some by-product. If she doesn') tako an Oscar back to Marshalltown she will stil have her Pleasso and her copy of Faust, which is her current bedside reading.
She went back on the art looking sturdy in ber peasani dress but frail. Confident, but vulnerable. Surrounded by well-wishers, but alone,
I hope she brings it off, but I felt a tile sorry for her the tenth teenager who has every- thing the others dream of
I didn't prty for her, though.
IN SHORT
★ BING CROSBY'S American radio show has ended because, he confesses- We couldn't got a sponsor." He also.confcases, "It's about time my voice was given a rest, don't you think ?
I don't
★ ACCORDING to an American report, Eva, one of the Gisbor sisters, may be coming to the London stage in Camille
But Zsa Zsa is not coming to the Old Vic.
OVERHEARD at the box office of the cinema showing The Girl Can't Help It, starring that busty blonde Jayne Mans Deld:-
Oel to boy friend; "You didn't get 128 64. seats when we went to ase Elvis Presley.
ZANIES
الايا
LARES
BEEP
**Pre bit the jackpot!"
• You'll be unck?”
TUNNEL
LOVE
"But we're the Canal Users' Association."
FALLS ON TWO WOMEN WHO ARE RIDING HIGH ON BROADWAY
Judy Holliday joins Ethel Merman at
New York
THERE are only two kinds of show on Broadway today
-the flop and the musical. The other night two more straight plays close, bringing the casualty list up to 20 for the season.
But the turnstiles continue to click as merrily as a metronome for the musical. Successful teams of tunesmiths, like Rodgers and Hammerstein, might just as well be composing straight on to the keys of the cash register, so infallibly does every note bring in a bank-
note.
Head, shoul- ders and bust above all American musical comedy. stars are two women 48- extraordinary -48-
feather-lunged brunotto Ethel Merman and 35-year-old not - so - dumb blonde Judy Holliday,
JUDY HOLLIDAY
"I feel quite out of focus."
Happy Hunting is Miss Mer man's 13th successivo
For Miss Holliday The Bells Are Ringing marks her trium- phal debut in the song-and- clance busincas. Both seem oot:
the top
EAM. frinde
KiMackenzia
ALAN BRIEN reports from New York
a chair for him In the aisle, willya?"
"Certainly, Miss Merman.” replied the invisible manage mcat.
she
saki.
ETHEL MERMAN
"I just belt it at them."
singing lesson, Ethel," he said when she became a star over- The pale, sad face of a white night in his show Girl Crazy. golliwog peeped out from under "It'll ruin you,” #Keep away a flom kerchief.
please" h
"I've never from me,
had any other "Don't come too near.” Then kind of lesson, either,” she told aho grinned her dazzling school- no, "not in diction, deportment, She rose to her feet. "Guess girl wein and, in that voice like or anything. I just go out there I'd better go and paint that rustling silver paper, sho added: and balt, R at them. And I'll expression on my face,” She "Why don't you come up to my carry on till the pipes give out?” examined ber turnip-lamp maak
apartment?"
Curled up on a long doep COMIC DEFIANCE
in the mirror for a moment.
Ugh," she said under breath.
cold her sofa, eating a
ea Lexago dipped in tomato ketchup Judy Holliday complaimed later that
Ethel Merman treats
would be difficult to decide which of them dressses with the she was suffering from an less attention to fashion. Judy dentro ma naturally as most fectious Inflammation of the Hoilday was wearing a dark mink coat over black släcka 'a "scarlet-and-black chock.
women troht their kitchens. She throat. ties never
hed stage-fright in
of the and scarlet socks. I've even
to brand como of her
"For the first month cow for life, "The way I non it, bands. She was very late. The is the people who have paid show I had nervous laryngitis et made the list of the world's 10 curtain was due to go up in 20 good money to sen
show, every performance. Then two worst-dressed women " sho mimates. But 36 minutes later who ought to be worrying. If wooks ago I began to really get seld with a touch of comic do- she was still talking
they were as good as me they'd some depth in my voice
and dance. be on my side, of, the footlights.” enjoy every moment of it. Now muddenly, "I've got this. It makes me fool quo out of focus.**
"Tell them to hold the cur
for a two-year run. And yet the two stars, If not as different as tain for another ave, widya!" A BORN WORRIER - chalk and cheese, are at least as she remarked to a conversation- dar apart in some waya Camembert and Wensleydalo.
A_CATTLE QUEEN....
48
the walls like an all drill.
Ethel Merman's wardrobe hat improved - with the years. Sho has discarded many of the frit perles and Lamiangles that coo attracted her,ANTAN
She recalls that a friend used ADG
nside which bored through MISS HOLLIDAY, however,
is a born Worrior who I'LL CARRY ON bridles hay-nervousness. with an "Centsinly, Miss Merman" the desperation of a barobacic JUDY HOLLIDAY prepared to my "Anything that Dihol came the faint obsoquinous voice sider on an unbroken horse. As hegelt with || cooching." and cannot wear the carries) CAUGHT 'some of the righ, of the management, pod her black hoursa, of a Codilise practice for her that 'winging har
a bracelet: pot - wilé · two the Morman personality, as soon the clowed door: "Hey, Bill, courtyard of her: Central Park claim that she has always puratiot lines of rubine on last se the strode: into hơn, desings: Chorley, mybody... This young apartment house at midnight I followed the advice given thar apart, and Ethel A. (for Agum) room with the air of a caille man has nyern me on the stepped forward and opened the by George Gershwin in 1930. alermany upellect, out in diamond quem wbe bad just dropped by
"Dan't
Friso unforgotiable flavour of Jive minutes later slzo zaid to rolled -silently, to a stop in the rola, Ethel Morán is proud to alta of chle jewellary... · is'