THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1960.
When people have something to say, they talk to PATRICIA LEWIS
Susan: home school but no lessons
Just Fancy That!
LEVEN lions which strayed from a game reserve
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The problem of being Susan Strasberg
FAULAI NO SVENGALI
... MOTHER KNOWS
SO MUCH (SHE TAUGHT MARILYN MONROE A THING OR TWO)
UIET!" yelled the director. “Okay, action!" From her wheelchair at the head of the studio dining-table, Miss Susan Strasberg shot an anxious glance at the woman seated behind the camera.
"She's terribly nervous be cause I'm her," whispered the wema. "That's why formally Rep the Atlantic between us." And she wok off her goki-link braczlet and began to singer the Unks as though they were the beads of a rosary.
This was Mirs: Paula Stran- berg, mother of Susan, wife ut LG--foun
New York' famous Actor's Studio - and the woman who, it has been said, taught Marilyn Monror to
net.
1
this.
1 hard driven down to Elstree Studios wondering about mother-daughter relationship.
knew Susan I thought about: Hollywood star at 16
"Pienie" her part in
18 for her Broadway stay at performance In "The Diary of Anne Frank." But then, how ollerwise have been could it
for
for her?
Mrs Straberg was the query, I had been told she was for-
E into a European housing estate at Nairobi were and, of course,
driven off with rockets and bangers bought for a party. I passionate about the theatre. i
ones you
letured an erect, steel-haired who make you nervous are the
will of wibending
care about the ones matriarch
family n who can also give ambition for and selfiess diseliparianı mould of Nineste de Valois...
more mentor than mather,
Compassion
How wrong!
the
Idence.
you con
"My parents
didn't Yesily want me to be an actress, you know.
"was going to be a enm- merelal artist. Even when Paula Strasberg started tu think about acting lonks in her late forties. She they didn't encourage me-they But has wide. compassionate blue don't like child actors. eyes, her brown hair is drawn now it's accepted as if I've been back lightly from a broați face, doing it all my life."
"Yes, Home was the Best time I'd been on my own. You can imagine how It Was in New Yark-if I was good someone
And here
POCKET CARTOONS
..is
else would get the credit and if the trend
1. wan bad they'd
blame.
"What
"
was
gol
the
thut,
Susie?" Filing
inevitable?
broke in her mother,
round the door,
"I was just talking about you
making me nervous.
"Your falfer
How does nucli n mother-
English theatre?
says nervous- daughter relationship work in
ness Indicates sensitivity-
didn't
you know how to present it," Ѕаун Margaret Lockwood of and Mrs Strasbory.
daughter Julia, 10: "I With Susan gone, I approach- think she was ever going to act ed Puula Strasberg,
If was true, she told me, that Susan had never studied at the Actor's Studio.
"I was with her on Pienie' but that was beenuse she w unly 1. Other than that she's tever had anything from me.
"How will be with Susie I 'don't know. It's a terrible prob- JE lem for her having us us background.
she but Think. would have been a good actress anyway you either have it ar you don't. It's how it's used and developed that's the prob- lem.
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"That's where the stage is important--you Lin live through an experience montent moment and it can't broken up as in has."
by
Too old
Susan burst in again. "Wh!
the theatre! Wis that about she wanted.
she wanted to be a dancer. But I'm not sorry-neling made
me very happy and it seems make her happy."
JULIA
LOCKWOOD
to
Says Julia; "I grew too tall to be a dancer, so then I took up acting, Mummy never poked her nose. in or tried to get me work or anything like that though it was nice for her that we could talk about the same things.
"I left home about three months ago because I felt it was re I became more responsl-
"Oh. yes, it's much more at strain it's like uying kam every night. Sure, il do sene more
plays" (Her mother touched
also ble." wood)-out 1 want to marry, have kids and settle down.
"I don't want to depend on the theatre for my whole life
Says Thora Hird of daughter the "She's Scott, 21: Janette third generation in the business.
t
it would be too unreliable a I thought it would have been husband." And she disappeared. better Mrs Strasberg, sat mising at other her reflection in the glass.
for her to take up some career. But she got
her
rst two."
m part when she
WAX
"You know, that's the fast time I ever heard her say any- thing about marriage," she said.
mothers.'
my
Says Junette: "I don't think "Of course, it's a normal thing it's inevitable for the children business people to for her to any at that age-and of show Susan, 22, is physically quite "Having something like the there have been trany actresses follow on the tradition, but I
seant five Actor's Studio built in to your who only achieved
greatness was filming at two and differont. Tiny-a feet with delicate bones and home must have helped?" I after they'd become wives and husband, Jackie Rae, was tour: ing in vaudevlile at three..." black eyes, she has a fey Celile suggested.
chair She has tremendous
"Perhaps unconsciously," she She got out of her quality.
Well, how do you judge this at everybody's agreed. "But I've only observed heavily,
handing down of the Players' stamina, peeks
then
she Hoes off
-I've never taken part,
don't know-maybe
mask? Is it in the blood, the eversalluns,
father
Wistful the into a detached, glazed "think"
busy to should work with her
environment, my mother's Just before a scene.
give me coaching.”
when she gets back to New York. I'm too old for her. Her thinking of an older generation?
1 just wonderful.
I wonder II the ones who get hope they're not so wonderiul away are not the lucklost.
-(London. Express Service). they got in her way."
"Oh sure she makes nervous,"
me
far too
and
I found this hard to believe sald Susan as we un: I remembered it is nearly ideas
raine to since Suo walked back to her dressing a year
"But then the people. Europe to film in Italy.
room.
arc
or
BY FRIELL
"Absolutely no question. of you being in any black ist, madam, youre already in the red."
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