is your name Meyer?
MEYER HAD A NAME OF TEUTONIC OR HEBREW ORIGIN MEANING "HEAD SERVANT OR OVERSEER*
ALTHOUGH HE MUST HAVE HAD A LITTLE PUZZLE. SOMEWHERE, AS "THIS
·ANCIENT NAME ALSO MEANS DAIRYMAN."
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LEZY
THE THREE FACES OF
STANLEY BAXTER
STANLEY Baxter has
a gift. He claims no
credit for it. It's a 'natural'. He is a born mimic.
Ken Annakin, who
directed Stanley Baxter's
Reel Corner
first film "VERY IM- church play. And
I stole
PORTANT PERSON", the show. It was a riot.
at Beaconsfield Studios, "If that sounds conceited, it's describes it this way:
nevertheless true.
not
"I found I had this natural "Start explaining a character gift of imitating people, to Stanley Baxter, read a few only visually but vocally, lines of dialogue
to him, and lines of his somehow the very face change. the muscles tall into place and he has become, that character.
UNCANNY
"I find it uncanny fantastic. It's not as though he is helped by make-up. It is some mental process.
I
don't profess to understand it, but I do know that this is the hallmark of a greati actor."
Stanley himself approaches: the matter in a far more detach- ed frame of mind.
"Mimicry comes naturally to me," he said in a matter-of-fact voice. "It's something that 1 have always been able to do and i found out about it at very early age. simply because, I enough, curiously
thought
there was nothing very much I could do
"You see, when I was a boy 1, got the feeling that I wasn't do to please my ing well enough
family.
"My father was an actuary. man and set He was a clever
high standards. I got the feel- ing that I wasn't living up to
them.
"I got the urge to dircover something about myself that fl could do well.
A DIM IDEA "And at the age of seren I began to have a dim idea of what it was.
I was in al
"I can take no credit for it. Some people happen to be good- looking, some to have a wonder-
ful voice or a gift for writing Poetry or music."
People refer to Stanley Baxte
as "India-Rubber Facer,
'MY SISTER'
a credit card to Victoria Tang