SUSAN BARNES✰✰✰★☆★

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1961.

'I am greedy to learn about life'

says Miss York

AT 20, Susannah York

manages

to look

like a grammar-school girl a tall one, rather gangling, and unusually appealing.

She arrived for junch in Vienna's smartest hotel wearing a short scarlet dress, modelled on a gym slip, and a starched white blouse. Her blonde hair was caught up in two litie pigtails tied with white ribbons. She looked enchanting

Ducked

en-

"I am terribly easily barrassed," she said, after we had settled ourselves at a table. "One must be an exhibitionist to be an actress. But when am off-stage, when I am my- self--Susannah York-I become

very self-conscious."

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She ducked her head and prodded the table cloth with her finger

It is only when I am acting professionally," she continued, another hide in character that I am daring Then 1 can dare and dare and

and

CAN

BUT-OF THE FUTURE SHE SAYS 'WORLDLY SUCCESS IS NOT IMPORTANT TO ME'

dare. And I like being daring" Susannah inserted a cigarette in a sophisticated holder which contrasted effectively with her unpainted mouth

real

"Only pecasionally in life," she said, "can I feel un- Inhibited. If an atmosphere can grab me and drown me, any thing can happen. It might be a super day that would grab me Or a taxi driver might have talked Germen to me and understood spontaneous. lated."

But It has to be

It can't be calcu

Susceptible

blur eyes Their shone

Susannah's large widened and skilful make-up furrows

running

"I'm terribly susceptible autumn," she went on. so laughing and so sad

to one seeu715

spin from mood is the other.

to

and one

suddenly to

"Today I had been singing Sonyaelf in my room, and walked out into the hotel cor- ridor still singing. realised that the bellboys and maids were all looking at me, and I remembered where 1 was. So 1 looked around as if I too was wondering who this awful person Wes making all the noise."

Susannah laughed happily, and her cigareite fell out of its holder. She put it back in and continued.

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