SUSAN BARNES✰✰✰★☆★
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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.