1955-05-23 — Page 71

THE JUDY GARLAND STORY

19 WEEKS IN

ENGLAND

GAVE HER BACK

HER CONFIDENCE

only

By

MICHAEL RUDDY

to ber

'Stop feeling sorry for yourself and get back to work' that's what my husband, Sid Luft, told me when we were due to start filming A Star is Born. But he put it a lot stronger than that!' laughed Judy Garland. We were trying to sort out the hidden reasons behind her disastrous series of emotional collapses the black years when all Hollywood was saying she was a has-been, but which have ended in one of the most amazing come-back stories of all time.

Out on the terraca DA her gan to torture her again. She two million dollars. That soch new home on Mapleton-drive, | took to sleeping-pills and of thing can't happen twice. Holmby Hills we were having sedative drugs.

But that was because Sixt quiet cup of tea together. But the more pills the doc hadn't even then quite over.

Cin think of

one tors gave her the worse she come Judy's old-time tensors. word for the place-magnificent. felt.

Are they all gone now? Well Humphrey Bogant and Lauren And now

physical-maybe It's significant that Bacall live two doors away. misery was added the growing when, Judy was showing off the Imna Turner and Lex Barker certainty that her marriage with magnificent diannd ring have Hittle 100,000-dollar villa Minelli had been a mistake. Sid bought her for their second

of the drive. "I've

She begun "Annie Get Your anniversary, friends noticed that Chad such

resolutions, she had stopped biting her naiist large Gun" full of good ** place in my life before, " said She wild turn up for work Judy. "I like it because it's so on time, stop taking days off. quiet and I can relax and bok But before long she was looit- after my

baby

ing for excLIVES shy away 'TM SCARED

The from the cameras again Relax. That was the word more day's she missed, the that mattered. I thought back worse her guilt-complex grew. to the last time we had sex to- It was the old vicious circle, gether, just before she went to One, morning she blew Up On Britain for the variety tour that the set collapsed in tears and was to give her back so much asked to go home. She did not faith and confidence.

"Do

On

me

the

*

"

return

..

to

PATCHED UP

The studio, Buspending her, she paid for an eight-month rest at

Good

Since the war I have lost knows that as reflexes blur and count of the times I have beer. the body ages so he will have Matthews to work correspondingly harder the enchanted by ballet-dance-one moment bam- to reach the peak of tness and

During his 23 years in top the next ghosting past him on

time flight football Stan Matthews outside. yet another

into the middle to send has always had cat-like move- sliding

think they will like I want so very much the opposing defence the wrong ments and complete mastery of

the ball. way with a glorious pass or cel-

But today, thanks to his self-or them to like me. This tour

me so scared!" like body-sweTVE.

has got Delving deeper, I believe that control and dedicated mode of whispered."

a Boston sanatorium). Now a girl who has made 35 It

Work the secret of Matthew's winning living, he is not only playing

ald the Anest icotball of his career, musicals in battle with Tire, the

16 years

doesn't troubles, weight troubles ond worry about forgetting her home troubles built

up to the enemy, stems from: 1 Special he has acquired a new strength

2, Diet: 3, Will- and assurance. exercises;

words. There was something terrible night she was found power.

much more than that behind it with her throat injured.

And for my money. it was And then, a few months the cumulative effects

of whole life seemed to change.

she met Sid Lazit and her disastrous marriages that had knocked all the heart out of The ex-test pilot became her her.

business agent. In March, 1951, it?

Judy was 19 when she eloped Judy and Minelli were divorced, Why does he do

to Las Vegas and married Dave and when Judy made her Lon- on? op and spurs him

Rose: now she looks back, she don Falladium tour, Latt Bew answer is fourfold.

over to watch her triumph. Because he loves the game says she just can't explain the

whole thing

It had been

plan, and he and the roar of the crowd.

SECRET FEAR

couldn't have had a

a more bril- Because

he is a genius-and

She was a teenager. He was lant idea. From the right of Soccer's greatest entertainer.

thirty. She had never bothered April 10, when Judy ran on to Because his universal fame as

her head a footballer guarantees him

with musical theory.the stage of the London Palla- He kept trying to teach her to dium in front of a distinguish- Most of all, I believe be

read music. She had reached ed first-right audience, tripped knows in his own quiet way the top with her natural voice and fell fat on her face,

He

every heart. prove it. never see his like again.

The result was to build up the audience cried, and that's -(London Express Servics)

the inferiority complex that how it was for the whole of a some say had started when record-breaking 10 weeks" mun Lana Turner Was MGM's Sid Luft bad found the way sweater-gir! darling and Judy to give Judy back what ahe felt she was the "awkward in-needed most-confidence in her between."

A happy family life with his training wife and children sets the seal The Matthews schedule includes gymnastics, on this inner contentment,

almost think he Sometimes το skipping, 20-30 yard'sprints develop quickness of the mark, has discovered the secret of re- and deep-breathing-a legacy juvenation!

What from those early days in Stoke

The For on recent showings in when his father, a well-known League and representative feather-weight boxer, made him games, the

stand in front of an open win Soccer was not only "better dow every morning breathing than last time,"

the "in-out." was FASTEST AND FITTEST MAN The Matthews diet chart allows only two main meals a

old Sorcerer

he

of

What then, is the Maestro's dak, smoking or alcohol either! good wing.

James Jackson of America

ON THE FIELD. played the best golf of anybody in the morning to have a round

secret? of approximately 88 and was three up on Cecil Ewing, oldest player in the match. The Irish- man could do little except hold on afterwards until Jackson put in a final burst to win by six and four.

The modest Matthews let drop

Biggest margin of all was the which eight and seven by € 15

1 Richard Yost crushed 10 15 0 Welshman, John Morgan, Ceccarelli, Raschi (2). Sleater had been four down after (3), Sain (3), Gorman (6),irst round.-Reuter,

Herbert (8) and W. Shantz.

Astroth (7) Fornicles, Harsh-

man (3). Trucks (9) and Court-

ney. WP-Trucks (3-4). LP- Sain (0-2). HR-Power (5th) Valo (1st) Jackson (2nd).

NATIONAL LEAGUE (1st Game)

RH E 8 2

Philadelphia Brooklyn

West Indies

the

who the

a clue or two when I spoke to bim in the England. 'eam's Wem- dressing-room after the bley massacre of the Scots.

"It's Uming." be told me. "A few weeks ago I had been feel- ing stale, so I knocked-oft training for a while.

the "But three days before

strong Scotland gate I felt again. Then I knew everything would be all right."

In his clinical approach to sport, Stanley Matthews re- minds me of Roger Bannister, the first four-minute miler.

Like Bannister, Matthews knows his own body, and what

EVERYTHING PLANNED

a

she

· Everything about the. Wizard's that when he is gone we shall e was always wanting to im- Jus-we love you!"

He

working life is planned. leaves nothing" to chance. Hej

INTERNATIONAL SOCCER

Portugal Upsets England

With A 3-1 Win

Oporto, Portugal, May 22.

Amid wild scenes of enthusiasm from the crowd,

worry

own ability, and popularity, Always the type to

A year later a girl in slacks about her own abilities. the and dark glasses, with her hair constant effort to "improve" her piled up in a bun, was married made her fear more and more in a ranch

that in spite of her success she "wasn't really

good enouga

Dave Rose has married again since these days and Judy is

Choose Fourteen it can do, better than anyone Portugal caused an upset form by beating England 3-1 in great friends with his second

For Final Test

Barbados, May 21. J. Meyer, Kipper (6), Miller West Indies, who have lost (8), Lovenguth (8) and Lopara; the series to Australia, have Erskine, Roebuck (9) and Com-named 14 players from whom panelis. WP-Erskine (6-1). the team will be chosen for the LP J. Meyer (0-6). HR-6mal- Fifth and Fina: Test at Kingston, (1st), Campanella (10th). Jamalea, beginning on June 11. ley Gorbous (lat). Ennis (8th).

The only possible newcomer Test cricket is Hammond 134

Furlonge, a right-hand opening batsman, who scored 57 and 150 not out for Trinidad against the Australians,

Chicago

Milwaukee ..........

Jones, Davis

vis (B) and McCul lough, Chiti (8); Conley (6-1) and Whre. LP-Jones (5-4).

St. Louis Cincinnati

ball,

8 0 8

Haddix (2-6) and Sarni; Nux- Freeman (8), Valentine and Burgess. WP-Valentine (2-1). HR-Post (9th), New York Pittsburgh

5 10 0 2 €

Gomez (2-3) and Kalt; Bow- man, Friend (9) and Shepard. LP-Kowman (0-9).

(2nd Game)

New York

5 1 1 Pittsburgh

3 .9 0 Antonelli, Corwin (4), Wil- helm

(6) Grissom (8) and Westrum Kait (8); Littlefield, Wade (7) Face (8) and Shepard, WP-Wilhelm (2-0). LP-Wade (0-1). (Called off at end of eighth owing to rain). -United Press,

Datour Will Not

M

Run In The

Epsom Derby

Paris, May 22.

to

else. In recent years he has made what amounts to a scienti- fic study of its reactions and behaviour under pressure.

WHAT HE LEARNED AS A result the nation's greatest footballer has learned

(a) How to time his training

a soccer international here today,

Defeated by France, held to a draw by Spain, the England team rounded off their short Continental tour

I've

says:

ๆ

daughter and

glad he is happy. To feel by losing to a side which had won only one of their pre-well about a man you were once married to is a special kind vious 19 international matches.

of blessing,"

when It was in 1945. picture "The Clock" began

The Portuguese played deter

The fullbacks, however, were

California house near Hollister,

The clerk who issued the licence had no idea till after- wards that the girl who

trad become Mrs Luft was actually Judy Garland.

Has it been a case of "third Jucky for Judy? Certaine

ty she seems more contented than I have ever known her,

So what lies ahead for her? "r] confess we are 1 little worried about what we can do her to follow 'A Star' Judy sad to to me. “Sid and I are going to be himself in actual competition; so he will get the best out of mined and constructive football after caught out of poddion

at times against an England while the attack did not link up 50 wrong, that Judy went to very careful of our next pro-

her friend, boas and ad-

duction How to pace himself team which lacked cohesion and with defence and provided too

They'll HAVE to be, "A Star viser, Louis B. Mayer, and told during match so that those thrust. England opened the much individual play.

him that what the picture is Born" overran its budget by

of ageing but wonderful legs will scoring but Portugal equalised be used to the maximum ad- before halftime and added two Roy Bentley gave England needed was the direction vantage both for his tear and more goals in the secord half the lead on a pass from Denis Vincente Minell

"Minelli!

That's Wilshaw in 19 minutes, but five for a deserved victory. for himself.

Of course, he has occasional England could be faulted in minutes later Aguas equalled. Mayer sold ghting "breathers." Yet his fitness and both defence and attack; although

This was the position at half Mayer

"Sure I fight with him-but D. Atkinson, C. Depeiza, C. L co-ordination of mind and Billy Wright played magnificent time and restruffle of the Walcott, E. D. Weekes, G.

he gets the best work out centre half and Bert England attack, when Nat Loft- muscle during a 90-minute In-1 a Sobers, H. Furlonge, F. King,ernational these days border on Williams did many good things house,

me" Judy insisted. with stomach trouble, She got her

and the Way, the uncanny.

in goal,

substituted by Albert

finished

picture was hailed as a Quixall, may not have helped. dramatic triumph for Judy.

More than that: she fell in love with Minelli, and six from months after her divorce David Rose, they were married. But happiness was not that way either.

The fourteen are:

N. Marshall, K. T. Ramadhin, A. Valentine, J. K. Holt, F. Worrell, T. Dewdeny, and C. Smith,

All except King, Marshal and Furlonge played in the Fourth Test which was drawn yester. day.--Reuter,

NEW RULE FOR EPEE FENCING COMPETITIONS

Venice, May 21.

Thirty-two nations were re-

presented at the annual congress

US Track And Field

Men On World Record

Smashing Rampage

Modesto, California, May 22.

Was

Stanley Matthews put over a string of passes which were not taken advantage of and in the 80th minute Matates put Portugal ahead.

Four minutes later Wright made his only slip, heading back to his goalkeeper but Aguas nipped in quickly to gaba possession and score the third zoal--Reuter.

Perez Not Retiring

1

the ma with!"

of

When their baby, Liz, arrived solve she thought it would everything but all too soon the sort of fears that beset her career began to torment ber home life too..

EXHAUSTED

Perfection has always been her ambition. Fighting to make everything she did Just that Title bit better, she has prac» -

The greatest track and field men of the United States Pascuel Perez, World Fly- tised already-perfect routines of the International Fencing went on a world record smashing rampage in the Call-weight Champion, has denied over and over again till she

fornia relays last night with these results:

Federation here today.

ed was that for the 1955 World

reports that he plans to retire was too exhausted to face the after his return match with next day's work. One important decision reach- 1. Franklin (Bud) Held of the San Francisco Yeahiro Shiral of Japan in

And

strange thing is that Championships in Rome and for Olympic Club set a new world mark in the Javelin with a Tokyn. Perez, who is 28, said because things come to her so she feels the can't be the 1956 Olympic

Games in toss of 268 feet 2.89 inches. Held has the old mark of the rumours began after he had easily.

made a "casual statement", to getting them right! Melbourne, Epee encounters wil❘ 263 feet 10 inches.

la Lima Peru) reporter.

To give an up-to-date be decided by the best of ave

example: hifts instead of the best of three 2. The Texas Sprint Relay recognition as the new mark.

She recorded one number for as hitherto Reuter.

team of Dean Smith, Alvin Mel Whitfield set the old record

Colin Cowdrey, the young "A Star is Born" and made a Freldman, Jerry Prewit, and of 1:48.6 in 1953.

Kent and England batsman who perfect job of it first time. Bobby Whildon set a new world In one of the great races of rocketed to form and tame on "B

aid the director the 440 at 40. Dalous mil hot in body, this WORLD TITLE. BID, izrading the old maris texas to Bobby Wilder of the MCC tour of Australia. Walis idades motogether the made

will of 40.5 set by USC 18 years ago drive by Larry McBride of year's Test series against South the orchestra go through it nine and tied this year by the same Houston to win the relay by Africa. Colin recently started times, more with her...

drove Texas Longhorns.

stride. Houston His National Service in the them--and herself-to the verge The European and British Rev. Bob Richard of the worked at 40.4 also RAF where he will take....

of nervous exhaustion. Los Angeles Athletic Clubs breaking the old mark of 40.5

And then when be eat the not run satisfactorily in recent Empire Flyweight boxing Cham- vaulted 15 feet three inches first set by USC in 1938 and short-service commission, "rushes she had to admit the pion, Dai Dower will meet the highest of the year. He missed equalled earlier this year b by Stock car racing, the crash-first one was better thors the

Francois Dupre's colt will run the Derby

trainer, Francois Mathet, said today.

the last Victoria Club callover.

Datour was quoted at 28-1 at

M.. Mathet said the horse had

BY DAI DOWER:

London, Mag 22.

gallops.

said

3.

of 15 feet, 8 inches

a traction of an inch.

miler

year,

less than

was

bang-bump sport which took fast! Dean Smith ran the first Lap England by storm last year, has

Phil Drake, also trained by World Flyweight Champion in a thres tries at the world record the Texas tean. and will leave here by air on Sellers Dower'e maröger Tursday for the will ride

there are

only &

M Mathet, is a certain runner title bout next September, NOI | Deng in his first Jump-by for the Texas Spring team, past« } Rotie a step further. At Har-that began to eat at her heart : Perer of espion Wes Surritzen he nation's who died, relayed #lowJarry Chupionship is being decided," | may-toky, but she felt soe SVERI rhallengers for the Derby." "Mr. [of Japan; in a title fight in Tokyo | World mark in the half a 10-yard lead for Willdepo poverty care each on June 10. I work. In a single year

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It was

lack of confidence this race. Palmer today Flyweight I

ing the baton to Alvin Freidman, ringay rest mouth, a stock car after Liz wes born. She couka't According to present plans,

broke the recognised

not being a good mother three other French scheduled to meet Yoshio Shirai

Prewit Prewit bullt up abou with prizer totailing £2,000

It starts with four heats of She tried to lose herself in che made Ralph Strassburger Bryn (Wut the end of this month. Sellers when he was clocked in 1:48.5.

McBride, however, made up heat tem in each race will three Rickaby). The Aga

Khan's sald Dower would meet the Santee defeated Lon-Spurder Hafix (Boger Poincelet) and winner of this fight Bellers to the tape by 10 yards in the most of the gap only to tail by contest the semi-finals on June The pressure was more than SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, LTD.

Fablert's Point added that the bout would be special event. Spurrier how a stride to catch the dying 17 and the first ten in each will she could and Gamina (Jacques Deforge) held either in London, Cardia or ever has a mark of 1:47.5 rt Loughan to the California go forward to the fund on June

earlier this year that is up for relays here, United Press, Anteztires,France-Presse:

M.Marin

Reuter.

AS child she had suffered

from sleeplessnew, now it be.

Wyndham Streat.