1956-07-05 — Page 1

AT LEAST ONE SON OF AN ACTRESS DOES NOT WANT TO BE AN ACTOR

By RON BURTON

Hollywood.

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Sylvia Sidney's announcement that her 16-year-old son will become engineer and not go into the entertainment Bold is bound to gladden the hearts of those psychologists who believe children should pick their own careers.

It also may make a few million persons feel a little older to learn Miss Sidney even has a son now 16.

that's

heaven and

that

lo discovered he could play con- The actrees is a doting mother, mage in several libraries

a wide selection of but not so doting that she feels find enough material on Hardin vincingly

to permit roles. The next thing he knew sho can tamper with her son's and his associates

yanked from the him to become something of he had been right to choose his own life.

on the "Dote is one thing, and dope an authority

subject."heavy" classification to he an in "The High is another."

"Jody This was necessary a Parkeratomic scientist she suld.

Mighty." is a gun-tolin' Texas Ranger in and the wants to go to the Massachusetts

This was

only the beginning. Institute

And, the Screen Gema TV series, of Technology

Roles that followed included an "Hardin hud what he called old Chinese in "Blood Alley," a the road agent spin,” Parker crime story writer in "The Bad "This means that after Seed" sexl the present part of said. Hardin had been captured and the ex-sergeant. was handing over his gun, butt end first on his open palin, he somehow suddenly could roll around his hand. And the gun was all cocked and fired one moliou,'

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fis the as I'm concerned,

move where I'l carth to mnd him.

"I know many parents and this is not restricted to theatre People - who Liy push their children into careers the parents have chosen. Frequently it's a matter of carrying on the stes of father, and, now that I think about it, I know of no faster way to

a young

career.

wreck

SHE'LL BE PROUD

to

to

THE PAY IS GOOD

"The whole thing really is duy my work as D writer, I bellevé," Fix said, "I feet every actor should try to combine act

He'd get a ing and writing. better sense of acting and bring

out more from a role."

Fix entered the writing game when John Wayne found several writers were unable to make

in the In

Saddle" inlo from

magazine asked Fix if he'd

HOW TO PRACTISE

Other killers had similar gim- mick Parker sald, but essen- "If the child wants it, that's {tially the fast draw WRA tifferent, of course.'

basis for survival, There were Miss Skiney cuid her son is five points in learning the quick Interested i her carcer and draw, Parker said.

work at prendly follows her

First of all, the gun had to be Universal-International in "Bright-balance. smoothly The hind the High Wall." But Jody working mecharismani heim version of the story, and showed no great desire to try

the

"Tull

screenplay

livy.

Wayne

21

whack at it,

rosul - was the

a

popular

old frontier Colt probably is since then Fix hes combined show business, so she left him stil The best. The holster acting and writing. His screen-

to his own preferences.

now

to be en engineer, and we're going to see to it that he has a chance to be a darn good one."

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should be of some stiff material really would have helped to avoid grage and should have plays include "Back to Bataan" and "Wake of the Red Witch." him, too, if he'd wented

wide cut at the top, The "We know an

actor should theatrical career," Miss Sydney

holster also should be put at

perfcrm "But he wants the right level-not

1:3 much as possible_in eid my

ton high

the interests of his art,"

Fix and not too low.

said. "But we also know he Fast cocking and firing shouid | faces inevitable

periods |pc practised before actually th

nothing

pictures, between Gruwing. Parker said this that I write, I

I write, I and I'm really out of touch with acting avoids an embarrassing moment,

wounded holster and possibly beaure I have to think about varied characters and how the injury--if reat shells are being

roles should be projected, used.

The actress believes-perhaps a bit wistfuly that Jody could have

the same had some of wonderful, exciting life she has

The last and most important had in show business.

peint is practice, the actor said, "But this really won't make

"Do it in front of a mirror.“ much difference, I

guers, when enters

a year or he said, "When you think you're MIT in Never has the men's title been so open since the giant Frenchman Yvon Petra he

Yet in the end it should be Australia's year two," she said. "I'm going to be outdrawing yourself, then you're won in the first year after the last war.

And ready," very, very proud of him. Strange it is for the first time since the great Gerald Patterson thirty years ago.

1 myself am going to be very that while the Australian cupboard is full of Davis Cup successes it is bare of any

happy, because I'll knew that what hu wants he is doing Truits of Wimbledon.

to do."

and

10

tawn

dresses

tennis

men

· Hobby roun

the

the

at

19

was

two mijes bare

Serven villain Paul Fix has a parallel to the old saw about which came first, the egg or the

in 1 chicken.

It's

Fix theorises that maybe the

case

Jack Lord, a former footballwriter-actor. slar whose watercolours hang in the Metropolitan Museum of best way to become known as u

actor is to establish versatile because the 40- verst Art, is happy

He thinks u writer. plus age group of females likes unself as

his the end result of this idea him.

said the winning his present role of a *quare-jawed

uctor. loyal former sergeant In Warners'

Srutiago. "But more mature women-why. they'll stick by a man."

He knew that he had been

a matter of years a Lord's fan madi indicates he's typed for

Then some producers made quite a hit with the girls a villain.

Kids are fickle,"

thirtylah

of two score or more years. They don't ask for pleures, he said. They tell him they have written to him just because they wanted to.

Con-

It was the end of on The home players,

I | shoulder, Thy Ascot <f Lever varles of the courts. The mean, were, it is end to reinte, exhausting day at the greatest

Society

and on a level with the umpiring golf show on earth, the global

Cup competition With slightly more than a third Canada parades, the same strawberries

Watching Wentworth. ond

but of the atmosphere.

tournament played-lovely Cream there is one change

is four days out of twelve-there America's Ben Hogan and Sam which 13 worrying officfaldom, That is was not a single home player Snead Lake nearly five hours a on their winning why lowered stundard of left in the men's singles,

Davis Cup neglect, was

was tiring, if edi

educative, but who Ine-judging. Wilson. a in this distance, but 23 sonda

record umpiring

beaten could resist such a templer who had More than me than Zalopek's Williams,

player.

previously and

All Len Harvey, the central figure the Dane Nielsen, Patty, was the last to go. partienlarly

when Wembley Inst stapped Davis Cup men-Becker, have been incensed at stane of the

Davies, The decisions,

Knight-had boxing 20 years ago? So I went Barrett, by the wayside long to round off England's big day An All-England Club official fallen

of sports admilled to me that it has been before. umpossible tu Tan coaching

Twenty-nine two-men national which The low obb to Asso-

competed for the courses as the Football

British added "but tide of viation does, and

Heavyweight tes

them such "Canada", umnong ent-unlikely, Was

"I've picked up a small, small pairs BR Colombia, the standard of club umpiring boxing has receded

phasised when Wembley opened Korea, Republic of China, Phil-

measure of fame because of my Bning should be good

cooking." Lord said. "Particular- doors to the profesional

But that But he conceded that its ' enough."

Orst

Ilpines, Japan. for time the Lawn Tennis Association game for the

batch of it for a press years with an Empire only part of the day's fun. Down by my pet roast. I made a large the twenty

road, A will

conskier probably

ference, and it really went over. contest between away, mother battle was joined Maybe the word's getting around. Something Championship ir matter and see

lives in

in the picturesque

woods Anyhow, if they in the Dicio

don't ask for can be done about overhauling Joe Bygraves, who

Liverpool but Was born

British

Gold

I The kind of hells.

Kitone

can always send Jamaica,

my picture and

love,

Championship Sunningdale. fri:m

them the recipe,' subject Queen Salote's

The Ladies were

Lord has completed his local of Of course, club standard

the Friendly Island of Tengu.

themselves, too, still in

film debut in Paramount's "The enough, umpiring is not good A crew of young East London dock workers today

Vagabound Bygraves, who won on points at the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis

The Vista- King" and American

There is a world of difference

afler fifteen laborious

England were rounds, Championships. opened their challenge against British

Vision production stars Kathryn with

between week-end tournaments by any standards 121

Test losing their cricket

Grayson and Oreste, the great University students for Thames Cop honours

Britain and the inter- honest workman, a pedestrian Australia at Lords and just to Maltese tenor imported by the Impressive win at Henley Royal Regatta,

rivalry at Wimbledon.

the day off national

geconci pugilist. And it was a startling round miles an hour

attraction fact that Lave fought for this Middlesex

was the These manual workers, who in a borrowed boat, were the Judging ninety

services

professional fighting at first of the overseas challengers cannonball

once-prized title after less than first be <ven They were

two sinceure and it

will

dozen to be eliminated.

bouta mighty professional

Wembley

for

The actor made more

As Len Harvey drove chikult an "open" a nosed out by half a length by

turts championship is held and pro-Shades of the past! The ghosts decades. Thames, a London club, in

In New York, but he'd Hlustrious mary

former me there the former Heavy. Jike

not talk about the dynamic

pa soon Just weight Champion said: "What Cup buat.fessionals

holders walked at Wembley. Thines Challenge

ihem at length. Pancho Gonzalez enter.

300 Lucy and

memories this brings back?" It Sammy

he Reuter,

were stinkers," *They Harvey's tremen- McCarthy, two of

nicest did for me.

meet dous battles with Neusel, Peter- sald, "Let's face it. I learned

nfterwards

to lesson-go

Hollywood ren and Lowis and out of the ring. did, however,

match- n classic the Aghts he staged as

where they know how to make contest, and winning, south-maker there.

motion pictures. ponte, by winn handsome

Henley-On-Thames, Oxfordshire, July 4,

the

have been barred before war because of the fear of pro- fessionalism creeping Into this grout social occasion, gained n confortable 24 lengilis win over the strong eight from Univer sity College, Dublin.

Experts were critical of their style, but they have the power

and stamina to test the best of

their rivals in the Thames Cup second in event, which ranks

Importance at Henley and has been monopolised by American crews in recent years,

fu

STIFT HEADWIND Most of today's 55 races In the various events were rowed into a stlf headwind and wintry conditions. There were some exclling finishes, includ- ing a dead heat between four from the Royal Air Force and London Rowing Club in the Wyfold Challenge Cup.

Brackville Howing Club, of Ontario, Canada, competing

ECLIPSE STAKES

NOT GOOD ENOUGHI

Bo

BRITISH OPEN GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP

Welsh

Champion Leads Strong Field With Record-Equalling 68

Hoylake, Cheshire, July 4.

Denis Smalldon, 30-year-old Welsh Professional Champion, turned in a remarkable display of golf to lend a strong international field with a record-equalling 68 in the first round of the British Open Golf Championship.

First man out, and having the best of the weather, Smaildon was in great form. Hitting all his shots per fectly and chipping and putting like a man inspired he made the 6,960 yards of the tough Liverpool Course look very easy.

of

East Endern you

is but an

the could

give us something of

Lonsdale Belt his own property. fle is much under sted boxer,

weil entli

to and 19

be ranked with some of the of the past,

POOR MCCARTHY

on

best

erkl of the

the

ucc

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at

GOLF SHOW

to

studio.

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THEATRE ALUMNUS

"This

three pic-

Lord is the first to admit, however, that he is a product of the New York theatre. His Jast Broadway appearance was in "Cat on Hot Tin Root," Ho studied with the Ella Kazan group in New York.

In addition to acting-which he took up only comparatively recently-Lord holds papers as a third mate in care he decides to turn mariner. Also, he could be a fencing instructor because he's been a champion.

At Wentworth an Australian gloomily surveying the efforts of Peter Thomson and Norman ven Nida said: "Well, at least we can win ot cricket, although jt

surprise to all us has been Poor McCarthy. He was king Aussies, including lan Johnson,

think." But the

golf

show of the feathers until increasing

as any of the As its pro- weight sent him up a division,

has obviously multi-milionaire

moter, John Jay Hopkins, and in the lightweights the day's attractions.

said in tho

his extra poundage made him lethargic to the point

However, he's made up of ponderousness. Still the pair programme; "You must not miss and showing until it for like the eclipse of the sun

mind that show business is the put up Lucy finally

top and you may never see it again,”

only business for him and that cCarthy lagged so far behind

We shall certainly never s00 ho's going to stick with it, that the referee stopped the

the great Hogan again in Bri-particularly the Hollywood end at the affair

writing the of it. tain, for he was thirteenth roundi

"And, of course, in addition closing chapter of his illustrious A great disservice La being international chronicle and ho to mariner's papers and fencing,

soma of

ho added. "Ever done to

and the Individual try my pot roast?" heavyweights by matching them won both the Canada Cup with I en cook," with third rate Continentals Snead

d with

four tremendous and worse. Such was the case award

the gruelling Wast rounds on when Henry Cooper was pitted Course. A sick man, too, wito a Cumsy Belgian. Cooper played so slowly who after 4hrs

more then a 14 his concentration and prevented Suricy, on Saturday July

splendid 00 (34-35).

Erskine, on the final day was, allowed DODGE, Locum works we published here today as him sprend-eagling the field.

The incident occurred un he

and Richardson, should be off to only a 20-minute lunch break followe

Bracketed at 70 were Aus- Amerien to watch points and do before stopping on to the first Cobetto Hallx II shd Tropique, was putting from six feet

stone 7 lbs.

the sixteenth green. He raisa- traila's Peter Thomson, who is a bit of barnstorming out in the tee for his second round!

I climate there were around Nable ed, took a

dis- attempting to become the first remote corners of the Sintes five, looked Alexander, Whiranck,

would 100,000 people at Juno 20's tad Tudor Jinks, all alone. gustingly in the direction of the player for over soventy years to where the hurly burly

to sporting events, and that it cost Pirate King and Rustam, both disturbance, and

John Jay Hopkins about that ingloriously with two more fiver, 8. lbs,"

fmure in pounde storling to succession, Al Balding (Canada) WIND AND

170 Later a strong win and rala and Erle Lester and D. C.

myaveledupods Canada Cup! made conditions uncomfortable Thomas (Britain).-Neuter,

Final Acceptors With Weights

London, July 4.

Shelton turned in 33 and, but still the talented field of 90 with three holes to play, stood qualifier were able to turn in seven under fours, without a five good scores. It was superlative Eleven final acceptors, with on his card.

piercing screeching weights, for the Eclipse Stakes, golf, but a to be run over one mile and a from a hoist on a nearby Televi Enrique Boletini, Champion of quarter at Sandown

Chasing

Smalldon

Was

our young

Park,slan lower almost certainly UPS Argentina last year, who had airs nothing; it was little homing, over his morning round

Dianna Colt and Blue Larkspur 11, both stone 2 lbs.--China Mail Special,

on

out.

then finished win the tilo three years. In / At them" for greater things

RAIN

come.

"Coming to Wembley tonight?" premont cdia... the tempter avor

has

The "road agent spin” nothing to do with modern day raslin for television audiences, It was a method devised by a killer of the Old motorious KLICI

The Inventor

who had 40 Wesley Hartin, notches on his gun before he was, 20. And, as someone once mid, he wasn't just whittlin.

Hardin Was among gunfighters of the Old West, according to pounda

Paricor, The actor had to rum«

We do eliminate a captor ohn

of

Now nover

"And, of course, there's other good point, 100. Somcono pays for screenplays."- United Press.

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