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here as saying Miss Bergman and
Rossellini have agreed to baptize
the child and bring him up in
the Catholic faith. Ingrid is a
Protestant. RoSsellini Catholic.
The baby is an italian citizen
under Italian law and will always
be considered so. Miss Bergman,
although she took out first papers
for American citizenship, remains
Swedish citizen. Her husband
is an American citizen. Rossel-
lini is an Italian.
Paternity Discussed.
In New York. Sidney B. Schat-
kin, assistant corporation counsel
for the city and author of legal
book entitled, Disputed Paternity
Cases." said:
IF man visited his wife on
May 3. 1949, the law conclusively
assumes him to be the father of
a child which was born to her
approximately nine months later.
In the State of California, under
similar circumstances where a.
child is born approximately nine
months after husband and wife
were together, it is absolutely
automatically presumed that the
husband is the father"
A California legal authority
commented:
California law carries a pre-
sumption that the husband is the
father of any child born in we'd
lock-"
He added, however, that Cali
fornia courts will take no cogniz-
ance of the matter unless ruling
is sought in a lawsuit. This would
leave the matter up to DR.. Lind
strom, who has had nothing to
say on the subject for publica-
tion.
In Italy a Year.
Miss Bergman has been in Italy
a year, engaged in making a pic
ture-"Stromboli'' i''-under Rossel-
lini's direction. Their romance
burst into headlines i'm the spring
and DR.. Lindstrom came here on
April % and on May 3 visited his
wife at Messina, Sicily. He left
Italy May 6.
There were published reports
here that the baby arrived three
weeks before the expected date.
After her husbands visit, Miss
Bergman issued a statement that
she would rejoin him after COM
pleting the film, but in August
she announced she wanted di-
vorce and planned to retire from
the screen to marry Rossellini.
Both Rossellini and Lindstrom
are 43 years old. Miss Bergman's
first child, Pia. agend IL, is with
her father in Hollywood.
DR.. Guidotti said the birth was
absolutely normal" and declared
Miss Bergman will breast-feed
the child for at least a month.
Tests were satisfactory and
that seems to be the best possible
thing for the baby" he said.
Baby Resembles Mother"
DR.. Giuseppe Ferdinand, direc-
tor of the Villa i Margherita
Clinic, where the baby was born,
said the baby resembles his
mother" ..
DR.. Guidotti declared Miss Berg
man "is one of the happiest
mothers I have ever known.
"Shc wept in happiness when
the baby was first brought to her
side. Now she laughs and smiles
when she is with the infant and
asks for him all of her waking
hours"
In response to questions, the
doctor said he had the feeling
that Miss Bergman's divorce will
come through soon and they will
be married Immediately after
ward"
He said Rossellini appeared
very calm" and showed only slight
evidence of what physician de-
scribed as "a severe emotional
strain caused mostly by countless
newsmen and photographers"
He said the italian film maker,
director of such pictures as open
City," would try to slip out of the
hospital later today to avoid re-
porterS.
He doesn't want to talk to
anyone" said DR.. Guidotti.
Pain-KiIling Drug Used.
The clinic announced that the
attending doctors administered a
pain-killing drug to the actress
and that it was completely effec-
tive"
Except for Rossellini, no visitors
have been admitted so far to Miss
Bergman's suite of three rooms in
the two-year- old modernistic hos
pital.
Today two white ribbon corsages
were pinned up on the drapes in
the lobby of the clinic. Attendants
said they symbolized the birth of
two boys-Miss Bergman's and
another.
A huge stack of congratulatory
kilograms, most of them from the
United States. poured into the
clinic this morning.
DR.. Ferdinand indicated with
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