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mer theater debut as an actress.
week season in which a spot nj
Miss Truman, Of course, nights
demur. But this after all Is
where she did more growing UP
than in independence. Mo-. her
place of birth. Also, as a
singer, she used to I'LL Constitu-
ton Hall, which is roughly six
times as large as Olney. =. Miss
Truman started her career as
an actress here; while a student
at George Washington Univer-
sity. Which. by the way, Is
again on the threshold of di-
minishing the drama department
which Bill Callahan ran with
such taste and. energy the last
two years.
Returning to Miss Truman:
Her father was quite a hit on
his most recent return here,
proving that Democrats have not
been abolished. ;. And perhaps
some curious Republicans - Of
which there are a great many on
television these days-might join
the crowd anxious to see Mar
garet as an actress. It is
just a thought.
PEOPLE AND PROJECTS:
Viveca Lindfors, last seen here
in "An Evening With Will Shake
speare," is back in Hollywood. :.
She and that tangy Norwegian
English of hers will turn up next
in a western to be made by Para
mount. With Jimmy Cagney
and John Derek. Edward G.
Robinson goes back to the gang
Ster- roles he made famous in
'Black Tuesday," this time for
United Artists. Josephine
Hull, after a fortnight's rest
from her role as the disconcert-
ing stockholder in "The Solid
Gold Cadillac" will return to
the production tomorrow night.
Moviegoers will learn lot this
year about Explorers Lewis and
Clark. A huge project on
Warner Bros. schedule, they also
will be given the big treatment
by Paramount. Charlton
Heston, the ruggedest man on
the Paramount roster, will play
Clark in the film called Blue
Horizon" AS a warm-up for
his portrait of Moses in the De-
Mile remake Of the DeMille
SThe Ten Commandments" =
Silvana agnano cBitter
Rice" etc.,, Gina Lollabrigida's
outstanding rival among Italy's
film actresses, will make tour
of the United States during the
fall. She will be accompanied
by her husband, Producer Dino
de Laurentiis. Paramount's
Mary Murphy is proof that movie
studios still snatch promising
girls off soda-fountain stools, or
wherever else they turn UP. !.
It was not long ago that she was
wrapping packages in a Beverly
HIS department store.
NEWS NOTES: Margalo Gill
more, widow of Robert Ross
whose death in the spring was
one of the theater seasons
shocks, will remain with Mary
Martin with whom she and her
late husband played in kind
Sir" +. She will play the Mrs.
Barling role to Miss Martins
9sPeter Pan" on the coast this
summer. Young Jamie Mac
Arthur, son of Helen Hayes and
Charles NJ, this summer con-
tinues a career that began four
years ago at Olney theater. -.
He will dabble, but only dabble,
with the theater as an assistant"
at the Bucks County summer
playhouse.
This departments favorite
memories of Jamie, now Is and
called Jim, are those of giving
him a softball and probing his
thoughts on the theater. The
ball we gave him had been
autographed by Lana Turner
and the department asked Jamie
if he minded. "It's a ball,
isn't it?" was his answer. =. AS
to the stage as a career-he was
acting with his mother at Olney
at the time-Jamie explained: "A
guys got to do something"
SPEAKING LOCALLY: Webb
Tilton who sings the Emil de
Becque role in South Pacific" at
the National, is the real veteran
of the part. He reaches his
1,000th performance tomorrow
night, which is more than Ezio
PIMA, Ray Middleton. George
Britton or any of the other Emils
achieved. Busiest woman in
town the next several weeks
could be Pauline Eaton Oak.
She is masterminding the Dis
trict Recreation Departments
American Kaleidoscope" pro-
duction, set for the Watergate
June 8-10. =. It will bring to-
gether most of the local amateur