Evening star., 1961-07-14


This is q question often asked.
love it!
Even after playing young Helen Keller about 600
times in the Broadway play "The Miracle Worker" then
doing again for the movie love acting than
Sure there times in great while when think
It might be nice not to have to to the theater show
up the Sebut then some days feel that way about
school and other things too.
guess the sooner in life you learn not to away
from the things you expected to do matter what
they are, the better off you'll be.
Acting to me is a combination of many things It's
mostly work, Of course, but very pleasant work It's
laughs too and surprises many very exciting surprises
But most important which lot of people don't to
realize it's dsappointmens and in show business they
come in the large economy size You have to learn how
to take it.
When first started acting, it was disappoint-
ment after another. No would hire because of
my poor speech John Ross, my manager and COACH
continually worked with it, and then one day, 1t
happened got small part-t lasted about minute
in the TV production of The Prince and the Pauper,
playing little English girl (of all things) in
with the boy king.
day. But the bigger you get the bigger the dsappoint
ments. You think you're set to do a movie then you
suddenly find out you're too short too tall or too
skinny or too something, and it doesn't work out.
I've learned that it's these disappointments
that make you strong enough to go because they
make you enjoy whatever bit of you may have
Then there are the surprises
One night there was knock at my dressing room
door Someone to see you, Patty" opened the door,
Someone came in, sat down and talked-all about my
doll collection and everything
That someone turned out to be Mr.. Cary Grant, and
he was even nicer in person than the parts he plays in
the movies sst
Another night it was someone had done a tele-
vision show with and happened to like very much We
were excited to each other again that we both
gave out with blood-curdling Indian whoops and
yelS 1t was nutty, guess, but happy to see
him, Just broke up. BY the way, forgot to tell you
1t was Tab Hunter.
I guess my home life is about the same as any boy
girls. have certain chores to do There always
empty bottles to take back to the store and the garbage
to take out and then there the Dishes which don't
really mind, but sometimes wish used paper plates
My school would be considered different, I guess
Most people think Of school large building sur
rounded by grass and maybe with large flagpole out
front My school is in building about the size Of
two-family house. There's large black plaque out
front that "Quintanos School for Young Profess
Sionals" Inside two large in which classes
are held.
go to school from 10 O'Clock in the morning until
in the afternoon The subjects the in most
public schools The schedule leaves little time for ice
skating in Rockefeller Plaza in winter and roller skating
In Central Park the rest of the year. We off school
from early June until September, when spend the time
between shows at the nearby beaches and pools.
I guess that's why like being actress You
just hang around There's always something to do
NEXT WEEK-Reod story by Chris SOtzO the lsyeOr-Od
Olympic swimming who three gold medo Rome for the
United otsE She tells obOu her life during years Of
competitive swimming