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FIRST TIME IN MOVIE HISTORY 16-Year-OId Girl To Play Part Of Salome On Screen By JAMES BACON MADRID, Spain For thej first time in screen Salome, one of history's earliest! juvenile delinquents, will be' played by a 16-year-old girl. That's the historically authentic age of the young seductress who asked for the head of John the Baptist on a silver platter. Debut Brigid Bazlen makes her screen; debut as Salome in "The King of Kings, the story of Christ, now being shot in spain. When I first saw Brigid walk' across a hotel lobby here, I turned to some friends and said: "There's the most typically Spanish beauty I've seen yet." Her hair is anthracite Hack. her eyes flash like a go-ahead traffic green, of course.

Her figure voluptuous. But she's not Spanish. Up until a few months ago, Brigid was a high school fophomore in Chicago and a television actress little known outside of the Windy City. the daughter and niece of Chicago's Daly sisters, a quartet of Irish girls who are writers and commentators. mother is Maggie Daly, a fashion commentator; her aunts are Kathleen Daly, executive vice president of an advertising agency; Sheila Dsly, synicate columnist who writes for and about teen-agers and Maureen Daly, novelist.

Attracts Actresses Salome is a role that has at. tracted actresses for years from Nazimova. the silents to Rita Hayworth in her prime as a screen love goddess. How Brigid got it is best explained by producer Sam Bronston. "I found her by accident," says Bronston.

"I was convinced the part called for a teenager but I didn't want any of the established teen-age the ones who are spread all over the fan magazines. "Agents submitted girls by job lots. One day there was a flock of them in my outer office in New York. I walked out to tell my secretary something and spotted this black-haired beauty among them. She looked like a younger version 'of Elizabeth Taylor.

"I asked her if she had a passport. She said no. I told her she had better get one." Simple" As That It was as simple as that. Brigid went back to Chicago, applied for a passport and waited. "Two weeks later, I got a call from Mr.

Bronston's office, telling me to get ready to go to Spain, In a few days I was here studying for Salome." Bronston takes credit for discovering Brigid but gives credit to Betty Ray, dancer wife of director Nicholas Ray, for getting a performance out of a relative newcomer. "Betty took Brigid under her wing and worked her mercilessly The Wteki VILLAGE Today through Saturday: "Ben- Charlton Heston, Stephen Hur," Boyd. LlNDSEY Today through HOLLYWOOD (SpetiaD-Jerry signed former child star. featured role Thursday: her for a teenager series catted: "Too Young to Go Steady." From there, she wound up in Bronston's Spain. She has one worry: "Ikind of ''Dark At The Top Ol The hate to start off in the Robert Preston, Dorothy playing such a wicked person but my mother and aunts keep telling me, 'Certainly, you So I guess, it's okay." for 'eight weeks.

"This young girl will perform a dance on the screen." Bronston says, "That will last six minutes and I think it will impress audiences like it did the MGM front office." Given Contract MGM execs; after viewing the rashes, signed Brigid to a studio contract. Her dance will be one of the few Salome dances without the traditional veils. Researchers lor "The King of Kings" insist Salome and her seven veils was the creation of a dancer -who came centuries after the real Salome. In the movie, Brigid will seductively charm Herod with a pure Oriental-African dance movemenl which the researchers say is 2,000 years old. Brigid has never taken a dramatic lesson and is probably the only Salome in history who ever got her show business start while playing hopscotch.

That was in 1956. In the 12 years before that. Brigid had an uneventful childhood, going to parochial school in Chicago. Seen At Play A TV producer friend of her mother's saw Brigid playing the children's game in front of her apartment house. He put her in a children's local TV series.

Later she became the 12-year-old hostess- of a children's show on Chicago TV. Producer David Susskind spotted her in the show and signed SEDUCTIVELY Bazlen, a voluptuous 15- year-old, will play Salome in "The King of Kings," marking the first time for history's young seductress to be portrayed by an actress whose age is historically accurate. Producer Sam Bronston selected the Chicago schoolgirl with the remark, "she looked like a younger version of Elizabeth Taylor." (AP Newsfeatures Photo) Stilly 3t, IMP AMLAKit- JKiiilL E-5 Comedian Signs Ex-Child Star loria Jean, -for a in "The Ladies' Man" and McGuire. Friday through next Thursday: "Song Without End," Dirk jBogarde, Capucine. AvRNETT-BENSQN Today through Tuesday: "All The Young Men," Alan Ladd, James Darren.

Wednesday through next Tuesday: "I'm All Right Jack," Peter Sellers, Jan Carmichael. STATE Today through Wednesday: i "Last Days Of Potneii," Steve; Reeves. Christina Kauffman. Thursday through next Wednes-; day: "Journey To Tne Lost; City," Paul Christian, Debra; Paget, I FOWER I Today through Wednesday: "Tne Searchers," John Natalie Wood: also "Mister erts," Henry Fonda, Jack Lem-j men. Thursday through Saturday: Circus Of Horrors," also "Angry Red Planet," Gerald Mohr.j Nora Hayden.

LYRIC Today through Tuesday: "The Unforgiven," Burt Lancaster, Audrey Hepburn: also "Who Was That Lady," Tony Curtis. Janet Leigh. Wednesday through Saturday: "The Last Rebel," Carlos Thompson; also "Code Of Silence," Terry Becker. Tourist Guides Have Comment About Movie COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) guides OR Copenhagen's sight-seeing buses never fail to comment on the Hollywood movie "Hans Christian Andersen." Andersen, of course, is one of Denmark's national heroes. "As won as we lound out that it was Danny Kaye playing Danny Kaye, and not Hans Christian Andersen, we enjoyed it," is the general spiel.

thereby becomes responsible for launching a new career for the actress-singer who has been working as a hostess in a restaurant. When she unknowingly appeared for the interview, part in "The Ladies' The news famous picture comic spotted a of Gloria Jean Schoonover recently with a four line caption headed, "Awaiting Comeback." Lewis had her tracked down at the Tahitian restaurant in the valley where she was working as a hostess. a special Man," a Paramount release, had already been written into the script. Additionally, Jack Brooks and Harry Warren have been commissioned ito write a special song for her sing in the film. Gloria Jean first appealed as a singing prodigy in Universai's "The Under-Pup" with later pictures including, "Follow the Boys." "I Surrender Dear" and "Manhattan Angel." Archibald MacLeish Plans Hercules Play NEW YORK (ffl Archibald Gospel Talent Shote Slated At Seagratcf nc.w ArcniDaia SEAGRAVES (Special) A sw- MacLelsh is turning from the 61 talent show sta jnvtMogy for f- at First AwtoWy of p.m..

according to the Rev. The poet, who won the Farmer pasto- prize for based on the Several area churches will be story Job is at work now on a represented in the show, with play in which Hercules is the pro-jeach church group presenting te omst jpart of the program. J. D. Keel He expects to complete it next ol Seagraves will give a summer and have it tested at thelchalk talk oa "Tne Return of Yale University School of DramaJGirist" i I Actor To Start Play Rehearsals LONDON (AP) David Wayne jk wound up his work in "The Big IT Gamble" here to start rehearsalsjf for a new Broadwav piav "White! Alice." "The electronic age has even in- filtrated the theater." a Wayne of the play.

"I play a scientist stationed on top of the world, in conflict with the military over who is going to push the button first to start a nuclear "I took the-part because it is COLOR the first play I have ever seen which brings as much action to the stage as the camera does to the movie screen. "This is done through a gigantic radar screen which shows the advance of the enemy missiles andj? aircraft as vividlv as if cameras I PER PERSON ROAD SHOW ENGAGEMENT NO ONE ADMITTED UNDER 18 NO PASSES ACCEPTED THIS PROGRAM AFrenchy Adults become the first actor in history to have scenes stolen from him electronically." were focused on the craft. I I DRIVE IN THEATRE ADULTS 50e CHILDREN FREE LOCATED OX THE IDAL00 HI-WAV fl All European Movie Labor Isn't Cheap HAMBURG, Germany (AP) All European movie labor is not cheap, says producer Bill Perlberg, who shot part of "The Counterfeit Traitor" in this wide- open city. One of the scenes in the Bill Holden movio calls for a shot of the Herbertstrasse, red light district, of Hamburg. Perlborg wanted to use the actual locale, but the price was too high.

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