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I COURIER-POST ASK THE EXPERTS 2 CLASSIFIED 7 DEARABBY 3 LIVING 2 OBITUARIES 6 YOUR BIRTHDAY 5 i Living Classified WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1985 Oscar-winning star reborn in 1 Want to Live rvMasaMMP9WMVPlPllMHaBMsaBi I In the fourth in a five-part aeries on actress Susan Hayward, she retreats from Hollywood and wins the Oscar long denied her. By ROBERT LAGUARDIA and GENE ARCERI Special to the Courier-Post After their marriage, Susan Hayward and Eaton Floyd Chalkley Jr. settled in the 75-year-old Carroll-ton, farmhouse that Chalkley had been living in. She became instantly comfortable in her new environment, which was, and still is, one of those tiny rural places in America that seem almost to have emerged from a time capsule. Hayward worked to become just one of the townspeople, although, for the townspeople themselves, her transformation from glamorous movie star to Southern housewife was always a tinge bizarre.

But everyone was game. She bought raffle tickets, went to church functions with Chalkley, waited her turn in line for the fried-chicken buffet. She was more than just comfortably in love with Chalkley. She was a woman reborn.charged with a sort of patient vitality. On their 300 acres, Hayward would stand among the steak cattle with her hands on her hips just watching Chalkley in the fields as he did chores, such as making repairs or putting up concrete fenceposts.

Hayward had at last found a home for her restless spirit. LATE IN the fall of 1957, Walter Wanger, who had virtually made her a star in "Smash-Up" and "Tulsa," asked Hayward to help him by starring in his new film. Wanger, onetime millionaire pro Hayward. THE NIGHT OF the Academy Awards on April 6, 1959, might well have been a replay of the 1956 ceremonies, in which Hayward had lost not a professional prize but a popularity contest. But this night there was one difference: Hollywood no longer perceived her as the same woman.

In marrying a man like Chalkley and moving to Georgia, from where her name seldom made headlines, Hayward had physically and spiritually left the colony. If the audience was still filled with people who recalled only her coldness, they were now forced to acknowledge her brilliant triumph over the claustrophobia of Hollywood and the contract system. With "I Want to Live!" Susan Hayward had become an independent artist of the first order, a money-making star who had proven herself a great actress. Master of ceremonies Bob Hope joshed from the stage: "Movies are becoming so realistic, I was surprised to see Susan Hayward here tonight." Finally, as Hayward sat glued next to her man, Jimmy Cag-ney and Kim Novak read off the list of nominees for Best Actress: "Susan Hayward for 'I Want to Deborah Kerr for Shirley MacLaine for 'Some Came Rosalind Russell for 'Auntie Elizabeth Taylor for 'Cat on a Hot Tin Even before the line "The winner is Susan Hayward for 'I Want to was finished, the audience erupted into deafening applause. It had taken her, indeed, a very long time to get to her Oscar, and when she reached it, she clutched it heartily.

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He had invested his last dime on his own production of "Joan of Arc" with Ingrid Bergman, which flopped badly at the box office when the married Bergman had her scandalous affair with Italian producer-director Roberto Rossellini. Washed up and broke, he went into a deep depression which resulted in his belief that his actress wife, Joan Bennett, was having an affair with agent Jennings Lang. In a fit of rage, he shot Lang in the groin, in a parking lot. He spent 90 days in jail. Afterward, Graham Kislingbury, the Hollywood publicity man whom Hayward had always liked, gave Wanger a brief scenario from a docu-drama about the first woman to be sent to the gas chamber in California.

THE SCENARIO was written by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ed Montgomery, who had known the executed B-girl, Barbara Graham, and had covered her story. Montgomery's outline portrayed Graham as innocent and cried out for an end to the cruelty of capital punishment. Hayward began work on the film on March 24, 1958, on the Goldwyn lot. Hayward, Bob Wise and Wanger were all concerned about the final execution scene. From the pro and con noises that were being made by the police departments and other groups, the general feeling was that "I Want to Live!" would be shocking and influential.

No film had so dwelt on the details of capital punishment or shown an execution at such documentary length. BLINDFOLDED, with only a few lines to say in the final walk to the chamber, Hayward was forced to communicate the interior drama solely with her stance, her walk, Hie Susan Hayward Story small movements of her head. (Her one line in the gas chamber, as she is being advised to take a deep breath of the cyanide gas to make her death easier, "How would you is quintessential Hayward.) Her simulation of death was masterful, chilling. People on the set felt as if they had actually watched someone die. The director was terribly touched.

As expected, the film's release later in 1958 caused commotion. Audiences were shocked by the execution scenes, but flocked to see the film. In some parts of the world, the film was either banned or cut. In England, it was both: first completely banned, then shown in a watered-down version. Albert Camus thought the whole world should see the movie and that future generations would view it as a document of prehistoric cruelty.

Eleanor Roosevelt publicly praised it. Life devoted an article to the film. The reviews were startling, filled with acclaim for the movie and for Susan Hayward plays a convicted murderess awaiting execution in the 1958 film 'I Waint to PEOPLE IN THE NEWS i Local girl wins essay contest A 13-year-old Collingswood girl has won the seventh annual Gettysburg Address Essay Contest, sponsored by the Gettysburg, Travel Council. Katherine Remenicky, a seventh-grade student last year at Collingswood Junior High School, received a $200 U.S. Savings Bond for her first place award.

She is the daughter of Jerome and Clare Remenicky. In November, she and her family will be invited to Gettysburg, to attend the 122nd anniversary commemoration of President Lincoln's 1863 Gettysburg Address, written to dedicate a cemetery for Civil War casualties. The essay contest was conducted among 1,700 school districts in New Jersey, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Seventh- and eighth-grade students were asked to submit entries based on the "What the Gettysburg Address Means to Me." In her essay, Remenicky said the dedication called for in Lincoln's address should be used as the basis for solving today's problems of world hunger and the threat of nuclear annihilation. "Sincerity is not enough; we need to overcome ignoranceandapathy by our own dedication to learning and concern," she wrote.

"The first step is awareness of the problem; the second is making others our partners in the search for solutions." wTP I t- iff I Tiny Tim injured Tiny Tim, the ukulele-strumming singer whose "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" tickled the hippie '60s, was slightly injured in a truck crash in Genesee, N. police said. The 53-year-old entertainer, whose real name is Herbert Khaury, was riding in a truck when "the operator fell asleep, failed to negotiate a curve and crossed the highway" late yesterday, police said. The truck, driven by Floyd Parks, 42, of Sarasota, struck a car and a restaurant. Tiny Tim and Parks were treated for shoulder injuries and released.

Luce on satire "Satire is born out of disappointed realism," says Clare Bootbe Luce, the 82-year-old writer, editor, politician, stateswoman and satirist. Luce, whose play "The Women" is being performed at the Shaw Festival, was a special guest at the event in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. Discussing how society has changed in the 50 years since she wrote what was then called a brazen comedy of manners, she said, "Now style oozes from the bottom up. We have a very plebian society now. I remember my granddaughter try ing to make a pair of jeans look dirty and old." I Ex-FBI chief robbed Former FBI Director Clarence Kel-ley says crime "came home very, very vividly" when his home was burglarized recently for the second time.

"I thought that after being chief of police and director of the FBI, they would stay away from me," Kelley, 71, said yesterday. "But I guess this show that if they would do this to me, by God, it could happen to anybody." Kelley, who runs a detective agenc in Kansas City, returned home Friday to find the upstairs ransacked. Hero's son gets day off A Tennessee state agency has relented and will let a son of World War I hero Sgt. Alvin York take time off from work to attend a ceremony honoring his father. The state Human Services Depa rt-ment had told George York that he could not attend tomorrow's ceremo ny because he was behind in his work a a But after a plea from Sen.

Alb ert Gore the department said York could attend if he makes up the time. During the ceremony, the veterans hospital in Murfreesboro will be named the Alvin C. York Veter.ins Administration Medical Center. York, who died in 1964, killed 25 Cer-man soldiers and, acting alone, captured 132 others. Kesey warns of poison per Ken Kesey, author of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," has some advice for aspiring writers trunk about another career.

Speaking at the American Writ er's Conference in Houston, Kesey adv'ised young writers to keep at it. but war ned that the chances for literary fame aren't very good. "Your chances are better to beci me a pro football quarterback," he sa id. my (seat-belt) buckle and fell. I landed in the seat just in front of her.

"Her leg was pretty badly man- i uuua. uiu under some debris. She had some extreme neck pain and was in agony all over." Malloy said he unfastened Amatulli's seat belt and pulled her from her seat. Together they jumped to the ground. "She wanted us to get away from the plane as fast as we could," he said.

We were near a gully. It was raining real hard and I thought that would be the best place." Malloy said he stayed with Amatulli and called to others scurrying around the wreckage to bring blankets and piliows. When rescue crews began to arrive, Malloy said, he carried Amatulli out of the gully to paramedics. Amatulli. a flight attendant for 12 years, was in fair condition at Dallas' Parkland Memorial Hospital.

BallOOn Celebration March of Dimes Poster Girl Patti Anne Jones with Camden Mayor Melvin R. "Randy" Primas (right) and Keller's Butter sales manager Walt Duzenski, who gave a $10,000 check to the March of DimesKeller's Hot Air Balloon Classic on Aug. 17-18 in Cooper River Park. ESSSy WinilGr oourior-post pnoto Dy tvangelos Dousmanis Katherine Remenicky, 13, a student at Collingswood Junior High School, holds the $200 savings bond she received for her winning essay. SCIENCE MEDICINE Delta passenger lauded for rescuing attendant Low turnout forces of 4 state AIDS test closing centers Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.

When Delta Air Lines Flight 191 crashed and crumbled in a Texas thunderstorm, passeneer John Mallov responded to the screams of a trapped and injured flight attendant, pulling her to safety. To the family of Jenny Amatulli, Malloy is nothing less than a hero they spent several days after Friday's crash at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport trying to locate and thank him. Amatulli's husband, Tony, who lives in Fort Lauderdale, finally reached Malloy on Monday. "He was just very thankful," Malloy said. Malloy, 29, of Redondo Beach, who escaped with scratches from the crash that killed 1 33 people, said the 35-year-old flight attendant was pinned in her seat several rows ahead of him.

"She was screaming to get us out of there because she was afraid of a fire or an explosion." he said. "I released "The centers were set up to do AIDS testing and basically, the people have not come to the centers," Taylor said. She said the department may use the testing centers to help patients with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), which attacks the body's immune system and leaves it vulnerable to deadly diseases. Only those in the high risk groups, such as homosexuals and intravenous drug users, were encouraged to seek the AIDS screening test, which only shows whether a person has been exposed to the virus but does not reveal whether that person will show symptoms of the disease. As of July 1 5, 733 cases of AIDS have been reported in New Jersey.

Of those, 459 patients have died. The state has the fourth highest number of cases in the country, health officials have said. Assemblyman Rodney Frelinghuysen, R-Morris, had argued for a budget resolution in the Legislature to allocate $1.9 million to set up the AIDS screening program. "It would be better to have individuals who want a free test for AIDS to go somewhere other than a blood bank to get it done," he said. Associated Press TRENTON Four AIDS screening centers will be shut down later this year because not enough people have sought testing in New Jersey, which has 6.4 percent of the nation's AIDS cases, health officials say.

The facilities, called alternate test sites by the Department of Health, were established in May and June to test high-risk individuals for the AIDS antibody in an attempt to keep the virus out of blood banks. But only about 200 people sought testing at the centers, which are located in New Brunswick, Newark, Jersey City and Atlantic City, officials said yesterday. Blood banks test every donor for the AIDS antibody, although they may not inform the donors of the results. Dr. Frances Taylor of the Health Department said work at the centers was funded by a $160,000 grant from the federal Center for Disease Control.

That grant runs out at the end of December and the turnout at the centers is too low to warrant an allocation of state money to keep them open, said Taylor. 1.