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IMM01.nl Oct. I 1-0c 1, 17, 1969 ITHACA JOURNAL 31 Get Involved, Says Lancaster Dorothy Lamour Seeking TV Roles Bulge in Belgium. Some years ago, already laden with honors and loot, Burt thought of quitting the industry. trying a new field. But now, still ruggedly trim at 55, he has shelved that idea.

"All I want to do is to go on as long as I can making films that touch people emotionally and express what I feel about life." he said. "You can't just quit because you are ahead." Burt and his wife. Norma. a former US() entertainer he met while he was in the Army, were divorced last month. They have five children.

Cissy Gets Apartment .94.7.1 I. Alit, ak (- ert I i.1 1- i Nt By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP) Is an actor a mere puppet? Not in the opinion of Burt Lancaster, the film star millionaire who started his career as a $3-a-week circus acrobat. "Some American actors think acting is unmanly," he said. "I felt that way myself for years that I should be doing something else. I don't now.

I've found acting is a way to be myself. "I don't think of myself as an actor in the traditional, con yen-IC sense. Acting become to me a way of sayiog what I want to say." Lancaster, who once aspired IC) be an opera singer. been saying pretty much vhat he wants to say since the age of 3 when, while appearing in a church nativity play, he saw a piece of gum on his shoe and startled the audience by exclaiming, "What the hell that piece of gum doing there?" Son of a postal clerk Burt likes to recall the years when he and five brothers and sisters were reared in an east Harlem walkup railroad flat. "I came from a family poor in terms of money but not :9 terms of courage and at he said.

"My childhood was a happy one. There was a lot of laughter, joy and love in my family." Those early years, and later years when he woOed around the country in menial jobs ranging from boiler stoker t9 road gang worker. left Lancaster with a strong sympathy for underdogsthe downtrodden and overlooked people of earth. To me life is a commitment: he said "You have to get involved. When whatever talent you have wins you prestig, and successisn't that the aerican can't simply retire to an ivory tower and live there.

Your talent owes a responsibility to others. You have to try to help them in some way. "I always like the advice that Bernard Shaw gave: Waste yourself on the ash heap of But actually you do something for yourself when you care for others." Lancaster, who won an Oscar for "Elmer Gantry." likes to make films that carry a ful social impact. Ills latest and 41stis -Castle -Keep." a surrealistic war picture detailing 'he experiences of a group of GIs during the battle of the -21 EnCMI By JOAN CROSBY Newspaper Enterprise Assn. NEW YORK She was wearing pink.

Draped around her neck was a cerise chiffon scarf that matched her lipstick, She held a white in one hand. wafting it seductively under her nose. It was the heart of New York City, and the outfit was appropriately it if led Yet looking at her. somehow palm trees appeared in the background. the color of her clothing looked Polynesian and the soft sounds of 'file Moon of Manakura" wafted through the air.

It's like that with Dorothy La1110111'. Or more accurately, with just about anyone who has ever seen her in films. And just about everyone has. "I've already graduated to the Late. Late Show," she laughs.

"I've grabbed three generations. Do I watch my Old movies on TV? No sir. My husband and the kids watch. I go into another room and watch old Joan Cray)ford movies." Dottie, as everyone calls her. was one of the Inittest box of I ice stars during the war year.

On tours she sold millions of dollars worth of bouts. She made all those great -Hoar pictures with Bob Ilope and Bing Crosby. These are facts that even the Now Generation knows, though Dottie is of the Was Generation (those of us over 301. Then, at the height of her career she did a very un-actressy thing then, she is real and earthy 1. She married a man (William Howard) whose business and family were both in Baltimore, She left Hollywood to be with him.

That was 26 years ago. Today their two sons, Ridge (23) and Toni()) are grown. Bill's close relatives are dead, so they have moved back to California "where we have so many friends." The result is that we can expect to see much more of Dottie on TV. She'll be seen Friday p.m.) in NBCTV's The Name of the Game, Neton Featured Wayne Newton makes a guest appearance on "The Jim Nabors Hour" Thursday (8-9 p.m.) on CBS-TV. svnEET Invites You to Test Drive the '69 Fiat DOROTHY LAMOUR playing a woman who runs a bar in a prison town.

"I only have four scenes, but I think they're strong and they run through the story," she says. "I like to work and I want to do more TV. I have no aspirations about getting back to where I was when 1 was in the Top 10, Put hen I toured the country in Hello, Dolly; we played 112 cities in 38 states in 10 months, It proved to me that I can do things beside standing by a palm tree and singing songs or planting gags for and Crosby, People remember the sarongs and the road films and they forget I also did pictures like 'Johnny Apollo' and 'A Medal For So I have to make them remember an acting image." She says, unlike so many who were weaned in movies, that she loves TV. "I used to go crazy with the slowness of motion pictures. My only complaint about TV is that there is not sufficient time to prepare." When Dottie and 13il1 were house hunting in Los Angeles.

they looked through all the elegant neighborhoods. Finally they found a house they loved. It happens to be two doors away from home. Which means she may be able to inlist an ally for something she "would love to do." A TV special. a "road" show.

reuniting the terrific trio of llope, Crosby and Lamour. "We're off on the Road to the Cissy Kathy Garver moves away from the family into an apartment of her own and encounters an entirely new set of problems. on Family Affair" Thursday p.m. on CBS TV. Cissy feels the way to handle a crisis in her teen-age life is to move in with her young friend Rita Stone (Terry Burnham 1.

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