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STAGE AND SCREEN 27 O.kt.nd Tribune, Friday, June 29, 1956 Nolan Cast British Actress In Spinster Role Leo Lavandero DANCER GETS DRAMATIC ROLE AT LAST Actot Tells How As Villain If on does not at first recog To Direct Play I HOW TONIT1 niie Brenda de Banzi. the-at Lee Lavandero, director ef tractive man-taming spinster in He Creates 'Age 0E3tod'snu(wiriT'l-ntod Betty CfirfCTOetofor at Set, In Santiago aociated exclusively with song the Tower, it is became the British actress has played such 1 iii Comedy Theater, which opens Jury 10 with Ferene MolnarV The Play's the Thing." is also B7 THEEESA LOEB CONI Trtfcaa Drama E4itr Lloyd Nolan is an actor who a variety of roles during her long career that most peopl is happiest in real life when Meeting James Westerfield In person proved aomethlnei assistant professor of drama at have only a hazy idea of what Yale University and director ef ih really looks like. he is acting the villain on the screen. As Clay Pike, the gun 01 a snocn. i tan I read mi biography before joining the actor and hii bride of a few month at dinner.

So, baring een him just two weeks ago on atage at the Geary as the Tve had chins added to my the Yale Dramatic Association. smuggling character in "San if- ah says. "I been cov Born, in Puerto Rico, Lavan- tiago," opening today at the ered with wrinkles. I've worn seventy ish Matthew Harrison Brady, in "Inherit the 71 5 dero was for many years the D. He portrays a man who flat dresses to kill my figure." and dance roles, will play her first straight dramatic part in Columbia's Th Missing Witness," picturlzation of the Cosmopolitan Magazine thriller by John and Ward Hawkins.

The actress, wVose husband, Larry Parks, will appear in "Teahouse of the August Moon" at the Geary soon, will be seen in the film as a (divorce whose young son is plunged into memory less shock when he sees her cap tured by hoodlums who threaten to murder her. wind," I naturally expected to meet an elderly man. To my surprise I found Westerfield is a young-looking 39- director of the theater of th glories in being eviL All of which was true until her Nolan has a sound resaon tor last two films, "As Long As University of Puerto Rico, year-old despite his receded registering off-screen Joy when They're Happy" and "Doctor at nainine and bulk. "Th Play's th Thing" will be followed on July 24 by Jtous- REMEMBER? he is playing heavies. His Holly Sea." xei, mis versatile per wood' career was progressing In "Doctor at Sea" Brenda is tin's "Th LitU Hut" Th plays rORTY YEARS AGO-Whis former whose stint in the satisfactorily, but unostentati provided with a collection of will be given at the Paris Thea Ming soloist Ralph Allen wss at show deserves every bit ously as he quietly went his way clamorous clothes, ter, 14th and Alice Streets.

ui vrpncuin. playing nice guys. Then Nolan left for New York TWENTY YEARS AGO Jack Oaki and Sally Eilers to enact the role of the brutal Captain Queeg in the stage pro JAMES WESTERFIELD Bryan's Alter Eao III r.WVM MkM I eiAoAt ataooa- I LATA SHOW I TTIY I I SOMITE I I 1 VlBTHRia I iff) )jzS2J' were playing In "Florida Spa rial" at the Fox-Oakland. duction of "The Cain Mutiny Court Martial" He won the New York Critics and Donaldson turbing to Westerfield, espee Awards as the Year's outstand Mystery ill ill i i i i ii wmnv I ing stage actor. lally since he jnay go to Eng land with the play.

the enthusiastic applause that comes his way, says he doesn't use any makeup to add an extra SO years to his life each night en the stage. "You can project old age by the motions of your body, by your slouch and slowness far more effectively, than with makeup," he informed us. "Modern theater lighting helps too in creating any illusion about age that Is necessary for the role." VETERAN ACTOR Westerfield, who Impresses one as affable and a thorough craftsman in a oro- "I have a home in Van Nuys rcsKiauT Nolan explained his views on tough guys between takes of a scene in "Santiago," during aaa sr at ss IS that I would like to live in for Drama on Fox Screen change instead of being on which he takes a severe pum II i i i 1 II meling from Alan Ladd in a fight tor the affections of Ital 1 1 W.N tour. Both my wife and I look forward the show's run in Los Angeles next month since it will give us a chance to be ian actress Rosana Podesta. London's Baker Street made "Playing a villain can be rough on one physically, but the in eur own home instead of a famous by Sherlock Holmes, is the 'central setting of the mys hotel, he smiled.

"That's one compensation lies in the satis 1 I V2-ll tery drama, "23 Paces to Baker rewarding aspect cf working in Street" opening at the Fox- Hollywood pictures. You get to II OKEAT I I STOAT I faction an actor derives from portraying a scoundrel convincingly. It is always a fresh I ONLY ONLY II WW Oakland today. go home every night" ATTRACTIVE BRIDE II NOW AT I0TH THIATtES II II challenge to give an individual istic t6uch to such a character hi I i iiii imi II His bride, a Chicago lass Filmed on location In the picture stars Van Johnson as a blind American playwright who inadvertently overhears a kidnap plot and sets out to run ization. whose maiden name was Frances fession to which, he has devoted 20 years of his life, is no Johnny-come-lately to live theater, despite the fact that most of us recognize him from his many appearances in films and on television.

Perhaps his outstanding impression was made on movie audiences when he played Big Mac in "On the Waterfront," the Elia Kazan feature that was destined to snatch many an Lansing, agreed with this. A 11 1 1 i CONTINUOUS rBOM NOON I very attractive young lady, Mrs. Westerfield revealed that she down the unknown criminals Vera Miles is seen as his ex- 'Tike, tiie hard-talking, hard-shooting guy I play in is a straightforwardly bad man who Tevels in being a scoundrel" Coincidental, "Santiago," Nolan's first picture since his New first met her husband a few fiancee and British actor Cecil years ago while she was a con Parker heads the supporting Mr tract player at Paramount "We cast as his secretary-handyman. -i were Just mends then," she said. "But when Jim came to York stage role also has a nau award for its participants.

"Originally, I tried out for the my home town in Inherit the role of Eva Marie Saint's father Hear NAT KINO COLI Henry Ephron produced and Henry Hathaway directed the 20th Century-Fox CinemaScope-color film; Nigel Balchin wrote the screenplay based on a novel, "Warrant For by Philip Mac- Wind' I went backstage to see him and we were married soon tical background for him to 'perform his villainy. Much of the action of the WarnerColor film takes place aboard an old river boat used for smuggling in that movie," Westerfield ex-'plained. "I was living in Wantagh, afterward." Westerfield admitted that Donald. arms from Florida to Cuba. since his marriage he has been aa Ma Long Island, at the time.

Had to drive SO miles into Manhattan to read for Kazan whom I have known for many years. When didn't get the part, I was disap SAN FRANCISCANS GO TO OAKLAND TO SEE CHILDREN'S QUttU dieting, inspired by his petite IU 55 FAIRYLAND, SEE A 24-HOUR MOVIE, SPEND MONEY IN spouse. He doesn know his AN ALL-NIGHT DRUG STORE, AID IH TKI BEST IUILZXQ9E pointed, and drove back home exact weight but claims he recently lost ten pounds. In that eating sequence on stage he goes H. 1 THRILL HIT UI THE WAIT.

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1956 feeling rather annoyed about the whole affair. But the next thing easy on the food and. what he I knew I was on my way back to the city again, reading Big does consume calorie stuff." part, and getting thtroleJ HerwaT certainly-sticking Westerfield revealed that he close to a reducing regime at has appeared on stage in San the dinner we ate, a fact that Francisco before. He was part obviously pleased Mrs. W.

who doesn't need to diet Would he lose out on the role (modeled of the Gaetano Merola opera company that was on the boards here and in the early 1940's. He was cast in several shows, in on William Jennings Bryan) if he became too svelte7 Not at cluding "La Boheme, "The Mar all, claims the actor, who thinks a good performer can make riage of Fiagaro" and "The Rose Mask, one of the several Eng- himself appear fat, too if neces 'fiV sary, without adding any real maus." He also was the "first di poundage to cinch the illusion. eiieriajuwajiir mmous rector of the Greek Theater in ipUn' Los Angeles. WON CRUXES' AWARD a ii an -w-m mv i 1 II CUFF ROBERTSON I II Junr nuoaivrm I However, he admitted he didn't GEARYHmNOW! mi. MATS.

Wlfc, SAT III ET- Ends July 14 "The play of the yearl" ROADWAY'S (1ST 1XTRA ADDED ATTRACTION MELYYN enjoy singing roles as much as straight acting assignments. His appearances on Broadway included such productions as "Sing Sweet Land," "Anything Goes," "The Wizard of Oz," "Madwoman of Chaillot" and as Xish' Adiim who'd even as the native tirl who I I) 1Mb? vtOUGLAS 1 1 i i II, i I ronfun'int tall for I pries! put a price on his head! "Detective Story." In "Mad INHERIT THE WIND woman" he had the role of the Sewer Man, a minor but im portant characterization which won him a New York critics' JAMES WESTERFIELD WUUAM WOODSON AND COMPANY OP m-v, PlBaaw. -11 1 award, an honor that was re peated for his portrayal of '3 ib in jram ssi a bf si Detective Brody in "Detective Story." Westerfield had several glow MAIL ORDERS ALSO FILLED 113 ii it 1 11 iriAi zriMa I Ai.ih i ing words for the acting ability of the Late Louis Calhern, tm. Moa. Wa Tlm.1 Orcfe.

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