Statesville Record and Landmark from Statesville, North Carolina • 4

I Statesville Record and 1 Landmark SH0ilE THE COLORUL WORLD ENTERTAINMENT Saturday November 14 1970 Executioners irst Client Role Provided Hord Road To Stardom i nrhioh lafnr uont tn HOLLYWOOD Mariana Hill figures if she born under the sign of Aquarius she might not have become a movie star at all Now that she has starred in three major films and Traveling she is sure the stars have been taking good care of her Of the three Mariana figures her best past part to date has been that of a condemned murderess in candor agent called and said there was a rumor around that someone was going to get sick on that picture and he thought I had a chance for it I was supposed to go into a role in Dingus for MGM which later went to Michele Carey But I rather liked doing in which the only girl in the cast except for a horse I got the interview and met Stacy Reach and we hit it right off Traveling opposite Stacy Keach But the actress is very honest about herself and ad mits she the first choice for the part she explained with 'X'w fNilh I rl jA i I 5qgisp i z'ffr4 1 1' i $11 ok ''UkWW' 1 IW hmHiL w' gK Jd A 7 Mr 77 A 7 7 fWwWw A 'A A' Vj Ajfi A ISLl MARIANA HILL stars as the first lady "client" of "The Traveling Executioner" the MGM film about the itinerant who traveled the prison circuit early in this century with his portable electric chair gloss over Stacy a genius and only 28 on his way to being a great new Mariana likes people and is often fearless in her defense of them When former Governor Wallace came to the Montgomery Ala set of Traveling the politician refused to be photo graphed with the infamous Kilby Prison in the background but he was delighted to pose with Mariana Even though it popular to admit it Mariana likes the one time political candidate and goes around telling this story about their encounter: introduced himself to me as better be careful about having your picture made with me throw things at you when you get back up like she said he had that much sense of humor about Even though she was an ex perienced actress when the part in came along Mariana regards her background as She worked on both coasts in television and the episode on Greatest Show On which brought her to the attention of Howard Hawks The director signed her for Line which helped her break the movie barrier event ually led to the female lead in Traveling Keach plays a traveling execu tioner who is commissioned by the governor to fry Mariana and he is especially interested as she will be his first lady A desperate romance develops between the pair when Mariana tries to enlist the assistance in es caping Even though the sardonic comedy has macabre overtones the actress feels she was handed a choice I ha ve the kind of part an actress dreams about in Traveling and play ing opposite Stacy was a wonderful she said She is interested in astrology and her sign is Aquarius but she re fused to become hung up on trying to out guess the stars believe in living from day to she says A Ah I i.