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SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 8, 193T THE COSHOCTON, OHIO. TRIBUNE PAGE EIGHT Simj Parker's Acting Said Bad in Both Movies and TV Poor French 'Pig Girl Author Gets the Cinderella Treatment Tony Curtis Plays Second Fiddle to Slars; Cashes in By VERNON SCOTT HOLLYWOOD (UP)-Tony Curtis, former bobby sox idol, is be KENT, England (NE A) I expected to meet a teen-age monster, a dead-eyed fugitive from a girls' reform school who read Proust while she fed the pigs on her father's farm. But the girl who was ushered looked as though she couldn't have beeri much more than 12. She was less than five feet tall, wore her hair cut urchin fashion, and her figure bulged in all the wrong places beneath her blue cardigan. She was Berthe Grimault, a Berthe's companions these days.

primitive French peasant girl, who are the sub-deb daughters of the had written two novels that are rich and titled. She now has the I've worked with a girl starting out in the movie business. "Suzy is a beauiful, warm girl with a nice personality. She has the desire to become a star and she might just be great." Cooper started Marlene Dietrich, Sylvia Sidney, Grace Kelly, Joan Leslie and Patricia Neal on the road to stardom when the girls were testing their celluloid wings. In his own quiet way the spindle-shanked actor has managed to snag off the best of Hollywood's leading ladles down through the years, which puts him in a class by himself when it comes to screen You can separate his co stars into three separate eras, starting with the newest crop of beauties.

Audrey Hepburn, Ruth Roman, Grace Kelly, Elizabeth Montgomery and Loraine Day climbed the W5f mw shockers. The first of these, "Beau run of a 300-year-old stately home Clown," was written when Bertho in Kent, whose windows give onto By VERNON SCOTT HOLLYWOOD (LT) Gary Cooper, who's starred with three generations of great leading la-dies, is co-starred in a new movie with a glamour girl who can't act her way out o( a soap opera, according to critics. The newcomer is Parker, the sultry beauty who drew critical brickbats in her first picture, "Kiss Them For Me." The reviews of Sury'i emoting were so severe there were no barbs left for Jayne Mansfield's acting in the picture. shifted to TV with a "Playhouse 90" performance in "The Death of Manolete." Her video gambit stirred up more abuse thaa ever. Instead of dropping from sight or heading for the actor's studio, a La Monroe, Suzy has landed a top role opposite Cooper, And 01' Coop likes the idea.

"I usually choose my leading ladies," he said in his clipped, non-committal way. "There's a cast approval clause in my contract. And this isn't the first time was 14, and just published in the lawns with ornamental lily ponds, U.S. tennis courts and a golf course 1 "Beau Clown" is a storv of dov- nearby. erty, lust, murder and lunacy set The room which she shares with on a farm that is the mirror image one other girl is centrally-heated of Berthe's own farm in central ut ui viic a vwm lawn ti viiuai coming a millionaire playing second banana to superstars Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas and Frank Sinatra.

The big boys put up the cash for their own movies, grab top billing and worry about clearing a few bucks when the picture is released. Not Tony. By taking the second lead, which used to go to glamour girls, he gets a percentage of the gross profits and a fat salary to boot. He banks a fortune while his bosses sweat it out. "There are no leading ladies left in Hollywood," Tony explains.

"So I co-star with other guys. The pictures I've done lately a re based on the relationship and conflict between two men." Com Long Way Curtis, his curly lhair turning gray, is 31 and losing his pretty toy reputation. The critics agree he's come a long way since the days at Universal International when he chased Piper Laurie across the desert in sex and sand quickies. 8 France. "Nothing more grotesque and has its own private bath.

On has appeared in years," is the Par- ld BTT. 1 critics' verdict. uc' bathed, it was in a muddy cattle However, the place where Berthe Pol atrocious when she first came," Mrs. Orr-Ewing continued, "but now they are quite presentable. She still doesn't walk and sit as well as I would like her to, but it's coming," she added hopeully.

Berthe squirmed and looked as though she would like to bolt out the door. After five months Berthe speaks almost no English, and even her French is bad, being a sort of patois. The only time during the interview she showed real animation was in talking of the paintings she had seen in London's National Gallery. "Wonderful I like very much," she exclaimed, breaking into English. Was there any particular painting she favored? "Tous," she cried, spreading her arms as though to embrace the whole of art.

Then 1 she subsided. Berthe seems totally unaware that she is a literary celebrity, or, for that matter, that her novel has even been published. Nor is she working on a new novel had difficulty persuading her to keep a diary," says Mrs. Orr-Ewing). Which raises the question of Berthe's literary talent.

M. Elizier Fournier, the postman in the village of Jassay (pop. 100), claims that he spotted her talent for spinning yarns and persuaded her to put them down on paper. Berthe's hard drinking father had spent some time in a mental home, and when he came home cured he described the antics of the asylum inmates to his family. BERTHE GRIMAULT AT HOME: Before the Cinderella experiment, her bathtub was muddy cattle pool.

stardom ladder playing opposite and I met was neither a pig-sty nor The question is: How much of this has rubbed off after five a reformatory. It was in the draw ing-room of one of Britain's most months; exclusive finishing schools, The Cooper in the past few years. Go back 10 years and Cooper's leading ladies were Ingrid Bergman, Joan Leslie, Susan Hayward, Lauren Bacall and Teresa Wright. Now go back to the 1930s and you'll find the tall Montanan was Berthe struck me as a French Grove, near Sevenoaks, Kent (for version of the little girl next door girls from ages 17 to 21, tuition who climbs trees and behaves like fees, For Berthe, who is now 17, is a tomboy. She is just a nice, wholesome kid, I decided.

And what was she doing here posing as the dead- the subject of a Cinderella experi- ment that is probably unique of end kid of French literature? its kind. "Berthe put on 14 pounds the her books so far. The events Berthe describes have left no trace of viciousness in the girl. "She's like a child who has been locked up in a coal cellar all her life." Mrs. Orr-Ewing observed.

"I thought at first it was a question of genius handicapped by poverty, and of helping that genius to mature," she sighed. "But now I see that it's a ease of an ordinary human being who isn't fully awakened." As we talked in the elegant drawing-room I found myself looking for a glass slipper on Berthe's plump foot. But no, her painted toes peeped through an ordinary sandal. starring with Carole Lombard. Paulette Goddard, Barbara Stanwyck, Merle Oberon, Loretta Young, Joan Crawford and Ann Harding.

You can go back farther, but ol' Coop just as soon you wouldn't. Soon she was weaving tales around lunatics. How much of Berthe's writing is her own, and how much Four-nier's? Her British publishers put it this way, Fournier helped her to put her story into shape, teaching her to write as they went along," but Fournier is bolder. "With my advice and under my control she produced a new version of her novel," he says. Whatever Berthe's share in the authorship, very little of the royalties have come her way.

Most of the money has gone to pay off her father's debts, while the postman gets his share. A new bicycle is about all that Berthe has had from ON STAGE "It began when Burt Lancaster asked me to work with him in The experiment is to see wheth first six weeks she was here," Mrs. Orr-Ewing informed me. er an English boarding-school can He took a big chance, but it paid off. turn a backward French pig-girl "She got horribly fat, and none of Thursday, Dec.

12 into a polished and poised young the clothes I made her fit. But she lie's made 00 pictures in his has learned how to control her diet career and seldom has one been a woman. And it isn't costing Berthe "We got together again in 'Sweet Smell of Success' and that came through like gang busters, and has slimmed down." a cent, thanks to the generosity of boxoffice dud. Gary says much of AT 9:03 P.M. The subject of these remarks his success has been due to his Mrs.

Muriel Orr-Ewing, the school too. Then I co-starred with Kirk proprietress, who five months ago smiled a smile of total incompre- choice of glamour girls. In 'The and now Sinatra invited Berthe to spend a year at hension. "Her table manners were quite The Grove as a free guest. in 'Kings Go Forth." Considered Lightweight Actor SO SCARY-WE DARE VOU! SU Thru It AB Ao4 V'oo Win FREE PASS'S Always considered a lightweight ELD OV fa ummA i tnmK i ve cnosen some mighty good ones," he says.

"The greatest actress I ever worked with was Helen Hayes. The only two 1 regret never having appeared with are Greta Garbo and Olivia Dellavilland. "And if I had to bet on it, I'd say Suzy's going to do herself real proud." in the acting department, Curtis gets wide-eyed talking about the iATIEE FJiHAY 1:20 heavyweights he's working with now. Sinatra has copped an Oscar. in The other two have been peren nial nominees, "These guys want ed me in their pictures because ELVIS HITS A NEW HIGH A jT i cohfS they know I can bring people to the boxoffice.

Now I feel like Im ACTOR OF SURPRISING TALENTI trVi Railroads Ask Financial Help holding my own in the acting de partment. 1 can't tell you how ELVIS IS PRESLEY in ft V' much I ve learned from them. WASHINGTON (UP)-Railroad "All of them have one thing in HOW SHOWING: STAR Tues. Facea of Eve," with Joanne Woodward and David Wayne, plus "Ride a Violent Mile." Thurs. "The Abominable Snowman," with Forrest Tucker plus "Ghost Diver," with James Craig.

Sat. "The Restless Breed," starring Scott Brady, plus "Hell on Devil's Island." Saturday afternoon Kiddie Karnival at 1:30 with eight cartoons. Little Rascals comedy plus "Restless Breed." SIXTH STREET "Jailhouse Rock," Elvis Presley with Judy Tyler and Mickey Shaughnessy, plus James Dean playing himself in the "James Dean Story." "White Huntress," Susan Stephen and John Bently, plus "Naked Africa," narrated by Ouentin Reynolds. THURSDAY ONLY Stage shows "Shrieks in the Night" at 9 p. m.

plus "Pharaoh's Curse," with Mark Dana and Diane Brewster. "Zero Hour," Dana Andrew's, Linda Darnell, Sterling Heyden, Leroy "Craiylegs" Hirsch and Peggy King plus "Hear Me Good," Hal March, Joe E. Ross and Merry Anders. SATURDAY Kiddie show at 1:30 p. six color cartoons plus two regular features and number of surprises.

common they're highly intelli executives have appealed to the administration for help for their industry's "critical" financial plight. '4 gent men," Curtis enthused, "They push me all the time to ft hmC make sure I'm giving my best A White House conference JUDY MWVrJ Sinatra, Lancaster and Douglas Thursday between the nine exec utives and high government offi HAUGHNESSY ff'afSlJt' I SHAUGHNESSY Mickey are tough, but it's a great train ing ground for me. uean JONtS cials was termed "very satisfactory" by William T. Faricy, chair Jennifer HOLDEN "Frankly, I want to follow in their footsteps. Maybe some of PLUS at 1:50, 5:00 8:15 man of the board of the Associa tion of American Railroads.

Far- their talent will rub off on me. ntTAM icy served as spokesman for the industry. PLAYS HIMSELF V-fku Tony is happy to be picking up an adult audience with his second banana gimmick. But he's not brushing off the youngsters who He said the government offi tt" 1 VMM got him started the first place, cials, who included presidential assistant Sherman Adams, took the proposals under advisement. Faricy said the railroad officials had full opportunity to explain the situation confronting the railroads SHOWING THIS WEEK "My teenage fans were the ones who took me out of a New York gutter and stuck with me," says Tony.

"I don't think theyll object A Oif FtVRENT KINO Of MOTION PICTURE- miM by WARNER BROS. W3 if I become a good actor. Mb Utl.f.i "which we feel is rapidly becom ing critical." "JAILHOUSE" 3:25, 6:40, 9:55 7 JfL Railroad earnings have dropped 4 Vaccine Produced in sharply in recent months. GIANT STAGE SK3W THURSDAY AT 9:03 P.M. "SHRIEKS IN NIGHT" LAST OF DIOR Actress Ingrid Bergman, whose marital life with Roberto Rossellini has ended in a legal separation, wears the final creation styled by Christian Dior before his death.

Miss Bergman models the satin, floral-patterned dress and matching mink trimmed coat in London, where she is beginning a new movie. hurt BITZ TODAY, MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY 01 IL. .11 ma "MILE" 1:30, 4:40, 7:50 "EVE" 3:10, 4:25, 9:45 Russia Unsatisfactory WASHINGTON (UP) A Russian woman doctor's vaccine for multiple sclerosis has been tested and found wanting as a cure or effective treatment for the disease, according to a U.S. Public Health Service spokesman. The work of Soviet Dr.

A.E. Shubladze in the multiple sclerosis field first came to the attention of medical officials here about a decade ago. Limited quantities of Dr. Shubladze's vaccine were made available to various organizations in this country for evaluation. Multiple sclerosis is a disease of the central nervous system.

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