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fcillilllCIUC 6- Section 2 CHICAGO TRIBUNE, MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 1968 M. J- Susan Thomas sum-oi -parts! Plaid, solid, sleeves and leather-look 1 vinyl trim are the wonderful mix of our Susan Thomas casual. A plaid weskit, a solid blouse, a solid wool skirt! In black-cream or navy-gray, sires 8 to 16, 55.00; Casual dresses, fourth floor, State; also all suburban stores; CALL 462-4747 or write Carsons, Box AA. 1 i i It 4 iJ Gordon Addison and Sondra Locke were childhood sweet-hearts and dreamed of acting. A.

4 i (' '6j z.i'J A '3 4T I if New face in the movie world: Sondra Locke has completed her first film role as Mick Kelly in Warner Brothers "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter." She plays a waifish tomboy of 14 and is letter perfect in the role. In person she's a delicate blonde beauty with huge brown eyes. She's 21 and was married to her childhood sweetheart last September. Gordon Addison is also an actor and a very important person in her professional life. They've been inseparable and in love since they were 11.

That was back in Shelbyville, where Sondra was born. Gordon moved there when he was 9, didn't like anyone else in town except Sondra. They spent all their time together-going to movies, analyzing, dissecting, and memorizing them, play-acting in the attic. BOTH HAVE wanted to be actors as far back as they can remember. "I was a very professional little liar and I hated school," Gordon remembers.

"I'd stay home from school every chance I got. Sondra was a straight A student; she can even do algebra." After they were graduated from high school, Gordon and Sondra went to Nashville and "lots of little theater work." Sondra's last few parts, before her big movie break, were as Helen of Troy in "Tiger at the Gates" and the little girl in "Turn of the Screw." SONDRA ALSO worked as a television production assistant, then made television commercials "I did them only when I needed the money." Gordon decided to try his luck in New York, and landed a role in the off-Broadway production of "Until the Monkey Comes" which won him a special award for the most promising newcomer the same award given to Dustin Hoffman and Faye Dunaway in previous years. Sondra read about the talent search for a girl to play Mick Kelly in Nashville. Gordon heard about it in New York and immediately began to "plot and scheme." "HE CAME home and said, You can do Sondra says she replied: "'Never, she's so unlike But Gordon convinced me I should try it. He approached it from an artistic angle.

He's very good with make-up, created a peeling, sunburned nose, pushed my ears forward, and made me cut my nails." Gordon adds to the story: "I made a scab on her knee, and then we her bosom what there is of it with' an athletic leg bandage. We She pZays a tomboy in "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter." Gordon turned her into one. thinned her hair." Most of Gordon's make-up ideas were kept in the film. Sondra continues: "We drove to Birmingham and I read for Marion Dougherty. She liked me and thought the director should see me.

He was in New Orleans so we drove all night I met him and was so tired all I could think of was 'please just let me go home. "THEY SAID they'd call me the following Tuesday. Then I was told to go to New York. I was there for three weeks, reading for different people every day, but I never did make a screen test." Sondra's first role has pleased her immensely. Primarily because "it's a real acting role.

It was such a wonderful opportunity. Watching the movie I felt I was watching someone else. But I was very, very pleased at the way it turned out. You work so hard, but you can't be sure how it will end up. Mick was a special person.

It would have been terrible to have ruined her." Gordon liked Sondra's work in the movie, too. "I'm terribly critical, and I thought I'd pick her to pieces. I could find nothing wrong. She's brilliant," he says proudly. SONDRA DESCRIBES herself as "very one directional acting.

But Gordon, he can do anything." Among Gordon's talents besides acting are wig-making he makes all of Sondra's hairpieces and costume design. He's made the antique beige lace dress that she'll wear for the opening of the film from "lace that was in my grandmother's attic." "He designs me," Sondra says of her young husband. "He bought this suede dress for me in New York and then designed the shoes to go with it even painted the heels green to match this stripe on the dress." In the midst of the excitement that surrounds her, Sondra is concerned about Gordon. "I feel very guilty that I've interrupted his career. He's totally unselfish." "No," Gordon disagrees, "I'm smart.

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