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I'- ii --finrw iiii 4 '1 'J iSk i i Lo3nffdcCfmcjeT. sunday morning, September i 94? Partiv fazI-H II i i. I- 4 If tW' i reading habits reveal life goals, there's no tioubt ahnut 1 the direction of Claudia Barrett, Warner Bros. 19-year- 1 old actress. She lists Stanislavski "An" Actor Prepares" v.

and Katharine Cornell's "I Wanted to Be an Actress' as I her favorites. 'rhe San Fernando Valley prwhict, who is currently playing in Warners "After Nightfall." was discovered by I- a talent scout while appearing in the 'Van Nuys High School production, "You Can't Take It With You," two years ago. She has two ambitions: to do a lead on Broad wav and i iimi I i I to play opposite Garv Cooper in Hollywood. She botlv I 'r 1 sings and dances and began her drama studies at 7. iRXPEtilEXCEC.atliy Downs, winsome western heroine found herself the only female iritli 100 men on Ltciilion for "Sundowners in Texas.

She tells how, with to wardrobe womttn, hairdresser or bath facilities, she "enjoyeiT roughing it, fe 'Oil, LOVELY MAIDEN This is Teresa Celliy descendant of a line of French-Italian opera gingers, who was lured from her training at La Scala in Milan and is now being groomed for eostarring singing roles opposite Mario Lanza at MGM. 7 She has just finished playing the role of Gene Kellys sweetheart in "The Knife," a story of the Maffxa. Ida Lupino Pit slips Hunt Imagine Cathy Downs Alone With 100 Men! Beautiful A mericaii-Born Italian for Talent Girl to Sing MGM Operatic Roles Ability Rather Than Names to Be Sought by Actress-Producer tinued until 6 p.m. with a performance beginning at 8:30 p.m. She carried her lunch with her so she wouldn't miss a minute of the singing.

Trainrd for Mimi Role This went on for three years and Teresa was considered ready BV HEDDA HOPrER Ida Lupino and Collier Young, elated over the success of their first independent picture, "Not Wanted, are forming a new pro- to attempt a singing role. Shr companythat has far more trained for the role of Mimi In ambitious plans than the original voices. When the auditions were over they had selected Teresa for special training. Enrico Piazza, musical director of La Scala, himself took her as his only pupil and began coaching her. In the historic theater where such opera3 as Verdi's "Otello" and "Falstaff," Puccini's "Madame Butterfly" and "Turan-dot," Donizetti's "Lucrezia Borgia" and Tonchielli's "La Giocon-da" had their word premieres, she became steeped in opera.

Even the street on which she lived. Via Arrigo Boito, was named after the famed Italian poet, librettist and composer of "Mefistofele" and "Nerone." Teresa haunted the rehearsals which started at 10 a.m. and con- Puccini's "La Boheme." She was BY JOHN I- SCOTT Ginger-haired Cathy Downs, 23-year-old actress who puts sex appeal into westerns even while dressed in gingham, had the unique experience recently of going on location 'with 100 men. As the only representative of her sex with the "small army of the so-called stronger sex making "The Sundowners" on ranches near Amarillo, Miss Downs now feels qualified to present a learned discourse, or write a book, on "Behavior of the Human Male." Iiookrd Too Healthy To start at the beginning, Producer Alan Le May had to be talked into giving Cathy the heroine's role in "The Sundowners" because he felt sffe looked "too healthy." "For several scenes the girl must look sickly," he insisted, "and Cathy isn't the type." His assistant argued for Miss Downs, and she promised to appear sickly whenever Mr. Le May gave the word.

So she got the part. "We flew to the Texas location," Miss Downs explained. "The first thing I wanted to do when I left that plane was to climb right back on. It was about 120 in the shade, when you could find any. "When we arrived at our ranch location I discovered I was the y.

-r in fr T-nr -ft vM 1 III Hill I to sing in Pavia, Italy. Near the end of the first act of "La Boheme" Mimi sings, "Mi chiamano Mimi name is considered one of the finest flights for the soprano voice. A duet with the poet Rudolpn which follows is another outstanding passage. It begins Turn to Page 4, Column 3 one. "We're working on the theory that the ticket-buying public is more interested in what's in a picture than who's in it," 'said Collier.

"So we're surrounding ourselves with fresh talent. We want ability, not names." "Yes," added Ida, "I feel that it's about time the screen got rid of some of the old faces, including mine. I intend to give up acting altogether eventually and devote my time to other phases of picture making." Doesn't Like Acting only girl among 100 men. What a spot! No wardrobe woman and no hairdresser, so I performed these duties; no bathtub or showier. There was a horse trough and I took a bath in it just'once.

All males were warned away from the area and I splashed away happily until I noticed things crawling in the water. 'Out I told myself, and from then on I took sponge baths from a basin inside my hut Thank goodness, I had remembered to take along plenty of cologne. The normal heat of the Panhandle (over 100 most of the time) was augmented by the intense heat generated from Technicolor lights, Miss Downs recalled with a look of pain: "Several days we worked inside -a cabin with the Technicolor cameras which require hotter lights than the ordinary ones," she said. "The cabin was small and the crew and equipment completely filled the space. Have you ever taken a good look at a wet dishrag? That was my exact appearance after these sessions." Bathing Suit Barred Miss Downs continued her sad story: "The men walk around bare to the waist, but I wasn't allowed to strip down to a bathing suit, yet.

Guess we were too far from the ocean. "When we were away from our cabins I had to make my costume changes on a truck. It had a canvas, thank goodness, and I would duck beneath it for a fast" switch. I think I was pretty well hidden; at least there was no prolonged whistling." One of Miss Downs biggest problems, she admitted, was hooking up her typical western heroine dresses without help. And that's where a fellow named Clem, a bashful cowboy, rendered invaluable assistance.

Sort of a one-man cavalry arriving in the nick of Thumbs to Rescue "Clem was a darling," said Miss Downs. "One day I just couldn't get the back of my dress hooked properly and this Clem happened to be strolling by, leading a horse or something. I asked him to help. can't mean that," I said. ELIGIBLE, UT NO OLF Don crowd now, girh, but here's Farley Granger as he looks in "Roseanna He modestly disclaims being our Ao.

bachelor. BV EDWIX J. STRONG It is proper that this story open with a bit; of operatic Italian "Oh, soave fanciulla!" lovely If you read on you will learn why. On Via Arrigo Boito in the very shadows of ancient Milan's world-famed opera house, Teatro Alia Scala, there once lived a young, eultry brunette beauty, Teresa Celli fthe is hard and the name rhymes with jelly). She lived, breathed and worked at opera.

Now she is being groomed for eostarring in singing roles opposite Mario Lanza at MGM. The eventsleading up to this eudden change in career and shifting from one end of the earth to the other are as follows: Born in Pennsylvania Teresa was born in Dysart, a small mining town, of Italian immigrant parents. Her father inherited an Italian estate and took his family of five boys and five girls back to Milan. Teresa was 5 years of age at the time and remembers nothing about her childhood in but this childhood accounts for her ability to speak English. Singing was traditional in Teresa's family.

Teresa's great-great-grandmother, Mme. Duval Celli, had been an opera singer and from her Teresa took her professional name. Her family name is Levis. Her grandmother, Maria Scagnet, was a noted concert and opera singer and was Teresa's inspiration. She heard her grandmother sing at concerts in Paris and Budapest and vowed then to become a She attended the Cervicaroli Conservatory until the war came.

Teresa and her mother fled to Members of the family had retained American citizenship. Her brothers went Into the American Army. Later Teresa reached New York and studied there under a private teacher. Her teacher, impressed by voice introduced her to an artists' agent, Angie Vitt. Qualified at La Scala Teresa became homesick after several years and returned to Italy fired by an ambition to sing at La Scala.

The day came for her audition. There were hundreds, of girls in Milan with the same ambition and the judges patiently listened to the eager young Top Hollywood Bachelor Role Bewildering to Farley Granger t-u 'Ch ihgt 1 1 ij y- was not on Beverly Hills High School grounds to look the girls over. He was there for location shots on Samuel Goldwyn's teenager movie "With All My Love." Tall and Handsome I don't know whether Granger is playing a teen-ager himself, but for all his 24 years he could an almost-too-handsome 6-footer with dreamy" brown eyes, brown hair, a willful mouth and dentifrice-ad teeth. I was surprised when he reminded me that, "You grew up in grease paint, Ida. Remember the little theater your father built for you in the garden when you "were a tiny tot.

Y'ou started acting then and developed into one of our finest dramatic stars. Now that you've reached the top, don't tell me you want to quit." "I do," she insisted. "I've never really liked acting. It's a tortuous profession and it plays havoc with your private life. Y'ou have to keep thinking of your face.

If, for instance, your husband would like to go out for an evening, ypu can't join him. You have to consider how you'll look the next day if you don't get the proper amount of sleep. "Then, too, I've made so many mediocre pictures. Whatis the use of keeping that up? With the exception of Mark Hellinger, nobody ever bought a story for me. Now I want to do for others what was never done for me.

Wre're planning to tailor our stories to fit the kids that play in them. I want to write for them, direct them and help with their wardrobe." Scouting Finds Talent "You should have seen her working with the three kids who played the leads in 'Not Wanted'," said Collier. "She coached and rehearsed them for three weeks before the picture started. And Turn to Page 4, Column 1 BY PHILIP K. SCHEUER Ever sinc a syndicated columnist, followed rapidly by a group of New York models, called him one of the most eligible bachelors in Hollywood, Farley Granger has been disconsolate; Especially since, in a still later article, he was quoted as -naming the town's "gorgeous spinsters" and "ready to do his part to take one of these ladies off the market." Sprawled on the lawn at, of all places, Beverly Hills High Schooi.

Granger stated his objections, as the political writers say, categorically. Story Started It "I'm a bachelor, yes, period. And I'm eligible, yes, period. But I don't feel that gives me the right to tell girls how to dress, what to do, and all that. I don't go round dating every night anyway; I'm not the big wolf of Hol-Iwood; but all of a sudden I'm supposed to be an authority.

This puts me in very bad was in Pittsburgh, making a personal-appearance tour, when someone started all this by printing that now Jimmy Stewart had left the throne of No. 1 bachelor vacant, his place would probabjy be filled by Montgomery Clift, Howard Hughes, a ballplayer or me. "What is a most-eligible bachelor supposed to do, anyway? I act on a date about me same as every one else does go to see a movie or a play with anybody I'm interested in. That means any -of "a number of girls but not a lot of girls and not a different one every night!" I promised to quote this modest but stirring "defense," at the same time warning him it would doubtless make him more irresistibly eligible than ever. Farley is a big boy now, a celebrity and, hence, "news," I suppose I should also add, imperatively, that he 'Well, ma'am, I don't know much about women's clothes, he drawled, 'but 111 Clem was all thumbs, a wonder with harness but those little hooks and eyes almost threw him for a loss.

Clem was a gem in the rough, though, and I kept his secret because if his fellow wranglers had found him out, what a ribbing he would have taken." So far in our interview. Miss Turn to Page 3, Column 4 at 17, he had made his camera debut as the Russian lad blinded by a hand grenade in Goldwyn's "The North Star." He is still working out the same contract. "I had a rough time of it for a while," he grinned. "After, that, on loan to Fox, I had my tongue cut out in 'The Purple Then, as a seaman, first class in the Navy, I was stationed at Hawaii not too But in 'They Turn to Page 3, Column 1 I AIDE TO NEW TALENT Ida Lupino, actress-producer, who had to fight her way up every rung on the ladder to film fame, is trying to do for many a new name, in pictures what no one had time to do for her lend a helping hand..