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LI'L ABNER AL CAPP JUST A FEW aH H-HAINxTGOT SO HE'LL THASS JEST IT STAND OB y'-TOO GLEE SSO TICKETS MO F1FTV DCLLAHS, TELL "VOL) IFAH DONT GIT IK! V'ftACKf JC NEVER PL AVS LEFT FOR THE BUT AH GOTTA GIT ABOUT IX NOW, HE'LL NEVAH HERE 7 NOWHAR NCEPT AT lN.1r-MAH HUSBIN'S WHEN HE COMEOUT.V i COMES FOONJERALS r.r CI 3 ONLY HUMAN By Sidney Fields louie exchanges Ophelia MIsS urtton's Men Lovely Linda Marsh is the 24-year-old-New Yorker selected to play Ophelia to Richard Burton's Hamlet on Broadway. Her father is a doctor and when he watched her first faltering steps as an actress he asked her: "How can anyone want a life where she is so constantly and deeply disappointed?" In her four professional years Linda worked a total of 14 weeks in three off-Broadway plays, did some summer stock and was in one film, "America, America. And the film and Ophelia, the two big things in her young life, did not come as a sudden sunburst. "They came after hard, tryinsr and painful waiting." says Linda, a brunette with enormous preparing the work. When Kazan went off to find locations for the film she didn't know whether she had the role or not, but she continued working with the partner anyway.

"When I finally got it my parents and friends were overjoyed." Linda says, "but I was ready for a rest home." A Reading Before He Sailed Last Oct. 24 she read for the part of Ophelia before Sir John Gielgud, who is staging "Hamlet." After hearing her two more times Sir John had to take off for Australia, saying he'd be back in two months to make the final selection from among all the hopeful Ophelias he had seen. "So I walked around with that for two months," Linda says. While that didn't exactly demoralize her she didn't know how to nswer all the young people in her business who kept asking, "Is it true you got the part? Is it true you're Ophelia?" "It's a superstition not to talk about a part before you get it," she says. "But the real reason is t'lat it's very embarrassing if you don't get it." When Sir John returned from his jaunt to Australia he heard all the finalists again, and after Linda's final reading he kept looking at her -until she pleaded, "Why don't you shoot me and get the agony over with?" Said Gielgud.

"Courage! Ill get in touch with you. Courage!" In a symbolic gesture of utter resignation Linda took script of "Hamlet" that she had been living with for two moiihs left it. on Sir John's table. There was nothing more she could do. Silence Compounds The Agony "The next day ws to'H I woi'V he Ophelia," she says.

"It was Thursday, Jan. 9, a date I'm not likely to forget. I hugged myself and wanted to rush out and shout it to the world. But I was ordered to be silent for ten whole days until tKey finished casting. And that was the worst agony." tM PfssTcatargi'tnt McOurg SyrtOXrK featwt WORLD AFFAIRS: By Edgar Ansel Mowrer lit i A ccen ts Red Hypocrisy Bed China's appeal to the non-Russian peoples within the U.S.S.R.

and its bitter attacks on the Kremlin for racial or "Great Russian chauvinism" offers the United Linda Marsh Lucky, Unlucky. States a magnificent opportunity for propaganda counterattack. On Jan. 30 she begins rehearsals in Toronto where the play will have its first public tryouts before moving to Boston and opening on Broadway on April 1. Linda will meet Burton for the first time when rehearsals begin.

How does she feel about playing opposite the century's most im patient bridegroom "No different han playing opposite any one who has such a fire reputation as an actor," says Linda. "I just hope ne likes me as an actress I mean. brown eyes and a quick mind. She knows a role completely after readme a script once or twice. She's a student at the Actors Studio twice a week, a daily bike rider and a weekly visitor to the loo.

"It sounds like kid amusement, but I go," she says in shy apology. Vhy? I like animals. And maybe I go because I find a sense of dignity in animals that we seem to lose in day-to-day living." Mother Was a Pony Grl Her real name is Linda Cracovaner. Her mother, who worked for the Actors' Studio for years and has now turned to producing, was a Ziegfeld pony girl, the smaller chorines in the front line. Linda is an only child, which she considers both lucky and unlucky.

"I get all the love," she says, "but I'm the center of all their hopes too. It's like I'm their only chance. If I don't turn out right She went to a private school in New York, then to Bennington College in Vermont. After two years she decided that since she was going to act. New York was the place to learn her trade.

She returned home, began studying and looking for work. From the time she first applied to Elia Kazan for her job in "America, America" until she got it four months went by. Once a week she worked with a partner Kazan selected, spending the week Brother Juniper majority within their present empire. Unfortunately, the West is making no intelligent use of this opportunity to fan the flames of hostility between Peiping and-Moscow. This is not only because the Western nations, have no stomach for really waging cold war against communism.

It is because they have no common policies outside of the sheerest self-defense. On Cuba, on the former colonies, on Red Russia and on Red China, differences of view paralyze effective action. Allies Supply Cuba The U. S. half-heartedly boycotts Cuba, and our allies supply that' country.

All the free countries, are by trade building up tottering Communist regimes. No Western country has had the guts unceasingly to demand the right of self-determination for the Soviet internal colonies, Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia and the like. And now the greatest division of all, while the U. S. plays footsie with and tries to sweet-talk Khrushchev, de Gaulle plans to grant diplomatic recognition to Mao.

Fear is behind the American choice of Khrushchev as playmate. Logic is on the side of France. '(A Syndicate Feature) PONDE THIS Is there a common perspective in man Only through Continuing Russian anti-sem-itism shows how hollow are Soviet claims to speak for all mankind The discrimination against which students in the U.S.S.R. have recently protested reveals the same hypocrisy. Last June, the Chinese Party Central Committee in an open letter accused Russia of actually "preserving the hegemony of the so-ca led 'superior race' over oppressed nations." Now the Chinese are accusing the Soviet Union of discrimination toward non-Russian nationalities within its borders and in its relations with other Communist countries.

They also charge Russia with failing to support the national liberation movements in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Charges Economic Slavery Last September Red China's foreign minister, Ohen Yi, further accused the Russians of aiming ai the economic enslavement of smaller nations within the Soviet bloc. All of which charges are true. There is an increasing defiance toward Moscow on the part of nations like Rumania which is trying to claim something of the economic independence of its neighbor, Yugoslavia. Now in these Chinese attacks on the Russians one may see another instance of the pot calling the kettle black.

No people are more convinced than the Chinese of being a master race. But the fact remains whereas half of the U.S.S.R.'s BY GEORGE; Queasy Feeling DEAR GEORGE: I feel very strongly that the only thing I should feel very strongly about is not feeling very strongly about anything. How do you feel? F. DEAR Well, frankly, every time I get this straight line in which I am supposed to reply with my fingers," I come down with this splitting headache and this queasv feeling. DEAR GEORGE: Who invented the telephone booth, and when? STUDENT.

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