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THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, July 28, 1976 3l 1 Yrf ame I Angela Lansbury Is Not Like The Zany Character She Plays Pageant Folds No Beauties WARREN, R.I. (AP) just couldn't get any bodies," said Robert J. Avila after canceling the Warren Queen's Pageant. Avila, pageant committee chairman, said only three women applied for the beauty contest even though the registration deadline was extended by a week. The contest offered $1,000 in scholarships and prizes.

Avila and James R. Boc-chino, a co-chairman, blamed peer pressure for failure of the pageant Bocchino said young people interested in participating are subjected to aggravation and teasing by friends. 5 mms i BUY YOUR FALL COAT NOW SAVE 20 TO 25 Don't wait! Now is the very best time to select your fall coat. You get first choice of this fall's most most important coat fashions. Choose from our entire collection of shor? on, acting has been her life, both on screen and stage.

"I prefer the work of the live theater," she says. "The preparation, the smell, the audience which is the greatest plus. You want to draw them into your net. I love movies for what can be accomplished in them, but the actor's performance is detailed by the cutter. So many stars are made in the cutting room, by zeroing in on one tear falling from the eye to a stroke of the violin.

Acting really has very little to do with it." Three times in her career she has been nominated for an Oscar. Three times she won a Tony, for "Mame," "Gypsy" one of her all-time favorite roles and "Dear World" in which she played the 75-year-old Madwoman of Chaillot to critical acclaim but near brickbats from the audience who wanted to see Mame II, she says. And she was the first actress in a musical role to ever win the London Theatre Critics' Plays and Players award, this for the London production of "Gypsy." She thinks she has had it with Shakespeare, however, because there aren't that many good roles for women her age, except the queen she just play and that woman in "that unmentionable play." It seems it is a British stage tradition that if an actor or actress so much as utters the word "Macbeth" something horrible is going to happen to him. They will perform in the play, but never call it by name. Miss Lansbury was obviously uncomfortable in even referring to the subect obliquely.

But she would like to do many of the standard classics Shaw, Ibsen, Chekhov, Williams. When not performing, Miss Lansbury likes best to stay at home and indulge in cooking and gardening, or visit Latin countries. "Both are such an about face for me. I love the homemaking until the theater lights begin to pop in my mind again. And Latin countries are such a change from our square American life." By HELEN C.

SMITH Every woman would like to feel like a flame to a moth. So theorizes Angela Lansbury about her enjoyment at recreating the role of "Mame," that fun-loving, explosive, ebullient woman she brought to life in the first place in the original Broadway production. Miss Lansbury, performing for the first time in Atlanta, opened Tuesday night at the Civic Center in a week-long run of the musical which won her one of her three Tony Awards. In her heart of hearts, she would like to be Mame but claims she does not have the same facility to be as free-wheeling as the zany dame who lives life to its fullest. Miss Lansbury likes to speak to the press only on a one-to-one basis.

She abhors press conferences, the whir of television cameras, the clicking of cameras. She is, she says, a very private person who nonetheless gets turned on by the pyrotechnics of stage acting, the glamour of it all, and the work. Work means discipline to her. No smoking, no drinking, no fooling around, daily naps and exercise, a balanced diet. "Acting is energy and concentration," says Miss Lansbury who has appeared in numerous films beginning with "Gaslight" and many stage plays, most recently her first (and she says, last) Shakespearian role as the queen in a production of "Hamlet" in London.

"If you are going to propel across the footlights, you have to have energy. One can simulate it for a while but it will wear you down to a frazzle. It's better to keep up the real energy in the first place." Born in England, Miss Lansbury has been in the United States since she was 14, and calls three places home. America, London and Ireland where she and her husband of 27 years bought a "bit of sod" on the River Bride which she calls a "slice of heaven" and where they retreat whenever they can. That averages out to about three months a year.

"Really, we hang out our hats where the work is." Her husband, Peter Shaw, is now in Staff Photo Charles Pugh Angela Lansbury regular length coats. Included are i I Til or all our leathers, cashmere, camel hair, wools and other fabrics. Come see, you'll agree we have the best coat values in Atlanta. partnership with her and is co-producer of the current tour. Formerly he was a theatrical agent (never for his wife, however) and then assistant head of production for MGM.

The Shaws have three grown children, two of whom are married. No grandchildren yet, though every time Miss Lansbury sees an ad on television in which a baby snuggles onto a woman's shoulder, she hopes she'll be a grandmother soon. Miss Lansbury was never a struggling actress. At 17, she was toying with the idea of going into fashion merchandising when she got sidetracked by trying out for "Gaslight" and was cast in the lead role. From that moment iNGEft' BcasuaI shop 4M SATF Just A Bit of String Creates the Puffy Look Last Chance Summer Sale Lenox Square Dunwoody Village Roswell Rd.

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