The Mercury from Pottstown, Pennsylvania • Page 24

Sally Field Looks To New Fields HOLLYWOOD let anyone talk you into taking acting That was the sage advice Sally Field, the ebullient title star of Flying series on the ABC Television Network, received very early in her career. And now, just as her successful series is about to move to a new p.m. Friday time slot next week, Sally is about to ignore that dictum. Sally had just graduated from Birmingham High School in the San Fernando Valley section of Los Angeles. When older and more experienced actors and directors warned her to protect her natural ability.

was told that acting study would take away from this, make me too conscious of technique and ruin my spontaneity. you got groovey compliments like that, would you argue with she asked with a grin. ACTING CONFINED At the time, acting had been confined to a few high school plays and a brief enrollment in the Columbia Studio workshop where she Your TV Snacks Tasle Best Wiih Baked Products from PRINCE'S BAKERY 113 S. Washington St. 323-9881 learned the fundamentals of acting in the film medium.

It was at the workshop that she was spotted by Eddie Foy III, casting director for Screen Gems. From 175 applicants, he picked her for the title role in the series. As Sally captivated the television audience and when the series was canceled, she have to look for work. The studio looked for a new series that would suit her talents. The result was she was cast as the title star of Flying On Flying set, she met Madeleine Sherwood who plays the Mother Superior.

Miss Sherwood is a member of the Studio. Because of her, Sally became interested in working with the West Coast branch of the studio. were two things that convinced me I should develop whatever acting talent I Sally explains. RESPECT FOR MADELEINE was my respect for Madeleine and the variety of acting she is capable of simply because she has the talent and has worked at developing it. She was great as Sister Woman in on a Hot Tin She still meets people who hate her because they identify her with that role so intensely.

And great in the much different role ns the sweet, charming but firm Mother Williams Hosts Kate Smith, Several Others SKI JUMP TOURNAMENT A skier takes to the air in an international ski jumping tournament. The outstanding ski jumpers will compete in the International Ski Jumping Championship in Obersdorf, Germany, which will be televised p.m. today on Wide World of (ABC Photo) SEMIANNUAL SHOE SALE DISCONTINUED STYLES BROKEN SIZES. PAIRS FOR THE PRICE OF 209 High Pottstown NEW YORK Kate Smith. Don Ho, the Osmond Brothers and the Rascals are guest stars on NBC Television Andy Williams 7:30 8:30 p.m.

Saturday in color. opening number is Never Fall in Love i he follows with while the Williams Weirdos do all they can to ruin the song. Kate Smith sings Do I and a comedy version of before helping the cookie-begging bear get a goodie from Andy. Don Ho sings Come and teams with Andy for concert numbers are of St. Nearly Was and I ley lie then joins the Rascals for Gotta Be and How Actor Robert Culp Vaulted to Stardom RE-OPENING Carol Allison Beauty Salon Ellis Woods Rd.

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was just a kid at the time but big real big. She took me down to the local theatre in Berkeley, where we lived and pushed me in through the back door. 1 was scared until I walked out onto the stage and then it hit me. It really did. Not the stage but the acting bit.

From that day on I was never in doubt about my future Culp was talking during a break in rehearsals of John which will be seen in color on On 10-11 p.m. Friday. I 1 started, just as an amateur of course, I found I myself playing a succession of I juvenile roles by night and pole: vaulting by day. was keen on track and field and decided to concentrate on the pole vault. People used to think I was nuts but I taught myself the technique and I perservered.

In pole vaulting you have to get used to the 'idea of turning over in midair and it took some time before found the nerve to do it. One day I took off as usual, landed 'with a thump which winded me and tore just about every muscle I had, and realized that somewhere in between I had turned over. FELL ON BACK few weeks later I landed on the back of my head and tore my neck and shoulder muscles to shreads and they carted me off to the doctor. He told me to give up the vault and take it easy for the next eight months. weeks later I went out and vaulted nine feet, 11 inches, breaking the school record by some 11 inches and it still I went to see the doctor and told him and he said: done son.

but be sorry when you're was right too: the trouble gets worse each year. I carried on acting and vaulting until it got to affect my life. 1 used to shout a lot in my sleep and one night I awoke with the rest of the guys in the dormitory clustered around the bed. they said. got to give.

You can act or you can vault, but we need our sleep and not going to let you do ENDED VAULTING the vaulting ended, 1 got rid of the pole and put away the uprights and cross-bar the family had made me. I was on an athletics scholarship too. the acting thing was getting a stronger hold on me and with only 11 hours to go before graduation I woke up, thought just don't belong and Culp made his way to New York, suffered the same hardships and deprivations as many of his contemporaries and eventually talked his way into a leading role off-Broadway. It won his a award and set him up for a string of successes which eventually were to lead him to Hollywood, and nationwide fame in and other television programs. says Bob, got me to vault, just one more time, for an program.

It nearly killed calls for no gymnastic feats from Bob: but there are plenty of verbal ones. He plays a chap who claims to be a long-lost EnglLsh husband. Special to Present Pro Team LOS ANGELES The 1969 NEA-CBS All-NFL Pro Team will be presented in a special half-hour program on the CBS- TV Sunday preceding the broadcast of the NFL Pro Bowl game p.m. The Capitol Division champion Dallas Cowboys and Coastal Division champion Los Angeles Rams each placed four men on the team of 11 offensive and 11 defensive stars. Cleveland, Minnesota, Washington, Green Bay and Chicago each have two men on the squad and San Francisco, Detroit, Pittsburgh and St.

Louis have one each. While Sonny of Washington was named as the quarterback, NFL players who selected the team chose quarterback Roman Gabriel of Los Angeles to receive the Jim Thorpe Trophy as the NFL Most Valuable Player. The George Halas Trophy went to Dick Butkus of Chicago as the Most Valuable Defensive Player. Running back Calvin Hill of Dallas won the Bert Bell Trophy as the Rookie of the Year..