The Ottawa Journal from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada • Page 62

THE TV JOURNAL March 2-8 Star Assists Newcomer 16 I "3 Katharine ARLES, France Thirty years ago the widow of the late Florenz Ziegfeld (the Great Glorifier of American girls), Billie Burke took an inexperienced, young actress in tow, and counselled With her on the direction of her career. HI v. 7 YOUNG AND OLD LOVES (1) Katharine Hepburn plays the role of Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of England and wife to Henry II, performed by Peter O'Toole in "The Lion inWinter'', the ever-modern story of a man and the two women in his life. OnAWA'S NEWEST AND FINEST CARPET and DRAPERY CENTRE BR1NT0N BARRYMORE BURLINGTON KRAUS HARDING ARMSTRONG CORLONS AMTICO TILES CARPET INSTALLATIONS WALL TO WALL CARPET CLEANING FREE DELIVERY (Ottawa area Man Other Fantatlic Buy OTTAWA'S LARGEST STOCKING DEALER GOLDEN TRIANGLE DISTRIBUTORS Queenston Plow 333 Preston St. Shop at -Home Service 237-1587 raw" The picture in which they were both appearing.

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Out to Repeat History i 1 It may have been Billie Burke's good counsel or an innate skill to project; nevertheless, cinematic history records that the novitiate, Katharine Hepburn, achieved the impossible: she stole the picture from John Barrymore. GIVING ADVICE And history, which has an offensive habit of sometimes re--peating itself, may be in the making here in France, as Katharine Hepburn', Aca demy Award winner, redoubtable, actress, a force in films over the years, is giving advice to a fresh newcomer in a new movie, 'The Lkn in Winter," a Joseph E. Levine presentation which stars Peter O'Toole and Miss Hepburn as Henry II of England and his aging wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine; The newcomer is "English ac- tress Jane Merrow, and in the Martin Poll Production direct- ed by Anthony Harvey, she plays the "woman "between," Princess Alais. This time it is Jane Merrow who comes between Henry II, the most powerful monarch in Europe's 12th Century, and his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine, the first modern woman, in her own right a powerful monarch on the Continent. Jane Merrow is the king's paramour, the woman in Henry's life who is Eleanor's only rival.

Jane Merrow like Katharine Hepburn years before her comes to films from the stage. At school she was the win-. ner of the "Shakespeare Cup" at the Kent Drama Festival, matriculated at the Royal Aca- demy of Dramatic Arts and worked as a member of the British National Youth Theatre. SUMMER STOCK Years before Katharine Hepburn had worked in summer stock at the Berkshire Playhouse, and Ivory ton. where she was" to be spotted by Broadway producer Gilbert Miller who set her in "Animal Kingdom," then "The 'Warrior's Husband." was her role in the latter production which established Katharine Hepburn as an overnight acting sensation.

After "The Warrior's Husband" Miss Hepburn was rushed to Hollywood fof the challenging role in "The Bill of Divorcement." "Like Miss Hepburn before her, Jane Merrow was an overnight; sensation "Country Dance," a performance -which wort her. the "role in "The Lion Jn, Winter." MORE. MAGIC Parallel lines do meet, geometric axioms aside. cross in time, as" they do in the careers of Katharine Hep-. burn and Jane Merrow, who meet as Queen and as Princess in "The Lion in Winter." Thirty years ago it was John Barryniore; in.

1968 it is O'Toole as Henry II. And time will also tell if the advice and counsel handed down from 'Billie Burke to Katharine Hepburn to Jane Merrow will work its magic again. g'-fmtimumm nnijwiiiiiiBiiiiiiL.jtiiijij uijj i J. YOUNG AND OLD LOVES (2) Jane Merrow appears as French Princess Alais, one of the pawns in the 12th Century game of love and ambition, a younger woman who finds herself enmeshed not only in a love affair with Henry II, but also in the struggle for succession to the English crown, and the rival to Eleanor of Aquitaine. Near Sudbury Jack Douglas Buys Canadian Island At least one television personality who has dreamed of escaping to some faraway island has really gone and done it.

Jack Douglas, writer, comedian and frequent guest star with Mrs. Douglas on the Men-Griffin television show, has purchased two small islands on Bird Lake in the -north woods wilderness ot Ontario. Mr. Douglas and his Japanese-born wife, known to millions of TV viewers as Reiko, maintain a residence in New Canaan, Conn. It is not the first island home for Mr.

Douglas. He was born in Tahiti. BOAT DOCKS Near the top of Georgian Bay, the hunting and fishing lodge is a 20-minute air flight a long bouncy jeep ride from Sudbury. The property has about -jjgo feet of waterfrdntage five; boat Fishing is excellent on the spring-fed lake which Is surrounded by Crown JLantt- yrith miles of protected wilderness, the 2'-acre property Includes an area ori a mainland peninsula which is joined to one of the islands by a 60-foot bridge. The lodge was sold by Mr.

and Mrs. John S. Pyke of Lake wood, Ohio, according to Robert E. Reilly, vice-president of the Chicago realty office of Previews Inc. Facilities on the islands pro-Vide accommodation for about 24 people," according to Mr.

Railly There are six heated sleeping cabins, a main lodge, a sauna, and five auxiliary buildings, all fully furnished and equipped. The four-room lodge is centred by a 36-foot living room with an end wall of glass and a 12-foot stone fireplace. DEEP WOODS Mr. Douglas can get perch, small mouth bass, rock bass and sunfish around his islands, and hike by marked trails to nearby lake3 for pike, large mouth bass and other varieties. The deep woods are hunting grounds for deer, elk, bear, wolf, foir, beaver, otter, and, Mrs.

Douglas was glad to learn, mink. The writer is out of luck as far as moose-hunting goes although there are moose in the area only native-born Canadians are issued licences..