Press-Telegram from Long Beach, California • 73

Sunday March 24 1941 The 11-year-old fullback took the hike from cenr and booted the ball for a long end-overend kick After running downfleld to help make the tackle the kicker Reached up and tucked a stray blonde curl beneath her fool-ball helmet Terry Burnhaht sixth-grader at Mark Twain Elementary School here Nt grand Sometimes being a girt wasn't so bad Especially when the hoys didn't mind that you weres girt and let you play football with them because you were a good kicker Especially when your parents were so understanding and gave you a football helmet for Christmas But life even for 11 -year-old tom-boys Is not a bowl of punt formations AND TERRY' since she wee five years old has been regn-' larly tackling assignments in a field other than football You can see her in action at 9 tonight if you tuna in the General Electric Theater on channel 2 Terry plays the adopted daughter of Jans Wyatt and David Brian In the television play Miss Wyatt diligently studies child -behavior in an attempt to become the "perfect The trouble is that Terry doesn't read any books on how to become the "perfect daughter" In real life Terry cones dose to being the perfect dfcugh ter of local householders Guy an engineer and Betty Burnham neither of whom have read too many books on child behavior But both of whom are smart enough to know that Terry is better off studying In a regular school with every-day classmates than exdusively with tutors of "young screen stars" ITS A DECISION that has made Terry happy puticularly since her transfer to Twain last year after the family moved from the west side 'T have more girlfriends than ever before in my said Terry But the decision is not one without problems And the problems are those associated with a career that prominently pastes your face bn i screen viewed by thousands including ilxth-grade classmates For Terry has been In more than 26 television shows ranging from Love Lucy" to "Twilight and two movies "limitation of Ufa" and "Key Witness" And it is not unusual the day after a TV show for Terry to be cornered by her schoolmates and be bombarded with questions where the problems ari? I SAY TOO MUCH when I answer the questions afraid think braggy and stuck-up" Terry said "If I say enough afraid think a snob 1 Just try to answer them the best I can and hope it will come out alright" Acting since she was discovered in a Long dancing class has "come out alright" for the child star "I like she said work but real nice an awful lot of studying the scripts "But I get to see slot of actors and actresses I be able to meet Terry have any particular acting secret -T Just always try to be she said -And she's not surs whether she wants to make acting her adult career She la seriously contemplating becoming a doctor heart specialist so "I could save a life!" SHE DOES CURRENTLY have one acting desire a yearning for a special-type role like to be the most unusual Vampire" she said -be never seen a blondr vampire "Myteeth would be pointed so they would look like fangs have black -Td be the one all beafnid And if the producer making the movie could figure out how a blonds vampire jrith blade nails cbuld score a touchdown 'Terry's bliss would be complete v- By DON QUIGG NEW YORK Four cote and seventeen yean ago our grandfathers gathered at Gettysburg (well some of them did anyway) to dedicate a cemetery It was altogether filling and proper that they should do this according to the Nq 2 speaker of the day That speaker was Abraham Lincoln and It Is altogether fitting and proper that if anybody I going to play him to-' day that man should be Raymond Massey The distinguished Mr Massey began portraying the revered Mr Lincoln In 1938 on Broadway In Lincoln in Illinois" and has gone right on many times In many me- dia This play is very well writ- ten" he said of his upcoming half-hour TV show at 920 pm Saturday channel 4 on the "American Heritage" so-ries Just don't do very many Lincoln things now unless like them and I like this very much It Is about the Gettysburg Address and the true reason It came to be written You know originally Lincoln wasn't going to go to Gettysburg We show why he did TTTLE OP the play Not in Vain' in taken from the last line of the that these dead shall not have died in and you know the Address la something which everybody knows so well that if you get one word wrong look out! Fortunately Mr Lincoln read it and I do -simulate a couple of glances lt in the play "About 23 years ago when I was playing Lincoln "in on the stage 1 met In Pennsylvania an old gentleman in his who as a boy had stood about 25 feet from the platform during that Address and he was very definite that hear a word he said he seem to be speaking for the audience at "It was a sort of perfunctory performance The 1 fact that hie read It at all was unacceptable in those days Readjng a speech was considered an admission of ineffectiveness in a way GETTYSBURG Address is basically about the Union rather than slavery-1 think Mr Lincoln and this is poaed la our play considered it 'to bo a definitive and important statement of his beliefs about What the Union was fighting for and-v he wanted It to be absolutely right and not run' the risk of -any to have it right on the Wonder if Lincoln ddiber: steiy spoke softly at Gettysburg? 1 golly I know" Massey said "Nobody-really knows about that He jused to be able to speak in the Lin- 1 RAYMOND MASSEY One person who heard the which followed the two-hour speech of the great orator Edward was the reporter for the Times pf London He wrote of the Lincoln speech: "Anything more dull and commonplace it would not be easy to reproduce" In one sentence he set the case for Interpretive reporting back 200 years FOR MASSEY tM next move will be from Gettysburg to Gillespie-in a- couple' pf months he will begin filming a "Dr series of one-hour weekly shdws scheduled to start on NBC-TV in the fall He will take the Dr" Gillespie role that the late Lionel Barrymore made famous "It's a character you can do something with" Massey said JANE- WATT AND IN FAVORITE ROLE However for all his roles he seems destined to be thought of as Lincoln more than any other and physical resemblance plays Its part "I had a funnyexperience about six years ago at an en-" tertaimripnt for President Eisenhower In which I did the train speech from 'Abe Lincoln in Illinois' I dressed tip--stairs and took the public elevator down and I had on the makeup and the top hat long coat and shawl There wits convention in" the hotel and as we stopped at one floor there was a fellow coming out of a room He had had a few He looked at me then did an Edward Everett Horton take And then began running never seen anything so funny I told Mr Eisenhower about it and he nearly died laughing" "-a- Frontier Moving Foss Parker and Buddy sen co-stars of "Davy Crockett" have-formed their own production yntci Tv cAiis 9 MV-q a SrV coln-Douglaa debates for in- people 'and mak -hmiftolf Jieard 1 ir i.