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I PtnUgraih. pkwmjngtoinJU THEATER Miss Nolan, Real McCoy, To Open Sullivan Season rr 1 9n IB By TONY HOtlOWAY SULLIVAN Kathton Nolan a strikingly pretty, vivacious, hazel eyed redhead with a sparkling smile, a friendly manner and lots of talent. She's alao a television, motion picture, Broadway and Mississippi River showboat actress, a businesswoman, an avid collector of hats and shoes and a devoted mother. Perhaps we should have listed her mother role first. We're quite certain that to her it is most Important.

However, mothers as a rule don't become famous. Actresses do. And to devotees of television Kathleen Nolan has to ba well known. Credits Llerad For six years she appeared as Katie opposite Walter Bren-nan and Dick Crenna In the Hillbilly" weekly show "The Real McCoys." A few years earlier she played the feminine lead in another series. "Jamie," opposite Brandon De Wilde.

And this season she may be seen as the star of the Sunday night comedy "Broadside." Kathleen (don't call her Kathy; opens up Guy Little Jr's ninth summer season of plays snd musicals in The Little -V- 'r- y' as -1 I i 4 i Mother am others it's always a pleasure to serve you Udiee who puh the card at IGA We hope your every vUit lo our store it pleasure. Our constant aim it to bring you a election of top quality products combintd with low prices and friendly service. Come in today and discover, at Ihoutandt of other ladies have, that IGA dot mean complete shopping satisfaction. Kathleen Nolan enitt'Pft fiw't Theatre Tuesday night in a com edy "Ready When You Are, they weren't of the Academy Award nature. We interviewed Miss Nolan in THESE PRICES EFFECTIVE THRU TUESDAY, MAY 11 Kathleen talks wan en backstage dressing room be thusiasm about getting back of shoes.

She also collects old theater playbills and two years ago when Joe E. Brown lost his California home and personal ef-fectt in a fire Kathleen rummaged through her programs and came up with a 1906 playbill of a show in which Brown had appeared. She sent it to him tween rehearsal sessions Wednesday and she talked free- into films and is presently ne gotiating for a part in "Glass Bottom Boat" with Doris Day. on the business of being an actress. Only 30, she's done a heap of acting since her debut at the age of 13 months.

Your Whole Family Will Love Lean, Flavorful Just Tired But, she's in no hurry to com and received a six-page letter from the famed comedian. mit herself, she said. "I'm not lazy, I'm just tired," Kathleen, who began her thea trical experience at as young an She toured with her parents in tent shows and stock companies throughout the Midwest, but most of her early years stage experience was gained hi her 12 years on the GoWenrod, age as any actress couia, De- She'd like to spend more time with her 19 month old son, Spencer, who's traveling with lieves that there Is always an opportunity in show business for youngsters ho work hard enough. her this summer along with an English nurse. Miss Nolan loves collecting! She ought to know.

She's been hats and shoes whether they're working hard all her life and wearable or not. She has about from the enthusiasm you know 160 hats and a many dozen pairs 'that she'll continue. the last of the Mississippi showboats, which was berthed at St. Louis. "Contrary to Edna Ferber's description of the showboats they weren't paddle-wheel operated, they didn't have gambling and they weren't pleasure boats.

They were as the name implies, boats upon which theatrical productions were staged," said Kathy. "Theater" Burns Two years ago the Goldenrod MOTHER ART burned. It has been rejuvenated Miss Rutherford Prefers Stage RAYMOND E. PALMER very useful. But I find the thea-AudiM Pnu wrHtr Uer more spiritually reward-Margaret Rutherford is back in and will reopen May 22.

Kath leen, in order to be sure tha It will be kept as a showboat became a member of the board of directors of the group of men which bought it and she invested 1U. AeMnM 6" fans near enough to see her, Representative Whether she appears on stage After an absence of two-and-a- some money in it. She said she hasn't committed herself to a request that she take a part in "The Drunkard" on the river boat this summer. She'll spend several weeks or in a movie, Margaret Ruther half years, she opened this week ford is very possibly the most at London Saville Theater in The Solid Gold Cadillac," play- touring with and will ing the part created on Broad popular of all British actresses with audiences everywhere. She represents to them the epitome of resourceful, tweedily eccentric British womanhood, charging through the cobwebs of Brit-: ish fustiness, looking for stuffed shirts to poke with her umbrel-J play the title role in "The Un-sinkable Mollie Brown" in Georgia for two weeks.

In commenting on the televis way by the late Josephine Hull. "The theater is still to me the mother art," says Miss Rutherford. "I could never desert her. Movie making is only the hand ion show which made her fam- maiden, though the money is Im Red. RichUflavorfuI Jjp if! LIBBY'S CATCHUP STJ Bottle I to -x Lady Scott I you Can Get These Beautiful I A MAT TPISSUE I Practical, Brightly Colored Bowls I FACSAli JV-iWSy I At Your IGA Store in Several Colors! I y) I Salad Op Cereal I i i Bow Ticket' Takes Beatles To Top Of Tune List la.

Her chins are a five-story edifice set in a face that has been affectionately compared with a highly annoyed bloodhound. What makes her face lovely is the woman behind it. It is a character that makes small boys in a reform school she visits call her "Mum." "Let me be quite honest," she says. "I must attribute at least part of my success to this face of mine; my five chins and all my wrinkles have been a great help." Familiar Her face and the public image she has created certainly bring her instant recognition. "Only the other day," she said, "a dear old lady came up and asked if she might shake me by the hand.

You have no idea how that sort of thing cranks one up for the next job of: work, and at my age (she is 72), CHICAGO (UPI)-The Beatles finished the week Saturday with a return to the lead of the United Press International's list of the 20 top tunes. The Liverpool singers made it with their "Ticket to Ride," their first No. 1 hit since March when they clicked with "Eight Days a Week." Last week's leaders, Her man Hermns, wouna up in second place with their "Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter." "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" by the Sounds Orchestra clung to third place. The Beach one needs cranking up occa our, Miss Nolan said that "The Real McCoys" could have gone on for several more years because it was the type of show that literally becomes an institution in the home.

Another example, she said, is the "Ozzie and Harriet" series. However, Kathleen eventually quit show. It ran for 26 more weeks before it was not renewed. Reruns of the show are still appearing mornings Monday through Friday. "Broadsld" Out Kathleen is very unhappy that "Broadside" has not been renewed for its second season.

She said it was the highest rated show in it's Sunday night time slot, but that program scheduling caused its cancellation. "It used to be that a series could continue for at least four years, but public tastes have changed and now a show is successful if it can last two years," she commented. The other two stars of "The Real McCoys," Brennan and Crenna, also have their own shows this year. Brennan's "Tycoon" won't be around next year and Crenna's "Slattery's People," earlier scheduled for dropping, has survived for another season. Kathleen prefers comedy to drama, although she's made numerous guest appearances on dramatic shows.

"I've had my share of ailments on the doctors' shows," she laughed. Likes Work Miss Nolan enjoys theater work. "I like live audiences." She'd like to go back to Broadway. Twelve years ago she floated through space nightly as Wendy in "Peter Pan," which starrred Mary Martin. This went on for a year and a half and in 1956 Kathleen moved from New York to Los Angeles.

That year she appeared in the first black and white cinema-scpe movie and later two others. She said she'd rather not talk about them. Evidently I Boys "Help Me, Rhonda soared from 20th place to No. 4, and "Wooly Bully" by Sam sionally." Last year Prime Minister Harold Wilson presented her the Sham advanced two notches with the Variety Club of Brit to fifth. ain's Silver Heart Award as best actress of the year.

Her Newcomers to the top 20 this week are "Back in My Arms' performance as the dotty Duch Again" (eighth), "Hush, Hush. ess of Brighton in "The Sweet Charlotte" "Go V.I.P.'s" won her an Academy ROYAL GUEST Now" (18th.) and "It's Grow-I Award for the best supporting ing" actress of 1963. II 11 I Letterpress Offset Type Setting Reproduction Proofs ol oj Adel Hardmon THE OHIGIXAL SMITH rniMi.M. CO. In (he sane location since 1919.

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