Pacific Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 20, 1959, Tokyo, Japan Fag the stars and stripes Friday february 20, 1959 thanks to nonperforming roles says Bess Myerson sex miss America s career on to booming new York up As the mansard after watching Bess myer son on to she stole the show. Mink stole that Queen Bess a talented tall and Brainy Beauty who won the miss America Sash and scholarship in 1945, recently started her eighth year As hostess and chief Mink wearer on the daytime lbs give bom Myerson Uway show the big in evenings of late this 10-year vet eran of to hag been a panel Mem Ber on i be got a Bess has a secret when it comes to explaining her Success it s easier to stay on to i you re not a perform inner. People May expect perfection from per formers the singers dancers and actors but when you re considered a personality with no one special Talent they Are More tolerant toward you. If i forget a line on the show i can break out laughing and get dozens of letters from people who say they enjoyed my lapse and my laughter. But let Art actor or Singer fluff a line and it can harm their Bess Points to Fellows such ased Sullivan Garry Moore Art Linkletter and Bud Collyer As examples of the so called no per formers who keep going on to. People feel if they met any of them on the Street they d know just How they would act and talk. That s what happens to me. I walk Down the Street and i always see a glint of recognition on people s faces. They re forever saying to me t know you it s funny warm and Nice Bess added. While being a no performer has its advantages Bess is starting to show signs of moving into the per former category. She s taking voice lessons and last summer she acted in a Stock company production of Tea and it s a Challenge to me Tor see if i can broaden my career and that s Why i m working so hard at these other things she said. Miss Myerson taught piano be fore she won the miss America title. I would have remained piano teacher if the miss America contest never happened. Both my Sisters Are teachers and i enjoy working with children she explained. To stage films put Jan in variety of ruts h crossword by Eugene Shetters 23" 41 47 51 3zt so 36 5x 2-2o horizontal 1. Dude4. Stage of de velopment9. Drinking vessel12. Fourth Caliph 13. Fished for Congers 14. Topaz hum Ming Bird 15. Chief Ore of Toad it1. Papal crowns19. Egg shaped 21. Friar s title22. Worthle8 Fel Low dial 24 Welsher 8ft vitrtty99i French Parish priest30 speak 31?personal v. Pronoun $3, reaches 44, sesame45. Vision 47. Fated50. Associates 53. Stray from truth54. Oriental Shrub 56. Forty winks57. Had been 58. Pleasant expression 59. Arid 9. Units of Gem weight 10. Grape11. Dance step 16. Smooths18. Dexterity vertical1. Cig ret Colloq 2. Palm Leaf Van 3. Hairy. 4. Of punishment 20. Leveled5. Inflame 22. Witch 6. Man s Nick name 7. Egyptian god8. Instructed by Good example answer to yesterday Aab sbg3hi Nan bbbhi3cih13bi1sk b Sqq she feb 0bi3 gush. 38. Lubricates 39. Allowance for waste 41. Attribute43. Nobleman Hollywood up Jan Sterl ing claims she s in a rut. But it s a pretty wide one. The Blond actress says that stage plays to and movies Saddle her with the same Type of role. But each medium has its own idea As to what she should a play i m usually a kind of English ingenue on to a neurotic and in the movies i m an evil Wom an she said. Also miss Sterl ing feels the closer she gets to an audience the worse off she is. When i m far away from an audience like in a play i m a lady. When i m on to and in the living room i m a neurotic she explained. So if i stay far away from the audience i can be a lady she laughed. Change difficult Jan would like to mix up roles in each area of entertainment but it s pretty hard to do she said. The producers of the various Media think of me in terms of what i be done in their Field so it s hard to get them to change she said. The Only thing to do is to change it Over a period of years and you be got to turn Down a lot of Good parts that you feel might keep you in the rut. I would like to play lighter roles in pictures but it seems that if you have any life at All they want you to play the other woman in a husband and wife Triangle. The last movie wife that was al Lowed to have any sense of humor was Myrna Loy. Most of the girls who play wife in movies now would t Sta married to a Man for longer than a few this is a prof comedian Jerry Lewis prac Tice professorial posture As he prepares for a course in comedy he will teach at Urcla. The varsity which has been asking Lewis to instruct the class for two years plans the course for april. Up photo squeeze play decides Contino on acting jobs some longhair appear among the Crew cuts Santa Monica Upoff facials of Santa Monica City col lege Point out that not All College students Are Rock n Roll enthusiasts. Eighty of the sure the last few years have been Kinda slow for me but i m still Young and i think i can work my Way Back up the ladder. It la Ake some Breaks and maybe a few years but i feel optimistic about possible i m going to pay off All my creditors so i won t have to go through with the bankruptcy s movie break came in a a film titled daddy of which was followed by another quickie beat both Are sched used to be released within the next few months. Doodles by Roger Price
