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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Friday, July 3, 1959

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 3, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Friday july 3, 1959 a i. I"1 he s not ult it a ploy As actress on n Ethel Merman cuddles a Lamb in Gypsy hit Broadway musical based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee. Up photo a York up it s no joke to Ethel Merman that after 13 musical shows and 30 stage years she is suddenly hailed As an actress instead of just an easy does it comedienne who can Belt a song like nobody else. She appreciates the Praise knows without being at All immodest about it that her work As Mother Rose in Gypsy merits it. I Don t know miss Merman offered by Way of explanation of her emotional prowess. I guess it s just something you can do if you have to or you can t. Maybe if you hang around in show business Long enough it just seeps through your skin. I certainly did t make any special preparations to play the Mother of Gypsy Rose Lee in this show. I remember that Arthur Lau Forte in fussy Fellows doodles by Roger Price rents who wrote the libretto from Gypsy s Book of memoirs stopped off to see me in Denver after he had prepared an outline but before he d actually done any writing. He asked me How far he should go in the emotional characterization of the Mother. I told him to go As far As he liked. Well he went pretty far and i just showed up for rehearsals and did it. Of course i owe some thing to Jerry Robbins our director. I started calling him teacher and now everybody in the company Calls him that miss Merman said she engaged in or consultations or coaching of any sort with Gypsy or her sister actress june havoc who Are vital factors in the musical about their fabulous and indomitable Mother but that both had showered her with Praise and thanks for a me Morable portrayal. It s a really satisfying thing to be accepted As an actress miss Merman continued. I d be a dope not to appreciate it to try to pass it off with a so what no matter How Many shows you do you like to feel you still have some room and ability to grow in this Busi  new York a on stage screen and to actor Paul Ord is constantly badgered both tred and bewildered. I m really not like that at All he says. Neither irascible nor irritated. To a Calm introverted Guy who likes to be quiet. Of course maybe i do have All. Those other things deep inside and those roles give me a Chance to get it All  Ford s skill at depicting fussy vexed males in and out of uniform and converting them into the material of Antic humor keeps him hopping. For several years Ford has been regaling television fans As. The ruffled colonel of Phil Silver s sgt Bilko show. Earlier roles prior to that he was a baffled officer in Broadway s teahouse of the August  Between such major stints he appeared in the matchmaker film squeezed in several to and stage assignments and has been the fatuous voiced announcer of a gasoline company s Cai Toon commercials on to. Now the tall balding Man with a voice half shout and half snort is Back on Broadway in the Long run smash the music  he. Has taken Over from David Burns off to other chores the role of a cantankerous mayor in Long ago Iowa. Avoids imitation tracing development of his Spe Fialty Ford feels that Type casting really began with his performance n command decision the role was serious but i was iras  he lets each fuss budget Paul Ford who plays the part of the mayor of River City a fictitious Iowa town in the music Man has made a career of portraying irascible males humorously. His partner in the music Man scene is Arlyne Frank. \. Clam s exe View of the Golden Gate Bridge since i was Onge a boy scout i Good standing and still feel obligated to Tell the truth once in a while i be got to admit that this Rondle is a fake. A Clam could t possibly see the underside of the Golden Gate Bridge because in the firs place clams Are always scr ached Down under the muck arid in the second place clams Are stupid and anti social an never bother to look up at Bridges or pretty girls or Televik Slowi Prograis or anything. In fact i Dpn t even Eftink clams bother Jook at other clams. When it qom Eisho real class oysters have it allover clams. Oysters Camak pearls but the. Only thing " is Are Good for is Clam Chow doodles. Til he was 38. That was during the depression 20 years ago. Tossing aside a filling station Job Ford started peddling homemade Candy for a living while seeking thespis Opportunity. That took 15 months but his flair for  has provided steady income since. Ford keeps hankering for a Dif Ferent sort of assignment As a change of Pace. I d like a definite switch he reflects say a mild philosophical temperate Man. Or a Clever Man a master criminologist. It would probably Lay a big egg  crossword by Eugene Sheffer portrayal come naturally. I Don t try to imitate anybody at any time. I just imagine myself As the person called for and How we would react. And i Don t Swallow this method thing whole he says of the cur rent popularity of intense and personalized acting. I be worked with various acting groups but never studied with any of them As  Ford did t become an actor unix 115 movie review beginning its tour of army and air Force Heaters this week plunderers of Painte Flats three mail order brides arrive in a Western town where a cattle Baron is warring on the prospective bridegrooms. Corinne Galvet is one of the brides John Carroll a ruthless hired gunman. Cinemascope. 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