European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 22, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 16 the stars and stripes monday april j2, 1963 Preston no longer bad Guy York Nana in the 11 do code since he left Holly Wood villainy Robert Preston has become Broadway s All Pur pose Man. A shining Talent equipped to climb any theatrical Mountain Ford any Stream. He is now in clamorous demand for nil kinds of Les comedy straight drama and musical at present he is one of the mul ten la Joys of Shaw s too True Tob p Good at the 54th Street the Ater playing a Many sided Char Acter with remarkable skill. He leaves the company in june tomake a motion picture but will be Bock on Broadway in the fall shifting Back and Forth Between stage and movies just As he planned some years ago. I wag unhappy with the sort of parts i was getting in Hollywood he said. I could have Hung out there the rest of my life and not got the parts i wanted because in their minds i was thoroughly typed. In a pictures i was the villain Black Mustache Black hat ant Black horse in cheap pictures was the leading Man. At the time that my contract with Paramount was up i went to London to make a movie. Z saw members of the cast go from movie making to stage roles in the West end and that got my juice working made me jealous. When i got Back to new York i Learned that Jose Ferrer was look ing1 for a replacement for himself in twentieth Century the comedy with Gloria Swanson. X told Himi d sign for it right now and i did without even consulting from that he went into a revival of the male animal playing whirling Joe Ferguson onetime Bobert Preston tar halfback and perpetual col Legland. Then he burst upon new York like 70 trombones As professor Harold Hill the engaging mount Bank of the music Man an. His career suddenly shot to the Summit. In terms of electric Energy Bob Preiton is a one Man Tva. On stage and off he exudes vitality to an almost alarming degree and moves with the Grace of an Otter. Big and smiling and built like a athlete he is As trim today As he was at 19 when he entered the movies. The Mulc Man did a lot for me he acknowledged. What my Hopes were and what i thought could do i have done. The movie people Bornn to think o me for Good scripts and for comedy Paru which they would never have Given me before. Then i went on tomake the music Man As a movie and i Hope unit paved the Way for other stage performers to recreate their roles in films. There was terrible doubt about the picture for awhile. Everybody in the world was mentioned for it by i think the role wan clinched for me when cry Grant refused it he saw music Man on Broad Way at least a dozen times. When they called him about of Long picture he said no. If Bob does t a it i Don t even want to Nee it Bob was born near Boston but has spent most of his life in Call fornia. His parents now occupy his Brentwood Home while Bob and his wife live in Rye . He drive himself Buck and Forth from Rye for performances in too True Tobe i find the drive a Good preparation for theater. That s my fun. 1 leave everything behind me an concentrate on the play. But it s a Little uncomfortable at the moment. Going out to walk my dog the other evening i slip pc an icy step and fractured three ribs. We re having such fun in thl Shaw play. Everybody in it has style and i Haven t heir cd in Audi ence laugh to much since the mole animal which should he re Vived every 10 years. Even second rate Shaw is better than anybody we have around today. ,. I m unfettered now. In the full i la do o straight play or a musical Haven decided yet. From where i am now everything looks downhill expecting for Hole and for real Hollywood up actress Abby Dalton expects twobabies we than the next two months one on May u and the other june 9. They re too far spaced to be twins so there must be a trick to this somewhere. And then is. Abby As elite barns on the Joey Bishop series will Nave her television baby on the May Al How. Abby opt cat her own in Fant on the june Date. Ifs her tint. Only once before has expectant Mother greeted the Stork on the air and in real lift and shews Lucills Ball. However Lucy s video husband and her off screen mate was one and the tame cuban Deal leads a double life. At Home the is mrs. Jack Smith having two babies four week apart Lent easy even when one of them is imaginary.," Salt , ice show has topped shooting for the season he says. A was beginning to feel a Little self conscious in front of the cameras in this condition. Television motherhood had it compensations for Abby. During the last months of her pregnancy the show picked up the Tab for an elaborate maternity wardrobe or co four Dalian. When we quit shooting Las week they told me i could keep Al the Abby said glee fully. After All they figured there would t be any need for a mater Nulty wardrobe on the show forbears to come if Ever. Soft saved me a lot of Money and i have Beautiful new wardrobe there is Ulk. Too. That Abby s needs no double in to show Sinatra buys scrip Hollywood up Frank Sinatra Baa purchased rights to Clifford Odet s original screenplay. The in which the Singer actor it slated to Star la february. Abby Dalton baby May to used on the show Asan infant actor when shooting re sums this summer. I Hope it works out that Way Abby explained. It would help defray the Cost of having the baby. Not Only that. I la be bringing the baby to the set every Day. They Are Little for such a Short time that i Don t want to miss no matter whether Abby tins Uson or daughter the child on the movie review Suomi to it tour of army and air fora to Toores tilt �. Auuo8t Angels a Young boy overcome hit lathe objection and Joni the famous Vienna boy choir. A pc series definitely will be a boy. Abby can t Mako up her mind which sex she d prefer but u it a girl her name will be Gina if a boy it la be Matthew. The baby was not altogether in two idols of America s younger sol. Troy Donahue and Conslo Stevens team up in Werner Brothers feature picture Palm Springs picture is a Story of a Spring vacation at pain Springs when thousands of teen agora come to that Southern California or the lira will be shot at Palm Springs. To cloy i monday. April 22. The112th any of 1063 with 25.1 More to follow. The Moon is approaching its new pm Flo. Almanac by in Ltd Praia International on this any in history in 1915, the Ger Man army began using Poison fans in world War i in violation of the rules of the Hague convention. Out our Way by Williams crossword by Eugene Shefter 3 12 a 47 48 54 31 horizontal 3. Eccentric wheel part 4. Mineral Spring 7. Worn out 13. A Wing 13. Building plot14. Conserve of grapes15. Fasten 18. High. I music 17. Asiatic kingdom 18. Female ruff19. Musical instrument21. 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