European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 19, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Fawn flow Star or John rich0rdon, during on million a or  find Tequ in to a Bikini Worth photo or four. Miss Welch Aims for a different image in of newest Effort band Olero i to sad to report but Baque Lis fed up with doing her  in Case you Don t know what her thing is which would mean that you Haven t looked at a Magazine cover or opened newspaper in the last three years it is simply appearing in Bikini bathing suits. White bikinis spangled and Bangle bikinis Black bikinis polka Dot bikinis wee bikinis wee or bikinis and weenies bikinis always with a look of Cool Chal Lenge on her finely drawn features Al ways with flowing Brown hair touching her shapely shoulders. Actually to use the word shapely in connection with mis Welch is sheer redundancy anyhow that s her thing and it s wonderful bit. Like mount Everest the fact that she s there should be enough Why bother to wrap a plot around her and stick her in a movie where she Hasto do something other than be when she was doing ther thing on Magazine covers 400 full color Bikini Clad appear ances in a year nobody did anything but cheer. Then they had to Start Billing her Asa movie Star. For Many Long months she was a Star without a picture Toher name except for the one in her pass Portland snide newsmen had a wonder Ful time writing about the no acting of the "nonstar."well, now she s been seen in some films and clearly a Helen Hayes Orbette Davis miss Welch in tas those who have seen her appear act in quite right at this stage will agree. But a muddle headed bit of fluff she in either she s Tough and intelligent cover my Welche All of a sudden you look ground arid there Are a Hundred people from hair Dresser to electricians who have something to do with what you have to do. You can t simply give yourself Overto them As if you were a Sheet of Blank paper and say Here do me " does she think Shell Ever really learn to act she Hopes so but she in t kidding her self about it. Before she turned to films she was aiming for a Ballet career although it is hard to imagine Raquel in a Short skirted Tutu. I bad studied Clas Sical Ballet six hours a Day for years she said but then decided i did thave the mental makeup and p Ity necessary to go with the discipline Ana spartan existence "1 thought i d become an actress in Stead and take on a Range of activity that was t so  was t her acting background largely nonexistent that got her in the movies other than a few bits Atla Julla playhouse she had no the credits at All. Her first big time were walk on for Danny Kaye. Vetvir Presley in roustabout Shelley Waters in a House it not a in Rome miss Welch tied up Busy press agent All Rome press Are Busy named Patrick Curtis to she later married. She then got-1""" in a ugh Grunt epic titled  b.c.," in which she appear Raj a Bearskin Bikini. Somehow or Tow photographers managed to stun i across her at work and to the to Frizine covers came. And then it was i aboard for the rocket to somewhere Xong the Way there were dim patches Kike Here real Jwj it Saauel Tejada this in t be you pronounce it she spits out  " and her marriage at j Welch and the two Damon 7, and Wahnee 6, Are wild a Curt i never comment f ? Well now she9 been seen in some films and clearly a Helen Hayes or Bette Davis miss Welch in t ,. ,99 the stars and stripes ,.5t�.x.acs$? Tkv Raffl creates resentment. Sophia to do All those go omame dress until she de glamorized ,1 and suddenly everyone she could  and after the movies after the and figure Are gone a i d like to be a y�$j3�  from press vow sunday May 9