European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 15, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              T in t our business o Tell it As it is by Bob Thomas a staff writer nhe most talked about series of the new television season is a situation Nedy called  the reason for talk is that the situations will con brn a Young negro woman played by or Diahann Carroll. P show is still months away from its Ere Ami Only  has been Ned but already it is the cause font rovers in a saturday review titled Julia breakthrough or in Robert Lewis Shayon critic de the project for failing to Deal with of two target groups in american life negro youth and negro men. I Shayon pointed out that the National advisory commission on civil disorders sorted that unemployment is not Abler with negro women the real problem is negro youth hustling in theule of their crime Ridden violence Sone and poverty stricken world Many f them deprived of the presence of the f solid citizen father. The negro female accommodates to he White Power Structure the negro ale is aggressive in his demands for responsibility and such aggression would hardly be Welcome in a to series said the writer. Miss Carroll in Hollywood to Hunt for a Home before starting the series which was created and produced by Hal Kanter was scornful of the Shayon article. I m sure if 1 were to review a Bookie wrote i would read it first she commented. I would think that he might give us the Courtesy of seeing our show before he criticized  Diahann is obviously not a person to Dodge controversy. Despite her concern with the civil rights movement she feels that Julia should not necessarily be devoted to negro aspirations. We re dealing with an entertainment medium. Julia is a drama comedy it in t Politi Cally orientated. Because i am Black that does t mean i have to Deal with the problem of All Black people. That snot my sole  in the series miss Carroll will portray Julia Baker a Young nurse whose flier husband has been killed in Vietnam. Shehas a Young son and they go to live in a pleasant predominantly White apart ment building. Julia is employed As assistant to a doctor played by Lloyd Nolan at a space  it was suggested that Julia might seem divorced from reality in nol  t go Back and show you the life they came from in the ozarks their business is to make people laugh. The origin of such people was shown in an old Henry Fonda picture grapes of Wrath but that was something  in t our business to Tell it As it is look at East Side West Side that series set out to do just that and it Only lasted a Short  the series will not ignore the fact that she is Black miss Carroll said but the matter will be dealt with in a humorous Way. For instance the White boy with whom her son plays remarks in the Pilot film. Hey your Mother s  yeah so am i says her  Are says the other boy. In another scene she informs Nolan Over the Telephone that she is a negro. Have you always been coloured or Are you just trying to be fashionable he  Carroll added among negroes there has always been a lightness in our attitudes. I think it s terribly important right now to follow the expression we used in my old neighbourhood in the Bronx lighten up on me Man i believe it s time for some Humerto be injected in our dialogue Between White and  b All to is divorced from  e1ng herself divorced and Mother of a Young daughter miss Carroll said she could identify with Julia Baker. I grew up with a lot of julias she said. The known Many of them who Are wit children and without husbands and Are trying to make it in the professional world. That must mean the White world because there s no Money to be made in the negro , i know that such girls Are called dark White people. But who else do they have to emulate even though Julia is not aimed at solving problems miss Carroll believe that it can accomplish some Good. I think familiarity can do As Muchas anything to help relations Between the races she said. We live in segregated society and the White people have no notion of How negroes live. Any thing that brings the unknown into Tho White Community is bound to do some  London bobbies Ogle Diahann on to stint there. Saturday june 15, 1968 producer Hal Kanter coaches Star of most talked about show of coming to season. Page 11 the stars and stripes