European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 11, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Continued from Page 11 she d lock me up in lonely hotel rooms for  right miss Smarty you did t behave tonight so i m leaving you for Ever mrs. Gumm Mother of Frances Gumm Little girl Singer and dancer would say. Then pack her bag and leave the child sitting on the bed. I was Frozen with fear recalled the grownup Frances Gumm now Judy Garland. Less than 10 years old i Saton that bed All night and cried. It happened several  Judy s Mother always returned the next morning. They d pile into broken Down old car and head for the next play Date in third rate Heaters. Judy never recovered from those frightening nights alone. To this Day she has trouble sleeping frequently Call ing friends at 3 or 4 . And asking them to Chat or come Over for a drink. At age 12 she walked into my where she made her screen debut in every sunday followed by such forgettable films As pigskin Parade Broadway Melody of 1938" and thoroughbreds Don t  despite the Quality of the films Judy became Box office. Moviegoers recognized a spark of Talent and soon Cameto adore the girl with the tear in her voice. You d think i lived like a  Judy recalls her Days at metro Goldwyn Mayer As a Nightmare. The put her in one picture after another. She needed Pep pills to keep her sing ing and dancing before the cameras then sleeping pills so she could restart night. She became an automaton. Push Button and watch the Dolly dance. Push another and watch her collapse. Then in 1938 she starred in the wizard of of and joined the immortals 5f you d think i lived like a  Nightmare. Of the screen. Even today when the Pic Ture is shown on television half the country stops what it s doing to watch. But while she romped with the cow ardly lion tin Woodman and scare Crow on screen behind the scenes Al was not so merry. I was a Chubby Little girl Judy recalled half humorously. So they d truss me up in a  could t sing very Well. They put Caps on my Teeth. They starved me to los weight. They even put stuff in Rny nose to make it look different. I played Little Dorothy Gale of Kan Sas in that picture but i was Little tortured Tillie during the whole damned thing. I Don t know Why they did t go out and find a girl that looked like Dorothy instead of bending me out of shape for the  pm Mickey gooney it Ltd Judy maintain or rarity. Foot 13 or Judy much of All this was thoroughly  of her real friends was Mickey Rooney who helped her maintain he sanity in the succession of pictures they did  up there and sing and dance kids they used to Tell us. And whence collapsed from overwork they d let us rest in the studio Hospital. It was million  in an Effort to escape the dictator ship of her Mother and the horrors of studio life Judy found Sanctuary intermarriage to composer David Rose in 1941. By mrs. Gumm and Mem this was considered a breach of Good Faith on Judy s part and the marriage Dis solved in 1944. Less than a year later she married director Vincente Minnelli who made Many distinguished pictures at  now Judy was a grown woman but still took orders. She d known Noth ing else. Minnelli directed her in meet the stars and stripes i of a i in with Fred Astaire in on screen Triumph air fade in 1948. Me in St. Louis and the  marriage was a Stormy one and ended in 1951.Judy fought with a few directors at tempted suicide by slashing her Throat with a shattered water Glass and generally suffered from the  after her divorce from min Nelli Judy married Sid Luft a Man of Many and varied careers. If her marriage to Minnelli was Stormy her 13years with Luft might be described As an out and out Hurricane. They did need friends they needed a referee. He helped guide her career and eventually perfected her left Jab. Thereafter Judy s health broke Down her weight ballooned and her career went into de Cline. She was pronounced washed up bythe Industry when she was fired from the title role in Annie get your gun and replaced by Betty Tihon. I was in my dressing room getting ready for a scene when one of those simpering jerks in a Black suit walked in with a note Judy remembers. It was very Subtle. I think it read some thing like get out " Judy jokes about it now but it Al most killed her. Judy was never Box office  problem was to get her on film without touching off world War Iii atone of the studios. She remains to this Day a top at traction whenever she makes a Public appearance or sings at a  voice in t what it once was but to the Garland fans it does t seem to Mailer. In the past decade Judy has mad Only three movies. She received acad Emy award nominations for two of them a Star is born and judgment at  the third a child i waiting bombed. Between pictures Judy vacillated be tween concert triumphs wretched health and stirring up the populace with a series of romances and disappearances from the Public  she dropped from sight. It was assumed Judy was through he voice gone her friends estranged her husbands  came a series of triumphs. She gave a Carnegie Hall concert that had fans standing on the seals screaming her name. The crowd included Middle aged Garland fanatics As Well As the  she topped herself with a Tele vision special thai had the critics reach Andy is a creature of impulse h Lien conditions Ore Riff i there is no one to compare Nith her magnetism. Lint like a Butterfly she can t be Kepi that ing for superlatives. Judy Garland soil could turn on the audience faster than 1.sd. Thereafter lbs to gave her a weekly musical variety show. It was Good bad and indifferent. Judy was on to again and her word was Law sending More than one network functionary tothe Gallows. When the show Slid off the air Judy plunged out of sight with it. When she was heard from again the locale was Melbourne Australia where she was hooted off the Slage for being late and or in bad voice or simply indifferent. Ii was All the fault of the Australia press Judy said. They were so anxious to get exclusive stories about me they bugged my room and bored Small holes in the Walls to peer through to see what i was doing. But i got  d sneak up to those holes and push Cotton swabs through the holes. I could hear the peepers scream with pain on the other Side of the Wall. Boy Arethey rough in  Judy made still More news Enro lehome from Down under. She stopped in Hong Kong and almost died of an undetermined illness. Mark Herron her fourth and most recent husband Wasat her Side. Persona non grata in Hollywood for movies or television and not exactly the Darling of new York Judy decide to recuperate from her problems at a in Ndon nursing Home. From the stories out of England one expected she would never leave alive. But after a few Days confinement she attended the London palladium captive and retain the hypnotize her fans. 55 scene of an earlier Triumph for eng land s night of 100  the beatles and every top British Star were on hand for the Charity show. It turned out to be the night Ozone  Judy was introduced from the Audi ence and the proper English blew their Cool entirely. They screamed and cried for Judy to get on stage. This she  Sang Over the Rainbow and a couple of other patented Judy Garland songs and the stolid old palladium rocked with cheers and shouts of love for the girl with the Rainbow in her  she s of a mind Judy can trans form an audience into a cult with the deftness of a maharishi Yogi. Judy is a creature of impulse. When conditions Are right there is no one to compare with her magnetism. But like Butterfly she can t be kept captive and retain the qualities that hypnotize her fans. She finds the restrictions of movie making regular television shows and marriage equally  testifying in her divorce against Herron she said he drank two big bottles of scotch a Day and would kick me when i was  Herron said he struck her Only in self  what Judy will do next perhaps eve she could t Tell you. One prediction though As sure As the Sun will Rise tomorrow Judy Garland will be thrilling audiences somewhere perhaps again atthe London palladium possibly in new York s Carnegie Hall. Or at the Holly Wood bowl. It Wii t be easy. It never has Bee for Judy. Husband no. 1 David Rose a Sanctuary. No 2 Yim a Tormy weather no. 3 Sid Luft an out and out Hurricane. No. 4 Mark Herron never saw him. Friend Tom Green two ring circus. The stars and stripes 13