European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 05, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Three for the show actress Sylvia Sidney and pug friends. Sylvia Sidney avoiding the reruns by Willuam Glover associated press ylv1a Sidney can still cry on Cue but tantrums Are out As a career weapon. All my attitudes have changed says the Star once noted for temperament As intense As i her High voltage emoting. I if you Don t grow up at some Point you la go to your grave still a baby with she punctuates with the famous throaty Laughand a bit of nose crinkle. The 66-year-old Veteran of a half Century on stage and screen was doing some personality analysis during a rehearsal break in Vieux the new Tennessee Wil Liams drama arrived recently at the St. James theater Sidney s first Broadway stint in m years. In eight weeks around Here nobody has seen me throw a fit about anything she says. Explosive behaviour Sidney has decided wastes a lot of Energy. You just win undying hate of people exposed to it and there s no dignity to that. You Don t get any Points screaming and Yelling. As i look Back my own insecurity was although she has changed her ways he bos not retreated into listless passivity. Plenty of things still stir satiric repartee. Pretentious she scoffs if such words As artistry and role arc applied to theatrical Endeavor. Rather the lady with the great Luminous Brown eyes plays parts in she says she has never paid attention to her Public image but As she describes her part in the Williams play she says "1 play an old Bitch my dogs Don t think so but some people think that s what i am. They re Welcome to their then she laughs and resettled on her Lap Ladybug an Star Sapphire the two pugs who accompany her every where. Pug Breeding and needlepoint Are her major Hob Bies. My name has been in new York papers More during the past 14 years for the ribbons my dogs win than for what i do she remarks. Her Vieux Carre role is that of a boarding House keeper in the French Quarter of new Orleans name mrs. Wire i think she s the techniques of her acting Are a Tongue tying topic what do you want a lesson in acting but she Modi fies with there Are certain disciplines that have become so automatic i m not aware of them any Sidney who grew up in the Bronx became a Thea Ter Guild student at age is and in 1926 bowed on Broadway in the soon after Hollywood called and her film career has been divided into three segments. At first there were the dewy eyed tremulous heroines of Street scene and an american then she was the older sister soon followed by wife mistress Mother roles. Now we re at the grandmother she had just finished raid at Entebbe when director Allan Seidelman invited her into the current stage project. She d worked with him on several Road productions of Williams plays and found him a very considerate Mentor. With a bad director i go crazy i Don t know what i m Sidney lives in the present. She s Lom up All of her scrapbooks. To the dismay of theatrical archivists and has kept Only two pictures of herself. And she avoids look ing at lat night runs of her old films. I be got a Friend who Calls me up when one is on then i sit and Giggle and Tell what really happened while the picture was being made. At times i have total thrice married thrice divorced and with one son the Veteran Star in private life now professes an equable existence interrupted with frequent Calls to performance. The Butcher and electric company won t accept my old review or even my new she sustains a relaxed attitude about the sum of her work. Lone ago she stopped counting How Many parts there have been. I suppose there have been parts i wanted that i did t get. But if they did t ask me to do them what can i do about it there s no sense spending your life saying of i could have done that better it s like Reading old she has t kept them either. The one thing you be always got to remember is the audience. If you Don t worry about those people you be got no show. One thing. I be never been wrong about a part passed up. I Don t think of a career totally. is Ladybug jumps to the floor. Star Sapphire gives Heraram an affectionate nudge. Sylvia Sidney concludes the conversation. You relax ear it. Grin a Little being by Peter associated press m pleased with myself at the minute said Leo Sayer just before his when 1 need you settled into the no. 1 spot on the charts. But i m More worried you re supposed to get worried when you have to Don Whiteface to grab the attention of a fickle Public As Sayer did two years ago not when you re Selling out concert Halls charts As a Sayer album did last Yea not when everything you touch turns to Gold. The Little English showman lion top right now As no Singer has been since the heyday of Elton John. His you make me feel Uke dancing had barely vacated the top of the charts when us current single busted through. Why in t he enjoying that Zarif led air "1 worry he says i believe in not sitting Down and taking it easy. 1 overwork myself because i m always trying to get songs ready for the next album. The next album has got to be better than the that last album Sayer wants to improve All i be Craft. I m a Singer. So results.". But in 197 rushed into a year a silence. That s who Poge 12 the stars and stripes Yul a whole n by Richard f. She new York time us Brynner i person who will thre horror if you sped Back or reviving but he wishes there could get very of in terms of revivals. It should be Velse he said recently As he sat in at the Uris theater in new York and i opened recently. Close u sounded exactly As he does on Down to the dark intelligent coun free expanse of head the deep it s not a revival. It s a whole new the play has become More con was in 1951 when it first opened Oscar Hammerstein a who wrote lyrics had certain ideas about 1 touched on Many things such a woman to have her condition res pee the play has stood still but Uhas moved. The values were then they were then an intellectuals Numan rights Are a part of everyday toe King and i arrived a 1351 and closed two Yean later Rance starred As Anna the brought to be Royal court of 8 the children of the King an into Ous Man without but ancient Pel Brynner played the King and i supporting actor. After the Dea during the show s run he became it won an Oscar for the same role in t the musical. Last summer he on the King of Sam in what he Calls a a show away from new York. M Constance towers plays. Anna tation and Brynner said she t trayal that is quite different from sunday Jii
