European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 27, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Doily Mog Ozine . Kin the this planet is for everybody it s not just mine or yours by Brendan Riley associated press Jtj. �. A Jln a has been singing the blues for 31 years. Now he s on top in his Field but wants More mass acceptance of the blues As part of our Cul  sings of love jealousy Joy and the Folly of people with words that Don t dress it up it s kind of in  he punctuates phrases by bending notes on his electric guitar producing a wailing sound from the strings. The result is a driving rhythmic sound that starts the audience clapping stomping and even joining in songs like everybody wants to know Why sing the blues aking favorite. King says he could play other types of music like jazz but i m comfortable doing what i do. It s better to be a big hog in a Little Pond than a Little pidgin the big  and King says there s plenty of room to improve an expand within the musical form he has focused on since starting on the Caitlin circuit of Black night clubs inthe South in the 1940s. King 51, born Riley King on a Plantation Between Indi Anola and Itta Bena miss., was taught by a preacher Uncle to sing and play the guitar for Church. In 1947, begot a Job As disc jockey and Singer on a Memphis tenn., radio station and eventually started playing one night Ersin clubs around Memphis. He won Early Fame with a Small mostly Black Audi ence but it was not until the late 1960s, when major Rock artists credited him for techniques they used that Kin hit the big time. He continued a hard Pace of appearances practically year round adding to shows at Black night clubs appearances on College campuses at Rock con certs and Nevada s big hotel casinos and european wheel Tours. He will be appearing in London oct. 8-9 and i Brussels oct. 18. He has received Many awards including a 1970 grammy for the thrill is  last May King was one of 14 persons awarded honorary degrees at Yale University the second musician from the afro american tradition to get an honorary doctorate from the school. The late Duke Ellington got the first. King has also started working for prison Reform and improvements. Through his music King feels he can help prisoners or anyone else for that matter realize this planet is for everybody it s not just mine or  King says he thinks the blues will find a growing audience because music and people Are like a big Wagon wheel with the spokes running to the  there s a need for All of it he says of the blues audits place on the wheel adding people Don t get As much of the blues As they do other types of music. I thin there s enough room to squeeze me in  Vivien Leigh by Roberta g. Wax United press International Vivien Leigh Lasful witty talented and intelligent. She was also manic depressive and very much afraid of going insane. She won an Academy award for her portrayal of Blanche Dubois in a Streetcar named desire but is probably Best remembered for her Oscar winning role a Scarlett o Hara in gone with the wind and for her love affair with sir Laurence Olivier whom she later married then  producer David 0. Selznick who ran a much ballyhooed search for a Scarlett the actress with the Catlike Green eyes personified the Southern Belle As Margaret Mitchell had written her part girl part woman Par lady part shrew. It was this combination of personality that was Leigh greatest asset and part of her problem according to Anne Edwards author of the biography Vivien  actress who suffered bouts of hysteria followed by deep depression died from complications of tuberculosis in 1967. She was 53. Vivien had the great drive that Scarlett had Edwards said comparing the woman and the role. But Vivien had More Nate gentleness and Good Ness. She was never selfish As Scarlett was. She was ruthless in knowing what she wanted in that Way she was like Scarlett but that was part her make up and part her  Leigh really suffered two diseases Edwards said. She had tuberculosis and was a manic depressive a combi nation that worked against each  makes you More hyperactive and with the de pression that is almost like taking uppers and Downers said Edwards who is writing a sequel to gone with the  author said Many doctors diagnosed Leigh As schizophrenic because the actress would turn from Happy Loving generous person to a raging hysterical , who also wrote a biography of Judy Garland said Leigh s tragedy cannot be compared with Garland Sor Marilyn Monroe a or any other of those she Calls the Darlings who cracked up Vivien and Judy were so diametrically , of course were fascinating women in their own Way. But it was t Fame or anything self imposed that destroyed Vivien. It was t enough for Vivien to survive. She had to survive and succeed. Vivien did t crack up she stood up. She fought desperately against madness. She was determined not to end up in an institution. She fought her mad Ness which was really her illness. When she was Well she was this genteel charming warm  she said it was sad Leigh did not live Long enough to be helped by the drug Lithium which can now control manic  said the actress was so Well loved that even tuesday september 27, 1977 mom Leigh with Clark Gable in gone with fhe wind. Though she railed screamed and cursed those closest Toher they still loved her and tried to protect her. Edwards said she had no trouble researching the Booker using Vivien s letters and personal things. Everyone loved and admired Vivien. Everyone seemed to want her Story  the stars and stripes Page 13