European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 24, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                April 1978 the stars and stripes Page 19 into the act i hat an actor needs most is what an actor needs least is chewing says Michael i casting director for 60 Broadway is and such films As the sound at the graduate and the Sand be has seen thousands of performers t through the ordeal of trying out for something they dont learn in Shurtleff so a s ago he began giving courses in i to impress writer and r when summoned As a role Candy Wop that Samaritan perhaps i has led to a Book b which be sums up the subtleties of in i so Acton everywhere m by Ibe text was hailed by such eminent As Ujj b Fosse and Josh Logan he has t tied for both and has stirred others hear agents Are in an uproar Over the says Shurtleff with a Truman note because i have no sym a r with them and know How unhelpful to puckish humor includes directors of them just want to Tell people what the players he wants to so go into he says in the like asking for admission to an insane in my card file Are i would Hazard to say about Jothem earn a living m any rational Point of to e an actor is an act of Why by William Glover associated press anyone w because he has to out be a Nea makes him the most vulnerable of any work win hundreds of f the Taten Sive three month Shurtleff in Audi aw1 to basics into their Range strikes an As Eso i running from such topics As the moment before to oppo Competition and the like musical comedy is pretty much an american Shurtleff English actors Are stunned if they have to do Over film and stage Are All in one place and its a smaller comm so everyone knows the performing centers Are Miles apart and filled with so we have to have nobody likes but weve never found a better Shurtleff developed his main know How during the Hal dozen years be costing director was casting director for David Mer Rick in one season we did a dozen he was in on Early appraisal and initial jobs for such future luminaries As Robert Dustin Robert Joan barbra Streisand and Robert the first thing i teach is to use modern living the 48yearold Mentor i dont mean i mean humor As the Way we Deal with one another to make what is i find if an actor has he has to have it tells me a lot about if he i worry he finds men More uptight than women in learning How to give a Good audition and the most difficult candidate of All the intellectual one who does it All in his head and Doest know How to translate into emotional the head people Are the biggest alarm signals go on whenever someone Chews during a gum is my a be though a lot seem to think the eldest of three sons in a Salesman grew up in the purlie us of Chicago i went to eight grammar schools because we moved every time my father got a new i was a very shy child and found you  form friendships moving All the so i became fascinated by stage and he came to new York about age found a spot As a production assistant at the City Center of drama and eventually sat in while casts were after a seven month letter Merrick Shurtleff still recommends that students write to prospective employers rather than trudge from office to of he makes one thing to All who come to him for i Tell them that taking my course Doest mean ill necessarily Ever Call them for an How to ease a taxing situation by Louise Cook associated press i or Many filing income tax returns Means shuffling 1 through shoe rummaging in drawers and poking about closets for financial if youre one be you can save time next by getting organized this throw no too Many documents and i them for too Long can be just As As keeping too few for too Short take income tax for do you have drawers crammed with copies of the past 25 years returns Weed out the old with a few the internal Rev Enue service has up to three years in which to audit Federal tax you generally discard receipts and other tax deduction records after the three year some papers you dont even have to keep that Long once you have compared the stubs from your weekly or news is Wpm thinking of Casino of on flt  Antipa Tav to a j1imk mail Duthil monthly salary payments against your yearned w2 throw them out As suming there is no of if you fail to report More than 25 per cent of your Gross the irs has six years to audit your there Are no time limits if you file a fraudulent return or fail to file any return at state Laws on tax audits vary Check with local authorities to learn How Long to keep to help you get the department of agriculture has a Brief pamphlet called keeping household records what to a newly updated version is at do from the consumer information if you Are sceptical about the need for ask yourself these questions How easy or difficult would it be for other members of your family to figure out your record system 0 besides knows where to turn for necessary information on family assets and obligations 0 a you have a with addresses and Telephone of important Finan Cial contacts like tax counsel insurance c what would happen if your Home were burglarized or destroyed by fire if the answers to these questions add up to you need a Start by dividing papers into two categories replaceable and keep irreplaceable records including things that would be difficult or costly to duplicate in a Safe Deposit Box at a the boxes come in sizes starting at about two five by24 inches annual rentals Start at about sort other financial papers into three piles dead storage and throw Here is a specific list of what to put where Safe Deposit Box death and marriage certificates adoption and veterans papers divorce de automobile household Bonds and Stock cer note the original copy of a will usually is kept in the Safe of the attorney who prepared you get two Carbon copies put one in the Safe Deposit Box and keep the other one where it is readily household Active file tax re unpaid paid Bill cur rent Bank statements and cancelled income tax working employment healt Benefit inform credit card insurance copies of family health appliance manuals and warranties and receipts for those items on which the warranties Are still in education in a list of what is in the Safe de posit loan receipts for expensive items which have not been paid dead storage As a Rule of anything that is More than three years old and cannot be thrown out should go in dead discard cancelled checks for Cash or nondeductible expired Warran ties and salary once you have things get a Loose Leaf notebook and record the whereabouts of important family Mem Bers social Security the location of your Safe Deposit Box Bank name and Branch and insurance policy you also should include information on savings and checking accounts All of them so you dont become one of the missing depositors who have forgotten about accounts or died without telling rela Tives about