European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 16, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Poge 20 the stars and stripes tuesday september 16, 1980 5? modern living toe acteon. Betty Mutton in new York hotel room it s going to be  b by Jay Sharbutt associated press Etty Mutton says she was up in new England eight years ago in a summer Stock production of anything goes. She was desperately ill hooked on pills. She had to quit the show. Mid August 1980. Fully recovered she s i los Angeles at her daughter s Home. She s cooking breakfast for the grandchildren getting ready for Church. The phone rings. They want her for Annie. In a reply Tell you what. To going to mass i ilk to be Boss. I la come Back and Bate a Confer ence with my kids and let you  she says she did t even know Annie was a hit Broad Way musical. She thought it might be a reprise of Annie get your gun. In which she starred in the 1930 film version. She knows better now. Starting this month she s inthe Annie cast at the Alvin theater in new York for three weeks spelling Alice Ghostley As the mean old orphanage Boss. Miss Hannigan. No i Don t consider this a comeback says the lady born in Battle Creek mich., and just a tyke when she began performing singing in Beer Halls. It s not like that. Who knows what la happen next. You can Only live one Day at a time. I m doing it All to glorify  Mutton known in the old Days As the  the blonde Bombshell and such is what they Call a survivor. But she resembles a Happy healthy one her personal demons now gone. Her face is a Little Fuller now with a few More lines but her Hazel eyes sparkle. She dresses casually in jeans a White shirt a Blue sweater. Much of the old exuberance and vitality remains. She carries a Rosary and talks constantly about he three daughters and five grandchildren. She hit the big time when she was still a Teri Ager singing with Vincent Lopez band in new York. She achieved stardom with her first film a bit movie musical the Fleet s la. Nearly 40 years ago. She a Uttz it or � use la Hollywood Aad last fess had us by mkt Fame go Earp com Aba re to her entry note. But with it has come four busted marriage emotional turmoil and a 20-year drug addiction she now admits was a Long Effort to commit suicide. Uppers Downers Inners outer i took everything i could get my hands on she says grinning trying not to make it sound like tear Jerker suitable for framing As a mawkish to movie. It started when i was playing vegas and found 1 was getting tired. The old snap just was t there the shows were too hard. My Mother gave me a Little tiny Dezamil a stimulant. It was As innocent As that and 1 said my god that sit i m not tired " it led to a vicious Cycle pills to get up pills to Cal Down. A turbulent marriage to her fourth husband jazz trumpeter Pete Candoli did t help. It ended in 1967."that s the thing that cracked me she says. I thought we were Happy. But one night when i was get Ting ready for bed i turned on Rona Barrett and she said Pete Candoli is engaged to Edie  Mutton Miles gently. Then 1 took a whole bottle of pills and said the hell with  the suicide attempt failed. But when she quit that summer Stock show Back in 1972, she says she was completely hooked on drugs and i via trying to kill myself at this  instead while in an institution for treatment of her addiction she met a Catholic priest. Rev. Peter Maguire of St. Anthony s Church in Portsmouth . He turned her life around she says. Me brought in this Drunken Dame he works with alcoholics Anonymous people and i could t help noticing him she says. So gentle so marvelous the Way he did  b time she com Ltd to Carbo Safaei. She spot " no i Don t consider this a comeback. Who knows what a happen next you can Only live one Day at a time. I m doing it All to glorify  year As the housekeeper a lie St. Anthony s rectory working anonymously cleaning and cooking for Rev. Maguire and two other priests. She wanted no publicity which was no problem initially he did t even know who i was had never been to a movie. When he Learned i m Betty h Utton he Laid who s that " when he discovered she d been one of Hollywood s to stars he agreed to keep it secret. Only problem he asked and she said Okay if he could give a Little Story about it to a local Catholic weekly. That did it she laughs. Abc Abc lbs they came with cameras and cables to this tiny Catholic Church. Hews stunned with this reality that hit him from outer  a love in was held in new York to raise funds forthe Church his celebrated housekeeper being the main attraction. The Money was raised but there was a Price paid. All the hoopla was too much pressure for me she says. I was t ready for it and i started Back on Pill. I Learned you Doo t become saintly overnight she was in and out of at least Seren More basal Tah Ite a a we gnat Ridden despairing it returned gradually Over the last four years As she began facing the Public again first speaking in new England to smal groups about drug addiction then Worang As a publicist for a Jai Alai Pilace in Newport a i Ionna Riep to a tearful Long delayed reunion  Christmas Wuh her daughters in California. " Shaou in