European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 18, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse They Are Small Mountain born in the sea some 25 million years there is evidence of Man living there perhaps As Long As years the chumash indians lived there in ancient Cabrillo didst arrive until and he was ship he injured his leg and died of Only five of the islands Are in the National Park Santa Santa san Santa Barbara and farther Santa Catalina is privately owned and the Navy operates out of Nicholas and san unlike other National these islands dont draw the casual visitor who just stops the people who go there do so and they usually enjoy their the Only disappointment that Park officials see is the tourist who sees the sign on the freeway head Quad Channel islands National they Only to find that the Headquarters in is Only a reception the Park is out there somewhere 14 to 60 Miles but like these offspring of the Mountain building process Are alike and they stand out cloaked in the morning like some ancient Fleet with rusted they Are the stuff that scary stories Are made in one of the derives from an Indian word that Means Mirage or there is a lot ghostly about these there is a ghost for created when Sand coated Trees and turned to inside the vegetation rotted leaving a hollow reminder of what was there Santa Cruz is the largest Island in the National its about the size of two ranches on the islands Graze livestock on most 9 the and the Navy maintains an installation but to Park the Island is Best known for the caves carved into the Shoreline by the sea and the Mountain peaks that reach the second largest is Santa almost surrounded by kelp Beds which makes it a great Kitchen for cooking up the sea life that sustains larger Marine mammals and the rookeries of sea Birds along the Western on Shore it is Haven for the Channel Island Fox and various Santa Barbara Island is the Only 635 and is All that remains of an ancient its Steep Cliffs Are shrouded by fog morning and Lack of fresh water discouraged All but modern it has become a Haven for sailboats that find the Harbor at Catalina too it is a birdwatchers Delight with the Brown Western barn american horned Lark and others poor san Miguel the has been used for missile tracking and a bombing it is still owned by the and visitors must have a special permit and be accompanied by a Park the Navy insists that everyone leave by Only researchers Are allowed to Camp but they May not Camp within sight of the May not build fires and must take All of their trash Back Home with the Park service wants to keep them out of sight to discourage yet this Island has one of the most vivid displays of Marine wildlife of any of the the California sea the Northern elephant the Steller sea the Harbor the Northern fur Seal and the Guadalupe fur Seal flourish and Breed on the beaches and sheltered More species of this family than Are found any where else in the Anacaya actually three almost connected is is the most accessible of this inaccessible on a Good Holiday there May be As Many As 300 boats around the Island for the fishing and another reason is the outhouse at frenchy somehow these islands have survived the depredations of Oil practice bombing and vandalism Are Park rangers All in the but there Are there is a Church like building on it is not a it houses the water vandals used to take potshots at it to watch it the Church facade now offers if it takes a special kind of this National Park requires a special kind of As says supervisor Biu whose oldest staff member is it takes someone who really wants to be someone who Doest get motion sickness there is a lot of boating on heavy seas and someone who Doest mind Young couples work out Skinny and very Cater mind by mich1ko Kakutani new York times it is 11 and strains of Chopin float Down the stairs of the new York town Katharine Hep who has been up nearly six is finishing two and a half hours of practising the piano a daily regimen required by her latest role and now she is late for at the age of dressed in Tan gabardine Trou a Black Turtleneck and hiking she still in her own Skinny and very the face is the manner and the voice loud and with that distinctive Bryn mawr As she tells directs a visitor to slinging a red sweater around her she walks briskly out to second Avenue to a garage where she picks up her Silver Ford although it is but a Short taxi or limousine ride across town to the Anta Hepburn insists on driving there she does not like to she on other the rehearsals Are for her latest Ernest Thompsons new play West Side which will tour for six months before coming to Broadway next it is the Story of two aging women whose love of music counterpoints their loneliness in the brings them Hepburn portrays a rather highbrow subject to deteriorating health but reluctant to surrender her Pride her Dorothy a Violi nist who is eager to be her As she has done throughout her Hepburn is playing a version of has led a wilfully Independent choosing perfection of the work Over the consolations of and if there Are any she actress Katharine Hepburn at age january 1981 does not speak of in a she As she eases her car into Crosstown that really the trouble with most people today i think they want it you aint going to get it if youre an it Means youre automatically self and if youre you should not Bur Den a i had the most wonderful childhood of anyone in the so i know How much time my parents took with and i what would i do if i had a child and the child got sick and we had an opening night id be furious at the i can be terribly the fact that acting is a collaborative venture frequently chafes at Hepburn sense of it is an admission that she is not entirely id rather have been a great Painter or a great writ she its a minor the trouble with it is that you have to do it with other i think depending on yourself is much More satisfying than be ing part of a great big it is As she pulls into a parking lot near the throwing open the doors of the she Waves to her colleagues who Are waiting for an elevator and swiftly climbs four flights of she is somewhat out of but she is there at the rehearsal room before the Hepburn is fond of quoting her late colleague and Spencer whose advice was know your lines and dont bump into the she knows her lines by the first Day of and she knows them word for indeed she lives by an unspoken but inviolable code of behaviour a Yankee ethic of hard privacy and punctuality and when she is working on a there is a sense that she expects her colleagues to abide by it As these rehearsals Are to her liking they Are Businesslike and unusually intense six hours a six Days a no chitchat and a 20minute break for that lunch is frequently prepared by Hepburn often for the entire she not Only likes people not to do things for but she wants to do everything for everyone Noel Wil the plays she Hurt her shoulder rather badly last year and she went on lugging logs in for her fireplace nearly drove her friends All she will not give in to what were All subject to getting having directed Hepburn in her last Broadway a matter of in Willman is Well acquainted with her wilful his voice and in Are often heard rising in a Crescendo above the for their he Are As fierce As they Are she has very definite views on How certain scenes should be he she is sometimes dead and so we fight and see who an outsider would think she was in a but when its theres no residue of Shes not really As Strong and Bossy As she there have been Many losses Over the years Tracy died in and her parents Are gone but in she has always there is and in Well earned a measure of i dont think of myself As very she but everyone is very Nice to and life is softened so much if people come out and say youre wonder sometimes i dont know Why i keep Ive done it so Long i dont know any thing i recognized even As a child that you have to be Independent and not afraid of being alone in your Point of everyone you theres a lot of that in the it is getting and the rest of the cast has Assem As someone begins to pick out a Chopin Waltz in the other Hepburn walks in to the and she goes Back to the stars and stripes Page 11
