European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 22, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Pago 10 the stars and stripes a Friday january 22,1993 from left Audrey Hepburn in a breakfast at tuft any a Quot 1961 As Eliza Doolittle in Quot my fair lady 1964 and helping a somalian child on a visit for Unicof last legend Audrey Hepburn Dies at 63 Tol Ochenas Switzerland apr Audrey Hepburn the elegant Waif who won film goers hearts before going on to travel the world in to shirt khakis and sneakers working for needy children has died at age 63. Hepburn who had undergone Colon cancer surgery last year died wednesday at her Home in this Small Village on the shores of Lake Geneva according to a relative who answered the door at the residence. Hepburn with her High cheekbones Doe eyes and ravishing elegance charmed the world As a renegade Young Princess seeking a taste of Normal life in iome a an. Oscar winning performance in Homan Holiday in 1953. She became a Unicof Goodwill ambassador in 1986 and travelled for the United nations International children a emergency fund until 1992, visiting Camps of starving somalis in Kenya and Somalia in september. As a child she had herself received help from the Agency after surviving the last Winter of world War u in Holland on a diet mostly of turnips. Quot in be never known anything about politics Quot she said in a 1990 associated press interview Quot i just care terribly because i saw so much As a child about suffering and the suffering of children a a her death Quot is a painful and irreplaceable loss for her family friends for children everywhere and Unicof a a said Agency director James Grant. Quot the children of the world Hay lost a True Friend and an important and eloquent Unicof said funeral services would be held in Tol Ochenas on sunday. Hepburn was born May 4, 1929, near Brussels Belgium. Her father was a banker of English Irish ancestry her Mother a dutch Baroness. After her parents divorced she was sent to a girls school near London. Her Mother took her to the Netherlands at the outbreak of world War ii thinking it would be safer than England. But Germany invaded in May 1940, one of her Brothers was taken to a nazi labor Camp and the nazis executed her Uncle and Cousin. She attended school studied Ballet and joined in underground Amateur shows to raise Money for the dutch resistance. After the War Hepburn won a ballet1 scholarship and went to London. Long legged and fragile looking she was discovered As a Model by fashion photographers in London and began studying act my. Her break came when the French author Colette met her and insisted she play the part of Gigi when her novel of that name was adapted to the stage. The role took Hepburn to Broadway in 1951. Another Broadway appearance in on Dine won her a Tony the same Spring that she got the Oscar for roman Holiday her other Oscar nominations were for Sabrina with Humphrey Bogart and William Holden 1954the hunks Story with Peter Finch 1959breakfast at Tif Fanyo a with George Peppard 1961and wait until dark with Alan Arkin 1967. Other highlights of her career included funny face with Fred Astaire 1957in which she played a Greenwich Village girl who becomes a fashion Model and the thriller charade 1963. In 1964, she played Eliza Doolittle to Rex Harrison a professor Henry Higgins in my fair lady. Hepburn stopped making movies regularly in the late 1960s, but returned for several roles including Marian with Sean Connery a Robin Hood in Robin and Marian in 1976. She appeared in a television movie in 1987, love among thieves and in 1989 she played an Angel guide in Steven Spielberg a always Hepburn and her first husband Mel Ferrer were divorced in 1968 after 14 years of marriage and a year later she married Andrea Dotti an italian psychiatrist and lived in Rome for several years. They divorced in 1980. She had sons by both husbands Sean Ferrer born in 1960, and Luca Dotti born in 1970. After her second marriage failed her longtime companion was dutch actor Robert Wolders who was once married to the late movie Star Merle get ready for year of the rooster Beijing up a chinese around the world Are preparing to ring in the year of the rooster today with an annual burst of feasting travel and deafening fireworks As they Greet the lunar new year. From Beijing to Sydney to san Francisco chinese communities Are readying for their most important annual Holiday with celebrants heading to wherever is Home and those already in place organizing parties seasonal foods and the traditional pyrotechnics. Across China peasants Are slaughtering their fattest pigs cleaning House and paying off debts to say Farewell to the year of the Monkey and Welcome the year of the rooster for a four Day Holiday known As the Spring festival. The rooster year is viewed As among the More auspicious on the 12-animal chinese Zodiac. Traditional belief also sees poor Fortune on the a Tail of the Monkey and Many couples in China delayed marriages and pregnancies to have weddings and births this year. In Beijing shopkeepers Are cashing in on the festival by Selling rooster toys calendars and other trinkets. The official Xinhua news Agency reported that even the City a Kentucky Fried Chicken outlets Are expecting a Bonanza. Around Asia chinese Are travelling by planes trains and automobiles and every other Means of conveyance to make it Home for the Holiday. The lunar new year brings huge traffic jams in Taiwan South Korea and elsewhere. About 2.5 million people Are expected to Cross from Hong Kong into Southern China during the new year period to visit relatives. Air rail and boat links Are booked solid despite added flights and trains. Chinese transport agencies have added hundreds of flights trains and buses to Cope with the 910 million passengers expected nationwide As throngs of travellers head Home. In China most families will stay Homb and stay up. Late tonight Many watching a six hour variety extravaganza on television or playing the tile gambling Aroe Mah Jonggu into the wee hours. They spend the following Days visiting friends and relatives. Most households will be filled with the smells of traditional foods like dumplings and most neighbourhoods will resound with the traditional barrage of fireworks which legend sees As a Means of driving off ghosts and evil spirits. Onues across China have tried to crack Down on illegal fireworks and reduce the related casualties but Early celebrants in Beijing Are already blasting off new High Altitude rockets and a new firecracker that is More like a stick of dynamite
