44. INTREPID CHRISTIE SLEUTH Santa Barbara, News- Press, Friday, July 22, -1983 C-9 Theater's first lady plays Miss Marple By Bob Thomas BEVERLY HILLS (AP) The First Lady of the American Theater retired from the stage a decade ago because she's allergic to stage dust. But at 82, Helen Hayes is as active as ever i in television and film productions. The legendary actress tries to limit herself to one project a This year's work was "A Caribbean' Mystery," a CBS-television movie which will appear next season. She plays Marple, the intrepid Agatha Christie sleuth.
"I accepted the show because it was a good script and a darling cast," she said while visiting a friend in this affluent community. 1 Miss Hayes says she was especially pleased to work once again with Maurice Evans. They had broken records in New York with their 1940 production of "Twelfth Night," and they did a busand-truck tour of "Shakespeare Revi-. sited: A Program for Two Players" in 1962. "A Caribbean Mystery," alas, was not filmed on some glorious tropical isle.
"The show will look we were. out in the Caribbean enjoying ourselves, and I know my friends will say, 'Helen gets all those great Miss Hayes says. we 'filmed in Santa Barbara, and a lot of things were agin' us. Like frigid cold and rain every day. We' worked indoors while it poured and poured, and when it stopped, we tried to make it.
look like the tropics. I was wearing light clothes: thermal underwear." She had requested three days away from the filming, set at a quaint hillside resort overlooking Santa Barbara, so she could attend a benefit. in Lincoln, Neb. That was granted, but to: accommodate the schedule, Miss Hayes was required to work "six days HELEN HAYES Makes TV movie dight." Another hazard was the nature of the Marple role: "She has all the summing up, all the exposition. All those lines! I told the producer, Stan Margulies, 'I can't learn all that stuff.
ty "One of the nice parts about being a star is that the lesser paid actors have to do the exposition. I haven't done exposition for: 50 years." Robert Lewis, who directed the movie, says Miss Hayes was "marvelous. She was up at 6, worked long hours on our short walked up land down stairs without a recently published book, "A Gathering of. Hope, Miss Hayes writes that one of the hardest aspects of an acting career is constantly being on the road and away from home. "It was especially bad during those "a week, 12 hours a day- I staggered to my bungalow.
and fell into bed every 1 4 In Old Santa Barbara Compiled by Stella Haverland 100 Years Ago July 22, 1883 Where are all the horses? There is a great scarcity On Sunday there were none to be had at any price, as the stables had engaged all animals several, days in advance. Eli Rundell of the stage office states that he found. it impossible to hire an extra team in town. 75 Years Ago July 22, 1908 With her crew singing and laughing on her decks and her 19 passengers safely camped. In an improvised sailcloth tent on Flea Island, the big German freight steamer Anubis lies on a long sunken reef half a mile west of Otter Harbor off the west coast of San Miguel Island.
Sixteen feet of water fills the hold of the vessel and keeps her as quiet as a ship at anchor. Her stern is sunk slightly. below her water line, but she is only slightly listed. Captain von Salzen sent Frank Nidever4 in' their 'sloop Ynez, with a telegram to the owners asking for. pumping tugs.
He hopes to pump the ship out, plug up the hole in her bottom and pull her off the rocks. was drawn out of her course by the channel tides. 50 Years Ago July 23, 1933 Culminating Artist Week which began last Monday, the second annual Artists Fair opened at 10 To clock this morning in the sunken gardens of the courthouse. From under gay umbrellas each set up by a local artist: 1,000 canvases were offered 'for sale or barter, The county decorated the courthouse with banners and the city lent 40 beach umbrellas. A flower stand and a refreshment stand added Interest, Loring Andrews entertained as a strolling musician, and Roderick White conducted his Little Symphony Orchestra In a concert at 4 o'clock.
Among artists on committees planning the event are Joseph Knowles, Lyla M. Harcoff, Marjorie Murphy and Nordli. tram C. Willoughby, are on a honeymoon trip to Fairbanks, Alaska after, their 'wedding Sunday afternoon win the First Presbyterian Church. Dr.
Lawrence Fischer officiated -at the double ceremony witnessed by 150: guests. Mrs. Willoughby is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Seth Kinney of San Luis Obispo.
She is a graduate of San: Luis Obispo High School and has been attending Santa Barbara Business lege. Willoughby, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Bertram 8. graduate.of the University of California at Berkeley.
He is now in the U.S. Army with the audit agency in Stock- 25 Years Ago July 22, 1958 Mr. and Mrs. Ber- 1' 1.. I Not since 'Gone With The Wind' has there been a great romantic epic like REDS WARREN DIANE BEATTY KEATON 3: 3 REDS WARREN REATTY DIANE MAUREEN EDWARD STAPLETON HERRMANN JERZY PHOTOGRAPHY KOSINSKI BY JACK NICHOLSON POITED PAUL BY DEDE SOLVINO ALLEN ORIGINAL.
MUSIC WY STEPHEN SONDHEIM A VITTORIO MURIC BY DAVE GRUSIN PRODUCTION DESIGN BY RICHARD COSTUME DESIGN AY SHIRLEY RUSSELL WRITTEN BY WARREN BEATTY BEATTY AND, TREVOR GRIFFITHS PROLACED AND DIRECTED BY WARREN PO NOW -SHOWING! MAGIC LANTERN THEATRE 960. End Norte, Isle AC years when I had Charlie (her husband, Charles MacArthur) and my children waiting there for my tour to end. I. spent some of the loneliest times in alien hotel and boarding rooms," she writes in this collection of inspirational thoughts. The sacrifices have been many for the actress who began working at the of 5 and: became a legend in cheater, radio, television and films.
She received the Academy Award for best actress in 1931 for the movie, "The Sin of Claudet," and the supporting actress awardrin 1970 for 'Airport." 2 Now at 82, she has slowed her work: pace almost to a halt. "Don't you think 75 years of working is enough?" she argues. Last year's acting job. was a of "Love, Sidney," and she's still wondering how it happened. She tells of meeting the series' star, Tony Randall, to discuss preserving an old Broadway theater that had been threatened with destruction.
They met at the Plaza. Hotel in New York. "I left the Plaza shaking my head," 'she recalls. "Somehow I had agreed to appear in 'Love, and I couldn't remember talking about the theater." Miss Hayes spends three months a year at her home in Cuernavaca, Mexico, and the rest of the time at home in Nyack, N.Y., tending her garden. Her life has always been useful, and she has maintained her despite the double tragedy of losing her young daughter Mary to polio in 1949, then her playwrighthusband MacArthur seven years later.
Their son, actor James MacArthur, costarred in the TV series, "Hawaii Five-0." "Life for me has been a constant and recurrent celebration of my usefulness," she writes. "On the stage, in my home, with my family and friends, 1 have gained the most joy from the thought that I have helped, served, mended in some good way." THAT'S MY Adults Only 2nd Feature Goleta GIRL! of 320 S. Kellogg Ave Seven ROXY. 964-0011 Seductions LAY (ON Open Dally 12 Noon New TO York BEHOLD!" "ONE OF THE BEST PICTURES OF THE YEAR!" -Jeffrey Lyons, CBS- Radio Troll's Jan The Flight of the Cagle true story Staning Max von Sydow BEST FOREIGN FILM' NOMINEE 3 NIGHTS ONLY JULY 20-22 7 PM and 9:30 NIGHTLY VICTORIA STREET THEATER 33 W. VICTORIA ST.
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