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j ;' 12--Cc.'3 Stdeimtm, Salwau Or, Sun Fb. 21, 1S54 Fonda Makes luccessof 12 1 t WILLIAM GLOVER NEW YORK The longest streak of dramatic succcsi cur rently on view in the theater, be longs to lanky Henry Fonda. man who bates to let his fans know he's acting. Daring seven years, on Broad; way and on tour, Omaha's the tpian son has been kept pleasantly j busy, with boxoffice successes: "Mr Roberts.- "Point of No Re- turn" and ma Th PainA Mtitinv r & ii rt i : i i i . ringing climax in- an emotidn , . packed final Sve minutes. ronaa is not an actor .given I much to being interviewed, but after t asreeine to s this one he sprawled, out comfortably in work clothes the d been oohshin? furni ture in his "new'? old house on a oe street on one of Manhattan s busy avenues) to chat of this and that. . I This" was mostly about how people -are eternally, calling his wont Tinqeaciing ; "mat was, mostly (whether hell return to the movies where he was a longtime boxoffice beau. Most of Broadway's critics and all the seat holders since came away from "Caine" at the Pjm- . outh marvelling at Fonda s "under playing" as the Navy lieutenant who reluctantly defends a man for mutiny. The coraiftent is an old . i. ; i. . J J: irev, says runua. auuing; -V "I don't understand, honestly what people mean when they say I underplay roles. What I try to do is to be so real in a part that the audience doesn t know I m acting. If they knew that. I'd consider my self a failure." ? i t Not Criticizing j Then he breaks into that famous Fonda grin: ( i "But I really don't care what 1 they mean, even if I don't under stand it, because I know they are not criticizing." j ., When he gets' explaining him- 1 f 1 it & 11 Jll 1 , bcu, uie wurus conirouea ana "economy" of acting recur, so probably Hank and his. audience we separated omy oy terminology. But. skills, call them what you will, ire not enough, Fonda con fides, to get him through the final "Caine" scene. Ifs a sort of su preme test Fonda calls it ' the toughest scene he's ever played-r for it has to follow the play's shat i tering' climax, wherein a man's personality is utterly destroyed be fore the spectators' eyes: Fonda's assignment at this point is to pile on a spirit-stirring sec ond layer, j i YeQ "Brave" i i n l . then." says Fonda. "I haves to be come emotionally involved. I know I'm able to do it most of the time. I can feel it and so can the audi ence. It s the difference between them saying 'well Fonda was flood, H aU right' and (he performances!' when they cheer and yell 'bravo'j: for the whole company." I; It sticks in Fonda's memory that; I one of his rare "satisfying" mom-: 1 ents in movies -was, lost forever U when a perfect take was lost by!' someone opening a dark room door! ' , Just as the film was being pro-! cessed, spoiling tbe;'reel.l He wasi. unable to recapture that electric i perfection in the retakes, and he's I t still sorry. . J,' ii 5 Whkh brings lip that matter ot movies versus living theater.. j "Having a live audience has ! nothing to do with it," sajte Fonda 1 at the iame time , conceding he prefers the stage. VI can get just as , much personal j satisfaction . in an empty house or before 20 peo ple if I feel it's a good perform ance. ; Still Improving "But what is important isJthal ' In a play you can still be building a scene, improving it after three years. In the movies, there's never t ;a chance to improve after that first morning. When the scene is shot and put in the can forever." Nevertheless, Fonda will 'prob ably make more movies and would go forl"an exciting part .with an exciting director" at any time f He's sticking to legit for the pres ent, however. He will be in "Caine" only until June 1 "Th-y knew it when,' I took the part" but he's leaving' to start work on another show for Broadway next season.' What it s about he wouldn't say. I 4 but the trade press reports it will j De a musical Dy ttoagers and Ham-; uwraiein, uaseu on ajonn biein- i beck script ; 1 j i ! Begaa in 1925 : f ' The man with the triumphant success story on Broadway says that his long journey in sock and i buskin accidentally began in 1925, , when at 21 "I was pushed on the ' j stage" back in Omaha. r , , Fresh out of college and looking : for work, Fonda unexpectedly was I involved, in a bustling community theater project "I was so shy that I'd been cast and weeks had gone by .before 'I tried to say you can't do this to me. " l By then it' was too late, and stage enchantment did the rest. x "Three years later, I'd heard you could get money for this. So I came to New Yorkwith $V in my pocket. The folks back -home thought I was so daring. "But it had nothing to do with . guts. I didn't know what I was : getting into. I don't know yet what . , I'd have done if I had known." If he hadn't, a lot of theater '. fans would have been disappointed i and there would be no such sue . 1 cess run on Brdadway today. Tug-of -War Over Site of Air. Force Aeademy Starts 1 j By EDWIN B. HAAONSON l. 1 ASHINGTON Wi-One of the fiercest political scrambles in years is underway over the permanent location of the proposed new Air Force academy. Already approved by the House and expected to clear tne senate this session, the academy will be to the Air Force what West Point is to the Army ana Annapolis to tne navy, Con- Most backers agree that gress. urst must autnonze uie academy and then vote some mon ey for it before the sk can be selected. . 'A Some say privately that the bit ter tug-of-war between most of the states and even many locations wfliin states could stymie the pro ject ' II However, Chairman SaltonstaH (R Mass) of the Senate Armed Services Committee how consider ing' the authorization bill, said: "Right now there is a lot of pull ing and hauling.; Once the authori zation is through and a site selec ted I expect all of that to die down. 1 "I think the Air Academy prob ably must go ta the Middle West, Far West or Southwest" . : Under existing legislation. Sec retary of the l Air Force Talbott must make the; decision; after he named a commission of Air Force generals and three ci vilians to pass on nearly 400 differ ent-site applications. As now planned, the Air Acad emy will require some 10,000 to 15,000 acres, eventually 'will have 123 million dollars worth of beauti ful buildings and an airport, a student body of 2,600. and a faculty and staff of perhaps 7,500. The historic Army-Navy rivalry in football and ether sports is ex pected to expand eventually 1 into army-navy air contsts. And the locality and nearby towns or cities are expected to get a v permanent and profitable income. GhessmanNew President of Press Group; EUGENE (m Robert Chess man, whose , tatner- was tnc ltn president' of the Oregon Press Con ference, became the 35th president of the organization here Saturday. His election came on the closing day of the annual conference of newspapermen on the University of Oregon campus. Chessman, like his father, the late Merle R. Chess man, is publisher of the Astorian Budget at Astoria. , I Verne McKinney of the Hillsboro Argus was named to continue as trustee of the Eric W. Allen Me morial Fund f The editors passed a resolution kommending Gov." Paul Patterson for his recent declaration assuring the press taat there 'would be full access to public information. i At 'a morning" session 'Giles French, editor of the Sherman County Journal, spoke on, experi ences in column-writing.' At a Closing dinner. Dr. Roy C McCall. bead of the speech department at the University, spoke on, "It's All a Matter of How You Say If" HEARING ON INDIAN BILL WASHINGTON JT The citizen ship bill for the Klamath Indians of Oregon will be heard here Feb. 23 and 24. The hearing was set two over from Feb. 22 and 23. AGED HOLLY TREE ; WEST CAPE MAY, N. J. m A 350-year-old bolry tree, loaded with bright red berries and shiny green leaves, still stands- beside a street in West Cape May. The huge .holly tree said to be' New Jersey's oldest measures over seven feet around the trunk. Store Sued - For $32,788 Suit for $32,788 total damages was: filed Saturday with the Ma rion County clerk's office by Mrs:, Vera L. K. Powell, Salem, against Sears, Roebuck and Co. Mrs. Powell seeks $3200 gen eral and $288 special damages. . She alleges that she sustained fracture to her. spine, multiple bruises and . abrasions, about her body and internal injuries? when she fell down a flight "oil stairs at the store Dec 8, 1953. In her complaint she charges that de fendants failed to keep the stair way free from .7 water and which fall a muddy pasty substance" she contends caused her Milk Industry Raise Opposed in ircT? i; i ' n i if i -- vi i i 11 4.1 i i l. r-- L6. i9bouj The board of directors of the Oregon Milk Producers Commit tee, meeting in Salem Saturday, adopted a resolution agamst pay increases for employes I in the milk industry in the 1964 con-1 tracts for employes in the milk industry, Arthur P. Ireland, com mittee president announced. Reports presented at the meet ing showed that dairymen cannot absorb additional costs , without an increased return, he said. 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