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BY LARS PORNE
United Press International
Stockholm-lWB-W hen he
was asked a few weeks ago to
become director of Sweden's
royal dramatic theater, oscar
winning movie and stage
director Ingmar Bergman was
so emotionally overcome he
took to his bed with a fever.
Recovered now, the man
hailed as one of the world
theater's finest talents-some
have called him "genius"-can
smile and talkabout it.
The first news he was being
considered for the post came
in a telephone call from
Sweden's Minister of educa
tion, Ragnar Edenman.
"I didn't know what tosay
and asked for some days to
think it over," the 44-ycar-old
Bergman recalled. "A
couple of hours later I got
feverish and had to go to bed.
I think it was a natural reac
tion. Anyway, siv days later
I called Edenman and told
him I accepted the job."
The appointment takes
effect July 1 and speculation
has centered around (1)
whether this means Bergman
will quit movie directing (it
does not) and (2) whether he
has any revolutionary plans
for "the Dramatic." on the
second point, Bergman claims
no but admits there may be
tome changes.
Naturally," he said, "I can
not keep the same pace as I
have. I will have to slow down
from one film a year to two
films in three years."
He still has two completed
but unreleased films, "The
Communicants" and "The
Silence," and plans to soon
start stooting a third, tenta
tively titled "The Moral
Preaching."
Latest is Best
His latest release, "Through
A Glass Darkly," was regard
ed as the finest of films. It
won an oscar as the best fore
ign language film of 1962. His
"The Virgin Spring" was a
1961 academy award winner.
Until his appointment to!
"the dramatic," which is the ;
way Sweds refer to their na-j
tional theater, Bergman had
planned to take a long vaca
tion "A Sabbatical Year"
with his Finnish-born wife,
concert pianist Kabi Laretai.
They had hoped to spend the
year in leisurely travel.
"That idea was lost anyway
when we had a baby," he
shrugged. "Who could travel
around the world with an in
fant?" Swedes Surprised
First reaction among
Swedes to Bergman's appoint
ment was surprise. Although
in 1944 he had headed the
city theater of Halsingborg
and also has directed the city
theatre of Goteborg and Mai
mo, his name had not enter
ed prominently into specula
tion. Yet there was no disa
greement with the appoint
ment and the press applauded
it.
As for Bergman himself,
once over the initial shock he
was delighted. He also quick
ly pledged "no revolution in
'the dramatic' "
"Those who think I will
start a revolution in the old
theater are mistaken," he
said. "I will try to continue
the excellent work of my pre
decessor, Karl-Ragnar Cierow,
given a chair in the Nobel
prize-winning Swedish Acad
emy of Letters.
Waits to Judge
"This job is like putting
on a coat. It will get its shape
from the inside from the pow
er of the wearer. So I won't
make any program declara
tion. Wait some years and
then make a judgment. By
then the result of my work
will be my program declara
tion." The present contract runs
for three years and it is gen
erally accepted that all being
normal it is certain to be
renewed at the end of the
term. Bergman thinks he will
"produce and direct one or
two plays a year." He may
introduce musicals into the
repertoire but doesn't consid
er this in any sense revolu
tionary. The movie he's now plan
ning, "The Moral Teaching,"
is a comedy. It is due to go
into production in May with
a cast handpicked by Berg
man from his earlier films.
The entire cast has not yet
been named but Bergman said
it will include Jar) Kulle,
Gunnar Bjornstrand and Bib-
bi Anderson in leading roles.
All are familiar from previ
ous Bergman films.
Will Train Young
As head of the Royal Dra
matic theater, one of Berg
man's main challenges will be
the training and development
of young talents. He looks
forward to this. Apart from
its performances, the theater
has the most distinguished
theatrical training school in
the country and one of the
finest in Europe.
"The school," said Berg
man, "is of outstanding Im
portance to the Swedish the
ater and it will be expanded
ana improved."
In addition to "the moral
teaching" and a tentatively
planned Ingrid Bergman (no
relations) movie, Bergman has
only one other firm commit
ment on his date book. This
is production of August Strin
bcrg's "A Dream Play" for
Swedish television in March.
Much of Bergman's movie
work has had a religious motif
and he comes by this natural
ly, being the son of a Stock
holm vicar. He was a student
at Stockholm university
when, not yet 21, he produced
his own play, "The Death of
Kaspar," at the students' the
ater. From then on the the
ater was his life.
Direcii Opera
In 1941-42, having left the
university in 1940. Bergman
became an assistant director
at the Royal Opera, but even
then he was drawn to movie
work. In 1943 he completed
his first film "Hets," which
attracted attention and later
has produced in London and
Oslo.
By 1944 he was one of
Sweden's most promising
young directors. In that year
he came to his post of director
at the Halsingborg City the
ater, moving in 1946 to direct
the Goteborg theater. He act
ed as a guest director at a
variety of the country's the
aters and in 1961 was taken
on as a director at "The Dra
matic" which he now is to
head. All the while Bergman
continued the film work
which brought him to ward
winning world attention. And
he will keep on doing so.
"I'll never leave films com
pletely," he said. "Not until
I die."
I
three-orbit ride last May.
Carpenter had overshot the
target due in part to a
reverse rocket error.
None died, but the implica
tion is clear accidents do
happen, even when every
possible precaution seeming
ly has been taken.
For all its glamor, space
flight is a dangerous busi
ness. America has a lot of
astronauts to send up, and
scientists realize that some
may die.
They want to put one of
them off as long as possible.
The first one.
Coming Next
FEBRUARY 24TH
Weekend Issue
ACCEPTS NEW POSITION Movie and stage director, Ing
mar Bergman, called a genius as a film maker, has accepted
the job of director of Sweden's Royal Dramatic Theater.
People wonder whether Bergman will quit movie work and
whether he has any revolutionary plans for the stage. (UP1)
Man and Space
Orbital Flights
Sooner or Later
Will Claim Life
By ALVIN B. WEBB JR.
Cape Canaveral (UPD One
of the cold, hard facts of
space exploration is that, soon
er or later, an astronaut will
be killed.
No one likes to talk about
this possibility, least of all
around here where the men
who build spaceships live and
work so closely with the in
trepid ones who fly them.
But it's a nagging thought
in the minds of a lot of peo
ple. One expert put it blunt
ly: "The law of averages is
bound to catch up with us."
How could it happen? A
thousand ways a faulty
two-bit valve that causes an
explosion at blast-off, a re
verse rocket failure that
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space to die of suffocation, a
parachute mishap that sends
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earth's atmosphere.
- It hasn't happened yet, but
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"law of averages" been push
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two sub-orbital leaps and
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The U. S. Mercury program
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ed in the hands of a space
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matically or on command
from a ground tracking sta
tion. The payoff, of course, has
been a 100 per cent clean
safety record in Project Mer
cury. Even so, there have
bepn some tight moments.
When astronaut Virgil
(Gus) Grissom had his big
day In July, 1961, he made
a successful leap i to space
only to come within a hair
nf drowning minutes later.
What happened was that a
small device to blow open the
ti8tch accidentally was trig
gered and lei the ocean water
in.
Some scientists thought
John Glenn had bought the
cake when a signal from his
orbiting space capsule indi
cated the vital heat-shield had
detached. Thankfully, it prov
ed to be a false signal.
And a world held its breath
for 40 minutes while atro-
naut Scott Carpenter was
missing at the end of his
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