Herald and news., May 19, 1963, Page 36, Image 36

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151 SURE
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Give them Mint-Flavored
Phillips' Milk of Magnesia.
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Judy garland was scheduled to begin a series
of quickie personal appearances in New.
York City at 6 :30 one evening last winter.
At 6:45 I was with an entourage awaiting her in a
chartered bus outside her hotel. We were told: "She's ex
hausted. They had to call a doctor for her, but she'll be
down soon. Just wait."
The prediction was true. Smiling determinedly, her
dark plum eyes bright and merry, Judy stepped aboard the
bus about an hour later and began an exhausting tour of
movie houses showing Warner Bros.' full-length cartoon,
"Gay Purr-ee," which featured her voice.
Did summoning a doctor mean Judy had run herself
into health problems again? She once said of her early
career at Metro-Gold wyn-Mayer: "It was take a pill for
this, take a pill for that for sleep, to slim down, to pep
up." Ultimately, she suffered a nervous breakdown. In
1959 she had a serious liver ailment; a doctor told her
she would never work again. Judy virtually willed herself
back to health and another of the famous Garland "come
backs." How was she now?
"I never felt better," Judy said, once the bus was under
way. She shrugged off the doctor business and explained
that she had made three of these exhausting tours in four
days. On her "off" day, she flew to Washington to enter
tain at a party for President Kennedy.
"All I need or ever needed " she replied, "is happi
ness, and I've got that now."
Happiness has come and gone and come again with
one of the world's greatest women entertainers. Why was
she "up" now especially with newspapers reporting the
bitter recriminations between her and her husband?
With a sweeping gesture, Judy indicated a corps of
agents and attendants. "Because I'm working with people
I love and who love me. I used to work with people who
kept me in a box until they needed me. I'd come out and
work when they said so, then go back to my box. Now
I'm free."
Some 10 years ago Judy used almost the same words to
describe her "first" movie career, one which included the
classic, "The Wizard of Oz." Now freedom included the
most recent separation from her third husband, Sid Luft,
who is generally credited with reviving Judy's failing
career in the '50s with spectacularly successful tours of
concert halls and night clubs.
THE separation, of course, was temporary and, as of
this writing, the Lufts are together again and hopeful
of escaping a past history of big problems and great suc
cesses, both professional and personal. When not battling
itself, however, the Luft-Garland relationship battled ho
tels, costumers, tax men, and club owners. A few years
ago Freddie Fields took over Judy's management and
started her "second" movie career, which is highlighted
this year with two United Artists releases, "A Child Is
Waiting" and "I Could Go On Singing." And next year
Miss Garland will star on her own weekly television show.
Judy begins her new career with a new figure a svelte
105-110 pounds, quite a trimming achievement for a wom
an who always has admitted to a weight problem. She
claims that Louis B. Mayer once assigned a girl to live
with her to make sure she didn't raid the refrigerator.
How, at 40, was she slimmer than ever? Was she dieting?
"It's simply that I'm happy," she replied sweetly.
"Nothing more?" I asked incredulously.
"No! I'm just happy!"
For many years Judy Garland has uttered two phrases
as if they were a credo: "I'm happy" and "I'm free." She
has incanted them with prayerlike fervor after illnesses,
career pitfalls, marital reconciliations or, as the case
may be, marital separations. But probably Judy Garland
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