Margaret MeLarty
Slar|OffrV Series
By NANCY ALEXANDER
Two North Carolinian* play
leading rota in a popular tele
vision aerie*.
"A* the World Turna" so do
thousands of dials all over the
nation to the program, is which
they appear Monday through
Friday at 1:30 p. p.
The two are Margaret Mc
Larty, who plays Lisa Hughes,
and James Pritchett, who has
the rol.e of Bruce Elliott, her
boy friend. Lisa's stsge name
is Eileen Pulton.
James, known to his friends
as Jimmy, is from Lenoir.
Lisa haa lived in Bopne,
Asheville, and Belmont. Her
parents are residents of Con
cord, where her father is a
minister.
Few of the many viewers
know Jimmy is ? full-fledged
lawyer and hps a Bachelor of
Science Degree ia Meteorology
as well as his masters in drama
tics.
Margaret, f colorature so
prano, h?t, a degree from
Greensboro College, where she
majored in voice, graduating ia
1986.
With their determination and
drive, both probably would
have been a success 1# pther
fields, but only in the world
of drama do they find pleasure
and fulfillment.
Jimmy probably inherited ?
talent for drama. His mother, a
vocalist, had a flair for drama
tics, as did his father, who was
an attorney.
His first brush with acting,
according to his former class
mates, was in the Lenoir High
School Student Drama League,
directed by Katherine Gaston,
a native of Belmont. Ia his sen
ior year he played a leading
role in a play, "Which is the
Way to Boston," in which also
appeared Allene Broyhill Ste
vens, Elizabeth Bernhardt Goad
and Morris Combs. Their per
formance won first place in a
district contest at AshcviUe and
honor* in Chape} Hill at the
state contest.
Jimmy attended the Univer
sity of North Carolina where
his interest in drama was furth
er awakened in work with The
Playmakers.
VD received his A. #. De
gree as a Phi Beta Kanta at
the University. Later in Army
service he obtained a degree
in a training program as a
meteorologist at the University
of Cfiicago and afterward serv
ed overseas. When he returned,
the University at Chapel Hill
drew him back and there he
followed in his father's foot
steps, studying law while con
tinning his studies with The
Playmaker and obtaining his
masters degree in dramatics.
About the time he completed
graduate qchool his father had
a heart attack. Jimmy returned
to Lenoir to relieve him of
legfl matters; but he found
such work uninteresting and
prosiac. He participated during
this period in the Hickory Lit
tle Theater. After his father
was able to resume his activi
ties Jimmy entered the thea
trical world in New York City.
He has appeared in Charlotte
and other North Carolina cities
in road companies.
His parenta are now dead.
The only other member of his
immediate family is his young
er brother Mebane who is in
Harvard graduate school, where
he will receive a degree in law
in June.
Jimmy and his wife Cindy
live at 24 West 28th St New
York City, where be owns an
apartment house. They have
two daughters, Lauri, S, and
Shelley, ltt.
His wife wrote relatives re
cently that Jimmy is busy in
many dramatic areas. Aside
from television roles, he's do
ing an off-Broadway show and
understudying a role in "Lord
Pengo," the current Charles
Boyer tter. go's also filming
commercaU for ? cigarette
company, a soap company and
otters.
I^om an early age Margaret
McL?rty had a yea far acting,
puttie on ?teys at her aotne
la Aakevilln when she was two.
At Boone Miss Ruth Robin
son. now a Mecklenburg County
School teacher, developed her
talents when the v? in the
second grade. Perhaps the moat
influential person in ))ir life
wap Dr. Mary Rra?me Parker,
direc|U>r at Greewsboro Col
lege's drama department, who
encouraged her to pursue a
career on the stage.
She hag been in sever*!
Broadway plays and is current
ly appearing as Ann Rutiedge
in "Abe Lincoln of Illinois."
Her parents are the Rev. and
Mrs- James B McLarty a t Com- 1
cord.
The cast of "A* the World
Turns" gets the script several
days before the show. The di
rector gQfs over it wjfh them
the day before its scheduled
The day it's to be shown, the
cast is Working by 8:30 a. m.
and rehearses until noon. After
lunch last minute details are
completed and at 1:30 p. m.
they appear before an estimat
ed 10 million viewers.
Jimmy and Margaret doot
play sympathetic rot.es in the
aeries. Lis* is considered by
the show's following as a sel
fish, thoughtless Fife. Bruce it
the character who has come
between her and her husband.
Both find their audience resent
ing them, which is proof of
their convincing acting ability.
TENNESSEE VISIT
May IS has been set as the
day President Kennedy will
visit Tennessee.
Assistant press secretary An
drew T. Hatcher said Kennedy
will take part in "certain cere
monies" in ftpflnection with
the thirtieth anniversary of leg
islation creating the Tennessee
Valley Authority.
Arrangements for other acti
vities while there hsve neither
been confirmed or denied.
Wi^nJUxw Sales
Are 0? Increase
year ago w?s r*porded by Winp
Qixie Stores, lac., it wax ay
Ofunc^d. f
The vWwqe was $69, #88.314
e*mpafred with $81,327,734 laft
year, fn increase at $4,580,640
For the 3p-wee? period end
?4 M?rch ft sates were $371
806,317 cotwvti with S53|,
3JJ.154, an increase of 93%,
?#?,16J or T.41 percent ov?r
1?2
4 n increase also was register
ed for the 93-week period end
ed March 0, when sales totaled
$011,743,229 compared with
$767,431,890 last year, an ia
crease of $M,2W^79 pr #77
Winn-Dixie, which operate! a
number of supermarkets in the
local area, now has 006 retail
stores throughout the South
compared with 994 unit* a year
?o.
Legion Posts To
Meet At Oteen
A special meeting of all Leg
ion posts in the Fifth Division
will be held at Oteep Legion
Post No. 70, at 2:99 p. m. Sun
day, April 17.
Department Commander, Les
lie Brady; Department Adjut
ant, Nash D. McKee; Depart
ment Service Officer, J. B
Clark; and Department Presi
dent of the Go-Getters, Noah
Barefoot. Other will be present
with worthwhile messages.
All District Commanders are
to make their reports. The Post
Commanders and Post Adjut
ants gain much valuable infor
mation lor themselves apd their
?embers.
President Kennedy and 8 Cen
tral American heads of state
agree on formula for boosting
Alliance for Progress.
DR. ELEANOR M. LADD gf Clearwater, Florida, has been
to direct the summer reading program in Charlotte
which is sponsored jointly by Appalachian State Teachers
College and the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system. Mrs.
Ladd is currently serving as coordinator of corrective reading
for the Pinellas County Board of Public Instruction in Florida.
Uberto Price, director of reading at A$TC, said that edu
cators consider Dr. Ladd as one of the outstanding reading
specialists in the country.
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