ANNE BAXTER A FARMER’S WIFE

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29153, 14 March 1960, Page 2

ANNE BAXTER A FARMER’S WIFE

Film Star’s Escape From Limelight

Anne Baxter, Academy Awardwinning film star, is trying to escape from the limelight, says a London correspondent. Now Mrs Randolph Galt, she is living near Gloucester, New South Wales, concentrating on being a successful farmer’s wife.

Over the years. Miss Baxter has indulged in the customary publicity stunts She has taken up cigarsmoking. She has attended a film premiere with a diamond ring on one of her toes She has had a salad named after her.

But her friends have little doubt that she will now go into semi-retirement as an actress. For in Hollywood she has a reputation as a woman who does the things she sets her heart on and who invariably means what she says. And in recent years she has frequently said that actresses do not make good wives. “We are called on to play all sorts of parts and we become emotionally involved in all'of them. It’s pretty hard to come home afterwards and be yourself with a husband.” ' Petite Anne Baxter is a granddaughter of the world famous architect, the late Frank Lloyd Wright. She began in Hollywood at the age of 15. and at the age of 17 she was filming with such stars as Clark Gable, Wallace Beery and Lionel Barrymore. “I was much too young.” she says. “I never had time to grow up properly and find the right answers to the questions that bothered me.”

Memorial . Kindergarten— The following officers were elected at the annual meeting of the Beryl McCombs Memorial Kindergarten: —Patron, Miss F. Holland; president, Mrs J. Barton; vicepresidents, Mesdames T. Davidson, P. Willets, P. Hunt, L. Collingwood; secretary, Mrs C. Jeffreys; treasurer. Mrs G. Burgess; committee. Mesdames Minson. Harvey, Sisson, Beaumont. Tragnell, Crichton, Downing, and Ltngbourne. ""*■