Actress Takes French In Spare Time

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29742, 8 February 1962, Page 2

Actress Takes French In Spare Time

What do show business people do in their spare time? Miss Minnie Love and Miss Freda Wilson, both with the ‘‘My Fair Lady” company in Christchurch, are learning French.

Both are ambitious to travel, for pleasure, and think it could came in useful. Miss Wilson wants to go to South America. “I would go there too,” said Miss Love yesterday. They took private French tuition In Auckland in order to make good use' of their time, and continued teaohiig themselves during the show’s Wellington season. ‘‘We are definitely going to take it up here.” said Miss Love. ‘‘We are getting on quite well.”

Earlier, during the Australian run, she learned to play the guitar—"just to accompany songs for my own amusement—-I couldn’t do it

very well.” Then she found a guitar too cumbersome to travel with.

"My part of Mrs Higgins is most satisfying,” said Miss Love in her dressing rodm

yesterday, a room she has known on many previous visits to Christchurch.

“I feel very gratified to be in what they call "The Miracle Play.’ It is a classic now. We never get tired of the music and we hear it through the speaker system every night. I think it is the simplicity of the music that has such charm, and I believe the musical play has greatly’ gained on “Pygmalion” in entertainment.

During her seven months in Auckland, Miss Love established and renewed many friendships and has just spent 10 days there. She saw Vivien Leigh in the Old Vic’s play, "The Lady of the Camellias.” “I visited Sir Ernest Davis, who has been a friend for marry years, and Johnny Farrell who was touring manager for J. C. Williamsons. I wish be would write his memoirs. I think he will,” she said. "He knows so much about old timers, Julius Knight and Phil Harvey, and shows right down to ‘South Pacific.’ ”