Mr. and Mrs.

New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 785, 6 August 1954, Page 25

Mr. and Mrs.

TS taken me _ seven years to get to the top, and I intend to enjoy it while it lasts," said Rosemary Clooney when she arrived in London not long ago. A picture of Rosemary and a story about her appeared in Open Microphone late in June, and there’s no excuse for telling her story again now, but readers will agree there’s no need to find "an excuse for using her picture again. There is a reason for using it, though, because Rosemary is the wife of José Ferrer, who is referred to also on page 19, The picture of Mr. and Mrs. Ferrer at right was taken when they were broadcasting for the BBC General Overseas Service in a programme called Show Band Show. To complete the pleasing impression of Miss Clooney that this photograph gives the BBC’s accompanying

material described her as "tallish, thinnish,- fair, husky and possessed of a personality that sells records by the thousands and, on occasion of a smash hit as ‘Come on a My House,’ by the million." José Ferrer is equally well known in the theatre and the cinema. Among his film performances New Zealanders are most likely to remember Cyrano de Bergerac and Toulouse-Lautrec’ in Moulin Rouge. He is also a notable stage producer. Ferrer went to New York from Puerto Rico when he was onlv six. and was educated there and

in wowitlzeriand perore entering fF&rrinceton University in 1928. At Princeton he organised and played with a jazz band, but later decided to go into the theatre. He became a star in 1940 in a remarkable revival of Charley’s Aunt on Broadway, and three years after that had what was probably his greatest success as Iago to Paul Robeson’s Othello. Since then he has appeared in many films and plays, and has produced many more-for he has an apparently insatiable appetite for work.