Show I SWEDISH GMIS yr I I:9cm? i1 rio r40:-1- ) ---- i:1 : - 1 I- 1 P 0 11 !!" 1 ) '1: ti 4- Cia Löwgren 19 is the first actress in a family of lawyers and doctors ' -- 'OPP 00-- t-- tit "Id -- ":' t( - il J 4t) 0 1: - 7'7'-' : with" i T:Of s V - I Z Aft- - tp o 0 4- When Katarina was 19 she went to Birmingham England as an au pair girl —a sort of mother's helper Many Swedish girls of good families go au pair taking on the menial tasks for the onportunity of becoming fluent in English which is of great importance in Sweden Like many others however she was loaded down with work She stuck it out for awhile then left for a job in a hospital staying a year in all 1MEJ t 1 4 4100101 0 o 6 b cisco I was i New York when saw this ad in a paper to drive a car to California It didn't cost me a penny saw the scenic wonders of your great counmet try and San Francisco was great there" my boyfriend Wasn't she sorry to leave him? "Oh he's right here now in Stockholm teaching English He likes it here but if he ever decides to go back to America" her eyes flash "he'll just have to take me along" CIA LOWGREN (on today's cover) is an actress She's been appearing in Hat the Swedish version of Broadway's hippie musical Hair and sings the plaintive 12 I I I i ) 0 0 Drives to woe: ' Katarina lives in a suburban villa and drives to work Her parents live near Kiruna north of the Arctic Circle where her father is a mining engineer and grows orchids—his hobby "It looks like I'm going to have the house all to myself" says Katarina "My sister Gudrun—a year younger than l— has passed her chemical engineer exam and is working She's engaged to an economist and may soon be moving out have two other sisters who share an apartment in Paris Charlotte who's 20is studying dress designing there and works in a boutique she's already made a dress for Julie Christie Maria is 23 She's a secretary in a French press - 0 I I Ingegard linné runs a large bookshop has an American boyfriend who's teaching in Stockholm 8 ) fololf - r I -- Katarina diner enjoys job in public relations: "You have to be a person" (1)' 1 vt tv j its good-lookin- : - A: ' 4 ' N :' - 1 fashions excitements men—"they're the most interesting" Gaby did the talking while Gunilla attended to a customer "Yes I've gone out with Americans Some are great fun real natural others well there was this fellow — his father is the governor of a big state— and all he kept talking about was his big Cadilac his big swimming pool and his possessions—the typical tourist you see in cartoons It's too bad I liked him at first he was KATARINA MINER does public relations work at the National Maritime Museum She's 26 looks forward to marriage but her immediate goal is "to make good in my profession I need this in order to be satisfied with myself and my relations with others You have to be a person in your own right" Katarina was engaged for a year to a fellow college student "We were young and romantic and it seemed the solution to everything at the time It broke fortunately I think We really up weren't suited to each other Our interests were different and we grew apart After all you want to marry someone you can spend the rest of your life it(i' J 1tftv''''''t fer Paris—its MEMMEEMMUrNEMMUlt ) I CONTINUED - Gunilla Porié (left) and Gaby Borglund own small boutique but intend to study to become lawyers "Frank Mills" number to perfection But ic no hippie—not at all "I'm 19 years old yet can't take off my clothes on stage" she says half apologetically She felt reassured when told that her "hangup" seemed perfectly normal and not a matter for a psychiatrist - Cia's father and brother are lawyers her sister is a doctor She is the first in her family to choose acting—wisely it would seem For she has everything going for her: youth ardor intelligence and an Elvira Madigan-typ- e beauty that cries out for the color cameras And Cia may be on her way she has been called Cia I to test for a movie lead GABY BORGLUND and GUNILLA PORK both 22 are partners in a small dress shop called the "Look Boutique" The shop is doing well and gives promise of real succtss Their main interest however lies elsewhere These chic and lively young ladies have decided to be lawyers and will be going to law school at night If marriage comes—fine—it wouldn't interrupt their studies Says Gaby: "We're long past the time cf 'a woman's place is in the home'" Like many Swedish girls they have done their share of traveling They pre agency" Katarina makes the most of her four-wee- k vacations Last summer she went sailing for ten days around the Stockholm archipelago "It was glorious Sailing is my favorite pastime" She hopes to visit the US "the most important and dynamic country in the world and" she smiles "the home of public relations" Well there they are—a gallery of girls treasures a random haNPst y9t not untypical PARADE's advice: If you have an aversion to glorious femininity doli't go to Sweden PARADE MARCH 219 |