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Show A Man with One Passion What Happens After Death?.. In a few score years, all who read these lines will have vanished from the earth. Every day almost a hundred thousand human beings finish Paul Scofield won acclaim as Sir Thomas Morein the film, “A Man for All Seasons.” Acting is Paul Scofield’s life, and he may end up with an Oscar—despite his horror of which all of us must journey. Hollywood hoopla a Ia Liz and Richard Burton All we know about God's eter- nal plans for us...all we know about whatlies beyond the grave By PEER J. OPPENHEIMER ICHARD BURTON,closest rival to Paul Scofield for this year’s Academy Award, said of his opponent: “When I saw Scofield act, I knew I would never be that great. So I decided to grab the loot.” WhenI had lunch with Scofield in London just before he was nominated for his role in “A Man for All Seasons,” he said, “T’ll never get it. The togetherness betweén Liz and Dick is unbeatable. The way they live now they are everybody's darlings.” Scofield’s appraisal of the situation was an obvious self-defense by a man who is only too conscious that he is almost totally unknown to*the U.S. public. He has appeared in just three films and has been seen by Americans in just one play, the stage version of “A Manfor All Seasons.” Neverthless, unless his estimate of the popularity of Liz and Dick proves to be true, he is the head-on favorite to win the Oscar as best actor of the year. For when it comes to acting, he ranks with Sir Laurence Olivier, Sir Alec Guinness, Spencer Tracy, and Fredric March. Scofield is on actor's actor. “Mylife is my work, and my work is.acting,” he said. His interests beyond his profession and his family are nonexistent. He doesn't even care to read unless it involves scripts. “T have no other inyolvements,” Scofield told me, “and never have had. I don’t write. I don’t do much in the garden. My wife [actress Joy Parker] takes care of what has to be done in the house, Occasionally I like to ride a horse, play little tennis, or go for a walk.” His idea of a vacation is to go to the wild and isolated Hebrides islands off Scotland—and do nothing. “When I am not working, I mostly like to sit in a chair and just stare into space,” Scofield said. “Frankly I consider myself lazy, and I wouldn’t want to work if I could afford not to.” His only ambition, outside his career, is to take the TransSiberian Railroad to Vladivostok! Before we met, I was told that Scofield was one of the most introverted of all British actors and about as communicative as Greta Garbo. I didn’t find this true at all. But it became obvious very quickly that, while he was in love with his profes- sion, he hated the trimmings. “That's why | never wanted to go to Hollywood,” he told me. “My. wife and I were offered a seven-year contract in 1949, but I was afraid I would have to give up too much for what I would get. I was afraid that the Hollywood mannerofliving would become my life. “TI don’t even like to live in London or go to big parties. We have a cottage in Sussex, and when J am working in a film or a play [he is presently starring in “Staircase” on the London stage], I commute every day by train.” Scofield, the son of a schoolmaster, was a school dropout. “Of course, my father was disappointed,” he told me. “But when I let him know I wanted to go into the theater, he didn’t object very strongly. He realized I was not going to be-very successful at anything else. “I had never even seen a play until after I enrolled at the London Mask Theater School when I was 17. But I had participated in a lot of plays at school, mostly Shakespeare, from the time I was 13,” Unlike most actors, Scofield has no desire to produce, and he doesn’t particularly want to direct. He has no interest in the technical aspect of filming except how it affects him. Acting is his life. Family Weekly, April 9, 1967 their earthly span and pass into the beyond. Our turn will come we all know, but when, where and how we cannot be sure. No merely human being ever has been able to look into eternity and tell us whatitis like. No scientific knowledge or instruments can pierce the curtain that divides this world from that into 7 ... comes from the God Who made us and to the extent He has seen fit to reveal it to us. But wecan face eternity without fear. For we have a definite answer to the mystery of death. With the facts God has put at our disposal through the inspired books of the Old and the New Testaments, the Catholic Church always has given, and gives today, a definite answer to the ques- tions raised by the fact of death. Man's life in this world, the Church tells us, is a preparation fok the world to come . . a testingtime which ends with our death. What happens after that depends on whether death finds the judgment” (Heb. 9:27). Christ gave us (Matt, 25:3146) a description of God's judgment which leaves no room for doubt that our worthiness of everlasting reward will be judged solely according to the way we havelived our lives on this earth. Death does not bring merely a unconscious slumber, but rather a quick awakening to the irrevocable judgment of our Creator. Nor does it bring us a second chance to-prove ourselves or to amend our erring ways. In our own hands rests the opportunity ...and upon our own heads the responsibility .. . to determine-if death shall be the threshold to everlasting life among the blessed, or among the lost, Men blessed by youth and good health often feel that death for them is far away—something to be worried about only in the twilight years. Some scoff at the suggestion that an everlasting Hell could be permitted by a merciful God. Others seem to think that God will treat them kindly if they live reasonably moral lives, even though they pay Him no special honor which is His due. If you would like more information on Heaven, Hell, Purga- tory, the end of the world and the resurrection and judgment us loyal to God, or opposed to of all men . . . we shall be happy Him and the way He expects us to live “. . . it is appointed unto men once to die and after this to send you an interesting pamphlet. Nobody will call on you. 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