Show TURK TURi ACTRESS DEFIES POLICE Family Scorns Her lIer When B Opens Stage to v Women TA March arch U 19 T I 11 u Associated The Press Press Ip ie ins m lady lally ot of the Turkish stage JI Bedla Bedia has hi a double right to the th title Hr courageous a and and d dr d to appear on a SOl Sni nr nr stage itaf three thre years ye ears ra ago aco In apro a 11 apro pro pro lon ilon hitherto absolutely for for- for for-bidd n Moslem women has caused fol- fol follow follow fol follow s 5 of Turkish women to low her lead so o that Greek and actresses ea who formerly had the field to themselves s are arenow now Don almost entirely replaced by Jo DISOWNED BY B FAMILY Madame Madam Bedla's first adventurous oui ous gesture was her lier r marriage In hl last days lays of ol the tho sultanate with witha with I a Turkish actor against the th or orders lers or of her bel family who promptly disowned her ber At that time tim It was Impossible to realize li hr r ambition of goIng colne on the th euge niS J i herself bu but t Immediately media te Iy fol- fol tol the Ule th dissolution ot of the sul- sul sul she gave gae her hel first t perform perform- performance performance ance anco In Smyrna playing opposite hr husband In the tho middle ot of this historic performance the theatre o was raided by police Bedla Bedia fled led from the Eluding the tho police pollee by hiding hid hid- hidIng hid ln Ing in m the tb wings wine she h returned to toh hor r role rols rot after they left lett The new Nationalistic govern govern- government ment smiled upon her venture forbade further J police enc nc and while fanatical Mos Mos- Moslems Moslems Mos os lems are aro still shocked theatre theatre- theatregoers Jo goers rs are aro overjoyed o to listen to II a heroine who speaks real Turkish instead of oC the ja jargon of a Greeks reeks and Armenians II Her r troupe troup now includes ten Turkish women Tn I Modern European In to costume costumer om om her modish hat to her Paris Paris- ParisIan Parisian ian heels Madame Madam Bedia Bedla still re- re re ilna ins re-ins both oft off the stage stace and on the dignity and air of ot seclusion which the new Turkish women Lace ha preserved from the wreck of or the old regime retime trained Self as hero are 1110 no schools of or acting In Turkey UrKe her performance and that of her troupe troup Is crude accord accord- according according ing to western standards but her herl success with pith native nathe audiences Is trIumphal |