People: New Directions

In Manhattan, where he is still playing Caesar one night and Antony the next, Sir Laurence Olivier was spending part of his offstage time taking singing lessons. His next job will be playing Captain Macheath in a movie version of The Beggar's Opera, his first serious singing role on either stage or screen.

Actress Gloria Swanson, 53, played a one-day stand in a new location: the budget dress department of a Manhattan store where she introduced her own design of spring dresses called "Forever Young," priced to sell for less than $20.

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