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"I am not like a tree," says 15-year-old Annette Ferra, "for which I am glad. I have an Italian figure." Annette's unarboreal construction helped her land the title role in Lolita, My Love, the musical version of Vladimir Nabokov's well-known novel, which opened in Philadelphia last week and is scheduled for Broadway in April. In fact, when she auditioned for book-and-lyrics Writer Alan Jay Lerner and Producer Norman Twain, her ace in the hole was a poster of herself in a bikini. "This is what Lolita looks like," she announced. The daughter of the Naples-born owner of a Los Angeles nightclub, Annette has neither seen the movie ("I was too young") nor read the book. "I don't read much fiction," she explains. "The last book I read was Psycho-Cybernetics."
G.I.s seem about to benefit from the ideological differences in show biz. Actress Jane Fonda last week announced the formation of a group of topflight entertainers to tour U.S. military bases with an antiwar stage show. Headliners involved so far include Actors Elliott Gould, Donald Sutherland and Peter Boyle, Comedian Dick Gregory, Folk Singer Barbara Dane, the rock group known as Swamp Dogg. Under the auspices of the U.S. Servicemen's Fund, which has sponsored many of the peace-oriented coffeehouses now located near Army camps, the group has applied for permission to play Fort Bragg, N.C., on March 13 and 14. If it is turned down, the show will go on at nearby Fayetteville's Haymarket Square Coffeehouse. "We are not happy about the fact," said Miss Fonda, "that Bob Hope, Martha Raye and people of that political ilk would seem to have a corner on the market when it comes to entertaining soldiers, and we want to show that is not true."