In the Broadway play, "Joan of Lorraine," Miss Bergman does some of her finest acting.

Not long ago King Gustav of Sweden conferred on Ingrid Bergman one of Sweden's highest honors-the Litteris et Artibus medal which is given for outstanding work in fields of science and art. It was only one of many honors which had been heaped upon her during the year, but remembering how far away success had seemed when she was a girl in Sweden Ingrid Bergman must have been especially pleased by this recognition.

Like all Swedish children, Ingrid Bergman had been brought up to respect her elders, to be reserved in the presence of strangers, and to be self-sufficient. But more than that, Justus Bergman, artist and photographer, had instilled in his motherless daughter the great gift of fancy and imagination.

After his death, when she was twelve, Ingrid went to live with her uncle and his five children. Although they were kind, all of them frowned upon her play acting. They considered it foolish and impractical. Ingrid saved enough money out of her limited allowance from her father's estate to but a phonograph and some very loud records. With the music going full blast, she secretly acted the roles she had learned.

Of course her studies came to light. Once in a classroom at school, the teacher didn't show up. Ingrid suggested the students put on a play. She organized the whole project, and took several of the parts herself. When the play was almost over, students were startled by loud, resounding applause. It came from the teacher, who had walked in unnoticed.