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' RUTH HUGS TEBAH (DAPHNA EINHORN) A CHILD TO BE SACRIFICED TO THE MOABITES’ STONE GOD, CHEMOSH. ABOVE: PRETTY,DARK-EYED, 20-YEAR-OLD, ISRAELI STAGE ACTRESS, ELANA EDEN, WHO PLAYS THE NAME TITLE IN "THE STORY OF RUTH" ANOTHER WORLD SEARCH ENDS GIRL FROM THE HOLY LAND WINS TITLE ROLE IN "THE STORY OF RUTH” THUS, BIBLICAL EPIC ASSURED COMPLETION IN TIME FOR 1960 RELEASE After more than a year’s search, producer Samuel G. Engel and director Henry Koster last Fall found the young actress to play the name role in “The Story Of Ruth”. Appropriately enough, the search ended in the Holy Land, for it was a dark-eyed beauty, an Israeli stage actress, Elana Eden, who was assigned the coveted role only two months be- fore this Easter Week spectacle, in CinemaScope and De Luxe Color, was scheduled to go before the cameras. Elana owes her discovery and film debut to an earlier, widely different search: for a girl to play the title part in “The Diary Of Anne Frank”. A nov- ice drama student then at the prestigious Habima theatre in Tel-Aviv, Elana was screen-tested in that r city, in 1957, for the role for which Millie Perkins 48 was later selected. However, it was that screen test that served to bring her to the attention of the studio for its drama about the biblical Ruth, lineal accentress both of Jesus and of King David.. Elana’s education has consisted of public school, residence for a time on a Israeli kibutz, or co-opera- tive farm community, and the conclusion of her high school studies at the Habima drama school with which she had been affiliated for three years. There in her final year she played principal roles in “The Merchant Of Venice”, “Aristophanes” and several other vehicles. Before the studio signed her to seven-year pact, she lived on a family farm in the little town of Bat-yam, hard by the ancient city of Jaffe in Israel. Her father is a landscape gardener. She has a brother who is a merchant mariner and a married sister. Elana had never left the small confines of her homeland until in September of last year when she was summoned to London to perform the first of several tests for the role of Ruth. Her real name is Elana Lani Cooper. Coincidentally, another young Israeli actress, Ziva Rodann, has a featured role in “The Story Of Ruth”, that of Ruth’s sister-in-law. Miss Rodann, a curvaceous brunette, however, is deglamorized in this screenplay written by Norman Corwin. Misses Eden and Rodann are featured in a cast hand-picked for each player’s qualification to measure up to the exceedingly histrionic demands of the many roles in the story.