On her finger, 18 year old Sheila White, wears a turquoise and diamond ring given to her by Jonathan Mills, son of actor John Mills. But Sheila insists: "I'm not engaged. Jonathan is very sweet and I go out with him a lot, but I'm too young to be really engaged. He asked me to wear it as a friendship ring.
      Jonathan, red-haired, eighteen an assistant director in motion pictures, agrees. "The ring was just a Christmas present," he explained.
      Sheila White currently plays a featured role with Herman's Hermits and Stanley Holloway in the swinging musical, "Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter," an Allen Klein production for MGM. She plays Tulip, the tom-boyish girl-next-door, hopelessly in love with budding pop star Herman Tulley (Peter Noone.)
      Sheila is the tiny blonde bombshell who stole the show as a complete unknown a little over a year ago when she sang and danced one number in the London musical, "On The Level." That brief but memorable appearance resulted in three movie roles. In addition to "Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter," she has appeared in "Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush" and will next be seen in the film version of the musical, "Oliver."
      The young actress' advent into show business came quite by accident when she was twelve years old. A friend had taken her to watch her rehearse with British comic Arthur Askey.

      "They needed an understudy for one role," recalls Miss White, "and some woman came up to me and said, 'Hmmm, my dear, pity you can't act and sing like your friend here. Then you could be in the pantomime.' I soon put her right, and sang and danced like a budding Julie Andrews - in my mind, anyway."
      Not only did the outspoken Sheila get the part but during the run of the pantomime, Askey picked her out, had new lines specially written for her, and raised her salary.
      That started things off. She went straight from the pantomime chorus into the English stage version of "The Sound of Music," playing one of the Trapp daughters. She stayed with the musical for two years before winning her big break in "On The Level."
      One of Miss White's nicest off-screen attributes is her point-blank refusal to be awed by show business stars. She sees them as people rather than celebrities and instead of being awed by them, usually falls in love with them!
      "I'll really have to stop falling in love with a different person each week," she giggles. "But when you work on stage or in films with the same people over a period of weeks or months it's very easy to grow fond of them.
      "When we made 'Mrs. Brown Youve Got A Lovely Daughter,' I was crazy about Peter Noone, so it wasn't difficult to play a girl supposedly in love with him."