SHORT TAKES : Actress Flies to Aid Conductor

Actress Ruth Warrick’s intervention in the firing of symphony conductor Ulf Bjorlin could have come off the pages of a soap opera script.

Warrick, who plays the gracious but vindictive Phoebe Tyler Wallingford on the soap opera “All My Children,” flew into Palm Beach on Friday to defend the dashing, white-haired Bjorlin, recently fired as conductor of the Greater Palm Beach Symphony.

Warrick told reporters at Palm Beach International Airport that she had commissioned Bjorlin to compose a symphonic work based on the medieval love story of Abelard and Heloise.

Bjorlin was fired in May after the debut of his composition “Portrait of Raoul Wallenberg,” which premiered in April in Palm Beach and Boca Raton.

Warrick co-starred with actor Cliff Robertson in the Swedish-born conductor’s production, which honored the Swedish diplomat credited with helping 100,000 Jews escape the Nazis during World War II.