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'I' y 1 ' M'f'f l if" 1 ' ' ' ress Villian .(Editor! Nete: There's no ' tougher villain on the screen than Humphrey Bogart and no more glamorous temptress than his wife, Lauren BacalL Catch them at home, however, and they're a cur iously watered down version of this type of casting. Here's the story of what1 lies behind the makeup of two famous stars who happen also to be married and pareats of two children) i BttWl Ordinaru Parents By CYNTHIA LOWRY AP Kewsfeatoret Writer HOLLYWOOD CD- "I don't think you can beat the life out here most of the time, said Lauren Ba: call, sitting down to a tray on the , dining room table and looking at a bacon and tomato sandwich with out enthusiasm. ' . "When both Bogey and I are working; it's great. It's fine when he's working and I'm not. It gets -a little grim, though when I'm working and Bogey isn'L He gets restless, . hanging around..." j Times,; however, when Hum- phrey Bogart isn't working have become increasingly rare in recent years. His friend, Cary Grant, re cently complained with mock bit terness that Bogart "keeps all of us older fellows out of work. "He gets hold of all the good stuff first," Grant said wryly. "He! keeps saying 'I can play this,' I'd be right for that.' The worst of it is that he can and would be. He's an old pro." ! Success, professional and private was late - in arriving". Bogey was 35 and had been an actor for IS years before he caught popular fancy as killer Duke Mantee in The Petrified Forest" on Broad- - way. ; la Merle Version . He hadn't made much of a dent in Hollywood until he played Duke in the movie version later on. - f - He was 45 (maybe 46 there's a little confusion about his birth year) when he married his fourth and, from .the looks, of things, final wife. Miss Bacall,! rather pointedly called Betty, never Baby. He was close to SO, when his first child, Stephen, was born. He . was 52 when he won his first Aca demy Award Oscar, for his liquor loving vagabond in "African r Queen. Today Bogey, around 55 and Bet ty; 29, are among Hollywood's first film families, with two handsome children, a beautiful home, and . as free lance stars a bountiful selection of roles among which to pick and choose. - Slim Resemblance " ' -They bear a curiously watered . down resemblance to" the. craggy faced, ' tough mannered menace and the siren, throaty voiced "Ba by" of motion picture fame. Bogart, lest this homey .scene appears too saccharine, conscien tiously cultivates his reputation for Jour letter Anglo Saxon words and brutal frankness in the course of Intelligent conversation. , Otherwise this Andover graduate who converted a slight lisp into a chilling asset conforms pretty rig- Idly to the Hollywood success code: A fashionable Holmy Hills address. backyard swimming pool and pool bouse, twin Jaguars, a yacht. . Hollywood has good reason to be proud of the Bogarts.' They are 4 among the community's staunchest defenders as well as occasional critics. They preserve considerable Independence of thought and fre- dom from press agent domination. Easy Elegance - - And their private lives are con ducted with a certain easy ele- J gance and casual good manners ' particularly notable in a land of the nouveau riche and stiff formal homes that scream the name of their expensive decorators. Betty and Bogey are what might be called writers' stars, productive of good copy, expressing fresh viewpoints and available for opin ions on controversial subjects. Bogey, as a matter of fact, loves to be controversial. . For example, he, practically alone among the post-50 actors, confesses to fighting the battle of the receding hair line with a "rug." and refuses to wear either hat or cap when sans toupee, Such action requires vanity be low and courage above that of the average star. The Bogart residence a beauti ful house of white washed brick with fine, old landscaping, is on a popular street close to Judge Gar land, Lana Turner and a double handful of other illustrious neigh bors ; i The two principal "' downstairs rooms are a white marble solari um with a glass facade which opens onto the terrace, and a huge pine paneled study with a big work ing fireplace, bookshelves filled to the ceiling with well worn books an equally well worn bar, plenty of comfortable chairs and a big divan. Oscar m Maatel On the mantel is Bogey's Oscar On the floor in front of the fire place is a rug which looks amaz ingly like an unstuffed panda, Scattered around the walls of all rooms is good original art they've picked up, around the world. Bogart whose mother was Illustrator Maud Humphrey has a Late Diners Really Late ' JA JOLLA.-Calif. (ft-Waitress Mary Pullock served the third cup of coffee to her last table and then made the six-mile trip to her home. . j 4 As she reached in her purse for th house key sbe discovered, she "sfcll had the dinner check, tancol ' lected, of the dining guests, t Mrs. Pullock raced back. ' The late diners sat just as she left them. As she approached them expecting to apologize for the de lay, one of the diners murmured to her. - i 5 "More coffee, please. Bacall, Bogart Just taste for French oOs; Betty col lects Segovas. Their two children and three box ers have the run of the house! The boxers. Harvey, Baby and their son, George, are extremeley friend ly and moistly affectionate. The children and dogs romped around with equal enthusiasm. Steve, f who has blond hair, fair skin and looks like an angel, is a holy terror. After he tired of pull ing oranges and lemons off - the trees and firing them in the gen eral direction of the pool, he pre pared himself for instant flight and shouted: "Georgie, he has lost his hat, Harvey is a dirty rat." Echoes Brother " Betty tried to ignore him on the theory that if no one paid any attention he'd stop. But Leslie. 2, a dainty miss who was named after Leslie Howard, has reached the stage where she echoes her brother. . She loyally took up the chant Disciplinary measures were start ed, but Steve got away. We returned to the study. "If you're living in Hollywood, said Betty, catching her breath and lighting a cigarette, "you've got to live in a house. You don't have to have a swimming pool, but if you can afford one, get it. Once you've made the initial in vestment, it only costs $30 a month to keep it clean." Should Make Money "Why the hell shouldn't actors make a lot of money?" growled Bogart suddenly. "I don't know why we should be defensive about it. We work hard, we ve acquired a lot of skills, we put up with a lot. I think we not only deserve what we make but a lot more. And I don't feel like apologizing for making it. ' Betty interrupted: "He can take Hollywood five days a week. Then he gets on his boat for two days.' "You go to the same parties, see the same people, say the same things, hear the same stories," Bo gart said. "Then it's good to get away with guys who don't know anything about pictures, who don't even go to see them. "I wish," mused Betty, "that these guys who are critics would spend some time watching the making of a picture, could realize all the effort and thought and guts that go into making every one.' "Maybe they wouldn't be so quick to condemn. When I'm work ing I'm upat 6, and I'm ready, in makeup, to start shooting at 9. Miatf Preoeeapie "Then you've lines to learn. When you're workingryour part on your mind all the time sometimes for two months. Even when I'm playing with the children m thinkng, in the back of my head, about it." Through , their 10 years of mar riage,' she said, she and Bogart have never sat down together and discussed their parts. We don t read Jines for each other, either," she said. "But when we're both working, we're, both full of our pictures and there s always plenty to talk about. It s all right when he s working because I can always find plenty of things to do around the house, with the children and stuff. I'm unhappy just sitting around doing nothing. I'm not accustomed to it. First I was a model, then I was on the stage. The longest time I stayed around was before and after Leslie was born and then I went to Africa for three months with Bogey. Dislikes Sitting "That s what gets me sitting around doing nothing during the waiting time between shots. There's nothing much you can do except knit and I don t like to knit You talk to people, and kid. It s really very boring. But, she added quickly, you ex pect that as part of your job. When Bogey is between pic tures and I'm working, he is likely to get bored hanging around the house by himself, reading. Then he usually has lunch at Roman offs and spends more time on the boat I used to go with him. but I've stopped since Steve was born. really don't like it just sailing, not even fishing. I like Palm Springs." Bogart who hung around from December, when he finished one picture, waiting to start "The Left Hand of God" this spring, was wandering around the house. "See?" said Betty, gesturing to ward her husband. "He's no man-about-tbe-house. He doesn't know anything about laying bricks. He doesn't like to cook on an outdoor barbecue. . He just likes to play tennis, go out on the boat read and plar chess." "Why the hell should I cook?" said Bogart, floating back into the room to freshen his glass. "Why the hell should we have to do any thing as long as we are good in our jobs, which is acting? "You don't" said Betty. "Good pictures are the only things that really matter. Sh.frs Rheumatic Remedy . For the ReDef Of , RHEUMATISM, . LUMBAGO, SCIATICA, ' end GOUT. Ee lie viae stiffness and swell ing ia the joints mr muscles when ef rheumatic r . goaty erigia. - SCHAEFER'S Dreg Store 135 N. Commercial Opei Daily 7:30 AJL telPJI Sundays f AJL U 4 FJL- it-. ? i - i SEATTLE W Floyd 0. Hagie, 63 former secretary-manager of the. National Reclamation Assn died of -a heart attack Wednesday while working in his garden at suburban Bellevue. 1 JIagie came to Seattle in 1914 from Washington, D. C. after 10 years with the Reclamation Asso ciation. He was vice president and general manager of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce until 1949, when failing health forced him to retire. ,' , ' . .. i ' i Prior to his work with the na-! tional association he was .manager of chambers of commerce at Ya kima and Walla Walla. Wash., sd Sndpoint Idaho. He also had beea a scnooi teacner and ; coach at Sandpoint- j His widow. Florence B. Hagie. and daughter, Mrs. 0. Wi Simpson. are in Bellevue and a son, Brad ford r. Hagie, lives in Los An geles. -.: ! ' , Private- funeral services will be held Friday in Bellevue.! GENTLEMEN BELLHOPS NEW YORK ID The traditional bellhop's uniform may be on the way out One New York hotel has just spent $10,000 on executive- type clothes for their emoloves. Elevator operators, doormen and bellmen are now wearing custom- lauorea oiacx tweed Jackets, char coal grey trousers, -plaid jackets and black string ties. . i i STEP-ON CAN USUALLY 3.49 2.44 i for kitchen r nursery. New plastic cower fceep odors . - Insects . ? ctlained insert. Reclamation Official Dies Kill 7j- 95t 1 ify J" 0tfW,,Mo fill k 12-0. .vvr A oS SHOP NeivSi amp rod u s postage ' 2 A V-Vi ft &?r.r, .- Jf4flVlill-i M:Si f f flljf FRANCONIA, NJL The tesqni centennial of the discovery of New Hampshire's famous land mark, "The Old Man of the Mountains," will be observed lm part by the issuance of this new three cent postage stamp. It will be placed on sale first at Franconia, NJL, Jose 21, 1955. This view ef the moun tain rock formation is as seen from Franconia Notch, NJL (AP Wirephoto.) ! On the basis of their March 1 intentions, Canadian farmers plan substantial increases over 1954 in the acreage of oats, barley and flaxseed this year. 155 N. LIBERTY WARDS FOR FABULOUS FRIDAY Laws Covering Alien Ownership , Of Properly Vary WASHINGTON (UP) Twenty-six states. and the District of Columbia have no restrictions on aliens purchasing real property in the United States, according to a survey by the Philippine- American Chamber of Com merce. Connecticut,'-Iowa, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Wisconsin have re strictions on non-resident aliens only. Illinois, Indians, Kentucky, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and South Carolina place time or acre age restrictions on all aliens. Eleven states which have other restriction or .apply common law are Missouri, Nebraska, Texas, Washington,- Kansas, .Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, Oregon, Utah and Wyoming. - ; Thirty states and the District of Columbia do not restrict .alien inheritance of real property, de vise or descent But 18 states still restrict aliens', inheritance of real property in regard to ten ure or outright prohibition. WHAT? NO ROMANCE? CIRCLEVILLE, , Ohio m City Council has changed the name of Lover's Lane, official title of an East Side street, to Nicholas Drive, honoring a veteran clerk of the council. "Lover's Lane is not an appropriate name for the name . of a street," councilmen said. Americans used 445 million pounds of potato ch!r,s worth 283 million dollars in 1954. 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The U.S. State Department has not given an opinion on the project Baptists in Russia have been given - approval by their govern ment, Drt Hargroves said, to invite four American ministers to speak in as many Russian churches - as they find possible during the We Specialize in SHAG RUGS : end BEDSPREADS We can wash and fluff-dry any size Shag Rug up to 9 rt z 12 ft they'll leek like new! The same is true ef year Chenille Bed spreads. LAUNDERETTE 1255 Ferry St Ph. 24555 QUALITY HOSTESS low price: a perky tea apron. 4 decorator place mats and matching napkins. Cotton and organdyt In solids with .dots, flora's or provincial prints. FINE BATES COTTON USUAL 5.98 SKIRTS 3.77 Manufacturer secured the fab ric at special cost fashioned it into these smart Skirts. Now you save 2.21. Famous Bates cotton plaid, op proved by Good Housekeeping magazine. Light or dark tones. 22-30. SPECIALS - OPEN FRIDAY NIGHT TIL 9 Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Friday, May 6, 1955 Sc 2)-5 summer.' 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