The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, May 11, 1958, Page 32, Image 32

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Here is Tyrone Power with his second wif.-
tress Linda Christian. They are now divcrc.jl.
Tyrone Power with Ava Gardner ir
a scene from "The Sun Also Rises.'
Tyrone and Annabella during his first marriage.
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BY TYRONE POWER
It's one thing to
In 1jUL' 1 itM iim i.ywood and en
listed ir; tlir Marino Corps
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Dli'tni. Call! . I '. . I s intel eel I". .1
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Do you have a leai nf height-."
lie asked
I ill I m it !i iiid 1 1 1" ! hem. " I sn id
Ale iiii all, ml of crowds'' "
II I hoy i e a preview am ! u ncr
vi'iv." I admitted
And how do you net alone, with
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TP' qf
make love on the screen,
women" he wanted to know in t
"Doctoi. they scare mi tn death'" I
exclaimed
"The M.nnii'.s are the plaee I'm
ymi." lie .said "NiAt man'"
II s in en Millie time Min e I served mv
."' years m the Cmps. but women
sti!! si are me They always have, and
I lOless thev alvas will Some people
think this is peculiar, her.nise tin
mistake me fin an authniitv on the
female sex On the wnvn you've
but
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vl.rtu .'II ui: Is.' a : .e:.i! -.mi i . . , i . 1 1 y
Ymi i-.iet know all abuut how to
hand 1. uninrii
N'nthmi; eniild he farther hum the
ti nt li I adtn i ! I e wi u ked w il h worn, i:
nios ol my lift, m motion pietuies
'li "II the -'are I've in .11 involved
like e'liy man 111 til.- t ,i ! -; : f . battle
':! the si xes, and I've p.,s-e! the ai:e
ol in. s hen a man has 1. ai in d h. ivv
to si.lvo most problem" But most
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'Aoiinn uo on terrilyim; and I.. a
lliiiU in.- I . this day
1 think the modern t ma!. , . ,:,
most men. hut she does!) t naiie r
.Someone oiiL'ht to tell tin yuK h.i'
tin e d.iinU tn Us. s,, t:.a as ..... .
sin k mv m i k out At n .,st J 11 L: ,.
wives and husbands soinethmr.
t.. ar.mie about'
It' i.u want to know the van..,,
kinds o! mid-l'nth-eent in women !
feu most, here's the list
Career girls, actresses
tlley at e the e.
I kn.eA he-t Tin
ill. lie ho :i ; n -I . ol: -pete
w ith them, ha ;
lie! t e keep far 1 1
ills hack lot da.'':. '
u ounil-
Beautiful dolls
lhe think tin
World im es them ,i
living heeailse I in
were (mill with ..
faee and a he.iin I
e,el awa fast
Gossips
some people --a
the re u r s e m
HnlK w nnd. hut l' e
fniitid t hem c v i -w
here
Romantic dreamers
these mils 1 1 vi
lli a e i a .' n i I i
tlle ' V O 111., lie up all
In then si l es II -not
for me.
in real life
Those are foui pes that make me
run for cover and I II prohahl think
of moie as I warm up.
In one n myeaiK pu t u res I pl.'i ed
opposite an ai h e.ss a ho was a pel In t
example of today s eoinpel it i me
hrst lareei' mi l. Win n she spoke nl
"m ("areei on ( oiild tell she spelled
it with a capital C. I soon found nut
that a love scene with hei u as a m il I -tarv
nianeuvei a jealous battle fm
position in Iront of the camera She
thiew passionate arms annual my
lack .mil. with the lovelic.ht slunint;
in In r i es. pulled my head around
so thai only my left ear icmamed
isihle to the camera.
I.alii 1 learned tn defend myself in
this kind nf battle 1 let the lady up
state mi- and deliberately turned my
back to the canieia Then uiie ol twn
thmns happened The directoi soiiie
'imes .stopped the action and moved
us around so we shaied the camera.
..i he let her play most nf the scene
her way. then meved the camera
ainiind and nave me a cluseup It was
passive resistance on my part but
few leading men in Hollywood are
tunlhardy enmiuh tn tangle with this
bleed of female
I discussed tin' subject i eci ntly with
i fi lend in the publishing business
Il you think actresses are hard to
handle. he tolil me. "try de.ilmv;
.villi women wiileis'' Another man
I know is mariied to a woman ex
.cutivi' What she'll dn to ud ahead
is scary , he said A i calls determined
career woman is a fearsome creature
In rev or ynu lind hi'i
The beautiful-dell type, who makes
me head fur the lulls, is dangerously
atti active at liist smht and can trap
a man belure he reahes what he's
let himself in fur
Sume time anu I worked with a star
let who had a perfect figure and a
peach-blossom complexion a livine
walking dream I thought she miht
be nice company for a quirt rvenmn.
But when w e stalled on the picture
I found not only that she couldn't act.
but that she wasn t even smart ennuh
In know sin1 couldn t
"I've been assured I have the nat
ural attributes for stardom," she told
me. In other words, she expected to
Let ahead with her figure and her bin
bhieeyes. Or maybe they were blown.
1 don t remember, because ! kept as
far out of rane of hei charms as I
possibly could.
One icason I fear such vain and
lovely hemes is that one nf them n
the wile of a friend of mine He and
the lady recently ( ante to my small
penthouse in New York City where
I live when not traveling or makiiii;
a picture 1 like the place because it s
small and coy and obviously de
simu'd for single occupancy . After two
marriages which lasted a total of Hi
years. 1 have icvcrted tn bachelor
status mnie wary of women than
ever before
M liiend. Fred, and bis beautiful
wife. Breinla. inspected my l(l-hy-12-hvinn
room, the bedroom and kitchen,
and the little nhissed-in terrace where
I have dinner on a card table and
watch the ubtlei of tin' Manhattan
sky line at nmht.
Brother, you've nut it made." Fred
said. "This is all a man needs "
Bienda looked suspicious. "So you d
like this, would you'" she asked
siimle blessedness auain'' The truth
is that Brcnda has never bothered
much with houiomakiim She s too
busy v isitini; dressmakei s and beauty
salons, preservint; hei status as a
beautiful doll
Qiiiin AtiKH I went to Hollywood in
1 !.'!(. I i't acquainted with
the kind of female I call the ro
mantic ihcamoi. Thi'- .me can ihiow
a i eal fi milt into a man
I ve acted manv romantic seems in
which desiiable women lall madly in
love with me and I with them But I
wasn't prepa red a I ti 1st to have women
in the audience mistake this illusion
for reality, and fall for a celluloid
level who duesn t exist It shook me
One woman olTered a studio telephone
operator JalMI for my unlisted num
ber Another wrote and threatened to
throw herself in Iront of my car un
less I made a dale with her I didn't,
and she didn't.
Other male stars have had even
wilder experiences. I've never found
a strange woman under the bed or
bad my clothes torn olf by frantic
frmalrs 111 tbr strrrl But I still won
der why some women cant live in
the real world, which is a pretty nice
place alter all.
"Our life together could be one lone,
blissful dream," a .mil vvinte to an
other, handsomer actor I know.
Blissful dream. n' eye' In said
"I want a wile who II e.et up and
change the baby s di.ipris when hr
hollers at 1 in the murmur;
Fortunately, not all vvumrii frii'hl. n
me There ale and have been a lew
exceptions ha I il - vv ol k II iU suicessllli
women who are vv at m - In at ted. t'la
emus, and reneinus
Take my mntlni. I'atia I'ovvii. fm
example She was an acttcss who
played Shakespeare, laiii'ht diamatics.
and at the same time made a line
hnme lei me and my ynunnei sislei .
Anne She didnt believe in lettinc.
children bch.ix e as lin-v ph ased Anne
and 1 weie nspmisible foi makiiiL'
our beds and keepua; mn i ooins neat
In company we vvcie seen and not
heal d. and we didn't in I up 1 1 on i the
dinnei table until wed been ex. used
The t leir'hboi b. mi I llieatoi m Cin
cinnati was my childhood play
house, when- I Weill altel sihiml to
watch mother teach and n-beaisc
Fveiy eVellllit; she lead Us pnehv
novels, and the best diumatio lit. i
allire Bui she never once siu'in-sted
th.it I out'Jit to make acting my caicei
She wasn't the kind of "slat'c molln i
I run from w believe! 1 see ..lie i om
ini; Ton often such women only want
the tot on the slane tn satisfy tin n
uwn anibi'tion I believe yniinvsters
should choose their own vvoik. just
as I made mv own decision to cany
on the family tbealiical tradition
At 17 I was graduated from I'lncell
hii'.h school in Cincinnati, and the dav
att.i commencement I announced
that I was lca um home to in. on tin
staoe I headed lor ('hieai'ii. wheie I
landed a job as a speai -cat i v me ex
lia in ihe Civic I'heatei s Shakes
peare Cump.iny
All I knew about 1 1 I s at this time
was that they .daimed me and mad'
me v.e uely tmcomloi table In ciaih
schuul I had been in pnni health ami
veiy sh While in liii'b s hool I was
bus woikinu behind a soda touiilau.
duiinu vai.itioi.s and uslieimi; in tin
.iters at m ;;l 1 1 . I bad ln time fm dates
Then in Chicago I met anotbei ex
ceptional woman who duln I scale nn
Hei name vv as I airl el la
It was a queci lomance I.uiietia
was a waitress in a restaiii.ini where
I diopped in one nmht bn a sand
wich Soon I was slopping by two m
three niuhts a week aftei the theatei
When theie vveien I many custoineis.
we talked'. Or rather. 1 talked about
my ambition to become an actoi , my
hope to ret In New Yin k ol Holly -wood
She let me lave about my
pmbleins and futilie. and altboimh
I must have been an awlul hoi e she
never let it slinvv.
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