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dress and manner a decidedly actor
ish actor, with whom she had starred
in "All About Eve." Those who know
Gary understand how she could for
get her resolves about not marrying
an actor. He is a good actor, as he
would have to be to attract her, and
he is one of the subtly sardonic men
women always find irresistible but
not necessarily compatible.
She is now divorced from Gary,
but refuses to discuss him or their
current difficulties about money and
visiting privileges. "I will not have
the children dragged through the
newspapers again if I can help it,"
she says. "They've had enough."
Bette and I recently spent a few
hours in her suite at the Royale
Theater in New York where she was
costarring in Tennessee Williams'
"The Night of the Iguana." A few
weeks later she exercised her option
and withdrew from the cast. After
six months in this play she felt she
"had had it." She since has taken
B. D., Margo, and Michael, 10, also
adopted, with her to Hollywood,
where she is to star in "Whatever
Happened to Baby Jane?"
But when I saw her, Bette was in
costume for the play: blue jeans
held up with rope, and partly un
buttoned shirt. Her suite of two
rooms and bath, high over the stage,
was carpeted wall to wall in a pink
red. The curtains were white with
garnet red roses as were slip covers
on her daybed and chairs. No make
shift background for Bette!
Houses are extremely important to
her, too.
"The children must have a home,"
she says. "So must I, which is why
I rented a house in New York.
"It is like a quiet little island in
the crowded and noisy city, an old
fashioned brownstone that has been
painted white, and there's a lovely
garden in back."
Last year, except for a twice-a-week
cleaning woman, Bette ran the
four-story house herself, even when
the three children were home for
Christmas, Easter, and summer
vacations.
"I wasn't working, so I had a fine
time being domestic," she says. "I'd
rather cook than act any day. Cook
ing's the most fun in the world!"
The things for which Bette says
she is the most grateful, in order of
their happening, are the satisfaction
of having reached her goal and her
children.
"It's an enormous satisfaction to
me," she says, "that I'm considered
a good business investment. If you
aren't this, you might as well shut
your little make-up box and go home.
You won't get any opportunity worth
having.
Y children, in addition to all
they mean in themselves, give
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me a fine incentive without which
any work becomes real drudgery. I
keep going so they may live well and
be educated properly.
. "I've tried to sidestep the resent
ment children can feel for mothers
who work. The trick is to give chil
dren a sense of being loved and of
being important yet leave them
free. I'm certain B. D., Margo, and
Michael know they're more impor
tant to me than anyone or anything."
The effort Bette recently made to
give Michael a birthday party il
lustrates her determination never to
permit her children to feel they are
stranded on the periphery of her
busy life.
Following her Saturday-evening
performance, she caught a 12 :45
a.m. train for Boston, arriving at an
outlying station at 6 Sunday morn
ing. After about three hours' sleep,
she went to pick up Michael so they
would have a little time alone before
his friends arrived for the party.
And that night, after the boys had
been returned to school, she caught
a train for New York, reaching home
at 5 o'clock Monday morning. That
evening, of course, she was on stage
as usual.
I tried to tell her how much I've
always admired her cheerful devo
tion to her children, her pursuit of
a positive viewpoint, her insistence
that life should have charm. But I
didn't get very far, New Englanders
being the way they are.
She stood before me, small feet
apart, hands on slim hips, and in
inimitable Davis fashion blurted:
"It's so much easier, for heaven's
sake, if you can just keep things
pleasant !"
There, in a nutshell of 14 words,
is Bette's philosophy, the reason why
whatever has beset her I have
never heard her pity herself and
have never seen her cry.
Crying she reserves for the make
believe world.
Junior TREASURE Chest
Ed.ttd by MARJORIE BARROWS, Editor el Ih. Childron't Hour
Let's Draw a Macaw
By Ann Davidow
A carrot of a parrot
Is the carroty macaw
(Perhaps these words are hard to
say,
But he is fun to draw!)
Riddle! Riddle!
1. What is it that everybody wants
and yet wants to get rid of as
soon as possible?
2. What's the difference between a
book and a talkative bore?
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Tongue Twitter
I believe in rubber buggy bumpers.
Penny Tom!
By Ragna Eskil
Cut off the lid of an empty egg
carton and have on hand 12 buttons
or pennies. Let each player take
turns trying to throw the pennies
into each of the hollows. Older play
ers should stand back farther than
younger ones.
Word Square
By Florence S. Moore
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2. Number
3. One time
4. Seven days
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