•î*V. ill rr íin-islittud fill tlic tusviTiny wig French actor ^'vcs Muniaiid, .Mnili.-y's dinner she wears in A/v6>ij/(i/, where she mas- partner above, is leading man in liernew lilm. Her querades as a Japanese entertainer. husband, Steve Parker, is the show's producer.

I GALL ON SHIRLEY MACLAINE By PETE MARTIN The star of Ccm-Can and The Apartment tells of the lucky l^reaks that took her from a Broadway chorus line to Hollywood stardom,

Left: Un the set of My G'm/w, now being filmed in Japan : Shirley. Japanese actress Voko Tani and director Jack Cardiff. ry and Laun'ncr llarv.-y alar ds f'llow sthool - teachers in TILO Ijitfi, to \v released ncxl month.

With Frank Sinatra in Can-Can. Shirley defends their off-scrccn friendship; "There's nothing evil, or even questionable, about ¡i " In All in a Night's 11 Wit with Deap Martin. The chemistry' between Dean and me is good," she sa>'s.

hirley MacLainc is tall, leggy, bosomy. Obviously, Shirley MaeLaine has become Strip. "I've got a theory about this MaeLaine, Ht'i" smile curves upward likf a sliver of what is known in Hollywood parlance as "'an buddy l)oy," he Inld mi-, lilowinii a clcud of S new moon b;il;inccd on its bottom. Othrr extremely hot property." .^s these words are eigaretie smoke from his cnoulh, ihcn sucking portions of her face which trend upward are ihe written, she has just been nominated, along it quickly back into his nostrils. "This girl is tip of her nose, the small half-moon srnile lines with four other film stars, for one of the top the biggest thing since sliced bread. She's a bracketing the corners of her mouth and the "Oscars" bestowed eaeh year by the Academy clean break with Hollywood's phony glamour outer ends of her eyes. The over-all effect is of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences—the and synthetic sexiness. I iines have ehanged, that of a child murmuring "M'm'm'm'm'm" "Best Performance by an Actress" in 1.960. pal, and she's part of this now period. When I in a peanut-butter advertisement. The 1.9ßn awards will be announced shortly think about her I get a playback in my head of She is so tall that when she stood on tipioe before this article reaches Poit readers, but two words, 'natural' and 'honest.' Put it this in ballet school the top of her head was ex- even if Miss MaeLaine does not win, il should way: She's not an aetressy actress. Certainly actly six feet from the floor. She is also out- be remembered that an Academy nomination she's not a broad on whom the studios have sized "careerwise"—as tlie writers of her ifKiO in itself is considered n great lionor in the en- spent bucketfuls of money trying to change her film. The Apartmenl. would put it. Her per- tertainment world. into a sexpot. This MaeLaine had Ihat going formance in Some Came Running won her a A few seasons back, when I was trying to for her when she got here." nomination for a Hollywood Oscar in l.Q.'if). analyze the mysteries of Marilyn Monroe's Some weeks later when I ealled upon Last year she altendcd the \'eniec Film Festi- special appeal for publication, a friend of mine, Shirley MacLainc in her New York hotel suite, val to take home a Golden Lion for her work in Flaek Jones — who labors in the Hollywood 1 put this, as \\c\\ as oiher matters, ttp to her. The Apartment. Still later last year she com- sail mines as a publicist—eame to my rescue She discussed them with me between a suc- pleted work in ii picture wilh the title Twn with his off-ihe-cufl' appraisal of Amei'ica's cession of hot-fudge sundaes — "they give me Loves. After she wound up that picture, she home-grown sex kitten. When he heard that energy"—ordered up from room ser\iee. She rushed off to Japan to appear opposite Yves I was about to call on Shiiley NLncLainc, he sat on an overstuffed divan, eurled her long Montand in ¡\íy Ceisha, a lilm beinR made by volunteered another portion of Hollywood c.i- legs under her and said, "To me it's simple; her imprcsario-movie-produccr liushand, Steve perttie, delivering it flavored with his own whatever's in tne just comes out. I figure if that Parker. To get bnckground for this movie, she brand of verbal yeast while we stood on the pleases people. I'd better not change it or fooi lived in a geisha house for two weeks. curbstone before Dino's Rr-itniirant on The around wilh il. Wilh (Continued on Page 9«)

Ft: Shirley and Steve Parker at home in Tokyo with ihcir daughter Stephanie, four, •vc works in Japan, so Shirley and Steph must cross the Pacific lo be with him. THE SATURDAY tïVENINC and hoping Ihat no one would remember of Can-Can, because the producer of that 1 Call on Siurlo\' MacL;i that I'd been there before. show hinted strongly that I ought to du (Continued from Page 27) "The third time was my lucky one. something about it quickly. I was wearing Richard Rodgers selected me from the it in a ponytail, and every time I did a me it's instinctive, like being a mother. was just kind of blah." She opened her mob of girls on the stage by saying, "Hey, quick turn, my hair took half an hour I don't know a thing about Doctor mouth and kt her lips (lutter to make the you with the legs.' The suspense was to follow me around. So one night be- Spock, and I know less about lx;lng "blah." awful, my stomach was full of knots. tween the first and second acts I let it what tbe books call 'lieing an adequate "Tlicre were three other girls in high Mr. Rodgers said, 'Do a little jazz," I have it. I was chipping my leeth on wife' But I do know this, I like Ix-ing school as tall as I. Our height was a bond did It. Then he said, 'Do ballet ' I did bobby pins anyhow, and it's so mu^jh both. Well go into tbat later " between us. We kepi wishing that the that too. Thon he said, 'Sing,' and .some- easier this way. I forget that it's there Outside the windows of her suite dusk years would rush by so the boys we liked body thumped a piano and 1 sang, while until things begin to turn dark, then I was feeling Its way across Central Park. would grow up." the other girls stood there, hating me. realize that my bangs have grown so long She ran her own long fingers through 1 wondered how she got to New York When 1 was done I felt completely I'm having trouble seeing through them, the hacked-at hairdo she'd worn in The from Arlington, a suburb of Washington, drained, but Mr. Rodgers said 'O.K.,' and I hack away at them again. I really Apartment and told me, "Some of the D.C., and she told me, "My family sent and the next thing I knew a secretary do comb my hair in the morning when I studios I've worked for have tried to friz me north one summer to study ballet. I came up to me and said, 'You've got the get up, but I must admit that I don't my hair. Some of them have even talked did that for a couple of summers. Then job. What's your name? We'd like to comb it any more, except with my fingers up a storm about changing the shape of the third year I auditioned for a replace- make out an advance payment to you— even after I've driven in an open car." my mouth, or hanging false ejelashes on ment in the chorus of OKlalioma.', got the that is, if you need it.' Need it! 1 forgot She eyed a spoonful of melting ice me. But as for the rest of me. they hired _iob and stayed with il through the sum- all about the phony name I was using cream from which streamers of cooling me this way, and I figure they must have mer. and right quick said ' MacLaine.' Happily fudge were dripping and said, "I guess known what they were doing. 1 don't "By that time I'd begun to look the way nobody noticed." we're up to Tlie Fajama Game. I was remember any studio ever trying to build a girl is supposed to look. You wouldn't She recalled something else. "It didn't hired for it first as a chorus girl, then as up my bustline, but there's not as much know this, of course, but it's a great satis- take the producer of that show long to an understudy for the star of the show, need for that as you might think. If a faction to a girl when she realizes that she find out that I had a loud voice—I can Carol Haney. The Pajama Game opened girl pushes herself in tbe right direction, on a Thursday, but just before the curtain she doesn't need to add anything. I've came down after the following Wednes- heard that certain studios have put on day matinee, Carol broke her ankle, I big campaigns to sell the images of some know that kind of thing happens only m women stars as 'se\ goddesses." Nobody cornball plots, but this really Me and Juliet, for i\ asked me that, because 1 remember it vi\- whole year. 1 was drawing a hundred idly. 1 was four, and 1 did a number dollars a week from The Pajama Game. called An .Apple for the Teacher al the but I had some money saved from Me Mosque Tbeater in Richmond, Virginia. and Julivt, and I didn't want to be a the city where my parents were living at chorus girl all my life. 1 wanted to study the time. I tripped on the curtain, the and make something of myself. So I made audience laughed and, little ham that I Shirley MacLaine (i.-i]iJack Lemmon and Edie Adams. "1 was fifteen minutes late reaching that curtain every time 1 passed it. the theater that night, but my part in the "My parents had entered me in danc- show was such a tiny one that I thought ing school because I had weak ankles. is a girl. She discovers why she's on scream it up pretty good if I want to—so no one would care. When I arrived at But once I heard dance music, nobody earth." I was given a line or two to speak. I re- the theater, the stage manager and the had to make me go to dancing school. She studied tbe half-empty sundae dish member the first line 1 ever spoke on a producer were both standing out in Forty- I really loved it. Father is a real-estate on the coffee table before her as if con- Broadway stage, lt was this; 'Seems like fourth Street, tbeir faces ashen, yelling at man. but he had been a band leader sidering a replacement for that too. If only yesterday that Suzie left the show.' me, 'Where have you been? Haney's before he married mother, and mother she had that in mind, she decided against I went home nights and worked on that broken her ankle. You're on.' 1 went had been an actress. I guess I inherited it for the moment. line and polished it and tried it several into a state of shock so profound 1 didr't show-business blood from both of them, "When I went back to New York after different ways. I'd think. 'Tomorrow I'll even think about the fact that I'd never but if 1 have a sense of rhythm. 1 got it being graduated from Washington and give It something it hasn't had before. rehearsed any of Haney's lines. My In- from my dad. Lee Higb, I was seventeen." she contin- I'll put more feeling into it.' " She giggled. stinctive reaction was, '1 hope 1 don't "When my parents moved north to Ar- ued, "but I'd saved some oi the money "Isn't that silly?" drop the little black derby she wears in lington. Virginia, 1 attended Washington I'd made in OkUihoina! and I decided it She looked down at her feet. They ap- her Steam Heat number.'" and Lee High School." Her eyes crinkled, was high time that 1 was paying for every- peared to be shod in either plastic or Shirley MacLaine must have seen and she added, "I had to give up base- thing myself. I joined the St. John Terrell rubber high-heeled storm boots. I am something lacking in my face, for she ball because I kept slamming more home MusicCircus in Lambe rtville. New Jersey, not very knowing about such things, but said. "You didn't see The Pajama Game. runs than the boys. I had sense enough but when I came back to New York to me they didn't seem to blend too did you?" When I confessed that I hadn'i. to know that that wasn't very feminine, after Lambertville. things were rough smoothly with her Capri pants and the she filled me in. "The Steam Heat num- and I decided if [ ever wanted a family jobwise. It was then that I heard about man's shirt she wore with its tails knotted ber opened the second act. It was one of I'd better drop baseball. 1 was a cheer- trade shows." around her middle. I remembered an- the all-time great classic jazz numbers. leader too. Jumping up in the air and 1 said that i didn't know what a trade other thing Flack Jones had told me; "I It was done in black tuxedos, with black trying to make my heels touch the back show was. She explained. "Suppose some- never knew a dame with such a total shoes. It was accompanied by tricks done of my head seemed the biggest thing in body has a refrigerator to sell; shows lack of concern about wbat she's wearing with black derbies. That's why my first the world. built around that refrigerator travel all or how she looks in it. That goes for her thought had been, i hope 1 don't drop "'If you saw me in the movie version over the country so people can see it set hair too. She features a chicken-in-the- Carol's hat.' I went upstairs and put on • of Can-Can, you probably thought of me in glamorous surroundings. 1 danced rough hairdo. It looks as if mice have Carol's clothes. Miraculously, they fit as a pretty big girl. I am big. If I don't around a refrigerator for six months. been nibbling at it." me perfectly. 1 put on my own body look that big to you now, it's because I Occasionally I'd stop to open one of ils Shirley MacLaine seemed to read my make-up, and my hands didn't shake. am sitting down, in Can-Can 1 wore four- doors so the audience could look inside. mind—or it could have been that I had Even tlie fact that Carol's shoes were inch heels. Even without heels 1 am five "When I got back to New York. slared overlong at the casually arranged loo small, and I had to wear my own, feet, si.\ and a half. But the point is. I Rodgers and Hammerstein were audi- locks. She studied herself in a mirror didn't throw me, although mine were was this tall when I was twelve years old. tioning for the chorus of A/c oriil Juliet. hanging on the wall across the room, horrible-looking. It did upset me a little That may be fine if you're a boy, but if I auditioned for it three times before 1 grinned at me and said, "Long hair's a that the rest of the cast stood in the you're a girl and you weigh ninety pounds, made it. The first two times I was pain—I mean, it's a bother. Thai's why wings watching to see if I was going to and you're only twelve, and you're all thumbed out, but I kept coming right I ended up with mine like this. 1 chopped make it, but the only thing 1 did that that tall, life can be grim. At that age I back, using a different name each time It off when I was in the stage production showed 1 was {Continued on Page ¡00) loo T 11 B SATURDAY T. V E N I N O 1' ' i S 1

iifnim ft«'<- w,V} HCIAOUS \\;IS U- "l-\)rlunalfly I didn't have to brood -I read Thi' ¡niiihlf With Harry script, She thought for a moment, then went ask somebody to L\III Stove ÜIKI tell liim ;ibout Ihem. lor Mr, Wallis .sent me a then I went out and bought some clothes. •m. "You may be wondering how Steve lo picase como lo llic thciiler ¡iiid walcli marconigram Irom mid-ocean, "Go to I brotight them back and shov^ed them tr and I manage to make our marnaye work iiiy IX'rio nuance, Fox Movieione,' it said, 'and make a Mr. Hitchcock. He liked them." all the way across the Paeilk. The answer "I liiiil SULII rcsjiLX-t for Sieve's opinion screen test,' When he gol back from She paused a moment, then went on. is, if you love somebody enough, you can and tor liis good Uislc." she went on. Furope. he ran thai lest while I waited ""Just before I went up to Vermont to be- make anything work. I happen to love "Ihal I knc\\ lie wmild juilye me tairly. with bated breath, "Don't Lie so eager, gin work in The Troiihh- With Hurry, Steve and he happens to love me, and we Tlie miiltilie;n.1eiJ nionsler uiitcliiny me MacLaine,' I told myself. "You probably Steve Parker and I were married. Every- happen to have a four-year-old daughter Ironi Ihc other side of tlie roolhglits blew it; But my lest was O.K.. and I was body seemed upset when I showed up for Stephanie, whom we both love. 1 could didn't bother nic a bit. After its lirsl all iet to blasi off as Miss Screen Starlet the location shots with a new hushand. have done a Grace Kelly and walked out loud moan, when il was told th;it Carol of 1954. when I read the small print in The idea seemed to be that a girl isn't on my career so Stephie and I could wasn't going on, the iiiidience iipplauded the contract I'd signed. For the lirst time supposed to start a new career and get live in Tokyo wilh Steve, but I didn't e\crything I did. I noticed that the contract called for me married too, I didn't buy that. I knew 1 want to give up acting, and Steve didn't "Stc\e came biickstage alter the |ier- to come to work in December, and il was could give both careers all I had, and 1 want me to either. formance. bringing a yard-high stack of now only May. So I had to bide my lime. have!"' ""If 1 had to choose between Steve and notes he'd made. \\e went home and sat "Carol's ankle finally healed. She was She studied her feet once more, and I a career, there's no question about my down to go o\er his notes, when sud- back in the show all summer. Then she got the impression that she was wriggling choice. I'd take Steve. For, after all, he's denly I thought. '>ou're only Shirley was out again—for one night—laryngitis. her toes inside her high-heeled rubber what my life is all about. It's hard for us MacLaine ;ind you're going to be on Talk about corny: that was the one night footgear. "Right after The Troiihlf IVith to live apart, just as hard as it would be that stage the ne\t night, and the ne\l that Alfred Hitcheock's representative Harry," she told me, '"I went to Holly- for you and your wife to live apart or for night after that." and I Tell apart. A de- chose to see the show. 1 don't know wood to make my first film for Mr. Wal- any husband and wife who love each layed emotional reaction set m. But the w hether he moaned or nol when he found lis, a picture called AriiM\ and Moilch. In other to live apart. But Steve and I have ne\t day the casi was called in. and we the little card in his seat telling him that it I was Ihe hussy who ran up and down talked It all out. We think we know what rehearsed and rehearsed unlil I began to he paid money to see me instead of Haney. stairs in a yellow sunsuit. chasing Dean we're doing, and for the time being we've know whal 1 was doing. but he must have turned in a good report Martin and Jerry Lewis. And I hated decided to play it this way. Even so. we '"The third night that I went on as about me to his boss, for the next day that. If Vm asked to do something in a think we have a richer and fuller life than Carol's substituie. Hollywood producer Mr. Hitchcock called Mr. Wallis and picture which seems unfeminine or un- many people."" Hal Wallis saw me. Hed come to ihe asked him if 1 could work for him in his ladylike to me. I can't stand it." She looked at me from under the fringe theater to see Haney. but by thai time next picture, Tlw Trmihic Wiili Harrv. Mr. She eyed me quizzically and said. "'I of her bangs and lold me, "We keep a lot the managemeni had had little eards Wallis said. "Yes."' think I know what you're wonderma. closer to each other than most people printed and put in each seat. They read. She stood up. walked to a window, You're wondering how the word "ladylike" would think possible. We put in so many 'Tonight Miss Haney will be replaced by raised her arms toward the ceiling and fits the part I played in Sonif dime Run- transpacific telephone calls each monlh Shirley MacLaine.' When Mr. Wallis read stretched mightily. For a moment her 'linn. The girl I played in that picture iruv that our phone bills are staggering. The this, he wanted to leave, but a friend oT Capri pants and her man"s shirt with a bit of a tart, but there was nothing un- only way we can ever hope to gel even is his. Bob Goldstein, who was with him. its knotted tails around her middle were feminine aboul her. After all. she knew to buy enormous blocks of International persuaded him to stay, 'We have nothing silhouetted against the lights Ilickering how to love, and to me that's all-impor- Tel. and Tel, stock. We call each other else to do." Goldstein said to him, and on outside. She lurned. came back to tant. I know it"s not exactly a compliment two or Ihree times a week, and each call maybe this kid is good. Lei's watch her the di\an. sat down and told me, "'I to me. but that was the easiest role I've lasls about an hour and a half. They cosl for a while." heard afterward that Mr. Hitchcock's ever played, 1 only had to read that script about two hundred and fifty dollars a "After the last act Mr. Wallis came talent scout had been told to look for once, and I knew what that girl was like. call.'" My eyes must have widened, for she backstage to talk to me. I was pretly 'something unusual.' If that's what he inside and out; what she wore, what she insisted, ""That's the average,"' vague about Hal Wallis. I'd heard thai wanted, he got it. for when 1 showed up thought, what she did when she was She uncurled her legs, slid down in her he was a succes.sful independent producer at Mr, Hitchcock's room at the St. Regis alone. 1 even loved the bits in which 1 had divan unlil they stretched out before her; and once I'd seen a line on a screen Hotel to meet him. I looked like a slob. to pretend she was stoned. 1 drink very she laced her fingers behind her head and somewhere: 'Hal Wallis presents Dean It was raining, and I didn't want to ruin little, but a lot of the fans who saw me in said, "Anyhow, at this particular point I Martin and Jerry Lewis.' Anyway, al the few clothes I had; so I had on the that picture swore I'd had a few nips loo have a contract with Hal Wallis, and that that point Hollywood was as far from same blue jeans I've lold you about and many. keeps me in California, although, thank my mind as Kamchatka—even farther. an awful-looking beat-up old trench coat. "Since then,'" she went on, ""Steve has God, thai contract is aboul to end. When So when Mr. Wallis asked. 'What are "'Mr. Hitchcock was sitting with his moved to Tokyo, He specializes in pro- my contract with Mr. Wallis is completed. you doing later?" I wasn't sure whether dear, sweet wife. Alma; he's very short, ducing documentary films there and in Steve and 1 may work things out in a dif- he wanted me for me or as an actress. and I must have towered over him, be- discovering and packaging entertainment ferent way. I may spend six months a year So I said suspiciously. 'I'm probably dat- cause he said hurriedly. 'Please sit down.' talent. He finds Oriental talent not only in California and six months in the Orient ing my fiancé. Why?" Mr. Wallis said. Then he asked me, "What pictures have in Japan but also in Hong Kong, in with Steve." "If you can find a free moment I hope you starred in?' I said. "None," He asked. Vietnam, in Cambodia and in Indonesia. 1 said that I'd seen photographs of her that you will meet me briefly in the Oak "Well, what pictures have you done?' I After assembling them, he routes these taken with her daughter and I'd never Room of The Plaza hotel. I'd like to said. 'None.' "You nimi have done a few acts all over the Far East, and if he thinks seen a mother-daughtercombination who discuss your career and a molion-picture TV shows," he said. 'I'll look at the they "re good enough, he bundles them up resembled each other so much. She ad- contract." kinescopes." I said. "I'm sorry, sir, there and ships them lo the Llmled States." mitted. ""Steph does look like me, but I "I went into my dressing room in a haven't been any.' I could feel the floor She looked at me inquiringly, then hope someday to have a boy that looks daze and put on the only clothes I had tipping up on end and me sliding ofl". but asked, ""Did you see the huge night-club like Steve. Steve is really handsome. ¡ there that belonged lo me. They hap- when he asked. "What have you done be- show. Holiday in Jupun?" I shook my think Vd like to have about three chil- pened to be blue jeans and an old lerry- fore this?" I kept right on telling him the head. ""Weil. Steve put it together."' she dren,"' clolh shin. truth. I said, "Nothing," He swallowed told me. "And among other place-., it I remarked that most of the young '"I'll never forget walking into the Oak hard, hut he's quite a man. He just said, played the Latin Ouarter in New York, mothers I knew seemed to want live or Room and up to the George M. "Why don"t you go out and round up a and the Latin Casino near Mcrchantviile. SIX. ""Not me,'" she said flatly. '"When you Cohan booth, where M r. Wallis was wardrobe to wear in my picture?' New Jersey." have too many children you have to de- silting. I doubt that he'll ever forget, vote your whole life to them, and it"s a either, bul if he was appalled at my disservice to them. They ought to learn to clothes, he never batted an eye. It took depend on themselves as early as possible. me only seconds to tell him what I'd Steph"s only four, bul she thinks nothing done before, theaterwise—nothing! I'd ol' traveling back and forth between Hol- been in a lot of shows, bul always in Ihe lywood and Japan by herself to see her chorus. He seemed momentarily taken dad. Because she's been adjusting to aback. I remember that he said. 'Oh,' in things all her life, she seems able to face a flat voice, then he pulled himself to- up to her lillle problems more easily than gether and said, "Tm leaving for Europe most children. She never cries or feels in- in the morning. I hope you'll drop in secure or rejected, and see my East Coast representative, ""Steve and 1 have our own ideas of Irene Lee, so she can start drawing up fun," she continued. ""We like to take a a tentative contract with you," couple of cans of beer and go to a drive-in. "'The next night the head man at Co- We prefer drive-ins where science-fiction lumbia Pictures. Harry Cohn, came to pictures or horror pictures are showing so see me. Paramount sent someone to see I can scream without bothering anybody. me. and a Metro representative dropped Whatever is simple, that's what Steve and in. but all ilit'y did was ask questions. I like. We like to go up to the High Sierras "How much do you weigh? How tail are and climb mountains or go fishing, 1 did you? What are your measurement? ihat when I was si.\ months pregnant What else have you done?' None of with Stephie." them made me a definite offer; they jusl I was curious about what her doctor looked me over squinch-eyed, as if study- had thought of Ihat. '"He th(.iu¡:ht it was ing a prize filly. And I thought that un- 'Ht-re comcv the part I was telling \ou about."' great." she said. ""I had a doijtnr who dignified of them, even if I was a blue- believed that if there's anything diflicult jeans type. about a pregnaticy, it"s usually something April 32, 190t , IO! the prospective mother dreams up herself. Before I left I wondered if she would the 'Nineties French girts had danced it of her suite and said, "You know. I was Three months later, when Steve was tell me about the day Mr. and Mrs. without panties, and the cafés where it trapped here all morning and the best aboul to go baek to Japan, I told him that Khrushchev popped in for lunch at the was danced were constantly raided. part of this afternoon, and if I don't get I'd like to have our baby before he left, Twentieth Century-Fox studio and caught "I don't think Mrs. Khrushchev liked out of whatever place I'm in now and so he eould see it. I was nearly full term, her big dancing number in Can-Can. I even our comparatively modest costumes. then, I get a shul-m feeling. So, just be- and 1 knew that there was a drug which wanted to know if Mr. Khrushchev had She wasn't smiling, and I think that Mr. fore you came. I blasted out of here and could be given to me intravenously to in- shown any noticeable reaction to her Khrushchev began to di^iapprove after he tore around the park for half an hour." duce labor. My doctor thought that was performance. "He seemed to like it very saw the frown on mamma's face. He may The ends of her eyes curled upward once O.K., too; su I drove to the hospital, much," she laughed. "He smiled through- bang his U N desk with his shoe, but, just more. "That," she said, "was a break for parked my car, unpacked my bag and had out the whole performance, yet he com- like any other husband, he chickens out you. If I hadn't taken that walk, Td have my baby. A couple of days later, when plained afterward that it had been too when his wife catches him getting too been itching to get out every minute. As Steve came to the hospital to see us, Steph risqué. If he thinks ne were risqué, he bright-eyed—girl wise.'" it IS, I've kind of enjoyed it." I had kind of enjoyed it too. and I had gone home." should have seen the original cancan. The I stood up to go. She got to her feet studio research department told us that in I asked when her daughter had begun too. She looked around the living room THE END to look like a carboncopy of hi;r. "About the third day." she told me. "She looked like Rocky Graziano when she was born." Picking up the phone, she ordered an- other hot-fudge sundae from room serv- ice. When Ú came, she dipped a spoon into it. then said slowly, "I've read about a group called The Clan. I know you have too. This group is supposed to consist of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford. Joey Bishop and me, although some writers make the list longer. So far as I know, to date, no- body has ever taken the trouble to ask any of us who are supposed to be in The Clan COMPLETE NUTRITIONAL TREATMENT about The Clan, although by the time w VitoGRO your interview with me hits the news- stands some writer may have taken care of that oversight. "If anyone did ask me about it, I'd have to tell him that i don't believe such a thing exists. I've never heard anyone in our group use the term; we don't hold SPECIALLY offices or elect officers. What does exist is FOR GRASS this: There are certain people in Holly- wood who enjoy being with each other, FORMULATEO and I'm lucky enough to be one of them. Our friendship, our respect for each other, FOR OEEP ROOT the fun we have together^thoîe all exist. BALANCEO JUST RIGHT "I've read that Frank cails us on the phone and says, "Get over here ' That's a FOR LOCAL silly lie. It simply doesn't happen. I've GROWING CGNDITIOSS also read that The Clan has its own lan- guage. That also is a stupid lie. We have our favorite words and expressions, but I'm sure that you and your friends have your favorite words and expressions too. People automatically take on the verbal color of their closest associates. " Anger grew behind her eyes as she went on, "I've even heard that I'm the 'den mother' of The Clan." 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