8OO1( REYIEWf letter from the editor HAYWIRE by Brooke Hayward Non.,Fiction, Bantam, 384 Pages, $2.50. Where's my magazine?

Her mother was Margaret Sulla­ We've had calls and letters. In the last months, they've gotten increasingly insistant, sounding frustrated, disappointed or downright angry. They all ask van, the beautiful, throaty-voiced star the same question, "Why can't I get my Cinema Canada on time?" of Hollywood and Broadway. Her We don't know. Unless the Canadian postal service has decided to force father was Leland Hayward, the most Canadian editors under by simply not delivering our magazines. colorful and dynamic of theatrical It took a York professor seven weeks to get issue no. 44. It took all of Toron­ agents. She was the eldest of their to three weeks to get issue no. 45. The horror stories go on and on. three children, raised in a glittering We've called the post office. We've written. Last month, the excuse we got world of glamor, beauty, talent and was that, with the increase of postal rates, everyone and his uncle mailed at the privilege during the golden years of end of March and the system was overloaded. The month before, they told us Hollywood. But it was a world that that we had gotten the magazine into the post office too early. (The logic is, would inevitably be shattered by de­ . you see, that the first one into the depot ends up on the bottom of the pile by the end of the day and is, consequently, the last one out. It says something stroyed marriages, mental breakdowns about this situation in the New Testament.) The month before, they were clear­ and tragic death. ing away the Christmas mail, and on and on and on ... Haywire is Brooke Hayward's grip­ All the members of the Canadian Periodical Publishing Association, (the pingly honest memoir of her extra­ publishing industry's answer to the CCFM) have the same complaints and are ordinary family, their magical life, and trying to resolve the problems with the post office. It is still a mystery that the recklessness, guilts and emotional Time magazine is never delivered late. extravagance that so tragically de­ Meanwhile, there's little we can do. Our addressing system is mechanized. stroyed that magic forever. It takes us two days from the moment we receive the magazine from the printer Haywire, which takes its title from to get it into the mails. Normally, it should take less than a week to get it to Leland Hayward's cable address and the subscribers via second class mail. There seems to be no ready solution, unless subscribers want to pay the addi­ the emotional outcome of the family, tional cost to receive the magazine by first class delivery. The prices are available is more than the usual "showbiz" in an ad on this page. biography; it is the moving story of a For those of you who still have faith, you might try writing a letter. Not to unique American family and its failure. us. To the Postmaster General. Margaret Sullavan was a superb actress, a spell-casting charmer, beau­ a lingering, heartbreaking death that tiful and spirited. "If ever I've known he almost literally worked himself to. someone who was unique, it was Mag­ And Brooke would go through two di­ gie", said Henry Fonda. vorces and years of questioning and Go first ·class Leland Hayward waS' known as self-doubt. Every subscription to Cinema "the Toscanini of the telephone", What went wrong? What was wrong? Canada includes a free subscrip­ making deals day and night for his -To answer these questions, Brooke tion to Trade News North. The clients - Garbo, Hemingway, Judy two magazines are now publish­ Hayward reconstructs her past and Garland, Billy Wilder, Gregory Peck, ed at different times during the her family's, taking us into their fascin­ Myrna Loy, Gene Kelly, Boris Kar­ month, and are mailed separately. ating lives during the halcyon days If you wish to receive your loff, Charles Laughton, Lillian Hellman, of Hollywood and Broadway, revealing sub by first-class mail, all you have to Dashiell Hammett, Fred Astaire and a the disparity between their outer and do is to send us the cost of the dozen others. postage. Unfortunately, the mail has inner circumstances. And the children - Bridget, and joined cigarettes and alcohol as a As counterpoint to her absorbing luxury item; the cost to us of the exquisite beauty: Bill, inventive and narrative, those who knew and loved mailing is $.70 per issue or $7.00 per adventurous; and Brooke, a "Life" the Haywards - including the Fondas, sub annually. The issue with which your sub cover girl at age 15. They were at­ Jimmy Stewart, the Mankiewiczes, tractive, intelligent and adored, living expires is printed in the upper right Diana Vreeland, Truman Capote and hand comer of your mailing label. out the romance of their parent's Josh Logan - give their own, personal­ Send us $.70 per remaining issue in lives. ly-told memories. your subscription and we'll upgrade Thlln, after a IO-year marriage, John Wolotko your sub immediately to first­ mother and dad separate and divorce. class sta tus. Bill is in and out of Menniger's, takes Then cross your fingers. to smuggling cocaine, living off stolen John Wolotko is working on a Masters Mail check to Cinema Canada, credit cards, and goes to jail. Bridget degree in film from New York Univer­ Box 398, Outremont Station, dies at 21 - a probable suicide. Maggie sity. and is a regular contributor to Montreal H2V 4N3 dies - a probable suicide. Dad dies, Trade News North.

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