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Unaware that vacationing Barbara Stanwyck is sitting among them, New Yorker; in Central Park pay her no attention. A hidden Modern
■ Recently in New York's Grand Central station, Barbara Stanwyck was struggling up a stairway, caught in a mass of impersonal humanity, when someone came down hard on her toe. Barbara immediately let out a colorful verbal reaction.
"Why."' she heard a man up ahead say, "that's Barbara Stanwyck's voice."
She braced herself as the man turned his head, expecting the mass to become quite personal. He stared right past her. "Must have been hearing things," he muttered.
And the man behind her said impatiently,
"Look, lady, let's get going. I ain't got all day, you know.''
While most Hollywood stars complain of getting writer's cramp signing autographs while traveling the highways and byways, Barbara Stanwyck declares with mock plaintiveness. "People never recognize me unless Bob's along. In fact, sometimes they don't recognize him because I'm with him."
And, surprisingly enough, it's true. This has created situations which her friends tell about with great amusement — amusement in which Barbara joins, except on rare oc
casions like one which caused her to make a radical change in her life.
That was when she went to the premiere 1 of Stella Dallas, in which she gave a performance that made her an Academy Award nominee. When Producer Sam Goldwyn learned she was to be escorted by the fans' I rave of the year, Robert Taylor, he gave the special police officers orders to see the young actor wasn't torn limb from limb.
A good thing it was, too. The fans broke L through the ropes to surround Taylor. Police went to his rescue. One officer pulled