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Earthy and spiritual, friendly and aloof, idealistic and skeptical, an intellectual who prefers his women not to be brainy . . . That's the puzzling Lew Ayres.
BEHIND i RIDDLE
As soon as Lew's fondness
for Jane Wyman became open
gossip, the "romance" died.
South African Heather
Walsh is one of the many beouties
Lew has instructed in art.
■ "Lew Ayres wanted on the phone!" yelled the doorman on Stage 11 at Warner Brothers.
"He's busy!" yelled back the assistant director.
"Who is it?" asked Lew quietly.
"Who is it?" impatiently repeated the doorman into the telephone. They were ready for another take and wasted time meant wasted money. A few
seconds later the doorman shouted, "It's ex-Marine . Says he's passing
through town and he wants to thank Mr. Ayres again under nicer circumstances for saving his life during the war."
"O.K., I'll take it," said Lew.
I happened to be on the set at the time. As Lew walked toward the telephone, my thoughts rushed back to the dark days at the beginning of the war when Lew went through a private hell. He was publicly branded "coward," because he preferred to be catalogued "Conscientious Objector" rather than forego his principles and fight. Lew was no more a coward then than he is now. But he has always seemed the most contradictory character in Hollywood.
Take the steady stream of girls in Lew's life. The newest, as of this writing, is pretty redhead Arlene Dahl. Lew is seen all over town with her, at the Beverly Hills Tropics, the Lanai Room, the (Continued on page 77)
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