Modern Screen (Dec 1949 - Nov 1950)

has never had to ask me questions about babies. It was so different in my time. I had a wonderful mother, but it was considered shocking to want to even know about such things." I haven't yet asked Elizabeth or Nicky what kind of a nursery they plan. They both seem such babies themselves I get kind of embarrassed when I discuss the fascinating topic. After all, they still say they are not planning a baby for two years. But this I know, there will be no strict feeding schedules for the young Hiltons. In Elizabeth's babyhood and until a few years ago, a baby had to be fed at 6 a.m., 10 a.m., 2 p.m., 6 p.m., and when very tiny, at 10 p.m. as well. "I'm sure that's why she didn't like food," says Mrs. Taylor. Now doctors say — "Feed 'em any time when they are hungry. And pick 'em up and give them lots of loving and to heck with the rules." It's a cinch that Elizabeth's daughter will be mad about clothes. The only time Lizzie didn't scream for joy over a new dress was during her early adoration for Ann Westmore. She preferred to wear Ann's old clothes while her own new clothes languished in the closet until she outgrew them and her mother gave them away! But now, even if she never adds to her huge and wonderful trousseau, she'll have plenty to wear for the rest of her life. I know, too, that future Taylor-Hiltons, boys and girls both, had better learn early to love the open spaces, because that's what they'll get plenty of. Nicky's an expert golfer and very good at fishing and hunting. And ever since Liz was kneehigh to a stirrup — four and a half years old — and owned her own pony, she's been crazy about all sorts of animals. She didn't care for dolls at all until she was eight years old and we lived in Beverly Hills across the street from Ann Westmore (the daughter of make-up expert Wally and Elizabeth's maid of honor at the wedding)," her mother tells me. "But when she saw Ann's collection, she wanted one just as big. At one time Elizabeth had a hundred dolls. At Christmastime they were all over the house. I've saved ten of them for Elizabeth to give her children." Elizabeth took turns with Ann at playing the mother and the nurse to their large doll family. They used to borrow their mothers' clothes to wear themselves, and Mrs. Taylor was kept busy making fancy outfits for the dolls. Today Elizabeth's favorite is not a doll but a big teddy bear — it still sits guard on her bed. Nothing, by the way, has been touched in Elizabeth's bedroom in her mother's house. Except the pearl-gray carpetElizabeth house-broke her dog in her bedroom and after the wedding the carpet was sent to be cleaned. And here's a sad note. During Elizabeth's honeymoon the little dog, "Butch," died. Mrs. Taylor did not spoil the honeymoon by telling her about it until she came back. The dog pined for Elizabeth after she went away. She always used to take him to the vet's to be clipped — he was a gray, miniature poodle. He was very highly strung and to hear him howl after Elizabeth went was awful. I live in the next street and I heard him. About a month after the wedding Mrs. Taylor took Butch to the vet's. At two in the afternoon they called her to say Butch had been trimmed and he was fine. Before she could get out of the room the phone rang again and they said, "Oh, Mrs. Taylor, he's dead." Poor Butch, he was only eight months old. At one time Elizabeth had five dogs. And if you have never read "Nibbles and Me," her book about her pet chipmunk, you should — it's delightful. Until she was sixteen, the house was always full of guinea pigs. Plus several talking birds. And she still has the horse, King Charles, she rode in National Velvet. MGM gave her the handsome animal for her 13th birthday. It will be interesting to see how Elizabeth tackles the eating problem of her children. When she herself was little, she had to be almost tricked into eating, she hated food so much. And it wasn't until National Velvet that Mrs. Taylor really tricked her into an appetite. She told her mother, "I want to grow big and strong so I can ride the horse well." "But darling, how are you going to grow if you don't eat?" quickly replied the senior lady Taylor. So Elizabeth started eating mansize steaks. She never did get fat, however. Unless there really is a baby on the way, Elizabeth currently wears size ten in dresses and tips the scale at 114 pounds. In all the years I've known her, Elizabeth has never been ill with more than a cold or a case of sunburn. As a child she was just as healthy, suffering only with whooping-cough which she caught from brother Howard. And an abscessed ear. "She was never delicate, just slender and slight," says her mother, who is also slender and slight — and strong. When Elizabeth was small, she was painfully shy. She wasn't exactly afraid of people. "But," her mama tells me, "she used to cling to my hand, and shift from one foot to another without saying a word." Elizabeth is no longer shy. And she's beginning to talk more and with more authority. And I don't somehow think that her children will be anything but very self-possessed and "at home" in large groups. They will have lots of practice anyway — both Lizzie and Nicky love people around them. The plan now is for the young Hiltons to live in a suite at the Bel Air Hotel (of which Nicky owns 20%, and which he manages) for one year. Then they buy a lot and will build their very own home. Elizabeth wanted something very early American, with white and red bricks. Nicky doesn't care too much for that. He goes for "Traditional Modern" — all the comforts, and space and big windows of modern styling, with some antiques that are solidly comfortable. So that is what Elizabeth wants now. (This marriage can't fail to be successful!) Of course there will be a pool and the mansion will be on a hilltop. As a cook, Elizabeth is a good actress. Her first cake was so hard, they had to throw it down on the floor to break it up. But Lizzie wants to learn — she's married to a guy who knows all about food because of his years of training in hotel kitchens. She has asked her pal Ann to show her how to cook hard-to-make delicacies like Yorkshire pudding and souffles. So this is how I see the Nicky Hiltons in five years — a gracious, happy couple, living in a beautiful modern house, both successful in their chosen careers. And, oh yes, two small children. I hope they get what they want — first a boy, then a girl — and the girl must inherit Elizabeth's looks — she'll be doing fine if she gets some of Nicky's, too. Now we have to wait for the date of the first-born. It's an odd coincidence, but Liz's next movie is called Father's Little Dividend. Maybe a better title would be Mother's Little Dividend. I don't know. 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