Modern Screen (Dec 1949 - Nov 1950)

i go to college with liz sc®tt (Continued from page 42) course I've ever had. A Question was gnawing at me— namely why was this glamorous movie queen attending college and studying philosophy and political science of all things' After class, as we would walk across the campus with ten or twenty thousand other students— I eventually found out. We'd sit by the fountain in front of the library while I pretended to be discussing books and authors with her. She'd talk intelligently, and in that intense way of hers on topics that ran from Thomas Aquinas to the Korean situation and the new concepts m nuclear physics. But somehow I couldnt seem to concentrate. The subjects that intrigue her hungrv mind are basic and ultimate. She will abruptly interrupt one of her thoughtful lulls and burst out with some really profound idea. It startled me the first time she did it. "The pendulum has swung clear over'" she exclaimed. "Really?" I managed to say-scanning the Tower clock for some sign of a pendulum, but in vain. iTfS'" ,^he went on excitedly— completely oblivious to the fact that I was making eyes at her— "Remember how they once said that Mind is Matter? I never made a very good Materialist. Now the Mechanistic attitude is breaking down and has been The analogy doesn't stand up under the new inferences drawn from modern science with its vastly improved and greatly multiplied 'pointer-readings.' That s what Eddington called the scientific procedure, you know. There's the crux ot it— science can know more and more of the structure of reality but nothing more of its nature than was known by the pre-hterates. It is even held now by some that a concept of energy, and energy is considered to be the basis of matter must include free will in it. So you see—' from 'Mind is Matter' to 'Matter is Menu-c Does that lead to Solipsism?" wi°y!V mumbled fervently, "I'll say." When I got home I looked up "Solipsism. I tossed and turned all night thinking about Mind and wondering what was the Matter? It's just as well that all women don t have eyes like Liz Scott im considering a petition to compel her to wear dark glasses. I won't have her eyes haunting my house. I just won't stand for it. a Coke on one straw. Okay, so it's juvenile— so who cares? "Who's your favorite movie actor'" I couldnt resist asking during one of our cortee sessions. ■Her answer was immediate and sincereive learned something about acting, some technique or attitude, from every leading man I ve worked with. I believe in seeing people in the light of their virtues, not that its kinder but it's more practical. After all we all have faults. It reminds me of the Pharisee in the Bible who said, lhank God that I am not like other men ' " bne glanced at me and laughed. "Don't look so sober— the sermon's over." J^o, Lizabeth Scott isn't out of her eleP q rnent here among the Trojans of U.b.C. or any other campus, not with that alert and questing mind. She'll always be in the pursuit of knowledge She doesnt wear a learned veneer, but once she gets started she's electric. I could blow a fuse just watching her. I remember well the first day we walked down University Avenue after class I had anticipated the envious glances of friends, and the way I would casually nod to them. But, honestly, by the time we got out of Founders Hall, I was so immersed in an animated discussion on the failure of Materialism that the campus might as well have been deserted. Liz has a fine sense of values; she can't make small talk Yet she has a sharp sense of humor and rapier-like wit. And her laughter— that's the greatestrich and free with a sort of thrilling quality to it. I admit without shame that I've had the urge to lure her to Currie's (the corner ice cream parlor) where we might share Q ™LS' ¥ten t0 this Liz and I lunched together one day at Ted Owens', an WKmatT hitle Cellar cafe here °n campus. While I dined heartily in rugged male tashion on a grilled cheese sandwich and cup of coffee, Liz daintily nibbled on bacon and eggs and fried potatoes, toast and jelly, topped off by peach pie, with whipped cream, and two cups of coffee If you re envious of that slim smooth Scott ngure, don t say I didn't give you her secret formula. There seems to be understanding among the students here not to pester her or cause her any discomfort. They haven't mobbed her with fluttering autograph books. They do stand around in the hall before and after her classes, of course, but then a guy has to stand somewhere so why^not where he can get a glimpse' of our tawny Trojane," as the Daily Trojan calls her. There have been a few episodes with brazen student-fans. Like the day we were sitting on the campus lawn and Liz outdoor gal that she is, was soaking up a little sunshine. Some character wriggled over and coiled up right beside us. Whatcha doin' this week-end?" he hissed. Now I'm six feet two and played footbail in my youth and there's something about Liz that makes you see yourself in a leopard -skin suit taking on lions and tigers single-handedly. I was about to give out with my best Cro-Magnon growl when Liz restrained me. She handled the situation neatly and courteously. It was my initiation to one of the common pitfalls that celebrities must always keep in mind. If they aren't tactful in such matters, the rumor-mongers soon have it that they "made a big scene" or they are "snobbish or "temperamental." Liz asked for no special favors and she appreciates the treatment she has received here from students and faculty alike. "I'm just a girl," is the way she put it. Thats the biggest understatement of the year. A n incident occurred in class one day that illustrates how the fans often know more about their favorites than the movie stars know about themselves The WCkll -J^ I _ professor was warning us about the Weil/ WnaT CIO yOU ICnOW? falia?y of the Two-valued Orientation" * 9 a„ u i 6 ,remarked that a thing was seldom "rett-'and *T£ '' *" " " ^^WM.'Lj* many questions you can 2 The dancers are (you should aim for doubles here) faulty reasoning.^ example of such answer about the movie Immediately after class, one co-ed it's from. The girls were 3. They were favorites Witk an army grouP h^ini K^t^S^ fff Lofe a household word in Dad tials are... or It Isn't,' you sang it in Dead Reck dy's day. He'd likely know on™fl all the answers, but four * What is **• they made famous? AlZ°e, ^^SiTSJt c^nvS out of five's a good score. 5. Thev became an A<m*rimm U.**s* *■ > . however, and the next day she was quite Answers on page 100. th y Ze Zn l ™* ^ Tff* *T ^ told her' "Y°U're 55 l6y Were oorn m 1 dld smg that song in Dead Reckoning." N !_Llz was supposedly on vacation when ^ she came to U.S.C., but she couldn't pass up