Modern Screen (Dec 1949 - Nov 1950)

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But no matter how attractive Sara Taylor makes her girlhood home, it isn't Elizabeth Hilton s home any more. g o let s look at the new life Elizabeth laces— its setting and setup, its promises and its problems, as Elizabeth and every girl must look-forward, not back when they marry. <?,5°T™to*«E1fa£e*h and Nick HiIt°n is Suite 159-60 at the Bel-Air Hotel (where Nick is half owner and vice-president). Its the most delightful hotel in Southern California and the newlywed Hiltons have its finest suite-at the south end, ground floor with vine draped arches leading out to Chalon Road, so Liz won't have to walk through the public lobby. Inside there's a big living room with a fireplace done in Elizabeth's favorite gray. There are yellow and gray striped sofa and chairs a black table and coffee ■♦Le\u°ff that S the bath and bedroom, with the same decor, twin beds— but not too far apart. Already Elizabeth has moved m some keepsakes from home, but her wedding presents are still in storage But in spite of what Elizabeth tells me that were going to live here a year or u° -,a,n,. Tlook around before we buy or tw d'u 1 d°n't believe her. She argues that she and Nick are too busy to make a real home yet. They're busy all right. Elizabeths picture, Father's Little Dividend, was prepared while she was in Europe, she has a waiting list from here to Texas for gallery sittings, interviews, Heaven knows what all to catch up with 2if S "2* eJXaCVy twiddling his thumbs; either Besides handling business promotion at the Bel-Air, he's a big wheel in his dads hotel empire, and with the new Beverly-Hilton slated to rise soon, he'll have his hands full. Yet— when a girl marries— she wants and she needs her own house to anchor her life, and knowing Elizabeth, I can't believe shell be satisfied with anything short of that-for more than a few weeks iheres a whole room jammed full of wedding presents, beautiful presents enough to fill the great living room of the Taylor s wall to wall, with just two tiny aisles where I walked to view them It took six men and two moving vans from dawn to dusk just to pack and cart them away! If you had a store of fine Irish linens Steuben crystal, sterling, Sheffield plate, table settings for forty-eight places of Gorham Melrose silver— wouldn't you itch to use them? If you had wedding gifted paintings by Augustus John, Angna Enters and Benton Scott, wouldn't you be spoiling for wall space of your own to hang em? I would! So— you can bet on it— the hotel suite wont last long. After all, Nick's not the manager, he doesn't have to live there The young Hiltons will be looking at house plans or for houses somewhere. Elizabeth tells me, "Not pretentious. Not Bel Air— Heavens," she says wisely, "that's starting at the top— that wouldn't be fun'" But when a bride takes over a home of her own, there's more to it than being carried across the threshold and watching it run itself. There's responsibility Iheres a heap of know-how to learn and much more in Elizabeth Hilton's case than baking biscuits. ways stepped out of her dresses and left them where they lay. She sailed off on car^,°]rym0?n ^With ? huge' S£luare tr"nk hate £y «?a£k<1rwlth 30 custom-created hats, by Sally Victor, Rex, Mister John, the trunk returned in a jumble. 'Til "ItT ^' her "fulgent mother, anri |TI UP hem5' sewblg on hooks rVfiSS? I?endmg ripS and tears on Elizabeth s whole trousseau." That's a loving job she welcomes, but she can't do everything for Elizabeth from now on Elizabeth will have to learn the graces and arts of a hostess-how to plan a dinner party, how to stimulate conversation spark good times with friends and influence people. She'll have to charm as well as be charmed and that's a new line of work. Heretofore all the flattery and attention has been bent Liz's lovely way. Sh,e 11T.have t0 bend s°™e back Already Elizabeth, back home, is wailing riedda, I owe simply everyone'" Of ^rSM tB dTS' including all her friends and Nicks who gave them pre-wedding parties. They understand, they're old friends-even "Pete" Freeman, who introduced them, understood when from the whole long honeymoon he got just one picture postcard, scribbled hastily with Having wonderful time. Wish you were %y u(Ch?ckled Pete, "Yeah-FU bet!"* Elizabeth s girlhood chums, Anne Westmore, Barbara Thompson, Marjorie Dillon Jane Powell, Betty Sullivan and the rest will demand no more of her now than they ever have, but Mrs. C. N. Hilton's circle will expand, and she'll have to develop herself and her wits to fill it. Luckily, Elizabeth couldn't have more solid support for the job. TpuzABETH has always had everything -Lf done for her. She's been raised with servants at her beck and call. She can't try an egg or sew on a button. She's al Money for one thing, is no problem, a u u a can t imagme that unless an A-bomb flattens the widespread Hilton Hotels and MGM too, it ever will be The modern-traditional house they'll eventually have (Nick has already switched i-dzs ideas from early American), even if modest will be perfectly appointed with ail that money can buy, although Elizabeth will have to reveal her good taste in creating it. But never mind, she has a precocious lump of that, and Mother can help As for family backing— the minute she married and even before that, Liz gained a big cheering section of in-laws. When a girl marries, it's "thy people shall be my people, as the Bible said long ago, and Nicks people worship the very ground their beautiful new member trips on Nick s every bit as close to his dynamic dad as E hzabeth is to her doting mother Sara Taylor used to sigh to me, "I always have to stay dressed up even when I go to bed the nights Elizabeth goes out" Because, no matter what time she came in, Liz raced right upstairs— usually bringing her dates along with her-to tell Mama all about the evening. Nick never misses a morning coffee with his dad to talk things over, too. I suspect that Mamas bed will still be perched on by Elizabeth and Nick with problems and that the Hilton coffee klatch will continue too — with a new member added. There'll be more warm family liaison with Barron and Marilyn, and Liz will find she'll have so much that's intimately in common with her sister-in-law, besides being "Aunt Elizabeth" from now on to their darling kids, Bill and Hawley. And— this is important—there's not a Hilton around who isnt as supremely proud of Elizabeth 1 ay lor s star fame and glowing career as are her own mother and dad— and rooting solidly for it to continue, bigger and better. And what about that career, now that Elizabeth is back after a long time out ™l . marr,age and honeymoon tour' There s an old Hollywood saying that a