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Well, here it is —
the successful Calhoun
formula for happy
marriage-making : "Don't
hedge me in, but
for Pete's sake,
don't stay away too long!"
BY NATE EDWARDS
LOVING
■ There is a small, round table next to the bandstand at Hollywood's famous Mocambo, across which many of the most headlined movie star romances have been born. Across which, too, sad endings have been written.
It was at this table that Rory Calhoun sat a little more than seven years ago, an obviously lonesome guy. Johnny, the red-jacketed, diminutive waiter knew it. So did the half dozen blondes, brunettes and red heads who had danced with Rory right here at Mocambo for the last three weeks. In the wise way of Hollywood glamour girls, they sensed that here was a man who was looking for something, and that they obviously, individually and collectively were not it.
Rory was waiting for something, and not until the rhumba music stopped did the speculative people at nearby tables suspect why this most handsome of young stars, a bucket of champagne beside him, sat contemplating the two unfilled glasses at the table. As the band prepared to "take five" (five minutes off between numbers) the trivial mystery was solved. The actor stood up, barring the path of the tiny brunette singer just stepping down from the stand.
"Miss Baron — Lita — I'm Rory Calhoun." * Lita Baron looked way up at Rory's face, and remembers that she said, "I know."
If her attitude at the time was a little on the cool side, she was to be forgiven, for as Xavier Cugat's star vocalist, and during her career as Isabelita, a very young girl with her own South American rhumba band, she was familiar with the techniques of actors and playboys whose sudden interest passes in the night. "I appear to be deserted tonight," Rory told her. "You (Continued on page 54)
Before ske married Rory, Lita was distinctly the indoor type, didn't even like the country. Rory undertook her conversion with some hesitation. "I couldn't picture her in blue jeans," he grins.
Now, however, Lita attributes a lot of their happiness to the time they spend outdoors together, even goes duck-hunting with Rory and Guy Madison — and bags a full quota on almost every expedition.
Their boat, The Ro-Li (you figure it out!) is their favorite means of transportation and relaxation. They take it with them up to duck country, spend their vacations on it, cruising in Calhoun Cove.
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