Modern Screen (Jan-Dec 1960)

e in close embrace. Then he kissed e. It was spine-tingling. "I had been kissed before by other men. tit it was nothing like this. The others ere so empty, so meaningless, so cold. "My heart began to race a mile a min:e. I felt all choked up. Everything all once became so unclear, so misty — so eamy. "In the next instant. Errol swept me up ' his arms. I didn't care what happened •.ymore. I was in love and I knew he ved me. I felt since we both shared this eling for each other it didn't really matr what happened. Anything that did .ppen would be worth it. "I had an hour of sheer heaven with m. The best way I can describe it is to y that Errol made mad love to me — love ; you ne\er have seen him make in any ovie role. And I made mad love back.'" er parents would worry When it got late. Beverly told Errol she id to go home because her mother and -her would be worried about her. "Errol didn't want me to go, but I told m it had to be that way — at least for e present. He understood." Errol called his chauffeur and told him take Beverly home. "As I got in the car, the chauffeur looked nd of funny at me. I guess he was inking that" Errol had made another ■nquest. But I didn't care. I knew he ould find out soon enough that I was it just another girl in Errol's life — that was something special. Then I began to think as the car drove E. Suddenly I began to cry. I cried bease I didn't know whether I had done e right thing. I cried because I didn't low for certain if I would ever see Errol ain. Even though I believed he was in s e with me, he never did come out and y "I love you.' Perhaps I was just anker date, after all. " But most of all I cried because it had en such a spinning evening. The emo>nal impact was terrific on me. I cried the way home." Beverly went to bed that night without eing her mother or father. The next Dining when her mother came into the om to awaken her at six so she could t to work at the studio. Mrs. Aadland ticed a strange expression on Beverly's :e. Tve never seen you look quite like .5 before." Beverly's mother told her. ."ho are you in love with?" she asked. Errol Flynn." Beverly replied. -Mrs. Aadland laughed. She thought : verly was still dreaming. Wake up!" she told her daughter. "Come :-.vn to earth." 3everly didn't try to explain that she .3 telling the truth. She knew it would hard to explain everything. She went the studio and worked all day. But 2 didn't see Errol. Ihat night Beverly had a date with a y named Jim. Beverly wanted to cancel r date but there was no way she could : in touch with Jim. So she kept her pointment. When Jim took me out I had lost all ;ire for his company. When I compared n with Errol Flynn — why there was just thing at all to Jim. And I realized, too, mt I could never have fallen in love :h him. 'He took me to a drive-in and tried to i :k with me. I had no feeling for Jim y more and I pushed him away. Jim :ldn't understand me because we'd been r ng steady for some time and I'd never : ed like this before. But I just couldn't any other man touch me now that I =w what it was to be loved by Errol '. nan." m took Beverly home early that night. take a qreat writer... Guy Endore distinguished author of the best-selling KING OF PARIS and an all-time favorite story... Ben-Hur a tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace put them together... BEN-HUR became a popular classic almost overnight when it was originally published 80 years ago. It was an exciting story . . . written in the ornate, slow-moving, elaborate style popular in the 1880's. Xow BEN-HUR is back on every tongue because M-G-M has turned it into one of the colossal movies of all time. To tie in with the film, Guy Endore has modernized this 19th-century classic. He has taken the same dramatic material— the barbaric splendor of Ancient Rome and the heroic beginnings of Christianity* — and completely re-written it. Picked it up. Paced it fast. Translated it into the quick, colorful language of today. READ THE DELL EDITION BEFORE YOU SEETHE MAGNIFICENT M-G-M MOVIE