TV Radio Mirror (Jan - Jun 1955)

Flynn, and the producer, Ben Park, Jim is thoughtful, considerate and friendly. The mood they set helps make Hawkins Falls an easy, happy company. Evidence of this high morale is the goodnatured kidding which goes on. Jim takes the brunt of the cowboy gags, but also gives as good as he gets. He calls seventyeight-year-old Butler Manville by the unvenerable title of "Bubbles" and claims Mr. Manville is his best audience for a rib. Pretty Marie Petrillo is "No-Talent" and the bestowal of this nickname marked her official acceptance into the clan. It happened shortly after the young actress came to the cast. Daughter of the music czar, James J., Marie realized, as well as anyone else, that the name "Petrillo" can be formidable in any television studio. To some people, she seemed aloof, but Jim diagnosed her trouble as shyness. Seeing her eating alone, one noon, he shouted half the length of a cafeteria, "Just because we don't play instruments doesn't mean you can't associate with us. Come over here and sit down." Delighted, Marie joined the group and the ice was broken. She since has become a frequent date of Jim's. When the Hawkins Falls people come to dinner at his bachelor apartment, Jim proves an excellent chef. Characteristically, he says it is all due to his fine maid. "If she didn't come in to do the dishes, I'd turn into the best restaurant patron in town. Since she takes care of them, I'm the great culinary experimenter. I pick up a cookbook and wonder, 'What kind of trouble can I get into today?' Mostly, I like to try curries and stuff like that." He has a terse appraisal of his own skill: "They haven't carried out any bodies yet." Jim has a deft hand, too, for hobbies. While in California, he grew interested in woodcarving and making miniature furniture. Now, he prefers ceramics and made all the cufflinks and tie pins he gave the crew last Christmas. "You can whittle all day," he says, "and maybe all you end up with is a bunch of toothpicks. But I like working with colors and, in this enameling, I see immediate results. I also have room for it. I can set up my enamels, and the dentist's kiln I use to fire the stuff, atop a card table, and I'm in business." His real enthusiasm is hunting. A favorite spot, within reach whenever he has a few days off, is the Teal Lake Lodge, in Wisconsin, operated by Mary and Nelson Ross, who are Bernardine Flynn's sister and brother-in-law. The Rosses regard Jim as part of the family. Recently, when Jim was the center of much commotion in the Hawkins Falls plot, Mary Ross wrote him, "You're getting into too much trouble down there. You'd better come back." He hopes sometime to hunt mountain lions in Utah or Arizona. "But," he remarks, "I've been trying to get away for five, six years. It begins to look as though, by the time I do, the lions will be extinct." His vigorous independence carries into all situations. When a bout with an ulcer put him into the hospital, he proved to be what can mildly be described as a "reluctant patient." Sharing his room was a much more acquiescent man who was utterly amazed by Jim's cavalier treatment of rules, regulations and authority. "Honestly, Mr. Bannon," he said one day, "I don't know how you get away with it." "Easy," said Jim. "I was born a colonel and never got to be a private." Self-sufficient though he may seem, Jim holds no brief for single blessedness. He defines his present romantic temperature: "I'm just setting back and looking at the moment." Then his eyes twinkle. "But in the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns. . . . Well, who knows? Maybe by June it will have turned again." New! DOCTOR'S EODORANT DISCOVERY Now safely stops odor 24 hours a day! Proved in comparison tests made by a doctor. A deodorant without M-3, tested under one arm, stopped odor only a few hours. Yet New Mum with M-3, under other arm, stopped odor 24 hours! M-3 clings to skin, destroys odor bacteria all day long. New MUM with M-3 won't irritate normal skin or damage fabrics. Originally a doctor's formula, New Mum contains no harsh astringents, will not block pores or rot fabrics. Creamier, won't dry out in jar. Use New Mum daily. New MUM I® cream deodorant with long-lasting M-3 "* (hexachlorophene) Another fine Product of Bristol-Myers Left: Padded Curves. Low-cut % cups lined with foamette, with cushioned underwiring and light boning. NYLON with embroidered cups. $2. ONE FULL YEAR Right: sP'ral"stitch' in the "?*• rounder fashion shape. Cotton broadcloth. $1.50. W. T. GRANT CO. • 520 STORES COAST TO COAST 93