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TROY DONAHUE continued
"/ get tired of girls in jeans and slacks and T-shirts and sweaters. It's nice to see a girl in a dress now and then" : Troy
Place", followed immediately by "The Crowded Sky" with Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming and Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
He wasn't exactly surprised, you know. He had always been fairly sure of himself . . . that chin and all. But he was a touch surprised that it had all happened so swiftly. "After all," he says, "we had had some fairly cool days!"
Now he has settled down, if you can call it that, into a little house in the hills above Hollywood.
"I'll get out of this as soon as I can. After all, it was the cheapest thing I could find which would suit my needs at all. It isn't what I want."
What he has, whether he wants it or not, is a gay, comfortable little place with one bedroom, bath and a living room with a view of sorts. It has French Provincial furniture (his mother helped select it). He has given it color with rich tones of maroon, red and white and overtones of deep blue.
"It's cheerful enough," he frets. "But I want a bigger place, with a big fireplace and great vistas of views."
Still, it has its compensations. His mother and teenaged sister, Eve, live near him and that is comforting.
"I have a little cubby-hole, a sort of closet, which I use for mail and writing. I shall always have a small room for writing. Somehow I seem closer to my thoughts."
Troy takes his writing very seriously and has ambitions in this direction.
'"I am a fanatic fan of sunlight," he says, "and want to be out in it a lot. I guess that is because my father was in a
hospital so long and it always seemed gloomy in there to me. But I want the inside of my house to be cool and shady ^ . . for contrast and rest, I guess.
"I like to plant things, too, but only corn and roses. The corn gives me a wholesome feeling, that I am growing food. And the roses . . . well, you know how roses are, especially in California. They are just as important as food and trTey're pretty exciting."
So . . . this isn't what he "wants". What he does want is a spacious dwelling with the aforementioned fireplace and views, with room to "spread out" and entertain lavishly and generously, indoors and outdoors. And room for more planting.
HOWEVER, he doesn't do badly in the place that he "can afford." He gives parties. Lots of parties. Not the big, lavish, formal affairs that he plans for later on. But nice, nevertheless. Six or eight people come and Troy cooks for them . . . steaks, spaghetti, chops. Sometimes, if he is feeling ambitious, he does shish-kabobs and then everyone applauds like crazy.
He is a deft man with a salad, too, the tossed green kind with a raw egg and some ripe blue cheese and shreds of ham or chicken. Desserts he either buys ready-made or leaves to the girls. "They can do those whipped cream and gelatin things," he says firmly, "if they simply must have them." You gather that such fluff means less than nothing to Troy.
Afterward, they play games or listen to music or perhaps read plays, each taking a role. Those are Troy's favorite times.
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RAILBIRDS Troy and Saundra Edwards, a young actress who meets his prescription for femininity, perch cosily in his hillside nest.