Modern Screen (Dec 1949 - Nov 1950)

1 The picture had been on for a little while when Burt heard the boys buzzing to each other. He felt a surge of pride within him. "You like Daddy in the picture?" he asked, as he turned to them. To his surprise he saw that they were not even watching the screen. They had their heads bent down, looking at the floor along the line of seats. "What is it?" he asked. "Look, boys, Daddy is in the picture on the screen." They raised their heads for only a fleeting second and then turned back again. "See, Daddy?" asked Jimmy, pointing and seemingly quite taken with something. Burt looked. Jimmy was pointing at the little set-in lights strung at floor level along the rows of seats to guide people walking into the room in the dark. It was plain that both Jimmy and Billy were fascinated by this remarkable new method of interior illumination. A number of times Burt has noticed the boys skipping through the pages of a magazine or newspaper and passing up a picture of him without comment to go on to more interesting possibilities — such is the comics or illustrations of trains. Burt has understood. He's even big about it and put himself in their places. 'Why should they care about seeing a pic;ure of me in the paper?" he has asked limself. "Don't they see me continually in 'eal life? Naturally it means nothing to hem." Yet, when by accident one day he won hat bright look of sheer adulation that vill thrill any young father when he sees "t in his child's eyes, it was a red-letter lay for Burt. And he doesn't think he'll ■;ver forget it. i No, no mighty deed was involved. As i matter of fact, he had no idea he had lone anything special until he noticed the eaction. He was shaving one afternoon when • immy and Billy wandered into the bath>oom. They watched with no particular ;nterest as he scraped away and were till hanging around when he had washed l^nd was drying his face. Then, quite unj onsciously, Burt flipped the towel up in j(he air so as to fall over the shower curtain rail. He has done this for so many ■ ears that it is an instinctive motion and jne so practiced that the towel always ^ands just right to hang evenly over the i od. j: "Gee!" I Jimmy had said that. His mouth hung pen in admiration and so did Billy's. 1 "Do it again, Daddy," Jimmy begged. | Wondering, Burt pulled the towel down nd flipped it up again expertly. "Gee! How do you do that?" asked Jimmy, who has heard dozens of times that a towel must always be hung up after using but never dreamed that it could be done so nonchalantly. "Gee!" echoed Billy. And that's how Burt Lancaster finally came to be quite a somebody in the eyes of his sons. Recently, with the formation of his own production company, and the beginning of preparations by him and his production partner, Harold Hecht, for the group of pictures they will do together, starting with The Hawk and the Arrow, Burt has had to spend more time away from the house than is to his liking. He has had to take refresher courses in riding, tennis, archery and fencing with The Hawk and the Arrow. There are also long sessions with Hecht and the script writers on Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead and on other properties they have in work. But there are certain activities at home that he tries not to miss. Tossing that dinner salad together is one. But before that, there comes a walk with the boys to a nearby corral where they "feed" the horses the piece of carrot or apple each boy has saved for that purpose from his lunch. After dinner there is the record-playing and singing session, and then — then Burt clears his throat ancl launches into a sales talk. Most parents will know this talk. It is an attempt to convince small fry that bedtime has come. Burt has hopes that some day he will achieve real salesmanship along this line, but up to the present, he admits, every talk has had to end with a demonstration — the boys are undressed and put to bed. Now the evening belongs to Burt and Norma. Almost always it is spent at home. Almost always Burt will put on some of his favorite records, first having had to collect and put away the children's records. If friends drop in, there will be bridge, with thorough analyses by Burt of each play after the hand is over — a bad habit he has not yet managed to overcome. If enough people gather there will be charades, a game he throws himself into with such enthusiasm that he has occasionally been known to blurt out the answer in the process of acting it out. When the games are over and the guests are gone, quiet finally comes to the Lancaster home. But Burt and Norma know it is not for long. A new day is on the way, and just about the time it shows its first glimmer Jimmy and Billy will wake up and ride noisily right into their bedroom. There is no time to lose. Burt and Norma hurry to bed. The End YOU'RE ACTING LIKE A CHILD (Continued from page 40) Garrett is the name he and Betty have picked out in case the new addition is a boy — as Larry is confident it will be. But if it should be a she, then she'll be called Laurie. Larry probably would have spent the entire evening up here if Betty hadn't come up from downstairs to join us. She was carrying a tiny figure wrapped in a blue blanket. Larry did a double-take when he saw the bundle. This "baby" turned out to be a rubber doll. But Larry decided to sit down for awhile. When Uncle Bernie announced it was time to eat, we all rushed downstairs. The sandwiches were round, square, oblong and delectable. There were also ARE YOUR "DIFFICULT DAYS" DRIVING HIS LOVE AWAY? It's true — Monthly Blues just don't go over with a man! 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