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■ When Peter Lawford announced at the age of seven that he was going to be a motion picture star, his mother. Lady Lawford, smiled and remembered a morning in May when she had told her father she wanted to go on the stage.
"The butler dropped the muffins and my father's face turned pale." Lady Lawford reminisced as we sat in the living room of the pleasant California home where Peter lives with his parents. His father. Major General Sir Sidney Lawford, is a veteran of the Boer War.
•'After the first shocking second of silence, my father ordered me to go at once to my room. Later he summoned me to the library.
'■ T wonder if you know what you said at breakfast.' he began. Tn front of the servants you voiced a wish to be an immoral woman. I do not think you realize that all actresses are immoral or you wouldn't have said what you did.
" However, I feel that your Bible study must have been neglected or you couldn't have brought yourself to express such a thought. You will begin' at once to memorize certain parts of the Bible. I shall expect you to recite five verses for me tomorrow.'
"And that was how my flight of fancy was curbed and my footsteps were turned back on the path of respectability," Lady Lawford went on. "I tell you this to show how remote the theater or movies were from our family life.
"And speaking of my son— I naturally didn't really think Peter would ever get a chance to work in the cinema studios, hence / took his announcement with complete composure.
"I was afraid, though, he would (Continued on page 72)
To Peter Lawford's mother one thing mattered above all else — .to keep faith with her son, even when it meant being cut off from the world she had known.
Eleven-year-old Peter arrives in Los Angeles v his parents, Sir Sidney and Lady Lawford, on round-the-world trip which the -family took in 19
Lady Lawford chots with Bill Powell on the set Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid. She acted in and other films under the name of Mary Somerv