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She didirt say yes
■ Today, Peter Lawford is lost. Lost somewhere between Roddy McDowell and Ronald Colman.
Like Huckleberry Finn, Frank Merriwell, The Rover Boys and all the lamented Alger heroes, the eager lad from Britain who crept into our hearts a few short years ago with his wistful eyes and manly husbanding of the canine, Lassie, is gone — part of another day.
Peter Lawford is in love.
"Will you marry me?"
"No. Thank you very much"
Sometime, somewhere during the past few months, Peter Lawford, movie star, spoke those words to Sharman Douglas, toast of two continents — and it is fair to deduce that she answered him as indicated above.
The place where the question was popped is unknown. It may have been one night driving along the ocean front under a pale moon with the thundering Pacific thumping but an accompaniment. It may have been in a nightclub, or at supper in some quiet restaurant. It may have been at the Douglas ranch near Tucson, Arizona, as they lay tanning themselves under a hot desert sun. It could have been in New York, as they said farewell for now, Sharman to go back to England — and Peter to go back to Hollywood and his movie-making.
At any rate, the words were said.
Yes, Peter Lawford is in love. Emotional maturity has caught up with him. At twenty-six, to all professional intents and purposes he is still a boy, still rather breathless and reserved, the casual collegiate lovemaker of MGM musicals. But privately, he is now a man, thwarted and melancholy, willing and ready to leap into matrimony.
Despite this sudden manhood, Peter Lawford is pitifully, (Continued on page 90)
HIS FORMER LIFE cenlered almost exclusively about married couples. Pete, with Pat Walker, left, palled with the Jackie
Coopers, dined with the Keenan Wynns (now Evie's Mrs. Van Johnson) and went formal with Molly and Charles Dunn.