Modern Screen (Dec 1954 - Dec 1955)

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Fistula, Constipation, and commonly associated chronic ailments. 40-page book — FREE. The Thornton Minor Hospital, Suite 1230C, 911 E. Linwood, Kansas City 9, Mo. like this?" I asked. "And how could they ever expect to rent it or sell it again?" "Well, you're looking at the guy who rented it," Jim said. Then he explained that the house belongs to a friend, Nick Romanos. Nick was once a ballet star with Diaghielieff's Ballet de Monte Carlo. This was many years ago. The great Nijinsky had also danced for Diaghielieff. Nick's wife had a heart ailment and her doctor suggested that Nick take her to live as close to the ocean as possible. "So now they're living in a trailer down at the beach and I'm here," said Jim. "How did you meet Nick?" "He manages the Villa Capri for Patsy D'Amore, Frank Sinatra's friend. Marlon Brando eats there a lot, too. So do I. One night I went in and asked Nick, 'What's good on the menu tonight?' He said, 'How should I know? I hate Italian food! Go down the street to Don the Beachcomber's if you want a good meal!' I've been very fond of Nick ever since." Now I noticed a hangman's rope hanging from one of the living-room beams. A sign — "We Also Remove Bodies"— hung next to the rope. Jim said the rope was part of his knot-tying studies — "After all, roping and bullfighting." And the sign? "Oh, I guess you can chalk that up to my macabre sense of humor." More records, all stacked around the hi-fi, spilled all over that end of the room. "What kind of music do you like best?" I asked. "Just about everything," Jim said. "I collect everything from Twelfth and Thirteenth Century music to Wanda Landowska's harpsichord recordings of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavichord to the extreme moderns — you know, Schoenberg, Berg, Bartok, Stravinsky. I also like Sinatra's Songs For Young Lovers album." He picked up a record. "See if you can recognize this. I feel the same way about this one that the teenagers feel about Sinatra and Eddie Fisher." He spun the disc. Through the cellophane cones poured the magnificent strains of Puccini's "One Fine Day" aria from Madame Butterfly. Jim was delighted when I identified the singer first as the late Claudia Muzio. But his face fell when I immediaitely corrected myself and said it was Renata Tebaldi of Milan's La Scala opera company. I thought to myself, "Jim must think he has an exclusive on Tebaldi!" But then he was raving over the record. "Listen to this woman's modulation," he rhapsodized. "And such expression! Wonderful taste, too, and a truly great sense of proportion. Over-trained opera singers usually go overboard — haven't you noticed how they hit a good note and then drive the listener nuts holding onto it? They don't want to let go of it, it's so good. But not Tebaldi. She is a great artist — greatest we've ever had." I gave him an argument, claiming Muzio as greatest. Jim shrugged. I noticed Eugene Ormandy's Ports Of Call in the pile of records. Jim said, apologetically, "A friend left that. It's not quite my cup of tea. Too chapter-headingish, too twelve-stringish — you dig me? But pleasant, if you're in the mood." "Tschaikovsky ? " Jim dismissed Tschaikovsky and the other romantics as he had dismissed my favorite opera singer — with a shrug. Now he was putting Bela Bartok's Suite From The Miraculous Mandarin on the hi-fi. While we listened to the wild, sensuous music he said, "Some day I would like to direct a movie short of the ballet Bartok wrote this for. It's about a girl of the streets who is forced by two hoodlums to lure men. She's the come-on. The hoodlums beat up the men and rob them. Finally the girl lures a rich mandarin. The men beat him, rob him and try to kill him. But he won't die, because he has fallen in love with the girl, even though she's evil. His love is stronger than their murdering hands. The men finally plunge a sword into his heart. Then they hang him from a chandelier! But his eyes remain wide open, glued on the girl he loves! And then she suddenly realizes that this is the only good man who has ever loved her and that she loves him, too! She throws her arms around him. It is only then, when he knows his love has been returned, that he gives in and lets death take him. Beautiful story, isn't it?" I agreed. I also wondered to myself which of the big studios would be interested in letting Jim direct it for them. I could think of none. "Hey, the coffee!" he exclaimed suddenly remembering, jumping up. The Bartok continued to swell from the cones as he went to the kitchen, puttered around, returning finally with a tray holding a coffee pot, cups and saucers, cream and sugar, raisin-and-honey bread and a plate of cream cheese. Meanwhile, Jim had gotten off on another subject: the trees in his front and back yards. He reeled them off for me: peach, plum, lemon, lime, orange and apple. He did all the gardening. "You ashed me" I sat on the floor, leaning against his tv set, as he talked. The tv set was flanked by his bongo drums. I said, "I don't understand how you find time for all this. Acting, collecting hi-fi records — and playing them, too! — roping, bullfighting, carpentry, photography, reading, racing, drumming, gardening, cooking. You play the piano and guitar, too, I've heard." "Yep. I also study singing and dancing. Some day I want to make a musical. I also sail, play tennis, fence, do gymnastics and also a little boxing. I'm a farmer, too. I know how to milk cows and I'm a great hand at feeding the chickens. I also study body movement and foreign languages and I like to work on sport cars, in addition to racing them. I ride, too. When I first came to California I bought a Palomino named Cisco. "But don't make me sound like I'm bragging about all this, because I'm not. You asked me and I'm telling you. I keep busy because I think that's part of being an actor. I think actors should spend their lives investigating things, learning what makes things tick. They should try to know every facet of living. Walt Disney's Jiminy Cricket said it in Pinocchio, remember, when he sang, 'Hi diddle dee dee, an actor's life for me!' It's a great life. "But an actor would be selfish if he didn't try to learn everything life has to offer. He should seek the truth — he should try to learn what is valid in life and what isn't. It takes time, time when he could be goofing off, but it's worth it, when and if he finds it." "How old are you, Jim?" "I was born February 8, 1931." "For a twenty-four-year-old, you know a great deal about life." "I don't know anywhere near what I should know, but some day maybe I will." He looked around at his books, his records, tv set, bongo drums. He smiled. Two young girls stuck their heads in the front door. One of them said, "We just wanted to say hello to our new neighbor and see what he's been doing to Nick's house." She was the "cool" type. The other, younger, girl said, somewhat breathlessly, "Oh, and we heard the music, too — we're just on our way back from market — and we thought you were having a jam session and we thought we'd see what it was all about!" The words gushed out. Neither girl mentioned his name, although it was obvious they knew very well who