Modern Screen (Jan-Dec 1960)

taurants, hunting the best pizza for her. She really keeps me on my bicycle. Last year after her throat operation — and she had a tough throat operation — she had to have chile cor. carne. Real hot chile con came!" Eddie held his throat thinking about it. Eddie considered her rapid recovery quite remarkable. "She was hardly coughing at all, and was talking about going out to the desert to get some rest, and some sun," he said. Eddie managed to obtain delivery of the mink sweater while Liz was hospitalized. "Did it measure up to expectations?" I asked Eddie. "Yes — and it's pretty hard for anything to measure up to Elizabeth," Eddie answered. . . . What Liz has done for Eddie The mutual adoration of Eddie and the girl sometimes called the most beautiful one of the world seems to have given Eddie some confidence. For instance, one night he appeared at a Waldorf benefit for Mayor Robert Wagner and Mrs. Wagner. Former President Harry S. Truman made a surprise appearance there and played the piano. Eddie came on the dais just as Truman left, with his accompanist, Eddie Samuels, coming along with him. The toastmaster, Harry Hershfield, after introducing Eddie, said, "What's the name of your accompanist?" "Harry Truman," joked Eddie. After the first song, Eddie told Eddie Samuels, "Harry would have played it in a better key than that." The audience gave him a tremendous ovation when he sang, You Gotta Have Heart. Eddie told the crowd that he was always easy to get out for such events. "All they had to do was ask me," he said. "I'm available. I have a tuxedo — and I have another tuxedo. . . ." To close observers, it seemed that Eddie was unmindful of some lingering criticism of his romance with Liz. Columnists and other feelers-of-the-public-pulse are aware that some of this feeling still exists. Any mention of either of them by a columnist is sure to bring a trickle of protest mail — some of it bitter — often anonymous. But those who protest don't have much to say except that they think Debbie Reynolds was made unhappy. To those who have watched Debbie lately, she seems very, very much the opposite. Eddie and Liz seem to have licked most of the complaints, but as Eddie says in the song, You Gotta Have Heart. END See Liz now in Suddenly Last Summer, for Columbia, and soon in Cleopatra, for 20th-Fox, Liz and Eddie later in Butterfield 8, for MGM. Special Report From Liz' White Prison At Harkness Pavilion, Elizabeth Taylor was only a fair patient. For years Liz had been in and out of hospitals and had built up a resentment against them. She thinks of hospitals as "white prisons." She instructed nurses and doctors on where to place strategic needles and demanded to know every other half-hour when she would be able to leave, leave, leave. Eddie took an adjoining suite. He showed the harrowing effects of worry and sleepless nights. His eyes had dark circles. He was losing weight. He read to her. watched television with her between his own shows and after midnight. He tried to keep her spirit up by talking about what they would do on her release. On the third day of Liz' hospitalization, the doctors called him up and said: "Eddie, your wife has the worst case of double pneumonia we've seen in the past ten years. Both of her lungs are virtually filled, her general condition is not strong and the fever and cough have taken their toll of whatever reserve she may have had to battle this. She is a stoic and seems unperturbed over the seriousness of her condition, but she will need constant care and a minimum of four weeks here." To break the bad news gently, Eddie ordered some of Liz' favorite foods from Lindy's. He called her on the phone from the Waldorf and asked her for a date. She played along and said. "Wonderful, darling. Why don't we just stay here at my place and we'll have a cozy dinner for two?" Eddie arrived, stopped in the hospital florist shop for a moment, then went right up to the fifth floor. He helped the nurse prepare the tray of Lindy's goodies, stuck a velvety red rose in a paper cup and wrote a little note on the paper place mat. On the edge of the tray he propped a little doll, a gift from Liza. Liz, propped up on pillows, in a white hospital gown, broke into a wide smile and sniffed hungrily. She did her best to eat but barely managed to nibble as Eddie passed each plate to her. She made an effort to chat between coughs. Eddie hushed her by touching a kiss from his lips to hers. At 2:00 a.m. he was back. Liz' nurse said the doctor had just been there and her fever had gone down one degree. She had also slept in snatches without the racking cough. The nurse said that there was a definite improvement in her attitude. Eddie sat in the chair till she awakened and greeted her: "I came to give you a good-night kiss; now it's good morning.'* She asked about the children, recalled their sad voices on the phone. ("Mommy, we miss you." "When are you coming home. Mommy?" "Mommy. I'm making a get-well present for you in school. All the children are helping me.") "Tell them," she whispered to Eddie, "that I'm ' coming home sooner than anybody thinks." On December 13th, Elizabeth Taylor, smiling, leaning gently on the arm of her husband, walked out of her "white prison," a free woman again. END DIANNE McCORD, Senior, David Lipscomb H . S.,Naslnille,Tenn.says: ''My skin blemishes seemed to get worse whenever I had something important to do, even though I used special skin creams. I wish I had tried Clearasil sooner. I'll always remember the way Clearasil cleared my complexion, am quicklv, too!" 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