Modern Screen (Jan-Dec 1960)

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I City Zone . . . Slate Larger Donations Gratefully Accepted ent Donated by Preparation Costs of This Announcen These Chicago Companii Hayes-Lochner, Inc., Typography Schreiner-Bennett, Inc., Art Work Rapid Copy Service. Inc., Photostats Rogers Engraving Co., Engravings National Electrotype Co., Plates & Matrices This Space Donated by MODERN SCREEN almost impossible to endure. Oh, how I cry for lonely people. "I used to sit in my room and look out the window. It was a long time before I realized that the world wasn't against me. In my own girlish, too-sensitive way I had turned against my world. "I was wrong, but at the time I was sure that the others were just waiting to laugh at me to make me even more miserable than I was." Time is running out Kim's father, Joseph Novak, has always said that Kim would marry when she was thirty. "She wants to be sure she will never have to change her mind," says Mr. Novak. "She has told me many times, 'Daddy, don't worry. You will never see me in a court of divorce. When I marry it will be for keeps, like you and Mom.' That was my daughter speaking and I believe her." Of late, however, with time running out. Kim is shaken by the failure of her romance with Quine and frightened perhaps by the lately -learned knowledge that beauty is no guarantee of love and mar riage and a baby carriage. Kim has lapsed into lengthy moods of depression and disquiet. She is twenty-nine. Kim insists that regardless of the symptoms she is certainly in no panic for a man. "I promised myself a long time ago," she told me, "that I would make something of myself before I took a husband. That I would have a career, do the best I could for a while and be a fine actress. "When the time comes, and I admit it is not far off, 1 will marry and try to be a good wife — and a good woman. But I have to take my time." But the girl born Marilyn Pauline Novak must heed the advice of a man who really understands that mortal idols have feet of clay. "Every woman's time is short," said the sculptor, "it is her proudest moment. But it is not hers. It must be given to the man she loves. If she tries to keep it to herself it will destroy her. And she will be lost as a woman forever." end Kim stars now in Columbia's Strangers When We Meet. Shirley MacLaine's Marriage (Continued from page 23) were sleepily drooping, closing down tight. The child shivered slightly and rested her head on her mother's lap. A bunch of gaily colored post cards fell from her hands, and Shirley smiled, remembering how she had bought a number of cards to keep her active little child occupied. It didn't take much to make three and a half year old Sachie happy. She was such a joyous little thing, with her mother's blue eyes, turned-up nose and pixie style red hair. Shirley unzipped the hood from her own coat and wrapped it around Sachie's legs. She hadn't realized there would be this long, chilly wait. Why did the waiting room look so lonely at this hour of the morning? The hands of the big clock said 1:45. The lights were bright, picking up the patient faces in the room. Outside it was black and raining, the drizzle falling in steady, blue lines. She looked at the sleeping face of her child. She should be in her own nice, warm bed in California. But the child, not much more than a baby, was on an important mission. . . . "Wake up," Shirley said some time later, shaking the child gently. "Time to get up, Sachie. It's here. Your plane." Sachie rubbed her eyes and placed her hand in her mother's. They walked out into the black, wet night and made a dash for the ramp. Inside the plane, Shirley settled the child; took the arm rest off the center of the double seat so that she could sleep in the two seats. There were only a few minutes left before take-off. Shirley bent down and kissed Sachie. The child said, "Don't worry, Mommy. I'll be all right." Shirley smiled very brightly and walked toward the door. Suddenly, she turned and ran back to her child. She lifted her and hugged her. "I almost forgot — oh, my darling, I almost forgot. Merry Christmas. Merry, Merry Christmas." And ran out. She stood in the blackness and watched the huge airliner fly into the skies and take her little girl off to Japan. Answer to a mystery Why did Shirley MacLaine, who absolutely adores her little girl, send her six thousand miles away at Christmas time last year — the one time of all the year mothers want most of all to be with their children? The answer to that question is the answer to the mystery of Shirley. People constantly tell her that they cannot understand her strange marriage to Steve Parker. They can't believe that these two — who are often parted by those same 6.000 miles — can stay in love with each other. Shirley sent their beloved child to Steve because he was sick with malaria and needed Sachie even more than she did. Busy at work in The Apartment. Shirley couldn't go. It was a miserable Christmas for Shirley. She tried to be gay in the midst of the gaiety, but her heart was torn with longing for her little girl and for Steve. As New Year's Eve approached she dreaded seeing the New Year in without the comfort of Sachie's presence. She spent New Year's Eve at a party at Frank Sinatra's home and tried to laugh it up. But if Shirley was torn between the desire to be with Sachie and the desire to give happiness to Steve, what about little Sachie? What sort of a fife is it for a little girl to be with her mother part of the time — to make long, strange trips to Japan at other times — and seldom to have the joy most little girls experience of having her parents together with her? Sachie sees her parents together only about six weeks out of the year. Usually, Mommy is in Hollywood making pictures; Daddy in Japan producing movies and shows, and Sachie shuttles back and forth. Shirley can't find any other solution to their problem. "We both want her." Shirley told me. ' So we have to divide her. Sachie loves Japan and loves Hollywood. She doesn't see anything strange in her existence." Only a few months ago they were in Japan during one of those infrequent times when all three could be together as a family. But the reason was a sad one. Shirley noticed that Steve sounded very weak when he phoned her one evening. Worried, she asked him what was wrong. Finally he admitted he'd been stricken with hepatitis. "I'm going to be sent to the hospital soon," he said, and Shirley could hear the fear and loneliness in his voice.