Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1963)

]and falling, and then getting up with that quiet dignity of hers and continuing on to where Hayley sat, for a pat on the nose or, better, a lump from the sugar bowl. It was the most charming relationship between child and animal that I have ever seen. Though even before Annabelle’s arrival, I was impressed with the fantastic relationship she had with all animals. “With her two dogs, for instance; Suky and Hamlet — alas poor Hamlet, he’s gone H i now. And with birds. I remember one t Christmas I asked Hayley what she wanted • most as a present. And she said to me, I* ‘Wings, Katie, that’s what I’d really like. !i So I can fly with my little friends when if i t ley come back to England this spring, , time and go swooshing above the river i with them and under the bridges. I’d esij pecially love that, to go swooshing under pi the bridges with them.’ d “And her love for insects. The first time i I saw Hayley, in fact, she was suffering e( from a most awful caterpillar rash because those were the friends she’d been playing with that morning — a big mound of caterpillars. She was mad about bees, too. ‘To think,’ she’d say, ‘that they are best friends with flowers. Isn’t that a wonderful way of life?’ Caterpillars. Bees. And even flies she loved. There were times ! you’d see her sitting in the garden, staring into the palm of her hand, and you’d ask, ‘What’ve you got there, Hayley?’ And '< without looking up she’d say, ‘A poor little fly. See him? I found him floating in the pool a little while ago with his wing broken. Well,’ and she’d sigh, ‘I’m going to take him into the house now and see that the wing gets mended.’ And a few days later you would hear Hayley clapping her little hands together and shouting, ‘You’re better, dear fly. You’re all better, sir. Now you can go home to join your wife and your children. Goodbye. Goodbye. And please be more careful from now on, and please stay well!’ “My other memories of Hayley as a little girl ? “Well, she was very keen on painting when she was small. She still paints sometimes and she’s done some very nice things. Juliet, in fact, has one of Hayley’s landscapes hanging in her new house. I Ghost in the house “And she was very keen on writing. Plays. Most of them were localed in this very house. The house, you see, is actually over six hundred years old. And of course it has its traditional English ghost. And it actually has in the very next room, beneath that rug, a cave with trapdoor where the family now keeps the deepfreeze but where, in the time of Henry the Eighth, the Catholic monks in the area would hide when the Protestant armies passed through these parts. And such are the things Hayley would write about in her little plays and read them aloud to us. “Hayley is today the same unspoiled girl she has always been. And this I admire terribly about her. And for this I give a great deal of credit to Mr. and Mrs. Mills. “They have always been very firm with the children, you know. If they decide something, they stick by it. If Mrs. Mills, for instance, says to Hayley, ‘You won’t do it’ — then that’s it. Hayley won’t argue. She might mutter, ‘What a pity,’ but there’s never any fuss. I remember the time Hayley was due for a hairdresser’s appointment in London. Normally she does her own hair. She has to pay a lot of attention to it, you see — it’s so long and fine — and she sets and washes it once a week herself. But this one time, on a treat, she went for this fantastic hairstyle— Birdsnest, I think they call it. And when Mrs. Mills saw this she said, ‘Oh no, you’re going to come to my hairdresser!’ And so Hayley went. And she came back looking just lovely. And there was no fuss at all. None at all. “Also, Mr. and Mrs. Mills never let Hayley go off by herself for any length of time. Just recently, before this last trip to the States, someone said to the Mills’, ‘But Hayley’s sixteen now. Certainly she can go off to Hollywood without you. Certainly you can arrange for someone there to watch out for her.’ And the Mills’ response was that Hayley must have a home influence, that she must lead a home life — even when she’s away from home — and yes, of course, they went along with her. Mr. Mills took time off between stage and film commitments; Mrs. Mills between novels. And they’re all together in California right now and having a jolly time. They care for one another “Hayley, I might add, has been very appreciative of this firmness on her parents’ part. That is, inside her, she seems to realize that what they do for her is right for her. Certainly she couldn’t be a better daughter. Her every thought is for her family. She’s most embarrassed when the compliments and flattery are directed at her alone. You know exactly what she’s thinking at times like this: ‘And my father is a great actor, my mother is a wonderful writer, my sister Juliet is a superb actress and my brother Jonathan is a perfect little brother. So if you applaud for one of us, please, you must applaud for us all!’ It’s so nice to see Hayley and all the family together. It’s so nice to see her with her father sometimes. He loves to walk. To see how his cattle are coming along — the Guernseys and the Angus. Or to see how the workers are doing with the milking and the haying. Or just for the sake of walking sometimes. And he loves it especially when Hayley walks with him. And there are times when he asks her to come along and you just know that Hayley’s a bit tired perhaps, or that she’d rather be down in the new games-room playing her piano while Jonathan plays his drums, or listening to the gramophone — she’s absolutely mad on her rock-androll records. 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