Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1956)

[sr life and, during her first six months f f/ay from school, she held a variety of 1 )bs. For a time she was a salesgirl. Next le worked in an insurance office, then . the office of a dry-cleaning establishent. However, during her schooldays, Vic•ria had always pleaded with her mother I take her to see the local parades. In ustralia, models are comparable to merican movie stars, and Victoria worlipped them from afar. And so one day le went in to see a woman who ran a odeling school. “Girls at home all begin odeling when they’re fifteen or sixteen,” le says. “Consequently, I enrolled right vay.” The following year, she was voted \rtists’ Model of the Year” and she beune the most photographed model in i|er coimtry. Few realized that the youngijer had a business head that would come I'ose to revolutionizing the modeling busi'jss. “The pay is nothing like that in merica,” Victoria explains. “And there “ as no scale. Newcomers were getting as i 'uch as more experienced girls. So even(^lally I simply upped my fees. It started a "1 >mmotion, because then came the ‘I’m as |)od as she is’ reaction, and everyone ; Ise began to raise their fees, too.” Victoria’s appearance is also deceiving. ; ’nail, delicate, with the lady-like air of iji'race Kelly, she looks as if she has never ^fme anything more energetic than balance : teacup. Then, before you know it, she ^^unches into a tale about the time she iinted kangaroos. “They’re so plentiful )U don’t have to have a license,” she says, .tod when I made my one picture over Pere, we’d take rifles and go out on the 'ains at night. :r “Kangaroos roam in herds and you have ^ hit them from quite a ways off. You !ver go in close to shoot them as they L'ht to defend themselves. [“You have to hit them at the base of the line or through the temple to kill them,” [e continues. “It’s after they’re down that •lU have to make certain they’re dead so !ey won’t suffer. It can be dangerous (Cause if they’re only slightly wounded ey can crush you with their front paws. n i They grow to seven feet tall, you know.” Victoria also speaks glowingly of deepsea diving and spear fishing, interests she shares with her fiance. “The girl is fearless,” says Roger. “Except when I’m standing beside a kitchen stove,” says Victoria. “Then I’m terrified.” Before her engagement, Victoria claimed that even water was lumpy when she removed it from the burner. “I’m improving,” she says. “I do manage breakfast, but it’s still fairly terrible! I hope by the time we’re married I’ll be able to cook sufficiently to keep Roger alive.” Roger offers encouragement by dropping in for dinner and beaming at the meals she prepares — in addition to eating them. “He’s the one who’s fearless,” she grins. Victoria much prefers cleaning and ironing to cooking. At present, her housekeeping is relatively simple since home is a small, one-bedroom apartment in Hollywood. Also a part of her life these days is a monkey! Victoria’s heart goes out to anyone who is lonely — even monkeys. She was visiting a pet shop one day with some friends and noticed this forlorn little fellow sitting in his cage. She learned that a previous owner had left him there, and she felt there was nothing to do but take him home. “He’s just like a baby,” she says. “It’s like having a child in the house.” However, Victoria fears for her guests. “I have to warn them not to pick him up. He bites. But if you sit down, in a few minutes he’ll be on your lap. I suppose he prefers to select his own friends.” Victoria is looking forward to marrying “and having a lot of children. I hope I’ll be able to do one picture a year and spend the rest of the time attending to my home. And,” she adds, grinning at Roger, “I believe in the man being the boss, which most people seem to forget over here.” After their marriage, Victoria and Roger will move into the home they are now building in Tarzana. And although her studio has great plans for her, “Home will come first,” beams the star-struck, lovestruck future Mrs. Smith of the U.S.A. The End i j! My Princess Yum Yum (Continued from page 50) ?“You didn’t call me to say you enjoyed Sir date or anything. Did you dislike me? I'dn’t you know I wanted to hear from lU?” Brother! I’d never heard a woman talk ||ke that. reporter recently asked me if Mitzi I i s any eccentricities, like sleeping with -jie light on. Personally, I think her two neatest eccentricities are being honest and lijicere. In Hollywood, these two traits are 'lit only xinusual, they’re downright odd. > I think I must have begun falling in love i ’ th Mitzi during that first telephone inversation. I got myself out of the dog1 use by explaining I had been out of ■ iivn for a few days. But I was fascinated, i’hat kind of a girl was this, anyway? I -fked my dazed self. Could anyone alive ! this honest? Just as that phone conversation gave ' i; the first real clue as to what Mitzi is He, so sixty percent of what I learned tout her, was learned on the phone. She MS dating other fellows then, and I was Mrking nights, so I would talk to her at idnight, when she got home from a date -'I'th some other fellow. We would have an lur of conversation, during which we cicussed everything, including our re->? active philosophies of life. In a way, ours was a strange courtship. I had so little time in which to date Mitzi ' at first. At 5 p.m. I’d make a quick dash to her home, usually exiting before 5:30, so that I just barely missed whoever her current date was. “Wouldn’t it be possible for me to see more of you?” I asked her one day. “I was wondering how long it would be before you would get around to asking me that,” she said, beaming. Again that honesty! What a woman! Shortly afterwards, Mitzi had an attack of appendicitis. For our courtship, this was a perfect arrangement. She couldn’t go out. Of course, all her beaux came to her hospital room, but a very sympathetic nurse threw everyone but me out at 9 each night. So amid the mixed fragrances of flowers and antiseptics, we got to know each other. Being cautious, we went with each other for twenty-one months before we married. Frankly, I was afraid of the perils of being married to a glamour girl. Also, I felt that I must have a successful career of my own before I could ask Mitzi to marry me. I didn’t feel I could propose until the public relations concern of Bean and Rose was nicely established. 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