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By the time audition day rolled around, Jimmy and Chris had the scene beautifully molded. Frightened and nervous, they took their humble offering before what they considered the mighty High Priests of their craft. As I recall, they were two of the fifteen — out of the hundred and fifty who auditioned — who were accepted into the Studio. Jimmy was then reputedly the youngest member of The Actors’ Studio. He was twenty-one, and he belonged. Late in August, the Ayerses invited Jimmy on a ten-day boat cruise to Cape Cod, stipulating that he was to act as a member of the crew. Jimmy had long been interested in boats and eagerly snatched at the opportunity to learn more about them. And, indeed, by the time he returned he had absorbed most of the basic rudiments of boating and navigation. For weeks thereafter he talked enthusiastically of boats and boating, but he avoided discussing the social aspects of the trip. Out of a growing awareness that he needed people and had to exist in a world full of them, Jimmy had begun to develop a knack for complimenting their egos. This he accomplished by taking a deep and sincere interest in the things they liked most. By the time he took the boat trip he had matured enough to realize that — in order to win the favor of the others on board — being friendly and genial, yet remaining true to his own character, was a simpler and wiser way to enjoy himself and to be enjoyed. When he returned, it was obvious that all had gone well and that he was due to hear more from the Ayerses. Just before Jimmy left on the boat trip, we decided to give up our hotel room and accept the kind offer of a girl with whom we had studied at UCLA. So, in Jimmy’s absence, I moved our possessions into the large apartment the girl had been subletting and was turning over to us for the remainder of the summer. The arrangement seemed ideal, but we had hardly moved in when the people from whom the girl had been subletting returned from Europe and demanded their apartment. Helpless, we were forced to find a smaller place uptown. The night before we moved out of the large apartment we were particularly broke, due to the advance-rent payment we had to make on the new place. Jimmy, Dizzy Sheridan and I had between us less than a dollar on which to eat. So, like scavengers, we took all the leftovers from the refrigerator and made with them a soupy stew into wliich we dumped a half-package of stale spaghetti. As we sat eating the mess, not one of us said a word. All in all, that summer in New York was a torturous one. I had secured a low-paying job at CBS, but Jimmy was still suffering from the pressures of being unemployed. We had taken to pooling the little I had, the very little Dizzy had, and the occasional few dollars Jimmy picked lii up by taking jobs on TV quiz progr on which they would throw pies in face. Still there was barely enough manage the bare necessities, such as fi rent, and cigarettes. It was no won then, that about four o’clock one me ing over coffee in a hamburger jc Jimmy, Dizzy and I came to the c elusion that we’d had it and decided to away from it all. After a moment’s furl consideration, we packed a suitcase, g£ ered together the ten dollars we had tween us (it was payday), and hea for the bus terminal, where we boar a bus for New Jersey. Once there, got off and hitch-hiked the rest of way to Indiana, where we visited farm on which Jimmy had been rais The two wholesome weeks we sp on the farm brought the kind of re our tired souls required. The Winsld Jimmy’s aunt and uncle, opened t! home and their hearts to us. Mom, Jimmy called his aunt Hortense, saw it that we had plenty of delicious hoi cooked food, and Marcus, his uncle, g us the run of their serenely beautiful efficiently clean, modern farm. Afte Dt i; ipt ter all the years of seeing Jirr alone and without a family, it wa; wonderful thing to watch him touch o again the gentle roots of his early ye He discussed the farm and its probl at great length with Marcus, learning fi his uncle the complications of farmini our present economic structure. Mai*^ seemed to beam with silent pride as Jirr listened attentively, seeing in him for first time a matured and developed yo'j man who had, only a few short years fore, left his household a mere boy. Hortense was touched by Jimmy’s c^ (q] passion and concern over her increa efi pain from the arthritis that had bej jo to gnaw at her hands. To Dizzy and Jimmy expressed a strong desire to o ip the Winslows, someday when he made fortune, the opportunity to move ti'ljy drier climate where Mom’s arthritis wo not pain her as much. Jimmy also spent many hours talh' p to and explaining things to little Marj who is his cousin and the youngest of i Winslow children. Whenever he detecfB! traces of his own character in Mar Jimmy would expand with a secret pi and fond remembrance of his own b hood days in Fairmont. He tried, in brief time allotted, to encourage li Markie in all that he felt was import Jimmy took us to his old high scl where, with a bit of his ego showing the flourish of his own special brand bravado, he took over for a few days, dramatics teacher was more than plea to see him, and turned her classroom o to the three of us. Jimmy spoke on art of acting. Dizzy demonstrated mod dance techniques, and I got in my qu ter’s worth by talking on TV direct and writing. None of us was really enoi of a master of his craft to warrant display of unabashed authoritative lect ing, but it was greatly rewarding to to have those youngsters pay such cl attention and regard us with so much a After a year of trying in vain to convi the New York professional world of capabilities, it was a wonderful boost have so many people accept us as masi of what we were trying to accomplisl After too short a time, a call from N York for Jimmy brought our bliss to end. We had slept well, been fed w and had been accepted; we could ask no more. Three grateful, refreshed yoi people were driven to the highway deposited there to hitch a ride eight hi dred miles back to the city, back tq^ task of finding their ways.