Radio and television mirror (July-Dec 1948)

rtell you, who ever won a race in a prone position. However, he keeps a high polish on the silver trophy which resulted from the victory. The silver cup, and a huge picture of the boat, have places of honor in the Gardners' drawing room — which, like the rest of the white brick house the family moved into last November, is invitingly informal. They really use their house, live — and hard — in every room, according to Simone who panned the colorful French provincial interiors to take wear and tear, as well as to look charming. "Could be the house is too small," Ed admits, now that the new baby has come. They moved from a 14-room mansion which was just too rich for Archie's blood, and found the pretty little chalet comfortable until the advent of Stevie and nurse crowded them out of their upstairs suite into a guest room, with only one bath, on the first floor. ED, who is spoiled — "I like my own dressing room" — began at this point to talk about adding rooms, remodeling. "He even brought home a carpenter's kit," Simone recalls. "I was frightened. I was afraid he'd hurt himself." But she needn't have worried. He didn't open it. He soothes his claustrophobic panics by gazing across their garden and pool to the lush greens of the California Country Club which adjoins their property in the back. "Biggest back yard in California," Ed brags. "Sixty-two gardeners all working for me for free." A cook and butler, driver, — and of course the nurse— work for Ed on another basis, and keep busy. It is not just that the family is growing. Things keep jumping in the Gardner house. Ed and Simone have a vast circle of friends. Friends from the yachting world, the tennis world, Simone's old friends from France and, surprisingly, Ed's grand opera and high society pals, rub elbows around the bar or Ed's "saloon piano" at the Gardners' frequent, happily informal parties. Lauritz Melchior and Helen Traubel, who can sing, and Ed, who can't, make a great trio. The Melchiors love to tell people how they found the Gardners' house the first time they were invited to dinner after the moving. They had no address, only Ed's fairly vague directions. He hadn't found out yet how to find the place himself, he told them. It was moonlight, and Lauritz drove very slowly through the curved streets of Bel Air, rejecting house after house as impossible. Suddenly in their path loomed a dog, and Lauritz slammed on the brakes. The dog was a friendly dog, and in no hurry; she was awkward and ugly but loving; her ancestry was extremely conglomerate. "This is it," Melchior boomed to his wife, turning without hesitation into the driveway. "Nobody in Bel Air but Ed Gardner would have a dog like that." Anything — that's the dog's name — ambled down the drive after them, arrived to welcome them just as Ed opened the front door. "Come in," he shouted. "Simone is in the kitchen supervising the soup. The kids are asleep, at last, thank the Lord. 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