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place for which the description "gracious living" was coined
Come and visit the
Ronald Colmans
BY VIOLA MOORE
THE CHOCOLATE brown and white Tudor house is just as you have always imagined it. The very first time you see it, you are likely to exclaim: "Why of course! Professor Todhunter of Ivy College would live in a place like this." You note approvingly the rolling green lawns, the fine landscaping, the stately flower beds — and then you do a swift double-take as you catch your first glimpse of the master of the house.
It's Ronald Colman all right. He's wearing a comfortable old sports jacket and slacks, and he's just thrown a beat-up tennis ball in the direction of a particularly fat and waddly brown poodle. The poodle lumbers clumsily after the ball, taking a short-cut through the snapdragon bed, breaking off several dozen blooms and bringing imprecations upon his head from the master of the house.
Above them a sudden gust of laughter rings out, and you catch your first sight of the lady of the manor. Benita Colman, in dark blue slacks and sweater, is leaning backwards from an upstairs window instructing a group of workmen on how she wants a bay window "thrown out." She's very interested in bay windows. To date she's "thrown out," as she put it, eight of them — and is looking around for a spot for her ninth.
Here then, you have the Ronald Colmans in real life. Though they are surrounded by the trappings of fine tradition (Continued on page 100)
Halls of Ivy, with Ronald Colman as the professor and Benita as his wife, is heard Wednesdays at 8 P.M. EST, on NBC stations; sponsored by the Schlitz Brewing Co.
Although a good deal of entertaining is done in the big and beautiful house — it once belonged to Corinne Griffithsimple pleasure together, as a family, is the kind of entertainment they enjoy.
Benita runs her household— which includes, at present, besides Ronnie and Juliet and the staff of servants, two dogs, four rabbits (at press time) , one tortoise — from her own workmanlike desk.
The formal drawing room with its color scheme of soft grays and greens makes a lovely setting for the gift from his wife that Ronnie prizes most — kneeling figure of a woman, sculptured by Benita.
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