TV Radio Mirror (Jan - Jun 1959)

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We made our adjustments. But, today, I think Peter needs a mother's hand more than ever. And he still resists." She explains that, once Peter gets out of bed in the morning, it's full speed ahead. "He won't take care of himself. I'm always after him to take a rest. I say, 'Take off your shoes. Lie down for a spell.' He won't. I can't even get him to dress properly. On cold days, he doesn't wear enough. And I've seen him on a warm day in a sweater and coat. Everyone is sweating, but not Peter. "He just ignores ordinai-y things. He had a cold and temperature for an entire week, when the TV show first started, but he didn't pay any attention to it. He's got a mind of his own and knows what has to be done. Yet he will throw himself completely oflE schedule to talk to a stranger. We'll be getting out of a cab to keep an appointment and, if someone walks up to him and says, 'I knew your mother when — ' he'll stand there and talk until the moon comes up." Peter has a mind of his own where his family is concerned, and this led him to a decision that surprised show business. After eleven years of working with Mary and being billed as "Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy," his current television show is called simply The Peter Lind Hayes Show. He explains, "In our early years, Mary and I worked separately and so our marriage was threatened. We were always half-a-continent apart. I didn't want Mary to give up her career, and I didn't want to give up Mary. So, eleven years ago, I wrote an act for us as a team. Since then, we've always worked together. I wouldn't let the business break up our home. When the children were younger, they traveled with us. Now that they are in school, we make out-of-town dates only during school vacations. "Even so, the work has sometimes been a strain on Mary. Twice we had to call on grandmothers to take care of Mike and Cathy because they were too ill to travel. Mary wanted to stay home with them but couldn't, because the contract called for both of us. Then there were times when she didn't feel like working but couldn't get out of it. Now she is on a day-to-day contract. There is no pressure on her." "So far this season," Mary says, "my working hasn't interfered with my chores j as a mother. The children are in school ' until four and I'm always home for dinner — earlier, if they have a date with the dentist or something. Peter is always home for dinner and the children eat with us. They understand that this is a privilege and they must conduct themselves as young adults. Actually, Peter is the only one who doesn't obey my dinner rules. He still gets up to answer the phone, and I still don't understand why any business matter can't wait twenty or even thirty minutes." Mary doesn't depend on Peter for help around the house. "He isn't very good at it. Once I asked him to hang a picture and, when I came back, he had a hole in the wall the size of a grapefruit. I know that, if I ask him to bring up some wood for the fireplace, he'll cart up enough for a month, which I don't need." Except for Sunday afternoons, when Peter may play golf, weekends are spent with the children. Saturday, Peter may take Mike and Cathy fishing. Sunday morning, they all go to church. Peter says, "The children are different types. Cathy says she wants to be a ballerina and a mother. She is good at creative things — dancing, singing, painting. "Mike, on the other hand, is a gimmicknut, same as I am. But, at nine, he already knows twice as much about astronomy and electronics as I ever intend to know. The other day, there was a school holiday and he was in the studio. In the evening, I quizzed him about the show — but he hadn't really seen it. He was too busy watching the camera crew and the engineers and all of that. He's always been that way. The first time we put him on a merry-go-round, instead of riding his horse, he just stared at the motor." The pressure of five-day-a-week shows has forced Peter to give up many of his extracur rictilar activities. He has ambitions as a writer. He has started a book of reminiscences titled "Hayes Seed." He wrote three teleplays with Robert J. Crean, one of which was produced on Kraft Theater. He has written several songs in collaboration with Robert Alan. Their "Come to Me," recorded by Johnny Mathis, sold a half-million copies. "This need to write is an earnest thing with me," Peter says. "I'd like to get in the position, within a few years, where I can afford to sit down and seriously try my hand at it." But he doesn't imply that he has any intention of giving up show business. He says, "The exciting thing about it, after twenty-five years, is that you're just beginning. There is always something new, something unexpected to challenge you. In the past, there have been clubs, movies, and the Broadway production, as well as radio and TV. But, of them all, I like television best, because there must be a different show every day. Oh, it's enervating, but it's exciting, too. And that's the thing about being in show business — it's never-ending." Doctor in the House (Continued from page 54) featured in the Sunday radio drama. The FBI In Peace And War, with which he has long been associated. He went back into television, on which he has played innumerable dramatic roles, one of the most recent being in the Hall Of Fame's "Kiss Me, Kate." He was also thinking, even then, about a stage play, in which he may be performing by the time you read this. Paul McGrath is one of those actors who believe that the more many sided a performer is and the busier he keeps, the better off he will be artistically, and certainly economically. "To survive today and continue working at his craft, an actor almost has to have that kind of versatility," he says. "I like radio very much and am delighted to be in it. As entertainment, I feel it is a great medium, and it is also a great medium for the actor who wants 'to keep his hand in' — who wants to use his talents regularly, rather than let them