Radio-TV mirror (July-Dec 1954)

a very omantic fellow Donald is proud of his theatrical collection — such as the Shakespearean prints, above — but takes an even greater delight in his lively nephews, baby Richard and David. Both Stella Dallas and Helen Trent could testify that Donald Buka shouldn't be a bachelor, but he is — for now! By FRANCES KISH The handsome young man with the lively dark eyes — and the new crew cut — grins as he talks. "On radio and television," he is saying, "I am quite a romantic fellow. As myself — well, I am still Donald Buka, bachelor." His eyes travel around the living room of the pleasant bachelor apartment, to the pictures he has collected, the books and the many little personal treasures. "I like a home," he continues. "I had a nice home in my childhood and I wanted one when I grew up. It seems important to me. Even when I was away from New York, working in Hollywood, making motion pictures and television films in Europe, playing in summer theaters and on tour in plays that traveled across the country, I kept this little apartment. I like the feeling of coming home to it." The apartment is a compact arrangement of living room, bedroom, bath and tiny kitchen, in a tall building in the heart of New York, with a private terrace shadowed by other tall buildings which huddle closely around it. An awningcovered terrace planted with shrubs and flowers and gaily furnished to give the illusion of country living. A pleasant place for late afternoon tea or cocktails, for the lazy evenings of early fall, for morning sunning while studying a script. In fact, a couple of scripts lie on a near-by table, tossed aside as visitors arrived. One is Stella Dallas, in which Donald plays the part of Stanley Warrick, romantic young English He often dates with pretty actress Janet de Gore. Continued >