Screenland (May 1943-Oct 1944)

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Mac kept working away at his tinkertoy set. He didn't look up as he had already grown to realize that a sugar-coated adult voice was disguising some sour adult fact. The father continued, "You're a lucky boy. You've got a pair of brothers. Not just one new baby, but two. Twins, whom we're going to name Charles and Gordon." Macdonald's large brown eyes moved slowly from one item to the other in the nursery, taking in every intimate arrangement, every precious dimension. "Hmmm," he sniffed. "Looks like I'm going to have to subdivide." It wasn't until several years later that Carey, major, devised a benefit for himself out of the presence of Careys, minor. Macdonald, tapped at an early age, would have been found to. have grease paint running in his veins in conjunction with that bright fluid that now goes into Red Cross Blood Banks. Long before he knew who Shakespeare was, he was following in The Bard's iambic pentameters. He was writing, directing, and acting in his own plays. So he used his younger brothers as spearbearers, voices yelling "Help" off-stage, and miscellaneous one-line characters. He was quick to learn that Charlie and Gordie had a remarkable ability to stand on their heads for incredible periods of time; with the true Belasco touch, Mac prepared a magic act, and used the twins as set dressing. They emerged on his makeshift stage first and assumed their inverted stance, whereupon Carey, the magician, appeared and went through his complicated routine before this human proscenium arch. The next stage in the development of the Carey Brothers' "Beau Geste" could be termed Cravats, Unlimited. All three of them discovered that neckties were to be had in hilarious colors and patterns and what wild tie one didn't discover, the other did. The interchange of neckwear went on merrily. No one ever knew which belonged to whom, and Mac swears to this day that some of his best numbers are undoubtedly tucked away in one of the twin's trunks. Even Father Carey was suspected of "borrowing" now and then, but he denied the charge with Considerable heat. Father Carey had other troubles; as his trio grew up, they became a three-ring debating society. With forensic zeal they settled great problems of state ; a social evil was soon disposed of, and they had a remedy for any economic crisis that was not strictly personal. Finally, after having done everything but tap on his glass with his knife, Mr. Carey emerged with this plaint : "Nobody ever listens to me!" Did this elicit any pity for him? Did this wistful comment earn a respectful silence from his three lusties? Well, thereafter, whenever one of the boys was having a tough time putting over a theory and was being interrupted every three words, he always fell back on his father's quotation: "Nobody ever listens to me!" This is known as having fun with your own family. • Macdonald nowadays describes himself as "the great athletic failure of the family." His father was a superb tennis player and at one time held the Mid-West Championship. Mac had every right to suppose that Nature would have endowed him with at least a part of his father's prowess, so he set to with a racket as soon as possible. "With disappointing results," — to quote Mac. Having preempted the family tennis rights in the son-department, Mac steered the twins onto golf. And tried to play along with them. Well, at 12, the twins were shooting in the eighties. By the time time they were 13, they grumbled mightily if their scores weren't in the low seventies. The silent departure you may have just noticed was Macdonald Carey withdrawing from golf competition with his younger relatives. Nowadays Gordon and Charlie gambol over the green in a mere sixty-or-so shots. They got so good that they entered separate tournaments (Minnesota Resorters and Iowa Open) and made them Carey Specials. Father Carey went with one twin (he maintained that it was to cheer his son on, but the family still insist that it was to share the glory), and Mac managed to help swell the gallery for the other. For years, Mac maintained his supremacy in the tennis (we refrain from saying "racket") department, but several months ago Charlie licked him in love sets. Mac was four years ahead of the twins in school, of course. His first college year was spent at Wisconsin where he was an Alpha Delta Phi. He is, by the way, a fraternity brother of Fredric March and lived in March's erstwhile room for one semester. When the twins started to college, they chose Morningside in Sioux City, Iowa, as their Alma Mammy, and were pledged to Delta Tau Delta because there wasn't a chapter of A.D. Phi located there. With fine comradely spirit, brother Mac joined the twins in an apartment just a few blocks from the Delta Gamma house. (Delta Gamma has long been noted for the smooth girls it enlists.) Mac was working on his Master's Degree, and — as a sideline — muscling in on his brothers' dates. There was one sitchiashun in which Jeff Donnell, featured in the Columbia film, "What's Buzzin' Cousin," makes a pretty picture in her smart crisp white cotton sunsuit. 70 SCREENLAND