Screenland (Nov 1950-Oct 1951)

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Not one word lelt out. Hour* ol exciting reading. Mailed potlpaid if 1/ou tend order with tl.00 or tent C.O.I) plut pottage. Money Hack Guarantee. WAVERLY BOOKS, Dept. F-13 Broadway New York 3. N. Y. 799 appeal to me." Then he added idly, "I wonder how injurious gold paint is. We might go as gold statues." "As Oscars!" chirped Vera .... and was accorded a pair of deep obeisances by her luncheon companions. What happened when this stupendous pair marched into the Ball has become history. There had never been anything like it before, and there has been nothing like it since. Who can top an Oscar? One of the most precious experiences of a courtship is the sharing of a triumph. Vera and Rock discovered, in this instance, that they sparked to the same imaginative stimulus, and that both would go to considerable exertion to carry out a mutual plan. The comfortable months slipped by as Rock and Vera grew to know one another really well. They talked about their careers (Rock thinks V era-Ellen' s duet with Gene Kelly, "Slaughter On Tenth Avenue," is the most impressive ballet interlude he has ever seen in a picture) ; Vera pointed out her reasons for believing that Rock Hudson is going to be up in lights ten feet high. They went horseback riding together. Rock told Vera about his years of horseback training when he was a youngster, and his intensive riding in preparation for his first Western, and then his ignominious unseating the first time he climbed onto a horse for his role in "Apache Drums." They went swimming together and Rock, an expert, gave Vera a few suggestions about style. Sometimes she listened; sometimes she didn't. Fun, in either case. Rock learned exactly how to order coffee for Vera: one-half cup of coffee, filled with hot water, only a splash of cream. Then, when Vera changed her beverage choice, he learned exactly how to order Sanka. In ordering at a restaurant, he learned exactly how Vera had to have her chops or steak prepared, and he came to have a dietician's admiration for Vera's caloric fortitude. Because her profession is, in many ways, as rigorous as professional tennis, baseball, or hockey, she keeps athletic training rules. She keeps her weight around 110, which is sylph-like when one realizes that she is five feet, four inches tall. Because Rock loves football, he took Vera to an early-season pro game. She said she'd love to go. She seemed to enjoy the spectacle provided by night football in Los Angeles. For three quarters the Rams (Los Angeles' own) trailed by three points. Things were really rough as their opponents reached the Ram's fifteen-yard line. But at that moment the opponents chose to pass. The pass was intercepted by an alert Ram, who set out for pay dirt nearly ninety yards away. Everyone in the stands came to his feet, yelling. Everyone except Vera. Everyone held one vast community breath as it seemed certain the ball carrier was caught. But the carrier, in one superhuman heave, lateraled the ball to a free Ram and the home team scorched ahead for six beautiful points followed by an equally lovely conversion. Rock sat down, all tuckered out, and grinned at Vera, who grinned back. "Tell me," she said, and Rock anticipated a question about that spectacular lateral, "why is it that all the officials wear stripped shirts?" He laughed until he cried. He said, "You're nuts, honey-child, but I love you." In June of 1950, their love had to stand the test of absence. Vera-Ellen and her mother flew to England where Vera scored a series of triumphs before her British public. There is an epigram about absence making the heart grow fonder, but this is true only if the love itself is true. The best possible test of the endurance quotient of a romance is the application of distance and time. Both Rock and Vera knew this, but they accepted it with assurance. Rock wrote every other day, or — even on location — three times a week. Vera wrote when she could, but when she did write, her letters ran from ten to twenty pages. As articulate with her pen as with her toes, she drew word pictures of the places she saw, the people she met, the reactions she felt. "Better than a Cook's tour, and more wanderlust-ish than a colored travel brochure," is the way Rock described her letters to friends. Rock was at the airport to meet Vera and her mother when they returned. Neither would confirm or deny reports that they will be married in June, but Rock has the exalted look of a man who is carrying a matched set of rings in his hip pocket, and the expression on Vera's face is pure radiance. Naturally there are a few problems to work out: Rock wants that ONE big part which will cinch his career, and it might be coming up promptly in "The Iron Man," starring Jeff Chandler. Vera wants that ONE big part which will maintain her career at its jet-propelled status, and rumor has it that the part is already set: "Belle Of New York" opposite Fred Astaire. All things considered, Hollywood is convinced that this romance has an excellent chance of ending as all good love stories should, "And so they lived happily ever after." "I Want To Be Typed" Continued from page 30 wife whose husband dies in a cave-in is not pleasant, but mighty fine acting. Jan describes the excitement-loving wife as "A dame who never goes to church because the kneeling bags her nylons." Already the Paramount executives are talking about an Oscar for Jan in '52. Jerry Wald, dynamic Warner Brothers producer, can take credit for bringing Jan Sterling to Hollywood, a spot she long had her eye on. When Clifton Webb was starring in Noel Coward's "Present Laughter" on Broadway in 1945, Jerry went backstage to see him. Clifton was 60