Evening star., 1948-03-21
She Prefers Working to Good Time
Evelyn Reyes Life Ambition Is Make Movie Directed
by Her Talented Husband John Huston
By Sheiloh Grohom
HOLLYWOOD.

Evelyn Keyes has the face of a
fragile angel -" "but I'm stronger
than any one I know" she tells me.
II want to work., she continues.
But I haven't made a movie since
I finished The Mating of Mile six
months ago"
why work." this writer wants to
know, when you are married to
John Huston?" John is the brilliant
director son of Actor Walter Huston
His Treasure of Sierra Madre"
should clean up at the box Office
its terrific.
John is now in the business of
making pictures for his own inde-
pendent movie company and is like
ly to wind up with a fortune. Il
like working replies Mrs. Huston
II get bored just having good
time"
Evelyn's life ambition is to make
a movie with her husband. You
can bet will when my present con-
tract at Columbia ends in five
years." But Evelyn shouldn't have
too much of kick against Colum-
bia. They do all right by her. In
addition to her very big co-starring
part with Glenn Ford in THE Mat
ing of Millie," she was Dick Powell's
leading lady in Johnny O'Clock"
and Mrs. Jolson in THE Jolson
Story" Her next movie may be with
Humphrey Bogart in Knock on
Any Door"
Menagerie on Ranch.
"You must come out and see us at
the ranch" says Evelyn, "if you like
animals, that is.s' She and John go
in for the business of breeding race
horses. But we get so fond OF
them we can't SELL"
They have 13 horses on the ranch,
one baby horse, land also one very
good race horse, Lady Bruce. We
co-own her with Virginia Bruce"
A couple of weeks ago Lady Bruce
won 6-furlong race at Santa
Anita and paid off handsomely.
1--WE also have monkey which acts
like a baby" continued the blond
actress, "and three dogs. One is
named Paulette, after Paulette God
dard, because she is SO very mag
niflcent and SO gay, and rather bold.
Another dog is named Jennifer taft-
er Jennifer jones'. and she is very
sweet. She just stands there and
gazes at you with big brown eyes.
Our other dog is the image of Bur-
CESS Meredith That's why Paulette
Goddard gave him to us-she. said
one Burgess in the family was
enough"
There also are II cats. They keep
multiplying explains Evelyn sim
ply. They're supposed to catch 60
pliers, but they never do" AS yet
there are no babies on the Huston
ranch. But we want lot of chill
dren."
Passports, No Travel.
Six months ago, when John was
making Treasure of Sierra Madre,"
in Mexico, he and Evelyn fell in
love with a 12-year boy named
Pablo. So they adopted him. He
calls Evelyn Nanny" and thinks
the AL Jolson song was written espe-
cially for her! Pablo is currently
enrolled in the exclusive school
founded and guided by Aldous Hux-
ley in Ojai, 80 miles from Los An
geles. There are only l6 pupils.
The main idea of the school is to
discourage the concept of competl-
ton. Huxley believes that compe-
tition is the root of most of this
worlds evil. .,..s
John and + got our passports
today" Evelyn suddenly tells me-.
Going anywhere?" I ask. .
at doesn't look like it, but you
never can TELL" she replies. when
we have time, we want to travel all
over the world. We want to go to
China and India. We both think
it's dreadful. We sit here in Holly
wood and just read about far
places; we should go to them. At
least now we'll be ready, so that
when John gets a week or two
maybe between pictures-we can
say, Let's go!' and hop off on
moments notice
Likes Walter, Too.
"That's the way We do everything
suddenly, like the night we got
married" Evelyn and John were
having dinner at Romanof's. When
John. said, Let's get married-to-
night" Evelyn said it would be
fine idea. But where was the we'd
ding ring?