Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-01
Boeort's Family Life Elegantly Casual
Save That He Frets When Not Acting
By CYNTHIA LOWRY
Associated Press stan Writer
HOLLYWOOD

HOLLYWOOD
81 don't think you can beat
the life out here-most of the
time" said Lauren Bacall, sit
ting down to a tray on the din
ing room table and looking at a
bacon and tomato sandwich
without enthusiasm.
when both Bogey and
are working. it's great. It's fine
when he's working and I'm
not. It gets a little grim,
though. when I'm working and
Bogey isn't. He gets restless,
hanging around. :"
Times. however. when Hum
phrey Bogart isn't working
have become increasingly rare
in recent years. His friend,
Cary Grant. recently COM
planned with mock bitterness
than Bogart keeps all of us
older fellows out of work"
HE gets hold of all the good
stuff first" Grant said wryly.
HE keeps saying 7 can't play
this I'd be right for that
The worst of it is that he can
and would be. He's an old
pro-"
He Started Late
Success, professional and
private, was late in arriving.
Bogey was IS and had been an
actor for Is years before he
caught popular fancy as Killer
Duke Mantee in THE Petrified
Forest" on Broadway. He
hadn't made much of a dent in
Hollywood until he played Duke
in the movie version.
He was As tmaybe 46--
there's a little confusion about
his birth year, when he mar
ried his fourth and. from the
looks of things, final wife.
Miss Bacall, rather pointedly
called Betty, never Baby. He
was close to SO when his first
child. Stephen, was born. He
was So when he won his first
Academy award Oscar, for his
liquor-loving vagabond in "Af-
RIGA Queen"
Today Bogey. around SIS and
Betty. 20, are among Holly
woods first film families, with
two handsome children, a
beautiful home. and-as free
lance stars-a bountiful selec-
ton of roles.
They bear a curiouSly water
ed down resemblance to the
craggy faced, tough hammered
menace and the siren, throaty
voiced Baby" of motion pic
ture fame.
Bogart, lest this honey
scene appears too saccharine,
conscientiously cultivates his
reputation for Anglo-Saxon
words and brutal frankness in
the course Of intelligent con-
versation. Otherwise this And
over graduate who converted
+ a slight lisp into a chilling
asset conforms pretty rigidly
to the Hollywood success code:
a fashionable Holmby Hills
address, backyard swimming
pool and pool house, twin
JaguarS, a yacht.
Casual Elegance
Hollywood has good reason
to be proud of the Bogarts.
They preserve considerable
independence of thought and
freedom from press agent
domination. And their private
lives are conducted withs a
certain easy elegance and
casual good manners. .
Betty and Bogey are what
might be called writer's stars.
productive of good copy, ex-
pressing fresh viewpoints and
available for opinions on con-
troversial subjects. Bogey, as
q matter of fact, loves to be
controversial.
The Bogart residence
beautiful house of white
washed brick with fine. old
landscaping, is on a popular
street close to Judy Garland,
Lana Turner and a double
handful of other ilIustrious
neighbors.
The two principal down.
stairs rooms are a white mar
BILE solarium with a glass ia
cade which opens onto the ter
race, and a huge pine-paneled
study with a big working fire.
place, bookshelves filled to the
ceiling with well-worn books.
an equally well-worn bar.
plenty of comfortable chairs
and a big divan. On the
mantel is Bogey's Oscar: on
the floor in front of the fire.
place is a rug which looks
amazingly like an unstuffed
panda.
Paintings Good
Scattered around the walls
Of all rooms Is good original
art they've picked up around
the world. Bogart-whose
mother was illustrator Maud
Humphrey-has a taste for
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