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Skowhegan, Me., Lake wood Theater: Gloria Swanson and Buddy Rogers in Red Letter Day, dramatic comedy by Andrew Rosenthal...
Dramatic Opulence. That Gloria and "Stoky" could never see eye to eye on the children had been apparent to friends for a long time. After she divorced him (because, as a friend says, "she found she didn't need a father, and wanted a husband"), she married Stage-TV Director Sidney Lumet, who was her own age, and resumed housekeeping in her ten-room duplex penthouse on Manhattan's fashionable Gracie Square. There, in the glow of dramatic opulence (red rugs, red chairs, white curtains, a pink passageway, a yellow door), she was transported to the heady world...
...father that he was, could not get enough of his children. The 1955 divorce settlement gave him liberal rights, and he took every advantage of them. He arranged his Fifth Avenue apartment for the boys, gave each his own room and bath (they slept in the same room at Gloria's), a large playroom, and bikes. He talked of nothing save his boys and his music ("And," says a friend, "he was a bore about both"). He meticulously arranged their diets (insisting on orange juice freshly squeezed at the table just before drinking, no earlier), evolved a system...
Neurotic Explosions. During the closed hearings, Stoky accused Gloria of keeping terrible hours, attending too many parties, spending too little time with the boys. Gloria, in turn, charged Stoky with "tyranny," cattily observed that he is not 72, as he claims, but 85, declared that the Maestro hovered over the boys' lives like an "overanxious, harassing and harassed great-grandmother, creating neurotic explosions over minutiae...
When the smoke of accusation cleared last week, Justice Edgar Nathan Jr. gave Gloria fulltime control over the children, restricted Stoky to annual four-week visits with a fifty-fifty share of school holidays and weekends. But the judge did not let either parent go without administering a sharp slap. "It is a sad commentary," he wrote, "that an entire month of the court's time and energy has been devoted almost exclusively to the resolution of problems which mature, intelligent parents should be able to work out for themselves for the sake of their children...