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...Castle of Otranto. All of this goes on in something that is not to be believed. The Kerr-Hilton, as Jean Kerr calls her home, is both the sum and summary of its contents, a brick and half-timber Tudor-Spanish architectural error on the edge of Long Island Sound. Like the Kerrs, it sits squarely in the suburbs, but its outlines are in fairyland. Built by a rich automotive inventor on the original foundations of the Larchmont Shore Club stables, it looks like the Castle of Otranto, reaching high with turrets and towers and a cupola. It also looks...
...inland wall that reflect the sea. A statue of St. Francis stands in the center in a filled-in pond that once, in another era, brimmed with gallons of champagne. At one end is a playpen big enough for a growing mastiff, but it only contains one tiny Kerr...
...other extreme of the house is Walter Kerr's study, where 16 theater seats are screwed permanently into the floor; there he shows old slapstick silent films to guests ("Walter thinks nobody should have to be adorable right after dinner," says Jean). The adjacent living room?like every other room in the house, half the niches and all the floors?is filled with books, everything from Boccaccio to Beerbohm, plus a slim volume called Per Piacere, Non Mangiate Le Margherite (Please Don't Eat the Daisies). In the room next door, a television set peers out from the interior...
...Jean Kerr herself stopped tintinnabu-lating once just long enough to get married. It was a wise decision, since the groom was a careful, analytical college professor who has always looked after her with extraordinary attentiveness. That and nearly everything else about her was summed up a while ago in a quick exchange while the Kerrs were crossing a Manhattan street?her swift-rising wisecracks, her devotion to her husband, the graceful way she wears her fame...
Reacting anxiously to the traffic, Walter Kerr said, "Stick with...