Show by Peer J Oppenheimer r s v 1 kxaBS ! AY — raft y r'V T ' " ' v f " — f " - '" Taylor bubbles as ebullient husband Mike Todd hams it up " II II "— — — III " V r Liz happier days a-v-- 7M 8 In ( ! WHAT LI1 TAYLOE f 6' x i: j J Mike Todd brought this "sleeping i March 22 that nickname became tragically ironic It was the name Mike Todd had bestowed on the plane that plunged him to his death in New Mexico along with film writer Art Cohn and Todd's pilot and copilot It was also a pet name for his wife Elizabeth Taylor In either case "luck" was a word that scarcely applied Todd's widow is 26 Yet her closest friends agree that she has lived less than 14 months— from the time she married Todd in Mexico until his death Neither before nor since has anything mattered as much to Liz as this brief and turbulent marriage — even though she's been called "the I— ucky Liz"--- on " girl with everything" Family Weekly July 20 1958 That title like "Lucky Liz" over- looks the facts of Miss Taylor's pampered life For all her wealth and fame her years have been a succesand sion of boredom indifference dullness Born in London Elizabeth and her older brother Howard enjoyed the gracious living of the English upper class Her father Francis Taylor was art dealer and her motha well-to-er an American actress who was known as Sara Sothern Elizabeth had her own nurse her godfather Col Victor Cazalet gave her a horse when she was barely four at five she rode with Sir Anthony Eden when she was seven war threatened Europe and Taylor sent do M J A mm f - Am— -i- i beauty" to life for the first time now that he's gone what his wife and children to stay with Mrs Taylor's family in Pasadena He joined them six months later and they settled in Beverly Hills where he opened the highly successful Taylor Art Galleries By then Elizabeth already had crossed the Atlantic several times called on England's prime minister met the British royal family eaten oysters Rockefeller at Antoine's in New Orleans and crepe suzette at Maxime's in Paris She missed one thing however— a spanking Her parents had put her on too high a pedestal tor that Where they left off -Mayer took over after signing Liz to contract at 10 Two years a long-ter- m Metro-Goldw- yn later she won stardom with one of the leading roles in "National Velvet" The Culver City studio is famous for its protective attitude toward its players but no one was ever sheltered like lovely Liz She was never criticized or reprimanded (even when she deserved it) She could do no wrong When she got her first divorce — from hotel heir Nicky Hilton — a reporter wondered how this might affect the Before future of the Liz could answer a publicist cut in "Why every girl from a good family is divorced at least once!" Liz had been identified as the most beautiful girl in Hollywood but not one of the brightest Gossips said she didn't have the brains to keep up a |