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Over bacon and eggs at midday in a corner of Dannys Hideaway, this beloved Irish actor, humanitarian, bon and vivant, leprechaun master raconteur ranged from football to living with Spencer Tracy to Ireland to movies and even to the lion who ate ice cream at the bar in this very boite i 21 years ago. I asked one of the boys, said Pat, beginning the tale of the lion were it you here the night 21 were we was years ago, ... I doing a show (Masquerade Party) and had a lion it was no gimmick . . . it was a real lion. We had ... a lot of I trainers around, but he broke off the leash. It was an audience show and people were under the chairs, on the chandeliers, climbing the walls including me! It was like a fire. I froze, but the lion sat there, counting the house . . . seeing how many he could chew up. THE TRAINER walked over and stamped on the leash and said it will be all right everybody. Well, the lion was bigger than that table (he pointed to the one holding our late breakfast) so somebody had the bright idea to take him over to Dannys. It was 11 at night, the lion comes over, he loves ice cream so they brought some vanilla ice cream into the bar. The lion put both paws on the bar while he gulped down the confection. Ive got news for you ! This must have put at least 150 guys on the wagon that night. Pat described his first encounter with Eloise in Chicago during the run of I walked up Broadway. to the stage door: got a load of these gams, gave e her a little pat on the and she threw a right hook at me and flattened me, and I married her. Tasked about the days when he lived with Spencer der-rier- a Tracy in room five-dollar-a-we- ek 4 V t e? Who in the hell cooked?. We lived in a broken down tances! OBrien and Tracy exist- ed n on a diet filling up on beans lavishly doused with catsup and mustard, grabbing the largest hunks of bread they would find or freeloading. An occasional splurge for a party meant a platter of cold cuts, salami and ham sandwiches, cakes, wine and the local booze. At the time Spence said, If they outlawed steak and onions we didnt know it, near-starvatio- Jimmy Cagney. Did you ever cook in 1 your room? HE TOOK along one of his most prized possessions, a wooden bar carved with the autographs of I many of his friends. took that right out of its roots. I had signatures before I built the house when we lived at Marlboro (a Spanish styled house) when we were first married. I had a little bar. I thought someday this will be great for posterity. When you see the names it will knock you right out of the box. Ive got everything from eys, pimps, actors, thieves and priests (110 by count). Pat recalled. Pats favorite with raisins dates from eating at Dinty Moores in New York. Its great, I aukee-born OBrien Tracy and enlisted together in World War I). Pat 26-roo- m cook? The only thing Ive ever cooked up are acquain- love it! I remember the raisin pies from the Navy. Thats all they gave us at Great Lakes. (The Milw- NOT SORT of hungry, Bay and took ferry boat rides to Staten Island. Nowadays the OBriens live with their younger daughter Brigid in Brentwood, Calif. Three years ago they sold the house nicknamed they Tara (from Gone With The Wind). It was a complete replica of Mt. Vernon. I always call it my house, because we built it in 1940, Pat said. Now with the kids grown up, theres only the three of us. So were very happy, instead of having three floors we have one. room. Mrs. Brown was the landlady. Some of the time, we didnt go out because we didnt know if shed let us back in. Half the time we hadnt paid the rent, so wed sneak out. So how in the hell do you more dramatic, Pat said throwing in a bit of blarney. It was $12, six bucks apiece. You were sort of hungry at the time? I he was a chorus boy with i' most starved so went to freeloading parties. food of rice pudding made a? i, Pat OBrien didnt cook when he roomed with Spencer Tracy they were so broke they al- in New York. It was on 790 West End Avenue. Actually, I said five to make it sound period! hungry retorted. At the time i t JS H : f During Entertaining . their courtship money was scarce the couple spent time in New York at the zoo munching huge bags of popcorn, ate steamers and. lobsters from. Sheepshead chez OBrien has changed little over the years, only the .cast of characters have changed. We used to have weekly club with Spence, Cagney, Lynne Overman, when , Frank - McHugh, rt w - Jimmy c |
