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Herb Gordon, ex-casting head at ZIV, suggested he play thetitle role in “Bat Masterson” in the late 1950s, Gene said, “No. West- ems are through!” But Gordon persuaded him. “What’s so different about this one?” “To start with, Bat wears a derby and carries a cane.” “That made me reconsider the project,” Gene told me at lunch the other day. “It wasn’t the cane and the hat in themselves that made Masterson unique but what they stood for and what they did for the character.” And what that did for Gene. It was he who started the wide lapels, colored shirts and vests that years later became so popular with young people. “When I get through with the last segment of this series,” he plaintively insisted, “I will grow a beard and be sloppy. After 20 years of imagery, it’s now time for my career to take a whole new turn.” Vit I wondered whether his coraplaint was justified. Because Barry is one of the few “complete entertainers” in show business, He has been on stage, in movies and aight clubs. He has done one-man shows and has even emceed at county fairs. His album, “Gene Barry Sings of Love and Things,” sold well both here and abroad. It is only now, when he’s nearly 50 (June tion, the small courtesies he displays so effortlessly, combined with his masculinity, that veys is due to a slight frown that gives him a twinkle in his eye and a tug at the corner of his mouth that makes you think he’s working on a polite—but secret—joke. a somewhat ferocious and preoccupied countenance. Until he looks at you, that is. Then When we were lunching together, I saw eee ee a cea ee oie oy ADpRESss____________ aeeeeol —#9920 Bracelets @$i.3° (Aes S84pest. 0.) crry- tL — — —— _ White Geneis sensitive, he is not sentimental. When he and Betty Kalb were married hotel for their honeymoon «1p to Betty. “Why me?” she wanted to know. “Because I have to get back to work,” he replied, and left. _Gene and Betty came together through a freak accident when they were both appear- ing in “Glad to See You.” At the time, a lot of show people played baseball in Central Park every Sunday. Betty was hit on the head by a baseball and knocked out. “When I came to, Gene was picking me up. I thought I was dreaming. He looked so beautiful! We didn’t see each other again until we both had lunch at Sardi’s a few days later. He asked me for Barry with his daughter Liza: It is no secret that she can wind him around herlittle finger. NAME_________ | | enciosed is check or m.o. for $ every inch the suavehero,all six feet, one and a half inches of him,albeit a bit hunched, with October 22, 1944, he left the selection of the oe witcheratt mind rer ee .what ever on want to ‘eltevel This bracelet is said ae ee os has endeared him to female viewers. He’s his hazel eyes bore into you, and he’s totally aware of vou. nett . Only $1.00 could put down his plate. It is his considera- fact, in talking with him I got the distinct impression that he has become bored with life and even, perhaps, with himself. Part of the lethargic impression he con- COPPER‘BRACELET solid c the waitress nearly drop her tray when he gave her “The Look” and apologized for not having removed his napkin fast enough so she 14, 1971) that Gene is slowing down. In The Famous Mythical Good Health& & Luck Charm to soothe even most res — Natural Barry: five spats in26 sain “4 Family Weekly, April 4, 1971 a date, and that night we decided to get martied.” She sighed. “I think he’s better-looking now than he was when we got married. That’s |