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o BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET .
Show Business Offers Tragedy,
Heart Break for Stage-Struck
By BILLY ROSE—
As everyone and his Aunt Esmerelda knows, there’s no business
like show business for the fortunate few who make the grade. But—
In 1946, a stage-struck lass from
Nebraska named Judy Peters moved
into a boarding house off Times Square and began looking for work in
the theatre. As per usual, she was average bright, round of face, figure
and eye, and determined to make her mark on the 45th Street marquees.
A few months later, thanks to a
stage manager who took a shine to
her, she got her first part—a three-
line role in a two-
act play that last.
ed four perform-
ances.
For a solid and
sobering year after
that, Judy made the
rounds, eating the
usual health sal-
“ads and waiting on
tables to pay for
her furnished
(after a fashion)
room. It was heart-
and arch-breaking work, but it fin-
ally paid off when the Big Chance |
came along—the second lead in a
Shaw revival.
. * *
THE DAY AFTER the play
opened out of town, Judy wired her
folks they wouldn’t have to help
her any more, and when George
Jean Nathan singled her out for
mention in his review the farm girl
figured it was all over but the mov-
ie offers. '
One swell mnotice, however,
doth not a star make, and when
the play closed after a run of
three months, Judy had to go
back to reading the casting
notes in Actors Cues. By this
time her family, fed up with
ber show business shenanigans,
bad put ber on notice that the
only further money she could
expect would be train fare back
Billy Rose
to Nebraska. And so, to keep
body and bopes alive, the
would-be Helen Hayes went
back to waiting on tables.
Last April, after three grim years
of scratch-as-scratch-canning, Judy
was handed the script of Keith
Winters’ old hit, ‘The Shining
Hour,” by the director of a sum-
mer stock company. He asked her
to bone up on the part of Judy
Linden—a typical farm girl whose
accent was pure Midwest, and
whose face and figure were more
silo than sex. .
THE AUDITION WENT off with-
out hitch or hesitation, and Judy
was in the heaven above seventh
when the director complimented her
on how well she read her lines. He
told her he'd let her know definite-
ly the following day, and she went
back to her one-room-and-half-bath
to wait.
The next night the landlady
smelled gas, but by the time
the police arrived Judy was
dead. On the bed by ber side
was the script of “The Shining
Hour” opened to the scene in
Act Two where Judy Linden,
the farm girl, takes ber own
life. i
The cops, looking for a suicide
motive, didn't have far to look. On
the dresser was a note from the di-
rector: Sorry, honey. You read the
part fine, but I'm afraid you're
not the type.”
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By Jim and Norma Hutchison
(Continued from Last Week)
Everyone who has ever visited
San Francisco goes home. raving
about the hills ‘and cable cars. I
had always wondered if it was
true—but believe it or not—it is.
The -hills start about two blocks
from Market street which is the
main street of town. They climb up,
and up, and up until they practic-
ally disappear from view. As one
stands watching them, all of a
your ears, and a tiny speck appears
tipping over the top, swinging down
the slope, and swaying to a stop
at every street corner as the brake-
man pulls with all his might on the
lever in the back. As it comes
closer you can see strange looking
appendages sticking out from all
sides and waving up and down, and
you begin to wonder what the
name is for a 16-legged ‘“‘octopus”.
Gradually the squirming extensions
resolve into being arms, legs, and
heads of people sitting, standing,
swinging or hanging on a—no, it
can’t be—yes, it is a Cable Car!
They look exactly like they've
always been pictured—enclosed in
the center part, and open on the
ends. Seats run length-wise and
those on the front face away from
the center of the car so that people
sit facing out. This wouldn't be so
bad, but those who can’t find seats
just jump on the steps and hang on
anyway—which accounts for all the
waving arms and legs. At every cor-
ner, people dash to get on before it
even stops, and those who want to
get off have to holler above the
clanging bell and the clattering
brake, push against the stampeding
feet, squirm through waving arms
and projecting bundles, and finally
emerge somehow in the middle of
the street with a car bearing down
on them about two feet away. The
most fun “of all is found .in riding
to .the very end of the line where
the car is put on a turntable and
headed back the opposite direc-
tion. The conductor and the brake-
man get out and push it around—
but they never have to do it them-
selves, for all the passengers getting
off or on just grab a handle and
help turn it. It was very funny to
watch—and more fun to participate.
The houses found in these streets
that run up and down the hills like
terraces, are built on twenty-five
foot lots and most of the houses
have garages on the first floor
with living quarters overhead. This
can’t be compared to anything I
have ever seen. They have practi-
cally no yards at all on these tiny
lots, and each cellarless house is
several feet above the one next
door. Looking down from Twin
Peaks I couldn't help thinking that
the roof tops looked like steps in a
giant’s home. No screens on win-
dows, because no flies in salt air.
There are few gas stations in town
because of the acute shortage of
land, and this is also true of park-
ing lots. Right across the street
from our hotel, a man had figured
out a rather unique way of solving
the parking problem by building a
garage four stories underground. At
ground level, it was a lovely park.
Along the California coast there
are over 20 missions, founded
many years ago by adventurous
Catholic priests and still kept up
in the original manner as nearly
1s possible. The one at Santa Bar-
bara is perhaps the best known,
but for actual beauty and peaceful
reverence, we preferred the Mis-
sion Deloras at San Francisco. The
building was constructed of adobe
and straw, painted white, the older
parts of the tile roof having been
molded over a man’s leg. The or-
iginal timbers were still bound with
rawhide thongs. The walls were 4
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THE POST, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1,150
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ONLY
YESTERDAY
From The Post of ten and
twenty years ago this week.
Ten years ago in the Dallas Post
Items from August 30, 1940 issue
Fred Kiefer, from a hunting trip
to the Canadian Rockies, sends
word to Henry M. Laing Fire Com-
pany that it should encourage
formation of a drill team which
could be used as a nucleus for
home defense, on the order of
home defense measures being taken
in Canada.
109th is home from three weeks
intensive training. at Lisbon and
Tobyhanna. It is expected that
the National Guard will soon be
mobilized to train conscripted re-
cruits at Indiantown Gap.
Joe Elicker was on hand in Nas-
sau to enjoy the excitement of the
arrival of the Duke and Duchess
of Windsor. He has been in the
Bahamas since January, assisting in
preparations for the welcome. He
is associated with the Development
Board.
Milk prices will probably rise
this fall. Present price is 12 cents
per quart.
The 30,000 cubic yard cut be-
low Dallas on the new highway is
about one-third finished.
Dallas had ice in August this
week, a thin film of ice on the
highway during a thin rain, and
a skim of ice on a pan of water
reported from Shavertown. Unex-
pected frost ruined delicate flowers
and vegetables.
Andrew Sordoni again heads the
Daniel C. Roberts Fire Company.
The Ladies Aid at Alderson gave
its first flower show last Thurs-
day with Mrs. David Morgan gen-
eral chairman. Loren Keller won
25 ribbons, with a special award
for a tall spray of Pcardy gladiolus.
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THE DALLAS POST YOU KNOW ME
“More than a mewspaper, TRY
a community institution” Bl Himself
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! The way we see it, President
Truman paid General MacArthur a
compliment when he asked the
general to withdraw his statement
on Formosa.
If we or Joe Doakes had written
to the V.F.W. that it would be
a good idea to send Americans into
Formosa the President
have paid enough attention to it
to stop cleaning his fishing equip-
ment.
But when General MacArthur
dictates a letter that is something
else. i
The general is well liked and
respected by the American people.
When he speaks, we listen. But
who would do ‘all of the fighting
if we accepted his idea? Why,
American kids = alone of course.
Our sons, our neighbors boys, the
kids in the office working with us.
That may be a good idea for the
top brass, but it doesn’t sit so
well with us. .
We have enough American boys,
in Korea, France, Germany, Japan
and numerous, other places on this
globe now. We think
time some other democratic na-
tions take a hand in defending
themselves against Communism.
We wouldn't mind if a United
Nations army seized Formosa, but
just our kids alone, “no!”
We believe the administration
in Washington agrees with General
MacArthur that Formost must not
fall into Red hands. The Presi-
dent would not have ordered the
Seventh United States fleet there
if this were not so, but the ad-
ministration’s policy, as we see it,
is to let the U. N. order us in. In
that way we would get some help
from other nations.
We believe: that Russia would be
delighted if America alone were
the aggressor at Formosa or in
any other part of the world. That
is just what these Red babies are
waiting for. How could our dele-
gates in the United Nations de-
fend such a position when they
have argued for months that we
are in Korea only to defend an
aggression of Communists?
Some persons in this country ad-
vocate dropping an atomic bomb
on Russia right now. We'll bet a
dollar to a doughnut that they
are not the ones who plan to do
it. They remind us of the fight
manager who tells his boxer “To
go in and knock the other guy's
block off, he can’t hurt us”,
If Russia attacks us or any other
country we are willing to see the
boys in our family and our neigh-
bors kids go back to war to repel
Communism, but we see no reason
why they should return to uni-
form as aggressors, even if the most
respected man in the United States
says so.
In our and Joe Doakes opinion,
war with Russia will not be a pic-
nic, so let's wait until they start
something so we won’t have to
do all of the fighting alone.
Another thing, if we do have
another war, we believe that all
of us should be conscripted; capital
and labor as well as the kids. We
are 59 years old; we can’t run up
and down hills anymore, or carry
a gun and pack on our back, but
we can still print. We visited our
kid in Fort Sill, Okaholma, during
World War II and went through
the printing office, where fifty or
more healthy kids were trying to
set type for the government. They
knew nothing about printing. They
could have been fighting while a
few of us old timers set the type.
We believe that ship yard work-
ers. merchant mariners, ammuni-
tion workers, tool makers and the
persons who own the factories and
ship yards should all be conscrip-
ted, and believe me, when that
war is over there never will be
another one.
That's the way we feel*about it,
and although we are registered a
Republican, we are on the side of
that fellow down in Washington
who is carrying a tremendous load,
with snipers all around him, despite
the fact that he was elected Presi-
dent of the United States by a
majority of voters.
STATE POLICE SAY:
People aren’t expendable, so
cars must be dependable .
their drivers, too. Remember,
a car is no safer than its weak-
Mr. and Mrs. Alva Eggleston est part. That part may be the
have a six-pound son, Robert steering wheel . . . or the
Himmler. driver behind it.
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§ Barnyard Notes
The Hindus have nothing on the staff of The Dallas Post. Some-
body left a mammoth June Bug in a glass jar outside of the office
door with the expectation that we might write an item about it,
Mrs. Hicks, seeing the prisoner, gave him his freedom before we had
a chance to look him over or write a word.
: Visitors
We were pleased to show Col. Dorrance Reynolds, Mary Weir
and Lettie Culver through the plant Monday night after the meet-
ing of the Back Mountain Citizens’ Committee for better schools.
To our surprise we learned that the Colonel was once a printer him-
self in a small way. When he was a boy, he and a group of neigh-
bors printed their own paper for neighborhood circulation.
The Colonel still remembers all the printer's lingo and asked
where we kept the stick, galleys, quoins and if we needed any fonts
of type.
The Reynolds family have been loyal readers of The Post since
long before we became its editor. The Colonel thinks it may have
slumped a little under our management.. He is especially fond of
the issues back in 1910 and 1911 when The Post had some slick
correspondents in Stull and Harveys Lake.
His daughter Mrs. Constance Reynolds Belin of Waverly has also
been a subscriber for years and never pays her subscription without
writing an encouraging note or comment upon some item of local
interest. In the old days when the going was pretty rough the
encouragement of the Reynolds family meant more than anybody
who isn’t a country editor can appreciate.
Lettie Culver is another who has had a close association with The
Post .for years. When we first came to Dallas the name that in-
trigued us most was that of Lettie Lee. If anybody knows a prettier
name for a girl, we haven't heard it. And Lord—she named her
own daughter, Karen. Just shows you the extent to which Lettie
will' go to do the unusual. I don’t know a time when Lettie has
been called on to do something worthwhile for her community that
she hasn’t been in the forefront of the action. Not all of the breaks
have come her way; but only once have I seen her lose her spunk
or that happy disposition that’s worth a million bucks.
What we didn’t know about the shop to tell the Colonel, Lettie
did. She could appreciate our better equipment because she wrote
items when we didn’t have it.
Mary had a suggestion to offer. “Don’t let The Post get too city-
fied.” I know just what Mary meant. She’s another that loves
the country in big double dips and thinks that the city has lost
forever what rural America has had from the beginning—and what
some of us are still trying to preserve. You could no more put
Mary in a rural home on a fifty foot lot than you could keep a herd
of buffaloes’ on Mac’s parking lot. She’s a woman of the qpen spaces
who by her ability as a farm manager has overcome the prejudices,
the old time farmers might have against an efficient city secretary
taking hold of and building an outstanding dairy herd and farm.
What goes for Lettie goes for Mary. Wherever there is community
work to be done, you'll find them both.
From the Same Fountain Head
A few days ago while Myra and I were attending the McNeal
sale, Mrs. Claude Cooke invited us to her home next door to see
some of her antiques of old Dallas. Many of them have been in
Claude’s family for generations and that made them especially ap-
pealing. We were fascinated by some rare old books that were the
property of the late Charles Cooke, his father, and that had also
belonged to his grandfather and great grandfather. Some of them
dated back to the early days of the nineteenth centruy and con-
tained boldly written admonitions apparently from a father to his
son on the proper treatment of a good book. We were thrilled
when we read the words “Blairstown” or “Hope, N. J.” under the
signatures of the owners. We, too, have some old books contain-
ing those same addresses. They belonged to our grandfather, Free-
“man West, who as a boy in New Jersey attended those same schools,
and was a close friend of John I. Blair, the railroad man who found-
ed Blair Academy and whose stone mill in Blairstown, my grand-
father for many ‘years operated. It was interesting to learn after
these many years that Claude and his family still retain their con-
tacts with some of my relatives in Blairstown—whom I see much
more seldom than they.
The prize antique, of the many that include, glassware, chairs,
tables, beds, dressers and chests of drawers from the Cooke family
and from the home of the late Ira D. Shaver, Claude's maternal
grandfather, was a beautiful jeweled Masonic emblem the like of
which we had never seen. It belonged to a great-grandfather in a
family of five generations of Masons. It is now the cherished posses-
sion of Betty, who of all the Cookes, is the one who loves old things
the most, and who had it restored by Dwight Fisher at Clarks.
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