Modern Screen (Dec 1949 - Nov 1950)

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lucky dahl (Continued from page 59) "Not thinking of becoming an actress, are you, Arlene?" a Lutheran minister, her cousin, asked a little sternly. "An actress? No, sir. Not an actress . . ." But there it was. The word. Spoken. It sent the blood to her cheeks and burned her eyes. An actress . . . yes. . . . Her mother and father knew. They watched her as she read plays to herself, mouthing each word. They left her in that world of her own. When she was a high school freshman she got an A plus on a paper she'd written about Katharine Cornell. For her teacher, reading between the lines, could see the adoration there. . . . When the Better Drama League of Minneapolis held tryouts for Tom Sawyer, Arlene was on hand, reading for the role of Becky Thatcher, getting the role. At eleven, she'd fallen in love. No one could tell her, "You're too young." No one could laugh it off, because there she was —in love: And the boy said he loved her. They were chaperoned on their dates until she was sixteen, and then her mother told her to wait a while before she got married. Wait until the boy was twenty-one, and she eighteen. So they waited. Arlene continued through high school as an honor student, winning her classmates' votes as the "Most Likely To Succeed," winning a trophy from the Bearcat Legion Post Band as the outstanding Drum Majorette, winning an art contest and a scholarship to a noted New York School of costume design. . . . Arlene didn't accept the scholarship. Her mother had suffered a stroke a few years back and had become a semi-invalid. Arlene didn't want to leave her. She took some courses at the University, worked in a department store near home as a model, as a display assistant. And then her world began to crash. The boy she loved, didn't love her anymore. She was heartbroken, the pain lingered on for five years. . . . Then her mother died. 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