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BY HELEN LUDLAM
THERE WASN'T THE USUAL SLOW RISE TO FAME FOR DORIS NOLAN. SHE CLICKED IMMEDIATELY, AND THE STUDIO CONSIDERS HER ONE OF THE BIGGEST "FINDS" OF THE YEAR.
DORIS NOLAN is one of fortune's fcvorites. fHers is not o story of struggle, frustration, poverty, ond heartache. She laughed her woy to fanne and fortune in less than tvv'o short years.
Perhaps that happy laughter of hers is what drove the big bad wolf from the Nolon door. Because there was a time just after 1929 when the family fortunes got a start on the toboggan and things looked shaky for a while. But have you ever noticed that bad luck never sticks to people who con laugh?
Doris was born in New York, but when she was a tiny girl her parents moved to New Rochelle where they still live. She hos on older sister, Gladys, and a younger brother, Warren.
Doris was always crazy about acting, ond her cousin, who is Boyd Nolan, encouroged her in her hobby. She was very active in the school and civic dramatic groups and her sister guards several scrapbooks filled with raves about Doris from the local papers, and which she showed me with great pride.
Gladys is the domestic one of the fomily, and keeping house for Doris in Hollywood is more fun than a barrel of monkeys. Theirs is a popular menage, I had heard, and when I met the family I wosn't surprised. Both gir|s have a frank, joyous personality with no nonsense about them.
Just before I met Doris her studio told me that it considered her one of the importont "finds" of the year. She looked a little startled when I told her that, as though she felt that she still hod a lot to learn and didn't want to be boosted up the ladder too fast. But Gladys and her mother were oil smiles. They have the utmost faith in Doris.
There wos a holiday spirit in the atmos
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Though Doris is looked upon as a comedienne, she is an emotional octress at heart, and while her role in "As Good As Married" isn't very dramatic, at least It gives her opportunity to display her ability.
ohere. Mrs. Nolan had settled the girls in hlollywood, but her husbond and son need her core In the East, so she Is not with them this time.
But she wosn't uneasy. She has trained her girls to be self-reliant. Gladys is a splendid housekeeper. Both of them have p'enty of "orse sense and Hollywood is only a few hours away by plane if an emergency demands her presence there. But it must hove been inrilling to those two sisters, starting out together on a road thot ooks so glamorous and so exciting.
"We each hove fun in our own way," Doris explained. "I love to act. It isn't work to me — everything about it thrills me through and ihrough. Gladys loves to keep house. She loves to cook and to give porties ond go to parties. I hate cooking but I like to clean house ond I'm good ot it, too. I haven't time for many parties, but Gladys never misses one if she con help It."
"Where do the boy friends come In?" I asked, having heard rumors of her popularity.