Radio mirror (Jan-June 1948)

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serial, Dr. Susan. Later, I played the lead in Soldier's Wife, another daily serial which I did, through the war years, for the Canadian Government. I also appeared regularly as lead, and supporting actress, too, on such CBS feature programs as Theater of Freedom, John and Judy, and a great many Victory Loan programs, playing opposite— just fancy! — stars Charles Boyer, Spencer Tracy, Ralph Bellamy and a number of others. But when we were not working, Court and I lived that year and a half of what we knew was "borrowed time" very much by ourselves, keeping to ourselves, growing closer together, delighting in our day-by-day discovery of our many shared opinions and dreams. Going to the theater, for instance — we both love it! Reading. We read everything our work gives us time, and our eyes strength, to read. Playing Gin Rummy — crazy about it. Winston Churchill is the public personality we most admired in those war years. And still do. We both love to watch hockey games and horse races. We both love to ski. We share a pet aversion for pompous people and indifferently-cooked food. My greatest extravagance is clothes and Court's greatest extravagance is encouraging my extravagance! Spare ribs is our favorite dish. Long-winded storytellers, point-killers, blouses and shirts that won't stay tucked in, tea made with a teaball and brewed in a cup instead of a pot are "pet" annoyances. WE both staffer from chronic stagefright. We both like suits on me better than dresses. We both like slacks on me. We both dislike prints on me and the color blue. We both like red on me, and black and, most of all, gray. We both love earrings on me, and necklaces. And fur hats. We are both introverts and rather proud of it. We both love to dance and like night-clubs, in small doses. Court says the funniest thing I do is the way I invariably shut my left eye when I look into a mirror. "As though you are aiming a gun." We're superstitious about some things, the same things: We never put a hat on a bed. Never put shoes on a shelf higher than our heads. Believe it bad luck to pass on the stairs and wish birds would stay out-of-doors, where they belong. We love to hunt antiques. We hope to have a farm, one of these days ("I'm beginning to get very countrysquirish, these days," Court says. "I can now picture myself on my own acres!") — probably when we retire! We both want children. We talk shop an awful lot, at home. Read plays out loud together, playing all the parts. We go shopping together. I think the funniest thing about Court is his absent-mindedness— even forgets his own phone number, has to look it up! We both love flying and have flown a great deal. Our favorite midnight snack is breakfast cereal and buttered toast! We agree that the best thing in radio is the variety of parts you get, and the element of the unexpected; that the most trying thing in radio is the limitation of being able to use only your voice to portray a character. Since I was sixteen, my major ambition has been to be a great actress. Save for his one detour into the law. Court's major ambition has been to be a great actor. Eventually — soon, if possible— we both want to be in the theater as well as in radio. These are a few of the things we learned, one about the other, in that year and a half we had together after we were married. Some of them were the basic, very important things. Others were the little links that forge the whole chain of love and of marriage deeper and stronger so that even in that too-brief time we became, it seemed, not two entities, but one . . . Then Court went overseas. Then I spent my time, all of it, trying to get overseas. Nice things happened to me, during the years Court was away — such as when, in 1944, I won three national awards as — fancy! — Canada's leading radio actress. Once, this would have sent me dizzy with delight. It did delight me, of course it did. It did make me feel very proud and enormously grateful. But nothing was really important to me except getting to Court or having Court return to me. Among my other radio commitmentsI tried, soon after Court left, to get the BBC to sponsor my radio appearances in London. But, no. But guess what? The day after Court got back, came a wire from London. "Ship the woman immediately," it read. But, of course, too late. Happily, happily too late! "New York!" we said. "New York — and together!" — almost immediately after the first things, the tenderer things of reunion had been said. And New York it was. And is. Actually, when we came to New York, we had no job, no place to live, no real legal right to be in the country in which, without a job, we could not stay for more than thirty days at a time. But oh, how we were, how we are, fortunate! The first audition Court made was for the narrator (a very good part) on Tennessee Jed — which made it possible for us to stay in the States. Within two weeks of our arrival in New York, we were playing the leading roles in The American Portrait, a network broadcast over CBS. Now, little more than a year after we first stepped off the train in Grand Central, I am heard, daily, as Big Sister, over CBS; as Margot Kane in The Shadow over MBS — and I had a running part, besides, in Tennessee Jed. YOU hear Court, regularly, on Big Town and on the Music Hall show. And, between us, we've shared the good fortune of roles in almost every major network dramatic program in the past crowded year. Last September, we had another bit of luck — a rare bit, a collector's item, really — when we found an apartment in the East 60's, in New York. And, in Darien, Connecticut, a cottage, which is best described as "dreamy," for our summers. In the country, and in town, we do our own housework. I'm the cook but hate washing dishes. Court likes to wash dishes but hates .cooking. Being free lances in radio means odd hours and, often, unexpected hours so that our social life is something there is very little of — which means that when we are not working, when we are able to be at home, together, our life is as it was in that first year and a half of our new seven-year-old (but seeming seven-days-short) marriage. Living very much by ourselves, I mean, and to ourselves — and loving it. My heart told me, the moment I set eyes on Court those years ago. 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