Radio-TV mirror (July-Dec 1954)

Susan Has a Boy! (Continued from page 40) world she wanted to do, but when it came to marriage. . . . There, all her longing for the comfortable, secure home she still remembered influenced her emotions, and a European perspective clarified her plan. "I want an American husband," she would specify, and she would brush aside all the other girls' mention of romantic Latins and Frenchmen who could turn a graceful compliment. "That's all very well," she would state, "but Americans make the best husbands of all." Susan's mind was made up, and Susan, being the kind of girl who plans and then makes those plans come true, fully expected that, when the time came for serious romance, everything would work out exactly according to the script she prepared in her own mind day by day. The doctor or the lawyer — the American of substantial profession, understanding heart and great consideration — was bound to turn up right on cue. There was just one thing Susan overlooked. Drawing as she did on age-old feminine wisdom when making her plans, Susan should also have recalled that, by tradition, Cupid is the most capricious of creatures and notoriously an erratic marksman when he shoots his darts. Susan, of course, fell in love with the exact opposite of the man she pictured. It happened in Toronto, where the Canadian division of United Artists was making the picture, "Forbidden Journey." Susan, having just made "Lost Boundaries" for United Artists in Hollywood, was one of the two non-Canadians in the cast. The other non-Canadian was Jan Rubes (pronounced "roobesh") , a tall, broadshouldered young man chosen for the role of a Czechoslovakian stowaway. It was more than a mere play part for him, Susan soon discovered. He, too, had been born in her own native country and had come to Canada in 1950. Instantly, there was the appeal of memories shared, the sound of songs long unheard. Jan, Susan learned, had been Czechoslovakia's junior tennis champion in the carefree days before the war. He also had been cross country ski champion. His mother was still in Czechoslovakia and so was Susan's father. But the songs were more important than the memories, for Jan, a lyric basso, had already achieved a program over CBC Trans-Canada titled Soiigs Of My People. Directed particularly toward recent immigrants, each week it featured the folk songs of a different national group. Jan, who speaks five languages and sings in twelve, was writer and narrator as well as the singing star. Through his songs and his stories, he sought both to ease the immigrant's nostalgia and to help him adjust to his new home. Susan was charmed with Jan and Jan was charmed with Susan. So charmed that, during the first month after she returned to New York, he ran up a phone bill of ninety-six dollars, and hers totalled seventy-eight. Susan's dream of a native-born American husband diminished. 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