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'"Radio programs bought the first basic things I needed. Movies and stage plays and special windfalls bought all the extras. 'The Corn Is Green,' in which I made my Broadway debut as the young Welsh lad, Morgan Evans, opposite Ethel Barrymore, paid for the fine Shakespeare lithographs on my living room wall. 'Street with No Name,' with Richard Widmark, my first gangster movie — the one that typed me for ten long years — bought my terrace furnishings. Howard Hughes' movie, 'Vendetta,' so long in the making, was a real windfall because it bought all my carpeting and the bedroom furniture, in addition. A chair represents a leading role on television. A table represents an extra radio assignment. Everything in the place is associated with some role I have played — even my collections of theatrical history, old playbills and programs, letters signed by famous actors." Although he comes from a non-theatrical family (only one other child — a brother who is now a Boston physician, married, with two carrot-topped little boys whom Donald adores), he began an acting career at ten when he played a wicked dragon in a school play in his native city of Pittsburgh. Someone forgot to punch holes in the dragon's nostrils and the small boy almost suffocated before they pulled the dragon's head off his. Far from discouraging him from further histrionic adventures, however stifling they might be, he decided that all this was fun. When at twelve he got the chance to play Macbeth in another school play, there was no holding him back. (The girl who was first cast in the part was ill but pretended to be sicker than she was so Donald would get the chance to go on in her place, he being the one other pupil who was letter-perfect in every line. He remembers only that her name was Carol, and he will never forget her unselfishness.) About this time, he began to develop a talent for dialects and accents which have now become an important part of his acting equipment, an ability to listen to the cadence and rhythms of any new language and reproduce them even before the words are familiar to him. As things worked out. however, he was to spend the next five years in straight academic studies, until he matriculated at Carnegie Tech at seventeen. During his first semester, he learned that the husband-and-wife team of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne would be starring in Pittsburgh in a new play. On the hunch they might see him. he asked for an interview— and got it. Miss Fontanne let him read for her on the big, empty stage of the Nixon Theater, where he felt very small and very scared and his throat turned to cotton as soon as he began to read. She understood and sympathized, and had him come back to read again for Mr. Lunt. When they decided to take him on tour, his parents insisted he finish the school semester but put no other obstacles in his way. "I want you to ' have your school credits in such shape that you can come back and go right on with your education, if things don't work out for you," his father said. Happily, things did work out. Although the way was not always easy, he never did have to admit failure and go back. tie spent the next twe years learning and working. He went on to play opposite other theatrical greats — with Ethel Barrymore in his Broadway debut play, with Helen Hayes in "Twelfth Night," Maurice Evans in "Night Must Fall," Ruth Chatter' ton in "Smile of the World," and a score of others. He made his motion picture debut as the young boy. Joshua, in "Watch on the Rhine," with Bette Davis and Paul Lukas. And there was always radio and, in the past few years, television, on which he has appeared in almost every big dramatic program at one time or another. Radio started 'way back — actually, back at KDKA, Pittsburgh, when he was still in grade school and played Tiny Tim on a Christmas program which was broadcast. Professionally, however, it started through the help of the late Charles Warburton, then responsible for My True Story, known and loved for the help he and the program gave to many young actors. At that time, Donald had never heard his name and when one day he got / was DESPERATE for he/pi Thousands of persons who felt helpless in the face of seemingly insurmountable problems have found the very help they needed on radio's "My True Story." For this vivid, dramatic program shows how real people solve their most difficult emotional problems. Taken from the files of "True Story Magazine," each heartfelt story deals with situations you will recognize— because the people involved might be your neighbors or your friends. And the problem solved might very well be yours. 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