Radio-TV mirror (July-Dec 1953)

p again at the studio. Mr. Babbitt came backstage to talk to us all together. I know he was trying to make us all relax. But, with me, nothing could relax the tightness I felt in my heart. Then the program was on the air and we started going out on the stage, one by one. I was number three and, as I waited for my turn, the seconds stretched to an eternity. At last I was on stage and Mr. Babbitt was asking me about my parents and my reason for wanting to be glamorous. "Where were you born, Gracelynne?" he asked. He had to speak very slowly for me to understand, because I was so nervous. "In San Francisco," I said. "But you were raised in Shanghai?" "Yes. When I was born, my father went to a palmist. He was worried about his family. I was the last-born and so far he had five girls. He wanted a male heir. The palmist told him to go back to Shanghai. When I was eighteen months old, we sailed on a giant ocean vessel and I lived in China until I married Lee in 1946." As I stood in front of Mr. Babbitt, I remember thinking about my father and my marriage. My father had been against it. He warned me that it would be hard. In America, I would have to work — but under his roof we had a housekeeper and a cook. I would not be prepared, he said, to keep house or cook for my husband as American women do. But I was in love . . . and when you have love, nothing else matters. I remember thinking my father had been partly right. It had been hard. After our marriage, we had come by ship to America and then by train to Chicago, where Lee's sister lived. It was a great country. Great in size and great in freedom and ideas. But I was homesick right away. It was too big, too great, too different for me. But then, there I was on the stage. Now, if the audience was willing, here was my chance to be glamorous. Better still, if they wished, they could Americanize me and make me feel really at home. It was up to their applause. I know I held my breath as the other women took their last turns in front of the cameras. The noise from the audience was deafening and there was a great roaring in my ears. I never did hear my name mentioned nor did I hear the applause. It wasn't until Mr. Babbitt came up to me and led me out alone that I realized that the beginning of my dream had come true. They had chosen me to be glamorous . . . to have the "American beauty" look. The next twenty-four hours were a whirlwind of activity. The way we rushed around, it was like a sale day at Magnin's, where I worked while Leland went to school. First we met Mary Webb Davis, who took me under her wing. Not only did I visit classes at her modeling school, but I learned tricks of glamour — how to walk, talk, and carry myself. Then we went to pick out my new glamour wardrobe (part of my winnings) , which was like having Christmas in the middle of the year. 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