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KATHY NOLAN
River Boat Gal
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A AM SICK and tired of all those stories in the magazines which say that I am lonely and unhappy, living alone. It simply is not true. I spend my time being happy and thinking about being happy. I'd be a lot happier if people would stop prying this way!"
This was Kathy Nolan, the "Kate" of "The Real McCoys" and she seemed downright truculent on the happiness bit. "I am happy!" she reiterated, and although we tried not to peek, we could have sworn that she bit her lip over that statement. She went on, "My father is here for a couple of weeks ... he is a veteran actor, you know . . . and we are having a wonderful time. We have so much to reminisce about. It was my dad, you know, who taught me to have a mind of my own!"
And a mind of her own she has, this petite, bronze-haired girl, as Hollywood and TV have been finding out.
From her background you might think that she was a character out of an Edna Ferber novel. This is because of her beginnings on a Mississippi River showboat . . . and I'll bet you have never met a girl who grew up on one. But Kathy did. Her father owned it (The Golden Rod) and Kathy was carried before the showboat audience at the tender age of 13 months. She stayed with it, progressing from character to character until she was a lovely leading lady at 16. Tutors kept up her education through these years. After that she went ashore and to various schools.
"You see>, T got to know a great many people but never to know anyone very well. So I had to learn to cope with them, to accept them and to make them accept me. I had to learn to deal with them."
A firm little chin indicated that when she
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Brought up on a Mississippi showboat, Kathy is a thoroughly unconventional young lady ivho knows what she likes about everything
By HELEN LOUISE WALKER
KATHY likes to cook but seldom goes by the book. She prefers to experiment with her own concoctions.
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