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KATHY NOLAN continued
'7 shall have a home soon," Kathy says, "and I shall have dog and a garden and birds — the things I haven't had all my life
said "deal" she meant "deal" on her own terms. Kathy is not a girl to compromise.
What she had to "deal with," of course, was that she seemed "different" to the other teenagers in her schools. A girl who had grown up on a river boat! And teenagers can be pretty cruel to anyone who is "different." But Kathy wound up as cheerleader at St. Louis High School and she also wrote for the school paper. "I had to make them see that my life was glamourous instead of 'queer'," she says. Which, of course, it was. But Kathy was on her way. She had learned to "cope" and she had learned to be a person.
"I had learned to be aggressive," she reflects. "Otherwise I'd have been just a blank. And I had no intention of being a blank!"
"After that," she said, "I went to New York to stay with my sister and go on with my career."
Kathy, you see, never had any doubts about her career. She knew. But despite the determined little chin and her lifelong experience in show business, she had many of the vicissitudes other ambitious girls have experienced there . . . the stint as a salesgirl in a small shop, the period as a waitress, the time she spent as an usherette at the Palace when Judy Garland was electrifying that venerable theatre. But Kathy doesn't daunt easily and she knew her abilities. "I'll make them accept me,"
she said, as she had before when a school girl. And they d Presently there were small parts on radio and TV and th the role of the sister in the ABC-TV series, "Jamie," wi Brandon de Wilde. And then . . . her dreams beginning come true . . . the role of "Wendy" with Mary Martin "Peter Pan" on Broadwray, no less. She flitted happily abo in that charming production during its two-year run and th played the same role in the two TV productions. Kathy w set. And not at all surprised, we might add! She knew.
And then to the West Coast where she assumed the ro of "Kate" in "The Real McCoys." A bit different fr "Wendy" but satisfying.
"I always have a course plotted ahead," she confided. B I shan't tell you right now about what I plan next in n| career, although it is definite. What I am doing right now h. to do with my personal life. I am furnishing an apartme; and planning to buy a house."
She wasn't about to compromise on either of these project either, although there were any number of people standin by, offering her advice about "periods," "themes" and so o "I know what I want," said Kathy. "I want antiques an I want to shop for them, myself. I am an old-fashioned gir I guess, and these things mean something to me. Perhaps tr roots I never really had growing up on a river boat."
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