Modern Screen (Dec 1948 - Oct 1949)

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Most of them were extremely strait-laced and Colleen soon discovered that they looked with narrow-eyed suspicion on a person coming from California. When, in addition, a person happened to come from Hollywood — which, they'd heard, was a sink of wild revelry and sin — well, there were two strikes on her! It took time to overcome this nonsensical prejudice — three semesters, in fact — but Colleen accomplished it. She was even elected "Friendly Queen" and given quarters in the honor house. But that's getting a little ahead of the story. Three semesters took more money than Colleen had brought to Provo. That's where photographer Peterson comes in. Peterson showed up at the university and talked Colleen into posing for some commercial shots that he thought he could sell to magazines and advertising agencies. He was right. Colleen made the covers of a dozen of the country's top periodicals. Her face and form began to appear in newspaper ads and on billboards. The money she got went for her tuition. But life still couldn't be lived lavishly. And that's what got Colleen and her roomie, Betty Clark, into trouble. It was the second summer, and a hot day, when Colleen and Betty fell to talking about swimming. But neither of them had bathing suits. Colleen sighed and said she thought she'd go for a walk. Before she left she looked at the chintz curtains over the window. They were white with a green flower design. "Wouldn't that make up into dreamy swimsuits?" she murmured. Betty also looked at the curtains — and nodded slowly. solid seamstress . . . Does the rest of this incident have to be told? The day got warmer. Colleen returned. There were big missing gaps in the chintz and Betty was the most industrious little needlewoman you ever saw, sewing the gaps into bras and shorts. So the girls had their swim. That evening, when the depredation was discovered by the house mother, both of them were thrown out on their pretty and still water-logged ears. Life got a little tougher. The two girls, and three others who happened to be roomless at the time, had to move into a two-room basement apartment. It was on a vacation home from school that Colleen happened to visit the Presbyterian church several times and experienced a sensation that she explains only by saying, "I just felt that I was in the right place . . . that I was where I belonged." She was still thinking of this toward the end of her third semester in Brigham Young when her money ran short again and she knew she'd have to leave school. Some time before, she had received word from her agent that he thought he could place her in a studio but she had declined again. She had even received a note from Ivan Kahn, head talent scout of 20th Century-Fox. He had wanted to know whether she was taking dramatic lessons and whether she'd be interested in a picture career. She had replied that she was not studying dramatics and was intent on continuing her school work. Now she fished out this note from Kahn and wrote him again, asking if he would like to have her drop in and see him. She got an immediate and affirmative reply Solution to from play to film (page 100) We told you it was easy! Hope your definitions match the ones below. PLAY FORT SLAY FORE SLAT FIRE SLOT FIRM SOOT FILM SORT and a month later, when she returned home, she made two quick visits. The first was to Hollywood Presbyterian Church. The second was to Kahn. She began her church mission activities and her studio work at the same time. She found she loved them both, but that some people couldn't understand the combination. "They are so far apart," they said. The curious notion that there's something sinful about acting is a widespread belief. She was troubled about that for a long time. Then she thought she had the answer. "If I felt that if it was God's will that I shouldn't be in the business I would leave it," she told her mother. "I love acting and see no reason, unless He leads otherwise, why I should drop it just because some people have the absurd idea that it's a naughty business." And from what has happened since, Colleen feels even more certain that she is obeying God's will. She had minor parts in a few pictures and then was notified to take riding lessons because she was to be starred in Green Grass of Wyoming. For five weeks she was at the riding stables daily — and then the word came that Peggy Cummins was to get the part instead. It was in executive Ben Lyon's office that she was told and Ben prepared for tears after his announcement. But there were none. Colleen was calm. She was already telling herself that this was the will of Someone who knew better. It would turn out as He desired. There was no going home to be comforted by her mother or friends, no hysterics or mourning over hard luck or lost opportunity. There was a Christian College Conference going on at Redlands, California, where she could be helpful. She left for it immediately. It was while she was at the Conference that she was summoned to answer a longdistance telephone call. It was Ben Lyon. It was true that she was not going to star in Green Grass, he said, but there were other plans. She was to get a top role in Walls of Jericho, and after that a starmaking part in Chicken Every Sunday. Colleen was thankful as she returned to the meeting after the call. She had come to help others and she had found out that she had been helped herself. That, Colleen Townsend is convinced, is God's way. The End You'll find the screen story of Colleen Townsend's newest movie, Chicken Every Sunday, in the March issue of Screen Stories Magazine.