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There"* nothing
like a bit of good advice.
I always say — nothing
worse, that is. For if
there's one kind
of person who taught
me to think for myself, it's
the guy who thinks
he knows it all!
OF THE
Rumors have Ruth secretly married to Bil Walsh, right, but she denies it. Here they attend a premiere with Raymond Massey.
■ It has been said that Hollywood is the Mecca of the know-it-alls — but I know from personal experience that people who know everything about everything turn up all over the country.
I have been encountering them all my fife. There was one in Boston teaching school and another one there running a tea shop. I found them filling prescriptions in a Broadway drug store in New York and delivering the mail just off Broadway where I lived and occasionally paid the rent on time. I found them, for that matter, directing screen tests in New York for Hollywood studios and I found them filling jobs in Hollywood in which they were actually supposed to be know-it-alls . . . and weren't. They all gave me advice which would have led me exactly to where I didn't want to go. back home a failure, perhaps, or at least at best somewhere in the outer fringes of the show world I wanted to enter.
I aimed for the stage when I was halfway through grade school in Boston. But later when I was attending Blackstone Junior High I entered an art competition that almost cooked me. I painted a still life of some grapes and nearly had my bobby socks unfrizzled when I learned I had won first prize '. The dangerous part was involved in the fact that the prize also included {Continued on page 74)