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IS A HOLLYWOOD CHRISTMAS STORY, SO TOUCHING, SO INSPIRING, YOU'LL NEVER FORGET IT.
■ It is Christmas-time in Hollywood as it is all oyer the world. Christmas trees are alight with the sparkling red, green and silver of Yuletide, and tinsel gleams brightly, aglow with the Christmas message of faith and good cheer. The very air seems to proclaim, "The Christ Child is born again." And all mankind rejoices anew.
I am a happy person this pre-Christmas Day. But a sad one, too — because of what I have seen. It was the sort of thing you usually don't associate with Hollywood — gay, glamorous Hollywood — and least of all during this joyous season.
I have been a guest of Esther Williams at a party — a Christmas party — and what I saw at this party made it different from all the others I've ever attended. Why was it different? There were the usual Holiday decorations, the usual bewhiskered Santa Claus, paunchy and playful in his red velvet suit trimmed with white fur, the usual distribution of gifts in their gay wrappings, the usual red-and-white 'striped peppermint candy canes and the open lacework stockings ready-stuffed from the dime store — (Continued on page 80)
For three years, Esther Williams has devoted as much time as possible to the Los Angeles Nursery School for Visually Handicapped Children. She has given the school a specially built, heated swimming pool and trained swimming teachers for the kids
Esther reaps her reward of hugs and kisses from the affectionate children. They know her as "Aunt Esther" — movie stars mean nothing to young eyes that never shall see.
The children generally tend to be afraid of the water at first. This is because they enter a . new, dark world where their support seems to be gone. With proper help they are quickly won over.