Modern Screen (Dec 1934 - Nov 1935)

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And she is not the sort to whine — " Out of these seven children — there had been ten — of James E. and Clara Knight Russell, the small Roz attended a primary school in Waterbury and, later, Marymount private school at Tarrytown-on-theHudson. Then college and after college, dramatic school — six months of it. HER father, an eminent and successful lawyer, gave all his children the advantages of school, college and travel. And he made it clear, from the beginning, that drones in the hive would not be tolerated. He taught them, early in their lives, the sturdy beauty and dignity of labor. It was not, he told them, necessarily a question of working for money, it was a question of working for self-respect. "I don't care," he'd say, "whether you only make two dollars a week and spend that two dollars for silk stockings so long as you are producers." The result of this is that one of Rosalind's sisters is Fashion Editor of Town & Country. Another sister, recently graduated from Sarah Lawrence, in New York, now teaches economics there. Two brothers are lawyers, a third brother graduates from Yale Law School in 1937 and a younger sister is graduating this year from high and enters college in the fall. And Rosalind chose the stage. But the screen chose Rosalind ! She said, "I studied dancing when I was a youngster. I was about fourteen when I had my first offer of a job. A chance to go West with a troupe of dancers. Mother was aghast. She said, 'Why, Rosalind, of course not ! I wouldn't dream of having you in one of those backstage dressing-rooms with gas jets, gin bottles and swearing women !' Some years later, when mother paid me her first backstage visit in a Boston theatre I said to her, 'I can't manage a gas jet for you, dear, but with a little effort I think I could work up a gin bottle and a couple of swearing women!' Of course, she denied absolutely ever having said such a thing. She flattered me. Could I have made it up ? W ould I be likely to forget it? WHEN I entered dramatic school — the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, formerly the Sargent Dramatic School — I told Mother I thought I'd be a teacher. She said that would be very nice work for me, she was sure. She had visions of her daughter intellectually instructing classrooms in the proper delivery of the Gettysburg Address or Hamlet's Soliloquy, no doubt. But I eased into it that way. The six months over, I had a leading part in the school play, won a prize or something and had two offers, then and there, of parts on Broadway. One from Crosby Gaige. I turned him down. I said, 'My good man, are you mad? I couldn't do it. I haven't worked enough, haven't had the experience. I wouldn't dream of it.' "Mother said, 'Were you offered one hundred a week?' And I said, 'Of course, why not?' "My first job was with a tent show. I mean, a real tent show. Up at Lake Placid. I heard about it in an agency. Two actors were sitting there talking about it, I edged up and listened in. I got the manager's name, Edward Casey, and the fact that he lived in Forest Hills, Long Island. I eased out, called him on the phone and made an appointment to meet him. I told him a lot of little 'Great White Way' lies, of course. Sort of murmured things about my stock experience in Hartford, Erie, here and there. He liked me. That's why he gave me the job. I was with that tent show for two summers and loved it. Swell time. Grand people. "Then stock, lots of stock. I tried to get one-night stands and couldn't. Best I could do was split weeks and three-a-week. But it was grand and the people were elegant. I stepped off Broadway, later on, and went on the road on more than one occasion. Just because I wanted to. In the small towns they really want good theatre and know it. Broadway audiences — • Some star hemstitching goes on between scenes on ''China Seas!" Roz Russell and Jean Harlow run up some neat bits of fancy work. 68