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Came summer and he discovered that he was woefully distant from Harvard's $400 tuition, not to mention board and room money for the first semester. He was pondering Fate's ironies when he received a letter from a Dr. Edwin M. Wright, head of the English department at Bates. What Dr. Wright had on his chest was this: Why didn't his star scholar return to Bates for a couple of summer courses, take over a high-school English department in the fall and work toward a professorship. Certainly Bates was his oyster after he had picked up another degree. LIE took the prescribed courses in the ' ' teaching of adolescents and when fall came he accepted the offer of the school board of Lisbon, Maine, to head the English department of the local high school. All that year he struggled trying to whip up an interest in Caesar's military headaches, Juliet's romantic difficulties and Silas Marner's financial worries. By Christmas he got an inspiration: He announced that from that date on anyone interested in joining a new dramatic club he was organizing needed only to do competent work in English. The very first day he got enough applicants to re-enact the De Mille production of "Ben Hur." He signed them all up, put them to work making lights out of (in cans, constructing scenery out of discarded wooden cases. And he worked patiently with them as they whipped a script into a thing of motion and life. After that he noticed a new interest in his classes. The lackadaisical scholars had discovered that he was a "regular guy." The only trouble with all this extracurricular coaching of the drama was that the doctor himself succumbed to the cure-all. By the time June came around he began to wonder if he hadn't made a mistake in dedicating himself to schoolteaching. That summer, so's to give himself the solitude to figure it all out, he took a job as counselor in a boys' camp. By the middle of August when camp broke up he had made up his mind: He would leave teaching forever. ! line home only to learn that a semiprofessional acting company had been launched in Worcester that summer. He hastened to join the group. In tryouts he showed up so well thai they let him do the leads in "Outward Bound" and "Counselor-at-Law." The critics were so encouraging that he began to flirt with the idea ol giving Broadwaj a try. He talked it over with the director, who d, "You'll never starve on id way. If you've got guts you'll succeed." Even at that he never would have made the try, hi all probability, if it were not for a woman named Margaret Pai sons, happily marri ing as the Editor of the Worcester Telegram ette Well, when she wasn't telling harried authors what was wrong with their books, she was serving as adviser to the director of the Auburn Tennis Club, which went in. of all things, for moi itics than tennis. B2 This same Miss Parsons (her professional name) was walking off the tennis courts one day in August when she ran smack into Master Lynn, looking for all the world like a weary charm boy. It dawned on her that he'd make a nifty lead for the Tennis Club's next show — the season opener, in fact — called "The Temporary Husband." He played the part to shrieks of delight from the ladies, booming salvos from the menfolk. Miss Parsons came over to congratulate him afterwards. "Why the dickens don't you try New York? If you're turned down by Broadway, you can always come back to what you've left." He departed from town that very week, fired by the confidence his booster had instilled in him. His first days in New York were dismal. Not a single producer gave him the slightest encouragement. Everyone wanted to know what he had done on Broadway. In desperation, when his money ran out, he took the first job that came his way. He became a barker for the Embassy Newsreel Theater, wore a 20-pound uniform and city-slicked the pedestrians into pausing to glimpse the latest happenings as seen by the camera's eye. "What galled me," he says today with a curious wistfulness, "is that across the street was the magical Broadway I had come to New York to conquer. And me touting a newsreel!" All that winter he toiled as a barker. At night he used to take coaching at a drama school run by Theodora Ervine, who once taught Clark Gable and Alice Brady. "Wait until spring," he used to tell his classmates. "I'll be in the real theater for sure." \A/HEN spring came he was still with " " the Embassy. But when summer came he received a visit from an agent who had caught his workshop performance of Hamlet. He offered Lynn an opening in the Baiter Theater in Abingdon, Virginia. All excitement, he kissed his job goodby and trekked down South where he "worked like a son-of-a-gun doing everything but acting, including driving a truck, serving as assistant stage manager and acting as general liaison man with the townsmen." He was back in the fall, dripping with disillusionment. He trucked over to the Embassy but hadn't been on the job more than three hours when a telegram arrived for him offering him a cham • "A Slight Case of Murder" as second assistant stage manager and understudy to the juvenile But the play folded like an accordion, so Jeffrey called aroun Macy's department store and got a Christmas-rush post in the sporting goods department. The yuletide over. Walter Hampden hired him for his seasonal expedition into the provinces. Came summer and he was back in New York and got himself a job tearing down the Italian embassy. He loved the work It kept him in trim. He was pondering giving up the stage and returning to pedagogy when he heard that George Abbott, the producer, was casting a road company of "Brother I for Abbott who liked his manner and his soft voice and gave him the part of the prissy senior-cadet who's Such a nifty heel In time the "Brother Rat" company arrived on the coast And it was only natural that the movie scouts should h" the show, especially after the word had gone the rounds thai "this guy Lynn's got something different." M-G-M cot the first crack at him but let the ipiay combined with movh mirror