Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1959)

I was hardly out of the city when I noticed a stalled car with three men standing around it waving. I stopped and asked what had happened. One of the men came slowly towards me. When he thought he was at a point where I couldn’t see him, he made a dash around the car. A trap. I was sure it was a trap and, alarmed, I jammed my foot down on the accelerator. Soon I had left them far behind. That’s when it struck me quite hard that there’s no end of trouble just waiting around the corner for a young guy miles from home. Anything could have happened if I hadn’t spotted the trap. No one said anything much when I arrived home. Dad just said again, “Now what do you want to do?” And I didn’t have an answer for him. All I knew was that it was nice to be home. Dad had asked me what I wanted to do, but I guess I didn’t have the answer to that one until after I left the Army. That was in 1945. I was twenty-two and had received a medical discharge. Those Army years had helped me to grow up and had given me a direction. I came out knowing definitely that I wanted to be an actor. From then on, with the help of my parents, I studied hard, first at the University of Miami, where I majored in dramatics, and later switching to U.C.L.A. Then I went on to Yale University for drama courses, didn’t like them and switched to the American Theater Wing and private classes under Lee Strasberg in New York. My parents were wonderful all the way through but I took jobs where and when I could. Often it meant not even having time to sleep at night, but I’d never gotten over not wanting to be completely dependent on them. Then I landed a role in TV’s “Suspense” and won a Warners’ movie contract. From Warners I moved to 20th Century-Fox and then free-lanced. During this time I married Mary, a brunette script girl I had met and fallen in love with. We were divorced six years later and in 1953 I married again — Barbara Ruick, the blonde actress. We eloped. But three years later we got a divorce. In marriage, when you’re up against problems you can’t seem to solve and so you get a divorce, maybe that’s a kind of running away, too. I don’t know. But I do think that now I’m a lot wiser, that now I could solve some of the problems that I couldn’t seem to find an answer to then. Now, with “Wagon Train” such a success, I feel I’m more steady and certain of myself. I have been praised for my acting in many other roles, too, and I’m grateful for that praise and for the feeling of security it gives me. I feel I have mastered myself better, too, where women are concerned. I am far more in control of my emotions. I’ve come quite a way, in fact, since those mixed-up years, and I can see more clearly than ever that running away never does any good. In fact, I guess I’m lucky I decided to turn back when I did. It seems a long time since then, when I was a kid, stranded, not knowing what to do. But meeting those runaways in Washington, I knew just how they felt and I wanted to do something to help them. I keep wondering what happened to them, and if they happen to read this, I hope they’ll write to me, care of NBCTV in Hollywood, California, to tell me what they finally decided. I’d like to think my story made them realize that running away doesn’t solve anything, that it only creates new problems. — AS TOLD TO PAUL DENIS SEE BOB ON “WAGON TRAIN,” ON NBC -TV, WEDNESDAY AT 7:30 P.M. OPPORTUNITIES for EVERYBODY Pubff$her*t Classified Department (Trademark) For classified advertising rales, write I o William R. Stewart, 9 South Clinton Street, Chicago 6 (Women' s Feb.) 1959 OF INTEREST TO WOMEN $100-$500 — MORE paid for your child's photo, if selected for advertising illustrations, etc. Hundreds used weekly. Rush photo for approval. Returned promptly. Free Service. AdPhotos, 6087-YB Sunset, Hollywood 28, California. BUY WHOLESALE: 100,000 Nationally Advertised Products. Appliances, Cameras, Sporting Goods, Housewares, Watches, Typewriters, Tools, Clothing, etc. Discounts to 80%. Buy-Rite. Box 258, Hawthorne 156, New Jersey. $500 FOR YOUR Child’s Picture (All Ages). Hundreds used yearly. Send one small picture. Returned with report and testimonials. Print child’s parents' name, address on back. Spotlite, 8344 Beverly-P2, Hollywood. California. HOMEWORKERS WANTED PAINTING Novelties. No Selling. Experience unnecessary. Noveltex Industries, 20-A West Jackson Blvd„ Chicago 4, Illinois. $500.00— OFTEN MORE for your child's photo (all ages). Advertisers pay thousands annually! Rush (one small) picture. Promptly returned with judge’s report! Free gifts. National Photo, Box 3035-K, North Hollywood, California. HOMEWORKERS: ASSEMBLE HANDLACED Precut moc casins and handbags. Good earnings. California Handicrafts, Los Angeles 46-B, California. DRESSES 24c; SHOES 39c; Men’s Suits $4.95; Trousers $1.20. Better used clothing. Free Catalog. Transworld, 164-A Christopher, Brooklyn 12, N.Y. PREPARE ENVELOPES, POSTCARDS, home— longhand, typewriter. $15.00 thousand 1 Particulars free. G. Economy, Box 2580, Greensboro, N.C. HOMEWORKERS: SEW BABYWEAR for stores. Machine unnecessary. Clara, Box 44637-A, Los Angeles 44, California. EARN CASH PREPARING, mailing postcards. Write: Home craft. Box 62085-A, Los Angeles 62, California. $200 MONTHLY POSSIBLE. Sewing Babywearl No house selling. Free information. Sena name toCuties, Warsaw 1, Ind. MAKE MONEY CLIPPING Newspaper Items For Publishersl Newscraft, PW-983-E, Main, Columbus 5, Ohio. SEW OUR READY cut aprons at home, spare time. Easy, profitable. Hanky Aprons, Caldwell 3, Ark. . EARN SPARETIME CASH Mailing Advertising Literature. Glenway, Box 6568, Cleveland 1, Ohio, EARN GOOD MONEY mailing circulars. Write. Leeways, Mou ntain View, Oklahoma. SAVE 50% — SEW Pre-cut Skirts, Children’s Wear. Catalog Free. Readikut's, Loganville, Wisconsin. HOME TYPING I $65 weekly possible 1 Details, $1. Treasurer, 709 Webster, New Rochelle, N.Y. MAKE MONEY AT home assembling our items. Experience unnecessary. Lee Mfg„ 466 S. Robertson, Los Angeles 48, Cal. OLD COINS & MONEY $4,000.00 FOR 1913 Liberty Head Nickel. Uncirculated Dollars 1804-1839, 1893-S, 1895-P, 1903-0 pay $100.00$5,000.00. Certain Dates— Lincoln Cents before 1932— $125.00; Flying Eagle Cents— $500.00; Indian Cents— $1 75.00; Dimes before 1943 — $2,000.00; Quarters before 1924 — $1,500.00; Half Dollars before 1929 — $3,000.00; 2c Pieces — $125.00; 3c Pieces— $150.00; Halfdimes— $1,500.00. Hundreds of others worth $10.00-$1, 000.00. Canadian Coins — 1921-5C Silver— $100.00. 1875 Quarters— $100.00. 1921-50C —$750.00. Wanted — 20c Pieces, Gold Coins, Paper Money, etc. Our Large Illustrated Guarantee Buying-Selling Catalogue, Giving Complete Allcoin Information — send $1.00. Purchase Catalogue before sending coins. Worthycoin Corporation(Kj-275-C), JtostonJS.JVlassachusett^ WE PURCHASE INDIANHEAD pennies. Complete allcoin catalogue 25c. Magnacoins, Box 61-T, Whitestone 57, N.Y. WE BUY ALL rare American coins. Complete catalogue 25c. Fairview, Box 1116-C, New York City 8. LOANS BY MAIL BORROW $50 TO $500 for any purpose. Employed men and women over 25, eligible. Confidential — no co-signers. Up to 2 years to repay — low monthly payments. Supervised by State of Nebraska. Loan application sent free in plain envelope. Give occupation. American Loan Plan, City National Bldg., Dept. WD-2, Omaha 2, Nebraska. BORROW $50 TO $600 By Mail. Quick, Easy, Private. No Co-Signers. Repay in 24 small monthly payments. For the amount you want write today to Dial Finance Co., 410 Kil patrick Bldg., Dept. B-57, Omaha 2, Nebraska. BORROW By Mail. $100-$600. Anywhere. Air Mail Service. Postal Finance, 200 Keeline Building, Dept. 963B, Omaha 2, Nebraska. PERSONAL & MISCELLANEOUS FREE WRITERS CATALOGUE giving manuscript markets. Write, Literary Agent Mead, 915 Broadway, N.Y. 10. AGENTS & HELP WANTED FREE T O WOM EN Only. Be a Beauty Advisor. No experience needed. Make 60% profit on famous nationally advertised Hollywood Cosmetics. Demonstrate to friends and neighbors and earn up to $5.00 an hour spare time — $25.00 a day full time. Later you can double your earnings by letting others demonstrate for you. Free! No charge, now or ever, for actual usable samples of Studio Girl Cosmetics. Send name on postcard to me, Harry Taylor, President, Studio Girl Cosmetics, Dept, 1692M, Glendale, California. I’LL SEND YOU Free stocking sample newest advancement in hosiery since nylon. Patented, full-length. Stays up over-theknee without supporters, without girdle I Nationally advertised price $1.95. Make money introducing to friends at $1.00 pair. American Mills, Dept, 663, Indianapolis, Ind. ANYONE CAN SELL famous Hoover Uniforms for beauty shops, waitresses, nurses, doctors, others. All popular miracle fabrics — nylon, dacron. Exclusive styles, top quality. Big cash income now. real future. Equipment free. Hoover, Dept. B-119 New York 11, N.Y. TEAR OUT THIS Ad, and mail with name, address for big box of home needs and cosmetics for Free Trial, to test in your home. Tell your friends, make money. Rush name. Blair, Dept, 185CB, Lynchburg, V a. EASY SPARE TIME money. Your family clothes wholesale. Show friends spectacular line dresses, lingerie, hosiery, children's apparel, at low prices. Write for outfit. C&D Co., Dept. 11, Grand Rapids 2, Mich. FASHION DEMONSTRATORS — $20-$40 profit evenings. No delivering or collecting. Beeline Style Shows are Party Plan sensation I Samples furnished Free. Beeline Fashions, Bensenville 54, Illinois. EARN EXTRA MONEY selling Advertising Book Matches Free sample kit furnished. Matchcorp, Dept. WP-29, Chicago 32, Illinois. BUSINESS & MONEY MAKING OPPORTUNITIES $3.00 HOURLY POSSIBLE assembling pump lamps Spare Time. Simple, Easy. No canvassing. Write: Ougor, Caldwell 1, Arkansas. MAKE BIG MONEY invisibly mending damaged garments at home. Details Free. Fabricon, 6240 Broadway, Chicago 40. MAKE MONEY WRITING short paragraphs. Information free. Barrett, Dept. C-134-B, 7464 No. Clark, Chicago 26. EARN EXTRA CASH I Prepare Advertising Postcards. Lang dons, Box 41107PW, Los Angeles 41, California. MAKE YOUR TYPEWRITER Earn Money. Send $1.00. Hughes, 500B, 9 South Clinton, Chicago 6, $50 WEEKLY PREPARING Mailing Literature. National 1815A Meyers, Lombard, III, $200-$300 MONTHLY. Mailing literature. Peavie, POB 385 Tillicum 99, Wash. MAILING OPPORTUNITY SPARE time. Hobbycraft, 11462 E. 5th, Santa Ana, California. EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES COMPLETE YOUR HIGH School at home in spare time with 62-year-old school. Texts furnished. No classes. Diploma. Information booklet free. American School, Dept. X274, Drexel at 58th, Chicago 37, Illinois. DENTAL NURSING, PREPARE at home for big pay career. Chairside duties, reception, laboratory. Personality Development. Free Book. Wayne School, Lab: BA-19, 2521 Sheffield, Chi cago 14. FINISH HIGH SCHOOL at home, spare time. No classes. Diploma awarded. Write for Free catalog. Wavne School, Cata I og HCH-59, 2527 Sh effield, Chicago 14. HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA at home. Licensed teachers. Approved materials. Southern States Academy, Station E-1, Atlanta, Georgia. FOREIGN A U.S.A. JOB LISTINGS JOBS — HIGH PAY: USA, So. America, The Islands. All trades. Many companies pay fare. Write Dept. 71 B, National Employment Information, 1020 Broad, Newark, N.J. AMERICAN OVERSEAS JOBS. High Pay, Men, Women. Transportation Paid. Free information. Write: Transworld, Dept. TIB. 200 West 34th St., New York 1. STAMP COLLECTING GIGANTIC COLLECTION FREE— Includes Triangles— Early United States— Animals — Commemoratives— British Colonies— High Value Pictorials, etc. Complete Collection plus Big Illustrated Magazine all Free. Send 5c for postage. Gray Stamp Co., Dept. PC, Toronto, Canada. USED CLOTHING CATALOG USED CLOTHING CATALOGUE, yours free for asking. Latest styles, sensational prices. Write: Wearwell, 63-A Suffolk, N. Y., N. Y. TUftiVS ON OS! $1.25 Retail FRUIT BOWL Salt-Pepper-SugarSet Delightfully colorful centerpiece. Pineapple and grapefruit are snak-j&r ers; sugar in bowl, “^nrc ON INTRODUCTORY Yours FRtt offer . Given with Approval Samples of these 2 NEW ASSORTMENTS OF ^EVERYDAY CARDS Make up to *150 CASH QUICK Showing New-ldea Greeting Cards Send for samples and start earning the easiest money ever by simply showing them to people you know. No experience needed. See the big difference in Cardinal’s big line of thrilling new cards for all occasions and Gift Items that sell fast the year ’round. Compare our low wholesale prices and liberal profits. Extra Cash Bonus, too. SEND NO MONEY. Get 2 outstanding Assortments on approval and Exclusive Stationery Samples FREE. $1.25 “Fruit Bowl” Set included with FREE Offer. Mail coupon! SEND COUPON FOR FREE GIFT OFFER & SAMPLES VEB SHEEN Asst. TR££s££ES Asrt. 21 ar^wye.Cer’sd$|« Ta^cards f!r $|25 »S . all occasions 1. CARDINAL CRAFTSMEN, Dept. 6-29 ■ 1400 State Avenue, Cincinnati 14, Ohio J Please send money-making kit of new Greeting Cards on ap I | proval. Include $1.25 “Fruit Bowl” Gift Set with FREE Offer. | AME. I DDRESS. I CITY.. ZONE STATE . P 85