Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1952)

the world. She believed in love everlasting, shared and given, freely and without stint. Soon after, Doris knew she had made a mistake. Doris was not a religious girl then as she is today. She was just a romantic child, who loved songs and laughter and life and people. She did not read her Bible daily, as she does now. Yet after the realization of her mistake she thanked God, sincerely and devoutly, when less than three months later, she found that she was pregnant. She believed that the coming of a baby must make everything all right. Terry was born, and today she says, her voice deep with feeling, “Now I can say thank God that I had my baby. Because of him my whole life took on new meaning.” The moment Doris felt that her baby was old enough to travel safely was the moment she went back to Cincinnati and applied at Station WLW for the sustaining job. She had just money enough for their train fare. She wasn’t sure that she could sing any longer, and it did not enter into her head to ask for alimony. But so natural and outstanding was her talent that Doris made that $64 minus taxes for one week only. She auditioned for everything that came in the station’s direction, and before the month was over she was earning $300 a week. It meant she was working, sometimes, ten hours a day. But it also meant that Mom was back with her, looking after Terry, cooking those wonderful meals, making a home for the three of them. Before the end of the second month the bandleaders were again beating a path to the door of their little flat. SHE signed up, finally, with Les Brown. It meant the road again but she refused to be separated from Terry or Mom. She spent every minute that she wasn’t actually working behind a microphone with Terry in their various hotel rooms. She was a perfect mother, a wonderful singer, the ideal canary to the boys in the band. And presently Terry was lisping “Dodo” at sight of her, the nickname which is now her favorite title. Yet she was only just past twenty-two, with her clear white skin, her natural health and vitality, golden hair, and blue eyes that drew men for miles around. So, inevitably, she fell in love again, against her wish, against her intention. But nevertheless in love again, deeply, idealistically, dreamily. And so she was wed once more. He was a musician and a dreamer, even as she. Once again Doris gave up her career, to give her marriage every chance. So they moved with Terry to California, because Hollywood seemed to offer greater opportunity. Then when they couldn’t find a house to rent or buy, because of the housing shortage, they bought a trailer. Only work was not plentiful in Hollywood as her husband had believed. Finally they agreed that Doris might take a temporary sustaining job at CBS. 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