Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1952)

GIRL Dates with Ann mean hamburgers at a drivein, picnics at the beach, horseback riding, ice skating and even church on Sunday. Dick Clayton is in “Sailor Beware” She has a voice like honey on velvet. She chews gum like a fiend. And though she’ll never be the life of the party, she’s the party this guy — who haunts her dating hours — would like to go home to BY DICK CLAYTON | ’m the lucky hombre who often gets all dressed up and escorts Ann Blyth to glamorous Hollywood premieres and parties. I’m still looking over that four-leaf clover when we have picnics at the beach, go horseback riding in Griffith Park, ice skating at the Polar Palace, and to church together on Sunday. A guy doesn’t need a key to the U. S. mint to date Ann. When she knows I’m low on funds she’s happy to go some place that is simple and inexpensive. I’ve been thrilled — you can’t blame me — when she’s turned down some plush evenings at Ciro’s or Mocambo to keep a dinner date with me at Hamburger Hamlet. Ann and I became friends about twelve years ago, when we acted together on children’s radio programs called “Coast to Coast on a Bus” and “Our Barn.” Everyone has a first impression of someone who plays an important part in his life. Let me tell you my first impression of Ann. The first time I worked with her we were called for rehearsal at the NBC Studios in New York’s Rockefeller Center. I didn’t appear in the opening scene and seated next to me on the sidelines was a group of typically ambitious stage mothers. Their precocious offspring were at the “mike” with Ann and the mothers’ conversation went something like this: “What do they see in that mousy ( Continued on page 100) Ann Blyth appears next in “The World in His Arms” PESKIN 61