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But whatever it was, the ticket buyers ate it up and the studio rushed Doris into two more starring roles, “My Dream Is Yours" and “It’s a Great Feeling.” Less than a year from the day of that first screen test, she is set for one of the biggest dramatic roles of the year in “Young Man with a Horn.” Doris “accepts” this like everything else and wonders why everybody else is so breathless. “Things always happen like that, for me,” she says. “They hit hard, and fast, whether it is in work, or in love.” She’d rather talk about work. About that time when she called the music teacher to her bedside in the hospital in Cincinnati. “I can’t dance now,” she said, “so I want you to teach me to sing.” He asked Doris to sing for him, sing anything When she had finished, he said, “I can’t teach you to sing. You sing beautifully, just naturally. You have instinctive rhythm, a rich warm voice. We can work a little on your range.” BEFORE she had abandoned her crutches, Doris was singing, for free, but singing, over Cincinnati radio stations. Within weeks, Barney Rapp, a popular band leader in the city, heard her and signed her as a soloist with his band. “You sing like an angel,” Barney told Doris. “But how can you? With that name — Kappelhoff!” “Let’s change it,” said adaptable Doris. Doris had been singing “Day After Day” when Barney first picked up his ears, so the name was easy. Doris Day! Doris Day was the signature at the bottom of a letter Bob Crosby received a few months later in Chicago, where his famous Bobcats were playing an engagement at the Blackhawk. “I love your band,” she wrote. “I would like to sing with you.” The letter was accompanied by a recording of one of Doris’s songs. Bob listened to the record and promptly wired Doris to come ahead. Les Brown heard Doris with the Bobcats and hired her away as featured soloist with his band. It was with Les that Doris made her first real killing, with her records of “Sentimental Journey” and “You Won’t Be Satisfied.” This was just two years after the accident which was supposed to have stopped Doris’s career for good. At this point, which was early in 1941, things began to happen even faster, but in a different direction. Doris fell in love. On the road during a tour with the Les Brown band, Doris had met A1 Jorden, a musician with a rival orchestra. Doris, with her characteristic impulsive wholeheartedness, quit her good job with the band, married the boy, had a baby, and moved back home to Cincinnati to settle down in a pretty little cottage on Price Hill. There for two years, she cooked and kept house, although she hates cooking and housework, made formula for her son Terry and changed his diapers and forgot all about the band business. Not until she admitted failure, after the most earnest efforts to make the marriage work, did she listen to the offers which kept pouring in from band leaders and record companies who insisted that Doris just couldn’t quit. In 1943, Doris divorced A1 Jorden. Little Terry went to live with his bighearted homey Grandmaw, and his mommie, who was almost twenty now, and felt it, went back to work. More working all night and sleeping all day, more “coffee klatches” with rooms full of bandsmen who have always accepted Doris as an equal and talk to her as though she knew as much jazz as they do, which she does. More one night stands. More records. And then, as Doris recalls, penitently, “I did it again ” Another nice young man. His name was George Weidler, and he was a saxophonist in Stan Kenton’s orchestra. It was Christmas time, and they were two kids far from home and homesick in New York. They were together, and they felt so close, and it seemed so right. So they got married. Doris admits now that she had one or two “negative feelings” on that drive up to Mt. Vernon to find a Justice of the Peace. Once more she was going to give up everything she had worked for, her job, her growing reputation, her hectic but happy life, to try to make a stable marriage with a man who was committed to the mosl unstable business in the world. It wasn’t quite the same as before. Doris and George were really in love; and, even better, they were friends. But the hurdles they faced were even higher than those which defeated Doris and A1 Jorden. “George was such a really nice guy, and he still is,” Doris will tell you. But he was in the band business. Their life together was a series of hotel rooms until they reached Los Angeles and an extended engagement. They hit the city along with the peak of the housing shortage and set up housekeeping in a trailer on a bleak wind-blasted vacant lot. Doris cooked and cleaned in the trailer, still hating it, only this time it was drearier, with no bright-faced little Terry to cheer her up in the long hours when George was off blowing his horn. After awhile, the Kenton band headed back east, and Doris lived in the trailer alone. Only after she had spent her first anniversary, Christmas Day, alone and sick with virus pneumonia, did she call it quits. Quits at least to the loneliness. SHE answered one of those telegrams which kept coming, and went back to New York and to work. Doris has finally, after three years of seeing George on those rare occasions when their two itineraries crossed briefly, sued for divorce. But a big hunk of her heart is still wound up with his. Work, she soon found, was the best medicine for heartache, and she worked with a frenzied abandon. Band engagements and a long run at New York’s Little Club, and then California again, and for awhile, her own sustaining radio show. It was at about this time that Bob Hope’s manager, Jimmy Saphier, heard her show, and told Bob about her. “Doris Day?” Bob said, impatiently. “Never heard of her.” And that was that. It amuses them to recall that now. Doris was much more expensive by the time Bob saw her in “Romance on the High Seas.” “She’s terrific,” Bob said, dialing Jimmy. “Why didn’t you tell me about Doris Day?” he shouted, over the phone. “I did,” the long-suffering Jimmy replied, “but you wouldn’t listen.” “Get her,” said Bob. So Jimmy got her, and Doris has been a bright young note in Bob’s broadcasts ever since. The bleak days in Doris’s life are behind her now. She has a home, Terry is with her, and her mother. Terry is seven now, looks like Alfalfa and is a regular guy, terribly fond of his mother, who can catch as good as any fellow, and only mildly disappointed because she has not as yet made good on his terms, which involve costarring with Roy Rogers. 92