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Wendy Warren and Widder Brown have one important thing in common : Florence Freeman
By Rose A. Englander
A GROUP of women sat sewing in their Red Cross production quarters. The time of this scene was the war years. The place, the vestry room of a house of worship in Jersey City, a large New Jersey community just across the river from New York.
Women stood at long tables cutting cloth into garments; women sewed by hand. And off to the side whirred the quick girls, the ones who could make a sewing machine fairly fly.
The production chief looked at her watch, called to one of the machine operators, "Florence! Time!"
No response. Florence bent her pretty head with its mass of ash blond curls over her work, her deljcate features almost frowning in concentration. Only when nudged did she' come out of it.
"Florence! Get going. You'll be late for rehearsal!"
The star of Young Widder Brown grabbed her coat, head kerchief, purse, her carry.-all bag stuffed with war knitting, and ran. The women shotited "Goodbye . . . Give a good, show . . . We'll be listening."
They certainly told the truth. At 4:45 their dials were set daily to hear Florence Freeman as Ellen Brown, the young widder. Today they listen to two programs, for every noon Florence becomes Wendy Warren, glamorous newspaper girl.
That people listen to Florence Freeman isn't news
— as witness this year's Radio Mirror Award. She's known for a long time that her fans are scattered over the nation, for their gifts — ^the friendly, homemade gifts of crochet work. and cookies and such — bear postmarks from California, New England, the Middle West, the South.
But it's fun too to have your family doctor say, "Florence, I caught your show in the car today. Now you know I like your Dr. Anthony Loring very much, but I must say I don't agree with the way he's handling this .case."
It's good to have your ten-year-old daughter Judy ask earnestly, "Mommy, why is it when you're sad on the radio it makes Deana and me cry, but when other people are sad we're sorry for them but we don't feel like crying?" Deana, sixteen months younger and a merry youngster, doesn't cry easUy, either.
It doesn't hurt any radio actress's feelings to know that several thousand friends and neighbors are lavishly proud of you.
"And don't think it comes easy for women to be so proud of another woman," one of her friends says. "When they first came here twelve years ago people were surprised — to say the least — to learn that the new clergyman's wife was {Continued on page 90)
No career problems interfere with family companionship.
Florence likes massage, or practice swings, for relaxation
Florence Freeman is Wendy Warren, M-F, 12 noon EST, CBS and Young Widder Brown, M-F, 4:45 P. M., EST, NBC.
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