Radio and television mirror (July-Dec 1948)

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Mary Kay got an even earlier introduction to the stage. She made her first professional appearance at the Pasadena Playhouse at the age of 2Y2 — she did a bunny dance. By the time she was 14, she'd made up her mind that she wanted nothing in this world more than to be an actress. Unlike Johnny, she had no theatrical background in the family. Her father was a. banker, and his father had been a banker, and he was very much opposed to Mary Kay's even thinking about a stage career. Undaunted, Mary Kay got a job in "Music City," a record store in Hollywood, to pay for acting lessons with Zeke Colvin, former stage manager for Ziegfeld. She then went on to two years in the Actor's Lab, famous experimental group in Hollywood. She was just 19 in August, 1945 when she followed her fluttering heart to New York. Johnny can laugh now about his breathless dash from the campus to Hollywood, but it didn't seem so funny at the time. When he finally landed a screen test at Paramount, the test went on from 8 one morning until 8 that night. "I didn't know whether the trouble was with me or the camera," Johnny remembers, "until the next day when I went in, confident I was going to sign a seven-year contract, and I was offered the job of carpenter! I told them I was insulted — but I'd take it. So I made the water rough while Gary Cooper rescued the heroine in 'Souls at Sea,' cleaned up after the camels for Irene Dunne in 'High, Wide, and Handsome,' etc., etc." Frustration gave Johnny a case of ulcers, so he came back East to New Hampshire where his mother, Edith Bond Stearns, and he operate the Peterborough Players Summer Theater. He started getting parts in Broadway shows and appeared briefly in almost every movie made in New York in the past two years. Mary Kay landed a job two months after she hit New York. She was an understudy in "Dear Ruth" and later got a part. When the show closed in July 1946, she did "Charlie's Aunt" in summer stock, first at Martha's Vine yard and then — and here comes fate — then at the Peterborough Players! It didn't take the pretty little ingenue and the young co-owner of the Peterborough Players long to discover each other. A few months later they were married. Johnny was becoming very much interested in television at that time, and he got Mary Kay interested too. This was not particularly difficult since, if it involved acting, his young wife was half sold at the start. While thinking about a show idea, Johnny realized that their newly-married state was a constant source of material. Mary Kay's cute, naive approach to her new domestic duties supplied him with endless anecdotes, so why not build a show around their real-life experiences? In record time they had Mary Kay and Johnny sold to Dumont — with Johnny handling all the writing and producing chores and Mary Kay appearing in "Strange Bedfellows" at the same time. Before the show left Dumont to go on WNBT, where it is now seen and heard on Sundays from 7:00 to 7:20 P.M., the young Stearnses had received 26,000 letters, telegrams and postcards, as well as numerous presents. Their show has been mentioned in every "most popular" video poll to date too. Last summer, between the end of their Dumont stint and the start of their NBT series, they had their first vacation in two years. They went up to the farm in Peterborough. To demonstrate why he contends that Mary Kay is a walking plot, Johnny tells about the trip up. "We took the midnight train, and I found that to save money Mary Kay had reserved only one berth. The trip proved rather hectic when I discovered that she had smuggled into the berth her cat (a pure white Angora named Patricia) as well as a high-strung Pomeranian which she was keeping for a friend. After flipping a coin I ended up in the smoker making faces at the Pom." That incident and things like the time they attended an antique auction while up in New Hampshire, got separated, and wound up bidding against one another for a pair of captain's chairs, will undoubtedly appear before the cameras on their show. They are writing a third party into the script in December. They don't care if it's a boy or a girl, but they're awfully glad it's getting into their act! There's a RADIO RINGSIDE SEAT RESERVED FOR YOU atiJTe_________^ ; TOP BOXING BOUT OF THE WEEK EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT Described By Ace Announcers DON DIINPHV and BOX COIUIM on the "Cavalcade of Sports' tt Over All ABC Stations 10 P.M. EST 9 P.M. CST 8 P.M. MST 7 P.M. PST Don't Miss "Young Men of Boxing" by Lewis Burton in the December SPORT magazine. am tin till eni II*