Radio mirror (May-Oct 1936)

RADIO M IRKOK wait for me. It was his fault that I was ill, had had so much trouble. I determined to outwit him. I would fight with every ounce of strength I possessed. And if fighting meant being quiet and doing what the doctors ordered, I'd be a model patient. "Of course I was afraid of Death. Who isn't?" Within three years she had improved so greatly that the doctors permitted her to resume a normal life. She was started well on her singing career before Death again struck at I ur , ten years later. Along with some two thousand other people. Virginia was celebrating the birth of the New Year, 1034, at the Bohemian Gardens, a Los Angeles night club. It had rained all day long in Los Angeles, and at midnight the storm reached the height of its fury. Streams of water poured in from all sides. Before the startled patrons knew what was happening, they were up to their chins in water. The lights went out. Panic reigned. Screaming and pushing, the guests fought their way to the exits, only to find them blocked by a wall of water. Virginia stood horrified, in her icy bath. Again the clammy fingers of Death reached out to claim her. I ler lungs had not bothered her for years and she had thought them cured. But what would happen now? An hour later the fire department reached the club, and firemen began to throw lifelines to the frenzied mob. It was three hours before Virginia was towed out, icy and stiff. So chilled was she that it was with difficulty she grasped the rope. «.NE whole week Virginia spent in bed, recovering from the shock. And the only other bad effect she sustained was a series of rope burns around her waist, where the tow line had been fastened! How has facing Death affected Virginia Verrill? Very strangely. She seems to be a girl without nerves. I've seen her at auditions, at her opening night on station WABC, at broadcasts. She had not a trace of embarrassment, the nervousness you'd expect in a nineteen year old singer catapulted to fame. I've never once seen her ruffled or flustered. When she came East to star on the Socony Sketch Book, the towering buildings of New York, the speed of New York life, which she was seeing for the first time, brought no exclamations of wonder or enthusiasm from her. She took them all in her stride — calmly, almost indulgently. And I think it's because, having come ro close to the ultimate Victor, Death, she doesn't view Life as any tremendous mystery. She has acquired a sense of perspective, of proportion, far beyond her years. The Story We've Always Wanted to Print! Shyest of all the stars is Wayne King . . . hardest to see . . . hardest to persuade to talk. It took one of Radio Mirror's topnotch writers to secure from him the only authentic story ever published of his romance and marriage. 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