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ON THE RUN
He prayed to he saved from girls who wore bright hair ribbons — but now Joan Banks wears bigger and brighter ones and Frank Lovejoy, her husband, loves them!
BY JACK SHER
THE two trains, one headed North, the other traveling South, stopped for a few minutes in the station at Rye, New York. The commuters in the southbound train were startled by a young man who seemed, for the moment, to have gone a little berserk. He got up from his seat, tried to open the window and, failing this, began to pound on it, at the same time making frantic gestures.
A few^ seconds later, the commuters on the northbound train were amazed by the antics of a pretty, blonde-headed, blue-eyed girl, who suddenly sat up straight
They're both in radio — hut not of the same time. Joan plays Peggy in The O'Neills on NBC. Frank is Jarrod in Light of the World over NBC-Red.
in her seat and began nodding her head and, as her train pulled out, blowing kisses at the young man in the window of the train across the way.
This incident occurred just a few weeks ago. The commuters are probably still wondering what it was all about. Perhaps some of the more romantic ones would like to know if the boy and girl, traveling on trains going in opposite directions ever did get together.
We could tell you whether they did or not, but that would be revealing too soon the outcome of one of the most amusing and romantic stories in radio. The young man's name is Frank Lovejoy and you hear him on such shows as Help Mates and Light Of The World. The girl is Joan Banks, who plays Peggy on the O'Neills and often stars on the Kate Smith show opposite such screen lovers as Errol Flynn, Tyrone Power and Charles Boyer.
Frank and Joan are actors, but they were not "putting on an act" that day on the train. The "key" to what was happening are the keys that Frank was jiggling. He might never have been jiggling those keys on the train that day if the girl, Joan, hadn't worn a bright, blue
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ribbon in her hair the day he first met her.
It was a day in January, 1940, and Frank came into a CBS studio to join the cast of a show called "This Day Is Ours." The star of the show was a certain Miss Joan Banks, who bounced into the studio a few minutes later wearing that bright, blue ribbon in her hair. "Please save me," Frank thought, "from coy, young things who wear ribbons in their hair." And, although he didn't say it, Joan felt his antagonism.
She had seen this Mr. Lovejoy just once before at a recording studio and had decided, on sight, that the tall, handsome, brown-eyed, young man was a decided wash out and she was completely unimpressed. Now, as she stood there being introduced to him — sensing his scorn — she thought very unkindly of casting directors. For, this was the young man with whom she was expected to fall in love! In the script, of course, but, even so!
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