Radio and television mirror (Jan-June 1941)

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CAN BE she was just another radio actress. But the next evening she somehow found herself walking down the corridor near his office and somehow he had been standing in the doorway and somehow they were in his office and they were talking again, with an understanding remarkable for two people who scarcely knew each other. It was exciting, talking to Burke, finding out about his job and all the things he had done, and answering his questions about her, who she really was, who her parents were, where she was born, and when. . . . And it was amazing how much Burke had done, what drama there was in his life. He'd been a newspaper man on the Louisville Courier, winning the Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the Floyd Collins story — he was the reporter who risked his life crawling into the cave in an attempt to save Collins. He had been broke in New York several times, banged his head against the hard rock of radio and made a place for himself. He had lived life as Alice herself had, excitingly. And she found herself telling him about her own life — telling much more than she had ever told anyone else. How she'd been born in San Francisco, spent her childhood in Winnemucca, Nevada, and since growing up had been all over the world, walking hand in hand with adventure. "Home life — the social life — was always too tame for me," she told him. "Even when I was a little girl, I wanted to get out into the world and do things. At twelve, I was well on the way to becoming a concert pianist. That was in 1924, and soon after that my mother and father took me to Europe with them. I studied all over Europe — on the run. I guess it developed a vagabond streak in my nature that I've never quite been able to squelch." He understood that. The same streak was in him. He understood, too, the urge that had sent her, when she was fifteen, to touring up and down the Pacific Coast with the Players Guild, and to acting in radio shows in her spare time. All this wasn't exciting enough, and in 1928 she talked her protesting par JANUABY, 1941 ■ Their lives give them tew moments to be together in their home — and so times like this are doubly precious to the beautiful young star of Life Can Be Beautiful and her NBC-executive husband. ents into bringing her to New York for a try at the stage. She was successful there, too, appearing in many plays and frequently on the air. "But Dad lost his money in the depression," she told Burke, "and it was up to me to support the family. Up until then, my career had been something to have fun with — not that I didn't take it seriously, but I didn't have to depend on it. Now I did." Somehow, when you want money the most, it is the hardest to get. The next few years were slim ones, but Alice kept her nose to the grindstone, and gradually more and more jobs came her way, until, on the fateful New Year's Eve when she met Burke Miller and mistook him for a page-boy, she was one of radio's most versatile, popular actresses. . . . And, she reminded herself as she sat alone in the lounge of the night club where they had arranged to meet for this, their first date together, Mr. Burke Miller might be NBC's night manager, but that was no reason for him to keep her waiting until midnight. Just imagine what would happen if she should show up (Continued on page 61) 13