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By NORTON RUSSELL
THIS is really a very wicked story, because its only lesson is that the way of the transgressor is as easy as the dickens, and leads not only to a nice job every week on one of radio's top programs, but to romance as well. It points out the advantages of deception and of disobeying your parents. It will probably do a great deal of harm in respectable homes, where the young folks behave themselves and tell the truth and agree that Father (and even Mother sometimes) knows best.
The hero and heroine of this shocking story are Ezra Stone and Ann Lincoln, who play Henry and his sister Mary on that funniest of family serials, The Aldrich Family, heard Tuesday nights on NBC. I wouldn't want to bet a week's pay that they won't be Mr. and Mrs. Stone by the time you're opening up Aunt Hattie's Christmas present, because right now they're in love. They've been in love ever since that day, a little more than a year ago, when an actor friend of Ezra's brought Ann up to him and said, "Ezra, I'd like to have you meet my niece."
Which was starting off on a low moral plane, because Ann wasn't the actor's niece at all. She was nothing but a nineteen-year-old girl from a small town in Maine, who had come to New York because she wanted to be a great actress. At the moment, she hadn't come any nearer to Broadway than the bargain-basement of a big department store.
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■ Only twenty, and Ezra Stone is a radio and stage star, a producer's right-hand man and a dramatic teacher.
Ezra, on the other hand, at the age of twenty, was already a radio star, a famous dramatic producer's right-hand man, and a teacher at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He was important, a Somebody. Ann hoped he'd like her and help her to get a job, but she certainly never thought he'd upset her by deciding to fall in love. Or by being so nice that she'd fall in love with him too.
She'd sort of forgotten that even if Ezra was a big shot, he was, after all, only twenty, and just as susceptible as any other twenty-year-old to brown eyes and dusky hair and a special kind of innocence that doesn't, as a rule, grow along Broadway.
She didn't know that her own gallant determination to be an actress would strike an answering chord in Ezra's own heart. He knew
just how she felt. He, too, had wanted to be an actor when it seemed as if the whole world was against him.
Now is the time for what the movies call a flashback, because you've got to understand what sort of a kid this Ezra Stone is. It doesn't mean anything to say he's the current boy wonder of Broadway, astonishing everyone by his ability as actor, director, businessman and all-around showman. You have to go back to the stage-struck youngster in Philadelphia who was darned if he'd go to college.
Ezra's story must be the one to end all stories about boys who bucked parental opposition to go on the stage. As a child, he was the despair of his father, who had once been a chemistry professor. He hated school and wanted only to act on the stage and in radio, and he
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