Radio and television mirror (Nov 1939-Apr 1940)

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INCREDIBLE COURTSHIP OF down and told he ought to be home with his parents! Caught up in the adulation of the sensational jockey that spring at Churchill Downs was a little girl from Houston, Texas, whose father was giving her the grand treat of a week with him at the racing meet. Her name was Eschol Miller and in her wildest nights of fancy she could not have pictured the future which lay just ahead. She did not dream that six months hence she would wear a new name, Nan Grey, and be under contract to a leading motion picture company in Hollywood. She did not know she was destined to become one of the original "Three Smart Girls," or the heroine of such movies as "Tower of London" and "The Invisible Man Returns." And radio, in which she was to play one of the leading roles in a serial to run over 100 weeks, was entirely beyond her horizon. Only two things occupied her mind — her secret worship of the slim boy whom a crowd cheered each afternoon, and the scrap book in which she pasted all the newspaper accounts of his daily exploits, despite the fact she never had met him. On a brave impulse one afternoon she slipped away from her father and, with a chum, made her way to the paddock where she came face to face with her hero astride a mount (Continued on page 58) Perhaps it is because they are so young and so much in love that they are living in an enchanted world. Nan was 13 and Jackie 17 when they fell in love. Left, their dream house.