TV Radio Mirror (Jan - Jun 1963)

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mm w&ra mm continued Top: Dick gets a kiss from his Danville dramatic teachers, Mrs. Kathryn Randolph (left) and Miss Mary Miller — and takes a look at his old home with Marjorie. Center: With their grandmothers, Mrs. Jennie Van Dyke (left) and Mrs. Margaret Peterson. Bottom: Sipping sodas at Carson s Drug Store, where they used to date — and signing autographs backstage where he used to go to school! celebrated so jubilantly mean, to Dick himself, a serious time of soul-searching .. . of remembering so much which Danville might long since have forgotten? It had all started back in Hollywood, only a few days before, when a call for help came to Dick and Marjorie from the town they loved. "Listen," warned a Hollywood friend. "You can't go home again — a fellow once wrote a whole book to prove it." Dick looked at him defiantly. "I never read that book, so it doesn't mean' a thing to me. Margie a nd I haven't been back to our hometown in two years. We miss it. Besides, we're needed there. It's a crisis." If Dick had any qualms about returning home, now that he had become one of TV's top comics, he gave no sign of it. He listened politely to well-meaning friends who said he might run into envy, malice and old grudges among boys and girls he grew up with who hadn't won the success which had fallen to his lot. Also, said the gloom-sayers, when you look back at a town, it seems like wonderland— but, once you go back, the illusion fades and it's a big disappointment. None of these dour forecasts was able to dampen the enthusiasm of the Van Dykes for the visit home. "We know Danville and the people there," Dick said stubbornly, "and we believe in their goodness and generosity." Marjorie squeezed his arm and whispered, "I'm with you, darling." Their purpose in going to Danville was twofold: To help the Red Mask Players (the little-theater group where Dick got his start in show business) raise $4100 to hold their option on a theater ... and to renew old acquaintances, refresh fond recollections of the past and see their respective families. When Dick wired back, "We're coming," the Red Mask sponsors got busy fast to organize a "Dick Van Dyke Homecoming Day." The option on the theater — actually, once the old Emanuel (Continued on page 89) 52