TV Radio Mirror (Jan - Jun 1955)

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Don't be disappointed this year — mail coupon above with 50^ — today! Cleveland, and the cast had gathered in one of the hotel rooms after a rehearsal. "You had your ukulele with you, and were strumming it," he said. "You were dressed in something simple you had worn to rehearsal, and you probably didn't have any make-up on, and were a little tired and not trying to create an impression on anyone. Yet, when you began to sing quietly to your own accompaniment, I thought: There is the girl I want to marry. And I never changed my mind about that." Florence Ethel Wilson — as she was christened, although always called Ethel — had never dreamed of being an actress, as so many girls do. She had shown great promise as a singer, and her mother had been able to enter her in the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, at fourteen — two years before the age at which most pupils are accepted. Baltimore was not far from the Wilson farm in Howard County, Maryland, where Ethel's father was a country judge. Life was lovely for "Judge Wilson's daughters," as Ethel and her sisters were known. "We were only in fairly comfortable circumstances, but we all rode horses and were invited to all the parties and had everything we needed, including a good home, and I suppose I thought we were rich. We looked forward to our lives going on in the same way until we married and had homes of our own. My grandmother was making each of us a patchwork quilt for our 'hope chests' — all the girls in our community had these collections of nice things started for future homes. In my mind's eye, I can see my grandmother sewing out on our big porch, during the lazy summer afternoons. In the winter, we girls used to help make the little patches that Grandmother later put together into such beautiful designs. "Then, when I was sixteen, my mother passed on — and overnight my whole world changed. Nothing had prepared me for this. When my father later re-married, I went to live with an aunt. It was the end of the first chapter of my life, and the beginning of my growing up to some of the harsh realities of living." Jithel was not prepared to earn a livelihood, but felt she should become selfsupporting as quickly as possible and not be a burden to anyone. She was the Wilson daughter who had always recited and had often been told she should become an actress, and at this point someone suggested to her that this was the time to start. There was no great urge in her .for the theater, but it did seem like something she might do. So, with courage born of complete ignorance of all the obstacles which might stand in her way, she asked the manager of a stock company playing Baltimore if he would hire her. He did, at fifteen dollars a week, because he happened at that moment to need someone just like her. Her trained voice and stage presence were a great help, and the variety of roles she played turned her into an actress of some experience in a rather short time. Fired by the desire to conquer Broadway, she decided she was ready to go to New York. Shortly after she arrived, she met a Baltimore friend, Minna Gombell, already well known to theater-goers and later to movie-goers. She confessed to Minna that her funds were extremely limited, and was advised to see a producer who was casting for a road company. She had only one good outfit, a tailored navy blue suit which she wore only for such occasions, and so she dressed herself up in this staple of her wardrobe and went to see the great man. 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