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Susan has a BOY!
Susan Douglas and Jan Rubes find the true Guiding Light in the eyes of their first-born
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One thing Jan and Susan are sure of is that tiny Christopher will have lots of music in his life. Jan is a fine concert artist and sings on his own program, one of the most popular heard in all Canada.
By LILLA ANDERSON
She knew exactly what kind of a husband she wanted. And, whenever she described him, fragile, blonde Susan Douglas took on all the determination of a woman whose mind is made up.
In dressing-room gossip with other young actresses on Broadway, or perched on a drugstore stool near the broadcasting studios (though this was before she became so familiar to radio and TV audiences as Kathy Roberts — now Kathy Lang — in The Guiding Light) , Susan listened politely whenever another girl exclaimed over some newly-met actor who was just too, too dreamy.
When it was her own turn to talk, however, Susan almost invariably said: "Actors are all right if you like the type. But they're not for me. When I marry, I want a man who is in a substantial profession — a doctor, a lawyer, or something like that. I want a husband who is settled."
Susan had more than the usual reasons for day-dreaming in substantial terms, for — while her own shining star had risen steadily through stage, screen, radio and television roles — the memory of having been torn up by the roots never left her. Born in Czechoslovakia and brought up in a cosmopolitan family ("My father owned theaters in Vienna; my aunt was a film actress in Berlin; another aunt lived in Paris and we often visited her"), Susan was only thirteen when, with her mother, she fled from the Nazis. . . .
Show business was fun, she happily conceded, and being an actress was the only thing in the (Continued on page 93)
Susan is Kathy in The Guiding Light, M-F— CBS-TV, 12:45 P.M.; CBS Radio, 1:45 P.M. — for Duz, Ivory Soap, Ivory Flakes. Jan stars in Songs Of My People, CBC Trans-Canada, Fri., 9:30 P.M. (AU EDT)