Radio-TV mirror (July-Dec 1954)

o "secret storm" for Susan Virginia Dwyer thinks it's fine to be an actress but best of all to be an understanding mother By ELEANOR POLLOCK Like other little girls, Susan is learning to cook and keep house. She also knows about scripts — but has ambitions for the future all her own. When Virginia Dwyer puts on her apron, cooks a meal and takes over as Jane Edwards, the competent and sage housekeeper in The Secret Storm, she is actually doing what she likes best in the world. For this pretty red-headed woman — who certainly doesn't look old enough to be the mother of her "nearly twelve" daughter Susan — revels in housekeeping and would like nothing better than to have the time to do all her own cooking and run her home like any other young suburban matron. But, for the moment, she can express her homemaking instincts only on her fiveday-a-week show over CBS-TV. In order to give Susan — who is a miniature of her attractive mother — the kind of life Virginia believes is the right of every child, she has set up an almost superhuman schedule for herself. For many years, Virginia and Susan lived in a New York apartment. They have lived alone together ever since Susan was a baby and Virginia and her newsman husband separated. All this time, Virginia has put her daughter's welfare and interests above her own. So, now that Susan is ready to enter junior high, her mother decided that it was time they lived someplace where (Continued on page 68) Mother and daughter find it's easier to do things together in the country — -like skating — and easier to invite friends to call. Virginia Dwyer is Jane Edwards in The Secret Storm, CBS-TV, M-F, 4:15 P.M. EST, sponsored by Whitehall Pharmacal Co. and Boyle-Midway, Inc. 39