TV Radio Mirror (Jan - Jun 1958)

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IT'S NO CRIME TO BE SHY! Shyness Is no problem for Eve — now — with husband Brooks West at Westhaven, their ranch In Hidden Valley. Sons Douglas and Duncan are anything but camera-shy, with Brooks keeping a photographic record of all the children's activities! But ifs mighty uncomfortable, admits Eve Arden — who hopes others m^y benefit from her own early experiences By PEER J. OPPENHEIMER TEEN-AGED Eve Arden (she was Eunice Quedens then — ^but let's call her by the name she has made world-famous today) was heading for her English class when the principal stopped her in the hallway and asked: "Please announce that the night of the prom has been changed from next Saturday to the week after, will you?" Eve's knees started to buckle. Her face grew^ flushed, her voice hoarse. "I don't feel so well, Miss Adrian," she croaked. "I ... I ... I just w^onder if I could be excused and go home . . ." The principal looked at her sternly. "Eunice, you are perfectly all right and you know it. Now you go right to class and make the announcement!" Eve made one more attempt to get out of it. "I have a terrible memory. Honestly, I have. Couldn't someone else. . .?" "Now, Eunice, you have to get over this shyness. Nobody is going to hurt you when you get up in front of the class. Just do it" With that, she turned and left. Somehow, Eve managed the announcement. But when she got through, her hands w^ere wet with perspiration, her mind a blank as to what she had said, and how she'd said it. In fact, on the night of the dance, she was surprised that anyone showed up at all! "That was only one of the many instances I was in agony because of my shyness," she recalls, over luncheon at Motion Picture Center, where she is now at work on her new CBS-TV series, The Eve Arden Show. "I used to think there was something drastically wrong with me. It took me years to realize that most young people, and a lot of older ones, go through the same qualms ... I still do, from time to time." Overcoming her shyness has been a constant, stiU continuing struggle. Yet Eve is now wiUingly discussing the subject, in the hope that her own experiences may be of benefit to others. She first became conscious of her reticence when she was four or five and a distant relative from back East visited them during his simmier vacation. Like most children, she was quite uninhibited when she met strangers. But there was something about this man that frightened her. Maybe his tremendous height, or the strong scent of tobacco he carried with him. Her mother didn't realize the yoiuigster's uneasiness when she asked Eve to go over and shake hands. "I don't want to . . ." Eve had resisted. But Mother insisted: "Be a good girl and show you have manners." Continued k