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His first professional writing series has been heard over the Mutual network with such guests as Skitch Henderson, Ray Anthony, and a home-town friend, Gordon MacRae, doing the honors. On The Swing Side also gave Roger the opportunity to play musical comedy leads and to develop that flair for writing. Roger says he doesn't intend getting married for a long time, because he very definitely wants his marriage to be "for keeps." In the meantime, however, he falls hook, line and sinker for beautiful girls, and is particularly interested in girls with warm, happy personalities. He loves good times. A date with Roger often means dinner at Sardi's, followed by the latest Broadway hit show, then a round of dancing to complete the evening. However, real late dates are infrequent — since he must rise at 5: 30 A.M. for his daily working stint before the cameras. Roger keeps bachelor quarters in a three-and-one-half-room apartment overlooking Riverside Drive. Here, all the furniture was built by hand, by Sullivan. The cost of furnishing the apartment actually amounted to a little less than six hundred dollars. He proudly refers to the furniture as "modern functional," and it's made of redwood, foam rubber, and wrought-iron. Roger enjoys working in woods, clay and copper in his spare time. Most of the chairs, tables, and bookcases were made from redwood, although there is one table which has been fashioned out of plastic clothesline. This was the first object to be completed. Roger is proudest, however, of the combination high fidelity radio cabinet — plus TV and record sections — which he made. He also collected a couple of peach baskets, finished them in braided rope, and they now serve as deep wastepaper baskets. Roger's imagination really went to town on the coffee table, which was built out of wrought iron and oak and has a fitted glass top. All of Roger's writing is accomplished at a long work table which, in its day, had served many a hungry picnicker. This redwood table is simonized once a week. The apartment's finishing touches have just been added with the completion of a bedroom screen, on which he has painted a rooftop scene of TV antennas against a charcoal-gray background — the "new" New York skyline. Roger's diversified interests also include anthropology and oceanography. He would like to find time some day to take an archaeological field trip, besides exploring underneath the sea. But his real world is the entertainment business, and Roger is now well on the way to reaching stardom in both the acting and writing fields. And. when he does hit the top, his dream is that of any typical "boy next door." Roger wants a car, specifically a hard-top sports model. Then it will be off to the country for happy, non-acting weekends in the great outdoors. That's for Roger! Perfect Partnership (Continued jrom page 28) marriage has certainly not been an average one. No theater marriage is. "When we work together, twenty-four hours a day, as producer and star," says Ray, "we're just old-fashioned fighters. We could think of our twenty-fifth anniversary as the start of our twenty-sixth round!" In other respects, however, their marriage has been average. "We've had arguments," says Ray, "like a couple of sword swallowers on the same bill. We've had romance, too, like two lumps of sugar in the same cup of tea. We've had respect for each other, understanding, humor. We've grown out of smugness and into love. These things have made our twenty-five years seem like a day. "Actually, we've seen dark days and sunny ones. But, generally, the theater has been kind to us. And, although there was a time when we'd lost our money, there never was a time when we'd lost our love." Gwen was a student at the University of Southern California when a friend took her to Los Angeles' Orpheum Theater to introduce her to producer Gus Edwards. Gwen was a songwriter and singer. Gus was impressed with her ability, planned to make her a star. The first day Gwen came to the theater with her friend, she saw Ray dancing on the stage. "He looked like a sublimely homely gazelle," she recalls. "I don't remember the exact conversation, but the girl I was with said I was obviously smitten. She claims I said, 'There's the man I'm going to marry.' I was very precocious at the time." Gus Edwards took Gwen around to parties, introducing her to all the important people — but he never introduced her to Ray. Then, one Sunday, she had an appointment at the theater to meet Gus. Gwen, still in her jodhpurs, hurried in from a riding date. Gus didn't show up. But Ray did, ready for his matinee. He had seen Gwen around at the parties and very much wanted to meet her. Ray, about as bashful as a bear in a pot of honey, rushed up and said, "I'm Ray Bolger. You're great!" Ray and Gwen were pretty much of a steady thing from then on, and were soon engaged to be married. The year was 1929. Ray had been quite successful with his money, having invested in blue-chip stocks. But those were the days when the market went up ten points at a time. Gwen began to feel that the top had been reached, and said so. "You had better sell some of those stocks." "You don't know what you're talking about," said Ray. "Wait until after we're married, then you can tell me what to do." They were married July 9, leaving immediately for Europe. That's where they received news of the stock market crash. "When we got back to the States," says Ray, "we had a hundred dollars in the bank. We looked at the bank balance, then at each other. It seemed we both had the same idea at the same time: 'Let's take it out and have one good fling!' That's what we did." Nevertheless, they realized that you have to work at a marriage to make it go. Gwen hadn't worked at housekeeping before their marriage. It was a new situation for her. Though Ray was never a starving actor — he worked fifty weeks out of every year during the Depression — the market crash had made them economy-minded. When they went to Philadelphia for Ray to do a show, Gwen left their expensive hotel to find an apartment. She wanted to prove that she was willing. "The first day Ray went to the theater," says Gwen, "I left the hotel to look for an apartment. I found one and moved us in. The apartment was cheaper, it had a stove, and I figured it would be less expensive than eating out. At the same time, I could show Ray what a good cook he had married. Though the byword of my argument was 'economy,' I was really trying to show off. "I was even brave enough to ask Ray's agent, Abe Lastfogel, to dinner. But there