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Radio's man-crazy Gossip of Grinder's Switch has a man she really is crazy about — her husband !
They live near the city so "Miss Minnie" can connbine her broadcasting and house-and-garden chores — but "Mr. and Mrs. Cannon" love the country, go fishing when they can.
Happily Married
And when you meet her, what then? Will she be like, or unlike, the Minnie Pearl of your imagining? Well, some of both — as friends can testify.
During the time Miss Minnie and her Henry were courting — were, indeed, engaged to be married — a wartime buddy Henry had known in Japan came through Nashville.
According to Miss Minnie, the buddy called Henry, who said at once: "Come on, go out with us tonight."
"Where '11 I meet you?"
"Well, I tell you — ^my girl works at Grand Ole Opry, so how about your meeting me at the Ryman Auditoritun along around seven o'clock? Reserved seats for the Opry are sold out more than two months in advance. And the hne for unreserved seats starts forming at three o'clock. But likely I can get you standing room."
"Henry's buddy got in. And I," says Miss Minnie Pearl, "came on. Now, before I go on, I take off all my make-up. I get into the white cotton stockings, the old country cotton dress, same like the original eighty-nine-cent dress I wore my first night in the Opry. On my head I clap the old sailor hat with the bunch of flowers in the front and the price tag a-dangling. My mother's hat, which I've worn from first to now — and keep repairing and repairing. I pick up my old red pocketbook with nothing in it — bone empty, as coiintry women's bags always are. Ladies, country women don't carry things you and I do. No lipstick, because they don't (Continued on page 81)
Grand Ole Opry — with Red Foley and Minnie Pearl — NBC Radio, Sat., 9:30 P.M. EDT; Prince Albert Tobacco, Cavalier Cigarettes.
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