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Edgar and their sons Chris (left) and Mike are ardent fishermen. Jane loves to go along, too — but only to watch the bird-,!
By DIANE SCOTT
ONE RESTLESS AFTERNOON that was to change her whole philosophy of life — and her future — ^Jane Wyatt asked herself why she had failed. What had happened to the girl who was so high of heart and hope? The actress so dedicated to making the kind of magic that would be remembered for all time? . . . She thought of the Broadway openings — and the closings. Of starring in important Hollywood productions like "Lost Horizon" — and some of the parts she won afterward which might better have been lost. Of all the alternating high hope and deep despair. . . .
Idly, Jane picked up an old black scrapbook and began turning the pages, feeling a little sorry for the girl who had so carefully pasted in those first paragi'aphs — all the bits of paper that were to add up to the big dream. . . . Two hours later, closing the pages of the past, Jane Wyatt knew where she had really failed And what she must do.
"I was really disappointea, I suppose," Jane says now, "because I wasn't Helen Hayes, Katharine Hepburn and Greta Garbo all rolled into one. I guess you think you're going to be — that's why you go into it. And I'd always been so intense about acting. So intense about getting better parts in movies — and about getting plays that would run longer. I felt I'd failed, and I was so discouraged."
She remembered only the peaks. But, looking through her scrapbook, she was reminded of the years, the plays, the pictures — all the performances in between. And nowhere was personal failure written there. The critics had been almost unbelievably kind. Jane thought: Many of the productions failed — but people said you were good. What right did she have to be so discouraged about her career?
As Jane says now, "I decided to enjoy my work and to be more humble about it. Somebody once said, 'Humility is the acceptance of reality' — and that's right. If you're humble, you accept reality . . . not what you intended, but what is. I decided to be happier (Continued on page 94)
.lane Wyatt is Margaret Anderson in Father Knows Best, as seen over NBC-TV. Wednesday. 8 :.^0 P.M. EST, sponsored by Scott Paper Company.
Being the lone female In the family doesn't faze Jane. She's learned a lot about sports — and model planes, as made by Mike — but even more about the "being together" which builds and warms a home.