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Of Goodies glad to get a small part or two and pray for a good role in a hit. So you get the hit. And after three months of the same role you’re fed up to here with it.” Miss Hagen, who can speak as bluntly offstage as she can sweetly on the air, has been doing Make Room for Daddy for the past two seasons and is committed to a third. “It’s the same old complaint,” she shrugs. “The same role for two solid years, and under the most confining circumstances. It’s no exaggeration that I actually see more of Danny and Rusty and Sherry than I do of my own husband and children.” If Jean is better known to the view¬ ing public as the all-knowing Mar¬ garet Williams, she is better known to the trade as an able dramatic ac¬ tress, a girl who would rather play a siren’s role than an ingenue in love with Prince Charming. She rejoices in parts like that in “Singin’ in the Rain,” when she played a fading movie star who couldn’t buck the new era of the talking picture. And that in “Asphalt Jungle” when she was the kind of female that gives the censorship peo¬ ple sleepless nights. Because TV viewers apparently take a deep and abiding interest in the welfare of their favorites, Jean has received a good deal of disquieting mail concerning her upcoming ap¬ pearance in a picture called “The Big Knife.” It finally reached the point where she had to sit down and an¬ swer the letters, but the best she Jean enjoys her TV family—Danny ► Thomas, Rusty Hamer, Sherry Jackson —but wants to see more of her own. could do and still remain truthful was to say she plays “a girl with vague ideas about virtue” in the film. It’s a far cry from Margaret Williams. Jean is a tall, almost rangy girl whose excellent figure has never been shown to best advantage on TV. She is married to Tom Seidel, former ac¬ tor and agent, now a building con¬ tractor, and they live with their two young children on a beautiful se¬ cluded street in Brentwood. A native of Chicago who prefers to call Indiana home, she is a grad¬ uate of Lake Forest College, North¬ western University, radio soap opera, summer stock and the Broadway stage. Her big Broadway success was in “The Traitor,” opposite Lee 'Tracy. This brought her a Hollywood con¬ tract, followed by 13 pictures, fol¬ lowed by TV. Having done just about everything, Jean is of the opinion that repertory theater is perhaps the nearest thing to an actress’ dream. “It gives you everything,” she says, resignedly, “ex¬ cept the money. A different role every week but the same paycheck.”