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Blonde With Butterflies H ollywood has concocted a number of axioms to fit a num¬ ber of pat situations. One of them, which fits the situation immediately at hand, reads simply: “No butter¬ flies, no show.” Miss Joan Caulfield, late of Broad¬ way, late of the movies and now available via CBS-TV’s new My Fa¬ vorite Husband, opposite Barry Nel¬ son, is one of the leading exponents of the butterfly school. “Butterflies” means that nervous feeling before a show. Joan is at her nervous best ap¬ proximately two minutes before the Television City studio clock hits 6:30 P.M. for her live telecast to the East. At 30 seconds past 6:30, however, the butterflies have departed the premises and Miss Caulfield is in her element— onstage before a live audience. Joan, actually, is a rarity on the Hollywood scene. She infinitely pre¬ fers working in live TV as opposed to film, a factor which weighed heav¬ ily with the network brass when seeking a girl to do My Favorite Hus¬ band on a live basis. It was one thing to find a star name for the series, but it was something else again to find a star who was willing to forego film and do it in the flesh. “How can anyone work without an audience?” Joan asks, forgetting mo¬ mentarily that she made a number of successful pictures at Paramount after deserting Broadway. “Once you’re on, you’re the boss. Nothing can stop you. You can feel out the audience, gear yourself to its de¬ mands, use it as a sounding board. Without an audience, I just feel that I’m acting at being an actress. And that’s not good. Not for me, anyway.” Joan’s chief complaint against mo¬ tion pictures was their insistence that she look pretty at all times. “I’d frown because I felt a certain line needed a frown for emphasis, and the cam¬ eraman would say, ‘Please, Miss Caul- 15