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Janette Has No Ambitions Beyond The Godfrey Show beautifully groomed. In addition, she is clearly one of the more popular television performers. This amazing transition began when Janette (aged 12) resolved to take piano lessons in an effort to stop biting her nails. It continued two years later when she moved to Mem¬ phis, Tenn., and starred in her own radio show. (Economic conditions forced her to eat somewhat sporadi¬ cally. Consequently, she lost weight.) And it was completed in 1946 when, be a quirk of chance, she joined Ar- thiu* Godfrey on radio, having moved to New York from other wayside radio stops in Quincy, Ill., Shreveport, La.; Cincinnati, and Chicago. “How I got on here was a hot one. I had this radio show on CBS every night at 11, and then one day—pooj^ —^they went ahead and sold the time to a sponsor who wanted a news show and there I was back on the network staff just singing to myself with nobody listening. Well, Arthur wanted a singer and they brought him a recording of mine and he liked my voice and put me on the show. Just like that. He never even looked at me before he hired me.” In point of service, Janette is the oldest member of Godfrey’s cast. Friends may come and Friends may go, but Janette remains a fixture. “And that’s the way I want it to be,” she avers. “No personal appear¬ ance dates for Janette. No flouncin’ around the countryside singing in some night club. None of that for me. I’m right happy where I am.” Janette, who has red hair; a friend¬ ly, generous-looking smile; a firm and direct manner, and a good loud voice, is intensely loyal to her long-time good friend and employer. And she is bristlingly hostile to his critics. A fierce loyalty; in singer Janette Davis' “What do they gain by knocking Arthur? Why, some of these men, they’re big enough to get by on their own instead of picking on Arthur. “Now, listen here. In all the years I’ve known Arthur Godfrey, I never once heard him say an unkind thing, or a mean and petty thing to anyone on the air. Now, he might kid a fel¬ low, you know, but well, anybody can kid, can’t he, if it’s all in fun?” Janette is likewise almost complete¬ ly lacking in rapport with the devia- tionists on Godfrey’s own programs, who in the past have dashed off to make outside personal appearances without consulting the summit. “Listen,” she says, “^^d plenty of chances to get outejl^dates. ^^y, years ago, before <fulius La Rosa or any of them ever took an outside date—why, they offered me work in clubs and places like that and I 14