Salt Lake Telegram | 1943-02-17 | Page 16 | Beauty Gets Screen Role with Dispatch

Beauty Gets M 11 Screen Role With Dispatch HOLLYWOOD INS INS INS-A A thousand thousand thousand thou thou- sand roads lead to Hollywood but B Barbara Hale beautiful Chicago model has blazed the shortest on record She was signed to a term contract contract contract con con- tract by R K 0 O within four weeks of the day her photograph was sent to the studio by a friend and was playing a role in Gilder sleeves sleeve's Bad Day 36 hours after her arrival in in the cinema capital A luscious brunette with deep hazel haze eyes and dark brown hair hall shot with gold year old Barbara is that paradox a beautiful girl who never had any stage or screen aspirations She wanted to be a commercial artist but mainly she has looked forward to marriage and children A dozen she says and means it Kissed at Seven As a child she gathered scores of dolls about her and kept house for them Her games always were built around home building Her only theatrical appearances were at the age of seven when she played Miss Rainbow in a civic production and and- had to be kissed by a 8 boy two years her senior Both were terribly embarrassed she remembers She was chosen May queen the year she graduated fr from m high school Barbara was studying at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts when destiny made the first move in the plan which brought her to Hollywood She was standing on ona k a street corner with a girl friend when a woman handed her a cars card from the model bureau and asked her t to td call there Barbara gave the card to her friend friendA A few days later through this friend she was called to the bureau and asked to pose for tests Role In Hour Within a few weeks she was posing for n national advertising Then her boss sent her picture to toK K O. O It was turned over to the talent department and a studio scout called on Barbara A few days later Charles Koerner vice president in charge of production was passing through Chicago and interviewed her A contract followed followed fol fol- fol- fol lowed and before she had caught her breath Barbara was in Holly Holly- wood i h. r