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Show Stenographer's Dazed by Rise in Films HOLLYWOOD, March 31 (INS) A demure, brown-haired former secretary sec-retary to a film exchange official ia tha deep south today holds th canter of th stag oa th Twentieth Twen-tieth Century-Fa lot Nln month, ago her head waa bowed ever book at th atudlo exchange in New Orleans at (20 a week. Today aba ha a major role la one or tha year's most oca try movies, with Rudy Vallee aa bar celluloid hero aad Sonja Henla aa bar romantic rival, and with a mint of gold awaiting bar If she makee good. She la Mary Healy. She I still In her teens, aa Irish aa tha name aha been aad aa dassled and bewildered bewil-dered a girl as you'll find. What's It AaeutT . "What's this all about r she asks. "A few weeks ago no one paid me any particular heed. .Things have happened too fast for me. Please wait till I catch my breath. Miss Healy, as lovely a newcomer new-comer .as tha film have welcomed wel-comed ' In many a year, haa been named' by Darryl F. Zaauck, Twentieth Century-Fox's production thief, to play the role of Jeaa Varick in Irving Berlin' musical, "Second riddle" She'll get a chance to both sing and act la tha lavish production. She'll be the crooning Valiee's heart beat and aha will have th blond queen of tha tea, Mia Henla, for romantic competition, though Miss Hsnia ultimately will surrender Rudy for her true cinematic love. Tyrone Power, Mia Healy was born In New Orleans. She attended St Mary's school and later waa graduated from th Redemptoriat school and college. Th posseesor of an excellent ex-cellent voice, Mary sang for a time with a number of orchestra which toured the south, but she found the going difficult and decided to forget for-get ail about career. So aha got tha job of secretary and bookkeeper in the Twentieth Century-Fox exchange ex-change la her home city. |