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Show ,', .W 'xr0,,,r!7,ottt .rmorTvirpt,5p..11! toreOlithe daughterLn the Los stage productron, !The, Angeles - , 11110,1111EMPOWIPRIIIMP , -- "-- - J.. ,,, ,,-- ..à. ' ' re" .'" 7;3', -- --"' "IP7 ,,PaS' ... t '' 4 ,i' ' - - - - ,, - e s,,,,, - 4 - - - y - - - 4 4, - - , ., - i - - i , - . 'I'-..- ) ! 1, - - - 1 - 1: ; 1 4 -. .....- .-- . I , . , , , - 1 0 - , I-- 4 4,,., , t 4 i the rice-didays followed my grade ation from junior college" - Helen took off for New York to try for a stage career, ran out of funds and got a job in Macy's base- ment. ' : "However," she grimaced, "my never was bothered arithmetic 1 I had nd such, dif- any good et , . ' ' '' .'''''' , , - A is t, , 1 . 4 ! f f I I ) '; t. 1 0 tion. i - i ' - --:- - - 1 41 N 4- 111 erlt 5.,tt.IP.',.,....!W"........4'7.M. tas come kr te::n ct is ono . 1..3 a: I,:t c::::1 , - - . ' ' . ' I t I ' 1 ' l''00 , - - i4,0-- ( .. 11;71-y-ti- , - .....-- 42 - i l ecg.r I ' - ' -- 4 ' - , - - , , , i 1 , 1 , - - - , ! - - - l . . - 4 . - - -- - -- - - -- - --- -- ' -- - , , .. - - . - ' Colbert for "Three Came Htome." She acquitted herself so ably in the 'test that Producer Nunnally Johnson not only gave her the role, but asked if she would mind testing in Miss Colbert's part opposite actors up for the Japanese role in the film, - Helen tested fifteen actors and the producer promised he wouldn't forget her, He didn't:J.- For 'once a promise in Hollywood was not forgotten. Johnson gave her a chance to test ---- , -- i LUE - EYED, blonde Helen "From the agricultural college we . entertainment when she was two new out toward a town called Para- went years old. With her mother ate Westcott, Hollywood's in -beauti-----aise and be showed me a farm where-- - -t- oured the country in this act for a -est and perhaps-mo- st Gregory- Peek---half. a and to while school, is to had worked he year Gun in "The going young star, returning Fighter" and she won it back to Log- an-these He Is married : in the spring and I'm surealthough thinned sugar beets." tiason, to quote her exGordon, who appeared with Peck in days.. The ' ' remember itthat Cache rel- USAC . on out the met Helen's is "Twelve O'clock Hi g h." "to parents get straightened , actly, y, .- ' ley never appeared more inviting. about sugar beets" campus- Her mother was Beth Mc- , One of her favorite, childhood Helen had her first real taste of Arthur- - from Preston, Idaho. She It seems that her father, the late memories is of playing vaudeville lii. n vatide- starvation rations ' at the age four later became a 'noted ' film actor 'Gordon Westcott Salt Lake. She had a crush on a when her mother decided she be- ville and concert musician under the (whose real name was Gordon-Hick- -, fellow vaudevillian. Ile was Donald , , --in Hollywood. manj took her for a drive one time. ,longed 'stage name of Betty Wynne. t.r- Lomier, now the pal of Francis. ' ' Gordon Hickman was married to They lived with Anne Shirley and' the mule. They were visiting her paternal Mrs:, Shirley and the four subsisted grandparents in Logan. Mr. and Mrs. ,,, Miss McArthur in Logan and they i,we. were in Sal! Lake for Easter J. E. Hickman (Mr. BJckman wasr a 4, came to Hollywood where Myrth" , on a diet consisting entirely- . of- rice and Donald she grineedL,1. 4 delighted , film for hreakk while 1928. 'ettli o was horn January 1, t r ) and thetour 'Helen trying Cache Valley m eciy fleing,meechocelate Baster - Fortunately, Helen told us on a -That wasiigurativelyarold Win' IndudedkliekLoLsugavbeets. . bunny ,, fol20th where set Century-Foxshe at , , terand there were others to, vis-- "My father was born and reared - Miss Westcott is on the starred From Call in mother "Plione easy very )3 and being Helen her Helen reminisced,,. in Logan," lowand ' eyes:1 Shei 5 .teet 4, Inches tall; Stranger,", after coupleof months ited the LE Vickmang In Logartand he drove me down his memoryiane she was given a part in a series of weighs a beautifully curved 113 We saw Logan High School, which he stayed, like the man who came to 'children,--anpounds with a bust, stretch. a 'shorts for called was featuring Britquite attended, although it and waist measurements . her role first as later almost ity":1'hungood hip Helen learned to dance got ham Young College then, and the She's also honest. der Over Texas." in which she re- soon as she learned to walk. She Utah State Agricultural College. .He she said, !'but my made her. debut -- in a singing and ----A- ceived third, the acting hal tthe age of seven, Helen Won -- - husband is a better cook than I am."a ctiiirdf bit him. bug . -- - -- - - -- d- ey --- -- - - .7,- - - 1 -: , - 4 - , . ., , 1, , , -- - - , 1 - - - M C;t) 1 .. , - - ',I 1 - ) - - - , - ''''' 1 , . 1 .' , cf i:z!!ywood's trtwe:t ezts . ' , t.vot!s cl 1 - . , t7c,sfcttt Li - i. - -1. I s t , She got the lead in the comedy, playing the mother instead of the , daughter. The show closed three months- - later., and Helen,- - deciding she'd had enough of New York,earne back to Hollywood. At Warners studio she said she'd be only too glad to ,geti, work of any kind. She was taken at her word and a year made seven pictures, plays- -, in . mg everything from secretaries to a lead in a piece called "Homicide. After that one, Warners elimi- nated Helen and she went to the Fox lot. She had small parts with Shirley Temple and Adolph Menjou, Then came a routine chore in 'which her-cooperativeness led to her big break. She was tested for a role as one of the five more important concentra- - 4 l (! -- --, fired at the end of my second day. "For the next nine months 1 lived on one hot dog a day, provided by kind friends, and stayed in thea- trical - boarding houses Then 'The Drunkard' came to town and saved me from outright starve- - ,y ,- . s . - I - meI ! ' I -- aver------- 1 , Judy." ef.,..-- 14 particularly her mother as a musician. "Name any musical instrument," she ' said, "and she can play it."' Helen herself, -- we learned, is much better than on the organ age piano,lharprguitar, and, drums. 1 m glad I'm able to take music lesöhre' she said "for there have been more lean periods in my life - ', i -- , ,- - ' -- Mr. Sand",,, and "Date With 4 - 4 ., , - , - 1' , mof I, 'z' - ,--; - ,,, '4 P 0 - - -- - Ili ,,, - ..: i -- of----- -- i - . - ,4 4- - if - t, - ' ,- - -, ,,, C, s - - . , I .,. - iis ,,, i 0 ''s ' - , 's - - -- 1 ' ,Pd ... 4R hq,,,r.2, with this play Diunkard," and stayed --for nine consecutive-years.During this run, she continued, she supplemented her income with e Those n radio appearance Love," "Dr.- Christian,",,,The Life Dud-Rex--"-b- andit-doseirien- -- -- ad ts- ' - , - - - - well-know- .. , - -- . - - . - . - - - i , - ear- - 35-in- ch 25-In- ch , 35-in- ch - ,: ok," tk--ii--c--o- - ore - , 1 i ', i , iô -- -dan- - iii-gskifTngiii-lit- DESERET NEWS RtADAii4E. ,SALT iAKE,CITY, UTAHLMAROI 9, 11P52 - |