Show lights by L L STEVENSON down in burkett texas inhabitants and no sidewalks is the little post office where kathryn cravens used to I 1 ook look forward to the big event ot of the week the arrival ot of the newspapers from dallas and fort worth she was assistant to her mother who was postmistress and so the flaxen haired girl had a chance to look over the news before the papers went into the mail boxes As she read world happenings she dreamed of the time when she too would be a part ot of that same great world which seemed remote indeed well it might since burkett miles southwest of dallas is 17 miles from a railroad nevertheless today kathryn cravens tall blonde statuesque has a new york apartment wears minks and orchids has five secretaries to help her answer her correspondence and when she wishes to go anywhere she flies after the death of her father miss cravens went to live with a minister brother having been graduated from high school she entered kendall college now the university of tulsa and from there went to the horner institute of fine arts in kansas city next came the norse school of expression in st louis despite her early interest in the news of the day she was attracted to dramatics so instead of seeking a newspaper job she chose the stage eventually she played opposite a childhood idol guy bates post whom she had seen in a stock company in her early years then hollywood beckoned to her but her experience there was only mi minor roles in so she returned to st louis and concentrated on radio acting one day while listening to edwin C hill miss cravens decided that women should have a news commentator men of their own and that she would be that commentator instead of rushing to the nearest station with her idea she spent three months in study and then presented it to an executive he impressed but she induced him to take a chance the result was so successful her sponsors brought her to new york to broadcast over a columbia national network thus miss cravens became the first coast to coast woman commentator but she says she got her real start down in burkett and is planning to return there to visit at her first opportunity port unity her sister is now in in charge of the post office and has added a living room bedroom and bath so shell find everything cosy 0 0 0 speaking of living rooms the one in the apartment of lucille manners contains a piece of yellowed parchment that is cherished greatly by the blond singer because it is linked with the glorious past in fading script it is inscribed in remembrance of jenny lind miss manners found her prized souvenir of the swedish nightingale in an out of the way antique shop vera sellwood came to new york from bristol va where im informed some of the prettiest girls in the world live or go to school to study art on her arrival she found a position as an artists model that led to commercial photography and then to fashion work from modeling she went to the paradise where she is one of the highest paid show girls in the country and she found time as yet for art studies just to keep this from being an all feminine report ill bring in robert eminent english actor who is paying his first visit to new york and appeared as thomas becket in murder in the cathedral he played that part more than times in various sections of the british isles including six months in london but could not find a suitable wig As soon as he arrived in new york he continued his search and within 24 hours was outfitted with a perfect medieval priests tonsure and murder in the cathedral played only three weeks on broadway it was harry gilbert who told me about the man on the B M T subway who hurriedly got off at each station and investigated the trough in coin telephones where returned nickels drop so I 1 kept watch and on an I 1 R T train I 1 saw a woman do that same thing she only lasted two stations however as she quite quick enough to get back on am told that there are those who keep watch over the telephones in grand central and dart into a booth whenever a talker leaves thus capitalization of the absentmindedness absent mindedness of new yorkers 0 bell service |