Show WAY BACK a 1111 e ct e WHEN sy JOAN CRAWFORD WAS A TELEPHONE OPERATOR OAN CRAWFORDS life is an JOAN example of a girl who had tal ti ent ambition and enthusiasm but b w who h 0 m might ight never have risen beyond Z an ordinary occupation without the i confidence to keep trying joan crawford was born about abo 1907 in san antonio texas daughter of a theater manager most of her play hours were spent playing show and she danced her way through many struggling years before a real opportunity came her way at fourteen joan went to work as a telephone operator in lawton okla then she was sent to a convent in kansas city where she had to earn her way by acting as a kitchen maid and waiting on tables after leaving college joan crawford found a job in a kansas city department store as a stock girl at 10 per week working during the day and practicing i i ng dancing at night finally a theatrical agent found a job for joan in a show which failed a month later leaving her stranded miles from home courageously she found job after job in cab abets and night clubs in chicago detroit and new york she was working in a shubert show innocent eyes when a metro gold wyn mayer executive saw her and signed her for pictures JOSEF STALIN STUDIED FOR THE priesthood ITH what blindness do we attempt WITH to guide our childrens footsteps in life so often forcing on them an ambition of our owal own it might be laughable were it not so seriously in opposition to the mans own desires but josef stalin was forced to attend the tiflis greek orthodox seminary because his mother wanted him to be a priest young stalin legally named josef itch did not want to be a priest born in 1879 josef was educated in the village school of gorl russia in his young days he was a fighter who bore many a black eye and he was somewhat of a bully although he always displayed intelligence and character at the seminary nary he led the other students in plotting against the authorities and local railway workers met in his room eventually he was dismissed in disgrace at the age of seventeen he joined the underground dock workers of batum in a riot and when the terrorist bolsheviks were formed became active in their movement while attend 11 iii ing a bolshevik party conference in stockholm in 1905 he met lenin for the first time josef stalin was arrested a halt half a dozen times and exiled from russia the last time he changed his name regularly and returned again and again with lenin and trotsky he took over the government of russia in october 1917 after lenin died in 1924 stalin supporters exiled trotsky and through ruthless executions made stalin dictator josef stains life is hardly the kind of biography you would expect from a boy who studied for the priesthood service |