The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-02-12
Role
Given Miss Russell
Local Girl Plays Lead Opposite Robert Montgomery in
''Night Must Fall" Which Ran SIS Weeks in London

Joined up usually with Mayor
Hotchkiss' three children who lived
next door and great games OF run
sheep-run would be organized.
j Beyond the Hotchkiss house was
the Walsh home" Miss Russell re-
called. 1--WE took advantage Of their
good nature more than once. Their
well-kept garden was perfect for
run-sheep-run and the sweetest
cherries In Connecticut grew on
their trees. The temptation was
too great.
"But the suffering Of the Walsl1es
from baseball was even greater, and
viii, good cause. About twice a
month-in season-my mother
would have to phone my dad:
""They broke the window In the
Walsh house today, James,' she'd
sigh. And dad would send q man
around to fix 1t. He had some build
ings in Waterbury and always had
a carpenter working somewhere. nut
I'll bet that carpenter knew the
Walsh house better than any DAD
owned"
Remembers Mrs. White
Rosalind remembers Mrs. White,
who had lily pond and who lived
on the next street in back Of their
,ome and she supposes Mrs. White
.emembers her-yet. The Russells
.ext door neighbor, on the opposite
ide, however, Rosalind thinks. must
ave minded anything, for there
lever was protest from that direc-
on about the elaborate fancies they
,sed to work out there IN the way
# play. ,,
who used to give us candy and had
immunity" she grinned. ana
Jharles jackson, whom once pes
.ered into playing train. During
oller-skating season we would meet
dad on his way home from the ONCE
at the foot Of the hill and then wed
grab his coat-tails and he'd tow us
home. :. -,
1T met Mr.. jackson down the hill
one day before dad arrived ana
grabbed his coat for the ride home.
but that sort Of railroading hadn't
been explained to him. There was
some little argument before ne
finally gave in and think lew
neighbors must have been enter
tanned by the spectacle. AT any
rate. one mustn't speak OF 1t. ior !
was really not q well-behaved nttie
girl, mother said" :.
In the Russell family there Is
James. who Is a recent bridegroom
and who is taking his late fathers
place in the Waterbury law firm.
Next came "The Duchess" Clara,
who is now Mrs. Chef LaRoche ana
an editor of Town and Country.
John Is now in business on wall
Street. and then there's Rosallno'
who is one Of Metro-G oldwyn-May-
Younger Is George, a law student
at Columbia, and then Mary Jane
who at twenty two Is assistant to the
dean at Sara Lawrence College,
from which she was graduated, ana
who also teaches an economies
class. Youngest Is Prime KusSeil'
an undergraduate at Catherine
Gibbs school In New York.
"It,s no wonder we were encour-
aged to play outdoors as much as
possible" Miss Russell observed. "Ol
course, it was healthier for US. we
weren't permitted to 90 to matinees
until we were In eighth grade pc
cause mother wanted US TO play u
the open as much as possible.
"But winter weather sometimes
kept us all in the house. On the
third floor we had play room with
a bowling alley and q billiard table
in It. There also was q tunnel 70
the attic which was peopled with
ali sorts of imaginative monsters
and was a fine thrill.
II don't know how mother ever
managed to keep on quietly with
her sewing downstairs when we had
the bowling alley going. an Indian
dance In progress in another corner
and maybe somebody shut In the
tunnel as q prank and screaming.
But aha did.
Fights Barred
eve always got on finely together
and don't remember . single night.
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