The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-12-26
Cupid and Stage 0utbid sa.G
 Glamour Throne for Deb
By ADELAIDE KERR AP Feature Service Writer

Josephine Johnson, who was vot- el New york's most glamoroas debutante for 1940-41 in night club poll and who later renounced title and throne for the man she loves. wishes to exchange a de5s butterfly life for a double career marriage and the stage.
 She rates career miles ahead Of the debutante whirl because she thinks its building some thing you want to continue for life"
 The other day she sat beside my desk, wearing a soft blue tweed suit and powder pink blouse and talked the whole thing over. She wore no hat and her black hair curled softly down to the shoul- derline of her fluffy wolf jacket. Her hazel eyes, famous for their smile, were serious as she said:
 "A deb's life is terribly super ficial I went abous lot as sub deb and after the poll last spring, life was a whirl. But you go on for a year and the tinsel gets off the Christmas tree. You get SC tired of night clubs you think you want to go to the wild west O. Borneo and just rest.
 Long For Some Steak"
 Its like having to eat Ice cream and angel cake for too long. You long for some steak now and then. A stage career means building something you want to continue for life
 Josephine caused a lot of eX citement in Gothams social cir cles when she announced her en- gagement to Blaine Faber New York salesman for manufacturers of steel castings) few months before her formal debut, which was scheduled for next December. By that gesture she automatically cancelled her standing as a debu- tante and glamour girl.
 Now the first part of her sched- uled career-marriage-has struck a snag with the passage of the conscription bill She and her fi- ance are waiting to see whether he is drafted before they make any definite plans for marching down the aisle.
 But she is hard at work on the stage side of it. She has studied for two years with the famous Russian, Maria Ouspenska, and now she's looking for job tshe doesn't say 'part") with a Broadway show.
 Hollywood?
 Not For Her
 Josi, who is IT, says one big film company wanted to make screen tests but she turned thumos down on that.
 T don't want to get stuck in Hollywood" she said. I'm a very young girl and I need experI- ence. I wouldn't have chance out there. I'd have to stand above 5000 other women"
 If Josi Johnson's stage career is anything like her sub-deb years, there will be plenty of e.s- citement in it. Things just seem to happen wherever this black haired, hazel eyed beauty ap- pears As sub-deb she was in- cluded in many of the 1939-40 parties. Then came the glamour girl poll and Josi went catapulr- ing into the limelight, all the while protesting that she didn t want to be glamour girl at all More excitement came in August, when she announced her engage ment.
 Her romance with, Blaine Faber las been exciting from the day they met
 Josi was lunching with a group of sub-debS in New York res taurant last spring when he came in. took one look at her and stood lowering near the table.
 There Was a Quarrel
 She looked up, thought he be- longed to the party and said "Oh, for heavens sake stop standing
 
 there Sit down and make your self comfortable
 He sat-right next to Josi. And the. romance was on. It passed the doldrums of a lovers quarrel last summer and few nights after it was patched up, Blaine raced out to beach club where she was at tending party, took her outside in the moonlight and proposed. She said, Yes"
 With that one word Josi John son cut short her debutante ca reer before it had really begun and turned in the direction of two new careers marriage and tie stage