The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-11-23
Blonde Has
Trouble

Hollywood, Nov. 23-UP-Penny
Singleton's almost used to the scat.
ter-brained life she leads as Blon.
die on the radio and in the movies.
But when it gets so that her home
is the same way that's almost too
much.
81 go through my Blonde trou-
bles all day at the studio" she
explained. and then | go home
and go through my own troubles.
And. believe me. they're just as
bad as any mix.ups Dagwood ever
got me into"
Miss Singleton, who's just as
blonde and just as pretty as the
Blonde originated by cartoonist
Chic Young, is now making her
fifteenth Blonde picture, called
Leave II 10 Blonde"
It's all about the tribulations
Dagwood gets her into when he
writes a 500 check without tell
ing her. The fact that Blondes also
written a 500 check without tell
ing Dagwood leaves them owing the
bank something like s9i.
So Baby Dumping, who is now
srown.up so he's called Alexander,
submits an original song in con-
test and signs Dagwood's name TO
IL. The song wins first prize and
the troubles go on from there at
a merry pace.
well. you can just imagine"
said Blondie-we mean Miss Sin
gleton. 81 fly around all day in the
picture and then l go home and
fly around some more"
Seems Miss Singleton, who's
married to Maj. Robert Sparks,
now on inactive service with the
Marine. cans find a cook, her
two children are sick, she's had
TO move within a week. and she
! has to clean house herself when
she finishes work. 49,.
And il it wasn't that her husband
! learned to cook in the Marines
she guesses she'd just about have
20 give up.
Bob gets breakfast, takes care of
! the children, gets lunch, does the
marketing, gets dinner. and tries
to cheer me up when | get home,
she said. And after dinner We both
clean house"
Miss Singleton said no sooner
had she moved her family from a
house at Toluca Lake to a bigger
one in Beverly Hills than Robin
| Susan, her tNo-year-old daughter,
got the Group.
Two days later the cook quit.
And the day after that Dorothy
Grace. her eight-year-old daughter,
! came down with influenza.
II was enough to stypie even
Blondes
But things were better today.
The girls were getting well, the
Major had lamb roast in the oven
for supper tonight, and Blonde
thought she might even get time
to catch a nap this afternoon.
81 make lots OF fun about my
Blonde completes" she grinned
but | think I'm the luckiest act
ress in Hollywood. | don't have TO
worry about glamour bit. All ! do
is just act like a scatterbrained
housewife"
And, she says. she's getting plen-
| ~ OF practice at that.
Miss Singleon has one other
problem. 1t seems her fans are al
ways getting her mixed up with
Mr.. Young's comic.strip Blonde.
81 had the most trouble two
years ago when Robin Susan was
BORN she explained. THE comic
strip Blonde had just had Cookie
a couple OF months before. And
people who heard about my new
baby kept stopping me on the
street and asking me how could
have another child so soon?"
It's things like that. she says,
that keep life from getting dull.
But I've got now so | don't trust
Mr.. Young az ALL she said. He
| lived right across the street from
us in Toluca Lake and every time
We did anything II was sure TO pop
up in the funny papers
She's a little worried now since
she's moved. Can't keep an eye on
/ Cartoonist Young. And there's no
telling what trouble he'll get her
| into next.