The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-11-03
BY DOROTHY KILGALLEN

You Can't Print Thatl
Ma.ian is a fading and famous
actress whose frequent flights Of
temperament have enlivened many
backstage bull session and caused
many a director to uproot his hair
by the handful. She is eolorful
copy offstage and usually manages
considerable fireworks on. And
her foibles are many.
but OF all her tricks the weirdest
is her insistence upon always "liv-
ing her role" to the limit. Cafe
socialites will not soon forget the
slightly ill-making spectacle OF Mar
ian. her spreading form encased in
coy pink ruffles. playing the role OF
Southern bell in public when she
was cast as one In show-or the
time when, as a woman of the
world. she effected a foot-long CT
gazette holder and much belladonna
hoped she'd never be cast as a
murderess. else the community
wouldn't be safe!
Wei, at last Marian has come
croppar. She still manages TO get
roles through play-angel beauX
and producers who were old loves,
and recently she was offered the
starring part in a new play-the
finest opportunity of her whole
career
But Marian, who insists upon liv-
ing her part, can't take it. It's the
role of a nun!
All her girl friends are inclined
to tsk.tsk about Winnie-so beau
tiful and so foolish. Everyone
feels that with her natural good
looks and little effort she could
have been n star. She's so young.
so winsome, so gay and appealing
TO men.
A couple OF seasons ago movie
company snatched her from Broad
way although she'd done very little
here and paid her $500 week to
stick around Hollywood for a few
months and learn the business. But
Winnie kicked the opportunity out
the window. Successor the
chance for it-had come so effort
lessly she didn't appreciate IT. She
went to parties more often than
to her voice lessons. she was late
arriving at the studio whenever
she worked, and sometimes she
didn't bother to show up at all. She
acted like anything but the starry
eyed young ingenue dying to make
good before the cameras.
Finally the studio decided to give
her up as very bad job and drop
ped her option But just before
they dropped it they sent her, with
a group Of other starlets, to enter
tain ard dance with the officers on
a battleship anchored of the West
Coast
At the dance Winnie met hand
some young officer who fell madly
in love with her, as so many lads
in the Times Square sector had
done. She fell for him, too and
now he's divorcing his wife (from
whom he had been estranged for
some time) so they can be married
at the earliest possible moment.
Well, ii turns out he isn't Just
another gent. 1t turns out land
the girls who are cluck-clucking
over Winnies lost career don't
know this) .that he is one OF the
wealthiest young men In the coun-
try. and a generous one at that.
Winnie now gets orchids every
day, while he's away, and all the
theater brokers in town have ord
ers to present her with six and
eight tickets to all the hit shows.
so she can take her friends to see
them. A dazzling ring is being
bought for her. And when she mar
ries she will become one or the
most Social young matrons in the
country
None OF which would have hap
pened to Winnie il she'd been studi-
ously practicing her acting on the
day the studio was rounding up
the beautiful-butdu dumb to send to
the fleets party!