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THE EVERYDAY MAGAZINE TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1952 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 3C A Fan Letter From Joan Cra wford Martha Carr's OPINION Virginia Gorski, Ex-Muny Opera Star Now in the Movies, Cherishes Note From Her Favorite Actress Contract Bridge By Ely Culbertson Dear Martha Carr: ALL the other fellows in the neighborhood like the same girl I like, though she does not encourage anyone, not even me. Several of the fellows want her to go steady. She is 16. She has rerused all of them.

She agreed to wear THE average declarer could improve his scores enormously by devoting more attention to one department of the game: safety plays. A76 J854 AQ105 J3 4QJ1082 V962 47432 NORTH in SOUTH my bracelet but made me feel it was a favor. If someone else beats me to it, she will give him the date. She sometimes holds hands with me in the show, and occasionally will let me kiss her on the cheek though she does not allow many of the boys to do this. When she walks down any street she walks to the music of whistles.

Don't you think she should AK954 V1073 496 4.10987 I i ,1 '-'-if vVw stick to just one fellow and not be dating so many? Don't you think she is old enough to go steady and don't you think she should? BILL. HiWi'W fr, i i itinrn.i Tn rffttrfiffM VIRGINIA GORSKI, WHO WAS BORN AND REARED IN ST. LOUIS. HAS APPEARED ON BROADWAY AND IS NOW EMBARKED ON A MOYIE CAREER UNDER THE NAME OF VIRGINIA GIBSON. By Mary Kimbrough 3 VAKQ KJ8 A Go 42 South West North East 1 Pass 2N.T.

Pass Pass 54 Pass 6aj Pass Pass Pass After making a jump response of two no-trump on the first round, it was somewhat indiscreet of North to raise South's club rebid on jack-small four diamonds at this point would have been better from several different angles. West opened the spade queen. Dummy's ace won, and declarer led the club three to his own queen. West smothered this with the king, and South soon learned, to his disgust, that another trump loser was unavoidable. Beyond argument, it was bad luck to lose a trick to the singleton club king and another to the 10-9-8 combination remaining in East's hand but.

it would have cost South nothing to guard against that very possibility! Let's consider South's original problem: At best, South would have to lose at least one trump trick, with the K-10-9-8-7 of the-suit at large. He would have to lose two trump tricks if either defender had started with the king and three others. If this was the case, how ever, there was nothing to be done about it, so the best plan was simply to forget it. Similarly, if clubs broke 3-2, any reasonable line of play would turn out all right, so South could forget about that also. The one possibility that required thought was the singleton king, and to guard against that.

South should have led low from dummy and played the ace. If the king dropped, the safety play would have been vital; if it didn't, it would cost nothing. In other words, whistles or no whistles, this is a gal vho "walks in beauty" and she sounds like a clever girl into the bargain. So I should tell her to go steady just for your sake with you of course and thereby contradict all previous dvice given by me with such force, to the contrary. Not me, my friend! This gal has me lost in admiration.

Would there were more like her, and long may she continue to be strictly "as is." Dear Martha Carr: HUNDREDS OF BEAUTIFUL Christmas cards are thrown away each year because people do not know what to do with them. There is a missionary in India, Father Peter Caironi, S.J., Cherukunnu, P.O., North Malabar, India, who would be so happy to have them. They can be mailed to him at a reduced rate or may be sent to me, as I am trying to gather as many as possible together for him. I am hoping your readers will help me. MRS.

R. E. SHEEHAN, 7616 Wayne University Citv 14. IX ANSWER TO Talk to your mother some day when she is not so busy. I am sure she would prefer for you to get such information from her, and that is where j-ou should be getting it.

The book you have been reading Is beyond your years. "Growing Up" by De Schweinitz, and "Being Born" by Strain, would be much better. You can get both at your Public Library. As to the shyness of the boy, I doubt that he is old enough yet to be very interested in girls. Give him time.

But whether or no, do not be meeting any boy on the sly anywhere. As to not understanding words, what do you think dictionaries were invented for, pet? -A- IX AXSWER TO I'll be glad to send you both my "Showers For the Bride" and "Guide For the if you will mail me a stamped, self-addressed envelope. IX ANSWER TO My Valentine's day party leaflet contains the game you have in mind. Send me a stamped, self-addressed envelope and I'll mail it to you. i x- i 1 i i DURING THE 1947 MUNICIPAL OPERA SEASON VIRGINIA APPEARED IN "NO, NO, NANETTE" AND "BABES IN TOYLAND." 1 HEN Virginia Gorski, young yw St.

Louis dancer, was a pupil at Sacred Heart grade school in north St. Louis, slie wrote fan letters to her favorite actress, Joan Crawford. Today, having graduated from the Muny Opera chorus to the movies, Virginia has fan letters of her own, and the one she cherishes most is signed by Miss Crawford. Slim and golden-haired, 25-year-old Virginia didn't dream that the dance steps she learned as a child would lead her from St. Louis to Broadway and Hollywood, with a chance to appear in films with top-flight stars and to make a name for herself.

The name she is happily pasting in her bulging scrapbook is a new one, Virginia Gibson. "The studio didn't think the name Gorski was quite right for me," she explained. "They decided it was too foreign-sounding and would be hard to remember, so they let me keep my own first name and initials but selected a more American last name. If I had looked like one of those exotic creatures who play Mata Hari roles, Gorski would have been all right." Re-named Virginia Gibson and looking decidedly more like a college football queen than an international spy, she has appeared in five pictures and expects to begin another early this year. Meanwhile, she and her parents, Mr.

and Mrs. John Gorski, former St. Louisans, have been visiting here. It was during work on her second film, "Goodbye, My Fancy, that she received the fan letter from the star of the picture, Joan Crawford. "That was the biggest thrill I've had in Hollywood," she said.

"Miss Crawford was on the set one day when I was appearing in a scene and she watched me. Shortly after that I received a note from her complimenting my work. That made me more of a Crawford fan than ever." added attention from agents and producers. Not without theatrical honors In her own home town, Virginia returned to the Muny Opera again during the 1947 season to score successes as the star of "No, No, Nanette," and as featured dancer in "Babes in Toyland." Then it was back to Broadway and into the musical, "Look, Ma, I'm Dancing," and "Along Fifth Avenue," which ran six months. As evidence that she's a real Broadway veteran despite her youth, Virginia has one bitter disappointment among her happy successes.

That was "Park Avenue," a sophisticated musical about divorce too sophisticated even for blase New York. After the opening night, her role was cut out of the show and the script given major changes. "It wasn't a total loss for me, though," Virginia said cheerfully. "They had to tell me in front of the whole company and, even though I felt terrible about it, I took it on the chin and didn't cry. A week later they took me back as understudy for Martha Stewart." TELEVISION appearances followed.

There she caught the eye of a Warner Brothers scout, and all her intentions of remaining true to Broadway and the legitimate stage were gone. She had a successful screen test and in 1950 made her movie debut in "Tea for Two." A convert to the film colony, she persuaded her parents to leave St. Louis and join her on the West Coast. They have an apartment in Burbank. She has made numerous friends among actors and actresses, with Debbie Reynolds a special favorite.

"But all the stars I've appeared In pictures with have been wonderful," she said with the same enthusiasm she felt for them as a stage-struck teen-ager. "Eddie Bracken and Gordon MacRae were always pulling EXPERT TELEVISION SERVICE In addition to "Good-by, My Fancy," Virginia has appeared in "Tea for Two," "Starlift," with such stars as Gary Cooper, Phil Harris and Frank Lovejoy; "Painting the Clouds With Sun-Shine," with Gene Nelson, Dennis Morgan and Virginia Mayo, another former St. Louisan, and "About Face," a movie version of the comedy "Brother Rat," starring Eddie Bracken and Gordon MacRea. Her persistence as well as her dancing feet opened the doors of Broadway and Hollywood for Virginia and now she's hoping she can stay around and play straight dramatic roles. She is studying acting, but as smart insurance, is keeping up with her dancing, working especially on ballet.

Not content to remain in the background as a member of the Muny Opera chorus, Virginia made a habit of pestering Director John Kennedy for bit parts. She became an understudy and one evening during the 1943 season she had her chance to go on in "Good News." That gave her the extra confidence she needed to tackle Broadway, and a few months later, armed with a brand-new diploma from St. Alphonsus High School and some carefully-saved money, she was en route East to storm the casting offices. She didn't have long to wait, either. Her first show was "The Connecticut Yankee," as a member of the chorus and understudy for Vera-EUen.

That summer she returned to the Muny Opera and the next year was in the Olsen and Johnson revue, "Laffing Room Only." Her first big break on Broadway came in the fall of 1945 when she understudied Joan McCrack-en in "Billion Dollar Baby" and portrayed the star role for five or six weeks after Miss McCrack-en left the cast. She got excellent notices which brought her Mrs. William Gorski, is studying dancing and Virginia is looking forward to the day when Lynn first appears in the Muny Opera chorus. "It's a good way for her to start. She can learn the different styles of dancing.

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"Gary Cooper is just like he appears on the screen, rather quiet and shy. Once he was scheduled to make personal appearances with some other entertainers and he was reluctant to go out on the stage. Said he didn't think they would want to see him. "But Phil Harris was the most surprising to me. He is very serious about his work.

He already wanted to make sure the scene was right and he worked like a dog to make it funny." Unlike most Missourians who move to the West Coast, Virginia hasn't yet become an addict to California weather. In fact, she keeps telling them how nice it is back in St. Louis. "I miss the changes in the seasons we have here," she says. "That's one of the reasons I wanted to come home for Christmas.

Out there they put up those elaborate decorations for Christmas, but the weather is warm and the sun is shining and the preparations for Christmas seem a little out of place. "Of course," she laughed, "I'll admit I'm getting a little tired of the same weather here. It's been sleeting or snowing or raining most of the time we've been here." Virginia is watching the beginning of what she hopes, with typical aunt-like pride, will be another theatrical career in the Gorski family. Her 3-year-old niece, Lynn, daughter of Mr. and (any style) JL LT ndSetOJ Tintin rr vl Children's Permanent Vi'imis I'lirniiii- Take no ehanees: Get UIT Tinting I (any kind) $1.95 your next wave at Ragsdale All Shop TTMiHiaileJIIt'MililifciT No Appointment Necessary Ground Floor 810 St Charm 4401 Kitsrd Indp 3603 (firsts 702 M.

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fT N. 2. WLl WE HAVE TO (3 OV SCHOOLS? How It Started By Jean Newton Your Automobile "Fender" and Your "Fence." THE correspondent who suggests the word "fender," of which you have four on your automobile, brings up an interesting subject. The fender as we know it is a mud guard, a screen protecting the body of your car from mud splashed by the wheels, as it protected the old carriage in horse and buggy days. However, this is the word's significance only by extension of its original meaning.

"Fender" is an abbreviation of "defender" about which no more need be said. It started by naming one who defended himself or someone else against harm. And from this warding-off of harm came what might be called a metaphorical warding-off for the benefit of a vehicle a warding off of mud! The same story is in the word "fence." Addison's line, "A fence between us and the victor's wrath" is an example of the usage formerly very common, of "fence" to signify "defense." That is how "fence" started as an abbreviation of "defense" and so in fact it remains, as any farmer who fails to fence In his land can tell you. CH. S213 Electroloaist jy Imws St and Olive Suite 898, Arcade So Pag 5C Magazine Section READ THE INTERESTING STORY OF ST.

LOUIS FEDERAL SAVINGS LOAN ASSN. NOW PAYING SAVERS 2'2 By Dr. Paul Popenoe TJf EN always get the worse of it, according to Mr. McD. lVi "A smart woman can entice a man into marrying her," he asserts.

"He then becomes entirely responsible for her support. She may be a parasite, but she is still entitled to half of all he makes. If she isn't satisfied with being a parasite, she can divorce him and maybe he still has to support her! "Meanwhile, she has his name and can trade on it. It seems to me anyone must recognize that this is unjust, Dr. Popenoe.

If a woman divorces her husband, she ought to lose the use of his name and take back her own. Isn't that fair? I wish you'd write a column about that." GLAD TO OBLIGE YOU, Mr. although my column won't satisfy you. Of course I agree that a man sometimes gets very much the worst of it in divorce. Sometimes, on the other hand, the wife gets very much the worst of it.

But in so far as the use of the name is concerned, I think that's for her to decide. This name may be part of her stock in trade, so to speak. Take the first illustration that comes to mind Margaret Sanger, the advocate of birth control. You've heard that name, haven't you? Yet it has not been her legal name for more than 30 years. If she had been forbidden to use it during the past generation, she would have been handicapped greatly.

She was born Margaret Higgins. In 1900 she married William Sanger, an artist. He fought beside her in their early campaigns. Later, she divorced him and married J. Noah H.

Slee, who has since died. She now lives in Tucson, under the name of her first husband, which she has made so well-known that Hollywood is talking of making a motion picture about her. -k SOMETIMES A MAN "buys off" his wife at divorce and there is an agreement on her part not to use his name in any way for her own personal advancement. I agree with you, Mr. that every man ought to be very choosy about letting a woman use his name.

The time for him to choose is when he asks her to marry him. If he will take pains to marry the right: kind of a woman, he will rarely have cause for complaint later. But a woman has some rights, too! One of them is the right to a name which she has accepted. The Sick Call By Christopher Billopp WHEN word is received that a friend is ill the immediate reaction is to plan to call on him. However, certain practical obstacles stand in the way.

A call in the middle of the day will interfere with work. A call in the afternoon or evening no doubt will not fit into the patient's visiting hours. Friends who are ilL notoriously select for their illness hospitals that are off the beaten track. A long detour must be made to reach them. Very likely the institutions are not situated on convenient bus lines so that a visit involves the use of an automobile.

When use of the family car is sought it will be discovered that other members of the family have a prior right to it. If the car is used in paying a visit to an ill friend other members of the family will be put out. A FRIEND WHO IS ILL could be visited on one's day off. But such a visit would demand valuable time which otherwise could be put to urgent odd jobs around the house, shopping trips to town or enjoying the company friends who are well. Meanwhile other friends of the friend who is ill will be paying calls and taking magazines and books and chicken broth and wine jelly and flowers.

They will report that the friend is lonely and most anxious to see visitors. The call becomes more urgent than ever. So, in spite of interruptions to work, Inconvenience to the family and the sacrifice of a day off, a time for the call will be set. Then It will be, discovered the friend has returned home from the hospital, or maybe is back at d.DO CHILDRBH SOMETJMSS PEFUSE TO EAT BECAUSE THEV J. 0 BALD-HEADED MEM FATHER ASlOf? ACS' STARVING FOR LOVE YES E3 NOEJ wes CJ uoCJ IN EVERT POUND Answer to Question 1.

YES. As Sidney Margolius points out, both psychologists and doctors agree that children refuse to eat for two reasons. First, when their parents show anxiety and beg and force them to eat. This causes anxiety nr'i 1 1 CSrU I 1 1 i OFF THE RECORD By Ed Reed NATION-WIDE STORES FOR COOKING COMPLIMENTS USE In children and subsequent loss of appetite. Second, children go on a hunger strike to frighten parents into letting them stay home from school or for getting attention in some way.

Remember when your child doesn't deserve love love him. Answer to Question 2. YeS, because in September of 1948, 2,350,000 children started to school, and in 1953 the number will be 3,450,000. During the last three years hosts of children could attend school for only half-days because there were not enough desks. Soon these children in increasing numbers-will crowd the high schools and by 1958 the colleges, which are already struggling with the '-'h cost of new buildings.

Answer to Question 3. Yes. says an Italian statistician. Dr. Marianne E.

Bernstein. She also believes that men suffering from gout father more girls than boys, and that men engaged in "aggressive extrovert" occupations the military, law, and business beget more boys than those in "introvert occupations" such as tea6hing, research, writing, etc. Baldness, she thinks. Is partly due to the male sex hormones. Seems you'd better apply hair tonic to your father before you are born if you want to prevent baldness! BELLA VINO WINE 4 BELLA" mm Get that muter chef, super delicious flavor that delights your guest.

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