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I. (BBBtBiBBr -j Marilyn a ow In an exclusive interview, a they never did before, and you feel Most' publicized actress in the U. S. bouncy Marilyn Monroe. it's happening only because you're Si "And with me I know, have meant a lot more to have had a few words of encouragement.be-fbre-when I really needed them." (For three frustrating years Marilyn tried to storm the heights of Holly PARADE gave Marilyn one of her first, publicity breaks when it featured her on its cover, in 1947.

Since then, PARADE; has closely followed her swift rise from model to movie Cinderella. PARADE'S Sid Ross sat with Marilyn for an afternoon while she waited for stage cues during a personal appearance tour in Atlantic City, N. J. Hit report is the story of the troubled outlook of a girl who-by all familiar standards-should be riding the happy crest of a great wave of success: wood after her first screen test. Until a lucky break in "Asphalt fj Jungle" in 1950, she was ignored except for cheesecake assignments.) "As it is, publicity dominates my 11 it 11 C- In the fullest sense, Marilyn's life ATLANTIC CITY, is not her own; She has no privacy.

ma a mm Mm A. I 1 mmm a1 OWa sat in Marilyn suue Ana xor Maruyn, uus is cruei. one r-r 7 at the Claridge Hotel." is a girl whbnntesbestto lounge' lr7 the anteroom- sat around in blue -leans, -to -browse press agents, studio aides through book stores, to chatter with and local movie men. friends. Today, flashbulbs follow her Their talk hardly reached everywhere-and her book bills are Marilyn lounged in a big hotel 7 almbsrholhlng.

lelhiiesA euid and beguiling-the way millions -Twentieth Century-Fox; receives of Americans dream of her. more requests for interviews and a las KhP htu t.nikpd tn me be-. nicture airoointments with Marilyn g-orerMariryn she told me, should shatter forever names. 1 While! other stars appearjntwol or three pictures a year, Marilyn's 24, the uncrowned queen of Holly the possible successor to Jean Harlow, is the happiest as well as the' luckiest girl alive. schedule called for six in 1952.

Theater exhibitors are avid for per sonal aDDearances. and most of 1 i themJ)lll her name ahead of. such Ttars-asBarbara- Stanwyck Paul Just a Dumb Blonde?" Douglas and Ginger Rogers. What has it cost Marilyn? lEOple expect to find me one of (4 It has changed her ideas about two things," she said. "Either a tart or a dumb blonde.

acting. "All this publicity makes me a 'little shy and afraid," she says. "I'm afraid that people will expect Relaxed in a hotel easy chair, Marilyn Monroe tells why a girl with 100,000,000 cheering fans has often found herself lonely and "left out." too much of me, right now when "I'm neither. "The fact is that I'm lonely-in spite of the fastest ride to popularity that any girl ever had. "Top much publicity makes you "Suddenly you see people speaking to you and being nice to you.

But I've only really started acting. "I'm beginning to feel like a piece of statuary that people are inspect ing with a magnifying glass, look-.