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going to the South Orange and Maple wood (N. J.) High where Stanley Wood was instructing the young thespians, and Papa Wright took Mr. Wood's word for it that Teresa wasn't hopeless. Fa ther staked her to two summers' tuition at the Wharf Theater in Provincetown, where Teresa wrestled with scenery, lugged props about and looked wan and wistful.
"The least likely to succeed," was the Provincetown verdict.
But Doro Merandi of the Provincetown company liked her and when Miss Merandi went into the cast of Our Town she put in a word for Teresa, who was hired as understudy to Dorothy Ma guire, who created the role subsequently played by Martha Scott. By the happy chance that suddenly made pale and bedraggled females invaluable, Miss Wright was in a good spot. When Eddie Dowling started to cast the touring com pany, he became irate.
Thanks io Mr. Serlin
"That infernal Hollywood!" cried Mr. Dowling, expressing his resentment of a machine that invariably sucked in ev ery talented youngster. There was no body but Teresa and she made the rounds of New England and the Middle West.
Next summer she was with the Barn stormers Theater at Tamworth, New Hampshire, where she learned a great deal. When that was over she came back, to New York and started giving readings for Life With Father, along with all other destitute actors. The boss of the play was Oscar Serlin, who had been testing director for Paramount for many years and hated the films with a stem magnificence. As opposed to that, hi9 reverence for the stage bordered on the pathological.
Oscar was in no rush. Miss Wright thought she was revealing Spartan courage when she gave her first read ing, but after she was on the fifth round she looked at Serlin piteously, anxious merely that she should be shot like a wounded rodeo pony and put out of her misery. Oscar had made up his mind that a blonde should play the role. Te resa was a brunette. Oscar fidgeted and finally decided that it made no differ ence whether a blonde or a brunette played the role. Teresa was in and later she had a lot more to thank Serlin for, because he made her screen test when the Goldwyn offer arrived and gave her even better advice about her contract, which is unique in cinema history. Here are a few portions of the Serlin-indited work:
`Clause 39. The aforementioned Te resa Wright shall not be required to pose for photographs in a bathing suit un less she is in the water. Neither may she be photographed running on the beach with her hair flying in the wind. Nor may she pose in any of the follow ing situations: In shorts, playing with a cocker spaniel; digging in a garden; whipping up a meal; attired in fire crackers and holding skyrockets for the Fourth of July; looking insinuatingly at a turkey for Thanksgiving; wearing a bunny cap with long ears for Easter; twinkling on prop snow in a skiing out fit while a fan blows her scarf; assum ing an athletic stance while pretending to hit something with a bow and arrow."
Faced with these restrictions the Gold wyn publicity staff kept Miss Wright at a distance and caused her some un easiness. Her competitors were getting their pictures in the papers; she was only appearing on the screen. She ap
No Glamor Gal
Continued from page 13
proached Mr. William Hebert, Gold King Players or something of the sort,
wyn publicity head, about the matter. and that was so long ago it doesn't seem
"Friends have told me I have a very possible that an old dame like you could
nice figure," she said demurely but in play a young girl like Mary Skinner and
sistently.
get away with it. You were swell. Call
Mr. Hebert called in the photogra me up and come to dinner with me. I'm
phers. Interviewers were also coaxed at the Blank Hotel."
into presenting an appearance but in
several cases this created an assorted
Hollywood Has Its Way
amountof ill will when they arrived with
licorice sticks and ice-cream cones un She didn't ring him and missed the
der the illusion that they were to visit meal but she made the mistake of tell
Baby Sandy.
ing the Goldwyn office about it They
Hardier souls who came with less en used it against her. She had never been
lightenment and greater discernment in Pasadena, she was not an old dame,
found her a very nice girl, a touch on the and the gentleman was obviously under
unexciting side. When they asked her a misapprehension, but the studio
pointedly about her personal life she. pointed out that if she could fool a man
said, "I want to be a good actress above of his astuteness there would obviously
everything."
be no difficulty in convincing the public
At this juncture the Goldwyn press that she was her own age.
representative would invariably offer On the personal side, a little snooping
bis stock of information.
revealed that Miss Wright will soon en
"Miss Wright i9 five feet two and ter into a formal engagement with Mr.
weighs 110 pounds. She has wavy brown Niven Busch, a writer. This removes
hair and greenish-blue eyes."
her rather definitely from competition
The interviewer would look at Miss and accounts for the fact that she is not
Wright and confirm this. Miss Wright seen in Hollywood night clubs and is as
would then laugh very merrily.
little known as any human could be in
"If you want to write something en that torso factory. She has a pretty
tirely original," she would say, "just taste for good painting and good pho
put in that I hate the hours."
tographs but confines her reading to her
It seemed that although Miss Wright craft, boning up on plays with the
had been reared in Jersey, she had been thought that she will eventually return
bom in New York. She felt that six to Broadway, as is permitted in her con
o'clock in the morning was an improper tract. She was back last spring for an
hour to be abroad. It had been even other Serlin masterwork called The
worse when she was over at M-G-M King's Family. Mr. Serlin directed this
making Mrs. Miniver under the direc himself and it died rather grimly in
tion of William Wyler.
Boston before reaching New York. Miss
"Mr. Wyler likes you to be perfect," Wright was frank about the matter. .
said Miss Wright.
' "This small episode gave me pause,"
She demurred rather tartly about she said.
taking the role of Mrs. Gehrig but the What this seems to mean is that Te
studio executives convicted her of con resa will follow the line of most ac
tradiction out of her own mouth. She tresses who have a Broadway fixation
felt that audiences would not accept her and a juicy Hollywood contract: She will
in an older role after what she had been see Broadway on an average of about
playing, but they reminded her of one once every nine years.
of her more romantic periods. When Close scrutiny of the public prints
she was appearing in Life With Father will afford conclusive proof of the trend
she received a mash note from a well- of the Wright thought. Even the faint
known and elderly actor.
est glimpse of the Wright ankle in a
"I saw you Saturday night in the play studio publicity shot will be evidence
and really thought you were terrific," that Teresa has gone the way of all
he wrote. "The last time I saw you was flesh. Hollywood will have her.
in Pasadena where you were with the
The End
'Don't you-ali get high now and oat this chicken cockeyed!"
DOROTHY Me RAT
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More practiced than prophetic, Rogers gave a benefit in Tucson for Mauger's team, raising $2,300
which, with a like amount given by the school, en abled the four players and the coach to pile into a couple of automobiles and head east.
It was at once dubbed the "polo team on wheels," ``the boneless polo team" end "the cowboy team without cows--and without horses." The stage was set to give it the same sort of derisive welcome that had been given the teams of 1924 and 1926.
But something happened on the way that was to change that. The ranch kids from the mesquite plains beat in quick succession New .Mexico, Oklahoma, vi ' Fort Bliss, Riverridge and West Point. Murmurs of surprise greeted the earlier victories, but the West Point debacle was nothing less than a wow.
The Westerners, arriving in their dust-covered automobiles, to the polite amusement of the society folk from Tuxedo who motored over for the killing,
wiped up the Army's'pride 14 to 2. Brought to New York and the Yale Club for
luncheon, nothing was now too good for the Wild
cats. They were introduced to Louis E. Stoddard, chairman of the United States Polo Association, to Clarence Budington Keiland, to many a Yale man who might have been put to it to tell exactly where their state was located.
Arixona Was "Included Out"
Then, on some pretty flimsy reasoning, based on mistaken reports, the intercollegiate polo heads voted not to let Arizona enter the matches. Two Arizona members, it was alleged, were ineligible for play. These charges have since been disproved, but Arizona has not been asked back for intercollegiate play, in fact, every Eastern trip the team has made has been on its own initiative.
Stoddard, who was in a position to judge, in spite of the team's defeat by Yale, called the 1931 Arizona team "the finest team combination in polo."
Arizona's coach for 1941, former crack Army poloist Major Delmore S. Wood, has said that the 1940 Arizona team, which he did not coach, "could easily
have beaten any college team in the country if it had
been comparably mounted."
.
Arizona polo teams on Eastern trips have always
played on borrowed mounts because it is not possible
to transport polo ponies, as it is football teams, across
the country with time out for play every 500 miles.
In the West, it has become the custom for home
teams not only to furnish visitors with mounts, but
to share their own mounts with them for at least half
the game. This little gesture has never been followed
in the East and must be accounted the greatest handi
cap the Western visitors have played under.
With a top enrollment last year of under 2,700 stu
dents, Arizona is one of the smallest state colleges in
the country. But it has continually matched itself
with the biggest colleges of the East, and has man
aged to maintain a brand of polo of which any school
could be proud. It has done this using borrowed nags
and considerably slowed down by soft Eastern fields
which contrast strikingly with the fast dobe-and-
devil-grass fields of the Southwest.
For his 1941 varsity, Wood (Continued on page 57)
The cowboy influence on ihe University of Arixona campus is reflected in the clothing of students going to and from classes in the Engineering Building
Girl students ride, too. On this desert trail are Ada tee Pemer,
Elladean Hayes, Sazette Blair, Mary Hayward and Pat Moore
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22 Collier's lor May 23, 1942
Fireman's Daughter
By Philip Clark
ILLUSTRATED BY C. C. BEALL
When a man ieels ready and able to save the world, it's a biller thing to have to
it the way I had. Just slipping into that line of guys waiting to be examined. And then the doctor giving me the thumps, and looking--well--sort of
pul it off until he's eighteen
amazed. And saying, "Young man, you're in wonderful shape! Wonderful!
If every recruit only came to us in the
shape you're in--"
DIDN'T have a thing on but this And then maybe he'd have talked to
I towel wrapped around my middle, Father. Even if I didn't have any and my feet were getting pretty tired darned consent papers. Ouys have done from trying to stand with my. heels a it before. Younger than sixteen, even.
half inch off the floor so no one would But here we were waiting for the bus,
notice. But there were only three other and I looked at Arlene, and I could see
guys between me and the Navy doctor she wasn't really sorry. She's awfully
who was doing the examinations. And pretty with blue eyes and sort of soft
then this boatswain or quartermaster or blond hair, and I know it's not just be
whatever they call it with that kind of cause I'm in love with her, because 1
stripes came down the line checking up felt that way even back last summer,
papers. . He came to me and he said; before I really fell for her. Only now I
"Where's your papers? For Pete's sake,- was kind of mad at her, because I could
don't you guys do anything like you're see she didn't really want me to get in.
told to?"
Not any more than Father and Mother.
I didn't say anything. Because he'd Even if she had come down with me to
seen me plenty before, only not with all say goodby, in case they'd taken me
my clothes off. He was a big. red right off. But it was too much trouble
necked, blimpy kind of guy, and he took to fight about it.
a good look at me, and said, "Oh, gosh!
You againt"
tpHE bus came, and we got on, and a
I still didn't say anything. Because couple of soldiers from Fort Hanson
what was the use? He just grabbed me got on, too. I could see them kind of giv
by the back of the neck and marched me ing Arlene a good looking over. They
out of there. Fast, so it was very hard didn't get fresh or anything, but I could
to hold the towel up, and a lot of big tell Arlene knew, they were looking at
dopes in the line laughed. We went out her. A girl always does. It made, me so
of the examination room, and back to mad I couldn't think of anything to say,
where I'd left my clothes. He stood over all the way out to Alban Terrace, where
me while I got dressed, and he didn't we both live. We got off the bus and
say anything at all till I was tying my walked up the street to Arlene's house.
tie. Then he said, "Now look, bubber. It was awfully warm for so early in the
Don't come in here again! Do you get year, and we sat on the steps for a while.
it? Don't come here any moret Or shall Arlene said, "Maybe when you've fin
I have it tattooed on you?"
ished school--maybe your father'll
I said, "All right. Only you don't change his mind."
have to get tough about it."
Only she didn't really mean it. She
He said, "Maybe I don't have to, but was just humoring me. 1 said, "Sure.
I will. Now.beat it. And stay beat!" And the way I'm flunking everything in
1 said, very calm and sort of cold, sight, that's really something to look
"Thanks. Maybe I can do you a favor forward to."
some time."
Because how can you expect a guy
He didn't get it, of course. Because to study with all this going on? It was
what I was thinking was that I was beginning to get kind of dark, and we
bound to get in sooner or later, and I'd ` just sat there. That's another thing
probably get promoted a lot faster than about Arlene. She doesn't talk all the
him, the big dumbbell. I could just see time when you've got things to think
him snapping out a salute and saying, about. A car came up the drive, and it
"Boatswain Something-or-Other report was Arlene's father. I got up when, he
ing for duty, sir." And then the expres came up the steps, and I said, "Good
sion on his face when he saw who it was. evening, Mr. Bolton."
Only, instead he was slamming the He said, "Uh--good evening--uh--
door of the recruiting station in back of Bobby."
me, and 1 was walking down the cus Bobby! He thought I was Bobby Tar
tomshouse' steps. Arlene was waiting rant! He hadn't even looked at me. No
for me at the bottom of the steps, and I body ever really looks at you long
guess she could tell right away what had enough to see who you are. Not at my
happened. Arlene is the only person in age, anyway. I was pretty burnt up.
the world who understands me even a Mr. Bolton just marched right past, only
little bit, and even she doesn't really he said, "Arlene, honey, you better come
understand. Not entirely. I guess no in. It's getting cold." ,
body ever understands that way.
Just like that. Arlene said, "AH right.
We walked down the street to get the Father. I'll be right in."
bus, and Arlene said, "Don't feel so bad But she stayed with me a couple of
about it, Tommy. You didn't really minutes. I guess she knew how it'd
think you could--well--sneak into the make me feel if she just got up and
Navy, did you?"
trotted right after him. Just before the
I said, "Oh, the heck with it. It was front door closed, 1 heard Mr. Bolton
worth a try, wasn't it?"
talking to Arlene's mother. He said,
Because, of course, she couldn't see "Well, Muriel, I've finished the course!
First duty tonight! I'm a full-fledged--"
Only right then the door closed. I said
to Arlene, "Full-fledged what?"
I was holding my feet out with my knees bent, trying to keep from spinning. And then I hit
"Fireman," she said, and sort of gig gled. "Daddy's an auxiliary fireman, in civilian defense. He slides down the brass pole and everything. And he's
Hard. It most knocked me cockeyed
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