In the First Chapter...

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 16, 26 October 1934, Page 49

In the First Chapter...

Norma Shearer was the. daughter of a wiellknown business man in Montreal, Canada, and for the . first ten years of her life in that city she knew not @ single trouble or care. She was even permitted, after considerable pleading, not to go to school until she was ten years of age, though her mother insisted that she should ‘be taught musics But when she was little more than ten, Norma discovered that strange things were happening in their home. The beautiful horses which she had loved so much were sold, there were fewer and fewer of the merry parties which she had watched with such delight, and finally they moved from their lovely home to a much smaller one in a different district. Norma didn’t mind the change at first; she was happy at school and with her ‘friends, but soon she was attacked by severe bronchitis, which interrupted her schooling, and when she was fourteen she gave up school altogether.