In Earlier Chapters...

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 17, 2 November 1934, Page 65

In Earlier Chapters...

Norma Shearer was the daughter of a well-known business man in Montreal, Canada, and for the first ten years of her life in that city, she Jonew n0t a single trowble or care. But when she was little more than ten, Norma discovered that strange things were happening in their home. The beautiful horses that she loved so much were sold, and they moved to a much smaller home in a different district. Norma didn’t mind the change at first, she was happy at her school and with her friends, but when she was fourteen, she was attacked by severe bronchitis, and she gave up school altogether. She soon tired of doing nothing, and a year tater she got a job in a music store-playing popular hits to the customers. But her mother hated the thoughé of her working there, and after three days she gave it up. Then her aunt, who was an actress, suggested that Norma. Shearer and her sister Athole should try their luck on the. stage in New York, and after some opposition from their family, they did at last. In New York they lived very inen‘nensively, and spent their days interviewing agents and producers. Aimong the people they visited was Florens Ziegfield, who was wery kind to them, and after they. had becn in New York for about siz months, they received a card asking them to call at his office. ot