In Earlier Chapters...

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 18, 9 November 1934, Page 49

In Earlier Chapters...

Nobo ‘Shearer Ws thie ‘daughter af & well-known busiNEXS nian, in. Montreal, Candida, and for the first ten years of her \life in that city, she knew not a single trouble or care. .But when she was little more than ten, Norma discoverd that strange things were happening in their home. Fhe hetutiful, horses that she loved ‘so much were sold, and they maved ta a much smaller home in:a. differnt 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 schoal. (together. She soon tired of doing nothing, and a voar later she got @ job in a, music store--playing popular hits to the customers, But her mother huted the thought ° of her. working there, and after three ‘days she gawe it UD. Then her aunt. who was an actress, suggested that Norma Shearer bnd her sister. Athole should try, their luck on the. stage in, ‘New, York, and after, some opposition from their: family, the y did at ‘last. After somé struggles. Nornva. was giver a: goo part in the fin "The Stealers," ‘which was Very , successful: and after. this she though? she‘had: found success at last. However, her agent, unknown to her, was asking a higher . salary, than the studios were prepared to pay, and Norma heard of na: further offers... Bventually she was forced to. : take up pasina far commercial photographers, and. with this, and vl work as amovie ‘ented, she lived in New York fairly wit Fartably. i